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GREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST.
SAVE THE TAGS.
One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
$173,250.00
In yaiuable Presents to be Given Away in Return for
SPEAR HEAD TAGS,
1,155 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.134,650 00
5.775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY,
' BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28,875 00
23.100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED
’ POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00
1 1 5.500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
’ PiCKS.. 57,750 HO
1 1 5.500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing,
’ no advertising on them. 28,873 00
261,030 Prizes, amounting to.$173,250 CO
The above articles will be distributed, by comities, among parties who chew SPEAR
HEAD Plug Tobacco, aud return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom.
We will distribute 226 of these prizes in this connty as follows:
To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD
TAGS from this county we will give.1 GOLD WATCH.
To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of
SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS... .5 OPERA GLASSES.
To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number
of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET
KNIFE...20 POCKET KNIVES.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I
ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS.
To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I
(LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES.
Total Number of Prize, for tbis Connty, 226.
CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1801, nor after February 1st,
1894 Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town,
County, State, and Number of Tags In each package. All charges on packages must be
prepack D.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any othrr
piu,r tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is
absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other ping tobacco.
A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It is the largest seller of any similar
shape and style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and pleases the
people. Try it, aud participate in the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG is on every
10 cent piece of SPEAlt HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small the
nuanttty. Very sincerely,
1 3 THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio.
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A list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published In this
paper immediately after February 1st, 1894.
DON'T SEND ANY TAGS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1894.
LOVE'S DESPAIR.
Why should I waste my life In heaving sighs
For her whose love I know can ne’er be mine?
What, though her eyes with sweetest glances
shine.
And in her face the rarest beauty lies.
Let some one else her loveliness now prize.
For I shall sadly sigh for her no more.
Although my heart with longing pangs ie
sore.
And rent with love’s sweet lingering memories.
i’ll try to drive her from my fancy’s eye.
And in the future I’ll forget the past.
Our joys and sorrows cannot always last.
But like all things of earth must surely die;
And bo I’ll sadly sit and sigh no more.
But laugh through life, a breath which soon
is o’er.
—John J. McIntyre in New York Sun.
BRAVE BETTY.
There was a clatter of horses’ hoofs on
the hard road in front of the little wood
en jail at the county seat of an interior
county of West Virginia, and then a pris
oner was brought in by half a dozen of
ficers and chained to a ring in the wall.
The prisoner was a broad shouldered
young man, with long, black hair and
piercing eyes. As he passed into the jail
part of the building Betty Rainsford,
the pretty wild flower daughter of Jailer
Rainsford, caught sight of him. She
sprang forward with the word “Jim”
trembling on her lips, but instantly re
strained herself and turned away with
apparent unconcern.
Jim Springston was a moonshiner. In
other words, he manufactured liquor
without a government license and was
therefore hunted by United States de
tectives. He had a still among the dark
recesses of the mountains, where for
years he had pursued his unlawful call
ing. At last, however, ho had been
trapped by Detective Johnson and his
deputies, but his capture was effected
only after a hard fight, in which Spring
ston had wounded two deputies slightly
and had himself received a flesh wound
in his left arm.
“Well, we’ve got another desperado,
and the court will soon make shore work
of him,” said Johnson to the jailer as he
came out from securing the prisoner.
“I shall look to you,to see that he does
not escape,” and the officer twirled be
tween his fingars the key of the padlock
which secured Springston, at the same
time striding out. After placing his
deputies on guard around the insecure
structure to prevent recapture by the
prisoner’s friends, or to circumvent any
efforts on the part of the prisoner him
self to escape. Captain Johnson went to
the only lodging house in the village,
where he put up for the night.
The reader has already surmised that
the members of the Rainsford family
were at least acquainted with Jim
Springston. He was, in fact, the affi
anced husband of Betty, who had al
ready resolved to rescue her lover at all
hazards. Her father was, to say the
least, morally responsible to the law for
the safekeeping of Springston, and site
knew it would bo of no avail to turn in
that direction for relief. In fact, she
would not have released Jim from jail
if she could have done so with her own
hands, as it would have brought censure
and disgrace down on the head of her
father and created the suspicion that
the Rainsford family was in league with
the illicit distillers.
Jim bpnngston nau ueen a imment
visitor to the Rainsford household for
the previous year or two and had won
his promised bride over numerous rival
suitors, but the head of the household
did not know he was a violator of the
law until brought in that evening.
Neither had Betty known of this fact,
but the moment she had learned of the
arrest she decided in favor of Jim.
At supper that evening the elder Rains
ford stated that, while he sympathized
with Springston, he could see no way
but that he would have to go to prison.
Betty acquiesced meekly, but her brain
was busy with a plan of her own.
A passing country doctor had dressed
the wounds of the deputies and the pris
oner. Betty looked down at the latter
operation, but not even a look of recog
nition passed between herself and lover.
They seemed to pursue that conrse intu
itively. They were as strangers, and
thus darkness settled over the quiet
country village.
Just after midnight, when the alertness
of the guards was benumbed by drowsi
ness, a dark figure stole to the window
of the jail. A voice almost as still as
the night itself called: “Jimt Oh. Jim!
Don’t stir or make a noise. It’s Betty.”
There was a soft answer denoting that
he heard her, and she went on thus.
“Read this note when daytime conies
and obey instructions carefully.” thrust
ing the paper through the bars and into
the hands of the prisoner by means of a
long stick.
After breakfast the next morning the
prisoner was taken out and mounted
on a horse, and the officers also mounted
their horses, and the party set off for the
nearest railroad station, a distance of 50
miles. Just as the horsemen cantered
away a glance from Betty to Jim as
sured each that both understood the
programme.
Captain Johnson felt elated over the
capture of Springston for the reason,
first, that there was a handsome reward
awaiting his safe delivery into the hands
of the government and. secondly, be
cause the capture added another large
feather to the already well decorated
cap of the detective.
It was a delightful summer morning,
and as the party rode along the birds
chirped and the dew sparkled like noth
ing had happened or was about to hap
pen among the lonesome mountains.
The road was little more than a bridle
path in places, and for two miles from
the Rainsford house it bore around the
foot of a mountain, forming a semicircle
and coming back to within half a mile
of the starting point on the opposite side
of the range. For a long distance at
this point the roadway was overhung
with thick branches, producing twilight
except in the middle of the day.
In a few moments after the departure
of the officers and their prisoner, a
slight, boyish figure, wearing an ill fit
ting suit and a slonch hat half conceal
ing the face, disappeared into the forest i
tn the rear of the Eainsford residence,
ft somewhat resembled Betty’s younger
brother, who was absent from homo at
the time. In a belt were two revolvers,
ind a Winchester rifle was grasped firm
ly in the right hand. The figure hurried
across the mountain by way of a foot
path, and on reaching the public road at
the dark, shady spot disappeared be
hind a log among the laurel underbrush
along the roadside.
In 10 minutes there was heard the
sound of the tramping of horses’ feet.
The figure behind the log became alert
ness itself in an instant. The winches
ter was trained on the road, where a
small opening would reveal the passing
! horsemen. As they came up it could bo
seen that by some means Jim Spring
Bton had succeeded in getting five of his
captors in advance, riding single file,
and was talking in a cheerful tone to the
one in the rear. As they came on Jim
cautiously gathered up the slack of his
bridle reins and scanned that laurel
thicket with bated breath. For au in
' slant a femininelike finger pressed the
trigger of the sleeping winchester, and
then came a sharp report, the scream of
a horse, and down went the rear guard.
Bullets camo from that thicket like hail
and seemed to take effect entirely among
the horses.
i The greatest confusion prevailed
: among the officers. Two were entan
gled in the trappings of their slain
horses, and a third was on the ground
in danger of being trampled to death by
the excited animals of those yet mount
ed. In less time than it takes to tell it
the firing had ceased and the cloud of
powder smoke floated away on the lazy
atmosphere.
At the beginning of the firing Jim
had dashed into aside path and disap
peared. His horse cauic back in a few
moments, however, indicating that he
had dismounted and fled to the thick
woods. Ten minutes later he was joined
i by the boyish figure, who handed linn
the winchester and one revolver, when
they vanished into the underbrush.
W hen Captain Johnson hail restored
| order, he found all of his men safe, but
1 three of the horses were dead. It seemed
that the attack from ambush had been
' made on the horses. A searcli of the
woods was made for the escaped prison
er and the attacking party, but it was
a vain search. Behind the log in tho
laurel thicket were a half dozen car
tridge shells and a small footprint in the
loose earth. That was all.
Two hours later, when the officers re
; turned to the village with chagrin pie
i tured on their faces to get a couple more
' horses Betty was going about her house
hold work singing blithely.
I As the officers came up, two of the
horses carrying double, she went to the
' door in apparent great surprise and was
• an interested listener to the story of the
! attaclt as related by Captain Johnson.
He said the onslaught was made with
‘ such fury and suddev.ess that the horses
i became unmanageable to such an extent
that himself and men were unable to use
! their firearms. They left the country
: without again seeing Springston,
Sprmgstou gave up his unlawful busi
: ness, and a year later he and Betty com
menced housekeeping in a neighboring
' settlement as man and wife. He some
, times tells their children how a disguised
I young woman once rescued her lover by
' shooting the horses of his guards. He
I calls that woman “Brave Betty, the Jail
1 er’s Daughter.”—Charles A. Hartley in
; Cincinnati Enquirer.
They Saw the Fair.
"Been to the World’s fair?” asked tho
( man who hail not been shaved for six
I months.
“Saw it by moonlight—me and Jerry
| Haggles," replied he of the vermilion
nose. "Mo and Jerry was out in Den
! ver for our health. Jerry’s left lung is
off bad. Let’s git to Chicago,’ sa3Ts
Jerry one night when we was hnung uT
on a truck in Wazee street. ‘All right,
says l. fo' I was anxious to be in society
ouee more. The next night we jumped
a freight fo' as far as Omaha without
! gettin turned down once. It got warm
then, and we changed for an empty cat
tle car on account of the ventilation. It
| was on a Sunday morning when we
! struck Chicago. ‘Let’s lay off and re
j cuperate after the trip, Jerry,’ says I,
( ‘and we'll make a sneak on to the fair
grounds at night.’ ‘All right,’ sa3’s he,
but we kept a talking until it was al
most dark about what we’d do when we
got in the grounds.
“Well, as I was sayin, when I woke
up the car was joggin along kinder slow
like. 1 looked out through the slats.
We was passing the fair. ‘Hay, Jerry,’
I says. ‘Hay, there, here’s the fair; let’s
jump!’ We both made for the door. I
got there first. ‘Open it,’ says Jerry. ‘I
can’t; it’s locked.’ ‘Let’s take it in
through the slats,’ he sa3’s. And we
looked for all we was worth. In 10 min
utes we was past.”
“How did you get out?”
"Get out? We didn’t get out until we
got to Buffalo. We would’a’starved if
Jerry hadn't had a loaf of bread in his
hat.”—New York Herald.
A Chilly Duel.
A duel of an original character was |
fought in front of the Antwerp railway i
station. Two gentlemen from Liege,
after a hard day’s sightseeing, refreshed
themselves so effectual^ at a cafe that
from beer to brandy and from argu
ments to insults they came to blows.
Blood alone could wash away the stain
of their mutual insults, but as deadly
weapons were not kept on the premises
for the use of customers the proprietor
of the cafe suggested that as the street j
was deserted the adversaries should an
nihilate each other with “douches,” and
he handed to each a portable water pipe.
Cold water being anything but an excit
ing medium, the combatants after a
thorough drenching shook hands and
hurried to enange their garments.—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
A Chump.
Little Wiilie—Jack, what’s a chump?
Little Jack—A chnmp is a boy that
doesn’t know wot a chump is.—Good
News.
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