The Pendleton Gazette from Pendleton, Indiana • 3

4 Te ROBERT ESTES DURAND '3r4JV or ass'm5A tr Ct BOOKS AN EARLY DATE VIUIC IIOfsE of 3 enEzulLA Venezuela residence A CARIB INDIAN HUT turned Uve la Market Pay committed the heart Before Time There Was a literature of Much Value An American excavating engaged in operations at tho ancient city of Nippur has recently unearthed documents that prove that ancient Babylon existed in a literary age andthat there was no small amount of cul turein the time of Abraham the patrl urch A library of daybooks has been found which had already been lost and covered by earth when Abraham was born They are in the shape of tablets of which it is calculated there were more than 100000 The inscriptions on them relate to all the various branches of knowledge and literature studied "a the time The chief cities of Babylonia all had these libraries of imperishable clay A contemporaneous record of events had long been kept and an ac curate jsystem of dating had been Im vented The discovery of these libraries and the facts for which they stand has an important bearlngfcon old testament criticism and It disposes once and for all of the contention that no written documents of the Abrahamic age could hpve been descended to later times Palestine at that period was a sort of dependency of Babylon and Abraham when he moved westward was simplj' entering another part of the Baylonian empire So even in Canaan he was surrounded by the influences of Babylonian Another discovery that of the site of the tower of Babel is to have been made bya party of erman exca vators It has usually been identified with the mount now called the Birs 1 Nimrud But this was a mistake for the Blrs i Nimrud represents the temple not of Babylon but of the neighboring town of Borsippa The tower of Babel was undoubtedly the great tower at tached to the temple of Biemenrodach in Babylon Itself These same German excavators discovered the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in which Alexander the Great died and 1 said ailndins to the carry him indoors for you and yon shall set about making him ture not a few being of imposing size Numerous squares I are planted with rare southern flowers whose perfume and beauty add a decided charm to the city as a place of residence The chief product of Venezuela "Is coffee Its cultivation is limited to the mountainous district it being impossi ble to grow it profitably below an alti tude of 2000 feet The llanos or plains below arc devoted to the cattle indus try The richness of these lands ren ders'them exceeding! profitable and vast herds roam over them at will 1 The southern portion of Venezuela drained by the Orinoco River the mouth of which is nine mllea wide The coast la a level stretch of land eovered with forests of mangroves These trees are peculiar in having the greater portion of their roots above earth the rains wash down the river millions of tons of loose earth and leave the mangrove tree standing with a precarious hold on the burning sand The shores of the river are at all times covered with great flocks of flamingoes Here also Is the home of the alligator and at times the shores are black with the repulsive saurians Only a few savages live in this part of Venezuela the Caribs of the Orinoco delta creatures not a great deal above the alligator In intelligence and indus try They lead a careless easy life and when not sleeping spend their time in fishing from crude canoes or trapping wild birds Their roof is the sky and their bed Is in the tree branches Like savage people everywhere they ore superstitious their rites and forms are fantastic and When one of the tribe dies they place his body In a canoe suspended upon high pofes or swung from the tops of trees take their departure and ever afterward avoid the place as though it held some evil influence powerful enough to work their destruction The Orinoco Is navigable by ocean steamships for 160 miles and at the point where the stream begins to nar row stands the city of Ciudad Bolivar 7 when a southbound with that was well field Efforts Ing barred out of the house at the Spider armbefore 1 should learn what were the secrets it contained I had decided to give the doctor letters to post for Con suelo and my uncle rather than venture forth myself I did not mean to tell where I was of my presence In the home of the Heckleber rys would terrify and distress Consuclo But I had planned what I would Say how satisfy her surprised perhaps hurt a my sudden absenee at such a time a time when I should most have wished to remain at her side And men tally I had got the letter written But 5 6 and then 7 came and no doctor had appeared had tn ken tin responsibility of bringing Jonas Heckle berry home promising that he should be well cared for and I knew that he must by this time need a ministra tions To be sure I had kept myself busy in attending upon him with what little help I could obtain from his mother But more than Icould do was' necessary now and I began as to whether I should walk' into Market Peyton send off my letters' and procure a medical man myself am going for a some one who will do your son good and make him well I said at last eying the old woman with authority and speaking in a manner one might use with a slow witted child shall begone two hours at most and you must look after him as' well as yotf can meanwhile and then when I return with the doctor you must come and let us see about she slvlv answered I know whaf mail" thoughtffitghr'bTtrtiwInTTn'Eer'mrnd But if was the OfflytMBg tb doT Market Peyton pendence so Declared Involved a con tinuous war for ten years lnally nt the battle of Carabobo the: Bolivar forces Completely routed the royalist affityfand the freedom 'df'thc'fepulillc of Venezuela bought with the blood of patriots was assured It not until the year 1845 however that the Spnn lair government acknowledged Venezu rlndcpcndence atreaty of peacebeing that year signed nt Madrid The city of Caracas has been twice entirely destroyed by earthquakes On the 26th of March 1812 two successive upheavals occurred each of ten sec onds' duration The city was totally de molished and more than 10000 people were burled in the ruins Thegrcater number of those who survived perished from hunger or from the pestilence which followed It scemc wonderful that a pqoplc would have the courage to rebuild on such a spot but the population to day exceeds In many respects it is a beautiful place The streets are wide An Unofficial Offer Thomas tenth Earl of Dundonald at his death vice admiral in the English navy tells in his Autobiography of a of an Incident on board the Hind on which he served as midship man The pet of the ship a par rot the aversion of the boatswain whose whistle the bird leaned to imi tate exactly One day a party of ladles paid us a visit aboard By the usual means of a on the yard arm several had been hoisted on deck The chain bad descended for another Scarcely had Its fair freight been lifted out of the boat alongside when the parrot piped i The order was instantly obeyed and the unfortunate lady instead of being comfortably seated on deck was sqused in the sea Luckily for her the men were on the watch and quickly pulled her out and luckily for the the boatswain was on snore or UjisymseaBonable as sumption of the boatswain's functions might huve ended tragically for the bird i '1 fll I llil IIH iStoMt1 jjVtv What doth It profit a man if he mak eth three bagger and dieth at third PRESIDENT CASTRO leader of the government troops was Cipriano Castro President of the repub lic and to his daring and brilliant charges was due the defeat of the revo lutionists The head of the revolution is General Matos an aspirant to the Presidential NEWSOTHEWEKK what a calTtbere Is for strand not but two or three more spider farms in the country The mother of the spider family seem ed now to have completely forgotten her former revelations andJ here subsequent anxiety to rid herself of me iBut I bad had a fesson to restrain my curiosity What there was to be known of the hid den business at the farm I would find out for myself' Sometimes I told myself old Mrs Heckleberry must' sleep Then during the period of Jonas' illness should only have the dog to reckon with Ralston I had sent to a and purchased such things as the young surgeon had told me would be wanting Immediately I had beef extract and also a cooling draught iu case of fever for which he had scribbled a prescription on the leaf of a notebook 7 There was no clock in the room' and 1 was obliged to consult my own watch which did oftener perhaps than there was any need for when the hour had ai proached 5 I grew very restless and im patientrrAlwaysas put away the timepiece a very handsome one which my extravagantly generous uncle had given me on a birthday a year or so ago I looked up to find the old eyes fixed upon me with a deep set gleam of wolfish greediness There seemed to be some in her madness'! after 1 had calculated that the doctor would arrive by a little after 3 at latest And a ma owauiqsa inert wuay a heard sbwt fhe accMeat And the Jact I know the Haekleberrys lived ance In the part of theiconntry trofii which they and one ofl the few peo pie it fret Jonas entrecesairny tojsesf about him as said lm only Nobody'ot No and sb whim to remaiaI took a fan cy when 1 heard the news to run out and doctor Jonas I was able to sat isfy the medical chap who was coming of my' capabilities and the advantages of my presenee and as he was busy over a case Which he didn't care to leave I was welcome to have my way' aAnd now good night to you I must be hurrying life Was oS as he spoke like a shot but I was considerably taller and longer pf HmbthanJie andXcaugbtjipL wlth him again iu a moment 'iA J' eOj fast Nobody yon I said' goiiig back with you to the hospitable shelter of the Bpi der arm I think I mentioned ipy inten tion once '''M i recollect he surl ily there the slightest need on earth for you to do so" i asked either your permis or your" opinion I retorted loping my temper a little shall go back if only to see that you are a doctor as you "pretend to I heard him utter below his breath then hastily opening the bag he carried and shielding the contents from theu downpour of rainwiththe cape of hip mackintosh he ejaculated impatiently: if you doubt my look at that Here lie my The bag was stored with neat rows of bottles and some surgical instruments several large ones wrapped ig chamois skin 1 I commented i I prpfer to go allow me to you sir that be supply intruding where not wanted" There is no good accommodation for strangers at the farm and Jdrs Heckleberry exactly an ideal hostess She got a fall downstairs once and hit her head on the stone floor of a cellar and been mad as a hatter ever since I you assure' me that you can do all that is wanted out thereperhaps I shall reconsider my de 7me will And I fabricated a name and a London address on the spot with a quickness and plausibility of which 1 would not previously have believed my self capable a man of my compan ion exclaimed the second time wish you good 7 "Good I echoed and turning at once I commenced walking briskly away through the rain in the direction of Market Peyton (To be continued) A chill crept over me with her wards Did mlouas dig out there many I not sjire how many He tell me things any more as he used Once I waked in the night and I couldeg him out there in the woods with a lantern and I beard the sound of hispa de in the sand TNext day when 1 ildo tlutiQum UpstiirsJie was gone And never seen him again "Br I said to myself shall Jiave this secret laid bare before a horrible secret it bids fair to be Then let him look for nomercy from me" Then I remembered the chance allusion on the old part to the ful who had eonie to whose coming seemed to have been an epoch in these strange and dreadful lives help itk was the Woman in I thought But though I might have drawn from those babbling lips what I would now that the crea ture's confidence was won I determinedto guard secret from myself aS I would from the veriest stranger When I heard as some day I hoped I 1 would hear it from herself you' and your son Jiving alone du the house nt I asked cau tiousiy And I came to a sig ALnificant pause "AU but the the whis And again she point ed above iwj obeyed Save for the mutterings ofJonas there was silence for a moment then I heard or thought I hearda faint irregular footfall that went drag giug to and fro nr our heads What makes that sihind I question P'L 7 started nlth a sort of nervous K7 jerk like a toy which is pulled by a'atring 4 you she in quired not I responded cautious iy 1 ft A look of incalculable slyness crept over the thin face am in that instant I 3 a IflnM fasaktltix Ivlin letUKUinvu uu Aiuuif nuv must be I was convinced the old wom an a "clever daughter Naomi 'Alv then 'if you knows better go away from quick Yes: mv son makes an honest out them" We tears to sell the wine merchants yon know and 7 ffeatiemen just of wine cellars 3r '7 Sa hmrt for bottles in their CHAPTER XXL It was raining furiously and dark ascit might have been at that hour In March instead of the beginning of May But I went on toward the farni gate tt Eich I had broken with my head down jind the collar of the porter's coat pulled up to my ears 1 hadgot through the gate aud a quar ter of a mile further on perhaps when suddenly I came into violent collision with some1 one walking rapidly in the opposite direction "Hallo! Why you look vhat about? Surely there's rooft enough in this road for exclaimed an an gry voice I apologized and found myself talking to a man not much more than my own ace perhaps but almost featureless veil ed in heavy black beard A soft black hat streaming with rain was pulled well over his eyes and a mackintosh was tightfy buttoned round his throat In one hand was a rather professional look ing bag and in spite of my surprise that he should be walking I began eagerly to wonder if this short tempered gentle man could be the Market Peyton doctor on his belated way toward the Spider arm beg your I cried civilly "but are you on your way to see Mr Jonas Hecjileberry of Spider He had gone ju Pst me a step or two in liis hurry but wheeled round hur riedly at my words "I beg your he echoed with a look of being sfartled I should like to ask what may that be to "It is this to I answered I wish to know whether you are the doctor who as sent for early this afternoon from Market Pejton Sir Nobody of Nowhere'? he re turned 4 with a peculiar laugh "But though I got an after my name a pretty good doctor for all that and the best Mr Jonas Heckle berry is likely to get to night But again be glad to inquire what affair it is of yours? Yon come from the Spider that I said coolly I do come from there and go ing back again with you if you are a doctor as you seem inclined to dence you he exclaimed shortly and I caught a gleam of dark eyes under the slouch hat i could not help laughing us drop this badinage I said come to some sort of then went on to explain wbat 1 thought nec essary and at last repeated my question Had I met the doctor? The woman disappeared from three weeks ago Charles fully of Zionsville suicide by shooting tnmself in He was 3b years of age and leaves a wife and two children Despondency over ill healthwasjliecause Hie body of a woman was token from the river north of South Bend it is sup posed to be Mis Lydia Amos an aged 7 demented woman wliosdisappi red her home a week ago An" Caruiw ilyw heel pit at the tinplate null Elwood breaking his i right leg 'I wo hours later William Davis' another workman fell into the same pit being internally injured 1 he year 'old son of Reuben Kessler of Wabash was Instantly killed by a log' rolling over his body The father of the child was rolling the log but could not stop it in tune to save the child Mrs Julia Conrad of Wabash age 80 5 ears was found lying on the floor of home with her neck broken7 She had szs rCUmneiLoxuatable toJiaiMia BteUirce am hail fallen off She had lived alone for fifteen 5 ears Terre Haute passenger train No1 8 castbound Eour jumped the track and three cars Had not the engineer noticed the bafi track in time to slow up the tram it would have gone into the Wabash River 7 Uy the prompt action of the night operator at Delphi a bad accident was prevented there Monon passenger train was stopped in twenty feet of a large water tank burst and fell on the track A tioal fourteen feet thick struck east of airmount by gas drillers nt three hundred feet Hie cover several farms were made to keep the find quiet until land Can be bought or leased Lewis 1 aylor a farmer near Newcastle has raised a beet this year that weighs twenty one pounds and measures thirty nine inches in circumference A bead of cabbage raised by Benton Nepp another farmer measures forty three inches and weighs fifteen pounds 1 wo corpses were shipped from Chi cago one for Hammond and the other for Monon Hirougli a mistake the bodies were exchanged and only after ail prepa rations had been tnado for the funeral at Monon was the mistake noticed It took a day to straighten it out i A large llag that hung across the street in Crow npoint from the court house to a grocery store while the Spanish Amer lean War was going on frightened Mrs" Maggie horse and made it run away She as thrown out on the pavement apd badly hurt and she sued the town for damage? She recovered a judgment for $450 but the Appellate Court has reversed it on the ground that she had been guilty of contributory neg ligence It said that when she Saw the i flag flapping above the street as she ad muted she did and realized that her horse wasqiraid of it she ought not to have trieii to drive him under it and having' voluntarily encountered the danger she? could not hold the city forthe consequence Snnrpfnrv Ilnrlv nf th Stata Hnarrt Health has teeened communication from a doctor In Borw nsville to the effect that another scarlet fever epidemic A'W fnneul 1 i ln 1 a 1 mm sSm 1 m1 At a lumvu ni niab iu" ii us iciwii siAvru uiaiy uu tuiiiijuiiues ruiuseu lu iaKe bicjis uhu uiu 'wriittr wanieu wjiat could be done to check the spread of the disease before It became necessary to close the schools' 1' A trust company has been" organized Kokomo with acapital stock une omoers are: irresiaent jamee ikhi Johnson vice president iK Udce secretary red Tree 1 WHERE WAR RUNS RIOT ft 4 South American of Veae Torn by Revolution A South American country without a war of some kind or another on its hands: either in actual progress or in immediate pect would be: an anomaly At pres ent the republic of Venezuela is torn 1 1 revolution and recently a sev en battle was fought between the revolutionists and government forces menwere killed on the former side The Ik 'Matter 'at Geaerdl and Local Marriae paatha AcfellX dent and Personal Pointer About Indianiana "Brief The Indiana AKsAdatiAn 'ft tomeet'at RichmonduiexC April Trainor age of 7'7 Trainor of Goshen died of lockjaw a re suit of stepping on a rusty nail Isaac ijams' twelvemiies 'south 'of 7 Logansport choked to death while eatings his dinner' A piece of meat in windplpel4W Vineent shot off the topAf hia head at the home of his mother He was despondent over the marriage of an qld sweetheart Muncie is to hav a May Music estival: next spring nnder the direction of Miss Nannie Love There will be a cbonia of 300 voices y' Mrs Alice Neff while filling a stove was fatally burned at Crawfords juL j' vllle 1 he tank exploded and covered her with the oil Muncie Vernon Scott an 8 year noy snot nimseir in the hand with a tog pistol loaded with a paper wad' Blood poison is feared 4 At South Bend Anton Schmonkowsky picked up a small wire that lay across an electric wire and was instantly killed" He leaves a 'ife and seven child ren'y'? The authorities of Muncie are urging general inspection of the chimneys Hundreds of the brick in the chimneys have been eaten away by the fiatural gas A gas well with a flow estimated at' 5000000 cubic was drilled on tbe Roscoe Kemple farm near Marion it is believed the supply of gas will be lasting Cyrus ree an aged farmer and his son north of Alexandria were struck by a southbound interurban car while driving 0 to their horned were fatallyin jured The new city directory of Terre Haute shows a population of 50000 making an increase of lOOOO over last year One thousand bouses have been built within the last year In a runaway at the crossing of the Pan andle in the northern part of Newcastle Mrs 8 Hedges and MrsIemins Rat cliff were thrown from a buggy and badly bruised and cut Tlie body of Mrs Lydia'Amos was found in the woods about five miles from South Bend by George Reeder while hunting Hie oman disappeared from her home named in honor of the liberator The 0 Orin oco convert the lower streets df the city into waterways where small boats may be navigated During one great flood in recent years lhe river "rose ninety leet coming up so rapidly and unexpectedly that 300U lives wire lost Venezuela fakes its name from the discovery by the early voyagers of an Indian people who lived huts con structed on piles driven into tne shal low water along the shore of the great Lake Marncaybo To this aboriginal vil lage they gave the name of Utile Ven ice or Venezuela ns It Is rendered in Spanish In time the name spread to the whole of the upper coast It is interest ing as a measure of conditions since then to note that cave dwellers still live along the shore of Lake Maracaybo much the same as In the days of Colum bus sfie Will Keep Her Word Grandmother Pettlngill makes up her mind she is as firm as a rock nothing can move her Perhaps it was on this Account that when she returned from the celebration of the one hun dredth anniversary of the settlement of Slifubvlllc and made such tr determined declaration nobody atempted to influ ence her been there and it's over she said now home safe after all the noise and bands and scared horses and crying children And men making speeches I want to tell you' one thing I ever go to another cen tennial In Shrubville no matter what the circumstances are and no matter who asks meJVou children may as well bear that In oilico instead of settling thelr polltieal battles inVenezuela and in many other Latin republics with the ballot these hot headed Southerners resort to bullets and generally every change in the occu pant of the chair Is marked by clvil strife The ambition of General Matos to become President is the cause of the present revolution The federation of states which consti tute the republic of Venezuela forms a country larger In extent than "Gerffihny" amWliG "coiti binco The eastern part tnr bow" was discovered by Columbus in 1 198 and the whole coast tne year alter Liie first settlement was made" in 1520 Cumana which is consequently one of llie oldest cities in the new world rule uf Spa! mover" Wnczircta nr mained unchanged until 1806 when General Miranda headed an insurrec tion for tlie liberation of the country 1 He succeeded in breaking the Kpnnfsh frequent ami swhlen rises of the (lower ior a nine uuiiuier a uunnier oi bloody encounters the rule of Spam resumed Tlie next Important event in Vene zuelan history was when Simon Bolivar undertook and accomplished the lib eration of tlie people In Jttiy J811' the declaration of Independence was signed In Caracas tlie capital distant some ten aides from Ln Guayra the port of en try but tlie iflalntenance of the inde yV eg: uiniiiii 111 nn if nui muKAi Oddities in a Business inn A firm is doing busirtess In Washing ton street Buffalo trader the name of English Irish Still more odd is the fact that English Is an Irishman and irfch is of English parentage We are not very particular but bate to live with a hero Ordinary plug people are good enough for that would do When Heckleberry had beeirlald down on bls improvised bed and the few in 1 i' 't ftructions which the surgeon from Rals Ten for this crisis in the 'affair oat" I sent cabman away with a generous fare and a lent from my note book which was to' given tova doctor in Market eytou and which honed 1 would brine him to the farm in the course or the fufternoon al! was finished and the old woman the dog and I left alohe with Meckleberry who was now and vi of the accident I suddenly felt warm touch upon my hand as I stood looking down at my strange patient and turning quickly I saw that the great dog was smelling tne and caressing me with qis tongue 1 patted tne nuge neaa almost out of proportion with the body 'tnd saw that the woman wife gazing some apparent astonishment at the picture dog is she said the first words with any weight of sanity in them which I had yet heard her speaks if strangers come here Only they come very A S5 should imagine I returned fer vently see the dog understands that I mean well by his master and isgratefuTfdr she vaguely responded "Bat yon to have come here you know Jonas like it when he wakes up He never lets anyone in ex cept them that comes to There was a slow mysterious empha i srri sil about hcr last words which I was at loss to understand who come to I echoed imprudently perhaps She pointed to the ceiling And nodded zJThem thafs she mean I ques tioned curiously She shook her head 1 not tlie spiders of course Them that come shut up in'earriages atnight 7 At the other place to 'i r' look after and I too But that before Ihurtrnyhead Ah how I used make them jump aud cry out vben I iu xtitli the whip! Them wa the Mt put we had to come away 'c' from It got too hot for that 'wlat Naomi had i' a good place And she'lowered' her "then she the beautiful ladyjtOh themtght shd was here so half dead! 1 thought at first she was one of them But no it was something worse than that My daughter clever 3Vliy since Naomi went the first tf that's been one themr And outothcre now Do you want to She drew me by the coat sleeve to the window and pointed outward towards the dark and rigid pines "Uuder oue ot those sbe volun made me help KwaT" il ways atraid I would I know MWjiJLhE JtCepame aWaJCfrom very one? a toLcyejy Qpeaway from me know ttow thati of his Much has been written about the use of 5 women Tas" beasts of 'burden in Europe and photographs have shown them attached to ropes drawing boa to on Holland canals and sometimes yoked with the animalslpulling farm implementsz It may not be generally known that in some of the foreign nninntpa nt west women have furnished the power for turning over many acre of sod and converting it into fields for raising grain The accompanying illustration is from 'a photograph taimen in Manitoba and shows a Bohemian farmer furrowing thevirgin praine with a team of fourteen female members of the colony Several of them are over 50 years of age i tAi! 4 4 7v 12 rg 1 't IMKW i rt'Stjli iv WAm Ar'' is vH W' 7 man 1 'A" Kb 'i'3Wxi I JJlii 1 Ofc imISH 1 i 7 (Ma te lank ill Tan haa ha Ida aim uuuur uuiiqwctB aruew arauwv vx 11 stST' rr ft Zs A Al LJAaju ''sq' 1 iHif fciH1 1 1 LLr wMEA Wmlnfw i1' 1 Ma ''15 life 7 W' 1 'v WEfc 4 3gl 3 tl 7 i 't J1".