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ALKALL IKE AND RIS TOWN
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AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF
AMUSEMENT IN THE WEST.
A Popular Citizen Presented With a Robe
of Tar Trimmed With Hen Hair.
Other Diversions.
“Don’t know whether I'd enjoy it or
not,”’ replied Alkali Ike, in response to
the querry of the guileless tourist, who
was rapidly accumulating an interesting
mass of misinformation which he intend
ed incorporating in a lengthy manuscript
to be read upou his return to Massachu
setts before the Back Bay Society for the
Essemioation of Useless Knowledge.
‘“Hain't never tasted it. I don’t go
much on these here fancy French drinks,
anyhow; most of ’em is a heap too weak
and piodlin’ for a grown man.”’
‘“Pardon me, but golf is not a bever
age,”’ saide the tourist politely. “Itisa
game.”
“‘H’'m! Say it is? I reckon that’s a hoss
on me,”’ answered lsaac, magpanimous
ly. “Aw, wal, a man can’t be expected
to know eyerything. Golf? Believe I’ve
read suthin’ aboutit;it's that thar walk
around, whurin the players rig up like
circus clowns and go peroosin’ across
the scenery chasin’ alittle ball with a
cronked stick, Eh-yah! T hain't never
indulged in no golf; I hain’t thet kind o
a man.”’
“But, my dear sir, it is a great favor
ite 1n the east--the reigning fad, in
fact.”’
“I hain’t seera’ no pungent reascn
why it shouldn’t be; them people in the
east shore indulges in some mighty
quaint and fantastic freaks in the name
of sport. I'm sanguine it’s due to the
way they are raised, or mebbe il is in the
air. They gits relaxation out of pursoco
in’ of a frenzied bag of aniseed ucioss
the face of nature, or playing long ten
nyeon or hurlin’ little sacks of beaos at
each other. Butout here ip the west we
hain't that padly dried out yet. 'Course
we have our relaxations, but we don’t
indulge in no homypathic frivolties.
When we play ary game you bet your
neck it’s a man’'s game! The nearest
thing to this yere golf doin’s that we
mingle in is what you might call the mer
'y pastime of progressive tar and feath
erin’,”’
“Tar and feathering!’ exclaimed the
tourist, in astonishment. “What, my
dear fellow, I never heard of that —er—
ceremony heing regarded as a past me.
it is, in reality, a punishment, is it not,
and a painfu! one at that?"
“Depends =~ heap upon the position
you occupy in the game,”’ returned the
veracious narrator, cheerfully, *‘lf you
are one of the parties of the second part,
in’ not closely related to the party of the
first part, you most generally feel that
it is indeed good to be thar. But if you
happen to be the party of the first
you are liaole to entertain Symptoms
that are radically different. [’ve had
he pleasure of officiating in both capac
ities, and I speak by the card.
**One time, goin’ on three or four years
420, down in the Panhadle country, |
becomes 80 popular with my fellowmen
that they whirl in and present me with a
robe of tar, buttoned on with a swip
i’ brush and tiimmed with hen hair,
' grivmphantly escorts me out of the
settlement on the top side ot a saw-edged
roil. Aw, wal, thar wasn’t no speshul
featares worth recailing about this yere
exodus, except that I got sorter shov up
Dy a near-sighted eastern sportsman wh
mistook me for a carrowassy, or suthin’
of the kind, an’ afterward fell out of a
tall tree in the midst of a Sunday school
picnic who were eatin’ their picnic dio
ner below, Some of ’éem 'peared to mis
takeé me for the dewil, an’ others didn’t,
i’ I made my mistake while the super
intendent and the little boys were reviv
in’ tte members of the young ladies’
Bible class, who had very properly
swooned, It dido’t amount to much af
ter all, but it was fully a year afterward
before I laughed about it,
“Takin’ all the tar and fetherin’s that
I ever mingled in 1 never knowed but
one whurin the party of the first part
2ot much good out of it except in the
way of an object lesson. TLis yere man
I am recalling ’peared to glory in his
shame, as they say in stories. [ fergit
what we decorated him fer. speshul;
mebby it was simply because the regler
tar an’ fether day had ceme ’round—
which was every third Saturday, weather
permittin’—and thar was nobody handy
who was more deservin’, It don't mat
ter now, anyhow. His name was Hoon,
and so we warmed up the tar. :
**We didn’t feather this yere man, lit
erally speaking, becuz Missus Lopdick,
the genial and accommodating landlady
of the Cosmopolitan hotel, announced
that business was business, and she
wasn’t going to denude no more piller
ticks fer 10 array gents who wern’t
guests of the hotel. Accordin’, we rips
up an old buffalo robe, and 1t hain't so
bad a substitute for hen hair as you
might think.
“Wal, Mr. Hoon was decorated all ac
cording to Hoyle. Col. Handy Polk gits
off a few well chiosen remarks, and the
parity of the first part defuncts ina
southwesterly direction, kicking the
scenery behind him at the rate of about
forty miles an hour,
‘*Some time next day, as he is amblin’
alng, he meets up with an Italian with
a hand-organ cinched on his hump. This
vere furriner don’t speak much Erglish,
but he makes himself clearly understood
by hopping out of a gully and knocking
tho tarred gent down with a ciub. They
CLH.STORIA.
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
of / Mz
exchange compliments, pow-wow for a
spell an’ put np a scheme for conquerin’
the world. . The Roman had been be
reaved of his dancing bear a few days
before, an' be orgynizes what you call a
copodnership with the tarred man to act
as the lamented bruin' successor,
“Also he dons it. The Roman warmed
his fellow-conspirator up before a bon
fire, grafted patches of jack-rahbit fur on
the places we had neg'ected to cover, an’
had an elegant bear that hadn’t never
been duplicated in the history of the
world. The tarred man was plenty doc
ile and cunnin’, and atter a few lessous
he danced a harangaho to the inspirin’
strains of the organ that made the R -
man throw up his hands in admiration,
““Wal, during the next two weeks or so
them conspirators drifted around from
one settlement to another, creatin’ a fu
ror wherever they appeared, and simply
coined money, speciaily from tourists
from the east, who wasn't intimately ac
quainted with bears nohow, and admir
ed this yere one exceedingly for his ac
complishments. I reckon, likely as not,
the copodpership would haye been exist
ing yet if the man bear hadu’t got purse
proud with prosperity and become too
high-toned for his business,
‘‘He insisted upon having a tail, an’
wanted it to he a long one. The Roman
took a day off and reasoned with him,
saying that since the foundation of the
world there bain’t never been no bears
with tails. The man-bear swore he did
not give awhoop for precedent; this yere
present Annie Domerni was the age of
progress, by jing, an’ he'd have a tail or
h= wowldn’t dance another lick. He
knowed bis rignts and would stand up
for ’em to the bitter end, let the chips
fall whur they happened to. No tail, ao
bear!
‘““And so they parted, the Roman losin’
his bear, but retaining his self-respect,
an’ the tarred mav going on the hunt of
a tail, His record is plenty brief after
that. He gits his tail but only finds
himself « mock and a laughin’ stock.
He can’t gitalong successful without his
business manager, and goes ter ruin
prompt and unanimous, draggin’ his tail
behind him.
““And tbus he passes off from the map
and is gone like a puff of smoke. An’
that is tbe last I ever hears of the
baughty man-bear.”
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HELL IN ALABAMA,
A Phenomenon That is Causing Much Ex
citement in Daie County.
The reporter visited the splantation of
Mr. Julius islackman, four miles north
of Pinckard last Friday to behold the
fiery fluid, which wassaid to se comsum
ing the ground in that section. A«d we
found the report was so. We 7isited
the spot which is situated in an open field
near the river,
~ Although the soil, in its natuaral state,
is black, it bas literally caught or fire
and burned down to a depth of from
thi teen (o fifteen inches, leaving a heap
't smoaldering white ashes. Not a spark
of fire can be seen, and yet, on digging
down into the ashes, hot lava is seen to
bubble as if ten thousand little springs
were in wotion among the ashes. The
earth bas been buarning in this way fou
about three weeks, having spread over a
space of three or four handred faet in
circumference.
Those who have witnessed the wonder
ful phenomenon marvel as to its mean
ing.—Pinckard Pilot.
Nister Feltou’s Sensation,
Mrs W, H, Felton, of Cartersville,
Ga., isoutin a card, in which she
charges that Major Stahlman was paid
over 3100,000 in order to get congress
to pay the Methodist Publishing House
at Nashville, Tenn., $588,000 forchurch
property destroyed during the war.
Thereis considerable of a sensation
created vhereby, and it is not known
= hataction will be taken by the church
in the matter,
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Do you wanuv a remeay ftor kistula
or Foot Evils in stock? If so use Dr.
Tichenor s Antiseptic as directed; it
will cure it. For sale by druggists at
50c¢. a bottle.
What Shall
Be Done
FOR THE DELICATE GIRL
You have tried iron and
other tonics. But she keeps
pale and thin, Her sallow
complexion worries you, Pes
haps she has a little hacking
cough also. Her head aches;
and she cannot study. Give her
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The oil will feed her wasting
body; the glycerine will soothe
her cough, and the hypophos
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vigor to her nerves and brain,
%\lever say you “cannot
take cod-liver oil” until you
have tried Scott’s Emulsion,
You will be obliged to change
your opinion at once. Children
especially become very fond
of it; and infants do not know
when it is added to their food.
soc. and $1.00; all druggists,
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
THOSE MORRO CASTLENS. %
How There Happened to Be So Many of
Them in Cuba. ‘
Readers of war news must be struck
by the number of **Morro Castles” with
which our ferees have to deal. Ha
vana’s fort of that pame is the best
known building in Cuba. When Ad
miral Sampson went dowa to Porto Rico
to shake up the Spaniards there the
principal fortiflcation he had tc deal
with was another Morro castle. And
now comes word «f an attack by Ameri
can warships on a third Morro castle at
Saniiago, Cuba, the mostimportant port
in the southeastern part of the island.
Some readers lave probably wondered
how it happened that no such castles
were cncountered at Matanzas, Cardenas
and Cienfuegzos.
The explanation of the recurrence of
the name “Morro Castle” is found inthe
fact that the word ‘Morro”’ means
‘“promontory.”’ Many of the harbors of
Cuba are remarkable landlocked bays
opening to the sea throngh narrow chan
nels, usnally long and deep. They are
shaped somewhat iitke a man’s hand
with the fingers more or less spread and
the wrist reduced in size. At Havana,
Santiago and some other ports, one side
cf the channel connesting the inner bay
with the sea ends ina bold rocky head
land. The c¢pposite point is lower and
less conspicuous, Where the higher
and steeper ancgle of the shore, between
the channel of the harbor emntrance on
one side and the open sea on the other,
i crowned by an elaborate torte, formid
able in the times when it was erected,
This fortification is usually and naturally
named Morro Castle, or **The Castle of
the 'romontory.”
At Cienfoegoes there 1s no such fort,
although the harbor ils one of the typicil
bays of the C'uban coast, with a narrow
entrance. One reason is that the city is
comvparatively new, and it has become a
place of importance since the era when
Spain fortified her American possessions
with the massive and picturesque stone
castles whick modern artillery has ren
dered nearly useless. Besides, the shores
are much lower there than at Santiago,
or even Havana. San Juan, the chicf
city of Porto Rico, has plenty of ro.m
for a {‘Castle of the Promontlory,” and
i’ was patural that there should be a
*‘Morro Castle” to fight at that port.
Matanzas and Cardenas are on rather
low parts of the coast, and the latter is
a smull place. So they have no **Morro
Castle,”’ |
This explanation is sufficient to show |
why the name made fawiliar by Ha
vana’s picturesque old fort is appearing
continually in the dispatches, and why
it is necessary to discriminate between
the various ‘“Morro Castles’’ which fig
ure in the news of the day.—Cleveland
Leader.
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Soldiers at Chickamanga Park Determined
to Get Rid of Gambling and Whisky Dens
A dispateh from Chattanooga says:
Unless the Georgia officials take some
steps toward stopping the ‘“blhind ti
gers” and gambling houses now oper
ating in broad daylight at Lytle sta
tion, at Chickamauga Park, the oper
ators of these joints will wake up some
morning to find this part of **the mid
way'’ no more. There are no less than
seven gambling dens and blind tigers
galore doing a flourishing business
about *‘the midway,” and despite the
repeated requests the oflicials of Geor
gia have made no effort whatever to
stop the nuisance. The army offi
cials are getting tired of such, and it is
in the air today that unless immediate
action is taken thera nk and file will see
that every gambling den and whiskey
and beer shop on the groundsiwill be us
ed somegnight soon in building a big
bon-fire. The officers, it is presumed,
will know nothing of this action until
it is all over, and even then no one will
be punished very severely.!
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The women of Idaho seem to bhave
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L. P. Johnson, for governor, and an
other woman, Mrs. Phelps, for auditor,
The woman's party promises to make
the campaign one of unusual interest.
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