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IOWA STATE PRESS, A STUBBORN OLD COUPLE THIS FAMILY HAS SPITED THE STATE FOR ELEVEN YEARS. Refuted to an Old Debt and Were DUpoMeMedwOld Man Kept Fosse at Bay With a Market, Bcjn. fbreed br Wife With Hot Water. The following remarkable story ia taken from the Atlanta Journal: About two miles from Weatworth, the county seat of Buckingham County, North Carolina, on the side of the road to Eeidsville, live the queerest combination of man and squalor, madness and stubbornness that ever puzzled the wits of landlords and county officers, against whom there is a constant waging of aggressive war. Notwithstanding the advanced age of Clem and Eliza Wooten--eighty-sis and seventy-three--and the exposure to which the last eleven harsh winters have subjected them, they are to-day as fiery and as pugnacious as when, in their palmy days, they kept a sheriff's posse at bay forty-eight hours, Clem cracking away with an old musket through the chink holes of an npper story and Aunt Eliza dashing formidable streams of hot water through the crevices ia the wall.

Claiming the heaven-given promise of ideating the goose that pecks the grass from the grave" of every maa in public life at the time of their financial troubles, tSey are about to realize the fulfilment of their fancied pledge, for many have dropped out of tho procession, some by death, sorae by business failures, aud many ara Snowed under by popular franchise. Yet Old Mau Clem and Aunt Eliza hang on the Christinas tree and the misfortunes of their iwnfallen, imagined foes. It ia a singular and one from which they are fond to draw when hurling anathemas upon humanity in general that never have they been forsaken in the matter of rains, even when districts within a radius of a mile were parched from heat and drought. They were always successful gardeners, but now their truck patches fairly bloom and smile in luxuriant beauty, while, as old Clem puts it, "Ah-h-h! They're all a burin' up. They won't make 'enough on Nubbin Ridge ter feed the ole 'oman's chickens a week.

But here's yo' cabbage an' yo' inghuns, an' thar's yo' co'n an' yo' snaps, higher'n yo' head, an' wa'rmi'ons an' mnshmi'ons--Ah-h-h, I've sho' got 'em!" It is a long story of fraudulent transfer of realty to evade payment of an old debt and the subsequent triumph of the creditor in finding the fraudulent grantee in financial straits and purchasing the lands, tendering the old debt in part payment. Then follows eviction in the fall of 188S, their stubborn, spiteful and vindictive natures refusing all proffered homes or to buy a shelter from the approaching winter--for they had money and many household comforts. 1 The provisions of the law were met and they were placed on the Beids- ville road, in sight of their old home, and here, they declared, they would stay "till they rotted, jusfc for spite." iTheir spite, however, was of a too vigorous type, for, after spending the winter in an old wagon, sleeping between the feather beds, and cooking 'al fresco, with here and taere beneath the scrubby oaks pieces of valuable furniture--mahogany sideboards, mirrored walnut chamber suits and bric- a-brac--they were adjudged nuisances and lodged in jail. There was no provision for the household goods, and, as a result, there is little left to indicate the prosperity they once enjoyed. Mules, chickens--a hundred or more --four barns of tobacco, forago previsions, bedding and 200 weight of dried fruit were lawful prey.

After few months' incarceration, they were released, and, by order of the Board of Commissioners, placed on a tract of the county's land, near the Poorhouse. Nine years they lived there and in peaceable possession, clearing new fields each year, and, after a few winters, improvising a rude brush harbor for shelter, which time grew by constant additions to 'quite a cozy home. It was then permanence illumined their homes, and he served notice on the County Commissioners that he held color of title for all the adjoining lands of the county by seven peaceable and 'unmolested possession. He was his own counselor, however, and his dream of empire had a rude awakening, for, under a suit for possession, he was evicted again in November, 1897. he and his wife being carried bodily, like babies, half a mile to their present home.

This step was not taken, however, until after their refusal to pay a rental of five cents per annum' for the place or to allow any one else to pay it for them, the tendering of rent invalidating their claims to the land. Under an open railshed, crouching over a few flickering em hers, these old people weathered the horrors of the severest, the longest and dreariest winter ever before known here. The driving sleets and snows, the drench- fhg rains and the biting winds have told a sad and harrowing tale of suffering on their rugged faces. It is no that madness darts out from their every utterance. The only wonder ia that they were not frozen, sleeping as they did upon the bare ground with snch scanty covering and that drenched by every rain.

They cannot be induced to accept a house for life with every comfort age can need. Stubbornness, pride and a general distrust of human motives are the authors of all their woes. 'They scorn with cynical gesticulation all expressions of sympathy, nor can advice be tendered them through a megaphone. Calliuglo see them, I found the old jorone drilling pot chicken in some very lemarkable fancy tactics. She said Clem had just stepped down the road to kill Frank Williams for hauling wood from their acres.

Williams, I soon learned, was the agent of the legally reaognized landlord, and ex- 'pected to hear of a sanguinary conflict. It was not long, however, till the old fellow came in, with a bloodless axe on his shoulder, eyeing me suspiciously; and with a countenance bordering midway upon hellish diabolism and smiling welcome, he began to confide the plan of campaign against his oppressors. He would sue the- bondsmen of each county officer concerned in his eviction; he had already gained all the county lands; and, by order of the court, he Had been placed in possession of 1100 acres of land on which he now resides, and By the failure of the former owner to forbid prior to ten days' occupation of the premised, he was' now in possession, and that wasn't' all, for his itemized fortune amounted; to half a million dollars, the disposition of which he was now arranging. He asked me, in consideration of the Journal's interest in him, to sign a lengthy and liberally signed document indicating a willingness to become a devisee under him' to the amount of a hundred thousand' dollars. At present they are very comfortably quartered in a rude dirt floor hut, surrounded by such pets as hogs, cows and which source, aided by the old mau'ss occasional jobs, they derive their daily bread.

spectacle presented is one of dissolution, decay and spoliation. All the furnitnve lies scattered along the road beneath a sediment of mud and leaves. What was a fine cherry clock hung on a little oak till, )iece by piece, it went to ruin, and now is stacked with the remainder of the plunder where they spent the winters--beneath the open sky. Looking' at this, Aunt Eliza's eyes filled with tears as she said: "Oh, it was such a fine clock, but it was delicate an' couldn't stand it like us. I wish niy old weather-beaten wheels could like it, for f'm mighty tired er stayin' out in the cold an'rain." It is an old and generally accredited story that, a a girl, Aunt Eliza was one of the prettiest girls, and consequently the belle of her native county, 1 that she had danced with numerous men of State and national destination, and had more than once figured in af-, fairs d'amourwith them.

Questioned as to this statement of Madam she diverted her wrinkled face, puffed away at her pipe in thoughtful silence and answered: "Naw! I never danced a step in my life, ner I wa'ntj no belle, nuther. They say anything 'lept the'r pra'rs now, an' they don't take time 'ter whistle them." To casualists the whole is a ludicrous picture and diversion. From them originate some of the wild acts for which the fanatical outcasts are credited, such for instance as their recent action in "posting their lands" against all trespassers and felling huge trees across the road running "through their yard." They are now disposed to be more liberal, and announce their intention of allowing the road to remain open, but will establish a toll gate, which being across the main county road, will be a source of considerable revenue to them. Still their life is only a life of waiting, conscious being the human football of remorseless kickers and an ever abounding boomerang upon a civilized community. Upon the recommendation of the Grand Jury at the last term of court, the presiding Judge ordered them returned to the county lands from which they were moved, which order has not as yet been executed, the officer to yhorn it was directed having been advised by his attorney to ignore it.

Thus it is that they are kicked from pillar to post, one order after another picking them up after they have built a comfortable home, and lived in it all through the summer, drops them out in the sleet and snow and heaves the Levite's sigh that instead their hoary heads could not be pillowed in some friendly Potter's Field far away from the disturbing that now cast a blot upon the fair page of a Christianized community. An Albino Tree. Much interest has been caused lately by the appearance of a horse chestnut tree in the Thiergarten. The numerous branches around the lower part of the trunk have a pure white foliage, nch as is seen on trees growing in dark places, where no phyll can develop on account of want of light. The same whiteness of the leaves is also noticeable in a few of the neighboring branches through the crown to the top.

People are often puzzled as to the cause of the peculiarity, and many strange explanations are sometimes given. The singular appearance of the tree has been noticed regularly for some years. This particular tree, it seems, had been attacked by a swarm of caterpillars and other creatures of the same species, and the foliage had already been destroyed; but still masses of caterpillars continued to crawl up and down the trunk, and finally clung there in lumps. To preserve the beautiful tree, after other means had been tried in vain, a solution of acid was used, and the ground all around was watered with it, as well as the trunk and the branches, which were especially drenched. This treatment proved successful.

The tree gradually recovered, and now stands in its full strength and freshness, but has ever since shown the already described whiteness in its leaves, which presents a by no means unpleasant contrast to the otherwise dark green Standard. ID Switzerland a favorite dish ia boiled mashed fine and served with whipped cream, KILLED THE TNT)14 I A FICURE PUT1N THE COFFIN HE HAD IMPRISONED HER IN A CAVE. Condemned to Unbrokeu Solitude That He Slight Squander the Mouey Brought Him--Crime iu Indian Territory. Four years ago Allie McDonald, the wife of Jim McDonald, a Cherokee Indian, disappeared from her home, near Checotah, J. T.

She was a white woman, and very beautiful. Her husband accused a New York artist named Smith of having abducted her, but recent developments show that the In-t dian kidnaped his own wife and kept her fastened and guarded in a care for four long years. Under pretense of searching for her the Indian spent nearly his wife's whole fortune, but in reality he was squandering the money on race tracks and gay women. Lately his wifei was rescued from the cave. As soon as she was free she shot her husband dead for his cruelty.

No effort was made to arrest her and none will be made. The girl comes under the jurisdiction of the Indian courts. and the Indians refuse to prosecute. Four years ago Allie Madaris. the beautiful daughter of Jack Madaris.

was married to Jim McDonald near Checotah, I. T. Allie's father was quite wealthy, and he started his son-in-law out in the cattle business. Ten days after the wedding Jack Madaris died IN THE CAVE. under mysterious circumstances, and it was hinted then that his son-in-law did the killing.

Closely following her father's death Allie suddenly disappeared. McDonald appeared greatly moved by both events and offered $5,000 reward for the return of his wife. Then he sold all his and his father-in-law's property, excepting a ranch, and started East to capture and murder the white man who had stolen his wife. McDonald was gone three years and a half. Last winter he returned to Tahlequah and told the inhabitants he thought his wife had been murdered.

Detective Duukin did not believe this story, but kept a close eje on the Indian. His patience was rewarded on May 31, when he followed McDonald to a huL on the side of a hill, fifteen miles southeast of Tahlequah. After the Indian had left. Dunkin went to the place and forced the owner, a full- blooded Indian, named Six Killer, to turn over the keys. After a good deal of search Dunkin found a door leading into a cave, and there he found Allie, the supposed kidnaped wife.

She was nearly dead from solitary confinement and her clothes were in rags. She told the officers she had been placed there by her husband, who bad tired of her and wanted to keep her fortune. She was given plenty to eat and treated well under the circumstances, but had no hope of ever being rescued. The woman was 18 when she vras put in the cave. Now she is old and infirm in appearance.

She taken to Siloam Springs, A and given money on which to drees and fix up. Then she returned to Tahlequah One of the first persons she met on the street was her husband. Drawing a revolver, she at once shot him dead. No attempt was made to arrest her, and everybody seemed glad she had committed the deed. She has had her property--that is, such of it as was not sold by her husband--restored to her.

and is now living among the Indians. EAGLE FIGHTS MAN AND WIFE. Huge Bird Driven Off After Severely Injuring Human Contestants. A huge bald eagle swooped down on the farm of Lincoln Rogers, near th'p village of Naples, N. the other day, and seized a chicken in its talons.

Mr 0 Rogers, who heard a disturbance, rushed out to see what was the matter and the eagle made for her. She turned and fled, screaming, and attracted the attention of her husband, who was working in a field not far away. He grabbed a stick and hurried to the assistance of his wife, who had stopped in her flight and attempted to beat the bird off with a club. When the eagle saw Mr. Rogers it turned on him, and then attacked each in turn.

Man and wife tried to beat the bird, in their excitement few blows and those that did seemed only to increase the eagle's anger and cause it to fight all the harder, Mrs. Rogers lost her club and tried to fight the bird with her hands. In so doing she was badly scratched. Mr. Rogers also received numerous scratches and bruises, but eventually put the bird to flight.

Knew What to Expect. Farmer Nubbins--Guess we'd better gather up all our chickens an' send 'cm to market Saturday. His Wife-All o' them. Silas? What for? Farmer Nubbins--I hear there's a colored camp mectin' goin' t' open out In th' grove below here next State Journal. Swindle Said to Have Been Worked to Secure 93O.UUO Life Insurance.

Thomas Chase, a farmer, aged about 4S and residing at Milligan, Carter county, was reported as having died of grip after an illness of a few days in February last. On the following day a simple funeral occurred and what was supposed to be the remains of the farmer was buried in the country churchyard at Milligan. It was announced to a local newspaper a few days later that Chase's life was insured for $30,000 in round numbers. This was correct and later the several insurance companies in which his different policies were written deposited the money in the banks of Knoxville and Johnson City. to be paid to the widow of the insured.

Mrs. Chase received about $5.000 the insurance, it is stated, but the banks have just been enjoined through Chancellor Smith Johnson City from paying over the balance of the funds. In their application for an injunction the attorneys for the insurance companies allege that fraud was perpetrated to obtain the insurance money, that the insured had probably been made the victim of scientific hypnotism on the part of some persons in collusion with the wife of Chase, that the insurance had been obtained in the first place by misrepresentation, and that Chase had been seen alive in Knoxville, two months after his reported death. It was reported at the time Chase was supposed to have died that he showed signs of being under hypnotic influence and that when he was being prepared for burial he arose from the bed and talked with those about him, but expired a few minutes later. YOUTH I A TOWN.

Crazed with drink, young H. Willard Field, son of H. K. Field, a well-known insurance man of Alameda, ran amuck through the streets of that town the other morning, to the terror of residents aroused from their peaceful slumbers by the loud clatter of horse's hoofs and the discharge of firearms. Field was mounted bareback on a mettlesome horse, which he urged to a high speed.

At intervals he fired his revolver in cowboy style with utter disregard for human life. Two police officers, mounted on high-geared bicycles, failed to come up with the wild rider, and Policeman Dennis Welch, who tried to intercept him oh Central avenue at about 2:50 a. was made a target by the young desperado for two shots at close range, one of the bullets plowing through the crown and back rim of the patrolman's felt hat. Young Field, who is no more than 20 years of age, had left his home at 1017 Paru street in a hired conveyance the previous evening with a party of young men out for a lark. He had drank heavily, and wound up the orgy after separating from his companions by starting out alone on his saddle horse.

His subsequent wild ride created disturbance and outcry from one end cf the Encmal to the other. During the time he fired from 15 to 20 shots at random. It was 5:30 a. m. when Policemen Brampton, Brown and Lawrence arrested Field after he had entered his father's grounds with his fagged steed.

When placed under arrest he was found lying on the bed in his room asleep, with his clothes on. The young man was taken to the city prison and confined until morning, at which time his elder brother. Charles Field, the poet of Stanford University, appeared to try his best to get him out of the scrape. A charge of assault to murder had first been entered opposite young Field's name, but later he was let down with the greatest ease to charges preferred by Policeman Welch of disturbing the peace and violating an ordinance by discharging firearms within the city limits. Early in the morning he was allowed to plead guilty to these minor charges and fined on each, H.

WILLARD FIELD. respectively, bj Judge Morris and City Recorder St. Sure. He is a first cousin of the late Eugene Field, the poet. laborer Hanged by Accident.

Frank Zotoiza, employed in the Alton elevator, Chicago, was strangled to death by a rope which became entangled around his neck while a hoisting sacks of grain. The dangling end of the rope fell around Zotoiza's npok and formed a loop- knot. Before the horrified eyes of his fellow workmen Zotoiza was jerked from his feet and hoisted several feet into the air. He struggled and tore at the rope with his hands, but his struggles only tightened H. He grew purple in the 'ice and strangled before the other mei.

rould render any assistance. The weight of the sack of grain at the end of the rope prevented the men from untangling it. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. A Way to Slake Put into a Email saucepan one-half of a cupful of milk and one table- epoonful of butter. When it boils add one cupful of flour, stirring very rapidly.

This will give a very stiff paste, aud it must boil thoroughly; remove the pan from the fire; add one unbeaten egg: beat this well into the paste; then add another egg, beating as before and continue until three eggs are used; place a pastry tube ia a pastry bay. Press with the left hand on to a baking sheefc or pan eclair mixture th'-ee inches long. Put the pan in the oven and babe fifteen minutes; then remove them from the oven. When with a pair of scissors cut the eclair on one side and fill with whipped cream, sweetened and flavored or with a vanilla cream. An Appetizlus llot-Weatlier Dish.

Tp prepare blind hare, take a pound niid a half of veal cutlet, or one three- pound chicken, and a pound and a half of roundsteak chopped fine; mix, and add half a teaspoouful of grated nutmeg, a level teaspoonful of cinna- nioii, one pint of stale breadcrumbs rubbed fine, a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper and two level teaspoonfuls of salt. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly together and pour over all four well-beaten eggs. Pack into a square breadpan or into a melon- mould. When it has taken the shape of the pan or mould turn it carefully out on a piece of greased paper in the bottom of a baking-pan, baste with melted butter, and bake in a moderate oven for three hours. Serve cold.

Teal loaf is made after this same receipt, using all veal. Ladies' Homo Journal. How to Cook Kidneys. In cooking kidneys it must be re- nieuibered that they should be cooted either a great deal or but little, the "golden mean" in this case being out of the question. Kidneys are like eggs.

Cooked beyond a certain point the albumen and fibrine harden, then long, slow cooking is required to bring them back to digestibility. To prepare a lamb kidney saute in the chafing dish put two tablespoonfuls of butter it the cutlet pan. When hot add a small onion minced fine, and cook for a moment or two, taking care that it does not blacken. Tnen add the kidney, cut in thin slices. Cook five minutes, turning often.

When browned add one tablespoonful of mushroom cap sup and either a tablespoonful of stock or a dessertspoonful of fluid beef dissolved in a HtHo cream, and serve at -once on hot plates. Crumbs or Brend. Crumbs of bread are always valuablt in breading chops and other meats foi frying, to spread over scallop eddishes, fried meats, fish and for other purposes, as well as for puddings and sweet dishes. The secret of preparing these'crumbs BO they will keep indefinitely without mould is to dry them so that all moisture is removed from them. Spread the bread on a tin in the warming oven under or above the stove, as it is located, aud after it is perfectly dry roll it out and sift the crumbs.

Boll out thoso that will not go through the sieve, and roll and sift them again until there is merely a handful of crumbs in the sieve. These few coarse crumbs are valuable for frying in butter, when used to scatter overmaecaroni, noodles and other pastes prepared to serve with meats. For puddings dried crumbs should have boiling milk poured over them, and they should remain soaking in the milk for half an hour or longer until the milk has cooled, when eggs, raisins or fruit is added and seasoning is put in. Such puddings are excellent baked slowly or boiled iu a form. For stuffing the soft f.rumbs inside a loaf of stale bread arc used instead of dry crumbs.

Dried crumbs make sweeter puddings. Toasts for use as a garnish to soup or to serve with game or chicken should bo cut up in ornamental shapes in the quantity while soft, dried thoroughly and stored away iu boxes for use when required. When needed, brush them over with melted butter and brown theia in the oven or fry them a delicate brown in hot fat. Warning to Women. Stiff collars should be avoided by all women who care to preserve the youth curve of their phia Times.

i For the If your gem or muffin batter doesn't fill all the set fill the empty ones partly full of water before setting in tbe oven. Date vinegar has recently been put on the English market, and many people say it is far superior to any other vinegar. Bread made crisp and brown by be- iug sliced aud baked in a hot oven makes a valuable breakfast dish for those who are inclined to corpulence. No butter should be eaten with this bread. Corn bread possesses one ad vantage over most hot breads.

It is digestible as well as palatable. Most writers on food topics agree that yeast bread is not as wholesome as that raised with baking powder. If grease is spilled upon the kitchen floor do not pour hot water upon it, but cover the spot with a strong solution of unslacked lime and sal dissolved in cold water, and scir.b vigorously with a clean scrubbing brush. A stubborn attack of hiccoughs will almost invariably yield if a drop of oil of cassia (cinnamon) on a piece of sugar is given to the sufferer every ten or fifteen minutes. This has been proved effective when all other remedies have failed.

Rolls from whole wheat flour are very nice when properly made. They are also very healthful. Fritters also are appetizing. Make the rolls of one pint of sweet milk, one spoonful of shortening, one egg, two heaped of baking-powder and flour for a moderately tbiok batter. THE MESRY SIDE OE LIFE, STORIES TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

A Fruitful Discussion--After the Of Course He Tb inks So--A Reason Existence--A Warnlne--Not it Haml-Me-Uo Soon! "Ob, fickle, inconsistent man!" The blushing maid did cry; day you call me the next, 'The apple of your "Well, anyhow," the swain replied, With manner debonair, "Together nono may claim that we Are not a pretty pear." --Harper's Bazar. A I'aternal Warning. "Does her father encourage you?" "I don't think so. Ee's just had electric lights put on theii' Record. A Heason For Existence.

"Do you think the automobile will exterminate the horse?" "Hardly; we've got to have hair furniture, you know." or Coarse He Thinks So. "He thinks he understands en." "How do you know?" "He's a Dailj Eagle. Threatened to Move. understand you moved your family last week." our servant girl didn't like the location we were State Journal. After the Battle.

"He was the picture of woe after his wife got through disciplining him." "Yes?" "Yes, a sort of a thumb-nail sketch, you might Journal. SocUinj; Information. you my father's mother-in-law?" Mrs. Johnny then aren't you my Bazar. A Gentle Itcquest.

Scott! for making a racket this child is a regular fort in action." She you mind holding the fort for a little while, George?" Not a Mand-Me-Down. seems to be a self-made man." if you ever saw him when his wife was around you would think he was made to State Journal. In Wheat. told me he made his money in wheat." Edith felt sura I had seen his face before. That's the fellow that leaves us our bread mornings in the Weekly.

The Essential Was Lacking. "Daddy, I want to marry 'Charlia Freshleigh." "Wby doesn't he come to mo. What's the trouble with him? No sense?" "No, daddy; no dollars! 1 '--Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 The Cat Was. All night.

"ATary, I hope you took good care- of my animals while I was away." "Indeed I did, ma'am; only once I forgot to feed the cat." "I hope she didn't suffer?" "Oh, no, indeed, ma'am. She ata the canary and the Xjft Her Wish and His "I wish I were a book," remarked the neglected wife of the professor; "then perhaps you would pay some attention to me." "Ah!" exclaimed the professor, "if you were ouly au almanac then I could exchange yon every News. That a Business. you going to take part in that guessing contest?" no; they'd rule me out as a professional." yon know I am connected with the weather State Journal. Telllmr His They were discussing the questioa as to whether a woman can keep a secret.

Little Johnny bad not appeared be listening; but he suddenly added his contribution to the stock of general intelligence by exclaiming: "Well, I know ma can't keep a secret. Everything I do she goes and tells it to pa almost the first minute he gets inta thi Transcript. So Soon "When I grow up," said Ethel, with a dreamy, imaginative look, "I'm going to be a school teacher." "Well, I'm going to be a mamma and have six children," said Edna. "Well, when they come to school me I'm going to whip 'em, whip 'em, whip 'em." "You mean'thing!" exclaimed Edna, the tears came into her eyes. "What have my poor children ever done to Tit-Bits.

Wifely Slratejty. wife fooled me tut other night by asking me to stop the clock when 1 came in, ns it disturbed her rest, and the next morning there was the hour of my home-coming staring me in the face." wife asked roe to start ours when I came in, and next morning she figured out the difference in time between it and her watch in snch a way as to prove me liar by nearly three Weekly..