A fr A POT a ———— i iii A MEXICAN BANDIT, Mr. Elgar Wood had 2,000 silver dollars in ten dollar rolls nicely pack- ed in a valise with a few toilet articles, and $12,000 bank netes and bills of exchanges snuygy sowed into a thin belt worn about his person. In an outeide bolt, elegantly embroidered, he wore a superily jeweled revolver, warranted to be vseful as a weapon at long range, in the hand of a self-col- “lected man resting under safe shelter, As to other personal furniture, his comfortable figure was adorned with a fine gold watch, prssessing a nation sl repuation for beauty and value throughout the public of Mexico, and a hat covered with gold lace and ban- gles that made 1 the envy of all the besux in tWwwo, U der these conditions Mr, Edgar Wand entered the ten-mule stage that stood in the patio of the Hotel Itur. the country to pay off 3,000 laborers a month's wage's, The stage started. The wealthy contractor was slone that morning, This month he considered, will cost me $20,000, for which outlay th® Government pays me $100,000, which is $80 000 clear gain. In two more I shall be in good trim, and I shall ask old Juarez for Ewilia. I think she admired me last night when I said wy adien. And he looked athis pistol bir fine watch and elegant hat, and a rifle ball whistled through the window, followed by a command of Pararse ! (halt). bide for a trip dowa There is no discussing such an order | given under such circumstances. It was not possible to say just now he looked, but he felt very pale when a pleasant, gentleman. ly voice at the inquired : Have I the honor of addressing Senor Edgardo Wood ? That's my name sir, Ah, Doan Edgardo, I am sorry molest you in your journey’ but won't you do me the favor to alight for a moment 7 Now, if there was one quality on which that gentleman prided himself window more than on another it was superior | | aderned with that symptom of map- | ity of his mavners. He was known 8s the polite American of Mexico, and #0, when addressed a simple re- quest in such courteous terme, he was fain to comply. He therefore alig! a iledd, AD do so promptly, but his moti not so graceful as usual; th a tremulous excilemer stagger, in his mos looked & boul Four rifles and revolvers, The face was covered with a black him men, armed witl receive him, upper half of each mask, They were evide nily natives, save one ~—whose head, broader than the other al the temples, and ruddy face below the mask, ending in a thin frouzly, tow- | eolored goatee, seemed to indicate an Euoglishmao. Mr. Wood, n ting him carefully, thought he had seen before, bat failed in any attempts to him place him. Senor Wood, said the spokesman, advancing, [ am pleased to greet you, to sentiments | and regret that you are not able rec praicate the cordial entertain for you. I must say Ami- guillo, you wear a charming hat, and such thiogs are so common to you that | am sure there will be no object 00 to an exchange. See what a poor thing I wear, and 0 unsuited to my years and position in society! It fits well, too. And also, Senor Wood, vou are said to possess an excellent watch: that, sir, would be an extreme- ly eoavenient article to have in my profession, that [ may be prompt in meeting the stage, and thus avoid tiresome watching. I will accept it with y our permission. Mr. Wood was rapidly learning to adapt himself to circumstances, He koew he must submit to being strip- ped, #0, handing over the watch with she best grace possible, he said with a smile and a bow, May I present you with « pistol, as good as there is in she republic, except your own? Ab, Senor, now yon flatter me; | seeept it in your name, Amiguillo, And also, Senor, | admire your coat; let us exchange. Your trousers, too, will fic me nicely, sod your boots, oven a little large, will be better than these. Have the goodoess to be seat edon wy oll coat, and we will as. Edgar Wood now, you would have for Mr. Wood | to | stood ready to |man, thought he wes enguged in a frolic. He used to say, in telling this story, that he felt all through the perform- ance as if he were being joked by a friend. Aud now, continued the ladrone, we will truble you, Senor Wood, to pass out your valise, if you will be so obliging. Mr. Wood hesitated for the first time, and looked around, but there was no mercy; the muzzles of three pieces looked into hisgjeyes, while he replied: Very well gentleman if you ingist. He handed out the heavy valise, which was taken by the Mexi. cans, while the Eoglish-looking thief | guard at the stage door, When the precious cargo Was removed to a short distance from its owner, the sentinel muttered to him in Eoglish: If you give me $2000, unseen, from | belt, yon can have the rest; otherwise, I'll fix every dollar you've got. Mr. Wood felt sure he had some- | where seen the face, of which the mouth and chino were exposed, but if he suspected the truth, he kept it to himself, and quietly handed over the money to the man, Io a few minutes the nearly empty valise was returned, and the party bade the traveler adieu, and wished him a safe journey. In his disagree. able fix he could only ride till he met the return stage and go with it to the capital, under the shelter of a shawl lent him by a sympathetic lady among the passengers, with whom, at noon he entered the patio, from which he had so exultingly sallied in the early morning. The idle populace, as usual { rushed in with the stage, and witness. led the discomfiture of the Americ an, vour as he darted across the pavement to | the nearest entrance of the hotel and | made his way to his room. | When Mr. Wood emerged there- from he made his way to the Eoglish | bank, to deposit the papers saved in | his belt, and there encountered the | second surprise of the day. The tell. | er who received and credited him with | | the amount was the counterpart of | bat he had no beard, nor could Wood | recall that he had ever seen him It that should be a ladrone-—his position hood. was impossible in ‘the bank, his easy, self-posessed manner, not brazen, but natural and innucent, No, it was a mistake. The ther: bein Mexican merchants to start for next day, » » several Vera Cruse, Mr, Heory Yorke of Wood & { then ! well was dispatched with He went { being a fighting vet no crowd of Mex : usengers had [rightesed a band f robbers from its enterprise, and so at sunrise, Yorke discovered two small squads of horsemen bearing down | the stage from Opposite directions, There are six of them, he said, and | we are nine men, with only one woman. Ares we to fight gentlemen, or shall { we surrender ? | Mexicans pever We will last drop of blood. | one of them. fight to the Yes, always, answered the | eight. { I shall be killed; oh, I shall be kill- ed ! worieked the frightened woman We shall defend you, senora, they | declared. The horsemen drew near. { All were masked armed. One | party passed the coach, wheeled, and | instantly returned. Meanwhile Yorke | sprang from the stage, which had stopped, and, ealliog to his fellow. passengers to join him, fired bis rifle at the nearest of the gang and killed bim. He then began discharging his revolver as they closed in on bim, and looking shout for his companions, dis covered them all in their seats, pallid spectators of his recklessness. In an other Instant a pistol ball struck him down. Evidently the ladrone bad only contempt for the Mexican passengers, tor they rode directly forward to the fallen American, - whose body they mercilessly hacked to pleces with their sabers, for a warning to all who resist. ed their robberies. Tle entire treasare of Wood & Co was taken from the person of Yorke aod his valise; and the passen- gers, the lady pot excepted, were robbed of every article they possesed, even to their outer clothing. When the ladrones left, their captain opened sa embroidered jacket, revealing the form of a woman, and cried out with a sear: “You are men, Adios!” aud | the English robber of the morning; | he | ou | surrender, cried | her | When the stage, returning, entered the patio of the Hotel Iturbide with the body of Mr. Yorke, it was met by Mr. Wood, to whome the lady declar- el that his partoer had been killed by an Eoglishman of the band, whose lower face was ruddy and thin, ending in a little shudowy beard; that he had reached into the coach and shot Yorke in the back, through the open door- way of the opposite side, as he was firing rapidly at the gang, and that as he withdrew his beard dropped from his chin and she had secured it. At 10 o'clock that morning he went to the English bank with the woman snd presented a check for payment As the teller laid down the money he saw the little wad of beard on the counter, picked it up, and, looking at it curiously, said: What is this? At the same moment Mr. Wood discov- ered that his companion trembied violently and was becoming alarm- ingly pale, and lost no time in leay- ing the bank. The woman was sure of the identity of the man, and would listen to no possibility of her mistake. As for Mr. Edgar Wood, he was confounded, but did the customary thing, and set an Eoglish detective upon the track of Mr. Carlos Watfils, the teller of the English Bunk of Mexico, The next payment went to the line in charge of a paymaster and mounted guard, of whom the chief was ope of the most successful lad ronos of Mexico; he gave safe conduct to the treasure, for which he was well paid, Two months passed. sign indicated any depravity on the part of Mr. Watfils. He lived mod- estly, and seemed a retiring, rather studious man. was his horseback ride each morning and night. The time had come for another pay ment to the men of the contretor, and again Wood determined to go in per. son with the money, anu No outward His sole dissipation by stage. fair complement of Mexican having commercial relations with Vera Cruz, would tarvel, snd went accompanied also by two Americans, {armed with rifles and revolvers The English detective, witha com | panion, both well armed, rode out ia | the same direction a ball hoar after | the stage left. The road had not been i 80 infested of late, but the Americans understood the danger to which the were exposed in the transportation of i - ¥ disposi treasure, and made their i accordingly. Mr. Wood companion occupied the front seat of the coach, rear Fhe and looking to the rd man f the party driver, being a Winchester rifle, When they stopped for k. no one had appeared the stage or creats left the little inn the detect ed In driver o'el suspicion, Ast sight, but the delay, and the party {their way. Suddenly the inside passengers de- | tected the effort of Lhe driver to Pp | his cumbrus team, and heard the voice | of the American by his side (0 {to him, “If you stop I'll kill you drive on and drive bard.” Then | shot; and another shout as he passed | down his rifle aod called for a | one, which he received at once Mr. Wood and his {looking from the coach. { were pursued by eight horsemen, who C1 Vg Was again wt A fresh com | at LAWN Lhey | were now within 200 yards at the rear. | Leaniog from the coach window | cried out to the driver, If those fellows | catch me vou are a dead man! The | threat told wonderfully on the speed of the team. Meaowhile the band approached, and the three Americans fired togeth- er, throwing the ladrones into confu- sion and forcing a halt; bot they rallied at once, and six horsemen of the eight were drawing near when the driver's companion by another shot brought a man to the ground. At this moment the detective and his guard appeard in the rear of the band, and r. Wood ordered the driver to slow down. The robbers discovired the trick; for, tarniog, they saw the re enforcement in the rear, and lost no time leaving the road and making off across the valley toward the moun. talos, The met no farther adventure, and Mr. Wood was able to return to Mexico in a week, The afternoon of his arrival he accompanied the Eng. lish bank manager and the detective to the hospital at Guadalupe, snd found there, to the surprise of the manager, the teller, Mr. Carlos War fy suffering from a shattered log. f Mr. Watfils were tried In Mex. IT) This time be selected a day when a men, | BAM JONES DENOUNCES DAN. CING. “Listen: When the girl began the giddy whirl of the dance in the ball room that was the time to get scared. When you found your boy speoding more money than he ought, that was the time to get shocked. “Sow cards and reap gamblers. I koow I'm called a transcendentalist and called a puritan, but God save my family from cards and profanity, ahd whiskey and dances, and [et the world eall me what it will, Sow parlor dances and reap ball- rooms, Sow ballrooms and round- dances and dudes and dudines. Bow dudes and dudines and reap balf a thimbleful of calves'-foot jelly. [Ap plause and laughter renewed again and again.) I wish you wouldn't laugh |any more to-night, for I never felt so [solemn in my life, For God's sake, two brothers had pow ranged them. | hear me with a solemnity and earnest. ness worthy of the cause. | you only knew how many I have 10 | keep back you wouldn't blame me for the few that creep out. | “Hear, me, boys, girls, young ladies |af Kaosas City! 1 ued to danee. | I've danced many Limes with thegirls |of my town, Hear me. IfI was a | fair average dancing man, and I think was, then po pure girl can go out on the floor and dance another set. [A i | you could but follow the young man | after he has seen you home, to some | | barroom or club and hear the discus- {sion of your form and person and your virtue itself, you'd never lose your | balircom floor. | to quickly again, and that brother's arm | respect and go on a [Sensation.] The dudes get mad at me in some places and talk about want. [Laughter.] But, I say to their credit, they koow better ‘than to slap. I'm not afraid to drob down into a hundred scres of dudes {and not a thing to fight with, and all of them with lug to slap my jaws, armed six-shooters (Laughter. ] “The tendency of the npineteenth centlry is to dudeism. young buck out, part his hair in the uw middle, put on an eyeglass, give him pants which look as though his legs had been melted and poured into them, put on toothpick shoes, and every girl | { Prolonged I'd night in the town admires him wrriment, ] God help you, girls ! hter dead st her character has lost a ped by aeeper, blacker hell boy i= lion sOCIeLY In ne other, it's for that man who crushes purity and virtue under his onhallow. ed feet Applause.] The only thing in the worid which deserves a double barrelled shotgun and a load of buck- . : * » shot is “Ar | damnpaslion such a man. ind dance is an anter I never want to see the arm of a lecherous man aronnd the ea | waist of my wile or daughter I'll be myself, be true All | ape nO man to myself, and true to troth, | knock the bung out and let nature | cut ber capers. [Applause (fool, you'd betler think of these things.” A KENTUCKY DUEL. Victor Doquesne, the famos pistol shot of New Orleans, while traveling in Kentucky stopped for the might at a tavern in Fraokfort. In his day pistols like Kentuckians going to take a drink, went in pairs. Every gentle- man oerried his twin derringers, After supper Duquesne went to the office counter, behind which the pro rietor lounged, and potting down a Paldoliar, uested him to change it. ‘The proprietor swept the coin iu- to his money drawer in a mechanical way, aod takiog out two “bits,” or twelve and a bail.cent pieces, shoved them to Duquesne. The latter, seeing that the proprietor made no move towards giving him any more money, said : 1anre you a heif-dollar; here are two “bits.” responded "Y. ou gi’ me a quarter sir, the host. your pardon, you are mistaken. Wort wh pg nl and you will see. Dn you mean to say I don't know a balf-doliar when [see it ? 1 say, sir, you gi’ me a ) uarier and you've got Mu i Duquesne looked steadily at the tavern-kesper for a momeut. The guests seated around the fire-place be- came slent, You are a liar | said Duquesae in & low, even tone. Those terrible words meant somethiog in Keoweky, sod the speaker knew it. He felt nervous- ly for bis pistols, They were missing. He bad lef them in his room. The tavern-keeper's movements were as quick as if be bad been charged by an electric battery, He jerked open hs money-drawer wok from it a pistol, cocked it and covered Duquesne, who stood motionless, USES OF THE TELEPHONE. Is this Bridget Maloney? is a quee- tion which a Detroit Free Prew reporter heard rattle over the wire the other evening, us he conuected him- self with the telephove, Iv caused bim to pause and very indiscreetly to listen. The question was asked by a heavy masculine voice, and the reply came in the soft voice of one of De. | trois fair telephone girls as follows: Bridget is here, You know who I am, don’t you | Bridget, came next, in confidential bass tones, ingired the latter, calmly. give an insult, Will some gentleman lend me a { voice, ‘Hurrah '] Young woman, if | g1 me, - | tavern-Keeper 10 a white faced You dress a | | | want to do is to stand on the barrel, | and | | laoghter.] | may be an idiot and | charine while a professor at Johos | i {ing his eyes from his antagonist, whose | selves by his side. Bot you | | Fair play, the world over, spoke up say I say #0 many funny thiogs If] a burly drover, putting a pistol in Duquesnes hand, while two more The crowd parted, The simultaneously, men fired his weapon dropped to the floor, Duquesne stood uuhermed, sod quiet- ly exchanged bis smoking pisiol for one of the loaded ones im his poeket. One of the landload’s brothers, with- out saying a word leveled a pistol at Duquesne, but before he could puil the trigger Duquesne fired and his | DEW RUOAZOTISL 8 right arm dropped to his side, broken. Any more more?! inquired Da. gonesne, preusring snother firearm, Yes, exclaimed the third brother, firing one shot wildly ao i endeavoring shoot again Duquesne firea others had fell, broken, just fallen, as Lhe Who are you! cried the landlord, clasping his disabled arm I am Vietor Duquesne, { Orleans, [ beg your pardon Mr. Duquesne; I'm satisfied it was a half dollar you more out of the drawer, Sam, said the clerk coun- | time regis it is that is goia’ to who had crouched beneath the ter during the fusi lade, Next I want to shoot I'li look st the ter and see who shoot back. — a _— AT A WEDDING was a remarkable sce There draw a picture of marriage that had Without wait. the pr Ve i Ly Ue unoappy ag LO hear Lh bright side ol picture, she pushed her lover's hand AWAY, decianing, i will not bave You. I'he young man was thunderstruck, but neither he por the minister could nduce her to change her mind, She | seized ber wraps and left the hoose ’ , and the marriage was ndeffinstely postponed, — —— Tur llowing interesting specimen | f tariff obstroctions will attract al tention. We copy from a special | London dispatch to the New York | Times, February 11: | Dr. Fahlherg, who invented sae. Pitan a2 . i Hopkins Ugiversity, and who is now | the head of the company controlling | | the manufacture of it at Madgeburg, | was in London the other day upon a scheme of buildiog a second great factory in Eoglasd. The European consumption of this strange antiseptic sweetening agent drawn from coal tar already exceeds the capacity of the Madgeburg factory, although ite cost is quite equal to that of its sweeten ing equivalent, the best cane sugar. Dr. Faulberg tells me the sale io | America is greatly hampered by the | doty. If this duty were abolished it could be used to make cheap good sugar out of the whole glucose pro- duet of America, saving to the coun try taany of the millions now paid abroad for cane aud beet-root sugar, The original factories would have been built in America if the tariff on the raw material—ocoal tar, sulphuric acid, ote.—~had not been kept up by the chemical ring. The list of other great industries bere which have been driven from America by the same agencies aod mon spolies would be fairly warting to America if complied. Would you shoot an unarmed mao ? | Au unarmed man has no right to | pistol ? said Duquesne, without remoy- | were dropped into his overcoat pocket, | The landlord’s right | srm dropped to his side, broken, and | Give Mr. Duquesne two bits | | meals, chiefly that a man | I could never forget your voice, i said Bridget, | Ah! thavks awfully, would you like (to go to White's Theatre and sce | ‘Lagadare’ to-morrow evening? | Of course I vould, know I would like bo go. Will yon go with me? asked the, | bass voice, evidently expecting a quick consent, Certainly not, ssid the fair op- | erator. | Not—what's that? not understand you, I said I wonld not go. Why vot? I don’t koow you, You might I think I did You may be 8 married man, Well—bot—I may be some day, but am not yet, How do I know you're not? Can't you take my word for it? Oue of the girls took the word of a man that he was single, went to the opera with him, sod learsed afier- wards that bis wife was in Europe. | What do yuu suppose that man’s ac- quaintaoces thought of ber? Ab, well, but I am telling the truth. Well, I wou't go You said you would lik: to Yes, 1 would, but I can’t risk it. (ood by — Say, hold oo. How would a sleigh ride in the eveving when noboay would see you, do? It won't do st all. Good — We'll go out tO the pointe? What is out to the pointe? A fige drive, an appetite, a good "Rp and wine, Wine? Yes; champagne No, thaok you. [| never drink it. Strongest I ever take is tea. Excuse me piease, You woulda't I think it w but 1 can’t go Why not, Bri igie? f Aan't td Ad AUR L 4 oO? like Lo g uid be awfully jol 0 $3 BE It WOU De sale went the telephone, and ish A 2OIL ¥ re §) Yes, Ur : iy ear tha! Lhe hass voue bal are forced upon the operators Tels receive more and a greater variety of invitations to go out from a wider range Of people, than any other of working women. Bat the average telephone girl is a bright and inde pendent creature, asd, as may be judged from the above conversation wise enough to Know that, under some circumstances, 1 sleighrides are not the best thing for her. The invitations from all sources, business and professional men, clerks, and many who should know better. daily. phone giris pr yvbhab 5 class peras and come ATRUE WIFE It is not 10 sweep the house, make the bed, darn the socks, and cook the wants a wife. Ifthisisall he hired help can do it cheaper than a wife. I § needs, this is all, when a yering man calls (0 see adady, send him into the pantry to taste the bread and cake she bas made, send him to inspect the needle work and bed-making, or put a broom in her hand and send him to witness its use. Such things are important and wise young men will quickly look after them. But what the true young man wants with a wife, is her companion. ship, sympathy sud Jove, The way of life ins many dreary places in ir, and a man needs a wife to go with him. A man is sometimes overtaken by misfortunes: he meele With failere abd peteal: trials and templaaons beset him, and be needs one tv stand by and sympathize. Hs bas some: hard battles 80 fight wih poverty, enemies, and sin, and be needs a a woman that, when be puts bis arm around her, be feels he has something 10 fight for; she will belp himjto fight; that will put her lips 10 his «ar aad whisper words of counsel, and her hand to his heart and impart jospira- tion. All through lite, through storm and through seushine, conflict and victory, through adverse and aviting winds, man needs & woman's
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