Loading...
Exeter Times, 1896-10-8, Page 6777, THE EX.ETER, TIMES. LEGAL. II.DIORSON,Barrister, • eitor ot Snpreme Court. Notarn Patine, o nvoyaueer, tio nun as to leer, die Mosley to Lean. 011100/ ansottaBloolt. Exeter, R OOLLINS, aurister, Solicitor, Convey neer AZETnit, s ONT. OFIPLOB : Over O'Neil's Bank. ELLIOT ELLIOT, Sanisters, Solicitors, Notaries Palle, Conveiyaneers dzo, &e. r,...-mouey to Loan at lowest Rates of Interest, OFFICE, - MAIN - STREET, 'EXETER' Hemel every Thursday. L v. =sem eneeeinca ELLIOT. MEDICAL RealM2111 T W.BROWNING M. D., M. 0 tr • P.8. Graduate Victoria Univers ty once and residence. Donstnion Lebo a tery.Exeter. RYNDUAN„ coroner for Lie A..• County of Huron. Onto, opp aim Casella g Bros, store. Exeter. Drts.ROLT2NS MOS. Separate Offices. Residence same as fernier. IT. Andrew lit. Otlices: spatikmane. Alain st; Dr Rollins' same as formerly, north door; Da Amos" same building, south door. R01.1,INS. M.D. T. A. AMOS, M. D Exeter, Ore AUCTIONEERS. 11 BOSSEINIBBRItY, General LI- . owned Au one Sales condueted ellpeate. Sat ief action gnarantesa. Charges moderate. Rommel P 0, Out: T.TBNRY BILBBR Lioensed Ana- tioneer for the counties or aurae and talocliesex e Sales conducted at mote, crate rates. tureen at Posnotnee °red. ler Ont. VETERINARY. Tennent & Tennent EX EiT itrIssen ; Cue sloor South ofTowu Hall, ("Wastes ofthe Ontarto Voted:Ismer psi THE WATERLOO AIUTITAL nen IleSialtANCEC o . nstablished In 18433. READ OFFICE - WATERLOO, ONT. This Company has been over Twenty -01A sears in sincessfut °petition in Minoru tint ado, and continues to ins areagai int loss or damage ife Fire, Buildings, Minh:mane elinutactones tine all other descriptioas of !rentable prepertn intending insurers have the option of insuring on the Premium Nato or Cash 'exu. During the past ten years this coinpany has isrued 07.es Pollens, covering property to the cm•int of stone:Min and paid in losses alone e'neneestis. street s n176,100.00 , con si s tia g Of CaS11. Innis clovernment Deane t and the unasses- ced Premium Notes on hatand ie force ne ere eneesal.D., President: 0 al. inerne rotary J. B. II cultus, Insneetor talAS 111, 4 ger t for Exeter and vicinity 1211131M1161111Midl111111111M11101111101 AERVE BEANS DEVI: Ist.i.t.:sts • re covery that euro tbe'vont ea.e.: of Nerrotis Debility, Lost Vigor and Failing Manhood; restores the weekness of body or mind caused by orcr.worir, or the errors or en. ...sass- cases of youth. This Itereedyab. pautely cures Um most obstinate cases when all other re.naTstaras have failed ovento relievetold by drug. fists M.S.). per panne, er six for $s, or sent by manor; s Teint of price by addressinfsTIIE JAMES *IL Toronto. Ont. Vrirvo in -- o ld at Eroweine's Drug Store Exeter, EXT. Or HAS A. RECORD O 40 YEAPSOF5UCCESS ET 15 A SURE CURE eo Fe DieRRSCP-A. DYSSEeliSnkeY Come GRAM PS CHOLERA INFAhreille end all 5 uneete eonerseef NTS etelesen or Adults. nEAD=IVIAKERI ir7 RCVS Rae ee SefieselliSe trOB nevi ess reese sees THE EXETER TIMES Is published every Thursday morning at Times Steam Printing Nouse Ma a etreet, nearly opposite Fitton's jewelry store, Exeter, Ont., by .TOBN WHITE & SONS, Proprietors. ileum OF I.OVERTISING : First insertion, per line 10 cents. Inch subsequent insertion, per lino3 cents, To insure insertien, advertisements eiould. I 0 i.ent in not 'afar nen Wedne.-day morning. Our JOB PRTNTING DEPARTMENT is one • e lave t and best equipped in the County o Tenon. An work entrusmd to us will re - neve our prompt attcntion. -- Decisions liregarding Newspapers. 1 -Any person who takes a paper regularly earn the post office, whetter directed in his mime cr another's, or whetter ho has sub- soT ibed or not, is responsible for payment. 2 -If a perese orders his paper cliscontinned mint pay ell ureters or the publieher nee, tent:Mee to send it until the pnyment is made and then collect no whole amount, whether he paper is taken ivom the melee or not. sait.;. for subscriptions. ties suit may be instituted in the place Imre the paper ielmle lathed, althoueh the subscriber may reside ltnndr.eds of miles 4—The attune have melded tiles refusing to tnke newspapers anperioeicals from the ;Jost Wilco or removing and leavir,g, them uncalled for, is Petene fele evidence of intentional THE GREAT NORTHAMPTON BANK ROBBERY. STORIES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE DETECTIVE AGENCY. A. feet of made significance to the Pinkertons, was the rather remarkable interest in the case, axed apparent tam - Marley with it, then= by one, J. Q. Evans, an expert in saes and vaults, and the representative a one of the Largest sate manufactorlea in the coun- try. The day after the robbery Evans had been at Bristol, Cennectiout, in the in- terest of his firm, Nvho, on receipt of the news, had immediately wired him to proceed to Northampton was regard- ed as nothing strange, for he had heeu there several times during the raonths just preceding the robbery, and once had inspected the locks and dials of the vault a the robbed bank, What did seem, a little strange, however, was Evan's evident interest in the negotia- tions for a compromise. On a dozen different occasions he talked with the president and officers of the bank re- garding the robbery, and insinuated quite plainly that he might be in a posh, tion to assist there in recovering their lost securities. A few months after the robbery he even went no far as to tell oaae at the directors -that he could name the aembers of the gaaag. This disposition of Evans to put him- self forward in the negotiations had all the more significance to Robert Pink- erton froxn the fact that it had been rumored that a. series of daring bank robberies, lately committed in various parts of the country, had. owed their success to the participation of an expert in safes and locks, who had been able through his position, of trust, to reveal to the robberany secrets of weak bank locks, safe e and vaults. Up to this time these rumors had remained indefinite and no one/ ventured to name tbe man. It was knowa, however,that the false expert was a man of high standing irt his calling, and generally regarded as above suspicione It was al- so known that there was great jealous' in other gangs of bask robbers he - cameo of the areazing success of the gang with whom this man was work- ing, and that overtures even bad been xo.ade, by the leaders of some other gangs to win over to their own gangs this desirable accomplice. Robert Pinker- ton had already concluded that the gang so ably assisted. was the Dunlap gang; and he was now pretty well persuaded, also, that the Northampton robbery bad been committed by the Dunlap gang. There was every reason, therefore, for keeping a sharp eye on the safe expert Evans. As he studied the case, Mr. Pinker- ton recalled a circumstance that bad happened in the fall of 1875.. On the night of November 4, 1875, the First National Bank of Pittston, Pennsyl- vania, had been robbed of sixty thous- and dollars, and Mr. Pinkerton had gone there to investigate the case. He net a number of safe men, it being a business cuszom. with safe men to flock to the scene of an important bank rob- bery in order to supply new safes for the ones that have been wrecked. While they were all examining the vault, still littered with debris of the explosion,the representative of one of the sale cern- ponies picked up a small air -pump used by the robbers, and, looking as it crit- ically remarked that he would have sworn it belonged to his com.panyedid he not know that was irapossible. The air -pump was, he declared, of precise- ly his company's model, one that had been recently devised for a special pur- pose. At the time Pinkerton re- garded this as merely a coincidence, but now the memory came to him as a flash of inspiration that the man who had remarked the similarity in the air - pump represented. the same company that employed Evans. In view of all the circumstances, it was decided to put Evans under the closest questioning. He did not deny that he had made unusual efforts to effect the return of the securities, but professed that it was because he was sincerely sorry for the many people who had been ruined through the robbery. And he professed to believe, also, that he had been unjustly treated in the af- fair, though just how, and by whom, he would not say. To the detective's trained observation It was apparent that he was worried and apprehensive and not at all sure of bimeelf. In November, 1876, George H. Bangs, superintendent of the Pinkerton Ag- ency, a man possessed of very remark- able skill in eliciting confessions from suspected persons, had an interview with Evans. He professed to Evans that the detectives had secured evidence that praotically cleared up the whole mystery; that they knew (whereas they still only surmised) that the robbery had been committed by the Dunlap and Scott gang, and that Evans was a con- federate; that for weeks they had been shadowing Scott and Dunlap (which was true,) and could arrest ttent at any mo- ment; that there was no doubt that the gang had been trying to play. Evans false (a very shrewd guess), and would sacrifice him without the slightest com- punction; and finally that there was op- en to Evans one of two courses—eithexl to suffer arrest on a charge of bank robbery, with the prospect of twenty years in prison, or save himself, and at the same time earn a substantial money reward, by making a clean confession of his connection with the crime. All this, delivered with an air of completest certainty, was inere than Evans could stand up against. He broke clown com- pletely and told all he knew. The story told by Evans is one of the most remarkable in the history of crime. He admitted the correctness of Robert Pinkerton's inference that the Northampton Bank had been .robbed by Scott and Dunlap and their associ- ates, and in order to •explain his own connection with this formidable gang, he went back to its organization in 1872. The leader of the gang was James Dunlap, alias James Barton, who be- fore he became a hank -robber, had been a brakeman on the Chicago, Alton., and St. Louis Rai Railroad. Ills inborn mire - heal instincts led him to frequent the resorts of thieves int Chicago, and thus he met "Johnny" Lamb and a man earaed Perry, who took a liking to him, and taught him ail they knew about breaking safes. Dunlapsoon outstrip- ped his .raasters, developing; a genius for robbery and for organization that speedily proved him the most form- idable of all the bank -robbers then op- eratingin the country, not even. except - tug "Ilaromy" Hope, the notorious Man - A rets of safeema,kers_, and. °Quid locate weak banks, to make a great deal of moAy, without danger to himself. MeV," eaid Perry, "you oan make more in one night with. us, without any PINKERTON we's suspecting it, than you eau make in year working for these safe peo- ple." Tb.e result was that Evans, in con- sideration of fifty thousand dollars, finally agreed to provide eome means of opening the Yale lock which barred the robbere from the coYeted treasure at El - para. Perry, in great delight, hurried back to Elmira and reported his suncess to Dunlap and Scott. In order to bring Evans to Elmira in a way not to exoite suspicion, a letter was written to the company he served, containing a tempt- ing proposition regarding the purohase of safes, Evans was at once eent to Elmira to look after the matter. He stopped at the Rathbone House, where he was waited upon by &sett, with whom Ise ooneerted a ran of operations, into the lock at eight so hat the lock would not work. Then, as Evan's pref.!, mice m the city had been made known, it was hoped. that he would be called upon as an e.xpert in difficult locks to find out wha.t was the matter. This would give him, an opportunity to se - plan worked only too perfectly, and oura an impression Of the key. The 'within twenty-four hours the conspir- ators were able to pass in and out of the Young Men's Christian Association rooms as they pleased, without the knowledge of any one. It now remained, in order to achieve the robbery, to dig down into the vault an immense task, for which the eon- stant presence in Elmira. of the whole gang was necessary. It was also ne- cessary' that their presence should not be noticed, and to that end a woman from Baltimore, who had been assoeiat- ed with one of the gang in previous un- dertakings, came on to Elmira and took a bentse in the suburbs, giving out that elm was the wife et man Wil0.90 busi- ness kept him travelling most of the tirae.. The house was simply furnished, and every day, for the benefit of the neighbors, the woman made a great pre- tence of sweeping the steps, cleaning the windows, and busying herself about the yard in verious ways. Meantime, inside the hou.se, in careful concealment, the raenxbera of the gang were living—Scott, Dunlap, "Red" Leary, Conroy., andPer- ry. '.Chey aever went out in the day tune. and they left the pines at night so cautiously. going one at a time, that. al- though they lived, here for six weeks, their presence was never suspected. Every night they gathered in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian As- sociatiou after the young men had gone home, using their false keys to gain admission, and they remained there hours at a time, doing what would or- dinarily be the noiseet work; but their movements were so cautious and well- planned that their presence in the build - mg was never suspected. Ever), night the carpet and. flooring was taken uP, and after they had. finished their exca- tons of masonry vations, were carefully re-laid. Tons and carried up to the roof of the opera and heavy stone were removed, shovelled into baskets, and. house, adjoining the bank building, where there was small chance of the debris being discovered. Thus the un - wearying rascals worked downward through the layer of railroad iron, and at last found themselves separated from the inside of the vault by only the plate of steel. Success seemed within their very grasp, when an unforeseen accident spoiled everything. One day the president ot the bank. Mr. Pratt, was surprised, on entering the vault, to find the floor sprinkled with fine white dust. An ievestigation was madeaand the whole plot was un- covered. The members of the gang, however, got word in time, and all man- aged to escape, except Perry, who was convicted of attempted burglary, and sent to the Auburn Prison for five hattaa Bank robber, Re had the long headedness and. stubbornness of his Seotch, parents, united with the daring and ingenuity peouliar to Anatieicans. In the fall of 1872 he organized the most dangerous and best egeapped gang of bank-robbeis. that the country had ever knowri. Dunlap's right -band man was Robert. C. Scott, alias "Hustling. Bob," original- ly a deck -hand on a Mississippi steam-; boat and afterwards a hotel thief. Scott was a. big, powerful: man, with a deter-, inivation equal to anything,/ Their as- socia.tes were what one might expect from these two. Other members of the gang were Thom...as Doty, William Con- roy, "Eddie" Goody, Tolui Perry, James Greer, a professional burglar, original- ' from Canada; and the notoriou,s John ary, alias Red" Leary,t of whom. more will be said later on., In addi- tion to these, the gang centabaed sev- eral membere of less importance, men who acted merely as lookouts, or as go- betweens or messeugers. The first large operation of Dunlap's band occurred in 1372, when they iplund- ered the Falls City Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, of about two hundred thous- and dollars escaping with their booty. This was satisfaetery as a beginning, but Dunlap and Scott dreamed of achia evements beside which this was insignit- icant, They began a careful investigation through many States,. to learn of banks of weak structure containing large treasure. Or* of the gang found pre- cisely what they were en search of in the Second Nationel Bank of Elmira, New York, which institution, being a government depository, contained as they learned on good authority, two hundred thousand dollars in greenbacks and six millions in bands. A survey of the premises satisfied the gang that, massive though it appeared, with its ponderous iron walls and com- plicated locks, the vault of this bank was by no means impossible of access. The floor above the bank was occupied by the Young Men's, Christian Associ- ation,. one of the .aesoolation's rooms be- ing directly over the vault. There was the floor laetween, and ender 'that four feet of solid masonry, some of the stones in it weighing a ton. And under, the masonry was a layer ef railroad iron, resting on a plate of hardened steel an inch and a half thick. All this, how- ever, so far from discouraging the con- epirators, gave them, greater confidence in the success of their plana once un- der way, since the very security of the vault, by structure, from overhead at- tack, lessened the strictness of the sur- veillance. Indeed, the meet serious dif- ficulty in the estimation of the robbers was to gain easy and unsuspected ad- mission to the quarters of the Young Men's Christian .Association, on the se- cond floor. The secretary, a. very Prudent man, had put upon the outside door of the Association rooms an im- proved Yale lock, which was then new upon the raarket, and effered unusual obstaoles in the lock-pieker. Neither Dunlap,Scott, nor any of their associates had ,skill enough to open the lock with- out breaking it, which would, of course, have been fatal to their plan. For days, therefore, after all the other de- tails of the robbery had been arrang- ed, the whole scheme seemed to be blocked by a troublesome lock on an ordinary wooden door. So seriou.s matter did this finally become that Scott and Dunlap went to the length of breaking into the secre- tary's "louse at night, and searching his pockets, in the hope of finding the keys and getting an impression of them. But here, again, the secretary had taken precautions that defeated their pur- pose, for he had. hidden the keys under a carpet, where the robbers never thought ef looking for them. Dis- appointed in their search, they went away, making no attempt to carry off anything, a bit of forbearance which caused the excellent seereta,ry much wonder the next morning,. when he found that nothing was missing, al- though there were plain traces of in- truders. The Yale lock still containing an in- soluble ditfieulty, Perry in made a journey to New York, in the hope of finding some device by whioh to open it. There, in the course of his search, and in a curious way, he made the ac- euaintance of Evans, then a salesman m the employ of a prominent safe com- pany. Before entering the employ of the safe manufacturers, Evans had conducted an extensive mercantile business for him- self in a large Eastern city, where he was regarded as a man of wealth and integrity. He had large dealings through the South, with extensive credits; but the outbreak of the war had forced him. into bankruptcy. It WaS hinted that there was some over - shrewd practice connected with his failure, and his subsequent sudden de- parture for Canada gave color to the insinuation. At any rate, he comprom- ised with his creditors on a basis advan- tageous to himself. On his return from Canada, Evans took up his residence in New York City, and beton to cultivate tastes far be- yond his Income, notably the taste for fast horses. Perry heard of Evans through one Rya,n, whom he had known as a "crook".years before, bu.t who was then running a livery stable in an up- town street. As a matter of fact, this livery stable was merely a' blind for the sale of tuisou.nd horses "doctored up" to deceive unsuspecting buyers, But or this Evans knew nothing, and in good faith, had stabled one of his own horses with Ryan. This had led to an intimacy between him and Ryan, and now, at Perry's suggestion, Ryan en- couraged Evans in his disposition to live beyond his means. Before long, Evan.s found himself much cramped financially. Being un- able to pay Ryan the money he owed him for stabling, he began to talk of selling his horse; and one day, when he was complaining of being. short of money, Ryan said, "If I had your poet - tion I'd never lack for money." Evans asked him what he meant. "Oh," said Ryan, "there axe plenty of people who would 'put up' well to know Sofia of the things you know about safee and. banks." By degrees Ryan made his meaning more clear, and Evans grew properly indignant. The subject was dropped for the raoraent, but in subsequent meetings, Ryan kept reverting to it. Meantime Evens found himself growing more and roare embarrassed, and one day he said, "What is it these people want to know ?" "Wen," said Ryan, "they would like to know, for one thing, if there is any way of beetimg. these new Yale looks ?" "Yon ean't pick a Yale lock," ansveer- ed Evans, "that would take too long ; but there is e way of getting one crpen," "We'll talk that aver some day," Having once. nibbled, Evans was not hong in biting at the bait thus adroitly. held before bine He consented to be batioducied to Perry, who shrewdly showed hina what an easy matter it would be for a man who knew the sec- clildren Cry for Pitcher s Castora Scott was to slip a hba ?iece of wood years. Undisturbed by the failure, Scott axia Dunlap proceeded to scour the country again in search of another bank suited to their operations, and in February, 1874, notified the gang, which now con- tained some new members, that they had "found something to go to work at" in Rainey, Illinoi. The attack on the Slumcy bank was made in very much the same way as the attack on the bank at Elmira. The Baltimore woman again rented a house, which af- forded shelter ea,nd concealment to the men; access was obtained to rooms over the vault by false keys as before; the flooring was taken up and put clown every night without exciting suspicion; the masonry was removed, the iron plates of the vault were penetrated; and, finally, one night Scott and Dun- lap were able .to lower themselves through a jagged. hole into the money - room beneath. It now remained to force open the safes inside the vault, and to accomplish this the robbers useu, for the first time in the history of safe wrecking in Amer- ica, what Is known as the air -pump method, which had been devised by Evans, and carefully explained by him to Scott and Dunlap. Evans' employers were at this time introducing a pad- ding, designed to make safes more se- cure; and Evans had hit upon the idea of tntroducing powder into the sevens of a safe door by an air -pump: in the presence of a possible customer, in or- der to impress him with his need of the new padding. Evans himself was not present at the breaking open of the El- mira bank, and. he had nothing to do with the robbery beyond furnishing in- struction with the air -pump. Scott and Dunlap did the work. As a first step all the seams of the safes formed by the doors were care- fully puttied, rp, save two small holes, one at the top and one at the bottom. Then, at the upper hole, Soett held a funnel filled with fine powder, while Dunlap applied the air -pump at the hole below. By the draught thus oreat- ed, the powder was drawn into all the interstices between the heavy doers and the frames of the safes. Then a little pistol, loaded simply with powder, was attached near the uppee hole, and, by a string tied to the trigger, discharged from a. safe distance above. There were several attempts made before a complete explosion was effected; but finally the safes were blown open and their con- tents Secured, the robbers making good their escape with one hundred and thouzand dollars in money, and about seven hundred thousand dollars in bonds. No part of this money was ever recovered by the bank, nor were any of the gang captured at this time. The securities were, however, after- wards sold back to the bank. Indeed, so oleverly had the whole affair been managed that no suspicion fell upon .either Scott, Dunlap, or any of their essociates. Ilere was fortunes made easily emytigh, with plenty more to be made in the same way, and the gang were in high feather over their saccess, During the summer of 1874 Scott and Dunlap lived. in painc,ely style in New York. They attracted much attention at Colley Islancl during the season, where they drove fast horses. No one sus- pected that they were the leaders of the most desperate gang of bank -robbers ever organized, in this or any colmtry (To he continued.) SOME STRANGE TORTURES, HOW SOUTH AMERICAN SAVAGES TORTURE THEIR PRISONERS. Rubber catpaults That lime Helpless Cans eno iPits Swarming wills Vmous Rens u ttive: Hundreds oePeet and leshd Thew n Eight years ago, while in South Am- erica, we were camped near the falls of the M'adeira, writes Arthur Axtell. One night we visited a village of the Caripuna Indians. The CaTipunas are of a reddish color, finial and uPpre- possessing. T,hey are a wild untama- ble raoe that -live by hunting and fish- ing, and ax -e at enrciity with" every- body, especially with the tribe of Mojos, some of whom they captured in battle, broiled over a telow fine and ate. When any m.ember of a Caripuna fa- nailY dial he is buried beneath the dirt floor of the hut, and. when no room is left for more graves the hut is left to the dead and the living move away and build a new hut. On the night I refer to we were welcomed and treated hospitably, for Dr. Yturri, of our party, had the year before cured the chief of the tribe when be Was thought to be dying, and our guide Narciso had been among them foe many yeare. In that dense forest, in which grow everything from orthidis of the most beautiful colors and oddest forms to giant trees two hundeed feet high, the camp -fire lit up dimly a circular spot in tUe darkne,ss, giving glimpses of the fieroe fame, of the cannibals, their ugly tatooing and. necklaces of animals' teeth'. One of them recounted to Narciso, our guide, a few of the le- gends of the race. The Caripunas, the cannibal said, came into life in this wise The god of waters—the Amazon—be- came incensed at the cowardice and wo- manith ways of the native tribes, and determined to bring forth A RACE OF WARRIORS. Like a lion stirred to great anger, he lashed himself into a fury. He stirred the mud. of the river bottom and huge muddy bubbles rose to the surface. Au instant they floated on the waves, then the wind blew them into the air and drifted them to the land. Bach muddy bubble fell upon the bank of the great river, bursting with a noise like a war -cry, and lo, a warrior, paint- ed, fully a,rmed, fierce, invincible, sprang forth, Centuries before the Spaniards came to the western coaat, the cannibal nar- rated the father's of the tribe of Car- ipunas were often gathered. in coun- cil to devise new methods of putting their prisoners to death. A punish- ment was finally devised that for or- iginality and horror is without par- allel. Into long shallow troughs of clay a great quantity of jute from the rubber tree was poured.. A little time was allowed for the sun to evaporate it, and then fires were built under the troughs and kept steadily burning un- til, there lay in the clay immense strips of pure rubber of great . elasticity, thick, wide, and fifty feet long. With two of these strips of rubber an immense awing was made. To the lower ends strong ropes of palm -fibre were fastened. A. seat or cradle made of the skin of a huge jaguar was at- tached to these ropes. To the upper ends of the rubber strips were bound ropes, which fastened the swing at a dizzyheight, to two gigantic trees growing side by side. The trees had been despoiled of their branches and foliage, and stood LIKE TWO TALL MASTS. Between them hung the swing, falling to within fifty feet of the ground. Ropes extended to the ground, fas- tened to the jaguar -skin seat. A score or two of Indians the cannibal explained, took hold of each rope, p.ull- ed down the seat of the swing, Into which a brave got. The ropes were gradually relaxed until the Indian in the seat swung high above the ground. Then he wee given such a, swing as never man had before; a swing so high that he was able to look as the con- dor of the Andes looks from an awful height upon the great forest far be- low. Soon he became dizzy from the motion of the great swing, and, quiv- ering with fright, was glad to gine the signal to stop. This device was something more than a swing. It was a rubber catapult of fearful power. One day after a battle with a neighboring tribe the Caripu- nas, the tribal legend narrates, return- ed to their village with thirty prison- ers. They were bound to trees and kept alive for a week on a few mouth- fuls of uncooked monkey flesh. Then their heads were shaved and anointed with blood, and with savage ceremony they were led to the catapult. The great rubber bands were stretched to the ground. by forescore brawny In- dians. The victim, bound, was laid in the cradle of skin. A CUP or, BLOOD drawn froni his own veins, was given him to drink. At a signal the Indians suddenly released the ropes. In an in- stant, with lightning swiftness, the poor wretch was hurled above the for- est, up, up into the sky, becoming a small dark object. Soon descending, it grew larger and larger, and a lifeless body fell to the, earth, disappearing among the tree -tops. . A second victim was treated in the same way, and a third. Then three more prisoners were led aside, their heads shaved, a large calabaeh of blood pour- ed over each, and they were told that on the morrow they would die in the manner they had witnessed. So they perished. After another battle the amusement was varied. Some distance away a series of six big pits were dug, 'One was filled with muddy water, another with mice and lizards, and another with ve- nomous serpents. The savage Caripu- nes then selected two 'leaders, who chose sides, eighty Indians to aside. Pixel by one side, then by the Other, a captive was shot up in the air, the object of this barbarous game being to drop the captive into one of the pita. When one wars fired from the catapult, and. fell splashing into the pit of mud- dy water the chief would cut, five notches in a spear. When one fell in- to the lizerd pit ten notchea were cut, and. when a limp limn dropped among the equirtning snakes there was great rejoicing, for this counted twenty notch- es in thie awful sport. After all the prisoners had been tossed from the rude, powerful eatapult each side count- ed, its notches to see which was the victor. A FIENDISH GAME. An extraordinary speetaxiie, the Car- ipuna story teller concluded, was fin- ished each raonth at the full moon. In 'the centre of is. cleared space in the forest was a huge flet-toppect rock. At equel diataeoes.from it, north, east, south, west, were erected four of these giant. catapults. Each, hung between two trees, each 150 feet high. When the moon, was high in the sky the whole tribe assembled to see the Sport. There was deep silence. Sudden- ly rang out a fiendish cry, unearthly, blood -chilling, and, like a shell from great mortars, from four catapults were shot simultaneously four captive sav- ages. Such was the tribe's skill with these catapults that the four 'bodies met high in the air, crashed together and together fell straight down upon the great stone and were crushed to death. Then the tribe gathered about the stone, men, women and children, and satiated their cannibal appetites. From any knowledge of the history of this tribe of cannibals it is quite probable the things narreted in lthe legends occurred approximately as de - seethed. These legends bave been told by this latter-day Caripuna, re- peated and preserved from generation 1 to generation just as the events told in the Iliad and Odyssey were. TOO LITERAL. They is such a thing as bein' in the habit of takin" things too literal, said the old settler, who had beee in the country for four years, and Wall -eyed Bowker is 'bout as good a example of it as I know of. What's be been doin* nowt aekedthe postmaster. Yisterday the plreaclaer he says it should be the juty of us ant toe put sunshine in the hearts of our feller - men, and what does Bowker do but follow up the idee by lettin' daylight into a Chinaman. THE POWER IT REQUIRES. 1 Per Cent. Needed to Illove a Hallway Car, a Wagon or n Bicycle. The exact power required to propel a bicycle under all the various condi- tions of road surface and grades has never been determined by actual tests, so far as is known, but from what is known about the resistano3 of vehicles of all kinds it is possible to calculate it with a fair degree of accuracy. The force required to overcome the friction of a bicycle on a level. road may he estimated. from data obtained from other sources. To move a car on a railroad track when the rails &remade of steel requires a force of about three - tenths of one per c,ent of the weight. In this case the principal portion of the force is absorbed by the friction of the axles. In a bicycle the axla fric- tion is very small, but the rolling fric- tion is considerably greater thanthat of a railroad car, owing to the differ- ence in the smoothness of the road. As one indication of what this difference may be, we have the fact that the force required to move a wagon varies from 31-2 per cent on a hard road to 2 per cent, on cobble stones, and 3 par cent. on soft ground, The friction of the wagon axles will absorb about one-half Of I per cent., thus leaving about 1 per cent. to overcome the rolling friction on a hard, road, with more yielding iron ties. On a clear asphaltum road. this would be reduced about 25 per cent. The increased speed of phenuraatio tires over the solid cushion proves that they act to reduce the rolling friction, therefore it is very probable that the actual force requixed to propel a ole over over a smooth asphaltum road will not be over one-half of 1 per cent. of the load. This is only a trifle more than is required on a railroad track, and. may be remembered that the difference in axle friction is very great. and the saving in this direction In a bicycle may be enough to offset the extra rolling friction. Assuming the bicycle resistance on a level asphaltum road to be one-half of I per cent., the force required to keep the wheel in motion on such a road would be half a pound for eaeh hun- dredweight, and the average weight of rider and wheel would be well within 200 pounds. On soft, sandy roads this force might run up to three or four pounds. As to the question of power, an average man is able to do one-sixth as much work as a horse. So, if the wheel is propelled at a speed. to ten miles an hour on a soft country road it will be necessary for the rider to exert about two-thirds of the average man power. This velocity would, if kept up for any length of time, prove very tiresome for those who are not possessed of more than ordinary strength and endurance. The same speed on a. hard road would only call for an exertion of from one-sixth to one-quarter of a man power, according to the condition of the surface. COULD LOVE RULE THE WORLD. If Love could rule the universe, How changed would all things be, He would remove in language terse All bars in his decree. No rank could ever intervene To stay affection's course, 'Twoulcl bow its head with lowly mien Before his gentle force. The earth would be so bright, The radiant Would shed its warmth a,nd light For every one. I king might then a peasant wed, An empress love her page, A seamstress with a eruacess bred Might throw her winsome gage. Sweet sentiment would rule the earth, With banner high unfurled, And happiness—no more a dearth, Could Love but rule the world. Slow happy all would be, An Eden vale Again the earth would see, Could love prevail. SHE KNOWS. Is kissing a common or a proper nounl assked the teacher. Bote, answered the girl with tlie cor- al lips. Much Little 1. in tie bespecially true of Hood's Pins, for tio made, eine ever contained so great curative power la go small space. They are a whole medicine "Sene11.. Fifty 'Years Ago. 'Who could imagine that this should be The place where, in eigeteen ninety-three That Wine world -wonder of arch and dome Should shadow the nations, polychrome . Here at the Pair was the prize conferred On Ayer's Pills, by the world preferred. Chicago -like, they a record show, Since they started -10 years ago. < seeerereresaesen Ayer's Cathartic Pills havefrom the time of theb preparation, been a continuous success with the public. And that means that Ayer's Pills accomplish what is promised for them; they cure where others fail. It was fitting, therefore, that the world-wide popularity of these pills should be recognized by the World's Pair medal of 1893—a fact which emphasizes the record. 50 Years of Cures. CARTERS MLR IVER PILLS. elek Bead ache and rel 'eve all the troubles Inca dent to a bilious atate of the system, such Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness. Distress soul eating, Pain in the Side, &e. While their mos remarkable success' has been shown in curing Ventleche, yet CAuTPreil LITTLIS 14Valt Pitts are equally valuable in Constipatton, curing and preventing Ms annoying complaint, while they also correct all disorders of the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate the bowel* Even it they only cured , Ache they would be almost preensto those who suffer from this (Mercantile complaint; but fortunately their goodness does not end here, and those who once try them will end these little pills valuable Mao xneny ways that they will not be willing to do without thorax. But after all sick head Is the bane of so many lives that Imre tswberl we make our great boast. Our pills cure it while others do not. CArtalan'S TATTLE LrrEit MU; are very stnall and Tory easy to take. One or two pills make a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please all who use them. In vials at 23 cents; nve for $1. Sold everywhere, or sent by maiL 0E,21118 EMDIODIB 00., Vey Tat. EntilISalltrOni MURRAY LANMAN'S FLORIDA WATER THE SWEETEST MOST FRAGRANT MOST REFRESHING AND ENDURING OP ALL PERFUMES FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF, TOILET OR BATH. ALL !INSETS, PERFUMERS L. GEIER EHLERS. nfeclis all the cickketcl avenues of the BbithsIo, Kidneys and LIVer, carrying off gracilially, without weakening the system, all _the impuri- ties and foul hemora of sthesecrietiatisjora: ameteteetetir iosnutgritiosAacestl.lictlytisagOgport:70 licadaches, Dizziness, 'Ileartburn,Vonstipa- Dorryinness:Qatt :he Skin, Dropsy, Dime Ditelieset efsliaaistionklieatiumne, sig178110:natirrelextta::::/41:11:6e7:Drerlentlt43:11,11:134,s: ZifretutiaTotz BLoop akoli ToitiLB4 aeti., e 'anew, e chest, &Imes ready, al. II I I Ways efficient, ahem% sat. !aleatory; peeves, 11 00114 1 1 1 S or few, tan all am Ink Vitilliglead4abielltiaineanitetni.601:7112tdossin.rgiete. treas..