Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1898, Page 16

Written for The Evening Star. “Egg rolling, which furnishes so much amusement for the children in Washing- ton,” remarked a Georgia representative to a Star reporter, “and which, by the . is entirely unknown in the scuth. Here the children make Easter | Monday the big day of the year. Now, all through Georgia, and I think the custom prevails in other southern states, the chil- @ren have their Easter fun on the Satur- day preceding Easter. Insiead of egg roll- ing, the children of Georgia have lots of fun with egg hunting. The sport is not un- ke, though, as the name indicates, it is somewhat different, eggs, of course, play- ing the principai part. Instead of rolling the eggs down a hill and chasing them, with us, the eggs are hidden in a field or lot by the older folks, nurses and the like, ard the children are turned into the field to find inem The eggs are hidden in out- of-the-way places, under the grass, in fence corners and other places. The child who finds the largest number of eggs is de- clared the winner and is given the prize decided upon. As a rule, these egg-hunt- ing parties are given for the financial bene- fit of Sunday schools, and a small admis- sion f>c is charged to all who participate in them. There is a fee, generally ten cents, im the larger cities, charged for admission of parents and other lookers on. This fee, also, pays for light refr lemonade. candies, &c. Egg hunting fur- nishes no end of amusement, and always takes pl. in the afternoons. In the coun- try the day 1s not so generally observed. though many families have egg huntings for ir children on aster Saturday. s to my information, egg rolling i from our egg hunting. In the ner, the eggs are Ccoked and are eaten by the children is find them. Either of the customs is |. and serves to impress Easter upon minds more than even the stricily church ceremonies celebrating the event.” ** *& EK “I had a rather u experience re- cently m Norfoik,” observed a traveling agent for a printing press firm to a Star reporter. “I had a list of the printing of- fices in Norfolk, and on my arrival there preceeded to call on them, in an effort to sell me of the goods in my line, make bids for repairs, exchange and trade pur- peses generally. The first place J struck was that of an engraving and copper-plate printing concern. On entering the office, I, as usual, handed my card to the first man I saw and asked him who was the boss. He smiled, but'said nothing, pointing to a worknian who stood near him. I next ad- dressed the man pointed out. He looked at the card, smiled also, but sald nothing, end turned to a man who worked next him. I took it that I had made a second mistake, and then walked over to the third man. He, hike the others, read the card, smiled, but made no reply. It began to get through my bead by this time that they were all queering me, and 1 was upon the peint of reading the riot act to the whole establishment, and in very violent lan- guage, when one of the workmen drew out @.pad and began to write. . Then I cooled down, for he wrote, ‘We are all mutes, and you will please write." The fact was, that every man at work, from the boss all the way down to the apprentice boys, were deaf and dumb. There was not one cor.- nected with the place who could talk, and they explained that they did not intend or desire to queer me. All the same, I en- tered into correspondence’ with the boss, and im less than an hour I sold him a Press with much less work than I would have in doing the same amount of business With a boss who could talk. Though I have traveled nine states for over ten years, in my line, it was a brand new one on me. I eculd not forego the pleasure of having them all take a beer with me. I assure you, thougn, they can ail drink beer as naturally and as gracefully as if they were talking printers. ments, peanuts, e * « * * “There is a cemetery tn Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which wins out according to my experience,” said a prominent to- bacco dealer to a Star r2porter. “I spent my Easter Sunday there and was wonder- fully entertained and interested. It is the burial place of the Moravians, a com- munistic religious organization, which ex- ists there m very large numbers. The Moravians are a very desirable kind of People. They are strict in their religious Views, ft is true, but they are a determined, untiring and prosperous people. They all work and they RO one a penny. In their cemetery. in their life, they have @ place for everything and evarything in its place. At one end of the cemetery Married men are buried and the opposite side married women. At the other end un- married women, and on th? opposite side the unmarried men are buried. Each grave bas a stone, but it contains nothing beyond the bare announcement of the name of the deceas>d, no date of death or age of the Geceased being given in any case. Children @re placed respectively on the male and fe- male sides of th> cemetery, but there is no femily grouping.” eee tt “I had occasion to ferry a river down in ‘Tennessee recently,” related a Post Office Department official to a Star reporter, “and quite naturally had a talk with the man who op>rated the ferry, which was of the kind used in our grandfathers’ days, a small flat boat pulled by a windlass ar- fangement by a rope attached to either shore. The ferryman was about fifty-five years of age and seemed perf2ctly content- ed with his calling. Incidentally he men- tioned the fact that he originally lived in Paterscn, N. J. ‘I started out to read law,’ he said, ‘in the offic? of Socrates Tuttle, in that city, but in a little while tired of it, and after a time wandered south, where I hhave lived ever since. A few weeks aftzr I left the office Mr. Tuttle got a young man to take the place as office boy and student. That young man took easier to law than I did, and though for a whil? he may have kicked in the traces, he buckled down to bard work and study, and became mucn More valuable to Mr. Tuttle than I ever. could. Today he is, besides being a great | Jawyer and a very rich man, respected by every one who knows him in Paterson, a3 | elsewhere, Vice President of the United States, and his name ts Garrst Hobart. The third boy that Mr. Tuttl> took has had almost an equally distinguished career. He 1s a great lawyer also, though may be Not as rich as far as money is concerned, but he will get there just the same. Who is he? Why, John W. Griggs, tha Attorney General of the United States. Pretty turnout for one Paterson law office, fort #? A Vice President of the United States, @n Attorney General of ths United States and the ferryman of this the crookedest Fiver in Tennessee. Now, privately, let me whisper in your ear—I think I have had. mors fun in life than any of Mr. Tuttle’ ic cea Don’t = think I look it? They, don’t suppose, have any gray hairs oh eir heads and min: . =z * * e is all gray.’”” ee * “I had a dream once that I died from preumonia.” said a well-known southern fran who made a very creditable record as pm officer in th> confederate army, to a Ptar reporter. “It was one of those per- tent dreams that I could not shake off. ile under its influence I think P suffered intense pain as I afterward did when I Bad @ real case of pneumonia. The dream fo controlled me that I spoke about it to fhe members of my family, to the exclusion almost everything else, for several days. few weeks the war broke out, and ths young men of my section of North Carolina I entered the confederate army as @ private, though I held a commission when the war ended. When the day came for me to leave my hom> my mother, who hed packed up about everything I thought ould ne2d, much of which I hed to drop by the wayside soon after, asked me if there was anything else that I could think of that I would need. In an apologizing kind of way I said y2s, that I would like a box of mustard for use in casqJ ever got the pneumonia, such as I dreamed of, for I forgot to say I dreamed that after I was dead a mustard plaster on my side cured my pain. When I looked into my sack I found it se full of stuff that I could not find a place for the box of mustard, 2nd I thought I would hav: to leave it. My mother, however, said she would manage it. That night I started out to conquer the whole Yankee army, and just as I was about leaving the door of my house a pain struck me in my side, exactly the place af- fzcted in the attack of pneumonia from which I had my dream death. It passed off in an instant, not, however, until I had asked my mother if she had found a place for the mustard. She told me she could not find space in my knapsack, but that she bad sewed up a bundle of mustard in a parchment bag in ths lining of my over- coat. I carried that overcoat four years and had felt the mustard sewed up in the breast lining hundreds of times, but never supposed I would have to use it. it was four y2ars to a day from the date of my enlistment, when I was taken sick, and with me a man in my company, for by that time I was an officer, we were bundled off to a field hospital, neither one of us having any idea what was the matter with us. That night th2 doctor, the sur- geon of a South Carolina regiment, visited us. He told us bluntly that we were suf- fering from pneumonia and that the chances were all against us. ‘If I could put a mus- tard plaster on you I could save you both,’ he said, ‘but as you know, mustard is a rare possession in this part of tha south now, a giain of it equaling in value a grain of gold, and scarce at that.’ All of a sudd2n the lining of my overcoat came to my mind, and I asked if my coat was handy. I was téld it was, and in a few moments the doc- tor had it ripped open. Mixing it up with scme bad bran, he divided it up at my re- quest into two: plasters, and my comrade and myself have been able to eat three uare meals every day since, barring the remainder of the war, when we w2re rather high toned and only indulged in one regu- lar meal a day, and ate the rest in our minds. Though pneumonia killed me in my dream, the same dram furnished me with the ammunition which baffled death when he attacked us. My mother went to heaven without knowing that the bag of mustard she sewed in my coat saved my life and that of my comrad:.' x * KOK OK “The shoe trade is rather perplexed just now,” explained the drummer of a leading shoe manufactory to a Star reporter, “over the coming scale of prices for rubbers. It has been the practice for many years to announce the prices of rubbers for the year on April 1, but this year the rubber making firms said to the retail and jobbing trade that they would not be able to give the prices until May 1, one month later than the custom. Though there are fourteen rubber shoe manufactories in this country, they are members of what is termed the United States Rubber Company, which is a trade trust pure and simple, and was or- ganized for business purposes. Rubber is a scarce article of late years, the supply by no means keeping up with the demand, which is increasing enormously. According to the latest English cables, there are only sixty tons available in the English mar- kets, which confrol the trade of the world. The shos trade does not. know exactly whether it will be safer to buy at last year’s prices or hold off until the prices for this yéar are announced. As there is no competition, the prices fixed by the trust must be paid. While there is plenty of competition in leather and its products, there is, as said before, none in the rubber branch ofthe trade. This explains why there are plenty of cut prices in leather shoes, but none as far as rubber shoes are concerned. The scarcity of the product will, in my opinion, add to the coming prices for rubber shoes, though tt may not affect consumers to a very marked degree. It may do so, however. Anyhow, it keeps the shoe trade guessing. The shoe trade proper is also interested in disposing of a large stock of razor-pointed shoes made a couple of years ago, when sharp points were fashionable, “Foothpick’ toes made up to sell at $4.50 per pair can now be pur- chased in large lots at prices which would enable the wearer to get them at $1.25; but even at that rate there is no howling demand for them. The only hope of the trade is to work them off in southern coun- try towns at cut prices.” < xk ke * “The generally accepted idea among the Feople at large is that life insurance com- panies grab up avery applicant who offers himself,” said an insurance writer to a Star reported, “but there never was a more erroneous impression. Of course, I won't go into details, give names or instances, but it is in my knowladge that there is a very large number of men in this es well as in other cities who are clamoring for life policies, endowments, etc., but who can- not get them at any price. By an agree- ment among th> leading companies the Dames of rejects are passed around, as well as the reasons therefor, for mutual protec- tion. It does not help out an applicant who is rejected by one company to apply to an- other company, for th3 information that he has been rejected has got there ahead of him. One out of every six applicants last year wae rejected, while but one out of every two hundred whe were insured dur- ing the year died. ———— Am Arab Proverb With a Point. From the Cairo (Egypt) Sprinx. Who can affirm that the mule entered the jug? This proverb Is frequently quoted to show that, though one may conscientiously be- eve in a thing which may seem extrava- gant in itself, it is better not to Tepeat it from fear of being disbelieved. It arises frcm the following Arabic legend: An Arab who denied the existence of genii bought a mule and tock it home. When performing Els evening ablutions he saw the mule enter @ jug, and this so scared him that he ran shouting to the neighbors and told them what he had seen; they, thinking him mad, endeavored to appease him, but all in vain. he vociferated more and more, so that the avthorities sent him to the madhouse. Wten the doctor came to see him he re- peated the account of what he had seen, whereupon the doctor ordered him to be de- tained. He continued, upon each visit of the doctor, to repeat his statement until his friends succeeded in persuading him that, if he wished to regain his freedom, he must recant; this he did, and the doctor set him at liberty, to the great joy of his fam- ily and friends. On making his ablutions as before he again saw the mule this time peeping out of the jug, but on this occasion he contented himself with remarking to the mule: “Oh, yes, I see you well enough, but who would believe me? And I have had enough of the madhouse.”” ument contains the whole history lo, and completely contradicts the given by ————~-—____ Unanswerable, From Life, “If you Insist upon knowing, there two reasons for my refusing you.” “And they are?” “Yourself and another man.” THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL BLUEJACKETS ON WHEELS} Capt. Bigsbee’s bicycle was taken from the Maine wreckage, after having been in the mud of Havana harbor for five days, nd those who read this fact seemed to find some difficulty in imagining a saflor on a bicycle. Yet not only are the offi- cers of the United States navy addicted to the bike habit, but the bluejackets them- selves are enthusiastic cyclists. On ac- count of the cramped living and -stowage quarters of the men forward on a man-of- war, the sailors in our navy are not, now permitted to take bikes aboard ship, but agitating this for some time. At least half of the officers, however, are the owners of bicycles, which they take along with them on their cruises. The bluejackets who are fond of biking no sooner strike a port, in this country or abroad, wherein the roads are good for riding, than they go ashore in a body, rent machines and take long spins. The blue- jackets are pretty apt at learning to ride, Probably because they sre without fear of physical injury, but, nevertheless, it ts a funny sight to ses a man in the bluejacket uniform trying to mount a wheel for the first time. The sailor scorns the assistance of any teacher, whether the teacher be a shipmate or a civilian, and he simply wants to get the knack of It at the first go- off, and in rine cases out of ten he suc- ceeds in this, on account of his fearless- ness. He will not pull his wheel up along- side a one to mount it even for the first time, but places it right in the middle of the road and makes the ese from the step. If he falls off, well good; he pi himself up and tries it again. When he finally gets under way, however wobbly, he usually sticks on, by reason of his in- stinct for keeping the pedals moving. eee AT THE RACES. Betting With a Woman Whe Always Relies on Tips, “I will wager you the nicest hat I can find to a box of suede gloves that Tappan will beat Gen. Maceo,” said a pretty and enthusiastic young Washington matron to her husband in the grand stand, out at the Benning race course the other afternoon. “Done,” said the husband, smilingly. “There's a fine case of ‘heads I win, tails you los ’ whispered the husband, grin- ning, to a man friend beside him, after he had scribbled the bet in his betting book. “My wife never pays a racing bet under any circumstances, you see. Neither does any other man’s wife, when her husband is the winner. They ‘forget,’ you know. Yet my lady holds me very strictly indeed to the payment of my wagers with her. but I like to make a race interesting for her, by giving her an opportunity to bet with me on the result, and I am consoled for having to square occasional winnings made by her in these bets by the knowledge, based upon experience, that she rarely picks more than one out of twenty winners. What I pick up in the way of ‘good things,’ ‘sure win- ners,’ and hot tips of all kinds, I turn over to my wife, and let her bet on them against me. The infrequency with which these things go through of course gives me the best of it—but did you ever meet a woman who would not mortgage everything she possessed on a hot tip’ —_-___ COULD NOT BE RETURNED. The Article in Question Had Been Used Too Long. This is one of the yarns of childhood. Six-year-old Tommie was sent by his eldest sister to the corner grocery to buy @ pound of lump sugur. He played allies on his way to the store, and by the time he arrived there he had forgotten what kind of sugar he was sent for. So he took home @ pound of the granulated article. His eldest sister sent him back to the store to get lump sugar. After the proprietor of the grocery shop had made the change for the little lad he engaged Tommie in con- veraation. “Tommie,” said he, “I understand there is a new member of your family. “Yes, sir,” replied the kid; little brother.” “Well, how do you like that, hey?” in- quired the grvceryman. “Don’t like it at all,” said Tommie; “rather have a little sister.” “Then, why don’t you change him, Tom- mie?" “Well, we would if we could; but I don’t suppose we can. You see, we have used him four days now!" SS RULES FOR GOLF. ve got a A Comprehensive Set Made Up by One Who Knows. From Pearson's. The most important thing, of course, is the costume. After that comes the Scotch accent. Both are expensive, but golf is not @ poor man’s game. Then buy or steal your golf club. There are exactly 2,347,-. 699,008 of them in existence, but one will do to start with. Don’t be discouraged at hitting only the atmosphere the first seven times you make @ drive with your weapon, your toe the next fourteen times and the seat of a by- stander’s knickerbockers the next time after that, but continue to persevere. In a month or two you will be able to hit the ball and land it into some bystander’s mouth, and then, oh, joy! Never pick up your ball in your hand, drop it in a hole when nobody is looking, and then shou! “By Jove, just look at this beautiful shot of mine there are @ great many bigoted individuals who would consider it cheating. The etiquette of the game is thus de- scribed: 1. It is considered very bad form for a player or spectator to talk, move or breathe within forty miles of the ball when a stroke is being made. It is generally understood that the earth stops spinning on its axis when a game of golf is going on for fear of jogging the player. 2. Players should not appear on the grounds with golf stockings previously worn while bicycle riding. This would be an outrage on the dignity of the game. A new pair of stockings, with a different plaid pattern, should be donned by every player after each stroke of the ball. (This does not apply to the lady players.) 3. Turf cut or knocked up in the air by a blow that misses the ball should be instant- ly replaced, so as not to spoil the appear- ance of the links. Teeth of spectators knocked out or skin damaged by wild blows do not matter so much—unless they belong to members of the same club as yourself. 4. If a ball falls into a pond, lake or ocean, the player who made the stroke must immediately dive for it without re- moving his golf costume, and must stay under water until the ball is found. The fine against this violation of good taste is forbidding the violator to turn down the tops of his golf stockings more than half an inch (a very degrading fine). 5. Golf should always be pronounced goff by those players who move in the best so- elety. For ordinary persons it makes no difference. And on every occasion it should be spelled with a capital G. . ——_—_—_-o-___ A Plausible Opinion. From Puck, “I met a Southerner yesterday who in- sists that ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’ brought on the war. “Well, some of the companies I have see! in the ‘were quite oatitien?” it Is likely that before very long they will be allowed to stow their bikes in unused store rooms. The men forward have been 16, 1898-24 PAGES. AN ELOQUENT TIPSTER ‘Whea the crowds debark from the trains} THE DAYS OF-GLONG AGO entertaining spell-binding of a seedy man, of apparently liberal education, who ped- dies printed tips on the races of the day at 20 cents each. The man looks like a Once- Was, who has brought himself dewn by a too fevered career. His enunciation and pronunciation of words are equally excel- lent, and his oration to the throngs pass- ing down the board walk to the grand stand entrance is provocative of a lot of laughter. His spiel is something like this: “Men of the world, I appeal unto your wiedom, and not unto your lust for gain. I am in this business from purely PlLilanthropic motives. I love my kind. I grieve over the disappointments of my fel- low men. I perfectly appreciate the fact that you have come hither, not for the sake of accruing base lucre on winners, but for the sole purpose of satisfying yourselves and your friends by exhibiting sufficient (the national capital © since the year 1531), t0 I venture to assert th: Congress were to a4 week—even if no gr national policy happened sideration—for the: members to attend \the sixty-two yeats ago, when both houses of Congress urned in order that the senators and rep! tatives might be present at a match race between two fam- ous horses of that period. sway befo’ dey gits ter runnin’ Jim Crow cars an’ sech-Ifke insultin’-ness.” “7 wisdom to get on the winners. Gentlemen, “Why, Auntie, don’ the rate was We, late Spring of 1830 and Tam the font of that wisdom. In the ver-| 6 Very good in Lent was she— any one thinks of doing that here do your" she at she en nacular of the pave, gentlemen, I am in As good es any lass could be— “i Keeps mer eves open, honey, an’ I Fave: ee dof eck feerreg Mount Pleasant. | Possession of ‘the know.’ These litye print-| We feared to see the epringtime come; | krows Geal “bout feelin's. ‘The pair of g! horses that were match. | © Slips that I hold in my hand, ready to For there must be much havoc gay Jim purvey for the modest, humble sum of half @ peseta, otherwise ten American cents or dime, are each and every one of thém, gentlemen, the corner stones, the nucleus of colossal fortunes—of gigantic accumu- lations of money, gentlemen. They bear, printed in excellent wood type, the names of all of the horses that ere going to win today, in one, two, three order. If you in- quire how I know they are going to win, I refer you to the inscrutable, esoteric force whence I derive my information. I refer you also to the fact that yesterday I picked four out of five winners. My wrath against the bookmakers is such that I devote my iliimitable powers of foresight to the task of rendering them bankrupt. Therefore, my friends, be guided. I speak for your I have your interests at heart. Oh, how I love my fellow men! Oh, how I ache over the disappointments of my brothers! Oh, how it grieves me to look into the unutterably saddened countenances of losers! Oh, how I mourn over the short- sightedness of noble, generous men who permit the glorious, unprecedented offer I extend to them to aggregate mammoth wealth in one single afternoon, to go un- heeded! For 10 little copper disks, stamped with the mighty authority of this smiling land, gentlemen, I offer you the opportun- ity to instantly pile up wealth beyond the dreams of avarice! Be wise! Be astute! If you lose on any tip of mine, I'll refund you your losings, though they amount to the thousands, yea, gentlemen, even though they climb into the millions!’ —— BATTLING AGAINST REDSKINS. ed to race for a big stake in those deya— $5,000—were Boston and Fashion. Not- withstanding his Yankee name, Boston was a Kentucky thoroughbred, and the south- erners, including the legislatora who at- tended the race, bet_on him to a man. Fashion was a New York stallion, and had the northern following en bloc. Th race was not run off~until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, but from 10 o'clock in che morning therewas.a mighty stream cf horsemen ploughing along the old 14th street road in the direction of the track. The legislators were nearly all riders in those daye, and they all made it a point to attend the local races mounted.’ The adherents to the respective horses got up cavalcades of their own, and the spectacle at the track was, in my opinion, quite as beautiful as any to be seen on a modern Tace coufse, for the society women of Washington turned out for the rece in a body. There were no regular tally-ho coaches in Washington in those days, but the old stages that used to run between Washington and Georgetown were char- tered for the occasion by parties of young men and women, and I guess the members of these parties had just as much fun ss do the passengers on modern tally-hos. “At that time mounted gentlemen in- terested in the outcome of races were per- mitted to ride within the track inclosure, and on this occasion there were scores of the famous men of the land thus riding frantically during the progress of the race from one side of the track to the other, watching the performance of their favo ite. There were no such silly racing af- fairs in those days as five-furlong sprints, and this great race between Boston and Fashion was a four-mile event. It was extraordinarily exciting, too, for the first Trace between the two magnificent animals was a dead heat. They hung to each other without the apparent difference of an eye- lash during the whol four-mile trip, and it was nostril and nostril when they shot under the wire. The cheering was magnificent. After about an hour, when the horses were rested, they were rut on the track again, and again they hung to- gether for three solid miles. Then Fash- fon, the northern horse, gradually drew away, and he came in several lengths ahead of the Kentucky thoroughbred. The northern men went about among their friends collecting thelr even-money bets— there was no bookmaking and the betting was all between friends—and the men from the south proyed what good losers they were by theif’ enthusiastic indorse- ment of Fashion’s*'prowess. When the race was over the mounted southern men, senators, representatives and all, fastened their flattened wallets at,the ends of thelr riding whips, and, waving them in the air, they thus rode ini ihington, broke, but not dejeoted. —_ het Before her record can display A normal equilibrium. © But forth she fares so bright to view, The flowers themselves cannot outdo Her fluttering radiance that thrills. Such are her fascinating arts Her path is strewn with broken hearts— And broken twenty-dollar bille. * ** A Martial Suggestion. “Do you s’pose I could see the Seckretary of War?” inquired Farmer Corntossel. “I don’t know,” replied the man whom he had waylaid in the corridor. “It would probably depend on who you are and the nature of your busines: “Well, who I am doesn’t make so much difference. But the rature of my business 1s important. Ef I can’t see him I'll hunt up the President an’ talk it over. But I thought it ‘ud be only polite to see the Seckretary of War first.” “If it's an appointment you want, the member of the House of Representatives from your district—” “I don’t Want no office. I'm here to make a sugzest! ae: ts s “You can get all the latest information ron BS meas eepend, enee We we inftnainewapeparc Pubiicans ove ‘lection an’ democrats the next. But I don’t see's it makes much dif- ference in the taxes, “By the way, you elected Zeb Todd to the legislature,” said the man who was engag- d@ in surveying land, end incidentally in making a few picturesque acquaintances. “Yes,” was the answer, with gleeful ani- mation. “That's once in our lives that us folks got the best o’ them politicians.” “Is Zeb a reformer?” “I dunno’s he is. He's got his share o’ bad habits, I s'pose, but h2 never goes aroun’ talkin’ very much “bout swearin’ om “What party did he represent?” est hisself. We run ‘im on his own ac- Ze> ain't got no politics to speak of. peat one reason he’s so eroun’ ere.” “But he hadn't any experisnce that would f* him for the place?” “Oh, yes he had. Ye see one time Zeb sold haif his farm.” “Why didn’t he sell all of it?” “The feller wouldn't buy it. So Zeb, he reckoned he'd better take what luck could lay hold of an’ sell half. He never wa'n't much of a farmer, nohow. But he kin play the fiddle, an’ he's related by blood or marrisge to two-thirds of the folks in this county. So you kin guess that happened to receive a cash fare from a colored man, which he registered on another indicator at the opposite end of the car. . “One foh folks an’ one for de brack. An’ & low-down way o’ tryin’ ter git aroun’ de law, I nebber hyubd ent How Two Whites Stood Off 3,000 In- dians for Three Days. From the Salt Lake Herald. Charles Gates is an old-time Indian fight- er. He used to reckon his dead Indians by the cord. He has fought more Indian bat- tles than any man on earth or under it. He has just returned from a trip to the north, and said: “The most interesting part of it was that I went back to the place where ‘BIII" Hanks and me stood off 3,000 Indians for three days one time back in the late u's. ‘There were seventeen of us at first, but only three of us lived to tell the tale. The spot is some thirty-five miles from Black- foot, Idaho, near whére the roads fork. The Indians sailed into ug one afternoon, and made things lively, I tell you. We dragged the wagons together in a circle, killing all the horses, and strung them ground for breastworks, and bade the painted fiends come on, and they came. Why, it fairly rained Indians. We kept shooting, and so did they, until night came on, when we discovered that ‘Bill’ Hanks, myself and ‘Jim’ Defoe were all that were left of us. We knew that we could not “I @onm desire to get information. I wish to give it. War has changed tremen- dous from what it used to be.” “Unquestionably.” “It’s mostly a question of which has the anpst fightin’ material.” es.”” g everybody was plcased when Zeb got all’ COREA AND«ITS PROPLE. RN eee eo anh Con SAwa ifighttn material coats icaueeg > this money. -They waen't @ soul as wasn't —w—e crawled out. He toid us when he got back | “That's the great point.” glad to see the old man git a chance to selan f soar Seer stipe oor genio | EST ee ee peg through the] _ “An the idea is fur cach side to git off | enjoy hi::elf. He thought over all the ous Characteristics. Pree oe hoterd he Ubraatatee aye" somewhere on-land or sea an’ ascertain | things he'd itke to do by way of takin’ From the Fortnightly, Reriew. Ss 2 “why did he-ceawl as farr’ anked Dan | Which kin’ hold out the longest.” @ holiday, an’ by en’ by he said he reck- Corea is a splendid, country. The sum-| Nickum, who was a listener. ied oe ‘ i nek BG we i> Sonn. Ee Sans 02 Oe Se, - : hea I s'pose there ain't no way that war | ayter once or twice, but Zeb has a habit mer in three-fourths of;the provinces is Because he didn't get through the In-| sin be pervented from bein’ more or less | ot gittin’® most any time, an’ he bright, bracing and, femperate, not unlike Ce roe ag meee) eeeweree, Mereevd barbarous, but I'd like to offer a sugges-| said that when he gits settled to a nap that of Nova Scotia. In any case the,hot |. With dignity. ‘There were eter gather tich,, Was you ever down to Swamp Cen- |-be don’t like no music to break in-an’ dis- weather and mosquitoes: do not last more] together at one time before or since. Well, | *© turb "im. So he got in the way 0 ‘tendin’ jever.”" ‘Well, that there's the most malariousest neighborhood in the geography. An’ it oc- curred to me that It ‘ud be a good idee. in | ore of the best-informed men on the case of war, to urrange It sos to murch | to run a legislature in the whole state.” the opposin’ forces down into Swamp Cen- | “jas he accomplished anything yet?" ter an’ instid of shootin’ an’ stabbin’ an’ No more'n anybody else. incovragin’ the promisc’ous carryin’ of | «But you were saying that his election Sea eee) tage ointment to some of the old which side kin afford to buy the most | Caused disapy’ the meetin’s of the legislature. He took lot o’ comfort out of it, an’ lreckon he had enough chances to observe to make him ° than @, month or two at the utmost.; The winter ig clear and very cold, rather like that of New York, or perhaps Quebec. Taken as a whole the land is fertile, and the rice especially “‘has a bone in it,” which turns out tough natives and makes {t very highly esteemed even in Japan. Its bean sir, for three days me and ‘Bill’ sat there in that circle and mowed down Indians. When the soldiers did come we were mighty glad, I tell you. After the fight was over they counted, ‘Bil’ had killed exactly of the which first attacked us. The soldiers killed the balance.” “How could you tell 4 which ones you 8 , and It has a plentiful 3 you < Se iy er gold. cattle, tobacco, hemp, paper, | Killed and which ones the soldiers killed?” | quinine: tem est tee reat en ranks]: Cas ee. “pre karceiasvenbell Sim mobil: leather, vegetables, fish and medicine, The | #8Ked Nickum again. the supply of quinine the test as it is to 4 Zeb wrote home two or three times com- plainin’ that whenever there was anythin’ real interestin’ goin’ on they wouldn't give him a seat, an’ oncet or twice they wouldn't even let ‘im in. It was down- right meanness, as plain as day, cause Zeb he wouldn't interrupt ner git in nobody's “Simple enough,” said Gates. “By the freshness of the corpses. When the corpse was over a day old we credited it to our account.” “But how could you tell the freshness of @ corpse?” yh, that’s dead easy. inhabitants are clean made, erect, active walkers, with a physique perhaps not so wiry, but far superior in grace to that of either the Chinese or the Japanese; not so coarse and uncouth in movement as the German physique; perhaps more like that. of the Spaniards in general build than that make the supply of gunpowder the decidin’ argument. It brings it down to the holdin’ out qualities of the two parties, an’ while it may not show so much in the way 0’ fireworks, it gives the soldiers more of a chance to git away alive after one side or the other has give out of ammunition.” Of course you any other European ration. Women | don’t have to know, and so long’s the In- % way. So when we heard of 7 we g0t to- are kept in seclusion, and one sees none | dians are not likely to trouble us again x * Samrt ecarccty mo time before we'd “tected Lut old bags in the ‘market places. The ee eee a en “Ikey.” tan © inataber OF the DIhIN OF TegRRaDD, liquor, interminable smokers and very | C@M tell a corpse any time and just how the curb, ae ace eer cme quarrelsome. Bvt they are lazy, except un- | long it has been dead. Even if that wasn’t| The wandering elf with the big dark * der stimulus; calm and deliberate, except eicers peat Pet eee, = = eyes, x * it bstinate, destitute o: righ: = ‘hose calm = si Moment norel feeling. full of natural religions emer | the dead. Didn't want to apoll-ihe hia wi self-possession no shock oan sand eas chase on, while recognizing no religious sanc- | _ “What on earth would you do with an distur; Upon the steps of the Capitol stood @ tions; dirty in person, thievish, cunning, | Indian's hide?” asked Nickum. Who laughs at the world he so bravely | statesman. untrustworthy, but affectionate and loyal Siesee a eee peemend) SES ae defies. He brushed his silk hat with his coat i we always ure Lek area simpering polite- | with Indian hides. We used to ship, bales | With a fece that is dirty, a cap that is | sleeve, cpap his back ae coe wa ness of the Chinere or the obsequious cere- | of Indian hides to Europe every year. oe she pone ot bis baal one oye mony of the Japanese. “Good form” is | That's where I got my start.” And breeches whose buttons have wan- | to see if it was on straight. A look of dis- imperturbable placidity,, deliberation and yours oe eee hard a fight as cered away, may was gradually superseded by the ex- taciturnity. Not even a Turk can approach , meet night earti pressi benignant caim which his con- a Corean in perfect calm end Testfulness “Yessir, ali but one. Was in a harder | YU ™eY ee —— “or stit mes een to see in his of attitude. The trading instinct seems | fight than that down in Arizona one time. ee: ee good and will develop, but, of course, lack of experience and organization keeps it backward. The agricultural laborer works Lost more men. The Indians came on us by surprise, and killed every durn one of us. Not a one escaped to tell the tai A somebody's baby, somehow gone astray. How well has he measured the mood of campaign portraits. He was about te de- acend the steps when a colleague called to him. He was approaching with the nervous well, and would be hard working if the | And then Gates engaged himself in a race the throng, écckh Stk sae aus wand aS Ob te ae me whe labor saree him, | for a street car. The throng that brings pennies to Ikey’s uke not Saal arty feeling runs wonderfully among ——roo—____ mart; 7 uired the oficial classes, who are corrupt almost Am Interesting Animal. Poh erences ea mummer who babbiesa| “Have you been inside?” ing “ad hatreds; but both civil and ‘ieitteay aa From the London Times. = cats teas tak aaa? “I was at cerns = near ‘= ranged speed in ‘Capt. Patton-Bethune has just brought And buffets the creature who cries from my sxaneretd post of duty. I would not ners in any country than those of the gon, bers Ae a ere aay, statah weet allow #t $0 be Binted thet 5 wes ast t.'® cali etioras wo entertained me in the | chev ih < Second mieten oats septa Is oe 2 pathos indeed in his ribald re-| position to say ‘Here!’ when the roll was most incely fe : palace was les rr . ” scrupulously clean, but plainly furnished; ae is in Se in the world. The ani-| And yet his child-nature must suffer no! "Sow tong after roll call aid you last? es Possibte tex- was ht ris vs ture; his hands and nails clean, his. hat Sit Skies eee cena SAMMEGT ee in the Malay states. Its mother was shot, and the little one, then only about ten days old, ran round and round until secured by some Malays, who tied its feet together with “putties,” which were the only things building?” “Yes, I found that my country could spare me long enough to allow me to and “button” a marvel of “basket work,” art and jewel carving; in short, his whole bearing, as also the wine and sweetmeats he gave me, showed the utmost refinement and good taste. = He ‘s only the echo that mocks us again; The mirror that shows men the things that they are. How slight are the weapons with which ee ee handy at the time. It then had to be car- he sets out : Sure of a Profit. tied some sixty miles, and was brought u; pe Gece ee with ababy's ceding bottle.” Te came ap Bene for his life in the lists of the land in a large horse box, which had aoe are lots of spb aiteewicree around | +5 ‘be covered all round with tarpauline | Yet skill ever comes to the heart that is cere nom _ then, about the| and boards to keep out the cold, One of stout profits made in. prescriptions, Possibly there is rome truth in them, but as a gen- eral thing the druggtets'ef the present day have about as harde ime in meking the ends meet as the, average retailer. For all that, there is no harm in telling stories about the way the-gét fifty cents for a small vial conteining equa calcis, which the soldiers on board became so fond of the animal that he used to sleep in her tex to see that no harm should come to her, but she proved an excellent sailor. ‘The sladang is now living in a loose box at Capt, Patton-Bethune’s residence, Clayton Priory, Burgess Hill, and seems none the worse for the change of climate. —————__o_____ For Sleepy Bachelors. And ready to laugh at adversity’s frown. Beware, bonnie wee ones, in pillowed re- pose, 3 4G I gecegee ew i if bet i i sF t dj it i = ie she i ‘ :