Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1889, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 188 A Forlorn Brigade in Rags and Rain wad with Nothing to Eat. r HOPE TO THE RESCUE—A RACE FOR TOSS MAJOR MILLS suURROt ‘NDED—TWENTY AT THE TROT—THE SAVAGE FIGHT AT SLIM SE DEATH OF “AMERICAN HORSE.” (Copyrieit 1889.} Once having slipped out from between the inclosing columns of Crook and Terry the hos- tiles seemed to have scattered all over the Northwest. Sitting Bull, with several tribes, Crossed the Yellowstone, closely pursued by neral Miles, Terry's second in command; but the Ogailatlas and Brules hurried eastward cross the Little Missouri, and a large number L ians who hailed from Standing Rock and other reservations along the “Big Missouri” Went with th Terry, with bis command, Was left to handle all who remained along the llowstone. Crook, with his now ragged regi- nis, pushed on after the Indians who had from the department of the Platte. were between 3.000 and 4,000 of these “hostiles” known to be out, and Crazy Horse Was probably the principal chief, SIGNS OF INDIANS, ‘The whole country was covered with signs, despite the pouring rains, but only an occa- sional Indian could our scouts catch sight of. Late in August we were marching day after day through a wild and picturesque region. We i neither tents nor more than one blanket . Our horses were growing weaker every day, for the Indians had burned off the grass and we had no grain. We passed the wonderful “Sentinel Buttes” and clambered the high bluffs at the headwaters of the Beaver. We forded the Little Missouri not far from where the Northerp Pacitic bridges it now and at last reached the little streams that form the Heart river. only to find that the Indians had scattered still more. some going east, many seuth, aud our rations were almost gone. SOUTHWARD BY COMPASS, Gen. Crook was not the man to hesitate. It Would never do to let that great force of hostile Indians go southward unpursued. All the set- ments of the as of Northern Nebraska and Wyoming would have been at their mercy. Putting us on f rations, he gave the order to march south- iby compass. It was estimated that we could reach the settlements in the Black Hills in twelve days, and—if the worst to the Worst—we could live on our horses and mules. CAVALRY AFOOT. There were plenty of men in the column by this time who would have been glad to go east- ward to Fort Lincoln, where rations could be had in plenty, but that was not our chief's plan, and Away we went, over rolling, prairie. Heavens! Howit drip, drip, drip—and, st too weak to carry us; Then we 1 towed them after us. My poor k was so used up that he could ot or would not walk as fast as I could, and I : have « trooper, trudging behind him, to him with a sharp stick every minute. iy led my arms out of ir sockets, After the fourth day's march rations were all gone except a little coffee and hard tack. EXISTING ON HORSE FLESH. The men were starving, and then came the memorable order—three horses of each bat- talion (four companies) to be slaughtered ¥for food. Many of the poor brutes en out entirely and were abandoned. est and serawniest were sacrifice a@ case of the “survival of the Iped eat poor Donnybrook—and it seemed like cannibalism, but it was thet or my boots, and there was little left but the leg of them. The adjutant had to be the active and wide-awake man; the field no and “topogging 1 to be kept up and—hard tack crumbs did not furnish the needful s Bat h Donnybrook! bight “K” and a very little of him wv AT THE BASE OF THE HILLS, Then my saddle was shifted to the “spare Mount the colone! had been saving for me. that centennial i knows, and u: this by saying that when after ys of pouring, pitiless rain we reached Fourche at the northern base of the alry, second, em Bept i foot. One-haif of our horses a down for good. ourth had to rise again, and dozens had been en to keep us, their riders, alive. CATCHING CRAZY HORSE. e been worse, but for an inter- We caught Crazy Horse. jumped the big village of his biggest chief. fensted on Indian pony and jerked buifal: ud we had two—what Phil Kearney o -y would have called is how it happened and horses wert It would b We w > f Seeing starving, our general picked out Major Auson Mills, of the third cav- a told to take 150 men and all the serv- iceable horses of that regiment and push ahead to the hill settlements, r nd hasten back to ht of Sept 1 the provisions et us. T ber 7, near the he at ¢ Grand river, and I well remem- ber how dim and ghastly they looked as they | rode sile: gh the squashy mud | ness at the south, LI€UTENANTS. d with him three lieutenants alre but whom the whole learned to know—Emmet who lost ing with the and is at it yet, {i the sword fc ar from: Lim next in Me: t a me ft . and A TALK OVER OLD TIMES vt be soon forgotton by one of the First and foremost was the mod- older and far ‘Then our old Stanton, be who ome out end serve gh tue vicissitudes of umer and autumn; then Buffalo old chief’ scout; then the charge for Anson Mills and, finally, the ex-adjutant and te-tuker of the fifth cavalry, the pres- r. We were talking of the night that Mulls rode away in the darkness and what hap- pened so soou after. AT DAYBREAK morning of the 9th of September we of tifth cavalry rolled out of our dripping blaukews, breakfasted on what cold chunks of hor-e-meat were left over from the night pre- had nothing else—swung stiffly mto i the lead of Gen. Merritt adquarters, rode away in lon, »umn of twos inte the fog-bank that enve! i the Presently that began to thin s ‘attered 07 or ga scort. a fe Crook's headquarter avalry skirmisher uddied about the limp then at the head of Which happened this day to mn, rode the lieutenant-colo- mumauding and his bedraggled adjutant— the writer; bebind us, in long, limping col- n, the th of the men afoot; back of them ile the battalion of the second cav- of the third that had not pushed Miles two nights before, pot then, orth from their cheeriess bivouac. companies of infantry. Starting of am they would eatch up aud ge laughing by us by noon at the very latest. SUT THIS DAY THEY DID IT. There was some sudden commotion ont at the frout. Staff officers came spurring back. A brief consultation with Merritt, another with Carr. and the latter turns quietly tome. “Ride back along the column, Pick out every horse that ca possubly make « forced march of twenty miles. Sendall such up to the front. Biass ull the other in one big reserve under the oticer of the day. Tell him to come along ly. but get all the good men and horses you . Ansoa Mulls is surrounded by Sioux twenty es ahead and we've got to make a rush to iroop lea wearly a elry aud all i wi Just strid ToT RESCUE. ‘There was only one officer in al! the fifth cav- airy who didn't think his horse would carry him those twenty miles—he isn't in it any —a— him —_ to the —— inan e, and beat m; erat ta = up tothe front ais and, rejoining my chief, report that he 350 effectives bis heels. The rest, perforce, had to with the officer of the day. Similar orders Blick Hiils—all the denuded | ed stolidly along until | work went on. | nis, made the last two | ady Mexieans murdered | hge campaign in | see ahead—the scouts far at | the prairie, watching | ten companies of the fifth cavalry, | we of the fifth had a clear and commanding lead. Every now and then Carr would signal “walk,” to let the poor horses blow. Then on we trot again, through mud, mist and rain, and soon after 10 I see white gleaming crags among the buttes to the right-front, and, at half-past we of the fifth are EXCHANGING SHOTS WITH THE REDSKINS and congratulations with Mills in the very midst of one of the richest Indian villages I ever saw. Custer’s guidons, cavalry uniforms and trappings in lodge after lodge, all assure ua we have got at last the very fellows we were after. Mills had whirled in upon them to their Utter surprise at dawn, Schwatka leading the charge; scattered the occupants to the neigh- boring heights—‘Slim Buttes” by name; “cor- ralled” at least 400 of their ponies, and, though he had lost several men and poor Von Lucttwitz had lost his leg, and the Indians had quickly rallied and, seeing his small force, had attacked in turn, be had managed to get back word to us, and to hang on to his prize like a bull-dog until we got there— JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME. It was the village of “American Horse,” and only an outlying band of the great force of the Sioux under “‘Chunka Witko” (Crazy Horse), who was over toward the Little Missouri. Two hours more and he, with ail his warriors at his back, came tearing over to retake the village. but meantime we had “got there,” and pro- posed tostay. Late that afternoon Crook's whole force was on the ground. and then Crazy Horse gave battle. the most beautiful Indian SLAVES IN THE DISTRICT. How the Laws Treated Them and Free Colored Persons. SCANTY PRIVILEGES ALLOWED THEM BEFORE THE WAR—REMINISCENCES THAT ARE APPROPRIATE. IN VIEW OF THE APPROACHING EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION IN THIS CITY. On the 16th inst. the anniversary of the eman- cipation of the slaves in the District of Colum- bia occurs, and the occasion will be duly cele- brated by the colored citizens. It is only the older ones who realize the full significance of that emancipation, for the act took place twenty-six years ago, and the present genera- tion are all free born. In order that these may appreciate the difference in the condition from that of the negro or mulatto before the war, search among the old court records has been made by a Star reporter to show how severely the law bore upon the Tace, even though some had bought their freedom and were no longer simply chattels. One of our old colored residents and a leader of the race states that “In the days of slavery the white people of the District were always better than the laws, and, thrpugh the kind- nesses shown the race, the ‘effect of the op- pressive laws was mollified.” In the language of another free-born colored citizen of the “A negro in the slave ‘ho was sold oif wns one of — the ombat I have ever seen, for there were thou- | W . : sands engaged on the two sides, but itis of an|™ean kind, as a general rule, and intermediate incident I have to tell. There ia | Slaves. if they behaved themselves and ob- rved the laws, were always more slaves in name than in reality, It is true that as all slaves were not of the geod description there were also masters who were hard on their pos- sessions in the slave line, but there were really | but few such masters, and numberless | dents can be recalled by onr_ older residents | where, when a slave was caught out after hours ; and locked up, the owner would pay the fine rather than Tare him or her whipped, and would not themselves take it out of their hides, either.” THE LAWS WERE SEVERF. It is not to be denied, however, that the laws | in regard to slaves as well as free-born colored bore severely upon them. It is well known that the old Maryland laws to which we became | heirs were of this character, and the earlier acts { | of Congress relating to the District were no im- | provement on the state sas far as any let-up Mitts | olored wrong-doer was concerned. B. rter of the city of 1820 power was given “to restrain and prohibit the uightly and other | disorderly mectings of slaves, free negroes, and muiattoes and to punish such slaves by whip- ing, not exceeding forty stripes, or by impris- onment, not exceeding six months, fo one | offense. and to punish such free negroes and | mulattoes by penalties not exceeding f any one offense, and in case of the inab no room ina letter like this to describe the battle of Slim Buttes. BUFFALO BILL'S “PARDNER.” In last week's article I spoke of Cody's “parduer.” His real name was James White, but for years he had been Buffalo Bill's shadow ang most faithful friend. He copied every- thing Bill wore or did, was the most simy minded, honest-hearted frontiersman I ever met.and, as he had ridden day after by my side. itseemed to me that I had got to know him weil. Sometime before he had “allowed” that having been Cody's “pardner” for years he ought to have some distinctive title, and a grim old quartermaster dubbed him forthwith “Buffalo Chips” end the name stuck. White didn't seem to mind. I met him first at Fort McPherson in “71. when he came with a horse da message from Bill. Isaw him last at Slim Buttes on the 9th of September in ” As we rode into the village Maj jointed to a ravine that struck in among luffs to the south, “Look out for that place, said he, “there are some wounded Indians up near the head of it and they've knocked over | some of my men.” DISASTROUS FUN. We were too busy just then to bother with a few Indians in a hole. We could get them when | they were wanted. Meantime we had to throw | h free negro or mulatto to pay any such | fete : chalty and cost thereon, to cause him or her | o s ethe surround- | 3 J | out our skirmish lines and drive the sui to be consined to labor for any time not ea- | ing warriors well back where thi ing six calendar months, not disturb our wounded in th “6 later, however, some scouts anc thought they might as well have a little their own account “roasting out them Li and the next thing I heard was arattl from the ravine and saw the scouts and ers scattering like sheep. in a kneeling posture near the brink did move at all. Re ither did he for an bh ward. He wasshotdead. Allat c ne apparent that not two or three dozen Indians were lurking in that hole. the move to get the mout assumed pr and Lieutenant Philo Clark, of Crook's st carbine in hand, jumped into take the lea ase an ordinance was passed, erning free negroes, mulat- This provided that all free | tad upward of sixteen turnish the register. within of freedom, and, in ¢ a penalty ot and the record of such and fur- | ermit to reside here, All | uous assemblages so as to disturb the peace or repose of citizens were | prohibited, and the participants, on conviction, either bank peering warily over into the cave | roittto was liable toe fine crcon seg | like darkuess at the head. | i ti 3 | playing cards, dice. or other game having an THE LAST OF “cntPs.” umnmoral tendency, or being present thereat. Just as Twas running thither from the west- | They were liable toa fine of $10 for having a ern side a second yolley came from the hole, | dance. ball, or assembly at their houses with- | ut first having a ermit from the mayor, 1 and three more of our men dropped bleeding | }, oy oe ee ee eae | in their tracks, when everybody seemed to penalty was imposed on them for going a after 10 o'clock at night without a pass, wake up all at once and the attack became a | uy in driving. They were lable fusill. I could see “Chips” on the opposite | to if found drunk on the street or crest, crawling out on hands and knees to @| open grounds or in tippling houses, or guilty point where he could peer over into the depths | of obscene or profane language, If the fines elow, He reached a stunted tree that grew | were not secured to be paid they were liable to. slaves, *k or malatto ye shoulc Pi One fellow who \ | at the edge of the gorge, raised his rifle; lifted | commitment to the workhouse for six months, | himself slowly to his feet; a quick, eager light | ‘The obligations were also imposed on slaves, shone in his fac he caught sight of the lurk- | and the penalty was whi Y ipping, not exceeding thirty-nine stripes on the bare back. A BOND FoR GOOD BEHAVIOR. Free persons coming into the city were re- quired to give bond in #500 with two sureties conditioned on good behavior for three years, or in default were subject to commitment to the workhouse. Every negro or mulatto who failed to establish a title to freedom was liable to commitment a8 an absconding slave, The act of 1836 prohibited the granting of licenses to any free negro or mulatto except to drive carts, drays, carriages, or wagons, and it was required that he should be a registered resident. They were prohibited from selling liquor, keeping a tavern, shop, porter-cellar, or eating-house under penalty of #20. All secret meetings whatsoever and meetings for religious worship beyond 10 o'clock at night ere declared unlawful, and a fine of $5 on h offense was imposed,and it was the duty of the police-constable to disperse all suc | gatherings. On March 12, 1838, the colored race began to realize that better times were in store for them, | for on that date the mayor approved an act em. | powering all free persons of color who had | families or were housekeeping “to own, pos- the school-house with my boots frozen | sess, and keep any animal of the dog kind.” | as stifily as if they were cast-iron, And the | Many who remember the number of dogs kept | chilblains I suffered from, and the intolerable | it ante-bellun days by colored people have | @ some idea how much this privilege was appre- itching of my heels as they begen to thaw ont | Clica They were, howerer, tteed foe thane ou the approach of spring, is not pleasant to | and it soon became a proverb that the poorer | think a the family TiN the THE RICHER THEY WERE IN DOGS, winter Keepers of ordinaries and taverns were pro- | hibited, under a penalty of fine of #10 to 20, | from selling liquors to any person of color be- tween sunrise and sundown, In the 40°s and 50's there were but two police | ing foe, when there was a sudden bang! a puff of white smoke from the head of the ravin Chips” gave an agonized ery, “Oh, my God boys.” and plunged heavily forward, shot | throngh the heart. It took less than wind up th udone of tt American Horse two minutes after that to he head of that ravine, dying warriors proved to be himself. Cuartes Kixa, U.S. A. JOUN BORROU 1S SCHOOL DAYS. | How He Walked to School Through Biizzards and on Hot Days. From Wide Awake. We had a mile and a half to go to school, part of the way across a very windy hill, and daring the severe blizzards of that high alti- tude I used to suffer a good deal from the cold, frequently freezing my ears, and once one of little fingers. But my feet suffered encased in stiff cow-hide boots, unpro- Often I would | my of about twelve I went to school 1 summer, but after that time my needed on tl farm, and I went to ¥ winters, Then I mastered Da and remember yet the “sum” a the last pages of the book, which was con- sidered the toughest problem’ of ali—the sum of the hare and the hound. What a wilderness | constables to each ward, and the thirty auxil- book scemed to the beginner. With what | iary guardsmen were ee by Congress at the e used to look forward into | rate of $30 per month. The constables were " «The Rule of Three,” the | entutled to fees, and in some instances the fees Rule of Three,” &c., as to strange | were incentives to make arrests, It was, how- S into which we should by and by be | ever. not often that any hardship was imposed ! thereby, for there were always to be found, as it fifteen T began the stndy of alge- | at the present day, among the colored race, mimar, and I recall what trouble I} bond or free, a number who seemed to be wi to get the books. My father was a fairly | wrong-doers by nature, and it was but seldom =perous farmer, but did not hold very lib-| that the officers were not looking for some eral ideas on the subject of education, He | such, Of course there were some instances thought reading. writing and arithmetic enough | in which the officers seemed to stretch their for his boys, and it proved enough for all but ves to make cases, but free or slave, if me; I wanted au algebra, This was a new-fan- ed were not molested if they showed d notion that father hot approve of. He | @ disposition to live within the spiritof the law. had never before heard of such a study, aud re- | If, after 10 o'clock, a party on the way from fused to get the book. One Saturday when I | church moved along quietly to their homes Was going to the village on some errand [| they were not molested, but if they showed a labored with him the best I knew how—that is | disposition to any disorderly conduct it would to say I “coaxed” him all the morning to allow | not be long before they would be run in, and me to buy an algebra, But he sternly refused | the next morning at the Central guard-house and I started off with a heavy heart and wet | (then a modest little brick building about the eyes for the village. Mother was always on | center of what is now known as the wholesale , the side of her children and had vigorously | stores of the Washington market,) the fines and | seconded my request before starting. | penalties would be imposed. ‘If there were Before I had got a quarter of a mile from the | slaves among them and their masters did not | house, and while yet in sight of it, she made it | so hot for father that he yielded and shouted to | pay their fine | me that I might get thi kB blood bad as Wi Ged me that I might get the . But my bloo ji ii | ¥as up and I resolved not to get it till I could | THis was done at the Guard house and in the | do so with my own money, which I was soon | él! room, the prisoner being stripped to the able to do. “Sugar weather was at hand; [| waist, the hands being thrust through the grat- tapped some trees and got some small cakes of | ing and handcuffed on the opposite side. | ¥ery fine sugar in the market early, These | An officer with a raw hide would then. lay brought me y to buy this andother books, |on the prescribed number of lashes, among them my first grammar. Doubtless some of the colored pocketbook = oan snatchers whose faces are familiar in the Crim- inal Court would prefer to take the lash as then prescribed than the penitentiary terms of the present day, During the administration of President Pierce his niece anda lady friend in walking near St. John’s church were stopped by a man, who | robbed her of her satchel. The man was very | bright, and supposed to be a white man, but on being arrested it turned out that he was a slave belonging to a man in Virginia, The sentence was to be whipped with thirty lashes, to be laid onthe bare back. A friend of the ladies was present at the trial, and desired to see the pu: ishment inflicted, and was asked to walk in the cell room. His feelings had been so worked up over the case that he took out a $20 gold piece and said to the officer, “* Whip him well and I'll give you this money.” ‘The victim was fastened to the door, and a stout built officer laid on several blows, raising the skin, counting them as he did so, and when the blood commenced to heip w | soe A Conversation: | From Harper's Magazine. | Nothing so surely kills the freedom of talk as | to have some matter-of-fact person instantly bring you to book for some impulsive remark flashed out on the instant, instead of playing with it and tossing it about in @ way that shail expose its absurdity or show its value, Free- | dom is lost with too much responsibility and | seriousness, and the truth is more likely to be | struck out in a lively play of assertion and re- | tort than when all the words and sentiments are weighed, A person very likely cannot tell what he does think tin his thoughts are | posed to the air, and itis the bright fallacies | and impulsive rash ventures in conversation | that are often most fruitful to talker and | listeners. The talk is always tame if no one dares anything. I bave seen the most alist. | room should contain only two chairs. band, and supposing himself to be not only a free man, but one who could do as he p! he soon developed into a worthless drunkard. After trying him some months she voluntarily ea widow by selling her husband to a dealer, and he was speedily sent south, In some instances the huspand, after regaining freedom was, allowed’ to purchase his wife and family, and there is to-day in the west end a grown-up family bought by the husband, after several years labor, for 10,000, and the indus- trious habits and strict economy practiced by the husband and father when purchasing h: ——_ and biood are now to be seen in the family. HOME MATTERS. EVERYDAY SUGGESTIONS AND USEFUL RECIPES FOR PRACTICAL HOUSEKERPERS—HOUSEHOLD HINTS FOR THE DINING ROOM, PANTRY AND KITCHEN—THINGS WORTH KNOWING. Sort Burrer the size of an egg weighs one ounce. For THe Surtvkacr of unbleached cotton allow an inch to a {tp SHOES CAN BE Kept Sorr and free from cracks by rubbing them once a week with pure glycerine or castor oil. Curese Crota makes the best dusters, A wide-meshed kind is sold for the purpose, five cents a yard, and is as soft as siik. SaLrnates Werrep anp APPLiep immediately is the best thing in the world fora burn, It will prevent blistering and is a magical “pain- killer.” Terry Water Acts Promprty as an emetic, and hot water taken freely half an hour before bed-time is the best cathartic in the case of constipation. Murrow Srew.—Roll the mntton in flour, put on to boil in a suitable amount of water, season with salt, pepper, and an onion, Cook slowly three or four hours, : WatrninG PLants.—Do not water too much; plants are much injured by having their roots . Wait until the plants show the ter before giving it. Wuew tite Rupser R outers of a wringer be come sticky, as they very often do after wring- ing flannel, rub with kerosene and wipe dry, and they will be nice and smooth, Cane Suovtp Be Taken to remove the sprouts from the young bulbs which spring up at the base of callas. This is especially neces- sary if your large plant is about to bloom. Wuire Purrs.—Three and one-half cupfals of flour, three cupfuls of milk, whites of three eggs. one tablespoonful of powdered sugar, two teaspooutuls of baking powder, Bake in cups, Dutep Beer “frizzled” with a little milk, thickened with cornstarch and served with a | bordering of scrambled eggs around it, is a quickly prepared and nourishing dish for a} substantial ten, Samprne Saiap.—Bone and skin some sar- dines and divide them into fillets; have ready some lettuce; put them in the cei dish; put the fillets all around, alternate with French olives washed and stoned, Miss Homersuam, wao 1s Lecruntya in En- gland on nufsing, recommends that the sick- One, a very comfortable one for the nurse, and a very uncomfortable one for visitors who stay too long. A Dexictovs Satap Can Be Mave by using bleached dandelion leaves, either with or with- out lettuce. The method of bleaching is very simple: Either invert a flower pot over the plant, or cover it partly with sand. The leaves | Should be well chilled and dressed at the table with mayonnaise dressing. Mesrarp Praster.—In making a mustard plaster no water whatever should be used, but the mustard should be mixed with the white of an egg; the result will be a plaster which will draw perfectly, but will not produce a blister even upon the skin of an infant, no matter how long it is allowed to remain upon the part, Porterre.—One pint bottle best porter, two glasses pale sherry, one lemon peeled and sliced, one-half pint ice water, six or eight lumps loaf sugar, one-half grated nutmeg, pounded ice. ‘This mixture has been used sat- isfactorily by invalids, for whom the pure-por- ter was too heavy, causing biliousness and heartburn. Curese Popprxa.—Mix a scant pint anda half of flour into a smooth batter with a pint and a half of milk, a teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoonful of sugar, and six well-beaten eggs (no baking powder), Grate into this a large cup of strong, rich cheese; stir well and bake one hour in a good oven, This will rise very high and must be eaten at once. Rust PRevENtIve.—To preserve bright grates or fire-irons from rust, make a strong paste of fresh lime and water, and with a fine brush smear it as thickly as possible all over the pol- ished surface requiring preservation. By this ‘imple means all the grates and fire-irons in an empty house may be kept for months free from harm without further care or attention, Baxep Porarors Must Be Eaten as soon as they are done. When they are taken from the oven they should be put into a napkin or towel | and the skin broken so as to allow the steam to escape; this will keep the potato mealy. If it cools without breaking the skin it 1 be watery and will have an acrid taste, which is caused by the retaining of a kind of juice which lies next the skin, Soot-Water For Roses.—It is stated that a rapid growth of thrifty rose-shoots may be pro- moted by the use of eoot-water. The applica- tion has, at any rate, the eeia fe of costing nothing. Some soot is to be collected from a chimney or stove, put into an old pitcher, and then hot water is to be poured upon the ‘con- tents, When cold the mixture is to be used for watering the plants every few days, Arnica 18 Sometmes Taken by mistake for something else. To empty the stomach thor- oughly with an emetic, then follow with a gen- erous dose of castor oil, if it can be borne, are the first important steps in treatment. Pare- goric will subdue the pain, and, if the headache persists, employ a hot foot-bath, put a mustard aste to the back of the neck and give one-half aspoonful of the bromide of potassium dis- solved in water. Savony Custarp.—Take a quart of good meat soup nicely flavored with vegetables; beat six eggs; mix with the soup, and season with salt and pepper; pour this custard mixture into a deep dish; butter very thickly three or four slices of hat d thin bread (the slices should not be thicker than a dollar) and only lay enough to cover the top of the custard (do not put one slice on the other); bake till in the center, and the surface is pale brown, This is a very nice dish, Coup Foon, says the Boston Journal of Health, is much more easily kept on a sensitive stomach than hot; so, in cases where it is re- Hai in the ordinary warmfor hot form, it had etter be. tried as nearly frozen as may be taken. In many fevers this would be a decided advantage. Milk may be administered in a frozen state, often with a positive advan The Sanitary Era adds, from frequent stances, that ice-cream suits admirably some conditions where hardly any other food. is ac- ceptable, Lemon Cuzrsecaxes.—Take two large lemons and rub the rind with one pound of loaf sugar, 8o that all the yellow part is removed; place the sugar in a basin, squeeze the juice of the lemons over, then add the yolks of six eggs, and beat it all well up, and put it byin a jar for use; it will keep for years, Any flavor, such as vanilla or cinnamon, may be added if liked, When required for use, having made th and lined the tins, mix one tablespoon of the mixture with a teacupful of good milk, and place a little in each tartlet, Frozen Piva Pupprxe.—Make a custard of one quart of milk and the yelk of four eggs,with @ cup and a-half of pulverized white sugar. Seed and cut into pieces three ounces of raisins, Add three ounces each of citron and preserved cherries, cut small. Mix with fruit three ounces of grated chocolate, pour over these in- dients enough hot water to cover all, and fet them simmer together until a Paste is Instead of water Malaga wine. mbich fhe old booke 1 call for, can rom- r, ti je and almost ‘Next My | ising paradox come to grief bya simple “Do fone aa Holds thet is cuough Tes Sette eae pope | Ihoald be hetd ‘accogatatie fs, think, | the convict escaped his punishment here, but | {te cooked fruit, also one quart of, cream | Shot be, held accountable for “anything | when he was taken back to his Virginia master | sweetened with ¥ ght. Put th [of whic ye Gn onreraation, the vivacity | he was doubtless dealt with more severely. al- | With vanilla and whipped up light. begine to of which is in a tentative play about | though the major had before been s democrat, | cream into white of the f = jthe ‘subject. And this is s sufficient | he became subsequently an sdherent to the becrareni ke hy Mera chee pean sexe | reason why one should repudiate any private | northern wing a the party—a of | Sti —— oey. a conversation re; in the newspapers, It is Stephen A. Douglas. ms nyse pian or yb oe a roefpoere tars Bae aeons BUYING AND SELLING WIVES AND HUSBANDS. | ‘frappe.” nee writes and prints, but to shackle a man with ail hin ching “attarsncss, whieh may be put into | Slave holding was not confined to the white Miss Uppererust ses oak his mouth by some imp in the air, is intolerable | Face exclusively, for there are » number of = Guns org! slavery. A man had better be silent If even instances in which husbands bought the freedom | side in the coupe)—“What soves yon se only say to-day what he will stand by to-mor- | of their wives and wives that of their husbands. | mamma? ‘da't you match row, or if he may uot launch into the general | Sotto taney ae bered where the Mrs. Uppercrust— “Oh, yes! But I inadver- ‘him and fancy of the moment. Racy, | holding wife found a much easier way to re- | tently pu lise hon tn ee en talk is only exposed thought. freedom an ob; bi je nearly half an hour to find it again,” ho one hold a man ble for the appealing to the selling to the | “ington Free Press, thronging ts that cont tand dis) dealer or a new master. free colored | Mrs. O’Harrit -—‘Now put in another quart.” sctually makes up his mind wnt kei eer eer | Women found a industeious's | didn’ sou Gk for Shall geet da Save Gee e acts appeared likely ee" * oF puts out his conclusion beyound ‘his bie be fo ry | with i mao OLD TIME FIRE LADDIES. The Friendship Company to Take Part in the Washington Centennial. PREPARING TO GO TO NEW YORK—GEN. WASHING— TON AS A VOLUNTEER FIREMAN—HIS GIFT TO THE OLD COMPASY—RUNNING TO FIRES IN OLDEN TIMES. The Friendship volunteer fire company, of Alexandria, of which Gen. Washington was a member, will attend the New York centennial celebration and take part in the civic parade on May 1. Mayor Downham has been communi- cating with Mayor Grant and others to see that the members of the company are well cared for while in New York. The company will take with them their old engine that was putin service about 1850. They will also carry a number of old leather buckets, some of which were used when Wash- ington was a member of the company, and when, like the other members, he used to run to the fires. About the year 1774 there was established what was known as the fire brigade, and it was not until 1776 that THE FRIENDSHIP COMPANY was regularly organized. The old laws relat- ing to fires were very strict, and the penalty for a violation of the regulations was so many uunds of tobacco. During the days of the fire rigade buckets were kept in every house within the corporation limits, The law re- uired every house to have two buckets, and three-story houses were required to keep on hand four buckets ready for service. When in 1776 the Friendship company was organized the fire laws still existed. Gen, Washington presented the company with their first engine, which was built in Philadelphia and taken to Alexandria in that Fear. THE ORIGINAL ENGINE. Capt. Webster, of the Alexandria police, told & Stax reporter the other day that the original engine was a square box which held the water. It was worked with a sort of suction-pump, and could squirt the water but could not draw it. The first engine-house was situated at the corner of HARRISON'S HORSES. The Presidential Equipages and Their Surroundings. THE WHITE HOUSE STABLES—WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED AND WHAT THEY CONTAIN—THE UN- COMMUNICATIVE AUTOCRAT OF TRE STABLES— KENTUCKY HORSES AND HOOSIER CARRIAGES, A few rods south of the southern entrance to the great State, War, and Navy building is a grove of young trees, from above the verdant tops of which peep out an odd-looking contin- uation of mansard roof, capped apparently on one end by a strangely inartistic tower, which | is suposed to be in accord with the design of | the remainder of the structure. The unin-| formed stranger wonders what manner of man- | sion it is which is thus secluded, and upon | inquiry is told that it is the White House | stables, Then the stranger goes down to see | the horses and carriages, but he never them unless they should happeu to be ou | of the two-story brick building. Nothing but | a pass from the President's private secretary will secure admission to the sacred precincts | where Albert Hawkins is king. Here the sat Jehu reigns supreme; careful of his charges, mindful of their necessities, and immovable to the last degree in his decision that neither crating hand and the blighting presence tourist or the curious, If President I wants to get away from the office desires to live for awhile free from anno: ance, he can do so in a f@¥ minutes at any time. All he needs to do is to retire to the stables and to order Secretary Halford to re- frain from issuing passes, Albert Hawkins will see to the rest. Two buge granite gate are at the en- trance (which ison 17th street) to the stable yard, The building occupies three sides of the square lot on which it stands, leaving an open space in front. entrance, is the stable proper; the two wings are the carringe-houses, The court-yard is concreted and around the whole place is a five- foot iron fence, ON TRE INSIDE. Entering through the central doorway of the Market alley and Royal street, and was a frame building erected as a carriage shed, About fifty-five years ago the corporation wanted t property, and then the company went to an- other frame structure on King between Fay- ette and Henry streets, Later the members of the company found a more desirable location, street, between Alfred and Columbus streets. It was situated on the north side of the street, adjoining the peg factory,where about five hun: egs. This was the most desirable location, ecattse, in case of tire, the factory hands could run outwith the apparatus, and not much time would be lost. Again the company was compelled to seck new quarters, and they secured an old | Alfred, between King and Prince streets. The Sane had not been there long before the building caught on fire and wasbadly damaged. That building was bought and paid for with tobacco, which was currency at that time. After the fire a brick building was erected. which is now occupied by the company it the old engine is kept. During the war the company went down considerably, and their engine was taken by the troops and carried out of the city some distance to the Federal camp. James Atkinson, who was then president of the organization, obtained an order from the proper authorities for the return of the engine, but when the order was taken to the camp the sol diers drove off the fire laddies, Later the e gine was secured. THE SECOND ENG This engine was the second one owned by Friendship company. It was an improvement on the one presented to Washington. It could not only squirt, but could also draw water. The engine was constructed in 1850, and was drawn in the gre: rade in Baltimore about that y taken from the shop in Baltimore twenty- two members of the company, among whom was Capt. Webster. Of the twenty-two mem- bers who drew the engine only a few of them are now living in Alexandria, OTHER RELI take with them a part of an old hickory chair that was presented to Capt. Cohagan, a former president of the company, by his father nearly abundred years ago, They will also take with them a copper pipe, which issupposed to be the only relic of the original apparatus in existence, Everything presented by Washington disap- peared in about 1850, when the second apparatus, sheds here and there until it finally landed on a vacant lot at Patrick and Cameron streets. There being no one to guard it, the couplings and brass finishings were stolen from time to time. It could then have been purchased for less than $5. Being out in the weather, the wood work soon rotted away, and that was the last of Washington's present fo thé company, THE OLD BUCKETS. Some of the old leather buckets that will be carried to New York can be traced back to the year 1 On some of them is the name “Friendship,” which is almost obliterated. THE OLD COMPANY. chair was presented, was captain of the com- pany when it attended Washington's funeral at Mount Vernon. It was composed of many of Alexandria’s best citizens, among them being Capt. Cohagan, Capt. Jas, Webster, Adam Lynn, and Presly Jacobs. ‘The membership at one time numbered nearly one hundred fen, At one time in the history of the company an ef- fort was made to bring in new members and give the organization afresh start. Many new members, chiefly young men. were added to the rolls and they soon wanted the name of the company changed from Friendship to Colum- bia, Their proposition met with the disup- proval of the older members and there was a split in the organization, the bolters organiz- ing what was called the Columbia company, THE SIX COMPANIES, This made six companies in the city, the Friendship, Columbia, Hydraulion, Relief, Star and Sun. The Star apparatus was called the piano engine. The members of the company were mostly well-to-do men. The engine could throw an immense stream, but it was very large and required a large number of men to operate it, The hooks and ladders in those days were kept in the market house, They were not on trucks as they are kept now, but were stowed away in the pening and if needed in case of fire they were carried to the fire. Both the hooks and the ladders were very heavy and required a large force of men to carry them, FIRES YEARS AGO, Fires in the earlier days always caused con- siderable excitement. As already stated, water buckets had to be kept in every house, and were inspected two or three times a year to be sure that they were in good condition to be used in case of fire. When an alarm was given for a fire the male members of the family were obliged, if they were at home, to take the buck- ets and proceed to the fire. If no men were at home the buckets were thrown to the sidewalk by a female member of the family, and the man who passed a bucket so placed without re | it up and going to the fire soon found himself behind the bars and required to pay to the city many pounds of tobacco for liberty. At almost every corner in the city there was a pump which supplied water for the engine. In places where the ner ed could not get close to a pump and throw the water on the fire, a line men would be formed from the pump to the engine, and ifthe line of volunteers was not and moved to another frame building on King | dred persons were employed making shoe | frame building on | nd in | In addition to the old engine the company will | was purchased. The old engine was put under | Capt. John Cohagan, to whom the old hickory | main building and turning to the right a Srar \ reporter yesterday found himself in the clea apartment where the President's horses eat an sleep and chew woodwork. It was rather apleas ant home—for a horse—although it was not as much of a parlor as some stables are, It w cool and comfortable, and when the dog-days come it will be safe to say that the man who ri marks that ‘there are no flies on those horses” | | will narrowly escape telling the truth. In the stalls nearest the door, on the east side very near to ‘They have a ver: quietly prond of th: said he to the reporte “How do they browns?” Th al carriage team. y action and Albert is pre the ‘seal r. for Albert | only smiled a little and said: “Nev ou mind | about the ‘seal browns.’ Let's about th present. These horses suit me very we the » first. drivers,” The next stall was tenanted by “John.” who was brought from Lexington. Ky., to do duty ited. H good horse, although a trifle shaky and 5 well in single or double har- sident’s mail buggy is John’s | companion, and it is said that John has a record as a roadster, ANOTHER KENTUCKIAN, The fourth horse is another of the Kentuel ians which President Harrison has eaptured to make a Hoosier’s hi This animal r joices in a pedi bership in the quadrape His name is *Lexington” a 1 Le: var hundi doubie White House is’ look- will find it dificult mal then Lexing- ble in every way is it was carly in life to his coltish appetite with the blue grass and other good feed which Old Kaintuck lay- ishes upon its horses. THE OFFICE HoRsEs. Across the hallway aud on the south side of the main building is another stable, a | duplicate of the first, and here are kept the office horses, three in number, and light bay in eolor—Dan, Frank and John.’ 9 re ir most constant use, but th . Their . le neigh- »mes down from the ir higher gr upper or through the medium of a couple patent chutes, which not only deliver the oats, | but clean them and retain th IN THE CARRI Tf the stables had a Kentucky then the atmosy of the princi house was scented with a de like odor, ‘thing in tl | ception of Hawkins and his fe made by Studebaker. The station “in. the street mand isa really magnific t rriage-builders’ ar ing known on Pennsylvania avenue, but its ex- | Quisitely finished dark green exterior with afew silver mountings merely indicate the perfec- tion of the workmanship in its interior. The beveled plate-glass in the windows is the finest made, and the > a silver-plated lamps are really ornamental, FAVORITE CARRIAGES, The brougham—Mrs, Harrison's favorite ve- hicle—is not one whit inferior to its two-horse | neighbor, the landan, There is nothing about it to indicate that it isa one-horse affuir, save the shafts, Its lamps are circular, The President's own conveyance is the mail | wagon, a rather heavily constructed buggy with | a moveable hood of very capacious di:nensions , | made of more than ordinarily thick leathe this vehicle the President ta ck drives, generaily accompanied by Mrs, Harri- son. The olive green of the wagon is relieved | considerably and pleasingly by the sparing use post a 1 carriage idedly Hoosier- with the ex- ther duster, was landau has it nd of the Ie nt specimen of It is already beeom- | and around the hubs and felloes, THE PRESIDENTIAL HARNESS has a snug little room all to itself, and Albert sees that it is not meddled with nor handled unnecessarily. On the walls of this lumber- lined, glass-doored apartment hang three sets of double and two sets of single harness, all silver-mounted and all made by the Stude- bakers. One of the remarkable features in the make-up of the harness is the entire absence of initials, monograms or crests, There are no miniature log cabins nor imitation coons on either harness or carriages. Everything is very good and satisfactorily expensive, but there is no gingerbread; no aping after the ridiculously fashionable, Alongside of the harness-room is Albert’ sitting room, a cosy little place in which to sit on a cold winter’s day and toast your shins while you talk with the veteran coachman; for Albert can talk—the popular belief to the con- trary notwithstanding—and he is full of lots of interesting reminiscences, OFFICE VEHICLES. Across the yard from the President's private carriage-house is the room where the office vehicles are sheltered. The oldest of these was purchased by President Hayes, and 1s now but little used, It is somewhat of an antiquity. The vehicle in which Major Pruden makes most of his journeys to the Senate in was bought by President Arthur, and it is now, as it was then, the favorite conveyance. It, like the Hayes , was built by McDermott, long enough, the fire commissioners would order men into line, and their refusal led to their being locked up. Capt. Webster says that at fires he has seen the buckets of water passed the line by men and passed back by a line of women, COMPETITION AMONG COMPANIES, When the fire-plugs were put about the city the competition among the fire companies was much greater than it had been when the pumps furnished the water supply. The =p and most of eek either rotted away or were removed. The fire com; then got what they called ph constructed on two and so was the bug; which completes the vehicular catalogue. - . POLITELY UNOCOMMUNICATIVE. There are but four men employed at the stables. The first is Hawkins—the only and original Albert Hawkins, He is the emperor: the good-natured autocra’ as : nae nor vehicle shall suffer from the dese- | The main building, facing the | 2 y air in them. | of gold paint in thin stripes along the spokes | } begins to imagine that he is an old employe, too. He was appointed by President Garfield, Perry Green came + the Cleveland regime, and Thos. Overall made his debut ig Washington in company with President Harri son's horse, “Oh, no,” said Hawki quiry by the reporter. always here, response to an in- he stables were not These were built about eighteen years ago; two years after I came here. The old stables were nearer to the White House, Just under where the watchmen sits at the en- trance to the southern wing of tate, War, and Navy building was the site of the stables up to IS7L. "Twas a brick building.” Things have changed somewhat since that 4th ~ March when Grant and.Albert came in to- gether. From the old stable yard there wae @ driveway up along old vegetable garden, where the conservatory now stands. ihe driveway has been obliterated and a flight Of stone steps offer serious obstacles to an ae- cending team of horses and a carriage, evem With such an expert as Hawkins handling th ribbons. The White House can only be ap- proached from the front by a carriage. scireeeareestinetiinendin Adame RAILROADS. 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