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4 L J
A SHAKE OF THE HAND.
One day upon the busy streo1,
K dear old friend I chnno id to mot t.
From a fur distant land ;
Ills face with pleasure was alight,
He riskod mo, " I all with yon rifjht ?"
And clasped and shook my hand.
It was not any word he said,
l?ut just that care and sorrow fled
A if at his command.
'Twa not the smile upon hi lip,
But just the honest, h?arty grip,
With which he shook my hnnd.
Oh, lips may touch, and eyes may moot,
And both bo false, and both be sweet!
But no one noed bo told,
When fingor touch and coldly part
They have not touched a fooling heart,
Or loye is turtTin? cold.
The hand in index suro and true
Unto the heart; yon will not ru
If you its lesson t ike ';
Heed not the promise of the lip,
But truflt the firm and honest grip,
The strong yet tender shake.
And, ch, the strength and confidence,
The sympathy, tho happy sense,
With which we understand 1
The subtile, secret power we feel
When meeting tin tie -s but reveal.
The heart within tho hand 1
Mary A. ISarr, in Good Cheer,
HUMOR OP THE DAY.
The girl graduate's pet
6. A.
letters
A maa always looVs black when he
feels blue. SomercitTe Journal.
" Haste make waste," said tho man
who throw a bootjack and killed a cat.
Border troubles Too much hash ;
not enough berries. Wheeling Leader.
" Enough is as gtylas a feast," re
marked the fellow wWi'ound that the
pgg which ho was about to eat wasH
gea.
'IT ' 'n'r -poompli8hed yoanc r.
Kiii V Foil in lovo with a lady nnjt(lr.,
! Hut his terms r.-ientifio"'
.Came forth fo t rritio,
, . That they reully and truly quite ehr.
I"' . A. new postoflico in the South is
os-Ufled Langtry. It is hoped that It
l not be true to its name, ana cause
. mailo tn chi imtr:iv .Nnrrisloum
i is-
iUJ In Alabama man advertises that he
S?Jti something that will make hens lav.
IV. Wps it Is a little string that ties
their legs. Send stamps for the secret.
Picayune.
"Pepi, how did you gt along In
school to-day?" "Badly, papa; the
teacher gave mo a thrashing." " Why?"
'" Well, ho asked mo how many teeth a
man had, and I said a wh le mouth
ful." Flu gande Blatter.
M-n grumble becauso cabbage Is
used as a substitute for tobacco in
cigars ; but they would probably grum
ble more if. the best Havana tobacco
should be served with their corned
beef as a substitute f.r cabbage.
Puck.
James Smith, of North Carolina,
turned up an emerald while plowing
near (iroensboro. Many a man lias
plowed day in and day out without
turning up anything more surprising
to him than a nest of yellow jackets.
Middlrtown Transcript.
A narrisourg ma
can split buljjfca
hatchet sixtylfot i
see what gouC that
A Harrlsburg man boasts that be
on the edge or a
away, but we can t
gooctnat would ao mm. lie
could dull up a hatchet ten times as
quickly by giving it to a servant girl
to cut kindlings with. Philadelphia
Nevis.
"Pa, did you hear that report that
got out last night?" "What report,
my son?" "The report of a pistol."
The old man was arrested for chasing
the boy witli a hatchet, but was dis
charged when the facts wero mado
known, with tho advice to kill him
next time. Or it.
A farm itrmi remarks that in fly
time cows should bo kept in stall.
This is fur the convenience of the fly,
increasing his opportunity of concen
tration and economizing much valuable
time that would be other wise consumed
in chasing a frisky heifer through a
ten-acre lot. Home tientine1.
The Nevada way if catching bears
,3 for one man to feed the animal with
salt, while a second slips around and
ties his hind legs together. When the
second man weakens and takes to his
heels it's mighty embarrassing for the
feeding man, especially when tho salt
is nearly gone.-i-Uoatfojt Post.
A New York photographer says
that babies are among their best cus
tomers, because a baby changes so
much every few months. .Months I
AV'hat kind of babies do they have in
Gotham? Hereaway a baby that
couldn't change twenty thousand
t'.mes during the taking of ono picture
wouldn't bd considered worthy of the
name. Boston Transcript.
IX)V LKTTKBS.
If thou, Miss, woullst I; E V 8
My woes with SPUN C,
And me no more MACK
t'ay thou art not mine NML
True love in its M N O T
My boldness must X 10 U 8;
Bo let no NMKC T
My during hopes L M N 8.
Thy beauty iXLJJO
My edo -tswiU X 1. It 8,
And iilwiys O h 1 N O
To tlue from uie bludl M N 8.
For thou art uiy F N K T:
1 hail thee as my 1) E T;
And it 1 love wiliN K ir
Aeoriba it to iuy' 1 O-
SOLILOQUY OF AN OLD MIRROR.
Upon this old and rusty mil
I've hung for many years;
Ah, me 1 but I could tell a tale
Of pleasure yes, and tear.
How many a beaming countenance
That in the day gono by
Gave me tb quick, admiring glance
Now in th churchyard lie I
Wrinkles have grown on face fair,
Bright eyes their luster lost,
And cn the fair holds of glossy hair
lias fallen age's frost;
The manly form erect and proud,
Has lost its stately grace,
And gray with year and sorrow bowed
Now shuns my truthful face.
The lad whoBhavod his dawny lip
By my reflected aid,
And made so many a omel slip
With keen-edgad razor blad), .
Now hath a son, who, now nnd then,
With comio.d grimace,
Apes well the ways of older men
And scrapes his beardless face.
A maiden lady, old and spare,
Who ir.o:irns her lonely slate,
Domes here and combs her ncaaty hair
In style long out of date;
Then, with a fleet id nnconcern,
She daubs her check with red,
In hopes that she may some d iy turn
Borne single codger's head.
Two lovers came to-day and gazod
Together in my face
He with enthusiasm praised
The beauty of hor face;
Clasped in each other's loving arms N
Quite long they gazed in mo
John looked at Mary's buxom charms,
And Mary so did she!
There 1 Bobbie with his dreadful bait,
Unmdod me, I know 1 .
My frffOi hanga empty on tho wall.
L My fragments lie be'ow.
r. t I. 1. 1 i iiiji. j
r Myfcelings to express
The Btonyglances I'd withstood
' Had weakened me, I guoss.
Parmenas Mix.
to'EISSKVEItAKCR."
Just at t'to instant of sunset the
liglft broke through the" leaden masses
of cloud like a lelt of brass, red, threat
ening, yet most welcome. Tor the .e,
darkly outlined asrainst the sullen git n,
stood aMttlo cabiiffwithJts threa t-like
wreath 9f smoke curlingVipVard, and
an old llsherman sitting iendingl?rs
nets on a bt neh beside the door.
And Mr. Cheston, who had bean
wandering hopelessly among the
marshes for some time, with a lively
sense of the inconvenience of getting
lost in those valine deserts, htood and
stared at it as if it were a will-o'-the-wisp.
" I'm sure it couldn't have bean there
five minutes ago," 1 e pondered within
himst If.
"Evenin'. strangerl" said old Zadoc
Teck. " Heen a sht.o' in', eh ?"
"I've lo t my wav," said Chaston,
plunging through the ta'.l retds until
at last he ga'ned a secure footing by
the cabin door.
" Well, I thought likely," commented
Zadoc "Ain't many folks come here
a purpose."
"Ctuld I obtain a night s lodging
and some supper?" hinted jour weary
sportsman.
"I guess so, sereno'y nnswereu ir.
Peck, "if you don't mind sleepin' up
garret. As for supper, l'erseverance
has gone out to dig clams for us. Like
baked clam-1, eli ?"
"His son," thought the major.
"What a quaint couple they must
be."
But he sat down in the red light
and looked at the morning-glory
vines trained to the window, the busy
fingers of the old man, the murmur
ing wilderess of reeds and rushes be
yond.
"Tliats right, saiu .auoc. -.-ei
down and take it easy. Terseverance
will be back pretty quick with the
clams, and then you'll get some good
hot supper, l'erseverance is a master
hand to cook,"
"Perseverance" came presently, but
to Major Cheston's infinite surprise
Bhe was no lubberly boy nor half-civilized
young man. but a tall, blooming
maiden of sixteen, with jetty hair float
ing down her back, large dark eyes,
long lashed and almond-shaped, and
cheeks like roses. Her short, gypsy
like skirts revealed shapely brown feet,
yet bearing the impress of the wet
ands where she had waded out to dig
clams, and on one arm she carried a
basket of clatns whose weight would
have been no triile even to the stal
wart muscles of fiis major of cav
alrv. She was not at all embarrassed by
the presence of a stranger, but came
frankly up to him, setting down her
basket to examine the contents of his
game-bag.
"You've had poor luck, stranger,
haven't you?" she said, pityingly.
"I could ha' done better myself
on them marshes at this time o year."
" l'erseverance is a first-rate shot,"
chuckled the old man. "(. now,
girl and cook us some supper."
The roast clams, collee and corn
bread were most palatable, and after
upper Major theston gave l'erssver-
lice a newspaper irom ins jhjckou
"It is thi-t morning's," said he,
'Would you like to see it?"
Hut she motioned it away.
"1 can't read," a;d she, inditt'er
ently.
You cannot road !" echoed the
amazed major. "Why, how old are
you?"
"Sixteen," Perseverance answered,
reddening.
" My sister Kate is only sixteen,"
said Major Cheston, speaking without
duo reflection "and she reads and
writes four different languages, plays
the piano and guitar, draws and paints,
and "
"Pshaw I" said Perseverance, arch
ing her slender neck. Can she shoot
black duck and curlews?"
"That is hardly one of the accom
plishment prescribed for young
la lies," said the major, smiling.
"Can she swim?"
"No, but"
"Can she clip a blue heron on the
wing? or get in a haul of bluelish
when the tide is strong and tho win.d
duo east? or light a shark, hand to
hand, witli only a marlin-spike for a
weapon ?"
And once again Maor Cheston was
compelled to answer in the negative.
"Will," said Perseverance, compla
cently, "I can!"
And she rone and went out of the
roem, and Major . heston saw no more
of hf r that night.
" She isn't otfendfd, is she?" he asked
of old Zadoc Peck, who was smoking a
pipe and staring hard at the fire all the
whi:e.
"Offended? Our Perseverance of
fended?' echoe 1 the old man. "You
don't know her, stranger!"
"But, really," hazarded Cheston,
"it-is scarcely right to bring up a girl
like that in such total ignorance, now
is it?"
""Well, we haven't no schools nor
academies hereabouts," said the old
loan. ' And if we had, l'erseverance
wouldn't go to 'em. I don't see bu
what she gej,s aloni first-rate!"
And Major Cheston wasted no more
time in argument. "
He slept well and soundly that night
under thu slopinz roof of the little
garret, through whoso shrunk boards
the quiet stars peeped down at him,
and at daybreak he went down upon
the shore.
The reeds were nil effaced now the
tii W was coming in with a rush and a
r.il and an occasional flying shower
offray. The fresh wind took off his
half and whirled it into the water, lie
ifpitb an involuntary plunge after it,
lost his footing on the slippery sands,
and the next instant he was struggling
for dear life with the surf, dragged
constantly down, and still further out
to sea I y the treacherous undertow.
In a last effort to regain himself, he
struck his head against a jagged point
of stone and knew nothing more.
" You needn't thank mo, stranger,''
said old Zadoc Peck, as he stood over
the recovering patient, with hot towels.
I didn't know a thing about it till
sue ran up, as white and breathless a3
a snow flurry, to get me to help you
in. She bad swum out to sea and
dragged you back to land herself !
She's a brave girl, is Persevt ranee, and
there's nothing she can t do if once sh3
sets herself about it.
Major Cheston thanked his young
rescuer earnestly ; but nothing would
induce her to take the gold he offered
lier.
' It must be a poor creature that
wants reward for saving a man's life, '
said she, with a short laugh.
And Cheston desisted.
" Tho girl is too pretty," he said to
himself. "So one but the hero of a
third-class romance ever marries a
half civilized young savage, because
she has dark eyes and hair growing
low on her forehead, I must getaway
from this place and I must keep
awav !"
Physicauv tins was an easy xning 10
do ; but mentally what is thero but
the wild winds of heaven so uncon
trollable as a man's thoughts?
At the end of a year he came back
from Switzerland and went stra'ght to
the Long Island marslus.
" I must S"e her, he said to himself,
I must tell her that I love her. I
must ask her to be my wife."
When the train reached iSine
veh. the neare-t t tation, a tall, beautiful
girl, in a cashmere dress, sparkling
with let. and a saucy uiacK nai,
came to him, holding out her hand.
" You nre Major Cheston t said she.
"And you," ho answered, "are l'er
severance Peck? '
She smiled and nodded. How beauti
ful hho had grown!
"I was going out to tho o!d house,"
he Hiid.
"I do not live there any more," said
Per-everance. "Father's dead, and
I'm being educated. You see," shu
atlded, "that your words, hard an I
cruel as 1 tin n thought them, were
not without the.r effect. I am stay
ing witli soma friends, and I share the
advantage of their governess. And
Mr. Hussell thinks 1 am not a stupid
scholar."
" Kussell!"
That name was very familiar to
him.
"At Castle Point, a little way down
the island," explained Perseverance.
"Tlu-y know you very well. Hugh
Hussell and 1 often talk about yon."
Hugh Pui3s.ll! A d tgger thrust of
jealousy went through Major Ches
tou's heart. Hugh limsell, whom lie
remembered such a handsome, daring
young fellow? Was he, then, too late
in his derision 9 1 lad some other hand
I gathered this exqidiite wild flower?
And then, with the innocent hypoc
risy of lovehood, he vowed that he had
intended all along to visit the ltussells,
and accompanied Perseverance thither
at once.
" Yes," said placid Mrs. Russell. " la
she not beautiful? She used to come
to my Sunday-school class last sum
merat the little Sandy Point chapel,
and when her poor old father died I
took her to stay with me. And we are
all so attached to her, and she is so
lovely and winning. Quite like my
own daughter."
Late that evening Major Cheston
went out on the stone-paved terrace,
where Perseverance was sitting on tne
rail, looking up at the million golden
stars which spangled the violet sky.
She welcomed him with her quiet, self
possessed smile.
" Perseverance,'' he said, "you are
seventeen years old, now?"
" Yes," she assented, " I am seven
teen years old."
" Almost a woman," said he.
"Quite a woman," she responded.
" Oh, it seams as if I had grown so
manv, many years older since poor
father died 1"
"Has any ono spoken to you of
love?" he" asked, abruptly.
" No," she answered, with gravity.
" Hut thpy will sometime t
"I suppose so," said Perseverance.
Evidently there was nothing of the
coquette about her.
Would you be very much surprised,
Perseverance, if I were to tell you that
I loved you ? '
She started and colored to the very
roots of her hair.
"Surprised?" -she repeated. "Yes
oh, ' yes ! For you despised me in
those days."
" Never !" he cried.
" Or at least I fancied so," she fal
tered. " But I love you now, Perseverance
sweetest, precious treasure of my
soul I" he went on, reading some dim
encouragement in the downcast eyes,
the red, quivering mouth. " I will not
let you go until you promise to be my
wife, lou have saved my lite once
and it U in your power to save it from
further shipwrpek now."
IIukIi Russell had spoken the same
words of love in her ear two hours be
fore and she had run away from hi
half angry and wholly frightened.
But this this was different.
"Will you promise me, Persever
ance?" he gently reiterated.
" Yes." she answered.
And that was the way in which
Major Cheston, whose heart had been
so long regarded by his lady mends as
an invulneraUj lortress, won tne
beautiful vouncr wife who was as un
like the other belles or society as is
the tropical blossom of 'he scarlet
pomegrav te to the commonplace red
roses ot tue garden bonier.
It was a strange meeting, a still
Strang jr wooing, but a most happy mar
riage. And perhaps this is the most
satisfactory record that any love affair
can leave.
A Break on the Mississippi.
The river all through the bright
moonlight night had quietly lapped
the edges of the embankment, the sur
face being quite serene. As thestorm
neared. however, the surface rough
ened, and from far over the Missouri
siil 3 the wrinklings began to crawl
across the surface, deepening as they
came. The night-workers knew
that this meant danger, and by com
mon consent they moved, halting only
when they reached places where the
ground b.-uk of the dike was higl
enough to brace the earthworks reason
ably well. By this time the first gush
came, and It was followed by another
and an ither, the bosom of the old
Father heaved and there was a long
swash against the bank, which made
the earth tremble and dashed spray up
over the top of the dike. George Iloeve-
iht and another reckless laborer stood
far out where the dike was most dan
gerous, and their friends yelled to
them to come away quick or they would
be caught. Almost as the warning
was given the mischief began, for
down about the lowest point of the lit
1 le valley, and just at the line where the
d ke began to rise, the ground suddenly
gave way and a volume of water about
the size of abarr.l spurted through
tho wall of clay and out into the low
ground. A couple of scrub o;iks were
close to the spot and the water striking
their roots with gi eat for. e was thrown
high up as by a fountain. A second
later the opening bad increased to ten
times its original sue and the volume
completely enveloped the scrub oaks,
Two seconds more and the earth above
all crumbled and sank down into the
gap, being carried out into the low
lands with a power that was apparently
irresistible. Meanwhile the Hood was
pouring through the gap with a roar
that could be heard a mile distant, and
tlr; walls of e'ther side wero being
rapidly eaten away. In less than ten
minutes after tho first small opening
at tho bottom of tho dike appeared,
there was a gap 2(0 fret wide, through
which a volume of water twelve feet
deep was running. This had contin
ued for two hours, and an immense
roaring river was moving through
wheat fields and potato patches two
miles away, when a second gap, a
hundred yards further south, opened
with a roar, and added a second flood
to the first. The workmen stood jnd
watched tin sublime scene for a time,
and then they began to hurry off in
ones and twos to carry the news of the
bieak to the anxious people inland.
ME BAD COY AND HIS GIRL
IXE TAKES RES OV A5
EXCURSION
HOME.
TO THE SOLDIERS'
lOcr Nuinrrnn Advcnmre Thcr Kctnrn In
t ltitnplilntril C'anrillion.llertlns With a
Worm Kci'i ptlon lrom llrr Pit.
litre, condemn you, you will pny
for that cat," said the grocery man to
the bad boy as he came in the store all
broke up the morning after the 4th of
July.
"What cat?' sad the boy, as he
leaned against the zinc ice-box to cool
his back, which bal been having
trouble with a bunch of firecrackers
in his pistol pocket. "We haven't
ordered any cat from here. Who or
dered any cat sent to our house? We
get our sausage a, the market, and
the boy rubbed some cold cream on his
nose and eyebrows, where the skin was
off.
'Yes, that is all right enough," said
the grocery man, "but somebody who
knew where that cat slept, in the b x
of sawdust back of the store, filled
it full of firecrackers Wednesday fore
noon, when I was out to ste the pro
cession, and never notified the cat, and
touched them off, and the cat went
through the roof of the shed, and she
hasn't got hair enough left on her to
put in tea. Now you didn't show up
all the forenoon, and I went and naked
your ma where you was, and she said
you had been setting up four nights
straight along with a sick boy in the
Third ward, nnd you was sleeping a'l
the forenoon the 4th of July. If that
i3 f-o, that lets you out on the cat, but
it don't stand to reason. Own up now,
was you asleep all the forenoon, the
4th, while other boys were celebrating,
or did you scorch my cat?" and the
grocery man looked at the boy as
though he would believe every word
he said, If he was bad.
"Well," said the bad boy, as he
yawned as though he had been up all
night, ' I am innocent of sitting up
with your cat, but I plead guilty of
Bitting up with Duffy. You sep, 1 am
bad, and it don't make any difference
where I am, and Duffy thumped me
once, when we were playing marbles
and I said I would get even with him
Bome time. His ma washes tor us, anu
when she told me that her boy was
sick, with fever, nnd had nobody to
stay with him while she was away.
thought it would be a good way to get
even with Duffy when he was weak,
and I went down there to his shnnty
and gave him his medicine, nnd r ad
to hiui- all day, and he cried, 'cans ho
knew I ought to have mauled mm
and that night I sat up with him
while bis ma did the ironing, and
Duffy was so glad that I went down
every day, and stayed there every
night, and fired medicine down h in,
and let bis ma sleep", and Duffy has
got mashed on me, and he says I Avill
be an angel when 1 die. Last nign
makes live nights 1 have sat up with
him, and he has got so that he can eat
beef tea and crackers. My girl went
back on me cause she said 1 was sit
ting up with some other girl. She pal
that Uuffv story was too thin, but
1 uffy's ma was washing at my girl'
house and she proved what I said, and
I was all right again. 1 sit pt all the
forenoon the 4th, and then stayed with
1 uffy till 4 o'clock, nnd got a furlough
and "took my girl to the Soldier's
Home. I had rather set up with Duffy,
though."
" Oh, get out. You can't make me
believe you had rather stay in a sick
room and set up with a boy, than to
take a girl to the 4th of July," said
the grocery u an, as he took a brush
and wiped the sawdust off some bottles
of peppersauce that he was taking out
ol'a box. You didn't have any trouble
with the girl, did you?'
" No, not with her," said the boy,
ai be looked into the little round zinc
mirror to see if his eyebrows were
beginning to grow. " But her pa is so
unreasonable. 1 think a man ought
to know better than to kick a boy right
where he has had a pack of firecrackers
explode in his pocket. You see, when
I brought the girl back home, she was
a wreck. Don't you never take a girl
to the 4th of July. Take tho advice
of a boy who has "had experleiu o. AVe
hadn't more than got to tho Soldiers'
Homo grounds before t-ome boys who
were playing tag grabbed hold of my
girl's crushed-strawberry polonaise and
ripped it off. That made her mad, and
Bhu wanted to take offense at it,
and I tried to reason with the boys
nnd they both jumped on me, and
I see the only way, to get out of
it honorably, was to get out
real spry, and I got out. 'i hen wo
sat down under a tree, to eat lunch,
and my girl swallowed a pickle the
wrong way, and I pounded her on tho
back, the "way ma dues me when I
choke, and she yelled, and a policeman
grabbed mo and shook me, and aded
me what 1 was hurting that poor girl
for, and told me if 1 did it again h
would arrest me. Everything went
wring. After dark somebody lire I a
Uoiiiau candle into my girl's hat, and
set it on lire, and I grabbed the hat
nnd stamped on it, and spoiled her hair
that her ma bought her. liy gosh, 1
thought her hair was curly, but when
tho wig was off, her own hair was a;
straight as could be. But tsho wusi
urty, all the same. We got undir!
iinotiier tree, to g-t away from the !
juiell of burned hair, and a boy set off
n chafer, and it ran right at my girl s !
feet, arid burned her blockings, and a
woman pu the fire out fur her, whilj ,
looked for the boy that fired the
chaser, but I didn't want to find him.
She was pretty near a wreck by that
time, though she had all her dress left
except tho polonaise, and we went and
it under a tree in a quiet place, and i
put my arm arc und her and told her
never to rnind the accidents, cause it
wi uld be dark when we got homo, and
just then a spark dropped down
through the tree and fell in my pistol
pocket, right next to her, where
my bunch of firecrackers was, ana
they began to go off. Well, I
never saw such a sight as she
was. Her dress was one of these
mosquito bar, cheese-cloth dresses, and
it burned just like punk. I had pres
ence of mind enough to roll her on the
grass nnd put out the fire, but in doing
that I neglected my own conflagration,
and when I got her put out, my coat
tail and trousers were a total loss, toy,
but she looked like a goose that has
been picked, and I looked like a fire-
nan that had fell through a hatchway.
My girl wanted to go home and I took
her home, and her pa was sitting on
the front steps, and he wouldn't ac
cept her, looking that way. lie said
he planed in my possession a whole
girl, clothed and in hi r right mind, and
1 had brought I ack a burnt ottering,
lie teaches in our Sunday-school and
knows how to talk pious, but his boots
are off ul thick. I tried to explain that
was not responsible for the fireworks,
and that ho could bring in a bill against
the government, and I showed hlra
how 1 was bereaved of a coat-tail and
some pants, but he wouldn't reason at
ill, and when his loot hit me 1 uiougnt
it was a pile-driver sure, and when I
got over the fenoe and had picked my
self up I never stopped till I got to
Duffy s and I sat up with him. cause
thought her pa was after me, ana I
thought he wouldn't enter a sickroom
and maul a watcher at the bedside or
an invalid. But that settles it with
me about celebrating. I don't care if
Ave did whip the British, after declar
ing independence, I don't want my
pants burnt off. What is the declara
tion of independence good fcr to a girl
who loses her polonaise, and has her nair
burned off, and a chaser burning her
stockings? No, sir, they may talk
about tho glorious Fourth of July, but
will it bring back that blonde wig, or
re tail my coat? Hereafter I am'
rebel." Milwaukee Sun.
Indian Ti cat merit of Captives.
Tiie live Mexican ' women and one
child recaptured from the Apaches by
(ieneral Crook were surprised by a
band of Apaches under the personal
command of (iironimo, about the 10th
of May. The Indians, with their cap
tives, traveled ince-santly the remain-"
dor of the day and all night. They
calculated that the next morning after
tin ir capture they were at least one
hundred miles distant, though they
cannot tell In what direction. For
three days they were without water,
but after that it was found in abund
!inro The country through which they.
passed was wild beyond description.
At times they were compelled to crawl
upon all fours. Their thirst for the
first three days nearly drove them
crazy, and the Indians would whip and
lash them up, and compel them to
travel. Toward the last of their cap
tivity their food commenced giving
out, and they were put upon rations, a
small pitce of raw beef being all that
was given them. This had to be di
vided among the six. Mrs. Antonia.
Hernandez all this time carried her
little child in her arms. The Indiaq
children took great pleasure In tor
menting him, pinching him, nnd jab
bing sharpened sticks into his sides,
giving him great pain. When they
remonstrated, Geronimo or his men
only laughed at her misery. The hut
two days of their captivity they had no
food at all. There was snow on the
mountains. The cold was intense, and
the woiiun suffered greatly, almost
freezing. Tho Indians never remained
quiet in one spot a day, but were con
tinually moving. They traveled nearly
100 miles a day, going in tvery direc
tlon, but tending generally marly
wtstwanl. The captives were abused
and maltreated in every possibl-j man
ner. They were made to work heavily
whenever camp was made, and were a
general object of abuse and ridicule.
The Indians would take up Mrs. Iler
n indez' little boy, threaten to kill him,
and would throw stones at him, to tha
great mental anguish of his mother,
one of the women was sont as a host
age of Borne sort to Chihuahua to make
peace. Tho exposure to cold, thirst,
famine and exhaustion from travel and
fear of torture was having an effect on
tho poor women. The first thing they
kn ;w they were hustle I one day fur
ther into the mountains. The next
day a brother of Chief ( hatto delivered
them up to (ieneral Cro. k. As one of
them expressed herself when she saw
(ieneral Crook and tho soldiers: ''It
seemed as If the rky opened and Heav
en appeared." 'San Francisco Morii'
nj Cull. '
A Chinese doctor lrts been fined $100
at I'luenix, Arizona Territory, for prac
tising without a diploma. The Celes
tial produced a Chinese document,
which ho claimed was a diploma, but
the court thought it only a laundry
bill.
Widow (ilenn is the boss farmer of
California, and perhaps of tho world
lier wheat crop this year will brinj
hir in 700,0 JO. '
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