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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 | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 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. 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