Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1881, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: F‘_RIDAY JULY THE DAILY BEE. OMANA PUBLIBHING 00., PROPRIETORS. nd Bonnet Bleachers. Ladies got yous Straw, Chip and Felt Hata done up ot northenst corner Keventeenth amd Capitol Avenue. WM. DOVE Proprietor. 918 Farnham, kat. Bth and 10th Btreets. TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : ¥ 1 year, in tpal ..Z'r?m year, Ad\llv.vmuu P d). montha “ " n 10.00 5.00 8.00 Htels. CANFIELD HOUSF, Ge3, Canfleld, %th & Farnham DORAN HOUSE, K, Oary, 918 Farnham St. SLAVEN'S HOTEL, ¥ Slaven, 10th Strect. Hotel Gus , 9th & Leavenworth RAILWAY TIME TABLE. LRAVING OMAIIA RAST OR OUTH BOUND, L&P, 6a m 40 p. m, K.'C., 8. J. & C. B, 88 m.-3:40 p. m. Arrive ™t St, Louls at 6:25 . m. and 7:45 &, m, WRAT OR SOUTHWRSTS. . & M. In Neb., Through Express, §:35 a. m : “R Lincoln Freigh 00 p. m, ) 20 . m, & R. V. for Osceola, 9:40 8. m P. freight No, 6, £:80 a. m. P. treight No. 9, 8:16 a, m. P. freight No. 7, 6:10 p. m.—emigrant. P. freivht No. 11" 826 . m. ARRIVISG—FROM RAST AXD SOUTH. 6 . . . Joe & C. B., 7:40 . m.—0:45 p. m. " St L& P., 10:66 &, 10, —4:26 p. m. R . m. ugh Rxpress—4:15 p. m Freight—8:85 &, crao gmagn coccoSawm 8—10:60 p. m. No 1211386 a. 0. & R. V. mixed, Nebraska Division of the St. Paul & Soux City Road, No. 2 leavoa Omhha 8 o, m, No. 4 leaves Omaha 1:60 p. m. No. 1 arrives at Omaha at 4:30 No. 8 arrives at Omaha at DUMMY TRAINS BNTWRAN OMANA AND cov Leave Omaha at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, Léave Council Blufts E 5 5 5:25 and 0:25 p. m, v leaves Omaha at 9:00 Leaves Opening and Closing of Malls. ROUTE. crosn. 8 i g SE8EEET 6:80 wxElennnn 8 . n for State of Towa leave but once a day, viz: 4:30, A Lincoln Mail is also opened at 10:30 a. m. Office open Sundays from 12 m. to 1 p. m. THOS. F. HALL P. M. ron ng. The Western Cornice Works, Agents for the Champion Iron Fence &., bave on hand all kinds of Faimy Tron Fences, Crestings, Fineals, Railinge, ete, 1810 Dodge strae. 4 MRS. LIZZIE DENT 217 16th Strect, vewellers. JOHN BAUMER 1514 Farnham Street, Junk, e M. BERTHOLD, Raes and Motal Lumber, Lime and Cement. FOBTER & GRAY corner 6th and Douglas Sta, Lamps and Glassware, J. BONNER 1309 Douglas St. Good Variety Merchant Tallors. G. A, LINDQUEST, One of our most popular Merchayt Tailors s ro- ceiving the latest designs for Spring and Bummer Goods for gentlemon's wear. Stylish, durable, and vrices low as ever 215 18th bet. Doug. & Farn! Millinery. MRS, C. A. RINGER, Wholemle and Retail, Fan- cy Goods In great variety, Zephyrs, Card_Boards, Hosiery, Glovos, Corsets, ke, Cheapest Houso in the West, . Purchasers mvo 80 per cent, Order by Mail. ' 116 Fifteonth Steeet Physiclans an 1 Burgeons. W. 8. GIBBS, M. D., oom Ne. 4, Creighton Block, 16th Street, A. 5. LEISENRING, C. L. HART, M. D. Masonie Block. and Ear, opp. postofiice DR. L. B. GRADDY, Oculist and Aurist, 8, W 16th and Farnham Sta. otographers. GEO. HEYN, PROP., Grand Central Gallery, 212 Sixteenth Street, noar Masonic Hall. First-ciass Work and Prompt- noss guaranteen, Plumbing, Gas and 8team Fitting. P. W. TARPY & CO., 216 12th St., bet. Farnham and Douglas, Work promptly attended to. D, FITZPATRICK, 1400 Douglas Street. Palnting and Paper Hanging. HENRY A. VNSTERS. 1412 Dodgo Strect. Planing Mill. A. MOYER, manufacturer of sash, doors, blinds, moldings, newels, alustors, hand ails, furnishing seroll sawing, &c., cor. Dodge and 9th strects. Pawnbrokers, J. ROSENFELD, 522 10th St., bet. Far. & Har. Retrigerators, Canfield's Patent. C. F. GOODMAN 11th St. bet. Farn, & Harney. OM AEIA. 8how Case Manufactory.; : B 0. J. WILDE, nsmflss II'eG flry. Manufacturer and Dealer 1n all kinds of Show e Cases, Upright Cases, & ', 1317 Case Bt. 7 G FRANK L. GERHAKD, proprictor Omaha J. U. ROSE'S Art Emportum, 1516 Dodge Streot, vings, Oil Paintings, Chromos, Fancy » Low Pri on. Iy, icos. J. BONNER 1300 Douglas Jnm Good Btyles. Abstract and Real Estate. JOHN L. McCAGUE, opposite Post Office. W. R. BARTLETT 817 South 13th Street. it Architects, DUFRENE & MENDELSSOHN, ARCHITECTS, Room 14, Creighton Block. A. T. LARGE Jr., Room 2, Crcighton Block. Boots and Bhoes. JAMES DxVINE & CO., Fine Boots and Shoes, A assorment of bome work on hand, corner 12th and: Haraey. THOS. ERICKSON, 8. E. cor. 16th and Douglas. JOHN FORTUNATUS, 605 10th street, manufactures to order good work at fair prices. 'Repairing done. Bed 8prings. J. F. LARRIMER Manufacturer. 1517 Douglas st. Books, News and Stationery. J. 1. FRUEHAUF 1015 Farnham Street. Butter and Eggs. McSHANE & SCHRGEDER, the oldest B. and E. bouse in Nebraska established 1875 Omaha, CENTRAL MR3, A, RYAN, southwest corner 16thand Dodge. Best Board for the Money, Batisfaction Guaranteed. Meals at all Hours, Board by the Day, Week or Month. Good Terms for Cash, Furnished Rooms Supplied. Uarrlages and oaa Wagons. WM. SNYDER, No. 131k 14thand Harney Streets” Civil Engineers and Burveyors. ANDREW ROSEWATER, Creighton Block, Town Surveys, Grade and Sewerago Systems & Bpecialty. Commission Merchants. JOHN G. WIL LIS, 1414 Dodgo Street. D B BEEMER. For details seo large sdvertise- ment in Daily and Weekly. Cigars and Tobacco. WEST & FRITSCEER, manufacturers of Cigars, and Wholesale Dealers in Tonaccos, 1305 Douglas, W. ¥. LORENZEN wmanufecturer 514 10th strect, Cornice Works. Western Cornice Works, Manufacturers Iron Cornice, Tin, Iron and Blate Roofiing. Ordors from any locality promptly eXecuted in the bost manner. Factory and Office 1810 Dodge Street. Galvanized Iron Cornicos, Window Caps, ete, manufactured and put up in any part of tho country, T. SINHOLD, 416 Thirteenth street, Crockery. J. BONNER 1309 Dougias struet. Clothing and Furnishing Goods. GEO. H, PETERSON, Also Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions and Cutlery, 804 8. 10th street. Good line. Clothing Bought. C. SHAW will pay highest Cash price for second hand clothing, - Corner 10th and Farnham, Der tists. DR. PAUL, Williams' Plock, Cor, 16th & Dodge. Drugs, Pa‘nts ana Olls. KUHYi & CO,, Pharmacists, Fine v Goods, Cor. 16th and Dougles strcets, W.J. WHITEHOUS.. ¥ - oole & Retail, 16th st. C. FIELD, 2022 N-elh Side Cuming Street. PARR, Druggist, 10t and Howard Strects, Dry Good Notions, Etc. JOHN H. F, LTuMANN & CO,, New York Dry Goods Sjore, 18)0 and 131¢ Farn. wtreet. L. C. Enewold also boots and shoes, 7th & Pacific, s b o ol i Furditure, 4 - A F/GROSS, New and socond Hand. Furulbur R oo Fel e 5 Price paid for second hand goeos. L ] J. BONNER 1809 Dougia st. Fine woods, &c. Fence Works. OMAHA FENCE CO. GUST, FRIES & CO., 1213 Harney 8t., Improve- ed Icé Boxes, Iron'and Wood Fences, Office Railings, Counters of Pine and Walnut, 'FI A. Donaghue, plants, cut flowers, seods, ts el N, W cor, Joth ab3 Douias reets, Foundry. | JOHN WEARNE & SONS, cor. J4th & Jacksonsts Flour and Fesd. B 11 GHAHA CITY MILLS, 8th aud Earulism Ste. Welshans Bros., ggprictors. Z. STEVENS, 21st between Cumipg and Irard. T. A. McSHANE, 234 and Cuming Stroete. T. A NOHANG, Qg Sapew Cusllng Birests. 1308 nou'ik : .”fi Hardwais, iron and Bteel. DoLAR & u’ov?py, Wholcmle, 110 sud A HOLMES coruer 10th aad Calitornia. Harress, Bacdies, &c. B. WEIST 20100k B, bet Parp- & Barney. Show Case manufactory, 518 South 10th street, between Leavenworth and Marcy. Al goods warranted first-class, 8toves ana linware, A. BURMESTER, Dealer {n Btoves and Tinware, and Manutactarer of Tin Roofs and all kinds of Building Work, 0udl Fellows’ Block. J, BONNER. 1300 Douglas St, Good and Cheap. Beod: J. EVANS, Wholesale and Rotail Seed Drills and Cultivators, 0dd Fellows' Hall. 8hoe Btores. Phillip Lang, 1820 Famnham st., bet. 18th & 14th. Becond Hand 8tore, PERKINS & LEAR, 1416 Douglas St., New and Becond Hand Furnituirs, Houso Furnishing Godds, &c., bought and sold op natrow marvins. Saloons. HENRY K AUFMANN, In the new brick block on Douglas Stroet, has Just opened » most elegant Bees Hall, Hot Lunch from 10 to 12 every day. FLANNERY, On Famham, next to the B, & M. headquarters, haa re-opened a rieat aid coniplete establishment which, barring FIRK. and Mother 8hipton's Proph- ecy, will be opencd for the boys with Hot Lunch ou and atter present date. *‘ Caledonia " J, FALCONER, 679 16th Street. Undertakers. CHAS. RIEWE, 101¥ Farnham bet. 10th & 11td. P. PEMNER, 803} Tenth street, between Farn- ham and Harney. Does good and cheap work. 99 Gent Srores. HENRY POHLMAN, toys, notions, jewelry, &c,, 613 14th bet. Farnham and P. 0. BACKUS. 1205 Farnham Sf BOCES & HILL, REAL ESTATE BROKERS. No. 1508 Farnham Street, OMAEA, -~ ~ NEE. Orrica—North side, oop. Grand Contral Hotel, ictures ouglas v_Goodn BYRON REKD LEWIK KEED, BYRON REED & CO. [OLDSKT PSTABLISIIED Real Estate Agency IN NEBBASKA. Keep a complete abstract of title to all Real Estate in Omaha and Douglas county, mayt Geo. P. Bemis Rea. Estate Acency, 16th and Dodge Sts., Omaha, Neb This agency does BTRICTLY & brokerago business, Does not speculate, and therefore any bargains on its books are insured to ite patrons, instead of being gobbled up by the agent, DexterL. Thomas&Bro. WILL BUY AND SELL REAX. BST.ATE AND ALL TRANBACTION CONNECTED THERKWITH, Pay Taxes, Rent Houses, Etc. 1P YOU WANT 70 BUY OR SKLL Call at Office, Room 8, Creighton Block,"Omaha, aptd Nehraska Land igenf;jr DAVIS & SNYDER, 1606 Farnham 8t., ... Omaha, Nebraska. 400,000 AORES Caretully sclected land in Eastern Nebraska for sale. Great Bargains in improved farms, and Omaha city property 0. F. DAVIS, WEBSTER SNYDER Late Land Com'r U.P.R. R 4p-tebtd John G. Jacobs, (Formerly of Gish & Jacobs,) UNDERTAKER. No. 1417 Fernhawn St., Old 8tand of Jacob Gis. m,a?. by Telegraph Solicited. 11y Business Collsgs. '|THE GREAT WESTERN GEO. R. RATHBUN, Principal, Creighton Block, OMAHA, A NEBRASKA. oV WABWH .made in it, " PRDDLING LIGHTNING RODS. TalesTold & Veteran Agent and a Mannfacturer, N.¥. Sun “T've beena lightning-rod man for a good many years,” he eaid, with a little chuckle. “To tell the truth, the majority of ligh!ninirnd men selling through the country have all sorts of tricks and dodges. One season they made a gen eral thing of selling ‘by the set.’ A ‘set’ was understood to be forty feet, by them; but the buyer was led to be- lieve that it meant a whole rod. That hallucination always vanished when the bill came in. As for the prices, well T've got 574 centsper foot —migh- ty particular about the half, for we want to give them just the best possi- ble bargain, and 58 would be toomuch while we'd lose money at 67—fora galvanized rod worth 26 cents; and or points worth, say &1 orless, There's agood deal in knowing how to take a man. One time T went to sce & man named Delameter, near Sedalia, Mo, Just as soon as1 told him my business hesaid, ‘Get away from here. 1 will have nothing to do with any lightning-rod man under any circum- stances.” 1 said to him, ‘My friend, what have I done to you that you should speak soto me? Have 1 not addressed you in a gentlemanly way ¢ Well, that sort of shamed him for a moment, and before he got his second wind and came back at me T went on. ‘Never mind about lightning rods; I don't care to talk about them myself. I'm siok of the business, for I'm not the sort of man toplay tricks that seem to be expected of lightning-rod men, and I'm sick of the reputation that seems to attach to the businoss. I'm going back to farming. Do you know what I'd like to do? I'd just like to plow around this land two or three times.’ You seehe was ploughing when I tackled him, He gave up the plough handles to me and walked along. * On the second round of the ‘land’ he introduced the lightning-rod business himself, and before I left his e I had rodded his house and two ig barns. And I haven't gone back to farming yet. ‘“Che lightning rod agents are not all Yankees; a good many Dutchmen are selling rods now, 0 agent is fonernlly expected to sell about 1,000 eet a woek. The lightning rod gang generally consists of four men; two of them are salesmen—one generally the manager—and two men with the on, one of them the foreman, who collects the bills, and the other the ladder man or light weight, as we call him, who does the climbing and puts up the rod. The salesmen go ahead in-a buggy and get the orders, ~ The others do the work and explode the bombs we have loaded, or, in other words,collect the bills. Theseasonruns from tho 1st of April to the 1st of Oc- tober. There is a good deal of money The biggest firm of light- ning rod manufacturers in this coun- try—located in Philadelphia—began business by peddling = lightming rods about the country. - When a person settled down as a manufacturer or works from an established place in a city ho has to give up the sharp prac- tices from which the largest profits are derivable in the country, But there are risks in putting up the rods, Irodded the steeple of an Episcopal church in Topeka, Kas., myself, be- cause I couldn’t get a lightweight to do it. The steeple was 195 feet high. Although I weigh 256 pounds, T went up and did it myself. "But I charged them for it enough to pay me.” ““Yes,” chimed in the manufacturer of lightning-rods who sat by, ‘*‘itis risky sometimes. The worst job I over had done was the rodding of the Central Presbyterian church in Fifty- seventh street, near Eighth avenue. They wouldn’t have it done when the steeple was put up, when it would have been easy, but after the lightning had given them one light tuucfix, then they wanted it fixed up immediately. It would have cost $100 to put up scaffolding to do the work safely then, but they would not pay that added sum, or anything like it. The best they would do was $26, and it was a puzzle to know how we could do it for that. J. B. Turner, the most daring and expert climber in the business, probably, took the job. He went up the inside of the steeple as far as he could, 40 feet from the roof,and there poked out through two holes a couple of scantlings, on which he fastened a board. On that board he set up n couple of scantlings with cleats nailed across them like a ladder, nailed them on as he ascended up, and nailing other scantlings on to the ends of those when he got to the top. There was no puuibflrty of tastening that ladder to the steeple until he got up where the steeple was soslim that he could throw a rope around it and tie it. It was simply leaned against the smooth-slated side of the steeple. A puff of wind ora careless movement out of balance would have hwrried him down, In that way he worged his way up sixty feet from the point where he started his ladder ~about 100 feet from the roof and say 150 feet from the ground, It makes mv blood run cold to think of it. 1 wouldn't have attempted it for anything in the world. But he did it safely? fixed the rod, took down his ladder again, and tasteried the slates ingeniously from the inside over the holes made for his scantlings, leaving all as good as -before, This was in September, 1878, ‘“‘Another time ‘L'urner had to go up to put a lightning rod on a chimney stack uptown. It was necessary to do the work on Bunday, 80 as not to in- terfere with the firing up of the worke, When he got there on Sunday morn- ing the chimney was full of gases and smoke from the fire still bedded down below, and almost red hot. They threw water on the fire and waited several hours, but still the heat was intense and the gases stifling. To get up he would have to ascend inside the stack by iron bars, like staples, fastened in the wall all' the way up, after the fashion of a ladder. !Ie wrapped rags around his hands, so that the bars should not burn them, and started. Half way to the top he felt his forces giving way. The gases and heat were stifling him. He just managed to delun! without falling, After a long rest he tried it again, The walls were still so hot that the ragson his hands erumbled. When he got to the top, 160 feet from the ground, he had barely lmnfih enough left to throw himself on the edge, with his head and arms hanging over in the fresh air outside, and his logs dangling inside. There he hung fot an hour before he covld move. Then he hauled up tackle, made it fast, hauled up the rod, attached it, lowered the tackle, descended inside the stack again, and the job was done. But it was at the risk of his life “‘Then there are instances happily rare, in which the inevitable dangers of the business are inoreased by the malice of unprincipled rivals, In the middle of April last, one of my men went to rod the tweélfth-story building on the corner of Hudson and Duane streets, To do it he had to be let down by a tackle from the top. Atter apparatus had been put up, it was left l\{um‘ for a little time unguarded. Fortunately, before the man went to put his weight on the rope, he chanced to examine it and found that the strap of the block had been cleanly cut on the under side whero there w chance of the mischiof passi served, Had the man trusted his weight to it he would have fallen to the streot and been dashed to picces. It could not be positively known who did the cutting, but T have a strong belief on the subject myself. ‘‘Are not the practices of the light- ning rod peddlers having some effect in fiuturriug people through fear of being victimized from such increase of use of rods as might otherwise be ex- pected from the growthof the country the reporter asked, **Well, no; I think not,"” replied the manufacturer, ‘“The use of lightning- rods has increased steadily ever since Franklin discovered their uscfulness. There are now three large factories in Philadelphia,Chicago and St. Louis which make all sorts of rods, and there are an almost indefinite number of smaller conderns, We manufacture a great deal for Mexico, South Amer- ica and the West Indies. In the lat- ter country they want the best. I have had to furnish for these special- ly constructed points or tips, heavily plated with platinum, which cost 8560 each, All the tips are supposed to be pointed with platinum or gold plated, ut very often they are simply brass, or covered with a yellow wash— that is, the sort which the peddlers very often sell. Good ordinary tips are worth, manu- facturers’ prices, 81 or 82 each; iron rods about 8 cents per foot, copper rods from 2 to 20 conts, insulators or trimmings at the rate of from 11-2 or 2 cents up to 16 cents per foot on the length of rod employed. We do not sond anylightning-rods to Europe. The best protected building in New York, I think, is the new Union League club house. The churches of St. Leo and St. Bernard are also well rodded. The Cooper institute is well supplied with lightning :rods, which were intelligently provided for in the original construction of the building by the making of a small well hole from the roof to the ground, inside of the edifice—near where the eleva- tor is—through which they run down, The best rodded. private residence I know of is that of Mr. Moses Taylor, at Elberon, mear Long Branch. It was a good thing for both the public and the lightning rod men when the discovery was made that lighining always went for angles7and sharp pro- jections of buildings, so that rods were required at corner to make the house really safe. What with cir- cuits, four ground connections, added tips, etc., the bill for rodding a house ought to be satisfactory to the man that makes it out, and the results ought to satisfy the man who pays it. ‘‘A lightning rod man came down to Uncle Dan'T Drew once, with a note from some professor at the theo- logical college that he was interested in, suggesting thut the college should be rodded. *What will it cost! asked Uncle Dan’l. ‘I cannot say positive- ly,” said the man, ‘until T have meas- ured it, but it may be as much as £400, or possibly oven 8500, ‘Oh! that’s all right; go ahead’ said Uncle Dan’l, and he gave him a written or- der. The work was done and the bill sent in for 81,900. Uncle Dan’l declared that he wouldn’t puy it; that the man who took the order said 1t would be only $400 or $500. ‘Ah!" replied the bland gentleman who came to collect, ‘we cannot be re- sponsible for the mistakes and bad judgment of our employes” Unclo an’l had us send a man to the college to sec if they had actually put up as many feet of rod as they. claimed. He found the building overlaid with rods until it looked as if it was in a big cage. That professor would not let him dig to ascertain what the ground connections were, but he did pull up one ground rod on the sly, nn!l found at tho bottom of a deep hole eighteen feet of rod rolled up. Uncle Dan'l eventually paid the bill, but I never heard of his buying any more light- ning rods, It will not do to be too econom- ical in ground connections, however, a8 that Egyptian official was who put lightning rod upon his .powder mag- azine but deemed it nonsense to carry itdown to the ground, the result of which was that on the occasion of the first thunder storm that magazine was spread over about forty acres of i;mund more or less, and his faith in ightning rods was forever blasted, “Inever heard of a lightning rod man getting the worst of a job ex- cept in one case and I don't vouch for the truthof that, It s said that one of the craft drove up in front of a fine, new and large house out west and told a man who was reading at the door that he ought to have light- ning rods on his house. The man said he hadn't thought about it, Then the pedlder said: ‘Have fyou any ob- jection to my putting up a rod on this corner? ‘No,” the man said, ‘I have not." And, as the peddler's wagon was right behind him, the expert climber had the rod up in a few minutes. ‘Now,” said km: ‘that corner is safe,” addressing the man who was still reading; ‘but the light- ning might come along and knock blank's delights out of one of the other corners, Have you any objec- tion to m{ putting up a rod on each of them? And the quiet reader looked up from his paper and said that he hadn't any objection. When the job was done the Koddler presented is bill. ‘\:)nn't'rd: is ’ninil the man, ydwning and folding up his T, 'Bill log the rods,’ ‘,5 ‘luxl)ned thl;.g:d- dler. ‘Rods! T didn’t order any rods.’ ‘Why, certainly you did.’ ‘Not at all. Tonly said T no objection to your uctinfi them up. And I hadn't. This isthe county court house. T don't even live in thu' county, Of couiwe I had no objections,’ 1881. The Bloody Brotherhood Detroit Free Prom, There were five of them~all small n the stable loft — In sanny corners of the garden fence, where aged Solomon's glorious rays dispelled tho dark shadows— In the back kitchen, by the dim, roligious light of a tallow candle, and Around the gable end of the village sohool house they had read- They had devoured They had gloated over the superbly illustrated 10-cent edition of BUCKSKTN BILL — The Bloody Butcher of the Bad Land Range! Until their youthful hearts burned like a tar barrol at a precinct caucus! And the bloed coursed through their oing as courseth the fiery lava adown esuviua’ rugged face— And then their smothered ambition burst forth, and their future path has apread bofore them— Bathed in the crimson go-o-o-r-re of the red man! They formed the **brotherhood!” The bloody Brotherhood!!! To arms! Then fled they to their several homes, with thespeed of the affrighted hen as she sails over the garden fence in her mad endeavors to escape the flmming talons of the ocarniverous hawk — (Or other bird of prey of equal car- niverousness') They turned their backs upon the hated school, never to see it more! The finger of destiny pointed them them to the west! To the rugged mountaing — The dark, gloomy canyons — The arid valleys of the be-oundless west! Each reckloss ranger hied him to his home, and wrested from its peaceful resting place the family hatohet! The hatchet so often wielded by paternal hands in fierce onslaught up- on the inoffensive kindling wood! And tried its gleaming edge! And muttered: ““Ha! 'tis well!” In a deserted stable the Brother- hood again assembled! BiAnd took the oath! The fearful oath of the Bloody Brotherhood! And sealed it with five passionate kisses upon five gleaming hatchet blades! And then they sallied forth upon their career of Blood! AYE! BE-LOOD !!! Adown the village street the; moved, with cautious tread and bal breath. With eagle eyes they peered into the cracks between the dry goods boxes, 1n search of the hated foeman! The leader halts! “Hiat!" “‘Sh-h-h-h-h!" The foe!!! “Forward, Brothers, to the com- bat!” * ¥ » * * In front of the cigar store atood the Indian chieftain, holdinginonehand a bunch of wooden Havanas. In the other a bass wood Thomas- hawk! He stood gazing with fixed eye to- ward the west! ‘Was he reflecting of hir native vil- Iage away out toward the sotting sun? We give it up! Little recked he of the fearful fate which, likeastorm cloud, hovered o'er his chiefly head! Or rather was getting ready for him around the next corner above! Little dreamed he that the avenger was about to swoop down upon him, as swoopeth the famished cur upon the unsuspecting sausage at the butcher’s door! They come with steady tread! And yet he reflects! Will he see them intime to escape? Nearer they come! Nearer and nearer, And some more nearer! ! Will he get on the racket in time to fleel Their suppressed breathing can al- most be heard! And their avenging eyes gleam like the buttons on a railway mail clerk’s Sunday coat! Yet he reflecteth! Will he never tumble! Oh, Heavens! Too late! !! The leader springs forward! His hatchet whistles through the air with lightning speed, and the noble chief- tain’s larboard ear is cleaved from the head! And a8 he strikes he screams: “Thus am I avenged!"” ‘At thee, vile catiff?” yells Callison's hopeful heir, as with one fell swoop of the deadly hatchet the bundle of cigars is shivered and sent showering upon the sidewalk in tooth-pickable shape! “‘Ah-h-h ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a-a-a-a-a-a? R-r-r-r-evengeat last!” hisses Murrufi'l third boy, by his second wife, as the aboriginal nose flew off and fell at the mocasined foet, a shapeles 88, “‘Mine be the Land that smites thee to death, proud chieftain!" squawked the widow Munson’s Jasper, as he sank his hatchet to the eye in the plumed, imperial head, “And ming be the foot that will smite every dash blamed mother's son of you under the coat tails!” howled the infuriated cigar dealer as he sprang into their midst and kicked! And kicked! And swore! And kicked again! And reswore. And kicked; and kicked, kicked! And then there was skedaddling in hot haste! And cries of anguish! And rubbing of the kicker's objec tive point! As the Bloody Brotherhood disap- ared adown the allev they were lost sight! Leaving their weapons upon the field of carnage! Nor halted they in their mad flight until they reached the school house! And entered in. And told the teacher they didn't hear the bell! And got licked! [ruE END.] late!! 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