THE ETTTSBITRQ- DISPATCH, STTNDAY, FEBRUAUT 23. 1890.
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fflffiODS' PARADISE.
Judge Gildersleeve, the Great Eiflo
; Shot, Writes of Canada.
ITS GAME ALMOST TOO ABUKDAKT.
(Chasing the Deer, Tracking the H6ose and
i Angling for Trent.
JJOIS OF CAMP LIFE IN FOREST SNOW
luMTTur roit thx sisfatch.i
While Canada may not be a garden of
promise to the agriculturist and herdsman,
it is an ideal country to the disciple of the
rod and rifle. The very conditions which
make the farmer's lot an unhappy one inure
to the benefit ol the lover of outdoor sports.
It is a singular fact that the best places for
the huntsman and fisherman are the worst
for the tiller of the soil. Cultivation kills
sport. Even in the present generation long
lines of territory on Long Island, Connecti
cut, New Jersey and Maryland that were
once famous for the game which frequented
them have been utterly abandoned by the
sportsman on account of the disappearance
of their chief attraction. Only where they
hare been preserved by private organiza
tions or protected by special legislation is
there any sport left worthy of the name.
The great rock formations of the Canadian
Dominion, which bare no parallel in our
country east of the Rockies, unless it be
here and there in the Adirondacks, the
"White Mountains and the Maine woods in
the North, prevent profitable cultivation of
the ground on the one side and on the other
afford every facility for the growth c-f the
forest and propagation of game. This rock
formation will never be forgotten by who
ever has seen it. In the Saquenay and
Hestigonche country it takes the shape of
great defiles and chasms, in whose depth
run never-failing streams and rivers that
are full of the best fishes known to the rod
man. The coolness of the water, its rapid
motion and the large supply of natural food
for the piscic inhabitants produce a type of
fish which for firmness of flesh, for size,
muscularity, full development and game
nesscan be equaled nowhere. Its praises
have been so sung by William J. Florence,
our great comedian, Lawrence Jerome and
other enthusiastic followers of Izaak Wal
ton that nothing more can be said.
WHEEE AJTGLEBS UEVER SET FOOT.
The territory named is but a small frac
tion of what is open to every lover of sport.
The whole country north of Montreal and
Quebec is equally rich in stores of fish.
Xhere are hundreds if not thonsands of
ponds and brooks where the line and hook
have never been dropped. Here you can get
brook trout that weigh over a pound, and
lake tront three, four and even five times as
large. Here the Frenchman can catch the
bull-frog in its best form. United States
Fish Commissioner Blacktord says that the
largest and finest frog's legs ol the world
come from Canada. How true this may be I
do not know, but frogs weighing over a
pound, and, in rre cases, two pounds, are
caught in inexhaustible numbers. The
policy of the Canadian Government is so lib
eral as to deserve special praise. There is
so restri -tion upon foreigners or alien cor
porations Laving or leasing lands for sport
ing purpo.es. The Paradise Fin and
Feather Club, of New York City, of which
I am a mem'-er, controls a territory almost
as large as V e entire State of Khode Island.
At least 100 clubs, which are American to
the backbone, are likewise the owntrs or
lessees of vast tracts of land. Of course the
Dominion is wise in this policy. The 5,000
sons of Unci' Sam who invade it every year
expend from C'jO to 5,000 apiece. The sum
total of their expenditures cannot be less
than $1,000,000, and probably exceeds three
times tnat amount. The resnlt 'of this
policy is visible at a hundred points where
sporting associations have reclaimed the
wilderness, constrncted roads and bridges,
built homes and cottages, started new in
dustries and even brought towns and vil
lages into being.
IfETEK EKDISO PROCESSION OF GAME.
Way up in the vast woods to the north
and west of Montreal the game runs wild.
The hunter is constantly surprised at the
never-ending procession ot quail, partridges,
rabbits, deer, passenger pigeons, ducks ot
all kinds, from the dainty wood-duck to the
all-devouring maillard; squirrels and all
other kinds of "wood meat." The caribon
abounds and even the moose is sometimes
found there. Although somewhat rare, that
most splendid ol America's game birds, the
great wild turkey is present, and affords
many a good meal to the man happy enough
to find him. The brooks and lakes abonnd
with trout so big that the angler who pays
SI a pound for all he catches on Long
Island says a silent prayer lor forgiveness
whenever he repeats and appropriates the
stones be has beard of them. Bnt tront are
not the only fish to be ionnd in the waters of
this great region. Black bass, pickerel,
pike, king fish, yellow perch, and all kinds
of fresh water fish are there in such num
bers as to astound the fortunate man who
goes there for the first time.
There are beasts of prey, too. The Canada
lynx, that most peaceful looking of Ameri
can carnivora, is everywhere, and it is no
rarity for one of them to stalk noiselessly up
to a camp and walk off with the fish just
preuared for cooking, even while the eook is
within a few feet, peacefully smoking his
pipe. Wherever there is a clearing and a
cornfield, a day'a march will be rewarded
WITH A BLACK BEAK,
sometimes of great size; some of them have
been known to weigh more than 800 pounds.
Wildcats are common, and the wailing cry
of the catamount, or, as he is called when lie
grows old and very large, the "panther," is
often heard in the still air, sounding as if a
child were lost in the woods. Foxes are
common, and all the fresh water fur-bearing
animals can be found in quantities. Otter,
mink, mnskrats, swarm the streams, and
every now and then the hunter runs across
a beaver dam in the open.
There is not as great a variety in the forest
trees as there is in the game. Vast stretches,
miles upon miles in extent, of enormous
-pines; endless vistas under the pointed
arches made by thonsands of black wal
nuts, showing where gothic architects took
their ideas of structural beauty; only these
and such hardy trees are found, because
the bitter winters could kill off all tenderer
varieties. Birches are everywhere, black
yellow and white and the silver boles of the
great canoe trees shine through the soft
gloom of the primeval forest like the ghosts
of centuries long past. Once in a longtime
one of these white birches stands with 10 or
12 feet of its trunk a deep, rich brown show
ing that the Indians have at some time
stripped it of its gleaming coat to make
that lightest and most graceful of all craft,
a birchen canoe. The earth is everywhere
covered with a carpet of pine needles so
thick and soft that the Wiltons and Ax
minsters in the parlors of the rich moan in
jealous anguish to think of them, or with
deep rich layers of fallen leaves, so softly
lving one upon the other that the hunter's
foot makes scarce a sound in walking on
them.
YASTKXSS OP THE FOEESTS.
Fast as the lumbermen eat up the forests;
fast as they push their little narrow gauge
railways up the sides of the mountains and
clear away the trees; fast and close as the
settlers follow in their footsteps and turn
into fallow fields the land that was lately
almost untrodden by the foot ot civilized
man, the extent of the woods is so enormous
that but little impression seems to bare
been made upon them.
Walking through these wonderful forests
the huiltef becomes almost a poet in senti
ment. The universal air of awful age is too
much for even the most trifling mind to
withstand. The venerable trunks, covered
with the moss of years, fills him with rever
ence and peace, and when he meets the fal
len trunk that stood as the king of all the
forest about, he walks around it, knowing
that if be steps upon it his foot will sink in
through bark and wood and then his heart
would revolt at the sacrilege.
No sound of man's work affronts his
ear. No sound at all is there except the
soft sighing of the breeze through the pine
branches; and that is sweeter than the
music of a great cathedral, lor he feels in his
inmost soul that this cathedral was bnilt by
no contractor, but by great nature herself.
THE SOUND OF GAME.
Suddenly his thoughts came back. No,
he says, with a smile, it was not a drnm, it
is some old cock partridge, and he moves
cautiously in the direction of the muffled
sound Soon he sees the bird, one of the
most beautiful to be found in the world,
walking up and down on a fallen tree, trail
ing his wings on the bark, with his tail
spread out like a fan, drumming like a
soldier boy. He looks on in admiration,
but it is only for a moment. Dinner time
comes to his mind. Then a shout, n whirr,
ashot, and the bird is picked up and put in
his big pocket. .
A little further on he hears a soft whistle.
No man, he knows, ever whistled like that.
The whistler wears horns. Wetting his
finger and holding it up to learn the direc
tion of the wind, he works himself along
until he tees a big buck "bounding off
through the tree trunks. Now is the time
when his patience is tested. Tne chase may
last an hour, and it miy last two days; but
it is never relinquished until the deer is
dead. Relentless as death the good hunter
never stops until he raises his rifle to his
shoulder, stands like a statue for the frac
tion of a second, pulls trigger, rushes ahead,
pulls out his hunting knife, slashes the soft
throat, wipes the knife and counts the
prongs on the antlers. Then, shouldering
his prey, comes the trudge back to camp,
sometimes only a short distance, sometimes
many weary miles. '
HUNTING THE MOOSE.
In winter the great game is moose. The
hunter wears snow shoes and spends long,
but never weary, hours in racing over coun
try, following "the track left by the great
awkward beast that breaks through the snow
crust at every step. Soon the snow bears
drops of blood, for the sharp crust cuts the
delicate skin at every jump, and the hunter
knows that he will not have far to go before
he overtakes the biggest wild animal to be
found in America. When he does catch up
to bis prey, then he needs steady nerves, for
the moose can make a mad rush and is the
most pitiless adversary known, but a good
aim, a quicK pull, and the chase is over.
The noblest game in the land has been
hunted and won. Perhaps 1,100 or 1,200
pounds of moose lie there in the place he
has stamped out in the snow There are
stories of moose that weighed over a ton,
and it can be fairly said that they weigh as
much as horses. The biggest one known to
hunters' tradition weighed 2,290 pounds,
but that was 40 years ago in the forests
northeast of the Kangely Lakes in Maine.
They are more scarce now and smaller.
Another great sport in winter is shooting
partridges in the birrh trees. They sit
upon the branches all the way up the tree,
and when the lowest one is shot the others
do not stir. Shoot bnt the topmost bird
first, so that it tumbles down through the
tree, and all the others will fly away sp
quickly as to startle the tyro, who has seen
half a dozen birds shot ont of the same
tree.
THE COZY NOBTHEKN CAMP.
Then come the long evenings iu camp; in
a camp of fir bonghs covered with snow
crust- The snow is trampled down until it
is solid under foot; a big stone fireplace is
made in the middle; the fir boughs, or per
haps small fir trees with the boughs all
trimmed off from the side toward the camp,
are thrust into the snow all around, so that
they cover over a place big enough for the
party, and pine branches are laid over all.
Then the snow crust is broken off and laid
on top of the green tent until it is quite
covered in. Pine tips cover the floor, and
evervthing is as cozy as mind could wish.
There are only two openings; one is for the
smoke, and the other, stopped by a blanket,
is for a door. Here from 4 o'clock in the
afternoon nntil 9 in the evening hunters
and guides sit and smoke, sip the simple
punch and spin long yarns of successes in
the past. And all life seems hollow in com
parison. A. LAND OP HOSPITALITY.
Too much cannot be said respecting the
hospitality and geniality of our Canadian
cousins. They are good nature personified.
The little French hotels and the English
inns, which are fac similes of what you see
to-day in France and England, are so home
like 'and comfortable that you want to re
main there forever. The meals served are
well cooked, palatable, wholesome and
cheap. The wines and liquors are ridicu
lously cheap. The cigars, cigarettes and
tobacco are cheap. The service and attend
ance are invariably good. To anyone 'who
enjoys healthy out-door sport, fishing,
trapping and shooting, who wants to get
away from the fierce pressure of life in the
great cities of the United States, I recom
mend a few weeks' sojourn in the great
woods of Canada.
H. A. GlLDEBSLEEVB.
PECULIAR FOLKS Hi JERSEY.
Some TnUta Which Dlatlnsuiali Them From
People Elsewhere.
New York Sun. 3
A traveler of some renown recently
bonght a place ont in Jersey and settled
down to the serious work of writing a book.
He claims now that his time is all occupied
in observing Jersey people.
"They are as entirely different Irom New
Yorkers," he said, "as the Spaniards are
irom the natives of Iceland. They never
stand up straight, and they run to babies in
a fashion that is startling. Every railroad
car in New Jersey consists of six-tenths
babies in arms and three-tenths boys in
breeches. The last one-tenth is made up of
adult humanitv. There is veiling, squeal
ing and yelping all along the line
ot the railroads between New York and
Philadelphia. X do not know why people
live in Jersey except that it is that they
cannot help it. Once a man goes out there
the entire healthfulness and unconvention
ality of life form an attraction that is im
possible to resist. Nobody ever bothers fo
stand up straight, wear good clothes, or
shavt more than once a week out in Jersey.
If he did, he would be helcL up to the de
rision and contempt of his neighbors.
A SIKGLE EXE TO BUSINESS.
A Court Whose Officers Were All Alike In
One Respect.
Rochester Herald.
Who that saw can ever forget Judge Bal
com's wide-eyed amazement when he beheld,
entering one after another, the unique col
lection of monocukr officers who composed
his famous "one-eyed court." A constable,
an Associate Justice, the clerk, and the
crier beamed affably upon His Honor from
out of their solitary optics; and then in
walked Henry Van Duzer, Schuyler coun
ty's able, one-eyed District Attorney.
Dazed for a moment, the astonished Jus
tice closed first one eye and then the other
to convince himself that his vision was still
duplicate, and then, arising, opened the
term with the remark that "this court will
now enter upon its labors with a single
eye to the furtherance of the business be
fore it"
THE ALPHABET IN A SENTENCE.
Enchof the TweotT-Slx Letters In a Nine
Word Statement.
St, Loals Bepnblic.I
The Republic' "Notes for the Curious"
have directed very considerable talent to
the work of constructing "the shortest sen
tence containing all the letters of the al
phabet." A St. liouis reader, so super
fluously modest that he tears the printed
caption from his letter-head, contributes the
following: "Blocks-of-five methods will
quickly jeopardize extensive rights." If
Messrs. Harrison, Dudley, Quay and Beed
can put more truth into as few letters ol the
alphabet the Republic will be pleased to
make room for it in its "Notes for the
Curious,"
CAJf SHOOT TO KILL
Americans Are Becoming Expert
With Rifle and Revolver.
NO BLOODLESS UDELS IN FUTURE.
Soma Wonderful Targets Made in New
lork City by Amateurs.
PINE TRICKS IN PANCI SHOOTING
iwkittbk tob mi DisrATcn.i
"It's a lncky thing that dueling is no
longer the fashion among Americans. If
it were one would hardly be likely to be
bored by tales ot bloodless encounters such
as they have in France, where quarrels are
still adjusted by the code."
"And why not?" I asked of the speaker,
a physician with a famous practice among
the elite on Murray Hill and the avenue.
"Because every business and professional
man nowadays is a dead shot with the rifle
or the revolver. Why, in a 15 minutes'
stroll on Broadway I could point out to you
a score of gentlemen who conld furnish a
team from their own number that would
uphold our marksmanship against the
world."
"Better even than the Western cracks
and the cowbovs?"
"Now, that's a popular absurdity about
those cowsbovs. I have seen them shoot
and there is not one of them who could beat
anv of our amateur experts, even of the
second class. Eight here, among the bank
ers, merchants, brokers, lawyers and other
businessmen, we have shots without an
equal, whether it is off-hand practice, firing
at the word or target-shooting. Cowboys
are very handy at blazing away at close
quarters, or in a rough-and-tumble scrape,
but when it comes to really fine marksman
ship they are nowhere."
HEADQUARTERS FOB SHOOTING.
The headquarters of the crack shots in
New York are at Conlin's famous range on
Thirty-first street, just off Broadway. Shoot
ing matches are in progress there at all
hours, and millionaires ot sporting proclivi
ties may be seen there contesting with busy
professional men. The best of good humor
prevails, and, except now and then when a
marksman objurgates at bis ill luck in
making a particularly poor shot, the scoring
goes on aB quietly as a state dinner. The
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Lucky Duelling No More,
targets used are the Concours National, a
French carton, which counts ten for the
bull's eye; the Standard Decimal, which
aUo counts ten, and the Massachusetts target,
which is graduated to one-eighth of an inch
and which counts 12. The French target
has only lately been introduced here and is
a favorite, because each ring on, the carton
is graduated so as to admit a 44-caliber
ballet between the lines.
"It is quite true." said Mr. Conlin, "that
revolver shooting has become exceedingly
popular among New Yorkers; indeed, it may
be said to amount to a passion with hun
dreds of men who find it not only pleasant
exercise, but a capital thing for steadying
the nerves. Here is a target made the other
day by Mr. Alfred Brenon, the artist, who
is one of
THE MOST BELIABLE SHOTS
in the country. You see, there are six shots,
all well on the bull's eye, and only one of
them impinging on the line. That is the
French target. Here is one by Major W.
B. Pryor, a son of General Roger A. Pryor,
with the halt dozen shots so fairly on that
they look like three single bullets. The
Major and Dr. Joseph Henry are matched
against each other for a medal in a con
test with rifles on the French carton,
This target was made last week by Captain
George L. Garrigues, who was one of the
Arctic explorers, and who came near fi eezing
to death in the ice with the Hall expedi
tion. He nes the Massachusetts target, and
has scored 60 out of a possible 72. These
two remarkable targets are by George Bird,
of the Calumet Club. Look at them closely
and see how neatly he cuts the bull's eye in
both. They are the French carton, and I
believe they can hardly be beaten anywhere.
A, Major Prior, t shots, revolver, 12 yardi;
B. Oeorge L. Garrigues, 6 shots, revolver, Vi
vards: C. Tom Thumb. 6 shots. 12 vards. with a
I rifle: D, Major Pryor, 15 shots, revolver, at SO
varus.
They each count 60 out of a possible 60 the
full score. It is a better score than that
made by Nande, the Paris expert, and the
shots are better bunched. Mr. Bird is mar
ried to a Yanderbilt.
"Another magnificent shot is Mr. A. A.
Cohen the manager of the New York Card
Company, who uses a Massachusetts target.
Here is bis carton: It is a full score of 72
the highest ever made on that kind of a tar
get, and the shots are well grouped. Bird
has also made 72 on the same kind of a tar
get, but Cohen's was the better of the two.
One ot the best shots in town is Mr. Henry
W. Wickham, relative of ex-Mayor Wlck
ham. By-the-by, he is the original of the
character immortalized by Archibald
Gunther in his famous novel, 'Mr. Barnes
of New York." The old Mayor was a
crack with a pistol himself in other days.
Pierre Lorillard, Jr.. made a wonderful tar
get, putting in 17 shots in a minute with a
Winchester, and scoring 67 out of a possible
85. Ira Paine when last here made a fine
showing on the French target five bull's
eyes, beautifully grouped. Here is. a card
with a heart which Paine pierced by' an off
hand shot with a 44-caliber revolver at 12
yards."
THEY SHOOT AT TWELVE TAEDS.
"All the shooting here is at 12 yards at
the graduated targets. Many of the experts
like to try fancy shots. One of the most
successful is Frank Lord, who Is a magnif
icent all-round marksman. If you look
down the range you will see an iron plate
hanging about midway on the left side. Mr.
Lord can stand at the distance here, slightly
to one side, and make a bull's eye off the
angle, his bullet hitting the iron before
striking the target. A tew others can do
the glance shot, but it is very difficult."
'"I remember," Hid one of the at&rkrato,
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inlrmnHtit "nrlmn Frhnk Lord made the
Parisians open their eyes. It was at the
Valentin range in Paris, near the Gran
Hotel. He was in there with Mr. MiUec,
another American, and some men were shoot
ing when Lord went up to the range and took
a pistol. Ho told the marker to hang tip nij
watch over the target and then announced
his intention of putting a bullet through the
ring. It was a ticklish undertaking, and the
Frenchmen watched him with wondering
faces; but he did it, and the watch was un
harmed. You ought to have seen the look
of astonishment on the face of the proprietor.
He took the watch, which belonged to oneof
the markers, and had it hung in the window
with an inscription. Lord has done the
same thine with his 5300 gold watch here in
New York."
"Here's a target made bv General Tom
Thumb," said Mr. Conlin. '"The little fel
low tried six shots with a rifle and surprised
a good many of us. Four were very neatly
planted on the bull's-eye."
SPLITTING CARDS.
"One of the favorite pastimes of the crack
shots is splitting a card with a half-ounce
27le Cowboy Ifo JSzpert.
bullet at 12 yards. To an ordinary marks
man this wonld seem an almost incredible
feat; yet it is to the experts an every-day
affair. The cards are set up edgewise, and
the slightest contact with the ballet is
shown by the red line left in its trace. The
faintest mark scores a hit. Maynard Bixby,
a Western mining official, frequently in
New York, is a renowned card-splitter, and
has hit the edges of 9 consecutive cards in
10 shots. R. Van Rensselaer Schuyler on
one occasion hit 10 straight, and George
Bird 9, W. K. G. Griffin 9, C. E. Tiffanv,
ol the noted jewelry firm, 7; Fred Sands 7,
and Pierre Lorillard, Jr., 7 consecutive and
8 out of 10. Lorrillard is the most rapid of
all at this kind of shooting, and hardly
seems to take aim. J. B. Blydenburgh,
brother of Charles B. Blydenburgh, a mem
ber of the American rifle team that went to
England many years ago, is an old-timer,
but he can split six cards out of ten.
"Some of our marksmen have fancy shots
of their own which few others care to at
tempt," said Mr. Conlin. "P have seen
Frank Lord take a rifle and a Creedmoor
200-yard target at the 12-yard range there,
and make good shooting with a mirror. His
back is to the target, and he takes aim in
the glass and delivers the fire over his shoul
der. 'The Teaser' is a rather uniqne target
and it bothers them a good deal. It is in
the form of a cross with the four arms
marked out on the same principle as a regu
lar target and the center blocked off iu
squares. This is set swinging and it is a
bard mark to hit.
DEINKINO AND SMOKING-.
"One would think, naturally, that drink-
m
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A, George Bird.'6straightbuUseyes:B, Alfred
Brennan, same; C, Ira Paine, same; D, George
Bird, same: E, Frank Lord's target with look
ing glass. 12 yards; F. A. A. Cohen's target at
12 yards; G, Ira Fame's off-band shot, 12 yards;
H, the Teaser, swinging target.
ing men would make poor shooting as a
rule, and they probably do, but I've seen a
great many exceptions.
"I have known a man to stand up to a
target where he could hardly steady himself
and make bull's eye alter bull's eye. The
body swayed but the point of the gun didn't
Smoking doesn't seem to affect a marksman
as much as one might imagine. Almost all
our marksmen smoke and their nerves don't
seem to suffer, unless, of course, they go to
excess; but the man who keeps temperate
in these things will do the best work. One
of th,e cleverest shots at the French target
is Eugene Higgins, the son of the million
aire who recently died leaving him a fortune
of about $10,000,000.
"What is the best plan for lighting an in
door target, so as to give the least strain to
the eyes?" I asked Mr. Conlin.-
"Gas is best a well 'protected, steady
flame. The electric light is too bright and
hurts the eyes, besides being unsteady on
the target. Kerosene is better. Many of
onr crack shots wear spectacles. J. B. Col
lins, a real estate lawyer and one of the best
men in town with a revolver, never shoots
without glasses. Some of the Boston marks
men, too, who come here when they are in
town, shoot through glasses."
MOBE POPULAR THAU BILLIARDS.
Target practice has taken the place of bil
liards with hundreds of business men in
New York and several other large cities,
notably Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.
In the metropolis there are many excellent
shots among the ladies of wealth and fash
ion, but their practice with revolvers and
pistol is principally in the summer, when
they are in the woods or among the hills,
safe -from inquisitive masculine eyes. With
improvements in weapons and new methods
of practice the old style of fancy shooting
with telescopes, shoulder-rests and straps
has disappeared. Practical shooting is now
the rule, and even military methods have
begun to conform to the style of the sporting
rifle. Iu any international tourney with
either revolver or rifle Uncle Sam's sharp
shooters are pretty certain to hold their own
against the world. G. H. Sahdiboh.
THE P0EEST8 OP CANADA.
Little Narrow Gange Kallroade to Carry
Trees to the Stream.
The sportsman in the. forests of Canada is
as surprised to hear the woodsman's ax as
he was 50 years ago. When he runs across
a party of lumbermen laying the rails for
the little road down which the monarchs of
the forest will so Boon be carried to be made
into masts, apars, planks, boards, sleighs
and joists, he is amaze. These little rail
roads have a gauge of about two and a half
feet, and are used to carry the trees irom the
tops and sides of tall mountains to the saw
mills at the bottom of rushing brooss, there
to be made ready for market; or to the
greater streams, which, will float the tall
trunks suitable for Vessels' masts to the
great Bt, Lawrence, which will take them
to the Ma.
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MBIT TEARS AGO.
The Days When Indians Cooked Their
Heals on the Diamond.
AMONG THE C0MST0GA WAGONS.
Articles They Brought to John Harris'
Store to Trade for Goods.
A JOKER'S SALE OP HIS WHITE SQUAW
IWBITTEN TOR TH DISPATCH.!
During the latter part of the last and the
early years of this century this whole coun
try was frequently visited by Indians, now
almost extinct. They came principally
down the Allegheny river from New York
State, and generally camped on Herr's
Island, or on the bottom land recently occu
pied by the late Judge McCandless and
others a few miles up the river; and almost
dailv during the summer season there wonld
be lively races on the river by the muscular
braves dressed in breech-clouts and feathers,
in their graceful canoes.
Their principal lauding places were
about Cecil alley and Garrison alley,
where there Was at that time an old block
house fronting on Penn avenue, where the
soldiers were kept. There was a large green
plot in front of the blockhouse where the
parades were, held, and where military pun
ishments were administered to recalcitrant
soldiers; and it was the delight of the
Indian's heart to stand by and watch the
unfortunate soldier stripped to the waist and
flogged, and then squirm as salt was applied
to his bleeding back. The soldier who could
take his punishment without a flinch or cry
of pain was a stoic, and the Indian witness
of his silent agonv was his friend hence
forth. "WHAT THEY HAD TO SELL.
The savages brought down from their
wilderness home anything they thonght the
white man would buy, and it behooved him
many times to buy when he did not want to,
as the Indian was a very sly son of Shem
and would wait a long time to get even for a
fancied or real affront. They brought down
large quantities of jerted venison, which al
ways had a ready sale, and bear and deer
skins, soft as blankets and white inside as
snow, tanned bv a method still used by the
tribes of the Far West, which our white
brethren either don't use or dont under
stand. They brought large quantities of
deer's antlers, which were also a commodity
of ready sale for knife handles, ornaments
and hartshorns, and they were keen, cun
ning and tiresome dealers, holding out all
day for their price, or until a more cunning
bead would lay out in their sight an article
or garment ot unusually brilliant colors, for
which a trade was strnck at once.
When the Indians came to town they all
marched straight torthe store of Isaac Harris,
where Hugus & Hacke's store now is. He
kept a large store filled with little
else than the finest Indian goods, which
would make their very eyes water, and the
lame ot which among them brought war
rioiB to Pittsburg from all the neighboring
States. This store was the loadstone which
drew many a silent string of Indians single
file throngh the vasts forests or down the
rushing streams of this great Western fron
tier. OS THE DIAMOND SQTAEE.
The Diamond had then no buildings or
market houses it was a square into which
great Conestoga wagons were driven, espe
cially at night, and whose horses were tied
around them to the wheels. Camp fires
were all around the square at night where
the teamsters cooked and spent their
evenings, often telling stones as long
as their routes and as uncertain. Into
the square, the Indians would go in day
time, while waiting for the conclusion of
their trading. They would often bring a
horse along, on whicl was slung their camp
kettle, and very soon the squaws would
have a fire under it, getting ready a meal
for their braves. The Indians were always
very liberal with their provisions, and
would share with anyone who asked them.
They had, slung across their horses' backs,
bags, in one end of which would be their
provisions, etc., balanced on the other side
by one or two little black-eyed children,
who had to stay there until taken down.
White men would always crowd around,
and would offer money to the young Indian
boys as prizes lor their bow and arrow
marksmanship, and, truly, bold Robin
Hood and his celebrated marksmen could
not excel those young Indians.
SHOOTING AND DANCING.
They would shoot across the square, and,
if one missed, the old bucks would get very
cross, and scold him for not shooting
as he was told by his
elders. The squaws would then
throw off their blankets and dance their war
dance by the hour, dressed decollete in
buckskin pants and moccasins. The squaws
often had their pappooses along. They
made very little noise. They were tied on a
board which was strapped on the mother's
back, and whenever they cried or the mother
bad some work or dancing to do the young
savage was stood up against a wagon wheel
or side of a house and there he had to stay,
howl or no howl, until he was wanted.
The Indians sometimes got very trouble
some, and especially when drunk were they
impudent and annoying. They invaded
private honses with impunity, and openly
expressed their admiration and desire to
possess any fine looking girl or matron they
might see, or in fact anything else which
might attract their fancy, especially if it
were of bright color. Whisky was their
greatest object of desire, and they would de
mand it often even if. as Bill Nve says,
they bad a jag on, and whatever they saw
they wanted, and wanted right badly, too.
JOHN M'CLINTOCK'S EXPEBIENCE.
There lived about 1809, right back of
McKennan's drugstore on Union street,
John McClintocE, whom many old resi
dents yet remember. About 1820 be bought
a large tract, including Point Breeze in the
East End, and lived there until 1841. One
night after the family had been in bed some
time, his wife was wakened and almost par
alyzed with fright at the sight of two
drunken Indians standing at the fire in
their bedroom. To make matters still more
alarming they went over to the crib in
which the baby (afterward the late Dr. J.
E. McClintock), was sleeping, and nulled
the clothes off of him. The mother pinched
her husband and kicked him and at last got
him awake. He was also badly frightened,
but slipped out of bed, dressed himself
hastily, and then found that his guests
wanted whisky. He told them to follow
him, which they did, but he walked them
in and ont among the wagons in the Dia
mond, until he lost them, and then he ran
home and locked the door. The Indians
soon arrived and pounded there nearly .all
night, keeping the whole bonse in terror.
There was no fine policemen or fine two
horse tallyho's to take them to the lockup
on Diamond alley 80 years ago.
A. PLUCKY WOMAN.
A Mr. Gibson had a store on Market
street, opposite McKennan's drugstore, in
those days. It was a general store, with a
little of everything needed in a frontier
town. The Indians traded there considera
bly. One day Mrs. Gibson was in the store
alone, when three of the savages went in
and asked her for pocket knives, which she
showed them. They told her that they
would take them without pay. Mrs. (Gib
son seized her goods, and was having a
scuffle with them when Mr. Gibson, hearing
the noise, ran in and seized a gun and gave
one of them a thump over the head with it,
knocking him down and cutting a deep
gash along his sacred scalplock. That
ended the fight, but snch a row was made
about it that Mr. Gibson- had to pay the
doctor's bill and give them all presents'to
keep them quiet, as the whole Tillage was
afraid of an outbreak.
A daughter of John McClintock, at that
time married to George Grier, and still
living in her 61st year, was living near
whsra Fleming's drns star now ii. Gcoriri.
Qrltrwu OMuifo-ftfo of a wig hIqmJ
day, pointing out his wife to some Indians,
told them that she was his squaw, and asked
them what they would give for her. A
bargain was struck and that evening they
went for her dressed iu their best breech
clouts, moccasins and feathers, with their
money in hand. They did not get in that
night and next morning (Sabbath) they
were there bright and early and wanted
their white squaw. Thev stayed there, first
at the back door and then at the fr)nt, all
that day trying to get in. and finally they
were bought off by some presents of neck
warmers. They did not understand jokes.
A WHITE BECOMES AN INDIAN.
At Hannastown in those days there was a
fort with a regular garrison which made it
the city of refugp for the whole country out
side of Pittsburg and its vicinity west of
the Juniata. A family named Craig lived
there, and one of their little sous was stolen
by the Indians and kept in captivity for
years. The mother never gave him up, but
she kept asking every Indian she saw about
her boy. Finally an Indian told her he
knew her boy and where he was, and on
his next trip to Washington City he
would try to bring him along. The Indians
even then traveled to Washington very
often to settle their treaties with the white
man for their vast possessions in this conn
try. Finally after a long wait the boy was
brought and surrendered to his mother.
But alasl he had become a thoroughbred
Indian. He had no affinity for the ways of
his brothers and seemed to want to be by
himself. They took him to church, and he
showed his contempt for it by walking all
around the church during service and try
ing all of the benches. A girl named
Hannah Gilchrist could do more with him
than any other person. He would go to
church and to school with her, bnt did not
care for any person else. Finally after
being at home about a year he disappeared
and was not seen again lor a long time, until
one day his two brothers were in Pittsburg
and were passing Harris' store, when he
came out and
MADE HIMSELF KNOWN
to them. He was dressed in his Indian best
and was married to an Indian squaw and
positively refused to go home with them.
They pleaded with him to go home for
awhile on his mother's account, hoping that
if he would see her and have her plead with
him again, that his filial affection wonld
cause him to stay with her, as she was get
ting up in yearsbut to all their pleading
he gave a smile and a firm refnsal. He re
turned to the forest with his adopted tribe,
and finally died a good Indian.
There was among the Indians who cam
most frequently to the settlement a fine,
brawny chiei called Silver Heels. He was
a very honorable as well as a very hand
some Indian, and the braves who followed
him were always neat in what clothing of.
skins tbey had on. They had none of the
dirty characteristics of the ordinary savage.
Their hair was always clipped, and their
feathers fresh and well set; while their buck
skin leggings, moccasins and accontrements
were always fresh and new, and covered
with fine bead work. Silver Heels and his
band always encamped on the bottom lands
above Lawrenceville, and rowed down to
the city daily in their bark canoes, making
a very wild and picturesque sight. Silver
Heels was friendly with every body, and
the white children were very fond of a ride
up the river in his canoes, a romp through
thelndian camp and a ride back home with
their swarthy acquaintances. Nobody was
afraid of Silver Heels, and when he de
parted for the happy hunting grounds he
had many a word ot sorrow ana sympathy
from his white admirers and friends. When
his word was once given it was never broken.
Whoever had bis lriendship had a passport
through the forest; he was safer than he
would be now, almost 90 years afterward.
BUMBALO.
PECULIAR PHEA8E0L06I.
Two Paragraphs Which Leave the Reader
Somewhat Mrstlfled.
New Evening York Snn.l
Two very funny paragraphs appeared yes
terday in the general telegraph news. The
first one is dated Milwaukee, and relates the
sorry fortunes of "a handsome young
woman" who"was found dead near the rail
road tracks leading into the city. Sad
enough, all this, trnly. But the dispatch
goes on to say: "From an unsigned note
on her person, beginning, 'Dear William,'
it was evident that she was a school teacher
and that she took her own life, having
thrown herself under a train."
It is probable, from the evidence already
given of the severely logical working of
this mind, that the first proof given answers
to the first conclnsion, and that the woman
was recognized as a school teacher because
the note was unsigned. This may, there
fore be taken to indicate that it is a habitual
though much-to-be-regretted custom of the
Milwaukee schoolma'am to omit the im
portant detail ot her name at the end of her
correspondence.
The second paragraph discusses the mat
rimonial intent of the whistling Mrs. Shaw,
now in London, who has taken opportunity
emphatically to deny that she is engaged to
the Duke Di Somebody, "who." sbe de
clares, "never paid her any attention beyond
that of a gentleman to a lady."
This is charmingly explicit. There be
persons who consider the privilege of matri
monial address one of the peculiar and
delightful attentions "of a gentleman to a
lady."
Mrs. Shaw should be too good a Yankee
to forget the precise and delicate meaning
of onr frank-hearted phrase, "paying atten
tion!" EUBBEK ON H0ESES FEET.
Protection for the Animate on tho Hard
Granite Pavement".
St. Louis Globe-Demoerat.3
IJThe protection of the horse's fore feet is a
great problem. A horse weighing 1,000
pounds, and going at a 3-30 gait, strikes a
ton with each fore foot when he puts it
down. If this figure is correct it doesn't
take a practical horseman to see the folly of
driving a good stocK on granite streets.
A shoe has recently been devised that
may improve the situation a little. It con
sists of a rubber oval band a quarter of an
inch thick, terminating at the ends in a
heavy cork or a cushion. Its general shape
is that of a horseshoe, the rubber cushions
representing the heel-corks. An iron-plate
shoe goes with this, and the heel ends are
shortened to give room for the rubber corks.
The rubber shoe goes against the foot and
is nailed on with the iron shoe, the whole
forming an iron-plate shoe with rubber heel
corks. The invention is destined to take
the place of all other plate shoes for road
sters, especially as it is a cheaper shoe than
one with metal corks, considering the
difference in wear.
A CANE FOE USE AT NIGHT
Provided With Amusements to Light the
Pedestrian on His Way.
Chicago Herald.
A man who was engaged the other day in
examining the canes in the showcase of Sam
Brown, the Dearbon street haberdasher and
tailor, accidentally touched a secret spring
in the head of one of the sticks and a little
lid flew up, disclosing a mysterious recess.
Fearing that he had unintentionally com
mitted a crime he summoned the proprietor
and showed him what he had done.
"Ob, that's all right," said Brown, reas
suringly. "It's a patent stick from Ger
many. Here, let me show you how it
works," and, taking the cane, he.pushed up
a slide and a small candle popped up out of
the aperture. Then he lifted, a little lid
and disclosed some wax matches.
"This is a 'darkness cane, " he said. "If
its owner is caught anywhere in the dark he
can light up and see his way clearly. It's
just a 'fad. Maybe it will be a go."
Political Economy In California.
Fresno (Csl.) Bepubllcan.
Entirely too much money is sent away
from home with which to buy beer for Fres
no. Our city must either have a brewery
or onr eitlHtu nutt quit drlaklaj w anoh
bWTi
JOINING THE CHURCH.
The Master Hade This a Drity for
Those "Who Would Serve" Him.
SALVATION" A HATTER OF GROWTH.
Struggling Men Are in Need of the Help of
Combined Influences,
THE 0BJECTI0N8 THAT AEE EAISED
wurim ron thx. dispatch
"The Lord added daily to the church such
as should be saved."
"Such as were being saved" is a more lit
eral rendering of the words. Salvation is
not a matter which is accomplished and over
with once for all at a certain moment in
a man's life, so that from that time on the
man is a saved man, and need have no fur
ther anxiety abont it. Even St. Fanl was
not "saved" in tbat sense, for even he could
speak of the possibility of being made a
castaway, after all.
Every human being has fearful possibili
ties of evil in him. No life is iackjng in
temptation. That significant succes
sion of evils in the beginning
of the ministry of Christ, when
immediately, after the baptism, and
the benediction of the Holy spirit, and the
taking up of new responsibilities, came the
trial in the wilderness, finds a counterpart
iu almost every Christian life. "Baptism,"
said St. Peterj "doth even now save us,"
but it was not a completed salvation that he
was thinking of. No human soul is saved
at baism, so that temptation can give no
further trouble, and sin be no longer pos
sible. And no consecration of the sonl to
God, no turning out of darkness into light,
no taking on of sacred promises can save a
soul, and that be the end of it The ideal
Christian life is only a persistent going for
ward iu the way of salvation. Sacraments
and resolutions set us in the way and help
us on in it, but do not make it as if there
were no way at all, and no need of
difficult and wearisome walking in it, and
God does not set up such a high wall on either
side of that way that we cannot wander out
of it, if we will. In Buuyan's story of the
pilgrimage of Christian there was a
road which turned, within sight of the very
gates of heaven, and ran straight down into
the pit.
A GBADTJAL GBOTVTJr.
We are "being saved." That is the best
description of if. Salvation is an escape
from a bad world without, us and within us;
it is a gradual growth, in hatred of am, and
strength'agjtinst temptation, and knowledge
and love of God. The man who is being
saved is daily ridding himself more and
more from the attractions of evil and living
closer to the life of Christ. Sal
vation is something which needs to
be "worked out," which can be won
only by genuine endeavor. Christ.it is
true, has made salvation possible to all men.
Everybody under God's wide sky can be
saved, but no man will be saved without an
effort of his own.
Now, we are told that these men, in the
old days, who were being saved, were added
to the church. Those two facts about a man
seemed to go naturally together. The first
impulse of everybody who was being saved,
who was turning his back on a lower life
and going on toward a better life, the first
desire of every man who honestly wanted to
be a good man, was to be added to the
church.
One advantage which the men gained
from such a step as that was the advantage
which comes with a decided and definite
initiative.
When these men were added to the church
they formally committed themselves. Be
fore that, while they were only listeners,
standing on the outside, it was compara
tively easy for them to draw back at any
moment into their old life. They Bad made
no promises. Nobody could justly reproach
them. That made temptation all the
harder.
TODISABM CBITICISM.
When anybody is really in earnest about
mending his ways, the best thing that he
can do is to put himself in such a position
as to disarm temp tation as far as he can.
If he has made a good resolntion and keeps
it in the secret of his heart, and nobody
knows about it how easy to break itl The
man has nobody to help him. Let him
make it known. Let him say
to a friend: "I have turned over
a new leaf with the first day of this year.
From now on I am going to do thus and
thus."
You see how the fact that hl3 friend
knows will help the man. When he is
tempted he will say to himself: "Now, if I
fail it will be known." And no man likes
to put himself in such a position that peo
ple can say that he has made a failure of it.
The strength which comes from the telling
about the turning of a new leaf to a single
friend is multiplied when one stands up be
fore a multitude of people. That is the
philosophy of taking a public pledge. That
is the wise thing which the men did in the
days of the apostles who were added to the
church. The men were dead in earnest
about it They did want to live worthier
lives. And they availed themselves, as
sensible men, ot every opportunity they had
by which they might strengthen their reso
lution. They began with the decided initi
ative which is essential to the formation ot
anjr good habit They were added to the
church.
Another advantage which the men gained
by the brave and wise step they took was
the help which comes from an environment
of helpiul influences. Thee people wanted
to live as much like Christ as tbey could.
They wanted to grow in grace. And they
put themselves into the right relation with
the influences which they knew would lead
toward growth.
THE EXAMPLE OF THE FBIEND.
If we want a seed to grow we put it in the
ground, and we set about it whatever will
minister to growth. We put it where it cau
touch the life-giving earth, and drink the
invigorating rain, and be warmed by the
fires of the sun. And that is all we can do.
That is the end of man's ability toward the
seed's growth. The wisest man who ever
lived could not make a seed grow. The
most that he could do was just to bring the
seed within reach of the influences which
make toward growth. The rest of the work
is God's.
And the soul grows like the seed. There
is no machinery which can make a sonl
grow in a man. And no man, bv any
amonnt of ingenuity or worry, can make his
soul grow. If anybody wants to go on and
increase in the spirituallife there is only one
way. That is to bring the soul into contact
with every possible helping influence. And
the church, to which these wise people added
themselves, is Just as much an en
vironment of spiritual help as the
soil is a physical help to the seed.
If a seed will grow on a bare
shelf just because a farmer wishes that it
would grow, so will a soul grow apart from
the influences of growth, just because the
man to whom the soul belongs wishes that
it would grow. There is only one reason
able thing that a man can do who sincerely
desires to live a better life than be is living,
and that is to add himself to the church. It
is sufficient! v hard for the best of us to be
good. Surely we need all the help that we
can get
CASES OP CHRISTIAN I'ATLTjrBK.
It is possible, of course, to question the
helpfulness of the church by pointing to the
souls who are in it seemingly unhelped.
Half the people who are approached on the
subject of adding themselves to the church
wilt at once begin by citing cases" of Chris
tian failure. The church, you say, will
help me, why then doesn't it help So-and-So,
who cheated me yesterday, and says his
prayers to-day with s lace as serene as ever?
The same argument, however, can be
brought against tho earth, and would be the
end of fanning, if there were aay fore la it
Agmt &BTMt4 fcllto tfilzi ipUto
good fruit Nevertheless all that was said
abont the helpfulness of the earth, and tha
sun, and the rain is true. They did fail,
somehow, to'make this particular seed grow.
There is no denying that. Perhaps it was
the farmer's fault, or perhaps it was tho
seed' fault It mav have been- a bad seed; It
may have kept all the helping influence-!
out Still, we keep on planting seeds and
adding souls to the Church. And thaseeda.
grow into grain, and the souN grow lnt
closer likeness to Christ, and there are a
good many more successes than failure?.
And it is true, in spite ot the)
wildest and most discouraging cita
tion of hard cases, that the one reasonable
thing for anyone to do who wishes to liva
more worthily is to bring himself within"
reach of all those influences which help
toward spiritual growth, which- we- include
in one word and call the "church"."
We may be entirely sure that help Ilea
always in the direction of obedience to
Christ The Master in the spiritual life
knows better than we know what is best for
us. Nothing can be more evident than that
Christ chose to have His truths preached
within an organized society. He came to
help men, and He deliberately ordained
that His divine help should be ministered
to all who needed it by means of an organ
ized society. He was careful to provide
A I-IXTETG ISITIATIOir
into this society, in the sacrament of bap
tiam. He gave also an appropriate ser
vice for the meetings ol this soci
ety, in the sacrament of tha
Lord's Supper. He said of the first
of these sacraments that it was to be admin
istered to all who shonld become His dis
ciples the world over. He said of the second
that it was to be done in remembrance of
Him. As to the truth of these statements
there can be, I thinkr no qnestion.
It is equally trne, then, that anybody who
is really a disciple of Christ and is honestly
trying to lead a Christian life and has not
been baptized, is leaving out something
which Christ meant should be .brought in.
He is not obeying Christ
It is true also that everybody who is
Christ's disciple, and is trying to shape his
life according to the will of that Master
whom he really loves, and vet is not a par
taker in that service of which He said "Do
this," is omitting something which
Christ deemed important There are many
good men in every Christian congregation
to whom this applies exactly. Their
straightforward, helpful, manly, honorable
and upright lives put us to shame. But
one thing they lack. When the time cornea
for this Christian service they go out Hers
their obedience fails.
Jf O ONE IS PERFECT.
Nobody is good enough. The best man
knows that best Every one-of us is along;
way below his ideal. Not one of us can
emphasize the spiritual life too much, or
get too much help in living it Christ set
His chnrch in the World in order that every
man who wants spiritual strength might
add himself to the church, and so put him
self in the way of getting it
When we read here that these people
added themselves to the chnrch it does not
mean that they singly came about once a
week to hear the apostles preach, or thai
they took a pew in the chnrch, or that they
were very kind about giving money to help
in the parish charities. It means that they
added themselves to the church. They cams
into the church by the initiation of baptism;
tbey associated themselves with tha church
in the bonds of the holy communion; they
came into the church heart and soul, and
brought their money with them, and their
friends with them as many as they could
and their energy and their entire allegiance
and their whole selves: They were added to
the church. There was a complete identifi
cation throughout between these people and
the church. They brought themselves into
the right relations with every helpful spirit
ual influence. And therein they set soma
people a yery good example.
Geoege Hodges.
THE PEDDENT DRUMMER'S ROPE.
Ha Carried It for a Fire-Escnpe,' Tint Pars
sot to Use Ir.
New York San.1
They put me next to a drummer at the St
Charles Hotel in New Orleans, and as I waa
unlocking the door about 10 o'clock at
night he came down the hall and asked:
"Well, have you located 'em?"
"What?"
"The fire-escapes."
"No, I never attend to such things."
"You don't? Well, vou are in for a
roasting some night I never go to bed fa.
a hotel until after I have located every
stairway and fire escape. It there was to be
an alarm here to-night I could jump ont of
bed with the fullest confidence of saving;
myself. See here a minute."
And he took me into his room and pro
duced from his trunk a fire escape made of
ropes, and explained:
"Should I happen to be cut off from tha
stairs or escapes, here is my other chance. I
catch this hook on the wmdowsill, so, throw
the rope out, eo, and I can lower myself ISO
feet in 40 seconds."
We bad been in bed about two hours when
I was awakened by the odor of smoke, and
was hardly on my teet when a gong sounded,
and there were shouts of "Fire I" Tha
smoke was so thin that I knew the danger
was yet afar off and began dressing. While
so engaged I heard the drummer cantering
np and down the hail, shouting "Fire I" at
the top of his voice. When I finally got out
I found him jammed into a linen closet half
way down the hall and crying like a child.
His rope escape hung on the wirework of
the elevator, and he had made a bundle of
his clothes and flung them over a transom,
into another room. The fire was out by tho
time I was dressed, and when the watchman,
who was going about to quiet the peoplo
reached our hall the drummer clasped hira
around the neck and shouted:
"Say! say I Show me the way do'ra
stairs and I'll give you Sl.000,000 iiea,
$20,000,000.
PASSES FOR EMPL0IES,
A Veteran Brakeman Who Got b. Free-Hide?
Terr Cleverly.
St. Loals Globe-Democrat.
Colonel Tom HcKissick, the Superinten
dent of the North Missouri, was sitting ia
his office one morning, feeling cranky, whea
there entered a switchman who had bees,
compelled to give up his position by ill
health. The switchman asked for a pass to
Afoberly, his old home. "Why should I
give vou a pass?" queried the Colonel.
"You have quit the road, and been paid la.
full, haven't yon?"
"Yes, sir, but I have been always, faith
ful, have worked hard and only leave now
because I am crippled with rheumatism. I
thonght,after so many years' service I might
ask for a favor."
"Well," said Colonel McKassick, "if yotf
had worked for a farmer a year or mors and
qnit and had been paid up in full, would
you ask him to hitch up a team and tako
you 10 or 20 miles to town?"
"No," said the man, "bat if he had hi
team hitched up and was going my way X
would think him an infernally mean man if
he would'nt give me a ride.'"
McKissick immediately filled np an "an
nual."
La Grippe la Iowa.
DEslforsES, February 4. In the family
of Mrs. Wesley Tennant, this city, thexa
have been nine cases of Sussun influenza.
Some were very seriously afflicted. Mrs.
Tennant says : "We are now all well, ex
cept mvselt, and I am getting better. Wo
have all taken Chamberlain's Cough Bezo
edy, and it proved ufiectual in every case..
It has proved itself to bea useful and valu
able medicine."
For sale by E. G. Sfuckey, Seventeenths
and Twenty-fourth sts., Penn ave. and cor.
Wylie ave. and Fulton st; Markell Bros.,
cor. Penn and Frankstown aves.; Thecv E..
Ihrig, 3610 Fifth ave.; Carl Hartwigr Forty
third and Butl'ir sts., Pittsburg; and la.
Allegheny by Ti E. Heck, 72 and 191 Fed
eral st; Thos. It. Morris, cor. Hanover aad
and F. H. Eggrt Bon, 199 Ohio It. aal$
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