Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1890, Page 5

THE NENWHO HIRE DRUMMERS puri Valley Grocery Johbers in Session at 8pirit Lake, A TRAVELING MAN TALKS ON TEMPERANCE A Kick from Custer City on Stage Line Accommodations — O'Donovan Rossa Becomes a Drumuier— Samples—Grip Notes. Sriur Lake, Ia., August 15—To the “ditor of Tus Bre: The Interstate Commercial Association of the Missouri Yalley met here yesterday, holding two ses- slons, the first at 10 a. m., the second at 9p. 1., both secret in their nature. Not much busivess was transacte They will be in session two days longer. The ofticers of the association are as follov James M, Nave, ent: J. P. John: t vieo pre A. B. Synns, second v Parry, thivd viee pr treasurer; T. G, Payne, 3 At 9 o'clock in theeveninga fine banqu was spiead by the oficers of the club, The table was formed of threo sides of & hollow Bquare and decorated most profusely in floral forms, ench guest havinga bouquet of flowers vied with pink ribbons at his plate. The wives of the members v nvited to partic- president; dlenty O.B. T * ipate. The toast, “Or 0 was responded toby M. H., McCord, whose maiden specch romises tmuch future eloguence, He denied hat Omaha is the protege of Nebraska and said that rather Nebraska is the protege of Omaha, 1o ended his specch by proposing the Leabth of the Omaha girls at Spirit Lake, to which all responded *God bless 'e »..” The firins belonging to the association are as follows 'ollerton & Stetson Co., = berg & i I Joseph Garnean acker company, Allen Brothers, Meyer & Raapke, McCort Budy & Co., Paxton & Gallagher, D, N Bteele & Co., Sloan, Johnson & Co., Omiha, Neb.: Groneweg & Schoentgen, Stewart Brothers, Council Bluffs, Ia.; H. P. Lau, cgieaves Brothers, Plummer, Per Raymond Brothers & Co, coln, Neb.; May Brothers, Fremont, Dolan, Drury § Gr conipany, Atchison, Ka MeCord & Collins, N 1, 1 or Mercanti tile compuny, Sommers-Richardson Manu- facturing company, St. Joseph, Mo.; Long Bros., Beckham, Mercer & Co, en Grocer company, Gregory Grocer company, McCord & Nave Mercantile company, Ryl Wilson & Co., Ridenour-Baker Groc T any, Bovie-fleddens Grocer company, Loose Bros. Manufacturing company, Higyins Cracker and Candy Douden-Me- com} ¥ Grocer compa Bittmann, Taylor & Co Leuven wmsas City, Mo. : Rohlfing & th, Kan, ; Parkhurst, Da Qurnhai-Krélpe Grocer compan Kan.; Theo, Poehler Mercantile Lawrence, Kan Co, A Kick from Custer City. Cusren Ciry,, S, D., August 12.—To the Editor of Tur Bre: Thinking it would be of interest to traveling men who muke this territo [ would like to tell them how I lave put in five days, and _possibly they may profit by my experience. 1 arrived in Buffalo Gap Saturday evening at 6:3, gave my checks to the Jansen stage line to have them transferred to Hot Springs. 1 took the stago for Hot Springs and arvived thero after o journcy of five hours, thirteen miles. My trunks did not come Sunday, The explana- tion was that they had been forgotten, which of course wus satisfactory “to them.” I had to0 chiunge my plans, and so hired a team to drive over 1o O City on Monday, and gave the stage written directions to taie the trunks from the over here, Iarrived here Monday withno trunks. They had been sent to Flot Springs, but_would be brought Dback and sent to Custer City sure. I received 8 messagoe that they wero on the way. The stage is in and I am here with no trunks, The explanation is that the stage would not carry them. 1tis only costing mo $13 per day. [ would like to know if such aa outfit as the Jansen stage line had not ought to be given the cold shoulder vy all traveling men. 1 am told 10 hold the proprictor of the line respon- sible. 1 once heard that it is “hard to squeeze Dblood out of a turnip.” It could be applied 10 this case nicely, AKickER, box 104, Sioux City. A Drnmmeron the Amendment. Bevimes, Neb, Augast 14—To the Ed {tor of Tur Bee: The lager beer agent, the farmer, the distiller, the crank, the brewer, the country editor, the merchant and in short everyone has interested himself enough in the all-absorbing topic of the times, to ex- press his views on the subject:—Prohibition or High License; but what has become of the traveling man? ‘Why should the “knight of the grip” be as pilent as Helphrey's blind oysterst 1 don't 800 any plausible reason. You bald headed, fovial, broad shouldered, jolly’ boys, with ‘hearts as bigas Thornburg's sample case, come forward with your arguments, on either pide of this great question, which now agi- tates the mind, and let the young men on the road learn which ticket is best for him to @ yote! Many, young menon the roadare in doubt as to what ticket he shall cast. Amongg that number I am no exception, The arguments all over the state “sprung' on me in family tents and on covnars by a lot of “jays" who give shrewd glances it the committee with the boodle, to see if their ar- ticle is taking with them, give mea painful 4 t feoling, Tho “drummer’” his n veputation of aving brought out many original ideas, He ' hus, s o gencral thing, an intelligent opinion, ut why should he falter in leiting it out on { this subjectd - ’ 1 think Tne Bee will give him space on either side of the subject, pro or con. Let us hear some logical logic. ~ No poetry, no songs which shonld besung in heaven, but give us the #2= Lahrenbeit factsas they are in Ne- braska. Twant to cast an_intelligent ballot on this subject and I want to hear some “unpaid talk on the subject. Iam hungry, thirsty for it and so are many, T have heard idle talk enough and therefore appeal to my co-workers in the field of labor and see what their views on this subject are, ‘ 1 am undecided in my ballot. Catch me with. cold facts and you eatch me surely, but don't nttempt any vivid pictures, or any jokes to tickle me with, for Ishall not endureit. I am o horse that needs” coaxing to be made to drink at tho well. 1f you give proof thav gour “side’ is the better, you cast your vote aud I will stay with you. Itis necessary to hear both sides so T can the better judge, Spring on your points; I &am all impatient, Yours with a g P —— Jin Kio, * O'Donovan Rossa Is a Drammer, Jereminh 0'Donovan Rossa, the once fero- plous advocate of dynamite and physical force, whose yery name has been for years a terror 1o the British people, has become a traveling salesmun, says a New York paper, Not that he intends to give up entirely his warfare upon the English nation, or is not ~ ready to put an extra kink in the tail of the British tion should a favorable opportunity offer, Far from it. But he admits that since the present hot #pell came in there has teen a decided stump in the dynamite business, and he has given such unmistakable evidence of his desive to turn from thoughts of blood and war to the ursuits of peace that Mr. Francis B. Thurber taken p}ty upon Jerry and given him a berth in his big establishment down in West Broadway. In fact, Rossa is now engaged, and has been for the past two weelks, in a strictly legitimate business enterprise—that of selling cigars and other specialties dealt in by Mr. '.l.‘nrbm"u firm to his friends and acquaint- o8 upon the usual commission basis, as fll’- "Thurber says. The oftice of the United Irishman in Cham- &n street has become alinost deserted and e fricnds of the eminent revolutionist who come 1o call upon him are puzzled to know ‘what has become of their former chief, who used to keep open house in the little third- story cubby-hole, The desk is now covered with a layer of dust a quarter of an inch thick and the old linen duster, with & dagger slit in the back, ‘Which was wora by Rossa in one of his en- v’ —— counters with murderons emissaries of the British government, hangs on the wall, a pathetio reminder of the good old days when necounts of explosions In London under- eound rallways and the dynamiting of pub- ic buildings at the British capital were served up for breakfust every day by the morning papers, Rossa wasn't in today, and nobody seemed to expect him at his office this week. He was off on one of his business trips, Tt was hinted that O'Donovan might only be using his new vocation as a blind to throw his enemies off the scont of & new revolution- ary movement that he is said to be organ- izing with a view to free Ireland from the British yoke, Mr. Thurber was, thercfore, sought by the reporter, who found him at his ofiice in the big grocery store looking cool and comforta- ble, and not a bit disturbed by %0 degrees more or iess of humidity. When asked about his new relations with the great Irish revolutionist, Mr, Thurber know nothing about Rossn's affairs, ex - t that ho represented to mo that his paper as not paying him a living and proposed to take orders for cigars and such other articles as he micht be able to sell to his friends. I told him that he could doso on our usual commission basis, and Lo has been. placing some orders with us which ho hasobtained y making short trips from New York and in tho vicinity of New York. 1 donot think there is anything in the idea that he is engaged in any schemes hos- tile to England, but is simply publishing his paper and making what le canout of it o5 a journalist and as & @ making what he can from commissions in sellin g goods.” Lincoln's Four Hundred, There are 400 hundred commercial travel- ers who make their homes in Lincoln and the citizens of the Capital eity estoem them more than Ward McAllister does his purseproud 400 in New York city. The Lincoln couriers of commerce are known by the appellations “Member of the 400" and the question to knights of the grip Do you belong to the 40017 means **Are you a Lincoln traveling man? The boys are proud of tueir title, Among the commercial travelers from abroad who Sundayed in Lincoln were the followi At the Opelt—J. R. Best, Des N. Galt, Chicago: W. H. Bates, any, Batavia, 11l.; W, C. 5. Marston and wife, Chicago; €. W, Gillispie, DeKalb, 1il., barh wire factory; Buel Couch, teas and coffees, Omaha; Lew Fessler, Chicago; R. W, Allen, Raymond Bros, Lincoln; F. McClain, Ot- tumwa; Charles Rothman, St. Joseph: Paul . Henschel, 111, J. 8. Gillmore, Keokuk, IcNamara, Frank Haw- L works, Racine, Wis.; J. A. Shobert, state agent New York Mutual, New York; Williawm John, jr., secretary Olds wagon works. At the Widsor: W. J, Robbins, St. Louis; insurance company 3 mond, cigar und tea, Steele'& Walker Frank D, I special_fnsur or, Binghamptc k; M. C. I Travelers’ A. Dia- W ew ¥, L. Spring, Des Moines; F. Moulton, Mempli At the Capital: B. , New York; H. Ferguson, ) Wallett, St. Louis; A. C is; C. A._flurl ut, Kansas C Drew, Kansas City; 1. Finke, . Moore, Phila- delpbia. Samples. T. W. Sellick, a Boston traveling man, sui- . cided. He was a victim of the opium habit, and left a letter stating that he preferredkill- ing himself to being killed by opium. J. Bradbury, o traveling man residing at North Third street, Kansas City, is mysteri- ously missing from his home, and fears are entertained for hissafety, ~Mr, Bradbury is a traveling salesman in the employ of thé J. S. Richardson pickle compuni;. Thursday morning he left home, telling his wife that he was going to Independence, Mo., and would return about noon. He has not been seen since, and it is feared that he has me with foul play, as he had a largesum of mor in his possession when he left. The matter was reported to the police, and the police of Independence were wired, but no information as to his whereabouts was received. Dawson Maver’s “‘Reminiscences, T. P. A, Convention, Denver, June 24-27, 1800, will be published August 25. Mr. Charles H. Annan, so long identified with the interests of the Carter white load company, boarded the Burlington fiyer yes- terday afternoon for Chicago to close up o con’ t with the Alston manufacturing com- pany, one of the largest paint houses in the country. Charlie will remain on his old ter- ritory, where he is well and favorably kuown as the'*GeorgeWashington” of the paint trade, We congratulate his new employers upon tho acquisition of a live aud popular youne sal man, who will take an interest in their busi ness and represent them in a manner which will redound to their honor and profit. - Gkl Discase lies in ambush for the weak, a feeble constitution is ill adapted to encounter a malarious atmosphere or sadden chauges of temperature, and the least robust are usually the ecasiest vietims: Dr, J. H. McLean Strengthing Cordial and Blood Purifier w pive tone and vitality and strength to your entire body. —— TWENTY DUNKARDS WITH AN®™R, A Telegrapher's Blunder ThatStartled a Station Agent. Last year a party of twenty-five Dunk- ards was en route to the general confer- vin St. Louis, No agent accom- panied them, and a telegram was sent to Tnion Depot Passenger Agent Bonner to “meet twenty Dunkards,” says the acksonville American, The religious education of the tele- graph operator who recoived the mes- sage had been negleeted. He had never heard of the Dunkards, and, supposing a mistake had been made, he just inscrted the letter *r,” and when Bonner vo- ceived the message it rend: “*Meet No. 4, Twenty drunkards aboard, Look after them.” Bonner was somewhat taken aback. he did not know but that and inebriate asylum had broken loose, but any way prompt action was necessary. The twenty drunkards must be desperate men or the dispatch would not have been sent, and murder might have been com- mitted on the road, Bonner posted off to Police headquar- ters, and his story did not lose in the telling, The chief of police, alive to the exigence of the situation, made a special detail of ten policemen and a patrol wagon, The policemen were drawn up line at the depot, and intense excite- ment prevailed among the numerous depot loungers, a rumor having gained currency that a desperate band of train robbers wus on the incoming train, In due time the train arrived, but no ,\m'ly of roystering drunkards alighted. The party on the train was composed of several pious looking gentlemen with broad-brimmed hats, who stood around as though expecting some one, Bonner approached one of them, and said interragatively: “Had you any trouble on the rond?” “No, brother,” said the gentleman, “‘none that I know of. And now I'll ask you a question: Do you know a gentle- wan named Bonner?” “Yes, I am Mr, Bonner,” was the an- swer. *'Well, these brethren and myself are Dunkards, and you were to meet us and put uson the right train, Didn’t you get a telegram?! Bonner was completely done for, He excused himself, and, calling the ser- geant of police nside, he told him that it was all a mistake and he and his men could go back to headquarters. Then he disposed of his religious friends,went around and cussed out the telegraph operator, ufter which he had to *set ‘em ue) ? for the whole police force on the promise to keep mum, —_—— - Progress. It is very finportant in this of vast ma- terial progress that a remedy be pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, accept- able to the stomach and healthy in its nature B of Figs 1 the one socioet iasiive tad one axalve m‘lnvfflcnm diuretic knnvy: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1800 THE CAT SAVED THE TRAIN, How it Was Done,as Related by the Honest Young Fireman. At the train was about to pull out of the Broad stroet station, says a writer in the Philadelphin Inquirer, T oecognized an old friend inthe engineer, Henodded to me and I jumped into the cab, Dick and I shook bands, and he introduced me to his fireman, o young fellow, with large, truthful, honest eyes, and the most innocent looking face I ever saw. Perched onthe seat was a huge black cat, ugly, scraggy, and with a ground plan of fur that looked like a railroad mayp, it was so plowed and cut up. Nat- uraily Inoticed the eat, aud asked what it was doing there, “That’s a wonderful cat,”” said the youthful fireman, “and thereby hangs a tale. Do you want it “0f course.” “Well, about a w ago we—Dick vere making the run betwe iladelphia and Trenton, It black night—cold and a d and we were—that is, Dick wa behind time, and we were—that is, Die! was—making her hum for ail sho was worth. We—that is, i had a clear track and the right of way, A few feet ahead of the pilot it was as black as nothing. We were driving into chuos ut the rate of sixty miles an hour, I could not help thinking that if we ran into anything we'd know more about the otler world than was ever written in books, and I said a little prayer that 1 learned 1n Sunday school. The prayer didn’t seem to do me much good, and | asked Dick if it was necessary to run so fast. Dick gave me alook of mild con- tempt, and then I got on my dignity and | felt asif I'd rather like tostrike some- thing just to change that look of Dick's tooneof surprise. This was wicked, 1 kknew, but I couldn’t help it Suddenly thero was an awful crash ctly in front of me, a splinte gluss in the cab window, and this came tumbling in, My heart got right up in my throat and I thought 1'd choke, 1 saw Dick turn pale, and, terrified as [ wus, Tremember being glad of it, Ho didn’t lose his head, though—Dick never does—but re d the machine, and when the train was stopped we—that i Dicik—got out to investigate. And what do you think? There-was a rail mi }\l:wml within a dozen feet of where we 1ad stopped. The flagman at the switch had seen it and had stationed himself up, the track to signal us, “*He had a pet cat which followed him wherever he went, The cat was with him as usual. When he heard us thun- dering down upon him his lantern went out, He laid it down to relight it; a gust of wind caught it and it rolled down the embankment. Here was astate of things, The flagman was quick to act, however, and grabbing his faithful cat by the he hurled it at the cab as we rattled by, Here is the cat that saved our train. Didn't you, Danger?” The cat humped its ugly ba recognition, and I looked atthe fi innocent faco of the boy. He returned the look with wide open, truthful eyes. “*Shades of Mount Vernon! Whata Liar that fellow is!” said Dick to me in a whisper. “He has the reputation of being the biggest liar on the road, He'd finish first ina race with Tom Ochi tree. That cat story is his latest ‘suved the train’ business. I saw him fish that cut out of the diteh two days ago.” SRS The Rey. Wm. Stout, Wiarton, Ont., states After being setually treated by soven- teen different doctors for Scerofula and blood disease, I was cared by Burdock Blood Bit- ters. Write for proof. S e In the Quiet Country. I had been staying at an Indiana farm- house all night,and next morning the farmer said he would give me a lift into town, says a writer in the New York Sun. When he was ready to go he called to his oldest boy **Bill, is that shotgun loaded with salt for tramps?” Y o “*Got the gates shut so that no mad dogs k it in?” n gitin? *Yel “Well, keep a lookout for windmill, lightning rod, organ and sewing ma- chine men. Don’t have any truck with the peddlers or poultry buyers. Don’t let in any patent gate or wirefence men, Keep clear o' patent hay forks, and don’t waste no time on churns, force pumps, ice cream freezers, bag holders, barrels, fruit trees, wagon jacks, nor owl trays.” “No, “*And say, Billl” called the old man, after we had driven forty or fifty rods, “don’t buy no cure for the heaves, no fireproof ‘paint. no patent gate hinges, pitehforks, nor encyclopedias,” N We had driven about three miles when he suddenly pulled up with an ex- clamation of disgust. “*What is il *“Hang my hide ff I didn’t clean forget to warn Bill agin Bohemian oats, New Zealand clover. and them pesky insu ance agents! Well, its too late now, but [ guess [ kin git back home afore the mob overpowers him,” e Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is the bes of all remedies for children teething, 25 cents a bottle, —_—— Trinty Church's Big Olock. The clock in Trinty church is the heaviest jtimepiece in America, says the New York Pre It might scem that in its construction an effort has heen made to ascertain how much metal could possibly be planted in a clock, The frame stands nine feet long, five high and three feet wid The main wheels are thirty inches in diamete: There are three wheels in the time train, and three each in the strike and chime, The winding wheels are formed of solid casting thirty inches in diameter and two inches thicl, and are driven by a **pinion and arbor, On this arbor is placed u juck, or another wheel, pinion and erank, and it takes 800 turns of this crank to wind each weight up. It requires 700 feot of three inch rope for the three cords and over an hour for two men to wind the clock. The pendu- lum is cighteen feet long and oscillates yfive times per minute, The dials “are eight feet in diameter, although they look little more than half that size from Broadway. The three weights tip the seales at about 800, 1,200 and 1,500 pounds, respectively, A large box is placed at the bottom of the well, which holds about a bail of cotton waste, 80 that if a cord should bread the cotton would check the concussion, i i o, S Only Once an Hour. A man who had a clock in his lap had a seat on a car coming down from the Grand Central depot the other day, says the New York Sun, and n pussenger next to him naturally inquired: “Been buying a timepiece, eh?” “It’s one I bought a week ago, and I'm taking it hack.” “Out of time?” “Oh no, it runs all right, but the fel. low swindled me on it. I expect to have a row with him.” “What's wrong with it?” “Why, he warranted it to be a cuckoo clock, and he lied about it.” It looks to me to be a cuckoo clock.” “Well, it isn’t. When it strikes the hours a door opens, a bird comes out and yells ‘Hm-hcxrrhmrhno!’ and that’s all there is to it for the next sixty minutes, T’ll make that jeweller tired before I get through with him.” the | { [ [ TALES OF THE WILDER WEST How Mr. MoOool's Nerve Originated the Game of Stud-Horse Poker, FOUGHT A DUEL Exciting Battle to the Doeath Retween Mexican Cowboys=Shooting Over Wila Bill's Grave-An Or- pheus Among Snakes, WITH RIATS. “Bud” McDonald, an oldtime sporting wan, was cooling his heels in front of the Marklam the other evening, the Den- ver Republican, Mr, McDonald was not reti- cent, and it did not take him long to get into areminiscent strain, which was a veritable bonanza of aneedotes and incidents of early life on the Mississippi. The most entertain- ing and instructive of these was an aceount, which he-gave in a happy vein of how the game of “stud horse poker” o ated, “There was in the latter 'fifties and early sixties o man who oceasionally made a trip on the river by the name of McCool,” said Mr, MeDonald, *““He was a confirmed gambler, uand what we called those days a ‘lmgh roller,’ that is he would notonly play for high stakes, but would have gambled the last of his possessions, even if it had been a block of brick buildings in Denver, on what he | | | thought would be the top hand. Where Me- | Cool came from to the viver, as well as whither he went npon leaving it, nobody knew, But while hewas there he made a nameand a fortune which were the envy of many a uccessful sporting man, His penchant for and suceess at draw poker won | for him the pseudouym of ‘P McCool, and Tventure to say that if one were to take o trip down the river today o could find smatlarmy of ante-rebellion slaves who were won or lost by McCool. “There was no game at which Poker Me- Cool wouldn't play,” resumed Mr. MeDonald. AT have seen him bet #5500 that two quarreling dogs in the street w | come to o fight and win it that he bet an astronomical genius who w Awy!lxh(\'i!l!: of his less and this time mado the bullet plow into the beat's groin, The bear was then within forty foet of him, and commenced to assume the proportions of a mountain to his widening eyes, Joo and Ed wero ou either side of the battle ground and handicapped by some bushes. At the doubtful moment Ed sighted the head of the two big led t head animal and fmmodiately emptiod loads of buckshot from his double shotgun, tearing away the side of and toppling her over in v, Tho boys saw that tho bear had suckling her young, so they waiteda few minutes until her twvo cubs came out from the thicket in quest of the mother, 1t wus only the work of n fow minutes to lariat the youngster nd_then they dragsed their game to the ranch. The bear was very fatand weighed 900 pounds when dressed. The cubs were about two wecks old when caught, and were kept for three months on bread and milk. They were brought to the i 1y and are now in a commission t. They are docile, plump and a curiosity to many v M. Tucker has a standing offer of from tho Nutive Sonsof the Golden West but §200 will have to come out of the fundsof that organization if the cubs will form a feature in the parade on Admission duy. sitors, ) for them There has been another r history of Deadwood, which’ Wild Bill was killec a Deadwood spocial to the Chic Though u popular man de wil could not have killed Iy pproached him trencherously, Me- s immediately loeked up, but the ex became so groat that a mob assem- purpose of try . While the proceedings w in progress, the of ofswas heard and a man on ared 1id- ing at fuil speed his teeth and a rifle in ono | Indian's drip- ping head in theother. He had_shot and killed the Indian just outside of De: and the event was considered of so much im- nee that the erowd forgot its lynching il proceeded to e its thirst for ven- ¢ by contemplating the gory trophy 1rollod at its feot. McCaull was after taken to Yunkton, where le was hanged by in a lawful manner, Lwas buried in the old cemetery, vith a rade white b athis head, but five later some of his friends exhumed the und gave it proper burial in the new cemetery on Mount Moriah, It was reported at that time that Wild Bi body had turned tostone, and a man It ftor- ward and off k would help hir hibition. Since then there 1 inquiries about the ' many 1se, but noone here be- accomplishments that Le couldu’t tell wuich | lieves that the body was petritied, Bill's side of the moon was the convex side when it | new grave on the mountain top shows came up, and he won again, Hetook good | that it is the resort of m cu- care that {he astronomer was so drunk that | seckers, A path is worn “across hie couldn't tell the moon from a saloon cuspi- | to. it from the main dore when it did gevup. In short, McCool | d, and the white headboard has was o betting man. I Ul Lis experier | led away by relic_hunters until i the day he played poker whi. | big toothpick, One man appear: birth to that degenerate nonceseript which is | t vorked u knct out of the boar now known as ‘stud-hovse poker, was the round all about the well-beaten gr most exciting, and [ believe that his downfall | od with stiells, Ther and ruin dated from that ti It shook his | frontiersien, it ars, who show th confidenco, *McCool spent most of leans, and he bee an figure there ¢ owned black stallion for which he had pai and w! astride the anim an att t—he and the thought much of the anima not have touched him. Well, on the after- noon I am speaking about, McCool got into a a poker gaine (good old draw poker it was) with a wealthy gambler r y beloneed to a temper- ation, and a feature of the game ent turniog of the low card for It was avbout sundown when the the game and left a drink. deal begzan which ended McCool afoot and bankrupt. ““The deal was Brady 1d the fivst card had been given to b of themw, when Me- Cool wanted a card turned for another round of drinks. Brady turned it, and a four-spot fell to each. With a klessneass gambling informality which ized the game throughont, Me large suu of money on the table called it. Itseemed 1o ber fore the draw, and the play stood in what manuer it would be won or lost. MecCool called for another card to be turned, and it was done. Each sot a five spot. M Cool made another addition to the pot, which Brady covered, and a th: rd was turne Each got a six. ime the pl had intended that,after deciding the qu of drinks, the draw should be proceeded Wwith; bit now the game took anothor turn, and it wus decided to settle the hands with outdrawing. The fifth card was accordingly turned, and it wasa deuce. There was un immense pilein the pot, and the intercst among the crowd, which was packed around the table, was o intense and the silence so deep that the ticking of the tall clock behind the bar sounded like a hammer striking on an anvil. Both men sat deeply absorbed in study. McCool’s buried card was a six and he was certain enough that his pi Brady beaten. Brady's buried card was a tray, and he had a straght and a sure thing. His credit, sitting behiud that hand limited, and he was prepaved to pla 'he scene at this time was the most, in pressive that I believed T ever witnessed, 1 never saw an aggrezation of men so the oughly inmpressed with the fact, that a tre- mendous stake hung in the balance, The betting procceded heavily but slowly until finally McCool hind all his earthly posses: ions represented in the stake on the table ex- cept two objects. One of these was his stal- lion, who stood champing his bit in the street outside; the other was his old negro slave, who stood holding the horse. Finally M Cool ordered the negro to be brought in, and Brady deposited £2,000 against him, at the same time raising McCool §,000, “After some moments of cool study Me- Cool told Brady that all he owned wils on the table, with the exception of his ho was willing to put him up against v that Brady had made. The propo: MeCool ordered the horse to be in. He was. The interest which Ihave de- bed as attending the game before now seemed intensified, if that were possible, und the picture there presented, with the faithful old slave standing by bis master's chaiv, the agony of the suspense of which he was un- dergoing plainly depicted upon his face, the magnificent horse, who seemed all but’ concious of the weulth at stake and lastly the players and spectators, was one never 10 be forgotten, When thé betting was at last over and nothing was lacking to decide the gime but the appes ance of the two buried cards, MeCool call for a glass of liquor. It was notunti bad emptied this that he asked to see his op- ponent’s card “When it shown down e silent! up from the table and walked through th: crowd, v parted for his passage, out into the street. He never sul in a game that drew a crowd again, and it was but a few months from that time when he disappeared pe manently from the river. tfe was the ‘ man to lose money at ‘stud-horse poker' he has had my respectful sympathy since,” and d character- ol threw a last bet tirst Away up in the mountajns in the northern part of Del Norte county the predatory visits of a large black bear to the hog ranches ted about much squealing among the owners of the t kidnapped p almost unbeu Tucker, a commis- , traveled into parts, suys the Sau Francisco Call. He d witn him @ Winchester repeating car a ball especially ad for the destruction of life in large black bears, and he organized & party to hunt the hog tuief. Joseph Morrison and Edward Murray, plucky shepherd dog and a German deer- hound followed Tucker up the deur caunyon for about nine miles onp duf and only stopped to rest when they had resched a dense forest of tall trees, where the ground was covered with a thick undergrowth, Dave concluded that the bear was behind the scenes, and sent the dogs in to reconnoiter, Ina few minutes the collie came out like a rocket and yelled for symputhy, as it showed a badly torn hip by the claw of the distured animal. Another winute had not gone by ere the deer-hound emerged with precipitation, and only stopped | w’fu{n company with its allies, 'he bear followed the dogs with a mad haste, growling ferociously over their temer- ity in invading her home, Tor it wasa female | bear, but the growling was changed to fierce grunts as she caught sight of the hunters. Bruin raised on her hind legs und bore down upon her assailants with motions of the forepaws that challenged a fight to | the = finish, Dave fired a ball into | ber breast, near the snoulder, but without causing the brute to even wink. He pumped another cartridge from the magazine and sent | it tearing through the anatomy of the mon- | ster, with as little effect us its predecessor, Then he commenced to retreat cautiously, while he worked another cartridge into place, gard for Bill und emptying the vs into the ug away their vidge shells us 1. The other day the city mans| y to run in one o genuine and as he [ submitted to arrest | the outrage in most for A peculiar, ppinful_and extremely annoy- ing mishap befell William H. Butte City last night, suys tho Le Harper i% a miner n T vesterday from the east, pan: ¥ an abn appetite for strong drink and y luxuriant beard, of which he is very proud. After depositing his bag- gage in a South Railroad street lodging house Mr. Harper started out to see the sights, taking his appetite and beard along, During the courseof the day he took several drinks which his rugged g od the festi until far But at 9 o'clock a kindly disposed d the inebri °r 1o his ad put Lim into his room. Ir. Harpsr attempted to light the hing up, pped the burning mateh into his flowing whiskers, rendered bLighly inflammable by the liquor into them duving the With a wild howl the gon- tleman from Butte dashed out into the hall with iis face and head blazing like a cum- paign tor “Eor Goo 's sake, put me out,” yelled the i e man, as he 'k and ¥ the hall v at the flumes with his hands, itted with the fearful odor. ov, in _addition to the singed hair, there was 4 well defined tra burning tobacco andother foreien substances ved during ten years' sojourn in a min- man i the next room Leard the eries and came flying out with ra ence of mind and a large bowl of waf he poured on Mr, Hurper's head. An instant later the 1 d with a large and ver, . with which he sue- ceeded in effectually subduing the conflagra- tion. Mz, Harper was also subdued for such a hotheaded man, and wanted to know if an alarm had been turned in, before he vealiz just what had happened. Tnstead of sending for the fire department a doctor was ealled in, who aunoint ror's glorified face with lins . In addition to bis haiv and whisk . Harper also lost his eral patches of skin, hesi sleop that he paid for in adv: is in a fair way 10 re- cover, and will be all rizht in o few days, It is said that he will dintely retiurmn to Butte City to raisea n op of whiskers. A novel duel was fought near Moore's Sta- tion between two Mexican cowboys named Sose Cavrasco uud Munuel' Bosco, ( co in_possession of a flus mettled cow which Bosco claimed bolonge hiandd heen stolen s i ov Loulsville met in the horseback and their lori pommels of their saddl Boseo hailed Carrasco ana demanded the veturn of the cow. The latter became furious at the sug- gestion thut he had come into possession of & and his Mexican blood began to s nature began the cowboys, when Bosco The two men "hey were both on s huug from the to pass o { Carrasco a lia ds been spoken when, irvate Careasco grasped 550 fron his suddle, and, twirling it with a quick movement over his hiead, sent 1t with @ swish toward Bosco's neck, Tho latter ducked his head and grabbed his lariat as he did so, Then began one of the fiercest bloodless battles that has ever been recorded. Up and down the rondway the two horsemen dashed, the lassoes of the duelists flying aud eircling in the air. Nota word was spoken, As fast as the Jassoes fell short of their mark they sd quickly tozether, and with tawirl over the head each cowboy endeavored the other's necic with foam, and ay in the same direc- ealize the fight to the death going u the riders. On sped the horses, but not aword spoke the fighters, Bosco finally turned his eyes from the of her oy for an instant, and, quick as a flasy, dropped the noose of his laviat ovor his adversary's neck, swung his pony around with a jerk, and, putting spurs to the ammal, started off in thé opposite directio Bosco was jerked from his horse's back so suddenly that his neck broken, and- he was dragged over the ground at full $peed for more than a mile. The victor disengaged his laviat from his victim’s neck and coolly rode into town, Mr. C, H. Anderson had a thrilling exper- ience with a devil fish in Commencement bay last Friday evening, says the Tacoma IReg- ister, He had beeu cruisi round in the little steam launch Daisy witha pleasure party, and when opposite the coal bunkers on the Way into port somwe obstruction blocked the propeller screw. The boat was given & terrible wrench, and the little serew began to thump, thump, thump against the huil of the i Tmagining that & piece of kelp had become entangled in the screw, Mr. Ander- son, stopping the engine, calmly rolled up his sleeve aud thrust his arm down at the stern and_grasped the wriggling mass, the outlines of which were only indistinetly dis- cernable in the gathering dusk. As he grasped the slimy mass toloosen it from the screw he felt a crawling sensation, and kuew that his arm wus being encieled by some reptile, Then followed a sensation as of a hundred leeches sucking, and the strength of & man being excrted to draw him overboard, Mr. Auderson nerved himself for a final effort, wand the tentacle Wfllll)md about his arm parted from the body of the monster, Ashe drew himsolf upward the tentacle relaxed its hold and fell back into the water, ‘1 might have held on to it said Mr. An- derson this morning, “had 1 not been moere intent in holding on fo my own arm." How large was it!" “Only a little one ‘‘How big is that ' asked the reporter, and Mr. Anderson indicated the sizo of the tenta- clothat had enwrapped his arm by holding his hands eighteen or twonty inches apart. A mass of twenty-inch tentacl body about the of a water bucket w makea v formidable monster, notwith- standing his protestations to the contrary. The screw of the propeller was wrenched nearly off the rod by the animal, andits blades show the abrasions made by thump- ing the little vessel's bottom, Around Mr. Anderson’s arm, in an advancing eircle, arc a series of 1 ts, fday night were ver owing whepe the suckers of the tentacles had fastened themselves. Ir. Anderson supposes his encounter to have ha devilfish, nid he, Paul Keister, a local musician, reports an exciting and novel experience witha pair of rattlesnakes in the Sonom: s, writes an Everton, C'al,, correspol al- las News, Keistor's s ps wre in demand s a violinist in the country where old fash- foned parties are piven. On Saturda cvening he ed ata farm lLouse back of Yulupa mountain, He slept at the farm house, The trail to his home leads through a deep canon. At one point the path winds around a sharp and narrow spur of the moun- tain this spot when his atten od by the warni clatt When he saw lmr nidablo rattler in his path ho took to his iecls, A few feet further along still another rat- tler rose up before him. There was not su ficient room to pass the snakes without run- ning the risk of being bitten, and the friy ened musician backed up against the ledgre and eved tho advancing reptiles. It sudd occwrred to him that in India magicians _charm such things with music, and, pulling out his violin, e bezan desperately . The music had the desived ¢ akes gradually uncoiled and glided slowly townrd the player, This movement of the sy anything but pleasant to Keister, who kept sawing away at his fiddle, trying to devise mean- while a scheme for éscaping. Closer and closer camo the snakes and fastor and faster flew the bow over the s as ter's nerves quivered and At past the snakes hin two fect of the te: wing themselves up they heads closely together ing eyes on tho musici were now utterly uncontrollable, With a yeilhe grabbed his fiddle by the neck brought it down with crushing for heads of the suak: The blows kent hamimerin He broke his belove he his life, The six and seven feet respectively, 0 vattles and the other seven, cached 1t reptiles, and Keisto until they wi violin, but measured One e lliam Greenbaum, son of a millionaire hant of this city, ust reached home lively experience in the Olympia monntains of Washington, during whnich he “ked by a mountain Lion, and was five vs without food, says a San Francisco iteh to the she-Democrat, ‘nbaum is a commercial tr ler, and, seattle, joined itains, One day Search pavties wore sont of these found him on the fifth He lost himself within a quarter of a milo of camp, When without arms, while vesting near all, hewas attacked by a big mountain reenbaum plunged down the moun- side intoa large creck and waded down this, the lion following him on shore, His weapon was a small pocket-knife, 1t fast growing d: Watching when the extricating himself from a swampy point, Gireenbaum swam to the opposite shore and built two bonfires against the base of ®he cliff. Between these fires he spent the night watching for the lion, which bad been fright- ened off by the flames. The next morning he hunted all day for camp. At night he again built a fire to keep off wild be On the iifth day he made a bow and arrow and shot a robin and drank its blood. As he was fish- ingin the stream that he was following to salt water, he was found by a search pa They had to feed him carefully ab fivst, as was nearly famished. B For Burns, Scalds, Bruises andall pain and of the flesh, the grand household remedy is Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. Be sure you get the genuine, ey The Cause of Woman in Russia, The emancipation of woman is making rapid progress in Russin, Following the example of one of the western cities in the United States, the inhabitants of the little town of Kniazell have elected l railroad. a woman, Alexandra llyne by name, to the post of starosto, or mayor, on the ground that sho was the person most fitted to bo intrusted with the intorests of the community. A Mohammedan woman, a native of Bak: tho Seral in the Crimen, has recently passed, with flying colors, hor examinas tion as physic and, havin diplon now p ing medicine among the hammedan ladies in the district from which she hails, 1ler namo is Dr, Razlo Koutlofaroff-Flanum, and hors is the first caso on record of o Mohammedan lady practicing medicine as understood by western nations, Women, too, are now being employed, for the fi time, by the government as telographic clorks and ticket agents on the Transcaspiap - - Not so Barly as He Thought, It was the last hour in the afternoon, says the Kansas City Star, and men wors strolling about the oftice and billiard room of the Midland awaiting the epoch when tho management would surrender to them their evening Among others was an old whom one ht eall Bogirs, and made tho house his habitat., Judge CREY native of Kentuck) no more think of declining u straight whiskey wgeof battle, The idea would ba srable, Still he had his notions of one should o tho proffer of & asubout as liable who Boy and would how drink, and, while he to miss a8 a cobra, he delighted to toy the invitation and y obliguely. While muriner of the logal & fully mavking off the ti of the bar room floor two gentlemen came in, “Come up and have a dvink, judg said the taller of the duo, nddressing Boggs, No, thanks, colonel,” said the old judge,” at the same time deflecting his line of marel ¥y towards the countoer, vy [ never drink us carly as th “Botter take something, Judgo,” plied the gentloman, winking panion and continuing his pic ward the bottles. M sorry, colonel, req 3 tosted the old judge, **but it’s too ¢ and the deflection in his course heeamo reat that the par “lay dead ahead.” ive m me lemon in mine,” said the maker of the the fifth button of his vest eame in conjunction with the edge of the furniture, and he pawed tho aiv with vague, uncertain foot for the foot vest. “‘P’ut a little sugar in it, too. You had better join us”” he persisted, turning to the judge. “Really, I ecan't, colonel,” again re- peated the judge, at the same time pull- ing out his wateh, “it's too earl eA— Well, T declare! 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