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tH E game went on.
iXBY tells an interesting story
, 81 while playing poker.
Wm About • Sa4 With .
1 -.moron* Sid* •* the Bettie of Anti*.
” _How a Game of Draw Generali/
A n * relloW’e Attention.
■ JobDl on naJ dea^ng when Bixb ? be
n to tell Ilia yarn.
heard a first rate story today, ” he
“It mag be old to you boys, but
it was new to me. Colonel Jim Wil
iiame of Kentucky was telling it, and
he got all the points In, of course, much
i-tter than I can. No colonel in Ken
tucky can tell a better story than Wil
liams. I don’t claim to be much of a
dory teller myself, but”—
' “You in, Bixby?” asked Butler.
Fixby picked up his hands and played
pair of aces through to his loss. When
another player began shuffling the cards,
Rithy resumed.
“Tbe story was something like this,”
humid. “Ike Doolittle was a private
in the war. It was at the battle of An
tietam. He had a grudge against Lieu
tenant Forrest A shell came along,
and’ , - —
“Are we going to play for anything
this time?” asked Johnson.
“Your ante,” said Butler to Bixby.
Bixby anted. “This shell oame
along*” he said, “and took off Forrest’s
foot. He saw Doolittle near him, and
called to him to take”—
“I’m in,” said Walters.
“Raise it a couple of reds, ’ * said But
ler.
• Bixby picked up three eights and
gtood the raise. He drew a fourth and
won the pot Then it was his deal. He
shuffled leisurely as he said: “The shell,
it seems, took off Forrest’s foot, and he
called to Doolittle to carry him back to
the ambulance. Doolittle lifted him to
his shoulder and”—
“I had three kings to go, ” said Wil
liams, referring to his previous hand.
“I had a straight four flush,” said
Johnson sadly.
“Doolittle lifted him up, ” continued
JBixby, “and”—
s “Going to shuffle the spots off the
cards?” asked Butler.
Bixby started to deal “Doolittle Was
carrying him back,** he said, “with his
head hanging over his. shoulder, when
along oome another shell, and”—
“Give me another stack,” said Wil
liams. He got it. While the hand was
being played Bixby turned to Butler,
who had staid out like himself.
“Just then,” said Bixby, “another
shell oame along and took off Forrest’s
head. Doolittle didn’t see it ”
“Where was this?” asked Butler po
litely.
“At Antietam,” answered Bixby.
“During the war, you know. Doolittle
was carrying Forrest back to the ambq;
lance. He said he had his foot shot off.
He was being taken back to the ambu
lance. He”—
Butler picked up three aces. “I’m in
for a minute,” he said. Johnson raised
him ten. He saw it and raised back.
Johnson staid, and they drew. Butler
bet ten and Johnson raised him 20.
Butler hesitated and ran over his cards.
Then he looked long and searohingly at
; Johnson. There was a curious tensity
in the silence. Bixby turned to Wil
liams.
“Doolittle,” he said, “didn’t know
that Forrest’s head had been shot off.”
“Why didn’t he know it?” Williams
absently asked, watching the players.
“He didn’t sea it,” explained Bixby.
“He kept on carrying him back toward
the ambulance. Private Canfield oame
along and said to Doolittle:
“ ‘What you carrying that for?’
“ ‘lt’s Lieutenant Forrest,’ said Doo
little. *l’m taking him back to the am
bulance. ’
“ * What can they do with him in the
ambulance with his head shot off?* asked
Private Canfield/”
“I call,” salp Butler, shoving in his
chips. Johnson won, and Bixby picked
up the cards to deal again.
“Private Canfield,”he said, “wanted
to know what they could do with him
there with his head shot off. ‘ His head I’
shouted Doolittle. ‘The blamed fool
told me *twas his foot.’ ”
Bixby pounded the table and laughed
heartily. His companions looked at
him wonderingly.
“Who was Doolittle?” asked John
son.
“Why, he was the fellow that was
carrying Forrest”—'
“Bixby’s been telling a story,” said
Williams.
“ What’s the point?” asked Butler.
“The point is,” said Bixby, “that
Doolittle thought his foot was shot off
when it was his head. He was carrying
him back at the time, and”—
“I’ve got six cards, ” said Williams.
“It’s a misdeal,” said Johnson.
“Go on with your story,” said Wil
liams to Bixby.
“Yes,” said two or three others,
“give us tbe story.”
“But I’ve got through with it,” ex
plained Bixby.
“Oh, have you?” said Williams.
“That’s good.”—New York Sun.
Spurious Mumtnios.
Spurious mummies have from time
to time been palmed off upon the pub
lic, and a doubt arose in a Vienna mu
seum as to the validity of one daughter
of the pharaohs in their collection. It
occurred to them, in view of the general
hollowness of life, that the young lady
might have been manufactured in Bir
mingham. So they turned the Roentgen
rays upon her and saw at once through
the many folded wraps the amulets
which the Egyptians placed upon the
bosoms of their dead, thus proving the
genuineness of their specimen.
Switzerland is tbe land of universi
ties. It baa seven, or one to every 428,.-
#7O inhabitants, while Germany has 22,
or one to every 2,886,360. Russia has a
university for every 10,000, (ft)o only.
INSTRUCTED THE JUDGE.
Who Was So Well Pleased That He Gave
Him Seven Months.
“Nathaniel Patrick Henry Schofield
Berry!” called the police court clerk in
, stentorian tones, and a hearty laugh was
heard from the lawyers, bailiffs and
* general hangers on around tbe room.
A very black negro of about 40 step
ped to the bar with the remark, “Yes,
,; cab, dat’s my cognomen title. ’’
“Well, Nat, what have yon got to say
about this charge of—of—what’s the
' name of that thing anyhow, Mr.
! Bailiff?” '■
“Shootin craps, your honor.”
“Shootin craps, ” repeated the judge.
“Now look here! 1 have sent enough of
you fellows down on this charge, but I
confess I know nothing about the game,
if such it might be called. I’ve listened
to the pigeon English of Chinamen in
telling of their fantan arrangement,
and now you, Nat, there, tell mewhat
; this game of craps is like?”
i “Well, judge, it’s just like dis:
You see you take de bones”—
“The what?”
“W'y, de bones, yo’ honah. Them’s
i de things you throw. ”
“The dice, ” suggested the police offi
cer making the complaint
“Oh, I see,” answered his honor.
“It’s played with dice, eh?”
“You take de bones,” continued Na
thaniel Berry, looking with supreme
contempt on the surrounding crowd
i anxious to learn the ins and outs of a
famous but badly misunderstood-game.
“De first man be i’rows de bones out
like dis and pops his fingers. ‘Come
seven-eleven,’ ‘got you laded/’ ‘cut his
throat eleven, ’ ‘railroad, I ‘nai’ralcrap,'
•gimme de bones, ’‘baby’a got tahav’
'dem noo shoes,* ‘take my gal to Balti
mojg, ’ ‘Big Dick’s my point,* ‘all de
way from Boston,* ‘come on, Joe, you
must be mine’ ”
“Hold on tbe/el” shouted the judge
before the enthusiastic Nathaniel could
be headed in his enthusiastic disserta
tion. “I’m still in the dark about that
game, but from what I have heard you
get seven months. ”
“Thankee, judge,” said Nat, as he
was led grinning from the bar of jus
tice.—Washington Post.
A CLEVER FIRE HORSE.
the Clear Headed Animal That Chief
Webber >f Hasten Used to Drive.
The rule in the Boston department is
io reach the fire as soon as it can be
done with safety. When an alarm comes
in, the firemen have that rule in mind.
They are not thinking about posing for
the public, but what they are likely to
find at the end of their ride, and when
accidents occur in nine cases out of ten
they are more likely to be due to the
carelessness or fright of the public than
to the recklessness of the firemen them
selves. There are approximately 2,000
alarms a year in this city, to each of
which from one to eight pieces respond.
Compare the activity and momentum
thus let loose, but skillfully controlled,
with the total resulting casualties of a
year, and the showing will justify the
department as a whole every time.
The horses themselves share not only
the spirit but the knowledge of the sit
uation, and to their training and intel
ligence is due to no small degree the
comparative exemption from serious
accidents which the department enjoys
A few years ago Chief Webber drove as
his fire horse an animal which well ex
emplified these characteristics. He had
a head like a wedge, and he oould run
for a deer. His fire gait was a run. He
was famous for economizing his oppor
tunities. Even in a thickly crowded
street, if be saw a hundred feet clear in
front of him, he made it on the run. If
an obstruction suddenly appeared, he
would brace himself and skate over the
pavement until his momentum was
overcome. Then with the next opening
the feat was repeated, while he writhed
in and out like a snake among inter
cepting teams and usually was among
the first arrivals at the scene of tbe fire.
On one occasion he took himself and
the buggy to a fire some distance from
quarters without a driver and arrived
safely and at the right box. The un
initiated who saw his movements might
have called them reckless, but during
his five or six years of service he at
tended more fires than any other horse
in the department, and no serious acci
dent to himself or others resulted.—
Boston Transcript.
A Sermon on Money.
A colored exhorter said recently, in
the course of a sermon on “Money, the
Great Evil:”
“My brotherin, money cause mo*
trouble in dis wort’ dan anyt’ing I
knows on. Fao* is, de devil is in de dol
lar. When I see a man wid a pocket full
er money, I say ter myself, ‘Dor’s a
man what needs a guardeen,’ an I feels
des like takin him home an lockin up
dat money fer him. Es any er you in de
hearin er my voice is got money on yo’
pusson, bring it right heah, an lay it
on de altar an go yo* ways an lemma
pray over it till a blessin come ter it.
Doan wait ter count it; des come for
ward an unload!” —Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Insect Steeds Biddea by Insects.
At a recent meeting of the Entomo
logical society of Washington some
specimens of phrysopa, a species of
golden eyed fly, which bad been collect
ed in the White mountains, were exhib
ited as curiosities, because each carried
on its back one or more minute oecido
iqyiid flies. The opinion was expressed
that this was a true case of smaller
species of insect using a larger species
for the purposes of locomotion from
place to place.—Youth’s Companion.
The greater part of the cast off uni
forms of British soldiers find their way
into the shops of dealers in secondhand
clothing. The coats are then either cut
up, sold to theatrical managers or ex
ported to Africa and elsewhere for trad
ing purposes with the Kaffirs and other
tneivilized people
♦
JAPAN’S. WOMEN.
Ihey Have Deen Organi»lß< to Secure
Their Right*.
“The Japanese ladies are really organiz
ing at last. They are be ginning a strong
movement to anend tbe Japanese laws so
that a Japanese gentleman that supports
another woman besides bis legal wife can
be arrested. The laws are now one aided
—yes, very muoh one sided. The Japanese
husband can have as many outside wives
as be pleases; not regular wives, you un
derstand. Japan law lets tbe hueband
marry only one wife. Otherwise be is
guilty of bigamy, same as here. ”
This announcement of woman’s inde
pendence in tbe land of silent Wives anfl
maidens that won’t be kissed came
recently at tbe Hotel Ryan from S.
Kishi, a young attorney of Tokyo. Mr.
Kishi having practiced some time in his
own city, resolved to venture forth into
western lands to see bow it was possible
for lawyers to make an honest living in
Europe and America. Tbe study of this
intricate problem detained Mr. Kishi six
weeks in San Francisco, three months in
Milwaukee and some weeks in Chicago.
He has now arrived in St. Paul, where he
will enter the law departmentof the Great
Northern railroad and remain several
months. Eventually he will proceed to
Europe.
“Formerly,” continued tbe smiling,
white toothed law pilgrim, “that is to say*
up to 25 yean ago. a Japanese gentleman
oould have as many informal wives as he
wished. He was rather proud of them and
showed them in public. Now sentiment
hns so changed that he keeps them hid
away. He would be thought very immoral
to exhibit them in public. Yet be cannot
be punished by law, but this exception in
favor of tbe men is likely to be done away
with. There is a commission now revising
our civil code. That code is based upon
the Code Napoleon, not on the English
common law. Our commercial code, how
ever, is modeled after the commercial code
of Germany.
“But it is natural for woman towant
leas than man in Japan. Wo consider that
she is equal to man in quality, but not in
quantity. That is the way we express it.
And she is always by nature different.
Man is strong, rough, brave. Woman
is weak, gentle, gracious, timid. She
must attend to her home. Man must go
out into business, into government, into
war. We do not mix occupations as you
do here. For example, the men ride bi
cycles in Japan very muoh more now than
before, but the women—never. A woman
astride of a bicycle! It would be too rude,
too bold. She should be at home, not
showing herself upon the streets.
“Her costume? Oh, it is almost always
Japanese. Years ago, perhaps ten yean,
one of our cabinets thought they would
help Japan abroad by persuading our peo
ple to dress like Europeans. Even the
court ladies began to wear foreign dresses.
Bnt tbe cabinet went down. The women
took back their native costumes. Now a
Japanese lady most always wean her an
cient costume. We find that your dresses
axe not convenient, as our women sit
about on the floors of our little houses.
But tbe Japanese men are using the Euro
pean clothes very generally in our cities—
that is, for business in government offices
and in tbe professions. But when the
men get home they take off these clothes
and put on the good old Japanese robes.
Then we are comfortable.’’—St. Paul Pio
neer Press.
' “Arranging” ft Landscape.
The composition of a landscape photo
graph requires as muoh care as any other
picture, though beginners in photography
usually think that a landscape, being com
posed of stationary objects, cannot be “ar
ranged” in any special way. Thiels true,
but if the landscape cannot be moved the
camera can, and by shifting it a little to
the right or left an artistic picture may be
made of what would be a most uninter
esting scene if the point ofview were not
well chosen.
In a general landscape view the camera
should be adjusted so that the horizon line
will be about a third of the way from the
top or bottom of tbe picture. If the hori
zon line is nearer the bottom than the top,
there should be plenty of clouds in the sky
to give variety to the picture. In case
there are no clouds in the sky they can be
printed into tbe picture from a cloud neg
ative.
Tbe line of the horizon should never
run straight across the picture, but must
be broken up as much as possible by ob
jects which rise above it. /
According to artists’ laws, tee lines of
a picture should either run diagonally or
be arranged in a pyramidal form.
If the lines run diagonally the tallest
objects should be at one side of the pic
ture, and if they are to be in pyramidal
form have the tallest point a little to one
aide of tbe center of tee picture. By mov
ing tee camera a few feet either way this
effect is easily obtained.
A picture should never be divided in tffe
center by any prominent object, like a
tree, a house, etc. Pictures of this kind
are very trying to look at, giving the effect
of two pictures on one card.—Harper’s
Round Table.
Hopeless.
A Mr. X. wished to have a telephone
put in his house, bnt bis aged mother vig
orously protested against it. “Robert,”
she said, “if you bring one of those dread
ful things In here I’ll never close my eyes
for fear it may break out and sweep us all
into eternity, and us not a bit the wiser.”
Mr. X tried to persuade her that it was
a most harmless instrument, but she said:
“No, no. Look at the thousand*—aye,
millions—of poor Hindoos it killed last
autumn.” “Why,” exclaimed he, “that
wasn’t a telephone, mother! That was a
typhoon.” But the timid old lady lowered
her spectacles, and, looking at him over
the rlins thereof, said: “You need not try
to make a fool of me, Robert. I perhaps
don’t know very much, but I do know
that the typhoon is the emperor of Japan. ”
Mr. X. gave it up as a hopeless case.—
Strand Magazine.
Story of Deo’s Surrender.
When Hamlin Garland was gathering
material for the life of Grant, be spent a
day or two in Atlanta, where he met an
old Virginia negro who said teat be had
witnessed Lee’s surrender. Garland was
interested and questioned him closely.
“You say you were present when Lee
surrendered?”
“Dat I wnz, sub!”
“Did you see Lee give up his sword?”
“No, sub, I didn’t! Gin'rul Lee give
up be sword? Not him! Dey tried ter
take it sum him, but he made a pass at
one er two of dem, en dey lef ’ off—l tell
you!”
“And wbere.was Grant all that time?”
“Oh, he wuz right dar, suh! En be
tel’ ’em, be did: ‘Well, boys, let him keep
d a weapon. He can’t do much damage,
kase be done whipped anyhow.* ’’—At
lanta Constitution.
AGUrtAI IN MAROCCO.
Tke Whole Population of the Town Is
Deeeeaded From Renegade*.
Agura is a small town surrounded
with walls of from 40 to 50 feet in
height and built of tabla, or con
solidated rubble. It owes its existence
to Mnlai Ismail, who held tbe throne
of Morocco from 1722-1757. One gate
•lone gives entrance to the place, and
in this respect, as well as in ita archi
tecture within and without, it much
resembles tbe “ksor” of the Sahara de
scribed in the writer’s “Tablet” But
it owns one feature of curiosity which
was looking in tbe desert, for almost
without exception the entire population
are descendants of the renegades and
Christian slaves of the time of Mnlai
Ismail, with the addition of stray rene
gades who have been sent there since.
Probably no such cosmopolitan place
exists in the world, for its 800 or 400
Inhabitants are representative of no leas
than 18 nationalities. Each family re
members and is proud of its origin, tbe
Arab equivalent being applied as sur
names.
The family in whose home the writer
spent the few days of his visit were
Flemish, while the next door neighbor
on one side was an elderly female,
whose father, an Englishman, had be
come a renegade some 80 years since,
and who quickly tired of it, leaving a
wife and daughter, the neighbor in
question. Tbe other neighbors were the
descendants of Spanish gypsies, the
bead of tbe family being “Absalam ben
Mohammed el Gitano el Espanoli.”
They were particularly proud of the
“Gitano” (gypsy) part of the surname
and begged me not to confound them
with the ordinary Spaniards, of whom
’ there were many descendants in Agurai.
The ancestor of this gypsy family was
two generations back. He had left his
country, they naively told the writer,
because he was not on good terms with
his sultan, who wanted to imprison
him, being afraid of his influence. Prob
ably it was more of an affair of tee po
lice courts than political intrigue.
The “Ulad el Aluj” (“sons of tbe
converts”), as the inhabitants of Agurai
are called, have entirely, except in one
or two cases, lost the type of their Eu
ropean ancestry, and through marriage,
no doubt, are as largely Berber in ap
pearance as the wild tribes that sur
round them. They speak among them
selves both Arabic and Berber, and
both, curiously enough, with a strong
foreign accent, easily distinguishable.
They are exempt from all taxation, but
have to serve in the sultan’s army, where
they perform the duties of cooks and
butchers.—Geographical Journal
COURIERS BACK NUMBERS.
Me Ix»nger Any Need to Go Through Bn-'
rope With Them.
Up to times within the memory of
living men almost no one of means
traveled through Europe without a
courier. Before railroads were built
and before good guidebooks were print
ed he was almost indispensable. His
tribe survives, but in greatly dimin
ished numbers. To the self reliant trav
eler he is of no use whatever. Indeed
he is frequently a positive incumbrance,
and worse. To my mind one of tbe
great pleasures of travel is in learning
to travel by myself. There are satisfac
tion, pleasure and education in plan
ning routes, deciphering time tables,
making bargains, learning by observa
tion the lay of tbe land.
The time may have been when a
courier could save a traveler more than
his cost. Most certainly that is not the
case now. On the contrary, as he gets a
percentage on every purchase his party
makes, which, of course, comes out of
the purchaser in increased price, and
as It is often for his interest to advise
the more costly route, the more costly
hotel or the more costly excursion, he
eats up much more than his wages,
while saving positively nothing. Bean
declares that in a two weeks* trip in
southern Spain, which he made ride by
I side with a couple having a courier, he
invariably reached the hotel first, got
better rooms and saw all the sights to as
good advantage, yet the courier was, of
his kind, an expert The fact is that
travel has become so general, tourist
companies, railroads and landlords have
so well studied its needs, books are so
plentiful, that you couldn’t very well
get off the track or have a mishap if
you tried.—Herbert Luce in “Going
Abroad.”
What He Played.
A member of a military band at a
certain barrack came to the surgeon re
cently with a long face and a plaintive
story about a sore throat
“Sore throat, eh,” said the surgeon
pleasantly. “Let me see. Oh, that’s
not so bad. A slight irritation; nothing
more. You’ll be all right in a day or
two. I think you had better take no
risk in renewing the trouble by using
your throat, though, so I will recom
mend you for a fortnight’s sick leave.”
Armed with the surgeon’s certificate,
the bandman obtained his two weeks’
sick leave.' The two weeks had just
come to an end when he met the sur
geon on tbe parade ground. The band
man saluted. The surgeon recognized
the face and stopped.
“How’s the throat?” he asked pleas
antly.
“It’s quite well, sir,” was the reply.
“That’s good,” said the surgeon.
“You can get back to your duty with
out fear. By the way, what instrument
do yon handle in the band?”
“The small drum, sir,” said the mu
sician. News.
From the top of the cathedral spire in
Mexico you can see the entire city, and
the most striking feature of the view is
the absence of chimneys. There is not
• chimney in all Mexico, not a grate
nor a stove nm a furnace. All the cook
ing is done with charcoal in Dutch
ovena. *
Bowling, billiards and card playing
are unlawful in Michigan, according to
some dead letter statutes.
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PUCHER, Ztyonnis, Massachiwettg,
was the originator of “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA.” the same
that has borne and does now e °
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought s/j&a JT* on
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. #
March 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived..
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he defcs not know.
. “The Kind You Have Always Bought”
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed
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