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jrE IN THE NORTHWEST.
SESS*— OF A DAKOTA
VIVID
,0 Camp In -a Summer
Turns Suddenly to a W in
Tbiinderstorm «erU“ Us!0rm
L Lfof oakota correspondent met writes the as
little storm he np m
a
Ltbwest; jnat _ finishing supper one
rife 1 were one’s observation
when, to some
wis getting dark mighty fast, our
tat it dropped knife and
u looking up,
Cteltys, i get the if. tluags gotog msld fa, ratou th
up I
A” mischief I for patterpatter
! itbangl^oneof Get the
the worst haxl
«rms that ever swept the plams was
driving us all-a round dozen
^Lber-into us, little eight by ten
a
n%ee minutes after the first drop
.
lit !e would have cost a from man shelter, his life for to
gone any distance
ic was coming down in blocks six
*L e and perfect
in circumference in
pf Our covered wagon started off
if 8 country-proving
. trip across the
li literally a prairie schooner-and
se the river beyond, and, de
I’ought I np in
the effort of a dozen stalwart men,
I tent came nearly after. either All around their
ide the men were on
l8 the or
s holding down canvass,
>. ridge-pole with might
on to the
nd ° main, while the hail pelted the roof,
ides and ends of our tent with such
that no one could stand against the
Dice the hollows which
mvass, a nd through supposed
ae stones knocked in our
btfij-stretched tent the water poured
L volumes. The mules of our outfit
lore loose from their pickets, «nd, rush
lg wildly about, sought shelter along
leligli banks of the river. One wise
lass L called Balaam backed up against
|ee side of our tent and assisted not a
llle in keeping it from blowing over,
ne particular mule—the meanest brute
si ever wore long ears—too stubborn
ran. stood kicking throughout the
:orm, which lasted about twenty min
[ We were about a mile away from the
learest point of shelter—a village of
ough clap-board bouses, which had
teen run np in a day or so with the
irst talk of building a road. So, after
tie storm, for this village we started.
Pet to the skin we waded across the in
ervening plain, many places over shoes
n ice and water, and to add to our
nisery it kept getting colder and colder
we splashed through the water and
Ice, Arriving at the only hotel in the
own we found the usual Western hos
>itality. To our demand for a fire by
fhich to dry our clothing the landlord
’eplied that we should have one just as
loon as he could hunt up the necessary
tael, In the course of an hour the fire was
itaited and around it we clustered, and
K alternating “fore and aft,” drying
PWe fccefeded and wetting inside, we finally
in restoring circulation.
I Heavy rain now set in, and how it
F r ™ out here on the prairies 1 Our
pdlord and his son stood in the hall
peeping pier the back door—a the water as it flooded in
Eng practical illustration
P Canute and the flood, and about
psuccessful. Bed-time arrived and a
®n stiff boys, shoeless, coatless, as
ss several other articles of attire which
Rd not be mentioned, all of which
ere behind to dry' by the only fire
le hotel offered, marched out through
J® «■ Wet Here ball, and climbed a ladder to with the
bags we wrestled manfully
16 till near morning, when it be
I - ow ing such a terrific gale that a
fellows came to a sitting posture
®bate the question of hunting the
Mened ^ One by the of the regular boarders
din, settled the ques
^ Jlt there’s cahing not out: cellar “You infernal
f , a in town: lay
1 ® and sleep; it’s better
^^der, to be on top
Jd the any day.” We laid down.
shoes, morning our landlord brought
- Jr and emptied clothes, them etc., in a bushel
out on the floor
scrambled for. On going out, the
L. &C ne devastation it has
t ttle i kt , ever
of the writer to see, met his
Tab} da v before, large fields of
-
il ' r 8 i c ble, could be seen,
letcli’ aWa
hick n "h ° stalk ^ directions, of
ffen a remained standing;
growth of all kinds utterly de
fed; .k ar % a pane of glass was left
a the a ^ 8 the foliage
He So ’ of the trees
joked man 6 Ied that the limbs
ight asm time. A belt
eS .
i length m and twice as many
non. was entirely eeared of vege-
3 xr Grocer rmT>B that “
were
tins> States, each con
"0,645 6n 1116 ex »ct figures
Resale ’ 89 ' f ’ cans Their value at
-
-yiand iJ probably 86 , 000 , 000 .
%ct iafld J lp about one-half of the
^ew Jersey over a fifth,
SIHSSS SB 08 9
OUR STOCK is FULL AX I) COM PL l.TF,
Business and Dress Suits
-! EQUAL TO OUSTOM MADE GOODS AND AT }•
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES,
HIRSCH BROS,,
42 and 44 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
CHECK-BAITERS.
Devices Used for Removing Ink and Cancel¬
ing Rigures.
“Check-raising is getting to be one of
the lost arts,” said an old detective,
‘ ‘ and as checks are prepared
now-a
days they are pretty safe. There are
some of the crooked men, however, who
know all the tricks of removing ink.
I was once curious enough to learn
how it was that they could so success
fully alter a check. Different forgers
use different methods. One successful
an hour in white wine in a new pip¬
kin, or he used a fine sponge shaped
like a pencil, which he dipped in equal
quantities of nitre and vitriol distilled.
As he passed this point over the ink it
came right out. Sometimes equal quan¬
tities of sulphur and powdered saltpe
ter, both distilled, were used. For a
long time the police did not understand
what use was made of a little ball
that now and then was found in the
possession of a prisoner. This turned
out to be made of alkali and suiphru,
and was used for removing ink, It is
hard to find an ink that will not dis
appear under one plan of treatment or
another. I knew a check-raiser who
had a small laboratory. He kept bot¬
tles of acids of all sorts and a case of
camel’s-hair brushes. With a small
quantity of oxalio or muriatic acid,
somewhat diluted, and a camel’s-hair
pencil he could paint out any number
of ink spots. One or two applications,
followed by the use of a blotting-pad,
would restore the paper to primitive
purity. It requires skill and an ac
curate knowledge of chemicals to use
any of these plans so as not to injure
the texture of the paper or discolor it.
If the paper is injured it is not so
easy to write upon it again, but, by
the use of finely-powdered pounce,
rubbed in lightly with the finger and
burnished with an ivory folder, the pa
per can be repaired. Common writing
ink, however, is best removed by the
use of oxygenated muriatic acid.
“ But the new styles of check, with
the amount cut through the paper with
a die are hard to alter. Here is a check
with a revenue stamp in old-gold color
in the center, ’ and broad lines of red ink
town , close to , .. the emoun __ . w, -x
are np
tenin. There m another broad line oi
amount is m figures, you will see that
the figures are so cu * ou 8 0
paper. On the reverse side of the check,
just over these figures, is pasted a pink
strip which brings the cut figures out in
such relief that they cannot be altered
without detection. The only way to
alter that check is to take out the first
written word in the amount in the body
of the check and the amount in the
comer and, after replacing them with
the raised sum, to inlay a piece of check
paper in the place of the cut figures
This inlaying process requires great
care, and only one or two men m tins
country are able to do it. The cut g
ures must be carefully cut ou y a
sharp razor-like tool, and cut in such a
way that the edges of the opening will
be beveled. Then a fresh bit of check
paper must be shaped to the size of the
opening and fitted in, with its edges also
beveled. The edges must be held to
gether with a paste made of flour and
strained resin and carefully pressed.
Some pounce rubbed over the lines will
conceal the patch, unless there is a
strong light, and then, with the same die
that the bankers use, raised fibres can
hfi inserted The work is delicate, and
w often SX attempted as it involves the
“ktH rf £ Check fcr the amount
good.-Ae» reel So,
NOBODY ever eucceededjn painting a
good picture ot a hor “y“ Ie
to the .
can't somehow grve
expressions that convey any
surate idea of the lying going on.
Thebe are eleven bit factories run
gg in oneConnecticut town, it is a
LIHUOl
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JgSlg
Proprietor!, IU ante, Oo.
If f A mV- "SToxlx Ssru-CSAat fox It.
Par all im vrleo Hnumui in man or Livruuur*. beast nothing aqaala
Disasters at Sea.
The Cimbria, of the Hamburg-Ameri
can line, was run down and sunk oft
Borknm, by the British steamship Sul
tan. There were nearly 500 persons
on board the Cimbria and all but eighty
f our were lost.
This was only oec of many terrible
disasters at sea, which have occurred
since the wreck of the British frigates
Sir George and Defence off the coast of
Jutland in 1811, in which 2,000 persons
were drowned.
The German ironclad Grosser Kur
furst was struck by the Konig Wilhelm
of the same fleet, in the English Chan¬
nel. She sunk almost instantly and
nearly 300 lives were lost before the eyes
of her sister ironclad.
On January 31, 1878, the steamer
MetropoliS) from Philadelphia to Para,
Brazil, we nt ashore in a voilent gale on
Currituck Beach, North Carolina.
There were 260 passengers on board and
all were drowned except fifty-eight,
The loss of 102 persons by fire, or
drowning, was caused by the burning of
the Amazon, a West India mail steam
ship, on January 4, 1852, about 110
miles southwest of the Sicillv Islands,
Two years later, on September 27, in
a dense fog, the Arctic, from Liverpool,
was run down off Cape Race by the iron
propeller Yesta. She went to the
bottom, with a loss of 367 lives out of
^9 passengers.
The Birkenhead, an English troop
Q oe en«town on 3m-
1852| fortheCape rf Good Hope,
crewliUmbere d 638 persons, 456 of whom
perished. Austria,
On September 13,1858, ^ the
a British steam immigrant sloop, was
burned in the middle of the Atlantic.
There were 538 persons on board, of
whom only 67 were saved.
A terrible loss of life was the result of
the collision in a dense fog of the French
steamship Ville du Havre, bound for
Havre from New York, with the English
ship Loch Earn_ on November^, 1873,
J ™“ 1 ®^TelJwent ; e S Se ^ e to the bottom with
rs n ^ g
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
^ barkj off Harfleur, on February 17,
almost 100 lives were lost,
February 19, I860, the Hungarian,
^ new British mail steamer, was wrecked
off the Noya g co ti a coast, and all on
boar< j_205 persons— perished,
Tke white Star steamship Atlantic
wag pecked off the Nova Scotia coast,
on Apr il 1 , 1873, and 546 lives were
i os t.
On January 23, 1873, 320 persons
were drowned by the sinking of the emi
grant ship Northfleet m the English
Channel,
Exceeding the Oeioinal Cost.
Sectary Chandler, in reply to a Senate
— ^ ^Z
b "“'
J’ e war
, he rebelUo n, aud 41 aince the close
^ T1 ,e original cost of the 92
vessels amounted to 940,796,613. Ee
pairs on all the vessels aggregate S41,-
200 822, making the total cost of the
“ ’ ’§81,997,435. The repairs have
^ orig uial cost by §404,209.
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ETHIOPIAN PILE OINTMENT >
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for 20 years. I tried every remedy offered me. Fin¬ 1
ally I used the Ethiopian Pile Ointment, and found
it the very best preparation I ever I ever used. It
will give almost immediate relief and will finally ef¬
fect a permanent cure.
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Comer Broad and Summer Streets, DRUGGISTS, Nashville,
Tenn.
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Garriages Wagons, Bugies, MY
own make.
«fa A M
ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE REPAIRED AS GOOD AS NEW
£*STl have now on hand the largest and best 9 tock of waggons, of mv own
m ake, bugies homemade ana of western build that I have ever carried, Ii
y ()U want bargains you had belter call. AH who owe me for work are ear
ne stly request to come forward and settle promptly. I need the money and
must have it. These wbo do not pay promptly will be given but short
time. So you will please settle promptly,
j t should be rememberd that My establishment is
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Most Respectful’'-,
J. W. LANGFORD.
MORE POPULAR THAN EVER.
■The Recent Improvements Made in The -
WHITE SEWI’G MAOHINE'
ADD MUCH TO THh
MANY EXCELLENT QUAL- f-iS
TIES of this f? i i
Machine. », J
It is an Espeial Favorile of Ladies, n
Tailos and Others, -■j
W ho use them for the many advanta
they posess over olher Sew ing Machine
EVERY WHITE MACHINE
Warrented for 5 years. 3.
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers, -k
50 Broad St., Atlanta Georgia. t
m
H- P. & D. M. ALMAND, Agents
. , Conyers, Georgia.
