Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1890, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SVAKES OF GILA BOTTON. Big Yarmns About the Reptiles of the Western Country,, RATTLESNAKES AND THEIR VENOMOUS BITE How Ophidians From Their € Deer rotect Themselves mon Enemy, the Antidotes for Snake Bites Exclusive of Whisky. From the Sun Francisco Examiner: Captain J. A, Mellin,of the steam who has been running on the Colorado river for twenty-five years, hails from n region perhivs infested with snukes than any the United States, [=] He told some remarkable personal ex- periences yesterday at the Lick, “At Beaver Island, in the Colorado river, 200 miles above Yuma,™ said he, “Lsaw a rattlesnake that was bigger than any [ ever saw ina menage 1 wasn't 8o very long—only o little over five feet—hut it was as thick as my thigh and had a head as big asmy fist. You will know from this that it was pretty big. more other in A NARROW EXT 1E “I tried to kill this snake with a long but rather weak stic nd standing s off as I had to to keep out of danger, I could not do effective work. YAt length the big rattler got so mad that he bit himse elf,y nlhuu; they always do when envaged and cannot reach their enemy, and he buried his fangs into his tail about eight inches from the end There he was, completely bowed up, and solid as though welded fast, 1 got him on my pole and whirled him round and round like a hoop,as as I could until he whizzed like o wheel, wouldn’t let go. When I finully 1 him down and killed him I found ble fangs were each twoand If inches long. “His poison suck at the roots was as big s a tobacco pouch and full of blu matter, He must have weighed thirt pounds, I never saw anywhere o rattle to compare with™ him. He was 'y vicious, but I managed to down flapp his te *DOCTOR, DON'T ) “In my journeys along the Colorado many strange and pathetic experiences have come under my observation. In Gilla City a short time ngo the little son of the section boss on the railroad went out to the chicken house, At was not in the evening, but late inthe afternoon. “It was a little dark when he entered, and be did not see a_ rattlesnake there and stepped on it. It whirled and bit him on the ankle. His mother killed it, and the boy was put aboard the train and taken to Yuma, eighteen miles away. here Dr. Sibley waited on him, but he died hefore the xt morning. The poor little fellow did not have convul- sions. He was consciousall the time. He would say to the doctor, ‘Don’t let me die, doctor!” It was pitiful to see nim. His legs were swollen up bigger than his hollv, and he wus swollen all over, LIT ME DI TWO CURIOUS REMEDIES, “There is a weed on the desert that is an antidote for the poison, but they didn’t secm o be_ able to get any at the time. It is called the snakeweed, though in fact it is a little trailing vine. It has the tiniest little leaf, and when it broken exudes a milky fluid. This milk the Indians use to make tea of and take internally. The Indians also have another curious remedy, When any one is bitten they take switches and switch one of the nu- merous ant-hills aown there. This mukes the ants very mad and they spew out in their anger a venom or saliva. This the Indians gather up with the dend ants and dirt by handfuls, and put two or three of them in a ragand bind on the bitten part, and the poultice works a_perfect cure, “Rattlesnakes will always bito them- selves when lashed into a fury and un- able to reach their enemy, and they will then rush off and eat this weed T told you about. That’s why it is called snakeweed, and it _is how people found out it was a cure, It never fails cither with people or mml\unml are bitten, rattlesnnkes as the G ln hollmn A\o“ T'll tell you this, which cume under my own observation. “Sergeant McCracken, of Colonel Lovell’s staff, at Fort Yuma, was the mail rider from Yuma to La Paz, along the Gila valley. He was returning home one evening on & big government mule and when a mile from Rhodes’ ranch he heard an awful rattling on both sides of the roud. *There was such a rattling that it sounded like a lot of beans in a gourd. The mule took fright and Mr, Mec- Cracken couldn’t hold him, All he could do the mule would go and he went like a prairvie fire. IT WAS A SNAKE. “Something slewed around and struck the mail rider, and ne thoughtit was his riata which had become loose. He made a grab for it and grasped in lus hand a big rattlesnake. “He was horrified and let go, very luckily for bim, too, and the snake, which had become loose from the mule's breast when he struck him, dropped down, - *The mule went the mile on a dead run, thing could check him, He van into Rhodes’ corral and dropped down, “In fiteen minutes he was dead and swelled up as big as five mules, Rhodes told me henever pelieved such a tre- mendous bulk could be got into one mule’s hide. “Yes, I believe it is true that a rattle- snake won't bite anything unless it is attacked first, 1 believe that mule stepped on him, probably on his tail,” “*But you said this was a big mule, and how could the snake veach up and strike him in the bieast?” asked the re- porter. A FORMIDABLE ENEMY, “*We have a snake along the Colorado river that we call the king snake, It is the enemy of the rattlesnuke, and kills {t by crushing it like the boa constrictor, The king snake when grown is as much a8 six or seven feet long, with beautiful red and white and black spots, . “One would think it impossible that one kind of snake would kill another by wrapping itself avound its vietim. The wonder is, whatis the rattlesnake doing all this time, and is it not asquick as the other? It does not appear so. Quick as the rattler is, the king snake can get away with him, “He waits till the rattlesnake p trudes his head a little from the coil and then springs in loop form around him and squeezes the life out of him in ) LT he king snake 18 not poisonous and never attacks man, In the Colorado and Gila valleys there used to be an in- numerable number of them, but there are 1ot S0 many now, UNWELCOME VISITORS, “Wo used to find vattlesnukes among the goods on the dock at Yuma. Once when the men were moving tierces of | aocount of the silver b the ar e to loadin, and , preparator moved a tie was founc before he could get away. 'hen they moved another tierce, It was the one | had been sitting on, and, behold, there was a big rattlesnike under th YT believe rattlesnnkes, rate, rabbits, mice and similar animals sometimes live together, [ know this has been a mooted question, but when theve is a common danger they do this, “In June'of each year the river us overflows, and times 1 i found in cords living apparvently in the g mony, rabbits, rattlesnakes, at such of wood o8t har- ts and 'Ihn'\ were all in the same cord, and there were no dead or partially eaten animals there to indicate that one had made a meal on the other, “[ have secn them together in hollow logs ut such times, too, and I would find food carried thore, such us beans. It is probably only at common danger, though, that this.” SIPRIN XACTLY 17§ 1 “Jumped up. A v his length exactly, <o 0 snake coiled up, and he looks just like an inverted top, his head the apex over the L When lie strikes he can leap his enti length, from the tip of his tail to his head. This a big ratt and he had no difficulty in striking the big mule in the t, and he wuas so en- raged that he held on and was mistuken for the loose lariat, “1 have shot a snake that was coiled up witha Heney rifle and cut him in three places, They are done up like a coil of rope, very compact, and there is an immense ‘amount of concealed strength in the No animal knows better how to use it than u rattlesnake. n hecome so dextrous by th w rope, what can be from w snake, with which it is natural? It should not be forgotten either, that if a rattler s shot or cut to pieces he can strike with his head and inflict a deadly wound, & SOME n “Though I never “knew a rattlesnake to attack anything first. [ have known them to spring when they saw an attack One time when I was in a 11 boat on the Colorado river I saw a gooe sized rattlesnake on one of the banks. 1 gotup and tried to st with my oar. It wasquicker than ning and steuck backwards at me. “When a deer down there sees a rat- tlesnake, no matter if itis coiled and rveady 1o spring, he will edge around until he gets as close as possible and then gathering himself in a heap. he will come down with all four feet on the snake. “It’s a close mateh hetween a deer and a snake, but the deer usually the quicker. He won't get close till heé gets all ready and then he drops on the rep- tile like a flash, S g syrup of F Produced from the laxative and nutritious juice of Californi s, combined with the medicinal virtu ts known to be most ucm-fl.mlmnu buman_ system, acts gently or and_bowels, effectually . dispelling colds and bitual constipation. times of they do TH. tlosnake can jump ex- JENI cleansing tho headaches, and cf Pleasant Incldent of a Wedding. But few of the descriptions of the ve- cent marriage of Archduchess Vale: of Austria have made mention of an 1n- cident, which occurred on the eve of the wedding, says the New York Tribune, The emperor and empress had prepared a charming surprise for the bride, al- ways their favorite daughter, and still more dear to them since the suicide of their son Rudolph at Meyerling. Bavon eceny, director of the court theatevs, eived orders to summon w great secrecy to Ischl the members of the famous’ quartette of the Vienna opera. From the railvoad station the singers were driven to the house of the mast; f ceremonies and and conducted to a room, where th received four coples of u song, which they were re- quested to learn. A splendid dinner was served to them in the sume room, in which they were to remain untils moned. At mghtfall they wer thsough the woods to the imper, and placed under the cover of a heavy clump of trees opposite the terrace of the residence, with instructions to wait agiven signal before begiuning their song. At last the empress appeared, holding her daughter by the waist; be: nind them was the empevor with the bridegroom, the Archduke Salvador, were all silent!y stunding on the terrace Prince Hohenlohe nal, and from under the deep shade of the trees thero floated up the sounds of an exquisite song, the words and music of which had been composed by the young bride herself some time pre- viously. The archduchess rose toward her ]mmuh her eyes filled with tears of emotion and happines Then the em- peror went down in the gurden and pre- sented each singer with o diamond scarfpin, T Ask for Van Houten’s Cocoa. other. Take no —— Whitman on Poets, Grand as today’s aceumulative fund of poetry is, therois certuinly something unborn, not yet come forth, different from anything now formulated in any verse, or contributed by the past in an; land—something waited for, craver nitherto non-oxpressed, writes Walt Whitman in the North American Re- view. What it will be, and how, no one knows. It will probably have to prove itself by itself and its readers, One thing, it must run through entire humanity (this new word and meaning Solidarity has arisen to us moderns), twining all lands like a divine thread, stringing all beads, pebbles or gold, from God and the soul, and like God's ics and sunshine illustrating all and having reference to all. From anything like a cosmical point of view, the éntivety of imaginative li ture’s themes and results as wo get them today seems painfully nirrow, All that has \n-vu out in statement, tremendous as it is, what is it mmpmml with the vast m-hl-t and values and varieties left Of our own country, the splendid races north or south, indespe- clally of the western and Pacific regions, it soletimes seems to me their myriad noblest Homerie and Biblic elements are all untouched, left as if ashamed of, and only certain very minor oecasional ‘deli- rium tremens glmu emhhnusl_y sougm and put in print,in short wales, *poetry” or books. - o Effect of the silver Bill, A surprising result of the silver bill passed by congress awhile ago is that it enriches the miners at the expense of the missionarics. The advance in the price of silver hus caused exchange to fall off in Asia, and $10,000. which re- cently sold for 28,000 rupees in India, now bringing only 25,000, These mis- slonaries get their money by bills of ex- change on London, says a Washington dispateh to the Globe-Domoerat, These are sold in India for rupees, and the higher exchange goes the fewer rupees come from the same amount in dollars or pounds. The Baptist Missionary Mag- azine estimates that it will cost the Mis- sionary union of Boston about $53,000 more this year to support its missions in India than it did last year, and all on They killed him | ! Asin the construction Colorado | | from mesquite | A WESTERY GAMBLER. G. F. Parsons in New York Ledger: of the Union and Central Pacifie railroads thelr junction drew near, two strange spectacles might have been seen upon different points of | | those plains of Utah twhich then pre- sented so melancholy, drear like an appenrance, The advance of the western line was being made by a gr body of Chinese. There were some ten thousand of them, and they were so well drilled that their work of laying the rails upon the previously graded re ! bed went forward with the precision and automatic promptness of a machine. had worked on the Central P the extreme slope of the S and after the tremendous enginee and construction difficulties of the moun- in section, railrond building on the level bottom of the Salt Lake valley seemed mere child’s play to them. Toward the last, when both companies were straining every nerve to see which should rench Promontory Point first, the ‘entral Pacific force actually laid ten s of rails in one day—u feat un- srecedented then, and, so far as my in- ation serves, still unsurpassed, wis m»n\i« nble numl of white men on this side also, but they were skilled workmen, foremen, bridge- line was maintained in eifie construction cam ps, casily. since permission 1o open \..u.,..n tic drinking booths was steadily refused to all applicants. A different condition of thin isted on the Union Pacific. Asthatread advanced beyond the settlements on its way w ward its construction camps atirs some of the most lawless and desper: men of those who habituay hang upon the selvagesof civilization.” There w gamblers, rumscllers, thieves, bullies, murderers and ruftians of every kind; and they were absolutely unvestvuined. The chief attraction to this mercenary crowd was the res of the railroad hands, and every pay-day was the ocea- sion of orgies which invariably ended in fighting, more or less promiscuous, and usually several murdevs, Justice, how- ever, made no attempt to control or ad- minister the laws upon these cvil birds of passage: and as they generally killed one another during their mad outbreaks, perhaps it was thought judicious to let them save the tevritory expense in this way. In passing through the settled rogions the men employed on the construction of the Union Pacific had given a good deal of trouble, being a pretty tough lot, independent of the influences exerted ¢ the following of criminals and outlay just spoken of. It was the practice of these birds of prey to put up little towns of tents at convenient ypoints, and then open saloons and gambling-hells. These ambulatory villages never remained long in one Ium but followed the con- struction closely as possible. Vullvv was tra the influx of desperadoes swelled, and, a short time before the union of the two lines at Promontory, the at- mosphere of the last of the gambling and drinking ecamps became'so preter- naturally sultry that even the veterans began to fee had received the sug e and significant name of * Kill-Me-Quick,”” and the title was justif It was wrave event for any dawn to break in that haunt of in quity without bringing into view the or four stiff forms swetched on the scrubby sage brush about the tents. No inquiry was ever made as to_how they met their death, nor was it thoug worth while to give them decent buri The most that was done was to hi some particularly out-of-elbows hange on to drag the hodies out into the ope and there they were left to the disp of the coyotes. No man’s life at **k Me-Quick” was ever worth two min utes” purehase, for not_only were p drawn at all hours of the day and night, but the thinness of thetents in which every onelived invited stray bullets, which frequently found -unintended bil- lets. There were a few women in the place, and these were of the most des- perato and abandoned kind: even qu er than the men with the pistol and knife, and reckless in all ways bevond coneeption, Things were in this state at the “front” of the Union Pacifie, when, in the spring of 1869, the writer of this sketch went from San Prancisco to the place of junction in Utah, to witness the laying of the lust 1il. Arriving some diiys before the cevemony, ha was obliged to make many odd shifts to get to the foremosy construction camp; and one day he found himself thrown into strange company, the only other passen- ger on the car being a rough and de- termined looking man, who had with him two singularly he alises. The stranger was sociably inelined, and con- descended to enter into conversation with the young man, who, on his part, welcomed the opportunity to study a new species. In a few minutes, the man of the two_valises had stated that his name was Bill Dresser: that he was a gambler by profession,™ and that he was on his way to g up’’ some- thing, over the thought of whick he chuckled several times, &Now it must be said that Mr. William Dresser was not at all like the western gambler de- scribed by Bret Harte. e was not smooth and polished and cold, with the manners of an exquisite and the eye of a raftlesnake, He did not wear broad- cloth and fine linen. He exhibited no diamonds, his hands were not smooth and white, and nobody could by any pos- sibility have mistaken him for a gentle- man, ~ He was red-faced, rough-skinned, with u serubby beard, wore & conrse and shabby suit of clothes, and a rusty soft hat; displayed no jewelry whatever, but 1s evidently \\«,li heeled,” that is to he carried two big navy revolvers at his belt and a knife in one For nman who, di count, had kill oreaturs ed of his fe! ithout the least compunction or remorse, he did not appear formid- able, Thousands of honest farmers wear no more innocent expression and are no more frank and aflable in man- ner. Perhaps it was the fact that there was nobody for him to talk to but me that loosened his tong Perhaps it was his babit to distribute his confi- dences freely. My acquaintance with him was too brief to interest me upon this point, but I was perfectly content to hear all he was willing to s Presently he happened to kick one of his valises, and a curious metallie, jing- ling sound which followed encouraged me to inquire what he had theve, Heore- upon he laughed, and said: it *1 guess you'd Iw along time findin’ thatl It’s guns!” and then he opened one of the valises and showed that it was filled with apparently second-hand re- volvers. I must have looked the per- Yln!.\h.y 1 felt at this sight, and Bill Dresser was not the man to leave a com- panion in uncertainty, He proceeded to enlighten me us to the meamng of the phenomenon, “Yer ee,” he began, rather thought- fully, but with a candor to inspire confi- dence, “of late these yer fellers wot bucks the tiger hey got to be uncommon rambunctious, ’‘specially the railroad Yer can't win'the leastest pile off’n "em without their pullin’ their guns on yer, and tho' in the perfession we hev to take chances, of course, this ever- lastin’ shootin ’s kind o’ wearin' on the narves.” To this I assented, it seemed so ob- and desert- | | up the game, and somne ing | or from perceiving the meaning of the two valises full of ‘‘guns.’ Mr. Willinm Dyosser proccedod: “Now, mate,” (hy thid endearing term he was kind enougli, o de writer)* “I've got a pardne name is Jim Jim’s cute and up to more tricks than 1 am, and ‘twas he that worked out this plant. It's jest this way: W'en we mark down a railroad camp I go on ahoad and strike the boys jost before npay-day, s0's to make sure that they’ll beout of cash. Woell, Topen on ‘em drops in and hangs ‘round, gloomy 1i Pres- ently they lets me know ther” ain’t any money in' the eamp. T sez, cheerfully, that this don't no differ. I'm willing to meet boys more’n half sn't y rocks can V guns ut an agreed val- untion, re—nothin’ to hinder the game. The boys don’t need asecond askin’ and I corvals all the guns in the camp—see? By'n by p.l\ ~day comes around, um\ then m \.nlnm takes up the runnin’, sails into theSeamp and collars the shinplaste Just here's where the fine work comesin, Ef the hoys had their guns, ten to one the i my pavdner full of lead, but deawn their teeth, yor sce, and so .Ixm has time to el out with his winnin’s before the crowd ean get cool enough to organize a lynchin® party, It's an all- fired combination, and” works like a charm,” So saying, BIll Dressor boamed upon me as though he had heen reluting the thy and philanthropic of actions e 50 clearly expre confidence in my admivation thatI really felt embarassed at being unable to en- dorse the ‘‘combingtion” heartily and without prejudice, But he was not de- pendent upon the cold cha of the world for approbation. The mere sight of the two valises tickled hirm, and he could not touch one with hisfoot without breaking into a gaffaw. Suddenly a thought struckk and for a moment sobered him. He put his hand upon my knee, and dropping his voice a little, ob- served feelingly: o, my pardner which his and me'd rake in a big pile of’t weren't for one thing. I et stand off old ryel That’s my weak point, and its broken up no end o* prom- isin’ " plants, Some —heve his gloom deepened—*T expect it’ll lead to my pu checks prematoor] Here he paused and fell into a reflec- tive mood, which I did not interrupt. The most striking point in this man was the placid unconscicusness of abnor- mality which marked his easy relation, It was evident that he did not regard himself us inany respeet singular, nor did he think his occupation one {o be ashamed of, Living wholly with those who did the same or worse, this was natur enough, but law-abiding people commonly make the mis- tnke of supposing thut lawless people '0 their lawlessness, Hence uceptions of black-browed, saturnine desperadoes to be found in f reatures who o, rage and desp: ters do not exist. Your no doubt be sullen but he is quite as likely to he debonnair, genial and cheery, and to go through the world with a light heart, (nullwunl.\ for the plaudits of men who hold the same views with himself, and neither comprehending nor troubling himself about the condemnation of that respec table element of society which he ig- nores or mildly despis Bill Dresser was o typieal outlaw, and thoroughly acclimated to his envivonments, Hesin- cevely took pride in Jim Farley’s ‘‘com- bination,” and he say no reason why an ordinary, intelligent stranger should not shate his opinion, Ho was o docid- edly interesting study, and when, in an- swer to my qumfiunx. he avowed an in- timate kiowledge of the game called | ard monte,” and proceeded to ruct me in the mysteries of the the instruction became still more novel and amusing. I do not think I was a very apt scholar, for really the only impression I careied away was a conviction that whoever played *‘three- cavd monte’ in the hope and expectation of winning money deserved to e put in o lunatic asylum. Yet at the time, and indeed long afterward, monte players so infested the Central and the U cifie railroads, and vietimizes passengers, that the companies found it necessary to place warning placards in every car, besides doing their utmost to keep the gamblers off the lines, Bill Dresser was quite proud of his sleight- of-hand skill, but he did not try to in- duce me to bet, and I have sometimes thought that he may have had a vague feeling of disinclination to fleece one tc whom he had revexled himself so fully. As he intimateda purpose to introduce the “combination”at the Central Pacific front, Tthought it my duty to inform the superintendent of the plot, and“when M, Dresser approac dhiod the camp he was politely but firmly invited to go somewhere else. I did not meet him again, What follows was gathered from other sources and by sevaps and frag- ments. It seems that when he went back to “Kill-Me Quick™ he found his lmrlm:l'un)mlx ntly awaiting his return, o presence at the east being required the interest of some other **plant.”—no doubt criminal—but of what nature I never lulu'neLL Before leaving Bill's “pardner” had to de- termine whether to let the joint capital remain in Dresser’s hands nnd be em- ployed by him as usual in keeping the gaming house in operation, or whethor the game should be closed during his absence, Prudence suggested the second course; aval upported the first. Far- ley had no fear that his partner would run away with the funds, and_this fact tpolce. rathor strongly for Bill, since there are not many of his kulm- who are above temptation and superior to opportunity, What ‘loy did fear was Bill's addiction to **old rye,” for he was always liab] 0 got on what he called a “jamboree” and if he did, the funds would certainlybe lost, Dresser, however swore so solemnly {0 shun the flowing bowl, and representod so strongly the folly of Tosing a golden opportunity for “raking in the shekels,”” that his partner at length forewent his better judgment, and decided thut the game should be kept open. This settled, he took the train for the east, the unde standing being that he would return in two weeks at the furthest, Frail human natyre is so constituted that it always hankers after forbidden fruit; and no sooner had Jim Farley dis- EATOtATnE and evil-tempere MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, | vious, but still T was_ ms.far s o 1890. red, than his partner began to re- flect upon the extent of the privation to which he had pledged himself for no less aperiod than fourteen da For the first twenty-four hours his good resolu- tions were” bracing enough to keop him in the path of (comparative) virtue; hut precisely because had sworn not to touch liquor, the craving forit grew upon him, until his condition was truly pitinble, He held out, notwithstanding the cumulative weight of his tempta- tions, to the end of the first week. Then he fell like Lucifer—‘never to viso rain.” This was no ordinary soree. The law of proportions necessifuted its aduptation to the causes which had pro- duced it. There had been every reason for abstaining from drink, thevefore there was every veason for drinking more heavily than ever when he did In-gim Bill Dresser was not quarrel- some in his cups, or he would certainly have been killed during thisspree, for he verfectly reckless, His neighbor 1s of prey, of course, took prompt ad- untage of his condition. He had closed his game, but he saved nothing by that, for he immediately procecded to bet upon ull the other games in the camp. Asnot one of these games was “'square it followed that Bill lost his and his partner's capital rapidly; but this did not check lim, He was, in truth, in the state called ‘‘fey” by the Scotch—that pecular state which death being ed, the predestined jctim is supposed to be mysteriously impelled to carry his own doom into effect. «Ie drank deeply, and gambled wildly, until the day before Farley was expected back. Then he stopped play- ing, because he no longer possessed a dollar, and he stopped drinking, because the barkeeper refused to give him credit, So the week’s furious excite- ment ended, and left a shaking, half- delivious, remorseful, shame-burdened wroteh in the place of the jaunty and self-confident Bill Dresser., Having now nothing else to do, he thought, and though his thoughts could not, in the state of his system, be healthy or nor- mal ones, they none the less led him to u fixed resolve, which he proc carry out as soon as his paviner arriv He found it necessary to beg a s dvink of whisky before facing his injured friend, for he was very tre n\xlmw and m seene fley was beside himself with rage and disgust at his own folly in running such a visk, But the thing was done, the bank was broken, and the veteran gambler had seen too many and downs notto have achieved a « measure of philosophy. In short, he could have calmed down by degrees if let alone: but Bill Dresser’s destit meant otherwise. While Farle, still in the stage of white hea partner stood up before him, and spoke ce here, Jim, yer can’t feol any worse nor I do, an’ yer can't despise me worse nor I despises myself. But that’s little use to talk about. Ye'r’ robbed, an’ in the meanest way, an’ I'm the dirty thief. No of vou woke and” found a galoot goin’ through clothe: \\uul«lnt you shoot him? , this " a puelel case and ye'r entitled to yer reven Wot I ! for you to jest take me out to th’ edge of the sage-brush, and put a ball through my head. [ain't no good, no w n’ mebbe ef you don’t do it, I shall light out that way myself.” Jum Farléy looked hard at- his pavt- ner, and after a moment replied: “li\ thund Bill, you do deserve to be \\’IJIL!] out “Well,” returned Dresser, perhaps a little pl'c\hh]), “why don't yer wipe me out, th This irritated the other, and, some- how seemed to put him on his mettle. and merely suying: *Come on! I will he stepped from the tent where the planation had been made, and strode toward the dreary waSte of sage-brush- covered plain that stretched in dismal flatness all avound the camp. Dresser followed calmer and cooler than before, They halted a hundred yards from the outermost tent drew his re- volver, examinc sarefully, and then asked his late pattner if he had “‘any- thing to say—last words or sech?” Bill Dresser merely shook his fiead, He wasalone in the world. ide had nothing to bequeath, and nobody to be- queath it to. A look passed hetween the two men; a look of farewell, for- giveness, and rancor and qmnm all mingled together, Farley pistol. A sharp report follbwe man holding a smoking revolve hand stood alone, looking down at some- thing that lpy still enough at his feot. Bill Dre had expiated his offenso as far as he could. Nothing was done against Jim Farley, who in due time died “with his boots on.”” Tt any reader thinks this sto credibie T shall notbe surprised, Truth is often incredible, and this velation ie true. g A Lighvin Every Bert To the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway bolongs the credit of being tho first in the country to reduce tho matter of electric lighting of trains to seientific perfection, One of the ngvel featur ntroduced in the sleeping cars is patent electric reading lamp in eack tion, With this luxurious prov. reading at night before and after ret ing becomes as comfortable as by day, and when retiring the toilet may be made in comfort and seclusion. The berth reading lamp in the Pullman sleeping cars run_on the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St Paul railway, between Omaha and Chicago, is patented and cannot be used by any other railway company. It is the greatest improve- ment of the age. Try it and be con- vinced, Sleeping cars leave the Union Pacific depot, Omaha, at 6:10 p, m, daily, iv- ing at Chicago at 9:30 a m. Securo tickets and sleeping eav berths at Union Ticket office, 1501 Farnam street (Barker block), Omaha. J. E. PRESTON, F. A. SH, Pass, n’l Agont Thum;:h coaches—Pullman palace sle dining cars, freo reclining chair cavs to Chicago and intervening points via the great Rock Island route. Ticket office 1602, Sixteenth and Farnam, - Don't beleve that he is thinking of vou every hour of his life. He is nag; be if heis working away, with every now and then giving a thought to the girl for whom he ing @ homo over which he expects her side us a loving, thoughtful wife, Have you used PEARS soxe: oM BILLIARDS. Collender Co. 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