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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
ESTABLISHED IN 1854,
By CHAS. W- HANCOCK, f
VOL. 18.
DON'T BUY
Groceries
BEFORE EXAMINING
GLOVER* PERRY’S
LARGE STOCK!
-AS THEY-
WlLl not BE UNDERSOLD !
On any article in their line, but •
propose to
UNDERSELL,!
WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR
Georgia Seed It ye i
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
Will find that they can buy of us
Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot
and Matches! !
For less money than they can order.
GLOYEII & PERRY,
sspOtf Ameiiicus, Ga.
OLD BUttG
COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON
WITH
DRINKS,
FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR
TE&S GENTS.
' OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND
AT ALL TIMES.
MEALS
FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT
ALL TIMES—DAY r AND NIGHT.
BILLIARDS
5c per game two games for 25 cts—cash.
POOL
2% CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH.
Come one, come all, and see if you don’tget
the best—nothing charged at these rates.
Best Cigars and Tobacco Always
on Hand !
BOTTLED LIQUORS
ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM.
J. P. CHAPMAN.
AGENT FOR
KING’S ROYAL POWDER COMPANY,
Also, PARKER’S GUN AND BUEECII
LOADING FIXTURES.
Americus, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. 6.2 m
Miss KATE KING
Invites the attention of the Ladies to her
SELECT STOCK OF
Millinery and Fancy Goads
NOTIONS, Etc.,
ALL OF THE LATEST STYLES.
Which she keeps on hand at all times,
aud at the
LOWEST GASH PRICES!
NEW GOOES
ARRIVING DAILY.
tayDon’t fail to Call and Examine her
took before purchasing elsewhere.
Miss KATE KING.
PUBLIC SQUARE, AMERICUS,
mar3ltf ‘
Rosser & Gunnels.
New Bar and Billiard
SALOON.
Messrs. G. S. ROSSER and P. W. GUN
NELS have opened a Bar and Billiard Sa
loon in the new building of Hamil Bros., on
Cotton Avenue, where they have a fine
stock of pnre
Brandies, Wines and Whiskies !
Also the National Drink,
ANHUESER BEER,
the best in the land. Tha best Cigars and
Tobacco always on band.
Our Billiard Saloon is one of tiie best in
the city—everything new and good. Wo in
vite the public generally to give us a trial.
In a few days our RESTAURANT will be
opened, and we promise that it shall com
pare with the best and be surpassed by none.
ROSSER & GUNNELS,
septstf Americus, Ga.
For Dyspepsia,
Chronic Diar
yj rhooa, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
j Ague, Malaria,
Msy and all Diseases
Jsb caused by De
rangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
SYMPTOM3 OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough,
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred when but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
It should be used by all persons, old and
young, whenever any of the above
symptoms appear.
Persons Traveling or Living In Un
healthy Localities, oy taking a dose occasion
ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid
all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It
will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is uo in
toxicating beverage.
If You liavo eaten anything hard of
digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep
less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved.
Time and Doctors’ Bills will be saved
by always keeping tho Regulator
' in the House!
For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly
safe purgative, alterative and tonic can
never be out of place. The remedy is harmless
and does not interfere with business or
pleasure.
IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE,
And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or
Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Governor’s Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.,
says: Have derived some benefit from the use of
Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a
further trial.
“The only Thing that never fails to
Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys
pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never
have found anything to benefit me to the extent
bimmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min
nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for
such a medicine, and would advise all who arc sim
ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only
thing that never fails to relieve.
P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex
perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in
my practice 1 have been and am satisfied to use
and prescribe it as a purgative medicine.
®§s> a Take only the Genuine, which always
has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark
and Signature of J. 11. ZEILIN & CO.
for SALK BY AI.T. DRri s
TUTTS
PILLS
A DISORDERED LIVER
IS THE BANE
Of the present generation. It is for tho
<sure of this disease and its
SICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, DYS
PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that
TUTT’3 PILLS have gained a w.orld-wide
reputation. No Remedy has ever been
discovered that acta so gently on the
digestive organs, giving them vigor to_as
eimilate food. Asa natural result, tho
Nervous System is Braced, the Muscles
are Developed, and the Body Robust.
Cliills and Povor,
B. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says:
My plantation Is in a malarial district. For
several years I could not mako half a crop on
account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
nearly discouraged when I began tho use of
TUTT’3 PILLS. The result was marvelous:
my laborers soon became hearty and robust,
and I have had no further trouble.
They relieve the engorged Liver, cleanse
the Blood from poisonous humors, ami
. cause the bowels to act naturally, with
out which no one can feel well.
Try this remedy fairly, and you will gain
m healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Pure
Blood, Strong Nerves, and a Sound Liver.
Price, 25 Cents. Office, 35 Murray St., N. V.
TINTS HAIR DYE,
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy
Black by a single application of this Dye. It
Imparts a natural color, and acts Instantaneously.
Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt
of One Dollar.
Office, 35 Murray Street, New York.
(Dr. Ti/TT’B St A of Valuable'*
Information and Useful Receipts |
%nill be mailed FREE on application, J
JoSTETJtIfc
SrtTERS
The true antidote to the effects of miasma
is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. This medi
cine is one of the most popular remedies of
an age of successful prosperity specifics, and
is in immense demand wherever on this
Continent fever and ague exists. A wine
glasssful three times a day is the best possi
ble preparative for encountering a malari
ous atmosphere, regulating the liver, and
invigorating the stomach.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers
generally.
THEPLACE TO TRADE
I have on hand the finest stock of
GBIfCEHIES Mil mil
in the city. Ten big cases of toys, looking
like young houses, in store, and moro on the
road, and by Christines tho finest stock of
Toys will he in store that has ever been
shown in Americus. Cigars of tho finest
qualities from a niekle to ton cents—real
Havana flavor. Confectioneries the sweet
est and choicest. The fruits of the Tropics,
the most luscious and the best. A good
stock of Chewing Tobacco—golden leaved.
ED. ANSLKY.
Americus, Ga., Sept. 20,1882. tf
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS,
I AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1882.
Roxiers and Steerers for Quack
Doctors.
Hot Springs Daily Sentinel Star.
Editor Sentinel Star: Ilot Springs
has justly acquired an unparalleled
reputation as a great sanitarium, but it
has also acquired, and justly so, an un
enviable reputation for rascality and
meanness equally unparalleled, by tol
erating a practice of imposition, fraud
and misrepresentation against invalid
visitors that amounts to nothing less
than down-right, robbery and theft, and
Ins is carried on so openly and above
board that every citizen knows it, be
cause he cannot but see it in your hotels,
boarding-houses and on the streets every
day. The invalid visitor is induced by
dint of misrepresentation to pay his
money to an ignorant and unprincipled
quack, and when he finds out the fraud
that has beeu practiced on him, he is
laughed at for his verdancy; but he
never recovers his money anymore, ex
cept, occasionally, at the muzzle of a
potent persuader. But most civilized
men when among strangers, object to
that kind of redress, and prefer to hold
the grudge against the place. ,
Now, who are these visitors? They
are the people of our common country
who are to make Hot Springs prosper
ous in the immediate future. They are
mostly invalids and very many are poor
persons whom common decency requires
should be treated with the kindest sym
pathy. Now, being a visitor myself,
and an invalid too, and having been
swindled out of fifty dollars by an ig
norant quack through misrepresenta
tions and false pretenses by one of Ins
steerers, which I can ill afford to lose
in my present bad health with but lim
ited means, I was compelled to employ
the physician I had a letter of introduc
tion to, and now r 1 am told that I have
no remedy. I have made the acquain
tance of at least fifty others in the satire
lix. Rut what I wish more particularly
to call to your notice is the conduct of
a policeman on yesterday' at the depot
on the arrival of the train. There were
congregated the ropers and steerers for
the quack doctors in force, but so were
also the former victims of these blood
suckers, who went there to warn the
new arrivals of their danger when the
ropers retorted with the most shameful
billingsgate such as “shut up you d—d
syphilitic son of a b—h” and such
choice compliments, w hereupon a burly
policeman took the part of the ropers,
and threatened to arrest everyone of the
invalids if they interfered with the
ropers any more. Now Mr. editor, do
your citizens sustain this wholesale
and open robbery? Did this policeman
do what the citizens want them to do?
Is this the instructions to the policemen
by their chief or of tho authorities of
Hot Springs? If so it is time that the
country and even the authorities at
Washington should know it. If the
waters of Hot Springs do cure diseases,
that does not authorize the people here
to practice these shameful impositions.
A Hot Springs Victim.
Another Victim.
Hot Springs Daily Sentinel Star.
Editor Sentinel Star: I see in your
paper how some others have been rob
bed by the ropers and quack doctors,
and I can still see it going on every day.
that it does not appear to me that the
good citizens certainly cannot know
what is going on, else they w’ould take
some action to stop it I therefore de
sire to make known the fact in my case
through your excellent paper.
1 came hereabout three weeks ago for
the benefit of these waters; I was met at
Malvern by a drummer for Adams, by
tlie name of Wright. At Hot Springs
I was again taken in tow by Mr. James,
of the Madiuon house, who took me to
Adams and he in turn fleeced me out of
pay for one month’s treatment, and
without knowing anything about my
case, he treated me without the least
benefit. I feel that if it had not been
for this system of drumming, I could
have had the benefit of these waters by
employing a physician instead of a
miserable quack, and gone home well
and sound. I find others in tho same
fix, nearly ail complaining about this
confidence game that is being practiced
on the umvary,very greatly to the detri
ment of the good name of your people.
Will you do me the favor of inserting
this and oblige, 15. P. Allison.
General Harrison and Wine.
A Pennsylvania lady tells that when
General Harrison was running for the
Presidency, he stopped at the old Wash
ington House, in Chester, for dinner.
After dinner was served, it was noticed
that the General pledged his toast in
water, and one of the gentlemen from
New York, in offering another, said,
“General, will you not favor me by
drinking a glass of wine?’’ The General
refused in a very gentlemanly manner.
Again he was urged to join in a glass
of wine. This was too much. He rose
from the table, his tall form erect, aud
in the most dignified manner replied:
“Gentlemen, I have refused twice to
partake of the wine cup. That should
have been sufficient. Though you press
the cup to my lips, not a drop shall
pass the portals. I made a resolve
when I started in Hfo that i would
avoid strong drink, and I liavo never
broken it. I am one of a class of seven
teen young men who graduated, and the
other sixteen fill drunkard’s graves—
all through the pernicious habit of wine
drinking. I owe all my health, happi
ness and prosperity to that resolution.
Will you urge me now.”— Ex.
CHILDRN’S FOIBLES.
Tiie Days op Circus and Ginger
Cake—The Effect of the mo Pict
ures on the Wall —Playing Cir
cus in the Back Field—The Use
ful Mickle Passing Around the
Crowd—The Seven Ages of Child
hood—Etc., Etc.
Written for the Constitution.
The circus pictures are a big thing
at my house now. It’s astonishing
how children are carried away with
such things, and it takes grown people
a lung time to get over their love of
the sawdust riding. I’ve known old
gray-headed people who never missed
one when it came within reach. 1 don’t
believe that old folks enjoy it much,
but they go because it revives the mem
ory of their liappy childhood, and they
imagine they can be as happy again,
but they can’t. When old age creeps
upon a man he must hunt for pleasures
of a different kind, and be reconciled.
The ginger cake of his boyhood will
never more taste like a ginger cake to
him. Ido love to see the children en
joying their innocent youth, and drink
ing in pleasure and delight every day,
from a thousand tilings that have long
since ceased to amuse us or attract our
special attention. It takes mighty lit
tle to make the children happy. A
doll, or a hall, or a French harp, or a
ride to the mill, or a sight of the loco
motive pulling a train, or a wade in the
branch fills em up full to the brim for
the time, but a circus is perhaps the
biggest thing that their little brains
can conceive of. They have been play
ing menagery of late, and when I was
hunting for a five-gallon tin can that
had mysteriously disappeared, I found
it accidentally in the corner of the
spring lot fence, bid out among the
weeds, and on perusing its contents 1
found it half full of water, and in it
was a big hull frog aud some crawfish
and spring lizzards and a few tad poles
and minners, and this was their water
show, and they had a land show of
bugs and various insects, and they
played circus by' trotting around in a
ring, and they charged a niekle for ad
mission, and as there was but one niekle
in the crowd it was kept very busy,
for it had to be loaned, from one to an
other until they all gut in—sorter like
old Joe Plunket and his wife, who
bought a jug of whiskey together and
had a dime left, and old Joe give his
wife the dime for a drink and then she
gave old Joe the dime for a drink and
they kept on that way, time about, until
the whiskey was all gone and they con
gratulated themselves that they had
paid cash for every drink they took.
My little chaps were excited enough be
fore. but last night Carl got a letter
from one of otir little grand children at
Rome, which reads as follows, to-wit:
“Dear Carl—i want to see yon mighty
bad, i was so mad you didnt cum with
papa i felt like walkin on my years, i
am gointer look for you toe rnarrer—
bring all your clothes to stay to the
circus, you can pick up a boxx full of
nails round our house where they took
the shingles off i am gointer send you
a circus pietur—you can go down town
aheap and can goto skoal with us easy
ernuff and hav a lots of fun—tell Jes
sie to write to me—love to all amen—
linton—Rom Ga amen —'l circuses a
comin nex week amen.
And now lie is plum crazy to go to
Rome and is behaving himself splendid
and brings water and wood with alac
rity, and picks cotton and flies ’round
amazing. Old Doctor Johnson says
that the way to bring up a boy- is to
teach him self-denial early and frequent
ly. That is very good theory, but you
can’t do it in practice. You can deny
him of course, but you can’t teach him
to deny himself. Children are children
—they are not philosophers. They
love fun and frolic according to nature,
just like grown folks love money, and
office, and fame, and other things that
bring less pleasure and are more vexa
tious and deceitful. It is mighty hard
work to make a man out of a boy.
Mrs. Arp, she sets ’em down to study
ing some good pious verses sometimes
but its an up hill business, but they
can learn some other verses by heart
directly- and not half try. I slipped
upon one the other day while ho was
shucking corn fin the crib all alone, and
I heard him singing a song, and it
wasn’t that good old rhyme about
“In Adam’s fall we sinned all,”
But it went thusly:
Old Eve she did the apple eat
Ami smacked her lips and said’twas sweet.
Old Eve she did the apple pull,
And then she filled her apron full.
Old Adam lie came bobbin around,
Ami spied the poolings on the ground,
And then he laid on Eve the blame,
But went to eating all the same.
Old Noah he did build an ark,
And covered it with hickory bark,
The animals come in two by two,
Big buck rabbit and kangeroo,
And then come hi three by three
Elephant, frog and bumble bee.
The water, it kivered all the ground,
Buttheark kept sailin’ around and around.
And so forth and so on, and it had a
chorus about belonging to Gideon’s
band, and its curious to know where
be learned it or the tune to it, for its
not in any book about my house. Mr.
Shakespear says a man has seven ages,
which is so, I reckon, and I think a
boy has about the same number before
he gets to be a man. He goes through
about five of ’em before lie begins to
shave the fuzz off his chiu and takes a
fancy to the looking-glass and wears a
highly-colored cravat and parts his hair
carefully with a wet brush and looks
down at the set of his legs as lie gallops
a martingaled pony to town. And the
girls have their several ages, too, Irom
the time they begin tq dress their little
dolls up to the time that they laugh at
everything, whether it is funny or not.
Its mighty hard to keep children in the
right track, and I’m afraid that most
parents try a little too hard, though I
know very well that some don’t try
hard enough. I knew a mighty good
man who had the worst boys in the
town, and everybody prophesied that
they would land in the penitentiary,
but lie didn’t seem much concerned
about it, and pne day when I told him
that his boys were accused of breaking
into a store the night before he said he
wouldn’t be surprised at all if it was so,
for he himself used to be the biggest devil
in the naborhood where bewas raised,but
that all of a sudden he came to himself
like the prodigal son did and quit, and
lie thought his boys had about run their |
time out and sowed their wild oats. J
And shure enough they did quit all of j
a sudden, and no better citizens can be
found than they are now. Like father
like son. Children just as naturally
take after their parents as the young
of any animal take after theirs, and the
best, teaching a parent can give his child
is a good example and the continual
evidence of his love. Not many child
ren will go back on love and example
both, especially if there is a little rev
erential fear of the hickory mixed up
with it in a judicious manner. Mrs.
Arp has sorter opened a family school
for the children and is trying to enlarge
their views of figures, and she makes a
first rate teacher, for she likes figures.
I put in a little occasionally, and the
last sum I gave was: if a cow and a calf
is worth a dollar and a half, what are
two cows worth? She helped ’em work
at it awhile, whe.n suddenly it struck
her, and then tho hair brush struck me
on the side of the head, and I departed
those coasts prematurely. Bill Arp
MISTAKE OF MOSES.
1 Spirited oil versa) ion between
Young rinJkiulc and the ltev. l>ut
majcr
The other day Rev. Potmayer went
home with the Rev. Mulkittle to take
a quiet, homo like and altogether or
thodox dinner with the distinguished
divine. While the two reverend gen
tlemen sat in the library, discussing
the intellectual merits of Paul and the
spiritual influence ot Peter, Mulkittle’s
boy entered the room, took off his shoe,
removed a rag from a sore toe and sat
near the window, trying to scratch a
cross mark on the glass with a nail.
Presently Mulkittle went out to assist
his wife in preparations for dinner.
The bny looked up and asked:
“Mister, are yen a preacher like my
P a ?” T
“Acs, we are both preachers and
both belong to the same church.”
“Did you ever hear iny pa preach?”
“Oh, yes.”
“And did my pa ever hear you
preach?”
“Yes.”
“Can you beat my pa preach in’?”
“I don’t know, sonny.”
“Why don’t you know?”
“Because I don’t.”
“How old are you, my son?”
“I ain’t your son. I’m my pa’s son.”
“But how old are you?”
“Ten goin’ on eleven last May. Hay,
Mister, who was it that led the boys
and girls through the woods?”
“I don’t understand you, my son.”
“I ain’t your son. I’m my pa’s son.
Who was it that led the boys an’ girls
through the woods an’ was in the woods
forty years.”
“Oil, you mean the children of Israel.
It was Moses who led the children of
Israel through the wilderness.”
“Tell mo about him.” *
“Well, you see, Moses was chosen
by the Lord to load his chosen people
out of bondage. They were in the wil
derness forty years. Moses did not live
to enter tho promised land, and was
only permitted to view it from afar. Of
all the men who followed him on the
great expedition, only two, Caleb and
Joshua, were permitted to reach tlie
promised land.”
“Did Moses die?”
“Yes. He disobeyed God. A great
water famine spread over the country
and God told Moses to speak to the
rock and that water would flow from
it; but instead of speaking,Moses smote
the rock.”
“How smote it?”
“Struck it with his staff.”
“Did it break the rock?”
“Oh, no.”
“Did it break the staff?”
“No.”
“Was Moses good?”
“Yes.”
“An’ did God tell him to lead the
boys an’ girls of.—of what?”
“The children of Israel.”
“An’ did God tell him to lead the
children of lsrael to the promised land?”
“Yes.”
“Well, then, what made God kill
him before he got there?”
“I don’t know.”
“If Moses was a good man what
made God kill him? Didn’t Moses
have a brother Ely?”
“He had a brother Aaron.”
“Did Aaron get. to the promised
land?”
“No.”
“But if he had been named Ely he
would have got there, wouldn’t he?”
“My little man yon are too hard for
me. I cannot answer—”
“But Ely got—”
Just then Mulkittle entered the room.
The boy started to leave, but the rev
erend gentleman caught him. The
house was filled with plaintive cries
and promises, and when the two preach
ers sat down to dinner, the boy sat on
the fence, trying to spurt water on a
negro woman. —Arkansas Traveler.
Big Thunder and Biting Tiger.
“It’s a shame, that’s what it is, and
I don’t think mothers have got any right
to make boys eight years old tend little
dried-up-looking babies that can’t do
anything but cry.”
Eddie Barnard’s voice expressed the
sympathy he felt for his cousin, Char
ley Harnden, when he found him caring
for the baby on that particular Satur
day afternoon they had counted on for
putting the finishing touches to a large
kite which it was believed would out
sail any other in tlie village.
“Boys wasn’t made to sit ’round liold
in’ babies, and I just wish Doctor Ab
bott hadn’t brought this one, | cause its
just done nothing but plague me ever
since it come;” and Charley almost
shook his little baby brother, who was
sucking his thumb as contentedly as if
he hadn’t an idea low sadly he was in
the way.
“I’ll teil you what we might do, and
then babies wouldn't bother us any
more,” said Eddie, as he jumped to his
leet suddenly. “We might turn Injuns,
like two I read of in a book Sam Basset
lent me. YVe could be reg’lar Injun
chiefs, an’ go out to Chickcommon
woods to live.”
At first Charley was delighted with
the idea, and he danced around at great
risk of upsetting the baby entirely; but
a sudden thought clouded his joy.
“Injuns have wigwams, an’ squaws,
an’ ponies, an’ we can’t get any of
them.”
“Yes we can; we can catch Tom
Downey’s old blind horse an’ play it was
a pony, an’you ain’t smart if you don’t
know where to catch a squaw.”
“Where?” asked Charley, breath
lessly.
“Ain’t there your sister Nellie? Can’t
we get a lot of grasshoppers an’ coax
her out behind the meetin’-house to see
them? An’ then can’t we eatcli her an’
tie her, an’ drag her by the arms up to
tlie woods, just like any Injuns do?”
“Of course. An’ we could get some
bed-quilts for a camp.”
“Yes, an’ we’ll name you Biting
Tiger, an’ I’ll be Big Thunder, an’ Nel
lie can be Moon-face, just as it was in
the book.”
For some moments the boys sat in
silent bliss. Then after a time a seri
ous doubt crept into Biting Tiger’s
heart, and he asked;
“But what will we do for things to
eat?”
“Tilings to eat?” echoed Eddie.
“Chiefs don’t bother about such things;
they just send the squaws out to get it,
’cause that’s what squaws are for.”
“My! but won’t mother be scared
when she finds out that she got an In
jun to hold the baby?” said Charley,
thinking with delight that in his moth
er’s fear he should be more than repaid
for all the trouble the little fellow lial
caused him. “But then she won’t be
so awfully frightened, for lie ain’t got
anything to scalp, if you wanted to
do it.”
YVe can wait till he grows, an’ then
scalp him ’most every day,” said Ed
die, consolingly.
Then came the question of how they
tvere to get away, for, valiant chiefs as
they wore, they could hardly drop the
baby on the floor and run.
“i’ll tell you what we can do,” said
Eddie. “I’ll go home an’ get some
ropes to tie Nellie with, an’ then I’ll go
for tlie grasshoppers. YY'lien you hear
me holler you send Nellie over, an’ put
the baby in the cradle, and come over
lickety-split, so’s to hold the squaw’s
1 mouth if she sets up a yell.”
Big Thunder started for his mother’s
clothes-line and some grasshoppers,
while Biting Tiger sat holding the baby
as quietly as if he had never thought of
being an Indian.
Surely there never were two chiefs on
the eve of starting in the Indian busi
ness so fortunate as these two were, for
in a short time after Big Thunder’s de
parture Mrs. Hamden took tlie baby,
and Nellie seated herself on the door
step to play with her doll.
Charley told her of the captive grass
hoppers she would see if she went with
him; and clasping her doll firmly in her
arms, she started for the meeting-house
near by, while Charley followed, ready
to spring upon her as soon as he should
see his brother chief.
Eddie was prepared for the first act in
his new life. Ho had armed himself
with a long carving-knife and fully ten
yards of clothes-line, so that he was
ready for any desperate attempt at
escape the squaw might make.
All unsuspecting the horrible fate
that awaited her, Nellie approached the
fatal spot, when Big Thunder sprang
out, winding tlie rope around lier body
a dozen times.
“Why don’t you cry an’ screech an’
kick?” asked Charley, thoroughly dis
appointed because their captive had
submitted so quietly.
“What for?” asked Nellie, in sur
prise.
“ Why, ’cause we’re Injuns, an’ you
are a squaw we’ve caught, an’ now we
are goin’ to drag you oft' to the woods,”
replied Eddie, brandishing his knife.
“I don’t want to he a squaw;” and
Nellie now showed signs of making as
much of an outcry as the boys could
have wished for.
But you must, and that’s all there is
about it,” said Eddie, sternly; and then
he took hold of the ends of the rope, as
ho shouted to Charley: “Hold your
hands over her month while I pull her
along.”
Charley hardly Lad time to reply be
fore Big Thunder, with the clothes-line
drawn taut over his shoulder, Btnrted
ahead with a force that threatened to
overthrow both captive and captor.
For five minutes thore was a thrill
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ing and exciting scene as the chief dash
ed along,dragging behind him the squaw
who was only half-gagged by Biting
Tiger.
At the expiration of that time Big
Thnnder tumbled over a log, striking
the ground with a force that caused his
nose to bleed, while Nellie, being o
suddenly released, fell backward, car
rying Biting Tiger with her.
Big Thunder began to cry, but real
izing that Indians should not he so par
ticular r mt a little thump on the nose,
urged liir companion to “come on,”
while he forced the captive ahead again.
By the time they reached the first
growth of trees that marked tlie border
of the woods the neivly-made Indians
were feeling very warm, and decidedly
uncomfortable as to what their mothers
might be able to do in the way of cap
turing them.
Poor Moon-face was crying as if her
little heart was breaking; but it was
not noisy grief, andit made her captives
look at each other very guiltily, since
it showed how much suffering they
were causing.
The first halt was made when they
reached what they supposed to be the
very heart of the forest, and Nellie was
tied to a fence that had evidently been
placed there for the accommodation of
Indians with captives. She had recov
ered from her grief at being dragged
from home, and now played contentedly
with her doll, while the boys tried to
make a wigwam. But it was not long
before they learned how difficult it was
to cut down trees with a carving-knife,
and by the time they had succeeded in
getting about a dozen small branches
together they were decidedly hungry.
“YVe’ve got to look ’round and find
something to eat,” said Eddie, after he
had withstood the pangs of hunger as
long as possible.
“I thought the squaw had to do
that;” and Charley looked up in,sur
prise that they were obliged to do any
work, after all the trouble of finding
and catching a squaw.
“So they do, after they get broke in,
but I don’t spose Nellie could do much
toward killing bears and deers until
after she gets kind of used to it.”
It was sad to think they had a squaw
who was not accustomed to the busi
ness, and with a sigh Charley released
the captive, that all might goin search
of food.
It was a long, weary tramp which
they had, and it seemed that it must be
nearly supper-time, when they sud
denly heard a fearful noise among tlie
bushes, as if some enormous animal
was coming directly toward them.
Then both the Indians turned pale with
terror; for what could they do in the
way of fighting a bear, with only one
carving-knife between them?
Only for a moment did they face the
terrible danger, and then both Big
Thunder and Biting Tiger started for
home as fast, as their legs could carry
them, while their late captive ran be
hind, imploring not to be left alone. It
was a cowardly flight for two Indians
with a captive to make, but the feroc
ious animal appeared to be pursuing,
and they could do no less.
YY T hen they reached Charley’s home,
where Mrs. Harden could be seen in
her arms, Eddie’s clothes were covered
with dirt and the blood that had fallen
from his nose; Charley was quite as
dirty, although not as bloody as his
brother chief, and Nellie’s once clean
white dress was completely ruined.
The ferocious animal followed them
up to the very door of the house, and
then it looked more like Benny Cush
ing’s pet calf than it did like a bear.
That night, after the two Indians
had settled matters with their respec
tive mothers, both Big Thunder and
Biting Tiger wisely concluded that the
Indian business was too painful ever
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