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VOL. LXV. NO. 21.
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HEAR TH
O singers ot cities and dreamers ot dells,
Hear the belts ! Hear the bells !
They ?re ringing no requiems, chanting no
knells
On the starred 'heights of Hope where the
melody swells :
Over earth's slghing,prayers, teure and fare
well*,
Hear the boils ! Hear the bells !
I THE STORY OF
Romance of a Spaniard Who
I
U
It was a cloudless day in August,
many years ago. The sun beat down
unmercifully upon a hot, dry plain,
. where the Blackfeet were eucamped.
It was so hot that even the keeoe?t
\ huuters had not the energy to mount
their ruuners and ride forth to th?}
chase.
Under one of the raised lodge skins
an . Indian trader reclined upon a
couch of robes, lazily smoking. The
people of the lodge were out gossip
in;?, ?ll bnt an old, old man, who, like
tbs trader, was thoughtfully smoking.
H<?had been Mind for manya year;
his thin hair was white. Not' the white
^ ?of the aged Anglo-Saxons, but a yel
\ lowish, tawny white. His skin was
streaked and furrowed and wrinkled
with age; his form bent and withered;
he was the oldest of his tribe, and had
seen nearly a hundred winters come
and go on these northern plains. His
thin, low voice broke in upon the
trader's reverie.
"White man," he' said, "are you
rtiH here?'Y
? "res," the* trader replied. "Yes,
I avi here; what eau I do for Hollow
Horn?"
"Hand me my medicine sack; the
large one which is hanging np. I will
show .you something, and then tell
yon ? story. This day reminds me of
a journey I once took to the south,
where every day was like this, only
hotter."
The trader arose and handed him
the painted and fringed cylinder of
rawhide. Hollow Horn deftly opened
it an'd began to draw forth various
packages and parcels, until he found
the one he was seeking, which he
tossed across the 'lodge.
"Look at that," he said.
. The trader unwrapped its covering
of buckskin and found that it was a
long,slender lance head of gray steel;
stamped on the socket were the words:
. "Antonio Perez, Sevilla, 1723."
"Why," he exclaimed, "it's a Span
. ian laure- head and very old. Where
did yon get it?"
"I will tell yon," the Indian re
plied. "It is a long story and a very
strange one; but strange things hap
pen^ -Perhaps we should not say that
anything is strange, for is it not all
ordered by the godB?"
en he told the story of the Span-,
long dwelt with -the tribe j
and of his vengeance' oh the brother
who drove him from civilization ont
among the Indians;- a story such as is
seldom met with outside of books of
romanee, but. one which might even
now be corroborated by records or'
traditions in some old Spanish settle
ment in the southwest
"Longago," he Baid, "when I was
a youth, we were hunting one summer
along the Yell o ws to n e. One evening,
when the sun had nearly set, the peo
ple saw something coming toward the
camp, and at first they could not make
out what it was, bnt after a little they
saw it was .a man, limping along very
slowly by the aid of a staff. Some of
. the young men were for rushing out
and killing him; but my father, the
chief, forbade them.' *
" 'Let him come,' he said; 'he can
do us no harm. We will find out who
he is and maybe learn news.'
"So everyone stood and waited, ?nd
the man carno on, very slowly and
painfully?. nearer and nearer. He
came tb where we all stood watching,
and the people drew back this way
and that, leaving my father to face
him. Indeed all were afrnid, and
many of the women and children ran
away, for never had such, a man been
seen before. He was naked except
for'a long, ragged shirt he wore; his
long, thick black hair, his beard and
mustache, wer? matted like a bull's
full of grass and burrs. His eyes
were wild and rolled like those of a
' wounded wolf when it is brought to
- bay. ? He was thin; so thin and lean
that the bones seemed ?ready to burst
. through the skin; his feet were sore
and bleeding; a wound in the thigh
dripped blood down his leg. He did
not appear to see us, but kept limping
on, shaking his bead, looking wildly
this way and that, and muttering to
himself.
ff *Where are you going?' asked my
father, stepping up and placing a hand
j on his shoulder. The stranger gave a
shriek, and fell senseless to the
ground.
"It was many days before he recov
ered, and it was nearly a year before
he learned our speech. He said he
came from the far south, where the
weather was always warm, where all
. kinds of berries and things grew the
year round, where snow never was
seen, except on the tops of the high
est mountains. His people were white
men,- but of another race than the
trappers we had seen, His father had
died, leaving him and ?is brother
large square lodges made of stone, and
.great riches of Tarions Jkindp This
brother bad always been very mean
and. cruel, and as soon as the father
died he began to plan to get all that
. the old man left One night the grer.t
j chief of that country came to the lodge
; of the brothers for ? feast, and on his
way home some mer sprang out of the
bushes by the trail and would have
; killed him . but fpr the warriors who
; were with him. Then the bad brother
. {went to the great chief and said: 'I
know who did this wrong; it was my
brother and six of his friends and
relations.'
. :, "The chiefs, warriors seized them
jilli threw them into a strong stone
lodge and told them to pray, for when
the sun rose the next morning they
. would be shot. Bnt there were those
[; who knew the bad brother had lied
'and pitied them; in the middle of the
night these good friends let the pris
. oners out, gave them fast horses,
weapons, food and robes and sent
. .them away. .
"Day after day, moon after moon,
m. they roda over to the n ort bi Que
E BELLS.
0 slngors supreme ! In the thrill of the dream
Hear the bells ! Hear the bells !
On the heights shins the lights with un
wavering beam ;
The song's in the sighing, the deed's in the
dreamt
Love reads you his litanies : Singers su
preme,
Hear the bells ! Hear the bells !
-Frank L. Stanton.
A LANCE HEAD.
t
Dwelt Among the Blackfeet.
night they camped by a deep, swift
stream. Some of the prairie people
must hare seen and followed them,for
as they sat abont the fire toasting
some meat the air was suddenly filled
with,arrows, and all of the stranger's
companions fell over 'with scarcely a
cry a struggle. He, too, was hit,
deep in the thigh, but pulled the ar
row out, and with one jump went over
the high bank into the rushing stream.
He floated and swam a long way with
the current and then, crawling out on
the shore, started to cross the valley
ott? to the rolling, plain. "When he
left this stream the next morning he
traveled two days without finding
water or anything to eat, aud then he
must have gone crazy, .for the next
thing he knew he was in our lodge.
"'.Well, when he had told his story,
my father asked him what he int outlet!
to' do; if he would return to his coun
try, or remain with ns. He said that
he could never ,go ,bacB, much as he
wished to, for the great chief would
kill him; so ho wonld stay with us as
long as he lived. That pleased my
father; he gave him my sister for a
wife, a lodge, rich clothing, good
weapons and many horses. Wo named
bira Spai-yu, which is the word for
his tribe of white men.
"So the years went on, and I grew
up to be a tall, strong young man.
One day we were riding together
ahead of the great camp, which was
moving from the Belt mountains to
the big falls on the Missouri, when he
said io me:
" 'Brother, something is continually
pulling at my heart to return to my
country. Kot to stay, but just to
punish that bad brother of mine. I
have tried hard to. resist this, for the
Bake of my wife, but 1 can do so no
longer. I must go.i Will you take
the trail with me?'
"Of course I would, aod 400 war
riors came with ns. We traveled very
Blowly, as we had a long way to go,
and wished to keep our horses always
strong and fat. Sometimes we camped
two o." three days at a time, where
game was plentiful and the grass good,
hunting while our animals rested.
After following np the Mountain Sheep
river, we kept on south along the foot
of the great ranger and after some
?he'tribTs'ot thatcountry, and again
traveled to the south.. There the coun
try was not so open, and many little'
ranges' of munn taina barred cur path.
After mopy day? wo came ngaiu to
great open plains where the buffalo
were plentiful, but .the country was
dry, and we often suffered for water.
One day we saw in tbe distanc? wbat
looked like a great flat rock, upou
which people were moving about, and
Spai-yu told us it was made of mod
by the people wbo lived in it. As we
rode nearer, those of tbe strange build
ers who were not around on the plain
climbed up sticks to the top of the
walls, and then pulled up the sticks.
Often, too, we passel great herds of
beautiful, large, s troup horses, aud we j
hated to leave them; but Spai-yu had
promised all we could drive away of
those belonging to him and his
brother, and we did in all things as
he wished us to. At last, one evening,
we came to a low ridge covered with
trees, and he told us to camp, for on
the other 'side of it, in a broad, open
valley, was his home. By many a
camp fire on the way we had ?planned
just what should be done, and now,
as we lay in the brush, without fire or |
shelter, we talked it all over for the
last time. .
"With the first light of morning
we saddled up and rode to the top of
the ridge, where, looking out through
t?e trees, we saw the great stone lodge,
surrounded by a beautiful grove. On
all sides of it were Vide fields, where
many things wero planted. A little
further up the valley were many low,
wooden lodges, where lived the people
who worked these fields; they were
Indians, and no great fighters, we had
been told. Still further away we
could see the hillsides covered with
horses, and our hearts were glad.
Presen ty the people came out of their
lodges and went to work.
'* 'Now, my friends,' said Spai-yn,
.we will charge; remember what I have
so often told you: No women are to
be killed; you will know my brother
by his light red hair, and must not
touch him; leave him to m9.' '
"The nextinstant we were off; quiet
ly at first, but as the nearer workers
saw us and ran for their lodges; we
gave the war cry and rode like the
wind. Many of the people gained the
lodges before we did, and from doors
and windows fired guns at ns. A few
fell; the rest of us pushed on, jnmped
from our horses and rushed in; the
larger part of onr band had gone to
the upper lodges, and I was with
Spai-yu and the rest before the stone
lodge? A lot of men were in front of
the great doors, ami at their head I
saw the red-haired one; they all had
guns and pistols and were shooting at
ns. It was but for a second, though,
and then the most of them lay dead
where they had stood, and we rushed
inside after the few who fled. The
red-haired one ran into a great room
at the left, Spai-yu and I at his heels.
He ran to a couch, grasped a sword,
and turned on us, making a lunge at
my friend. Spai-yu said something
and struck the sword with his war
club so that it flew away to a distant
corner, aud at the same time tho bad
mau recognized his brother,fell on his
knees, and I knew that he was praying
for his life. I looked at Spai-yn; he
was smiling like a little child, which
was his way when very angry. All the
rest of the men in the lodge had now
been killed by our companions, who
came crowding around ns. I had
killed two myself; from one of whom
I took this lance-it had a good^ staff
then-and from the other I got ? fine
gun.
"The brother on bis knees continuod'
to talk io a frightened and piteous
tone, and finally Spai-yn turned to me
and paid:
"'Brother, just look at him; 'see
-what a coward he is; what shall I do
with him?'
" 'Kill him, of course, ' we all
shouted.
"?paWyu pnt his hand to his chin
and stood a long time silent, while still
the brother begged.
" 'So,' he said at last, T will not
kill him; if I did my vengeance would
be all over,and I would have no great
pleasure in it. I wish it to last a long,
long time. I want to see him suffer.
Tie him strongly; Ave will take him
back with ns.'
"When we had done so our Ijaader.
bade us take everything we could find
that we-cared for, and others he sent
up the valley to drive in the great
herds of horses. We got great plun
der from tho stone lodge and from the
dwellings of the worker*. There were
many fine things, so that all hada
share; guns, powder and ball, rich
cloths and clothing, cups, and ninny
strange articles. Only a few of the
Indians were killed, for Spai-yu had
ordered us to spare them if they
yielded; but all of the bad brother's
frieuds lay dead and scalped. There
were also many beautiful women there,
clothed in thin, white dresses. Spai-yu
talked very loudly to them as thoy
stood frightened and crying in a cor
ner, and presently, when tho horses
came thundering down the valley,
trampling the fields of growing things
flat to the ground, he ordered them
( ut, bade us put the wicked one on a
horse, and then sot fire to the great
lodge; the walls could not bum, but
everything inside made a fine big
blaze. Then wo all caught fr.esh
horses and started back on the long
jonrney homeward, driving the great
herds before us, many of them packed
with rich plunder. And when we
came t? a place where a friend of the
bad brother lived, we attacked it and
got still more plunder aud more
horses. After a little we had more
animals than we could drive and had
to let some go. So we traveled on, on,
to the north over the trail we had
came, never Btopping even to bother
the people of the mud lodges, for we
had everything we wanted and were
hurrying to get home.
"Every night about the camp fire
Spai-yu had his brother sit before him,
and ho talked bad words to him, laugh
ing pleasantly all the time. And tbe
bad one said nothing in reply. He
got'very thin and w:.ould oat but little,
and we saw by his face that he suffered
iu his heart.
"At last we came to the Yellow
stone. It was now winter, and we had
passed there on our way south early in
the spring. The river was frozen over,
and we were crossing on the ice, hav
ing made a dirt trail over it from bank
to bank. Nearly all had crossed, when
all at once the ice gave way, aud men
and horses were plunged into the cold
water, among them tho bad brother,
;:WttOfr^a*~- tied to his anima!'. Wo
rushed to the place, but ere we reached
it the swift current drew them nuder,
and we never saw them again. Our
people, though, easily swam to tho
edge Of the hole aid were pulled ont.
" 'It is better so,'said Spai-yu.
'After all, I could not forget that the
same mot ber bore us both, and I could
not have killed him. Indeed, I had
concluded to let him go when spring
comes, giving him a chance to make
his May back to the southern land.'
"In a few more days we came to
the camp of our people on the Mis
souri, and- there was great rejoicing
over our return. What became of
Spai-yu? He lived with us many a
year,and then came the traders build
ing forts along the river; his wife died
about that time, aud he went to live
with thom. One clay the Sioux at
tacked a fort where he was stopping
and he was killed in the fight."-New
York Sun.
FASCINATING PLACE TO MARKET.
An Infinito Variety or Everything-Peas
' Sold by tlie Snui-erfiil.
Probably there is no better'market
in the whole world than New Orleans
affords. In tho historic old French
market the products of every clime
meet on common ground. Here~is
the fine refrigerated beef from Chicago
and Kansas City, kept until it is just
the right mellowness, here are the.
marvellous products in infinite variety
of southern waters-pompano,sheeps
head, deep sea trout, redsnappers,
flounders, crabs, shrimp and crawfish
for the biBqno beloved of Creoles, and
a thousand nameless varieties of fish
and shellfish; here iu season may be
bought deer and bear and duck and
wild turkey and snipe and quail and
all the varieties of birds and game we
know in the north, with papabotes
and grasses and delicate little reed
birds to make an epicure's mouth
water merely to look upon'them; in
the vegetable department the stalls
heaped with every vegetable you have
ever known, and many whose names
and usages are unfamiliar to you
queer things from Central American
ports, with, queer flavors that you first
endure, then adore. Here, squatting
on the outskirts, by the side of their
baskets, are the last remnants of the
Choctaw tribe of Indians, dull, flat
faced women, with rile and bay and
sassafras leaves to sell.
But nothing else is so odd to yon as
the fact that in the French market
you have had to adjust yourself to au
entirely new system of measurement?.
You cannot buy your peas or potatoes
by the peck or bushel, as you have
been used to all your life. "How
much?" you ask the market woman in
her stall, and she replies so much a
saucer. There they are, piled up in
a neat little pyramid in a saucer, the
delicate green peas, or the pink new
potatoes, and you haven't the very
slightest idea how many saucorfuls it
will take to make a meal for your fam
ily.-Boston Transcript.
Cnpe Cod's Cnnal.
The proposed Cape Cod cnnal has
recently como into notice, and figures
have been presented before th? harbor
and land commissioners ,by the engi:
neets of tho company. The canal
would be without locks. The maxi
mum velocity of the current through
the canal would be four miles'an hour
and possibly five in storms. Tho en
trance width at Barnstahle was fixed
at 1000 feet.-Chicago News.
Berlin has ll persons whose annual
income exceed ? 8250) OOOi
SIBERIA'S
What Russia ii
Her Vast Asii
CHARACTERISTIC SCENES'
VT
aEM ABE ABLE oat
statement ma
seem, ever since tho j
day when the fin "
section of the Sib
rian railway w a
opened, from Cheli
abinsk to Kurgan, immigration . ha,
been flowing into the country in
constantly increasing str??m. No\?
that the great rivers and steppes aro]
crossed by through trains all the way;
irom Moscow to Irkutsk, tho. move*;,
ment is oven more rapid, and already*
tho vast arcas of Siberia are less lone "
A SIBERIAN FARMER'S
some than they were a few years agcfe
writes Trumbull White, in the Chif:
oago Becord. The Bussian peasant;
is displaying the same sort of restless**!
ness that induced tho settlement of?
our own Western States and Terri
tories from the more thickly populat
ed regions of the East. Indeed, tti&
Bussian peasant always has shownJw
willingness to support the "expa?*
sion" f policy of his Government DML,
moving on into the newly annexed
lands and subduing them to bis owjw
civilization and manner of develo
ment, crade though that might be.
ia time to dismiss the idea that t
Bussian peasant is altogether a ci?
"Efe has shared too well tho labors
the Bussian advance across Asia.'
An observant English traveler wr
ing recently of -his journey in tl
lands has comp?imented'tho "Sibe;
and the American in the same breath
at the same time that he has phrased
au important observation. "If we exyj
elude the more recent peasant immi
grants," he says, "the original Rusu
alan population of Siberia may be said
to oomprise the following three
classes: The Cossacks, who first con
HOUSE WHEBE HOT WATER IS FURNISHED
?. TBAVBLEBS ON SIBERIAN RAILWAY. -
quered the country; exiles, political
and criminal; dissenters from the
Greek church, who were either ban
ished to Siberia or went there of their
own accord. That is to say, the orig
inal Bussian population of Siberia
consists of men and women who were
in some way intellectually or physi
cally more active or more earnest than
their fellow country men and women
who remained in European Russia.
The result is that to-day the average
Siberian is a more vigorous and intel
ligent man than the average Bussian.
He picks up a thing more quickly;
his life is richer, brighter."
The Siberian born citizens of the
country do not fail torealizo these dif
ferences. Already'I have learned that
they want to be called Siberians rath
er than Bussians, and to them'the
latter name seems no more correct
than to call the descendants of Eng
lish colonists in the United States
Englishmen instead of Americans.
Already evidences have appeared that
"Siberia for the Siberians" is not an
unknown sentiment.
Provision for the sustenance of the
immigrants on their railway journey
through Siberia fis simple but ade
quate. Most of the peasants" bring
with them as' muoh food as possible
of the sort .they relish, in order to
avoid the necessity of buying on the
way. Ponderous loaves of black
bread, slabs of died fish and a supply
of tea are the chief essentials in thia';
^commissary department. Each fam
ily carries a teapot in addition to oups
and simple dishes, and tho individual
traveler must do likewise if he wishes
A BUSINESS STREET IN OMSK, SIBERIA,
" DEPART
to bo sure of comfort. As every one
knows, tea is the staple.article among
tho Bussians and is consumed in
?rea? quantities. The Government
HU Mitti miltM HMM Ml i ?t<
WAKENING.
Doing to Develop
ic ^Possession.
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
provides for tho necessity in excellent
fashion. At every station of the first
.class, which means about overy seven
ty-five or oighty miles, there ia erected
at one end of the platform a little
house of logs, which is arranged
solely for the convenience of the
people who want water. A big tank,
holding two or three barrels of water,
is arranged with a charcoal furnace to
keep its contents at the boiling point.
In another corner of tho houso is a
tank of cold water. Each of these, is
fitted with several faucets so that the
passengers may serve themselves
FAMILY AND HOME.
rapidly when they como. Near this
house is an open shed facing the track,
whioh shelters a rough counter and
some shelves. This is at the service
of the peasant women of tho village,
who bring all sorts of eatables to this
primitive buffet at train time.
.: When tho train arrives there is a
hasty exodus from tho cars. One rep
resentative of each family or traveling
party hurries to the house where the
hot water is waiting and draws from
the .tank into his teapot as muoh as he
likes of the essential liquid. Others
rush to the buffet shed, to find bread,
nORSES TRAMPING OUT THE I
fish, meat, cakes, hot soup, berries,
kvass and kumyss, all of which are
sold at astonishing low pricos. Then
they return to the train to prepare
their meals and at their leisure eat
and drink.
Emigrants from provinces not tribu
tary to the Volga River are carried on
special trains or in emigrant cars at
tached to the slower regular trains, at
rates but little higher than those of
the steamers and very much less than
the regular third-class rates. For
1000 versts, for instance, the third
class fare is eight rubles and forty
kopecks, or approximately 84.35, for
665 miles. The emigrant rate for the
same distance is only three rubles, or
about $1.55. It goes without saying
that the accommodations provided at
this rate are not luxurious, but they
are quite as good as could be expected
for the price, far more comfortable
than the former method of travel into
Siberia by long and trying marches
and probably in most instances rela
tively better than tho homes the peo
ple have had.
The oars themselves in which the
emigrants travel to the land of their
hopes are,the ordinary fourth-olass
oars of the sort one sees all ovor Rus
sia, inscribed after the invariable
fashion, "for eight horses or forty
men." They are what we call box cars
in the United ' States, painted tho fa
miliar red, with sliding doors opening
in either side.
, 8HOWING THE TOWER OF THE FIRE
MENT. .
. The mosjt characteristic feature of
Siberian farra life is that th-3 farmers
live not scattered all over the country,
remoto from neighbor^ but to yilUgcO
as near as possible io tbe land they
are cultivating. Each village, then,
is a cluster of houses, in which live
not villagers in the usual sense, as j
townspeople in a small settlement,
MOSQUE OF THE TAKT.'.BS AT OMSK, SI
BEEIA. '
but the farmers of the region round
about.
Lifo in these villages of Siberia is
rude enough, with none of the quali
ties we consider necessary to comfort.
The lands are fertile, yielding ample
crops of grain even with the crude
methods of cultivation in effect. The
plowing is shallow because the plows
aro poor. There is little 'cultivation
after planting. The grain is harvested
with hand sickles and scythes. It is
thrashed by horses in the open field,
the grain trampled, out of the straw
by three or four Siberian ponieB trot
ting around in a small circle. It is
winnowed by hand and ground in
windmills. With all the crudity of
tho processes, tbe yield of wheat, for
instance, is from twenty to thirty fold,
and as high as twenty-five and even
thirty bushels to the acre.
Some of tho landed proprietors have
begun to introduce modern methods
of viniculture, but the peasauts are
slow to adopt them. The grapes are
robbed of their juices in the simplest
of presses, and tbe wine is still carted
and stored in bullock hides. A wine
cellar is a strange sight, with its rows
ci distorted skins, bulging with the
liquors.
The barbaric stylo of architecture
such as tho Tartars were fond of is
frequently seen in the larger Siberian
towns. Omsk has many mosques of
this kind. One of tho accompanying
large pictures shows a business street
in Omsk. .
A Typical Boor Spy.
One man in particular, a German
called Muller, lived out beyond the
Guards' camp on the way to Jacobs
dal. He was a very useful person,
because he supplied us each morning
with milk and eggs, and we should
have been very sorry to loso :him.
SR UN ON A SIBERIAN FARM.
But that he was a thoroughpaced
scoundrel who gave information to
the Boers at tho samo time he was
selling forage to the British Govern
ment and eggs to the correspondents
at equally exorbitant rates, I have
not thc slightest doubt. A few days
after the battle of Magersfontein four
Boers were seen riding away from his
farm in the morning, and yet he is
still at large; and he is only one among
many who could easily procure infor
mation in camp and retail ittoGeneral
Cronje. And as though Nature might
weep to cover our advance, we cer
tainly took no mean advantage of the
Boer by concealing our movements
in other ways.-H. J. Whigham, in
Scribner's.
Something About Fnr.
How littlo the majority of people
know about jfurl The long, silver
tipped black lynx is more in favor in
American than in England, where
white furs for boas and tippets carry
off tho palm. Many tails characterize
tho boa of the season, as well as the
animal, which points after a barbaric
fashion. Women who would fly be
fore the fur-bearing animal were it
alive do not hesitate to encircle their
necks and shoulders within its em
brace. Bussian and Chinese sables so
blended ar? considerably cheaper and
of less value than the Hudson Bay and
are distinguished by a lack of the red
tone occasionally displaying white
hairs.-Washington Star.
An Odd Tree From Madagascar.
From Vick's Magazine we get this
picture of the travelers' tree, an odd
looking growth indigenous in Mada
gascar. Botanically it is known as
the Bavenala Madagarcarenis, but its
popular name has been given it from
the belief that water from rain and dew
collects in its leaf stems in sufficient
quantity to?quench a traveler's thirst.
The water does collect as stated, but
as the plant grows "beeide water
courses it can hardly be of special
benefit to tbe traveler, who could
slack his thirst much ?easier at the
adjacent stream.
AB the Sherltt Would Kun lt.
"Next week we will begin running
this paper as Captain Kidd would
have run'it. Delinquent subscribers
may expect a call from ns with their
accounts stuok iu the muzzle of a six
shooter. Otherwise this paper will be
running as the Skoriff would run it"
-Bowersville Clarion.
Drawback* uf Refinement.
Betweeu dyspepsia and table man
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