Colony^ oxl Mai DESCENDANTS °f HEELINGS - REVOLUTIONARY! ^WAK LIVE - VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS Ml AKE the map of Ylr-! inni* sad stick a pin 'trough the do! which signifies, the existence of the lit tle town of Char ketesville Near by is a small range of black, flawy MBs tagging ca to the Bln* Ridgo in its Journey sosth This range estesds from the Blue fudge until it knocks at the back door cf the University at Virginia at Char lotteetUle. It Is known locally as the Bagged mountains It has two claims f*-r immortality. First, thee* som bre mountains with tb< ir unknown valleys bad a tremendous influence upon Edgar Allen Poe when he was a young student at the University of Virginia. He spent more time roam log through this strange country than he did in his classrooms. Every pic ture of mountain or hill, dale or val ley. U> he found in his poetry might has* had its origin*! In these moun tains The second bid for fame Is the fact that here In these mysterious MO* live the lost Hessians. And who are the loot Hessians? Ary good history at tb* Revolution •til record tb* fact that a prison camp was established near Char lottesville during this period Brit ish at idlers captured in battle were forwarded into Virginia and kept ’h<-re until esckanged or released at the end of the war Many of the Hew sians. hired by Great Britain to do her fighting, were taken as prisoners of war and sent to the prison camp at ha rluttsw title. « '&* emae of the Revolution tbe Hessian* were released in n body. They knew little or no English. The peopia about them were hostile, and he surrounding wilderness was an unknown land. Instead of making their way to the sea and then back to Germany, they determined to mareh back into the Ragged moun tains and establish a new home in those hills.. Here they and their descendants nave 11 ted ever since They put up their rode cabins made of logs and mad. and they have had no other kind of dwelling from that time to this. The Ragged mountains themselves have remained true to them. They are Just as much a wilderness as they •ere when the Hessians settled down on the hillsides and In the deep valleys The soil is scratched by crude instruments for what little farming is necessary A few gnnried apple trees linger on from year to year, and the forest is shoved back Jn»t far enough to allow these curi ou* mountaineers to grow a bag or two of coca and a little sorghum The Hessians have kept free from alt taraads of civilisation When a isuiroad was spiked through their wilderness they drew back a little further into the almost impenetrable valleys They still look down ot. the fUrag headlight of the locomotive with all the wonder and amazement of children. If you stumble Into these tills on bnrsrimrk you will be apt to mis take tie He * inns for the moun taineers of the Bine Ridge. Their cabins and their wild farms remind ms of the John Foi country. But •here all semblance ends As we have recently learned, the Blue Ridge mountaineers are a fear less lawless folk of the purest Ar.glo Savon blood They haie a native in telligence and furnish the best kind of material lo* civilization to build HARD TO ACCOUNT FOR HAT of Human Hcaogear in Stem ache 0* Shark Something cf a Puzzle ta Saito'S. Luring the past tew month* cet era sharks have been captured at ttrMi polfiU tk*p| the New South Wake coast shirk oa being opened bate beet found to contain human re m-as. Most cases have been identi to. ns those of unfortunate fisher t es -w bathers who had previously t .-u; pesred A similar case came to light the other day, when the crew of the tugboat Jam buck captured an eaoraiaas shark off Mainly beech. Syd ney. The party bad been schcapper hsi.iag. and were greatly annoyed by lL« avidity wt«b which their fish were -atea off the hook by a shark as they were being hauled into the boat Taeniae their attention, thee, from m the schnapper to bigger game, the tugboat crew baited a book for the shirk, sad oa finally securing him •rd i . Hog htm oa board, got as tocishit g results from the post mortem examination they made. Be- : sides a quantity of feathers and ribs of beef, the contents of the shark’s , interior was found to include a feit hat and a piece of cloth. Finding a man’s hat in such a gruesome place, the tugboat's crew searched for any thing resembling human remains, but '■wild find nothing and the mystery i of where the shark got the hat was m>t solved by anytbirg they were able J to discover Ther-i were only a num j her of small bones. The feathers, ap parently, onro belocg'-d to sea birds that the shark had snapped up as they rested on the su face of the wa'.er The presence of ribs jf c’rljin was accounted lor by the probability of the saark baring picked it up as it was thrown overboard by a reseat entering the Heeds. The st.*rk wis of the grey t-urse variety, ana fror: nose to tail measured II ft. 6 in.. Ve ins IS in across The herd. It as played extraordinary vitality ergj ter a shark, and pot op a hard I„-ht for the whole time. anu it required tbs united efforts of nine o- ‘h, :T-w ta pull bint out of the wster a tc rbe deck of the tugboat. Petroleum in the Shetland*. A strong petroleum spring has re cently been discovered in the solitary island of Papa Stour, which is one of the Shetland group. The discovery was made by some workmen, who re side on the island, and altbougb no eaperts have as yet analysed the -trengtb or purity of this spring, there is every reason to believe that it will be utilised, and will be a great boon , to the «hoie of Shetland, for some of j The islands were often badly oj for paraffin during the great sea .torn.4. which are so common during t ie .Jit ter months. Mr. Hayseed's Theory. Noted Physician—Do you know why it is that city peopJe are straight and walk with heads erect, while country : people nearly always bend over? Farmer Hayseed—1 s'pose It’s can; j country people hain't got arj toll buildin’s too look up at.—New Ycrfe Weekly. Saved From Death in Old Shaft A SMt remarhai-le escape firm dealt was that of a jocng girl who was rose wed the other day. from an ttudaaad shaft about tt feet deep. c..-a» to the KnigrorUe 4 West. A us trails* race course. Two prospector*, who were visiting the shaft with the ■•b'et-f of commencing operations, pewrd the faint echc of a human voice from, below, and immediate!) sent for •me po'ice The w indlass was then I are the ripen *d results of a varied ind long experience—-a A. A Heoge. Guillotine for Mosquitoes Law return* from the moat ibirklr pepwiated Jersey districts indicate ■ f .r the aa^Wto problem is solved. Arthur ***«cl **" s Newark mechanic. • baks be has achieved that neoefae txa u> bwasaitr. fbe Jersey bsnseh Idrr know* well (bat a cxSQsnu. after it (maker iia Bstlve swamp for tbs city dmeOtefS. biles la the crass that orcuiloBili' 'sepprsws a bo-wfctrtder s lawn bins j ham observed that a lawn mower, j when guided by 'he able masculine | hand. Is likely to clip grass. Btng j ham's alert eye also noticed the work I Ings of a vacuum cleaner as It sucked up the artificial dirt in the pretty ! shop windows. Why not, he argued, attach a vacuum cleaner to the lawn mower and draw in the mosquitoes I that were playing hice-*n-seel In the grass. He tried It Great! But Mr. Bingham will not put his invention on the market until he has perfected an arrangement whereby the lawn mower will also chop the heads of the pesky critters off prior to their introduction Into the vacuum cleaner. Until then Jerseyites must have patience. “How many Hinds of Bowers are there in the world?” "Really. I have uo Idea. Some day HI get hold of tay wife's spring hat and count 'em up.” . f:: ; c> i'' "SjPt- csV's-^ j jjion A good citizen can be made ! out of a Blue Ridge dweller in a gen eratk n * hen put in the right environ ment. Their lawlessness looked at from another angle is cian patriotism. They are not depraved, nor ate they j criminals at heart. The Hessians are quite different. ! They have little If any ur^rstanding ; ! of modern morality. Marriage is a luxury which has seldom lingered at their doors There is hardly a cabin In these mountains which does not harbor its idiot, the result of atrocious family re lations The Hessian? are not lawless with firearms Feuds are almost unknown to them. This Is Dot because of any appreciation of the value of human life They do not like strife and con teuton When neighborly quarrels arise they usually fight it out with sinks end stones and their big. bony fists. Firearms are reserved for the wild turkeys and quail. . The Hess'au .-omen do most of the heavy work. T* e men cut a little i wood and trrla the cccn dogs. If the ! women b< > rne unruly they are whip ( ped by their husbands. 11 camped in a deserted cabin on Lit tle Spruce one night. Along about yyaczv'r&'A'cS' -rfe SZOSZE- zf~ **» XCfrjZffa1.anas# midnight I was awakened by the screams of a woman down the valley. ] 1 mounted my horse and rode dowu the trail beside the mountain rr'er. hurrying in the direction of the -creaming. Finally I brought up egainst the side of a log cabin in the ua’-k. I knocked and the screaming stopped. Presently a woman opened the door and asket me wbat 1 wanted j I explained that 1 had heard syme one in distress, and asked if I could be of any service. She explaiiffid that her husband had been beating her He bad (led when he beard viy horse coming down the trail. 1 asked her* if she did not have rela tives near by to help her "Nobody ’cep my brother over oa Dove creek." she walled, and then i slammed the door in my face. Having nothing else to do the next i day < rode over to Dove creek and informed her brother of xte state of affairs in his sister’s household. "What are you going to do ubout It?” 1 demanded. He looked at me rather sheepishly a minute and then said: "Well, 1 reckon I can’t do much. Fact Is. 1 was a heatin’ my own wife last night.” Such is the life of the last Hes i sians. The church has not lorgytlen . them, but they are very apt to forget I the church. Missionaries havy been | sent among them, *nd they are still ! there working away to the best or their ability. It Is not difficult to get the Hessians to come to the log meet ing houses. It is the nearest thing to amusement they come in contact with. But it seems to be practically impos sible to teach these mountaineers the basic law of thine ind mine. They are naturally rather truthful. But when it comes to taking i r.ythlng of his neighbors which appeal to him the Hessian will not countenance re straint. Superstition lives as an honored guest in every cabin. A copper pen ny buried under the eves of the cabin so that the rain may drip on it Is a cure for some very terrible diseases The spirit of fever eats and lives on dirt. A superstition which Doc Fian nagan the Dr. MacClure of the Rag ged mountains, is not over industri ous to kill. Jf you happen to meet Doc Flanna gan riding through the Ragged moun tains with a wild turkey slung across his saddle as a fee for services ren dered, stop him and ask him more about the lost Hessians. He brings most of them into the world today, and he sees most of them oat of it If you want to learn more about the Ragged mountains write Doc Flanua gan, "Fiannagan of Virginia." PLATFORMS FRAMED WIDE DIVERGENCE IN RECOM MENDATIONS SET FORTH. — BOTH FOR A TARIFF BOARD Taft Men Declare for Further Revi ' sion, but Would Have it Waft on the Tariff Board. Chicago.—Both the Taft and Roose velt drafts of a plaiform for the re publican convention have been out lined, and both can be put in shape for submission to the committee on resolutions on very short notice. Most of the work on the Roosevelt declarations was completed prior to Mr. Roosevelt's arrival in Chicago, while the first formal meeting over ' the Taft announcement was held Sun day. The Roosevelt pronouncement is the result of labors of many of his friends, but principally of his former | secretary of the interior. James R. ! Garfield. Gifford Pinchoi and William I Allen White of Kansas. All the planks have undergone the inspection | of Colonel Roosevelt and. while he j has not passed on them finally, he has indicated his formal approval of most j of them. At Sunday's meeting of Mr. Taft's friends several drafts were presented, and the meeting was largely for the purpose of selecting from the wealth of materials suggested. The approved planks will be joined together and an other meeting will be held prior to the submission of the paper to the re- j solution committee. Necessarily, the two documents cover the same ground, but there is wide divergence in the recommenda tions. The tariff receives a prominent place in both, and both indorse the tariff commission. The friends of Mr. Roosevelt, however, go to some ivins to make it appear that the present tariff board does not come up to re quirements. They would have the commission determine not only the cost of produc tion of manufactured articles, hut would have it undertake to ascertain the share of profits going to labor. The Taft men declare for further revision, but would have it wait on in vestigation of the tariff board. They condemn the present efforts of the democratic house of representatives to change this tariff, as unwise and unscientific, declaring its result an unnecessary disturbance of business along undesirable lines. No decision has been reached as to whether there shall be an explicit declaration for a cut in tariff rates. TORNADO TAKES THIRTY LIVES. Tremendous Damage Done by Storm in Western Missouri. Kansas City.—Twenty-nine persons are known to have been killed and many injured by a storm that passed over central-west Missouri late Sat urday, demolishing buildings, tearing down wires and leaving the smaller towns and country homes completely wrecked. It is believed that the storm that struck Kansas City late Saturday, causing the death of two persons and doing many thousands of dollars’ worth of damage, swept to the south through Bates county, where it left a trail of death and de struction. Between Merwin and Al nan nineteen persons were killed. Debs' Campaign Opened. Chicago.—The first campaign in which the socialist party has had a complete ticket in every state in the nation was opened here Sunday. Eu gene V. Debs and Emil Seidel, the so cialist candidate for president and vice president of the 1’nited States, made the chief addresses. Both can didates spoke at a meeting in River view* park. Attempt to Bribe Delegate. Chicago.—An affidavit charging an attempt to bribe F. H. Cook, negro delegate to the republican national convention from Louisiana, for $1,000, to desert the Taft forces and vote'for Roosevelt executed by Cook himseir. was published by Director McKinley of the Taft headquarters. Mr. Bryan on Deck. Chicago.—William Jennings Bryan was a center of attraction in the pre convention scene Sunday, and though appearing at the headsuarters of lead ers of another party as a newspaper reporter, was given a demonstration by the throng of visitors and dele gates. North Dakota Elks. Fargo, N. D.—Fargo gave a cordial welcome to the hundreds of visitors gathered here for the annual conven tion of the North Dakota state Elks association. Spanish War Veterans. Pontiac, 111.—Soldiers and sailors who served in the army and navy of the United States during the war with Spain gathered here from many parts of Illinois for the annual state encampment of the United Spanish American war veterans. Rejected by the Senate. Washington.—The senate has re jected the house provision in the leg islative and judicial appropriation bill to limit the tenure in office under civil service to five years. Meet After Long Separation. Amigo. Wis.—Walter Quick of Ad wa and Jacob Quick of Horicon, brothers, who served in the civil war In different Wisconsin regiments, met for the first time in.,forty years at the annual encampment of the Wisconsin Grand Army here. Strikers Return to Work. Chicago.—The 400 garment work ers, who have been on strike at the B. Kuppenheimer & Co. plant, re turned to work. They are promised better wages. ^^——I—fc»» ■ M DiitilNGrGWDER M BS®W*WM^aBafflS35»BBHa^& lSf%$ I Makes Home Baking Easy. 1 Gives nicer, better food than baker’s. |/j|F ^B There is no baking powder like it if I for hot biscuit, hot breads and cake. H jg Made from Pure Grape Cream of Tartar. jl THEIR MOST JOYOUS MOMENT Of the Trio, Probably Representative Redfield Had the Best Occa sion to Smile. The talk in one of the cloak rooms of congress turned to the thought of the happiest moments In one's life. Senator Bailey said his came the day he wore his first pair of trousers. And Paul Howland of Ohio declared his big moment of joy was when he was permitted once to drive a chariot in a pony and dog show parade. Representative Redfield. who is a wise chap, even if he does hail from Brooklyn, said it was when he was going to school and trying to master long division. Three or four aisles over from where he sat a boy ySwned. It was not an ordinary yawn, but one of such genuine expression of feeling toward things in general that it at tracted Redtield's attention. He was fortunate in having a paper wad right at hand, ready for any emergency, and he aimed this at the boy’s caver nous mouth. The wad went right square into the goal and—well. Fourth of July fireworks are tame to the 1 stunts that boy did in the next few minutes. He says he almost smiled once on ship board when the vessel gave a lurch ar.d threw- a platter full of beefsteak, gravy and all. over the open-faced shirt front of a pompous passenger across the table. THE PEEVISH CHILD NEEDS TREATMENT When a child sulks drowsily, or is fretful, it is usually due to some slight disorder of the digestive organs, and a mild laxative is very often all that is necessary to restore cheerfulness and buoyancy of spirits. In cases where the use of a gentle, effective laxative stimulant is indi cated, many of the best physicians are now prescribing Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. This preparation is admitted ly the perfect laxative, being mild, yet positive in its action on the bowels, and far preferable to violent cathart ics and purgative waters. It is very pleasant to the taste and is an ideal remedy to regulate and strengthen the stomach, liver and bowels. Its easy, natural action makes it especially de sirable in the case of children, a dose at bed-time being sure to have the de sired result next morning, with no at tendant unpleasantness or discomfort. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Fepsin is sold by druggists everywhere in 50c and $1.00 bottles. If you have never tried this splendid remedy, write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 201 Washington St., Mon ticello. 111., for a sample. He will be very glad to send a trial bottle with out any expense to you whatever. He Could. A northern visitor in the south tells the following story to illustrate the taciturnity of the southern negro. He had asked Steve, a typical darky of the region, numerous questions con cerning a certain plantation, and to each the negro gave the invariable re ply of “Yahs, sah." “Steve,” asked the somewhat exas perated northerner, “don't you say anything but ’Yahs, sah'? Cant you say ‘No. sir?’ ” The negro blinked his eyes indolent ly for a moment and replied, “Yahs. sah.”—Judge. A Gentle Result. She—I thought prize fights were very exciting. He—itiey usually are. She—Well, this one I am reading about could not have been very lively, for it seems from this account the fight ended because one of them went to sleep. When Your Eyes Need Care Pry Marine Eye Remedy. No Smarting—Feels Fine—Acts (juickly. Try It for Bed, Weak. Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Illus trated Book In each Package. Murine is compounded by onr Oculists —not a “Patent Med icine”—kstt used In successful Pbvsiciars’ prac tice for many reals. Now dedicated to the Pub lic and sold by l>ruggistj at Me and He per Bottle, rfur.ne Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes, *c and Ms-. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago Literal Obedience. “How is it I have such big telegram bills?” "You told me, sir. to use dispatch In that correspondence, so 1 wired all the letters.” Garfield Tea the International Remedy for all irregularities of stomach, liver ami kidney's is composed entirely of pure herbs. When birds of a feather flock to gether it is a pretty safe bet they’ll try to pluck each other. Be thrifty oa little things like bluing. Don’t accept water for bluing. Ask for Red Cross Ball Blue, the extra good value blue. Sunday is the day of rest; but did you ever know a man who felt rest ed on Monday morning? Most homely women are clever— probably because they have to be. LEW1S’ Single Binder straight 5c cigar. Yoa pay 10c for cigars not so good. Trouble never attempts to dodge those who are looking for it ... ... I Flattered Him. A little girl four years old wanted a nickel one day and thought the best way to get it was to say something nice to papa. So climbing upon his lap she said sweetly: “Papa. 1 love you better than the devil.” The wagon wheel usually has that tired feeling, but it never complains. The love of applause is responsible for'many near actors. Accounted For. “Why are there so many men in this jail?” asked the philanthropic reform ler. "I guess.” answered the guide, “it’s chiefly because they can't get out ” The Remedy. “I see beef is still going up." “Then the best way to stop that is j to keep it from going down.” i It’s tough when love’s young dream dies of old age. —■ —n The Old Oaken Bucket Filled to the brim with cold, clear pu rity—no such water nowadays. 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