Scio weekly press., March 11, 1892, Image 3

A FIGHT TO THE DEATE
KNOCKINS OUT A JEHU.
RcRentniciit of the Insults of a Big Stage
Driver by a Little Dude.
A FIERCE AND BLOODY KNIFE DUEL
Colonel William Greene Sterrett, of
IN A MOUNTAIN TOWN.
the Galveston-Dallas News, tells this
COLD WATER CURES ALL.
A universal panacea for suffer ­
ing HUMANITY.
NEW LQNfeN IN
WAR.
The Strategic Vahielof a Connecticut City
in the Defensp of New York.
Navy officers wBo have studied the
region have often dad urgently pressed
upon their department the importance of
developing the statam at New London
and making it efficient. One must ad­
mire their energy find faithfulness in
continuing to lay before their superiors
the vital importai&e of strengthening
this strategic base in the outer defense
of New York in the face of long con­
tinued pigeonholing of reports. That
their anxiety is hot ^unfounded becomes
plain when we consider that Great
Britain has a powerful station at Hali­
fax, from which, if so disposed, she
could hurl her thunderbolts of maritime
war upon this unprotected spot at very
short notice, precisely as she could
strike our South Atlantic coast from the
Bahamas. She mawnever even wish to
do either thing, butten’t it rather fool­
ish to remain unprepared for the blow
when we have am® resources for es­
tablishing a guard against it?
The amount of trade that passes
through Long Islandsound coastwise is
hardly conceived offey the majority of
citizens. It amounts to a great many
million dollars’ worth a year, and all
this trade could be paralyzed by a quick
stroke from a foreigiAiavy. In 1880 the
entire munitions of war manufactured
in the United StatesMmounted to $11,-
000,000. Of this to®, $9,000,000 worth
was mannfactujgijnfconnecticnt alone.
A foreign fleqtrin Jj^^fftind, therefore,
would be able to d^jfve us of our main
source of munitions without even at­
tempting to attack New York.
Cut off a city’s’ supply of air and What
would it matter Whether that city sur­
rendered or not? Shut off from New
York in war time nine elevenths of the
material it needed for war and it would
be as helpless as a city Without air to
breathe. But -this is not all. An enemy
in the sound could cut at New London
and again at New Haven, the chief lines
of land communication and railroad
transportation between New England
and New York. .
If of the loss, which would thus be
caused a small’ percentage were now to
be promptly appliedto building up New
York’s outer line of defense, with a
strong navy yard at New London as its
base, the whole cost would be defrayed
in a few years without -inconvenience to
anyone. In time of action, while our
battle ships and cruisers patrolled the
■Race or engaged the enemy, with sup­
port from the forts’ our monitors, emerg­
ing from New London, would lurk safe
ly behind Fisher’s island, prepared to
assist; for there again, on the north face,
nature favors us With the sheltered wa­
ters of Hay harbor and West harbor. In
case of injury, vessels could quickly run
into New London, and repair at the navy
yard. Thus, while the surroundings and
topography are not the same as those of
the entrance to the Mediterranean, we
should still have what might, well be
called “an American Gibraltar,” quite
as invulnerable as the stronghold at the
pillars of Hercules, and much greater in
range.
Boston can be equipped effectually to
defend herself; and Newport also, if
fortified, is in. a position to ward off an
enemy. But neither of these, by so do­
ing, can help to defend New York. New
London, on the other hand, if her nat­
ural advantages are ujjljzed. can repel
any attack on NevvJgiwiwi&iu the "east/
and thereby relieve the lifcirepolis from
dread in that quarter'. . It iswell, it is
indispensable, to protect NewYork from
assault by way of the Narrows. But
what will it avail to bar that small front
door if the broad rear entrance through
the sound be left undefended?—G. P.
•Lathrop in Harper’s Weekly. .
story:
“Once, a good many years ago,” he **Tlie Abbe Sebastian Kneipp” and His
Power of Healing — A Patient De­
said, “I was traveling in a stage in
western Texas. It was long before the
scribes the Method of the Priest’s Treat­
snort of the locomotive was heard on
ment—Cold Water Used Externally.
bridled Ferocity.
the prairies, of that region, over which
Few Americans have seen the little
It was Saturday and “trading day,” the buffalo yet rpamed. At one of the
and the little mountain town was filled I stations a young Englishman and his village of Woerishofen, between Mem­
with scores of both white and colored | wife got in. He was a little fellow and mingen and Augsbourg, in Bavaria, and
people from up and down the valley. dressed as a typical Englishman—what yet for the past four or five years this
There was considerable drinking, but we now call a dude. The driver was a little burg has attracted as many visitors
everybody seemed good natured to mo. big, raw boned six footer. He was a as Bayreuth and Oberammergau. Woer­
I could not see the slightest sign of un­ noted fighter. He had never been whip­ ishofen is celebrated not for its mineral
easiness, but by and by the captain came ped and was a regular terror. He waters, not for its bracing air, but for
to me as I stood in front of the postoffice seemed to take a dislike to the little its marvelous cures performed by the
and said:
Englishman from the start. Presently priest of the village, the Abbe Sebastian
“Looks mighty like thar’ was gwine he stopped the stage, got down, came Kneipp. Each year at least 30,000 in­
valids make a pilgrimage to Woerishofen
to be bloodshed y ere!”
back and threw open the door.
“Why, everybody seems peaceful and
“ ‘Here,’ he said to the Englishman, and endure all inconveniences in order
serene, so far as I can see.”
‘you come out of that and get up on the to be cured by the Abbe Kneipp.
The Abbe Kneipp is a celebrity in
“Yo’ doan’ know these folks. See that seat with me. There ain’t room for you
yere gatherin over by the harness shop! in there.’ The Englishman didn’t move. Germany. He is called a genius, a
That’s the Jackson crowd. See that ‘Come out, I tell yon,’ roared the driver. savant, a benefactor of the human race.
other gatherin over by the drug store! The Englishman just sat still. ‘If you Everything in the village is named for
That’s the. Berry crowd. They’re jist don’t come out, I’ll haul you out by the the wise priest. For instance, there is
eyin each other like two bulldogs, and a legs,’ shouted the Jehu. Then the rest Kneipp coffee, Kneipp bread, Kneipp
'leetle mo’ whisky’ll bring on a fout.”
of us expostulated with the driver. 1 linen, etc. Always at -least a dozen
“Is there any feeling between the two was too tired to fight and couldn’t get at physicians are present at the consulta­
crowds?” I asked. ’
my gun, so I just expostulated along tions of the priestly heal'r, and these,
“Powerful bad. I dnn goes cl’ar back with the rest. We told the driver there after thoroughly understanding his sys­
to the wah. The Jacksons was Union was plenty of room inside; that the Eng- tem, will found Kneipp Anstalten at
and the Berry’s was Confed. Thar was lishmah was not crowding us, and that Stuttgart, Munich, Wurtzbourg, etc.
This good abbe believes that water
houseburnin and rubbin and shootin, if he (the driver) insulted or injured any
and they doan forget. It’s the fust time of his passengers he would be discharged will cure all the ills to „which flesh ia.
the two crowds hev bin in town together by the stage company. The driver by heir. A friend who went ‘from Paris to
fur more’n a y’ar, and I doan like the this time was wild. He swore he was consult the Abbe Kneipp Has tòld me of
looks of things.”
in command of that stage and that he her experience at Woerishofen, and of
“Can’t the officers of the law keep proposed to run it to suit himself, and if her great admiration for the abbe’s wis­
them quiet?”
that blankety blank cuss didn’t come dom.
THE ABBE.
“Officers of the law! Why, man, if out he’d pull him out.
In the village there are only three or
them crowds were to break loose fifty
“ ‘All right,’ said the Englishman, at
officers of the law couldn’t prevent blood­ last. ‘I will come out, and when I am four primitive inns, but most of the in­
valids lodge in private houses no less
shed!”
out I will whip you soundly.’
The leaders of the respective factions
“He got out slowly. We all felt sorry primitive. The abbe has been compelled
were men who must have been mere boys for him and sorrier for his wife. She to build a large house for the benefit of
when the war broke out. Each had didn’t seem scared or worried, though, the clergy, for priests also ask to be cured
by their confrere.
about a dozen adherents, who were ali and all she said was:
The abbe receives at the presbytery,
more or less closely related.
“ ‘Charley, don’t let him scratch your
and begins consultations at 8 o’clock in
HOW THE FIGHT STARTED.
face.’ ”
They did not seem at all anxious for a
“Well, when the little Englishman the morning. The great physician sits
conflict and might have gone their ways got out he took his coat off and handed in a large room on the ground floor, sur­
without a blow but for the action of a it back into the stage. Then die started rounded by pupils. The abbe is a fine
dog. He was a mean looking cur and toward the driver and the driver started looking man. 'His regular features and
belonged to the Jacksons. In wander­ toward him. We heard a sound a good fresh complexion denote health, and his
ing around he got into the Berry crowd deal like that made by hitting a steer in broad, high forehead, hardly touched by
and, one of lbe men sliced about six the head with an ax. Down in a heap a wrinkle, is framed in white hair.
His eyes are the bluest and brightest I
inches of bis tail off. The dog rushed went the driver. He was up as quick as
back to his master, while the Berry a flash. Down he went again. Actually have ever seen, -forTiis soul seems to be
crowd mocked his yelps of pain and that little English dude knocked that .concentrated in thèse eyes, and they pene­
fright.
burly six foot driver clean off his feet a trate you through and through—in fact,
All cf a sudden Steve Jackson stepped dozen times. How it was done none of to make a diagnosis, the abbe only looks
to the middle of the street, flung down us could tell. The big fellow would at a patient and in diagnosis he never
his hat and Routed:
rush at the little’un with his arms, go­ errs. Some who went to the priest with
“Tom Berry, ef yo’ hain’t a coward, ing like flails. Suddenly the little fellow despair in their hearts left him buoyed
come out yere and fight me!”
would make a dash, his'right arm would up by courage and with the assurance
The challenge was instantly accepted fly ont, and down would go the driver. that their diseases were not incurable.
Although the abbe says “I cannot de­
and within sixty seconds a ring was After the dozenth round that driver
stroy death,” still he has cured many
formed and 300 people were looking on. called out:
The men were pretty evenly matched as
“ ‘Hold on, stranger—hold on! I’m whose diseases baffled the skill of others.
to. height and weight and age. It was whipped and throw up my bands. You A man whose face was disfigured by a
not to ba a battle with fists, but with kin ride anywhere on this stage you darn horrible cancer asked his advice. Calm­
long, keen hunting knives, and you could please, outside or inside or on the bosses. ly the priest said, “It is easily cured,”
tell at a glance that it was to be a fight You’re the boss now; but,’ he added, and after several weeks of lotions and
to the death. At fini there was much glaring savagely at the rest of us, T kin baths the cancer disappeared. The blind
have recovered their sight and the lamé
jostling and moving about, accompanied lick anybody else on this stage.’
by shouts of encouragement to thé men,
“We didn’t expostulate. The English­ have walked.
According to the Abbe Kneipp-every
bnt after a few moments it was quiet— man climbed back- into the stage as
painfully quiet. I think there were at quickly as he got off. His wifff was sat­ disease originates in the blood; there
least thirty women among the onlookers isfied, for ‘Charley’s’ face wasn’t even may be a disturbance in its circulation,
and fully that number of boys and girls scratched. At the qext station the driver where may be a derangement, of its com­
from tell to eighteen years of age.
explained that if he’d only have got hold position.
WHAT WATER DOES.
BOTH DUELISTS KILLED.
of the little fellow he’d have hugged him
Water alone can act thoroughly on the
It was the first and only time I ever to death like a bear; ‘but,’ he exclaimed,
saw men’fight with knives, and it was a ‘every time, just as I was about to lay blood, arid water produces four, notice­
horrible thing to see. As soon as their hands on him the ground’d fly up and able effects. It dissolves the injurious
principles of the blood, eliminates that
friends fell back they rushed upon each hit me on the back of the head?
other with the greatest .fury. Each,
“Who was the little fellow? Oh, a which has been dissolved, restores regu­
griped the other with his left hand and graduate of Cambridge, and the best lar circulation to the purified blood and
stabbed -and thrust, and each was boxer of his time at the university.”— fortifies the debilitated organism. In a
talk with, the abbe after consultation
wounded four oi^ five times before they Washington Post.
hours, he Baid that fifty years ago people
broke loose. Not a person in the crowd
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did not take cold as at the present time.
Blunders of the Teachers.
spoke above a whisper. Every eye fol­
A Chance for a Fortune.
A friend, himself for many years a Why? Simply because the body was more
lowed the men as they feinted and
There survive in this city a few hand
dodged like prize fighters, and men and teacher, writes: “The blunders of teach­ hardened to changes in temperature.
Water makes'the body capable of en­ cork cutters who still contrive to make a
women shivered and gasped for breath ers of English literature are sometimes
as one or the other of the knives drank more amazing than any that are told of during all climates, and the best way to sort of living in competition with the
their pupils'. I heard the other day of a begin the treatment is to walk barefoot cork cutting machines and the peasants
blood.
The road was dry, but without dust. woman at the west who, when a class in the.wet grass. After a quarter of an of Catalonia. One of these men hangs
Presently it was dyed with blood. The was reading Tennyson’s ‘Day Dream,' hour’s promenade without drying the out a curious sign in an east side street.
men slipped a little now and then as explained to them that the happy prin­ feet, one must put on dry shoes and It is a glass case containing the model of
they dodged, about. Blood ran off their cess, in following her lover ‘deep into stockings and exercise until the feet are a house all of cork. It is possibly the
finger tips, down their legs. I trembled the dying day,’ went to America! The very warm. “If you can find' no dew, house that Jack built, for. there are bits
like a leaf. I felt a horrible disgust, and laureate would be tickled to know of no wet grass,” said the abbe, “walk ou of cork to simulate bags of grain. The
yet I could not move away. I felt I this. A year 'or more ago there was a cold, wet stones, or even on the snow. factory is a shed in the rear of an ordi­
discussion in a leading educational jour­ That is my remedy for those who are al­ nary dwelling house. Here, with the
must see the end.
aid of some simple machinery, 1 * :ork
When the fight had lasted a quarter of nal as to the persons meant in Longfel­ ways taking cold.”
The abbe’s treatment varies according cutter manages to eke out an existence.
an hour, and one man liad eight stabs low’s lines ‘To the River Charles,’ where
to the malady. For some he prescribes His chief grievances are the competition
and the other nine they - suddenly he says:
vapor baths, for others wet compresses, of machinery and the problem of dispos­
‘‘More than this —thy name reminds me
clinched each, other, as at first. Neither
Of three friends, all true and tried, etc.
for others baths with oats ór hay added ing of the waste,•
uttered a cheer, curse or groan.
“One'writér suggested that they were to the water, etc. The water must be
Light as cork is, tons of clippings ac­
They stood square up to each other,
and hacked and cut and thrust until Professor Cornelius C. Fulton, Nathaniel as cold as possible, and in winter snow is cumulate,. and although various uses
both sank down from sheer weakness. Hawthorne and Charles Sumner. An­ preferred. But a cold bath must never have been discovered for this refuse, it
Jackson died within ten minutes; Berry other thought that Louis Agassiz’s name last more than five minutes, including brings little or nothing when sold, and
lived about thirty. The one had thirty- ' should stand in the place of Haw­ the time required for dressing and un­ constantly accumulates to the embar­
three, wounds, the other twenty-eight. thorne’s, and this was finally accepted dressing, and the bather must never use rassment of the corkcutter. There is a
As they, were picked up by their friends by all concerned. Neither the editor nor towels, but .always exercise for fifteen comfortable little fortune for the man
and carried into the drugstore to breathe any of his correspondents or readers ap­ minutes after the bath. Friction only who shall devise some really profitable
their last, the hogs running about the peared to see the absurdity of making causes unequal circulation, but exercise use for cork clippings.—New York Sun.
village came and disputed with the the name of the river suggest friends produces a uniform heat.
How They Got Along.
Warm baths should always be followed
dozen dogs over' possession of the blood whose names were other than Charles.”
A Nantucket woman tells of the an­
—Critic.
by a plunge in cold water. The good
pools.—Detroit Free Press.
abbe says one must never drink too much noyance to which the Mitchell household
■«Making the Right Shade.
water, and the least possible during re­ was subjected, after its daughter, Maria
A Boarding; School Supper.
Thosé who have sought in vain for
A teacher in a large boarding school laces to match the color of silk on lamp pasts. “Drink a little water beforè eat­ Mitchell, became famous', at the hands
for young ladies used to jest over, a pupil shades and other decorative articles may ing, very little while eating, and two or of two importunate tourists. Its privacy
whose appetite at table caused her neigh­ be able to produce the right shade by three hours after drink as much as you was so persistently and unwarrantably
invaded that its members felt occasion­
bors serious alarm. If was the custom using some of the French tapestry dyes. wish.”—Paris Cor. New York World.
ally that politeness ceased to be a virtue.
to have hot raised biscuits twice a week One should experiment on a bit of lace,
Proceeds of a Jackknife.
One persistent woman, who got herself
for supper, and this girl, after eating six first to see if the dyes are properly
The champion horse jockey belongs in admitted on a shay lUtaretext-so wearied
one evening, gave her teacher and doctor thinned, so as to get the desired shade.
a very bad night indeed. It never seemed Any of the thin laces in silk or cotton Belfast in the *person of Lije Walker. a sister of Miss""Mitchrilfihto whose
to enter anybody’s head that hot yeast take the dyes nicely, Point d’Esprit and Just to give his boy ah idea how to get hands she fell, that when the woman
biscuit was the food above all others to German Valenciennes looking very well along in the world Lije started away after a series of searching questions
cause morbid appetite and bilious at­ when treated with the yellow shades. from home one day on foot and nothing wound up with, “And what do you do
tacks. Yet the supper of hot biscuitt In the Valenciennes several delicate tints in his pockets but a jackknife. He was in this dull town after the tourists are
and cheese with honey or preserves is on.', may be used on the light and the heavy absent just one week and returned driv­ gone?’ the other replied, with a drawl
of the institutions of boarding schools, part of the lace, bringing out the design ing a pair of horses harnessed into a top natural to her, “Oh, we cut off our cou­
and worse fare for growing girls it would with excellent effect. In preparing lace buggy. Hitched to the rear axle- was pons. ”—Exchange.
be hard to find.—Shirley Dare’s Letter. for the dye, brush and press it carefully, another horse and a cow, while ahead
Reckless Economy.
was a dog. “See how your pap does it,”
then stretch it upon a board, laying sev­ said Lije to his son, as he gazed at the
As an illustration of reckless economy
Some Famous Echoes.
eral thicknesses of paper underneath.- time of day from a handsome watch. it may be mentioned that a lady for
There is a famous echo on the Rhine Dip a small bristle brush in the dye and
between Coblentz and Bingen, which re­ lay it on freely. When nearly dry, lay For a fact he had got the whole turnout warded to Siam several parcels de­
peats a word seventeen times, while in the lace on a padded board and press for his jackknife, and swapping the pro­ clared to contain walking sticks and
ceeds, into one thing and another.—Bel­ stationery of the value of £7 10s., but
the sepulcher of Metella, the wife of with a hot iron.—New York Post.
fast (Me.) Mail.
Sulla, in the Roman campagna there is
the vigilant eye of the custom house
an echo which repeats five times in dif­
officer promptly detected a brilliant
An improved form of challenge to a
One Little Tiling.
ferent keys, and will also give back with duel is the following Quaker note, “If
collection of diamonds and jewelry
“
It
’
s
little
things
that
count,
”
said
distinctness a hexameter line which re­ thou yvilt eat twelve unripe apples just Hicks.
worth upward of £25,000. The case
quires two and a half seconds to utter. before retiring at night I will do the
“Ye-es,” returned Ma wson. “But very was accordingly reported as contrary
Brewster mentions an echo on the north
inaccurately. My boy can’t count eleven to regulation. The postage at the reg
side of Shipley church, in Sussex, Eng­ same and we will-seè wlio survives.”
without making about forty mistakes.” istered letter rate would have amount­
land, which repeats twenty-one syllables.
A writer suggests the raising and —Harper’s Bazar.
ed to about t flirty pounds, and it may be
—Brooklvn Eagle.
training of messenger pigeons as an en­
assumed that the course adopted was
London Society Not Exclusive.
terprise in which some young readers
Mysteries of Manufacture.
prompted by the desire to save the dif­
English people simply adore an odd­ would be sure to find both pleasure and * Cigar Manufacturer—Yes, sir, it’s an ference between the ordinary parcel
ity of any description. Like the Athe­ profit if systematically carried out.
actual fact that cigar boxes are not made rate and this amount. —London Tit-
' out of cedar at all; they are made out of Bits.
nians of old, .they are ever on the look­
_______ _______
A mangrove plant has been success­ paper and colored with cedar extract.
out for some new thing, something that
Electricity in Mountain Mines.
Friend—Well! well! Now won’t you
will entertain them, and an American fully grown in the University of Penn­
Many valuable high mountain mines,
in London is continually surprised by sylvania. Hitherto it has been found please tell me what cigars are made of? which could not be worked profitably
—
Good
News.
seeing people'crop up in society there impossible to grow this plant away
owing the expense of transporting fuel
who would not be tolerated’ here. Par­ from the ocean.
A valuable antiseptic soap is made by to the engines, are now being operated
adoxical as it may seem, it is neverthe­
A chest protector made of papers that adding twelve parts of sulphate of cop­ by electric motors, whose power is fur­
less true that good New York society is
will
not rattle and covered with Hun­ per to eighty-eight parts of any good nished by another motor in the valley,
really much more exclusive than the
soap. It will readily heal sores and which uses water power.—New York
fashionable set in London.—Interview nel answers the same purpose as the scratches and is devoid of any irritating Times.
expensive
ones
sold
by
druggists.
action.
in New York Tribune.
It Was the Culmination of a Long Stand­
ing Feud» and Was Precipitated by a
Cur Dog—Sanguinary Result* of Un­
•JUDGE AND BUNKO MEN.
A NEW YORK CITY JUDICIAL OFFI­
CER’S EXPERIENCE.
A WONDERFUL PARROT.
He Learned to Press the Button and
Give the FInnkey Various Orders.
A gentleman who has returned from
Mexico, and who brought with him a
Two Smooth Tongued Sharpers Make a parrot which he purchased in Vera
Sad Mistake in “Sizing Up” a Man, Cruz, has been very much astonished
at some tricks which that bird has
and One Is Arrested and Sentenced—The
learned during the few days he has been
“Pal” Meets a Later Fate.
in the house. The bird’s owner, Colo­
At the Lawyers’ club a few nights ago nel Howard Johnson, occupies a beauti­
Judge Rufus B. Cowing and Judge Henry ful residence in the suburbs, and Jocko
A. Gildersleeve were spinning yarns on has from the first shown the liveliest
the queer experiences they have had with interest in all his surroundings. It was
the thieving fraternity, when not known. very soon found that he could not be
Judges Gildersleeve and Cowing are two allowed his liberty in Mrs. Johnson’s
jolly and most entertaining compan­ room, as he at once formed a terrible
ions. They are very7 popular wherever antipathy to a beautiful panther skin
they go and now and then meet with a rug, in which the head is remarkably
sharper who-tries to ingratiate himself I lifelike, and the moment he was re­
in their good gracesrto the extent of as leased he would make for the rug and
many dollars as they may happen to have begin biting savagely at its eyes and
in their pockets.
nose. He escaped from his cage one
Judge Gildersleeve was telling how he day and almost demolished the nose of
was approached by a bunko man a few the rug, and after that he was chained
years ago- at the Pennsylvania railroad to his perch.
depot in Jersey City, and how he crossed
It happened that for several days in
the ferry with the “hand shaker,” who succession the perch stood by the wall,
thought he had made a great capture.
Judge Gildersleeve is a famous sports­ close beside the electric bell. When
man and a sharpshooter. He has won Mrs. Johnson touched the button.
many prizes with his rifle at national Jocko took notes, with his head on
and international tournaments, and has one side and a most inquiring air, and
written a dozen books on rifles, marks­ when the servant appeared immediate­
manship and game, big and little. He ly afterward Jocko gave a faint croak
was returning from a trip to Pennsylva­ of ast.qnishme.nt. - After witnessing this
nia, where he had had a very-pleasur­ performance several times it was evi­
able time shooting with a party of Phil­ dent that Jocko began to see some con­
adelphia lawyer friends.
nection between- the button and the
He had hardly got off the train at servant.
Jersey City when he felt a vigorous slap
He spent a great deal of time study­
on the back.
ing the button, running his beak softly
“Why, hello, my dear Mr. Thompson. around it, and apparently qommuning
So glad to see you. Just- in from Phila­ with himself, bis mistress watching him
delphia, eh? How are all the folks at
mean white, highly amused at his clever­
home?”
When Judge Gildersleeve got a chance ness. At last, whether accidentally or
otherwise, Jocko discovered the con
to say a word he replied meekly:
“Yes, just in from Philadelphia. I nection and pressed the button. The
guess the folks are all well. They were next moment a servant appeared, and
the little schemer straightened up and
when I left them, anyway.”
“Now, I’ve met you in Philadelphia, said with great gravity, “Jocko’s hun­
I am sure. Don’t you remember me?” ■ gry.” His mistress’ shouts of laughter
THE JUDGE GETS EVEN.
and the servant’s -astonishment did not
Knowing what sort of a character he in the least discompose him. He had
had to deal with, Judge Gildersleeve led rung for what he wanted, and he in­
him on in a modest, innocent way.
sisted on having it.
“Why, you must be mistaken,” said
The scheme worked well, to Jocko’s
he to the bunko man. “My name is
Johnson, Joseph W. Johnson, and I keep manifest delight. He rang the bell
•again before half an hour, and re­
a store in Philadelphia.”
“Why, I beg a thousand pardons,” and marked to the servant who answered
the bunko man bowed low and disap­ the call: “Well, you are a daisy? Jocko
wants water!”
peared.
Colonel Johnson is so delighted with
GAVE THE TIP TO HIS “PAL.”
Then came the “pal,” just as Judge his bird’s accomplishment that he in­
Gildersleeve expected. He was just vited some friends in to witness it last
stepping aboard the Desbrosses Street night. Jocko was inclined to sulk at
ferry when he got another slap on the first, but finally brightened up, and was
back.
soon working at the button. When the
“My dear Mr. Johnson, how are you servant entered Jocko poised -himself
and what are you doing over here? You on one foot, swung his body to and fro
don’t remembei; me, but I knew you in a most affected way, and exclaimed:
years ago in Philadelphia,” and bunko “Hello, Tom, is that you? . Bring in
man No. 2 plied his tongue in the most another bottle of wine, will you?”
voluble manner, Judge Gildersleeve as­
Colonel Johnson, be it understood,
senting to everything he. said. The
bunko man had got Judge Gildersleeve is a church member, and his minister
to promise that he would meet him again was present, and the colonel insists that
when he saw he couldu’t get him to join Jocko caught this trick before he came
into his hands.—St Louis Globe Demo­
him in a quiet game or a liquid smile.
“Now, my dear Mr. Johnson, don’t crat.
forget to meet me; will you?” said thé
Inscriptions on Ancient Swords.
bunko man as he stepped Out of the
The various inscriptions found on
ferry house on the New' York side.
‘-‘Officer, arrest this man,” said Judge the blades of swords may be said to
Gildersleeve to a policeman standing by. constitute a literature in .themselves.
“Say, you old jay, what do you mean?” This “cutlery poetry,” as Shakespeare
shouted the bunko man, red with anger. calls it, is not the least interesting fea­
“We will meet again, young man, in ture of a sword collection. Hundreds
a short time, I hope. I will give you my of Toledo rapiers were engraved with
name and place of business—Henry A. the wise council, “Do not draw me
Gildersleeve, judge, Part 3, court of gen­ without reason, do not sheathe me
eral sessions.”
without honor.” On an old Ferrara
“What’s the charge, judge?” asked the blade is the following inscription, “My
policeman.
value varies with the hand that holds
“Suspicious character.”
me.” A b'-ttle ax of formidable ap­
The next day the bunko man was sent pearance bears the comfortable assur­
to the island for six months by Justice
ance, “When I go up you go down-,”
Power, of the Tombs.
and on an old Hungarian sword is in­
THE “PAL” SENTENCED.
Two months later Judge Gildersleeve scribed, “He that .thinks not as I do
had the pleasure of meeting the man thinks falsely.”
Besides the mottoes on the blade»
who was king of the New York “hand
shakers,” “Kid” Miller. Miller was the are .engraved the maker’s name and
man who first addressed the judge in address or the owner’s arms. During
the depot at Jersey City.
the Sixteenth century warriors regarded
“Miller, I’ve met you before,” said elaborately ornamented hilts with as
Judge Gildersleeve.
much interest as we look on works of
“Not guilty,” replied Miller.
art at the present day. The blades of
“Well, I got off a Pennsylvania train in Italian swords were also sometim'es
Jersey City one day two months ago, with beautifully ornamented.—Kate Field’s
a gun and a basket and dressed in my Washington.
hunting clothes. I had been on a little
pleasure expedition, and you saw fit to
The Care of a Lamp.
interfere in the business of a peaceable,
To lessen the chance of accident from
law abiding citizen. Your companion
is now serving a term'on the island, and explosion of a lamp, trim the wick of
the strangers who come to town will be the lamp daily. When burned for sev­
better off if you follow suit. One year eral evenings .without trimming, the I
in the penitentiary,” and the bunko king wick becomes black, clogged and in­
was led away, and if ever a face looked capable of supplying the oil clearly and
uniformly, and the chimneys are some­
queer it was that dazed bunko man’s.
Thé two bunko men who tried to cap­ times filled with flame and smoke, to
ture Judge Gildersleeve’s shekels had every one’s alarm. Some explosions
worked New York and vicinity for a would be prevented by not blowing
long time, yet did not know the face of down the chimney to put the lamp
the criminal court judge. In the case out, for the wick sometimes happens to
of Recorder Smyth the “hand shaker” be a little too small, and leaves room
was fresh in from the Windy City, and enough to allow the flame to be driven
hadn’t looked the city officers over so
closely as his calling would seem to war­ down into the oil. The safest way to
put out a lamp is to turn the thumb­
rant.
Judge Gildersleeve told me that so far screw until the wick goes down past
as he knew he and Recorder Smyth were the top of the burner. It will then go
the only criminal judges that had ever out of itself.—Detroit Free Press.
been approached by the New York bunko
men.
Pursued by Antelope.
The only other experience Judge Gil­
I have ridden rapidly entirely away
dersleeve ever had with, the crooks out­ from a band of antelope, and their cu­
side his courtroom was during the Cen­ riosity would lead them to pursue me
tennial in Philadelphia. He had his for hours across the plain and over the
pockets picked while going over the ex­ hills. One moonlight night, when the
hibition grounds. He had just been mirage was very strong and magnified
made a judge of the criminal court in a band of antelope until they appeared
this city, and some of his friends, who
remember how Judge Gildersleeve felt as large as a band of horses, I knew a
over the theft, do say that for a long party of United States cavalrymen to
time pickpockets received very little fire on them under the mistaken notion
merciful consideration when they’ were that they were sending a volley among
sentenced according to the jury .verdicts. a party of hostile Indian warriors.—
Washington Farmer.
—New York Herald.
Shakespeare’s Will.
Any person desirous of inspecting the
actual last will and testament of Shake­
speare can do so by visiting Somerset
house and paying a shilling. The visitor
is conducted to a dimly lighted room,
in which this precious relic is preserved,
and is not a little astonished to find it
securely fixed in a series of frames, pro­
tected by glass.—London Tit-Bits.
Something Dropped in the Sun.
The most interesting of recent pho­
tographs of the sun shows a remarka­
ble solar disturbance, in which vapors
ascended to a height of 80,000 miles.
This eruption lasted fully fifteen min­
utes and was accompanied by fluctua­
tions of the eofnpass needle.—New
York Recorder.
ROMANCE OF TWO WASS.
STORY OF TWO REJECTED MARY­
LAND LOVERS WHO FOUGHT.
One of Them Served with Credit in the
Mexican and Civil Struggles and Is
Single—The Other Lies Buried
Near Where He Fell in Battle.
Still
When the war with Mexico was declared,
Samuel McCurdy was a merchant in
Grantsville, a beautiful mountain village
in western Maryland, with a declining
business and without the perseverance to
restore it to its former condition of pros­
perity. He was fond of the gay life of the
towns and had contracted debts, and had,
moreover, fallen in love without any ap­
parent chance of his affections being re­
ciprocated. He was bright, intelligent,
gallant, with a fine presence, yet his
charmer held him aloof. She respected
him, did not disdain him, yet she had fears
for the future and rejected his suit.
Then came a chance for the disappointed
lover to enlist, win glory on a foreign field
and return to claim attention with the
halo of a warrior’s deeds about him.
Oddly enough, there was another case
like this in the neighborhood. Samuel Mc­
Cleary, a sturdy, handsome young stage­
coach driver, had likewise found an unre­
sponsive object of love. He drove on the
old National road, which was then the
thoroughfare over the mountains, and his a
was a familiar figure -in the country round
about. His aspirations ran in the direc­
tion of the fair daughter of a wealthy hotel
keeper, well educated and cultivated. She
was the acknowledged belle of the neigh­
borhood. McCleary, of course, was of a
humbler station in life, but true to the
adage that love knows no bounds, he did
not despair, but made his advances, which
were not met with any degree of response.
There was no repulse, but the siege was
raised, to be renewed under other circum­
stances.
GOING TO WAR.
It was in the middle of March! 1847, that
the gallant Captain Walker came riding
through the Cumberland region in search
of recruits for the Mexican campaign. Mc­
Cleary was ripe for adventure and he
joined. It had been agreed. between him
and McCurdy, they being fast friends, that
they should enlist together, but McCurdy
was away from home at the time, and on
his return, hearing of the enlistment of his
friend, he followed the command across the
country to Newport, Ky., where he, too,
joined the company.
McCleary was a great favorite with the
commander, a good fellow in ‘every way,
the soul of honor, and one of the bravest
soldiers ever under fire. He was always at
the front with Walker, and when they fell
they were together in the van.
The two Marylanders did not seek shel­
tered places in the campaign. They were
there for fighting and for glory, and they
knew that it must be sought at the fore.
Walker’s rangers gave them ample oppor­
tunity for active work, for this gallant
band was the' first to dash forward into
dangerous places and do desperate deeds.
They went into the battle of Humantla
together, and but one of them came out-r-
McCurdy. It was a fierce fight, though
the numbers were .small on each side.
McCleary fell with his captain, pierced by
many Mexican lances, and was buried on
the field.
McCurdy went on and passed through
all of the battles of the valley of Mexico,
without a wound, beyond a scratch from
one of the peculiar copper covered balls
used by the Mexican forces.
M’CURDY’S PROPOSAL.
He was present at the final capture of
the capital, and then, with a company of
300; he volunteered to go down to Vera
Cruz with the first train of sick and wound­
ed. On his return to the city he was se­
lected by the commandant of the City
Guard as his clerk, being an excellent pen­
man. The capitol building was made the
headquarters of the invaders, and from
there McCurdy wrote at times to his old
friends in Maryland on the magnificent
letter paper of the fallen government, with
jts great coat of arms emblazoned at its
head. One of these letters was important.
! Accompanying the letter was a hand­
some ring, sparkling with diamonds, and
the directions were that B---- , to whom it
was sent, should place it upon the appro­
priate finger of Miss “Chat,” as McCurdy’s
•distant sweetheart was called among her
friends. This was to be with the under­
standing that when the' .soldier returned
from tne war she was to become his wife.
Unfortunately,the lady objected. Though
the proxy was well sustained and the mis­
sion was attempted with skill and tact, she
refused .to accept the ring and with it the
'conditions. The prototype of John Alden
urged her to give a reason why she should
not take the token, and she replied, “J
think you ¡know the reasons.” Unhappily,
he did not, and never did know why it was
that McCurdy was not a favorite with her.
The ring, however, was not returned to
Mexico for fear that McCurdy might, in
his desperation, give it with its meaning to
a native beauty.
THE VETERAN TODAY.
. The war over, McCurdy came home, ex­
pecting to be greeted by his promised bride,
[but though she ¡joined in the demonstra­
tions of welcome that .the town made, she
remained as distant as .ever. For several
years he remained inold Alleghany county.
He tried politics; but though he had hosts
of friends, he was too ardent a Whig to be
successful, and he went out to California,
where he was more successful in his politi­
cal aspirations. He was finally elected to
the legislature. At last he returned to the
“states,” but for sorn'e years his where­
abouts were quite unknown to his Old,
friends in the Cumberland region.
When the war of the rebellion broke out
he was awakened into a new life, and he
enlisted and served throughout the contest
las a private soldier from Pennsylvania,
¡from the first gun to the final surrender.
He kept his shoulder for the musket and
not for the strap, and he was mustered
but with the same rank that he had at.
.first.
McCurdy is still living, nearly seventy-
fhree years of age, at the home for disabled
wefuuteers at Hampton, Va., drawing a
¡pention. of eight dollars a month for his
i.'BenVH^s in the Mexican war. He never
^married or wished to do so unless “Chat”
nhight.ciliange her mind, which she did not
tfio. Shejs also living, sixty-five years of
lags, near New York, unmarried.
l The girl whom McCleary left behind him
<in. time married a clergyman from Ala-
:bama, where.tihe went to live, but in a few
•yearstile returned to her borne a widow,
with adaughte?,.who has since grown up
to beautiful womanhood, and is now the
wife of a.■successful merchant in one of the
Scientific Fallacies.
prosperous new cities of .the northwest. .
Old Lady—These ’ere scientific notes:
McCurdy is cheerful and resigned to the
in th’ papers nowadays just make me lot that has ¡befallen him. He is well, be­
yond
an occasional twinge of rheumatism,
tired. Never heard such nonsense iin
i—Washington Star.
my born days.
Nephew—What have yousstruek:now,
A Young Diplomat.
aunty?
Mrs. Brown—rm afraid to let you have
Old Lady—This papea- says Jupiter-is a haeycle.
in opposition to the sun. The iden!
t&tle Johnnie—Don’t feel that way,
Old Jupiter can’t holda can<He*to him. ma. Even if it did kill me, remember
that it would be the last .thing I ever
—New York Weekly.
.
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asked yem for.—New York Epoch.
A Simple Statement.
It is told of a certain mini ster, not
in this city, that one Sunday morning
he preached his sermon with the fob-
ing notice, “Brethren, I have ■’forgotten
my notes, and shall have -to trust to
Providence, but this evening will -come
better prepar/ed.”—New. York .Tribune.
Force of Habit.
It is reported that a Yankee upon be­
ing introduced at court to Queen Vic­
toria reached out his band to shake
with her, remarking as he did so:
“What's the name? I didn’t quite
eatc^i it!”—Chicago Herald.