Kildare Journal. (Kildare, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1898 Page: 4 of 8
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AlltomniulctUoiii tor this paper should
lwaccomaniMl by the name of the author not
twccenrlly foe publtcaUoo but aa aa prtdeaea
olgood toll oa the part of the writer Write
only on one tide of the paper Be pertksularty
rkreful In giving namee and da tee to have the
irttere and flgures plain and dtatinet
THE FIRST KISS
8weetheart ’twee but awhile ago— Itacarce
Mini yesterday
Though now my locka are white aa snow
and all your curia are gray—
When walklns In the twilight haae ere
atara had amiled above
I whlapered aott: "I love you” and you
kiaaed me tor that lore!
The flrat klaa dear and then your hand—
your little hand ao aweet
And whiter than the white white aand
that twinkled at your feet
Laid tenderly within my own I Havequeena
aucb lovely handaT
No wonder that the whippoorwllla made
aweet the autumn tanda!
It aeemed to me that my poor heart would
beat to death and break
While all the world— Sweetheart! Sweet
heart! aeemed singing for your anke!
And every roae that barred the way In
glad and dying grace
Forgot Ita faded summer day and lean1
Ing kissed your face!
t envied all the roaea then and all the
rosy ways
That blossomed for your sake are still my
life’s bright yesterdays
But thinking of the first sweet kiss and
that first clasp of hands
Ufa’s whippoorwills sing sweeter now
through all the autumn lands!
—Frank L Stanton in Atlanta Constltu
tlon
T
The Saying of Ida Hay
By JOHN N WHITSON
XOBE SPRINGIER handled the dead-
ly compound so much that he lost
fear of it He had reached the men-
tal condition of the inhabitants of those
Villases which cling to the base of
threatening volcanoes who go on tend
ing their vines and Olives loving and
hating marrying and burying in ap-
parent forgetfulness of the dangers
of their situation
' Tobe knew that there was enough de-
structive force stored in one of those
innocent looking cans of nitroglycerin
to blot him out of existence in ihe
twinkling of an eye yet his heart did
not quicken its beat one-tenth of a see
ond when he lifted a can to store it in
the wagon He might drop it and so
tear a hole in the ground big enough to
bury a stage coach yet he knew he
would not drop it
PerhapB he lacked imagination Jim
Turner whom he'Bucceeded as driver of
the “nitroglyc” wagon was a man of im-
agination and had lost his “nerve”
Turner bad permitted his mind to dwell
so much on the destructive power of
those cans that at last each took on the
personality of the demon hid in its
heart He could hear the demons cry
out as the wheels jolted over stones and
sticks They grumbled and whispered
too while the wagon was rolling over
the smoothest roads When a wheel
“chugged” heavily into a rut Turner’s
flesh crawled and cringed in anticipa-
tion of a lacerating pulverizing blow
One day the wheels dropped into so
deep a rut and the demons cried so
loudly that Turner descended from his
seat tied the team to a tree and hur-
ried in his reslgtiation by telegraph
The man sent by the angry and dis-
gusted superintendent to take Turner’s
place was Tobe Springer who cheer-
fully mounted to the vacant seat and
to whom no demons ever cried from the
hearts of the cans no matter how deep
were the ruts or how jolting the stones
of the highway
Tobe hod driven the nitroglycerin
wagon for the Western Consolidated
for two whole years now and never in
all ’that time had he lost his “nere”
They were busy years too and often
to meet hurried orders he had been
forced to drive at a speed that was far
from assuring
The Western Consolidated was spoken
of as a gas company which it was not
It was merely a driller of gas wells
Its field of operation was the Ohio and
Indiana gas belt which had then no cer-tninly-known
boundaries The time
was one of great commercial excite-
ment “Spouters” were being struck in
the most unlikely places Whole coun-
ties which had never seen a light
stronger than that of a kerosene lamp
were nightly reddened by great gey-
sers of fire that roared and flamed
through weeks and months and would
not be subdued
The railways and express companies
did not like to haul the destructive and
unreliable explosive used in “shooting"
these 'wells except at rates that were
utmost prohibitory and in some cases
refused to touch the stuff altogether
so wagons were used to convey it from
the manufactory in an Ohio town to the
points where it was needed
Long familiarity had bred in Tobe
Springer so great a contempt for the
danger which other men saw in his
work that when he was ready one
June day to set out for an Indiana gas
town he put Ida May his motherless
daughter in the seat by his side
He could haye sent her by rail to Bald-
win where he had decided she should
go to live with np aunt after the death
of her grandmother but by taking her
with him on the “nitroglyc” wagon he
thought to save a few dollars and have
besides the pleasure of her company on
the long journey
'She was a sunny-haired blue-eyed
loving little lassie of six The fairies
had dimpled her cheeks and her chin
had nptilted the tip of her little nose —
' which freckles had mottled like the egg
of n guinea— and had given to her
fluffy hair an attractive tendency to
curl and tangle
In her father she reposed unbounded
confidence To her he was the wisest
the best ond the handsomest of men
Of the nitroglycerin with which the
wugon was filled she had no fear for
though she had been told that its mis-
sion was to “shoot” wells she had only
the dimmest idea of what that meant
and no thought at all that its presence
in the wagon might be perilous to both
her father and herself
Things went ao well for a time as not
to justify the thrill of fear with which
timid people saw Tobe Springer drive
away with the child 8pringer was a
careful driver He would have been
careful driver if the load in the wagon
had been only cordwood He avoided
ruts and stones as much as he could
gave his half of the road with cheer-
fulness in passing teams and avoided
the crowded streets of towns This
last he would have been forced to do by
the authorities if he had not chosen
that course himself
“Nitroglycerin” was painted in big
red letters on the aides of the wagon
It was amusing sometime a to see
farmers and teamsters who were shar-
ing the road crowd their teams into
the very fence corners when their bulg-
ing eyes caught the meaning of thpse
ominous letters
“There ain’t anything in the world
like a load of nitroglycerin to make the
public polite” Springer had more than
once grimly remarked and there were
many indications to show that he was
right
About ten o’clock on the morning of
the third day qut Tobe stopped the
wagon at the foot of the hill and dis-
mounted leaving Ida May perched on
the seat A sparkling spring bubbled
up at the foot of the hill aud over-
flowed into a stone basin A gourd dip-
per rested on the basin’s rim Alto-
gether it was a combination not to be
resisted by a thirsty man on a warm
June morning -There
was a farmhouse at the top
of the hill with stables and outbuild-
ings and a boy harnessing a young
horse in a shed Tobe had observed all
this as he passed by and it had given
him a homesick feeling The house
knee-deep in the grass of the yard
looked so cool and inviting and the
crocks of milk on a bench on the back
porch made him think of Ida May’s
mother who had prided herself on her
skill as a butter-maker
The boy came through the gate with
the horse and a rooster crowed and bal-
anced on the garden fence as Tobe
climbed down from the wagofi seat and
walked toward the spring
“Makes me think of the time when I
was a boy going out to plow in the long
corn rows down in the creek bottom
thought Tobe pushing his hat back
from his hot forehead “A fellow can’t
be a boy but once though never but
once!”
There were in his mind other pictures
of those unreturning days as he knelt
on the rim of the stone basin ignoring
the gourd dipper and drinking direct
from the bubbling spring because that
was the way he used to drink from the
spring in the springhouse on the old
farm up in the Knox county hills which
he had not aeen for so many years
Tobe Springer had not enough imag-
ination of the fearsome kind to make
him timid and nervous but he had
enough sentiment to make him soft-
hearted The boy rode the horse clatterlngly
down the hill He was a coatless mus-
cular round-faced country boy going
out to furrow off some corn ground in
the little square field beyond the or-
chard where the blackbirds were al-
ready railing and quarreling over the
Anticipated planting of the grain The
swinging harness chains “clinked” and
clanked” about the horse’s legs and
the boy imbibing the spirit of June
began to whistle
That noisy but not unmusical “clink
clank clinkety” of the chains was a
new souud to the team hitched to the
nitroglycerin- wagon Tobe Springer
who had driven the team so long would
have told you that it was not possible
to scare those horses They were rec-
ognized aa the embodiment of sober
steadiness For that reason they were
chosen for use in this work The shriek
cf a railway whistle the blare of a
bugle the rush of an engine even the
shrill cry of fifes and the “rat-tat” of
campaign drums had never moved
them and as for the fluttering of a
leaf or the wrinkling flight of a bit of
paper across the road they were quite
above paying attention to anything like
that
Nevertheless when Tobe lifted him-
self from the spring with the water
dropping in a jeweled shower from his
grizzled mustache he saw that the
steady old team was going to scare at
those clinking chains The boy was not
u dozen yards behind the wagon when
Tobe looked up and was unobservant
of the fact that stabbed into Tobe’s
heart like a lance of ice
Tobe dashed away the water that
clung to his mustache and ran toward
the horses His heart came into his
mouth as he saw the ears of the off
horse give a nervous twitch and he
cleared almost a third of the distance
at a bound
“Whoa!” he cried “Whoa!”
But the command came too late
The off-horse gave a sidewise leap
away from that clinking sound push-
ing its mate sharply round whirling
the wagon as if it moved on a pivot
and almost in the twinkling of an eye
the two horses were racing down the
toad dragging after them the wagon
with its awful load of explosives and
Tobe Springer's little daughter Ida
May in the bouncing seat
As the wagon was jerked round the
boy saw those ominous letters on its
side “Nitroglycerin” Then he beard
Ida May’s frightened cry and saw Tobe
Springer's face turn a ghastly white '
"Whoa! whoa!” Tobe panted rush-
ing In blind pursuit “Whoa!”
The boy’s heart chilled and for an in-
stant he pulled in on the bridle rein —
but only for an instant though he
knew well enough the meaning of that
red-lettered sign on the wagon He
lived in the gas belt and had seen nitro-
glycerin wagons before The terrible
peril of the little girl in the driver’s seat
drove the color out of his ruddy cheeks
“Oh my poor darling!” he heard
Tbbe exclaim then he struck his heels
against the sides of the horse and
chased madly after the dust cloud
through which the nitroglycerin wagon
was bounding
He quickly passed the frenzied hat
less and breathless father
“Stop ’em if you ran!” cried Tobe
“Stop ’em! Stop ’em!” r
The young hoVse was fleet There
was no fear of that awful nitro-
glycerin to freeze its blood and be-
numb its energies It liked a race as
well as anything in the world and at
the word of command it went down the
level country road stretching away
from the base of the hill with a speed
that was astonishing
The boy hoped nt first to overtake
and stop the team He believed if he
could get his muscular right hand oa
the bit of the near horse he eoald safe-
ly bring the wagon to a standstill The
dust cloud llfteda moment as he gained
on the wawgon and revealed the white
frightened face of Ida May — a pitiful
face in its deep fear as she clung to
the springy seat
“Go Billy! ' Go Billy!" the boy
coaxed “do your best your very best
Go! Go!”
His voice had in it a quavering thrill
that stirred the young horse to its ut-
most speed With ears bent back to
catch the lightest whisper it swept
over the road like a trained hunter
The horse hitched to the nitro-
glycerin wagon were now running
away in downright earnest They con-
tinued to hear that frightening “clink
clank” behind them together with a
rapid clatter of hoofs and they ran
like mad
But the wagon was no light load and
the speedy young horse soon gained
Yard by yard it decreased the distance
-until it was up with the wagon The
boy tried to smile encouragingly to
Ida May who was clinging to the seat
in a geared and crouching heap
Just ahead at the side of the road
was a stone and a broken place in the
fence The team veered from him to-
ward the stone and the boy’a heart
seemed to stop beating From the
thought of what it might mean if a
wheel struck that stone he shrunk As
from a blow
Under the sting- of the plow lines
which he now laid on unsparingly the
young horse developed a burst of speed
that quickly carried it alongside the
runaways The stone was just ahead
The team swerved further from hiiflf
with a lurching movement and daBhed
through the gap of the fence into the
rocky field the off-wheel grazing t&e
stone
Though he grew sick and giddy with
fear the boy did not lose his presence
cf mind
“Jump out!” he sharply commanded
Ida May- tried to - obey and half
climbed to her feet in the end of the
seat nearest him from which the mo-
tion seemed about to hurl her
Then the wagon passed him its ter-
rible load jolting and banging As it
did so he crowded the young horse al-
most against the front wheel and
leaning far over snatched Ida May
from her bounding perch and drew her
across the horse
With shaking hand he turned the
horse then rode back into the highway
His eyes were shining like stars his
breast was heaving his cheeks were red
and his lips were white The young
horse was panting and its satiny coat
was flecked with foam from its jaws
At the other side of the rocky 4elf
was a stone wall toward which the
maddened team was dashing Too late
the horses saw they could not leap it
and sought to turn aside It was a
sharp rending turn and the wagon
seemed to go over with the lightness
of a wind-lifted leaf-
Then the very earth reeled and shook
as if in the throes of an earthquake
and in that same moment team and
wagon ceased to be
But you saved Ida May!” sobbed
Tobe Springer as he took the child in
his arms some minutes afterward
You saved Ida May! For that maj
God bless you!” — Golden Days (
Kranklla’s Mother
In Franklin’s autobiography there is
only the barest mention of his mother
Abiah and merely as the daughter of
“one of the first settlers of New Eng-
land" presumably this silence was
due to the eighteenth-century attitude
towards women more than to any want
of affection for the two corresponded
with regularity even after the mother
was “very weak and short of breath —
so that I cannot sit up to write Altho’
sleep well o’ nights and my cough is
better and I have a pretty good stom-
ach to my victuals” and she had to beg
her son to “please excuse my bad writ-
ing and inditing for all tell me I am
to old to write letters” To her
Franklin sent gifts of' various kinds
including “a moldore which
please to accept towards chaise hire
that you may ride warm to meetings
this winter” Upon her death in 1798
he wrote his sister Jane: “I received
yours with the affecting news of our
dear mother’s death I thank you for
your long continued rare of her in
her old age and sickness Our distance
made it impracticable for us to attend
her but you have supplied all' She has
lived a good life as well as long one
and is happy”— Paul Leicester Ford in
Century
A Noble Critic
When Pope was first Introduced to
Lord Halifax to read his Iliad the
noble critic generously criticised this
passage and that -word at frequent In
tervals The poet was stung with vex-
ation for the parts that most pleased'
him were the ones most criticised As
he returned home with Sir Samuel
Garth he revealed his displeasure
Oh” said Garth “you are not ac
quainted with his lordship he must
criticise -At the next visit read him
the same passages and tell him you
recollected his criticisms” Pope mad
use of this stratagem Lord Unllfax
was delighted and exclaimed “Pope
you are now Inimitable!” — Detroit
Free Press J
JIOKI SNAKE DANCE
It Ib AcnayuM by Wilrd
Disgusting CercmontoB
a Wksrtss Jssmi Olvos s Srsskls
Deserlntloa f as ladtaa Stoll-
toao Feast That la WltS-
aat aa Bash
(Special Arlsoaa Lottor
'"8nake Dance f” Test "la India?” No!
"Where?” la tbs United States the civ-
ilized tb progressiva the leader of Na-
tions Bide with me over ths wild san-
dy painted desert of Arisons raving
the Santo Fo lino at Winslow ond tot
100 miles or ao I will show yon s deoola-
tion as complete os It Is wonderful ere
we reach the three Mesas or rocky
tsblo lands upon which the raven Mold
villages an found Throe villages on
ths first or oast mass Tews Siohomavi
and Walpl three on the second or mid-
dle mess Msshongnevt Shlmopsvt and
Shlpouluvi one on the third or west
mesa Oraibl The Molds (proooonra M
Mo-ki — ths I short as In pit) area psaca
fnl people aa the nemo they give them-
selves implies via! Hop! tab or peo-
ple of peace But they have boon sur-
rounded for centuries by -warlike
thieving and murdering Navajoes
Utes Plntes and Apaches hanoo self-
protection led them eentarles ago to
build their villages on these almost In-
accessible heights where defense was
aay and assault by surprise almost im-
possible Every other year in five of the vil-
lages the sacred ceremonial colled the
Snake Dance occurs It Is mainly n
prayer of thanksgiving and tor rain to
bo given that their otherwise barren
THE BACKED ALTAR OF
ends may bn made fruitful and pro-
ductive The date la fixed by n council of the
two organizations clans or families
that Slone perform tba ceremonial
The antelope and the snake eland sole-
ly decide when the observance shaU be-
gin At the appointed time the snake men
repair to their "ldva" and the aate-
lope men to theirs Thera kivaa are
underground chambers hewn out of
the solid rock and are what might be
termed the secret lodge rooms of the
different orders 1 i
There are throe living white men who
have been admitted to the scored mys-
teries of the kivaa and I am fortunate
la having been ono of the three Part
of these ceremonies consist In the
maldng of the altars the reciting of
prayers singing the making of bahos
or prayer sticks to bo used In the
open ceremonies all of which except
thp first named era of Uttle Interest
But the one ceremony of - “washing
the snakes” la both exciting thrilling
and unique
Seated before o large bowl of spe-
cially prepared water were three of
the chief priests of the snake order
HOW THE SNAKES ARE CARRIED
All around on ths floor were the other
priests over 80 in ’ number myself
surrounded by them Before ua at
one and of the room was the altar
and behind several large oilaa or jars
filled with the snakes When certain
prayers had been devoutly offered two
priests took from the jaro two anakea
each which they immediately handed
to two of the prieeta seated at the
bowl At the same time all the other
prieata begun to slug The song at
first was aoft and gentle but aa the
snakes were dipped into the bowl again
and again It grew louder and more
fierce until to my horror the snakes
were thrown directly aoroaa tho klva
upon the altar and at the same time
half the singing prieata burst out into
a blood-curdling hair-raising ahrlekt
“Owl Owl Owl Owl” Again the
song began soft and low mors anakea
wars brought to be dipped the eong
Increased In volume until It was again
a double fortes then the anakea were
thrown upon the altar while the hor-
rible yells aguin rent the air
Half an hour later Imagine the
scene! The dark underground cham-
ber was atlflingly hot the smoke that
the priests bad mods before tbs
Ing began filled tbs ayes and the luagaf
ths fetid odor of the rooking bodies of
these naked and perspiring Indiana
mingled witb thootakonlagamsUof tbs
snakes the half dark room added to the
horrors sad my surprise and alarm can
batter be Imagined than daoorlbad
whoa I felt snakes crawling ever my
fact and up my (ago and nt length
wboa 1 suddenly discovered the brad
bis body rapidly following 1
Tbs altar la somewhat different from
the aatelope altar which 1 believe ao
earner baa over photographed except
my own The latter is a rand mosaic
jasdt of different oolorod rands rep re-
‘ seating the sig-sags of the lightning
which la the anernd symbol sf the ante
lope order Around It are the prayer
a ticks or baboo and other ceremonial
paraphernalia
Just as tbs ran Is sotting oa the
evoaluff the snakes are waa
open-air danra begins Visitors white
and rad era present Molds from ttu
other villages Nava joe a Apaches Yarn
Supals Bualapals aa well as white poo
plo from the leading scientific soeieties
of the world and those whom cariosity
has attracted hither It ia a motley
crowd picturesque la ita soasmlngling
of races and costumes
Aa soon aa the circling !a done the an-
telope priests “Una up” in treat of the
“klsl”and then'- using their rattles
gently and ry thmleally begin to chant
a weird and thrilling song
When this la ended the aaoke prl
dramatically march from the Jdva
aad circle before the ktaL The a fac-
ing the aatelope priests they Uae up
and the two rows begin to slag aad rat-
tle moving book and forth o step with
alow and dignified movement aad with
a precision well-trained soldiers could
aot excel Then nt s given signal tra
THE ANTELOPES
the chief snake priest the Uao of
anaka mea split up into groups of three
while the aatelope prieata sootinu tho
song and tho rattling
Now begins the exciting diogustBng
alarming and yet most fascinating part
of the ceremony Tba flrat of the groups
of three' slowly advances Ao the ki
Ono of tho men kneels down and re-
ceives from tho warrior priest who la
inside the klsl n writhing wriggUng
anaka This ho immediately plaota In
his mouth the head to tho left sal tho
temalader of tho body to the right
The second man of the greup advaeoea
as this snake carrier rises to his foot
and placing one arm around the seek
cf hla fellow carrier aad “hugger” they
start to move around the circuit in
peculiar hopping fashion with a swing
and rhythmic movement that is equally
hard to describe or reproduce Tho
third man of tho group follows behind
with hie snake whip and when tho
carrier reaches a certain place and
thrown the snake from his mouth this
gatherer must stoop dowa aad pick
up the aow angry and excited re tile
Sometimes the creature especially if a
rattler will coil up and show fight
Then the snake whip comes into requi-
sition ' Giving the coiled reptile a
“swipe” with the feathers it immedi-
etely uncoils and seeks to escape and
no sooner is it in motion than the
gatherer rapidly seizes it and theezdte-
meat la over While this has beet- go-
ing on the second group has received
its anuke and the third and ao on until
all are supplied and they in turn dis-
card their snake The first group
when its turn comes receives another
snake and thus the endless chain con-
tinues until all tba anakea are given
out from the kisi
When the gatherers find their hands
too full they giva over some of the
reptiles to the antelope men who still
remain in line singing Thus with
perfect dignity earneetneea and with-
out coufusiop the ceremony pro-
gresses At' this stage the chief snake
priest atepa aside describes a circle
upon the ground with the sacred meal
gives n signal and all the priests ol
itoth orders rush forward and throw
the snakes into the circle Imagine the
writhing Wriggling hideous rattling
biasing mass One prleat sprinkles tho
sunken witb meal another with water
the women com and cast oil the meal
out of their boskets upon them a brief
prayer is offered and In another mo-
ment the snake priests dart down upon
them grab as many aa they can aalza
and then dash down the steep trails
ond on reaching the valley there de-
posit tlieir hideous burdens kneel rev-
erently and pray over them and then
with equal speed spring back over the
trails to their respective kivaa Hero
the snake priests drink large quantities
of an rmetle which haa been specialty
prepared and those who are not too
sensitive may witness tho remarkable
sight of 80 or more prieata solemnly
vomiting as a part of their religious
exercises This painful duty over the
prieeta descend to the privacy of their
klvu where the women have already
brought large piles of pikt their wafer
bread plkaml a kind of sweet meal
pudding meat and -other delicacies
upon which a rich toast la made and
the ceremony concludes
Q WHARTON JAMES
PULL-AZD-ES-DAUSZD PCIITT :
am i
rfcere Are Several of Them Meier
ond the IIMwaAlsu Kane
Means OemeSMnar
The Pilgrims and their descendants
ir ho traveled over Mains In the early
days of ita settlement bad a great rep-
station for piety in the parent col-
- ony but when they got away from
J' Jj on iny lp with home and beyond the benrfay of the
m I ministers some of them seem to hare
eeted and talked as wickedly os peo-
ple do nowadays Maine to m large
itxte with o great number of moan-
tains lakes and rivers to that many
exploring partiea felt compelled to
take good quantities of Now England
ram along in order to help out their
vocabulary ia giving appropriate
semes to newly-discovered territory
Tradition rays that whenever the voy-
age ra got oat of rum or ran short fo
names they borrowed all aorta of
words from the Indian language and
tacked them onto the map wherever
they seemed to fit bat in spite of
good intention ond praiseworthy ef-
fort not o few places in Maine now
bear names that should make the Pil-
grim of flOOyrarn ago bold up hla hands
to horror
Jart across the river from Bucko-
port to o high headland that has been
known aa Futt-and-Be-Damaed Point
for more than a knadred yearn After
tka granite bastion of Ejprt Knox
were bailt upon the headland the truly '
good people tried to change the name
to Fort Point hut ao there waa a place
five miles below bearing that name It
never held and tho ancient and irre-
ligious title to stilt popular
The meaning of the tenh to apparent
to everybody who has attempted to
row boat pash the point at ebb tide
The river which to nearly n mile wide
opposite Bueksport contracts to a
few rode here and’ rushes through
Penobscot Narrows like a millrace
At such times men who hove tried to-
row or acnll seaweed-laden boats past
the point have found that they eould
do a the name suggested and still
make no headway
Down at the mouth of the Kennebec
near Squirrel Island and east of Caa-
tlne on the 8edgwirk shore are point
which bear tho same name There 1
another in Moosehead lake and still
another in Schoodie lake In Washing-
ton county In fact If local tradition
can be trusted there are dozens of
places in Maine with titles indicative 1
of their great resistance to the pro-
pulsive power of oars
Up in Sysiadobslsalo like in Lake-
ville plantation ia a small bay which
haa been known aa Hell-Before-Break-faat
cove for more than half a cen- -tury
Tho name was born from a dra-
matic incident which- took plaae there
when the- big Princeton tannery wan
started Some men with mow loads of
bark had landed on the shore tor
breakfast and whils they were eating
one of the boats went adrift Sam
Hall' young fellow of the- company
plunged In to rescue the boat When
the bote of the erew told him to come
back and not make fool of himself
he made answer that ho would get that '
boat before he -came back or take hla
breakfast in a region where drown-
ing accidents are unknown A min-
ute later he sunk and never came to
the surface again Wishing to record'
the dramatis fitness of things hie com-
panions e rooted rough wooden mea-
ument at the edge of the oOve which -
still bear the name of the reals young
man aad of tho place where ho pen
fshcL— r NZV Sum
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rw gntBerssi ei Carte lam’s Solises
WUI Cerates to
‘
Soldiers who have returned homo
lad been mustered out are shedding
the bftto uniforms of Unde Sam Bub
the uniforms will centime to do scrv-
ice even after being discarded by tho
men who ware them to the front Oc-
casionally o blouse u pair of leggings
or u cavalry boot is to he seen in the
itock of t pawnbroker Some of ’ho
soldiers get rid of the garments by-
giving them to their own children or
their neighbors’ boys These youngs-
ter delight in the blue slothes They
wear them regardless of fit adjusting
them as well as they' may with pins
sad bits of string They ore particu-
larly fond of leggings and a boy with
a pair of them to the envied of all the
uvenllea in his circles’ He can trade
them for any other valuables any of
the envious may possess
A canteen is another favorite article
from tie soldier’s kit but it to not al-
ways put to good usee - Over on th
West side one day leal week the police
raided a can-rushing soiree in a ee-t
eluded alley The reoeptacleth guest
were islng was a canteen that went
through the campaign
The clouek hats are also in demand -especially
amongst teamsters or
young fellow who desire to put n
tough edge on themselves Besides be-
ing a serviceable article of dreea Uncle
Sam’s hats are eapable of being pressed
Into wonderful and startling shapes
Some of th decorated beta command
fancy prices and many hnva been of-
fered for tale which the veadcra arc
willing to guarantee bad aeen service
m the bottles before Santiago' They
point to hQea in them ns passages
made by Mauser bullets
Of course the soldiers are not al-
lowed to retain their arms but what'
(hey ere allowed to keep they general-
ly part with quickly usually In a spirit
of generosity but occasionally as W
means of profit— Chicago Chronicle
Qalolc Postal Delivery '
It to eatd that letters dropped la tho
post office at Pari are delivered in
Berlin In one hour and a half and
sometimes within 85 minutes Tho
distance between the cities Is 750 miles
and the letters are sent by means of
pueumatlo - tubes — New England
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