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11K CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.
In speaking of a person's faults,
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Playing a Part.
“That must be the | lace —it answers the
description they gave me. And now for
the trial! If he don’t read me at the first
opening, then I’ll feel pretty safe, despite
the old gentleman’s ci usty temper.”
The words dropped as though uncon
sciously from the lips of a horseman in a
certain portion of Doniphan county, Kan
sas, some ten years gone by, as he reined
in bis steed just within the edge of the tim
ber that bordered the eastern line o f ’ Eli
jah Merrill’s farm. The traveler—for be
hind his saddle was strapped a substan
tial valise —removed his hat to allow tho
fresh evening breeze to fan his heated
brow, and gazed at the odd collection of
buildings with an amused smile. First
was the log cabin that had sheltered the
settler when he crossed the Missouri to
win a homo for tho black-eyed girl whom
ho had left behind him in Ohio. In front
of this was a substantial story-and a half
frame of a dozen years later, and still a
third front marked another era—of red
brick, square,grim-looking, and ungainly.
Besides those there were a log smoke
house, a hen-house, and other out-housos,
forming a chain that reached to the barns
and stables.
“Ifall that’s said is true, then Tlricle
’Lijah has Sketched his character here,
where all may read. lire 1 that must be
the old gentleman, himself!
The traveler rode up to tho stile-blocks
before tho collection of buildings, his eyes
fixed upon a man who stood in tho door
way.
Good evening, sir,” called outtheyoung
man, as tho other made no movemeut.
“I presume thin is where Mr. Merrill
lives?”
“He does on Sunday—rest o’ the week
Unele Lije runs tho place. Efyou want
to see me you'd better ’light an’ hitch.
Supper’s jest ready, an’ I don't wait for
no man,” and, so speaking, the farmer
turned his broad back and disappeared
within the house.
Fora moment the traveler seemed taken
aback, hut then, with alow laugh, he dis
mounted, hitched his horse, took the valise
under his arm and entered the house. Ihe
subdued clatter of knives and forks met
his ear, and through the long hall there
came an appetizing odor of hot food. His
hesitation was brief. A long ride had
made him hungry, and literally following
his nose, he stalked into tho dining-room
—the one square apartment of the old
log cabin.
“Set down art’ eat,” mumbled Uncle
Lije, his mouth full. “We wasspectin
ye.”
“There must be some mistake, Mr. —' ’
“Ef they is, 1 haint made it. 'Fyou’re
hungry, eatj ’f not, set by ontil lain t,
growled the farmers.
Evidently resolved on accepting the sit
uation, the stranger drew a chair up to the
table and said no more until his hunger
was appeased, though his eyes were as
busy as bis jaws. lie saw that Undo Lije
was as odd in person as in character. He
was several inches over six feet, of an
unusually powerful build, and would
weigh not far from two hundred ari l fifty
pounds—good, solid bone and muscle. His
beard was full and like his long hair,
snow'white, rave a narrow strip below his
chin that had, apparently, been stained
with tobacco juice. Just in tho edge of
his hair, above bis broad forehead, was a
curious won tho size and shape of a lemon.
Ife sat in his shirt sloevos, the garment
thrown open at the throat and breast. 11 is
only other article of dross —for bo was
barefooted —was a pair of homespun jeans
dyod with oak bark. 110 ate with a bowie
knife and his fingers from a woeden
plate.
His wife, two sons and a daughter
were present, but only one of these won
much attention from the traveler; and
before that silent meal was ended, he
caught himself acknowledging that he had
never beheld a prettier, more graceful
girl than rosy - cheeked, bright-eyed,
curly-headed Maria Merrill. She —and
indeed tho others seemed well bred, and
strangely unlike tho grim old patriarch
who filled one, end of the table
“Jiui," said Uncle L ; je, at length aris
ing, ‘‘you go put up tho stranger’s boss.
Mari’, you fetch the doings in t’other
room; an’ you, stranger, come ’long ’o
me.”
The young man obeyed, a queer smile
in his full black eyes. In a few moments
Maria followed them, bearing pipes,
home made tobacco, glasses and i bottle
of whiskey. Placing these upon the table,
she vanished from view.
“Stop thar?” exclaimed Uncle Lije, in
his deep, echoing voice, as the stranger
was about to speak, and pouring out a
glass of whiskey, lie pushed it forward
“Drink that, then take a smoke. We’ll
look to business a’terwards."
“I'll smoke, with pleasure, but 1 sel
dom drink —”
“1 reckon you’d better drink, stranger,”
and Uncle Lije slowly arose from his
chair, “of laxit as a favor.”
“That’s another thing,” hastily replied
the traveler, swallowing the iiquor,
though it brought tears to his eyes.
“Good enough! No’ set down an’ have
asmoke. 1 won’t have one word onto!
you've did as I say."
With another faint smile, the traveler
obeyed the peremptory command of his
eccentric host, and the twain sat blowing
a cloud in perfect silence. Quietly Mrs.
Merrill and her three children—all that
were alive and unmarried of seventeen —
entered the loom and sat down. Then,
emptying the ashes from his exhausted
pipe, Uncle Lije spoke:
“Now, stranger, we kin talk business.
Who are ye, an' what ye waut o’ me or
mine?”
“I'm a drover, looking for cattle. I
heard you had some to dispose of, and
came here to see if we could not make a
trade,” was the prompt reply.
“Yes, I beam you was likely to come
this way, and so, as mebbe you noticed,
we was sorter on tho lookout for ye. Ive
got the cattle, an’ I’m always ready fer a
trade ef the tarms suit. I!ut lust —you
had a good supper—all you wanted to
cat?”
“Certainly, an l I uni reudy to —”
“I don’t doubt it a mite, stranger; but
jest hoi’ up a bit. That was good whisky,
an’ pretty fa’r tobacco, seein'sl raised it,
eh? An’ we’ve treated you like a white
man, hain’t we? .Jes’ so! Waal, that was
all fer the feller you said you was —an’
yere’s for the pizen critter you ltd”
As he spoke Uncle Lijo straightened
out his arm, with a huge fist at the end
of it, and the drover lay quivering in the
opposite corner of the room, knocked
senseless, and in twenty seconds more he
was bound hand and foot.
How long it was before he recovered his
senses he never knew, but he found him
self nlurie and in the dark. As he tried
*o remember what had happened, he
hoard the sharp explosion of a rifle —fol-
lowed by another and another mingled
with wild cries and yells of pain and
anger. Then came more shots, and the
confused sounds of a fierce struggle taking
place on the broad piazza in front of the
building. This lasted for several minutes,
after which came silence.
“I give it up!” muttered the prisoner,
pressing his throbbing forehead against
the floor, in the vain hope of easing the
pain left by Uncle Lije's hard fist and
strong whisky. “I was a fool for coming
here, after what I heard. But who would
hav-' believed that he was such a ruf
fian— ”
The door opened and a bright light
flashed in upon the prisoner, as Uncle Lije
entered, accompanied by Marla, bearing
a candle. Blood was trickling from a cut
upon tho old man’s forehead, arid his
dress bore witness to the fierce struggle
he had so recently passed through.
I “You've woke up, hey?” he said, with
i a harsh laugh, bending over the young
: man. “I’m right glad o' that, fer it’ll
save mo the trouble o’ totin' yo. Now
your legs is free, git up an’ travel.”
“Not unless you tell me what you
mean —’’
“Jest as you say,” and seemingly with
out an effort, he tossed the prisoner upon
his shoulder, and, preceded by Maria,
passed through the hall and out upon the
piazza. * Now then, stan’ thar,” ho ad
ded, lowering the young man to his foot.
"Don’t try nono o’ your tricks, or you'll
fur’ the wuss. I ain’t in the humor fer
foolin', you hear me?”
An exclamation of horror burst from
the stranger’s lips as ho gazed upon tho
bloody ; cone before him. Two men lay
dead across tho doorstep. Two others,
their garments torn and blood stained,
were lying upon the porch,, hound and
helpless, while little Torn, the youngest
son, crouched between them, a cooked
revolver in his hand.
“You don't 'pear to like the way your
speculation's turned out,” laughed Uncle
Lije. “Never mind; thar’s two on'em
yonder’ll he able to keep you comp’ny in
pullin’ hemp, soon s the neighbors git
here, which Jim's gone a’ter ’em.”
“Good God! you don’t think I was in
league with those men?" he cried, as a
sudden light burst upon his mind. “And
that’s why—! Uncle Lije, I’m W ill Cook,
your nephew —son of Aunt Nancy’s
brother! Feel in my breast pocket—l've
got letters for you, only J thought I
would surprise you all, aud have a little
tun first, by playing stranger —"
Five minutes later tho truth of his story
was fairly proven, and the traveler met
a far different welcome from that which
had greeted the suspected spy. Unele
Lije was too immensely disgusted with
himself to tell the story, but little Tom
quickly supplied tho deficiency.
It seemed that he had been out gun
ning, and running a squirrel into its hole,
concealed himself in a dense clump of
bushes to await bunny’s reappearance.
While waiting, ho heard voices, and tho
first words he caught caused him to crouch
still closer for his life.
Two men were slowly passing by, and
their words revealed a bold plot to rob
Unele Lije—who was known to have sold
a valuable herd of cattle two days before.
Not only did Tom hear this, but. he heard
that one man was to drop in at the house,
and if possible obtain a night’s lodging,
thus making it easy for him to admit his
confederates at the right hour. When
they passed on, the lad rushed home and
told what he had heard. An hour later
Will Cook made his appearance, and re
ceived the treatment intended for the spy.
Just why the revealed plan was changed,
was never known, lor the two captured
thieves made no confession before they
suffered Lynch law at the hands of the
excited .settlers.
There need be little more said hero, ex
cept that Uncle Lije in due course of time
—for, reader, this is a hasty sketch tif
events that actually recurred, as I can
testify—became Fullin' Jjijf, nor, Itm
assured, did any of the parties concerned
ever have cause to regret ‘he transfor
mation.
•
THU LITTLU JOKER.
Iri Florida, the ‘ Lttie joker” was
around. The county clerk of Leon county,
U. li. Edwards, says he had heard of the
preparation of these “little jokers” before
the election, and believes they were in the
hands of Congressman Furman. These
jokers were little thin paper slips, printed
with the names of the Republican candi
dates for electors, and folded or placed
loosely inside of the regular Republican
ballot , so that in emptying the box they
would become ; ate I. D was an un
derstood trick among the Republican
manage. -. (Ur Joseph Bowes, a Florida
Htq übliean, who has since been rewarded
with office in Washington, chueklingly
told Edwards—'" I have got in seventy
three or seventy-four little jokers. I hat
was supposed to he all right according to
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quisition which is new going on. ‘ Oh,
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a complaint from hi, horse-stealing client,
“they shan’t crowd you in that way;
I’ll s ee that you have justice, and that
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“it’s tho and facts I’m afraid of.” —
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NUMBER 27.
! EDISON OUTDOING 111 IHNHI.F.
“The Teleseopophone" is the name of
Mr. Edison’s last invention. It is simply
a marvelous ear trumpet, upon the con
st ruction of which Mr. Edison has been
working for several months. Mr. Edi
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ject by his own deafness. He is enabled
to hear only when tho speaker enunciates
in a bold tone. Mr. Edison is loth to de
scribe the teleseopophone except gen
erally, as it is not oomploted, and is to bo
patented. Tho implement is about fivo
and a half feet long, aud has an internal
arrangement by which sound is concern
trared and made louder. A sound which
to the unaided ear is inaudible becomes
distinct by the use of the teleseopophone.
Concerning it, 31 r. Edison said:
“The teleseopophone is assuredly suc
cessful. I have demonstrated that by its
use not only can those partly deaf hear,
but persons can talk while a aide or two
apart.”
“But do other sounds commingle—
sounds intervening between the speaker
and the hearer?”
“Certainly they do to a limited extent,
and more so if the instruments are not
pointed straight.”
“Now do you remedy that?’’
“Why you must point ’em straight.
The same objection could he made to a
telescope. If you do not point it straight
you see other objects than the one in
tended. But when the teleseopophone
is pointed directly at tl.e distant speaker
with telescopic exactness, the voice of the
speaker is the chief thing heard.”
“Docs it increase the volume of
sound?”
“I have whispered in one of theso
things in n very lew tone, and the sound
in my ear was so loud as to be absolutely
painful.”
Mr. Edison expressed the fullest con
fidence that lie would perfect the teles
copophone, so that by its aid partly deaf
persons may hear every whisper on the
stage of the largest theatre.
A gentleman who heard experiments
with the teleseopophone said that Mr.
Edison heard distinctly tho ticking of a
telegraphic instrument a thousand feet
away-, and even tho noi.-c of tho chewing
and biting of grass by a cow nearly two
thousand feet distant.
One of tho party then stood six hun
dred feet away, and his whisper was dis
tinctly heard, although Mr. Bachelor,
standing only fifteen feet from him, with
out the aid of the teleseopophone, could
not hear a word.
Then the party tried a more striking
experiment. Two of them went at least
a mile off, and talked to each other in an
ordinary tone of voice. Evon at that
distance ordinary conversation was dis
tinctly hoard without a speaking tube,
without any wire or electrical apparatus,
hut simply by the aid of the new ear
trumpet or telescoppohone.
But even this was surpassed by the
next experiment, which was at a distance
estimated at two miles. From that point
tho ordinary tone of voice could not be
heard, and shouting was necessary, yet
the new oar trumpet did its work, and
the hearing was repeated as before.
“Now, .Mr. Edison, what next?”
“Oh,” said .Mr. Edison, with one of
those hearty bursts of laughter tiiat ho so
often indulges in, “I’ve not got to the
end yet.” —New York Sun.
The owner of a houe in Hartford, a
widower, lived in the upper story and
rented the lower part to a clergyman. A
servant girl employed in the clergyman's
family was young and pretty. Her
mistress observed that she and the
widower were devoting a groat deal of
attention to each other, and, deeming the
matter scandalous, said to her: “Pack up
your things and quit. ’" The girl obeyed;
but on the following day she returned in
a carriage, announced that she had been
married to the landlord, and said to her
former mistress: “Pack up your things
| and quit.”
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Seats all occupied. Motors a person
dressed as a lady. Bright little hoy rises
and oilers his-cut. Lady drops into it,
with an air of slight disdain. Hoy—
“Oh, l beg your pardon; did you speak?”
Lady—“No, I didn’t say anything.”
Boy—“Oh, excuse me; I thought you
said thank you.” Lady, in high dudgeon
—“You may have your seat.” Hoy,
(resuming it) —“Woll, I'll thank yyu.
: Passengers convulsed. Lady disappears
,at next street crossing. St. Louii
Journal.
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He who tries to make a fool of others
' is a fool himself.