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About The West. (Florence, Lane County, Or.) 1890-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1898)
o , r I t — F a ► the west Ï h r. < A D V E R T IS E R S YOUR HOHE PAPER 2 SUPPORT IT j L to fb to d~ iid A-«>. a ¿ -k «mm SIÜSLAW'S 0IÍL7 PAPïK. t ¿ .I O P P O R T U N IT Y to . fr-to -A .-A ato rto sto .^A A.-A A^A-.-A^-! VOL. IX. FLORENCE, OREGON. FRIDAY, Aug 5, 1893. GENERAL DIREOTORY TRAVELERS* auiDE. STATE OFFIOERS- G A R D ESTER S T A G E Governor........................William P. Lord. Secretary of S 'a te............. H. It. Kincaid. Treasurer.......................... Philip Metchen Supt. Public Instruction.. ..G. M. Irwin. State Printer.........................W. H. Leede. Attorney General........... C. M. Idleman. ( . . . ............R. S. Bean Supreme Court ] ............... F. A. Moore 1 ( ,...C . E. Wolverton Judge Second District . J. W. Hamilton Prosecuting Attorney .Geo. M. Brown H. H. Barrett, Prop’r, ...W . T. Bailey Commissioners . H . D . Edwards Clerk................................ ..........E . U . Lee Sheriff............................. , W . W . Withers Treasurer......................... .A. S. Patterson Assessor........................... .. .D . P. Burton School Superintendent. . . . W . M . M iller Surveyor......................... . ..C . M . Collier Coroner........................... .W . P. Cheshire Justice of Peace............ ..C . H . Holden Constable....................... ___E . A . Evans CITY OFFIOERS. .W . H. Weatherson President. O. W. Hurd Wm. Kyle L. Christensen M. Morris Board of Trustees , .. John H . MdPris ......... J. A. Pond , . .G . C. Cumpton Recorder. Treasurer Marshal.. SECRET SOOIFT1ES. | F. A A. M. Florence Lodge No. 107. Regular communication on second ind fourth Saturdays in each month. O. W. H v b d , W. M. L G. K notts , Secretary. I A. JL General Lyons Post, No. 58. Is meets second and fourth Saturdays i each month at 1:30 p. ni. J. I. B u t t e u h k i . d , Commander. J . L . F c b n is ii , Adjutant. Arrives at Florence Tuesdays, Tliura* days and Saturdays. Connects with Steamer and Scottg- burg Stage Line for Drain. Also with Stage Line for Coos Bay. Charge reasonable. I. F. Heceta Lodge Nfclll, meets •y Wednesday e v e n iM In Lodge Florence, Oregon, toothers in andiug invited to attend. T uomas J. B o res , N . G. C has . H . V asdeu b vbo , Sec. CHURCH DIRECTORY (UESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Florence, Oregon. Sabbath service: Sabbatli- liool, 10 o’clock a. m. Preaching 11 clock a. in. and 7 p. in. Sacrament of ie Lord's supper on 1st Sabbath ot inuary, April, July and October, veryliody is welcome to all the services. Mtor requests Christians to make lemselves known. _ I. G. K sotts , Pastor. D IS T E P IS C O P A L C H U R C H Preaching at Glenada i two Sundays of each month tcliool every Sunday at Prayer meeting every Thurs- ng at the church, hverybody in v ite d . O . 1? • I t o l ’ NPS, invueo. « Pastor. ________ _______ attorneys A. C. WOODCOCK, - MORRIS *** HOTEL, A. R. BUTTOLPH, Notary Public, Surveyor O ra ro n . notary public . O B EG O X. . ' m e s A t th e C o u rt House. FLORENCE. E. E. BENEDICT, • - OREGON go YEAN«' . E X P E R IE N C E A T T O R N E Y - A T - U A W ' O regon. PATENTS O st »» u MS Trwt. F o b ebedy*! M l w a . M , eoBdect.d fo r M P ***- A—d ras.1-1. S n w l n« or p k a M j» • • « ’ ,, p a u eu b l. frsa a t ih s iyL O"/ ob. •aa re m u • »un r e t . r —m».1.". - Md fin it» aoentrM. mat mw A"“ 1" “ C. F a A. SNOW A CO. r m O rr.ee. W a ON»BBTDN . P ^ u r n » 11 Ila s le a n s an d Ia d la a s H a k e M a n y Uses o t th e U g ly FI ah U • Standard Dictionary E. D. FRANK B. WILSON. ........Attorney-at-I.aw — : THE GIANT CACTUS. ON EUGENE AND FLORENCE 3TACE ROUTE. F lo r m n o m , 35. O PO TTER. : High al>ove, *mong the bloaaoiaa gay. The btMM are gathering aweet a today. And Robin a laely ahake.d his head, “ They’re welcome; I’ll wait for the cberrlae red!” —Agnen Lzr.vU Mitchill in St. Xichohw. TH R O U G H TICKETS THE THREE SISTERS. T h . r A ll » a n i » Mc¡.«ren> ’’ "¿¡'‘j"* tl A lle n ti^ Mvtín to collection! aud P bteluosa. F lo m n c « . ORTHERN Pacific, Ry. “ The bloaaonia are aweet, and the wind is alj, He Uvea to scatter them h j and by I” Head of Tide Hotel, notaries . O r in o t i. E ü O E K t, Florence anil fleail of Tide. The L mmm hum budlly M they go. Southern New Mexioo and Arixona and southwestern Texas embrace a re gion totally unlike any other section of the United States. This portion of our country bears evidence of its Mexican origin in its swarthy population and its E. B a n g s ,___ Proprietor. low b uilt “ adobe" bouses, w hile its bleak mountains, hiding treasures of Stage leaves Eugene Mondays, precions metal, and its sandy deserta, Wednesdays, and Fridays at C a. among whose greasewood and mesquite rushes live the poisonous tarantula, the m., arriving at Florence the day veuomons rattlesnake and the stinging | following at 10 a. in. S leeping C a rs scorpion, seem bnt part and parcel of our Returning-stage leaves Flor E le g a n t sister republic on the south. Thnt which strikes the traveler most ence on Mondays, Wednesdays D in in g C ars forcibly,however, in journeying through and Fridays at 3 p. m., arriving the sandy wastes is the wonderful lu x u in Eugene the following day at T o u ris t riance of the cactus fam ily, which ap S leeping C ars pears to grow everywhere, the low ly G p. in. cholla (choyyah), tho rotidliku ucalilla 8 T . RAUL (o-kah-lee-yah) and that unsightly M IN N E A P O L IS giant, the great sahuarafsnh-wah rah). Single fare - - - - |5.00 The drier the saud and the hotter the DULUTH Round trip - - - - 10.00 sun the better the cactus seems to flour FARGO ish. Ou some mountain sides tho cbollas G R A ND FORKS TO Tickets for sale at E. Bangs’s grow so thick one oannot pass through CRO OKSTON them, so tierce are the sharp spines of livery barn, Eugene, and at Hurd tho cholla “ balls. ” Curved at their ends W I N N IP E G & Davenport’s office in Florence. like fishhooks, these little spines pierce H E L E N A «»U leather and fasten upon the skin of the foot, causing the most i^ense pain. BUTTE Rough and repulsive as these various kinds of cactus are, however, yet a use has beeu found for most of them. After .........J. 0. FLINT, Proprietor........ TO treating tho stems of some of the smaller F lo r e n a e , O r e g o n . C H IC A G O varieties furniture is manufactortd from them— chairs, tables aud other W A S H IN G T O N small articles The tall, graceful stems OUR AIM—To furnish tho best P H I L A D E L P H I A of the ocalillu are gathered and woven into feuces, w hile the weird, uncouth accommodations at reasonable N E W Y O R K sahuarn is put to a number of uses which BO STO N A N D A L L prices. w ill require a more detailed description. P O IN T S E A S T mid S O U T H The sahuara, easily the king of the For Information, time carda, maps and ticket, cactus fam ily, is peculiar to Arizona, its fluted columns w ith its gaunt, upward etc., call on or write growing arms covering tho deserts in W. W. NEELY, Prop’r. R. M c M u r p h e y , some places like a voritublo forest. I t General Agent, ltooras 2 and 4, Shelton Block, is often 20 feet in height, and its heart Tables furnished with all the EUGENE, OREGON. is a watery pulp protected by long par allel strips of tough, fibrous wood, reach delicacies of the season. Wild A. D. CHAR LTO N, ing from base to top, the whole covered Aasi«taut General Passenger Agent. game, fish and fruit in season. Best w ith a thick, green skin whioh success 255 Morrison 8t. Cor. 8d. F o r t l A X i d O r . fu lly turns the sun’s rays aud prevents accomodations for the traveling tho evaporation of the water w ithin. Where the sahuara gets this water is a public. Charges reasonable. mystery, since it grows in the driest of The Funk & W agnalls places, where rains come, if they come at all, at almost yearly intervals. This water, however, is of no use to man, as many a poor prospector has found to his Of The sorrow. I t is astringent aud bitter, serv T w en tv-th re e ing only to increase thirst. EN G LISH LANG UAGE The Indians of the country— Apaches, M ile s W e s t Fimas, Papagoes, Maricopa«— use the straight, flexible poles which form the o f E u g en e. COMPLETE skeleton of the sahnara in the construc SU C C IE N T tion of their huts. Like the prickly pear, the giaut eactus also bears a fru it A U T H O R IT A T IV E which grows on the very tips of the par ent stalk aud its branches. This fru it is nearly the size and shape of a hen’s 301,863 v m » b u ls ry T e r m egg- When ripe, it is of a scarlet hue ■47 E ditara and Specialists and splits opeu into four lobes, discloa- iug a pulpy mass about the consistency 333 Readarater Quotati®«« of a fig aud filled w ith minute black lens M oney Saved seeds. The Mexicans aud Indians are 10,000 Cast avsr t«<>o passionately foud of this fru it— and so Appendix a t 47.4SS E i t r i « By are the birds. The former, if so fortu P atro n izin g it. nate as to get ahead of their feathered rivals, take loug poles and knock the The full number of word, and terms In , fru it from the top of the stalk. The In Prop. different dictionaries for th . entire alphabet ts dian Bquaws dry it and prepare it into a Geo. Hale as follow,: 8-roitxoHTH, 50,000; W o B C H B S tB B | dish resembling fig paBte. Rut there is a use to which the squaws 105,000: W ru rrn (international), 125,000; CZM- tubt , ( ,1 b volumes. complete,) 225,000: put the fru it which is not so commend business cards able. I t is pressed in wide, shallow 8TASDAR1), over »00,000; baskets and tho juice collected in pot tery ollas (o-yabs), vessels of native rll{ST NATIONAL RANK ............Sample Page« Free............ manufacture. The ollas aro then stored in a small room where a fire is kept K---- ------ — ■*----- - burning u ntil tho appearance of a w hite OF E U G E N E , froth* on the surface of the liquid indi cates tbut fermentation has commenced. T o M„ omo « . e ... • • *• ’ AGENTS W A N TED . I t is then a strong driuk called “ tiz- _ ------- w in ,’ ’ for which the Indians show a de- a an noo PA(D ue OA8M o a p it a l . • • m o . ooo plorablo fondness. In former years the BRONSON & CO, government SURPLUS AND PROFITS. • • OOO always expected trouble from its red proteges in “ tizw in tim e" Pacific Coast Agents and extraordinary precautions were tak A .O O O T X N T S S O Iu IO IT B J D SA N FRANCISCO, C A L . en to hold the savage« in check during EUGENE. • * • 0BECÛN 933 M arke t S t. those particular periods.— Detroit Free Press. Attorney a t Law gena, D A IL Y T R IP S — Between — Wednes Elk Prairie Hotel. I O. IT. W . Perpetua Lodge, No. 131, l i meets every 1st and 3d Saturdays ach month. Members and visiting rethren in good standing are oordially uvited to attend. J. J. A kukbson , M . n . V't. K y l e , Recorder. ce. “ We need not wait for tho fruit to grow,” REGULAR STAGE LINE. . . .E . O. Potter. Judge................. W1 Jjv High above la the cherry tree The 1 mm *« are holding a Juttloe. The time 1« May, and th«» tr*ws abloom, ▲ad the air la sweet with the rare perfuzna. u . — W ill m ake -------- o EUGENE-FLORENCE COUNTY OFFICERS- S T E A M ER " M IN K ,” I j IN H I . Leaves Florence Mondays, days and Fridays. BLOSSOM TIME, -------------- TRAVELERS’ GUIDE P atents CoevinmrraAe. IJ ,p « d awd W . e . W a r a ^ to Sap » W w n L T h » A lligator*» IH aaar B o a r . R at There were threo sisu-rs who lisped eery badlp, and their mother, who was rolicitona «boat finding hnabands for them, wss continually admonishing them to to ld their tongue«. This is d i f » i l t for a girl that ba« no imprdi- m eW iB b v speech, but it is impossible for Ob that stammers. One evening the Ibsee lispors were invited to **e qntlftng" st a neighbor * a “ Now, mind, g irls,” said the snzions mother, , ‘ aotno nice yonng men are go ing to be there, and yon roast not say a word, or they w ill barn that yon lisp and won’t care to make np to yon.” They promised to be silent sad went to the qnilting. When they reached the bonne, they sat down and qnilted d ili- grntly in silence, and nothing oonid in- dooe them to take part in the conversa tion. A t tart the eldest wanted the scis sor« and triad to make signs to her nest sister to pass them to her, bnt con Id not attract her attention. Losing patience, she stammered ont: “ Thither, path me the tbithortb. ” The other replied w ith indignation: “ Didn’t ma thay that oo tbocldn’t tbay anything?" This was loo much for the yoniigeet, and she eirlaiw ed in a self congmtn- latory tone; “ Bleth God, I a in ’t tbaid nothin I’ ’— New York Times. Miss Vera Gould of T h irty-nin th and Baring streets lias a pet alligator which was sent to her from Florida. Since the arrival of the alligator, which i t about 18 inches long, Miss Gould mourns the low of a pet kilteu, and thereby bangs a tale. M r. Alligator usually receives the best of attention and after a good square meal is at peace w ith the world, dos ing in his tank n util mealtime comes again. The tank is located in the din ing room, aud the other day bis midday tueal was forgot ten— that is, forgotten by everybody except the alligator. Ha proved, however, that he was not en tirely dependent upon others when bis fippetite was assailed. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon M iw Gould iiPard a serie» of feline yells is suing from the kitchen, and ou appear ing on the scene she was perfectly hor rified at what met her gaze. There on the floor was her pet alligator vainly endeavoring to get tim head of a kitten in bis mouth, w hile the mother uf the victim was perched on the book of the alligator, clawing and bitiug i t in a v i cious uiauner. After rescuing the k it ten and chasing the other pet into his abode Miss Gould dismvered that she was minus a kitten and concluded that the hungry alligator had eaten it. I t was afterward uecessary to keep the mother cat in the cellar, as she attem pt ed several time» to wreak vengeance <m thedeetroyer of her fam ily. — J THEY WERE BAD MEN FOOD FOR THE FIEND I t la a notable and noteworthy fact that many of the greatest moral and NEW VORK‘9 “ FIREPROOF” SKY THE FORMER INHABITANTS OF ELLS political revolutions which tbe world SCRAPERS INVITE A HOLOCAUST. has experienced have been preceded or WORTH AND HAY3 CITY. accompanied by prognostics of one kind D aea W a l l SSart or another. B a c k l a tfca B is tle s T b « M T o w a s W e r e Lord Baoou’a remarks npoa this sub W l p a O a t th a N a t Ao U » l» t as T h e y A r e N e w — U » w ject are w orthy of reproduction and are ffa o tlo a —T o « M n e h I r o a , H o » » e f th a C i t l l e u S a tti» « D o w a — W U 4 as follows: O tra H e p o r t m e a t B a a a a r “ The shepherds of the people should B tU B ad J l i e C u r r y . New York’s boainees understand tha prognostics of statu tem “ EUsworthl" shouted a brakeman on pests. Hollow blasts of wind, seeming gart of tbe city that includes the neweah thn Union Paaffic railw ay, Kansas d iv i ly at a distance, often precede a storm." of modern fireproof buildings — is is sion, as the train swept through a Instances of prognostication of thia great danger of being wiped ont by firs. prairie valley and slowed up at a sleepy, kind aro by no means unknown in his Capitalists who furnish the money th at lottonwood shaded, prairie encircled tory. pays for erecting these new buildings Tbna Biabop W illiam s in the reign western Kansas town. To the left conld do not seem to realise thia fact, although be seen a large and peculiar building, of Charles I clearly foresaw and pre i die veteran chief of tbe fire A p artm en t dicted tbe ultim ate triumph of the Pur located ou the onlskirta ot the village. reiterates thia statement about coon • “ What is that building?" I asked of itan party in England, aud having tho t fear. Read w hat he says courage of his opinions be abandoned the gray bearded man w^? had shar'd the government party and sided there “ T h a t a big section of lower Mew my seat for the last SO miles. “ That Is the Grand Arm y grouuds after w ith the opposition. A t tbe time I York some day w ill he wiped ont hff and b uildin g," he said. “ I t belongs to the biabop took thia decided step there Hie is probable i f existing ooadittone tbo old soldiers, and they hold a reunion waa no outward sign whatever that cootinee, ” F ire C hief Bouner aaid Io a such an event was imminent or even a t there every summ er." Press reporter. “ They have picked on a very quiet a ll probable. These conditions are the height o f tbe Dugdale, the antiquary, predicted town iu which to rendezvous." buildings, tbe m alarial need in their and anticipated the ruthless destruc “ Yes, this is a quiet town now, but I tion of ancient monuments iu the cathe non st ruction, the narrowness of the can remember, 80 years ago, wheu Ells streets and the inadequacy of tbe water worth was b ell’s h alf acre. Yes, worse dral churches which took place in 1641, supply. than that, for a ll the cussedness going and he made haste, therefore, to com I t is a favorite argument that i f w aist on in this town in the sixties couldn't plete hia wanderings aud labors in tak came to worst, buildings ahead of a ing drafts of and copying ont the curi have been crowded ou to less than hell's burning area oonid he blown op, as the half section. Times waa mighty dull iu ous inscriptions upon these ancient farm er turns a dead furrow to check the Ellsworth them days wheu there wasn’t monuments, so, as he biinself says, “ to prairie fire. Thia theory is not advanced work for the coroner six days in thn preserve them fo r futaxu aud bettor any more by intelligent men. says the week, and he generally had to work tim ea “ chief. overtime on Sundays. I t was the tough B r o w n ie s a n d t b a A U tenasaas C ta h , “ We can fight a fire 186 feet high, ur est place ou the plains u ntil the ra il C alling upon Robert Browning at ten stories. Above that we are w ell road moved on west, and the killers, the Athenseuin club, then as now, says nigh helpless. They aay that the modem tonghs, gamblers and their female com : Colonel Iliggeuson in Tbe Atlantia, ta ll fireproof building needs not aa mneh panions followed on to Haya City, Then the headquarters of intellectual pursuits protection us the ordinary low structure. the carnival of crime and the contract iu Londou and of which it naed ’ to be Bnt the fireproof building is yet to be for fillin g the graveyard w :» transferred aaid thut no man conld have any ques bnilL The communists couldn't destroy to Haya. Bnt today both towns are as tion to oak that he could not find some Paris in 1871 even by the use of barrels qniet and orderly as a New England body to answer, that very afternoon, be of petroleum. In American buildings village. Pome of the bad men of those tween 6 aud 6 o'clock at that club, it are all tbe necessities of a big, hot fire, days settled here in Ellsworth perma seemed strange to ask a page to find M r. w ith o ut the aid of a drop of petroleum. nently and became quiet citiaena— after Browning for me, and it reminded me The large structures in foreign citiee they became reeidenta o f the graveyard of tbe time when the little daughter of are b u ilt fa r more solidly than oura. on the h ill yonder. a certain poetess qnietly asked at the Having fewer forest« and leas wood, “ Apache B ill, scout and tough, took dinner table, between two bites of an European builders get along w ith little up a permanent reaidencq out yonder apple, “ Mamma, did I ever see M r. inside trim of wood. Iron and steel in because a bartender got the drop on him Shakespeare?” Tho page spoke to a ra these days have taken tbe place in this one night and added about two ounces ther short and strongly b u ilt man who ooautry of masonry. Nothing w ith to B ill’s weight in the shape 4f lead sat in a window and who jumped np stands fire aa w ell aa a w ell constructed placed where it would do the mostgeod. aud grasped m y hand so oordially that brick w all. Iron columns are covered Comstock Charley, a h alf breed Chey i t m ight have aflggested the remark of w ith four inchea of terra cotta or trick , enne scout, tough and general a ll round bad man, also became a quiet citizen of Mine. Navarro (M ary Anderson) about which fire and water can tear off in a him — made, however, at a later day— abort time. Then the stripped iron ie the place where they planted 'em in those days on account of a puncture put that he did not seem like a poet, bnt left to w arp and tw ist and tumble. I rather “ lika one of onr agreeable south believe the covering should be eight into him by Henry Whituey, sheriff. inches. “ B ill Hickok (W ild B ill) gained his ern gentlemen. “ Ho seemed a man of “ W ith only one night watchman la a fame at Haya City, west of here, as every day, or lik e the typical poet of bis own “ How i t strikes a oontemporary. ” building, in danger, like a ll mortals, « f also did Jim Curry, who later on shot and killed Ben Porter, an actor, at M ar In a ll thia he was the very antipodes of sudden sickness or incapacity, and w ith shall, Tex. I knew Jim Curry when be Tennyson. He had a largo head of G er no night elevator, a fire could get a waa an engineer on this road. He be man shape, broadening behind, w ith good headway in the upper floors of a came enamored of a woman, married lig h t and thick gray h air and whitish 80 or 80 story building. Bursting o at her, and they settled down in Haya beard and bad bluo cyea aud tha moat of the windows and fanned by a atrcog kin dly heart wind, the llamea oonid easily leap the City, keeping a little reatuorant there narrow streets of lower New York and There was a regiment o f negro soldiers ShooAtrtaff StatUtloo. a fire of enormous extent and damage quartered at Fort Haya. The negroes Tho Philadelphia Record*! caloolat- begin. took offense a t Jim because he refused “ I have alwaya opposed putting a big to serve them w ith meals a t his house. ing barber says: " I aeo that your ahoe- They came around to clean ont the striugs are tied iu bowknota. D id yon building in C ity H a ll pork, believing place. Jim went to shooting, and when ever atop to th in k how much of the that the time m ight come when that he qnit Uncle Ram’s army was deci string is required to make thoao nsaleaa area, needful as a base of operations, loops? Probably three inches of earh end. would ba the salvation of the city. '* mated to come extent Most of tbe new skyscrapers have fire “ W ild B ill waa a nervy man and did T ie the laces in ordinary knots, and yon some k illin g in bis day, and he might oonid cut from tbe pair four pieoea, fighting appliances of their own of mean have lived longer i f he had not grown each three inchea loug. There are or leas valuu. Tanka ou the roof and in careless. Yon see. B ill, like ail men of 600,000 people in this city and the oellar are supplied and kept fu ll by hla class, waa alwaya expecting trouble >0,000,000 in the United States who various ayatemA but these are aa much and waa always on guard. B ill for y«art wear laced shoes. I f each of tbeao for the ordinary requirements of tenants had never allowed himself to get into a bought three pair of lucee a year, that as for possible use in firs. Some of the position where his keen eye and ready would mean 80,000,000 pair, from structures have standpipes inside or out revolver were not master of the situa which oonid be snipped 800,000,000 side the w alk Legally there la oo way tion, but be did allow the drop to bo ends. These pieoea, placed end to ond, of compelling the builders of w het ie got on him twice to my knowledge. The would make a coutiunona shoestring called a “ fireproof” building to put la first timo I wna present, and the next 17,046 miles long— long enough to more than the moat ordinary fire appli time— w ell. B ill waa waa gone himself stretch two-thirds of the way around ances, even above the 186 foot line. B uilding a 80 story atrnoture la much when the second time came to a climax. the earth, bnppose that the shoestrings “ I w ill te ll yon tho story of the time coat a t retail an average of 8 cents a like building a dw elling house in ooe I was present Now, I never knew B ill pair, then the 00,000,000 pair useu un- respect— there's always deviations from to pall hia gun to k ill nnless it waa in unally in the United btatea coat |8 ,- the plana and improvements upon them self defense or there was no other way 700,000. Une-fifth of their length oonid F o r every alteration from the drawings to secure the peace aud quiet B ill a l be dune away w ith by catting off tbe filed w ith the building department the ways hankered for and would have— nseleas ends, and the value of these ends permission of tbe board of examinets peaceably i f be could, forcibly i f be is therefore one-fifth ot their net coat must be had. I f tbe alterations are prop must. Jipi C arry was a coward, but be >640,000. Thia sain would buy upwar> er, consent is granted, but on condi was determined to acquire a repututiou of 10,000,000 pocket handkerchiefs for tion that approved fir« appliances be put as a bad man, and, as B ill Hickok held the heathen of Africa. W itc h hazel or in the building, particularly in the up per stories. These include a stipulation the championship ot the world at that buy nun?“ th at at least one elevat x shall be ready timo as u killer, Corry thought ho T h » C a r ll» » * e f N o b m i m ▼•>»•■. to run at any tim e iu the night la or m ight safely run a bluff ou Wild B ill. I should lika to know whether there der that the firemen oan get up and “ 8o be sent B ill word he would k ill is aoythiug earlier in thia way than the down quickly; tbe putting of boee aud him on sight, not thut he bad anything "H is to ry of Bixteeu W onderful Old fire buckets on each floor, and. usually, against B ill, but Carry had gene into Women, illnstratod by as Many Engrav a standpipe, w ith couplings for each the killin g bnsineaa, aud he proposed to ings, Exhibiting T heir Principal Eccen floor. When tbe builders consent to add bold the center of the stage and show tricities and Amusemeuts. Londou, these ( quipuienta and otlM'rs deemed that be waa displaying energy and apt Printed For H arris de Son, Corner of n ece ssa r y, including a competent night itude in bis business. B ill paid un a t 8 t Paul's Churchyard, 1831,“ which watch service, permission 1» granted to tention to C a rry ’s talk, not considering , forms No. 16 of Harris' “ Cabinet of make the alterations Thia applies off him in bis class. Amusement aud Instruction, “ 36 in tha course, only to buildings nudes con "One day I met Curry on tbe street set. Thia little book, published by Naw- in Hays. We went iuto a saloon kept | berry’s suoorstors, is an exceedingly rare struction recently. O f thorn already up there la small hope unless the under by a little, nervout, excitable German. one, w ith colored illustratioua cf tbo w riters' offer of lower premiums appeal W ild B ill's ta ll form and loug, black j drollest. Perhaps specs may ba spared sufficiently to the pocketbook. balr loomed up at u tabla in tbo bnak for a verse, taking one lack to tba duys T o the end that the fire resistance of part o f tbe room. His back waa toward when lotteries were not illeg al: building materials shall ba known posi Curry and myself. Curry walked over h r r » was an Did Wnmia o t Eallug tively, fire testa have been made under to tbe table, standing directly behind T Wbu jum p’d till her head lu u v li'd t-u> eclliag, tbe supervision of tbe superintendent a f B lit Before any one suspected w hat bo Wlmn 2 I C 4 buildings. Three such pubiia exhibition^ Wss » n n u u iw 'd a t her door would do be bad bis gun against B ill's already have been held, aud they w ilt bead and said, ‘ Now, you long haired A a a prise to th* O ld W otlsd of baling. be continued at intervals through the — Notes and Queries. --------, I ’ve got you, end you're going w inter. When finished, Superintendent to die. * B ill never batted an eya aor or What B alg Waa CarlylaT Cooatable w ill make a report to tbe moved a muscle, bnt raid, ’ Y ob would Y e t U is difficult to decide w hat Car board of examiners not shoot a man down w ithoat givin Tba cry for more water in toe lower him • show to defend his life, would ly le has bequeathed to ns now that the you?' ‘ Wouldn’t I? K h a t show did you echoes of his sonorous denunciations part of tbe city baa been Inal stent for are at lost dying away. Standing be years. Many have been the plana far aver give any one, yea — — — F “ Tbe Dutchman wad dancing around tween the infinite and tbe individual, reservoirs at tbe Battery aud ea either like mad, imploring Jim to pat np bis he recognizes uo gradations, no massing aide h alf a m ile or a m ile up stream. gun and far bigg * d B ill to shake of the species; he compares the tw o ln- Every tim e an extra line of pipe has hands. I f they wuwld, be would stand ' comparable objects of hia attention aud been laid w ith the object of furnishing treat for tha house, which propoaitiou scolds the Anita for its lack of in fin i tbs needed surplus i t baa bean tapped was finally accepted. W ild B ill and tude. us if for a preventable fault. U n np town. Tbe firo and building depart Jim C arry shook bauds, after which just to human effort, be barks at man ments bops that tbe two 48 inch mains B ill M id: ‘Now, Jim , I got nothin kind like an i ll tempered dug, angry if being laid in F ifth avenue w ill he left ag'in you, and I don't w ant to k ill you, i t is still, yet more angry if it moved for tbe relief of tbe section below Cbam- but if you are bound to get a repotation A moat unhelpful physician, a prophet : hers street. Chief Banner says tbe Forty* there’s a town fu ll of teoderfret here w ith uo gospel, br t vagno stir aud tur- asooud street reservoir should nothadto- and lota of sassy nigger soldkrs Oo bnlance of contradiction, a voice aud turbed u ntil water is flowing undiverted practice on them. You’ll have to git nothmg more, yet a t worst w hat a reao- through these mains to tbs locality that more of 'em to give you a reputation, naut aud imperial clarion of a voice!— | needs i t most aud for wbieh I t ie to- aud It w ill take ir.ore time to g it Ibar “ A bhort H elp to L ite ratu re ," by Ed tended. T h a t New York w ill he breugbt fhse than if yon held a discussion w ith me. mund Goase. to face w ith grave peril from the but I think you w ill live longer to en storied structures uulee joy It and be happier than if yon kept up projectin w ith me. Ho now le'a jea’ “ Arthur, 1 oannot stand this city air. plentiful and tt drop this, or I may get the idea into my ■ 1 mnet have the foliage of the forest, I doubted ty i head that you're in earnest, and that must have birds, 1 moad“ — might ba bad for you. ’ “ — Indianapolis I “ But, my dear, yon have a ll th at ea Journal.