Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1896, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1896-TWENTY PAGES | FROM: THE ARIZONA KICKER | thr sii. he, apt boy ts sixteen, the youngest boy is ten. low long it would have taken m STORY OF A BOY- WITNESS | srother opening not over thirty tect away. | 1 HOTEL CORRIDORS e, or yng, to be of much whether I could have accomplished the feat manag Sat without ontside Pened to Take all the work Of ma hea z te (t] it ou le to rol m™: Seleeticus Made for The Star by BM. Quad. help, and brings. sfoyin her boat, loaded to | Written for ‘The Evening Star by M. Quad. As the oun ‘went Gown a thumicc ttn | “Some men are gifted with supreme ef- | Im reply to many letters and verbal | its full capactty of tons of coal. In| At If o'clock of a summer's night my came up, and as the rain fell it poured pat frcntery,” said E. C. Coolidge, a promi- ueries we would sey that the Kicker is father was taken suddenly ill, and I was| the shaft in a perfect cascade. I think I|nent raiiroad men of Chicago, at the Ar- ripe irest party organ. Nominally we thys, When xoung she | awakened and sent for the doctor, who eae wiles Re LR hole, |tington. “I was called to a very sunafl ‘}are @ democrat. Nominally, number two, af olor thelr traces, al. | ved in the village, three miles away. By ita ea indaewe town in Towa on account of an accident enlarged by the action of the water that we are a republican. We held the post- pear to have soured | taking a cut across the fields and passing at about 10 o'clock I had little trouble in | that had occurred there. The president mastership under a democratic administra- . one who knows her | close to the Royalston house I could short- | crawling out. of the road also visited the scene ih order paid and the collateral was returned. Now, | tion, and we desire to hang on to it. has a good word “tot! her, and she is oe en the distance by three-quarters of a mile. Monroe and the woman had murdered | to determine for himself the responsibility the strange part of the transaction was the | to most readers it may seem that our | Spected by every bogtman on the canal. - The landlord of the coun- ;,| Reyalsten was a rich man, and an old man, | Royalston for the sake of robbery, having | for the affair. arsed To @ representati¥e ‘df The Star she sald: 2 sent the other servants away and laid all . sree mre statement arate Policy 1s & selfish one. We grant It We | “My home is in Shepherdstown, W. Va.,| living alone in a big house, except for two tkeir plans They got safely away with | ‘TY t@vern was very cordial with us and er that the bonds were in the box. The | are taking care of No. 1 in politics as well | and I have been on the canal for five years. | or three servants. There had been other about $1,000 in money and a lot of plate and | ®t dinner presided at the bead of the table was never opened, and yet confidence |as in business. The Arizona editor who | For two years my' Husband ran this boat, | members of the family, but the wife had! jewelry, and though their absence was | @nd waited on us himeel?. Addressing the in the borrower was co strong that during | plows his horn for the sake of party will bd Guee roa 7) dropped dead while died in-her bed, a daughter had been ards no s had the - res =r president of the railroad company he said: the year the unopened box was used as more deadheads on his subscription ere oeking 2 . drowned in the river flowing through the| Of them until I escaped from the pit. <| ‘I allus feel to hum with railroad men, collateral in at least three financial trans- | C®!TY I didn’t Know What to do, as I had six body was found in the tool house, and then | 55 just max actions. It is this confidence that all should | books than dollars in his pocket. We want | ittle children, and, my husband, although | village, and it was public gossip that an| the pursuit was taken up. It was a month | f ‘e yourself to hum with me. encourage, for without it, as I said before, | some of the spoils. We do not propose to/a hard-working ‘mun; had not left any cnly son had been driven from home by his | before the fugitives were run down, but used to be in the same business as you only 5 per cent of the value of business of | help waft a lot of ambitious, selfish, and | mcney. However, I Seen ay se ou viclousness and was a wandering outlaw. | ‘hey were brought safely back and put on before I bought this hotel.” this country could be performed. The | naif dishonest critters into office, and then | boat through, and acting on the a sband’s | At the time I write of Royalston was al.| tal. Indeed; with what road? quoried the amount of money In circulation plays but a hat | {tlends I hired help and took my husband's Each accused the other of instigating the | president little part in transactions, except in paying take off our hat and be thankful for w! ee flace. It was a herd tussle, as my chil- | most.a hermit and had not been off his crime, and of striking the fatal blow, and “RY at «| Wages and daily expenses. Maybe I should | loose change they may toss us. We haven't | dren were too small to help me, and hired | groufas for montha. in their desperation they swore that I was ight here. I railroaded for five “My observation is that the degartment | aad that the man who secured the toan | said anything about bolting, but it may be | Kelp is generally unreliable. 1| Im passing between the house and the| an accessory, and had lured the old man |¥€4Ts, worked the section just below here. clerks are just as much Interested in the | was the late Senator Leland Stanford of inferred that we'd throw a candidate down Those were hard times for me, but tables I caught sight of a man skulking | from his bed and out doors. Their scheme | It was tuo much responsibility. A single 1 now on,” remarked an|Callfornia. This is by no means a rare | 2%° we a | Could see no other way to provide for my | Stables I caught sig! | didn't work, however, and being found | broken spike might here ened a heap of — any previous cam-| case. for there are hundreds of similar | Wicker than a jack rabbit can Jump seven | chtidren, so I persevered until they grew | near the house, but the fact raised no sus. gullty of a cold-blooded murder, they were | Passengers, 20 when wages was cnt tron, Copia ee So it they | Cases In New York and other large cities | feét, if he attempted to work us for a flat | jarge enough to help me, ard I could dis-| picions, I was-a boy of eleven, sent with a sentenced to be hanged on the same gal-|& dollar to ninety cents « day Tquit, ‘in Daten for the eet Er eey J orein jutaret | SVetYe Gay-< thoughy the llsaneimaenbe tine [aswel arerantisinrmsdvacodt ithe tative’ of pense with hired tabor. ives, and run | hurried message, and I pattered along the | lows. allus like to meet railroad men will not show any signs of voting. It | 2°,J878e. The financial world deals in the | America or Arizona, but we have no blood night aad day, ter Ouc of my givis_can | path in my bare feet without giving a sec-| When thelr lawyer had exhausted every ‘Next winter is going t ” rfp iatasanagp epi eba cai collateral. Tt knows. that, without “some | Of ourselves during this scramble, and the |. Night wut er course when loaded .‘tne | Bad reached the village the doctor ordered | Monroe was either ton Drove oy ro nemo: | tne Howard. “At least, the old eetiiens Se a aek aha acento ee ical Goon | Serealieanean cantare catiee seared | galoottlie es este tah ore TaetioWise cei mo and my eldest son, 98 the | out his gig, and as he drove away I took | ly to follow her cxateohe ie toe nara anata ee Guten the yet ieee, oe es will put in the next ten years wondering | other children are not strong enough. : Lee 8 the Royalston | given him, and on the appointed day the |=, Predict @ long, close season. The rea- sed which require all voters to register THE LOVERS sT a m hat Naratrack# ois “Yes, it’s a hard life, but. then I am | the short cut back acros: sentence of the faw was carried out. On| 208 given are various, and each person pas: Aiosengi ert oa RATAGEM. how far he fell and what he stru: raising my family far more comfortably | grounds, T had to take a slower pace going | Tentence of the Saw a speech to the assem- | is entirely satisfied that the one he gives two weeks prior to gah wa tants for | et PResamsen lee " Touching the effect of our policy, we | than I could anywhere else, a8 I could not | home, and owing to this I made a discov out the government clerk ef . ey ted the Same De- ; bled crowd, and with his last breath de-| renders it absolutely certain. In the feet would invite the attention of people outside | pay rent and su, t these six children in| ery and met with an adventure. As I fol-| >! 5 n there are but very few of them who can or vice, With Amusing Results. the territory to the extent and character | Pny Cther maser lowed the path between the house and sta- | clared his innocence of the crime. He was | place, rabbits’ fur ts thicker than usual, will stand the expense of two trips to their} “Know that fellow in there?” asked a| Of our advertising patronage. Our adver- guilty beyond question—far more guilty is thi Oh, yes, T hope to be able to leave the | ble I caught sight of a light in the latter | guilt the woman—and yet there are many |2* 18 that of the minks and others in the F tisers say what they mean, in good, plain | ,, hildren are large | buildi and curiosity impelled me to turn northwest. This indication is regarded homes, even if they could get leave of ab- | young man of The Star writer, nodding his | tan, oak their Soin cetrants showsthe cane et soon. ea aor ee Baal ng es eared aTRG Ieee ne iteal people today who shake their heads at the as infallible. ‘Through whe want ot sence. Nine-tenths of them prefer and do | head toward the soda water clerk in a cor- Varied business interests of this town. Here / in the meantime it is the best we can do.” | Charge of stable and grounds was Charles | Mention of his n: lare reat faith is placed in a sigu that has use their leaves of absence for other pur- | ner drug store. are examples of some of the ads. of our! With all the hard work, Mrs. Stephens’ | Monroe, and I had met him on many occa. | !@W made a terrible mistake. never been known to fail, or at least it is peses. Indiana, where so many election eX. | No, the writer didn’t know him, but had | more enterprising business men: boat is neat and clean, and her children | sions. He was a middle-aged man, good ——_— he corn husks are double. ee ee ee rt | patcunlaed the acide tomlin ucterl or THE BSD Bo Se Ce EN gop; | 8how @ mother's careful attention. natured, and I had taken a great Iking to FARE ONE DOLLAR, prone wen Ta that the crop of mute will ren in wer, a Lat cl Monroe hat pel ay L. i oct tate cease ‘against non-resident | tlmes during the summer. “Who is he?” Best beer! Best wine! Best whisky! No ae 3 drole tre cnsise emergency, and I was| He Was Quict-Looking Man, but He | @Nd bushes-bearing nuts being loaded & we voters. Ohto followed the next year, a “Well, I don’t remember his name, but { one to watch you while you pour out: No A MOUNTAIN DOG FIGHT. soon standing in the open door of the sta Knew Slow to Sheet. 72 them. : The squirrels are laying in a then other states fell into line. Maryland | he ts a hanger-on from Han ville. -I had | gang of loafers to ring in on strangers: a ble, in which a couple of horses were kept. rger supply than they have for several was the last to pass a i of this a an invitaticn to visit a girl eee Tam dead We have lately added an extension to our | When They Came Back They Would To the left of this was the carriage house, | Written for The Evening Star by M. Quad. ‘Though the civil service law rt years pest, starting with acorns. If there bar,and twenty-eight men can now stand up Fight to « Finish. to the right the tool house. I had seen the| ‘The ticket agert at Big Bend was not|is anything in signs people had better clerks mrtectine: o6 seis re tiene peer ider t Tee ees oe azine a ence permit ete “I was out in the mountains this sum- | jantern pass the abor. moe pom eus = the man for the place, and he realized it ress pect eters a8 the animals do, on @ ps political discussions among them, | while sitting on the porch with the young attention, ana ai shooting scraps sre slick said a dopartmental clerk to a Star ee aearthen Feed a ee oom tho | 2 Well us many others. He was a nice 5 - or causes them to become non-partisans. | lady this fellow came up. I was intro. | ed over and made as oasy as posailbl Troe rors Atte house where T boarded | fool house, Without calling out, and yet | 82 and knew his business, but he lacked | “Tne tide of smenteration thet hen psn They bark as loud as they ever did. even if | duced, but wasn’t enough interested to |JOHN WHITE, ALIAS “NERVY JACK,” [there were twenty or thirty Washington | oo) ting no wrong, I made my way|s8and. The fare from Big Bend to Black they do not bite as they formerly did. They | catch the name; the only thing that inter- | Will mix for you while you walt: pre zz; . 7 4 look. | Hilt dons oat f the | 270m the east to the west is turning.” said beople. One day a mountaineer came up| gown to the door in the partition and look- was a dollar, when any of the! B.C. Dunbar of Webb City, Mo. at the joe to vote if they could, but they Ce ae eS the probable length of fais Gri ssly Bear Meshes. to the porch where we were all seated, | ed in. . i, beam so | CT°W4 wanted to go down they handed in | setropolitan. “A colony has gone from is see ibject. But he Gane seen os ieekia = ‘Panther Cocktails,” dragging a dog that seemed very loath to Soe a be 2 hung Eason m fe | two or three quarters, as the might | filinole and ‘Misenug Airhead ces “The sale of watermelons is practically | hurry. White Wolf Screamers, move. A short distance behind him was | te ground. Just within the door was a| be, poked five or six inches of a revolver | of Maryland, where the members will en- Grauaaad tasiaa Tied jon ig concerned, | | “Finally. in desperation, I remarked that | And all other favorite beverages of the | another man, also pulling a dog along. bulky object lying on the earthen floor. I| through the window, and called out: gage in truck farming. They will be follow. ly would hold out some | !t was getting late—it was only 9 o’clock— | glorious west. Don’t forget the place, and | = ‘Gentlemen,’ said the first man to ar-| could only see the outline, but something | “Ticket fur Black Hill, and don’t waste iSite banal ott and I had better be getting hor don’t run away if you happen to come in n ly weeks yet if there was a market for them,” er be getting home. He said he away if y PP ed by others,and a very considerable move- ment ts expected in the northwest among the Swedes and Norwegians looking to re- moval farther east. They are tired of working large farms and failing to get re- runerative prices for their products and would prefer small tracts near large cities. a Ss Seated on a nt rive, ‘these hyar dawgs air th’ fightenest | told me it was a dead body. too much time over tt! was just thinking the same thing, and he | when old Jim Hewson and Uncle Billy b af lght just touching her, was observed a leading commission dealer, | would keep me company on the care “We | Smith are popping at each other. dawgs in th’ mounting. We uns hev a bet box with pa ie second glance I rec-} The agent always handed out a ticket and whose firm handles thousands of water-' came down the 14th street line, and I just JIM HOPE, Propr. cn ’em an’ we're gwine ter hav th’ fight ognized her as Mary, the woman who had) pretended that things were all right, and melons during the season. “There is a non- | ached to see that cugs get off. so I could THE ROYAL HOTEL, in "th stable yander. It'll be o aerndest general charge of the house. Between us| the boys played it on him till he had to sensical supezstition or bellef in many | et hack on the hill with the girl again. | Only swell hotel in Giveadam Gulch! By | bout yo’ all ever seed. Only two bits te was a man using a pick and shovel to dig | throw up his job. One day the old man : At 7th street he turned to me and asked: | putting four in a bed this hotel will accom- | lcok at it” a grave, and that man was Charles Mon: | om UP Bis 3 ices ay minds, and especially among the classes |“ « “How far do you go? modate 20) people. We use regular crock-| “We aH went to the stable, in which Se Aer atoea there, my heart jumping | ¥° 6 new one is place, ai who are the greatest consumers of water-| “ ‘To the end of the lin 3 I live near the | ery in the dining room, and any one wish- | there were a door and a window. A ring into my throat and ny breath coming in| four or five of the gang went down to the | Fore:gners make much more of a encom melons, that they induce fevers as Septem- | Capitol,’ I answered. ing a napkin can have It. Soap, water and | was made and the dogs thrown into it. gasps, he ceased work and said to the wo- | depot to size the latter up. When they re- | in truck farming than Americans ana cre ber arrives and progresses, and that on| “At the end of the route he got off and | towel in the room if desired. Beds made up | One uttered a yelp and Jumped. through s Z turned to camp there was a majority and | giecontent im 7 - ee pak saren roa tr coward the depot,while I started | once per day, same as in New York. You | the wirdow, the other made a break for | ™an h, and we'll now|a minority report. Bill Thompson was gg Aig gy eg} this account they are somewhat dangerous | foward the Capitol dente oan ee | one! sleep with your boots on or off, shoot | the door. sonata) een enone. spokesman for the majority, and he said: | 224 Northwest with the uncertainty of Tha food furnished by 2 sie mere | 8 faw minutes—when he was-out of risht | at the tame ig the oietoe tome one | eee ee they go,” shouted one of the men; | heave the Body Int” y we did it.| “He's the softest thing’ in these yere | ["0P% and prices on large farms is becom- The food furnished ey a Tipe paienmelon —and go out 14th street again; and within | much as you please, and then lick the plate. | ‘foller ‘em, gentlemen, ef yo" Want ter see cae Psat pmets To Sand Gat” abe] parks. Ina mot gout be buy any more tick. | "8 Yery widespread. When these people bilious complaints and the old-fashioned | ©" Minutes I was on the cars going to- | The idea of the proprietor is to make you|the purtiest race yo’ ever looked at. . ! once start they move in bodies, and a gen- a ets, but I'll scare ‘em outer him. The ; : : : 0 ward Mount Pleasant once more. Lees een nek onltorsotethenidker| (Chey ro\eat, takintia eun eri oxerciag can, | Walled as she Tosemupy 2 TA) 0 | ces oe alan make his ha’r curl.” | ¢r1 emigration movement from the west Gerth eee GES, Oe Habio to: All| 7 <wenen | thescarelgotgtni tem semer: neoe|| neatust Eee a per day ond up- | when they git back the fout'll come off. | q/73 inet ‘Mymes ty say he didn't wan. | Bob. Williams’ wae sous es ee” the | tO the east Is a probability. curing September than any other month, | the girl's house’ I jumped off and started | ward, according to the looks of che man, We'll go an’ bring "em back when they git vay? How is any one to find him| minority, and was also the minority as| “1 ray, tched with int Sete Thee een ie Mghis éreicool and the| op tha, walk I couldjeee therstrern too GREEN & PERKS, Proprietors. | enough warmed up.’ Then they left; and I| der away? How Is any one to find him | milorliy. and serious as he said: CEASE GH ee ee rn tering ee ccatee, themselves. t00| sitting on the porch. (al male aad foes THE KYOTE RESTAURANT. guess the dogs are still running, as the Se ee oo ee PE ea oes crit- | Zicticns as to how Wisconsin and Minne- much during the evenings, cocling off a8] but it was too dark te recognize the male | This favorite old eating house, patronized | fight has not come off.” scene rave! Take hold here | ter, but don’t make no mistake on him. | S°t@ will vote,” sald A. T. Northcutt of trouble ppt really taking on ‘these | untit I reached the foot of the stem by the editor of the Arizona Kicker and onus GT toes tape ta pee He’ carries his forefinger kinder curled up, | Stillwater, Minn., at the National. “It is oe e innocent watermelon is| “Jt was that durned soda squirter!” other tony critters for the last five years, is 1K noy. Had I realized the situation I could have | as if pullin’ trigger, and the first man who something that no one can find out at the Mamed for it all, and on this account tts ees gma still doing a rushing business, and is the ae 6 1 and unheard, but | shoves a gun in on him ts goin’ t hot sele is practically closed. The shippers DYNAMITING TH only place in town where you can get a a crept away unnoticed ae ee Saantse: isan ae, setae B s gol ‘© git hot | present time, and yet the contest will not have to send watermelons to the northern = Son vee. square meal for a dollar. God SE ROCCE UD TN eae rere a eee Re | ererye aero enn on the question, | P¢ clcse in either state. When Wisconsin markets, for there is a steady sale for them NO FORKS OR NAPKINS and Wan Afraid of Them. fright that I mac t e a 5 in the markets of New York and Boston} 4 Remarkable Fish Story in Which - To offend the fastidious and take away for over a month after the people here- jo Fish Appear. i trayed my presence. I heard them cry out | and after much talk Bill Thompson offered | 4nd Minnesota go republican they do so by The son cf a downtown merchant was | in alarm, and the next moment Monroe had p amas fastia to make the test and settle the problem. ee aay , and an ag go demp- un rom their appetite, but every customer is : maize ad me down on the floor. | In a day or two a score of us went down to | cratic, as ‘consin did when Peek ran abouts stop buying them. Tna season. how-| As a Star reporter was browsing around | allowed “to mee ie fingers and wipe tis ale Pes inti aan aires ngs Satea oh ee ane wat ting Ieee performance. We were loung. |f0r governor, they give majorities nearly Fr as Sood one, ail things considered. | one of the downtown hotels the clok point- | mouth on his coattails. Cue eseee es, ra rqeenueman that I was only a boy he let up a little and | ing about the waiting room when in waik- | €Qually large. The fcreign vote controls The watermelons were never better, though ed out to him a tall, gangling boy of eight.| Bear Meat! Star reporter this morning. ordered the woman to bring the lantern | ed Bill with a whoop, and advancing to | fd it is always pra. liy solid. The for. canteloupes were never scarcer or worse. cenit Gena a o s) Venison! “What's the matter, Tommy?” asked the | over. By its Mght he saw my face and| the ticket window he gruffly inquired the | elgners do not discuss politics, and it is = * * & * * Ee ae eee ey ouins alt over a ichalr fm Beef Stakes! merchant. a recognized me, as did also the woman, and | fure to Black Hill impcesible to tell how they are going to rehitects are now brought face to face| front of a window commanding a view of Prairie Chickens! “I had a fight with Charlie,” was the | she sank down in her tracks and began to] “One dollar.” was the reply. vote, hence both sides are in the habit of With the bicycle question,” said a prom-| the avenue and apparently having a first-| And other toothsome meats, and you can |. ful 1 S 2. * weep and moan. Monroe cursed her to “A dollar fur me—BiN Thompson?” claiming them until the day of election. iment architect, “and they are studying the| rate time to be so far away from home, | eat a8 much as a grizzly and no one will hit oe t servoa | lence, and then asked me how I came there. | “os air, for you or anybody one Wisccnsin was admitted to be doubtful two Question as to the best means to house| The clerk took the reporter over to the | YOu, With 2 club. If our waiters are impu-| “Well, you ought not to fight. It servoa | lence, and my errand, and after a little he| “And you won't take a half years ego, and yet it gave a republican z : : gent or dilatory, stir them up with hot lead, | you right to gef. whipped, I guess,” sald | pulled “ane Tete the teal anae souatle pe “No. ar majority of 65,0. The northwest may be them in connection with the new houses| boy after a minute or two and introduced , E : > ‘ced | but don’t shoot at the crockery till we get the father. eee body, shut the door, and then forced a] “You won't take It with this thing be- | C°Unted as doubtful now, but the fight will they are to build. At present a bicycle is| him with the remark that the reporter | rich enough to huy tose. “But 1 didn’t get cked. I licked him,” | laugh and sald: hind it?” continued Bill as he shoved the | be close, one or the other tickets will re- in nine cases out of ten a nuisance and a| wanted to know about that fish story. OUR TERMS ARE CASH, sobbed the boy. “You gave us a great fright, and in my | coin along with the muzzle of his gun. ceive @ very large majority in each state thing detested by the average housekeeper.| “Well,” smiled the youngster, “it wasn't | And those who attempt to bilk’ us are “Well, what argiyow crying about, then?” | excitement I might have done you a bad| “No, sir, and——!” And there was a pop! | 22d people will wonder why the recut It scrapes off the paint from the wood-| #0 much of a fish story as it was a dog |Duried in the sand lots just behind the “Why, if I had let him lick me he] turn. Did you know, Bob, that the old Fork about doors and solls the walls of | Siecy: end it wasn't so much a dog story | Rouse. Therefore. come with the rhino, un- | couldn't hurt, And.I never thought about | hound ts dead—the one which Mr. Royal. the halls as well as the floors, The| 2fteF it was all over as it was when we . that, so now I have to fight his big brother, | ston liked so well?” finger, had an ear split. an eyebrow shot | “The hardest habit to break I ever con- first took the dog out with us. You see, it BILL GREEN, Sole Prop'r. | atout iayiates, fenduiveanickisinerancilrl Urrasidinoy a had maven seen le dog about | Sn” Peed whl Latte jamp is particularly disagreeable, for| was this way: Four or five of us soar THE BRUNSWICK. off, got a rake across the chin and another | ‘racted was the four-leaf clover habit,” going to, because I’m mad at him; then | the place. 1s | 2cFoss the scalp, and he didn’t have time | said L. D. Smithson of Indianapolis at the i jinety-nine cases out of every hun-| fellers about two or threo weeks ago touk | | Ths old and favorite resort for travelers | fy 'got to fight the, bingeat Mrot heey an | eweeee. ong to bury him here. ‘That's to fall until all was over. Then the agent | Raleigh. “I was spending « month mine dink te bake, “Te angie tee a notion we'd go a-fishin’, and we took a| Who desire rest and refreshment 1s open | he’s threo sizes bigger than me, and won't | the order, Yourknow how queer Royalston | opened the door of his office and lookes us aa pharar ‘here | 208 along. Ho was a nico little dog, that | #880 after extensive Improvements, and I catch it.” And Tommy refused to be | 1s? Well, he don’t want it known that the | Ober) the do country with a pleasant party of friends, enough to handle them, but at night there was so fond of water that people swore | We boldly declare it the peer of the finest | comforted. dog is dead or buried here. Will you prom-! «7 aidn’t shoot to kill, and he isn’t hurt | When one of them came in very much elated are few who can get them into the ordi-| fed never becn water, in Kentucky; but | hostlery in the world. It contains twenty- ee ee ise to keep still about 1t?7 much. The fare to Black Hill 1s one dollar | over finding a clover with four leaves, rary Eaglish basement door or in area-| he was. He was my dog, and I ought to | £°Ur rooms, which have been fitted up at an A RAILWAY MAIL sTory. sated down age a, G98." I replied. a8 | exactly one dollar. Any one cise want to| which, as tg well known, is supposed to 12%, Xeither is it convenient for them to| know. We was fishin’ in a pond, and after | XPense of $12 each, and over fifty pecple T looked down upon the figure. “This is—| got to Black Hill for a quarter?” be got into houses by the ewe bout th: he ayor “i |can find sleeping accommodations on the why, I can see the face, and it's a dead! “Without a word in repl ickea Bin | *Tins the best of luck to the finder. The a y rear alleyways. | sbout three hours of it we didn't git a| Ca? the billlard tables and in the beck | How « Newly Transferred Clerk Was 01 01 ply _we picl i: we are to keep the wheel we have to ar-| smell, much less a bite, and somebody come ene. 4 eee onthe baci Pop! pop! and six bullets were chasing each | C°uld not have been foretold other into Williams’ anatomy. He lost a man—it’s Mr. Royalston up and lugged him off. ‘He was aise s yo | result was that all of us hunted up clover pans for housing it, and this is the prob-| alcng and said the way to fish a pond was | ¥@%d in case of a rush. aes ED d young fool!” hissed Monroe, | sient mane We had got hin ait bandaged | Patches and started te search for four- lem that architects are now studying. 1| with dewacic. ‘The best of everything to eat, and no ex-| “In The Star a few evenings since I saw | as he seized and flung me do. confess that so far as I have learned much | “All we had to do was to sling a cartridge | ‘'@ charge for meals sent to rooms or for | an item to the effect that railway postal Loni Progress has not yet been made with it,| in, let her blow up and we'd have furore eee en ATGS Soe Ie Cool clarks iwerel requivedltolrenertlte acts teas See, SH Soro murine?” rai Ee wp Ge oe eS Anes Coe Gras a raficoad toad ogy “Us8 | supplied with a pall of water and a°bes er | perintendents all irregularities ‘on the part He made no reply. He had ropes there srags ¢ and was # 3 Bold at least two wheels. Already tenants | working down the road about a mile and tr | Matches. of their associate clerks, particularly in the In the tool house, and he tled my wrists but 1 thought 1 Gian’ es growled 73 ” 7 a habit grew upon me until I dream t in looking at houses for rent give as much | we'd go down there we could get foc nuit Rees Gale ee ee psed to board | matter of the use of lquor,” remarked a| and ankles and gagged me with a stick. In crew Spo igen attention to the matter of storing their | dollar enough to shoot all the fish in the | Ref® our fare was too rich for his & as he turned his face to the wall and shed | rour-ieafed clovers at night and wetehon are middle-aged gentleman to the writer on F| three minutes I MOEA a eee (oes for them wherever I went during the dagt heels as they did in former years to stor-| county. Me and another feller went along ROCKY MOUNTAIN DAN. street one day last week. n = irg their wood and coal. One of the com-| with him and they fixed up a cartridge ‘0 a xt Monroe said to the woman: LED E J E. There edgier People in the house and “ = FOO! TH U very one of them was clover crazy i Tolks who ride great ls that the kind of | tled to a floater, and all we had to do was | of 2m still holding forth at the old place | “I presume the rule was made for the| “Go into the house and wait for me. If wr ey One clover crazy inside vay—if you go.back on me—I'll of two days. I have been away from there Fauks "wo ride wheels and who want handy | to Ight the fuse, sling It in the pond and | 0, Third street, and never carried a bigger | purpose of promoting the efMciency of the | You Tun away a ve'll| A Successfal Ruse to Save a Con-| for two months and have steadfastly avoid places to gtore them are, as a rule, tho bet-| run like the devil, ‘The dynamite would de | Stock of the stuf than is now under my | Der hotn Gre tre aearee. maatees oF the Me eee will sen ren acaned Mathersey ieee ed hunting for clovers, but I cannot see @ Corman atreemants and the kind that house | the rest. We forked over the half dollars |" 00 Gum your OWN WHISKY. mails and a quick delivery depend very | DY ; i —— always want to please and satisfy course, they bought whisky with it—and Every critter is allowed to pour out his | much on the sobriety and alertness of the ‘What—what are you going to do with myiteestn one A went back to the pond, where the others | oun whisky, and the universal price of a | postal clerks.” the boy?” she stammered. “The remarks and questions of Li Hung| ‘Then we follered directions, but we for- Bean nee Spee fe the wince ake, 2 | “I know that,” smiled the first speaker. all ecu ymind! Do as I tell you, and | Sim ‘AGmunder’ was (oomimitied ‘aniec cather 4 inl Eour tented overs” Chang in connection with the ages of the | sot the dog: and when I slung in the car- DON’T SPIT COTTON “The item reminds me of an incident that | “r Could see and hear. Young as I was,| pecuifar circumstances. A man named older persons with whom he comes in con-| {7dge and the float. the dog he give a yelp | wnen Rocky Mountain nan i ready to | happened when I was a head clerk—they | I realized that Monroe must make way Bill Chadwick and a man named Tom tact 1s nothing remarkable, though it | 0fJ9%* 20d, bang! he went in after it. He | supply you with everything wet and help | call it ‘clerk in charge’ now—in the rall-| with me to save the pair of them» They Porome hes got it, too, and started for shore with It, | you to get gloriously drunk. way mail service in the west, and Capt.| had committed a foul murder, and I was | Plummer were enemies, and had been for strikes many as something new,” volun-| though w2 fired rocks at him and howled POST OFFICE NOTICE. White was superintendent of the diviston. | the only witness against them. He stood | some time, each having threatened the lite teered a prominent member of the Oldest | our lungs out to make him let it go. That's From and after this date all mails for| The captain is the best executive officer | looking down on me for a moment, his face | of the other. A reconciliation was effected, Inhabitants’ Association. “It ts rare,” he| the kind of a dog he was; he never did| pine Hill, Devil's Elbow, Grizzly Hill, Lone | the service ever had, and while he was in| very white and set. but with Something of | and one day the two men went hunting said, “that I ever talk to any one, man or | K2°W What to let go was. ‘Well. we seen Jack, Grass Valley and Dead Man’s Hill | charge of that division he had a smooth | compassion in his eyes. Then he produced . * Te,couldn't stay around there and we went | will leave Giveadam Guich ot ence o'clock | and persuasive way of getting the greatest | a handkerchief and blindfolded me. and|tegether. Plummer returned alone and Sousas. who t= noree ae years of age g-whoopin’. ‘and the dog came after us, | am. = 7 possible amount of work out of the men | after that I heard him getting out # long | sald he had bought Chadwick's horse, and a lions as | dra: e mite, for it wasn’t heavy, 1 ing. But that has n rope. sas, . . regards ago as Li Hung Chang. It ts the | 2nd catching up with us at forty miles an | ,A! Rtmarercciuee eee eacriers Todo with, Tay story . See ete again cautioned the woman, sent her See Seg existed, but | Syne shoot aint ae eee Fy yd old, old story, that ‘one touch of nature | OUr- = may get drunk and come in any time dur-| “At the terminal of my line the boys haa | cn to the house, and presently "he picked . and in a short distance y c to aD - He 7as_friskin’ his tall’ and: yelpin’, | ing tho evenia i “| a funny way of initiating any newcomer | me up. tossed me on his shoulder’ ara ect | Chadwick had no relatives and there was | iin short distance you come to roads, maxes the whole world kin.” Li Hung| pteased most to death, and we was yotang Pati personsicaiing Be che|panscallaaticeey |e teehee canto eh ae eS the | tinguishing the lantern, set off across tho|no way of disproving the story. Several | each equally straight. As to distances, the Chang Is laughed at for asking questions | scareder, for we knew that stuff was seine window for mall are nersby informed that | crew from some other route; several men | grounds. ‘From the moment te sigpped out | months later the bones of a man were | People never say they do not know. At frst that are often asked by the parents or| off pretty goon and when it did there wan shooting through the window will not | from different crews would take him out to | doors I knew where he was talline: out found where it was known Chadwick and | {20 Place is twenty miles away, five miles Sramiparents € those whe do tha laugh | Sune 10 Be Reavy thunder. “¥ don't know | hasten the dalfvery or aan: see the town at night, and the almost in-| Half way up a steep hiliside and = milo furthe> on it Is ‘about forty miles,’ then ‘Sh-| what would have happened if ft hadn't sini e del fi mail tn the slightest. variable result was that the new fellow | away, on land owned by some non-resident, | Plummer had been together on the day a-been for a fence that we got over. “The fo letters sent unless stamped. No trust A 5 Jit Dele up and put to bed before he was ready to | leafed clovers. Some of us found them, He'll betray us if we don’t kill him, and | tan, and then he simply inquire pile ities SAMA eck bighithes ek eee, “Boys, who did all that shootin’ resumed the next day. At first J was indif- Why, the feller you said you could | ferent as to whether I found any or not, bluff,” answered one of the boys. but, after I had picked the first one, the “Some years ago I was on the bench in | C!UMP of the plants without carefully scru- E tinizing it to see if there are any with four a Nebraska circuit,” said Judge A. R.| icaves. And, by the way, I never had as Simmons of Omsha to a Star reporter. good luck in my life as since I began to “It is remarkable how indifferent people in some sections of the country are as to where the roads they live upon lead,” said R. P. Linden, a traveling salesman from Philadephia, at the Riggs. “I frequently have to drive for considerable distances and almost invariably have trouble finding the roads. In response to all queries, the usual is interviewed who ing. Some years ago it was my good for- ee % ; the former disappeared. By means of the | says it is ‘five miles and a quarter.’ I often ‘a 0 aft, jung ‘0 treet Gladstone at his home in Eng-| dog ‘couldn't get the float through the | oF stamps. If SS Es on zou own) | Wouldkbentes Pee Oe Mein ee had vinnK | boots and @ peculiarity of the teeth the | aavait is “ve miles and # querer, 1 often nd. I had a letter of introduction to him, | cracks, and while he was dragging at it | 3t2™Ps they won’ Ages > 1 “it | Temains were identified as these of Chad-| how far my destination is, and I never yet Sr nis fist remark to me waa ‘I am an) ond barkin’ ft to kill, that cartridge went | ;,A0¥, Derson Kicking in the door and aroug. | out, him. Such @ res fof the crew would | was Slonely neighborhood, Eniver that J¢| Wick. “Plummer was errested tried, one: | ROW, f2F m3 any one who said he did not . z u stm: afte ec! |, an wor 1, e shaft at 7 - n = a puter man than you are.’ AS a matter of tact | off right by Tis nose, and when we got on | 108 ho postmaster after midnight will get come to their labor the next day prepared | least forty feet ieee eee ie throw me | “Sires or four days before the tie fixea | KROW: OF any two elon ptcanegrenynd map he is ten years older than I am, though I do| our feet again at the foot of the hill we JIM HELLSO, P.M. | to do the new man’s work for him on that | down that shaft and there wouil to =o $65 the cateneal res gd ght aigrtclcdin tendencies Ty it, rot carry my age by any means as well as | couldn't see anything of dog nor floater nor DRUGGIST AND PHARMACIST. — | trip. Of course, this was not known at | grave to dig, and it would be only by the a es aaae aa my office | tant some of the people ae E = he does. Three of four persons who saw | about four panels of fence. They all went Having been bulldozed by the editor of | headquarters. merest chance that my body would be | 924 saluted me: but they would not admit the fac Gladstone the same day I saw him were | together, and we felt so thankful when we | ,H8vins been advertising in his paper, I| | “A young man, a slight, frail fellow, was | found. If not killed by the fall, thor snes first addressed by him as regards their | picked ourselves up that we organized a hereby announce that I have the best gen- | transferred from a run in northern Michi-| and hunger would do for me in three or ” ages. When a man passes his seventy-tifth | Prayer, meeting right there and sung a eral drug store in all Arizona. gen-| Zan to our line, and when he reported to | four days. I do for cones td kk * he Smithian4,” seid A. T. Russell, a Louisville milestone as Li Hung Chang has, it matters | hymn. ‘TWENTY KINDS OF SOAP me for, duty tho rest of the crow put thelr] “Monroe walked off with me at a swinging | ..",,1,feckoned you ‘The feller Tom Prax: | traveling man, at the Cochran. “It is not whether he is a Chinaman or Christian, on Zabmnne. avai to select from In case you happen to feel | heads together, and tho result was the reg- | gait, and in ten minutes he was at the BIC ee eas GCONVIRNOn matGTe m- | county seat and ten miles from a railroad. he gives frequent thought to the ages of eclet MUSEney~ Mke taking a wash, and as we are badly | War initiation. I was informed a couple of | He ‘deposited me on the ground, loobei “] was naturally greatly surprised, and hon the river—in fact, on two those who he comes in contact with. It is | Frem the Chicago Tribune. stuck on the tooth brushes we laid in a | days later by one of my crew named Tom, | about, caught his breath, and then bent | somewhat doubtful as to the truth of his | A/‘2oue! : the dak the Kiam not surprising, therefore, that he asks ques- “I lke to see a large man,” said Fell- year ago, we have reduced the price to ten | @ man whose capacity for fluids was sup- | over as if to loosen the ag or some of the roe But he stuck to it under the most | Tver, it being at the mouth of e Cum. flons about ages as Li Hung Chang does. | aire tocmerly Rusty Rufus—regarding with | cents each. posed to be unlimited. that four of the | ropes or to speak to me. I have always be, Fiala iocoes caainination: 5 berland—during several months there is a dest an a wi ready to fizz when and ‘show him 7 the ris! een less. Perhaps some noise t vay tor been so since the days of Dr. Blake, the | stopped him on the street to ask for a| Wie, oll Teady, to faz when putting on (re | “About the first cne to show up for duty | ee faak, been, less. suddenly straightened | $10.05 Kansas. diane hese sey and mekeryg Hated nay peneteg ny 4 first president, and Nichoias Callan, the| dime. “I like to see a big, husky man, | much style, and came in and shot all the | at the car the next poe was Jim, in| up, lifted me from the earth, and the next trial ‘til after it was over, so when I did ~<A poate going by boat. The next day the fret secretary, is largely devoted to a com-| even if he isn’t worth enough Powder to | faucets off. We have decided to let go of | 00d working trim and fresh as a daisy. I| instant I was falling through space, Ire hear, I thought it Would be a shame to let | beats could not land, #0 I had to hire a Bors sari a Lt Ryco ater | Mo Mm um For Sontanon tion Yaa | tle cet at gre bantu, Garon | Gan Sevchrerbaeg out yt govhng ood | meme att ee SF OY tty | Rew fought oul be wey i 2 s é beer and lemonade which will make your | 28 the , lescont= ei © turn over three or | “1 took the man to the uth te very stable, and remarked to These questions of Li Hung Chang have ¥cur six-foot frame. I wish I had a foot | Peet and ‘Whisky by the drink, ‘ai, | Were short one fian—Tom. fcur times—of striking at the bottom with riwick clita, | Up the only livery stable, mr . a eiiiors 4 known Chadwick slight! jetor, ‘This is a hard town to get been of great interest to me, for the reason | a8 big as yours.’ and shooting at the colored lights permit, I wonder where Tom is? I remarked, | a crash, and then I knew no more for wer | tomney, who had ~ ¥. | the proprietor, zs we - that, though they came from a man who Do ye?” said the gratified hobo. ‘atte: Gack. permitted | purning to the: ‘crew, “Have any of you| haps an hour. Then I opened my eyes and | 874 he identified the man as the one sup-| (he of.’ ‘Easiest in the world. sir, as bis 3 = rowva | but when a feller holds a gun under your ey Sh Pee ee injured. Tt teat toe ee nom | time to secure a pardon for Plummer you want to.’ He drove ference among men, it matters not from | Sreasy, slop-fed, hulking scoundrel! You've nose, what can you do about it? Sick this morning,’ replied Jim, as he threw a badly I was injured. It took but a short — can go any minute y 3s where they come. Indeed, it gives me a| hung about this town till everybody knows : i 34 | bag, of paper mail on his table. satisfy me that no bon Both Plummer and -Chadwick disap-| me over to the station and charged me better Idea of Chinese character than I} you: If you had a particle of pride in your | Well; living or, dead. sive us Sree and | OF where Wantlio? ‘Was i inquiry, broken, though I had been terribly orulsen, | PESFed, as s00n as the former was released, for the ten-mile drive. ‘Ain't that pretty have ever had. It shows that they, too, | calling you'd be half way to San Francisco THE CENTIPEDE SALOO} 4 though their faiths and hopes are based on} by this time and living on the fat of the Bs “There is a town on the Ohio river named ‘He and three other fellows were laid d I had ceased to think about the strange 2 1 asked, as I paid it. “Not at all. At the bottom of the pit was a mass of | °° stee asked, out under a table in a saloon on East affair when I changed circuits with an- You in luck. Regular expenses are $5 coxnizant of the fact that there Is an end | not out of town in two hours I'll turn you | Ness _ in Givead - ; It would weary you to give the details of y t Chad: | you was only charged for today’ eweye~4 ee eee eee ree ne cee eh omte |e oe ONE NCHED a3 MOBS; as : the next three days and nights. The shatt | [°rd’s attention to him, and asked if Chad-| ff we hudn’t got the customer yesterday it inamen seldom : but the fourth, who is your humble ser- was so plumb and the sides so smooth that | Wick, lived there. would have cost you $10." Then I was glad wee ee vant, is accounted a bad “speaking of ahi fear of the ropar. Qywith : the best climber could not have escaped. ‘I Bill Chadwick? No, he don’t live any-| i) have escaped from the easiest town in “The campaign orators, in “speaking o: andehusinoiteseioriis ; rope. A doctor |. ; ee G41 mount up twenty feet by cutting holes | Where- the country to et out of. the use and want of money,” said a broker, yee half a block to attend all wourded 5 . ie the Hee ae oc sees cee feet, but oThere are some Brawbacks to apes i i i % ‘A z. n a ick strat rock sto] me. os 25 on eee, Cree Dome ty wee ere : WE ARE NOT WICKED, : : fe agcatleagiocimeipiuntiieiecsuiatoe meres: Se a then S0t | summers in the country,” said Walter E. som that they have no prattical knowledge but we do like to see things moving lively. ‘ speak above a whisper. There was a slight | Pow. And I did Lot tel ningy vont POW | Draper of Chillicothe, Ohio, at Willard’s. Se ee ne eee , Customers allowed to shoot at the glasses trickle of water down one side of the shaft 2 “I tried four places this summer, and they talk heard of the scarcity of money in do- and decanters, and no objections on the |- / : —just enough to wet the tongue—but I was Segre tree. mg the volume of business. Now, the fact part of the barkeepers to being popy : 7 By, without a morsel of food. F had the con: For the Use of Artists. is, that money only performs 5 per cent of you seek an old-time pis ce don’t pass : ae solation of knowing that I would be| From Fiiegende Blatter, the business of the country. Ninety-five ce » Prop’r. ake ‘ A | searched for, and it occurred to me that e business ._-Ninety- were all alike. At home I have fresh but- ter, milk and eggs, and it was these I mirsed most in the country. Every farmer —_.—__ : some of the boys who had visited the old ccntracts for his butter and ees, and tt baer agp pep heery eran ai SUPPORTS SIX CHILDREN. EE ey Coney wom remeber she F takes all he has to fill his orders, for the notes, bonds and other instruments. Be- : SS Flace and investigate. I was searched for, , een bniei athe bc sateen kat ae Ee hind ‘them all ts confidence, and it is re- A Mother Who ts the Captain of « ; : ‘ as I may tell you, but in an altogether dif! markable how much confidence does in the transactions. A remarkable illustration of this confidence ceme under my observa- of nai Bon: g 4 ferent direction. Before Monroe and the e d supply in the country. There is plenty hoe te ‘if SEE woman left the house, which they did on B 3 milk, but it must not be used until after There is at present running into Wash- 4 the afternoon after the murder, the man the cream has been very carefully re- ington a little woman who has for the \ gave out that he had given me a dollar, and Hiei — kG moved, or the supply of butter aed = tion ears i Dy it been tal cana! i 2 PR. | that I had run away. My friends were, 6 <e * hort. Then there is no market to whicl steel: besericy bs ti spe eraravalete Ter eae ee ee i : = therefore, searching the highways and in. 7 the country woman can go for vegetables, 5 sotoalie? Ooncttaas Tk nine boat, and makes as good time as any of ‘ quiring in the surrounding towns while I and consequently they must, as a rule, be Pinte Ee ee the men. Mrs. Eugene Stephens is captain Was dying of hunger in the old pit a mile z f dispensed with. In running @ grain or ape a of canal boat No. 124, running on the : away. 2 g stock farm, there is no time to bestow upon iactaechiirasirdediibqudal Tiegh were ial Chesapeake and Ohio canal between this |; Z Z At the end of the third day I had given : | lccaum Seek Sncwing ts oneter tee Sencentacitonelat'J onda tisasent antlers city and Cumberland, a distance of 184| 3 bp all hopes, and it had come sundown ; s ness altogether. As to butter, the farmer nd there were one thousand of them i og when a small animal suddenly appeared be- Bs generally uses that which he cannot sell. the ba ed hfe dred me usand dollars eraiey "| fore me. It was a woodchuck, and he had $ aos a There is no way of getting fresh beef, so aes sededicna thems audvanet The round trfp generally takes about 7 dug his way into the pit from the downhill that it is really very. difficult, without beef, Ee he ble Te tae ates tal twelve days, and Mrs. Stephens is always | ,H@—“How would you lke to own aera} side, f tried to seine him ton ts sore vegetables, eggs, and good butter and milk, York took the loan and advanced the | y on time, doing all the work herself, with cessful. There was the hole in the bank, Painting eogine—Particularly recommend- | for country people to set g90d tables. They the help of her six children, three boys and though, and I at once set about enlarging | ed to modern artista, in consideration of the | have nothing lke the resources enjoyed by it with my hands, knowing it must have many art exhibitions. those who keep boarders in the cities.’ money. One year afterward the loan was She—"Oh, Mr; Softly, this ts so sudden!” —London Punch.