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The Nervous System the Seat of Life and Mind. Recent Wonderful Discoveries. No mystory has ever compared with that ot human life Ithasbeeu the leadinji subject of professional research and study in all Hues. But uotwittistandiag this fact it is not generally known that the seat of life Is located In the upper part of the I spinal cord. I near the Imm IjSS^TV" '• ^i ^>7 / of the hr a I n, live Is this portion of the nervous system that even the prick of a needle will cause instant , , , death. Hecent discoveries have demonstrated that all theorirans of the body are under the control of the nerve centers, located In or near the base of the brain, and that when these anderanced the ortrans which thev supply w ith nerve fluid are also deranped. When It Is re-tuemlH-red that a serious injury to the spinal cord will cause paralysis of the laxly lielow the Injured point, because the nerve force Is prevented by the injury from reaching the paralyzed portion, it will be understood how the derangement of the nerve centers will cause the derangement of the various organs which they supply with nerve force. Two-thirds of chronic diseases are due to the imperfect action of the nerve centers at the base of the brain, not from a derangement primarily originating In the organ itself. The great mistake of physicians in treating these diseases is that they treat the organ rather than the nerve center* which an-the cause of the trouble. i I>k. Franklin Miles, tbe celebrated spe-ciaii-t.icis profoundly studied tin- subject for over lit) years, and has made many imnortunt discoveries In connection with it. chief among them being tbe facts contained In the above statement, and that the ordinary methods of treatment are wrong. All headache, dizziness, dullness, confusion, pressure, blues mania, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, St. Vitus dance, etc., are nervous diseases no matter how caused. The wonderful success uf Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine is due to the fact that It is based on tbe foregoing principle. Du. Miles’ Restorative Nervine Is sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee, or -ent direct by Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lud., on receipt of price, $1 uer bottle, six bottles for express prepaid It contains neither opiates nor dangerous drugs.

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ZUNI DANCERS.

How a Fleroa Battle with Indiana Was Brought About.

An Flvent Which Kiplalna Why th* Navajoen .»ff Fort Wingate Were Iloattle to the Cutted states Guvernmeiit Through the Civil War. Don Amado Chavez, the eldest son of the late Col. Manuel Chavez. New Mexico's most noted Indian fitrliter, tellsan interesting story of the big fight with the Navajos at Fort Wingate in IStll, which was the cause of the turbulence with that tribe during the rebellion and which he witnessed as a boy. Don Amado was about twelve years old then, says a Santa Fe (X. M.) correspondent. Hie father was commander at Fort Wingate, where New Mexican volunteer troops were stationed to watch the Navajos and keep them quiet. The tribe was supposed to be peaceable and friendly, but it was deemed right to keep an eye on them and keep them from stealing stock, in which art the Navajos are past mas-

ters.

The Navajos had a pony that they believed able to outrun anything on four legs, and they were anxious to get up a match race at the fort. The sim geon at the post owned a thoroughbred race horse, and a match was made between the two. There was a general gathering of the tribe around the fort for several days before the race, and the Indians and soldiers were on the best of terms. One of the chiefs took a fancy to the colonel's son and made a present to little Amado of a pretty buckskin pony with white tail and mane. Amado was very proud of his pony and rode him about the Indian camp and made friends of the Navajos.' On the day of the race the Indians and soldiers bet all of their portable property on the result. According to 1 the Indian custom the things wagered were tied together and piled up in a general heap. A soldier bet live dollars against a Navajo blanket, the coins were tied up in a fold of the blanket, a tag attached showing who were the parties to tlie transaction and the

blanket cast upon the pile.

A shrewd Navajo rode the Indian pony and a Mexican of the name Ortiz rode the thoroughbred horse. A one ; thousand-yard stretch across the | prairie was hemmed in on both sides 1 by a mixed crowd of Indians and Mo*i can soldiers. A fair start was made, i and the pony got away a little in the lead. He was only a sprinter, however, and was no match for the horse when the latter got fairly into his stride. The Indian soon saw that the I pony was outclassed, and that he could not win by fair running, and so he re- j sorted to tricks to prevent the horse j from passing. Whenever the horse | attempted to pass the Indian pulled : the pony over to that side just enough j to get in the way, und Ortiz was compelled to pull up to avoid collision. The Indian worked the trick with bo many variations that the horse was fairly pocketed all the time by that lone pony, and Ortiz became furious. At last Ortiz lost patience, and. when only a few yards from the finish the Indian tried the trick again, Ortiz

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“The Zuni Indians are the original wing and buck dancers," said George Sherman, a Denver man, to a reporter for the Fort Worth Gazette. “I've seen the genuine plantation negroes in Louisiana and Mississippi und the minstrel article, but they are simply not in it with the Zunis. 1 went to Tucson, A. T., several years ago, one spring, and we visited a pueblo near where there are many Zuni Indians. A fellow with us asked if we had ever seen ’em dance. We said we hadn't, and he said we'd missed a treat, for they took the cake for fancy foot movements, lie spoke to tlie old alcalde of the settlement, and he called two men. They were fine-looking men, not very tall, but sinewy, supple and well made. Without any preliminaries, they set to, and of all the high jumping, side leaping, heel-and-toe work, sliding, shuffling, I ever saw, that dancing was the best. They were light on their feet, graceful and quick as lightning in all their movements. They whirled away from cacti other with a pretty heel-tap movement, spun around at the same time, touching the tips of their toes, turned a back somersault and came down like feathers, keeping in perfect time. The only accompaniment they had was a rude sort of tom-tom and the whistling of a boy. They danced for three-quarters of an hour and weren't

broken down.

“This was on the bare ground, mind

you. Then a fine-looking boy brought a! out of every hundred Italian duels are

FIGHTING DUELS IN ITALY.

About tho Only KxvrcUo In Which Na-

tive* ot the Sunn) t.xnil Indulge. Dueling is the leading and almost

the only athletic sport in Italy, says the Idler. It is true that there is an Alpine club, so-called because its members climb the lessee heights of tko Apennines, out there is no cricket, und, except among the laboring classes, ball games of even the mildest character are hardly ever played. The young Italian gentleman finds in dueling an exercise which is beneficial to his muscles and sufficiently exciting to interest him, and the middle-uged Italian keeps up his practice with the foils and occasionally challenges and fights a friend just to show that he is not so oh! as to have lost a genial interest in the innocent pursuits of youth. Dueling is contrary to law in Italj’, but the duclirt is never punished (unless he should accidentally kill a man), except in the army, where the sport is obligatory and strictly prohibited. The same curious anomaly exists in Germany. where army officers arc arrested. and punished if they fight a dm ! and either cashiered or forced to resign if they do not. The Italian ofli.•er. when challenged to fight, is virtually told: “YouTl be condemned if you do und condemned if you don't.” This seems to the Anglo-Saxon decidedly idiotic, hut nothing can well be more idiotic than dueling. Flaying charades in a drawing-room rises to philosophic heights of wisdom in comparison with it. At least ninety-nine

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stone not more than a foot square, ] threw it on the ground, hopped 'uponj it, and gave the finest clog dance and ! double-shuffle 1 ever caw. He had on I cheap worn shoes, with the heels near-1 ly worn off. but he didn't mind that. | He spun around on his toes, on his 1 heels; danced with one foot held in i

of the class technically known as “first blood" duels. That is to say, the combat ceases tlie moment either of the adversaries loses blood. In these duels the sword is always used, and the slightest scratch on the hand or the arm—which are the localities usually scratched—signalizes the end of

his hand: jumped up and clapped his | the game and authorizes the duelists heels together twice, and whirled: tosheathetheirweaponsandgosomeabout on the toe of one foot. Then he j whereto dinner together. Instances beat a sort of tattoo with the heel of | have happened in which a duelist has

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ahead. The big Amcrlean horse rolled the pony over, but kept his feet and bounded across tlie line. The pony's neck was broken and his rider was

crushed to death in the fall.

As soon as the Navajos understood what had happened they made a rush for Ortiz. Soldiers rallied around the rider to protect him, and in half a minute a free tight was in full blast. The soldiers got together quickly, and their fire was more effective than the scattering fire of the Navajos, but tlie Indians were numerous uuu made an

ugly fight.

Young Amado saw his friend, the old chief, lying on tiie ground, wounded, and he went to him. Tlie old man was mortally hurt, but he knew tbe boy and asked him for water. Amado go the water, sat down by the Indian, raised his head and gave him a drink. The surgeon came riding by, looking for the boy, and saw him sitting beside a wounded Indian. He snatched Amado up by the collar, placed him heLird on tlie horse, galloped back iuto the fort and handed him over to the. co'onel, who had just been aroused by the firing, and was getting out of a sick bed to take charge of tilings. The colonel told tlie boy to stay in quarters end not venture out again, and then he went to the watis and get the cannon into action. But the boy could think of nothing but his Navajo friend lying out there on tlie plain with a ghastly wound in his breast, and longing in vain for water. So he filled his father's canteen and stole out Uirough {he gate and found tlie pld chief again. Tho old man was dying fast, and did not recognize the boy. Amado sat down by him, raised his head upon his knee, and held the canteen to tlie blue lips. Ami so he sat end ministered to the Indian until the life had gone from the body, and then he cried because the old man who gave him the buckskin pony was dead. The thunder of the cannon, the shouts of the captains and tlie yells of the Navajos had ceased, und only an occasional crack of a rifle told that some skirmisher out on the prairie was trying some long parting shot at the enemy. Not until next daj' when he saw scores of dead Indians gathered up along the race course and on the prarie, and buried in a long trench, did the boy understand that he had been in a battle, and that all the tumult had raged around him when he sat by the dying chief's side was made by his friends, the Navajos, and his friends, the soldiers, trying to kill each other.

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crowd. After he got through with a number of difficult fancy movements he jumped down as fresh as a daisy. There were other dancers, and for eccentric movements, fancy steps and pretty figures I've never seen the like. 1 understood that Primrose, tlie minstrel, saw these people dance once and got stuck on ’em and tried to get 'em with his show. They would make a great hit.” THOUGHT THE FEE TOO MUCH. Hut Ui% Xewly-.IXailo Wife Soon Convinced Him It Wasn't. “I had a queer couple in my office a few days ago.” remarked Squire Hause. of Jeffersonville, recently, to a Louisville Commercial reporter. “They were the most rural-looking couple I ever saw. There was hay in his whiskers, and she had the appearance of having ridden hard all day on a sulky plow. They came all the way from tlie briar patches of Bullitt count}’, und regarded everybody they met as a sort of bunko steerer. After 1 had tied the nuptial knot the groom asked me what I charged, and I told him the usual fee was two dollars. He argued that they were very plain people, that it had taken but a few moments of my time, and that the woman was far from being Ijandsome, accordingly he thought two dollars was a trifle steep for such a wife. I might have only got one dollar out of it had not the husband referred to his new wife’s personal appearance disparagingly. At this she flew into a passion a-nd declared there wasn't another girl he ever kept company with that could touch iter as to looks. She referred in cutting terms to some of his old sweethearts, and swore she was worth every cent of two dollars to him. If he did not pay it she said she would apply for a divorce at once. She was determined, and her husband finally Vad to shell out the other dol-

lar."

Oncer Chinese Custom*. The first ambition of every Chinaman is to have a splendid coflin. A poor man will starve himself for years to have one. It is always received with great ceremony on its arrival at the nouse, and is regarded as the most valuable piece of furniture in the establishment. It is kept in the place of honor. No one is ever buried till there is ready money enough in the house to do so without the family running into debt. There are many strange customs connected >. .-h lit2 fuae’al rites. One of these is the burning at the tomb of paper horses, idols, umbrellas and clothes These are supposed to be necessary and useful to the man when he gets to Heaven. By being burned they undergo some material resurrection and meet him there. No Time Wm-tc il. Mr. \V. II. Dawson, in his recent book, “Germany and the Germans,” thus describes the peculiar methods of one of his university professors: The moment he opened the door of the lec-ture-room. and before ids hat was removed, he began his discourse, and by the time hiscoat had been hung against the wall he was deep in his subject. Sometimes he looked at his hearers, but more frequently he turned his face to a side window while speaking and contemplated space. The clock having struck, he would rise from his scat, and, still speaking, would dress and advance to the door, and his last words might sometimes be heard resounding through the corridors. Worth tli® ilontij. A British nobleman who was sued for breach of promise is reported to have declared that it was impossible for him to contradict a lady and that.

sort are extremely infrequent compared with the fatalities of the football field. Italian dueling is probably the safest of all athletic sports, except prize fighting as practiced by modern pugilists by means of letters to the

sporting papers.

JONES' SNAKE-KILLING PIGS. The Farmer Trained Ml, Rszorbaoks to Exterminate Sc-rpcnt*. “Talk about snakes,” said a resident of Boston the other day, “there are more of ’em to the square acre in Florida than in any other part of this glorious country. But as numerous as they are they are not half as abundant as they were a few years ago, before any organized effort was made to annihilate the whole serpentine breed. “It seems that a brightidea involving the wholesale extinction of snakes entered the mind of one 'William Jones, who up to that time had been a poor farmer struggling to support a big family. Now he is one of the solid men of the county, and he made all his money by the successful execution of that idea. He knew that the ordinary razorback hog of Florida was a great natural enemy of snakes, and he set to work to systematically train a whole drove of hogs to hunt down and destroy the reptiles. In a little while ho had his swine as thoroughly trained in their part as setter dogs are drilled to point quail. He first cleared his own farm of a vast quantity of big ones, and then he began to hire out his hogs to his neighbors who were snake-af-flicted. The fame of those razorbacks spread all over the land aud people whose places were infested with rattlesnakes and men who were clearing up new land sent for Jones' hogs. “This is no romance,for I talked with Jones himself and he told me all about it, and exhibited his book of engagements, which also contained a record of all the snakes slain for the last twelve months. I have every reason to believe he was stating the facts, for he gave me a warm invitation to visit his place and promises to give an exhibition that, would demonstrate the skill of his snake-killers.”

body and killed, but incidents of this rally independent of the other, and each horse does his share of the work. Equalizer

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Balzac or Oaboriau never wrote a more thrilling story of long pursuit anil successful revenge than comes by the China steamer in accounts of the assassination in Shanghai of Kim Ok Kim. tlie Corean refugee. It occurred in a foreign hotel in the European settlement, and the assassin. Hung, was arrested und lul,'. sor trim. Hung camped on Kim’s trail for six years in tlie hope of getting him outside of Japan. While in the pay of tlie Corean court lie cultivated tlie acquaintance of Kim. who had lived at Tokio for several years under a Japanese name. Hung induced a Corean exile, who owed Kim a large sum of money, to write offering to pay the old account with interest if Kim would come to Shanghai. The trial will probably show that the Corean court promised the assassin a big reward for removing a dangerous conspirator whom the Japanese government hail saved from their vengeance for ten years. Kim was the ablest Corean who has come to the front since the hermit kingdom was opened to foreigners. He spoke Japanese, Chinese, French and German flu-

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