The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 7, 1902 Page: 2 of 4
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'Relics of the Life ana
,T>eath of Thomas
ttos. About thirty teet
itt Uu tulwrtl Of Now Rochelle far
in* North street on the east, stand* a I stand* a flourishing bicbpry tree, and
graalto obelisk. Inclosed by a stone near It are the stumps of two locust
fence and overshadowed by trees it
\t the monument erected in 1U1 in
memory of Thomas Paine, the author
of “Toe Rights of -Man;’ Common
Sonne” end ‘The Age of Reason,” by
the Paine Historical Society. * *=-
The Ideas expressed In his "Ago of
raised a storm of popular In-
dignation against him, and when-on corpse was taken from its grave by
his return to America he took qp his
residence among the descendants of
tbw.stem Huguenots of New Rochelle
they treated him aa aa outlaw.
Indeed, he appears to hare enloy.ed
little comfort In his country home. He
posts. Years ago, the father of Henry !
M. Lister, of New . Rochelle, placed
three posts. With two outers that have
long since rotted away, at the four
corners, of Paine s grave, and subse-
quently the hickory tree sprouted
from the mound. ... j
Bwvtral years after Its burial the
WINIam Cobbetl. the celebrated politi-
cal writer. Who at the time* was ah ex-
ile from England, on account of an at-
tack -he had made upon the British
government. Cobbett was one of
Paltlc’s most ardent admirers. He
south of It j suers and, pursued came within hear
Ing of eafih other The constable’s
men could plainly distinguish the
sound of wagon wheels ahead, and.
realizing that those with the body
wen.* making .eveff enort to escape
them, whipped their horses to a fo-
rlons gallop. But It wgs In vain. Mr
Cobbett reached the Kings Bridge
ahead of them, and dashed over It to
safety, juat as they < am# galloping up
on their pant ins steeds.
Numerous theories have been ad
vakred as to Mr Cobbett’s disposi-
tion of F’aioeVbody. The corpse Is
supposed to have been taken to Eng-
land. Mr Cobbett intending to demand
Its Interment In Westminster Abbey.
H0U5e IN WHICH PAINE LIVED, NEAR NEW ROCHELLE.
wife the year following regarded him
ami 'had scparat
consent,
bad as a companion n
a French woman
been ruined In
^P ’The Rights of
two sons, she a--
America and t.s.k
him on his farm
| lived s life of the strict
eat seclusion, for. although Paine was
occupied a variety of active pur
P suits, his attacks upon religion had
greatly narrowed his circle of ac-
I „_ fluaiataaces and rendered him an ob-
ject of aversion to his neighbors Un-
der the leadership of the clergy, they
Instituted a crusade against hint with
the avowed object of driving him from
town.
His last days were spent In his city
house. No. 203 Bleecker street. New
York It was s melancholy ending to
a brilliant and active career, Buffer-
Ing from- s complication of disorders
brought on by his habitual Intemper
- ance, he dragged out the last hours of
bis life propped up In a chair' by a
* window, poring over the pages of a
hook and drinking at frequent Inter
. vala from a bottle of brandy that
a|ood on a tibtar at bis elbow it is
said that as death approached, the
noise In busy Bleecker street «aused
| . him excruciating aguny. and It was
found necessary to remove him to a
house In Grove afreet, where he
breathed hta laat on June ft. 1809.
-Eaine had been born among Quak
- ora-tat England, so permission was.
asked to bury his body In the cem-1
etecy of the Society of Frlenda. This
was refused on account of his de-
tatieat writ lugs, and It was found neo
saaary to seek elsewhere for a place
of burial. M hsl permission was ol>-
talned to bury the body In the grave-
yard of Trinity Episcopal church. New
•V--Rochelle, and the vestrymen ordered
g grave to be prepared for Us recep-
tion. The funeral process Ion started
from New York and proceeded along
the old Boston Post Road. and. as it
passed by aeveral churches along the
*oute. was greeted with demons! ra
Ilona of iatolersace that It Is difficult
' for the present generation to under
stand. The clergymen, seeing the
procession coming, ordered a vigorous
* > ringing of .the church bells to indicate
their joy in the great deist s death.
On arriving nt New Rochelle the
procession west to the little cemetery
of Trinity Church, where the gravo
diggers were awaiting It* arrival by
j the side of the grave they had pre-
pared. The cotta was lifted from the
hearse and lowered Into the excava
itloo; but. as the gravediggers were in
the act of covering It with earth the
Rev. Mr. Bayard, the rector, came run
alag to the spot in great excitement
and ordered them to stop. ,
Paine's friends then remembered
■ that la his will he hed reserved for
If twenty square feet on his
I a place of burial "bit. un
hn had omitted to r.gmec
KJhtry proc* «Ih| to the
carry out hnr la«t wi*h. but
Purdy, who ha t acquired
allow ihcp on
dilemma they
body in
(arm
to
t the body
one of the greatest
of English writers. Bo, on coming an
exile to America, he made a pilgrim-
age to Paine'a grave, to show the deep
veneration In which he held his mem-
ory. On finding that the body of his
of Paine's, happened to drive by, and,
noticing the glimmer of lanterns by
the roadside, stopped his horse. He
saw the shadowy figures of three men
moving mysteriously about Paine's
grave, and a team and wagon waiting
close by. Presently the men lifted an
oblong object from the ground, de-
posited It In the wagon, mounted to
the seat and drove off in the direction
of the city.
According to this story Mr. Contant
then hastened to Paine's grave and
Idol lay In a neglected wayside grave,
without a stone to mark Its location,
he was Indignant, and resolved to take
It away and give It honorable burial
elsewhere
For this purposfe he engaged the
services of two negroes, and. having
sworn them to secrecy, awaited a fa-
vorable opportunity to put his project
In execution. Selecting s dark, cloudy
night, lie him) a team and wagon;
and. accompanied by the negroes,
started out from New York. They
reached Paine's grave shortly before
midnight and disinterred the body.
As they were In -the act of lifting
the coffin Into the wagon. Andrew Con-
tent of New Rochelle, a former friend
found that his friend's body had been
stolen; On making this discovery he
hurried to New Rochelle and In-
formed the constable of1 what had
happened That officer immediately
organised a party to pursue the grave
robbers.
, Anticipating the possibility of pur-
suit Cobbett urged hi4 tejim tola brisk
But the people of Kugland refused to
receive It. a,nd Mr Corbett, It Is said,
to avoid arrest threw It Into the
Thames. Others say that the body
was taken to the Fast Indies. The
most probable story of all. however,
Is that which credits Cobbett with
having given the body decent burial
In a remote English churchyard, al-
though some authorities say It rests
in France.—New York Tribune.
Rartptsa I' llrsrtltjr Sobs*-
The conspicuous scarcity of char
trot, and rattled over the rough' hf~gti-
way at a great rate of speed. For he
knew that If he emddtosusa the Kings
Bridge without detention he would be
safe from arrest, aa he would be in
N-jw York County, beyond the Jurid
diction orethe officers of Westchester
But the constable was hot on his
trail. A mile from Kings Bridge pur-
1
acteristic Mings in British as com
part'd with (iernuin universities is
probably due to other causes besides
the relative indifference to musical
culture of British youth. The under-
graduate of oxford or Cambridge
does not take himself with that prodi-
gious seriousness which characterizes
the studwnt of Bonn or Jena, and is
not naturally Inclined to regard Ijls
university career as a separate idyllic
phase of existence deserving ot a rev-
erent and entlusiastlr lyrical treat-
ment. His general athletic bias
makes him regard "musical men" of a
serious cast as a class apart, whose
*4irux«$4ytes varc fortunately few. While
on the occasions when his triumphant
IboiiI1 seeks relief in more or less me
iledious outpourlnggs. he Is apt to find
the simple directness of the latest
Ahglo-Amerlca <Y- musical Comedy fit
his needs qm+-—ftiHy. For Ah esc dlf-i
rerent reasons, such an attempt as
has once been made recently to pro-
vide English unlweryity men with a
song book after the German pattern
Is not very lik»|ly«to sdceeed. There la
neither an adequate demand nor a
suitable I supply. In Germany there
exists a great mass of student songs,
because for generations the taste of
thd student has run In that direction.
In England . there are hardly any
songs that have a special suitability
for university life at alt. and any se-
lection made from songs at ,larg^ Is
arbitrary' and carries light weight
with its Intended public.
WOH
No complete exploration of the
famed Death valley ol southern Ca\l
fornla has ever been made, owing to
tifh fact thqt few human beings could
endure th# climatic conditions there
The region Is doubtless the most in
salubrious and torrid on tbs-face of
th* earth, and the bones of men and
animals that strew Its heated sands
testify to the fact that those who
named It fully understood its nature.
But despite the difficulties that have
Confronted explorers hn expedition Is
now In the valley which gives prom
Ise of revealing to the world many
physical features hitherto matters of
mere speculation, and adding greatly
to the sum of knowledge pertaining
to a vast territory so inhospitable as
to have inspired a popular dread only
paralleled by that which surrounds
the deadly upas tree of fable and
story.
Last November the expedition re-
ferred to started on its mission and
Is expected to conclude Its researches
In May. It consists of a dozen miner
aloglsts, botanists and biologists of
and several geologists from
(Boston and Chicago.
Death valley lies In Inyo county,
about 250 miles from the nearest rail-
road, 350 miles from the Pacific ocean
and close beside the Nevada-California
state line. It Is a part of the Mojave
and Colorado deserts and Is the quint-
essence of all that is melancholy,
grim and withered In desert charac-
teristics. The valley proper Is about
100 miles long and 50 wide. All about
ere mountain walls of bleached gran-
ite. In some 'places the walls rise
sheer several thousand feet. The val;
ley is seamed with deep canyons and
desolate whitened gulches, and there
sre but few places where one may
cross from one side of it to another.
In summer, when the mercury ranges
from 125 to 145 jn the shade and when
rocks are a shimmering white and
the alkali wastes are scorching, even
the strongest cannot make the Jour
ney safely. 1
The bottom of the valley Is made
up of great areas of saline deposits,
beds of borax and aglt, which, under
a strong sutSshtnF, present a ghastly
Appearance with their glistening
whiteness. There sre dosens of crat-
ers of extinct volcanoes In the valley,
and with their blackened ruins and
coating.of dark tinders, acres in area,
the general whiteness of the valley
bottoms stands out all the more lone-
ly and ghastly. -
Sand hills that shift and grow and
diminish with every desert whirl-
wind abound, and great sink holes
(half a mile in diameter) are found
all over Death valley, as dry as pow:
der. with an alkaline sediment dry
on the bottom, where It was deposited
thousands of years ago. .'
There Is no known hotter, drier
spot In Africa or Asia. Birds which
abound in the Sierras do not wing
their way across this spot. Nature is
absolutely lifeless In Death valley.
Nowhere else in ajU America is evap-
oration so high. One's thirst must be
slgked every few hours even In the
depth of winter, and thirst soon, be:
comes, raging and in half a day may
cause Insanity. Many a hardy min-
ing prospector has gone insane with
thirst In a few houf* when on the
edge of Death valley. Thejlesert from
Mojave to the Searles borax works
on the western edge of Death valley
Is frequently dotted with graves of
storm undreamed of In any other par*,
of the world. - (
For boars at a time the sandstorm
rages, occasionally for a day and a
Bight. Nothing allva can brave the v
hurricane. The man who will keep
cloee within a teat, with his head
wrapped in a blanket, will survive,
but he will softer with heat almodt as
severely as it In an oven* and for days
thereafter with a pain from smarting
nostrils and Inffhmed eyes and ears.
Depth Valley gets its name from its
ghastly aspect, Its desolation and its
deadly effect upon many a venture-
some or Ignorant prospector who has
attempted to cross It in summer and
who has died of thirst there. Among
all the tales of grim hardship* and
dreadful suffering by emigrants to
California before'there werff'railroads
ib----7
Shi
Bilge »f til# l>na«rt.
west of the Missouri none is so piti-
ful as that of the party who got lorn
in Death Valley In 1849. There were
GOO emigrants In a caravan at Salt
Lake City hi August of that year. All
were going to the gold fields in Cali-
fornia. A division of opinion arose
as to the safest and easiest trail
across the trackless plains and the
Sierras to the new Eldorado. Some
200 of the party struck out for the
southeast and found the old Santa Fe
trail, which finally led them to south-
ern California. > The rest went plod-
ding in a caravan across the wastes of
southern Utah. Thare was nothing to
show them the way through the life-
less roasting valleys, past the bald
mountains and then westward over
the towering Sierras.
The caravan^ was In the land of
thirst. For four months the starvtaig.
half-crazed men add women wandered
hither and yon through the region of
horror seeking some pass between the
mountains to the Pacific ocean. Mi-
rages led them vainly miles away from
the trail. Their wagons fell apart
from dryness and horses fell daily un-
der a withering heat The oxen fell
and stalwart men sickened and died
in the camps. One day nine young
men beaame separated from the main
party and years later their whitened
liones were found in an extinct vol-
canic crater where they had. crawled
in their delirium and weakness. For
-days the gaunt, weak men In. the party
went without fo<^d. The days were too
hot for them to be out in the sun
and they confined their efforts to the-
nfghts for finding paths that might
lead out of the roasting tomb.
At laat eighty-two of the original
party—now mere skeletons and ao
weak that they could scarcely walk—
found a passageway through the to
neral mountains and, summoning all
(heir llttla remaining strength, man*
aged to get up and: out of Death Val-
ley Into'the cool and well watered re-
gion of routhern California, beyond
the. Sierras.
4-
. Mines eg Warn.
. In several parts of th* world a
resinous substance, ballad oaocertta.
and bearing considerable resemblance
to beeswax. Is found, usually In con-
nection with rock salt and wd There
are deposit* In Austria, Russia, Rou-
manla, Egypt, Algeria.
,
I
i
rl. it,
nnxjr, wno nan i
refused jto alios i
rJWMSr
-Mill
, Tka Only VegetattM.
teamsters and prospectors who have
reeled mad died on the hot sands when
they had na short of drlnklag wa-
ter.
Sandstorms are a serious thing an
the Oelorndo and Mojave deceits, but
nowhere do they approach the deadll-
m of a jHA&Btoraa ta Bttth valley.
The ■fmooas of the Arabian detorts
are well known Ta literature, but the
present explorers of Death valley any
the simoons are mere babes toy the
side of a howling gala of hot sand In
this pAare The hot air rising from
lh* canyons and bottoms of the Tal-
leys encounters th* .cold xtainaplinrs
currents from the Sierras and Rock-
ies and th* rushing of th* cooler air
Mexico, boo ozocerite has, so far, not
been discovered In sufficient quanti-
ties to pay fer mining anywhere ex-
cept In the district of Borymlav, la
Austrian Galicia, ggd on aa island oa
the west coast of. the Caspian sea. Ta
mining this mineral wax. shafts are
sunk until a hed or "aset” of osocer-
it* is struck. Thed connection gal-
leries are driven. There Is consider-
able danger, and many Bres have been
lost in consequence of the sadden forc-
ing up ed th* toft wax into the shafts
by tha enormous pressure to which'
It Is subjected. It Is used largely for
manufacturing cerealn, which la em-
ployed. together with beeewdx, - for
making wax candles, aa well aa ta tha
manufacture At fbetographlc cylin-
der*. and lor many similar pnrpoasa
The Koreans have a clarinet called
It la made of wood, with
and base of brass. Its
patois iff a considerable variety q|
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Newton, W. B. The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 7, 1902, newspaper, June 7, 1902; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039587/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.