Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Number 127, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 May 1893 — Page 2

THE TEEEPOHNE.

Br Waltjer Bradfuts,

BLOOMINGTON

INDIANA

It is too bad also too late to be helped but it is now authoritatively stated that a portion of the money with which the Dutch paid the Indians for Manhattan Island was counterfeit.

Tv'O Memphis editors have for some time been neglecting their business and. furnishing rivals with much reading matter by bellicose manifestoes and bloodthirsty threats against their own peace and safety. Such men are unfit for the newspaper profession, whose business it is to chronicle and not to commit sensational crimes.

Mb, Gladsxonk is said to be shrinking in stature perceptibly, sp much so as to excite general comment. That he has retained his physical vigor to such an advanced age is remarkable, and the fact that old age is beginning to make serious inroads 01 his stalwart frame ought not to surprise anyone. In the natural course of events his phenomenal career must soon terminate.

Paderwski, the celebrated Polish pianist, closed his engagement in this country at Chicago, and sailed for England on the 6th inst. His American tour began in New York in January and although his time was not entirely occupied, the gross receipts were $180,000, Perhaps no musician ever met with so generous a reception. The women of New York became infatuated with him, and shed tears 4 'by the barrel' over his departure. A wealthy merchant of St. Louis takes great delight in disguising himself and marching with the Salvation Army. The caps and tightfitting uniform are so different from his customary costume, that, with the addition of a pair of side-whiskers, he has no difficulty in marching past his most intimate friends with out being recognized. His only object in marching is for amusement, and he takes no interest in the religious side of the Salvation Army movement

The Empress of Austria suffers terribly from insomnia, and walks thirty miles a &&y in the hope of obtaining relief, but in vain. She obtains upon an average only three hours of broken sleep nightly, and it is feared that she will become utterly worn out. She firmly refuses to take opiates, and her physicians still hope that she will be restored to health. She travels restlessly from place to place and is now in Switzerland. It is doubtful if she ever again permanently resides in Vienna,

The progress of naval architecture is one of the wonders of i;he century. The new Cunarder. Campania, which arrived at New York, last week, on her maiden trip, is a giantess among a mighty race of ocean liners. She is 620 feet long, and carries a crew of 415 men. Iter smoke-stacks would serve as streetcar tunnels if necessary, for they are nineteen feet in diameter. The fittings and machinery of the vessel are marvels of elegance and efficiency. . An ingenious or ingenuous office seeker recently sent President Cleveland a $10 bill to pay for any time that might be lofc in considering his application. The letter was referred to Private Secretary Thurber, who was at first inclined to be indignant at the apparent attempt at bribery, but investigation convinced him that the applicant was "very green," but perfectly sincere, and he returned the money to the sender with a little advice as to the proper way to apply for positions under this administrasion.

"Similia similibus curantur," is an axiom with a certain schoo1 of medicine, but the rule that like cures like is cot often applied to remove other evils that afHiot humanity. A business man of Cincinnati, however, succeeded to his entire satisfaction when he forced an amateur piano-player, who made life a burden in his neighborhood. --to move by applying a sort of counter-irritant in the shape of a boy with a hand organ, whom he employed by the day to play at an open window close to the objectionable musician. The pianist stood it two days and then moved.

The largest newspaper over published was the edition of the New York Sunday World, of the 7th inst It contained 100 pages, and was a wonderful example of what can be accomplish! by the system and appliances now in use in the "art preservative". It contained an almost

inexhaustible fund of literature and information, the most notable feature being a poem written expressly for the edition by Sir Edwin Arnold, entitled the "Tenth Muse." An edition of 362,000 copies was exhausted on the day of publication and a special edition was printed, 10,000 of which were engaged in advance.

Flatobogen is its name. Flatobogen is coming to the World's Frar in a man-of-war and will be guarded day and night by soldiers while it remains in Chicago! Flatobogen is a book from the Royal Library of Copenhagen. It was begun in 1370 and finished in 1380, by two monks named Magnus Thorhallson and Yon Thordason, of Flatoe, Iceland. One chapter deals with the story of Erick the Red, and Lief the Happy, the two navigators who discovered this continent in the year 1000. This is taking the wind out of the sails of Columbus, in whose honor the Exposition is being conducted. Still it is not likely that Chris, will get out an injunction to prevent the exhibition of documentary proof that he was onlv a second-hand discoverer after all.

Ex-Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is violently opposed to the annexation of Hawaii. The Senator, who has been spending the winter in southern California, in the course of an interview at San Francisco, recently, said: "I do not believe in annexing the islands, and then in a few years give them two United States Senators, the positions to be filled by whoever has the money to bid for them. Besides, I ajn opposed to giving the islands, with their small and scattered population, as much representation in the Senate as one of the heavy populated States. Thi; is what annexation would mean, and I am against it. Let the United States protect the islands, and then let their have a j:epublican form of government, or put the Queen bark on the throne. Anything, so (he islands are not annexed."

Great men in all countries have had their family troubles and domestic scandals, and a high official

or social position seems to be no '

safeguard against the annoyances that afflict the common herd. Few men of great national reputations have, however, been so sorely tried by the outrageous conduct of their own progeny as has Sig. Crispi, the ex-prime minister of Italy, who has

recently been forced, as a matter of protection, to have his own son arrested and placed in a house of cor

rection because of his debauchery, j

and a very unpleasant habit he had formed of purloining his father's private papers and selling them to his political enemies. The affair hm created a great commotion in gov ernment circles, and many import ant letters from Garabaldi and other Italian notables have found their way into a public notice for which they were never intended. Efforts have been made to secure the return of the documents but without success.

PEOPLE.

Archbishop Corrigan celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his consecration as a bishop last Wednesday. He was one of five brothers. Three went into the priesthood. His only sister became a nun. Professor Pickering, of Harvard, sailed the other day from Valparaiso for Europe, He goes to confer with scientific men in regard to results? obtained from the observations of the recent solar eclipse. 1 Last Sunday Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, of St. Bartholomew's, New York, told his congregation that he wanted a collection of $80,000 for church improvements. In the four and one-half years of his pastorate St. Bartholomew's have paid out $1,035,000 for charity and expenses, and this from voluntary contributions. W. D. Howells denies the report that he is going abroad for a few years. Mr. Howells says that h? finds an abundance of charming characters in American life, in whom he is chiefly interested, and about whom to write; and that he has no need to go abroad to study European models. The election of ex -President Harrison to the office of commander of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion is t he eigh t to mean that he will, after all. succeed the late ex-President Hayes as commander-in-chief of the order Some months ago a State commandery failed to elect him as commander an act which delayed his election to the higher office. This office has been vacant since Mr. Hayes' death. W. C. Lane, who ha9 been chosen librarian of the Boston Athenaemr., was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1881. He then went into the university library and was a few yaars ago appointed asisistant librarian. Mr. Lane was

last year president of the Massacht . i t i s a , t I

setts mterary iuu, is secretary oi the Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Dante Society, and treasurer of tbe publication section of the American Librarv Association.

HARP ANDJAVELE A Vivid and Entertaining Word Picture. Saul andD'arld Perils to be Avoided rr. Talmage's Serine u. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: "Harp and Javelin1 Text: I Samuel, 18, 10-11 "And David playsd with his hand as at other times, and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin, for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice." What a spectacle foi all ages I Saul, a giant, and David, a dwaif. An unfortunate war ballad had been composed and sung eulogizing David above Saul. That song ;hrew Saul into a paroxysm of i&ge which brought on one of his eld spells of insanity to which he had been subject. If one is disposed to some physical ailment and he gets real mad it is very apt to bring on one of his old attacks. Saul is a rt.ving maniac, and he goes to ixnitatiig the false prophets or sibyls, who kicked and gesticulated wildly when they pretended to be foretelling events. Whatever the physicians of the royal stair may have prescribed for the disordered king I know not, but David prescribed music. Having keyed up the harp, his finsers began to pull the rhythm from the bibrating strings. Thrum! Thrum! Thrum! No use. The king will n:t listen to the exquisite cadences. He lets fly a javelin, expecting to phi the minstrel to the wall, but Da id dodged the weapon and kept on, for he was confident that he could, as before, subdue Saul's bad spirit by music. Again the javelin is flung, and Dadodges it and departs. What a con

trast! Roseate David with a harp nd enraged Saul with a jr.velin. Who would not rather play the one than fling the other? But that was not the only time in the world s history that harp and javelin met. Where their birthplace was I cannot declare. It is said that the lyre was first suggested by the tight drawing of the sinews of a tortoise across its shell, and that the flute was first suggested by the blowing of the wind across a bed of reeds, and that the ratio of musical intervals was first suggested to Pythagoras by the diffe rent hammers on the anvil of the smithy, but the harp seems tome to have dropped out of the sky and the javelin to have been thrown up from the pit. The oldest stringed instrument of the world is the harp. Jubal sounded his harp in the book of Genesis. David played many of his psalms on the harp while he sang them. The captives in Babylon hung t ieir harps on the willows. Joshephu;. celebrated the invention of tbe Kl-stringed harp. Timotheus the Milesian was imprisoned for adding th 5 twelfth string to the harp, because too much luxury of sound might enervate the people. Egyptian harps, Scottish harps, Welsh harps, Irish tarps have been celebrated. What an inspired triangle! Everlasting honors to Sebastian Erard, who by pedals invented called the foot as well as the hand to the harp. When the harpiseord maker for whom he worked discharged him

for his genins. the employer not wanting to be eclipsed bv his subordinate, Erard suffered from the same passion of jealousy that threw Saul of my text into the fit during which he flung a javelin at the harpist. The harp is almost human, as you find when you put your finger on its pulse. Other instruments have louder voice and may be better for a battle charge, but what exquisite sweetness slumbers between the harp strings, waking at the first touch of the tips of the fingers. It can weep. It can plead. It can sooth. It can pray. The flute is more mellow, tbe trumpet is more startling, the organ is more majestic, the cymbals are more festive, the drum is more resounding, but the harp has a richness of its own and will continue its mis sion through all time and then take part in celestial symphonies, for St. John says he heard in heaven the harps of God. But the javelin of my text is just as old. It is about 5J feat long, with wooden handle and steel point, keen and sharp. But it belongs to tbe great family of death dealers and is brother to sword and spear and bavonet, and first cousin to all the implements that wound and -slay. It has cut its way through the ages. It was old when Saul, in the scene of my next text, tried to harpoon David. It has gashed the earth with grave trenches. Its keen tip is reddened with the blood of American wars, English wars, German wars, Russian wars, French wars, Crusader wars and wars of all nations and of all ages. Oh, I am so glad that my text brings them so close together that we can see the contrast between the harp and the javelin. The one to sooth, the other to hurt; the one to save, the other to destroy; the one divine, the other diabolic; the one to play the other to hurl; the one in David's skillful hand, the other in Saul's wrathfnl clutch. May God speed the harp; may God grind into dullness the sharp edge of the javelin. Afte? the battle of Yorktown, when a musician was to suffer amputation, and befoi'e the days of anaesthetics, the wounded artist called for a musical instrument and lost not a note during the forty minutes of the operation. Filippo Pulma, the great musician, confronted by an angry creditor, played so euchantingly before him that the creditor forgave the debt and gave the debt

or ten guineas more to appease other creditors. An eminent physician of olden time contended (of course carrying our theory too far) that all ailments of the world could bo cured by music. The medical journals never report their recoveries by this method. But in what twilight hour has many a saint of God solaced a heartache with a hymn hnrnmed or sung or played! Jerome of Prague sang while burning at the stake. But when in my text I see Saul declining this medicine of rhythm and cadence and actually hurling a javelin at the heart of David, the harpist, I bethink myself of the fact that sin would like to kill sacred music, We are not told what tune David was playing on the harp that day, but from the character df the man we know it was not a crazy madrigal, or a senseless ditty, or a sweep of strings suggestive of the melodrama, but elevated music, God-given music, inspired music, religious music, a whole heaven of it enqamped under a harp string. No wonder that wicked Saul hated it and could not abide the sound and with all his miffht hurled an instrument of death

at it. . See also in my subject a rejected opportunity of revenge. Why did not David pick up Saul's javelin and hurl it back again? David had a skillful arm. He demonstrated on another occasion he could wield a sling, and he could easily have picked up that javelin, aimed it at Saul, the would-be assassin, and left the foaming and demented monster as lifeless under the javelin as he had left Goliath under a sling. Oh, David, now is your chance. No, no. Men and women with power of tongue or pen or hand to reply to an embittered antagonist, better imitate David. Better imitate David and let the javelin lie at your feet and keep the harp in your hand. Do not strike back. Do not play the game of tit for tat. See also in my subject the unreasonable attitude of javelin toward harp. What had that harp in David's hand done to the javelin in Saul's hand? Had the vibrating strings of tbe one hurt the keen edge of the other? Was there an old grudge between the two families of sweet sound and sharp cut? Had the triangle ever insulted the polished shaft? Why the deadly aim of the destroying weapon against the instrument of soothing, calming, healing sound? Well, I will answer that if you will tell me why the hostility of so many to the gospel, why the virulent attacks against Christian religion, why the angry antipathy of so many to the most genial, most inviting, most salutary influence under all the heavens? Javelin of wit, javelin of irony, javelin of scurrility, javelin of sophistry, javelin of human and diabolic hostility, have been flying for hundreds of years .and are nying now. But aimed at what? At something that has come to devastate the world? At something that slays nations? At something that would maul and trample under foot and excruciate and crush the human race? No, aimed at the gospel harp harp on which prophets played with somewhat lingering and uncertain fingers, but harp on which apostles played with sublime certainty, and martyrs played while their fingerS were on fire. Harp that was dripping with the blood of Christ out of whose heartstrings the harp was chorded and from whose dying groan the strings were keyed. Oh, gospel harp! All thy nerves a-tremble with stories of self sacrifice. Harp thrummed by fingers long ao turned to dust. Harp that made heaven listen and will yet make all the earth hear. Harp that sounded pardon to my sinful soul and peace over the grave where my dead sleep. Harp that will lead the chant of the blood washed throng redeemed around the throne. May a javelin slay me before I fling a javelin at that. Harp which it seems almost too sacred for me to touch, and so I call down from their thrones those who used to finger it and ask them to touch it now. Ineffable harp 1 Transporting harp! Harp of earth! Harp of tieaven! Harp saintly and serapnic! Harp of Godl Oh, I like the idea of the old monument in the ancient church at Ullard, near Kilkenny, Ireland. The

sculpture on that monument, though chiseled more than 1,000 years ago, as appropriate to-day as then, the sculpture representing a harp upon a c oss. That is where I hang it now; that is where you hsd better hang it. Let the javelin be forever buried, tie sharp edge down, but hang the harp upon the cross. And now upon our souls let the harps of heaven rain music, and as when the sun's rays fall aslant in Switzerland at the approach of eventide, and the shepherd among the Alps puts the horn to his lips and blows a blast and says, "Glory be to God," and all the shepherds on the Alpine heights or down in the deep valleys respond with other blast of horns, saying, "Glory be to God," and then all the shepherds uncover their heads and kneel in worship, and after a few moments of silence some shepherd rises from his knees and blows another blast of the horn and says, "Thanks be to God," and all through the mountains the response comes from other shepherds, "Thanks be to God," so this moment let all the valleys of earth respond to the hills of heaven with sounds of glory and thanks, and it be harp of earthly worship to harp of heavenly worship, and the words of St John in the Apocalypse be fulfilled, "I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder, and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps."

A LAWLESS MOB.

Lynching of John Turley at Bedford.

On Hundred Hotmters Wh. Preferred to Take No Chances on Ui Kaw't Ielay. John Turley at Mitchell, Saturday, shot Louis Price, an Ohio & Mississippi railway conductor, because lie refuse id to honor a pass that was in the wrong hands, talcing it up in ohodiejie to the instructions of the railway company, and demanded full fare. This caused au interchange of hot words. The fare, however, was paid by a fellow -passenger. Xnrlcy in his anger followed the conductor to his compartment and without a warning word fired the contents of a 38-ealIbre revolver in his abdomen twice in quick succession, from which he died at 7:40 Saturday evening. Turley had a bad reputation in the county. After his arrest he was lodged in jail at I ted ford. Kears of lynching were entertained, and a guard consisting principally of Turley's relatives kept -guard Saturday night and Sunday night, but as everything seemed qu.et their viglUnce was relaxed. Monday morning at 3 o'clock the mob appeared at the jail and knocked at the door. The sheriff promptly responded to the call and askod what was wanted? Several voices responded that a prisoner was thero that they wanted, whereupon the doors were unbolted, and instead of having a prisoner the mob commanded the sheriff to throw up his hn.nds in the face of flour revolvers in the hands of a maske J ban j. The mob proceeded to where the prisoner was and took him from the cell without saying a word. Turley was taken to a tree ojoso by in the jail yard and hanged. The prisoner appeared very unconcerned and not in the least alarmed about the appearance of Judge Lynch. The action of the mob is approved by public sentiment. "SAIL 0SAIL0NT

Tho Columbus Caravala Will Goto Chicago via the St. Lawrence. Unless something goes amiss in the plans of the Naval Department, the visitors to the World's Fair will have an opportunity to see the Columbian caravals floating in the Lagoon about July 1. Some time ago inquiries were begun to ascertain the most feasible route between New York and Chicago by water The Erie Canal route was found to be impracticable by

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CARAVEL SANTA MARIA. reason of the fact that several stationary bridges were so low that the caravals, the poops of which stand twenty-five feet above tbe water, could not pass beneath

them, even were the masts removed. Then the possibilities of the St. Lawrence route were canvassed. It was found that one of the canal locks was limited to vessels of nine feet draught, hut that by attachment of pontoons vessels of fourteen feet draught could be passed. As the caravals do not exceed this draught, arrangements are being mc.de to send them to Chicago by the St. Lawrence route. Monday the Navy Department solicited bids from towing companies for towing the vessels to Chicago, The route is more than 2,000 miles long, and at the regulation naval speed it will require about twenty days to make tha journey. The expense of towing will be borno by the Spanish government. TEIME HAUTE POSTOFFICE ROW.

The New Appointee Kosorts to Force to Gain Possession. A serious controversy has arisen in the struggle for possession of the posttQiee at Term Haute. Some time ago charges were preferred against Postmaster Greiner

and ho was removed. Friday, Allan Henry Donham was commissioned as his successor, and ho immediately demanded possession of tho oflice. Mr. Greiner refused to surrender, but ottered to transfer the ultieo at the close of the week's business. This was declined. Mr. Greiner insisted that he must be given opportunity to check up his accounts and make an inventory, and he telegraphed co the Postmaster General for instructions. Soon after a reply was received from Washington signed H. Clay Evans First Assistant Postmaster General reading: 4It is customary ti transfer oilice Saturday night after business hours. Please so adviso Mr. Mr. Donham, and conform to custom." This telegram was shown to Mr. Donham. who lirst loubtcd its genuiness, and afterward remdiated it by claiming that Mr, Evans vas no longer first assistant postmastergeneral. Meanwhile Mr. Donham had taken possession of the postmaster's room ind Mr. Greiner hud established himself in the room of the assistant postmaster. All the doors leading to the interior vere bolted and tho siege continued throughout the day. The light is wholly over the civil-service rules. Roth sides wanted to

be in control when the rules go into effect, after the xamination, as the incumbents are not subject to tho rulos. The feeling

is quite bitter. At 11 o'clock, Saturday j

night Greiner turned over all the effects of the oilice to Donham. Roth sets of appointees will remain on duty until a decision is reached by the Department. When the confectioner Is working his taiiv tie wants a strong pull and a long

ANOTHER LYNCHING. A Seymour Mob at Brownsferara Hangs Lou Trenok. A Trln Frosted Into 8rl Thm VmrwU tory Famous tor Mob tiW and Lynching With the blood of John Turley on their hands from the Bedford lynching, Monday morning, the Seymour lynchers.about the same hour Tuesday morning, went to Brownstown, and swung into eternity the murderer, Lou Trenck, who shot and instantly killed landlord Henry Feadler u week ago Sunday, in Seymour, The first intention of the mob had been to wreak vengeance on the two murderers the saica night, but the distance between th two county seats was too great. Those who had been with the desperate men who., with unswerving determination, took Turley from the Bedford Jail, knew that it would be Trenck's turn next, and waited in secret places for the time to arrive when they should make the Journey to Brownstown, All M on lay evening th streets of Seyn iour were crowded with excited, expectai t people who felt what was coming, but wiio knew nothing of the arrangements. The mob was being Quietly organized, and its movements were carefully veiled until midnight. At that hour the leader led the way to the Ohio & Mississippi yards, and with no noise, every man knowing his duty, an engine and two cabooses were seized and the mob piled on. Experienced men were on tho engine, and the throttle being pulled out to its limits the train plunged down the road toward Browns town, eleven miles distant. Arriving opposite the town the train was halted and the men descended and marched almost a mile across the country to the Jail. Here they met their first opposition. The sheriff, not to be tricked, had left, and no keys could bo procured to fit the locks. The turnkey was routed out, but he had no keys. There was nothing to do but to batter down the doors, which the mob at once proceeded to do, A rude battering-ram was constructed, and with no fear of interruption, pickets having been sent out to patrol tho streets in all directions, the heavy iron doors were soon forced to give way to the ponderous blows. Heavy iron sledge-hammers as sisted in making an opening, after which the men crowded in under a nervy leader, who soon located Trench's cell. Forcing an entrance to his small apartment was

only play to the determined men, and fcht

doomed murderer was dragged from a corner out in the corridor and from then to the side of the court house. It was all a matter of grim business. The man with the rope was ready, and the kop being quickly adjusted to his neck,th other end was tossed over a limb of a wnvenient tree. One man spoke to him iind said:

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"Have you anything to say?'

With trembling voice, almost chofced, the wretched victim said: "Oh, this is awful! You are not treating me fair." t "Pray !' commanded his executiono:"Oh, God! Bless my soul," said Trenck, huskily. The next instant the signal w,as gives arid he was jerked from his knees to which ho had half fallen as he started to pray, arid his further utterance was only a gorgl9. It was just 1:20 a. m. when he iwtinff in the air. The rope was wound around the tiw, leaving the body suspended, and- the crrwd filed back to where the waiting triln was standing without a dozen citizens of Brownstown knowing that a tragedy had taken place. The mob then returned to Seymour, and the story was gien to newspaper correspondents in waiting by masked men who tad accompanied the mob.

A FALLEN 1

A Hoosier Giant Falls Before Civilisation Onward March. The New York Sunday Sun says: An oak log remarkable for its size and weight is lying on the dock at the foot of Etst Eleventh street. It is the property of George Hagemeyer & Sons. The log waa cut. on the farm of Uncle Sammy Scoggen

two and a half miles aoutheastof Bedford, nd. It was intended for ex bit ion at the World's Fair, but after felling It the oase was found to be rotten and had to ba cut off. This materially lessened the si 2 of the log. It is 40 feet long, feet in ditmetcr at the base, 4 feet at tlie top weighs 174 tons, and is thought to to -KX) years old. The log was brought from the West on two flat-cars. It will havo to bo blasted to cut it in two, as no sawmill in New York can handle a stick over twenuvif;ht feet in length. The monster will be .ut up into counter tops, 3en Scring, a young traveling man from vladisoa, arrived in Columbus, Thursday, md registered at the Belvedere hotel. Upon asking if any mail had arrived for nunl ho was given a letter, which he paned in tho presence of Landlord Joinon. It contained a check on the Madison National Bank for $35, signed by Serines father, an ex-banker of Madison. The

landlord cashed the check, but when he ieitt it to Madison for collection it was pronounced a forgery. Sering's father e-

fused to make the amount good, and the forger was arrested Saturday in Indian

apolis, where he was going under anna-

dtuaed name.

m m Saw tho b filet Uncle Georir-. Sa

you went to the theater this afternoon and saw the errand snectafilA A

How did you like it?" Smalt nephew (who spent tiie summer at a fxahinn.

bio seaside, rosort) "Oh, it was aw ful

moe: nig ht m the middle of it a whole

lot of stylish vounsr ladies earn rut

and danced ii bathing1 dreaso&M

Indistinct but reliable. BorrowU (in Chinese laundry) "Why do ou say Kli-day, John, when you i;;a u i'ridav?" Chinaman- I say Kii-t.aj 'cause 1 mean Fiiday; not liko Molutatt man, who sl.-iy Fli-day and conc tepaj mu week after next!1'