The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1900, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. EO0D AND IN THE BARBER’S r another ¢ Juck to see a good as bad luck redheaded barber, ers in New York ® kept customers for a long time the strength of this superstition. to remember that to twice on the same T The DeEpUTY METH. ON THE TRAIL y)«"«\ v could ting at a table ed to first it for b some of ¥ band reled in the r. 1 s not t still 3 cider in house?" 2 A deputy Che girl flushed and 1 very much embarrassed. *I reckon she answered K € some in th RAD e slde of the face in one shaving will insure good luck for some time. Should this be however, the charm is completely lost It is well to remember that if one con- tinually sits with legs crossed in the bar- ber shop the halr is likely to come out early in life, making a man prematurely The habit, which is a common one, therefore, be reformed before it sk 1 omen s to have the towel Qivilization as 2 Bealtifigr. fon, says the Ledger Monthly, makes women more beautiful than all the rbaric arts and resources of primitive and it 1s because of a misconception f conditions that any ascribe (o the habits of semi-civilized people a cause of any special be auty among their womeu. is harder and more difficuit ankind n that found in highly lands. The outdoor life of the fve life ed former does not entirely counterbalance the evils of unsanitary surroundings, hard drudgery and lack of intellectual associa- tions. It is only modern civilized nations that have given to woman her true place in the scheme of humanity. Her emanci- pation from servitude and unpleasant con- ditions have ylelded more direct benefits than any other transformation of her ex- istence. in a faltering volee. The man drained it it a quaff. “Come, come, my girl”” he <ald, “there must be more where this comes from. Give us a bumper. We've had a hard day's ride There is a barrel In the cellar,” an- swered the girl, “but it's dark down there ind ands, honey, let them go down them- interrupted the mammy he colored woman opened the trap »or. It was dark as Egypt down there. The girl b ht the lamp. and there, sure QRAIR- about the neck drop out before one is shaved. This catastrophe indicates that one will be cut soon by a barber's care- lessness. You cannot be too careful about hav- ing your chin shaved before the mustache. If you persist in having the upper lip shaved first you will never, it s sald, be able to raise a good beard. Another very dangerous practlce is the not common one of using several razors for a single shave. Two razors are al- lowable, but to use more than two even for a moment is =aid to bring very bad luck. A barber will sometimes try® razor and if he does not find it sharp enough pick up another and change to a third in finishing. It is comforting to Know that there are many more chances for recelving good luck thnan for bad luck, the New York World assures us. A person ignorant of all these superstitions has the percentage of chance In his favor. Very good luck is invited by the man who has his shoes polished at the same time he is being shaved. It may be due partly to this superstition that this time-saving device is becoming popular. It is advisable to smoke while sitting In the barber’s chair throughout the operation. This is sald to preVent the face from smarting or burning afterward, no matter how tender the skin may be. Still another lucky practice is to be shaved before breakfast. The good luck which follows, it is sald, will follow one all day, The shaving must be done by & regular barber. If one shaves himself the charm Is Ineffective, wera the expected barrels. Two 1 the ladder, a third oor. He stood on head bent Pale as a NS Uy, but t o idier, one rounded arm holdl the lamp high above her proud 1d, stood the girl. Su man on the ladder felt a etingt He caught o glance of the colored woman's triumphant face, then all went black and he fell in a heap at the foot of the ladder. Crash, the trap door closed, and the men heard the click £in agam, “put on your rubper Doots. 1 reckon you need them.” And indeed the water, though it flowed in very slowly, was now up to their waists. The men sat on the ladder, but they had been drench- ed through and through wading around. "he minutes fle In that flooded cellar ¢he men sat on the third and fourth rungs of the ladder, 4" even then their feet touched the wat Up: rs the girl crouched at the colored woman's feet, wringing her hands. “I can't, I can't, I can’t do 1. .she murmured over and over agaln. And always the mammy made the would have killed your same reply, hey trothers and sweetheart, honey.' The water, the water.” wailed the girl Mammy, don’t you feel it creeping up? Ugh, s so death cold! I can't drown them; they're my fellow beings. Mammy, do you reckon tr e wives and sweet- hearts?” As she spoke she kept moving nearer and nearer the trapdoor, but her wide, frightened eves were turned on the colored woman. “Three dcad men,” chanted the girl, edging still closer to the trapdoor; “three dead men, with the water always drip- ping from them.” The colored woman's bulged from her sockets. “And eyes 45t 242 SUDDENLY THE MAN ON THE LADDER. FELT A STINGING PAIN of the bolts. A second and they nad their cancles lighted. “What's happened?”’ asked the dazed deputy, coming to. ‘‘Happened; you — fool, we're shut in. Here, you black devil up ; open this door or we'll make a sieve of you.” Not recelving an answer they beating the door with all strength, but the door stood firm. Then they turned thelr att ing some other method of escape from the underground cellar. “This comes of thinking women harm- less critt grumbled a deputy; “a man could never have played this trick on us. The worst devi® this side of Hades Is a she-devil.” “My God, wha®s this” sald Adler; “they’re golng to drown us like rats.” Sure enough, the water was creeping in through some unseen hole and the cellar was gradually fiiling. It was icy cold and crept higher and higher. In vain the men waded around seeking the inlet. The crafty moonshiners had evidently planned it well, and in their absence the girl and colored woman had carried out the plan, “Sh! She's saying something,” and the men splashed to the trap door. “You, down theve,” carhe her voice, sounding sweet and far off; “Is the water wet?” “I done for think you gentlemen may catch cold unless you take some whisky— yes, help yourselves, gentlemen"—this from the darky, The men gritted their teeth and made no reply, “You down there,” called the fell to thetr on tneir wives ana children and sweethearts —three dead men come up from their wat- ery graves to haunt us."” The colored woman toppled over in 2 shuddering fit. The girl bent over the trap door. The effort strained every nerve and muscle, but the trap door sprang open. The men, dripping and numb, climbed out. Now the girl's superb courage has re- turned. With folded arms she faced them. “I reckon you've got the best of it now. Shoot me if you will. You'll have to be right smart to catch them; they're miles beyond yeur reach by this time. Shoot me it you must, but I could not let you drown.” The men shook their heads and turned away. Swiftly the girl made them hot drinks. Afterward the deputies learned how a light had been placed aloft as a warning the moment of their arrival and the men busy digging for “moonshine’” made their escape. The girl told them that she had begged and implored her brothers and lover {o quit tne moonshining business. utfes found their craftily buried still half a mile from the house and confiscated ail the liquor. could begin You musn’'t ask too United St a limping & for two days storm and upon reaching the house found the moonshiners warned and ready. exchanged O AT ATK How Lombroso Explaing maintain U.5.DBEPUTY MARSHAL ADLER. AvisKY PHOTO The aep- DIid her brothers and sweetheart ever come back? Certainly not. But perhaps she joined them in a country where they their lives all over again stions of a ates Depu a bullet that ven him t. The deputies had traveled through a blinding snow- They pt: with * AR thelr nents compl A tols, and one of the moonshiners was killed outright. The others were given & free ride to the penitentiary, but not with- out leaving a bullet hole in Mr. Adler's B later all moonshiners are But others spring up sner or brought to jus ic to fill their places and it keeps Uncle Sam A his deputies busy C z them up. ‘They’re bound to get c: says Mr. Adler, he ought to know, for In his s of service he has met every of the moonshiner. young man, and you would & moon- mber the old adage that's honesty is the best pol- man varfet So A TATHTRONTP Boer Bravery. ANY theories have been advanced //V\ “in explanation of the dogged per- / severance with which the Boers have carried on their struggle to thelr independence, and now Professor Cesare Lombroso, the distin- guished criminologist, comes forward and assures the world that the one great rea- wh son the Boers such stubborn figl s is because their blood is richer than that of other nations. His article on the subject appears in the current is- sue of Nuova Antologia. According to him, the Boers of to-day have in them the blood of four nations, namely, the Dutch, the French, the Scotch and the German. Dutch blood pre- ponderates, but with It, we are told, Is intermingled the precise quantity of French, German and Scotch blood which 1s needed in order to produce such valiant warriors as the people of the Trapsvaal. In order to obtain exact knowledge of the point Professor Lombroso made chemical analysis of Boer blood, and then he compared the results which he had ob- tained with those obtained by Herr Kuy- ger, a Dutch sclentist who had been work- ing In the same direction, The coneclusion at which he has arrived is that the Boer blood 1s composed of 78 per cent of Dutch blood, 12 per cegt of French, 13 per cent are of Scotch and $ per cent of German. AN obtainable statistics, he maintains, point In to the correctness of these figures. concluston he asks: “Such being th chemical composition of their blood, what 1s there astonishing in the fact that this mixture of the four best nations of Burope in a climate which is not enervating and in which an energetic mode of life is nec- essary promises to form of the Boers & select people who will prove themselves the bulwark of liberty and ctvilisation and who will be & race superior to all those of Europe?” Scientists attach a good deal of weight to Professor Lombroso’s views on & mat ter of this kind. Nevertheless this article has startled them a good deal, and for the simple reason that the figures which it contains are, to say the least, bewildering. The Boer blood, says the professor, is omposed of four elements. Quite pos- «ible, reply the scientists; but how can T8 ger cent of Dutch blood, 12 per cent of French, 12 per cent of Stotch and 3 per cent of German make 100 per cent of Boer blood, for do not these figures wt together make a total of 16. leading figures, it thought may be due to a but such does T opinion. “The supposit in the figures hardly t act sclence and a sta typograph seem to be the ge; that there is a mistake g French writer, ys a e, since st broso is not ltkely to this kind. No; the figy ay seem high furnish, in an add broso’s can r to be above par have 5 per ce Lombroso as- being abnorma against them maintain that normal human beings the whose blo exceed 1 The Wab McKinley Made KBis Start. nces of war which al- m traged ave the threads of heroes, says There are r most reconcile because war alone and develop th Success for August The civil war broken out ed Into the the remont, lainsman 1 ordered tha spoke s name my opinion that awfu torious leglor Jackson was by in the front of (he ern side. On Clellan and S Stonewall t was the South- de were Mc- contesting T e advan every foot of t On the first day of the battle, September 17, 1882, the troops on b ht des- 23,000 men were the second day, errific fire was line which had peration th wounded or from early mor directed upo Kiiled ng. Lee's e Federal been turned a t his right. On the banks of the to the left of the bridge, was the Twenty-third Ohio. Colonel Hayes had been wounded shortly before at South Mountain, so he was not in command of his regiment that day. He was the village a few miles to the rear watching the smoke of battle in agonized unrest. General Scammon was in com- mand in his stead. Away to the rear was the commissary sergeant of the regiment, walting for orders. As the hot and dusty day wore on and evening fell this ser- geant grew impatient be at the front, not to fight, but to carry food and drink to his exhausted co s, who had had neither breakfast no Finally he hooked up two wagons : leaden hail and the b sucee in reach comm How they cheerefl him as he drove up! A few minutes later General Scammon rode up to the cause of the cheering. T ¢ reprimanding the boy he thanked him for his thoughtful- ness and bravery and permit distribute th shments ‘With his own h Sergeant M for it was he around steaming hot coffee and lib bread and meat was maln- tained right along. tle proved to the North that Lee could be defeated Colonel H was so pleased when he heard of this exploit that he asked Gov ernor Tgdd of Ohio to commission the boy a lleutenant. This was done September 24, 186, Thus in one brave boy's lifs thers has been a triple romance—his enlistment by a Prestdential candidats, his recommenda- tlon by another man whoe became. Presi- dent for a commission, and finally his own accession to the chlef magisttacy of the pation. . | rations of