Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 February 1896 — Page 2

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BANISHED FOR LIFE.

THE OUTCAST OF CHURCH ISLAND IN GREAT SALT LAKE.

He Has For Years Lived the .Life of a Wild Man and Rarely Sees a Human Being Branded For Bobbing the Dead by Order of Governor Briftham Young.

In the center of the Great Salt lake in Utah is a large body of land known as Church island. This land consists of mountains and vallejs, with trees and vegetation, and has always been used as a herding ground for cattle belonging to the Mormon church. Several years ago the water on the east side of the island was shallow and cattle could be driven across easily, but now the water is deep and everything must be conveyed to and from the land in boats. A distance of about five miles covered with gait water must be gone over by canoes to get to or from the island. On this famous spot, amid millions of pelicans, sea gulls and other fowls, wanders a lonely old man. without clothing and devoid of language or any of the in•tincts of humanity. He was banished years ago by the Mormon church on the charge of robbing the dead.

Jean Baptiste was a Frenohman who came to Salt Lake City a young man nearly 40 years ago. He grew up among the saints, and, after marrying, was made sexton of the small cemetery. His duties were light and his remuneration correspondingly smalL He resided in a little cabin on the mountain side overlooking the city, and spent his time, when not employed in the oemetery, in collecting junk and trading and trafficking with a few Jewish secondhand clothes dealers who had the hardihood to engage in business among the Mormons. A regiment of United States troops was then camped near the city, and the gentiles engaged in business were assured protection.

The little Frenchman was an avaricious man and was noticeable because of his picking up every cast away article and carrying it to his home. Old dry goods boxes, barrels, tin cans and other packing articles cast away by the soldiers were especially well cared for by Jean Baptiste, the sexton. He dressed as a scavenger and resembled the modern saloon loafer, who is always searching the slums for barrels and boxes of garbage and cast off garments. The actions of the sexton oreated some comment, and not a little curiosity was aroused among people who had occasion to visit his residence on the mountain aide, Over the city.

One day Jean appeared on the streets dressed in an elegant suit of broadoloth. A few days before a wealthy stranger Jiad died and was buried in the cemetery. The suit in which the body was dressed resembled that worn by the sexton. An examination was ordered, and the oorpse was found to have been robbed of its clothing. A committee waited upon the sexton and made a most startling discovery. The graveclothes of over 200 persons were found in the baskets and boxes stowed away in his ghoulish, oabin. Exoitement ran high in Salt Lake City. The boxes of clothing were oruptied and the contents taken to the city hall, where many a fond mother identified the burial robes of her child. Elegant silk dresses, at that time a luxury even to the rich, were found in the various bundles. The man was arrested and cast into jail, pursued by a mob who sought his life.

Brigham Young, then governor and general diotator in Utah, ordered the man to be branded with a hot iron and banished to Church island. During the quiet hour of midnight Jeati Baptiste was taken from the jail, and his whole forehead was seared with the following inscription: "Branded For Bobbing the Dead." Two men escorted the quivering, naked form from the city of vengeance. A canoe was entered near the city, and the doomed prisoner was taken in chains to the island which in future was to be his home. Without clothing or food ho was landed upon the shore, the boat returned to the mainland, and the ghoul remained a hopeless exile. He could not leave the island, because instant death would follow should he be seen by any of the inhabitants of the Mormon land of Zion. He was forced to seek food and shelter amid wild animals, the birds and reptiles.

The island was soon known as the land of banishment. People shunned its shores as they would a haunted house. Many persons were lost upon the lake while rowing in canoes against heavy winds. The general supposition of all was that those unfortunates drifted to the island and were devoured by the wild man. Even the fearless cowboy has ever refused to intrude upon the home land of the exile. Wild horses roam over its acres of broken canyons, rugged cliffs and grassy meadows. The sea gulls and other birds find a home ondisturbed on the deserted shores. All the natives, including Indians, warn newcomers of the fate of scores of pleasure seekers who have been drifted upon the shores of the fated island. The crags, bluffs, dark caverns and lonely canyons warn every boatman nearing the shore to keep away from the hidden dangers.

In a dark cave about half a mile from the shore lives the wild man. His Juome is strewn with the wrecks of boats, bones of victims and other cannibalistic indications. Away back ip the deep darkness of the cavern is his sleeping place, made of clothing stripped from unfortunate victims shipwrecked on the fatal shore. A collection of leaves, grasses and branches from the trees of the island forms the foundation for the bed, in which this human monster spends most of his time. Several hunters and explorers have recently viewed the man. He is described as old, stooping, destitute of clothing, incapable of speech and covered with long hair. Upon the appearance of man he ntters a wild, weird shriek and rashes to the cavern, from which he cannot be Induced or forced to return.—San Francisco Examiner.

SHE TOOK THE PRIZE.

Miss Melissa Taylor Is Declared jth.e Prettiest Girl In Iowa. Miss Melissa Taylor, who possesses the distinction of being the prettiest girl in Iowa, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Taylor of Albia. Out of 60 contestants from various parts of the state she was awarded first prize for beauty at the state fair recently held at Des Moines. Miss Taylor is now SI years of age and besides having a fair face is aoharming young woman. Early in life Miss Taylor showed a remarka-

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MISS MELISSA TAYLOB.

ble musical talent, and having a beautiful soprano voice it was decided to give her an opportunity to improve it, and to Chicago and its instructors are due the happy results of four years of study and training, for the young woman now ranks without question as one of the most talented musicians in oentral Iowa. With this gift she unites a sweet, womanly disposition and a charming manner, which win for her a plaoe in the hearts of all who meet her.—Chioago Tribune.^ »V:

Modern Woman's Strength, Whatever may be thought of the pretensions to intellectual advance put forward on behalf of the modern woman, there is at least no denying her physical and muscular progress. Brought to the test of actual results, her claim to mental superiority over the woman who thought and worked and aohieved in a less assertive age beoomes by no means easy to establish. With all the exultant fuss about higher education and the equality of the sexes, we look in vain today for worthy successors to some of those gifted and brilliant women of the past who, quietly and without the aid of advertisement, wrote their names upon the history of their time. Buc when it comes to a question of physical comparison the new feminine generation has far better reason to congratulate itself and pity its grandmothers.— London World. ."

Remarkable Twins.

Tillie and Lizzie of Philadelphia, 19 years old, are remarkable twins, if the stories told of them be true.. When one suffers pain, the other feels it also. Either sister can find the other in a crowd of any size "without hunting," as they express it. The resemblance between the two girls is remarkable. Both weigh exactly the same. Their recolleotions of past' events are precisely the same. Neither one can recall a single occurrence that did not happen in the presence of both. It takes the minds of both to retain a lasting recollection of any happening,- but when the faot is once impressed upon the minds of both, neither one forgets its least important feature.

New York's ILegal Women.

New York's list of lawyers includes the names of many talented young women. The first woman to win a prize at a regular law school was Miss Nellie Titus, now an aotive and successful lawyer. Miss Florence Dangerfield, who was chosen president out of a class of 90 men, is a young woman who has already distinguished herself in her profession. The versatility of Mis. Theodore Sutro, who was valediotorian of her olass in the law school of the University of New York, is well known. The first woman to be admitted to the bar in this city wqp Miss Sate Stoneman, a friend and coworker of Dr. Lozier.—New York World.

Jeanne de Ctiantal.

Mme. Jeanne de Ghantal, superior of the religious Order of Providence, is dead. She was 68 years old. When the Prussians came into France in 1870, she was superior of the Chateaudun community. She concealed in the cellars of the oonvunt a great number of soldiers and guerrillas. One of the latter was oaptured and ordered to be shot. She stood between him and the squad, and the order to fire was not given. A oonvoy of Wounded French soldiers was ordered to Germany, bnt she stood in front of it, and the soldiers were returned to the ambulance. This achievement has been, made the subject of a celebrated painting- *1*

The Spreading Straggle.

Mrs. M. Wolstenholme edits The Woman's Voice at Sydney, New South Wales. Its motto is, "Democratic, but not revolutionary womanly, but not weak fearless without effrontery, liberal without license." The Abbeville (&. CI). Medium says "The struggle for equal rights for women is not confined to our state, but is going on thronghoat the world among the most enlightened people. The Voice is an advocate of suffrage, and the question seema to be a live one in those localities."

The Big Three.

Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, hail! Your disfranchised sisters of 41 less favored states look upon you not In envy, bnt in a spirit of emulation, anticipa tion and expectancy. In Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California our fight for freedom is on, and our hopes beat high as our campaign progresses. The mighty west is marching on.—Bart land (Or.) Pacific Empire.

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How Nature Makes Silver.

The process by which nature forms her silver mines is very interesting. It must be remembered that the earth's crust is full of water, which percolates everywhere through the rooks, making solutions of elements obtained fronl them. These solutions take up small partioles of preoious metal which they find here and there. if

Sometimes the solutions in question are hot, the water having got so far down as to be set boiling by the internal heat of the globe. Then they rush upward, picking up the bits of metal ^s they go. Naturally heat assists the performance of this operation.

Now and then the.streams thus formed, perpetually flowing hither and thith? er below the ground, pass through cracks or- cavities in the rooks, wher& they deposit their lodes of silver. This is kept up for a great length of time^— perhaps thousands of years—until the pooket is filled up.

Crannies permeating the stony mass in every direction may beoome filled with the preoious metal, or occasionally a chamber may be stored full of it as if 1,000,000 hands were fetching the treasures from all sides and hiding away a mine for some lucky prospector to discover in another age. —London Standard.

I Pickett and the British. In one of the most serious disputes the United Stages has had with Great Britain over a boundary question a Virginian bore the most prominent part in preventing British encroachment. We refer to the San Juan island incident. The Virginian was Captain George E. Pickett of' the United States army, afterward General Pickett of the Confederate army. In 1856, during the disagreement anent the northwest boundary, Captain Pickett, with 60 men, was Ordered to occupy the island, and Sir James Douglass sent three British warships to eject him from his position. Pickett bade defiance to this show of force, threatening to fire upon any troops that attempted to land from the vessels, and a clash of arms was only prevented by the timely arrival of the British admiral, by whose orders the matter of endeavoring to take possession of the island vi et armis was postponed. Subsequently Pickett was re-enforced and the danger of hostilities blew over. For bis conduct on this occasion Captain Pickett was highly complimented by General Harney, and the legislature of Washington territory passed resolutions of thanks to him.—

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING- MAIL, FEBRUARY 8,1891

The "Waoht Am Bhein."

Of the martial songs more particularly connected with the various periods of storm and stress in Germany, one of the most celebrated is that of the Bhine, composed by Becker, and answered by Alfred de Musset in other well known verses. The "Wacht am Rhein," by Max Sehneckenburger, was composed about the same period as the Bhine song, bnt attained its widest popularity during the war of 1870. Unlike Becker's song, it oannot boast of having been set to musio by 70 composers.

The patriotic song of "Deutsohlahd, Dentsohland uber Alles" was the work of the popular writer, poet, philologist and historian August Hoffmann, who was born at Fallersleben in the year 1798. For a time we find him acting as librari' an and later as professor at the University of Breslau, but the liberal tendency of some of his writings caused him, in 1838, to be deprived of his professorial ohair. For many years he was librarian to the Duke of Batibor, and died in this sheltered post in 1874. The German national anthem, "Heil Dir im Sieger* kranz," was written originally for the birthday of Christian VH, king of Denmark, by a Idtolstein clergyman. The words were written to the air of "God Save the King" in 1790, and a few years later were modified for Prussian. use.—Chambers' Journal.

Richmond Dispatoh.

It is too plain to need a demonstration by ohart or diagram that Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is what the people need everywhere, for cure of bronchial and pectoral troubles. It is a sure cure

He Seored Journalism.

A successful physioian, who began life as a reporter, spoke very scornfully of the newspaper man who had not sense enough to discover that the talents needed to earn him a bare living in "journalism" would bring him substantial rewards in any other business or profession. I suppose it must have been some such idea that was at the root of Horacf Greeley's fixed objeotion-to paying any man a salary of more than $25 week, it being his opinion that if an employee of a newspaper could earn more than that he ought to strike out for himself. Considering the number of|

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"My wife is a great linguist." "How many' languages does peak?" "Just one."—Town Topics.

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The Boers.

The Boers are a raoe of hunters, as well as pastoralists, and the Transvaal Boers especially have been engaged in a war of extermination (lamentable to the lover of animal life) against every species of wild beast. Numbers of them have been occupied ever since boyhood in the hunting of elephants, buffaloes, lions, rhinoceroses and other heavy game. They have praotically exterminated the elephant south of the Zambezi, and the buffalo is becoming very scarca No man who understands South African hunting can pretend to say that the chase of these animals is not a dangerous one, requiring the highest qualities of nerve and courage. I will not say that the average Boer hunter will, by way of recreation, face the lion single handed in the way that the great English hunters—Selous, Oswell, Vardon, Gordon-Gumming, Baldwin and others —have accustomed us to. Few hunters, indeed, are so quixotic. The Boer treats the lion as dangerous vermin, if possible obtains help from his fellows, and as a matter of business slays him by a volley. But hundreds of Boers have slain lions single handed, and hundreds have been mauled and even killed by lions.—London Globe.

His Animal Food.

Pat Shinnegan works on the Allen place, and his mind is no poetio mind, and whatever comes into it reoeives a literal construction that sometimes makes it unrecognizable when it comes out again. In fact, Pat's mind is a(very sausage machine of a mind.

Now, it happens that Pat was feeling ill for some days, and so, as his employer is an M. D., full fledged, albeit some* what young in years, Pat applied to him for a remedy. The doctor asked the symptoms, felt his pulse, examined his tongue, and did whatever else professional etiquette demanded. Then he said: "Patrick, you're""run down a bit, that's all. What you need is animal food."

And Pat departed quite contented. About two days afterward the dootor happened to think of his case, and called on Pat in the stable. "Well, Pat," said he, "how are we getting on with the treatment?" "Oh, shure, sir," said Pat, "Oi manage all right with the grain and oats, but it's har-rd with the chopped hay. —Boston Budget. Vg*,-,'*'

mm Success In Society. The seoret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, bufe who exactly fill the hour and company, contented and contenting.—Emerson. ilfill§t

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ONE DISEASE THAT BAFFLES THE !#^tl?PHYSlCIAN. fipMSpI

The Story of a Woman who Suffered or Nine Tears. How She was Cured. {From the Newark, N. J., Evening News.)

Valvular disease of the heart has always been considered incurable. The following interview therefore, will interest the medical profession, since it describes the successful use of a new treatment for thiB disease. The atient is Mrs. Geo. Archer, of Clifton, N.

pal J., and this publication, by the News is the first mention made of the case by any newspaper. All physicians consulted pronounced the patient suffering with valvular disease of the heart, and treated her without the slightest relief. Mrs. Areher said: I could not walk across the floor neither could I go up stairs without stopping to let the pain in my chest and left arm cease. I felt an awful constriction about my arm and chest as though I were tied with ropes. Then there was a terrible noise at my right ear, like the labored breathing of some great animal. I have often turned expecting to see some ereature at my side. ''Last July," continued Mrs. Archer, I was «t Springfield, Mass., visiting, and my mother showed me an account in the Spring' field Examiner, telling of the wonderful cures affected by the- use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. My mother me to try the pills and on November 25th last I bought a box and began taking them, and I nave taken tbem ever since, except for a short interval. The first box dia not seem to benefit me, but I persevered, encouraged by the requests of mv relatives. After beginning on flu second box, to my wonder the noise a* my right ear ceased entirely. I kept right on ana the distress that I used to feel in my chest and arm gradaally disappeared. The blood has returned to my fiwe, lips and ears, which were entirely devoid of odor, aad I feel well and stron

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