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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1879)
.&& JZ&1? v -"2l S I MP " i HI V y, . I i m TO CORRESPONDENTS. AllcoiiimiiiiiciitloiisfiirtlilNpupcrhlioaMlip Bccomimiiii-fl by tlm nntiio of tliu nullior. iot nccrnriW fur iiubllciilioii, Imu.mm cvitlunV o! RCHMlfiiitliantfiunnrt of ilio vUi.-r. Write can-ful in KlinK unities ami dutii.,io Imvc nil letters or llgurc iluiti and distinct. THE KAHN'S DEVIL. The i Knlin cmne from Bokhara town To ilauizu, sun ton of renown. " My lieail Is sick, my hnndn arc weak; Thy help, o holy man, I seek." In silence marking for 11 spaces The Khan's red vyva and purple face. Thick voice, and loo.-c. uncertain tread, " Thou hast a devil," Uamza Bald. " Allch forbid 1" exclaimed the Khan, " JMd mc of him at once, O man I" "Nay," Hainza said, " no spell of mine , Can slay that curbed thln ot thine. " J;nvo fea."t and wine, jjo forth and drink Water of healing on the brink r"Wh re clear and cold from mountain snows, Tlie Nahrcl Zchen downward Hows. " Six moons remain, then corne to me: May -Mlah's pity go uith thee!" Awe-struck, from feast ami wine, the Khan Went forth where Nahr el Zchcn ran. Koots were his food, the desert dust His bed, the water quenched his thirt, And when the sixth moon's nclmetar Curved sharp above the evening etnr, Ho souxht again the sauton's door, Not weak and trembling as befoie, But strong of limb and cl''ar of brain ; " Heboid," lie said, "the Jiend is slain." " Nay." Hamza answered, "starved and , drowned. The curat one lies in death-like swound. " But evil breaks the strongest iryves, And jlns like him have dimmed lives. " One breaker of tlie juice of grapes May call him up in living shape. " When the red wine of Bndik-lmn Hparklcslor thee, bewaro, O Khan J "With wati-r quench the lire within, And drown each day thy devilkin!" Thenceforward the great Khan shunned the cup AsShitan'sown, though oUeied up, Willi laughing eyes and Jeweled hands, Jty Vaikand's maids and .Sarmacand's. And, in the lofty vestibule Of the medtess of Kutirh Kodul, The stiulents of the lioly law A golden-letteied tablet saw, With these words, bv a cuiinlnir hand, Graved on it at thu Khan's command: " In Allah's name to him who ha'h A duvll, JChau el llamed saith, " Wisely our I'rophet cursed the vine; Thu fleml that loves the breath ot wine " No prayer can May, no mnrabnut Nor Mcccan dervis can drive out. "I, Khan el Ilamod, know the charm Thai robs him of his power to haim. " Drown him, O Islam's child! the spell To save thee ties in tank and well!" J. (J. iriiillier, in Youth's Companion. IN THE WINTER. In the winter, clearest Japer O'er the lonelv valley smiles; In the winter, birdi with music Never Hood the woodland aiales. In the winter, down the hilNido iSaily coasts the gentler sex; In the winter, o'er tlie sidewalk Hangs the ulsterrfuran X. In the winter, softest Mcy-down AH the cedar pennons tips; In the winter, the pedestrian Ou the coal-hole cover slips. In the winter, on the window Keenly shines each irosty gem; In the winter, fond I.eander Leaves his girl at -J a. in. In the winter, to the flpein ('. Augu-tus Minnie takes; In the winter. UroiKiaiui Mushes o'er the buckwiieat cakes; In tho winter, silver sleigh-bells Jingle sweetly, mile ou mile; In the winter, doch tin snow-ball Klevato the silken tile. Jn the winter, liejjirar sparrows Kound the gables chirp and prank; In the winter, doth thu plumber Put some shekels in the bank. In the winter, shrill winds whistle Through the lover's Miuiiuer nook; In the winter, there are other Things enough to till a book. 11'. A. Croffut. (,'EMUS II. rOPKIXS, UKOUEK. I had been devoting myself too assid- uously to my work embroidering in silk and in consequence my eyes began to fail. And the oculist to whom I ap plied for advice, assured mo that noth ing would save my eyes but wearing a bandage over them for a month at least, perhaps more, and then using them with great care in the future. "And that month, Miss Spraguc," he added, 44 should be spent in some quiet country house, where you could have perfect rest." Luckily, just before this mandate was issued, a young actress for whom I had embroidered a dress, having made "a great hit " in the play in which she wore it, was pleased to declare that half her success was owing to the pink rosebuds and blue forget-me-nots that were scat tered in artistic confusion all over the white satin (the design was my own) and in the kindest manner sent me 100 instead of 50, the price agreed upon for my work. S j I was well able to fol low the Doctor's advice as to 1213'self, and to pay Mrs. Bairnsfather for taking: care of Suinny while I was away. And I was thinking in what paper or papers I had better advertise for tho " quiet .country home," as the Doctor slammed theistreet door, when Mr.Popkins came in and said . But before I tell you what he said I'll tell you a little more about myself at that particular time. - I was an orphan, without kith, except Mrs. Bairnsfather and Mr. Popkins, and a young man who boarded with Mrs. Bairnsfather or kin, but Spinny Spencer first, then Spenny, then Spin ny, -my 10-ycar-old brother in the great city where I lived. My father, a sea Captain, had been lost at sea when I was 12 years of age. My mother died when I was 18. Until that time we had lived in an old-fashioned cottage in a pretty village in Connecticut mother r .?' - :.. . n.. i.: ? receiving a puuiuu uuui mo amp-umi- 1 -Jfers'in whose service my father lost his life, which, together with the monoy we j earned with the aid of tho cow and the ' chickens, enabled us to live very com-.' fortably. But when mother died the pension died with her, and the cottage was jet and the cow and chickens were "SJjMfcitto a young couple who had long looked, upon them with longing eyes. And I, with what little money our ef fects had brought, started with Spinny, then 6 years old, to seek ray fortune in busy, noisy New York. I had one friend there, at least. She had been a ' friend ef my mother, and had paid us short visits every summer as long as I could remember, Mrs. Bairnsfather, and to her house I went. She let lodgings, somewhat in the English manner, being an Englishwoman, albeit as her name indicated her ancestors were Scotch, and, fortunately, the second-story back room with a bedstead that pretended to be a chest of drawers in the day time and a hall bedroom ad joining were unoccupied, and in them I was installed with much kindness by the motherly landlady. And after a few weeks I got some baby, caps and cloaks to embroider (ever since 1 could use a needle I had been fond of making sprays and flowers on whatever bits of silk and satin fell in my way), but the pay for my work was very poor indeed, and I had as much as I could do to sup- Eort myself and Spinny, who had a ealthy boy's appetito for the four years before I became acquainted with Mr. Popkins. "Genius H. Popkins.Grocer." How I laughed when I first saw his card in the landlady's card-basket, as though "Popkins" wasn't absurd enough to pre face it with "Genius!" "An old bach elor," 1 said, "I should think so! Where could a woman be found who would be willing to change her name, whatever it was, for "Mrs. Genius H. Popkins?" " 'What's in a name?' as Shakespeare 'as it, my dear," said Mrs. Bairnsfather mildly. " 'E's a good fellow, 'e is, in deed; 'a3 lodged with my friend, Mrs. 'Ill, for the last three years, and sic thought every think of 'im. Never would 'ave parted willingly with 'im if she 'adn't a died." "A very sufficient reason for doing so," I said; "but why, oh! why, don't he change his name? It is loo ridicu lous." " Popkins, or no Popkins," insisted Mrs. Bairnsfather, " 'e's has good has gold. A little lively I 'ear, but I wish I 'ad a 'ouse full of them." " A little lively." He vas. He gave bachelor parties at least twice a week. from which peals of laughter ascended to my room all evening long, and which always ended with an uproarious .sing ing of " Auid Lang Synu" at midnight. At first tnis annoyed me very much, but after awhile I became so used to it that I woke up regularly when tho sing ing began, and joined in the chorus of course they couldn't hear me and then went to sleep directly. " He ain't pretty," said Spinney to me one day, referring to Mr. Popkins, " but he's just bully. He giv' me a box of prunes thismornin' a hull box and didn't the fellers at school hang 'round when I brought it out at lunch-time! Yes, indeed!" And one afternoon, about a week af ter the box of prunes, my room door was suddenly thrown open and Spinney appeared, leading a smiling gentleman by the hand, and called out (Spinney always shouted at me as though I were half a mile away), " Hello! Gertie" (my name's Gertrude), "here's Mr. Popkins and he says may I go to the circus!" " Genius II. Popkins," I thought to myself, "and what a queer-looking 'Genius' he is." And ho was. Bed hair which, unlike any I had ever seen before, curled part in one direction and part in another; small, twinkling blue eyes, which al most disappeared when he laughed his laugh, D3' the way, began with a loud guffaw and ended with a low chuckle; a double chin ; a ruddy complexion and an extraordinary nose. It wasn't Ro man, it wasn't straight, it wasn't aqui line, it wasn't snub; it was simply Mr. Popkins's nose, and he was short and stout, and wore a blue flannel suit, and L couldn't help thinking if ho and his clothing were well blended what a gorge ous purple would be tho result. "Hope I don't intrude," said Mr. Popkins. 44 Not at all," answered I, " if you will pardon my going on with my work." .1 was embroidering a pair of suspenders which some young lady was going to give her sweetheart on his irthday, and which he, no doubt, would think, and she, no doubt, would allow him to think, tho work of her own fair hands. " Very beautiful work it is," said Mr. Popkins, " and I should like to have a pair exactly like them." And that's tho way my acquaintance with Mr. Popkins began. And after that what a kind uncle I thought him he was always having some pretty little article of dress embroidered for "some one of his numerous nieces. And it was while finishing one of these one evening Mr. Popkins was taking a cup of tea with Spinny that the kind heart ed bachelor said to me, " I have a pro posal to make to you, Miss Spraguc; your tea not being the very best sug gests it to me. Suppose I supply you with groceries i.i part payment for the finery you make for me? I'll let you have them at wholesale prices." I gladly agreed, and dear me! I was surprised to liud, at the end of the week, how much cheaper it was to buy at wholesale prices. My table, although every thing was much better than I had been accustomed to, cost me less than it ever had cost, aud in consequence I was enabled to procure many a little deli cacy for Spinny and myself which I could not have even dreamed of before. In fact good luck seemed to havo walk ed in with Mr. Popkins the first time he entered my door. It was he who intro duced the young actress to me who gave mc the highest price I had ever received for embroidering a dress. By-the-by, tho note she sent with the money ended rather oddly. "As you value sardines and olives smile sweetly upon eld Pop kins." 44 Old Popkins." Only five and thirty after all. What was the young lady thinking about? And why did she im agine I valued "sardines and olives?" I didn't I don't and if I did, in what way would "smiling sweetly" upon Mr. Popkins affect " sardines and olives?" And now I'll tell you what Mr. Pop kins said the day he with a good-sized basket on his arm made his appear ance just as the Doctor slammed the street door. 44 Thought you'd have trouble," be ginning to unpack the basket and lay the various articles it contained, nam ing each one as he did so, upon my din-ing-table, "knew it always stitching at that confounded Dutch cheese ; hope you like it embroidery. Shouldn't havo given you any to do myself, only was confident if I didn't you'd take it from a jar of Boston gherkins some one else. And now the Doctor has or dered you to go into fancy crackers the country, and bind over your eyes a flask of salad oil a bandage for a month or more that's all." I burst out laughing. How could I help it, hearing the odd little man mix me and the groceries up in such a comi cal way? 44 My dear Miss Sprague," said he, gravely, "it is no laughing matter. What are you going to do?" 44 Obey the Doctor's, orders," said I. "Isll begin by advertising for the quiet country home this'very evening." 44 Let me take the advertisement," said Mr. Popkins. " I know a newspa per man deals with me who'll have it done half price." 44 And then, when I've found it," I went on, " I'll ask Mrs. Bairnsfather to take care of Spinny while I am away, because, dearly as I love him, I can't take him with me and find perfect rest " 44 I'll look after Spinny," said Mr. Popkins. " Hem ! I forgot the deviled tongue, but 1 guess you don't need any, and" (precipitately) are you ia want of money? If you are" 44 1 have Dlentv." I interrupted. 44 Yon have?" with SAtonuhmcnt. 1 44 Yea," and I told him about the but be meant it. And I way, uertte.you young actress, saying nothing about the J ain't too fond of him, are you? And last line in her note, of course; and, ' why wouldn't you care to sec Popkms. much to ray surprise, instead of looking : He's my man, he i. He takes me to pleased he looked rather glum. ' the Aquarium, and Coney Island, r nd 44 1 was hoping you hadn't," be said all over. Don't you like Popkirw, at last. J Gertie?" 44 Hoping I hadn't, Mr. Popkins?" ' " I like him very much, Spinny," said 44 Yes; and then," wiping his brow I, with burning cheeks, with his handkerchief, and speaking' " Well, I'll tell him so," said Spinny, with still greater haste, " I was going " and p'raps next time he'll come to ask you to marry me and let me pay " along." all vour bills in future." After Spinny went away I had an an- "Oh! Mr.Popkins," I gasped, "I.grycry over Arthur Leroy's impem am very much obliged to j'ou, indeed, I nent remarks, andfvrgot him, so I could am, but I couldn't think of such a thing, not have been very much in love with under any circumstances." him after all. 44 You object to mv hair, perhaps," And then I began to think about Mr. said be; "I'll shave my head." Popkins. In fact, I could think of noth- 44 No-o-o," said I. ing else. The blinding of my eyes for Tn mv lmiwh? I'll ncvi-r l.tncrh so lnnt h timo Accrued to have suddenly again." "No-o-o." "To my name? I'll have it changed by act of Congress." 44 No-o-o." 44 To my nose? I'd look worse with ont it." 44 No-o-o that is yes I mean no," I stammered. 44 There is some one else?" 44 No-o-o." 44 Aud you don't care a fig for me?" " I regard you as a friend a very dear friend." " C 44 And you couldn't bring yourself to ship with the "newspaper man" was a think of me as a hugband? Oh, I see m th, and I saw that he saw Wcebrook you couldn't. Good-bye. I'll supply , before I did, and that to his thoughtful -you with groceries all the same." And nessand care Towed the many comforts away lie went, looking so woe-begone j I had found awaiting me. " Why is he that I, remembering his many kindness-, so ugly?" I asked myself. " It seems cs to Spinny and myself, felt inclined to . other men have just as absurd names, drop a tear or two; but I conquered the 1 Low Dutch ' is worse thau 4 Genius II. feeling and commenced to pack my ' Popkins,' I think, but uo one could be trunk instead. uglier. Not one handsome feature. If Most of my answers to Mr. Popkins, ( he only had the lovely, gray eyes of the I must confess, had not been exactly , husband next door-thosc eyes which mm ;nr.iti,Unrr ibor.no ..I. ..,.. have descended to the baby I might .I U0, .WWUU.U-, W.V, VWO I..SWUI, WV...W some body else." There was a youn" man nsfitherAr. boardincr with Mrs. Bairnsfather Ar thur Leroy by namc-a very handsome young man straight nose cream-and-rose complexion fair hair light bine to be sure, and the lower part of his face Rnmnwhat hnavwhr, had naiil nirt . (his forehead was rather narrow, ,,,-.. ,i....i f ntiontmn nn.i if t Tt-o nni h.va. ucai u. ,.u , H . ...... ..v, in love with him, I thought I was. And I had every reason to believe short of a lormai declaration tnat ue was in love with mc. And so, an far as that goes, there teas "someooay else." I advertised at least Mr. Popkins did. I was astonished to see how little the advertisement cost; and out of some fifty answers, which one of Mr. Pop kins's clerks brought me, I selected that is, Mr. Popkint-. the good-natured fellow was still as kind as before my emphatic discouragement of his suit selected one which was the very place I was seeking. And on going to see it I was not dis appointed. A dear, little cottage, own ed and occupied by an old German couple, who spoke just enough English to enable me to make my wants intelli gible, at the foot of a high hill covered with green grass, wild flower and young trees, with a tiny brook leaping down the hillside and running gaily through the finely laid out garden no other house in sight save the precisely similar cottage next door far away from an3' public road. I decided immediately to look no further. And to Westbrook I moved one lone ly day. Arthur Leroy kissed my hand at parting and said he should be deso late until my return and that very af ternoon the bandage was placed over my eyes to remain there until my phy sician consented to its removal. 44 Perfect rest ! " I certainly had in my new abode loo perfect for an active spirit like mine. And had it not been for the siuging of the birds, the cluck of the hens, the lowing of the cattle, the hum of the bees and most of all the peo ple next door, I should have fled after two or three da-s back to my room at Mrs. Bairnsfather's. The people next door proved to be excellent company, though we were to tally unknown to each other. The two gardens were separated by a board fence, loosely put together and overgrown with a luxuriant growth of morning-glories and passion flowers. And my favorite retreat in our garden on the hot July afternoons was a tiny arbor covered with Ayreshire roses and honeysuckles, and apparently the favor ite retreat of the people next door was a similar arbor in the corner of their garden and so it came to pass that from hearing their conversation I didn't ex actly listen to it at first, but as Mrs. Cluppins, of Pickwickian memory, re marked, "it forced itself upon my ear" I came to think of them as the hap piest family I had ever heard. There was a husband, a wife, a grandmother and a baby, and they were all fondly in love with each other and constantly telling each other so. Therefore, I was much surprised one day it was about two weeks alter m arrival at Westbrook, and I'd been rather homesick for Spinny and disap pointed that I'd heard nothing from Ar thur Leroy, and sorry about Mr. Pop kins I was sitting beneath the roses and honeysuckles to hear the little wife next door (I'd quite made up my mind she was ajittle woman) suddenly burst out with: "Oh! Low, dear, to think that once I thought I never could love you." 44 Because I wasn't handsome and be cause I had such a queer name, Min nie," he said with a lrugh. 44 Because I thoughC you were not handsome. You know, darling, all girls think of him as blac-eyed, golden haired, golden-mustached, with com plexion to match, or raven-haired and dark-eyed, with complexion to match, and when I. first knew you you were neither." -, 44 And I am neither now. Minnie." 44 1 know that, silly, but to me you have the dearest face in the world, and Tm t.nvrr.1 k-k iJo... vi I m so thankful baby looks like you, She has your own bright auburn hair and lovely gray eyes. As for the name, 1 'tis runny, awjul funny 4 Mrs. Low Dutch' but I wouldn't change it for the most poetical title ever known." Well, the days passed on, and I was trying my best to be patient and not succeeding very well, when on the third Sunday of my banishment Spinny came down to see me " " Popkins wouldn't come." he bgan, after he'd hugged me 'till I nearly choked. " Said you wouldn't care to see him. Sent you a box of candies, though. May I have all the gum-drops ? And Leroy's gone away. Ain't coming back, neither." 44 Gone away?" repeated I. 44 Yes; but don't you care. I didn't like him much. And I heard him talkin' about you to another feller 4th of July. I was a-hidin' 'hind the door, 'cause Bob Smith was a-goin1 to throw some tor pedoes at me, and Leroy he comes up the stoop and says: 4Gertie:s a nice girl, and a pretty girl, but may be he'll b btiad. and wao'd want a blind wife? And don't want a wife any how, and she' getting too fond of me, and I'll slop He dida't ay slope. I l . ....1T nlnaf made uy mental vision unusually clear ! and I saw "with my mind's eve" many ' things which, perhaps, otherwise I might never have seen. I saw the groceries, instead of bcinc j sold to me at "wholesale prices," had I been sold at a price set by Mr. Popkins, j and that price not half their actual value. I saw that the nieces only existed in tho , brain of Mr. Popkins, and that the little dresses, and aprons, and what not for 1 which he had paid me so well, were stowed away in sonic closet in his apart- ments. I saw that the boasted fnend- . . , J oul "ere 1 stoppeu mm went uut iu m I arbor to listen to the talking, laughing and singing of my unknown friends. Well, the last day of my stay in ce brook arrived. My eyes had been grow ing stronger and stronger, and for sev- cral days I had not worn the bandage in the house, and now I was to be allowed to to out with only a "Teen shade to , ,,",,., , shield them from tho sunshine. Into the garden I flew as soon a? I heard the welcome news. There surely must be I peep-hole in that fenc,and I so long- eu 10 tec tuai nappy iaaiiiy. -1 uuiu i.t a peep-hole. Down on my knees I went and peeped. There sat the grand- mother, knitting in hand. There stood the young mo her a slender woman, not as small as 1 had landed her and much prettier than I with the baby in her arm3. " Here comes papa," she w;is saying. And " papa" came. He was shorter, stouter, had redder hair, a double chin, queer nose; in short, was much uglier than Mr. Popkins. Tho gray eyes were there, to be sure, but one of them had a cast in it. And the baby, dear little thing.fui have just such eyes, cast and all. " Good-bye, Mrs. Low Dutch," I said under my breath, as they were all kissing and hugging each other. " In your case Lovo has proved a great magician. God bless you, and your husband, and your babyf and your baby's grandmamma!" And three months after returning to Mrs. Bairnsfather's my cards bore the inscription, " Genius II. Pipkins," minus " Grocer" and plus "Mrs." Aud two years from that time had a cottage in Wcebrook, and a garden, and an arbor, and thought my husband's face the dearest in the world, and I wouldn't have changed my name for the most poetical of titles, and I bad two babies twins ever so much like their father, and I should like to have seen the person who would have dared to have said the' were not the hand somest children ever born! Margaret Eytingc, in Detroit Free Press. Camels in Arizona. The Yuma Sentinel a few days ago 44 A herd of contained the following: camels was driven here from Nevada nearly two yeara ago. Finding no profitable work for them, their owners turned them loose along the Gila to the eastward of Yuma. There they have been living and breeding, looking fat and sleek all the time. For a while they were in danger of extermination. Wfhenever they put in an appearance along the wagon road they frightened mules and hotses beyond control of the drivers. They soon earned tho ever lasting hatred of teamsters, some of whom acquired a habit of shooting camels on sight. Since, however, the railroad has been delivering freight at Adonde, the road along the Gila this side of that place has been comparative ly abandoned by teamsters, and the re maining camels have now a good chance to show what they can do in the way of propagation. The waterless desert of Sonora, south and southeast of Yuma, is known to possess immense deposits of salt, sulphur, borax and soda. Its mountains are also known to carry ex tensive deposits of metals. To these camels we look for eventually making these treasures accessible and available. No Use to Him. An old-fashioned citizen of Detroit who has been having a fireplace put in his house yesterday called on a 'dealer in wire goods and said: 44 My wife has been teasing me for a whole week to call and look at what she calls a spark arrester for our new fire-" place. V hat is the darned thing, and what good is it?" The dealer brought out one, showed how it fitted around the grate and as serted that no fire could reach the car pel through it. 44 Don't want one; wouldn't take it as a gift," was the decided reply. 44 hy, what's the matter?" I f. ".aia"cr onuugu. xi ux hu.uk uu the lounge and want to throw a quid of , tnhM fnt thtt nwiv. t4to t tir.4 i- t t .:!:. tobacco into the fireplace I've got to get up and move that blamed thing away or else let down a window from the top. Spark arresting be hanged! I put that fireplace, in for solid comfort!" Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Bead says, in Dr. FooWs Heaiui Monthly for r ebruary, there are conrtions of the system where there is more genuine rest in a cup of sage tea than in anything short of sleep itself. It should be made as quickly as possi ble and drank immediately for if it stands long it becomes bitter with sugar and mOk for accompaniments. m LemonJake. 2 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 4 cup of water, whites of 5 eggs . and yelks of 4, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 of cream-tartar; bake in jelly-tins, and spread between the juice and grated k rind of 1 lemon and yelks of 2 eggs, I beaten, and sugar enough to stiffen, j Orange cake may be made in the same ' way 9 substituting orange for the lemon. ; ATerrilc SetThi Wkkfc MwjTettt Were Lt. Thti Virginia f Ner.) Knltrp this: Sam Daria, of the Evening icU, is taking boxmg w aa tire nn & bh? muscle aad rvrmt hnf faittar. Steve GU1U. le editor of tk EnUrprim, tkougb weight, U a heavy hitter. Sam tinn hx lonr been to so train , as to be able to fet away wit Si morning or two aro we aw, o was looking very fierce aad sbo the swagger 01 an naoiuoeu His first words were: "i 4 Anv thlnr particular?" ask "Well, mere oaa aewi , that's all." " What! Any of his folks a tin nn T KaIIam nnL font . XI1 & LTU4 M M w wm w any way related to Bob Slade , 'em's pretty sick this morning.' "You will be good enough plain." 44 Certainly. See this!" clenched and held out what hi " ri?rht maulev." 4Now, w motion thu unoer cut!" and the action to the word he spun ft I t t . . 1. bm.a (inin ait' on ms licci, ai mc eauio muio fixtrfnl blow, which took a Chinaman in the " brcad-baskc landed him across the upper sto I apple-stand. 1 Paying no attention to tho Chinaman or to the swearin keener of the stand. Sam said : . one o 'em. That's what fetch The firt time I tried it on Bo at the gymnasium last night, I 1 ' tinder the left law and spun hi like a top. He spatoat a doubl 1 wzis Borrv. uut uc himvu um nnt it in his vest Docket and me red-hot. I gathered mvs fnvo nini ido uitovr tut wim I taking him a lifter under tho ri that make him groggy. He two more back teeth, but them and came at me liko a t got back, for I didn't want to h nist because he was fool enouz mad. and I savs. said 1 : 4 Wha matter with your teeth?' Savs h er mind mv teeth: I was badlvs once that's all.' With that ho 1 at mc, and I had to defend mys 1 - A M . 1 T I. mauc it so not. ior me mi 1 sort to tho tinner cut azain mean to do it, but I took him sqi uer the point 01 me cuin a mi mo if a perfect shower 01 1 n't flv out of his moth and hail the floor in all directions. The have been two dozen double t pie teeth, wisdom teeth, tocth in 'em, and all manner of tcet went to pickin' 'cm up and trie uiu lci aiajr aim K''u "'" i;uuu nvnn. but I rmt out of there. wnnf. In knock tho fellow to nieces. I believe another upper cut would have knocked out his whole jaw-bone.' 44 The only wonder is that you didn't kill him, Sam!" 44 It is a wonder ! How he stood it with his teeth knocked out so is more than I can sec I don't bcliovo ho has three teeth left in his head," and away Sam went to hunt up Gillis in order to take him down to tho gymnasium and intro duce him to the "upper cut." Half an hour later wo met Bob Slade. .who hprrnn to tell about the hi? fun ho had with Sam Davis the night before, j Said he: You soo I put up a little j b 1 . t- . .., ,......., 1.:... . i:.ti "-- -- o: - . . " . . UIl OilUl,JU1l HI UUtUULlU Utllt .1 IIIIJU in his new hobby. I room next to a dentist shop, so I went in there and bor rowed a handful of artificial teeth and " " You need not proceed," said wo, 44 Sam nas told what followed." 44 Funny, wasn't it?" 44 Yes, and Sam is now in search of Gillis, confident tbat his 4 upper cut ' will whip all the science in -tho coun try." 44 No?" 44 Yes!" How Esparlcro Won Peace for .Spain. I have perused man an obituary no tice on Marshal Espartcro, but I have seen nowhere the real story of the great achievement of his life, the pacification of Bergara. The Carlist army had suf fered great losses but could still havo held the field for some time; on the other hand, tho Liberal army, after sev en years' campaigning, felt truly sick of the business. Don Carlos had gone to France for a holiday ; on each side the leaders had a genuine desire for fol lowing example. It was under these circumstances that Espartero had a con ference with Maroto, the Carlist Gener al, for the purpose of negotiating a truce. They were old chums of the South American wars, but since that time thev had exchanged only cannon balls in ad dition to more than one fierce procla mation. When they met in a lonely farm at night, in the greatest secrecy, it was fearea by many lest a quarrel, or even perhaps a personal encounter, might arise from the occasion. Both entered a lower room, in which a table had been disposed with candles, paper, pens and ink, and then were left alone. For more than five hours they were there closeted. What were they doing all this time? Simply this: On seeing Espartero, whom he knew well for the freatest gambler that ever lived.Maroto ad taken out of his pocket a pack of cards and challenged bis foe at trasillo. Espartero had always been lucky. He won first all the cash of his opponent, then he won his own terms for the truce, then, article after article, he won the entire submission of the Carlist army. Maroto paid his debt, like a gentleman, within twenty-four hours-: and so ended the first Carlist wr. London Truth. A New TcstiBg Machine. A testing machine designed by Albert Emery has been set up at Watertown 1 Arsenal. Its delicacy is such that while it pulls apart a tire inch bar of iron reg- s istering a strain of 722,000 pounds, it breaks a horse-hair and registers a force of two pounds. It crushed a pine block I four inches thick and two feet long ia-1 to a board two inches thick; and teen a 1 hen's egg was taken and inclosed in ' I plaster of Paris, with two small hales i at each end, and the pressure being ap- plied the contents were forced out of cnese sum apertures at a Kraut 01 az pounds, and such is the commaad otct the action of the machine that the pressure was stopped in an instant, and the yelk ceased' to be expelled, the shell of the egg remaining unbroken. New Bedford Standard. mm Coffee Cake. 1 cup sugar,l cup molas es,l cup butter, 1 cup strong coffee, 1 tea spoon cinnantoa, a grated nutmeg, 1 s cud seeded raisins, two small teaspoons i soda; stir in flour until the mixture will ' drop from the spoon. This receipt will J make 2 cakes. 1 Stop t&at cotzliisg; If job do stot It zs&y kfll yon. A Bottle of Dr. Bail's Coagb Syra? only costs yoa 35 cents, and Its tfcsely use mxj MTjovUTa fi MI5T FOE THE NOttHCKOL. 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