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A TRAMPJND HIS PAL
THE TRAIL THAT ONE MADE TO GUIDE
THE OTHER
K Until led Ariprlltr 11111 After 111
Term In lull Vim llone to Uihti
1 limly 1oIIimv II In Inrlncr From
Cincinnati to IloiiHtoit
Wo hnvc a uootl tunny trumps up In
our part of the country wild a sujmr
plnnkr nml Ive made something of a
study of tliilr peculiarities The old
Idea that tlicy carve marks and signs
on fences that can be read by all other
members of the fraternity Is pure non
sense of course but I have known sev
eral Instances In which one tramp
would leave a- trail so to speak for the
guidance of a partner who might not
put In an appearance for months
The llrst case of that kind 1 ever
encountered was rather amusing 1
twas riding one spring day down a
road that passes through my place
when I noticed a typical hobo Indus
triously carving a sort of hieroglyphic
on a big post standing near the fence
Tho mark consisted of a square and
triangle Bide by side and he was Just
putting on the llnishlug touches as I
arrived
My curiosity was at once aroused
and I determined to hid out If possible
exactly what the thing meant so I pro
ceeded to collar the fellow and after a
little vigorous blulllng he told me he
was putting up directions for his part
ner who would be along some time In
the fall lie assuied me that the marks
meant nothing In particular except
that he had passed and was going In
the direction of the point of the trian
gle
u Ills partner according to the story
which 1 dragged out of him piecemeal
was doing a six months jail sentence
for slugging a policeman In Cincinnati
and when he got out on Sept 1 would
strike south following a trail of carv
ings on water tanks depots barns and
fencoposts When the llrst tramp
struck a good place to loaf lip proposed
ito stop and wait for the other to catch
up
JLVhats your partners name I
asked
i Its by rights William Sparks said
ithe hobo but everybody calls him
Appetite Bill on account of his nl
ways belnghungry He carries a sack
to pack grub in and has red whiskers
and a funny looking wart on one side
of his nose
I was satisfied from my prisoners
manner that he was telling me the
itruth so I took him up to the house
gave him a good dinner and sent him
on his way rejoicing
Now for the sequel continued the
planter One afternoon in the fall I
was driving home from the station
when I passed a very dilapidated hobo
with red stubble on his chin and a gun
ny sack under his arm and some In
stinct told mo that Mr Sparks alias
Appotito Kill had at last arrived
lie seemed to be looking for land
marks and when he reached the big
post I saw him stop scrutinize the
carving and then start off with a new
and confident step That settled it
and I drove ahead and intercepted him
at the house half a mile farther on
Hello Bill I said Hows your
appetite this evening
Appetite he stammered and gave
such a violent start that ho dropped
his gunny sack
Why yes said I Terhaps they
didnt feed you very well at Cincin
nati
At the word Cincinnati ho turned
livid and glared around with such evi
dent Intention of bolting that I made
haste to explain
Dont be alarmed I said I met
your side partner a few months ago
and he told me to look out for you It
took me some time to dissipate Bills
suspicions but when I Anally succeed
ed in convincing him that It was all
right he told me a most Interesting
story of his journey across the coun
try
A professional hobo will follow the
track of another hobo with an accura
cy that Is curiously suggestive of wood
craft All the way down from Cincin
nati Bill had never once lost the trail
and before ho left I gave him an ad
dressed postal card and got him to
promise mo ho would put It lu the mall
at whatever point he caught up with
his partner Less than n month later 1
received the card bearing a Houston
Tex date uark so 1 presume it was
there they met
Both of these tramps could read aud
write and I asked Sparks particularly
why his friend didnt use some brief
message lu place of the hieroglyph
He replied that It would attract too
much attention nnd other hoboes
would bo likely to add misleading
words while the little square and tri
angle passed unnoticed
Since thee I have encountered two
other nearly similar cases In each of
which a tramp was leaving a cipher
trail for a crony to follow when he got
out of Jail and I Infer that the prac
tice Is tolerably common At any rate
It Is a curious feature of tramp life
which I have never seen mentioned In
any of the numerous papers and maga
zine articles that have appeared on tho
subject during recent years Now Or
leans Times Democrat
Knuily Fixed
Awful affair at our hotel this after
noon Cook got angry and cut the end
of a wnlters noso off with a carving
knife But one of the guests fixed It
up all right
How
Ho gave the waiter another tip
Every man 1b his own ancestor and
every man Is his own heir He de
vises his owu future and he inherits
bis own past II P Hedge
I The eyes of snakca are never closed
Alive or dead sleeping or waking they
arc always wide open
A CONFIDENTIAL CASE
It IlrntiRht Ont nn Hottest Contention
About n Stolen How
It hns long been a matter of argu
ment said the old lawyer who was
In a reminiscent mood whether a
lawyer should defend a innn that ho
knows to be guilty There Is an argu
ment on both sides ami I do not sup
pose It will evnr bo settled to the satis
faction of nil
A good many years ago I had a case
that set me to thinking and I havent
yet determined what my duty was In
the matter At that tlmo I had a
Binnll practice lu a little town In the
western part of tho state Upon my
return to the town one day after hav
ing been away a few days on a matter
of business I was called upon to de
fend a worthless character who had
been arrested for hog stealing
At that tlmo every ono kept at least
ono hog to bo killed In the fall aud
saltetl down for use In the winter Ono
of my neighbors had butchered a hog
a few days before and the party that
I was called upon to defend hnd been
chnrged with theft of It
Tho case wns about to bo called
when I arrived and I nsked for a lit
tle tlmo In which to consult with my
client This was giantcd and taking
him to one side I said
Now see here the best thing that
you can do Is to make a clean breast
of tho affair to me and then I will
know Just where 1 stand Whatever
you may confess to me I will treat as
sacredly conlldentlal and I will do my
best to clear you
1 didnt stenl his hog protested
tho prisoner
Then where did you got the car
cass that was found In your posses
sion I demanded
Prom your back porch boss he
answered with a griu
Then I remembered that just before
going away I had left orders to have
my hog killed nnd 1 could only gasp
However 1 went to work and elenred
my client of the charge ho was under
and took the carcass of my own hog
as payment for services rendered but
I had hard work treating what he told
me as sacred and conlldentlal De
troit Free Press
ELASTIC APPOINTMENTS
Original Way In Which an M C
Plenaea Ilia ConRtltncnts
A noted M C familiarly known as
Joe Is one of the thriftiest men in con
gress and the patronage at his disposal
is made to do effective work In his
home district Not long ago he re
quested of a certain chief in tho inte
rior department an appointment as la
borer for one of his constituents The
request was promptly complied with
but much to the surprise of the chief
as promptly declined Tho member was
scut for
What does this mean demanded
tho official The man you were bo
urgent to have named as a laborer de
clines the position
Yes I know replied the M C I
advised him to
You advised him to echoed tho
chief W at was the matter I gave
you exactly what you asked for
didnt I
Yes reonded Joe I have no
fault to find with the appointment
Tho case is like this My constituents
follow me down to Washington hoping
to get soft berths In the government
service There are a dozen hero
now and places enough to go
around I secure the appointment for
one ho asks my advice and I tell him
to decline his Job at home Is better
so he goes back satisfied I appoint
another He declines at my advice
but he has been paid he Is flattered
and content and so on through the
list You see a man learns a thing or
two after 2 years In Washington and
I have learned to make one appoint
ment do for a dozen supporters Sat-
urday Evening Post
Holding the Ladder
A workman In Cooper Institute hav
ing occasion to ascend a ladder to do
some repairing In one of the public
rooms called to an old man whom ho
happened to see standing by watching
him Here old fellow hold the ladder
for me wont you Tho old fellow
started forward and held the ladder
for tho workman while he climbed up
and did his work
That unpretentious and willing old
man says The Independent was Pe
ter Cooper It was Just like him Pe
ter Coopers aim In life and lu the be
neficent Institution founded by him
might well bo characterized by tho
words holding tho ladder Thou
sands of rightly ambitious men nnd
women owe tho possibility of their ad
vancement to Peter Cooper He has
held and still holds the ladder and
hundreds upon hundreds of successful
and grateful climbers as they rise bless
his memory Wo cannot all build such
piles as Cooper Union but we can hold
tho ladder somewhere somehow for
somebody
Oar Flmt Emperor
At the time when the war with Spain
had been brought to a successful close
a number of statesmen were discussing
the future of the country over their
cigars In Washington
At lest one enthusiast exclaimed ad
dressing himself to tho most promi
nent member of the group In my
opinion we nro drifting directly townr
Imperialism aud you sir should bo the
first emperor
Not If I know It drawled the great
man I am uot fool enough to want
to be the flrt emperor of a nation of
such good shots Harpers Magazine
Evidently
Dasherly It cost him 1000000 to
put his on his feet
Plasherly Dear me but those Chi
cago people have large feet Kansas
City Independent
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Agents wanted for tho best typewriter
on tho market tho Pittsburg Visible
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Icntlier lielflnsr
The average life of lirst class leather
belting running Indoors aud under or
dinary conditions is ten years Belts
subjected to acid fumes would last a
much shorter tlmo than that and on
the other hand in especially favoring
circumstances a belt might last much
longer There was taken down In New
York not long ago a leather belt that
had been running 24 years This how
ever was something unusual
As Is the case with pretty much cv
erythlng that Is made and sold leather
belting may be bought secondhand the
secondhand belts coming Into the mar
ket naturally enough through the re
fitting of factories through the substi
tution of belts of one width for those
of another and so on Secondhand
belts that have not been much used
sell for not very much less than new
belts Their price decreases of course
according to the wear to which they
have been subjected When n leather
belt ceases to be useful ns a belt it is
likely to be sold Jp be cut up into boot
heels what there is left of It after that
going to tho scrap heap Now York
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OFFERS TO THE SUFFERING
HIS SERVICES AND
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For more than twenty nvo years Dr J Now
ton Hathaway lias mado a specialty of Female
Diseases DurlDR that tlmo lio has liad ninoiiK
ms patients over ten thous
and women Eiurcrlng from all
thoso many different com
plaints peculiar to tho sex and
has completely and perma
nently cured more than -0 per
cent of tho cates lie has
treated
Py his exclusive method
which ho has erfoctPd during
tho tventy llvo sears of his
most extensive- practice ho Is enabled to curo all
ot Iheso dlirerent diseases Including painful
prof uw or supprossed menstruation prolapsus
all ovarian troulilo tumors and ulceration lu
fact every form of those diseases vlilcli make a
tiurden of llfo to tho great majority of women
Ho has ho iierfoctod this system of Ills that ho
can treat theso cases by mall without any per
sonal examination to which overy sensitlvo
woman naturally objects and without any oper
ation with Its consequent pain and necessary
danger
Ills ystom of treatment is taken In tho pri
vacy of tho homo tho euro Is painless and It Is
IMJSitlVC
ONH LOW FOB
Writo him a letter stating briefly your condi
tion and ho will send you a blank to bo nilcd out
Ho will glo your case his jH rsonal attention aud
euro and make- Ins fee to moderato Including all
medicines necessary that sou will not feel the
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you a positive euro Address
J NEWTON HATHAWAY M D
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Comntercittl Illuck bloux City Iowa
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A LUNATICS IMITATION
It lniUvtl KIiiIhIi iiiuI tint llliuarlf
unit n Tlili f Into Trouble
A Paris coriespoudiMit tells an Inter
cstltig story of how a shop thief wna
captured recently at the Hon Mnrolm
In circumstances that lu all probability
are unique One of the privato detect
ives In the pay of the establlnhnient
noticed a man who with the most
barefaced effrontery was appropriat
ing articles of overy description The
Individual Indeed M cmcd to make lit
tie or no attempt to keep hU operations
focrot lie simply walked from coun
ter to counter and tilled his pocket h
with whatever attracted his fancy
In spite of the strangeness of the
mans proceedings there was nothing
to be done but to have htm arrested
and he was given Into custody Ills In
dignation was extreme lie protested
that It wiih most unjust that he should
be Intel fered with In this way when
other people who were behaving In ex
actly the same manner wee left un
molested and he pointed to a stout
gentleman of most respectable appear
ance who he asserted had been lay
ing his hands on all sorts of goods
without resorting to the formality of
paying Tor theiih
The policeman to whom he hud been
given lu charge had been accustomed
to listening to unconvincing explana
tions and took IiIh prisoner to the sta
tion A few- minutes later the slout
gentlenpiu also In the care of a police
man arrived at the same destination
The detective whose curiosity had
been aroused had watched the per
sonage and had found It to be true that
he was perpetrating theft after theft
with the utmost dexterity
After a short Investigation he was
recognized to he an expert and notori
ous shoplifter whereas the prisoner
llrst arrested proved to be a lunatic
but recently discharged from an nsy
liim whose mania took the form of
Imitating any person who might hap
pen to strike him The professional
thief was beside himself with rage at
what he described as the bad luck of
getting Into trouble through tho vaga
ries of a madmnn
GLASS BULB BOMBS
Scared the Mini Who Died Them but
VniKiulMhvd the llnrKlnr
Of all the outlandish sveaponH over
employed In a tight said a business
man of the south side I think I
brought the most fantastic on record
Into play one night last week My
family is away on a visit at present
aud I am keeping bachelor hall out at
the house On tho night to which I re
fer I was aroused at about a in by a
noise somewhere in the region of tho
dining room and thinking I had shut
ui the dog there I Jumped up very
foolishly and came down stairs In my
ntghtclothes without so much as a
pocketknlfe
When I opened the dining room
door I wns start led to see a big rough
looking man bending over the side
board nt the far end of the room and
after we had stood there en tableau for
a moment the fellow made a rush at
me I leaped back into the hall and
glared around for a weapon On a ta
ble near by were a dozen Incandescent
light bulbs which I had brought home
to replace some that had burned out
and purely by Instinct I grabbed one of
them and throw It at the burglar It
hit the door casing close to his head
and to my amazement exploded with
a noise like a young lyddite shell
I suppose it was n still greater sur
prise to the other fellow for he lot out
u yell and broke for the rear followed
by a rapid lire bombardment of 10 can
dle power Incandcscents which I con
tinued to chuck at him ns long as ho
remnlned In range They smashed
against the furniture with a series of
crashes that alarmed the whole neigh
borhood and I have been gathering up
fragments of broken ghtBS ever since
The burglar must have thought I
was chasing him with hand grenades
It was the first time I ever knew in
candcscents made such a row when
they broke An electrician tells me It
Is caused by the air rushing Into tho
vacuum Now Orleans Times-Demo
crat
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Ilia UNelet il Unit Dime
It Isnt safe to start out without a
pocketful of pennies any more re
marked a member of the house the
other day Yet I can remember that
when I came down into this section of
the country In army blue In 1803 a 5
cent piece was very small potatoes
Wo were ramped awhile out there In
Virginia anil my headquarters were In
the big plantation home A son of the
house nnd myself became good friends
although he wns 5 and I uenrly X One
day In lieu of the candy which I had
forgotten to bring him from tho near
by town I gnvo him a sliver half dime
I had forgotten all about the Incident
when some two weeks later he came
Into my room and opening his hand
held out to me on his little pink palm
the silver piece I had given him
Ileah Mr Captain you can have It
back ho said plaintively It wont
buy nulllu Washington Star
Ilnaklus Gcneronlty
The late John Kusklu gave nway a
great deal of money during his life
Many years his annual Income froin
his pen alone was 10000 but he lived
on less than a tenth of that amount
Indeed he used to say Hint n gentle
man ought to be able to live on 5 a
dny If he could not he deserved
speedily to die
A Wny Out at It
A pretty lot of children you are for
n minister to have exclaimed n West
Side pastor whose children were mis
behaving at the dinner table
Then why dont you change your
business papa asked 4-year-old Nel
lieChicago New
mi mm
ikkiiii to feel liettet nml is
hiiiltlt Ktitihiiilly linpioMil
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Curo constlitniiost and
Its coeitrtloffa consa
quoncca by Sis use of
Dr Ptorcos PclFots A
small pill a small tloso
and a sura euro
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DKALER IN
ffiimse Worit
Secini ritv ton tiiu but their h it great deal of lifting
nnd teaching to tin a gtrnt iimiiv liipn up nnd down
staiti to in lltt in the courfe of iluyn Iioiim work Its
liuitl whete n woman K well For n woman Riiireiitu
with mime foi tu of female trouble It in daily torment
I te me thiiuiauils tif such women tlrugghn along
1 1 I ti i nlttit illuft Till Iviiil flf11ltl till
Vw i ijWL hcml it lies the tin vi ate unstrung Hut the work tnuit
go on tlllMin sv replug Mtuiiiuiig imisi or mini iv
gntdless of pain And et we wonder why it woman is
turd iiiil ill liable when she has nothing to do hill lake
i iitr 1 the house
1 vetv tlav swells the long liit of the thousntiilii of
women who have ftuiiiil a complete cure of their disease
in thr use til lr Iictcrs lltvoiite Prescription It
trrlllatrs thr petit ids ilties rllfrrblillg tllilttis hciiln in
flntiitiiit ton ami ult tuition and elites female weakness
It tpurts I In tinvf by feeding them It given ilalily
and igor to the womanly otgmiism It makes weak
woiiuii silting sick Milium well
Thru is no alcohol in Fitvotilc Prescription and it
contains nn opium cocaine ot other narcotic
Accept no substitute foi Fiiwitite PtcsetipUoii If
yon want to exiieiience thr cure wlilcli oilier women
have found in Pmoiite Piesniptioii tlo not be deceived
into accepting some Mi calletl just as
good leiuctls
tnwovtitTi Circny Day
For a number of months 1 mtllrttd with fnttili tumble
wtites Miss Agnes Mi iowtu of it Hunk Slieel Washington
1 C 1 tiled at Inns timnlii but nolle Hietnrd lo tlo me
I I 11 1 il 111 until It II IU till Itlfllut
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