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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-8-23, Page 3" EVADING INDIANS. STORY OF THE "SISLEY SCOUT" AND ITS NARROW ESCAPE., An Exciting Chase of the Disastroue Cus- ter CsemPaign—A. Recital of the Retreat and Pursuit by Me Hero of the Affair. Day o Without root. The "Sibley scout" is farlutue =Ong dian fighters as being one of the narro escapes from savages now on record. hero of that hazarcloas encounter with dreeded Sioux passed the winter in c pany with the writer and favored bine w a sketth of that memorable action o handful of troopers away up in the/31g H mountains, far from the main contemn. It was in 1876, at the time of Castor's n Wee, when F. W. Sibley of General Cm column, then a young lieutenant, was dered ont with 25 mounted men to I about the country and see what was go on, Frank Grouard, a half breed, ancl of the best scouts living, accompanied ley, The young officer was fresh fr West. Point and rather inexperienced froneier warfare, so cautious General Cr batdt! hint heed the scone's- Advice sho emergency arise, and off the troopers 831 ed taniciet at the very hour when Cus 100 tidies or so away, was beteg cut to pie by the cntthroats of Sitting Bull. The wonting, party was ignorant of tl however, and traveled for two days wi out incident. As 1....ey neared the mot ' tains, Gronard, who always traveled ahe of the soldiers, suddenly signalect to la Indian signs were seen. From an eminet commanding a vast area of rolling con try little specks could be seen here a there. The glass proved that each spe was a squad of several Sioux in war c tome. The specks began to concentra They moved toward the trail niade by t troopers, but without discoveriug it foe long time. The Indians were ignorant the presence of soldiers.• After holding powwow one of the savages rode towa the telltale trail. By chance he discover it and returned to his comrades, vvavi his blanket and gesticulating. It then seemed to the young cavalry ficer as if Indiaus sprang from the earth all directions to see what had been disco ered. There were swarms of them. 13 happily they were miles away. Then b gan the race for life. The mountains o fered the only refuge. Up and up sera, bled the horses. On came the India They were seen occasionally along canyo In the rear. The band had divided an • was trying to head off the soldiers and su round them. Suddenly, as the soldiers as eended the side of a gulch and gained small plateau, a party of redskins spran at them, firing their rifles and yelling. "The men scattered like sheep," say Captain Sibley, "and I confess that for th rnoment my heart was in my mouth. M horse fell down an embankment, whie added to my discomfort. I ordered the me to are even if they did not aim at the en emy, for a rifle made a noise like a canno amid those hills. Finally the men got t gether, and we retreated up a slope to a b of wooded ground which protected us fro the Indians' fire. This was about 9 o'cloc in the morning. The Indians began t gather about us rapidly. The situation w growitig more serious every minute. M men were doinggood work with theirrifies "It pleased me to see one man shoot a noted Sioux chief right through the 'heart. That old sinner never twitched a tnuscle after the lead. hit him. We neverkneev how niany we killed, because whe,n an Indian is shot his comrades keep him out of sight. Well, we held them oil' for four hoars,-and they were four hours of redhot work, I can tell you. My scout then told me that the Indians were on three sides of us. We had one chance left to retreat, and this chance was fast lessening, because fresh Indians were coming. "I did not like to abandon our horses, , but it was that or die. So the retreat was ordered. inspected each man personally to see that his equipment was all right, but owing to my inexperience and the ex- eitement of the moment I forgot the ra- tions. Only one man in the conamand took his rations. It was an hour or so before the Indians discovered that we had fled. By that time we were up in the mountains in places so steep that one man had to help the other up. Horses could not follow us. So for the time being the Sioux would not strike us. Grouard took a mountain trail, which we followed on foot for 50 hours without a mouthful to eat. "Such fearfully vigorous exercise without food nearly killed us. Toward the end of this perilous march we all became so weakened that we marched for 10 minutes and then would Ile clown and rest. Several of the nmat robust men became insane, and one or two never regained their wits. When we reached Crook's camp, 1 slept for 24 hours without waking, and during that time the camp was sharply attacked by the Indians. Even the roar of the musketry did not disturb my sleep in the least. Not a single man was lost on this trip." Remarking on the peculiarities of plains life, Captain Sibley said that it seemed wonderful to him what remarkable in,- stincts a hall breed scout possessed. A scout had lett him across a trackless waste on a dark night when the snow was falling and the wind blowing. There was not a landmark to guide the scoot, The horses were continually drifting to windward, as It were, in the effore to get their faces away from the cutting blast. Yet in the face of all these difficulties the scout would lead the troopers litter Marching all night to the exact spot for which they started, and he never failed. A surprising peen Rarity . of Indians is their carelessness about pasting sentinels rot,. when *they go into carnp, eyen when they 'mow that an epemy is near. Captain Sib- ley hs seen a large ['idiom village corn - Omelet surrounded by eolcliers in the early morning withotet an alarm being given. In fact, the only movement in the Indian camp 08 late LIS 6nelOCIC, hi the morzaing • was the appearance of an old squaw, who tame out of a wigwam to change the posi- tion of a tethered •liorse.—Cor. New York Tri bune. In - West The the Ona- ith fa orn nd. tas. lc's or- ook ing one om in ook old nt.ter, ees th- in- ad tit ice 11- nd ck os- te. he a of a rd ed ng of - in v- ut 1- 08. ns us r - a 12 0 - it 10 as A Collector of Uniforms, in Btula-peath lives an old tailor whose lousiness it is to mend uniforms, His great evleh when he wee; yoneg was to serve in the, army, but he is so ,diminutive in size that be was refused. To get •over his dis- appoinement he became an army tailor and began to oollect military relies, of which his littnt house is so full that, there is ,scarcely any room left tot himself and his small wife, Archduke Elven discov- ered him some time ago and told the aged EleId Marshal Arthelnite Albrecht rkbot him. When be went to BudaePeath on Sat- nrday, the two archdukes visited the tiny tailor together And made hire tell hie story and show his treasures, It was the happiest day of his life, and Archduke Engerde order of' It uniform delighted him hardly less than the Archduke Albrecht'a sending him his photograph and a tinted of gold,-- Vienna Cot Leedom News. The Beef of Mairnineerico. There have been times When a court wag splendid and nearly starving, but all, that has passed away, Probably forever. The prince of today who is to be magnificent at all mud pay away MoileY at every tura and always be reedy with znore. Everything posts, fromthe special train which secures puteetualite and freedom from pressure to the rooms which loyal or hospitable crowding render exceptionally dear, It is all very well to speak of such good management, and of course there is no such thing, and it is worth perhaps 80 per cent of additional income, but no extent of good management will reduce the cost of any kind of magnificence or do away with the feeling of the innkeeper who charged a royal guest a franc apiece for eggs, not be- cause eggs were scarce, but because kings were. We have heard of charges paid by an In- dian viceroy at a Paris hotel which would have made Ma Vanderbilt wince, and there Is not an uneducated !nen in any land who, if a prime disputes his charges, does not thenceforward become a republicam Nor within limits is this feeling altogeth. er unreasonable, for the demandeof princes, which are usually only demands for free- dom, upset the usual routine, just as the queen's train, though her majesty asks only a little extra security and some pri- vacy, upsets the routine traffic on the great railway by which she travels, Moreover, though extravagance is a vice, economy is often a foible, and one rather sympathizes with the hint given by the noble who assisted Louis Philippe in his search after a lost sovereign by lighting a bank note. State, in fact, in one day costs money, and it is as expensive to be a priuce, if you live ae a prince, as to beet spendthrift heir—London Spectator. The Vamp meter. The vibrometer, which is claimed to make the deaf hear, is in shape and size very much like an ordinary banjo, with circular eceauding board and extended string board. A small electric motor transmits by suit- able mechanism a series of rapid taps or vibrations to the sounding board, and these are conveyed to the ear by tubes, the.satne as in the phonograph. The attachment by which the vibration is produced can be ad- justed to different leverages, so as to vary its intensity, and can be regulated at from 1 to 25 vibratory movements per second, a speed vvhich is only used in very bad oases. A special treatment is involved in the use of the strings of the instrument, which are vibrated by the revolution of a wheel studded with metallic picks. In applying these musical vibrations to the ear of the patient the tone selected must correspond in pitch to that caused by the diseased con- ditions of the ear, In other words, there is always a special note, the vibrations of which are raore beneficial than others to the abnormal ear, and a primary consid- eration is to determine this note. It is a question of responsive vibration, illustra- tions of which all instrumentalists are fa- miliar with. If there is no tinuitus or ring- ing noise to guide the practitioner, he finds whether the patient can hear a high or low sound, and a high rate of vibration is used in treatment and vice versa. The class of patients who are immediately benefited by the vibratory treatment are those in whom the mucous membrane lining the tympanic cavity and eustachian tubes ie in a hypertrophic or morbidly enlarged condition.—New York Telegram. The First Wedding Ring. The wedding ring, according to Henry Swinburne of the seventeenth century, was first designed by Prometheus and fashioned out of adamant and iron by Tubal Cain. He says that it was "given by Adam to his son to this end, that therewith he should espouse a wife." Men were, as all women know, deceivers ever, and some of these un- scrupulous creatures were wont to wed with rings made of rushes, imagining them to be less binding than a strong and valu- able ring. The bishop of Salisbury, how- ever, stepped in and forbade this practicein 1217. Silver was more frequently used than gold for wedding rings, and they were made in all kinds of shapes, some twisted, like two joined hands, or a pair of hearts stuck through with an arrow. Often they were adorned with precious stones and had "posies"—that is, scraps of verse—in- side, such as: Fortune doth send you, hap it well or 111, Tins plain gold ring to wed you to your will. In these days a gold ring is considered so essential to the validity of a marriage that a tradesman in a market town some years ago materially added to his income by let- ting out rings to the poor people for their wedding day.—New York Sun. Microscopic Penns anship. The subject of microscopic workmanship readily divides itself into two classes—pen- manship andrnechanical construction. His- tory has handed down to us many exam- ples of this form of caligraphic mania, of which the chief symptom is a desire to compress the greatest number of words into the smallest possible space. Pliny the Younger declares that Clicero onee saw the Iliad written so small that it could be inclosed in a walnut shell. This affirmation was regarded as improbable until the seventeenth century, when Huet, bishop of Avranches, France, an excellent Greek scholar, proved that it could be ac- complished. The Gospel of St. John and the Acts of the Apostles were writtett within the cir- cumference ot a farthing in the sixth cen- tury by an Italian niauk.—Boston Com- monwealth. Early mentioa of Niagara Falls. The first historical notices of Niagara faIla are given in Leecarbot's record of the second voyage of Jacques Cartier, in the year 1535. On the maps published to illus- trate Mani plain's discoveries (date of maps either 1613 or 1614) the falls are indicated by a ems% but no description of the won- dadal cataract is given, and the best geo- graphical authorities living today doubt if the explorer mentioned ever saw the nine, Brinson' s work to the contrary notwith- standing. Father Hennepin is believed to have written the first description of the falls that was ever penned by one who had personally visited the spot. The editor owns a map dated 1651 which does not tig- er° either the great lakes or the falls—Sb. Louis Reptiblia. Some Dental Advice. Dentat floss, to be procured at any first class drug store, is recommended by den- tists for regularuse after tmeh meal. Noth- Mg can so effectually remove any foreign substance from the teeth. It is likewise advised that the teeth should be brushed Up and down—not sidewise as is the cOM- Mob enStodl. A Thorough Busbies% Man. Optician (to his new shopnean)—When Yoll send Dia the prie.e het% write the ad- reSSee ILS S111411 as possible so that the cua- eoniers may see that it is time they began to wear glassea—laistige Matter, STEALING THAT 3 NPT A (AIME, Passengers ItIrlio Aesort to All Sort* ot 'Vrtoits to ilthie Free, "It has to. be a very pious roan who won't steal a ride whetahe gets the chance," af- ft the conductor On thesubueban train to a reporter, who asked whether be ever had any diffieulty in collecting fares frota elle passenger% It is both amusing and interesting to watch the delight most people take in get- ting a free ride, The conductor passes tnrough the car saying, "Tickets, please," and turning from side to side, trying to pick out all the new passengers aboard. The majority of cceurse have their tickets ready and hold theta: out so that he cann ot possibly fail tO see them, but there are a great num- ber of people also, who front the time they enter a car begin reading the newspapers, and the conelactor might znildly sayauTick- ets, please," till the dawn of doomsday be- fore he succeeded ie attracting the atten- tion of these earnest readers. If he issue he hasn't panelled the tioket, he stops fairly M. front of the passenger, holds out his hand in a positive fashionand sharply says, "Ticket!" Then the negligent passenger will unbutton bis coat and from a fiat pocketbook stored away in his vest will slowly produce ticket. A conductor hns to be positive in his demeanor, too, for let a Unita, "not sure" glance betray to the, wily passenger that he is not going to have his ticket demanded of him, and he will at once put on a bold front and unconcernedly watch the man next to him handing over his fare to the puzzled conductor without once changing color. "The women? Well, they may wear their little silver crosses; they may even be go- ing to church on Sunday with their Bibjes with 'em," said another conductor, "but they will sneak a ride every time." And it seems to be true. The reporter watched, and pretty soon a rather pretty woman boarded the train at Thirty-ninth street. From her watch chain hung the King's 'Daughters' badge—e little silver cross. She sat clown, and soon the conductor came along. He was not a hardened veteran, and he seemed half afraid of making a mis- take, so he said in an undecided tone, "Tickets!" Bnt, oh, that questioning tone and doubtful glance! He passed the little lady by, and she let him do it, just as if she hadn't been a Daughter of 'the King. At the next station he again came into the car with the same expression and the same question. He noticed her this time—just stopped and looked at her as he took up a ticket from a man who sat next to her, and she—well, she kept on reading. Now, is it possible that. she didn't congratulate her- self upon being one ride ahead? Of course she did, and she'd make that one ticket of hers last forever if the conductors would only let her. Another passenger, well dressed and gentlemanly, allowed the conductor to go by without giving up his ticket, and when the official passed through the car again he looked hard at the man and said, "Ticket!" But the interrogation in his voice settled it. The man stared over the top of his paper quite unconcerned. The conductor didn't insist, and when he turned his back M. Gentleman smiled audibly, and those who sat near him decided at once that he was a most dishonest person, "thoughthey'd all been there before many a time. many a time"—.Chicago Journal. Byron and His 'Young Physician. It is of Byron's Ponder' that one has heard in that model biography—the biog- raphy in which the sedulous Moore sidled and ambled in accompaniment to his noble friend's dramatic work. It is too clear that Byron took little trouble to disguise the fact that he found Polidori intolerable. The young physician "had become jealous of the growing intimacy of his noble patron with Shelley," and a plan for leaning him out of an excursion on the lake of Geneva, in which Shelley, Miss Goodwin and Miss Clairmont were taking part, "completed this mortification." In the soreness of his feelings he indulged in some intemperate remonstrances, which Lord Byron indig- nantly resented, and the usual bounds ol courtesy being passed on both sides the dismissal of Polidori appeared even to him- self inevitable. The young Italian rushed to his room, where he was interrupted while attempting "that fatal act which two or three years afterward he actually did perpetrate." Byron, to his credit, followed up the doc- tor with areconciliation. Byron permitted himself to boast to his follower, who in childish irritation asked him, "What, after all, can you do that I cannot?" "Since you force me to say," wa.s-thesolemn reply, 'I can swim across that river. I can snuff out that candle with a pistol shot at 20 paces, and I have written a poem of which 14,000 copies sold in one clay.' All through, the unequal association was an incident to the one man, life and death to the other.— Pall Mall Gazette, Religious Training of Japanese. Little or no importance is attached to the religious training of Japanese children. Whether the parents be Buddhists or Shin- toists it matters not, for in either cese the children rarely take any part ie the reli- gious late of their parents or elders, and in- deed usually grow up in blissful ignorance as to what it is all about. True, they may be occasionally taken to the temple and taught to rub their palms together, clap thrice and incline their heads toward the shrine as they toss their offering of rin through the wooden grating of the huge money till. They may have some vague notion' that there is something meritorious in all this, but nothing mete, although ev- ery Japanese home has a latticed niche, or kamidana, dedicated to the service of tbe household Lams and Peuates, or Daikoku and Ehisti as they appear in Japare—Dr. W D. Eastlake in Popular Science MOnthly, A. Complete Outfit. Princess Clementine, mother of the Prince of Bulgaria, is the heroine of agood story. The princess is a daughter of tho tate King Louis Philippa One day she asked her settee brother, the Due de Jai:twine, who was starting for a cruiea to bring her back the complete dress of a redskin chieftain's wife, The dnIce returned in dae.coarse and distri Imeed presents nlnoug his sisters. "This is for you, Clementine," he said as he put a string of glees beans on the table. "Very pretty," said the princess, "but you promised me 0 complete dress.n "rills is s. eomplete drees," replied the duke, "I never saw them wear any. other." —London Tit -Bits. rilasuade The way things are in England is shown by the proposition of a London periodical that an association be fortnea to dissuade widows from marryi ng a eecond time. This is it mere matter of justice to the sisters who bad not yet had an initial thanee In the matrimonial market. Dortiti MAWS opinion. "What iea'house without a babyP" asked a lady wetter, and an old bachelor editoe replied; itt Comparatively quiet1"—Exchatige eEopt,E Arm VERY LIKE 110LKS. •an Interesting Disoustioe of Two Weinielt Who Have Little Time, Mrs, Tittle—On, Pm ao glad you celled. What a pretty wrap that isl Won't you take off your bonnet? Mrs. Tattle—It's such a bother, you knoW, and rIs'viregtoLonpth, at el els iyt total t re gt to right toauYtl. yolere always in sad a hurry. I declare, as 1 wag telling my husband, you have so many friends and so many places to go to that you're no sooner in the house than you're out again! So different from Mrs. Mark, for instance, She comes in and stays and stays and stays until I'm nearly dead, And then she's such a gossip! She knows every- body's business. I can't bear her. Mrs. Tattle—Neither oen I. I never med- dle not make. I just let everybody attend to their own affairs, and I attend to mine. By the way, did you hear about Mrs. Grimes' husband? Mrs. Tittle—Mrs. Giernes' busbandt No. For mercy's sake, what is it? I just stay here at home and drudge, drudge all day long, and all the world might be dead and I not know, it. I3ut what isit about Grimes? I always did have my Suspicions of that man. He has such a look, you know; kind ce, kind ol— Oh. 1 can't de- scribe it. But you knoWI Mrs. Tattle --Oh, yes. I've noticed tt hundreds of times. Well—but you worit repeat it? 1 wouldn't for the world have it go about as coming from me. Mrs, Tittle—You needn't beafraid. YOU know what I am. Mrs, Tattle—I wouldn't breathe it to an other living soul, that's a fact. Well, he mine home the other evening in a terrible condition. Mrs, Grimes pretends that he was only sick, but I know better than that. Men don't go away in the best of health in the morning and come home sick at night unless there's a reason for it Mrs. Tittle—Of course not. Did he strike her? You couldn't have blamed him much yifothiekdrilodl,vslee is such a disagreeableverson, Mrs. Tattle. -.I can't say that he did, but be might, you know. At any rate she was !neon cryinewhen she sent for the doctor. Mrs. Tittle—Then you may depend. Send for the doctor, did she? Just to blind people's eyes! 'What an artful thing she is! But was he terribly intoxicated? Mrs. Tattle—The doctor says he wasn't. I ran out to ask him what the matter was— or rather he said Grimes was a very sick man, that's the way he turned it off, you know. Of course he wouldn't say. But I have tny suspicions. Mrs. Tittle—And well you may have olsonin'tglit awful? But, really, must you be Mrs. Tattle—Indeed I must. rye half a dozen more calls to make this afternoon, Goodby, dear. Now be sure and come around just as soon as you can. Mrs. Tittle—I will; but, land, don't wait for mei Pve so much to do, you know Goodby. Mrs. 'rattle (on sidewalk)—What a WOM• an she is to pry into others' affairs! Hit wasn't for the looks of the t1ng, Pd never go uear her again. Mrs. Tittle—I-1'ml Came here just to show that itew wrap! It's nothing to brag about anyway. And how she did run on about the GrimesesI It's positively shame- ful! I do hate a gossip, therei—Boston Transcript. Speech and the Power of Work. Any one who olneirves the movements of his tongue in speaking will find that there occur no cases in which the adjustments must have an exactness corresponding to the extreme power of discrimination which the tip possesses, For speech this endow- ment is useless. Even were it useful it could not be shown that it has been devel- oped by survival of the fittest, for though perfect articulation is useful yet imperfect articulation has rarely such an effect as to impede a raan in the maintenance of his life. If he is a good workman, a Gertnan's interchanges of b's and p's do not disad, vantage him. A Frenchman who in place of the sound th always makes the sound of z succeeds as a teacher of music and dancing no less than if he achieved the English pronuncia- tion. Nay, even such an imperfection of speech as that which arises from cleft pal- ate does not prevent a mao from getting on if he is capable. True, it may go against him as a candidate for parliament or as an "orator" of the unemployed. But in the struggle for life he is not hindered by the effect to the extent of being less able than others to maintain himself and his off- spring.—Herbert Spencer in Contemporary Review. Rheum at I sno Secondhand. "Well, exclaimed Mr. Queercase, "you can talk as you like about physical afflic- tion, but the largest that ever struck me was when I had the rheumatism in my brother." "Rheumatism in your brother!" exclaim- ed his auditors in concert. "What are you telling us?" "I'm just giving you a case of stalwart afIlictiou that ought to bring your sympathy out by the roots," was the reply. "The kind of rheumatism that he had was the kind that hangs over the edges and treads on the adjacent martyrs. Why, the way -he'll yell and keep me awake at nights and have me tying on ,bandages and rub- bing joints and smelling alt sorts of lotions, /lathe way he would kick me out of bed when his ether leg hurt him too much was energizing. Primary rheumatics is bad enough, but to have to take it in a second- ary form is petrifying."—London Co-operative Copy Reading.. Folks who- are ambitious of writing for the magazines and are not discouraged when n mannecript has been rejected two or three times will learn with pain of aeon- fession Made by a young inan employea as copy reader on a popular magazine, He owned that he and a man holding a like Once on another magazine hat' a pri- vate; mark which was intended to advertise to each that the other had passed upon and rejected the manuscript. Me Mei:tied that his mark was placed upon only such n301111SCHIAS AA were hope- Jessie-nad, but the possibility ef co-opea naive copy reading muststeike terror to amen Mails young writers.—Boston Globe. Curming Womee reebriates. As an instance of tho inui lig with which female, inebriates geed fy their appetite for liquor the following story is related: Some women in a retreat .aelted for curling tongs —it Very natural req nest. Next they want- ed Methylated marits with which to heat the irons, and finally they wheedled hot water, sugar and lemon juice out of one of the maids. Out of these liquids they con- trived a concoction to eetisfy their craving for alcohole—Exchange, Can't help Themselves. fle—If there's anything: 1 deteet, it'S a flirty woman. She—Rumphi Why not a flirty man? 1-ie--(th, well; a mu has some excuse. Women are so attractive, you khoW.--,IsIeW irork Weekly. 11111111111.11110111512zatimaszewallaiii , I I, OA hat is .eat'aeXeg vete. -----------neeseeeneeeentatanee Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants mu; Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It Is Pleasant. Its guarantee b thirty years' use by 21111Hons oflgothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevent% vomiting. Sour Curd, cures Diarrhcea and Wind Do1ic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and, bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas.. turia is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend. Castoria. Casteria (San excellent mediciee for chil- dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Dn. G. C. °snoop, Lowell, MSS& Castoria. "Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me," H. A.. Axiom, M. D., 111So. OxfordSt., Brooklyn, N. Y. "Castoria is the best remedy for children of " Our physicians in the children's depart, which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not meat have spoken highly of their experi. far distant when mothers will consider the real ence in their outside practice with Castoria, interest of their children, and use Castoria in- and although we only have among our stead of thevariousquacknostruraswhich are medical supplies what is known as regular destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, products, yet we are free to confess that the morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful merits of Castoria has won us to look with agents down their throats, thereby sending favor upon it." Mem to premature graves." DR. J. F. XiNcHELOS, UNITED HOSFITAL AND DzDoNnt.3.Litztassr, Conway, Ark. ALLEN C. S311TD, Pres., The Centaur Company, 'TT Murray Street, Neer York City, NIMIIIIIIIIIMINIMEMEINIMIMERSEMESEIMEMMMIMEara FOR. BARGAINS OR FOR CHARI:re.- How Wily Secondhand Dealers Appeal to Both These Human Motives. The observant pedestrian along -any popu- Ions east or west side street knows what it is to see piled up in apparent confusion the household effects of some distressed tenant, dispossessed for nonpayment of rent—furniture, bedding, kitclaen utensils, cheap pictures, crockery, a clock, and a birdcage. Where a landlord secures sum- mary possession through the act of a mar- shal of dwelling apartments the personal property of the tenant is put upon the side- walk as the most convenient, accessible and public place. Casually the tenant has somewhere else to go. Seldom do his effects remain long in the street, for there are al- ways, especially in the poorer parts of the town, helping hands to give hina or her a friendly lift or a new start. Then a trackman comes to take away the articles left upon the sidewalk, and the neighbors hear of the matter no more. This benevolent strain of human nature in New York has, however, inspired the cupidity of some secondhand dealers, who now make it regnlar business of dump- ing their unsalable stock in a public place, pretending that the articles thus displayed belong to some needy dispossessed tenant. The sympathetic wife or daughter of the secondhand dealer stands in the vicinity of the articles, and when the charitably dis- posed stranger makes his appearance this is about what he hears: "PoOr soul! A widow with seven chil- dren, her husband dead in the hospital aft- er being out of work for three months— where wonld she get the money to pay the landlord and save her furniture from the street? Well do I remember her paying $20 for that bedstead there when she moved into the top floor beyond—a bedstead which she would be glad enough to take KO for now to buy her children something to eat. And those chairs there, which cost $1 each, she'd be only too wilting to sell for a quar- ter apiece; and that line old fashioned clock lying there—it's a splendid tiznekeeper, and any dealer would pay $5 for it gladly— and the poor woman is willing to take $2 for it if she could only find a kind hearted purchaser to buy it, while she is oat lookbag for help from those who were glad enough DO borrow money from her husband when he was working!" Such a tale of commingled human sor- row and business opportunity told, for the first time, to a sympathetic stranger is not usually without its effect. "My good woman," says the male passeeby, "here is a couple of dollars for the widow--mygood wishes go with her." The female passerby, too, is touched by the recital, and the chance of often getting a bargain loosens the clutch which she has on the money which she holds ili her hand. Sbe buys such of the articles as her means affard or vthich seem cheapeet and next seeks the good offices of some neighboring truck - man or expressman to transport the arti- cles to her home. Then the secondhand dealer replaces the articles sold by other articles of a similar kind from Ids ahop, and his wife waits the areival of another favorably disposed pp rchaser. This dodge has been worked quite gener- ally ancl quite effectively of late in various parts of town, and it is 017;1.151i to be no- Cieecl that a seceed.hend furniture Store is at no great distance from the point where tbe artielee aro let, and a well traveled thoroughfare, not a eale street, is Selected for the purpose, altlategli it is well known dint evictions for nee Teem cut of rent are s-ery rare cm the big 00m:ea:fares, where the rents are higher, and are nlinost eaelu- eively li Red to theY.,naller side streets of heighborhoods.a7New Vmec Sun. W01311:11 11t Chess. . , FOr the first timn in the history of chess, there Was contested yesterday a bona fida match by a (dub team et lady players.. They represented a newly established Ladies' Chess Club,and their opponents wero gentlemen from the Metropolitan, who yielded the odds of a knight at each board, It wilj be in- teresting to feminine players to learn that thts first public nutteh of their sis- ters was marked throughout by the most pleasant arid qorcrteous demeanor and bearing between the ladies mid their opponents. Play began at 8 p.m., -ifltSIenilji,g Names, "Seinegeographical names aro very mist enalleg," observed Noethside. "Poe instance?" asked Hilltop. "Weil, you don't fled the flowet �f thi human family at Botany Bay." FROM OVER THE SEA. Mrs Langtry's jewels Are valued by experts at over 850,000. The nuntber of draught dogs in Belgi- um is probably not less than 50,000. The wearing of corsets by men is not uncommon in the British metropolis. The tallest people in the world are the Patagonlans; the shortest are the Lap- landers. At the Odeon Theater in Paris 600 manuscript plays are rent ..ved and read every year. The spring sale of Abeerden Angus bulls in England show an average of 5102 for 250 animals. With the exception of the Ining of Den- mark, Queen Victoria is the oldest reign- ing sovereign of Europe. - Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape architect, bears a strikiug resemblance to Rai:1yard Meting's father. To keep a race horse in even moderate condition in England, with proper at- tendants. costs $1,625 a year. Up to the present time the Necropolis Company, the biggest undertakers in England, bave buried 14,000 bodies. The wheat crop of South America has steadily inoreased from 48,850,000 bushels in 1891 to 104,000,000 bushels in 1893. More than 1,000 peOple earn a living in Paris by fortune telling, and their total earnings are estimated at £400,000. M. Edwards, director of Le Matin, the most modern and enterprising of the Parisian journals, has retired from jour- nalism. . A Madagascar correspondent tells of 400 pineapples being bought and delivered for a school picnic there for $1—four It is announced that Denmark intends to construct a great naval port on the island of Bornholm, to compete wth the new German canal. The drink bill inmost London hospitals Is said to be 11111011 IOSS than it used to be. So much for the influence of the tem- perance Hospital. The long-distance telephone between Paris and London has over two hundred, (Jails a day. At the rate of two dollars for each oall, it pays. Sir Henry Bessemer, known in Eng- land as the "Steel King." has just reach- ed his 88rd year, and is said to be pro- verbially hale and hearty. E. Mauncie Thompson, D. C. L., LL.D., F. R. S., vice-president for England of the Egypt Exploration Fund, has been knighted and admitted to the Order of the Bath. Ti4E MOST SUCCESSFUL REMO) FO ri 55t! OR EAST, i ''2 PILi 0 9:;4:7'),, 001„PrI07•11 Cart:1131in it; cif eats and never bilaterc. li t. 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