The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 28, 1903, Image 4
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TWIL
ry HEN ICY W.
The twilight is sad and cloudy.
The wind blows loud and free.
Arid like the wings of the seabirds
Flash the whitecaps of the sea.
l>nt in the fisherman's cottage
There shines a ruddier light,
And a little face at the window
Beers out into the night.
Close, close it is pressed to the window,
As if those childish eves
Were looking into the darkness
To see some form arise.
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rpr?t>33\E evening I stepped into
is! Isll Alex Kolley's store, which
was also the agency postoffice,
to await the slow
{^j {S|} coming of the mail, and
. ' found that the proprietor
had gone out to supper and left the
door unlocked. He had no clerk, and
inside were a number of "blanket Indians"
seated upon boxes and barrels,
very much at home. I knew that Government
employes at all the Sioux
agencies were notoriously negligent in
the matter of locks and keys, yet I
was surprised at Kelley's supreme confidence
in these Indians.
When we were alone that evening I
spoke to him about the matter.
"Oh," he replied, in his easy way,
"if there are Indians in the store when
I'm ready for meals, I don't send theni
oufi Show a Sioux that you have perfect
confidence in lilin, and you can
trust him with anything you've got.
The best c-ierk I had, in the days when
my trade needed help, was an Indian
?Martin Blueshield. Martin saved me
from loss by thievery several times;
the thieves were whites.
"I'll tell you of Martin's fracas with
'Big* Kosky. Kosky had a timber claim
over here on Laroot Creek. He was
some kind of a foreigner and had
worked in the pineries; he was the biggest
and the meanest man that ever
came into these parts. He was a tremendous
fellow in size, with a neck
and chest like a bull's, and he had a
black beard as coarse as straw, that
? .1 lll?/V rt K Arp' C" "V*T*T 1 Aw'
aiUUU l Ul 1UC ?l IAV9 O UIAOUVC.
"At that time the Indians here, who
have always been peaceable, were feeling
very timid. It was the year after
the Custer fight, and the people of the
settlements hereabouts were not well
disposed toward the Indians.
"I don't know how it is," said Kelley.
reflectively, "but most white people
don't seem to know the difference between
a good Indian and a bad one.
Fully nine-tenths of the Sioux have
never taken part in any hostile move
against our people. Yet this nineleuths
have been made ,.0 suffer greater
privations than the fellows who did
the fighting.
"Well, Big Ivosky and some others
took advantage of the situation here,
and robbed the Indian.: whenever they
had half a chance. Xosky, at Laroot
Creek, was close to the reservation
line, and he had a keen eye for stray
- ponies. I suppose he stole and sold a
dozen or fifteen of them in a year.
I After every loss the Indians would
herd their ponies closer for a time:
then they'd get a little careless and
more stock would disappear. It did
not the slightest good to complain; both
I and the missionary here went to the
sheriffs in the adjoining counties, and
tried to get them to put a stop to the
robbery.
"The Indians :oon came to fear Big
Kosky ranch as some people fear evil
spirits. They thought he hail a wakan"
?big medicine or spirit?"which protected
liim.. They said he could look
right through a person and see what
was behind him. He usually carried a
two-bitted ax with a long handle,
which the Indians looked upon as his
war-weapon; and they supposed he
could throw this through a man at a
very long distance.
"He used to come to my store now
and then to trade, and the Indians always
kept away from him, for he
hated them and would glare at them
like a mad beast. But my clerk, who
had been educated in white schools,
had lost his fear of wakan men, and
it was amusing to me to watch the play
between them.
" 'Good day, Mr. Koskyr Martin
would say, very politely. 'Will you
have some rope to-day, or will you have
one of these fine knives?' and he would
hold up a butcher-knife or a coil of
rope for inspection.
"Big Kosky's eyes would blaze, and
then he'd mutter something in his own
language and turn to me for what he
wanted. Probably, though, there would
have been no fracas between Martin
and Kosky if I hadn't been called to
Fort Berthold on business. Kosky
V came over the next day with a cart and
N. yoke of oxen after some flour. When
^ie entered the store he glared at Martifc.
as usual, and finding I was to be
goncKTor a week or two, he turned on
his heH-aE(* walked out.
"A littlK^hile afterward an Indian
came in anH. t?M Martin that the big
medicine was^hun"?white man?"had
taken one of ponies, which was
picketed in a raving uesiae the road.
The old scamp suppofc^d it "svas an Indian's
pony. N.
"Martin said nothing, bui^^cked the
store, saddled his pony, and vi^at after
Big Kosky. About two miles mtm the
store he overtook the fellow, witbs^J
horse tied behind his cart. Then theltP
was a lively time. Kosky got off his s
cart with his axe and charged Martin,
yelling like a wild man. The boy
dodged on his spry pony and watched
for an openiug.
'Tie circled swiftly around the cart
and oxen until Big Kosky was pretty
well blown trying to get at him. Then,
when Kosky was at the opposite side
of the cart, Martin made a sudden
dash at the oxen and belabored them
with a stockwhip. It needed only a
cut or two to set them off at a jump,
and Kosky, puffed and tired, was left
to shout after the runaways.
"Martin ran the oxen to a safe distance.
then cut the led pony's rope,
and drove the animal homeward, with
Bin Kosky shouting after him all kinds
of threats.
"The old rascal didn't make vain
threats, either. Two days later he came
on the reservation with a couple of
cowboys who hadn't any too good reputations.
and drove off a bunch of fifty
odd ponies which an Indian boy was
herding on Short Pine Creek.
"They wouldn't have dared attempt
so bold a theft if either I or the rnisv-S
IGHT.
LONGFELLOW.
And a woman's waving shadow
Is passing to and fro.
Now rising to the ceiling.
Now bowing and bending low.
What talc do the roaring ocean
And the night wind, bleak and wild, I
As they heat at the crazy casement,
Tell to that little child? (
*?nd why do the roaring ocean
And the night wind wild and bleak.
As they beat at the heart of the mother,
Drive the color from her cheek?
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UESCHiELD. |
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sionnry, Mr. Williams, had been 611 the
wcorvntlnn Knt ns it wns tliov onlv
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had to (lrivo these ponies to the nearest
railroad town and sell them at $10 i
or $15 each, and the complaints of the 1
Indians would avail nothing. Such ;
robberies of the Sioux were frequent in j
those days, and kept even the friend- j
liest of them in a state of hostile feeling.
"I don't suppose that Martin even j
would have dared to follow the ras- j
cals if they hadn't run oil" four of my i
ponies in the bunch they stampeded.
But I had left him in charge of my
property, and when a runner came in
with news of the loss ho again locked
the store, and leaving some Indians c.: i
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guard, mounted his pony and followed |
the rustlers. lie was careful, after
striking their trail, not- to come in sight
of them until after dark.
"About two hours after sunset he i
came up with them in the coulee of
Chapenu Creek. The" had just made i
camp, having run the stock more than
forty miles over an unsettled district, j
Martin saw them without being seen. I
He picketed his pony beyond ear-shot,
and then crept close to their camp, j
hiding in some bushes where lie could
keep an eye on every movement.
"The three men were sitting about a j
small fire, eating their supper. Their i
ponies were picketed close by, and j
their guns, two Winchesters belonging !
to the cow-men and an old shotgun
which Ivosky carried, lay against their
saddles within their reach.
"The moon was shining brightly into
the coulee, and just below the rustlers ;
Martin saw the pony herd in a close j
bnncli. most of them lying at rest.
"The Indian settled himself to wait, ;
and presently Big Kosky got up. !
saddled his horse, took his gun and i
vent to look after the herd, while the
others unrolled their blankets, laid !
their Winchesters beside them, and j
stretched themselves at their fire.
"They had been talking together and i
laughing, and were evidently pretty ;
well contented with their catch: they ;
seemed to fool pretty sure about get- }
ting off with the herd. Martin watched
the fellows like a lynx, and when they \
were sound asleep and Kosky was out 1
of sight looking after the herd, he j
crawled into their camp and get both
their guns. Then he crawled away j
again.
"The guns he carried up the creek !
and strapped to his pony's saddle. Thou J
he came back just as slyly to look after
Big Kosky and the ponies. So far
everything had gone to his liking, and
now to get rid of that rascally herder. '
"Kosky kept the horses in a elo?e
bunch, riding about them with his gun
across his saddle, and Martin's prospect
for running off any of them looked
pretty poor. Whatever he did must he
done before the fellows in camp were
awakened, for the discovery of the less
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ul uitru guns nuuiu autrm tuew ui j
once.
"The ponies, however, themselves j
settled Martin's plan of action. They'd
been watered at Lame Man's Creek, ;
some miles back, and toward midnight i
they began to want drink, and to drop ;
into the bed of the Chapcau to look for j
it. The creek was dry, with only a
pool here and there in dips of the ehan- i
uel; and Kosky, to quiet their uneasi- |
uess. worked the bunch along up to one i
of the sunken ponds some two hundred
yards above Ids rustlers' camp.
"Martin followed closely, keeping !
out of sight in the dry channel. Very
soon he heard the ponies slipping down
a steep bank into the pond; and peer- j
ing out of the cover of tall grass, he i
saw Kosky ride his own horse down tc
drink. Martin could just see the j
horse's rump as the animal stood, hall :
on end, and the man's head and shoulders,
as he sat braced in his saddle. j
"There was the boy's opportunity, j
and lie took it as quick as lightning, j
He crawled slyly out of the grass and
got directly behind the rustler. Then, j
using the stock of his carbine as a bat- j
tering-ram, he made a running jump,
striking the man squarely between the
shoulders.
"Kosky was hurled as if kicked by a
mule. He struck the water with a
splash and sank like a sack of sand.
Martin landed behind his saddle, and i
the rustler's horse slid into the water,
where he floundered over his breathless
master.
"The ponies were startled into snorting
a little, but they were too thirsty
to run, and Martin kept his seat and
rode out upon the bank. He tied his :
captured horse to some willows, and
then waded In and dragged Kosky out
into the dry bed of the creek. There |
he turned the man upon his face and j
slapped his back until he began to .
show signs of life; then he tied him, I
hands and feet, and left him there to
come to and reflect upon the uncertainties
of rustling.
\"The ponies were now grazing quietlyN^nd
Martin moved them up-stream
to wb?re his horse was tied, and then
drove rapidly home.
"That experience settled the accounts
of Big Kosky^n these parts. I reckon
the whole business was rather mysterious
to him. iJe never came on the
reservation again, fai our knowledge,
and soon after abaud&Jjed his claim.
Martin's handling of hira^ave the Indians
here some heart to pft>teet their
property, and there was less stealing
f fri?ntr "\ T 111 51
ui uitrijL oiuvft. J. utj * t *uuw? ?
long name?they called him Strikes-N?eBig-Medicine-White-Man.''
? Youtlnk
Companion. >
Accidents on Canadian Railways.
The number of accidents on the Canadian
railroads for the past year, according
to the annual report of the
Department of Railways, which has
just been published in Ottawa, has
been very high. There were 330 killed,
an increase of 13 per cent, over the
previous year, and 1328 injured, an increase
of 11 per cent, over 1901. . j
IN A STATE OF DOUBT.
"You claim to be a law-abiding citizen,
don't you?" asked the man who
argues.
"I don't know whether I am or not,"
answered Mr. Sirlus Barke. "There'e
a lot of laws and police regulations
that I never read. I can't be sure that !
I'm not violatin' some of 'em every ?
day.?Washington Star.
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The June "Smart Set."
The June number of The Smart Set
opens with a novelette by Jame3
Branch Cabell, entitled, "The Husbands'
Corned}-." t The story is strikingly
distinctive, and as clever as fiction
hi ay be.
Among the sixteen short stories of
the number, the most important are,
"The Diary of Dewdrop," an exquisite
idyl of Japan, by Onoto Watana;
"The Artful Arabella," an ingenious
and intimate narrative of an episode
at a true house-party, by Margaret
Vinton Hamilton, and "A Man, a Horse
and a Girl." a strong story of the
plains, by Molly Elliott Seawell. A
high standard of excellence, as well as
of variety, is attained in the other
stories of the number, among the contributors
being Lady Colin Campbell,
Robert C. V. Meyers, Zoe AndersonNorris,
Richard D. Ware, Juliet Wilbor
Tompkins and Etnel Sigsbee Small.
The verse maintains that merit
which has won for The Smart Set its
literary prestige. The poems 'of the
number include Edgar Fawcett, Victor
Plarr. Frank Dempster Sherman, Charlotte
Becker, William Hamilton Hayne,
Elsa Barker, Theodosia Garrison, Clinton
Seollard, Minna Irving, Frank Roe
Batchelder and a dozen others.
The humor throughout is of the best,
and there is, too, an essay, "The
Passing of the Aristocrat," by Elizabeth
Duer, which is of unusual interesr.
MAKING LIGHT OF IT.
Scribbler?Would you call yourself
a poet or simply a versifier?
Scrawler?Well, when the editor
lights his pipe with my stuff, its a c^se
nf vorco pfirp?Philadelnhia. Record.
THOUGHTFUL OF THEM.
Bacon?Why is it that the landlords
won't let children in their flats?
Egbert?Oh, I suppose they're afraid
the janitors' dogs may bite them.?
Yonkers Statesman.
His Practice.
Knicker?How did he become an expert
accountant?
Bocker?Proving to his wife that it
was twelve when he came home at
three.?June Smart Set.
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* Many women and doctors do
not recognize the real symptoms
of' derangement of the female
organs nntil too late.
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spinal cord for two years and suffered j
dreadfully. I was given different !
medicines,S wore plasters; none of
these things helped me. Reading of
the cures that Lydia E. Flnkham's ?
Vegetable Compound has brought
about, I somehow felt that it was
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I felt new life and blood surging
through my veins. It seemed as
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cleaning through my system, that all
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to complete happiness, and
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? Mrs. L. Bremer, Crown
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Every sick wofran who does not
understand lierXilmenf should
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Mass. Her advice X *ree an<*
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HE KEEPS AWAKE NOW.
Actor Didn't Know Where He M'v From
or Was Going.
A comedian who is staying at tht
Regent, when talking with some fellowactors
about the funny experiences
they each had in traveling from one
city to another, told of a thing that
happened to him when doing one-night
stands throughout a State last week.
"We had actually traveled so much,
playing always to one-night stands,
that I finally gave up trying to remember
names, and just trusted to the
majiager to get there. I was usually
worn out whenever we reached wherever
we were to play, and if we didn't
have to give a performance as soon as
we lauded I went tb bed and stayed
there until we did. Consequently. I
saw little or nothing of the city, and as
tor names?well, names never did interest
me, and it was just this lack
of interest that got me into trouble and
was the cause of a whole carload of
people believing pie a crazy man. We
were just leaving' some place to go
somewhere else. The train being very
much crowded, I was grateful to occupy
a seat with an elderly and very
talkative woman, but I didn't know
that until afterward. She asked me
? - - ti.t -k
many questions, auu as i um nui
for an extended conversation, 1 made
very brief answers, which iterhaps <iid
not fulfill the requirements. Finally
I was startled ljy her question: 'Where
are you going, young manV There
wasn't anything very strange about
that; but it was the first time 1 realized
that I did not know, and so 1 said:
'Really, madame, I do not know.' Of
course, her amazement was complete.
'"Well, where did you come from?'
came back at me.
" 'And even that I don't know,' 1
answered; but by that time she had
vacated the seat and the hasty glance
I gave the passengers proved to me
that she had confided to a few, at least,
that she had ridden for miles next to
9. crazy man.
"Since then I have managed to keep
awake long enough to get the names
of towns we leave and are to visit."
?Washington Tost.
WORDS OF WISDOV.
The earnestness of life is the only
passport to the satisfaction of life.?
Parker.
One thorn of experience Is worth a
whole wilderness of warning.?Jaiuef
Russell Lowell.
Let us cherish a sober mind and take
for granted that in our best performances
there are latent mnvy errors
which in their own time v til come
to light.?Gladstone. . .
The comfortable and comforting people
arc [those who look on the bright
side or lire, garnering us lust-s mm
sunshine and making the most that
happens seem the best.?Dorothy Dix.
Demand of every common thing of
life, whether it be your lody or
your money or your daily experience,
that it shall bloom Into line results
in your own soul and in your influence
on the world.?Phillips Brooks.
The truest lives are cut rosc-d-ainond
fashion, with many facets adhering to
the many planed aspects of th-? world
about them; and society is alwffys trying
in some way or another t-3 grind
us down to a single flat surface.- -Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
In our higher and happier moods, 1
think we all have visions of the truth
that we never are nor can be paM for
our best save only in the doing of it.
Our finest devotion is never recompensed
in terms of the market. It never
can be. Wc give ourselves, and find
in return our larger life.?Frederick L.
Hosmcr.
The man who spends his years cu
earth In shallow enjoyment or selfish
case, careless of the world's sorrow
aud indifferent of its sin, blind to its
finest beauties and most thrilling tragedies.
moved by no great love, actuated
by 110 high hope, stirreil by 110 holy enthusiasm,
is ignorant of all true lift*.?
C. J. Perry.
Soapsuds For Snakes.
There was considerable excitement
In the south part of town Thursday
afternoon over the discovery of a den
of snakes in Miss Ella Beckleen's yard.
For several days previous Miss Beckleen
had seen a number of snakes near
her house, some of which she killed.
Upon the afternoon named she discovered
a snake emerging from a hole
near the slough in the rear of the yard.
Thinking perhaps there might be more
reptiles burrowed in the ground, she
called to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Olof
Beckleen, and other nearby Women
to come to her assistance. Together
with various weapons of destruction
they started out to wage war upon
the snakes. They carried a tub of hot
soapsuds, which they poured into the
hole, and the excitement commenced
sooner than the women anticipated.
The hot water had done Its work
Well, and the snakes fairly crawled
over each other as they emerged from
the hole. Tli way those women flourished
their hoes and clubs, with which
they were well armed, as they cliased
the reptiles about the yard, caused
passersby to stop and wonder what
W3s going on. But the ladies were
brave, ana wnen tne connict ceasea
and an Inventory was taken they found
they "had killed ten snakes.?Avon (111.)
Sentinel.
Austria's State Secrets. .
The Austrian imperial archives have
been lately conveyed from the Hofburg
to the great house built for them adjoining
the Foreign Office. - They will
later on be opened for public inspection,
from the most ancient documents
down to those of 1840. The rooms containing
the secret archives are of ironwork,
each story being completely separated
from the next one, so that
neither fire nor water can penetrate.
Hose supplying abundance of water is
fixed In every direction, the windows
can neither be melted by fire nor destroyed
by blows, and the ornamental
ironwork before each window can be
unlocked in case of emergency.
It is remembered when Napoleon
Bonaparte invaded Austria and established
himself at Schronbrunn, with
what terrible haste the secret archives
were carried off to Budapest, to the
Ofen stronghold, these being the first
things secured when all else was left.
Among the iron cases stands a plain
brown wooden box, which will not be
opened for fifty years.
It contains the letters and papers of
the late Crown Prince Rudolph, hurriedly
collected at Mayerling on the
day of the disaster, and placed in a boxbought
in the adjoining village.?London
Telegraph.
An Unfortunate Heir.
The irony of fate is pathetically illustrated
in the case of a young man who
was heir to ?75,000,000. His father, M.
Teresclitenko, the Russian sugar king,
recently died, leaving his entire fortune
to his eldegt son, who was lying ill at
Cannes of consumption. It has just
been announced that the son has died,
before he could even formally take
bossession of his father's huge fortune.
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The Apple Orchard.
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this, and If'apples once grew well with
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soli, ?ney go hoc cry 10 grow wm i
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same field, for they know that It cannot
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comes to the orchard they assume that j
a tree can not only take care of itself j
like the trees In the forest, hut that j
they can crop the land for other things '
at the same time and still get crops of
apples. Herein lies the greatest of all
the (roubles in apple growing, go long
as the soil was a virgin soil and
abounding In plant food the trees
throve in spite of neglect, but as they
gradually robbed the soil assisted hr
the crops planted among them there
was soon a" failure, foy trees a3 w?l! as
other erop3 used plenty of available
plant food in the soil.
Akothef thing that apple trees especially
need Is an abundance of soil
moisture. It Is useless to apply fertilizers
to any plant If there Is not moisture
enough in the soil to dissolve them.
Hence the importance for providing a
soil abounding in vegetable decay to
retain the moisture needed for the solution
of the plant food applied. Few
growers fully realize the amount of
the various forms of plant food that an
apple orchard takes from the soil. At
the recent American Apple Groovers'
Congress In St. Louis Professor Clothier
gave some very striking figures
In this regard which were taken from
the experiments made at the Agricultural
Experiment Station of Cornell
University. He showed that with an
average yield (and this is a small one
in a good orchard) of 200 bushels per
acre, that this 200 bushels of fruit
would remove from tlie soil thirteen
pounds of Ditrogen, only one pound of
phosphoric acid and nineteen pounds
of potash, ^nd the ap:fies alone would
remove from each acre ?2.4o worth of
plant food. Then the growth of the
wood and the leaves of the tree must
be taken into account, and it takes a
very considerabl; amount of food to
keep up the activity of a large tree.
Altogether there was in the orchard a
demand for plant food to a total value
of $9.01 per acre.
He compared this with a crop of corn
making fifty bushels per acre, and
* 1 l/i.1 A
showed tiiat mo corn removeu ihulmore
than the fruit trees, end ret every
farmer knows that ho cannot expect
fifty bushels of corn per acre unless ho
keeps up the fertility of the soil, and j
yet we see the same men try in/? to get
apples from a soil that has boon drained
by the trees in this way for a generation,
and not only drained by llie trees,
but called upOn to grow a hay crop cr
to pasture stock. Is it any wonder that
we Cannot grow apples as well as we
on?e did?
The statement we have given shows
that the demand for phosphoric add is
very small as compared with that for
nitrogen and potash, and the trees will
demand more potash than a crop of
corn of fifty bushejs per acre, and demand
it every year, for there can be
no rotation Of erops here. In their
young state, when growth is what we ;
want, applications of stable manure j
will bo of great help, not only in fur- I
nishlng nitrogen but in giving some hu- .
mus making matter to the soil. If Kainit
has been used in the preservation of
this manure it will not only make the
manure better in preventing tbe loss
of nitTOgen, but it will add potash that
is needed. When the trees have
reached maturity we advise the seeding
down to grass, .But Dot in grass to
be cut for hay, but grass to be cut only
as a mulch for the trees and left on the
ground, cutting it several times during
the season. Then give the grass a top
dressing annually of a fertilizer composed
of 800 pounds of acid phosphate,
800 pounds of cottonseed meal and 400
pounds of muriate of potash to make a
ton. Use this liberally and get a good
growth of grass and every time you
cut the gross spread it to decay under
the trees as far as the limbs extend
and a little further. Then if you
attend to the spraying you can grow
apples just like you did in your hoyhood
and probably better.?W. F. Maseey.
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FOLLOWING ORDERS.
Mr-. Hiram Offen?Here, Bridget,
i see how dusty it is under the bed.
Bridget?Yes'm.
Mrs. Hiram Offen?Haven't I im- .
pressed uposr-yoti that you must swee^
under the beds?
Bridget?Av coorse, ma'am, anhow
could the dust get there if I had
not swept it under??Philadelphia
Press.
A ROMANCE OF THE PERIOD.
Edwin and Angelina, Strictly Up to
Date.
("From New York we hear of a lover
who does his wooing with a revolver.
It is alleged that he put one arm
around the lady's waist, and with the
other held a revolver to her face. Then
he threatened that If she did not agree
to marry him he would shoot her."?
Daily Paper.)
. . . Edwin crept noiselessly and
on all fours to the half-opened door
cf the armor-plated drawing room. His
heart leapt within him. Angelina,
dreamily gazing into the fire, was ofT
guard!
Sliding the door gently forward, he
advanced slowly, still upon hands and
knees, until he was within the firing
line. Then, rising quickly and cocking
his revolver, he whispered tenderly,
"Angelina!"
The next moment the fair object of
his desires was upon her feet ready
to give the alarm.
"Do not, dearest Angelina," he cried.
"But listen to me. I love you dearly;
you are the light of my eyes, the object
of my most devoted admiration
?and if you move in any but one direction
you are a dead woman."
"And that direction is?"
"Into these arms, darling," he re
plied. "No! I do not mean these firearms,
but these human, that long to
take you captive." He paused for a
moment and then continued softly:
"Immediately hand over the key of
your heart, or I shall have to open
fire upon you."
For a moment the beautiful girl was
uncertain what to do. She knew that
if her father were communicated with
he would quickly bring the family howitzer?which
had already accounted for
fourteen swains?to boar upon the enemy.
Even now he might be marching
to her relief. Her brother, too, she
thought, was only in the garden, and
might be reconnoitering the enemy's
position from the outside. She must
held cut at all costs. Putting her hand
into her pocket, she drew forth her
handkerchief and waved it aloft. "The
white flag!" he exclaimed; "well, what
do you want?"
"An armistice for a quarter of an
hour," replied the brave girl.
"Ha!" he said. "I see. You are locking
for re-enforcements. But my brother
George is covering your brother's
advance from the garden, and your
father is already in the hospital. Must
I open fire?" He added the last words
in a tremulous tone.
She looked around her for any aid.
But there was none in prospect.
"I surrender," she said.
The next moment Edwin had taken
her prisoner.?London Punch.
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Of course this .Is a wicked old
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Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
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America is the land of nervous women,
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