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LOCALS.
■ Gnsrie Avaiil left Monday night
It Towns, Ga, where he will spend
ho summer.
S a '| C ' S roce rie3 of
" 1S P r ^ ces are
—a ewn e tunes.
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I he Herald and the Constitution
1.50
J. L. Hammett visited the Gate
if; Tuesday.
For the latest styles and new
30(1 s at the lowest prices call on
io old reliable firm of Wilson &
Sandy Point literary school in
nrge of Miss Corine Trammel!
is closed Friday for a six
cation.
If you want to save money buy
•y Goods, Notions and Groceries
>m W. I. Powell.
Mr. Childs, of Musella, closed his
iiool Friday.
[A.fine lothing line of new and stylish
just received direct from
[Gory. lide’s Outfit From the cheapest to a
tsish at prices that will as-
you. Call and inspect them
d you will be pleased with what
k have to show you.—Wilson <fc
kthews.
George Harris went, to Macon this
strange things will happen. But
i strangest of all is to see W. W.
rdan sell goods at prices that seem
r.ie less than the original cost,
the teachers of Crawford county
d their regular meeting in lvnox-
pe last Saturday. The exercises
f especially those of the ladies
h‘ good.
i ou can fool nil the people part
the time, and part of the people
the time but you can’t fool all
the people all the time. The
se. prudent, careful and
1 buy their Dry Goods, Groceries,
oes, Hats, Notions, etc. from W.
Powell. Go to see him, he will
lat you right.
ol. W. P. Blasingamc was
n this week.
The Herald and the Atlanta
tution, Loth one year, for $ 1.50
this office.
Hiss Mary McCarty from near
illaid, spent Saturday and Sun-
in Knoxville with relatives and
;uds.
u=t received a beautiful line of
ing goods in all lines and styles.
?aper than any other house in
n. Call to see them.—Wilson A
thews.
lli-ses Lee and Mattie Ellis, of
[dy Point, attended the teachers
jitute in Knoxville Saturday.
jf you want to make a bargain
Vo see W. W. Jordan before his
ck is picked over.
ji II. Braswell, of Ceres, has the
lest colt to its age we know'
is two years and one month old
A weighs 940 pounds. If any' one
i beat this, we would like to hear
om them.
Bargains! Bargains!! Wilson <fe
are offering bargains in all
Gardens are looking fine.
If the temperature continues to
111 there will be ice by July.
! W. W. Jordan is offering goods
if all kinds at astonishing low
irices.
Mrs. Lee Watson, of Fort Valley ,
relatives and friends in
this week.
Bargains at Powell's.
Buy your groceries from Powell
be made happy.
Last week while out in a pond
Master Johnie Holmes, of
ulloden, was drowned.
w. tv. Jordan win take pleasure
showing y r ou his new stock of
When you are in Roberta and
a good square meal call on Bill
His table is supplied with the
the market affords.
At the residence of the bride’s fa-
Mr. W. ll.^Oliver and Miss Ida
were united in holy wed-
last Sunday evening at 6 o’clock.
Justice A. J. Danielly officiating,
after the ceremonial
seivices the bride and groom left
for Roberta where they took the 7:-
”4 train on their way to Bainbridge,
Ike home of the g room.
Che J Crnttifurt Count!) i)cnil> $
PEOPLE’S PARTY OUR ONLY
HOPE.
I see in your issue of May 6th,
an article from W. P. Blasingame*
to which with your permission I
would like to reply through the
columns of the Herald. I do not
"rite this with any prejudice to-
ward Mr. B. at all, for we have al-
ways been good friends and always
e xpect to be; but I am a Peoples
Party man and B. is a Democrat.
I was rocked in a Democratic cradle
and I still sustain that self same
democracy, and why can’t B. be as
good a Democrat now as he was in
llis infanc y- Ttie peoples party plat-
form contains the same planks that
tl,e democratic platform diet in the
days of Thomas Jefferson, and con-
sequently the peoples party is more
Democratic in P rinci Pl e than the
so called Democrats arc.
Mr. B.-let me ask you what differ¬
ence it makes with us whether the
president be a Democrat or a Re¬
publican ns both their platforms are
the same. And both controlled by
the money power of Wall street.
Now B. allow me to give you some
nuts to crack. Is it not a fact that
the free coinage bill or something
similar was passed by a Republican
Congress and vetoed by your Dem¬
ocratic president, Grover Cleveland.
Is it not a fact that the 52nd Con¬
gress failed to pass some bill with
150 Democratic majority. Is it not
a fact that Andrew Jackson remov¬
ed his Sec. of Treas. because he
would not withdraw the Govern¬
ment funds from the National banks.
Is it not a fact that Grover C’leve-
land allowed his Secretary to deposit
$64,000,000 of the peoples funds in
t j ie National Bank without one cent
0 f interest. Is it not a fact that
56 out of 148 Democrats voted
a g a ; n gt the rechartering of National
Banks. Is it not a fact that the
Domoomt* have occupied three dis-
tinct positions witnin oi yeuia.
Is it not a fact that president Lin-
coin prophesied for National banks
t0 over throw tlie government if they
were not abolished. Is it not a fact
j 2 months ago you and your
p ar ty denounced Livingston in the
bitterest terms, and now since he
has p rove n traitor you hold him up
for a model to the people. Is it
nQt a faet that t p e chairman of the
committee on platform at St. Louis,
and also the entire committee except
Livingston, has signed affidavits that
the pension plank is not in tin plat
form, and 1 have the platform now
my possession and if that plank
is in. it I can’t find it; and I have it
f r om North and South. That
pension plank was only a resolution
offered by the self appointed Geor-
gia delegates such as Livington,
Calvin and others.
Now Mr. B. the people are not
to be hoodwinked any more.
They are in earnest now, and may
God grant that they' w'ill match in
q]>] mass to the ballot box, and if
s in
there is not but one vote cast
Crawford couuty on the peoples
party ticket you can yyi^KyN
Lizella, Ga.
TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE
At Astonishing Low' Prices.
An unprecidented offer for the
next 30 days. Take advantage of
this offer and secure an elegant home
in the town of Roberta, Ga.
For the next 30 days I will ofier
for sale a beautiful 3 room residence
complete with good well of water,
and other necessary improvements
for a town residence, The lot con-
tains one acre of land and is located
in the most desirable portion of
town.
Terms w ill be made to conform to
the times.
For further information apply to
E. B. Trammell, Knoxville, Ga.
OAK GROVE.
The farmers are very busy with
their work at present, although we
can’t get a good rain, we will work
and wait.
Some of our young people attend-
ed the Exhibition last Friday night.
Chas Felts did not attend, guess he
bad an engagement at some other
place. by the piney
Tom Harris goes
place when he goes fishing.
ROBERTA, CRAWFORD COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1892.
CULLOOEN CULLLNGS.
The people of Culloden, Barnes-
ville, Thomaston and Woodburry
met at the dripping rock last Fri-
day, and had the largest picnic of
the season. The place selected was
a beautiful one, situated on the M.
& B. R. R 35 miles from Culloden.
The farming interest of this sec¬
tion is on a boom, although some
men have treated their farms like
some people of Georgia have treat¬
ed the Democratic party. They de¬
serted their farms and moved to
town to do nothing, and have the
negroes to support them. And now
the people’s party men hove desert¬
ed democracy and want to elect a
president that will have free silver
stamped and sent down here to them
so they can do nothing.
Mr. Editor: I don’t want to in¬
sult any body, but I do think and
know that this third party is the
most infamous and abominable
scheme ever devised and after¬
wards supported by a so called civ¬
ilized sqt of people. Just here some
one may ask, Why is it? I guess
you all know the platform of this
party. If you don’t you ought to,
consequently I will prove my po¬
sition in still onother way, as the
platform itself is to benefit the North
and damage the South.
Mr. Third Party look at your
leadtr, Mr. Post, he is like a rich
old yank who spends his summers in
the North and his winters in the
South, and when he was asked how
he stood on polities, he answered:
I am naturally a Republican and
when I am in the North I stick to
it because the respectable class of
people belongs to that party or at
least a part of that class. But when
I am in the South I find no respect¬
able man belongs to that party so I
act the hypocrit and say that lam
a Democrat. Now Mr. Post is a
radical but he is ashamed to ac-
1— awToAffO 7 t i.
company, Just take up his record
and see if he has not proven it.
Look how he tried to defeat Cleve¬
land in ’84 by supporting the infa-
mous spoon thief, Ben Butler, after
Mr. Cleveland was nominated. This
with several other cases go to prove
that he is a hypocrit, and that you
know is worse than the devil him¬
self.
Then Mr. Editor must not a party
that is led by a hypocrit and sup¬
ported by deserterters be the most
damnable of all organizations.
Hurrah for Cleveland and Dem-
ocraey: JACK.
Powell is the leader in low prices.
Just received a lot of spring
goods which 1 will sell at prices that
defy competition.—W. I. Powell.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
I hereby announce myself a can¬
didate for Sheriff of Crawford coun¬
ty, subject to the Democratic nomi-
jiation. The support of my friends
will be appreciated. It. M. Bond.
The members of the Knoxville
farmers alliance are earnestly re¬
quested to attend the next meeting
of said alliance which will be held
on the first Saturday evening in
June next, in the town of Roberta.
The object of this special request
will be explained in the meeting.
J. S. Sandifur, Pres.
E. B. Trammell, Sec.
Call at the new brick store of
Wilson & Mathews’ if you want
goods cheaper than you can bny
them in Atlanta or Macon.
Important to Ladies.
Sir—I made use of your Philotoken
with mv last child, in order to procure
a safe and easy travail. I used
it about two months before my expected
time, until I whs taken sick, and I had a
very’quick and easy confinement. No h-
i D g occurred to proiract my convales¬
cence and I got about in less time than
was usual for me. I think it a medicme
that should be used by every expectant
mother, for should they but try it iis I
have, they would never again be without
it at such times. Iam,
Y<>ur« ELIZABETH respectfully, D!X.
MRS.
Any merchant or druggist dollar c m procure bot-
Risley’s Philotoken for one a
tie. CHARLES F. RISLEY.
Who’esa’.e Druggis’, York.
lj (52 Courtlaniit St-, New
A VITAL DIFKX88SCE.
Wickars —I don’t believe there is
much difference between genius and in-
Viekara-Oh, yes there is a heap.
The lunatic is sure of his board and
(loti es. — jlndianapolis Journal.
NOTICE.
AM citfzens who favor Lll« St.
Louis Platform, the People’s Party
and independent political action are
requested to meet at the court house
at 10 o’clock on Saturday the 28th
day of May, for the purpose of or¬
ganization , consolidation Ac.
J W Stroud, T F Mathews,
B F Kennedy, J M Hicks,
G w white, Rufus white,
Jno McGee, A C Sanders,
m II McWmurray, w E Rowell,
Jno S Sandifur, Thos Parham,
Jeff D McGee, b B Causey,
B F Tidwell, T C Arnold,
J w Sanders, H k Burnett,
w r K Eubanks, J Z Smith,
H D Marshall, B F Causey and
R m Bond.
The ladies are especially invited to
attend and also to bring baskets.
Good speakers are expected to be on
hand.
The members of the Democratic
Executive Committee will meet at
the court house in Knoxville on May
the 28th, inst. by 12 o’clock m.
By order of A. J. Danielly, Chair¬
man Democratic Executive Commit¬
tee, of Crawford county, Georgia.
Teachers County Institute will be
held in Knoxville on the third Sat¬
urday in this month, it being the
21st day. All teachers in the coun¬
ty, both white and colored, are re¬
quired to attend. Exercises will
begin at 9 o’clock a. m. sharp.
II. F. Sanders, C. S. C.
We the commissioners of Crawford
county hereby notify the public that
on the first Tuesday in June next,
applications will be received for
building a bridge across Alcahatchee
creek at Iloskins ford. The bridge
must contain timbers as are describ¬
ed below and must be all heart: 2
benches with mud sills, 10x12 16 ft.
long; 3 posts to each bench 10x10
14 ft. long; 2 cap sills 10x12 14 ft;
3 24 ft. spans; 15 sleepers 5x12 26ft
long; Flooring 2x6 14 ft.; Boxes
made of 2x12 plank must extend
across the bridge on each side, and
they filled with rock. Outside post
of each bench must lean a little in¬
ward and the upper side of the
Flooring must be nailed with No.
40 spikes, 5 to each plank. Each
bench must be boxed from mud sill
to cap sill with 2 inch plank and
filled in with rock. Rock boxes must
all be made substantial. Applications
will be received on first Tuesday in
June and work let to the lowest
bidder.
W. J. Dent,
W. E. Champion,
W. B. Davis.
One Dollar Weekly
Buys a good Gold watch by our Club
System. Our 14-karat gold-filled Fine Elgin cases
are warranted for 20 years.
or Waltham movement. Stem wind
and set. Lady’s or Gent’s size. Equal
to any $50 watch. To secure agents where
we have none, we sell one of the Hunt¬
ing Case Watches for the Club price $28,
and send C. O. D. by express with the
privilege of examination before paying
for same.
Our agent at Durham, N. C. writes:
“Our iewe'ers have confessed they
don’t know how- you can furnish such
work for the mouey.” South
Our agent at Heath Spring,
Carolina, writes:
“Your watches take at sight. Ihs gen¬
tleman who got the last watch said that
he examined and priced a jewelei’s
watches in Lancaster, that were no better
than yours, bat the price was $45.”
Our agent at Pennington, Tex., writes:
“Am in receipt of the watch, and am
pleased without measure. All who have
• i -I it say it would be cheap at $40.”
One good reliable Agent wanted for
each place. Write for particulars.
Empire Watch Co., New York.
lyr
“There is one of tho best tobacce
drummers in the country,” remarked a
gentleman in Kansas City as an elderly
looking man with a long gray beard in
company with a young wouiau passed
up Wyandotte street. The companion gentleman
walked arm in arm with his
and no one would have noticed any-
thing peculiar about him uncil he came
to a crossing and then his companion foot
spoke to him, his step faltered, his
was put out as if afraid to advance.
His eyes were turned straight ahead and
never sought the ground. They James were
sightless. The ’ man was Mr.
Harrison, of Richmond, 4 a., and the
woman was his daughter. Mr. Harrison
travels for a tobacco factory and is re¬
garded as one of the best drummers on
the road. For more than twenty years
he has made the rounds with two
daughters, Fiiat one of them
grew up from girl The to woman second I
and was married. .
one then took her place and has since
been his constant companion. She goes
about with from store to store, helps him
with his samples at thi> train and the ho¬
tels? attends everything 1 to tickets that and baggage—in tender lov¬
short does a
ing woman could do for the blind. She
is his eyes. The two are known in every
citv in the countrv.
Th* Braierstion of Prussian Poles, chiefly
t« the Onitwl Stated, attributed is rapidly growing
heavier This is not only to the
agricultural deprewion, but to the inevitable general
fear th»t war with Russia is
eooner or later. The emigration from Ger¬
many has been heavier thus far this year
than for many yean. The flgured so far
show that the emigration has doubled since
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THE END OF THE WAY,
/hear the bells at eventide,
Peal slowly one by one,
Tsar and far off they break and glide,'
Across the stream float faintly beautifu
The antiphonal bells of Hul
The day is done, done, done,
The day is done.
fhe dew has gathered in the flowers
Like tears from some unconscious deep;
The swallows whirl around the towers.
The light runs out beyond the long
cloud bars,
And leaves the single stars;
’Tis time for sleep, sleep, fdeep,
’Tis time for sleep.
The hermit thrush begins again.
Timorous eremite,
That song of risen tears aul pain,
As if the one he loved was far away;
“Alas! another day—■”
“And now Good Night,”
“Good Night.”
—Duncan C. Scott, in Youth’s Companion,
“THE CACTUS.’
BY O. D. LEWIS.
HE Cactus” was
the name bestowed
upon her in Cinna-
liar. Her signature,
, i if she had written it,
would probably have
been Mol lie Pres-
^ cott; at least such
was the declaration
of Rosewood Jim.
“I see this yere
female a year ago in
RSS Tom b s t o n e, ” as-
1 & |/J HfM ■’Y serted chronicler, she that veracious “where
cooks at the stage
station, an’ she gives it out cold, she’s
called Prescott—Moliie Prescott—an’
most likely she knows her name, an’
knowed it a year ago.”
As Rosewood was a historian of known
petulance, no one cared to challenge
either his facts or conclusions; so the
real name of “The Cactus” was accepted
by the Cinnabar public as Prescott.
“The Cactus” was a personable lady,
comely and round; and her advent in
to Cinnabar society bad caused some¬
thing of a flutter. Her mission was to
cook, and in the fulfilment of her des¬
tiny she presided over the range at the
O. K. Hotel. Being publicly bailed as
“The Cactus” seemed in no wise to de-
press her, and it is possible she even felt
a secret glow over an epithet which was
meant by the critical taste that awarded
it to illustrate those thorns in her nature
which repelled aud held in check the j
male of Cinnabar. !
uu'XsnSR. w «Ki«welryin Ginuabar, and |
many admirers. Every man in camp
loved her the moment she stepped from
the Tucson stage six months before,
From the term “every man,” however,
a careful writer would except Rosewood
Jim. That obdurate scientist, given as
be was to the inner workings of faro as
a philosophy, had no time for such a soft
end dulcet affair as love. Another thing,
Rosewood had scruples of honor born of
his business.
“Life behind a deal-box is a mighty
sight too fantastic,” quoth the thought-
fui Rosewood, “for a family. It does
well enough for single-footers, which it
don’t make much difference with, when
a player pulls his six-shooter an’ sends
’em shoutin’ home to heaven some abrupt.
But there ain’t no room for a woman
with a man who turns cards as a
soot.”
As time went on, the score of lovers
who sighed on the daily trail of “The
Cactus” dwindled down to two. The
re-t gave out dispirited.*
“I’m clean strain enough,” said Bill
Tutt, iu apolegetic description of his
failure to persevere, “but I knows when
I’ve got through. I’ll play a game to a
finish, but when it's down to the turn
an’ my last chip’s gone over to the
dealer, why I shoves my chair back an’
quits. An’it's about that a-way of an’
concernin’ my love for this yere Cactus
girl. I jest can’t get her none, an’ that
settles it. 1 now drors out an’ gives my
seat to some one else.”
“That’s whatever,” said a personage
known as Texas Joe, who was an inter-
ested listener to the defeated Mr. Tutt,
“an’ you can gamble I’m with you on
them views. I loves ‘The Cactus’ my-
se’f to a frightful degree, an’ thar’s times
I jest goes about whinin’ for her; but
yere awhile back I come projectin’around
her kitchen, an’‘bing!’comes a skillet
at my head, an’ that let's me out. You
bet I don’t pursoo them explorations
round her no more. I don’t want to get
my rope onto no woman who is that eal-
lous as to heave kitchen bric-a-brac at a
heart that’s pantin’ for her.”
Two lovers still knelt at the shrine of
“The Cactus.” These were hailed by
men of Cinnabar respectively as Rice
Brown and Riley Brooks. A descrip-
tion of one would have bem a portrait
of the other. They were young, good
looking, of the breezy Southwestern
type, tanned as to face, aud lithe and
limber as black snakes as to
These still held the affections of “The
Cactus” in siege and demanded capitula-
tion. That estimable virgin paid uo
heed to their court, nor the comment of
oniooking Cinnabar. She pursued her
path in life even and unmoved. She
compounded her daily bread, compiled
her daily flapjacks, and oroiied her daily
beefsteak by that simple and ingenious
process, popular in the Southwest, of
burning it on the griddles of her range,
and all as composedly as though Laander
never swam the Hellespont nor Antony
sighed or sung in the ear of Egypt’s
Queen. Still it was possible that “Tlio
Cactus” was a shade less thorny in her
treatment of Rice Brown aud Riley
Brooks than of any of the others. Per-
haps she was becoming tired out. Be the
reason what it may, these two persisted
when the others failed, and at last were
recognized as rivals.
“All I'm afraid of,” said old man
Armstrong, the head of the local vig-
ilance committee, “that these yere young
bucks 'll take to pawin' roun' for trouble
with each other. As the upshot of sech
uoin's would most likely be the stri agin*
of the survivor by the Cinnabar commit¬
tee on lariats, these yere nuptials, which
now looks some feasible, would bo clean
busted, an’ the camp get a set-back jest
that much. I wish this yere maiden
would tip her hand in this to some dis¬
creet gent, so a play could be made in
advance to get the wrong man outeu the
way. Whatever do you tbiuk you’se’f,
Rosewood!”
“It’s a delicate deal,’’said that sapient
cardist, “to go tamperin’ round a young
female for the secrets of her soul, but I
shorely deems it a crisis,and public inter¬
est demands somethin' is done, These
yere boys is growin’ mighty hostile of
each other, which I notes last night over
in the Gold Mine saloon, where they was
paintin' up for war, an* ouless we all in-
terferes yere it’s my jedgmeut some of
this yere love-makiu’ ’ll come off in the
smoke.”
“Thar oughter to be a nact of Con-
greu,” said Tutt, the pessimist, “agin
love-makin’ in the Far West, an’ the
Fast should be kept for sech purpose*
speshui, same ns reservations for Injuns,
The Western climate’s too exyooberant
for'love-makiu’.”
“S’pose me an’ you an’ Tutt yere goes
over to this young female, an’ ail polite
an’ congenial like, we ups an’ asks her
intentions?” coutinucd Armstrong, in an
interrogative way, to Rosewood.
“Excuse me, pard,” said Tutt, with
sad earnestness, “but I don’t think I
wants cards in this at all. ‘The Cactus’
is a mighty spirited lady, an’ you all re¬
calls as how I’ve been pesterin’ ’round
her in the past myse’f.Vor Which reason,
with others, she might take my cornin’
on sech errauts derisive an’ bang me over
the fore’erd with a dipper, or some sech
objectionable play. So I reckon I better
keep out of this yere embassy a whole
lot. I ain't aimin’ to shirk nuthin’, but
it’ll be a heap more shore to win if I
do.”
“Tutt ain’ onlikely to bo plenty right
about this,” said Rosewood, “an’ I
reckon, Armstrong, we all better take this
trick ourselves.”
Tiie mission was not a success. When
the worthy pair of peace preservers ap¬
peared in the presence of “The Cactus”
an^made the inquiries noted, it excited
the scorn and ire of that retiring damsel
beyond the power of words to describe.
“What be you all doia’ in my
kitchen?” she asked, her face flushod
with rage and noonday cookery. “Who
sent you all canternin' over yere to me
wit h those insultin’ questions, anyhow?
I demands to know.”
“And yere,” said Rosewood, in relat¬
ing the exploit in the Gold Mine saloon
immediately after, “she stamps her foot
like a buck antelope an’ let’s fly a stove
Kt iddle at us, an’ all with a’proud, high
3 goddess. it would tho duo at-
At the time seem
tempted an npologetio explanation of
their presence, and made effort to point
out to “The Cactus” the crying public
need of some decision on her part,
“You don’t want these two young
male persons to take to sbootiu’ of each
other all up none, do you?” said Arm-
strong.
“I wants you two sots to get outeu my
kitchen,” replied “The Cactus” vigor-
ousty, “an’ I wants you to move some
hurried, too. Don’t never let me find
your moccasin tracks 'round this yere
water-hole no more, or I’ll turn in an’
mark you up a whole lot,’’
“Yere, you,” she continued, as they
were about to leave, something cast
down by the conference, “you all can
tell that Riley Brooks an’ Rice Brown if
they’re blamed fools enough to go mak-
in’ a gun play over tne, to make it
hard. Tell ’em I can pick my man out
when the smoke blows away.”
“Tutt's way right about ‘The Cactus’
bein’ some sperited,” said Armstrong,
as the two walked away.
“She’s shore spirited, an’ that’s a
fact,” mused Rosewood, in assent,
The result of the talk with “The
Cactus” found its way about in Cinna-
par and in less than an hour bore
its hateful fruit. The peaceful quiet of
that Gold Mine saloon, which, as a rule,
heard no harsher note than the clatter of
a stack of chips, was sullenly broken.
“You all who ain't interested yere
better take to a lower limb.”
It was the voice of Riley Brooks.
The trained instinct of the Cinnabar
public at once fathoned the trouble and
proceeded to hide its many heads be-
hind barrels, tables, counter and any
place which promised refuge from the
bullets. All but one, and that was Rice
Brown. He knew it meant him the
moment Riley Brooks uttered the fir 3 t
syllable, and his pistol came to the
front with a brevity born of long prac-
tice. His rival’s was already there, aud
so the shooting began. As a result Mr.
Brooks received a serious injury which
crippled his good right arm for
many a day, while Mr. Brown was
picked up with a wound in the side
which even the sentiment of Cinnabar,
mured to such things and inclined to
optimism at all times, admitted as dan-
gerous.
“Well,” said Armstrong, after the
duelists had been cared for at the O. K.
House, “yere we be again an’ nuthin’
settled. Y'ere we has all this shootiu’
an’ all this blood-lettin’, an’ the camp
gets all tom up; an' still thar's jest as
many of these yere people now as there
was before, an’ most likely the whole
deal to go over again.”
“I shore abominates things a-splitia’
even this a-way,” said Rosewood, “but
Cinnabar must bar it’s burdens same as
other camps. It can’t be he'ned none.”
The next day the two duelists were
still in bed. A new phase was given the
affair when “The Cactus,” clothed in
purple and fine linen, and with two vio-
lent red roses in her straw hat, took the
itage for Tucson. The management of
the O. K. House reported, in reference
to the excited state of the Cinnabar
mind, that “The Cactus” would return
in a week.
“Goin’ for her weddin’ troosoe, most
likely,” said Armstrong, as he gazed
after the stage.
No one seemed to know the intentions
NO. 18.
of “The Cactus.” The shooting had is
nowise disturbed her. That may h.zrs
been her obdurate heart, or it may have
coma from a familiarity with the evanes¬
cent tenure of human life born of long
years on the border. Be that as it may,
she experienced not the least concern
touching the condition of her brace of
lovers wounded upstairs, and took the
stage without even saying good-by to
them or anyone else.
“An’ some fools say women is talkers,”
said Rosewood, in high disgust.
Three days later Old Scotty, the stage-
driver, came in with startling news.
“The Cactus - ’had married a man in Tuc¬
son, and would bring him to Cinnabar
in a week,
“When I first hears of it,” said Old
Scotty, with agroau, “an'when I thinks
of them two pore boys a-layin' in Cinna-
bar, an' their rights bein’ trifled with
thatyi-way, I shore think I’ll take my
Winchester an’ go an’ stop them rites a
whole lot; but, pards, the Tucson Mar-
shall wouldn't have it. So she nails him,
an’ I hears in a saloon over tbar she’s.
been aimin’ to marry him before she ever
hops into Cinnabar at all. I sees him
afterward, an’he’s a little, nieasiy-iookin'
prairie dog, and from his looks he
couldn’t get a job clerkin’ in a store.”
“Tharyou be,’’said Armstrong. “An¬
other case of woman’s inhumanity to
man. However, if ‘The Cactus’ has done
gone a-flutterin’ from her perch in this
yere fashion, jest the same we must
prance ’round an’ give her a high old
time on her return. The honor of the
camp bein’ concerned, of course wo
whoops it up in style.” Star.
And they did.—Kansas City J
A Wonder of Science.
One of the most delicate surgical
operations ever performed in San Fran¬
cisco was that to which A. Laehra, a
patient at the City and County Hospital,
was subjected recently. The operation
was remarkable in that an endoscope, or
small elettric light, was used duriug tha
process. This was thrust into the thorac-
ic cavity, and by its illumination the ac¬
tion of the heart and lungs was plainly
visible.
Baehm was afflcted with an abscess,
which had formed in the pleutal The cavity
and attacked the left lung. opera¬
tion was an exceedingly dangerous one,
and in order not to shock the patient no
mention of the intention of the physicians
was made to him.
The sick man was quickly anesthet¬
ized and the inflated breast was exposed
to view. A discoloration on the left
side showed that the trouble lay undet
the tissue in that direction, and Dr. El-
linwood began operations at once by
making’two deep incisions cross wise, from
which the blood spurted in streams.
Several of the larger blood vessels wuro
ligatured with Dr. Stillmau's assisf&tfcbj
The flaps of flesh were laid to one side,
exposing the third rib to niew. This rib
was resected for three inches, and when
it was cut away a dark and bloody open-j
ing was revealed, through which the
thoracic cavity nnd the space between
the lungs could be seen. Dr. HirshfeideC
inserted the endoscope through the open¬
ing in Baehm’s breast and the light mu
turned on, illuminating tho interior ot
the cavity with remarkable distinctness.
The heart worked slowly, owing to the
offect of ether. The aorta dilated and
fell with every heart beat. The lung
was also plainly visible. During tL e one.
hour and a half consumed in making the
operation the action of the heart was dis¬
tinctly visible, and the unusual sight mi the
the subject of much comment upon
part of the operators and spectators. completed and
When the process was
every vestige of pus removed, tho endo¬
scope was withdrawn, aud the opening
in Baehm’s breast closed. The operation
was a highly successful one in every par¬
ticular, and Baehm’s condition shows
that he is gaining strength.—Electricity.
The Earth’s Southern most Settlement.
There is something pathetic about the
description of the town of Punta Arenas,
Terra del Fuego, located on the strait
about midway betweea the two oceans,
that town which is the southernmost
settlement upon the face of the earth.
Fifteen hundred people find life worth
living in this place, notwithstanding the
fact that one of the characteristics of the
neighm-hood Is the frequent prevalence down
of a mighty wind which sweeps
from the mountains back of the town
with such force and suddenness as to
overwhelm a ship lying broadside on be¬
fore she can swing her head around and
ride out the gale. The towu itself is a
miserable collection of huts and hovels,
but is a point of great strategic value to
this country as a coaling station in case
of war with a South American power.
Professor Lee presented several viewi
ot the inhabitants of Terra del Fuego,
charming creatures, with their thin, at-
fRntuated 2 limbs and portly stomachs.
These beauties allow their hair o gro.v
f n< * hang-down straigh .
they plaster it with seal oil aud red c a),
hardens and makes a comp ee
waterproof covering for their heads, lhe
natives possess the faculty of imitating a
soun< 1 an J Proiessor Lee un< °r oot.
teach them a song. He succeeded so welt
that when he departed from their midst
a group stood upon the shore and seren-
aded him with “Father, Dear Father,
Come Home With Me Now.”—Washmg-
ton Star.
Tripe for Binding Books.
A company has recently been incor-
porated in Newark, N. J., with a capital
stock of £100.000, for the manufacture
of membrnnoid. The article and its
nature are alike new. It is a fancy leather
made from tripe—nothing else than
tanned tripe, in fact, It is said to be
very pretty and durable.
The inventor of the process of manu-
facture, James W. Deokert, of Newark,
had considerable trouble with the Patent
Office people until he and they com-
promised on the name of the proluct
given above, They insisted upon it
previously that tripe was iripe.no matter
through what chemical process it might
have beeu put.—St. Louis Reoublio