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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1888)
T A L E S OF THE BOH DER. J l e m l u h e * n o f t h e H u s t l e r * W l» o ,’ a d e T o m b s t o n e T a u i o u e I n t h e O ld MT* tnbstono, a m ining centre in 1 tioastern Arison», is the g rav e ol d rom ance and adventure, ha:r- 1th osoaiws and deeds of during any other region iu America por- Tomlwtono is about sixteen i from the Mexican bonndry line. , .or tour or live years was tlio head- rte rs of nil the leading desperadoes the West. The four E arp brothers, toughs all. Doe Hall day, F ran k and Jack Stillwell, Ike C lanton and his b rother Hilly, Ja c k M cLowry and his brother Hob, Jack Riugn, Hill Dodge and several gentlem en known as C u rlr, Slim. Shorty, Tex»«, Buffalo and s milar cognomen« were frequently seen on the streets together. All had a reputation to sustain, and some were so eager to do them selves justice that they would not relv on the ordinary 44- caliber revolver, but had the barrels of shotguns cut oft' to about a foot in length, and thus abbreviated, th a t te r rible engine of destruction, when pro perly loaded, became a p art of their personal adornm ent. T here were two factions in Southeastern A rizona in 1879. one being known as the stag e-ro b bers and the other as the rustlers. The Ea. p, and Doc H alliday were the re- coguizod chiefs of thu stag e robber fac tion, and Ike C lanton and Jack Kingo were the acknow ledged bosses of the rustler» The fact ons cam e into fre quent conflict. One day the McLowry* und F rank Stillwell rode into town and put up their horses at a corral on F re mont street. Ju st as they emerged from the corral the E arps and Halliday confronted them, and in a minute the McLowrys, Billy Clanton und Stillwell were dead. Word was sent to th eir friends, who were camped in the H uachucu M ounta'ns, and they pre pared to march to Tom bstone in force to clean out the Earps, The Earps re cruited and fortilied in an adobo build ing ill the w e s t end of town The rustlers, thirty strong, under the com mand of Ike Clanton and Ja c k Ringo, m arched to town and took up head q u ar ters in a corral at the extrem e end of the town. H 'r e were the honest people of Tombstone between the hostile cam ps of desperadoes, hut Tom bstone went right along about its business, and rather enjoyed the sensation. The sa loons did a thriving bnsinesg tw enty- four hours dailv. The banks were open, and in the evening four churches were jutned witli devotees. The mines were operated by 3.000 hard y workmen and more Limn 1,000 men and 300 mules were eugnged haul.ng ore from the mines to the reduction mills at C onten tion, eight miles distant. The stores were all oimiii , the clerk« were all busy, and the o n ’y nervous people seemingly ill the c tv were the rep o rters of the tw o morn ng papers, and they were only afraid of a scoop.' Tim w riter of this was the city editor of a T om bstone pa,>cr nt the time, lie visited both tho cam ps daily, and was made the medium of communication between ihe leaders. The rustlers circulated through the town, and ttie Earp, o r stag e-ro b b ir faction, oontiued them selves to th eir cutup. Ike Clanton, the ru s 'le r lender, sent several messages to W yatt E arp, the leader of that faction, darin g him to come emit and allow his nose. E irfw seut back invitations to Clanton to i come and visit him. This th in g o n - tiimed for throe days, and at last the ' Earps began to get tired —in fact, the r liquor wa« exhausted and they were on the verge of a thirst famine. W arren Earp, one of the brothers, lieoled him self properlv with two revolvers and a shot-gun and walked uptown one even ing about 8 o'clock. He went into a saloon, took a drink at the bar and walked buck to the faro d ep ar tinent in tbe rear, lie hadn't bucked th e tr ger in live days and his appetite was whet ted. He sat down iu front of Ihe deal er, pulled out a handful of twent v-dollar gold piece« and coppered the queen. Ju st a s he dill so a report was heard and W arren E arp fell off li s stool dead. A bullet hud penetrated his bruin When the report of his death reached his fiends they rallied om in force. They met Lhe Clanton p arti on AI en street and at. exchange of shots look piece. The casualties were m eag re—onlv three killed and two wounded. The E arps retreated and skipped the town. W hen they had left, and there was no hope of catching them the Sheriff of Cochise Countv becam e energetic. He organized posses to give pursuit that subsequently cost the taxpayers of the county 97,000. T h e E arps he ng absent, sym pathy of course was against them and they w ent to Colorado, where they reiualnd for som e time, and then went to California T he rustlers then had suprem e noinmitnd of th e tough elem ent of Tombstone, and they held it until the leaders quarrelled nnd gradually killed each other. — St. /Mitts R epublican. THE O CEA N . I f t b e J .n n d w e r e K ln t t e n e d o u t t b e Sen w o u l d be T w o M l l l e e I l e c p A l l O v e r. cuples ll3,000,U00sqnaro miles, or more than half the surface o f Ihe earth In the transitional area of the ocean i'ieru are many and varied conditions in re spect of light, heal, cm rents, ch ssg es level, the character and variety ot the deposits, and in anim als nnd p h . ills which iuliab t the various pai ls ot the region. The deposits are in most resp-els sim ilar to those which m ake lip a s o y large part of the sedim entary fom a ;i >n of lhe dry land. In the abysmal a e i I here is a uniform set of conditions, die tem perature Iwlllg near tho free/, ng point, willi an annual range lint \ Deeding 7 deg F a ll., and there he ng no sunlight o r plan! life. T ile r. is a g reat ahundauee of anim al life; but Ihe forms from various parts of die area are very similar, and uni ko those of sh a l lower w aters; and tho deposit«, which accum ulate siowl v, are mil ke any of the sedim entary deposits of the dry land. Troni l)r. M urray's investigat on«, it also appears th a t if the dr y land of the globe were reduced to the sea level by being removed to and piles! up in the shallow er w aters of tho ocean, then its extent would bo about 8J.000 square miles, and tbe rest of the surface of llic earth would be covered by an ocean ex tending to 113.iMkj.OOO square miles. Again, should the whole of the solid land be reduced to one level under the ocean, then the surface of the earth would be covered by an ocean with a uniform depth of about two m lc s.— St. J a m es (taeette. Infected Food. Milk, an im p o rtan t food. Is know n to be a sin g u larity favorable vehicle for the reception and com m unication of in fection, and some of the c rcum stances under wliich it so acts are know n to be associated with a lack of cleanliness. To begin with infant life. We all know that the extent to w hich children are d ep riv ed of the n atu ral secretion of their m other’s breasts is stead ly on the increase, and th at artificial feed in g is more and more resorted to. A m ong the poof the methods u n d er wh ch milk is stored and adm inistered n feed in g bottles have been found to c o n trib u te to th a t terrible m ortality from in fa n tile diarrhea w hich wc ex|>cr;ence e v ery sum m er. The milk is com m only stowed away in an u u v e n td a te d cup board constructed in a corner of the room, the a r of which is heated and rendered im pure by constant occupa tion; or perhaps it Is placed in a p a n try, often ventilated, as 1 nave seen It, bv m eans of a window overlooking the narrow space allotted to privy and ash p it The resu ltin g uncleanly em ana tions are rapidly absorbed by the su r face of tbe milk, in w hich the grow th of noxious organism s soon sets in. Such food adm inistered to infants lias a rain and again been a cause of suffering an d death. Or, again, the milk is p u t in feeding bottles, which, with their modern ap pendages, it is most difficult to keep strictly clean. Deposits of stale milk Occur at one place and another, d e composition sets in, and the form ation of poisonous ptom aine, such as lacto- toxiuc, tends to result. Some of these substances have been sufficiently pow erful to cause the g rav est sym ptom s, even in adults, who have experim ented with milk in winch the changes in d i cated have taken place. D uring recen t y ears there have been acm e strik in g instances of serlotm, and even fatal, poisoning, ow ing to the use of articles of food which had been kept in un wholesome place» such as cellars haviug unbroken means uf communion* tion with a drain, or be ng otherwise so situated as to favor the grow th of low forms u f o rgaiitic life. One recent case was th a t in wh ch seventeen out of Iliueleeu of the guests at a w edding in Carlisle were seized witli ser oils symptoms. Deluding vom it ng,griping, diarrhea and pyrex a; one attack, th at of the br.de, terra Dating fatally. Tbe cause w..is traced to morbid changes n the food, which had led to the produc tion of poisonous principles, and to the developm ent of siiecilic organisms. A m ong the conditions tending to in duce such Changes, w ant of ventilation and movement of pure air, to g eth er with excessive dam pness may be noted. — Practitioner. Our Timber Lands. An association known as the A m eri can Forrustrv Congress, represented at W ashington by B, E. Fernon, secretary, is endeavoring to do som ething to p ro tect tbe tim b er lands of o u r public domain. It savs that Frauoe has ex pended 930,000,000 to re p a .r dam ages done by needless d estru ctio n of her forests, aud th at as much more m ust lie expended. This association w arns the people of the consequence* of the reck less waste of our forests. While we are endeavoring to encourage the grow th of tim ber by our tim ber cul ture laws, giving to every man 160 acres who will for eight years cultivate ten acres of tim ber trees upon it, we are a t the same time p erm ittin g th o u sands of acres to be denuded of g ant forests of the liuest building tim ber iu tbe world. The circular says: ••Not oniy have we allowed the m ost valuable p art of this class of o u r p ro p erly to lie fooled away to a few specu lators. largely upon frau d u len t entries, but we have crim inally perm itted the depreciation of the rem ainder, and. be sides, have compelled Hie population of two states and seven territo ries to be come trespassers and crim inals on a c count of taking the tim ber they needed, because we would not sell it to them. In the years 1881 to 1887 there was re ported tim ber stolen from the public domain to (lie value of 936,719.862 probably only a small fraction of the actual depredations; th ere was recov ered, m ostlybycom prom i.se. 9478.073, nnd expended for protection 9465.000, To this add an an n u al loss from tires, valued at 98.000.000. B ut the g reatest loss is not the value of the tim ber stolen or destroyed. I t is occasioned by the droughts th a t en sue when all forests are cleared away. In other countries d'-serts o r barren plains now till the place of forest» Even the clim ate, rainfall, and average tem perature have been changed. But the w ork of destruction goes o u .— At the last m eeting of the Royal So ciety of Edinburg, Dr. Jo h n M urray, of the C hallenger expedition, m ade a w in- luiiiiieat on on ••The height and v o l ume of the dry land and the depth and volum e of tho ocean.” A ccording to his own investigations. E n g in e erin g says, the mean height of the laud of the globe was 2,230 feet above the sea level and the mean depth uf the ocean was 12,- 480 feet, or 2,080 fathoms. If the ocean w ere regarded as being divided into tw o parts bv tlie 1,000 hue. it would be found th a t the mean depth of the area having less depth than 1,000 fathom s was 2,o28 feet or 338 fathoms, or near ly th e same depth beneath the sea as th e sea as the height of the dry land above i t On the other hand, the mean depth of the area beyond the 1,000 fathom s is 14,640 feet, or 2,440 fathoms. The form er area—called by Dr. Murray tbe “ transitional a re a " —occupies 24.- 000,000 square miles; and the latter area which is the abysm al area and is situated fully ti m e miles below the average heights of the continents, oc- Chicago T im ti. pectedly, one of tho pairs of legs will Farm O ak*. go dowu and a head bob up. “ A puz im pression is still rife th at zling spectacle.” savs 11. Jones, who ••fainting don’t p ay .” F arm ers’ boys has well described the fishery, “ and a th in k so, and farm s are left to be car constant vicissitude from heels to heads ried on by rheum atic labor o r to pass and front heads to ueei»." — L o n d o n into other hands at lower prices. Farm Post. labor is yearly becoming more scarce Farting With the Bottle. and unsatisfactory. Old. d eserted A C ongressional abstinence soeietjl farm s are multiplying, tiolds once fa ir was form ed and M arshall sw ore oft ly fertile are turn ed to grazing or drinking. He made a speech before the grow ing pines and birches. On farm s society which is perhaps the m ost elo where large stocks of cattle were kopt, quent tem perance effort ever delivered w ithin the mem ory of'tlie w riter, now in the C ongressional halls, ' Its con there are only oue o r two cows ami a clusion was m asterful, though the sen horse. The average price for such tence containing it was as long as one farm s fifty rears ago w a s 94dto960 per of Senator Evarts* longest. Il ran:_ acre: now it is o n lr 916 to 920, build ••I would not exchange the physical ings included. \Ve would like to enu sensations, the m ere sense of anim al be m erate some of the causes that have ing. which belong to m an w ho totally caused this depreciation of country real refrains from all th at can Intoxicate his esta te —viz., a long scries of ••Farm b rain'or derange his nervous structure, Leaks. ’ ’ • the elasticity with which lie bounds As m anure and its rig h t application from his couch in the m orning, the is the base of nil successful farm ing it sw eet repose it yields him at night, the is a leak to allow the w inter’s accum u feeling with w hich he drinks in, through lation (horse m anure especially) to lay his clear oyes, tho beautv and g ran d eu r in a big heap and lire fang, sending off of surrounding nature; 1 say, sir. I will all its amm onia in the air. It is a leak to not exchange tnv conscious being as a pitch out tlie m anure against Iho side strictly tem perance m an, the sense of of the barn, to be bleached and burned renovated youth, the glad play with by the early spring sun and rain when which my pulses now neat healthful it should be boused in a barn cellar. music, tho bounding vivacity with which It is a leak not to use absorbents in the the life blood courses Its exulting way cattle stables to catch and hold tho through every fiber of my frame, the liquid manure, the most valuable am- com m union high with which my h ealth monioal and nitrogeneous part, but to ful ear nnd eye now hold w ith all the let it tu n through the cracks of tbe gorgeous universe of (Tod, th esp len d o rs lloor, never to be reached again. It is of the m orning, the softness of the even a leak to let the cattle lav iu the open ing sky, the bloom, the beauty, the ver barnvard in sum mer, causing the ma dure of the earth, the music of the air, nure to be nearly worthless. It is a j and of the w aters; with all the grand leak to suffer m anure to be wasted in associations of external n atu re re o p e n any form and buy comm ercial fertiliz ed to tho five avenues of sense; no, sir, ers, because they are more easily ap though poverty dog me. tliongli scorn plied. It is a leak to overstock pas pointed its slow finger a t me as I pass- tures Io gain a few dollars from stock mi, through w ant and destitution and taken in, giv.ng poor satisfaction, half every clem ent of earthly misery, s ave starving the farm ers’ own stock and only crime, m et my w aking eye fro m feeding the pastures so close as to ex day to day; not for the brightest and haust lhe soil and bring up an nevit- noblest w reath that ever encircled a nl.le grow th of lamb poison, pitch statesm an’s brow ; not if some angel pines, or som ething worse. It is a comm issioned by heaven or some demon m onstrous leak Io graze the mowing sent fresh from hell to test the resisting fields and rob the grass roots of their slren g th of virtuous resolution, should n atu ral protection from drought and tem pt me back, with all the w ealth and frost, and the luanuro th a t the rot all the honors which a world can be- ted afterm eath will . annually create , stow; not for all th a t time can give .. for the grass corn. It is a leak to w ou| j [ cast front me this precious spread w inter m anure oil the snow to pledge of sllihcrated mind: this talism an be leached into (tie hollows and starve agaiiist tem ptation, and plnngOAgain n- the hill» losing tlie nitrogen by expos to the dangers aud horrors which once ure to the elem ents. It is a leak to beset my path, so help mo heaven, as I plow m anure in deep on sod ground would spurn beneath my v ery feet all for corn where the roots cannot reach the gilts the universe could offer a n d it as thev seldom run more th an four live and dio as I am, poor, and sober.” inches deep, and spread out on the N otw ithstanding this speech, how surface It is a leak not to plow two ever, M arshall broke bis pledge, and o r three inches deeper on subtle ground there is a man stili living at W ashing to gradually deepen the soil and make ton who took care of him d u rin g some it last longer for grass. It is a leak to of Itis after-attacks of delirium trem ens. attem p t to harrow m anure in deep on It is s a il th a t his first d rinking the surface of sod land, o r to plow it o r was caused by a disappointm ent harrow it in a t all. on wot land th at is in love, and it may have been th a t he not drained. It is a leak to rake corn would have been a sober man yet had stubs oft stubble nnd haul them into the this not occurred. — New York S u n . road instead of into the hog y ard to rot, nnd m ake m anure of I lie best qunl- For Young Men iVhitarc Thinking of i v. It is a leak to sell-hay at lhe barn Marriage. - ¡ for 916 a to il when a ton of hay takes over 91 '/w orth of chemicals out of the Select the girl. so 1 (if chem ists m ake no m istake in Agree with th e g irl’s father in poli try in g to tell the tru th ). It is a leak tics and the m other in religion. lo r the farm er to team wood every win If you have a rival keep an eye on ter for lum ber speculators at going wage» and run all the. m anure off the him; If lie is a widower keep two eyes farm into the highway, which is worse on him. than selling hay. Lastly it is a leak to Don’t sw ear to tlie girl th at you have hnnd-hoe crops, when they can be no lauloi tbits. It Will be enough to say borse-hoed by the” horse lines of Ihe th at yoil never heard yourself snore in present day equally as well, if not bet your sleep. ter at one-eighth of the expense.— Don’t put much sw eet stuff or paper. .Vtie E n g la n d P arm er. If you do you will liear it read in a lte r years, when your wife has some special purpose. Inflicting upon you the sev er A New K llble From the Sea. A new edible delicacy of m arine ori est puuislim ut known to m arried man. (io home at a reasonable hour in the gin, and surpassing, in the opinion of eVeu ng. D on’t wait till the girl ha« in m a n y « nttheru g -u .iriiia n d s , the finest throw her whole soul into a yawn th at oysters, is about to be in tro d u ced into she can’t cover with both hand» A this country. A supply of the true little th in g like that may cause a cool- M editerranean sea urchin» in good i 1,osi a l the very beginning of the game. condition, is to lie consigned to o u r If, while w earing your new sum m er m arket, and English epicures will be trousers for the first time, you sit down asked to try the eg g s of the ecliinide.in on some molasses candy that little W il after the fash on of M arseilles—th at is. l e has left on the chair, smile sweetly bv eating them off the shells, raw and and rem ark th a t you don’t in nd sittin g uncooked. The ■ea-urehin. which sci on m olasses candy at all. aud that ••bsys will be boys.” Reserve your entific men. with the playful sim plicity true feelings for future reference. ch aracteristic of the kind, have agreed If, oil the occasion of your first call to designate the ••strongyloeeutrotus” the girl upon whom you have placed is an article of food in m any p arts of your affections looks like an ice the world as most people are probably berg and acts like a cold wave, take your leave early and stay away. W o aware. Hence one of the com m on man in her hours of freeze is uiw ertaiu, nam es it bears ntnong fisberfolk who coy and hard to please. have no reputation for learn in g to keep In cold w eather finish say,ng good up, aud who call it the ••sea-egg.” night in the house. D on’t stretch it all lint all along Hie shores of the Medi the way to the front gate, and thus lay terran ean the five-celled ro sette form the foundation for future asthm a, bron ing the inside of the prickly eiea lu rc is chitis, neu ralg ia and chronic cata rrh , esteem ed one of the tasteless vieliled to help you to w orry the g irl to death bv the sea. Strangers visiting the M ar after she has m arried you. seilles fish m arket will see basket after D on’t 1 e about y o u r financial condi basket there filled with these lirowny- tion, It is very annoying to a ’bride greun and violet colored “ hedgehogs who lias pictured for herself a life of of lhe deep.” Tiiev are deftly opened luxury in her an cestral halls to learn too by Lhe fishwives, the left hand being late th a t you ex p ect her to ask a bald- protected against I lie sharp prickles by headed p a te n t who has been uniform ly a stout cloth wrapped around it, the kind to h er to take you in out of the stomach-suck is cut out, and the tine cold. orange colored eg g s in the cen tre ex Don’ t be too soft. D on’t say, “ These posed and handed ou the shell to tho little hands shall never do a stroke of custom ers ever ready for the dainty. work when th ey are m ine;” and "you These eggs are only to be found in th e shall have nothing to do in our home "urchin” between the m onths of Oc hut to sit all day and chirp to the c a n tober am lM ay, th a t is, about the same aries,” as if any sensible woman could time as tlie oyster is in Season. At o th be happy fooling aw ay time in th a t e r times the eggs are missing, and style; and a g ill has a lino retentive m any worthy people have pronounced memory for the soft things arid silly th e creatu re good for noth in g because prem ises of courtship, and occasionally, they happened to capture and open it in after years, when she is w ushing at the w rong season of the year. The dinner dishes or patching the west end urchin fishery, ow ing to th e g re a t d e of your trousers, she will rem ind you m and for the crustacean in Southern uf them in a cold, sarcastic, tone of E urope, is one of the m ort im portant voice. — E xchange. of the M editerranean. The creatures frequent rocky ground, and in the Funeral Reform Commended. form of round, prickly balls, they are Tlie P ro testan t Episcopal clergym an found, hundreds together, a few feet below high-w ater mark in the shoals of of New Y ork have begun to work for re the Spanish, French, and Italian coast. form in funerals. T here Is room for it. They are captured by m eans of a eleft The old-tim e sim plicity in burying the stick, with wh ch the fisher pokes about in th eir haunts, and often, too, by div dead has been replaced by a fashion ol ers. In the Bay of Naples nothing is ostentatious display which is in bad • musing th an to w atch the tswt»*. and frequently U carried io such n » 1 l 1 - - t .. I.. . « ( o s n i w . n f I in urcliin-lishois at work in «earch of lengihs as to be a severe tax upon the family in the m atter of expence. I t is t heir prey. Row ing to the spot where they are carry ng on operations, one not disrespectful to the dead to observe may see some scores of howls bobbing economy n funerals, and it will be a about in the w ater, and probably an good thing for the poor when this ex equal num ber of pa rs of legs, all be travagance shall bo frowned upon by longing to bod es th at are invisible. the clergym en who officiate aud the Suddenly a head will go down and a public g enerally.— h u U a n a p o lu J o u r pair of legs come up: then, as unez- nal. The GREEN GOODS AND 3AWDU8T MEN. Some o f T h o s e W h o H a v e M a d e Illg F o rtu n e * Ilu e ln e e e . In '1 h e i r N e fa r io u s ' One of the thing« connected with police su pervisloo of the crim inal clas«es In New York, which to the tniud of au ordinary citizen 1« difficult ot comprehension, «ay« The A>w lo r d (• raj hie, Is the «ucee*« which attends the operations of the “grecu goods” men in tills cit *. The covetness and hunger for the acqtl «ilion of w ealth by any means, however dialeputable, which characterize some men here und there In thu hack country settle tnents will easily account for the Influx of visitor« who come here to seek the rncaus by which they hope to rob their owu neighbors. But no clear explauatiou ha« ever been given as to the rea«ons why the men who have grown rich upon the spo Is gathered from these <Iu|«s cst-aijed from the pensil ¡es of the law so long. They are as well known to the detective force of the Central office aud to the various precinct detectives a« the burgl rs and thieves who are uuder alm ost continual supervision and from whom are dally drawn the grist that supplies our state |ienitentiaries. Occasionally we read about the arrest of one of these swindlers, but with Sing Sing gaping for them they still linger utmost unm olested along the public thoroughfares. Half a doxeu of them are rich men, and have kept ou growing richer In spite of the fact th at the source from which they draw their lucomc and their wealth Is as well known to the police us It is to themselves. 1 heir faces are not strange ones about the theater« und «ernl-f a a h in u a h le cafe«, and tc the stranger they are in all externals types of the weli-to do men alxjut towu. ’l ake Charley Johnson, for iustance. There may he some exaggeration about the figures, but the sporting meu who linger on the border-line that runs between legal aud Illegal practices will tell you, with half envy, th at during the past year this man Johnson has cleared nearlv $50,000 iu the business. He Is a well-built fellow of about 4 k neatly dressed, finely educated and i | an offshoot of un old New England family, whose nam e he dropped long «luce. '1 here is Joe Little, who Is perhaps one of the least successful of the well-known sharps in the “green goods” profession. A dapper, dudlsh, showy sort of a fellow, whom the veri est granger ought to be able to recognize as a gambler and coutldeuce man. Yet be has gone alouir successfully enough, aud is credited with having i>ocketed fully $20,001) of other people’s money during the tw elvem onths th at have ju st pas-;d. Harry Parmley is another of the leaders iu this lawless trade. He Í» not a specimen of m aul, beauty by any means, still he would pa$s for a trim, well kept business man of 50, ,nd the money he has gathered during the ast « X years from tho credulous pocket books of his dufies has made him a com forta bly rich man. On any hr g h t sunny afternoon in these bracing winter days Mr. Pannh-y can be secu sw lngiug grecefullv along on Broad way and Union square and T hirtieth street, with the air of u man wholly at peace wlth- self ami the world. But Barny Mcguire is the recognized king of the “green g kx I n ” men. Years ago he was faro-dealer iu Mike Murrays place and w as a watcher for John Morriasty’s game both here and in Saratoga. No man e-.’c- gathered in a «take which he had not. fa rly wo.i from the green table while Barney supervised the game, and no denier ever lout a winning u n der Maguire’s eagle eve. All the gam bler’» in New York kuow him, and the new ones soon make his acquaintance Many a luckless card m anipulator has been staked by Barney until luck improved, and there are few sport ing men better liked by bis associates than this same burlv, big fl «ted, rough looking fol low, who within the last few years. If half th a ’ is said be true, has laid aside over $100,- 00 ) from lhe proceeds of his il egitím ate bus! ne«s. .There are a dozen others less prominently knoxn, but all of them living on the fat of the laibL “ How do th c r m.ta.ige to make this money and yet escape from ttie inealms of the law !” «aid the wondering newspaper man to kindly- faced John Wilkinson, wjjo is one of the most reliable and successful am ong tlie roanogort of the big dstectiv-' agencie» bi this city. “Ob. easy enough as tiiO law now stand«,’’ replied Mr. Wilkinson. “You see, the promi nent rnen »ou speak of are, never at the front in any of these sawdust transactions Each of them Is tlie leader <>f a g an g of operators, for the business needs a large force of em ployes. There are Ihe men at the ferries and depots to note Ihe coming of grangers, others farth er up the street ready lo get the tip from tbe watc.in r«, t l v Mtíand shakers’ who claim the strangers’ Q£gnaiutance, the office people, the outshle men mid w whole host of m inor rogues who live on this public eredulitv. “ Of course the n n til frv make only their pickings and stealings, ju st as In corner poli tics and elsewhere, but the leaders grow rich on big and fn’ip i-n t profits.” “ Can’t the business lie suppressed!” “ Well,” answered Mr. Wilkinson, “ as tbe law stand« now Hie court« find It difficult to send a man lo nluio prison for this kind of swindling, and t lie sawdust man who fights bard is generally certain of acquittal. And th e ’.’ all do fight bard, a’.d have plenty of money to lee counsel. Tbe methods of these fellows have been exposed time and time azain, but the world is full of fools who are w lling to believe they can get the best of i líese swindlers. They go Into the attem p t with their eves open, and It costs them bun dreds of dollar- to learn bow easily they have been gulled.” f “No Successful Substitute for Justice.1 I t is somewhat surprising th at the agitation In favor of aboli«bing, by m eans of ju«t laws- tbe disgrace of American literary piracy should have been until lately carried on al most exclusively by those «up[>oaed to be dl rectly interested ; namely, writers aud pub lishers. Only lately have there been signs th at the clergy—the g u ardians of both private and public m o ra ls-ta k e any vital interest in tiie subject, or th a t tbe people at large are arous ed to tbe national dishonor. But the stolen books with which the country is deluged art read by tbe country. How many among out citizens are alive to the shameful fact that American pirates and the American publk have for generations been living on stolen lite ra tu re ! Congress has been blamed for its Indifference—but who among us can escape reproach; who among us has done bi« whole duty in attem pting to rig h t this g igantic wrong, to wipe out this unendurable national disgrace! Mr. Lowell, In presiding over tbe very su c cessful A uthors’ Headings in New York last November, added to the num ber of his adinlr able sayings in favor of international copy right. He repeated two most fortunate phrases of his own on this subject—phrases used l>v him Iu his notable addiess to a com m ittee of Cougresa: “ There is one thing bet ter than a cheap book, and th at Is a book honestly come by;” “ Our authors are the o n ly workers among us who are forced to com pete with men who receive no w ises at all.” In the course of his ( bickering llall ndd|'css, In which the above watch words were again given out, Mr. Lowell saldf “ To stegl a hook I have bought is th e ft; to steal a boAk I have ma le— w hat is th a t!” In referring to the ef fect of the abeence of International copyright upon the country nt large, he put the ques tlon, “ W hether it be prudent In a nation to allow its literature, or a part of its literature, to be made for It by another n atio n —In other words, to allowing the shap ng of Its thought, and therefore Its character, to be done by th at oth er!” But the deepest word of all wa« this: “ I prefer th at the argum ent should rest, not upon Interest ami expediency, but upon honesty and Justice. No successful sub stitu te for justice bas ever bean d isco v ered - nothing with the lasting (piallty of Justice.” These are golden words, tha key note of a g reat national reform ; or, to take another figure, abaft« of light heralding the dawn of a nt-w e n of justice, a new era in tbe literature of the English «peaking race — TAe Century. THE B L IZ Z A R D . K x p e r le n c c o f O n a IV lio !!•• W W - lie x a e d t h e T e r r i b l e < lo u d - B u r a U u The term blizzard Is of W estern origin aaaS is lutended to convey to the understan d in g the nature of a wind and snowstorm, ace<as> pan led by au Intensely cold wave, whleto, Cna suddeuut ss of approach, violence of onset and appalling consequential horrors can not t< lequately expressed by any word know n Is dietionar> makers, w rites n correspondent <4 The Huetun Juurn/J. To speak ot three peculiar rto n u s as snowstorms, In the srnsr th at the term is ordinarily understood, would be misleading. They may be more eorvectljr termed cloud-bursts of what bus been ai ll.V called Ice dust, of g reat extent, violence sail long duiaHou, so com pact and firm »« to be ImiM'uetrable to both sight slid hearing, evrv iu their very short range. W hen It .a ctm sldered th at the Ice-dust is frequently drlwst. through tbe air by au Intensely cold wind, at a velocity of from thirty to fifty miles an h o u r, it cau easily lie imagiued how very sm all saw the chances of escape to man or beast w h o » uufortunate enough to be caught In a blizxanl a t any considerable distauce from sh elter. I will here remark th at these terrific storm s aaw always preceded by several days of rem ark ab ly warm aud pleutHiil winter weather. It wav on the 7th ano 4th of Jauuary, IU73, th a t haying been a resident of N o rth w estern Mbiucsota, had a personal experience o f • blizzard, which, for severity and dlsus ri-uu consequences, ha« bad uo parallel since u n til the recent oue th at swept over the gi»-ut Northwest, causing such terrible suffering »nA loss of life to both m;m and beast. For lo u r os five days preceding tbe approach of t b e bPzzard referred to, the weather bad to e u mild ami springlike; especially was the fcre- uoou of the d a y the storm b e g a n W l u u , sunny aud delightful, luring meu to meaifows for hay, to the “ timbers’* U>r fuel or to town for businss or pleasure. wind blew freshly from the south aud e a s t till noon, when of a sudden it ceased s u it was succeeded for a brief period by au « S u u - ous calm th at could almost be felt. W lioevw turned bis eyes toward tbe northwest m ig h t have observed a black cloud rapidly »pproa<-fl ing without com prehending its frig u ttu i sigiaf flcance. I t is proverbial among seam en th a t, a nor’w ester iu winter on the count of N ew E ngland always comes “ b utt end fir«.‘t* > lu thi« instance, though far from the A U an iic coast, the old nautical adage was fully a.v.t fearfullly verified. In le«9 than half an h v r e after the south wind bad fallen calm, th * storm was upon us iu all Its fury. It w dout»(- ful, if a man bad been approaching i»> house at a distance of thirty rods, ten m in utes a fter the storm struck, would h a w reacned it. Being myself warmly h o u w d . abundantly supplied with wood, water «it«! p r o v is io n s , I stiff« red nothing except Lorn t h e consciousness th at whoever m ight be so lu c k less as to be exposed to tbe pitiless peldiqsr» of th a t storm m ust iuevitably perish. 1 wwa then living utx>u a prairie farm f< ur m il«« from town and a mile or more from my n e a r est neighbors. As I llsteued to the howliiyg of the tem pest and pondered up«<u the fury and force of the elem ents I w.og Inspired with a sense of my ineonsequcix»- anu the overwhelm ing majesty of the pow ers of nature, which I will not attem pt to d e- cribe. At the end of tw enty-four hours storm subsided, so th a t the young man liv tu x with me was able to climb into the gable e w l door of mv barn aud find bis stock. It was w day later before they could be watered. Cured by a Spirit Doctor's Advice V. 8ebastillo Fenzi, of Florence, Italy, w r it'v to tbe JialigiO’Phi'QiophtciL Journn : A. - tleman in Paris, well known and highly t - teemed, but whose name I am not allowed h mention, bad a son who was takeu ver v 1! with anem ia some seven years ago, above gentlem an, whom we will call X, a>.d bis wife, placed him, the 6on Lonls, in ti*» bunds of the best physicians of Pari«, w1.- after b attling against the disease for alxxaT two year«, had to tell X th a t tbe «lays of fcj«- b .'loved Louis w-ere counted, and th a t be b ail better prep-.ro the mother, as they could i.i t possibly save him. Thereupon X and his wife called upon u young lady, the step-daughter of a w< H known personage in the French capital. besought her to see if they could possibly « f»- tain auv help from the spirit-world, she beii*R a powerful w riting medium. The young lady «ahi she would try, ar/tJ took up a pencil und waited to see if any com mun cations could be obtained, and «urv enough after a few m inute«’ delav her haw*: Nvrotc out tbe name of a doctor, who a f t e r ward explained th at be bad been, when in the form, a medical man in Venice, 450 years age*, and added Hint be would save the lx>y if th»-* billowed his advice. The suggestions were scrupulously obeyed and the young man was a t once benefited >••- them, but as it u a sa u tn m n the Invisible d o tor told the parents through the fair m edium th at they were to shun tbe cold and go V, Florence, Italy, and they were to call on in«, who In a few weeks would restore him to p< < feet health through my m agnetic power. 1 wan unknown to every oue of the p a rfr. but they dared not disobey, and eaiue at on • her«*, where, after having bean made iw s r * that I really existed, X called on me, ami, ». though rather coutre eveur, disclosed the pur port of his visit I clasped his hand and placed ravself at hr*- bidding, feeling alm ost sure th a t - all woulvf turn out In accordance with what the apt’ Doctor had declnretL For two m onths or more 1 mesmerized iu»«* * sverv other day—now more, now less—ju st a.- the Doctor ordered at the thm . and the co» sequence was th a t Louis regained bis enti- health, went back with tho familv to Pa» > and has never been ill since, aud 1 guutiu to receive even to this day letters of th u n k « from them all. I ha*e saved other people through the a n m of my healthy magnetism , t»ul 1 only give u/> Attention to it when pressed by friends to C o AO. I never go to any public exhibitions o l hypnotism, for I look upou them as a pro fanation, as the |>eople who th u s engage p u b lie attention have all th e appearance of ch ar latans »nd none of the dignity of true pbV laulhropists. The VomigeHt Senator. The new Senator fom West Virginia, Mr. Faulkuer, is the youngest man iu the body, being six m onths the junior of bis col league, Mr. Keuua, and nine m onths younger than Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin. He will tw forty years old in March. The youngest iw»s» sver adm itted to the senate was S tephen W. Dorsey, who was thirty-six years old when b t was sworn in. There have been a num ber oi Senators who were less tbau forty-one wbeut they were sworn In, hut tbe average age iis that body was never so low as now. Mr. Frye* of Maine, Is the youngcst-lookbig m an In t b i Senate, although he Is nearly sixty, aud the grau d fath er of nine healthy youngster*. He has not a gray hair on bis head. His com plexion Is us fresh as It was forty years age» and he docs not look more th an thirty-five.— Chicago Herald. An Early S tart. Oconee county boasts perhaps the you n g est mother ever known in the state. A g e n t la man of undoubted veracity says th at several years ago a girl living in th a t county in arrival at the age of 9 years, and before her te.atfe birthday she became a mother. When marri ed the girl wa« s« well developed as a woruas^ and weighed HO pound«. Her h u sband waa 45 years of age. The family were white, a a < moved to Alabama, where they now reside.-- Augucta Chronicle. h Pertinent Query. It Is an undoubted fact th a t M sj. H tofak W fat, but he wasu’t aware un til last nig h t tlsw other people knew It. Last n ig h t he was Mat calling, and during the conversation be cw m arked: “ Well, I travel on my shajie.” “ Indeed,” replied the young woman, sizine him up. “ Don’ t yo u find It a very long w ay around!” — iFasdiw^few Critic.