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YOLIYIII. NO. 53.
TI0NE3TA, PA.. VEHHISDAT, AFEIL 7. 1885.
$1.53 PER AIIUI.
AaanjUMras
In ai.M'tioti to L cing the olde-t living
et Senator of the Vnifd State, Joseph
Cillry, of Nottingham. Jf. II., has be
rime by the recent death of Genera1
I'avid llnrtnr. the? oldest ex-officer of the
r'","ii;r army, his commission dating
from March 1 .
BuU fighting is apparently a lucrative
profession. Iji.-tijo, the favorite toreador
of Madrid, make $',0,000 during tbe
summer sc:is;n at that mpital.and during
tlie winter he makes about $50,000 travel
ing through the province s. Lat year he
killed 34 bulls and did not receive a
cratch.
As a rule, England's war veterans
r'h a jjTe-nti.r M'jtth:in our own. Ilan
ccx k di.-d at n'uty two. Grant at sixty.'
three, and Mi CI -Han at sixty. Lord
Stradbmke, who served under Wellington
in Spain, died recently at the ag of
ninety-two, and the Iron Duka himself
lived beyond fourscore year.
Greenville, Perm., point with pride to
Magdalen Mi.W. who i ninety years oll
and mother of twelve children. "When
jounit, he was a vitrrotw as a man and
could shoulder three biuheU of wheat.
During the graveyard insurance erase
he was insured forever 1 100. 000, and
has outlived all the companies. She
has tnoked tob ieo for more than seventy
years.
Sparrows are coctiin? into the New
York market in a way that could never
have been expected. There is a great
demand for the skins (with jiiumage) of
canaries, goMSnche and other small
lirdi, for the decoration of gowns, and
the enterprising traders in auch gKxl-
have dis;ovcrc I that skins of sparrows
' are obtainable at a che ip rate, and may
'-..vjy.d in various gay colors, and sold
under any same except their own.
The Alps are pierced by three remark
ably long ttinnt-Ls entering Italy from
Franre, Switzerland and the Austrian
Tyrol. They are the Mont Cenis, seven
and three-quarters miles long; the St.
Gothard, niue and one-quarter miles long;
and. the Arllx-rg tunncL only six and one
half miles longi The projected Si;m Ion
tunnel, by whiJi the railroad, from Gen
eva, to Martigni will be carried, through
taa moantains to Dumo d'Ossola, will be
twelve and one-half miles long, and the
estimated cost f 20.000,000.
On"? of the latest notions for preserving
health and beauty is to drink a glass of
h.'t watT before breakfjst, and it is
largely practiced. A Baltimore physician,
sp -uking of this, related some curious
met ho Is employed by his female patients
to preserve their good looks. One drinks
glass of t ast water before arisinsr ia
t'ae morning; another u.ses a halitca
p04nfu! of tincture of cinchona in a gob
Ictof water; still another tak? a pinch of
table suit into her m';uth befoie leaving
bed, and a Philadelphia belle every morn
iag regularly gargles her throat with
soapsuds made of white castile soap.
The immense quantity of peanuts
grown, in Africa, Soirth America and in
our own Southern Slates afford not only
an article of fiwxl, but a very large source
uf oil production. The seed contaiuii
from forty-five to fifty per cent, of a
nearly colorless, bland, fixed oil, not
ualik oliv uil, aul ued for similar
purposes; it is a non-drying oil, whi h
changes but little by exposure to the air,
and remsins fluid even at several decrees
colder than thirty-two degrees. A very
great quantity of soup is manufactured
tvym this kiad of oil; indeed, aome of
this fioe.it toilet souis imported from
France are of this material.
There is one happy corner of the foot
stool where currency questions are un
knouc. The inhabitants of the Port
rixniilt-n group of islands, recently pur-hi,-ed
by Eagliiiid from Corea, are
neither Ki-iuetalists nor moao-mctalisti.
They are strict no-meta!it. Silver and
gold have they none, and they are quite
set upon doing without cither. They
are equally unfamiliar with paper money.
Ia short, they know nothing aljut cur
rency in any form, and so far it haa
been impossible to argue the idea into
their heads. They are willing to work
making roads and laiiding-pla. es, but not
for niouey. They insi.it upon being paid
for thi--Lr labor in rii e. An inlander who
was ciered a Mexican dollar, aud tuid
that he could g t rice for it, trave back
theceia with the pithy remark that it
in "Tather -mail for a farm."' 'When
informed that the graia wis to be got,
not by actual production, tut in the way
.f cXi-Laiige, he teIlol tijiit Le 'would
take it at out e, so tLer Would U- no De.-d
of exi tanking " As i: sj iupo!.Ls to
tjhd.p-4g'iii siiih remursci l..--i-,
the naiive west tff with the jTiiiu, and
the European w a left w.th th uaorowaed
id-Lj.!.
HEBE.
Be, what a (mnh i TTlf?m
Hid ail buff, aod without a brl(
To the tail's brown tuft that mowtlv li
Bo quiet one thinks her snuva awaiu?;
But ptum too nmr. mitrp trx f rw,
Yoi Hn.l hTsiniriljrr a lvi' tni.-:
Cp eomea that paw all pluxh, vou m
Out fourciaws. St for Satan i ase.
T'arel Jo4i sleeve's brwjiiti cliiarr tiwn,
A od vour la.t mpprnrtuvn on any stag I
Loll, if von like, bv Daniel's Ln.
Hut cfr and away f mm Hebe cage
That's Het : (istn to that purr.
kumhiinif as from the gnmnd below;
Strnntf". when the rina; beeins to stir.
The tfeHhings ajway ve her to.
Y"u think 'twere a romher task by far
To tame her mate wifh the mtatv nianef
A t)leniiid bronze for a showman's car,
And qaite enough for bit ami nin.
But Hebe i just like all hr aex
Not (rood, then bad bfou'e of that:
la either cane 'twrjtiJd a sa" perplex
To maice them out. both woman and cat.
A em-ions reroH. Helie's. Rarel
In Italy: atre that's har.1 to flx;
Tmiued rr-mi a nib. until she fearpd
The la-h. and learned her nund of tricks;
Aiwavs a traveler one of two
A woman-tamer tsic in hand.
Whippet them, coaxed them and so they
irrw
To fawn or cower at bar command.
lioue bnt Florina that was her name
Ami this the story of Hebe hera
Enter! their eae : tbe brutes were tame
As kittens, thj ur h their mistraas near.
A tall. proni weneh asever was sen,
Suppie and hsnilsome. full ot grace;
Tlie world would bow to a real queen
That had Fiorina's form and face.
Her lover for one she had, of coarse
Was Marco. a-r'jlat. circus-star.
The lijthLest foot on a running horse.
The surmt leap from a swuijrun bar;
And she o jealous he dared not tom h
A woman's hand : and. truth to say,
H had no humor to tease her much
Till a girl in spangles crow si their way.
Twa. at Marseille, the final s-ene:
This pretty rider joined the rmg, .
Ma'm'selie Celete or Vic-tonn,
Ami eapture.1 him under Fiorina's wing.
They hid their meetings, but when, you see,
Doubt holds the candle love will how.
And in love's division the one of three.
W hone share is lenei, needs must know.
One night, then, after the throng outpoured
From the show, and the lions my Lady's
power
Had Wa nuxle to feel, with lash that scored
And eya that cowed them, a snarling
hour
(They were just in the mood for pleasantry
Lf tlKe holidays when sainta were thrown
To beast, and the Romans, eo trance-free.
Clapped hands) that night, as aha stood
alone.
Fiorina. Queen of the Lions, called
sir Mareo toward her, while her I ..
Still touched the spring of a door that waBed
Her subjects aajfa within Lion-land.
He came there panting, hot from the ring.
So brave a figure that one mi-ht know
Among ail his m be be muit be king
If in some wild tract you met hua so.
"Do you love me still," she asked, "as when
ou swore it ttrstr 'Have never a
doubt:"
"But I have a fancy men are men.
And one whim drives anotner one."
hat fancy f Is this all.' Have done;
You tire me.n -Look you, Marco: oh,
I should die if another woman won
Your love but would iiil sou first, you
know:"
"Kill me? and how with a jealous tongue?"
Thus.,n quoth Fiorina, ami slippeu the
bolt
Of the cage's door, and hee.Uong flung
Sir Marco, ere he could Lrtsataie, the dolt:
Plump on the lion he boumtxi, aud fell
Beyond and Hebe leapt fur him there
No need for their ladv'i voice to toll
The work m hand for that reaxiy pair.
They say on wouldn't have cared to see
The group connuutled. man and beast,
Or to hear tiie shrieks and roars all threw
Jne red, the featers ami the feast :
Guns, pwtobi biaceit. till the lion sprawled,
bhit dead, but Hebe held to her prev
And dr&uk his blood, while keepers bawled
And their hot irons nuttld yon scars that
day.
But the woman' True. I had forgot;
She never flinched at the havoc made,
5or gave one cry. but there on the spot
Drove to the heart her pomanl-blatie.
Straight, like a man, and fell, nor stirred
Again; so that One pair were dead;
One lied, and the other kept her word
And death pays debts, when all is said.
So they hustled Hebe out of France,
To Spain, or maybe to England tirst.
Then hituerwani over seas, by chance.
ciie c-auje as you see her. ai a a atuii-at,
As if. hke the tiiresses that slink
la the village canes of Hindustan.
Of one rare oraught he lives to think,
Ani ever to get it must plan and pian.
-fJissiui C. aud.nan, ia th Ct.Umry.
YUY HE DISAPPEARED.
A BOMA-XCE OF THS WAR.
When the war broke out Jim Dutton
was the potma.ter at Blue Rock. He
had held the poeition for a number of
years, and no man in the settlement
stood higLer. Jim's strong point was his
honesty. He had very Lttie book-learning,
and was ignorant of the ways of the
world. Still, w ith the asitance of his
wife, a charming little woman, he suc
ceeded ia managing th-; business of the
poRloriice in such a manner as to give
general satisfaction.
While the new Confederate govern
ment was netting its i3aii-s in order, the
old ma hiiiery organised under the
Uniled States authorites continued to
run on. This was public necessity, as
the pormasters rould not all be changed
ia an instant, or be recommisaionciL As
a clever ieorgian, though not a strong
t'oufed rrat'.:. Jiui Duttoa held oa under
the new regime and did his duty. But
it was only for a couple of w eeks. One
Monday morniur the villagers found the
poetothce cloned, and investiitkia dis
cloecd the fa. t that l;tr.oa and his wife
Lod in; tcrtou.-ly dL-appvareJ. The
money and accounts of the i.tiii e turued
out to be ail right, aud Uooody uu!d
understand wL Jiiu and fcis wifa should
have slipped ,J at night w IihoLt leaving
a clue, it was ascerraoied that a iiav or
two L-
jre xrt depart -are the pi
-tiuattrr
uior''i"-it t.s i ullage sr.. I tvruitur for
lXo.;t t..eir f'i.l Vh. a tu sec U U 7 f.jf a
icua th b bai cb-.jii.id. io th
couple did" not go away unprovided with
money.
No event ever in the history ef Dl "
Rock created siji h int ne excitement.
It was a tantaii'.ing mystery, and it was
impossible to unravel it. The rapid pro
gress of the war, however, soon a!-.'rbed
public attention, and the Dutton episode
ceased to be talked about.
Som." time aso, in a little town in
Western Texas. I accidentally ran aja'n.st
Jim Dutton. There was no mistaking
the man. Time had d.-alt gmtly with
him, and he looked pronperous. I alap
p"d him on the back with a hearty
"Hello, Jim Dutton'."
Jim turned and f. 11 all to pieces, to to
speak, lie recoxnized me and shook
hands. After a long and pleasant con
versation. Jim said:
"Colonel, I reckon you would like to
know why mv wife and I Uft Blue
Keck r
"Well, vou mav explain if vou feel like
it," I repli'ecL
Later in my room at the hotel before a
blazing fin? and with a good ciar to
stimulate him Dutton unbosomed himself
to m.
''Colonel," said he, it m ike me blush
now to think what a greenh-.m, what a.
miserable ignoramus I was at the begui
ninsr of the war."
'Oh. no." I suggested deprecatingly.
"But I wan,' continued Jim. "I verily
believe I was the biggest fool in Georgia,
and yet I thought I was the smartest
man in the State. You see, being post
master had puffed me up so that I felt aa
big as the governor himself. Well, after
the Confederacy organized I went ahead
under my old Federal commission.attend
ing to the postal basinets of the
Confederate States. One niht my
wife, who was a great reader, hinted to
me that may be I had laid myself liable
for higi treason. At first I laiczhed at
the idea, and thea I rummaged through
some old histories and found that in
every civilized country where there was
a rebellion and a government officer sided
with the rebels he was held guilty of
treason. Now. it struck me that our se
cession was in fact a rebellion, and if we
were whipped, as I feared we would be,
I would be in a bad box. I told my wife
about it, and she reminded me I had a
copy of Blackstooe, and advised me to
read up on the punishment of treason."
Duttoa pausea a moment, and then
said:
"You see I was so badly scared that I
was afraid to consult anybody, and be
side there was no lawyer at Blue Rock.
I had heard a heap about BLackatone
and supposed everything in it was the
law of the land. So that night I got tbe
book down and my wife and I looked
through it. I give you my word that
what we read made our hair stand on
end. Why, sir, we learned from that
book that I was liable to be convicted of
treason, drawn to the place of execution
on a hurdle, hanjed, divided into four
quarters, beside forfeiting my property
and having my blood corrupted. My
wife burst into a fit of tears and threw
her arms around my neck. I blubbered
a little, too.
"'Just to ttinV said my wife, that
my Jimmie must be cut into four quarters
like beef, and be hanged, and all sorts of
horrid things.
14 'It is bad,' I said, 'and then I see my
blood is to be corrupted."
" IIow can that hurt you? asked my
wife. after you are dead ?'
" 'Dunno,' I said, "but I don't like the
ilea.
"Well, the long and short of it was,
we decided to skip. I made my arrange
ments about the property as you know,
and we slid out one Saturday night. We
never stopped till we got away out here.
It was oa the frontier then, and bless
your soul, the war never- bothered us.
We never saw a soldier."
"But," said L "didn't you find out
very soon that your fears were without
foundation 1"
'No, sir; it was years and years before
I felt safe. In fact it was some time
after the war endetL I had beun to
accumulate property. My ranch was
turning out well, and I had leisure to
read books and newspapers. You bet I
looked up that treason business, and
found what a monumental fool I had
made of myself."
I leaned back in my chair and laughed
heartily.
'OtC you may laugh," said Dutton,
"but my folly and ignorance were the
making of me."
"You would have done well if you had
remained ia Georgia," I replied.
"No, I wouldn't. I'd stuck to Blue
Rock, and perhaps been postmaster there
yet on a salary of T a year. Now I
have a ranch worth $110,000. I have
knocked about in the world I go every
year to St. Louis anil New Orleans, and
I am bej-inning to en ioy life. Ci.me home
with me and see. I live only twenty
miles from here."
I had to decline the invitation, as I was
going to leave the next day.
"You can tell the boys, if you like,"
said Jim. at parting. "Some of those
Blue Rock fellows are as green as I used
to be, and I don't care what they may
think about it. AnL Colonel, tell them
that me and the old woman are getting
along just splendid, and that my two
sons and two daughters are the finest Wis
and Ues in Texas."
As I rode orl I turned when I came to
the first hill-top, and a half mile below
in the vi'.laire street I could ee the ex-postma.st,-r
of Blue Rock waving his som
brero after me. AUantu ( ) (.'uruUU'i-
Tbe Blood at a t.allop.
Just before mounting our hories iuu
i the morning of the second dav's Ciihti, it
I occurred to ue to a ertaiu the pu!atioiS
i the hiHiaa stetu in thj excitement
I of tr'.'iuj: LEto tattle. I reouc-ted Irf
j n.ed.cai director. It. Rrodie, to hjiuiu
1 the p.ilje of uiyseif and s,tai. lie f.j.iud
! that they varied Irom n.iicty ta 1 j
A JAPANESE MARRIAGE.
DxscKLPi'ioar or the ceremost
BT AJST EYS.W lTflkS3.
Georgrrue ttaiment of the Guete
Tbe Toddling BHde and Abashed
Bridegroom Odd Custom..
A gentleman who has seen ft wedding
in high life in Japan has given an ac
count of the ceremony to a Philadelphia
Pr'm representative : "I had been," he
said "staying four days in a tea house at
Osaka, which, on account of being the
seat of all that is prominent in art, liter
ature and the drama, is often spoken of
as the Paris of Japan, when I was in
formed that Tokiwa, a pretty maid of
seventeen, the daughter of my host. Fu
jama Madura, was to be wedded to Yori
tomo San jo, a rich voting man who was
proprietor of a big theatre. The wedding
was a tremendous affair owins to the
high standing of the families of the bride
and groom. It was celebrated in the
evening, and three of the largest rooms
on the second a top floor were thrown
into one for the occasion by simply push
ing the paper-screen walls that separated
them out of the way. Then the spacious
apartment was lavishly decorated with
bright scrolls of pictures and mottoes
and verses from the Japanese poets and
with proverbs about matrimony and por
traits of all sorts of jolly looking gods of
good luck and wealth and happiness. .
"The raiment of the jounz ladies and
little boys and girls vere simply too
gorgeous to be described witaout the aid
of a well-stocked paint box. All the
girls, big and little had their odd faces
(very few of them are pretty) powdered
and painted in a manner most fearful to
behold, but considered very charming
by their countrymen. Their eyebrows
were blackened, too, and the girls under
twelve years had ail sorts of odd pins in
their hair. Above that age no respecta
ble female ever makes use of them.
"At last everyone had arrived and was
seated on the floor of the big room where
the wedding was to take place. They
made the place fairly hum with their
merry clatter, and the youngsters gathered
about me in a sort of irregular circle and
shook with laughter whenever I spoke to
or smiled at them. Their parents tried
to keep them, still, but couldn't, and had
it not been for their sense of politeness
they too would have stared as hard as
the children. As it was they would
keep their eyes on me when they thought
I was not observing them, but instantly
looked away and pretended not to be at
all curious whenever I glanced their way.
At the end of the room where the cere
mony was to take place there stood on
the matted floor a dwarf pine tree about
three feet high and under it the figures
of an old man and old woman, the
whole symbolizing a long life of
married happiness and ft green old aee.
There were also two brown storks and a
bronze tortoise, and a swinging censor
of the eame metal gave forth the rich
perfume of burning sandal-wood. On a
low stand of gold lacquered wood there
were three slender porcelain bottles,
covered with figures of the god of
wealth and health and other desirable
features of life, one being twice the size
cf the others, and also a beautiful little
cloisonne vessel, looking like a teapot
with two spouts, the one opposite the
other, and with a handle of laquered bam
boo. A small rray, on which were three
delicate little china cups, each standing
in the one beneath it, completed the 'out
tit' necessary for the proper performance
of the marriage, which in Japan is
neither a religious or a civil ceremony,
and no priest or government official is
needed to tie the knot. The Japs call
the ceremony san-san-ku-do, or three
times three are nine.
"When three young girls had ceased
playing ft very inharmonious composi
tion on ft native guitar, a small drum
and a squeaky flute, the wedding party
entered. First came two girls who were
to act as the bridesmaids, and they were
dresaed in the loveliest shade of coral
pink crepe, embroidered with an irregu
bir tlhiht of butterdies. which, the Japs
aay, always fly ia pairs, and which are
nearly always present in some design or
another at weddings. Their sashes
were blue and silver. The fair Tokiwa
then appeared, toddling between her
proul parents (all Japanese women
toddle' rather than walk i, and complete
ly veiled with a white scarf. Her dress
was of dove-colored crepe, with here and
there a white stork in full flight across
the face of a great round golden sun, from
which the rays shot out two or three
inches in all directions. Her sash was
of the same shade of pink as the brides
maids' dresses, with graceful sprays of
cherry blossoms stamped upon it, and
her tiny feet now and then peeped out
clad in snow-white little mittea socks.
Following came Yoritomo, quite
abashed by the attention he was receiv
ing from the audience a.id flanked on
either side by his mother and father, both
very old people and both the picture of
antique good humor. Yoritomo was
about twenty-four, short, sturdy, with
jet black hair, arranged ia the conven
tional fashion, and wore ft cotumc of
claret -colored material, over which were
designs that l'oked like a terrific thaa-d-r-.storm,
with sheet, chain and fork
lightning playing about the forms of the
most amazing collection of dragons and
fishes, which were disporting themselves
by twisting themaelves into double bow
knots and other uncomfortable positions.
It was the most stunning garment I ever
saw ou a utau. There was a tremendous
amount of etiquette gone throiitrb. ith.
Lut the way that thes two youii peopld
really got Harried was about as f.io-
i.oi.h of the brijesiiiilds took oue of
the 5Ua.l boct.es, w t.ch w as li.led w itil
t'.e best saki. a sort cf beer Hi.iJ-? from
rice, looking iAe p-u.e sherry and Lav
ing a iIj!i. in ipid tarte, and poured
V.t contents lto t ae Ltzr t.ottla, this
a--t being svtticiUjlef tie au;a"-L;g o'
the two lives of the pair about to be
joined together; and the tray bearing
the three little cups was then handed to
the bride, whose veil had just been
raised, and the upper cup filled from the
large bottlf. Miss Tokiws, blushed
through her thick coat of paint, and her
lips which were entirely covered with
gold foil, ported in pretty smile be
stowed upon her future lord and master,
who returned tbe mile with intens.
She then raised the tray and sipped
three times from the cup. handed it to
Yoritomo, who. with three more sips,
emptied it and placed the top cup under
the other two. The other bridesmaid
then filled the cup now on top, and, six
more sips having emptied it. the last of
the three was similarly treated ia its turn,
and the knot was legally tied.
"Ia order to do the thing in the most
approved fashion and leave no room for
doubt, the donble-spontcd teapot was
then filled with saki, and Mr. and Mrs.
Sanjo each took a pull at its contents at
the same time, and, that over, the parents
went through somewhat similar per
formance with the three cups, and then
everyone congratulated the happy pair
and the chattering recommenced more
vigorously than before, and a great feast
was served below in the public rooms,
which had been closed since an hour be
fore the wedding.
"A party of singing girls then came in
and did their level best, which was very,
very bad, and, in the jolliest, most child
like and generally hilarious manner, the
entire company, old, young and middle
aged, thoroughly enjoyed themselves
until about 10 o'clock, when the happy
yonng couple went off to the new house
he had prepared for her, in a gorgeously
decorated jinricksha, drawn by three
men, with a dozen others running before,
singing and swinging paper lanterns, and
then everyone else went home."
The Towm Cow Diseased.
One of the most annoying things that
the country people have to contend with
is the ordinary town cow. When the far
mer leaves home he puts in the bottom of
his sleigh or sled a bountiful armful of
hay. This answers the twofold purpose
of a seat and to keep the feet of himself
and the good wife warm. He arrives at
town, unloads his wife in front of some
store, and proceeds to hitch his team at
some point about the public square. No
sooner is his back turned than a dozen
starved cows immediately surround his
sled, and before he can say "Jack Robin
son, with his own mouth open," every
straw in his sled has gone through the
gastric orifices of the aforesaid cows. We
noticed one particularly careful fellow
the other day. Alter hitching bis team
he took his hay and carried it into the
court-house yard. He was going to have
the dead-wood on that bunch
of hay, and departed for a saloon with a
grin on his face. We watched the pro
ceeding with considerable interest. He
was not out of sight until three or four
long-horns opened the gate and pro
ceeded to the pile and chewed it up.
Clubbing these lean kine does no good.
In fact, they rather enjoy the fun. You
can take an ordinary stick of cord wood
and bounce it from off their casca-es
fifty feet high and they will turn around
and smile at you. They don't even grunt
when you have hit them hard enough to
stave in their ribs. Such punishment
seems onlv to act as a tonic; it whets
their appetites and makes them enjoy the
i repast which the farmer has hauled to
them from his home many miles distant.
And after it is all over, just notice the
piculiar look they give the man who
I came to town sitting on a pile of hay, as
he departs for home sitting on the bare
boards ! The town cow ia a nuisance.
I but at the same time a necessity in all
j rural villages. A ''home without a
' mother" would not be a more lonesome
spectacle than ft rural village without its
herd of lean, long-homed, stump-tailed
cows. Went Unim (Ohi) People De-
i Aft Abie Indian Chief.
I "Speaking of Geronimo," said an oj
j cer, "he Ls no doubt a brave and skillful
i leader, but we haven't had such an I.i-
dian in this country since the days of
; Tecumseh as old Chief Joseph, who gave
' Howard such a tusale and came near get
ting John Gibbons' scalp at the Big Ude.
Joseph was not only a brave fighter, but
he had military genius. After his sur
render I escorted him. to Washington to
see the Great Father, and got well ac
quainted with him. I tell you, I was
surprised to find how much that man
knew. He could not read, of course, but
he could speak a little English and his
description of his campaign against
Howard was very interesting, for it
showed that the fellow had true mili
tary instinct and was naturally a tacti
cian. I tell you if I had that fellow in
command of a regiment of scouts 1
would not be afraid of anything."' "Ves,
and how old Joseph could tight," said
another officer. "His tribe, the Nez
Percea, did not know what fear was.
Look at John Gibbons' fight with them
at Big Hole. Gobbons went in with the
whole Seventh infantry. He struck Jo
seph's camp in the Big Hole basia just
at daybreak. The Indians, men, women
and children, were all asleep. a
soul wakened until the first volley.
Every soldier picked his Indian aud had
a bea.1 on him before the camp was
aroused. And yer, after as complete a
ur prise as that, bloiued if Joseph didn't
rally his band and unve Gibbons oK.
And, what is worse, he came near mak
ing another Custer afair of ir I have
hem 1 ' 'ions say that it wis the hard
est fic ever had. and that thi.' only
tting Jeelft, lived a Ii.a-oi.re Was that
J jacpi niiiou gave out aud he had
to retrfesh G..iy. J uiut.
t r.
Prof
says that a fair esti
d let of the Amer
U fr short at
male o
icia fit
1 100, IX
REQUITAL
As Islam's Pnvpbet. when his last day clrw
ITigh to its close, besought all mpn t jy
Whom he had wronged, to whom he tiwu
should pay
A debt forgotten, or for par-lon sue.
And, through the sila-e of r,i weeding
friends.
A strange voice cried: "Then onwt me
debt,""
'Allah be praised!" be answered " Even
yet
Erf gives me power to make to thee sns?nls,
0 friend: I thank thee for thy timely
word."
So runs the tale. Its lesson a'l may be!.
For ail have sinned in thought or -wrrd or
deed.
Or, like the prophet, through neglo 'i aave
erred.
A3 need forgiveness, all have debts to pey
Era the nijht cometh, wbi! it ti'l ! Uy
John G. WJutivrr.
BC30S Of THE DAT.
Waist of time The middle of the
hour-glass.
A young lady wrappe,l i? 'a heraelf is
a delicate parcel.
It's ft wise goose that knows its own
featb r. LotctU Citizen.
If you cannot lick ft man, be lenient
with his faults. Picayung.
A curtain lecture: "Why don't you
roll that shade up straight?"
Advertisement of ft church Singers
wanted. In choir of the organist.
It's the little things that tell especial
ly the little brothers and sisters. 2?ur
linjton Free Pret.
The Irish question is rapidly assuming
this shape: "What shall we do with
England i'' PhSadeljphUt Pre.
From trifl s our pleasures often spring.
The smallest thing bappine renders.
And many a man feels as proud as a king
la a pair of embroidered suspemiers.
Boston, .'ourier.
"Shrouds 1" exclaimed aa old lady who
was listening to an old sea captain's
story, "what do you have them at sea
forf:r "To bury dead calms ia, madams."
Sifiing.
The town of Glenelg, 3rd., is remark
ftble for the fact that its name spells the
same backward or forward.. That's
what's the matter with Hannah. TFaaa
injtvn Critic.
"In my opinion all men are liars," said
Mrs. Blister to her husband. "Permit
me to remark, my dear, ia that con
nection," he responded, gallantly, 'that
you are an angeL" JfrrrJutiU-Traveler.
"AH flesh is grass," the prophet said;
U this be true, I ween.
The grass of which the dtuie was made,
Was very, very green.
Boston, Courier.
clergyman w ho married four couples
in one hour the other evening remarked
to a friend that it was "pretty fast work."
''Not very," responded his friend ; "only
four knots an hour." 3 York JVVtrj.
Hor kins (to traveler 'Oh. yes we
have some very wealthy people here, and
several monopolists. Of the latter, I
think Richards, the flour-mill man. is
about the wealthiest. Richard "I do
detest these grinding monopolists."
Jvd'je.
"The coming m;in is an object of much
solicitude out West." That shows how
changed conditions are ia diilerent part
of the country. Here there is often more
solicitude on account of the going man,
especially on the part of his creditors.
Seie York Graphic
He asked: "Why is this lock of pais
Upon tbv loveiy fact;
Why oa that brow hath agony
bet its corroding trace?
Ohl tell me, dear, why misery
Thy sins soul doth biihr.J"
'-Ou. darling," she replies, because
ly new boots are so tiht"
iloitus Gazette.
Do Flyin Fish Fly!
The question "Do Flying-fish FTyT
seems to me should have long since been
settled ia the alfinnaiive. Many yers go
the writer was engaged ia trading voy
ages in the Sou:h Pacific ocean, where
the flying-fl.-h. were to be seen daiiy. They
would generally rise in shoals, which flut
tered from wave to wave from fifty to one
hundred yards before settling in the sea.
Again individual fish would rise, flying
comparatively higher, their flights some
times being from one hundred and fifty
to pro'oably two hundred yards long The
school tisii were the smallest in size, and
would bury ia the cre-ts of the waves in
crossing thera, wiiile the individual n.-n
would, at the most, simply touch the
spray of some, of the is in passing.
These last fish seemed to ranee from fif
teen to twenty inches in lecgh, were
uiite thick, had a reddish color about
T.e head and shotil lers, and ia flying
often made curves from a straight line,
as if avoiding the vessel or lomt d.iagj-r
in the sea.
There could be no spring or jump ia
the matter, except to emerge from the
ware' when starting, the fi.ght being
cat s si by the wis2. which vibrated as
quickly and hke tuo-e of the h'.imnijng
bird. Further than all this, it is only
necessary to examine the wings of a fly-ing-risU
n 1 it. w ill be seen tiiey are Um
long, jielding and fragile t admit of
usiug Li so d.-n.M? a fl uid an sea water. My
the. ry Ls that the fl;. kg'tish u-ed their
taiis and small tins to raise th in.scives
out of the, wilcr, and mad their fi g'-.t
by the large fia wii:e while ia the ,r;
further, that they toui.h the wav.-s u:ipiy
iu pu-iug o-s a re-t. the. larger tish being
stronger waiving louger tt.gnts, toward
the eud of w (ii U tuef -e-Uied tv a.l ilii
wirgs extended uatil they iirv . 1 1lT
the sc. A'uruiiit A t'J c.
Ha kics of bi-is of the in. d ra iti
are found in the pi'ih i-tjrie, n:juii ii t.J
t-izUad
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