Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1889, Page 10

EE THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON “THING ABOUT ORANGES. A Glimpse at Washington’s Florida and | Foreign Orange Trade. INCREASING DEMAND FoR THE FLORIDA FRUIT— ITS CULTIVATION AND SALE—THE PROPORTION OF FORE! RANGES HANDLED—THE ANTIQUITY OF THE ORANGE—RECIPES FOR THE LENTEN SEASON. The advent of the Lenten season, coming as it does when the variety of table supplies are j distressingly limited from natural causes, brings with it additional vexations to the housekeeper whose creed demands observance. A round of social winter festivities following the holidays suddenly transformed into a season of restric- tion must of necessity try the wits of the ac- knowledged head of the table in her efforts to apread daily before the guests dishes which are permissible, palatable and yet not liable to grow monotonous, Fish, vegetables and fruits compose the syn- dicate which caters most largely to the hosts of | Lenten observers. Of fish, the shad, appearing just in the nick of time, as it were, to offer its services early in the Lenten period, is perhaps the most popular if not the most palatable. For vegetables, potatoes, cabbage and lettuce, like the poor, we have always with us, sup- plemented by a canned reserve of extensive Proportions, which may or may not have a nat- ural flavor. In the way of fruits the most deli- | cious, thongh not so popular or cheap as the = Lape he orange—the juicy, luscious orange. © apple is doubtless thé most used, as also the most greatly abused of all fruits, being drawn actiyely into the concoction of the menu for | any or every meal from greasy, soppy fried slices for breakfast to the tasteful, foamy float— atruly fitting finale for a sumptuous dinner. But.withal. under the golden rind of the orange ie tasteful possibilities beyond compare. A DELICIOUS CONFECTION. No less a prosaic personage than Thomas Car- | Iple, in one of his genial glimpses of ‘domes- ticities.” tells a story of how his wife was caught by an unannounced guest bringing her kettle of orange marmalade to a perfect finish over the drawing-room fire. and describes the result of her work as a “delicious confection, pure as liquid amber.” Orange marmalade is & pet dainty upon the table of a Scotch bon- | vivant. Sweet, crumbly biscuits, a cup of | finely-drawn tea, and a tiny, delicate china | saucer of Dundee marmalade, a preserve that | has traveled the world over upon its merits and | established itself in every nook and corner of | every civilized country, is a refreshment which | epitomizes the truest hospitality of bonny Beotland. WASHINGTON'S ORANGE TRADE. Those who stroll along the avenues of Wash. ington, residents or visitors, and note the beau tiful pyramids of the golden fruit upon confec- tioners’ stand: dvaniage of an over- ya dozen at a seemingly wandering italian who per- ets erying his . with iness and the other on the po- le om of the im- trade or the vari- apting. toothsome dishes to which mensity of ety of te this product from what n calls the | “Godliest tree ladened with the fairest fruit,” daily lends a helping hand. The most delicious and desirable orange is that from Florida, of course. and the number con- sumed larg. reases every year. Formerly and only a few yearsago it bore a very small pro- portion of the total receipts of the fruit here, ut now it very nearly divides evenly. | estimated receipts of Florida oranges here this Season, running to the Ist of May, are put at twenty-five to thirty thousand boxes. Receipts of foreign oranges will be something more than this. Allowing the boxes to aver: as it is | claimed they ie eas bated oak seventy-five | each. it ix estimated that the number sold in this city this season will amount to not less | than ten millions. THE FLORIDA ORANGE. The orange trees of Florida bloom in Febru- | ary and March, the blooms appearing before | the fruit of the previous season has been en- | tirely gathered. In fact, where it is not a matter of purely commercial interest the fruit is sometimes left upon the tree until a follow- | ing season, which, it is said. adds to it greater | perfection and juicy lusciousnens. Gathering egins in November and lasts until about the Ist of May. There are generally from one hun- dred and twenty-five to three hundred oranges ina box—the average being about one bun. dred and seventy-five. The very large orange: ‘ate very thick skinned end command the low- est prices, and here is where the strolling ven- der shows his fine Italian hand. The large, beautiful specimens are temptingly displayed | and worked off at high rates upon unsuspecting Victims as the rarest and richest the market | affords. A mistake is often made, too, in ignor- ing an orange because of a dark, rasty-looking coating upon the peel. Underneath this unin- viting cover is often hid the plumpest, juiciest | pulp. and it is almost a sure indication of a | genuine Florida orange—and not ail the fruit | The | sold as Florida oranges are such by any means, There are three methods in Florida of es- tablishing orange groves. up a wild grove of the bitter orange, with which the country abounds, removing ail the trees not needed and budding with sweet fruit those that remain; second, to transplant young wild trees to prepared ground and then bud | them; and third, to raise stocks from seed. bud | them in nursery rows and transplant them | when sufficiently grown. Some contend that | it is not necessary to bud the stocks from seeds of the sweet orange as the fruit of that class re- | Produces itself from its seed. | | The first is to clear Of the foreign oranges whic Washington and this country, the the best. Following this are’ the ( lermo, Sorrento. Malaga, and Valenc named being rather small. from southern Europe and pass through Gib- ralter, from which point reports of vessels and the composition of each cargo destined to the United States are cabled to the American foreign fruit exchange in New York, and through them to the dealers here and elxe- | where; hence the supply and future arriv: are known and the trade conducted accordin, Shipments to the United States the pre season. it is estimated. will amount to about 2,000,000 boxes. After the Mediterran dis- | tricts the next in importance is Cuba, the fruit from there being calied ‘-Havan It is, per- haps, the sweetest of ¥arieties, and when fully ripe is too sweet to please the palates of A few oranges come from Porto Rico, but too small a number to appear as an article of commerce. Jamaica is more prolific, and Were it not for our own Florida production it would probably have a monopoly in our mar- | Kets as the only reliable sweet orange for win- ter and spring use. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF ORANGES. Looking into the show windows along the | streets, or making a choice from the stands or carts, the larger portion of buyers simply | select the best looking specimens for the least rice and often get the worst of the bargain. | he common sweet orange, of which the Flo! takes the lead. is in greatest demand. Then there is the bitter orange, principally the | Seville, which is used largely for cooking. The | tangerine is a dainty tidbit, sometimes called | love orange from the fact t' can be handied without soiling a kid glove, but it is unsatisfactory. being dry and insipid, ‘not- | Withstanding it is finely favored. One of the | Bost highly esteemed varieties is the mandarin, | ® native of China, though it has been intro- | duced into the West Indies and other southern countries. The rind of this, when the fruit is fully ripe, separates spontaneously from the | pulp. which is exceedingly rich and agreeable | to the taste. The tangerine is regar as al sub-variety of this class. The St. Michael's | Orange is seedless and those grown in this country flourish mostly in southern Celifornia. In eating oranges one often comes across a — with a blood red pulp—this is the itese variety and only differs from the ordi- #8 in color. A soli may be found sometimes in a ve of a thousand trees, where it has appeared inde- pendently and unaccountably. ‘A very common orange is the Shaddock, so- ealied from a Capt. Shaddock who brought it from Asia to the West Indies, It has hereto- fore been used merely for cooking and is not considered very valuable, but as it hus proven ecooling, pleasant fruit it is eaten now more | extensively in its natural state, though the taste for it is largely acquired. ‘The orange is one of tue most wholesome of fruits, its juice abounding in citric acid and ‘ing the same auti-scorbutic properties Which so distinguish the lime and the lemon. ANTIQUITY OF THE ORANGE. There are those who affect to believe that to Eve belonged the discovery of the yellow, | iden orange—to her sorrow and to that of unfortunate Adam. The alleged mry of those and even later days had not reached the tasty perfection of the “Baldwin,” “Russett,” “Wine-sap,” et id omne genus, (which the fruit wanders of these progressive times are wont to Pub till they shine again and temptingly, tree of The practical history of the orange has been traced by Galessio, who asserts that the Arabs found both the sweet and bitter kinds in great profusion and perfection in the interior of India | and introduced the sweet into ancient Persi and Syria, while the bitter found its way into Arabia and Spain. It was not, however, until the fourth century that it made its appearance aa Europe and in the fourteenth century in the West Indies. Its introduction into this coun- try is due to the Spanish and Portuguese. The trees of the sweet orange are long lived, reach- ing often one hundred years of age. The bitter variety have a still greater vitality, flourishing and yielding fruit for centurics. The older the tree the better the fruit. The flowers of the orange, on account of their charming fragrance and pure whiteness, are considered exquisitely appropriate to the bridal wreath, and trees are cultivated by many florists solely for that put Those of the bitter orange are preferre: they are more fragrant. and there are double and free flower- ing kinds especially adapted to this use. TEMPTING PREPARATIONS FOR THE TABLE, One of the daintiest and prettiest of table dishes to which it contributes is the orange basket. For this choose handsome thin-skinned oranges; cut them in two, being careful to cut evenly, take out the pulp, and separate each section, removing the seed. but break the in- side skin as little as possible. Throw the peel into cold water an hour or two to stiffen. Now take some fine wire and make a handle to each outside half, thus forming the baskets; twist a bit of orange-colored ribbon around each handle, and fill the baskets with the orange sec- tions nicely sugared or jellies; arrange on a dish with a few sprigs of orange leaves, or something resembling them, which can always be procured at a florist’s, and you have a very effective and not a common dish, FILLING ORANGES WITH JELLY is another way of preparing a delicious dish. The method of doing this is to cut a small, round piece of the skin from the stem end, then with the finger loosen the pulp from the skin and gradually work the finger between the | skin and pulp until itis entirely loosened. Then draw the pulp out through the opening without breaking the skin. Throw the skins into cold water until wanted. Have ready an orange or | wine jelly. drain the orange skins, fill them with the jelly, and stand away to cool. When | cold cut them into halves and then into quar- } ters, and arrange them on a pretty dish, gar- nished with smilax. FROZEN ORANGES also conduce to a most delightful dish. It re- | quires one dozen oranges, one quart of water, one pound of sugar and the juice of two lemons. Rub the rind of three oranges well into the sugar, then nee all the oranges. open the sec- tions and take out all the pulp; then add to it the sugar and lemon juice. stand aside one hour, then add the water. stir until the sugar is disselved. then turn into the freezer and freeze. This will serve eight persons, ORANGE FLOAT, like apple float, is a simple, but exceedingly delightful dessert. To make it take one quart of water, one cup of sugar, the juice and pulp of two lemons, five sweet, juley oranges and four tablespoonjals of corn starch. Put the water on to boil. Moisten the corn starch with a stir it into the boiling r. lemon juic Cut the oranges into smal. '» Femove the seeds, pour the boiling corn starch over them and stand 4 way tocool. Serve cold, with sugar and cream, DUNDEE MARMALADE may be made by using one ard a quarter pounds of sugar to every pound of grated nd pulp. 2 orange (grate onl the colored peel of sour | orange); squeeze the oranges themselves over a strainer and put the sceds into a pitcher, with | a pint and a half of water, to stand all night, Boil the white peel in several waters until clear and almost free from bitter taste. Let all 5 four hours. then cut into thin strips and add it with a half piat of water to the sugar, the juice and water from the seed Boil one hour, taking off the scum as it rises, Put away in jelly tumblers. ORANGE ICING is not only easily made, but is pretty delightful to the taste. Take one-half pound of powdered sugar. one tablespoonful of boiling water, grated rind of one orange and sufficient oranze juice to moisten. Put the sugar in a bowl, add the rind and then the water and juice. ‘The icing should be very stiff and used immedi- ately. ORANGE CAKE WITH VANILLA SAUCE is one of the cheapest, quickest made desserts known, and just the thing waen a friend drops in to dine and the housekeeper is unpre- pared—an every-day occurrence. Take small, stale sponge cakes (lady fingers), dip them in orange juice, place them ina glass dish, and pour over them vanilla sauce. Serve at once. 2 eo NOTES ON SPRING STYLES. Cantos ect in gold wire are in favor. Fratter than an inverted soup-plate are some of the newest hats, Movssetixe Detarye with very deep borders will take the place of nun’s veiling in this summer's gowns. Cream woot sparsely dashed and splashed with a bright color will be the favorite stuf for | summer tennis gowns, Axraca is likely to bea favorite stuff this spring. It comes plain, in stripes and with jower and lace patterns printed over it, Frame pe Poncu is one of the newest Parisian colors. It is of an amber-violet shade, the exact color spirit takes when subject to fire, Errvs with a tinge of copper in the sheen, are much te din combination gowns of fine wool and silk. Gorpes Garter Crasps richly chased and set with diamonds, rub; the things one may buy for his own women- folk. Tue Prerry New Toreapor Vests are made wholly of embroidery to wear beneath the Em- i jackets of velvet, accompanying stylish jome toilets, ‘Tue Pevisse reappears in force in the spring importations, and now has sleeves full forty | inches wide at the top and gathered into enor- | mous puffs at the armhole. A Parisian Fancy for ball gowns is to wear peries of gauze either white embroidered with black or black embroidered with white above gay light satins, and to hoid the thin fabric in place with many bows of narrow rib- bon matching the foundation in color. ‘Tuere are at least twenty-five different and Gistinet shades of green visible in the great emporia of fashion this year, ranging from the palest water tints to the deep moss and myrtle | shades, all the varying tones displayed in nature being perfectly reproduced in Tae So-caLLep Garex Povoxaise isa prin- cege garment cut full upon the right shoulder and draped across slightly below the left hip. ‘The back falls quite straight and at front there are breadths reaching from the belt to the foot under the polonaise. Panasors or Rica Brocape have sticks that show half a yard when closed. One style has a ribbon so placed about the edge as to form a cluster of upright loops when the article is not in use. Sun umbrellas are of plain silk, with — just eight inches longer than their ribs. Drarenigs are seen upon the skirts of nearly | all the spring gowns, but they are soft and clinging. with no suspicion of bouffancy about the hips or back. The Greek apron is very much used. It falls straight and open at one ide, and is drawn up in full jabot folds under a big cabbage bow upon the other. ‘Tue Jacker is utterly out of place over a directoire gown. Instead, one must wear either a mantle with four ‘capes at the back 'd long fronts with wide lapels at top, or else six capes all around made in cloth’ of two colors, simply cut upon the and finished edges | at the throat with « high collar and flamboyant | bow of ribbon. ie s — Bucxxes, clasps, slides, and hooks in cut steel, gold, silver, onyx, jet, or pearl are used with a free hand this ae both in millinery and in the formation of stylish empire and directoire costumes. Braids of silk, gold silver, and soutache are still highly popular as dress trimmings; these puton in rows or cross- ing each ovher in Grecian and other Wasuine S1uxs, also called silk cheviots, are among the spring importations. These are made into pretty redingote tea-gowns, feather- stitched | louses, skirts, &c. They are also used in the formaiion of night-dresses and under- wear for summer use. For tea-gowns they are shown in dull, soft colors, in stripes, pale rose and light willow green, with cream color, or ciel blue, with chamois and pink, otve, with fine touches of cardinal and golden amber, &c. A Maowtricest Toiter sent to America for ith the ‘k place down, w! all can see), Sec they teoabll bove proven iesesneinis ts tks mother of mankind. It was doubtless this same — golden ¥ youthful collegians as the Trojan war, that grew upon Waten wi ‘haunted Sores which caused a little unpieas- ‘laimed strait “The fair Hesperian in times known and dee! eo Mirat nests the a begs, Thineny ang in Washi from a West End house London, is of royale armure brocade,the sumptuous pattern showin, a rare blending of the various cxqulalte tints ef violet, mauve, and palest lilac, wiste- ria and hel sprays, on a of pale gold shot wi rose, is of plain violet amure royale, wit Eg and The bodice ut in Pompadoug 7 and be- is ci - iow this a Russian half-vest of violet alk; which folds over an inner vest of point lace.—New York Evening Post, for ten minutes, stir- | Take from the fire, add the aN Rep and the shade of terracotta | or turquois are amoug | Written for Tae Evenrye Star AFTER THE CHEYENNES. How General Merritt Outwitted Indians at Their Own Tactics. THE CHEYENNES BREAK FOR THE WAR-PATH— EIGHTY-FIVE MILES ON THE JUMP, AND FIRST AT THE FORD—THE CHEYENNES IN FULL FORCE ANOTHER FEATHER FOR BUFFALO BILL. (Copyright 1880 by the Author.) The chase after the Sioux on July 3 had made our presence west of the Black Hills well known to ail the Indians at the reservation. No more could take that route in going to rein- | force Sitting Bull, and General Merritt was | prompt to accept the situation. Early the next morning, the “glorious Fourth,” while the as- sembled thousands of the nation were having gorgeous time at the centennial at Philadel- phia, we fellows of the fifth cavalry were riding through clouds of alkali dust up the valley of the South Cheyenne, and scouting out the In- dian trails southwest of the hills, On the 6th we were camped along the banks of what was then called Sage creek, near a little outpost the road. the spring and a stage station. The stages had quit running, for it was almost cer- tain death to ride the Black Hills road this centennial summer, and only in large parties and with strong escorts did the miners venture to push their way thither. SAD NEWS. A courier had been sent to Fort Laramie with report of the situation, and while await- ing Gen. Sheridan's orders we grazed our horses all day of the 6th, and were at it again onthe hot morning of the 7th and busily en- Officers were just coming up from a refreshing dip in a pool’ under the willows when Buffalo Bill came toward us, his handsome face clouded with deep trouble, and simply stunned us by the announcement: ‘Custer and most of the 17th wiped out of existence. The general has the official dispatch.” Then we knew, of course, that we would be ordered forthwith to march | to the Big Horn to reinforce Gen, Crook, on whom the Indians would now be able to con- centrate their entire force. Very little was said. The whole camp seemed awe-stricken, and there was only one man in the regiment order. The longing to do something to avenge {that disaster to our comrade regiment was | uppermost in every heart—exce t one, and Myrritt sent that individual about his business 48 soon as we got within reaching distance of Fort Laramie, and the muster rolls of the fifth ca v were relieved of a name which no one mentioned but with contempt. ON THE MARCH, Not until the 11th of July, however, did or- ders reach us from Sheridan. On the morning of the 12th we were taking the back track for the Platte river, with instructions to refit at Lar- j; amie, march by the south bank to Fetterman, then push out northward for Tongue river,where we would find Crook in his intrenched ‘camp. at night we camped around the Cardinal's chair, in Niobrara valley, wet to the skin from a previous rain storm. The next night we were under the lee of friendly old Rawhide peak, and fully expected at dawn to make along day's march southward for Laramie. RENEGADE CHEY What was our surprise, how mounted and silently moved away, the colonel turned the head of the column eastward, and down the Rawhide we rode until, at noon, we | halted and unsaddled at the point where the on track from Fort | stream is crossed by the w: | Laramie to the great rescrvation, and the rea- son was soon given. Eight hundred Indians of | the Southern Cheyenne tribe had been having | war dances and loading up with ammunition | and supplies, and the infantry commander at | the nearest post felt so certain of their inten- | tion that he sent couriers to warn Merritt. Of course the Indian agents saw nothing alarmin, in these preparations. but Major Jordan got news that made him believe they meant to “jump” and rush to join Sitting Bull, They had no grievance. clothed, cared for by the government. | simply couldn't stand being “lookers on | their comrades were having such a ri scalps and plunder, Major Jordan, | little force, couldn't stop them, especially as they had two or three ponies apiece, and he had nothing but foot troops, Merritt was ordered in exactly the opposite direction, but Merritt well knew what Sheridan would require of him if he could but see the fituation. He turned toward the danger point, and sure enough just at noon on Saturday, the 15th, there came to him authentic tidings from the reservation. “ol. Stanton, who had been sent thither to look into the situation, dashed off in few words the news that on Sunday at dawn the Cheyennes would leave in a body, NOW*CAME MERRITT’S OPPORTUNITY. It was 70 miles by road to where these In- dians were camped, It would never do to push straight for the reservations, That would only drive them out ahead of us. Their course would be northwesterly, and they would croxs the Cheyenne near _whcre we were camped on the Ist of July, Merritt determined to move at once, to go back on his own tracks—a round- about course—utterly blinding them as to his intentions, reservations, but to throw himself across their | path among the “breaks” of Hat or Indian creek, and thrash them well for their treach- ery.e Leaving the wagon train to follow with its guard, Merritt had seven companies in sad- dle at Lo’clock. Then away we went—west- | ward. away from the reservation, away from the Cheyennes, and marching easily as though | the thing we thought ef was interferenc | with their projects. Fourteen miles out we halt, unsaddle, er our horses in the sh: }ows of Rawhide peak again, let them graze | awhile, perhaps twenty minutes, then mount again, and, trotting now, move away north- westward, By 5 p.m. we have turned square to the north, and yet are so far to the west of | the reservations we feel convinced the Indians have not followed with their spies. IN THE NIOBRARA VALLEY, At sunset we are descending into the valley of the Niobrara; at 10 p.m. we silently halt, disinount, unsaddle, lead out our horses to raze and rest again, strongly hobbled and riated.” We have ieacched taly thirty-five | miles, but we are saving our horses for the work of the morrow. We post strong guards | and pickets to secure us against surprise. Capt, Hayes and I are officers in charge of them, and while the rest of the command roll into baukets for a few hours’ dose we trudge around from seutry to sentry, blessing the fates that spare us storm and send the soft starlight. At mid- night Lieut. Hall arrives with the wagon trath, At 3 in the morning Merritt noiselessly arouses his officers aud men; we breakfast on coffee and bacon; our horses get a capital feed of oats; again we saddle and mount in the pallid gray of the dawn, and ut Sa. m, are climbing ost of the valley on our northward wa: the time the Indians are leaving FIRST AT THE FoRD, Now we'll see who first will reach the fords, Riding northwestward they have some 28 miles togo, driving their travois ponies (for the squaws go with them to take caro of the large supply of provisions they have laid in) and will pacts 4 Re camp to-night in some of the breaks east of the crossing of the “war bonnet,” the branch with the steepest banks of all. Riding east-northeast, after once he crosses the high range between the Niobrara and the head- waters of Hat creek, Merritt has 50 miles to before he can reach the point wkere they will strive to cross at sunrise on the morrow, but he means to be there first. His swift-stepping gray at the head of column keeps us all at rapid walk or comfortless jog, but no man cares for comfort. ‘Hides” and mus- cles are all tough as map eather by this time All we want is to “get there,” and give these would-be allies of Sitting Bull a lesson. At 10:30 we again reach the palisaded outpost at Sage creek, and our infantry friends give eager wolsost Here we cram our belts with am- munition; give our horses water and feed; then on we go again cast-northeast over roiling rairie, ‘The day is hot, and Bill Cody's straw- erry roan plays out, and he gets another “mount” from his old friend, the adjutant. On, on, on—sometimes at rapid trot for half a mile or 80, but mostly at steady walk we push ahead, and at sunset mark a winding belt of green far down in the low valley ahead. At3 p.m., silently we wind in under the at 9 halt and dismount among the cottonwoods along the stream. Messicurs les You are beaten. We are first at the ford. EIGHTY-FIVE MILES IN THIRTY-ONE HOURS! Nothing to speak of by steam, rail, stage or pony express, but something of an exploit when it means that a column of cavalry has made that distance in that time and every man is “fit” and ready for anythii turn up on the morrow. No Allexcept the guard “turn just about ed Cloud. where a small detatchmentof infantry guarded } | gaged fighting flies, and party of us janior | who did not appear eager for the coming of tne | when, as we | They were well fed, | To let them getaway from the | - ¢ D. C., SATURDAY. MARCH 30, 1889-TWELVE PAGES. - says,and rolls himself in his blanket by the side of a fallen cottonwood. The skies are cloudless, the stars brilliant, the night still ns still can be. Once or twice as I go ‘ing the rounds with my old captain we hear the coyotes yelping out on the prairie and the beavers splashing their dam in the stream. At 3 the morn begins to grow chilly, and the coyotes more noisy and numerous. The general is sleepin, like @ weasel when I bend over to call him an: is up in an instant. “Any signs of ‘em yet?” heasks. “Not yet, sir. Ft is just daybreak and Igo back to my picket post at the fort.” ON THE LooKorT. Little by little the dawn spreads over the heavens‘and a chill, wan light over the rolling prairie. Two miles away the ridge becomes j sharply defined against the sky. Off to the | southwest we can just discern the trail on ; Which we marched in last night. At 4:30 our horses, saddled and bridled, are cropping the buffalo grass in the swale behind us and a mist is rising from the winding stream farther to the rear. Four hundred troopers are up and alert under those sheltering bluffs, sipping their morning coffee now and nibbling at the hardtack in their saddle-bags. Out to the front a little hillock rises from the prairie, and I move my party thither and find a better view. Corporal Wilkinson and I, lying prone at the hollow behind us, are scouring the distant ridge with field glasses. The sun is not yet up when he suddenly exclaims: INDIANS, “Look, lieutenant. There are Indians!” And sure enough there they are; six, eight, a dozen of them scurrying to and fro on their nimble po- nies and evidently in great excitement. I sent a man to warn the general. and in ten minates out he comes with Buffalo Bill and half a dozen | officers, They remain in saddle down in the { shadows under the little knoll where they can- not be seen from the front, while he dismounts, joins me at the top, and takes a long look at the warriors darting about on the ridge nearly two | miles away. These movements are a puzzle. They seem watching some object off to the west. Cody dismounts and joins us; takes a long look “and says: ‘I'm damned if I know what those fellows are fooling about.” More and more of them pop into sight and then— | just as the sun peeps over the horizon it flashes upon some glistening white objects off to the southwest. “The wagon train, by all that’s wonderful!” “What's to prevent their attacking it?” is the question asked by one of the staff. Nothing,” answers the general quietly, “I only hope they will—so does Hall. He has two |companies of infantry hidden under those wagon-covers and wouldn't ask anything bet- jer.” But now comes a new excitement. Half a j mile out in front of the wagon train, riding | toward us at an easy lope, come two horsemen. | They know we are down here under the bluffs, but the Cheyennes don’geven dream of it, We know the Cheyennes are swarming along that ridge, but nobody at the train has the faintest inkling of it, Presently, down a shallow gvine, hidden from the train‘and separated from the trail by a long tongue of prairie “point,” down full tilt, swinging, swaying, bounding along on | their mett ponies, a little band of Indians | comes darting straight toward us. Cody sees ir object at @ glance. y Jove! general, They are coming down ig to surprise those two riders, They ex- j pect to meet ‘em right here in front of ys. | Pet us mount this party and we can get ’em!” “Up with you, men!” is the-orde ready to follow Cody. You stay here,” he says tome; “watch until they are close under you. Then give the word.” { A STIRRING PICTURI | And down he siides to his men below, while | Bill and half a dozen troopers spring into sad- dle, thrust cartridges into their rifles and | crouch eager for a spring. Looking forward | Lean see the distant ridge lined with Indians, | hidden from the train yet visible tome. Mid- | way to them the shallow ravine is filled with | the rapidly advancing war party, the sunshine | gleaming on their naked, painted bodies, their | gorgeous war bonnets, shields, and glistening | ornaments. Over to the right front come the | two couriers, utterly unconscious of the death- dealing gang that is nearing them at every | jump, and I—all alone on the little mound, | am enjoying one of the most stirring pictures of savage warfare it was ever my lot to see. come, Ican hear the bounding ponies now, only 500 yards away. I see Bill, foremost of our little atching for my sig- I i ” “All ready, give | the word when "is the low answer. Nearer and nearer they come. I wait until | their gorgeous leader is not more than 20 yards | from the little knoll, then wave my hand and | yell. THE SURPRISE, crash and bang and hurrah! Wild warring yells of the Cheyennes, A vision of darting ponies; of streaming war bonnets; a fusilade of carbinesand pistols; a rush of hoofs. a dozen things at once secm crowding on my senses as I catch my own horse, bound into saddle and go galloping ont to join Bill. The first thing I see is our chief of scouts darting full tilt at a magnificent specimen of the In warrior: flash go both rifles almost at the in- stant. And after a wild bound or two the warrior’s pony plunges headlong, and the rider limps desperately toward the yelling comrades who are dashing down to the rescue. Why— the whole ridge seemed suddenly to bristle with red and feathered warriors, whirling, yelling, raging down to annihilate the little and of white men who had dared attack their advance. Bill is off his horse in an instant; j kneels; takes deliberate aim; the flame juts from the muzzle of his rifle, and with a wild | ery the Cheyenne pitches headforemost upon the sward with a bullet through his brain, Then there are shouts of warning. ‘Look out! Look out!” as the thunder of hoofs and yells of | rage and defiance tell the coming of the Chey- | ennes sweeping down upon us, but Merritt is ready for them, too, and glancing over my | shoulder I see my own troop, “K,” with Masgp | at its head, in long extended line come trotting ver the bluffs, with Montgomery's grays ind them, “DRIVE "EM, MASON are the only orders I hear as I gallop overand take my place in front of my own platoon and then straight at the Cheyennes we go; troop after troop darting up the bluffs and spreading out to the right and left as they ride in support. It is a brilliant and stirring sight, but lasts only a few minutes, for the Cheyennes for once in their lives are beaten at their own game and know it. Utterly amazed at the appearance in their front of the regiment they thought to be 70 or 100 miles away to the south, they leave “Yellow Hand” and one of his brethren stretched dead upon the sward, they drop their pots and kettles, pack saddles and Dlankets and away—away they go scurrying tor the safety of the reservation at a speed that baffles pursuit, Sitting Bull never got those fellows as allies at least. Buffalo Bill had one more feather in his cap and Merritt had won the name of outwit- ting an Indian at his own tactics. That night how the old men and sqnaws crowded around us at Red Cloud, How they whi-pered together and pointed at Buffalo Bill, 1 have bad longer ead adhe cide in forty-eight hours than that one proved to be but none that ever were at- tended with such results, CuaRLEs Kina, U.S. A. “Vas Marriage a Failure?” Vas marriage a failure? Vell, now, dot depends Altogedder on how you look at it, mine friends. Like dhose double-horse teams dot you see at der “Now, lad 5 races, It depends pooty mooch on dey pair in der traces; Eef dhey don’t pull togedder right off at der sthart, Ten dimes oudt off nine dhey vas beddher apart. Vas marriage a failure? Der vote was in doubt; berarsen tae hb a vould be in, dhose dot’s in vould e oudt; Der man mit oxberience, goot looks und dash, Gets mi aes mit some fife hundord dousand in cash; Budt, after der honeymoon, vhere vas der honey? She haf der oxberlence—he haf der money. Vas marriage a failure? Eef dot vas‘der case, Yot vas to pecome off der whole human race? Vot you dink dot der oldt “Pilgrim faders” vould say, Dot came in der Sunflower to oldt Plymouth ba ‘Tosee der fine coundtry dis peoples haf got, Und dhen hear dhem ask conon as dot? Vas marrit afailure? Shust ere tell, ‘Todot Bunker Mon Hillument, there Varren fe oe = Vashington, F: in und “Honest 0: Dhey vas all mouth bal I vas only a Deutscher, budt I delis you vot! 1 peliet, every dime, in sooch “failures” as dot. writ | ‘HITTING THE PIPE. summit, while the rest of our party lurk in the | Deen aroundt since dot first Ply- which he has used when he couldn’ of _ AUCTION SALES. APHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CATALOGUE SALE fan uurivalied collection of JAPANESE PORCELAfNS, BRONZES, CURIOS, SCREENS, ARTICLES OF VERTU. The whole forming one of the most elegant and varied consignments of Japanese Art ever sent to thiscity. Opium Smokers and the Effect the Habit has on Them. BESIDES THE CHINESE LAUNDRIES THERE ARE PRIVATE ROOMS WHERE THE PRACTICE MAY BE INDULGED I%-—-MEN WHO GO ABOUT WITH LaY- OUTS AND WILL ACCOMMODATE SMOKERS. “Did you ever hita pipe?” asked a well-known Young man about town of a Stan reporter the other day. mreost “What do you mean by hitting a pipe?” asked TO BESOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION, the reporter, atmy “Why, smoking opium,” was the reply. “That's the technical expression among those who are addicted to the habit.” The reporter confessed that he had never in- dulged in that luxury, and asked the young man if he had. “Oh, yes,” he said; “I have done it, but I don’t do it any more. I was afraid I would get the habit fastened on me, and the man who be- comes aMicted to the opium habit is the greatest Art Rooms, 11th st. and Pa. ave, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 4, 5, 1889, AT ELEVEN A. M. AND THREE P. M. EACH DAY, The Collection will be on view Monday and Tuesday, April] and 2, from 9a m. to6 p.m. mh28-5t ae __ THOMAS DOWLI Auct._ , Slavein the world. I wouldrather bea drunkard | AYHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. | S hundred times over than to have the opium | Waryor DWARF BOOK” CASE, SEWING MA | Passion fastened on me.” CHL FURN GOOD ORDER. PARLOR "ABATE PINCES, PICTU F “Where did you get your experience?” “Right here in this city. Why, there isn’t a Chinese laundry that hasn't an opium joint back of it. Besides, you need not go to a faun- dry to find an opportinity to smoke.” “Why, are there other joints, as you call them?” “Not public ones, where any one can go, but there are two or three men who have all the facilities at their rooms, and those whom they know can go there and indulge. More than that, there are at least five men whom I know who carry a lay-out with them and will go to | your own room or anywhere that you may sug- | gest and afford you all the opportunity you can ask to take a smoke,” “IN WHAT DOES A ‘LAYouT’ consist?” “Well, a small lamp over which to cook the opium, a glass or steel rod, the opium, and a pipe. You see it doesn’t make a very large kit and can easily be carried around.” “Does the number of smokers justify these men in carrying a kit with them? “Indeed it does. You would be surprised to know the number addicted to smoking opium, and new recruits are constantly coming along. Many young men who have no regular employ- | ment, because their parents are wealthy and furnish them with plenty of pocket money, think it their duty to see every phase of life. They begin by drinking, playing billiards and* visiting places not to be named in polite s0- ciety. hen they hear some one speak of the effects of opium smoking. and as this form of dissipation is a novelty to them, they are anx- ious to try They find some one who knows one of these fellows with a lay-out, and they fs commencing at TEN Sthet se, 1 shall hol Dow Auctioneer. — ‘CANSON BROS, Auctioneers. GOVERNMENT SALE OF STEAM BOILERS AT U. 8. CAPITOL AT AUCTION By direction of the Honorable Architect of the Capi- tol, we will sell at public the Boiler-Koom of the House Wing of th APRIL FIRST, 488: FIVE 1e: the Capitol aud can of sale. Terms cash. mh22-d seen any time prior to the day DUNCANSON BROS., by a q. 183, uuproved by 8 Property ts located on the north side of Lst., een Ioth and 17) Arare chance to of sale, payable | deed of trust o |hit their first pipe. Of course the 52000 at option of p man who cooks the opium gives it to | Willie feauired at time of them weak at first and does _not | infendayscthorwise te allow them to smoke very long. Property at the ri and “hae oy chaser, after five days’ pnb are generally quickly overcome and go off into | clser. afte wD ey EH elas the stupor, from which they at length awake | *°M* B¢W*baper published in Wasuinsren, D ¢ with the firm conviction that they have expe- F rienced a new sensation, and one that is not so very unpleasant either. “Then they try it again, DT 1MWEST By virtue of a deed of trus 1 recorded in liber No. 1 one to feel the craving tor the drag. for its dated Agri weakening effects, though very insidious, are quite rapid. I knowa man in this city who trip out west, thinking that a change of scene, | of atmosphere, of habits, occupation and asso- | ciations would enable him to overcome his de- sire to smoke the stuff. He went out to Colo- ; rado. and during the trip of a week didn’t use the drug in any shape, but HIS CRAVING WAS SO INTENSE, and his nervous system so completely unstrang that when he got to Denver he struck a ‘joint’ and then he was all right for a few days. He then realized how strong a hold the stuff had upon him, and after he had toned up to his normal condition he came back to Chicago and placed himself in a hospital, then under the treatment of a skilled physician, telling the doctor his story and begging him to do every- thing in his power to cure him. He was under treatment for a long time, and was finally pro- nounced cured, He has told me himself that | after he came out of the hospital he had no de- sire to smoke, and that he felt better in health and spirits than for several years previous. He in the District ot Colui «Said avenue horth- rtheast twardly 48 sau east sa Terms of sale: One-third cash, and the balance in one (1) and two rs, for which the notes of the } If the terms are not complied wi poroperty Will be resold at the risk an¢ faut hi RED AND 5 ° ND was Hee from Washington about two years, BY ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY and during that time he was free from the nition NEW STATION OF B. AND 0. opium habit, He came back here and soon! on “IUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL SECOND, met a former companion, — with whom he | 1889, at FIVE O'CLOCK, we will sell in front of the used to indulge in a pipe, and now he is worse | premises ilies i pat than ever, for I don't believe it is possible for | qnose tate rant #40 favre toe ea ed tind 120 him to break off the habit now. I think if he | feet on M street north (and how occapled by seal aint were deprived of opium for two weeks he | w _focethver with office, scales, shedding. fone: would die a raving maniac. He has a room |Bé, #ud railrond siding. This property can be utili for warehouse purposes or. business of aw character, having railroad facilities for shippiug a receiving, now in thorough condition to continue the Present Diriness or the two fruntuges make the prop- erty susceptible of being subdivided for building pur- . No better location, being easy of access by rail und streets, could be obtained as the railroud siding 18 iy in and purchasers will not be troubled to ob- tain permits for that purpose. Within one square of the electric railway. ‘Terms: One-third cash ; balance in equal installments at one and two years, notes to bewiven bearius 6 cent interest trou date of sale, payable semi-annual and to be secured by deed of trust on premises, or all cash at purchaser's option. A deposit of $300 will be Required at time of sale. | Converancing 4c. at jur- chaser's cot. Terms to be complied with in ten day otherwise the right reserved to resell at the risk and cost of deiaultiug purchuser after five days’ pul Rotice of such resale 1p some Dewspaper, publisied 1n Washineton, D. C. DUNCANSON BKOS,, ml within a stone’s throw of where we now are, and I suppose he and a lady friend are in a stupor now.” “Are women in this city given to the habit of smoking opium?” “Yes, there are a good many. Of course there is not so large a number of women as of men, and most of the former are of the un- fortunate class; still there are respectable women in Washington who will hit a pipe quite frequently. There are more women who use opium in the form of paregoric and laudanum than there are who get its peculiar effects from smoking. I have had some experience as adrug clerk, andI know the large—I mean comparatively large of course—number of women who use these two preparations.” re regen PeXcasson BROS, Auctioneers, “Are there any places in this city where — women can go and gratify their desire for a | MORTGAGEES' SALE OF SCHOONER HENRY pipe?” os 4 GIB: ACKLE, APPAREL AND “Yes, two or three—I mean outside of the laundries; and yet I have known women who | would enter one of these Chinese laundries, buy their opium of the Chinaman and go into aback room or upstairs, cook it themselves | and get their smoke, “How long does it take for the effects to wear off—that is, I mean how long do they re- main in THE STUPOR WHICH FOLLOWS A SMOKE?” “That depends on the strength of the opium and how long they smoke. Some do not smoke long enough to be completely overcome, but only get intoa sort of dazed state which wears off when they are once out in the open air. But when a person gets completely under the in- fluence of the drug he goes off into a stupor which lasts from two to ten hours.” here any consciousness during this e, dated June 20, 18: stom house at Bal . folio 64, &e., the undersicns rizeyees therein named, will offe ¢ auction, to the highest bidder, on sKDAX, FiL SIXTH, ON, at Wiheatley’s wart, strict of r the foot of 30 umbia, the whe r vessel called the NEY B. GIB! of Baltimore, Md.. of the burden of (SY 77- er Ww Rixgiuz, Anchors, Cables, Appurtenauces. PETER C. STRUVEN,? Jos. L. WHITE, 5 iy Boats, _mb26-dts Jt WALTER 5 WILLIAMS & 00, Auctioneer, TRUSTEE’S SALE “Sometimes there is a dim and uncertain suorene of what is going on about the sleeper, but there is no power to resist; that is, | of groun ny i. 4 aman might have a hazy consciousness that | Twa’ yu" hich its ecpesaed bees some One was going through his pockets and | channel. A abort distance above the island is the out robbing him, but he would have no power to let lock of the Che: ery out in protest or to physically interfere : veuke and Ohio canal, opening into the river, Pott he vir. uid is connected with t shore by a solid masoury causeway, and thence with the thief in his work, and the probability | fy the mew iree iron bridge’ with Waslungton ‘aud is that when he awoke he would have no mem- | Georcetown. TERMS OF SALE. One-fourth of the )archase-money in cash, of which $1,000 shall be pid at the time of sale, ald the re- Msinder 30duys thereattcr, ‘The residue of the chase-money to be wid tu three equal Tespectively, oue, two aud three years ory of what had taken place. In a compicte stupor, however, a man is, to all intents and urposes, dead for the time bei: He has no ‘eams, either pleasant or terrible, but all isa E E i Be SF ree alter total blank.” sale, ‘with interest from day of sale at percent “Where do those who run these ‘lay-onts’ get | Pe" a yng A ‘pon - their opium?” re- deed for the property, time “Sometimes of the Chinamen, but generally Sxeoute s deed of trust in the mature of wae from New York. | You know opium for smoking | SES) ‘Cctcut contpiied Witt ty ae anya tee ae is specially prepared; it is not the same kin’ Property Will be resold at the risk aud cost of that is used in drug stores in extracts. It is | the detaulung p : much weaker. Then there is considerable art | azcePald Uy 1 48) of tale. urchaser’s cost in cooking it properly. It must not be over-| {111i GOOD UR NOS, done, nor yet must it be cooked too little.” ALD FENDALL, “Do they cook it over a spirit lamp?” £28-dbds ‘No; cheap sweet or olive oil or cotton-seed | TRUSTEES SALE OF A FARM OF 355 ACRES oil is generally used in the lamp, so that there | * COCA” Wiiixie Kets, rr will be no smoke,” FROM 8’ KD counT ‘HOUSE AND ‘18 THERE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE PIPE ENG Heb SIMPSON aN Ae to those who are addicted to its use?” and by virtue of a deed of the 27th day of May, 1880, and “There is nothing which gives the complete | 1, folie bAS see. Se ofthe and ee satisfaction that a pipe does, but then any form , Lineioie, of opium will be ‘erate to the ‘lend’ who ESDAY HES, LEVER TIE ra craves a pipe and can’t get it ive known a them to chew the opium, that is roll it w pe into little pills and stow one away in the mout by deed. until it is all dissolved. Others will drink pare- goric or laudanum; others take the sulphate of morphia in small powders. Still others will use the hypodermic injection and send a solution of morphia under the skin. the scar of the a opium. It’s a horrible fastened Room 10 Kellogg Dullaing, Washinetc . Ssrens re until finally, unless they have an extraordinary | BUS SESE ROCED Ae RROVED | | nerd of will, they are unable to break off the SOUTHW CORNER OF MARYLAND AVE- | habit. It doesn’t take a great while either for NUE AD WELETH & 1 some years ago made up his mind that he would en Tabat al ie cure himself of the opium habit, and took a | at 1TVE O'CLOCK P.M, the | AUCTION SALES. CTION SALE OF 7X c 1 by pulldic » r AVLAL SI “TEN ot POLE DEF ir ’ Nox 74, Canes, Katies, Ove 4 i ts Math: « mhep4t? Pawnbrukera HOMAS DOWLING, A ABL NINTH Oa THURSDAL, O'CLOCK, Twill 56 IMPROVED PROPFETy ET NORTHUES Ar y2S-ddeds sPHOMAS DOWLINe v HANDSOME PIFCES. Ul, ch AND PLY FOWLEK SE MATIRESSDS, FLAVHER PILI CARPETS. Dicol SOM THOMAS DOWLING Auctioneer. 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