HOLCOMB & TRA,
VOL. VIL
-TIIE-
Braclford Republican,
I.nblia(t4.l every Thursday at Towatille, Pa.,
ii)T.C . 3 4 N113 A. TRACY, Proprietor..
Terms: if paid in advance, $l.OO per annum ;
Her paid lb , advance $1.21. To subscribers out
et the county. $1,2.5. invariably in advance, the
addition being made to cover - prepayment of
postagd. '
Advertising hates:-Sir cents a line for first
&Insertion:lnd five cents per line , for all subio.
qucut insertions. needing notice advertising
ten cents4er line., Eight lines constitute a
%guar°, tad twelve lines an inch, Auditor's
notices $2.50. Administrator's and Executor's
notices s2.oq.:' Nearly advertising $150.00 per
- column
Tug 11£117DLICAN is published in the liacy,
Ilc.ore and Nobles Block, at the corner of Main
and l'incjtreets, over J. F. Corner's Boot and
shoe stets. Ith circulation is over 20iM. As an
Ivurtiillpg Indium it is unexcelled tu its {M.
11:126 field.
`Our Clubbing 'Tering.
We will furnish all paying subscribers fur
he llzivituastf within, the county with any
'4 the : following publications, until further
noti.ie, at the_ratea given below. .
The dtzetTuidOsii• $l.OO in addition. - -
Su'rscribers residing out of the eo pity 11 ill
be charged 25 cents additional.
New Y' Weekly Times,..... • .
Semi-Weekly Times
New-York - Daily Tribune,
Weekly - til . .
SCIIII.WeekiV ..
New -York Daily Evening Post,
'" Weekly " ..
Semi-Wee-My it
New York . Weekly World,
!iesuilWeekly Si
Philadelphia Daily Times, 5 G 5
PhiladelphioVeekly Times, 1 30
--- PliilaZill - p - b - a -- Daily Press, 8 00
. Philadelphial'eekly Press,... .... .. 1 10"'
Harper's Magazine,. .... ... ..... 310
Harper's Weekly, 3 25 ---
I larpe r's. Bazar; _, 3 25
. S - ciiblier's Monthly,.... 3 25
St. Nielielis,..... ... ' ... 2 50
i Appleton's Journal, • 2 35 •
- ivit I. 13teel engraving of Dickens.. 310
• Popular Science Monthly, 4 00
" - -.' Supplement,.... 250
• Magazine of Ariierican History...—. - 4 00
North American Reiriew. 4 00
New York Medical, Journal, ' 3 25
American A.grictiturist, 1 10
Country Gentlemen, 2 10
Rural S'ew Yorker;.... 1 85,
"Toledo Blade, 1 M'
Littell's Living Age, - . , 7 00
Atlantic Monthly, 3 25
Wide Awake, 1 65
BabylautL: —.60 -
Lippintiotti - .7. • 3 25
Demoress,:::- 2 50
Gods;; .1.-'„ :;`..,, - 1 65
t'l .ietitific'American, 2 75
PetertfOn's Magazine,.... 1 60
IliC-dintl3CrY. I 20
Fanner's-Review 40
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Bn - flington HaWkeye, 1 50
N, --England Journal of Education.. 2 00 •
Kehdall7s Treatise.on the Horse - 25
.A . rOval and peparture of
•Mada arrive and depart itt the Twiranda Poet
•tlice as follows:
Phil.; N. Y., and Eastern Statea
Imehore, Laporte, &c... • .
1.. V. tit ay mail from the North'
sliesliequin Sc ..-.
Now Era, &M, Tuesday, Thursday :and
7 Saturday.. ...... ........-........
Asylum, &c.; Monday. Wednesday and
Friday.
Troy, Burlington. Sc 1:00 P. at.
Leltaysvilli; Rome, !cc 1:00
Clued pouch from Erie and NC R 11. a 2:30
1.... V. way mail from the South 4:3.5
Ci.inton. - /t.c 5:00
&relay n;3O
Closed podCh -from Elmira and E UR 10:40
canton, ISlonroeton, .kc
Lehigh Valley way mail South
Closed pouch Elmira, Erie and North.
ern Central Railroads
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urday
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1 Friday 1:00
Leßaysville, Rome, !cc 1:00
thishore, itc.. ...... .........—.... 2:45
Lehigh Valley way =lll North 3:45_
New:A:irk Phila. and Eastern States. 7:45
.):lii, lopen from 7:00 a. M. to 7:45 P. M. Money
tir , ll office open from 8:00 A. M. to 7:00 P. M.
oilier Open on Sunday from 9:00 to 10:00 A. M.
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J NEW YORK RAILROADS.
AIzHANGEMENT 0"F PASSENGER TRAII49
I'O TAKE EFFECT MAY 15, MO..
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t"Wn Itummertield 6.24. Stand lag Stone 6.31.
Wv,;.atikiug 6.40. Towanda 6.53. Ulster '7.06,
Milan 7:16. Athens 7:25, Sayre 7:40. Waver
ly 7:55, arriving at Elmira 8:50.
No.:11 leaves Prnirs 5:45 P. M.. Waverly 6:35,
:Vero , Yre 6:45, Athena 6:50, Milan 15:59. lister 7:08,
TOM4II4Ik I :11, Wysanking 7:55. Standing Stone.
itunimerileld 7:52, Prenehtosrn 8:02, arriv-
Itlg at Wyslnsing at 8:15.
'trains 8 and 15 run , daily. Sleeping ears on
trait:Wm and 15 between Niagara Falls and Phils
40P-his,and between Lyons and Now TOrk with
out...ban get. Parlor cars on Trains 2 and
befroen Niagara Falls 'and Philadelphia' With ;
4 , ut change, and through coach to and from
Rochester via Lyons. I
WM.-STEVENSON, Supt.
SATnE• Pa, May 15. 1881. Pa, &N. Yild. B.
AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.
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nwanda. Busbies% Direziory.
ATTOR.NETS-AT-LAW.
117IBBERLEIC,GeO. W. Wilco 2nd door south
pitat National Bank, up stairs. sangBo
WILLIS, E. t. (Mee over Kirby's Drug Stout,
`Alercur Mock. nov 13,7 e
EILIIANAN. OAleo ovur iiieby's Drug
WO Store, Mere ur Block. mey2fl7B.
rtAUFF, J. N.,f Oftice in Wood's Block. south
First riational•Bank; up stairs. lune 12,78
pILRBBEE S Suil k'isbree and L :Elsbree.)
Office in !demur Block, Bark St, may 14.75
PECKS OVERTON' (Beni M Prac and D A Over;
&nil. Otlice over Hill's Market - 49-'79
OVERTON & SANDERSON (E Oftrton •nd Joh%
'Sanderson.) Office in' Adams Blor.k.julys'7B
MAXWELL, WM. `Office over Dayton'■ Store
april 14,76
Toc rILT, ANDREW. 0111 co Mesn's Block
ape 14.76
nAvIES, & HALL. (w 7' Davies.
W H earruxhan, L M Hall.) Office in rear
of Ward House. Entrance on Poplar St. 0012,15
AffERCUR, RODNEY A. Solicitor of Patents.
AXX Particular attention paid to business In
Orphans• Court and to the settlement of estates.
office in MontanyeNi Blockl 49-79
IkircPUERSON & YOUNG, (I. McPherson qnd
tr-L w. I. Young.) Office southeideofMercues
Block. - fob 1,714
itirnIPILL s KiNNIX. Office corner Blain and
ALL Pine et. 'Noble's block, second floor front.
Collections promptly attended to. feb I 78
NITILLIAMS, ANGLE k. BUFFINGTON. (H, N
VY Williams, J Angle and , B F., Buffington).
Wilco west side of Main street, two doors north
of Argus'oftlce. All truthless entrusted to their
care will receive prompt attention. oct 26,77
MASON & THOMPSON, ( G,- P. Mum E. A.
Thompson,) Attorneys-at-Law. Special at.
teution to -couveyancing4 examination of title
and all matter relating to real estate. Colin;
Hone promptly remitted. Office over Patch &
Tracy's store. triarl66Bl.
JAMES 11. AND JOHN W. CODDING, Atter
nays sad Counsellors-at-Lavr. Office in the
Mercur Block, over C. T. Kirby's Drug Store.
July 3, 'fti Up
TlioltPSON, W. H. and E. A., Attorneys-at
Law, Towanda, Pa. Office in Mercur
over C. T. Kirby's Drug Store, entrance on Main
street, first stairway north " of Post-office. All
business promptly attended to. Special atten
tion given to claims against the. United States
fur Pensions, Bounties, Patents, etc., and to
collections and settiement of- decedent's eaMtes.
April2l. ly
PHYSICANS AND SURGEONS..
TOYDISON, T. D., 11. D. Office over Dr. H. C
Portere'e Drug Store. feb 478
NEWTON;Drs. D. N. &F. G. • Office at Dwelling
on River Street, corner Weston St. fob 12.71
r_hil.)D, C. K.. M.D. Office, lot door above old
.1..1 bank building, on Main street. Special at
tention given to diseases of the throat and
lungs. ju1y19,78
NVOODBUEN. S. M.. M.D. • Office and reel
- dance. Main etreet, north of M.E.Churzil
Medical Examiner for Pension Dirsrtment.
feb 22,18
PYNE, E. D.. M.D. Office ; over Iffobtanye's
Store. Office hours from 'lO to 12 A.M. and
from 2 to 4 P. M. Special attention given to
Discaaes of the : Eye, and Diseases of the Ear.
`. oct 20.77
HOTELS
tcrEsity, HOUSE. Main at., next corner south
of Bridge street. New house and new
furniture throughout. The proprletOr has
spared neither pains or expense in-making his
hotel first-class and respectfully solicits - a share
Df public Patronage. Meats at all hours: , -Terms
reasonable. Large Stable attached. -
mare 77 ' WId.TFEHBT.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
WATKINS POST, NO. GB, G. A. It. Bleeta
every Saturday evening. at . Military Hall.
GEO. V. NIX E.ll, Commander.
J. It. KirrnznoE. Adjutant. feb 7, 79
CRYSTAL LODGE. I.io. 57. Meets at H. of P.
Hall every Monday evening at 7:30. In.
suranco $2,000. Benefits $3.00 per week. Aver:
age annual cost, 5 years experience, $ll.
SITTHIDGE, Reporter.
JESSE WAIIDELL, Jn., Dictator. fob 22.78
BRADFORD LODGE. N 0.167, I. Q. O. P. Meet
in Odd Fellow's Hall, every Monday evening
at 7 o'clock. . WAIIItEN HILL, Noble Grand.
jnne 12,75
HOUSE AND SIGN' PAINTING
11C1OST, F. F. No. 32 Second street. All orders
J. will receive prompt attention. June 12,75
TOBACCO A.7'D CIGARS
rrIEE LITTLE STORE . ROUND THE CORNER
Smalley, Dealer in Tobacco, Cigars
Pipes. and Smoking Goods. Choice Confection
try always on hand.. No. 2, Park st. =6yl7:4it
EDUCATIONAL. '
101boYAN. G. W.,
County Superintendent. O ffi ce
'AV: days . last Saturday of each month. °vet
Turner & Gordon's Drug Store. Towanda. Pa.
. July 19,38
SUSQUEUAIiNA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
The Fall Term of twenty-eight year Com
mences on 'Monday August 22nd, Mil. For cata
logue or other information. address or call on
the Principal.
EDIXEY-E. QUINLAN. A. M.
uly 19,78 , Towanda. Pa.
PL,U3IBER AND GAS FITTER
WILLIAMS, 'EDWARD. Practical Plumber
and Gas Fitter. Place of business in !der
dur Block next door to Journal othce opposite
Public Square. Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Repair
lig Pumps of all kinds, and all kinds of Gearing
promptly attended to. All wanting work in his
ne should give him a call. jnly 27,77
INSURANCE
RUSSELL, C. S, General Insurance Agency,
Towanda, Pa. :Office In Whitcomb's Book
Store. -, • . July 12.76
MISCELLANEOUS
D E" vAN1101:18E. ELMIRA. N. Y. C. T. Smith.
formerly of the Ward House. Towatula, Pro
prietor. . This Hotel is located immediatly
opposite the railroad depot, Every pains 'taken
for the comfort of guests. July 5,77
TOWNER, 11. L., M.D..
Ilowroriernic Pnisicusr & Strnor.os.
Residence and office juit north of Dr. Corbon's
Alain street. Athens. Ps.
KENDALL'S SPAWN CURE
Is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it does
not blister, yet is penetrating and powerful to
reach every deep seated pain or to remove any
bony growth or other enlargements, such as
spavins, splints curbs, callous, - sprains, swell.
Inge aud - any lameness and , all enlargements of
the joints or limbs, or for rheumatism ln man
and for any purpose for which liniment is used
for man or beast. It i■ now known to be the
best linimerft for man ever used,acting mild and
yet certain ip its effects.
Send address for Illustrated Circular 'which
we think gives positire proof of its virtues. No
remedy has ever met with such 'Unqualified tic
cess to our knowledge, for beast as well a man.
Price $1 per bottle. or si=• bottles for $5. All
Druggists have it or can get it for you, or it will
be sent to any address on reoelpt of price by the
proprtetoret,M. B. J. KENDALL CO., EnOa.
burgh Falls. Vt.
Sold by all DOggists
CARRIAGE FACTORY
FINE STREET.,
Between Main and Sezond, OpliwitC
Mcintyre & Spencer,
Respectfully announce to the public thsetbey
are prepared to build all kinds of
FAMILY CARRIAGES
Top & Open Buggies,
PANTOS AND FL4I7'OIIX 'mania WAGONS,
rotting Sulkies and Skeletons
THEY ALSO KEEP, ON' HAND FOE SALE
•READY FINISHED WAGONS OF ALL .
• THE ABOVE CL %SSE&
Mute of the beat material and in the best style
All work warranted to give perfect'satinfaction.
?MM TN A SPECIALTY
We hare one of the best ',Carriage Painters in
-the Country, and do ell work in this line at the
lowest rates. All kinds of Repairing neatly end
'promptly done at reduced prices. Making new
springs and repairing old ones a speciality. All
work guaranteed. Pleasegive us • call.
• NeTNITRIt di SPINOZA
T0vv11444. Jan 4. 1880-1 v
VAN .DYKE'S SULPHUR SOAP,
I. without., rivaiin the cure of skin diseases of
all descriptions. it has ,been thoroughly tested
by the medical faculty and thelpnblie, and is re
conimended and extensively used by physicians.
Thiesoap is combined with pure sulphur. which
enters the pores of the skin, and being absorbed
into the blood removes therefrom all impuri
ties by exciting tbe skin to healthy action. Be
sure to sat for VAN MBE'S SULPIIUU SOAP,
insist upon it, and take no imitation. Bold by
druggists.
• Jan. 13-01 a.
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COMMIT
A g ue, • uma
!ism, Dropsy, Heart Disease, Bit.
tousness, - Nervous'detkilitg, etc.
The Best SEX= WOW to Man;
11,000,000 Bottle*
This Syrup possesses Varied Preperiiii
It. Stimulates, the PtYanae in the
Saliva. which converts the Starch and
Sugar of the tbod into glucose. A de&
clency_ in Ptyalin. causes Wind and
Sourinof the food in the stomach.
the
medicine Is taken immediatelysae*
eating . the fermentation of tbod pre
vented.
It acts upon the Elver.
It acts upon the Kidneys.
It Regulates the Retorts. • ' •
R Purifies the Blood.
•
i t Quiets the Nervous Bytesni.
t rortsotat INgesttoo:
It Nourishes. Strengthens and Ilseigorateti.
It carries off the Old Blood and mates 'nese
R opens the pores of the skin and indium
Healthy Perspiration. . .
It neutralizes the hereditary taint. or poisoa
la the blood, which generates Scrofula, Err
sipelas t and all manner of skin diseases and
Internal humors. •
There are no spirits employed in its mann.
facture, and it can be taken by the most deli.
sate babe, or by the aged and feeble, caraway
being reguirein attention to directions.
DRUGGISTS SELL IT.
NEW
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Laboratory, 77: West Eld ISt.,
NEW YORK CITY.
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MVP in every town or v o inap, in which I bare
no agant.tiparticulara air 11 on application.
. Florida, lived in a log cabin - on Pin Oak
--see— _ Creek, a tributary of the Colorado
'Oh, wby did I leave God's. country River, and was estimated to be worth
to come to this benighted laid 4' pa- one thousand dollars. Shrewdly work
thetieally exclaimed the:Northern bride big his stock, his policy was Lto put all
of a Texan 'cow-man,' as she observed
his earthly possessions into ho cattle,'
and Sue year he brands. twenty them
her lord, the morning after their ar
rival home, rise 'from his luxurious and °31 " 2 "
couch of two :black-jack loge, and, ID:tug his soul,' said au old herder to .
the writer, speaking of 'he is
stretching his giant frame, remark' that rSta
'
be must be riding, as that 'sleeping WAS buying many a cow; which seemed to
too good for the likes of him.' express the secret of his success exactly.
The night that knows no earthly The big stock meet crowd out the
dawn has hing since t losed around that smaller ones, and much bitter - feeling
bride; but she bad uttered a saying that and some bloodshed aro engdndered by
Was not born to die, and to this day, their Persistent efforts to -aasert the
'
and perhaps forever, .back in the State' ri g ht of the strongest. A bitter fend
Will be reverently spoken of by the cow.' sprung up between Stafford and a small
stuck-raiser named Townsend, and each,
boys as 'God's country.' The aphorism '
of the divine scribe that'
'all 'flesh is backed by his his' on party. would
grass' might be easily , converted into k fi g ht wherever they ` met' Stafford,
while gradukkly absorbing ' the smaller
the prevalent belief of this State, that
'all gram is -flesh." ,:-.Csartain:-eff,,u ak e -In_ l uda. c .,-Pe , th!P_Milles, -in . bil rise, to
divinity of the 'golden calf' has never rec al l " canna- `' 2"ll-8 c 2"11-8154 *i lit ' 1 11 P ith " -
He sent Word to him that they
,could
been disputed in Texas, and here his
the nut work the preirie together, and that
faithful worshippers duster by
he (Stafford) ' was not ready to leave.
thousand. West of the Brazos river;
Townsend refuted to sell mot and move
the social end financial standing of: a
away, and the two parties, meetiug in
man is reckoned by the number of cat
tle which he peaeesees and the length the streets of Columbua, /ought a
ptched battle, iu which tho Stords
and breadth of hierange, and the first,
were victorious, several being kill ed und
essential of a etockman is his ability to
wounded on both sides. : The Town
draw his six-ebotter :teener than the
. sends were ultimately crowded out of
next man. ' the way, and' Stafford reigned supreme
The history of stock-raising and Mock-
over the Colorado ranges. Ibis is a
men in Texas is interesting, and the
desperate efforts by which some of them fair illustration of the manner of man a
stuck-raiser must be.
have forced their way t o ' the top of the
ladder woald appall the bulls and bears Captain Kennedy, King's oltipartner,
' 1
l e( Wall Street. • With scarcely an ex-
whose 'ranch is located on the bead
ception, the ..successful , stockman of Waters.of the Nueces, annually brands
Texas were originally penniless advert- fifteen thousand calves. Colonel Eu
gene Millet, in his pastures on the Up
turers, who floated into the State 'dead
Up
broke' and have in a comparatively per Brazos, owns forty thousand head
short time built up fortunes aggreges. and brands ten thousand -naives .a year.
ing millioneof:dollars. Standing head James F. EllYeon, of San Marcos, Wi!-
and , ehoulders above all the ' rest is liam B. Mines, of Ties Palacios, in
Richard King, the cattle-king Of Matagorda county,: 'D. R. Fiat, whose
America, and, , z indeed, of the' world— cattle water in the 'San Antonio River,
who owns and brands hilly four hun- and perhaps a dozen more throughout
deed thonaand bead of stock. King ip the State, brand annually from five to
is a 'type of the suceessful Texan stock- ten thousand causes. Many of the pas
raiser. Previous to the year 1837. be tures of these cow-men are larger than
worked as a long-shore-man in New the State of Rhodeishind. Iu South-
City. `Tired of being a roustabout on western Texas the stock firm of Cole
the dingy wharvel along the East River man, Mathis 4; Felten have enelosed
front, the young Irishman shipped nearly the three entire counties of Bee,
before the mast and came in a vessel to Arkausas. and San Patricio, and graze
Brazoa Santiago, at the month of the more than two hundred thou Sand head
Rise Grand. For some time he workel of stock. Thisi,iim soil this year one
ou a small boat which plied up and hundred and fifty trio:wand acres of
down the river, and he arose to be fenced pasture-land to one man (William
steward and :then captain and part Wright) fur fifty cents au acre, Wright
owner. It
. is said that be also ran an paying besides: at the rate of five hun
establishment in one of the Mexican Bred dollars a mile for the fence that
river dueblos similar to the 'Bucking- surrounds it. fee fence is almost en-
ham' of New York, where the nightly tirely of barbed wire. According to the
fandangos turned, hundreds of Mexican cow-men's arithmetic, 'there is a calf to
dollars into the pockets of the ex-long- every four head of cattle. Failure after
shoreman, on whom Fortune now in- you are once started in the stock busi
deed began to smile. His next venture ness -they consider, impossittle if a man
was to organize and run a line of stages: adheres , t • t h, : I,- b: alth o u gh
between Brownsville - and Corpus
Christi, and u line from Corpus to speovolreal
were ruled
a ' t eo a t a o srockli w rin, ' Alle - . 7 .1:
as worth two indium
Laredo on the. Rio Gland. Although 'of dollars, and now they have :woken
his enterprises - prospered, he sold out and their names as stockmen ire things
his' boat, and, giving up - his dance- of the past. But their faildre was at
house. went with. his partner, Captain tri td •'
qu e in
. a l arge , measure to having
Kennedy,into thecattle-bueibets. Buy- made bad umstments in landed. pro
ing up a lot of cows, he located his perty. . .
range along the Names River, and, to
But what would astonish the peace
•
use the lauguage of the stock-men, pro
ful, law abiding citizens of the East is
ceeded 'to work his cattle.' Sticking
to it night and day with -rare and in-
the immense amount of thieviig which
domitable pluck:and:perseverance,
he is done on the border. The' facility
with which this nefarious pracHee can
has gathered around Wan more flocks
than Laban and Abitihtim and Job pos. be carried on has been greatly lessened
within the past year. Prier toothat,
seesed jointly. A ,hitter and relentless
the only punislunent meted art to the
prosecutor of the cattle-thieves who at
cattle tbievers was by the citizens tak
that time infested the , frontiers, follow
jug the law into their own hinds and
ing bands•of marauding Meexicans and
haiiging and shooting them whenever
outhei, across the -Aver into Mexico, found. In the fall of 1876, 1 regular
and ip riably hunting them down to a
organized band of desperate white men
merciless nishment, be became the and low down Mexicans Waited the
object of their especial hatred, and his country around Goliad and stole large
life was in constant• peril. . Whenever bodies of cattle, driving them across
King rode abroad through his pastures,
it
was
aiwa- w ith an
escort
of thirty
or the river into Mexico. This band was
under the leadership of two white men,
forty of his Mexican peons to guard him Ada .Mildy: and Bill Brooking. Issuing
from danger; and this body -guard still from the dense portions of Guadalupe
accompanies him whenever his sallow and San Antonio' the Brookinift, band
countenance is seen .iii the streets of would round up a bunch: of cattle on
Corpus Christi. • the prairie, anal corralling them, would
..proceed,to brand, counder brand, and
deface the marks upon them until the
cattle were beyond recognition. - If
anybody rode up, they Wouldstosiwork,
-and, putting-their hand's in their pock
ets, hang listlessly around the pen until
the stranger went off. The stock-men
f the neighborhood organized a vigi
ance committee, which, after much
and riding and
. flghting, broke up the
band, killing most of them, and drove
'the rest into Mexico. It' was a king
time, however, beore they caught the
leaders. Young Mildy was only 'twenty-one years old, the son of a respectable
old German, a carpenter of Gelled, but
was. known as one of the boldest and
most successful thieves that roamed the
' prairies. Ho Could , easily have escaped
into Mexico; but from the recess of the
river chapparal the vigilants were un-:
able to drag biro, until, venturing one
day in broad daylight into the town of
Goliad to hold r
~ ia interview With his
sweetheart, to wh s om he was soon to be
married, he was **prised and surround
ad by the stock-Men in the Case Hotel.
Fear was a stranger to the young . thief,
and 'he never quailed at his perilous - po
sition. Standing at the kort of the stair•
case, with a six-shooter in *soh hand,
while his sweetheart steed near him
with a cocked ,Winchlsster rifle, he
swore they should have only his dead
body. Fair profnimes iduced him to
l i
come down on the street, where, boldly
facing the score or nun of mounted
men before him, be ask them what
they wanted of him. -
'Where is Bill Brooking ?' naked
Captain Tom Sullivan, the . leader of
the party. ' -
- 'I don't know; and if I did, I would
.1 ..,
see you iis h—l before I would tell you,'
was the cool reply. But his courage
availed him nothing, for at a sign from
Sullivan, he was jassoed and his arms
bound tightly tobis body, while two of
the horsemen dismount-64 - and, seizing
the young thief, strapped him, not with-
exit a desperate. resisterine, to the back
of a led horse. Riding'out of town,,the
party stopped on the [banks of the
Perdido or Lost Creek, And held a con
sultation as' to the best method of dis
posing of their prisoner. .During the
whole time Ada Mildy's round, red face
AMONG. THE COW-BOYS.
CURES
111.01SEASES 01
THE STOMICH,
EMS, SIR
BLOOD.
U. B. Etruxi.x
D. C. W/NSUIP
F. F. BISHOP.
IlimaY C. IhmeespN
t- RAT= HIUSSINGIEIt,
EDWARD 201121
D. M. BALL
GEOLtOr, M. ELLIOT
IMES RILEY
FitANK T. Cionail.Fr
FB►NYLIN VANANZYZN
Mill
Around his baciOnds, which is situat—
ed on an elevated hill , overlooking the
meter portion of his pasture, are
planted batteries of cannon that are
- aged in defending his. residence and
warehouses from the attacks of raiding
Mexicans and the bands' of horse
n -his wurehonses aro stored
bieves.
the supplies for his small army of her
dere: This ranch, the Santa Gertrudes,
,alone..strOches the enormous distance
of seventy-five miles long and from ten
to twenty , Miles wide, while all over its
surface 'are sunken wells or tanks which.
furniali the eatle with water durig the
summer drought. Besides the Santa
Gertrudes, which lies in the counties of
Nueces and Cameron, King owned
several other huge pastures, or fenced
lands, near Brownsville; on the Rio
Grande.. More than three hundred
herders are employed working his cat
tle, the majority of them being the
peons, or lowest class :of Mexicans.
King annually brands forty% thousand
Calves, and last year drOve to Kansas
thirty-five thousand beeves. He owns
thousands of horses, sheep, goats, and
asses lisides, and offered once , to sell
•,
the government four thousand horses,
of four different colors,—one; , thousand
black, one thousand whites; one thous
and paints, and one thousand bays; but
the. tough little mustangs could. not
come up to regulation size. Ring
still runs the stages between Conine
Christi, Brctivusville, and Laredo. A
stout-built man, dark, with sallow com
plexion, he moves with a sort of twist
ed motion, 1, from paving had his leg
broken once and l not properly set. The
Mexicans look -up to him -with more
veneration than to their ,own President.
He bears the reputation of being stingy .
and 'close-fisted, even with his-great
wealth, except when in his cups, when
he is liberal enough to give away a
whole ranch and all" ita stock at one
time,—alwayi when sober keeping the
promise made when drunk. . '
Next to Ring, the larg4st individual
stock raiser in Texas is It E. Stafford,
whose cattle to the number of one hun
dred and twenty-Sve.thoumand graze on
the ranges along the Brazos, Colorado,
and Navidad River. At the close of the
war,lStafford, who came to Texas from
GUST 4,1881
never paled, nor did he pay 'any erten
bon to what 'was being said. Ells cool
ness was so extraordinary that a few of
them wanted him turned loOse under a
promise f r o quit the country; but when
the proposition was made to liun he re• i
famed to accept it. A few days after
ward Ada Mildy's mangled carcass was
Gibed out of the San Antonio river and
sent to his aged father.—Bill Brooking
shared the immolate,. being shot while
cooking his supper, ,nnd bier body left
to the tender mercies of the prairie
wolves.
These : vigilantes existed all throtigh
Texas two years ago; bat the energetic
services of. General Ord, assisted by a
body of abate Rangers under Captain
Lee Hale, has rendered thieving-a more
precarious method of earning a liveli
hood than moat men are willing to ac
cept At one time the negroes resorted
4 11 . 1 048R 41 : -8001 thgl `4**-10f7dui
.ranges along - the Coloradift or z] t uuao
bye rivers; but armed squads of white
men world ride through the timber in
the river-bottoms where the negroes'
cabins are ail located, and, taking the
blacks from their holm s, Would conduct
them into the wood's a little nay, and,
tying them to a tree, would go to work
on' them with their six-shooters. Some
times twenty or thirty would meet their
doom in this manner in a single • night.
In this country than life Of one white
man is considered equal in value to
four Mexicans or twelve negroes, and
punishment for the crime of.mnrder is 1 1
rated accordingly. During the winter /
the cold northers that sweep over the
prairies kill the cattle. by the thousands,
and it is a greater teniptatior. to skin
these dead aniticals, although strictly
illegal=their_ hides being worth from
one to two dollars each—and it is-scarce
ly to be wondered at that the negro or
poor white, seeing fOrtunes lying around
him, should slip out of the timber after
dark and stealthily Skin a dozen or so of
the brutes. 'Yet if Iso is. caught at it
hisiife is certain to l 44 l iy the forfeit. -
In theapring mottos the great cattle
drive to Kansas takes'place. Formerly,
before the war, Teias cattle were driven
to some point on - the Mississippi river
and shipped to Kentucky, -Tennessee,
Ohio, and other Eastern States; but
owing to the stringent laws 'passed by
these States, prohibiting the importa
tite. of Texas cattle because of the fever
they were supposed to bring, and the
turmoil consequent upon the outbreak
of the civil war, the cattle, compelled to
seek a market elsewhere, were driven
across the Red river ; and through the
Indian Territory_ta the - stations along
the Kansas Pacific and the Union Pa
cific. Railways. The first drive to Kau
-8113 took place in 1860, when 'twenty
five thousand b - eeve; were driven
through. During the war, - when the
men were to a great extent in the ranks
of the Confederaey, the drives were
small, and the cattle accumulated to an
immense number on the ranges.—Steers
lived to tie fifteen years old, grew to
the e::ormous weight of three thousand
pounds, and were as wi'd As deer., As
much as one hundred pOunds .of tallow
could be taken from . one steei: The
wild bull's herdedtogetherfike,buffalo
on the &dna. -Those weiOtheitalmy
days of the Mexican raquetwaird
In fancy's mirror, clerreasr,
he saw himself riding Ithrotigh green
plains covered as far as' the eye could
reach with hundreds . , of thousands of
wild cattle.
These Mexican peons are the boldest
and most fearless riders in the world.
It does not matter whether it is a wild
bull or wild
. borse ; the vaquero will
ride anything' that is brought to him.
It is a wild and striking picture they
present, as the writer has often seen
them, seated around thefroa t irip-fires at
night, singing' their Spanisletrve-songs,
with the firelitt! glisteniMP, on their
Swarthy featu ' and , :,•tig into a
deeper shadowthedarkOdilliies of their
ponies, which they;
. neviittiallow to wan
der far o ff . fe , itr i fi ,- 1,
- There is a peculjni fascination in this
wild life of the,po* boYs which tempts
many young men of culture and re
finement, reared iu the enjoyment_ of
every luxury in the East, but of adven
turous dispotitions, to come and live
with th - eie rude spirits on the frontier.
Often for thirty-six hours continuously
in the saddle, the hardships of their lot
are apparent. Cold black coffee, without
sugar, drunk whene7er the opportunity
offers, is the sole luxury of the cow-boy.
With a piece of bread in one hand and
some jerked beef in the other, he r will
ride around a stampeded herd, eating,as
he goes, and as happy as a king on his
throne. When night comes, provided
his ;cattle are quiet, he will tie his horse
to his leg, and, l 'covered with his hat,'
with a hummo ck of grass for his pillow,
will sleep peacefully on the broad
prairie and dream perchance of his
sweetheart far back iu country.'
Herhapa his dreams will be rudely dis
turbed b 3 the thunder of a thousand
hOofa. - as his cattle, beComing . frighten
ed, at some noise, have stampeded and
the grass fairly pops heiustli their clo
ven.feet. Then it is he does his tallest
riding, and; circling around his cows,
brings thoi3 back to where they started.
If wild bill beconies obstreperous and
unruly, a rider dashes; mist him, and
seizing his tail as . he l goes by. gives it a
twist around the born Of his saddle and I
is a thrice Thelculliafairly slung heels
over bend on Ins brick. Two or three
applications of this discipline will'
generally reduce the stiffening in a l
bull's tail to a minimum and render him
as docile as a calf. An expert cow boy .
can rope, throw down, and tie up a
cow in jest one minute from the time
be rides up to her. Rut a man knows '
nothing of 'punching the heifers' who
has not been throrigli on the 'trail' to
Kansas. Going for dayi together with
out eating, never out of the saddle,
mounting a fresh horse as one is broken'
down, the limit of eneurance is reach
ed, and one who hadstood the test and
can boast of having 'busted the Indian
Nation square open,' attains respect in
the cow boy's eyes and is considered to
have taken his degree.,
In 1874 the largest 'drive to ;Kansas
ever recorded took , placey , when half a
million beeves were driven through.
•
The trail was beaten into a broad path 1
a mile wide and extending fifteen hun
dred miles in rength. For miles and
miles the string of !Owing bands stretch
eifalopg. while the' keen riders darted
hither and thi th er, keeping them well
on the trail. At night the voices'of the
men singing to their sleeping cattle,
could be heard all along the line, while
the long string of camp fires, throwing
their lurid glare against the black Vault
overhead, called back to minds of many
gray-bearded cow-boys the stormy
times when similar lines of light glim
inered along the Rappahannock and
pierced the murky gloom of sonic, Vir
ginia night. Sometimes tbe•tausic of a
violin, sounding strangely shrill in the
calm night Hit, would mingle with the
deep tends of voices hinging .•The Maid
of Monterey,'. or 'Shamus O'Brion,' the
cow-hoys favoritolunee. .
IniktresicgthiOngif thaildfaulTarion
it is nu an •iirurnon thing for a band
of Indians, - painted red and varnished,
ride down on a beef herd, -and sing
ling- out the finest cattle in the bunch,
compelled the white owners of.the stock
to cut them out in a separate flock, when
the Indians will gather around them and
run them off. ' Some years ago a party
of Indians came riding down on a herd
that teas resting on the banks of a small
creek, and demanded of the boss herds
man ten of the fattest steers he bad.
The bass was a bold man, -and looking
around '
on his fifteen stalwart cow-boys,
swore that no five Indians should take
- his beeves froui him, - and using the
Tough phraseology of the plains, told
him to go a place not so cold as Green
land:—The baffled five retired into the
forest, but soon returned with an in
creased force of fifty men, who charged
down on the defiant man, who they
beat nearly to death, stampeded his
cattle, and ran off two hundred of them
into the woods.
It is. a wild; rough set of men that
camp around, the herds after, they have
been driven . through the Nation and
ate resting on the grassy plains of Kan
sas. Clad in the soiled and dusty jeans
of the trail, for weeks in succession,
no water has touched their hands' or
faces, and, unshaven and unshorn, they
give free rein' to their exhuberant
spirits, taking some quiet 'Kansas vil
lage by storm, setting the tame local
laws at defiance and compelling the
authorities to acknowledge the soya-
Teignty of their native Stets. The
wages earned by- - these cow-boys are
twenty-five dollars a Month while they
are herding on Texan ranges; but as
the toil and hardship encountered on
the trail pre so great they are paid
tnirty-five dollars a month during the
drive mid each man furnished With
eigh ponies ,to ride. Some of them
return home by. rail, visiting St. Louis
Orlocsao,was azaamaisras to 'Go
despoiled of all their hard-earned money
during • their brief sojourn in 'God's
counirry;' but
. the greater • number
straddle their wiry little ponies and ride
back through the Nation to Texas.
Not every one that started oral° go up
the trail lives to get back, and the name
less mounds that dot the ride of that
broad path bear mute but powerful tes
timony to the danger ; , :that;every hour
surrounds the cow-boy. Whenever
they 'fall 'by . a shot from some hostile
savage lurking in's ravine near by, for
are dropped by a' six-shooter in the
hands of a fellow-herder, they are hasti
ly buried and soon forgotten. Entire . -
ly free from the restraining power of
the law, men give free rein to theiTyas
along, and .the six-shooter or Winehes
ter rifle—the inseparable companions of
the stock-drivers=-is freely ,resorted to
to settle disputed questions?;' It is very
common- for two bossds having charge
of ditiarente.herds to jump down from
their horses and proceed to. crack away
at each other until one has bitten the
dust. When a violent storm, accom
panied by thunder end lightning,
stampedes tho cattle, they will probably
get mixed up with two or three other
herds, and much - labor and confusion
results, and a conisiderable amount of
tall 'swearing and ifighting takes place
before they can bh separated and each
herd gotten to itself. Every animal,
besides the regular brand of the owner,
bee his tail bobbed and n 'road mark'
put upon: him during the drive, and in
a mixed herd the rider goes in and Tuts
• •
oist' all the cattle that bear his brand
and runs them into a seperate flock.
When the cattle are sleeping it re
quires
verY little to stampede them. A
loud breath, the clank of a chain tied to
the leg of a wagon mule, or the gallop- I
ing of .a horse, will sometimes cause
them to be up and gone in the twinkling,
of an eye. They will run over whatev 7
is in their path, and the- only way to
atop them is to get them to 'milling,'
or traveling in a circle, when they , will
wind themiselves up like a ball and
.steip.
It is inatinetive with them to iturywhen
anything else is running, and away they
go at the slightest noise, with the cow
boys in wild pursuit after them.
Living on- Stinking Creek, in the In
dian Territory; just off the great traifis
an Irishman named Fitzpatrick, who
came to this country not many years
ago,a common- specimen of the bog.
trotting Tipperary Paddy. , Floating on
the tide of emigration westward, he
finally went into the Indian Nation. and
building a cabin in the timber where the
trail crossed Stinking Creek, he pro
ceeded to gather up the cattle that drop
ped from the great herds going through
or were lost in some big stampede. His
business throve, and in time he married
a Choctaw wife and went to housekeep
ing.' and to-day be is the owner of many
thousand beeves, and is regarded' as: a
rising stock man. He still collects the
stampeded cattle in the creek timber—
a strikbhf example , of the strange ways
in which men become rich. More than
one big stock man in Texas began his
career by branding , the maierieks, or
wild, unbranded and unclaimed heifers
found in.the river timber. As an instance
of the manner' in which they worked
up a herd, it in related of a succeasful
stock man that, he started with a solita
ry steer, wh i ch he turned loose on the
prairie, and the first year he branded
forty calves 1 •
Killed by the merciless northers, the
•
eattleiie,by the thousand on the
yet few of the °mien of the dead beasts
ever skin theni,..nor will they any
one else to do it, and thing' millions of
dollar's worth of hides rot :annually on
the prairies. - Full Six p.-r cant.- of all
the cattle in Texas die every winter not
witlistanding the mild elimate. Where
the fires sweep over: the prairies, there
grows up in the spnng a short, green
grass. The cattle get on these "burns"
and thousands perish while trying to
derive a scanty ' subsistence from the
short green growth.
Cattle are like buffalo in their habits,
and wander from place to place in march
of. fresh pastures. They drift down
though the State from - the Red River
to the Rio Grande ; and one" of Rich
ard King's great 'sources of revenue is
derived from the large numbers of
adrift -cattle" Bad mavericks that Sad
their way to his pastures. Ho pays the
Mexicans who live in the ••Sauda"—an
arid desert between Corpus Christi and
Brownsvfile—twenty-five cents apiece,
to put his mark - and brand upon these
stray's. Close to the , "Sands" is, the
ranche of the only Mexican stock-rais
, er of any prominence in the State, Pablo
Parras, who owns thirty thousand horses
and is an instance of what can be done by
the much despised,,Mexican polouse.' He
is the largest horse-raiser in the State.
The tide of emigration gradually
sweeps the cattle westward, following in
the trail of the buffalo and. the wild
game. Perhaps one of these days the
broad ranges of Texas, instead: of being
dotted with herds of grazing cattle
will be cut up into farms and planta
tions, and the chief charm of Texas,
the giand immensity of its plains be
gone. The frontier line has advanced
over one hundred-miles within the last
year, and a comparatively short space
of timo moot anise beforo it boo ptif3L
ed itself to the idtima Thule, the Mexi
can border. Whether it will brush
aside the flimsy barriers of national
courtesy and absorb Mexico, with its
mongrel population, is a mooted ques
tien. Stock men and Mexicana regard
with equgg disfavor the heavy immigra
tion to the State. Many of them as the
strangers begin to multiply and increase
take their cattle and remove. further
west, where in the green valleys along
the Pecos the coax can roam at will and
accumulate
. tailow undisturbed by the
locometive.
It was with a feeling of sincere regre
that the writer of theist lines, meeting
with a severe accident; prepared to re
turn to his home nestled in the Altega
nies, after a sojourn of eighteen menthe
with these wild riders of the plains.
Let the impression be conveyed that ,
these are irreligious and godless men,
let .tho reader fancy a group of men, .
uplipti And spurred. seated lap rode ar
,bor, listening reverently to a tall cow
boy 'Who has been selected by unan
imottichoice to read the scriptures, and
he ,can form an idea of the last Sunday
I spent with the cow-boy. With slow
and deliberate utterance Phil. Claiborne
read out the words of the golden rule :
"As ye would that men should do to
r you, do ye also to them likewise." Then
he proceeded, "These my hearers were
the words of the Lord Jesus; Christ, who
spoke as no man ever Rieke ; and I
pledge you my word gentlemen, the
Bible is a good egg." Profound atten
tion greeted the speaker, and continuing
he siad : "Whatever is earthly . can
be soon - replaced, but that which is
stde of the grave is eternal. If you
lose yoattr property, you may acquire
more : if you lose your wife, you may
marry again ; if you lose your children
you • may have more ; but if you lose
your immortal soul, then up the spout
Ton go."---Lippetwotes Magazine Ayr
June. - Louts C. BRADFORD:
A LEGRIVD.
There went s widow woman from the ont- 1
skirts of the city.
Whose lonely sorrow might have moved the
stones she trod to pity.
She trindered, weeping; through tho
by God and man forsaken,
Mill calling on a little child the reaper Death
had taken.
When, lo I upon a day sho met a white-robed
train advancing, • :
And brightly on their golden beads their .
golden crowns were glancing.
Child Jews led a happy band of little ones a
Haying,
With flowers of spring and gems of dew, a
innocently playing..
Far from.the rest the widow seeswnd dies to
clasp her treasure; • ,
"What ails thee, darling, that thou must not
- take with these thy pleasure?"
Oh, mother! little mother mine; behind the
rent I tarry,
For see, how heavy with your tears the
pitcher I must carry."
"If you had ceded to. weep for me, when
Jesus went a-lilitying.
I should have been imong the blest, with
'• little Janus pitying."
Some time , ago an honest rancher in
the northern portion of Tuscarora
county, Nev„ tiring of ", his bachelor
life, answered a matrimonial advertiee
ment in.= Eastern paper. A corres
pondence, which lasted for 601110 time,
followed, and finally the susceptible
granger- sent" the lady a sufficient
amount of money to pay her passage
from the States. He' met her at Elko s
few days ato. He was much pleased
with her appearance and considered
that hehamade an excellent invest-,
ment, den though he had . to sell a fall-'
jeweled horse and a couple of cows to
raise the capital invested. The lady,
howeier, didn't appear' to . reciprocate
his admiration — in ' fact it las evident
that she was badly disappointed iu his
personal appearance, for she met his
advances with the most freezing dignity
and shortly_ gave him to. understand
that he was not her beau ideal of a hus
band, and that she could never, never,
never, as the local paper, the Tuscarora
Times-gevieto, pit it. 'fix her virgin
affections upon such an ordinary - cuss.'
She, however, proposed to do the
honorable thing by the jilted agricul
turist. She said she was willing to go
to work and earn the money to repay
bias for the expenses advascel'
I kin saw you, yotightrteedle make).
A bockite ad me drough dot-shatr, •
Come here rigild gray now and kilos
You doughd I doted knOw you vu dare.
You all der - dime hide from your fader.
"Intl aubboao ho caned saw mit his eyes;
Yon vu goin' to footme—ih, Franey—
Und gate me a grade big ettrbrise ?
•
Dot boy vat a reckalar monkgey— -
Dere vas noding so high ha don'd glimb ; -
Dad his madder she say,dOt his drousers
Vanti new bosoms-in dem all der dime.
He vas shmard, dongb,doi same leedle feller,
.Und he sings ali der vile like a lark,
From vonce he gidtab in der murrain'.
Dill Ire drote him to bed alder dark. -
He's der biasiest von in der famly, -
llnd I bed yonder loader be sings
He vas raisin'• der dickens mit some von—
Ho vas nb do all manner of dings. "
He vas beekin' away, dot young risked,
Drongh-de ,hair—Holy Hoses! vot's dot ?
Dot young enn-ot-s-gruLtald $ Weesors
Is cut all der dail off der cat l
—Oofty lloo:fr in .21 - ete York Telegram.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
'I shan't be gone long,' Said Fogg. ClB,,
he started out the other evening to -go
to the 'lodge;' 'l'll be right back.' 'See
that you come hack right, also,' re
marked Mrs. F., significantly. A
A young man in this city, a . short
time ago, „proposed to a lady . several
years his senior and for an answer she
said: 'I guess I don't want to take a
boy to raise?' The young man is now
raising a moustache.
'Where is the island of Java"aitu
ated?' 'asked an Austin school teacher
of a small, rather forlorn-looking boy.
'I dunno, sir:' Don't you know where
•coffee cornea from?" Yes, sir; we bor
rows it ready parched from the next
door neighbor. - •
Blessing often comes in disguise.
The sailor who had the small-pox felt it
a Lama blow tin tney were, all .ship
wrecked on a -desert island and had to
draw lots to see who' should be killed
and eaten, when by common - consent
he was allowed to live.
'Where are you brick' now, Moike?'
Donegal Arcot, number elivin.
Come an' say 'me.' 'Faith, I will.
Shall I come in be the airy or be the
front dhooi?" 'Divil a ba'porth do I
,care, but as I'M occupin' the garret,
;perhaps it wud , be more ionvanierit for
ye to come in belhe shkylight.'
An apprentice boy who had not
pleased his employer one day came in
.for a chastisement, during - the adminii
tration of which his master exclaimed:
'How long will you serve the devil?'
The boy replied, whimpering: 'You
know best, air; I belieie my indenture .
will be out in three months.'
'Yon donl appear to catch on,' re
marked the post to the gate. 'I• like to '
see a gate well posted.' I 'I feel hinger
oa roirtliadi
'your raillery' seems barren of wit.' -
'That's your staple remark when you
are shut up,' answered 'the post; 'you
never like to see a post holed his own.'
The night had suddenly overclouded
and became.-quite stormy.; Being of a
sentimental turn she accordingly took
her - seat at the piano- - ami; yegati to sing.
'lnto - - some lives the:4am must fall.'
But be ices . Practical and
clutching her arm said tenderlyi l 'Sing
something else, darling yen lt,now
didn't bring auy umbrella.'
Clear' again: Said a young lawyer.
not. long ago, *l've made $4O this -
week.' I 'How?' was
' asked. Well, I
got $lO for a case and I borrowed s3o.'
The story is not unlike one told by
Henri Unger, the 'noted Parisian Bohe 7
mien. 'What is your income?' be was
once asked. "'lt is hard to tell,' was
the reply, 'but in good yearn I can bor
row at least 10,000 francs.'
'Pa,' qnoth Sammie to his sire, 'why
don't you go out West? Wbj X2O yon •
ask my boy?' Becanse Bill Higgins'
father went and he struck a banana.'
'A bobanza, you meam, Sammie.'
'Well, what's the difference?" Why,
when people strike i bonanza it sets
them up, and when they strke a banana -
it, sets them down, and very emphati
cally, too.'
declare I never was more iraPress
ed inf.,my life with the foolishness of
flies,' exclaimed - the boarder .to• his
landlady, as a couple 'of winged vey- •=-
agers embarked in his soup plate. 'I
do - uot understand you, sir,' she added,
haughtily. 'Well,' he explained, 'those
two poor creatures undoubtedly sup
posed that this stuff was thick enough
, to float 'eni.'
'Papa,' said an inquisitive boy, 'this
morning - the dominie prayed for more
rain and this afternoon Deacon Bixby
prayed for dry weather to get his hay
in. Now if the Lord loves the deacon
and the dominie just the same, what do
you suppose He'll do about it?' 14
win,' answered the old gentleman stern
ly, you want to ask foolish
questions go 'to your mother; don't
wine to me.'
—.Emily Pfeifer
Satisfactory • explanation: A tramp
with his arm in a sling called. on Gil
hooley for a • guarter, alleging that his ,
arm had been injured in the recent rail
road accident near San Antonio., 'But
yesterday you had the other arm in s
aline replied Gilhooley : sup,
posin' I had• Don't you think a Tel
ler's arm gets tired of being tied up all
day? Besides, I have got concussion
of the brain, and can't remember half
the time which arm was broken.'
-
There's nothing -like ; keeping cool
and carrying 's level bead in - cases of
emergency. In one of . those rough
periods which have occasionally en
livened Baltimore political life Mr. Wil
liam R. TrSvers, as he was returning
late in the . evening to his residence
from"the club, was stopped by two un
wholeseme-looking individuals, of ca
daverous beak• and sepulchral. aspect.
!who griiiily demanded: 'Are ;you a
60°d-tub or a plug-ugly?' Gentle
men,' said Travers, with that delightful
hesitation which at once inspires tea-_.
dermas and gives time , for reflection;
respect both.' He was permitted to
For *ache, dissolve alaketida in
water; warm a few droPs and drop in
the ear, then cork the ear with wool.
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