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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. ■■■■ - J* 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.. 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