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SONG OF the streei musician,
When tbe warm rains fall, when the bright
run* * 1000 ,
When the sap is flowing back in the long
grape- vine
When the a mbs begin to bleat and tbe leave.
t-egln to grow,
Merrily I follow with the fiddle and the bow.
My father ha* a harp, its sound k very "
Bww . t
We stand beneath tbe balconies together on
the 8tre**t ■
H« it ‘Unking of tli, ’and •!«„ ,h, plea.
But I <»n th.nk of nothin* but the twnngln;
o. the bow.
Happy aro the orchards, rosy with their
fruit;
Happy are the long nigb'.s when the string is
mute;
Happy is the greensward where ths maidens
go
Dancing to tbe music of the fiddle and tbe
bow!
Now the earth isfrosty, now th; sky is pale,
The leav s begin to fall an l the winds begin
to wail;
Mingled with the night storm, muffled w ith
the mow,
Listen at your windows tothi twanging of
tho bow!
—Dora II. Goodale, in the Independent.
JOE’S STORY.
by FRANK it. coxvkrsp.
Mother died some time last May.
Thero wasn’t any one I belonged to then,
no I had to hus’le for mvsclf, like most
of ub newspaper chaps have to. I hadn’t
any reg’lnr p’ace to sleep, but it cornin'
on summer 1 didn’t care so much, ’cent
ing, of course, when it rained. Then a
fellow can generally find cover some
where, if it isn’t so ni c.
But this night I'm going to tell of was
])leasant and warm. The “cop” didn’t
drive me off my private settee in Central
Park till nigh one in the morning. Guess
he overslept himself.
W hen I’m roused up that way, I gen
erally m dee .Morrison’ I, , way J down town, ;
nlLe ,, i, flo ,i. il / r 8 ! ‘ hlgk v- , . t ° aed
place, so us cheaper , lor me to , stop out
side. But there’s the light from the
windows, and every time the big doors
swing open a fellow can see. iust for a
minute, eating and drinking going on. it’i
and if he imagines a good deal, why
almost as good as being inside.
Three swell looking chaps was stand
ing outside when I got there. Not for
the same reason I was, though. They’d
been to the theater, or some where’s else, toi
and as l heard one of’em say, it was
early in thc evening 3 to think of go.ng b<= to
l )e( l
It Avas Jack Meagher said that.
“Handsome Jack,” they used to call him
in our ward, where he avhs raised. All
us fellows know “Handsome Jack” by
sight. Though you’d never think: ho
come from any such low dowu place as
Water street, to look at his swell rig and
hear him talK.
n,,t otLy to’real^ ___ . ,, , . .
thatiiatches on gwitlemeu’s h
»o olcom« A.„i fo” S'“„S f K “?0 , P wf.i ,
rui'b’YnYr L try '” S l ° llfl! thtou!!l1 “
Now, X r ,, though ,, , .t'j mo say, il. I've a ... lot
% “ aTncu' |! 7„°a,“’chorS ‘ y £T !. “ ’ ‘
tt ,|tv t nDwi • , •; R ! e ,f tUe Ur| taers , , h US a C> °- rfn - {
7 L
Ho sometimes, when was ’stuck on
for papers cr e tra hard up, I used to sing
nickels front of Morrison’s just 1 about
this time of night—the “catchy” songs
that happens to he going, such as we
chaps pick up ou the street.
So when “Handsome Jack” sees me
ho calls out:
“Hello,” he says, “here’s Joe, the
boy that sings.” And nothing to ( ] 0
but the three of ’em must take me inside
for a song.
There -was another one of the party I
knowed by sight. He used to buy pa¬
pers of me reg’hir, one time. I heard
’em say his folks left him a p.le of money
hi “Hand lomu^rirk” ’ 2 *h *** Z faSt C0Ul< ft ‘
U ZZ ten tf Pnt ; lain’tgivm’ r m I10t ° nC no ° f one ha
I T iT v i f i
te, ’
Smith 1 ' nlm r ti 1 { T 113 mau y0UVe \yas
^ • > (1 the
n fn t l a tw°«? ’t C0U Q isn ° f t l US same But
-
D v« hL Wm tall, u d ° 0Ue Z f
l ‘ '■ 3 ib a p w ,ue of f
- ,
r have c once got mside, i rnith d > d R t
seem to much to say to the others,
?t r 0 u a Gl b0dy e!se ’ f ° r B attcr - ! Ie
rtood nn katungnp agams the r bar counter
with a cigar m his mouth, but I see he’d
forgot to light it. t-’oine of the young
fellers he knew joked him a bit, but he
didn’t seem to notice it much. And I
kind of wondered Avhat ailed him - good
looking, plenty of money, and all the
t ,, tablehtisu'raine ... r . , ,
h^»«‘ thi Ingot.
with the drinks between ’em.
pair the other of sharp ears of my own, and I heard
one say:
“Smith's about squeezed dry, eb,
Jack.”
*****
from him. It hi wl"„ts to borro,v°JJ.‘
-, Q . ° ,, fe'ltew’s .
That’s just what I shall do. A
got to lookout for number one in this
'ZZtlZ T , " 11,11 nodded. ,, s , And , , ^ _ 1
'
Mteends f . r , Smiths c money had bought
"
Iv .
aairto pay for what I’d had
in in a way. I sung em two or three
th L ngS J at T- P°P ularest th f n ’
w c S d ' du 1 s ?®“ tc ‘ ake
-
ent . from ( J - those °, u h n ' e stale us something chestnuts?” differ
some
one says and I pulled up short. I was
going to leave them then ana tuere, but
bmith it was who stopped me.
“Never nund ’em. . oe, ” he says kiud
of iow like: “can’t you think of some
a Z t dl f?, rent ~ SOmeth,n = n03e
Of “S t na\e enta.
Whatever made me do it I don’t know
to this day. It was what they used to
sing all at St. Michael’s. Just one verse
was I could remember then ;
1 was cot always thus, cor prayed that
° U
Shouldst lni m
I loved to chose and see mv path. But now
Lead Thou me on;
I loved the garish day, and ’spite of tears.
1 "rale ruled my heart. Remmiber not past
>rars.
Of course I haven tgot learning, kept
such kind as a fellow pictt-^ up in the
street And i ne%er used to sense the
meaning ot tne church mus.c, like I did
the tunes. And when I got through I
wondered what made it so still in the
room for a minute.
Smith was the first one spoke. Not _
spoke exactly, for it was a kind of a
groan. Then he yanked his hat over his
eyes and went our.
“Guess ueeaa't ^ ^ Jce,”
you go on, says
“Handsome Jack,” looking up, “you’ve
drove one man off a’ready.”
“Too rich for Smith's blood,” another
cue laughed, and so they were going on,
THE MONROE ADVERTISER : FORSYTH, GA • 1 TUESDAY. MAY 7,1880.—EIGHT PAGES.
when ft young fellow, who hadn’t spoken
before, put in his word.
“Let up,” he says, kind of serious
like, “don’t kick the man, now he’s
down. The girl Smith was engaged to
hear andV^opfe her c?mi7roS P fM°Md learte
him sing hearing that as a solo. It kind of
upset it, I suppose.”
Well,some laoghed and some sneered,
, hut I didn’t wait hear what else
to wa
? ald ; A f eiiow shoved a quarter in my
hand and I slid out.
, i( ^“ h.n’slahu
shoulder (itpl.t ’ Vic Shed * JPby “ho
^ ted — not rough, though—and
w * B me round.
“Joe,” he says, sudden like, “if I had
ome of the money I’ve thrown away,
you should have a new suit of clothes
from top to toe."
For my duds was just awful, and that’s
thc fact * } 'ags and P atcbe3 only the
.
rags was worst. And before I knowed
what he was doin’, he went down on his
knees, and after fumblin’ about his vest
a Git, pinned up the biggest tear of all,
so’s the bare skin didn’t show quite so
Gad in where my trowse3 was ripped
from knee up.
Course I didn’t think nothing much o!
it more than it was kind of a freak took
him, till next mornin’. And if
you’ll believe me, Smith had took a
pin—opil, his sot with little diinuns—outer
necktie for to pin up my rags with.
I didn't know what to do at the first
of it, not having any idea where to look
fo ? Smith And not movin’in what you
^Gt d uai » dances call the mostly highest wasn circles, t them my Id
car« to ask advice of regardin’ jewelry.
But there’s a young lady lives up nigh
Washington 0fl , Square that was awful
g0 t0 . raothur wk,1 « 3 Ge was sick, , rhe ,
Gelongs . to , a “guild,’ I think whool they call
c;n ’ and a mi s31on down
. ward 1 , **?* to dnft
in oar ’ * ™ In
toke °metimes and of a bunday. ke whole I took L the pin
f ^ ld r ke story.
& h « f tu rncd whlt + f r u oae ° tbe mart ls
st . atute t * in . ber l )arlor "’hen the , sees the ,
. 1Ul oka for
p: "i v },°" d:d <l ult a f e ver right a U to bring a me “lat¬ this
Joe,” T she says, after a bit. “Mr. bmith
is-a-a friend of mine, ’ aud I will see it
^turned . , to, . , h.m. H, „ as you , heard, , , he
has lo st aI1 h, f ^ney—’
And A , then she stopped and walked to
U)W * indo J bke stc ! od t^re lookin’
° Ut , at n0th ! n , ever S ,° 1 16U shG
« ave me a doI n lar and 1 T lef ' ^ * nd n " as
vear , fore 1 ever heard 01 or see
-
agaiu ’
llut meauwhll , e ^i S8 ~ bo T° ua f, . lad . >;
her } „ m s P e f aklI1 & a of-^bss f steady iob Blank, carrying 111 cal out
’
P a P ers f f T a newsdealer she knowed
And w VYe’nesdays and Fridays she paid
me for blowin’ the little organ to the
mission chapel I was telling of.
I was late that day, and when I got to
the mission little Mike Dwyer was
blowin’ in my place. There wasn’t a
soul there to hear, but Miss Blank was
kind of playin’ all to herself, so I sot
down a bit to lis’en.
borne one come shu liin’ in and sot
a ° w “ ' he «oor W hen I looked
round, bed dropped his arms on the top
? f 8 «“ e N r '“ rd 0f him “ d laid h ‘ s
myself—for “Half drunk,Tikdy eaough,” I said lo
lots of that kind drift into
mtaio ,_ lt bping Mrt in lhe
sl ™». « -■>)' »J. But i„ folk, of
that kind the mission is trying fir to get
hold of. And this rnau.so as Icoffid
make out by his seedy rig, seemed to be
something in that line ofbusiness
Wbllst 1 wa8 1 n thc ckolr b °? llDe ’ 1
, ^ard some pretty t f good s.ngmg
ass
matter of course. But talk about your
sopranos—Miss anything. Blank just went ahead
of
Curious wasn’t it, that she should all
at onco have struck in on “Kindly
T . , 4 „
“ Oolong Thy power hath blessed me; sure,
lC stl 1
Will lead me on,
O’er moor and fen—o’er crag and torrent—
till
The night is gone;
And with the morn those angel faee3 smile
Which I have loved long sinco—and lost
awhile.”
g Ge and the organ stooped all at once,
:t was still as death in ‘the vestry, aud I
heard her give kind of a sob.
“Great Heavenssays themanbe
hind me. And I look round again to
shake my head at him. Butyou might
have knocked me out with a feather
duster in one round. It was Smith
Gut his own mother if she’d been alive
never’d knowed him. Pale and peaked,
w - ltb a shiny coat and trowses fringed at
the bottoms—well, he didn’t look much
like the Smith I see at Morrison’s, ’ you J
cau bet
All the same, I knowed him; and
we nt for him like a shot, for he was
making a break for the door.
“Mr. Smith—Mr. Smith,” I sung out,
“stop, I want to tell you about your
Miss Blank has got it,
aad ' _
‘Arthur
It Avas only a Avord, but it turned
Sf.T” 4 * “"t 51 f’
m at Mr bm.lh-ooij
" r G ,V tUe 'T. 0 rd J wais Gang
• to like ttaa . 1 Gound
n -^ oa . ™J S
L ^ $C
P in ’
do=,^tSuS
over 1J« *««•*« his face, Avent a wort. square He put dowu his on huds his
kn ^ esfr01lt of her aild dro PP ed Gis head
’ a ier .‘{P‘
I T ain’t none too , , bright . , , about , . things ...
like that; but I’ve read love stories sestet te
the papers before now, and I
wasn’t no place for me, so I lit oiq CSi soon’s
I got my wit’, about
S*S!!^ iilgTro ^ r ' way befote aay one
Was they married finally? Well, I
should sav so. And I always cal’lated I
had a hand in it. too. For, don’t you
see, the opil and dimun’ pin was one
Miss Blank had give him for a birthday
ever so loug before-that’s how she
knowed it so quick. [ And that’s all.
_ Vftt York Ar;o J J
There Were Giants In Those Days,
Ia the batt]e of Aqu , c extithe
battle-front held its own by a
six-fold line of spearmen, but was finally
broken by an expedient of the barbarians,
who, says Dr. Ftelix L. Oswald in the
I oice, by means of leaping poles, fiung
themselves into the midst of the serv ed
legions and attempted to force the fight
b y a hand-to hand con.iict. On the
battle-field of Adriaaople the sudden
panic of the Roman troops was ascribed
to the exploit of a Gothic warrior, Avho
hurled his lance through the body of a
mail-clad adversary, and seizing the
lance-handle with both fists held up his
skewered foernan as a standard-bearer
would hold aloft a brass eagle of five or
s i x pounds. Teutofaot, a ccref of those
Northland giants, could leap full-armed,
over six horses, standing side-by-side:
and the trained lions, waich a Roman
commander had imported at great ex¬
pense, were all killed in tbe first en
counter with the vanguard of the uu
daunted barbarians. “They mistook
them for do:s,"aavsthe brafas historian, “and
knocked their out.”
The police department of Boston costs
the city $1,'250,000 per year.
HUNTING BUFFALO'
EXCITING SPORT OF STEADYING
BABY BISON'S.
Shameful Slaughter . of These Pictur
cs jue Brutes — An Encounter
With an infuriated Moth
er on rhe Plains.
I util w ithin the last five years it was
not strange or uncommon for buffalo
cows and calves to be found herded with
the wild cattle of the ranges and the
spring round-up3 always ret orted
more or less sport for the
and reckless “cow punchers” with
buffalo calves. Western men have
at last, however, bernm to realize,
with more than a little regret, that
the large droves of buffaloed roaming
mg at will over the trackless plains of
thc Territories formed sights that are
forever to be lost, and to realize also that
the shameful slaughter of these pictur
es^ue brutes has been a waste of ^old.
The fact that the domesticated buffalo
and the cross-breeds are both very valu
able and easily herded is, just now,
giving hunting, a new and zest the to the sport'of buffalo
chase increased dangers "fold of the
fact that are the object ten by the
capture”. now is not to
kill, but to To make prisoners
of thc young, or to bring upon one's
self the tierce avenging fury of a buffalo
cow, requires by throwing the a rope over her calf
utmost self-possession as
well as that peculiar reckless familiarity
with saddle and horse which are found
so fully developed in the range riders of
the Western plains. The hunt is profit
less if the calves are injured, and the
preparations for the care of the captives
are not only minute, but necessarily ex
pensive. Domestic cows - are are provided provided
as wet nurses, and a constant watchful
ness is observed over these compulsory
foster mothers until they have overcome
a not unnatural repugnance to their new
charges. The calves, however, when
captured their and ' placed _____ in ln a a C orral with
in nurses, display no excessive mod
esty foraging raids for milk, and their im
petuous upon the new commissary
are extremely amusing.
An tmportant element in the buffalo
hunting of to-day is the fact that
the females give birth to their young
very eany in tlie spriug, and the hunt
be i° re b 0_
nr tlu, alive' mI -P- CS , torae f )nD »!° 00 ull ^ str u °ng ! ,0 ^ to catt cap- , * e i
ture
tenZ' w! a S° *^0 , four-horse
! with t a wagons behind them,
. owly , out the
jhL ins et Wyoming. s In °i the first town wagon, of and
in charge of the expedition, was a
“ aa knawa as Colonel,” whose
weather-beaten , and genial lace was
aglow with the pleasures of anticipation
aud whose wagon was packed with com-
1 ortable bedding, “grub,”
utensils, and last, but not least, a varied
Z?er e ciLs cl,* C °t n nW Ja Dg co,pipes, ° f S ° rities, U ^ maSh etc. '
Beside L ni eontnt’ "Tn
and rad evil evidently emiv ’
content with the wor.d as
thousand nflnirA h° n aiD ed
two noumB f^Le nli aQ i “
uuratitv of f roue f Z T ''f’ ,
andw- m H:Vlbvanomh L ? - h Wb °’
the ick inf(T» imlfet f i / &
? L rablfit h2 t i t SS’S’SLW Vl , e . V K thG
Is temferlob. th 1 ^ d b ° a3
<mod ° • hours''
For three ilon’J ! V the h ! T, - ]0 !f
slow]v of I whlle
the smiles the fSth d Fh° m ~
nanions atte ' ted the r entrant m tho
honed for The wni f
“Chuck ’’ of the heav v vn hliraS w \ n
tie wearina to the weil
t : es in his acccSe wraon wmra 1,1^ t
easily * * tv ntl-r*? Pd i
was reached enea w \v it ltnout bout any occutrence to m
mar the pleasure of the trip.
1 hi ee days traveling cat ried the party
o . ie northern boundary of the Red
Desert, Avhere were waiting the hunters
_w —-Diignt, r ; B L r-Lomnon Chapman and r>„~ Gomez, a
Mexican vaquero. Each hunter had a
dollars “string” ot eight horses. Twenty-five
was the stipulated price of each
calf which should t e caught uninjured,
and bound by the feet. At four o’clock
on the following morning breakfast was
announced, and at its finish all hands
but the cook saddled their horses and
“hit the trail,” driving the extra saddle
horses before them.
After quietly riding for an hour Gomez
called attention to a buffalo trail and
followed it at some distance in advance
of the others, carefully -watching ahead.
The trail lead through sage brush, over
the plains, across innumerable draws,
until Gomez reached the summit of a
Ioav range of hills, when he suddenly
wheeled his horse and returned to the
fhe^amewlTi 17 excitemeat ;
thegamewas m sigh One enormous
buh, four cows and three calves were
’f? 10U f F T> l i
ht-J* huntei-s"eparaTed^t^u^uofthe wirp rnl-i om tL the part_y. F hS resh
with as little nohoTpo^ Atl
7 hen each of
the hunters had crept a, close as po»si
ble, rae three horses made a dash for
Avard. With a snort of fear the bull
threw up ms herd and seeing Wright
rush.ng upon him he wheeled in blind
aU S d head!on f
Chanmra Jreared wh wp b ( a-pd fell
L., :^ a& ^ hlin
.L-w: n rr*
brut?wem out nSm Ur th ? temSed
P
over a caif and rathe of getting rope
was act
°V aa nea °/ra me 1S mother sadd e came to lie dashing the calf through s legs
the sage brush with a savage bellowing
urk uwDg Asta e infuriated Grute
-rTo 60 t °'* ,ard h-mGome. dropped his
rape and 1 swung his horse around, and
-he cow. farming both Gomez an TV right
{f ward ^ u°m the rear, tied,
,i ‘-n-e * th ^ an 0 tl ?K her erS calfse ° f th ^ erd ® ured W ere -
tW. irauf Chapman a flying arfer ^ ,
coverell’from » : ed m her’frigbt’tJnoticeYtilb
sence The three hunte-s then n- P their
horses to a -allop f to run 2!, dow Q the K re
A Wf ^^Gourshaid ruling ■ v
this'ri m ra VasR^differan^^o’leric
me under * eric
conditions
The cows that bad one-who^Lu lest thrfr calves
were furious and the was
still vitli her was wS^hausted disposed to fi-h
savaselv. The calf by
the run and the -vtej cow« were d»e’ded horae^ -
vicious <0 pa4 the r hiSers k
breathin- S ' e ' the tue three tb - ee filters
'different* ■ a^
irom potet? they e J a P
KL fn i^ a-V belier 11 ^d ! 63 a: ad ^ -• 112 rope lf ., taecaa J 5055 !'
twinkling raws pLde f u lonf ?« 1Df ^ ated
r^nnv- Wrteht’s g legs were m th^
‘, -«»- a ri- J' 1 ia tQe Sfl 8
b sh _ hil N • plun f . =
. /‘ D / aa awa J
Z , L-'
th r c ?*‘^ ana a3 ^“°^ed,
(id , v ra, a t araed u . P on .Liiapman,
Z;Z Z Hw^il .JSi . i°v S -5!L CP «v- V
u-OTld f *
m-' ~ hra calf ..... “ n,:d aad was
run away from the calf by Chapman and
i Gome/,, while Wright, who had picked
himself up and got into his sadd*
a £ ain - followed, overtaking the calf,
cured and throwing the another rope over it se¬
last of the three. One of thc
wagons loaded was brought up and the calves
into it. baddie horses were again
changed about and the party moved the camp
twelve miles to the corral, where
domestic cows were held awaiting theii
new The charges. .
less search following day was spent in a fruit¬
for other buffaloes, but on the
third day two other calves were cap¬
tured, result making in all five captives as tbe
of a ten days’ hunt .—New York
Herald.
Shaving Dead Men.
* ” ’*hap3 the most
c gruesome duty
^G.ch is that a of barber shaving is _ called the dead. upon to fulfill
Said one
wa ? ^ as ^ iac ^ muc G experience in pre
P a j"' in £ f °r the grave many of his fellow
be mg s “There could be no doubt
after t5ie barber got through shaving the
man *hat he wms dead, for many barbers
are ' so *‘ ro H&h the that dead. their operations On first would being
a rrios r313 c
ca * led u P on to savc a Head man no ba£
ber can csca P e a feeling of horror, but it
? 00a P asses away. I followed my trade
ia German r, where the barber has a pro¬
fessional duty which precedes that of
tlie Coroner ) aiJ d Gis offices are exalted
luto aimost ec l ual dignity to that of the
latter offi cial. When one dic-s the first
dut y of tlie attending physician is to call
m the 3U1 geou barber. He then ex
amiues , tGo body of the deceased and
tlien a PP lies tGe tests prescribed by law
to ascertain whether death lia3 surely in
Evened. The barber first looks at the
eyes ' ancl if ^Geglassy iook which denotes
death is found there they are reverently
and aa d carefully carefully ciosed. closed. Then Ihen the the lower lower
iaw ia3 *^ is Is struck strucK sharp sharply, y, and and if if it it falls falls that tnat
- another indication that death has
taken place. If auy spark of life remain
“ the body, the iaws will come together
a S ain - and oni y relax ^’hen the spirit has
departed from the body. This is the
reason that the bandage is placed around
chin of a corpse by the undertaker
as soou as P ossib!e after death, so as to
give the face a natural look when it has
been removed from the icebox and
placed ia tbs casket .”—Philadelphia
Press.
The Wisdom of Silence.
The Greeks, who were so inconsidcratt
as to j anticipate a great part of the wit
an( wisdom of our t mes, have handed
dowu to us a little story which we may
name “The Silent Guest.” The hero ol
that brief narrative remained obstinately
d umb a t the banqueting board w-hile
everybody else was overflowing with
ta i k . At last, a table companion, seated
b y his side, said to him: “If you an
a fool, you are behaving | wisely; if you
are w ] se man ’ T0U y ar L Gehavmg c L a y; n „. ra fool- 0 i
p hly »
Don years’a<ra Piatt writine of Salmon P Chase cold’
a unimpJlslve f ew temperament remarked that dgntfied his
his
reserve, his fine presence and grave man
ner ’ “impressed the crowd, and created
respect without liking.” But, adds Mr.
piatt> these fi ualit:es are more in the end
tUan mo « genial ones. “Many a states
man ’ li0nored in Gis grave, owed his
success in life t0 the P ri ma facie evidence
■
of wisdom, so acceptable to the popular
mind, that is found in silent gravity.
Tk « Corwin, of Ohio, aman of
g euuiue and “finite humor, on one oc
casion, when lecturing me for my dis
position do to joke with a crowd, said:
‘Don’t it. my boy. You should al
ways rememb er that the crowd looks up
to the rmgmasterand dowtl oa the cIown -
It resents that which amuses. The clown
is the more tlever fellow of the two * Gut
k ° is des P ;sed - If you would succeed in
life y.rn must be solemn, solemn as an
as3 \ AU thc S reat monuments of the
earth , have been built over solemn asses.’ ’
_ New 0rUans Picaijunet
_________
A „ Seven-Year v p Fast. .
The notoriety of n Dr. . Tanner and ah
other tasters who have succeeded in do
ing without food for periods as the'ex- long as
forty days or a little longer at
pence of much suffering, is eclipsed by
the remarkable story of Josephine Marie
Bedard, a French Canadian girl, for
whom it is claimed that she has eaten
nothing for seven years, and has drank
nothing but Avater, yet is strong and ac
tire, with a plumb figure, rosy cheeks
; and au air of perfect health.
Miss Bedard, who is seventeen years
old, has not eaten anything, according
I to the story, since an attack of croup
which she had in her tenth year, and
has no desire for food when it is set be*
fore her or when she is engaged in its
preparation. This wonderful statement
is vouched for by C. H. Webber, her
guardian, and by her family physician
and a number of persons m Canada who
have known the-girl and her parents,
aQ f 6 Wa 1 grCa 0r leSS
penods._ pJoliSe* 0^“
Iprilf St Hwbf? ’losHIt P 8 ^S tn
^ mMher three
,m°: ed with her fatheFs
family to St. Paul when . five a ears old,
wnere the beginning of her long fast
took place, and returned to Tingwick,
Canada, where she now lives in the fam
Hy of her father, who is a farmer and
country storekeeper. —New York Com
memal Advertiser.
A College Boy’s Ponlffy Hobby.
“A C „ g m .„ T ho ™,colU g , yl .l
nc
PP ted f
. w p_.j
? P. k " * ta 3 P,, the J,°,T - ’ _ J , ' ^ b, e h?
PD ’ a ?
.
^ “ nutte-in^
. anurd Irf hoi
*, > ~ ' P, 1 1 * , ‘ , '
- • « *■ L p ,
took it all in »o"d m-t * and went on en.
laro-ino- befan g his ^ hi business Tat S Pretty taking raon we
f t 0 for\b wm nouUrvln
bi m0Qe j d'tha’* hrf-ramia' vari
ous ^ poultev much YrLZ «hows a’ ^ ZiTl
^ as more than sufficient to meet
aU llis expenses. When he left college
he had him'^vh epoirah monev Dut awav rc
akd le in" the seminars
make one or two profitable invest
meats be5 . :de3> He took a high rank in
continued ‘he ministry, and although = he always
to love poultry, slightest I never heard
that this hobby in the And? degree
interfered with his usefulness. by
the way, ’not what self-respecting student
™uld prefer to work his way
through p college by raising poultry rathe,
acting ‘is° asa waiter in the ramme,
hotels'* It not only more honorable,
bu’- more more lncrative luc.,.-ve._ ”
i! 1 L .... )h an(l . F!oA J w Water . t ._ Whepl , *
a domham, T“ ere w Me a ^ater^wheet m probably use at Bow- the
, wn.cn is
only one ox its kind ia existence. It i*
twenty-seven feet in diameter, with a
foot the spokes of its rim are out wide of and water set at diagonally, high tide
.lke the vanes of a wradm 11. it turn:
eighteen hours oftheday by tide power,
ru 3 ^ g th® flow;the othei
^Hi^eebb. * YHth one foot fall o* the
tl<3e tillS waeei S lve3 aooat fffty-horse
P ower *
MONTANA STRANGLERS
SIXTY-TWO THIEVES STRUNG
UP IN SHORT ORDER.
-p, Desperate , TT Mon „ Terrorized . , ^ by ^ the
Swift Workings of a Plan Devised
by the Cattlemen.
_
The United States has never contained
a better organized nor more persistent
gang of horse thieves than the ones
whiea infested the Bad Lands of Dakota
letwemi 18N- aud 18S4. It can hardly
said tuat ST aD S * headquart
ere, as its members were on the move,
ut the town where they appeared of
tenest was t.ie co^ection of shanties
iins little ,ttlo hamlet, Missoim. says tue Ohbe > Detn
ecref has achieved a national reputation,
and for years has been known as the
toughest days town m America. Its palmiest
were in 188-4. At that time the
troops stationed there had just been re
moved; Commodore Gorringo "as had
bought their quarters known the
Cantonment; cattle by the tens of thous
*nds were being brought into the Bad
Lands; cow boys were taking tho place
ot the Indian; the Marquis do Mores
was slaughter beginning houses the establishment of
and frontier eharae
ters were attracted to the new town.
a. uineious among these diameters
were the horse thieves, with whom the
rt gioa soon became infested. It was a
11 If 1 n V e g( W >:ul V Lilntls T l e
ordev'than is nv> u'uV, mit^ 1 1U - “°
welf if sW , t£ - U W
misrlit bufLt -s trv in f iU, *" w *' i’ ''! ’l ! J ', f ;1
through S th*> t tit f t) l e r e k ‘ ft b /
^1 a n o ? St -|’T to
? nfi tracks. Twelve miles from
Litt.e at Missovui ran the Montana line,
Unce across it, the horse thief *was safe
from serrioo by a Dakota Sheriff. Tlie
nearest officer of the law witli junsdio
tion was m Mandan, 100 miles to the
eastward.^ To the southeast one could
go dOO miles and never see a sign of
human habitation. To the south, 200
miies away, were the Black Hills. In
the intervening country there was but
an occasional cow camp. To the north
ward, lio miles, was the Canadian line,
Cnee across it there was no difficulty in
liSufints 1 V TT'
the “£?stl?ra ’ ” nad lfc ? w was a M :\ ad
■ ra- fi 1 r t .,
16 S ° U 1
sPu<.- SltStefl" J f , v * colu ° } ff
trv 7’ H m >, L p
j r 1 en they ltaohed the
r Crood , , citizens ... even.now shudder in at
meutl0u ^engers. °f Thoir ri the reign t . errlb]o was Gaud “short, of
sharp and decisive.” They had a mis
S!OU form to ^ perform, and well did they per
it In less than three.months they
had hung or shot sixty-tliree men m
various P arfs of Montana and Western
Dako ; a ’., these men
R'ise ilueves, the odiei hemgason
«^he Fort Buford post trader He
the horse thieves when he was
‘V,' Hilld1 / a Montana , Western w Dakota T v i
or
nvspaper has to this day the courage
fco 6 l eak of red-handed band of
regulators. Its formation was so secret,
lta operations so swift bloody and
effectual aud its disbandment so sud
deU ’ tliat f ot llfc( f u ?f en outside of ns
memGer b knew ivho its members were.
Ail the pubhc knows or cares to know,
is that horses or cattle running on the
imigo tvere af.erward as safe buy miles
f, under mwf the G°me ey e of range the owner. as if they, The were or
gamzation of the horse thieves was.com
lamely brokou up. From that bloody
lald °f the Stwnglera was born an
^“cst perfect reign of safety for range
Tho formation , . of tlie band of men
known as tlie “Montana Stranglers ”
was as much an outgrowth of necessity
as is the passage 1 6 and enforcement I, of
proper , Iuavr . Avell-settled „ i n i community.
in a
It is not a hard task to justify the acts
of the “Stranglers” to a man who has
lived on the frontier for any length of
time. Aside from shooting scrapes and
the occasional maltreatment of a stranger,
there was but little law-breaking resized in Little
Missouri, but it was a°“ by all
that a man had only six-shooter
right” to life and property. issue'll Numerous
Avar rants had been in Mandan
ICO miles away, for the arrest of men in
Little Missouri, hut not one of them
was ever served. The officer of the laAv
might come up to the hobnob'a tough hamlet in
the Bad Lands and day or tAvo
with the man for whom he held the
warrant, but the lemil document Avas
always returned with’ the endorsement hS
“ Not foun l ” It Avas shrply
able to receive any support from the
law, and the “ rustlers ” took advantage
G f the opportunity to carry on their
0 P erati0ns with impunity. The cattle
men were widely separated, some of the
S^rera ^ rf2 ^ SSioi ^ f^v'niies
hSf Lorn eSn of ^
but
among them did not dare deal out even
border justice to the men they knew
were robbing them. The thieves had a
perfect organization, and would have
taken summary vengeance on anyone
rash enough to oppose them.
Such a state gf-kwlessoess could not
and the end came about
through two widely different causes,
S
growers’ Association, and the second
was the order of President Cleveland
ordering all the range cattle to be driven
from the Indian Territory. Eleven
members of the association bound them
selves object together it in a secret free order the whose
sole Avas to country
from cattle thieves. The method of
canyilig this plan into execution was
not fully solved until the issuance of the
President’s famous order. It had been
settled from the first that a wholesale
slaughter of the th eves was the only
efleotual to rid of but the
trouble was m finding men to perform
the gorv tasx rhe I re-ments order
solved the problem. “Nation” Almost originally every cow
boy in the was from
Texas and belonged to the old school
recruited from desperadoes and border
ruff aim of the lowest class Crime and
bloodsh-d were their food and drink,
The President s oruer Grew most of
these men out ot work bv forcing the
immediate-me o± the cat.ie tuev had
been herding. He:e cattle were exactly Lad the
men the Montana growers
been loommr “stringing for. They rustler” thought than no
more of up a
thev did of shootmg a prairie chicken,
A S g cret me ssr-nper of the Montana men
was Aispakhed to Indian Territory, tennVwith and
in less than a week had made
as blond-thirsty a gang of upholders of
pr tter.‘ .,perty Twenty-eight rights as was ever the banded “Stran- to
ge of
g*** mers” were furnished with ten good
earti, and started overland in
tranches of four or five. They were in
fc tructed to avoid all towns aud ranches
make all La-te to tho rendezvous,
about . thirty miles fi^^ere. It was a
j^mdabout journey of them nearly 1,000
m £ eSt but every man of showed he
possessed the proper requisite of hard
riding by appearing at tho rendezvous
within twelve days.
Within two davs it became known
that Halfbrood Ja ; k h , , \? en ’ UUlg
ho head waters ot the v Yellowstone. The
J folteyang Williams day and it wis Broncho learned Charlie tha.J Turkey
Mere
Gangmg ui the cotton woods, about ten
" ul ‘* ako J° Z * ( #\ Lke da ft
lt bplay-Foot Hartnetts turn. It
! and hZ™"J ack we^King d!id fn
< their shack near Glendive,‘shot to death
by tho “Stranglers,” as they investigation had already
come to be known.
showed that the two men were alive and
and apparently as ready to steal horses
as over. The Dext day they were killed
Hi exactly the manner rumor had already
disposed of them. Humor had preceded
reality tension in a manner dramatic enough to
The put a on the strongest nerve,
man who had started the false re
port was searched for in vain. Every
man who had helped spread ithad heard
it from some other man. Nothing could
Rave so well advertised the woriUof the
“Stranglers they^rc ” It showed eonolusivelv
that not:m
of murderers whoso mission it was to
km e vorv man they met They had
undoubtedly been hired do * their
‘ to
work
ono in the country had enough
money Then* to do this except the cattlemen.
for the first time, it was noticed
that every man killed so far was a. noto
rious horse thief. From high-handed
lawbreakers, the “Rustlers,” who heard
of the operations of the “Stranglers,”
became tho most abject of cowards,
Mi iny sought, safety in immediate flight,
lievcr (l '. A 3 . noro few, t°,Ge foolhardy seen in enough the cattle to conn- brave
v -
tho approach of their Nemesis, paid the
Western penalty for their crimes, and
others in their flight rushed into the
very arms of the “Stranglers.” After
tlie beginning of the Scar^Face reran of terror
caused by the death of Moslev
and Himipv Jack, the “Stranglers” had
divided into seven narties eicl, under
bov, the leadership of a trusty Montana cow
and, striking out in ns many differ
eU t directions, avorked with tho energy
of fiends to gain the $5,000 prize which
vvns “hung up” as “added money” to
the most successful party in this terrible
manhunt. ‘
The end was not long in coming. In
If 'ss than two months every man known
<)r either f Uf »re«Jted of being a horse thief was
dead or driven from the country,
The “Stranglers” appeared to melt into
thin ail ' as .Seriously as they had
come luto being, and to this day it is not
l >y th0 members them
selves, the eleven cattlemen, and four
outsiders, who composed the famous
band of men that freed Montana and
Western Dakota from cattle thieves by
killing 63 of them and running 100
others out of the country.
A Chinese Conveyance.
The " n C |S,
great of says Frank
q Carpenter d in the New York World, is
rigllt f the mountains. There are no
vi Iages to speak of near it , and tlie sur
roundings Tho J are it the picture of desolation,
roa to , vas once H pave d
ifighivay, bo 4lders is now a mountain path filled
Avith and puddles, and it is im
possi ^ ble to get through with anything dof,keys 8
than mule litters, camels or
W e passed camels by the hundreds, and
our iaule utter and two donkeys, which
made up the outfit of the party, liad
often to stand aside for herds of black
Chinese hogs and droves of fat-tailed
gb(iep w hich were being driven from the
w ild pasture lands of Mongolia down to
Peldng> Ponies and horses can no more
telTel this road than they can the passes
of the Alldes> and t]l( r mu i e litter in
^Ificli my wife rode is a fair sample of
Chinese interior travel. It was a elotli
wg^g ooA'ered box about ^ five feet Ion a and four
mangiest ° ij mules-1 have ever seen. It was
bun l lu °S u u P on 0 n shafts snam > and alia tlu'se tn. se mules muL.S’ one one
in front and tivo behind, earned it m
S “„i t 11 ° U6 f,
1 g r if, # f
jj, n they o.ipped r i.iTi and the whole out
nt came to tno gi-ounu.
muieieci was a iMomunmedan, as
are , man y 01 tuesenoitn Gliinamen. lie
^ m dedl as Y stubborn 0 ’jeeted.w as hen.1 hismul^, pioposcd and put
^ 1 1 ^ ^ ” P e0 P ( j mlo ie Gtter during a
- Me earned cook and
[ ai f j • dlr/v^ed^s our B < oavh > bri^’/i
T ot < f wV k(:atod
^ r lo m beneath .ly Hues. Jhese lodges
a h® ab outtuo feet high, and theycon
wm 8 E. Ihe mns weie raSS,°/i,p^!iSlf rnueJi the same, E I T
'
. d , ^G°- .-destine the day’s
Bl ff°> ^ af i sc kj in
I* 1 >a ' vl0ur ' ° ' v ’ 0n0 ' s ^ 0i -Y Gnek
Gnildmgs r ran around 1 an open ciajrt m
and^Softhem^^eie theSding aUopenldL
to He court open She
doiiktysandmules a t the Draff and were o?X assigned to
traveler ^
These J^mSingof braved th - livc long could" night 'ind :
strarv be dffi
^«y heard through the walls sepaiat
^ fr ° mU3 '
!
Perilous Trip of an Eloping Girl. i
John Christy, a wealthy Munfordville, farmer, re
siding a mile north of Ri has Ky.,
the banks of Green vex? a
pretty eighteen-year-old daughter, tiller L of 11 -
eila. Sandford Greer, a young
the soil, dwelling near by, but on the
A2&&
was opposed to the match. He said that
Greer was not able to take care of a wife,
and so his Luella negative was emphatic. Sand
ford and arranged to elope, and
set the day for making the venture.
Luella is a strong-armed well Kentucky girl,
and can row a boat as as a man. |
Sandford did not daro venture on Mr.
Christy’s side of the river, and it was
agreed that Luella should opposite pull across bank, in
her father’s skiff to the
where her lover would meet her with j
horses, and they would go to Munford
vilk, 0,in g tn tho 1,^ rm„ the
river rose rapidly, and became such a
torrent that it vras dangerous for a boat
pulled by a single person. Young Greer
was unable to get word across for his
sweetheart not to venture, and the ^rf
not daunted by the danger started out to
keep the appointment. Before her boat
was on e-third the wayacross.lier’lover bank with
appeared on.the oppo-ite two
horses, Avhue her lather, with a pistol,
reached t-ne one she nad just '-n. e
had missed his daughter and suspect
mg that she had intended to elope foi- kill
lowed her, swearing that he would
young Greer. When he saw the girl on
the water he shouted to her to come
back or she would be drowned, but she
paddled bnldlv on for the sending oppositeshore, her in
the force of the current
a diagonal direction. The angry father
was powerless. He had no other boats
and he could do nothing but watch his
daughter either lose her life or reach the
man she loved. But the girl pulled
with a strong and firm hand, and, al
though her boat several times cam© near
being overturned bv the rushing cur
rent, she reached the bank where her
lover wss « siting. Then they mounted
the horses, went to town, and were mar
vied .—Chicago Herald,
COOKING RECIPES.
BOII.ED MACKEREL (Flesh.)
Remove head aud tho dark skin from
insido of tho tish wash thoroughly and
^ ^ ^ ^ Butter tho bars of the grid
brojl thfl Psh (lver ft d
Whou d with\i dip qni 'dressing oklv into hot wat
serve made as fur
broiIod s;)]t mac krre1. Slit the fish be-
1 ** Ul °
k ltatet the henridllo middle,
; bean soup.
j Put one quart of beans to In soak over
, night in lake warm water. sufficient the morn
i ng boil up well in water to
cover them; throw water away, and add
one gallon of cold water and about a
pound of salt pork. Boil slowly about
three hours, mid « little popper and salt
if needed. Strain and serve w ith a slice
of lemon to each person,
V , s , sorI , *
Two n , quarts of good . soup stocks, . thirty ,. . .
lftT , K° asparagus stalks, two table spoon
fu]s of Gutter, ono of Hour, pepper
f 1 * io Ulst °' C »\ off th »
of tho asparagus and cook until
tender, mash them through a scire and
P nt the som* kettle, add the but
ter and Hour, lot boil slowly for livemiu
ut *' s > P° ur into tlie BOU P tuvetM '> add t5i o
a8 l» ra €f» ls Geads and serve,
oyster sour.
One quart of ovstors, ono pint of cold
water, butter the size of a small egg.
But ovstors into tlio water and allow to
come*near toacupful boiling. Skim, then add
butter, a of boil milk, a little pep
per and salt, and a quarter of a
minute, pour into a warmed soup tureen
in which are a couple of crushed crackers.
Serve hot. Those who do not like milk
may * use water in the place of it.
1imrrn ‘ ' , S ’ . ‘ |U ' ,
Prepare ,, as tor broiling, boiling Pat to cook in
ft,lcnv ft generous quantity of water,
to God slowly twenty minutes,
Remove to hot platter, scatter over a few
bits of butter, pour in a cupful of cream,
add a dash of cayenne pepper, put m tho
oven for five minutes, and serve. Ifprc
forml > uso dressing prepared as for
Groiled mackerel. Serve whole boded
potatoes, or baked ones, with mackerel,
green tea soup.
Put the peas in water enough of to cover
them, add a little pinch salt, boil
until tender, skim the peas out and pass
through a colander, them return to tho
water in which they were boiled; add »
little milk or cream, or some nice broth,
and season to taste with butter, croiitonV pepper
and salt. Pour over fried of
bread (bits of bread fried in butter) in a
hot soup tureen. A quart of broth to »
pint of peas is a good quantity.
jm tfnne “ ’
Clean, cut m slices, and , fry , m . butter ,
or three drippings, until slightiy brow ned,two
or carrots, a smal 1 turnip, three or
four celery stalks and an onion, Have
ready three quarts of good stock, skimmed
and strained, add the vegetables and
simmer an hour; half an hour before it is
done, add a quarter of a small head of
cabbage finely shred and parboiled, and
a teacupful of cooked tomato, or threo
large ripe ones and thinly sliced. Season
with pepper salt and a teaspoonful
of lemon juice. Put two dozen croutons
in your soup tureen, tho soup over them
and serve.
TO BROIL FISH.
p tepare the , fish , as for . frying. , . Have
tGe gridiron hot and well buttered, if
tlie tish 18 Iar £ e lfc mft y be g' a «H«’ d across
on Goth sides at equal distances or split
°P eu - K( ' e P a clear, steady fire, that it
“ a Y cook ^ fasfc as possible without
slow scorching. A large fish must cook more
ly to be wel1 douo through. When
donG P lace « Got platter, sprinkle
Av ith salt, popper, bits of butter, a few
«<lu«ozes of kmon jmeo if desired, or put
two tablespoonfuls fish, of maitro d’liotel but
ter on the and set into the own a
sufficient time to melt thc butter—a Loak
moments only - will lie roquired. 1
boiled codfish (Salt.)
R „ oal , c over night . ... m plenty , , of water,
with . 1 the 1 skm side the desired
up, quan
tity of codfish. When ready to cook,
place in cold water on the back of the
stove, allow to simmer very gently until
tender, or until the llosh drops easily
f rom the bones, but do not 01 , any ac
count alloAV to boil hard, as hard boiling
hardens the fibre of tlie fish. Take from
the fish kettle (remove skin and bones if
yoU lxave llofc done 80 b<!fore Goiaiig)
and servo with drawn butter, in which
put a spoonful of chopped parsley and a
squeeze of Allaqatawney lemon juice.
soup.
-sr-. . . . , , -
j 1 ‘‘j k 1- j j 'V* '
. ■
F ' ‘G ‘ ) .!' ,‘ l 0
^ , p , ; boil'skim' ilnd >
comes to tlie thoraughh- pail-ly,
add a little chojiped onion, eel
ery, caret and eight or ten cloves*. Re
the chicken from the kettle as soon
as tender; tlio veal will require siinni'T
ing gently three or four hours. When lira
vtT' P °M
to serve the soup return it to the kefcth
and fXwS-an Avhen it begins to (slSd simmer Vin? add tlie
onten rfvo
carrots, and a bunch of cellery fried in
butter until a lmh! brown and'cayenne Had an hour
later, add salt, white pep
per, two tablespoonfuls tomato ketchuo.
the same of boiled rice, a saltspoonful of
curry ^ powder and ^ the pieces of chicken
^
soup.
Hamilton’s Commemorative Thir¬
teen Trees.
On the grounds of “The Grange,” at
New York City, as his country seat was
called, Alexander Hamilton planted Avith
his own hands a circle of thirteen trees.
The act was a touching commentary ou
the statesman’s love for the union for
which he had labored as bravely in coun
cil as he had fought valiantly in tho
field. There is nothing in the early po
Uti. ,1 l,i f to,y of the ,0,u,tvv wlafe is
sra entirely patriotic an act as this of
Alexander Hamilton ; no picture sc
beautiful as that of the statesman per
forming his labor of love in the quiet
shadow of his own home, his hands em
browned with the sod into which he AVRH
delving, h:s keenly intellectual face
sparkling with the pleasure which his
wont gave him. An artist ought to have
made it h» masterpiece long ago; a city
should haxe been as proud ot it as it
was once and of old least Peter Stuyvesant’s pear
tree at as careful of it as of
thc trees in Central Park. It is not too
late to do something The trees stiff
live, but m the midst of an abomination
of desolation which would have made
Hamilton weep to see. Yet, th4 strange imprILt to
his say, they bear to this day of
master mind. They have kept pace
in point of size with the growth of the
commonwealths Avhose names they bear.
New York, Pennsylvania and Ylai sachu
setts teen, are and the Rhpde largcit ia the circle of ttur
Is’and and Delaware
are the smallest. The trees themselves
have honored the dead statesman where
to the mass of men he seems to have be
come but the shadow of a name, even in
the York city Commercial where ha made his home .—Nm
Advertiser.