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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-15, Page 2AN ALGERIAN MATINEE, STaphic Description of Some of the Mid- way Plaisance Sights. ORIENTAL SCENES AND MUSIC. ailark•Eyeal Coquettes froom lNortb Atrloa— The Prayer Nance--Dlnfug On Glass The 6corpton-Fater — Mho t)row imine Horror. . .SES, an Algerian f-=- matinee ie allthe fash- 0 ion upnu the Plais- auce, says a World's 4Fair correnpondeub. You peso up to the theatre, whose roof i rises like a star in the centre of the crescent - themed Algerian and tit,' I , oTuuisian village -the " Miesmem- ' ;star and crescent of Mohammed. You can see the merchants, .with their rolled turbans and dignified black hoards, arguing and bartering before their ilius bazars, richly adorned with the 'jewelry of the Orient, the gold -filigreed trinkets, the gay robes and handkerchiefs. You enter, however, guided by the any- thing but peaceful strains floating from the orchestra, and find yourself transported at once to North Africa. Everything wears a half -Moorish, half - „;Arabian aspect. The sunlight filters in through the red skylight above, through the many -colored, flower -ornamented win- dows below. Jeweled lanterns hang from the circling gallery. The interior and the filled proscenium are a light green in hue, while on the tapestried walla at the rear, of the narrow etage sparkle a number of gilt enirrora, suspended in fentaatio etyle. Meanwhile the orchestra of 10 has squatted tailorwise upon the stage, and the entire troupe of sinewy Algerians and brown - skinned beauties seats itself in full view of the audience, completing the semi - circlet. AFRICAN COQUETTES. Tha Afrio belht are quite bewitching. Pretty -featured, arrayed in all the glory of golden fabric and jewels, their eyebrowa ;artfully painted, their cheeks tinted to a rosy blush, their taper fingera stained with Irma, they are a bevy of smiling coquettes. Surmounting their dark tresses, tastily -coiled or flowing free, are the emaroidered caps of the harem, giving them a mia- •tahievoue air. Taseela dangle from their vegeta and dance in front of their araboaque- patterned skirts as they afterward move to the languid music. The skirts themselves, of blue, gold and green, are caught neatly about the trim little ankles, with the peak gilt slippers peeping from below. The musicians, for all the men play upon instruments, wear the red fezes, the em- broidered jackets, the white waist -scarfs and loose white trousers ending so abruptly as to reveal the lower part of the brown e calves. Tall, gaunt, with curly wool, dressed in garments of deep red, these are the comedians of the troupe. One STYGI N BLACK waxen, habited as gayly as a gypsy queen, and re- minding one of the old Moorish hag in the cave of Gil Blas, only that she has a certain wild beauty, sits at the extreme end. There has been no curtain. There are Ito programmes. The players jabber in Arabio and French among themselves, earo- .'iess of the audience. Suddenly the musi- cians strike up the prelude, a crazy over - tare with seemingly a dozen motifs. Viol, tambour, Arabian, fife, tom-tom, flute, man- dolin, cymbals, turtleae—a green -looking, awe -stringed fiddle, fashioned from the back of a turtle—mingle in astonishing dis- cord. Then the beauties of the harem take up the chorus, singing in a sweet, low voice. lithe music now haa a certain cbarm, but as xtnexpeetedly as it has begun it ceases. The first act le reedy. It le the Ataaaen dance, pronounced 4' oeabewah." This is the great ALGERIAN PRAYER DANCE, or torture dance, in which the frenzied dancers willingly inflict injury upon them- selves to remind them of the puniahment they are doomed to suffer because of their evil temper. All join in the preliminary Arabic prayer ; the incense pot sends curling -tap its light cloud of fragrant smoke; •reatatic exclamations break from -the crone - legged minatrele. And now leaps from the semi -circle one of the players and begins to run hither and thither. Suddenly, inspired by the sympathetic chanting of hie fellows, he prostrates himself before the censer, crouches over it upon his arms and eagerly inhales the fumes. The music swells. The veins in the dancer stand forth ; his eye -balls glisten. He is on hia feet again, hopping back and forth in great excitement. He wildly shakes bis head from side to side and rolls -it around as if it were fastened to his shoulders merely by a pivot. It is the dance of epilepsy. The more loudly the drums beat and the fifes shriek the more frantic he waxes. In his hypnotic lunacy he breaks away from the spell of the music at last and runs howling, with weird. hyena -like cries, around the stage. DINING ON GLASS. The coal -black wench, Isha, knows well what that means. She has a glass tumbler ready. Holding it over one of the tam- bours, the musician at her elbow quickly cracks it with a sharp blow of his dirklike sword. Like a rabid dog, actually snarling as he leaps upon it, the frenzied dancer falls upon the shattered glass, and crams piece after piece in his month. The grinding of the brittle crystal is ahiveringly heard, as he furiously crunches it. He hugely enjoys hia indigestible feast. Fragment after hag. meat, he eagerly chews it all between hie teeth, glares wildly around as if for more, and then, whirling once more into his'rav- age dance, sinks exhausted into the arms of Isha, who, with a ;rough embrace, restores him to his muses. As he passes back to his place he stoops and imprints a kiss on the white and red turban of the chief of the Aineaeu. A WEIRD DANCE. But another has sprung into the circle, and is breathing the hypnotizing incense. Like his brother, he begins tto race around the boards, and to weave back and forth, contorting his agile body, shaking his head with indescribable energy and rapidity. It is his head, in fact, and not hia body, that dances. If the incense had not upset .his brain this would of itself produce the delirium. He appeases his fierce thirst by eating some of the fiery embers. He dances until about to drop, when a handful of needles aro passed to him. He °lutohes them with joy. Instantly he jabbed one through his hand, another through his arm. A third he tttllokb into his nose. Then he makes pin- +outhlona of hia bronze oheeka. He sews onset his eyebrows. He punctures his lege. Ueaatiefied, he pokes out his tongue, and, holding it by the tip, jabs one of the long, slender needles right through the quivering Organ of speech. Is this magic 1 Or fa it you that are hypnotised 2 Let the wise ones decide; but there stands the Ateeaou dancer before you, full of needles like a poreupiue, with one of the steels distinctly PIERCING We TONGUE. He slowly pulls it out before your very eyes. A marvel of logerdoma1e, ii not es real as ib appears. A third dancer juinpa forward to the musio of incantation. He seizes a big globed needle reeembliug an ioo•pick. He barns We strong lege and stabs into the muscles with- out winning. He seems bo delight in ib. Ho seizes a sharpened sword and handles it by the point). He draws its keen edge across hie raised throat. Two of tho Algerianm. force it against his neck, while ho bhruste hitneeif with all hie weight against it. Miraculously it does not out him. He poises himuelf upon the upturned blade on one foot. He leans upon the paint. " Let's go,;' timidly trays one of the audience to his companion, "he's going to disembowel himself. They do that over in his country aonretimee when they go mal." The feat is assuredly retaliate. Aa he leans against the sword -point, an Algerian leaps upon his back. The spectators look to see bhe sword emerge near his spine, but it does not. When he straightens up, how- ever, the sword is sticking from his bared stomach by the point. Ho bas spiked him - Bela One of bhe others pulls it forth. It comes out eiowly, but no blood follows. There is no sign of a wound. THIO SCORPION -EATER. And now comes the soorpion-Bator. The nasty black poisonous bugs are wriggling in a little box. He coolly spills them oub upon a tambour. They begin to spring away. He brushes them into a heap. Isha charnie them with a eong. The dancer chants to them and lays hie ear close to the huddled group. Then ho leaps to his feet and runs around, uttering crazy, half -fiendish cries, He bends over the scorpions, as if intoxicated with the thought of de- vouring them. He scoops them up. They wriggle about on his hands and his arms. He sets them upon bis nose and up- turned face. Then, putting them on his fiat, he chants and they run into hia clasped palm. One by one now he places them near his lips. Each runs into hie mouth and down come his teeth upon each hideous morsel. The last one he holds by his teeth, while he dances. The dance and the scorpion cease at the same moment. A CROWNING HORROR. The fury of the dance is at its utmost. The musio has become a paroxysm. Pro- voked to frenzy, the Chief of the Aissaen bounds into the ring. He drinks in the myetio fumes and seizes the big spike-like needle. None of the dancers bas so shazen hie head. Low, mournful wails break from his lips. He seems driven to a supremo sacrifice. Throwing back his head, he sticks the needle right into cue of his eyes. He whirls around, turning the needle like a sorew-driver. His voile are swollen, his features frightfully twisted. His eye is being probed out of its socket. There it lies glassy and staring on bis cheekbone. The lid is back, the eyeball is growing red and aeeme as if bursting. The needle is sticking into it. Some of the ladies in the audience nearly faint ; men turn pale at the ghastly spectacle. The music maddens, the Chief whlrie again, the eyeball is roiled back within the lids, the needle is pulled forth. The Chief awoons in the arms of the faithful Isha, but when ho revives gazea at his admiring fellows again with both eyes. That ends the Afseaeu—and you are glad of it. It rends the American feelings a little too meets, but you wouldn't have missed it. And now comes the soothing epilogue—Algerian dances by the light. heeled women. Their eyes sparkle an the musicians sound a languishing melody on their fifes. First of all the beautiful Monde steps before the players. As the does eo, all her sisters greet her with a curious, In- dian -like yell, a tinkling crescendo of ap- proval. GONE TO ROME. Dr. McGlynn Starts for the Iloly City to . Interview Lee. A New York despatch rays : Father Thomas J. Ducey was asked yesterday about the report that Dr. McGlynn, instead of having gone to Chicago, as reported on Monday, had really started for Rome to have an interview with the Pope. Father Ducey said : " Yea, Dr. McGlynn is on kis way to Rome now. He is not in Chicago." "Why did be leave ,America so quietly?" "In my judgment he has acted with great wiedom is so doing and has prevented his calumniators dad slanderers from mis- leading the public by giving false informa- tion to honest reporters and then playing the part of Pharisee and putting the burden upon the reporters—censarieg them, heap- ing upon them the ignominy and infamy which belonged to them elvne " "How," I tithed, " do Son think that Dr. McGlynn will be received by the Holy Father ?" " I believe tho Holy Father will set an example of truce nv:r+homi .said Christian affection that might bear: rt hey ,a-,it:aeed by the American ep+scepect. ri•- will eoeino- e home his abused son, ,,, he t at aw-v,.r been a prodigal, and exprei.:s i;t- ;.• prow :ts- the selfish brothers who mend outnid.>a,•,rnp;o1n- iag because they cannot ha , their own way." A GUILELESS GIRL. She Didn't Understand She Was Tieing Married, and 'Moots trs a 1Dtcome. A Chicago despatch sees : tannin .Pos- wolski has fled a hill in its, Chrome Court to have the record of her rnerriaatc with Isaac Herr expunged, 'I'ne eomplah:ant says that she is a Russian, 17 year of age, poor, and has hut little knossledge of the English language. Sint seri met Herr adopted fraudulent meant+ in i reeteinst her consent to marry him. The hill avere that a marriage license was prorv.rod and the marriage vows given to her in Eogbeh on April 11th by Justice John C. Murphy. The coxiplainent alleges that she did not understand what was being done. Though the defendant is said to be wealthy, Mies Poawolaki does not admire him, end she asks the court to dissolve the marriage sed allow her to exercise her own volition in the choice of a husband. Lady Wortley's imamate. In making pleasant) advances bowerd strangers one should always be prepared for a enrpriae. It often happens that appear. armee betray one into a wrong opinion, A story is told of a startling experitwce of Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley in Gorham- bury. This English lady was driving along a country road, when a gate wan opened for her by a small country lad. She gave hire a email coin and a ploaaant smile, and said : " I am sure you are not a Hertfordshire boy, because you are so polite." " Tbee'rt a liar, 'cause I be," was the convincing reply. OId Subscriber (to editor) --Cat von lend me a51 Editor—We cannot, Old Sub. scriber—Paper not loin' much, eh t Editor —Well, we're boldin' our own. Knowledge without inte'eitteisdangerous. and dreadful. --Johnson. ULYSSES AND TGE SIRENS, Science .Explains Musical' Fishes and Singing Sands. A CURIOUS ARABIAN LEGEND, HE story of Ulyeoee and the sirens is a very in- teresting one, but, cen- sidered as a record of actual feet, we are afraid itf doomed, s do i od, says Ilse London Standard. Prosy acianoo Mops in as usual, ;) and tells us that the ravishing sea maidene ware nothing moxa than musical fishes, and that the part of the More- which torywhich says that the hero was compelled toItie his warriors to the mast to prevent their flinging themselves into the sea after the nympha was the outcome of the poet's lively fancy alone. It is a sad epootacle to see our cherished illusions going by the board one after another itt this way, leaving us more and more benighted and helpless in the dark sea of modern skepti- cism. Apart, however, from the Greek tradition, MUSICAL FISHES Constitute a phenomeuon of oonaiderabio iutereet to mankind at large, for the simple reason, presumably, that vocal talents are not popularly included among piscine at- tributee. There is no doubt, thougb, that the popular idea on thin point is an entirely erroneous one, for the body of evidence ad- duced by the moat famous and voracious travelers in all parte of the world is simply incontrovertible. Humboldt heard it in the South Seas in 1803, and 20 years later Lieut. White, of the United States Navy, heard it at the month of a river in Cambodia. To this last individual the sounds which spread around the bottom of the ship suggested a mixture of the bass of an organ, the mucic of belle, the guttural cries of a large frog, and the tones which imagination might attribute TO AN ENORMOUS HARP . —a very queer combination, which requires no small effort of the mind to realize. "These noised," adds Lieut. White, " in- creased, end finally formed a universal chortle over the entire length of the vessel and the two sides." Tho noise heard by Dr. Buist in the neigh- borhood of Sali ette resembled the protracted booming of a distant bell, the dying cadence of an eEolian harp, the note of a pitch -pipe or any other long drawn out musical note, and was canoed, said the native fishermen, by certain fish which abound in the muddy creeks and ehoale around Bombay and Sal- aette. Sir Emerson Tennant telie us, in bis " Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon," of a visit he once paid to a lake at Bettfcoloe to investigate a report con - earning some musical sounds peculiar, so far as he knew, to the place. He alio found in them a distinct resemblance to the notes of the 2J+,olfan harp, and he adds that " they come up from the water like the gentle trills of a musical chord—not one anstained sound, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself." A correspondent of Nature, writing from Greytown in May, 1870, said bhe concert began around his ship; PUNCTUALLY AT MIDNIGHT, and invariably continued for the name period—two hours. The sound, according to him, was "musical, metallic, with a. cer- tain cadence, and a ono, two, three time tendency of beat " It could not be fixed at any one place, but always appeared to re- cede from the listener. Very different, adds this correspondent, were the comparisons made by the different observers on board the ship. The blowing of a couch -shell by a fisherman at a dis- tance, a shell held to the ear, an IEolian harp, the whirr or bnzzirig of wheel machin- ery in rapid motion, the vibration of a large bell when the first and louder part of the sound has ceased, the echo of chimes in the belfry, the ricochetting of a stone on ice, the wind blowing over telegraph wires— were all assigned by the various listeners as legitimate objects of comparison. .Charles Kingsley heard it first about midnight, and then again in the morning, about sunrise. He likened it to a locomotive in the distance rattling AS IT BLOWS OFF ITS STEAM. The same curious notes have been heard at Tavoy, in British Burmah ; at Vizagapatam, on the eastern coast) of the Indian Penin- sula ; in the vicinity of Colombo, in tho Bay of Naples, at Liabon, and in the western bemlaphere, at the mouth of the Pascagoula River, in Mississippi ; at the mouth of the Bayou Coq del Inde, in the Gulf of Mexico ; at Greytown, in Trinidad ; at Caldera, in Chili, and several other places on thePacific coast of South America. They have various names for the fish at the various placerswhere its resume is commonly heard. At Liebon, it is celled the corvine; at Baltimore, the cat- fish ; in the West Indies, the trumpet fish ; in Ceylon, the crying shell ; and in Equador and in the Moditerran+•an it is generally known as the siren—one of the beat poesihle reasons for believing that Ulyesee was de- ceived in regard to the nature of the song - eters he was dealing with. SINGING SANDS. Another curious varier y of rude music is that) coming in certain districts from maesee of atone or sand. But here again science atop in and plays the dickens with pretty tradition. Humboldt describes a granite mountain in the Orinocce region as " one of those from which travellers have heard from time to time toward sunrise subterran- ean noundat renombiieg those of an organ." The mieaior,ariea call the atoite loxas de mueica, and the lodians say that witchcraft bas a lot to do with the business. The sound, it seams, is only heard when a person lies down on lite rook, with hia eec close to the surface. The great traveller's belief was that the rock contained a multitude of deep and narrow crevices ; that the toe:- ,:erature of the crovicr,a in different from that of the open air ; that a sonorous our - rent slowly iaaues at sunrise, and that the sound is probably due, to thisiseningcurrent striking ag;alesb the films of solos in the granite. A MUSICAL MOUNTAIN. Near Tor, in Arabia Potrma, is another mountain which gives forth a ourione sound. A legend current among the dwellers in that part says that a convene of monks is miraouloualy preserved under ground and that the sound is produced by the nakous, a long metallic bar suspended horizontally, which one priest strikes with hammer to summon the othore to prayer. Ono man is even said to have gone down and seen the whole thiug ! The real ex- planation is mu+h more simple. Ib has been found that the surfaces of two in- clined planar of sandstone are covered with loose disintegrated sand, and that tide (and in gradually rolling down produces a sound like the swelling and waning tone of a hucnnding, top. A., uznobt similam phenome• DOB him been noticed at Reggruwan, forty LYNCH LAW IN ILLINOIS. Miles north of Kabul, toward the Bindoo Klietah and near the base o menu slue . wo rl of halo, dcteobed from the reek), run in and meet each odder. At the point of junction —whore the slope of the hlile is at nal angle of 45 degrees ane, the il'rjaGI•I'r tNAnrX 400 ysu' --a sheet of send, as pure as that from the seashore, is spread from the top to the bottom to a breadth of about 100 ytaada.. When thin sand in set in motion by a body of peoplo, a sound is emitted which bas been said by ono traveller to resomblo the dietent notes of a horn, a " Horn of ElRand faintly blowing," and by another to be comparable to the notes of a big driest. There is another kind of nature mnale which is deserving of notice in this conn, ea- tion. The Ettrick Shepherd lido referred to ib as— That undefined and mingled ham, Voice of the desert, nover dumb.' And now a forgotten natura}isb speaks of it es the "purely rural, little noticed, and, indeed, local occurrence called by the coun- try people humming in the air." Tho at. tentive student hears it on sultry afternoons in July generally in an open space sur- rounded by trees. Perhaps "A Son of the Marshes could supplement our knowledge of this iutsresting phenomenon and fix the cause. Some years ago the people of a email district in Roxburghehire worn kepi in a state of excitement for several days by sounds as el musiowandering over tide coun- try. Along the country side the music was attributed to fairy processions, which, in the olden time, unless report errs, were in- variably accompanied by sweet music. of bh t ' 'l' dgea REL LEt1D Dr I!ETAtGE OR S. Cruel elurder et a 20-Tear•Oltl iLouly at Pall River. Mass. A Fall River, Masa., despatch says: The city is in a stete of intense excitement, due to the discovery of an atrocious murder, rivalling in many respects them of Mr. and Mrs. Borden. The victim was Miss Bertha Manchester, aged 22 years, a former student in the High School, and a descendant of one of the oldeab families in thin section of New England. She was last seen alive when her father, accompanied by his son and a hired boy, left for the city yeaterday morning. On their return the eon ran into the kitchen and there saw his murdered sister lying in a pool of blood. Notifying the father, the police were eamthcned and en investigation made. A bloody axe was found in a wood piie near the back fence. The examination of the body disclosed horrible conditions. The young girl was lying close to the foot of the stove, where she had evidently dragged herself through pools of her blood. Her right leg wan drawn under the /may, her clothes wore partially drawn from her hips, and her head and face were frightfully mutilated. There were four long, deep cuts on the back of the head, end the top of the skull was crushed to a jelly. There were several cuts on the face and nose, and two off the girl's teeth were found on the floor beside her. Her loose hair was matted with blood and her arms and face were covered with it. The spade in which she was found measured about 6xS feet, and: the sheathing and windows all around it wore spotted with blood. Some few apote of blood were found leading from the kitchen to the cellar door, and there were'pools of blood on the floor of the cel- lar, just beneath where the body lay. On searching the Ileum, the police found that the girl's bedroom had been rifled of some of its contents. The rifled bedroom leads to the theory that robbery was the motive, but they are all at sea regarding the iden- tity or the whereabouts of the assassin. The girl is said to have had no lovers, en3 no motive other than robbery is advanced. Neighbors noticed no unusual noise, and this is myetorious, ea the farmer kept several large and ferocious dogs. An autopsy, under the direction of the medical examiner, Dr. Dolan, disclosed little except that the girl was not outraged. POST•MORTEsi HONORS. The South Reverently Buries the Itepresen.- tative of the Lost Cause. A Richmond, Va., despatch says : The train bearing the ashes of Jefferson Davis arrived here early this morning, and the casket was conveyed to the capital build - leg. From daylight until 9 o'clock hun- dreds of strangers and city people passed through the capitol and viewed the flower - laden casket. From 9 to 11 o'clock about 5,000 public echoed children pasted by the bier, each dropping flowers as a tribute of affection. At 3.30 o'clock the body wets removed to the caisson, drawn by six white horses, ca- parisoned in black, and the line of march was taken up for Hollywood cemetery, where the interment took piece. Houses along the line were, almost without excep- tion, draped in black, and the national, State and Confederate flags, the letter predominating, were either fleeting to the breeze or worked in the funeral colors. The streets along the route, yards and win- dows of the dwellings were packed with pc opie. Nothing of a tumultuous or noisy cbarecter wnrleect the day or progress of the cortege, while the scene was a moat impoa- ing one, though the whole city seemed bo be D mourning. EEItTRA. WOULD FLIRT. Punished for it, She Took ultimo of Paris Green. A New York despatch says: Bertha Knob, 15 years old, living with her family on the top floor of the tonement at 439 West Fortieth etreet, has been in the habit of walking about the otreote after desk. Although repeatedly admoniehed by her parents and brother not to do this, olio stub- bornly refused to act. diferently. On Friday night her brother Philip found her in the street, near her home, flirting with Some young men_ Ho dragged her home, and when the pair reached the doorway where they lived Philip alapped the girl and told her to go to bed. She cried and went upstairs. She then asked her father for five cents. Upon receiving it aide stole down- stairs and went to a paint, shop in Eight avenue, where ehe bought live ciente worth of Paris green, " with whleh to kill rate," as she explained to the clerk. She went up to her room, put the Paris green in e. goblet of water, drank the mixture, and evaa found Sn agony by her temente. An ambulance eergeon pumped out the poison and the girl was (enb to Bollevuo hospital, where it wee said she would recover. Enough and to Spare. The question was once rafted me to which woe the more content of the two, the owner of half a million of money or the man with seven daughters. "The latter, of course," was the reply, "for the man with half a million le always wanting renege, while the one with seven &tightera bee plenty." " A chub acbmokcr, is it," remarked Duffy as he read hie invitation. "Begr+rre, O1've heard eve nein achy-mrkde' opium an cigarettes, but Oi niver hoary am xa:•roan schneoltid' a club." A Mob Hangs a Prisoner Who Dies testing Innocence. Pro- EIE P'RA'YED TEN MINUTES. A Decatur, 111,, despetob nays ; Estr.ly bksfs morning a mob ettauked the county jail and lynel.ied'Simnel J. Bush, the negro who made a criminal assault upon Mrd. William H. Vest and another white woman in Mount Xion townehlp last Tuesday. A guard of twelve men had been put in the jail, and an extraordinary force of men were put on the outside. About 300 curious people stood around the jail all night, though moot of them thought ue serious attempt would be made to take the pris- ouor out. At jowl) 2 o'clock twenty-five men came on a rush up Wood street. They were quiet, without masks, and moved in a solid body. They forced their way through tho crowd and knocked at the jail door. Deputy Sheriff .lylidkiff and Special Oiiloer Foster Bah just inside, and rofused them admission. One blow from a sledge CRASHED IN THE WOODEN noon, and the two officers were surrounded. The keys of the jail were demunded,butboth offi- cers declared they did not have them. The men then went to work with sledge hammers and chisels on the outside door. It was of solid cast-iron, an inch thick. Twenty min- utes elapsed before it was forced. Mean- while the crowd of Decatur people stood quietly outside. Marshal Mason forced hie way through the spectators and into the jail, and started bo address the men at work. They seized him and crowded him out of the door. Some one gave him a hard kick in the stomach. When the first door was opened another one of the steel bars held the lynchers another twenty minutes.. The next bars across the corridor were forced, and with them a look that opened all the cella. A frightened negro Weide pointed out Bush's cell. Three sen rushed in and found it apparently empty. They jerked over the mattress and lifted it up, and out tumbled the negro. All day yeeterday Bueh shook with fear. This morning he seemed cooter than at any time before. " Gentlemen, YOU ARE TILLING AN INNOCENT MAN," he said. He was dragged into the jeil office. So many men etood around that it took five minutes to pull bim through the crowd to the street. The crowd yelled ex- citedly. News of the attack on the jail seemed to have spread over the town, and fifteen hundred people were there. In front of the jail is a telegraph pole. A drive towards that was made, but the lynchers finally went to one about 600 yards away, one of the most prominent corners in the city, and directly in front cf the court house. An are light made the street intersection as light as day. A rope made of halter straps had been put around the negro's neck. When the crowd stopped at the foot of the pole he asked for time to pray. The men said : " Give him all the time he wants." He knelt down on the bricks and prayed disconnectedly fully ten minutes. Finally, the spectators began to get im- patient. A man had climbed half way up the pole and amid in the glare of the light all the time. " Cut that short," he said, "he gave thole women no time." Others took up the cry : "HANG HIM, HE'S PRAYED ENOUOIL" The rope was passed to the man on the pole. He put it over a wire and the crowd pulled. The negro's body swung up into sight, four fent from the ground, and `fell back. The negro uttered no sound. A few in the crowd groaned, whiles others yelled. Then a hack was driven into the erowd against the protests of the cabman. The negro was told to stand up on it. He refused. Half a dozen hands threw him up and held him while the rope was tied to the cross -arm on the pole. The back was driven away and the body fell with the feet not two feet from the ground. The neck was not broken. The body was cut down by Coroner Benders. The rope was cut and divided among the crowd around. Among the lynchers was William Vest, husband of the second woman assaulted, and Rolla Dill, brother of the first victim. People:Who Take Offence Easily.ij' In this world there are a certain class of individuals who roam about with a chip on their shoulders, daring others to knock it off just for the luxury of indulging in a first -clans quarrel. To the gentle -mannered, sweet dispositioned ones this seems a very questionable sort of enjoyment, yet to some a wordy war or a full-fledged feud condi- tutees the chief excitement of their lives. These peoplo always have a quarrel on hand. If it isn't a family affair, then out- siders must suffer. They are quick to take offence, both in public and private, and have no scruples about expressing them- selves on paper when they haven't a chance to do so verbally. It is the penchant for writing lettere that helps to keep them con- tinually in hot water, as the black and white characters are deoided evidence against them even after their anger has had time to cool. Now, if there were any sense in this sort of conduct, there would be some excuse for it ; but there isn't, and, moreover, it makes you doubly unhappy to be always on the cute with someone. You may pretend not to care, but you do just the same, and though pride and temper keep your spirits up for a time in your secret heart you wish you had not been quite so ready to quarrel. —New York Commercial Advertiser. With Compliments. Servant (delivering message)—Mr. Trip- Iett sends hie compliments to Mr. Gazzam, with the request that he shoot his dog, which is a nuisance in the neighborhood. Gazzam—Give Mr. Gazzars.'s compliments to Mr. Triplett and ask hint to kindly poison his daughter or burn up her piano. The greatest diving feats ever achieved was in moving the cargo of the ship Cape Horn, wrecked off the corset of South America, when a diver named Hooper made seven descents to a depth of 201 feet, re- maining at one time 42 minutes under the water. An authority states that the greatest depth to which a man has been known to descend does not exceed 210 feet, which is equivalent to a pressure of 8Sa pounds per square inch. Their eyes but met and thon were turned aside. It was enough. That mystic eloquence, unheard, yet visible, is deeply felt, and telia what else were incommunic- able.—Derozierr " Man wants but little here below," (aid the ballet dancer as she cut her skirts shorter. San Francisco hap one saloon to every 93 persons. Albany Domes next with one to every 110 persons, and New Orleans one to every 121 permit. . ,vew rer r:wattww,aNgl ' ;. A WOODVILLE MIRACLE. The Remarkable Cao of Little Georgie Veale, lifter Three Tears of Illness Ms Frieraalll Despaired el Els Recovery—Restoration. Carne Wheys tLepe Dad Almost Fled— The Little Fellow is Now as Lively as a Cricket—A. Story That Will hiring Rope to Other Parents. (Woodville Independent.) The Independent has published front thele• to time the particulars of some very re- seteraable cures following the use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills for. .f P ale People,. Those cases ham) been so toliy verified as to leave no doubt th, t 'tide now universally favorite remedy its ono of the greatest medical achievtmeots of em age that has been remarkable for blas wonderful discoveries of ectonce. Peeasihly some of our readers have thoughb that the virtues of this medicine Immo been ex.t;;- gerated, bub there are many among thorn who can testify to Ma virtues, and now the Independent is enabled to give the pat tinularrr - of a cure occurring in our vlllege qui.ie au remarkable as any that has hitherto bean, published, and which maty be so easily vt.r.i- tied by any of our readers that sheptielens must be silent. We had heard that tittles. Georgie Veale had boon cured through the nee of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and ae all • our people know that little boy had been ill for a long time end his recovery was thought to be hopeless. The report of Itis cure therefore created so much astontshment that we resolved to aeoertain the facts and ao- oordingly we called upon Mr. Veale to get the particulars. Mr. George Veale has h en a resident of this village for yearn, le a waggon -maker by trade, and is well known to all our citizen`s, as well as to :nowt of the people of theeurrounding country. Ile lute a termly of young children who ut f irtu- netely lost their mother some six year. a ago. O.eso of those children, named Georges, ie about 7 years of age, and some three yarn ago was taken 111 and haa since been prat.".eri- oally helpless, and as it result murk sympathy was felt for the family owieg to the child being motberdeea. The case of t he little fellow was considered hopeless and xis one ever oxpecte3 to see him able to Mee Mom his bed again. On asking Mr, V.+nte about the report we had heard of the bey'e recovery, he said it was quite true, and expressed his willingness to give us the partloulars, declaring that he bad no hesi- tation in saying that it wars owing to the cat of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills that the lad was now better. He mid that some tem and a half years ago little George was taken :l1 with inflammation of the bowels, and .re- ceived goad medical treatment. After uatng ill for some time, the trouble st:emesl to take a nes• form and settled in his borate, which became diseased. During the aum- mer he got a little better, but when winter sot in he was taken down, and the direa,.e became worse. Swelling arose over the body, and /several email pieces of bone came out. Ho could take but very little susteneoea, and for seven months could not stand cos his feet. He had to remain in bed or bs carriod about in his aistor'e arms. All the medicine he got did him no good and his ease was given up as hopcleas, and it was thought that he would not long survive. Mr. Vitale k®d read of the wonderful cures effected by the use of Pink Pills and decided that all things else having failed he would try what they could do for his boy. Accordingly he purchased some at Feed's drug More, end' segan giving them to his son. After ebino two weeks he found that there was an im- provement in his condition, which wee -- ranted the further use of the Pink. Pills, and accordingly he procured another supply. " And now," said his father, " the little fellow 16' running about) as lively and as mischievnue as ever." "There le no doubt about Misr matter," said Mr. Veale, " Pink Pills cured my boy when all other remedies had failed, and I am glad to give this information, so that it may be of benefit to others." We called upon Ihir. Feed, the druggist, dad asked him his opinion of Dr. Willman,' Pink Pill.. He said • that the demand for ahem was so great as to be astonishing, and that those who once nee them buy again, thus proving their value. Mr. Feed said be sold more Pink Pills than any other remedy, and the demand le still inoresio;en end he thought no better evidence could be, given of their value as a medicine than this. The Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for redo People are manufactured by the Dr. 'VS -a- nimas Medicine Co., of Brookville, Oat:., stud Schenectady, N. Y., a firm of unquos. atoned reliability. Pink Pills are not looked ,;ton as a patent medicine, but rather as a isrescription. An analysis of their pro-• eesrtien show that those pills are an ui,fei1- Ing speoifio for all diseases arising from ata impoverished condition of the blood., or from an impairment of the nervous ayatem, such as loss of appetite, deproaaion of spirits, anemia, chlorosis or green sickneao, gene oral muscular weakness, dizziness, loss of memory, palpitation of the heiert,•. nervous headache, locomotor ataxia,. Varalyals, sciatica, rheumatism, Se. itus deuce, and all effects of la, grippe, all diseases depending upon a.. vitiated condition of the blood, such as, scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They ere also a specific for the troubles peculiar to thin female system, correcting irreguleritiee,. euppresetone and all forms of female weak- neus, building anew the blood and restoring the glow of health to pale and sallow rheeka. In the case of men they sheet tit, radical cure in all oases arising from mentei; worry, overwork or excesses of any nature. Those pills are not a purgative medicine. They contain only life-giving propertiea and nothing that could injure the most delicate - system. They act directly on the '.lcod, supplying its life-giving quait- Moe, by assisting it to abeorb oxy— gen, that groat anpporter of all crgento life. In this way the blood, leo- ocimiag " built up" and being supplied with- Mt lacking constituents, becomes rich and rod, nourishes the various organa, Marne - listing thews to activity in the performances "1 their fuuctione and thus eliminate diste at•, i.rem bhe system. . Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold only in, !.exon bearing the firm's trade mark an& wrapper, (printed in red ink). Bear im mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills 4219' !sever sold in bulk, or by the dozen; ' - any dealer who offers) substitutes in this form is trying to detreud you and should be avoided. The public are. also cautioned against all other so - palled blood builders and nortta tonic'', put up in similar form intended to deceive. They are all !mita blows, whose makers hope to reap a pecu- niary advantage from the wonderful repu- tation achieved by Dr. Williams' Pink Pilin. Ask your dealer for Dr. Williams' Pink PiIIs• for Pale People and amines all imitations and eubutes. Dr. Wililatitama' Pink Pilis may be had of: all druggists or direst by mail from Drd Williams' Medicine Company from either a+tdreaa, et 50 costs a hoe, or six boxes for 0.50. The Vic.. it: which these ills are; raid mdkos a !e'er, er c..rsumonb oompara. lively inexpens1 ounsptared with others remedies or nredie.t of tem mint).