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THE JUDGED SECRET.
'EVER' before In
the history of the
stale had an advo
cate at the bar
made such a stren
uoos effort to coa
vlnce a Jury of the
innocence of the
prisoner. Many
years ago it was
that the noted
trial took place, bmt
is
the scene all comes back to me as
"vividly as at the time It occurred, now
that a startling revelation has recent-
ljr been made, after the -death of the
Judge who sat upon the bench.
Although not more than a boy, I wit
nessed, the trial of Andrew Hastings
with more absorbing Interest than any
. thing else in my life has since awak-
eaed. I remember the gestures, the
Impassioned face of Hastings' attorney,
CoJ. George Harvey Palmer, and I can
almost repeat the aery word ha ?z,
7 terea when addreastag the Jary. It was
. a wonderful defense he made wonder
. Cul how he fought every inch of ground,
. while a chain of strong circumstantial
.evidence was tightening the halter
'" about his client's neck. His cross-questioning
of the state's witnesses was so
' exhaustive, his pleadings to the Judge
-and' to the Jury so earnest as to arouse
' '. the sympathy of many in the packed
courtroom. It was. as I remember, the
first important case with which Col.-j
Palmer had been connected in Monroe
. county courts. He had moved to Ala
.1 bama from Virginia and had been in
his new home but a few months be
fore the Hastings murder case became
. the sensation of the hour.
Last week Judge James C. Garrow
; died in Monroe county, Alabama, and
among his papers was found a state-
ment, in connection with the state
ment written to be made public
. . after his death. I have read that state
"ment, and it. In conection with the
. trialtof Andrew Hastings, makes such
a remarkable chapter of court history
j that I have written it all down here.
, It was in the days of the noted ku
klux klan, that organization which
prang into life in the south during
the memorable days of "reconstruc-
S ln. "
tlan." It Is suDDosed that the organ-
. lzers of the klan originally intended to
.control the suddenly freed slaves by
appealing to their superstition, for the
kuklux gave birth to hobgoblins,
'ghosts' and spooks, and was shrouded
' in the most profound secrecy and mys
tery. But the klan soon became charge
able with many inexcusable and out
rageous crimes.
Some time in the spring of 1867 the
-Judiciary began to take active meas-
ures for the suppression of violence
attributable to the klan, or, rather, to
the lawless bands calling themselves
kuklux, for the original organization
had by that time ceased to exist.
On March 14, 1867, near the town of
Claiborne, Monroe county, Alabama,
..Amos Bivins, a camp follower of the
union army, who had opened a store
in Claiborne, was found dead on the
side of the public road. He had been
' beaten to death with a club or some
other heavy weapon.
"Another kuklux victim," was the
public verdict, and with this the people
were disDOsed to discard the matter
from any further consideration, but
Judge Garrow was one of the most
earnest among officers of the law, who
had decided the time had come in the
south for the suppression of crime. He
instructed the sheriff to make a most
thorough investigation, and. If pos
sible, to bring the murderer or murder
ers to justice.
It did not take long to fix the crime
on Andrew Hastings, who clerked for
Bivins. The evidence against Hastings,
while circumstantial, was very strong.
Having been raised in the south, Has
tings had no love for his employer, who
iwas regarded as one of the despised
class of "carpet baggers' 'in those days.
."He finally quarreled with his employer
'when reproved for insulting the union
'soldiers and negroes who traded at the
store. Witnesses testified to this quar
rel, which resulted in Hastings being
..' i,i and there was an abun-
-aiBcui6c
dance of evidence to the fact that as
ha left the store he was heard to re
mark: "I'll fix the d Yankee."
It was only two nights after Has
. tings' discharge that Bivins was killed.
. Two witnesses swore that Hastings
tried to borrow a' shotgun from them
on the day prior to the murder. It was
also proven that Hastings was heard
to say when speaking of the killing:
. "The people ought to give the man who
. did it a vote of thanks."
Added to all this was the fact that
' Hastings could not account for his
whereabouts on the night of the kill-
iBg between the hours of eight and
.- ..oi o'clock. Bivins left his store
about ten o'clock to go to his home,
and it was presumed he was killed a
few minutes after that hour.
. .When on trial Hastings stated that
he had gone 'possum hunting alone,
leaving home about eight o'clock and
returning about one alclock the next
morning. It was for this purpose he
" attempted to borrow a gun. He proved
that it was his custom to go on these
night hunts by himself. With his pre-
'vious good character, this was' all there
.was for the defease.
. Bat Col. Palmer made the moat of it
.. aat fought the evidence of the prose
cation at times with an impassioned
anner that almost amounted to a
madness. I remember an old lawyer
. in the courtroom remarking: "Well, I
.. BeTer have seen an attorney so thor-
oughly identified with his client's in
terests before." Col. Palmer's argu
ment to the jury, as I said, was a most
masterly effort. His face was pale
when he arose and walked to the jury
box. His voice, although stern and
full, trembled as he cried out: "Gen-
tlemen of the Jury. God is my witness
when I say to you that I am here to
plead for the life of an innocent man."
He made but little effort to contro-
vert the flrgfg evidence agaiast his
client. His address was mainly a pas
. sionate appeal for mercy for an inao-
cent man who was the victim ot pe
culiar circumstances. He eaded his
speech by holding the Bible high above
his head aad saving:
"As true as the Holy Book I held in
. my hand, so true is this man ianoeent
.Iaaytoou,iknowlt Tou may call
It intuition if you like, but so sure as
yea convict aim you will hare the
Mood ef am iaaoceat
The verdict was guilty aad Hastings
to he hangea. xne
was appealed to the 8upreme court,
and the decision of the lower court was
affirmed. An application was made to
the governor for clemency, and a peti
tion bearing the names of many promt
aaat citizens of Monere county was
seat to the chief executive. Col. Palmer
was leaving no stone unturned to save
his client The strain and hard work
was telling on him. He had grown
emaciated, and more than once had
been ill from nervous prostration.
The governor refused to interfere,
but Intimated that he might give the
case a more favorable consideration If
the presiding Judge recommended- a
commutation of the sentence. This was
regarded as a forlorn hope, the deter
mination of Judge Garrow to suppress
crime being so well known.
The day of the execution was near at
hand and Monroe county was preparing
to witness its first hanging In many
years. Then, like a thunder clap came
the news that the governor had par
doned Andrew Hastings. Not even a
esmmatatJoa .of the seateacatp , We
lmprlssmftathlfrbeealoeea for. bat
here was an absolute pardon, aad the
murderer with a shadow of the gallows
already over him was a free man.
It was some time before the people
could be made to believe that the news
was true, and many did not believe it
until Hastings was allowed to walk
from the prison unshackled.
The only reason the governor as
signed was that Judge Garrow had re
quested it in a private letter, and the
appeal was such as not to be disre
garded. But why did Judge Garrow make
such a request? His honesty waa above
suspicion, his Integrity was undoubted,
and his firmness could not be ques
tioned. Yet, after declaring it his pur
pose to check the lawlessness then ex
isting by the strong arm of the law,
he deliberately used the power of his
office to free a man convicted of a
most foul murder. What could it
mean? The Judge would explain. But
the Judge did not explain and his si
lence through all these years has kept
the Hastings case one of the strangest
of the unexplained murder mysteries
of Alabama. When questioned at the
time the Judge said: "I had Just and
sufficient reasons for acting as I did."
Time and time has this case and its
strange denouement come before my
mind, and often have I tried to reach
a solution which would be satisfactory
to myself and leave no suspicion upon
the memory of a member of the Ju
diciary, whose character had always
been above reproach.
It is all clear now. Judge Garrow
has passed to stand himself before a
Judge whose Justice, it is to be hoped,
will be tempered with exceeding great
mercy for us all. I have before me this
statement, published In a Monroe
county paper, and I give it here as the
sequel to what I have already re
corded: "To Those Who May Be Living
When I Am Dead: I believe if any
shall desire to look into my life his
tory they will find nothing that pos
terity shall be ashamed to read upon
my gravestone. Yet there Is one trans-
I AM THE MURDERER,
action of my career as criminal Judge
which demands of me an explanation.
In truth, I should have been ready to
meet that demand before I passed
away, but I was so placed that my
lips "were sealed. The wrong (if wrong
I did) was in allowing myself to be
hampered, but Justice to an innocent
man weighed in the balance against
unjust suspicion toward myself.
"This single act ef mine for which
I may have borne public condemna
tion was the part I took In securing a
pardon tor one Andrew Hastings, ar
raigned and convicted of the murder
of Amos Bivins at the fall term of the
Circuit court in Monroe county, Ala
bama, October, 1867.
"Without any attempt to criticise the
motives of those who thought it wise
amid scenes of desolation and lawless
ness to hold In check the passions of
suddenly freed slaves by an appeal to
their superstitious fears. I, with others
of the judiciary, determined that the
time had come in the south to restore
law and order. With the determina
tion to make an example of the first
case that came under my jurisdiction.
I refused to interfere in the death sen
tence ot Hastings. To this decision I
clung, although dally Importuned by
Col. George H. Palmer, Hastings' at
torney. Never In my experience on the
bench had I seen such persistence and
dogged perseverance as that lawyer
displayed.
"He came to me one day a week be
fore Hastings was to be executed and
said:
"'Judge Garrow, suppose I should
give you proof that another man killed
Bivins, would you recommend his par
don r
"I replied that if the proof was such
as to convince me of its reliability I
would certainly feel called upon to in
terfere In the condemned man's be
half. "'But judce.' he continued, 'you
will have to give me your solemn as
surance not to divulge what I relate
to you.'
"I demurred to entering into any
such compact
"'Remember,' he cried vehemently,
'while you can wrong no man by your
silence, yet if you do not listen to me
you will allow an innocent person to
die upon the gallows. I swear this
before the living God.'
"His manner as much as anything
else overcame my scruples, and I gave
him my promise 'so long as I live' not
to reveal any statement he might make
to me. Then he said:
" 'Judge Garrow, the man Amos Biv
ins met his death as an expiation tor
a crime he had himself committed. In
Virginia jast before the cleae A the
war, with a squad of maraadiag
soldiers, he entered the 'home of a man
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who waa. bearing anas la. defease at.
the very fireside that was being ruth
lessly invaded and desecrated. Mother
and children had to lee la the night,
and she, the mother, met her death
from the expssare and fright This
man Bivins iris the only one recog
nixed, as he had sold goods aboat the
community from a peddler's pack; The
hand which laid the blows upon his
head may not have intended ts strike
life away, but reason lost its sway, and
there was naught to stay the avsmgafi
hand but death
"He paused a moment, and, letting
his haad fall heavily apen my shoul
der, he exclaimed huskily:
"'Judge Garrow. I am the
derer!'
"He brought to me the hkkery stick,
dark in places with the stains ot clot
ted blood. I reviewed his history, his
conduct of the case, how he had ex
pended money and devoted his time
with no hope of any remuneration; I
looked late his face, and I Mew he
telimlsSife
he considered the Justice of his cause
and his little children, he would have
surrendered at the first It was un
doubtedly his intention to have sated
his client even if the last resource
should have been to take the prisoner's
place upon the gallows.
"There was nothing left for me to do
but to urge the pardon of Hastings, and
that I did. J. G. GARROW.
"Judge Monroe County Court"
. It is not often desired to resurrect
unpleasant memories, but sometimes
Justice to the living and to the dead de
mand that the sepulchers ot the past be
invaded. So I have given this bit of
history, believing that I am Justified
in doing so, even if I had to drag from
its grave such a ghastly skeleton as
the kuklux Man. Atlanta Constitu
tion. "
Coadaaae Poetry.
"Boil it down" is a pretty good news
paper maxim, but even a newspaper
maxim needs to be obeyed with dis
cretion. Charles Metcalf, who has been writ
ing advertisements for a drama in New
York City, had an unpleasant experi
ence in connection with a compositor
of one of the great dailies of that city.
Metcalf wrote a poetical advertisement,
as follows:
From half-past eight till half-past ten.
You laugh and laugh and laugh again.
Imagine his surprise when a matter-of-fact
compositor set up the adver
tisement and it appeared:
From 8:30 to 10:30
You laugh and laugh and laugh again
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Got What II Called Far.
"Here, waiter, can't you fill an order
at this restaurant? I called for roast
beef and a baked potato. Here's the
potato, but Where's the beef?"
"Undah de p'tatah, sah."
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
No death warrant has been signed by
a sovereign of Great Britain during the
last 150 years.
Says a fertilizer concern in Nashville,
Tenn.: "We buy your bones and pay
you the highest market price."
Train robbery is punishable by death
in Arizona. The supreme court has just
upheld the constitutionality of the stat
ute. Pulaski county, Missouri, presents aa
a candidate for the leadership ot the
populists a man whose beard Is five
feet long.
A new hypnotic has probably been
found in the Jamaica dogwood. The
fluid extract has been found efficacious
in dentistry.
It is reported that a white whale was
seen recently in Long Island sound.
This animal is rarely seen outside the
Arctic regions.
Luminous inks may now be used to
print signs to be visible in the dark.
Zinc salts and calcium are the me
diums generally used.
From ninety-four, a flock of sheep
owned by P. A. Porter, of Mt Morris,
Wis., has been reduced to sixty since
last spring by wolves.
The Donor Now, don't go and spend
that in the nearest saloon. The Recip
ientNo. sir; dere's a better one
around de corner. Puck.
Paderewski has some hope of realiz
ing the chief desire of his life the
permanent cure of the spinal complaint
which has so long afflicted his son.
It has been suggested that as a mem
orial to Harriet Beecher Stowe a na
tional institute and hospital as a train
ing school for colored nurses, shall be
erected in Washington.
Some American travelers stopping at
Halifax agreed to make no purchases
in the city at stores where United
States money was refused, and they
made it a point thereafter to hunt out
shopkeepers who accepted it at the face
value.
Birmingham, England, turns out
every week, among other articles, 14,
000,000 pens, 6,000 bedsteads, 70,000
guns, 30,000,000 cut nails, 100,000,000
buttons, 1,000 saddles, 5.000,000 copper
or bronze coins, and 20D00 pairs of
spectacles.
PERSONAL.
The new shah of Persia is anxious
to open the country to international
commerce, and favors the introduction
of electricity and steam.
Gurdon W. Wattles, vicepresident of
the Union National bank of Omaha,
has been chosen as president of the
Trans-Mississippi and International ex
position, to be held in that city in 1898.
M. Osiris, the banker of Paris, who
recently bought Malmaison, intends to
restore the palace and grounds, both
of which are now in a most dilapidated
condition, after which he will make a
gift of the property ta. the slate.
Elam Russell, weight 200 pounds, ot
Flalnfield, Ind., is the proud father ef
a tea-inch baby which weighed only
one pound and a half at its birth and
at the end of three weeks weighed
three pounds. Mrs. Russell's weight is
1W pounds.
The French people have not yet
erected statues ot Balzac, Alfred de
Musaet and Victor Huge, but they have
just set ap one of Francois Quesnay,
the physician of Mme. de Pompadour
and the author ot several works on po
litical economy.
COLUMBUS, KEfiKAS. ipDKfiSDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1896,
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If there it anybody wh believes thftl
Spain is entitled to the slightest dip
lomatic consideration or-is to be nh
garded as a-civilised nation, he ahoaM
go to the town of Sagua la Graadoajg
ride thirty miles southward to the ratp
of the Oyalita plantation, which
the scene of the most horrible ef
the atrocities that have taken place
the island Of Cuba Bince the access!
of Gen. Weyler.
At Oyalita. in the latter nart of F
ruary, the forces of. Quintin BandeK
skirmished with two Spanish columaa
under the command of Col Arcs.. Tarn
insurgents took tip a position about tigo
"incenio." or surar mill, of the OyaUea
plantation, and retired southward;
after having inflicted a heavy
WMwIsw-treeaL-As soda at the
insurgent column had marched away
from the "ingenio," the Spanish in
fantry made a general charge on the
sugar house and its surrounding build
ings. There were no less than twenty
three "paciflcos," innocent non-combatants,
plantation hands and their
families, employed oh the estate. The
foreman was M. Bernardo Duarte, a
French citizen, brother of the proprie
tor. On the approach of the Spaniards M.
Duarte locked himseif in his house, a
small, two storied frame building, lay
down on his bed and wrapped himself
n the French flag. The troops burst
in the door, dragged M. Duarte outside
and cut him to pieces with their ma
chetes on his own doorstep. The Hag
was soaked with blodd.
An indiscriminate slaughter of the
plantation hands and their families
was now begun. Men, women and
small children were driven from their
houses and cut down in the usual bru
toi mnnnpr The "ineenio" and all the
surrounding buildings, the storehouses
and the cottages of the plantation ne
groes, were set fire to, and the bodies
of the victims, dead or dying, were
thrown among the flames. Only one
escaped, a Chinese coolie, who suc
ceeded In making the woods near by
vvi;h six Maurer bullet holes in him.
This is the story of the Oyalita mas
n oc it 5c tnlrt without variation
bv peasants of the neighborhood. None
o'f the "pacificos," as I have it from
jfficcrs who were there, took part in
the skirmish between the troops and
he insurgents, but lay, overcome with
fear, in their houses as long as the fir
ing continued.
On the 6th of May 1 rode with the
cavalry squadron of Col. Robado and
Maj. Saenz over the field of the massa
cre. It was a hurried visit, for a col
umn was then after us, and I could de
vote but thirty minutes to a study of
the remains that still exist of the
butcherv. The sites of the cottages and
outhouses were gray heaps of ashes.
Of the sugar house itself, a tin roof
still remained, covering a mass of
rusty machinery and charred timber.
In the trunk under tne great anvmg
wheel I counted the charred remains
of seven of the victims; uppermost
of all, wedged between the wheel and
the masonry, lay the body of a negro
woman, with a baby la her arms. The
clothing had been burned away, but the
charred flesh remained, with a portion
of her leather slippers. Of the body
that had been most exposed to the
flames the hones were visible. The
negress lay in an almost natural posi
tion, clasping the infant tight to her
breast with a hugging, clutching em
brace, that death had only Intensified.
The body of the child was but little
disintegrated by the flames. The
other bodies in the pit were reduced to
charred skeletons. The negres3 and
her child had evidently been the last
thrown In.
There were other bodies, they told
me, In the debris of the central part
of the building, which had fallen in,
but I had not time to look for them. I
was also told that the bodies of two
other women and two little girls were
thrown Into the burning cottages and
entirely consumed.
Beneath the "ingenio" there Is a cel
lar, where were the furnaces that heat
ed the great iron sugar boilers. There
was also a little bakeshop In this cel
lar. I went down a short flight of
steps to the chamber where the fur
naces were, and here I found the re
mains of a Chinaman, one of the coolies
employed about the place, perfectly
preserved, in a mummified state.
I examined the body very carefully.
There were wounds of the machete
about the back and legs, as though he
had been driven into the cellar, but
none of them was fatal. The body was
writhed ia Intense agony and th face
fixed in. an expression of extreme hor
Tor. Parts of the clothing were singed,
aad there was every indication that
the man had been driven into the cel
lar locked In, and forced to die from
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the neat ot the burning Ingenio above.
The teak was turned to parchment and
etch muscle and line of .facial expres
sion was intensified by suffering, .
' In the little passage that led to tie
bake shop lay the body ot 'another
Chinaman with a gash of a machete
la the back Of his head. His expres
sion sad the contortion Of his body
were similar to those of the first, and
distinctly indicated that fee must have
died under the same conditions. On
the loor by his side lay a paper score
t the loaves ot bread baked for the
settlement that morning. Though the
wound In the back of the head was
: and some stains of blood re
mained ea the fioer, it was evident that
areef aeat -
Three months'had passed, and these
bodies had dried without the slightest
trace of decomposition. They probably
remain to this day in as perfect a state
as when I saw them.
Among the cane fifty yards from the
ingenio I found the corpse of a laborer
who had attempted to escape. His head
was completely severed from the body,
and the clothing, stich as remained,
bore traces of machete' wounds and
were thickened and stiffened with dried
blood. The shoes and hat had been re
moved, evidently by poor people llvlug
in the neighborhood, n-ho do not let
such relics go to waste. Another "pa
ciOco." I was told, lay in the canes near
by, but I did not have time to look Wr
Win. ..
I saw the grave of M. Duarte and that
of his secretary, for the Spanish offi
cers had had the decency to bury them
near the ruins of their cottages. The
remains of eleven of thdl twenty-two
victims were as I have described them.
and will so continue until the Spanish
eovernment sees fit to remove them,.
or so long as the insurgent govern
ment preserves them as a relic of th
mediaeval barbarism of the war.
Can you place yourself In the posi
tion of this ignorant negro woman?
Can voti imagine yourself falling be
fore this cyclone of weak, dirty, blood
thirsty little Spanish soldiers?
The case of the Duarte estate has
been presented to the French consul,
and prompt disavowment of the assas
sination of M. Duarte, With a comfort
able solace to the nearest of kin, is like
ly to follow.
On the 2d of May I rode with the
force of Major Manolo Menendez near
the town of Soledad. At evening we
passed by a little hamlet of half a dozen
houses. The peasants recognized us
as insurgents and came out to meet us
in great excitement. This was their
story: The Spanish guerillas of Las
Rodas had passed through the town
that morning and, finding no Insur
gents to fight with they halted before
the house of Desiderlo Vida, a man of
thirty, who supported his mother, his
wife and a family of small children by
his labor as a farmer. The captain of
the guerillas entered the house with
three of his men and addressed Vida in
the presence of his family with abuse
and profanity. "Thou art a Mambiee.
Come, scoundrel, tell us what thou
knowest of the Mambises." Vida pro
tested that he knew nothing. Calling
him a traitor, a shameless one and a
Mamblse, they dragged him from his
house and took up their march, leading
him, arms tied behind him, on among
the cane fields until he was lost to sight
of his home. His neighbors dared not
follow, and there were no witnesses of
his murder. Deslderio Vida was led
from the roadside Into a little grassy
arroyo or gully. Here he was cut down
and his body was left, to be found,
after the departure of the guerillas, by
his neighbors.
He had been burled already when I
got there, but I saw the place where he
fell, the hollow In the tall grass, and
the blood that stained the plants as
thickly as when you have slaughtered
a bullock. His hat remained. There
was a cut in the brim an inch from
the band where the first stroke of the
machete had fallen. It must have cut
his shoulder. With the next blow the
crown was pierced, and the stains of
clotted blood remained, scarcely dry,
when I saw them.
The peasants told me that Deslderio
Vida had no less than a dozen wounds
on his body when he was picked up
by them, and that, his left arm was
nearly severed from his body. This
is but one of the many murders so fre
qaeat in all parts of the island that
they have ceased to attract attention
or comment.
Here are the details of another horri-
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ble crime, as they earn to me in a let
ter: A mechanic at Hyde Park, the
sugar plantation ot Mr. FowierV the
British consul, was said to have fur
nished the insurgents at the Mayarl ar
senal with a receipt for a bath to
bronze a field piece. Tie guerillas from
Cienfuegos passed by Hyde Park, took
the mechanic, and. suspending him by
one leg to a rope, bumped hw head on
the ground aatil he waa laaaasfhlc.
He was broaghtto by. tapers Hgfctad
and stack in his nostrils and earn, aad
then put t death by imrtsas tot
turea."
la riding .ever the island, tareafh
Matanzaa, Lao Villas aad Camagaey,
I have always inquired for the latest
8pa4A arkle"Theaaiwer8haTe
always been: "There were four pacifl
cos shot outside of the towns two weeks
ago," or "Last month ten men were
shot," or "The guerillas cut down old
Jose So and So, and left his body by
the high road."
It would be a fair estimate to take
every town in the island of Cuba that
is big enough to have its name on the
map and count it as having ten pacifl
cos murdered without cause by Span
ish troops or guerillas to Its credit. I
have not counted how many townships
there are in the Island, of Cuba, but I
know these murders if estimated or
taken account of, if that were possible,
would make an astounding number.
These murders are all on the head of
the present captain general, before
whose time they were almost unknown,
GROVEIt FLINT.
LI nans Chan Sarprla.
The feature of English life which
most astonished Li Huns; Chang and
his companions was the evening dress
of English women. A member of the
recorded
CO or 4
nrocsintiB iiefarA sailing to-day: I
much surprised at -the reception given
by an English nobleman to see ladies
with uncovered shoulders, arms and
neck. I was stlil more surprised to
see gentlemen take ladies' arms, bo
cause in China taking a lady's arm, or
even shaking hands, is not known. The
question has been asked me many times
why the Chinese never wear gloves,
whereas in England it Is the custom
to cover the hands with gloves In gen
teel society. But it seems to me so
very strange to cover the hands and ex
pose the arms, neck and breast I feel
that I would rather that Chinese ladies
did not wear gloves than that they
should show their bare arms and
chests." New Orleans Times-Democrat
Paraehates Sometime FalL
The ordinary parachute is made on
the principle of the umbrella. Every
one knows the difficulty of carrying an
nmhrella in a high wind, the force of
the blast being such as to furnish a
nnnoMprahle motor nower. vuniie me
principle is the same, the construction
varies, some being made with steel ribs
to open exactly like an umbrella, others
having no ribs, but consisting of a
large circular sail, with cords from va
rious points in its circumference, unit
ing in a knot or handle a number of
feet below. This last variety is con
sidered especially dangerous, as it
sometimes fails to open when needed,
and allows the aeronaut who has trust
ed himself to it to fall directly to the
ground without its support.
Colored Wlidom.
"Uncle Rasbury, do you think mar
ried people are the happiest?"
"Why, dat ar depend altogedder how
dey enjoy demselves." Washington)
Times.
A Fity.
Speaking of hog cholera. Miss Bln
remarked the other day, as she hanaj
to the strap: "What a pity it coaldat
Harsh Snteae.
A prisoner in New York got eleven
years in prison the other day for steal
ing 92.
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TSAw iVAu
V3l
A Gettysburg Survivor.
the Jouraal-Fxesa.
day. each swath.
Ik Brand Amur Off tM
lUpuMte Is
ii aaaallM Almost each
M sease veteran soldier ft the Robe.
lion responding to the eaB ef the Grant
Commander aad jetam the army of
tke sUaat majority. At such aa akrat-
tmm Mt la the death rate Inc
Mf the army membership
statisticians tell aa that it win be bat
a tetr years before the Veterans will
he bat a memory. It aa foe this rea
son that the entire pabMc Is laterested
t. hear off the recovery
t comrade.
- James m. i
'm a. Cload.
a a- r.
k mitaai P. Sweet No
ft.i.w am tka aaaaaaan
aj"" - -Z- - . mmmr
ffcritma"h.TmTwo.
off all who lmoar
SBaae ana far aneay x
hlmWtaai
wSaZTnsMed ta
years w.i.
- xaan i
iHnrwaMi
a Mm- ill, w
caTBetTHals ewjnity-OBe years ef
iv He served In the war three yean
aid sever months, with Company.
Network, parttclpattaf la stitybat
tlM including Gettysburg.
During thewar Mr. tweet contracted
heart dSease. .
by excessive nrvoosnefca As age in
creased his symptoms grew worana
raany were the "ed!es "? to
bThlm without the albtest "
TvVTwill let Mr. Sweet tell the story
in his own words:
"Six months thesuggestloa
of a comrade, wfio had been be"ed
by Dr. Williams' Pink Wlkj, I twgOSi
their use. and I very cheerfalljr statt
that they have invigorated art bujl
ud my nervous system in a wonderful
wv They have done me a world ot
lood and I have been sTeatly benefit
edby their use. where everything else
I took tailed to give me the relief I
,ht for. I nave reconMnwiua-
i,.m to a large number of my
old
comrades and it la a pleasure ror me
to do so. for 1 feel that the manufactj
u Ire deserving of any good that
iSn do them la Baying- a good wesd
fwTtbelr product In retwrn for the
d they have done me. I will gladly
ftcommend these pilto to any one wrl
tai me If they doubt the genulness ef
ffSSKEws Mr. BwHtWt as
-rataful for the good that be had re
SSed tblrough Dr. Williams' Pink
Klto ttathedld not have theellghtest
tUaitancv In corns' on record. His
JSSlIn onSdirtd bis bond by all who
Saow Wmthroughout this section. Mr.
MMt is not the only one in Stearns
county who is using this celebrated
Sine and with equally good re-
8USubscrlbed and sworn to before me
hi ih day of June. 1896.
SImES R. JERRARD. Notary Public.
,,J Stearns County, Minnesota.
Tr Williams' Pink Pills contain. In
a condensed form, all the elements
neasary to give new life and rlch
ni to the blood and restore shattered
Selves Pink Pills are sold by all dealc
ertVor" will be sent postpaid on receipt
nf nrlce M cents a box. or six boxes for
t2.R0 by addressing Dr. Williams'
Medicine Company, Schenectady. N. T.
JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY.
Comlk writers are allwuss expected
to be phunny when they talk, and, in
the effort to be so, are often very silly.
ovYoWoMs'arraHt
been known to sour on the intelektual
stummuk.
what little I kno I hav larnt bi mix
ing with the medium and lower Mass
es; dimonds and fine gold are oftenest
found close to the bed-rock.
Mi natur prompta me to make fust
advance. I hav often been snuonea
krewelly for this, but I kan't help it.
kanl? I shall flte it out on this line.
Tu kan't allwuss Judge hi aynear
aneaa. I hav often knowm a whole
shirt to be composed entirely ov a pa
per collar and a pair ov cotton wrist
bands. I hav allwuss notissed that thoze
circles which are the most exklusive
hav but little individual strength; mu
tual admirashun iz the pap that sus
tains them.
I hav generally notissed that the old
bachelors who giv themselfs up en
tirely to the service ov the ladys are
allwus ov the nuter gender. The wim
min never fall In luv with theze phel
lows; they are too safe.
The saddest sight in all the world to
me iz a broken-hearted manly man a
proud and robust oak riven bl llteaing
from Heaven.
NOTES OF INTEREST.
A female lodge of Odd Fellows has
Just been formed in Tasmania the first
lodge of the kind in the world.
Pancakes are now advocated as
Blasters. Applied at the base of the
brain they are quoted as an infallible
remedy for headache.
The summer girl has borrowed her
sweetheart's army button for use la a
variety of ways, but at last has de
cided on converting it into a hat pin.
The newest thing under the sua Is
the raising of doves for supplying wed
ding parties. They are to coo softly
amid floral decorations as a symbol of
the happiness of the bridal pair.
Mrs. Senator Hale is offering prises
for the Hancock county (Me.) fair, in
September, for the best patchwork
quilt the best worsted hood and other
samples of the work of old-fashioned
feminine fingers.
It is believed in Paris that the motor
tricycle for women will replace the bi
cycle In a short time because of its su
perior advantages for elderly women
and the fact that it will not slip on the
wet asphalt
CONUNDRUMS.
What In n lake? A hole In the tay-
ftettle.
What ruler waits on his people? The
King of Servla.
When is a girl not a girl? When she
is a little sulky.
Why is the letter e like death? . It is
at the end of life.
Why Is a hen immortal? Because
her son never sets.
Why is a cat's tail like the earth?
It is fur to the end.
When is a hat not a hat? When it
becomes a pretty lady.
What is the Board ot Education? The
schoolmaster's shingle.
Why lo the letter k like a pig's tall?
It is at the end of pork.
When Is a cow aot a cow? When It
Is turned iato a pasture.
Why did the man can his rooster
Robinson? Because it Crusoe.
When were Napoleoa's clothes rag
ged? Whea he was oat at Elbe.
Why is Westmiaster Abbey like' a
ire-place? It contains the ashes ot the
treat
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