The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1893 Page: 3 of 4
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ECSTACY.
I cannot sing to thee as I would sing
If I were quickened It He the holy lnrk.
When fire from heaven and sunlight on his
win sr.
Who wakes the world with witcheries of
the dartc
Renewed in rapture in tho reddening air
A thing of splendor do I deem him then
A feathered frenzy with an angel's throat
A something sweot that sjmewhera seems
to float
Twist earth and sky to ba a sign to
men.
He fills me with such wonder and despair:
I long to kiss the locks so golden bright.
As he doth kiss th3 tresses of ths sun.
O! bid me to sing to thee my chosen one.
And do thou teach me IjOVa to sing
aright.' Kric Mackay.
YOUNG LORING'S FEAT.
It was just punsct when suddenly
around the bend on the Ocklawaha
appeared a dugout paddled by two
stalwart fellows in a sort of homespun
uniform whilo a boy dressed as officer
eat in the stera. Five minutes before
the crocodiles and cranes water
turkeys bitterns and herons had the
black oozy river all to themselves as
it sluggishly made its way through
the swampy palmettos and cypress.
The boat bumped along slowly
striking against cypress trees and
fallen tree trunk. The paddlers
looked anxious lor the chance of find-
ing a comfortable camping ground
was growing slighter before young
Will Loring began to be sick of his
escapade. He had left camp to miles
away without orders and taken two of
his' company with him to do Indian
scouting on his own account.
Little moro than a year before he
tad been a schoolboy playing soldier
in tho streets of St. Augustine with
other youngsters. AVhen the Seminole
war of l!S3i broke out. sweeping with
a wave of tire and massacre across
the state he ran away from home
and joined a company of volunteers.
His daring and coolness at the battles
of the Withlacooche and Alaqua in
connection with the social importance
of his family had given him his
epaulettes at an ago when other boys
of the same years were still in terror
of the schoolmaster's birch.
Keep on paddling." said young
Loring in low tones but with an air
of sternness wh.ch did not sot well on
his smooth face and mischievous
black eyes wnd wait my orders. '
Then feeling that he had asserted his
authority he continued with a burst
of boyish confidence: ! tell you what
it is Scraggs. we'll have to get back
to that hummock about a mile up the
river where we ;m lir.d pine knots
to cook supper dont you think so?"
Bless you licu;enant d'ye hanker
to lose yer i-kclp? No supper to-night
hut a drink of swamp water and a
chew of raw bacon. Til bet there's
a hundred of red varmints in two
miles on us "
You're not afraid. Scraggs. are
you?" said the youngster with a lord-
ly air. --A fellow who can bore a
potato tossed in the air at a hundred
yards with a rille ball ought to have
plenty of spunk."
The boyish oilieer. in suite of his
airs. w;i3 evidently uneasy for his
eyes shot continual glances ahead and
on both sides into tho swamp as tho
dug-out glided ;it a snail's pace.
They were Hearing another bend ii
the stream when through the tangle
of leaf and vino there was a red
gleam like a huge firefly. Without
waiting orders Scraggs whirled tho
boat back with a powerful paddle and
turned to his officer with eyes almost
starling from their sockets shaking
his head in' warning.
Injuns Injuns. Lieutenant Will a
dozen on 'em." he whispered. ! see
the bind ends of two canoes jiss roun'
the bend. Thar must be a hummock
wbar they're camped. They're jiss
got through eatin'. an' are stampin'
out the embers. Sh don't speak.
I'll work the old scow deep into tho
cypress. We'll see what tricks they're
up to. seein' we're hyar and can't get
away very easy. But. by Jimmy my
skelp kinder crawls as if 'twould not
be tbar to-morrow mornin'.
Young Loring nodded and tho pad-
dlers cautiously forced the boat fifty
feet through the mouth of a black
arch into the heart of the swam)).
Hidden there they were nearer the
savages than before and could hear
their movements.
It soon became clear that the parly
of Seminoles had no purpose of leav-
ing tneir camp that night and no sus-
picion of white men close at hand.
One by one they dropped asleep and
their slumber chorus which founded
not unlike the grunting of the alli-
gators in tho swamp was music to the
prisoners s.juatted in their gloomy
covert.
Three hours had passed and the
growing light that silvered the lagoon
outside of their retreat proved the
moon well up over the tops of Ihe
trees. Now is our time" whispered
Scraggs to get outer this hole and
paddle up stream for a safe landing
place and vamose back to camp."
Lieutenant Loring answered not a
word. His boyish mind was deep in
thought a daring thought which
thrilled him with excitement
Are ye asleep?" whispered Scraggs
again.
- '-No. " was the reply; "lam going
to take those redskins back to camp
with me. So Scraggs. you two can
just tie yourjhair on. for it will soon
be in peril." )
The men Jumped as if they heard
the whizz ofJSemlnole lead.
You see Jit would be a shame to
neak bacVy empty handed. We can't
exactly take their scalps but we can
take themselves as a present to the
general." said the ingenious youth.
JThe Indians are fast asleep. We'll
paddle up and take their canoes.
Then Til land on the hummuck you
know and pick up their rifles. Then
in the moA.ning we can order them to
surrender pn peril of being shot down
for wo shall have loaded guns and
they'll havo none."
The duy-out left its covert and
glided silAnt as a shadow into the
open itreaiA A few strokes brought
them in full sight of the Jnman cats p.
The island where the savages lay was
well shadowed by the trees but their
forms could be dimly seen stretched
on the earth. Silontly the little party
detached the two canoes and towed
them to a secure position where
they fastened them to a cypress tree
fifty yards from shore.
As the boat approached the shore
on its second more dangerous mission
younar Loring slipped off his boots
and stepped into tho ooze regardless
of moccasins and rattlers. Scraggs
and his comrade covering the ad
vance with leveled guns felt their
stout hearts quake as their boy leader
crept in among those sleeping figures
of bronze.
Had tho Indians disposed of their
guns as the whites da by stacking or
resting them against a Iree the task
of securing them would have been less
risky. But thoy had kept their arms
within reacli. and some even had
their tomahawks loosened from the
belt as if for instant use Tho Indian
rarely sets a guard at night unless in
the immediate presence of an enemy.
Hero in the depth of a groat cypress
swamp impassable to troops a sur-
prise would seem impossible. Yet
even now the cunning and suspicion
of the raca had not forsaken their.
The nerves of the young officer
were strung to the highest tension.
One by one ho stealthily lifted the
rifles from the earth till he had whnt
ho could carry. These he bore to t!ie
low bank and passed to the men on
guard in the dug-out. No word was
exchanged. Again he returned to the
dangerous sleepers a distance of 100
feet from tho shore for a second load.
A brawny savage tossing in his
Crepms erave a fierce grunt and threw
out a hand which touched tho young
thief's ankle as if to clutch it The
movement thrilled him with all tho
agony of discovery but he stood stock
still waiting for something further.
It was a false alarm but cold sweat
poured from his face. Another of the
savages had his hand on the stock of
his gun and the piece had to be gently
Blid from under his fingers.
Agaia the third time he went back
to complete the work. The moou was
now high up iu the sky and poured a
flood of light on the little island.
The recumbent Indians were cut out
like monstrous silhouettes against the
ground. The boy's swimming head
warned him that his strength couldn't
last much longer. But he resolutely
went at his task though his throat
felt as if squeezed by an iron grip.
He had gathered his last armful when
one of the red nice in his dreams
raised himself on his haunches and
sat with his chin resting on his knees.
Ihe moonshine dickered on his face
through the quivering foliage and his
sunken eyes appeared half oncn and
following his white enemy.
At last the work was uono. i he
ten minutes had seemed a year. Tho
lad staggered to the boat shaking as
If with an ague. ! must speak.
he panted. or I shall yelL I thought
twice I'd have to whoop or go into a
faint. But Scraggs. I pulled through
didn't 1? Help me in."
Wall! You've got the guns
shore." said Scraggs. "and drat my
sk'n If 'lif ':; bully in Jcssup's
i.me- it. Ive heerd
i
i- your breed want
. devil!"
iNo "nine
Scraggs was
dugout was
stream with
had been lost whilo
relieving his mind; the
skimming out iuto the
lively paddle strokes.
The plan was boldly executed in the
morning. With the eomintr of light
the Seminoles discovered the robbery
of their weapons and rushed to the
edge of the swamp with frantic yells
brandishing their tomahawks. But
the marauders were far beyond the
throw of axe or knife and sat with
leveled rifles.
Then came a shrill treble voice
demanding in Spanish the instant sur-
render of the little Seminole band for
at that time nearly every one in
Florida Indian negro and white
knew something of this language.
After considerable parley the red
men agreed to throw their knives and
tomahawks into tho marsh. They
were taken aboard iu pairs and their
wrists tightly fastened together with
stout strips of Scragg's homespun
shirt. The dug out towed the canoes
up stream whilo the young o.-licer
sat in the stern and guarded the cap-
tives with loaded pistols.
So the daredevil returned to camp
the same afternoon and instead of a
rowing he was covered with praise
and honor by (Jeneral Jessup and his
little array.
Th's boy afterward became a dis-
tinguished general Major General
William W. Loring who led armies
in the far distant East as pasha in the
service of the Egyptian Khedive as
well as iu this country. But in his
long career he never did anything
more daring and heroic than the feat
planned and executed by the boy of
fifteen the substantial facts of which
were told by the general himself.
Atlanta Constitution.
Orowlni Bora and (.Iris.
The year of greatest growth in
boys is the seventeenth; in girls the
fourteenth. While girls reach full
height in their fifteenth year they ac-
quire full weight at the age of twenty.
Boys are stronger than girls from
birth to the eleventh year; then girls
become superior physically to the
seventeenth year when the tables
are again turned and remain so.
From November to April children
grow very little and gain no weight;
from April to July they gain in
height but lose in weight; and from
July to November they increrse
greatly in weight but not in height
He 91 Is-lit Even Swoon A war.
Jones You may say what you
please but this country has never
produced a greater man thau George
Washington.
Smith Don't talk so loud. There
is a little dude sitting right behind us.
and it might hurt his feelings to hear
you talk that way. Texas Sittings.
PIG.
Saccambed to
Tanti
the flown
Temptation.
About eleven years ago a famous
hog of almost superporcine Intelli-
gence wai attached to the Imperial
Circus at St Petersburg where it
basked in the sunshine of fashionable
favor throughout two gay winter sea-
sons. The sagacious creature at once
a ready reckoner fortune-teller and
deft executioner of card tricks was
the property of one Tnnts. a famous
Italian clown who had brought it xip
from infancy and taught it all its var-
ious accomplishments.
One night bo and his pig were bid
den to a gathering of young officers of
the Russian guard supping together
after the performance and were call
ed upon to repeat the programme of
the evening of course on payment
o: a handsome ite. At the conclu-
sion of tho show ono of the ofcers"
offered Tanti 1. 00 rubles for his pig.
The clown declined to sell poiating
out that the docile and clever animal
constituted his chief source of income
and that moreover ha was far too
fond of it to part from it Upon this
the oi'ccrs proceeded to tempt him
by outbidding ono another until they
ran the price of the learned pig up to
6 000 rubles.
This sum. the equivalent of over
700 and tho reflection that ho could
probably train another pig to replace
tho one thus exhorbitantly valued.
finally iuduced Tanti to accept tho
offer little thinking to what a dismal
fate ho thereby consigned his pet'
Next day the luckless animal was
slaughtered by order of its purchaser
and sent to the clown s lodging with
a message to tho effect that --no doubt
Signor Tanti would like to taste a
porker which had teen so profitable
to him in life and death alike."
The whole grim story equally dis-
creditable to all concerned in it. got
wind in St Petersburg and made a
painful impression upon Russian so-
ciety. A severe reprimand was ad-
ministered to the otlicer whoso cruel
freak had caused the death of a pub-
lic favorite and Tanti's popularity
sensibly declined.- Oddly enough a
few weeks later he was fired at while
cutting capers in the ring by an ec-
centric Polish nobleman whose bul-
let just missed the clown burying
it-elf in the sawdust at his feet and
causing him such affright that he fled
from the circus like one demented.
When interrogated as io ihe motive
of his conduct the Sarmntiati magnate
a well-known sportsman and patron
of the 'circus calmly replied that.
having been much diverted by the
clown's feats he had felt himself
bound to tire a saluto in Tanti's hon-
or. '' Shortly afterward the recipient
of this strange compliment quitted
Russia for ' other clime-."
MADE I A FIZZING COMBINE.
A Dniminer Out-Yurnetl iy rii Old Mail
Who Had Ht'cu West.
The drummer had finished telling
the Press man a remarkable story
when an old man who had been lis-
tening quietly squared his chair
around aud put in.
That yarn -of yours don't surprise
mo a bit." he said earnestly. !
used to live in tho West my-eif and
had some strange experiences in the
mountains."
As to how?"' inquired the drummer.
with some show or resentment.
elL in every va . 1 was a cow-
boy and miner and a stage driver and
merchant and a little of everything
but the oddest thing that ever hap-
pened to me and knocked m" chances
of becoming a millionaire silly took
placo in a wild valley about a hun-
dred miles from Denver. 1 had gone
there with my partner prospecting
and one day in digging around sort of
promiscuously wo struck a vein of
pure soda white as snow and beauti-
ful to look at. Wo drove a shaft in it
to a depth of one hundred feet and
found that there was enough in it to
make us rich so we went back to
Denver and brought out some capital-
ists and they were euger to buy it on
tho spot While the dicker was on.
and just before wo had agreed updu a
price a couple of fellows found a
sour-tasting spring about a hundred
f3et up tne hill and they began to
drill a hole to see what it was. They
found out mighty quick too. for they
found a vein of vinegar in about
twenty feet and a big three-inch
stream came out with n rush that
they couldn't cheek and before any-
body had any time to do anything it
had swooped down the narrow gorge
and was running head on into our so-
da well."
The old man stopped and the
drummer asked what difference that
made.
"Neer saw an alkali and acid com
bine 1 reckon did you?" excla med
the o'.d man. - I never saw the genu-
ine th'.r.g myself until that day and
we all saw it then when from the
mouth of that shaft there heaved up
fully fifty feet into the air a six-foot
squal-e column of sizz and lather and
foam till you couldn't see anything
else in the gorge. Wo couldn't stop
the vinegar and for a month she sizzeJ
awav and there wasn't enough soda
left in the pocket to tone up a biscuit
with."
Then the old man with a solemn
look at the drummer got up and went
off to bed.
Should Like to Eatabllah a Precedent.
He Won't you let me have a kiss
now that I am going away for a
day?
She If you can give any good rea-
son why I should I might think about
it possibiy.
He I should like to establish a
precedent Life.
Second Natnre to Him.
Cop I understand that the new
conductor has been discharged?
Driver Yes. You see he used to
be an auctioneer and he couldn't re-
sist the temptation to knock down.
N. Y. Sun.
t A LEARNED
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
A NEW YORK TRAGEDY OF
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Haw a. lleantlfal Ynanj Woman Was
Murdered in Her Itooin No Kvanou
for tho Crime and the Case
Still a Mystery.
Or. the morning of Ju!y 2.1. 1870. I
was sent to tho house of Mrs. Rector.
No. West Twenty-third street.
writes a detectivo in th-j New York
Advertiser. She was a respectable
and. indeed quite a refined lady who
had mot with reverses and now took
in a few boarders as a means of earn-
ing a livelihood and educating a son.
tho only heritage her husband had
left her upon hit death.
I found Mrs. Rector in hysterics. A
ladv who had boarded with her for
several months was fo.ind deals in her
! bed a few hours before and indica
tions po;nted to suicide. Mrs. Hec-
tor with excusable languish was bc-
wail ng tbe fact that a suicide should i
be committed in her house and. mora !
with the idea of qu'eling her than
anything else. 1 told her that possibly
it wasn't a suicide lor answer sho
pointed to a nolo on the dresser which
read:
"D ar Mrs. K -dor: If I am found dead
in thj niorninsr pie fc notify uiy moth?r at
No. stree: Philadelphia P.i. Very
sincerely. Florencb Dusstax."
The room was just as it had been
found that morning and before mov-
ing a thing I sent for a physician who
was a personal friend of mine whilo
I very carefully noted the room and
its contents.
The room was a little hall room
with two doors and one window. One
door opened into the hall and the
other into an adjoining bedroom oc
cupied by a dry-goods clerk his wife
and two children. The latter door
was always' locked and the occupants
of the adjoining room had their wash-
ftand against it while on Miss Dun-
stan's s'de the head of the bad itself
was against it The other door was
her exit and entrance. The window
being in front of the house opened on
Twenty-third street The room was
on the third story.
The young lady lay upon the bed
with tho covers thrown back. Her
elegant gown was slightly disarranged.
When the doctor came he made an
examination of the heart and chest
and in throwing back the gown from
her breast disclosed a tiny drop of
blood just over the heart.
It is not a suicide." said he pres-
ently. She has been murdered by
some one who has driven into her
heart a long needlo-like substance of
some kind and caught the blood as it
came out drop by drop in a handker-
chief or something of the sort"
Continuing he showed by her wrists
how her bands had been tied with her
handkerchief which v..:. --i
dresser. And smoothing- out her
neck he brought to light a fine wire
which had been wound tightiy around
her throat and tho ends twisted
together :t:ul then cut leaving it so
tight that it would have extinguished
lifo without the heart thrust and yet
it was hidden by tho folds of the skin.
Of course after this any idea of
suicide was absurd and the certain tv
i of murder became apparent to every
one when a steel knitting needle was
found on the roof of the house with
slight particles of human blood per-
ceptible upon it by means of a micro-
scope in spile of manliest efforts to
wipe it clean.
It was evidently a mii'-der; but by !
whom and why? And above all. j
how did he get into and out of the j
room? j
There were two doors one being !
always locked on one sido by the I
washstand of the neighboring room. '
and on the other sido by the bed oc-
cupied by Miss Dunstan and the j
other door connected with the ball. I j
examined this door. Jt was locked j
from the inside with tho key still iu j
tho lock and bolted bo-ddes. On the I
doorknob on the side next the hall. I
were some towels placed there by j
the house girl and in such a manner j
that the door could not possibly bo
opened or shut without throwing :
them to tho floor. On the inside a
chair sat against tho door with Miss
Dunstan's clothing neatly arranged
upon it It was. therefore a cer-
tainly that no one could have either
entered or left the room by this door
and have left these various articles as
they were found.
The only thing to be considered
was the window. This was an ordin-
ary window with secure fastenings
and was fastened down on the Inside.
After studying over the matter for
an hour I grew disheartened and
went down and stood on the pave- !
ment wondering how a person could
I have got up to the window in the first
place. While standing there think
ing. I saw on the pavement at my feet
a tiny piece of what looked like chewing-gum.
but which upon close exam-
ination I found to be putty. I then
went back and made a thorough
inspection of the window again and
found that the pane next to the inside
fastening had been removed and re-
placed. Tbe skill with which it had
been done and much of tbe fresh
putty covered up was simply amazing.
The mode of ingress and egress was
now learned beyond doubt The next
question to take up was. how did the
murderer reach the window? Fol-
lowing oat my investigations I proved
to my own satisfaction that the
murderer had swung himself from the
roof by a rope.
It would be too tedious to give in
detail my work for it took me a week.
But I found where the rope had rubbed
on the gutter and secured a few fibers
of it I found where it had been tied
around the chimney; I found the long
knitting needle where it had been
placed on the edge of the chimney
and forgotten; I found a piece of the
strange wire in the fork of an elm
tree just back of the house and finally
I found in the vault back of the IrS
a handkerchief of Miss Dunst-in's with
which he had gagged her the saliva
on it was stitl perceptible and after
ward caught the blood from her heart
In fact I found all that 1 cared for as
answering the questions what?" and j
-now.- - j. ue answers to mo questions j
who?" and 'why?" I then set myself
to discover.
So far as any good that was accon- j
pllshed in this direction however. I j
might as well have sa-red myself the
worry and time for not tho faintest (
I clew or suspicion ever resulted. A i
thorough investrgalion of Miss
Dunstan's life showed a spotless name
and reputation both in Philadelphia
and Now York. She was earning
fair remuneration as a copyist and
went homo to I hiladelphia about ono
f-uaday out of each month. She was
2.5 year old. with a quiet and lady-
like demeanor and rather pretty face.
She received no company and in fact
seemed to have no acquaintances out-
side of the little boarding-house and
as she did most of her wor.c in her
orn room she scarcely Kna-v even tho
men of tho oSco where she received
hor remuneia!
on. J hero was. lhc-o-
foro
not a hint which could direct i
toward discovering who the j
one
liend was.
To attempt to discover why
murder was committed was just
the
as
EO
useless. There was absolutely
motive.
A SILVER-MOUNTED HORSE.
Minnie Breathes Through an
Art Kir Sal
Tracheal Tulje.
The gray mare Minnie hal lungs
like other horses and sho uses them
to breathe too; but tho air is brought
to them neither through the mouth
nor nostrils as in other horses bat
through a silver tube in the throat
Minnie had besrx very asthaiatia
and with the ordinary mode of breath-
ing the doctor said her death was a
question of but weeks or days. To
save her life Minnie was a good
powerful and gentle mara the owners
consented that an operation bo per-
formed on her throat Accordingly
a veterinary surgeon was called in
about a year ago and made a series
of incisions into tho throat and tra-
cheal tube and Minnie at once began
to breathe quite freely. But how to
keep open these sluices of respiration
was the next question. For. although
in course of time the apertures would
heal and cause no pain the danger
lay in their becoming clogged by im-
purities of the atmosphere as well as
by the phlegm from the ho:-:o's lungs.
After an unsuccessful trial for sever
al weeks the veterinary surgeon hit !
upon an idea to insert an artificial i
tracheal tube of silver into the horse's j
gaping wound. This was done and j
Minnie has sin:e experienced no more j
inconvenience in breathing than if 1
she had never been aS'icted with asth- I
m;u J he tuoe is a curiosity.
Two creseent-shaped tubes scooped
out like a shoe horn are fitted into
each otter in such a way that ono
! tube passes iuto the upper part of the
i trachea whilo the other hangs down
' into the lower part Those parts of
j tho insiruir.ent that aro vis.ble nro
I tho shank nl the la: er horn (the
j shank of the other being inside of
! this) and flat r.jund disks at tho cut-
er ends of the bora snugly fitting
! against each other so that they
j look like one disk three inches in
I diameter with an up jrture u i big ns
I a ni kle. through which the a'.r is
carr.cd.
This instrument is taken out by the
st-i iibmaa twice a day and cleaned
says the Philadelphia Record. f
this precaut o i were omitted for only
a day the accumulation would bo so
great that Minu'e would be compelled
to have recourse for breathing to
that supernumerary organ her nose.
I Id N no li'ivet S rv J :o S v ;.
A kitten became lodged in the fly-
wheel of an engine in Portland. Ore-
gon. The wheel ran for six hours
and a hal'. Tho cat was taken out
nearly lifeless but recovored. The
fly-wheel makes 250 revolutions per
minute iind every turn pussy traveled
seventeen feet Tho engine was in
motion :)!)0 minutes and during that
time the kitten t aveled a distance of
olo miles.
SCRAPS OF FACT.
Missouri has square miles of
corn fields.
England has had 270 strikes in ten
months.
The United States is reported to
have 73034 paupers in almshouses.
"Fashionable shroudmakcr'' is ad-
vertised on a sign board at Washing-
ton. In a hospital for cats in Philadelphia
over 1800!) tabbies were painlessly pat
to death last year.
"Uncle" Wash. Couch who lives near
Senoia Ua has fonr sons who are said
to have been born on the same day of
the month at different years.
EXCEPTIONAL LOCALITIES.
There are two observable places be-
longing to Asia both lying under the
same meridian and of a small distance I
from each other and yet the respective
inhabitants of them in reckoning their
time differ an enth-e day every week.
There is a certain island in the
JEgean sea upon which if two children
were born at the same instant after
living together for several years should
both expire at the same minute the
life of one would surpass in length
that of the other by several months.
July 18 1891 the Jfew York meteor-
ologists had the uncomfortable ex-
perience in Death valley of spending a
day in which the maximum tempera-
ture was 130 deg. the minimum 9
deg. and the mean of all hours 10 S 6;
while the hottest spell of all occurred
from this dayl enward to July. 2
when the minimum never fell below
88 deg. and the maximum' ranged be-
tween 113 aQd 1M deg.
ANrS BRAVE DEED.
UasUed Into a Crowd of Lyncher and
KcM-aed the Doomed Man.
The heroic action of Deputy Sheril
Xiei-fifUth: ol fireen county. Alabama
in rescuing a prisoner from mob vlo-
leace and his laudation oy ni prMs
brings to mind an occurrence c the
same character that has never been
rivalled in the history of- Alabama
for coolness an l intrepidity in the
presence o.' danger aeeordiag to - the
Birmingham News that was perform-
d several vears a;ro in Liineitone
county by Hector Lane
John Railca a wifo murderer was
arraigned beforo the circuit court
Judge William R Wood presiding.
A special term of court had been or- ..
dored on account of the intenso ex-
citement and exasperation of the pee-
ple against this man. who had killed
his young wi'o ia the pro3enco os her
mother by shooting her with a pis-
tol several timoi because she had re-
fii3?J to live with him o:i account of
his improvidence. Colonel E. T."
Taliferro was tho defendant's attorn-
ev. and raised tho plea of insanity.
Wnen court ad ouroed tho first
morning pending the preliminaries of
the trial the judge was informed that
a mob had ben organized to hang the
defendant upon adjournment of tho
court The judge appreciating tiie
situation and seeing that something
had to bo done at once ta save tho
man's Ufa ordered tho sheriff of the
county and Dud Mlngea to summon
a posso to protect him. Tho crowd
hud then commenced to gather in the
court-room and showing their inteu-
tions by violent language and menace.
The sheriff having to leave the
prisoner tho question aroje as to who
would have the hardihood to guard
h'm. Judge Wood s eye fell upon
Hector 1 ane. and knowing the cour-
age that had characterized his family
lor years ordered mm io laito cuarg
nf tlia nnlannn. nnd itttnt 11 1 Ml w ill
his life if necessary.
Lane stepped forward and taking
a double-barreled breech-loading gun
from the hands of an officer and a
belt with cartridges loaded with buck-
shot cleared the court room in about '
five minutes and belore the mob
knew what his intentions were rushed
the prisoner up into the cupola o the
court-house single-handed and alone.
The sheriff not being able to reach
bim through the infuriated mob he
defied 2.000 men. infuriated bv liouor
and savage with anger for two mor-
tal hours. They reformed under
three repeated leaderships three times
and armed with all sorts of weapons
l ane stood like a Tro.'an. and three
times did they surge b.ick ba fed and
defeated by one man wh; i they (ical-
ly gave up the attack and. scoroingly.
dispersed with om;nous threats as o
what they would do in tho futei."
and they kept their promise. bvAI.ano
was on hand and. for the -second
j thne rescued this man froia the mob"!
fury.
A few day's after the court adjourn-
ed a crowd estimated at 5.000 poured
into tho town of Athens with the
avowed intention of taking the. mars
from jail and dealing summary punis(h-t
ment that the law's delay had denied.
The jail was soon torn open and the
prisoner dragged from his cell and
the mob. wild with excitement placed
him in a ono hor.-e cart and conveyed
him one mile from towa. placed a rope
fii-nitiifl rtt-5 nclr ;mil nrpf n lim h n f a
! tree. A christ'an man. I'r. Mao
i Wlll'iims. asked to be allowed to
j pray one prayer for tho man's soul.
I A great many acceded the saving of
' his UTe at this time to this prayer
j I ane. sitting upon a powerful
horse was a witness to it all. All at
: once as if inspired with the courage
of a demon striking his horse deep
with his spurs and pistol in hand ho
dashed among the maddened crowd-
cut the ropo from the prisoner's neck
and by tho assistance of three other
brave fellows who becoming inspired
By his uaunttjMs. courage .ujrew tno
driver-froni the wagon. Tihd Lano and
these other bravo fellows victorious-
ly bore him through this seething
mass of humanity and replaced him
safely within tho confines of the
county jail.
This exploit is well known in North
Alabama as being unparalleled for
daring and cool determination. .f
PLENTY OF GULLIBILITY.
An Article of Trade iu Which the Coun-
try Is llich.
This little scheme is novel and in-
genious. It is set forth in a ircular
letter which dwells upon the great
success of the syndicate plan in fur-
nishing -literary material'' to news-
papers and intimates that "most of
the syndicates obtain very large
prices none of which profit however
goes to the writer." To remedy this
evil a new syndicate has been fc jaed
for the express purpose oi giving
writers -u fair interest in the entire
amount re eived from the sale of
tbeir productions." This . disinter-
ested -press bureau" still needs the
services of a few more writers. and
if you wish "to avail yourself of Ibis
opportunity." you will begin by pay-
in? a "membership fee'' of $10. Thi
entitles you to enter upon our lists
at any time during tbe year following
not to exceed twenty articles."
These are to be "syndicated to the
newspaper press as rapidly as the de-
mands of our business may require "
and you are to get the full price re-
ceived less 20 per cent only. Jt is
added ".'or your own information."
though in small capita! a tbat '-during
the past year we received more thaa
$1 000." This bare faced attempt at
cheating is in pact shrewdly conceived
to appeal to tbat large class of unsuc-
cessful writers who bel'ovo that they
lack only an "entree" to win that
recognition from which they are now
debarred by the exclusiyenes of tbe
literary gang." but as a whole it
could have no hope of success except
on tbe theory that there is an unlim-
ited amount of gullibility in the land
only waiting to bo exploited. S
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