1:. ‘ NUW is IS 0N3: f TIM To SubScribe for "the Both Papers Sent to one Address 'for $1 .OO‘a Year. Tuna EVENING GAZETTE. A PREHISTORIC BATTLEFIELD m INDIAN TERRITORY. l‘wo Thousand Men of the Stone Ag: Buried Together, and a-. Great Battle Inferred. Skulls Bear Arrowheads and Weapons Are Numerous, Recent discoveries made in Indian Territory are of considerable archaeo logical interest, says the Chicagc TimesHerald. Men employed in thc construction of the Kansas City, Pitts burg and Gulf Railway, opened a graveyard whose tenants were men 01 the stone ago. More than one hundred skeletons have been uncovered already. and hundreds of specimens of quartz and flint arrow and spear heads, stem hammers and axes, bowls and water bottles have been collected. The loca: tion of the ancient burying ground is near a small town known as Redland, 5111th where the Kansas City, Pitts- " burg and Gulf right of way crosses tho the Arkansas River. Redland is mere ly a construction camp. Some distance from the roadbed a large field of sand of the quality known as “molding sand” was found. Super. intendent Winn sent a band of men and teams to get the sand to level the tracks, and almost the first shovelful thrown out disclosed part of a skeleton. A careful prospect of the entire sand .plain shows that the field was a burial place, and that no part of it was un- used. The excavations thus far take in the result as given. A Mr. Lewis says, in a recent letter to a friend in Chicago, that there was at,least 2,000 buried in the field, and concludes that they were persons killed' 1n some battle of prehis- toric days. “As nearly as I can judge, the place was not a regularly laid out and estab- lished necropolis. The skeletons we have already uncovered lay at a depth of eighteen inches to four feet, and were without regularity as to position. Some lay on one side, some- on another, and the heads lay in any direction, as if the bodies had been thrown hastily into trenches. From this fact, in connec- tidn with unmistakable evidences that nearly all the skeletons were of men who had met death by violence, I con- clude that a great battle was fought in the vicinity. “The flint and stone weapons found are nnmberless. Many of the skulls had arrows and spearheads in them. Others were crushed as if by a maul. One of the skeletons we uncovered was evidently that of a war chief. The framework as it lay measured six feet two inches from crown to heel, and the arms and leg bones were of extraordi- nary size, although nearly all we found were rather larger than those of the ordinary white man. This particular man had evidently been a mark for the warriors of the oppOsing army. His skull was crushed and carried besides eight large arrowheads. vertebra was a large spearhead, and in the front side of his thigh bone was an- other. He had received at least eleven mortal wounds. “Other skulls were found containing three or four arrowheads each, and in one the flint had penetrated clear ‘through the bone and was loose in the cavity formerly occupied by the brain. The early settlers of this ' region were evidently .men who were strong of arm and good shots. “Compared with the number of spear and arrow-points, we found very few hammers oraxes. The personal weap- ons of the dead were not buried with them. They took to the grave only such weapons as were fastened into their anatomy. Near each skull was found a bowl or a water bottle. The oowls were of a crude sort of pottery and unglazed, breaking easily. The water bottles, however, were vitrified, and consequently are more durable. KIOSKS FOR BICYCLISTS. temperance Experiment to be Tried in _ New York. Those bicyclists who visited River- side drive last year and complained of their inability to get refreshments on repetition of their experiences this year, for the Kiosk idea, suggested some time ago by the Church Temperance Society, will be put into efiect- this .spring by that organization. The kiosk, which is a small but neat frame house, is known in some of the larger foreign cities as cofifee stands. The Church Society thought the idea of erecting these hon-s» es arbund the public parks of the city in place of the wagons. would prove \a benefit to hu~ .nanity, and they at once began an lnvestigation of the offered. Many bicyclists have V." .‘itten to the society asking that a kiosk be built on. the Coney Island road, while riders have petitioned the Board of Park Commis- sioners from time to time, about such a thing for Riverside Park. T. E. Budkley, of Wooster, Mass, went abroad last year in the interest of the society and returned recently. On his trip he studied the coffee stands in many of the la: ge cities, and finally decided that the Belfast idea of stands would be best. for New York, and the Society has decided to adopt Mr. Buckley’s recommendation: “Our intention,” said Mrs. Graham, who is connected ,with the Temperance Church Society, "is to build only one of these kiosks as an eXperiment. We have to place it near Riverside Drive,- and as the Park Board has granted us a per (hit we will do so. Should the experi ment prove successful 1n the course of a short time the booths will be placed near every park in the city. - Thrifty. “The old man figured out that they :ould begin housekeeping on what the Wedding would cosh-Jute. IN; Till} ETONE Ties. ' but a small part ' of the ground, with- In one of the; not summer days, will be relieved of as opportunities . been petitioned by many bicycle riders “Why did Ethel and George elope?” PHYSICIANS AND SOCIETY. An English Dbctor Who Accuses His Pro~ fessional Brethren of Humbug. Dr. J. Burney Yeo of England has I published an elaborate article on “Med- ‘ icine and Society” which has stirred up i The lines have = of late been drawn very tight around l the medical profession. the regular school of medicine. It was supposed almost that its members could , do no wrong. They were regarded as | infallible, and legislation has conferred upon the profession very great privi- leges. It therefore causes a shock to have one of the leading lights of the profession stand up and declare that medical men are guilty of a vast amount of quackery and humbug, that they charge exorbitant fees for small services, that they are arbitrary and un- just in their relations to society, and jealous and mean ill their relations to one another. All this the doctor al- leges. . He first deals with the specialists who confine their attention to a single organ, such as the nose, liver, kidneys or lungs. These specialists whom the public esteems so highly the doctor re gards as on a very low plane and a deg- 1adation to the profession. He says that a man of very limited ability can acquire in a short time a certain famil- iarity in the management of a single organ, and by merely identifying him- self with the treatment of that organ. and compiling some work on, the sub- ject, however small its merit, he is able to advertise himself as a skillful spe- cialist and earn a large income. More: over, he soon begins to charge large fees. The doctor thinks that society is beginning to resent the increased cost of medical and surgical help and get- ting to look on the members of the- medical profession as more mercenary and less ‘3 disinterested than they used to be. Thus the relations between the profession and society are to some ex- tent less cordial. Cases are now fre- quent in law courts which testify to this fact. Dr. Yeo’ 5 views as to extravagant charges of specialists is amply con- firmed by every-day experience in New York City. Quite recently a specialist for the brain acknowledged charging $1,200 for a pretended operation Which was never performed, and the writer of this article recently saw a bill for $500, charged for an operation on the eye which did not occupy more than three minutes. To this amount $250 was added for two weeks’ board in the eye specialists’ private hospital, making $750 in all for an operation for which $50 would have been ample compen— sation. Another trouble that exists between physicians and society relates to the so~called etiquette by which society .is coerced in the selection of consultants. Physicians claim the right to name the .doctor who-shall be called in rconsulta- tion, and the consent of the attending physician'is absolutely necessary before any consultation can be held. Should the patient desire the aid of a. physician belonging to a difierent school of medi- cine i’rom that in which the attending physician has been educated, a peremp- tory refusal is at once given. Dr. Yeo considers this dictatorial conduct of the medical profession unjust and likely to bring it into disrepute; in fact, he do- nounces such acts as “trade union re- strictions.” Society claims perfect free- dom to consult whom it chooses, either privately or in the presence of the fam- ily physician, and Dr. Yeo, speaking simply as a citizen, says he has no doubt on this point; that society is in the right. - Troubles of a Man With a Draft. A‘correspondent of the Washington Star, says one of the most dejected looking men I ever saw was at the Eb- bit House the other night. For five days he had been without means to buy a cigar or even get shaved. I had a slight acquaintance with him, and he told me the story of his troubles. He said: “I came here to visit the city, expect- ing to go to New York on business, but I cannot get away. I had a good deal of money, and took the precaution to put $1,000 in the form of a New York draft, leaving myself what I thought would be enough. I have the draft but am out of cash, and for five days Ihave watched the papers hoping to see that some one I know is in the city, but in vain. I cannot even send a letter to tell how I am situated and get money. No one will cash the draft or even loan me enough money on it to get back to New York,where I could send back and get it, for the reason I cannot be identi- fied. I have very little baggage, and am afraid to ask the hotel clerks for fear they will be suspicious of me and make me leave without any place to go, The banks Won't touch it, and I haven’t a friend. I generally smoke constantly but I cannot get a cigar. My beard is five days’ old, my linen is all in the laundry and 1' can’t get it because it is impossible to ' raise - half a dollar. 1 have no business here, and just walk the streets or visit the hotels hOping that I may find a friend." I happened to go fishing once with a bank cashier, who fortunately remem bered me, and as 'my acqu-rfnance put a fat roll of bills in his pocnet he grasped me by both hands, thanked me'with a vbice full of emotion, and started for the nearest barber 'shop. Quite Bight, Mr. Billtops. “Ezra,” said Mrs. Billtops, “you often hear of the hardships of sailors handling the wet and frozen sails in winter, don’t you?” “Yes, Elizabeth,” said Mr. Billtops, “and terrible they must be, too.” “But you never hear any one say any- thing about the hardships of women hanging out clothes in such weather as , this, do you?’ “No, Elizabet, ” said Mr. Billtops with sudden energy, “but you ought to.“ —New York Sun, What we want in this world is more of the. men whose acts are per pen dicular. eeeeeeeeeeeemo eeeeeeee , . ' ' / look better when they are small. With some furnaces you never have a chance to look at one of those small bills They burn all the coal you can put into ',them but they do not give out enough heat. Simple enough when you know —furnaces—they are improperly constructed— not enough heating surface for the size of the grate. The “ Bay State” has the size ,of grate ’ exactly in proportion. to the heating surface. You never have to drive it. 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' timeS‘out of 10 The New York Journal recentlyflbffered ten bicycles to the ten winners in a guessmg contest, leavmg the choice of machine to each. All of them chose STANDARD OF THE WORLD. Nine immediately, and one after he had looked at others. » And The Journal bought Tm Columbias. Paid $100cach for them, too. On even terms a Columbia will be chosen '0 times out of 10 Beautiful Art Catalogue of Columbia and Hartford Bicycles is free if you call upon any Columbia agent; by mail from us for two 2-ccn_t stamps. POPE IVEG. 60., Hartford, Conn._ Branch Stores and Agencies in almost: every city and town. If Columbia are not properly represented in your vicinity, let us know. . _ .
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