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PRATT & KERR. ATTORNE YS-AT- LAW, No. 17 Court Place, - - Staunton, Va. NOTARY PUBLIC. JOS. A. GLASGOW. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Room 5, No. 23 S. Augusta Street, Skinner Building. STAUNTON, VA. aug 10-tf DR. H. M. a-aaTERSON, STAUNTON, VA. Offers his professional services to the citi zens of Staunton. Office No. 121 East Mtain Street. JR. CROSIER, . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office on Courthouse square, STAUNTON, VA. Prompt attention given to all legal business entrusted to him, in State or Federal Courts. Will devote entire time to his profession, lune 1-tf p E. R. NELSON, Attoknev-at-Law and Commissioner in Chancery. OFFICE NO. 10 LAWYERS' ROW, . Jan 4-tf STAUNTON, VA. A C. BRAXTON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR. OFFICE. —Crowle Building opposite Y. M. C. A. Special attention given to corporation and real-estate law. Having closed up all outside business, which for a year or two interrupted my regular law practice, 1 am now enabled to, and shall, from ithis time, give my undivided time and axclu slve attention to the law; and to such persons as my entrust me with their litigation, I prom ise my best efforts and such ability as I may possess. Lan 18-tf WE Are still at the barber business at the old stand. West Main street, and are pre pared to give you a clean and com fortable. SHAVE A fashionable hair-cut or a luxurious shampoo In the best style of the art. FOR The hair use Nothnagel's Trichocomia. There's NOTHING Better to restore the hair, invigorate the growth or prevent falling out. As a cure for dandrull and scurf It has no equal. •3f"Uenieniber Nothnagel uses a CLEAN TOWEL EVER V SHAVE You will save time by shaving at NOTHNAGEL'S. 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"Castoria isso well adapted to children that Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, I recommend it as superior to any prescription Sour Stomach, DiarrliGea, Eructation, known to me." 11. A. Archer, M. D., Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di ll 1 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. gestion, Without injurious medication. ■* The use of ' Castoria' is so universal and " its merits so well known that it seems a work .. For years I have recommended of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the your . castoria,- and shall always continue to intelligent families who do not keep Castoria do so as it has invariably produced beneficial within easy reach." results." Carlos Martyn, D. D., Enwra F. Paroee, M. D., New York City. 125 th Street and ?th Aye., New York City. The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, New York City Staunton §§!§ Spectator. VOL. 72. How's Your Liver? Is the Oriental salutation, knowing that good health, cannot exist without a healthy Liver. "When the Liver is torpid the Bow els are sluggish and con stipated, the food lies in the stomach undi fested, poisoning the lood; frequent headache ensues; a feeling of lassi tude, despondency and nervousness indicate how the whole system is de ranged. Simmons Liver Regulator has heen the means of restoring more Eeoplo to health and appiness by giving them a healthy Liver than any jency known on earth. It acts with extraor dinary power and efficacy. NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED, As a general family remedy for dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Constipation, etc., I hardly ever nse anything else, and have never heen dis appointed in the effect prodnced; it seems to be almost a perfect cure for all diseases of the Stomach and Bowels. W. J. llcElkot, Macon, Ga. nov 28-lyr Hours lor Armai ana Closing of Mails at Stain ton Postoffice. ARHIVE. BY C. AND O. 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AND O. 6.30 a. m. tor Lexington, Harper's Ferry and points north. 11.25 a. iv. for Harrisonburg, Woodstock and points north. 1.10 p. in. for Lexington. 4.00 p. ni. for Fort Defiance. 6.00 p. in. for Lexington and intermediate points. fou c. and o. 8.45 a. ni. and 2 p. m. for north, east, south. 11.00 p. m. for east, north, south and west. 11.25 a. m. for Clifton Forge and Intermediate points. 6.00 p. m. for tha west. STAR ROUTES—DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. 5.30 a. ni. for Monterey. 6.00 a. m. for Middlebrook. 1.00 p. m. for Mt. Meridian. 6.15 p. m. for Plunkettsville. 12.30 p. m. for Mt. Solon, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. STAUNTON OFFICE Opens 7a. in., closes 7 p. m. Money order and registry business opens at 8 a. m., closes 6 p. m W. T. MoCUK. P. M. REMOVAL OP THE LADIES AND GENTLEMENS' RESTAURANT! o- The undersigned have removed their Ladies and Gentlemen's Restaurant to the . lurley Hu'lding on the corner of Main and Lewis Streets, where they hope their old patrons will call upon them as heretofore as they will be better prepared to accommodate them. They will take regular boarders, to a number of I whom they can furnish lodging or rent rooms las well as board at cheap rates. Remember the place—Hurley Building, second story, corner Main and Lewis Streets. MARGARET A LUCY CADTKOHN. feb 3rd Buy the '-Braddock" Pure Rye. lt is the best and costs no more than inferior goods. JAS CLARK & CO., JNO. McQUAIDE, Manager. N'OS. SO AND 22 SOUTH NEW STREET, STAUNTON, VA., Distillers and. Sole Proprietors and Liquor Dealers. Read what eminent Physicians say :— Staunton, Va., July 27th, 1894. Capt. Jno. McQuaide, Staunton, Va: Dear ik;—ln reply to yours of this date I wish to say that I have prescribed your '-Brad dock Pure Rye Whiskey," and And it a pure, reliable whiskey, and an article that is well borne by delicate stomachs. I will take pleasure in recommending it to [ those of my patients who need whiskey as a medicine. Yours truly, H. H. Henkel, Staunton, Va., April Uth, 1894. Capt. Jno. McQuaide, Manager, Staunton, Va: Dear Sir ;— I have tested the "Rye Whiskey' manufactured by James Clark & Co., and find lt an excellent article. When necessary for medicinal purposes would highly recommend It. Respectfully, B. P. Reese, M. D. Staunton, Va., March 28th, 1894. Capt. Jno. McQuaide: Dear Sir:—Please accept my thanks for the sample of Braddock Whiskey which I have thoroughly tested as to its medicinal prop erties in my practice, and find it theraputical ly meets In every way the demands of the pro fession where a stimulant is required. Very sincerely. J. B. Catlett, sept 18-tf City Physician. HOW IT IS IN LIFE. A rooster flies up on tntT fence. Just hear him crow I His satisfaction is Immense, Eis self possession is Intense, His lusty lungs give evidence That this is so. Another rooster sees him there And hears him crow. With flapping wings he cleaves the sir. The fence top is too small to share, And so they fight and scratch and tear, Till down they go. So 'tis in life. When any man Gets eminent. Some jealous rival tries to plan Some way to down him if he can, And if ho just upsets the pan He feels content. —Somerville Journal. A $20 GOLDPIECE. "Don't stop at L— L—. Better re main over night at C a and go on clear through to L d the next day." These were the parting words of our genial host of the Ukiah inn, Mendoci no county, CaL I had purchased a cou ple of horses and a pack mule lower down in the valley and was taking them along the old Oregon stage route" to my home in the northern part of the state. Accompanying me were my overseer, Robert Thorndycke Hawkins, or, as he was more generally known, Ranoheria Bob, and an easterner named Wilson, who was going to spend a few months on the ranch "to see how it was, done." I had not advertised for boarders nor contemplated starting a "tenderfoot nursery," but Wilson, whom I had met at the Palace hotel, seemed such a gen ial, pleasant fellow that it was impos sible to refuse his earnest request to join us in our mountain life. Bob was rather opposed to the scheme, but not being a prominent factor in the matter Wilson came along. Our route lay through a section of country which had elapsed into a denii civilized state, the mines there having in a measure become exhausted, the stage route abandoned for the more expeditious railroad and the immense timber tracts still being too far distant to be worked to any advantage. The men as well as the other conditions took a backward growth, and those who re mained were very favorably described as "tough;" hence the cautioning in struction from our landlord. Acting upon such advice, we planned our daily route so as to pass L— L— at noon. We were all well equipped with rifles and side arms, and looked forward to a very pleasant journey. Our horses were in fine condition, as also was the mule. Perhaps it is need less to say that Bob and myself rode the former, while Wilson was happy on the mule. The view was charming, with con stantly changing vistas. Now exquisite groups of bouquet shaped elm trees haunted the river bank, and again an open, undulating meadow with wooded hills in the near distance, backed by the great blue tinted mountains of the Coast rango. We traveled on, enjoying the constantly changing view, without any incident uncommon to any trip of the kind, and the evening of the second day found us at C a. From here L- d was 54 miles and L— L— but 39. As these were the only settlements in the country, we felt it incumbent on us to make an early start, as it would be a good day's work for the horses, who were beginning to show effects of their recent efforts. Various rumors as to the sanctity and future prospects of the L— L—ites (we classified them as geologists do other hard material) kept reaching us as we journeyed on. So corroboratory were the reports that we looked upon our ap proach as one in the olden times must have felt on Hearing Sodom or Gomor rah. L— L— was one of those places (which fortunately are becoming few) where no restriction is placed on any class of society, and the mediaeval law, "Might makes right," is the only rec ognized judicial power. There were per haps 200 people in all forming the fixed population, though at certain seasons there might be double that number. The only visible means of support of the inhabitants was catering to the vices of their fellow men. It was the escape valve of that lawless class who haunt the borders of a new civilization. Miners came there to spend Sunday and the result of their past week's toil. Herders who might have been leading a hermit's life in the mountains for three months brought there the result of their labor and did not leave uutil it was all exhausted. We did not believe much of all this that was told in re gard to the place, considering the great er part of the information of that myth ical construction common to the char acter of such'a region. Our intention of starting early in the morning from C a was frustrated by one of the horses casting a shoe, and it was nearly 9 when we entered the woods beyond C a. However, we had the prospect of a moonlight night and did not despair of reaching L d in fairly good season. We crossed the watershed at the Mendocino valley, and were descending into that of Hum boldt, the road following the twisting Eel river. Here begins the greatest red wood belt in the state, and as we trav eled lower down the valley we saw the trees which were 100 feet or so high on the foothills assume such mammoth proportions that the distance to their tops nould scarce be measured in a, many yards. They now became an im ■ portant factor in the topography of the road, which deviated from its course continually, obedient to the dictation of these monarchs. This constant inter ruption made what had been a fairly direct road a system of geometrical curves, impossible to follow in any fix ed direction. From a certainty it be came a labyrinth. The great size and abundance of the trees stilled the at mosphere, giving a somber effect to all the varied sounds natnral to the woods. We could see limbs swinging at the tops of the trees and yet scarce hear or per- Reive a trace of the wind, which must have been strong to move them so vio lently. The very jingle of our saddle equipments seemed discordant amid the deeper harmonies. It was here, in the.stage times, that Black Bard, the poet-highwayman, reap ed many a rich harvest. His was a chiv alrous nature, and his memory is held sacred in many a cabin in the woods. One stage driver told with pride how, after relieving him of the mail and Wells-Fargo's box, Black Bard asked him for a chew of tobacco. His norn de plume arose from the fact that, after ri fling the mail, he would jot down a doggerel verse upon the back of some specially lucrative envelope—an extem poraneous address of sympathy to the owner of the package—and sign "The Black Bard." His final capture, after many liberal rewards, was unique. Be ing interrupted in his self enforced in mectorshiD of a mail, he departed, in STAUNTON, VA-, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5,1894. Ms nasce leaving one ot nls cults, l his was traced by the laundry mark to San Francisco and led to his capture. Sto ries as to his prowess and the speed and beauty of his horses are too numerous to mention. His great virtue, so the people said, was his liberality to the poor, and the fact that he never robbed from any one but the express company and the mail. As we threaded the tor tuous road we could easily imagine a highwayman stepping from behind one of the enormous trees and calling on us to "hold up our hands. " Coming upon a little spring, we halt ed awhile to refresh both ourselves and our horses. Here we calculated that we were distant but eight miles from li— L— and still had 33 more to go before L d was reached. It being but littlo past noon, our ride through L— L— before dark and reaching L d in good time seemed a foregone conclusion. Nature, however, often upsets the best of calculations, for scarcely were we remounted when a heavy shower came on, softening the road so as to make a slow walk good speed. Our hopes fell with the rain, which was dismal enough in the big woods, rendering still darker a gloomy way. To return was as far out of our plan as to continue, the woods at night being as dark as a pock et. L— L— must be our abiding place perforce. We consulted, therefore, as to the best means to avoid trouble should the inhabitants feel in a sportive mood. It being the middle of the week was a point in our favor, as there would in all probability be few outsiders in town. Onr first care was Wilson, whose ver dancy was too apparent to conceal and would no doubt-render him more or less a butt of frontier wit Bob advised him to go to bed at once on his arrival and said by way of inducement that he could then watch onr property, which we would of course be obliged to leave in our rooms. Wilson was perfectly will ing to do this, especially after Bob's graphic description of "the dancing act," firing a revolver under a man's feet to see if they are tender. Our most em phatic advice was not to show any mon ey over that absolutely essential for his expenses. The rain and mud had suffi ciently taken the newness from our out fit, and we thought we could represent ourselves as going north to work on some of the big ranches. It was near dark when we reached the town and slowly rode through the one street on which it was built, look ing for the best appearing hotel. On both sides were, rows of hotels, gam bling houses, barrooms and stores, sometimes separate, but of tener all com bined in one building. With the desire of getting as far as possible through the town, we selected the last house on the road and applied for shelter. The rain had ceased, and the sky was beginning to clear. We almost regretted that we had not decided to keep on, but the horses were too tired to make the idea feasible. As we rode through the vil lage the "stoop population" were in terested enough to comment on tho gen eral appearance of us and our horses, but in no way other than common to all western towns. One remark I re member, applying to Wilson: "That yellow haired one on the mule is a 'ten derfoot'—look at his 'chaps.'" Wil son had leggings instead of boots. We went to a stable between the ho tel and woods, unsaddled our horses, and taking our rifles, eta, went up to our rooms. Bob and I soon went down to our supper, which was fairly good for the country. We told the people, who seemed rough, but pleasant, that onr friend was too tired to come down and secured supper for him. Taking down his dishes, we sauntered into the barroom and were agreeably disappoint ed to find things fitted up as well as elsewhere along the road. The building was of a class common in the west, an oblong two story structure, with piazza facing the street. Down stairs were the barroom, kitchen, dining room and owners' living rooms, while the entire second story was for guests. This was subdivided by a narrow hall running lengthwise, leaving numerous small boxes called bedrooms on cither side, one row fronting the piazza and the street, and the other commanding an extensive rear view. As we were about the only guests, we had rooms in the front row. The house was unplastered, and only the lower floor rooms were ceiled. Bob and I seated ourselves in the bar room and answered the various ques tions commonly asked of travelers aud began to laugh at onr fears, although there were some pretty tough faces among the auditors. Our attention was attracted to a cow boy who appeared a stranger, like our selves, and who volunteered the infor mation that he, too, was going to L d ip the morning. Although we had al ways made a rule to becharyin talking to strangers, there was something in his face and manner attractive, and I found myself holding quite an animated conversation with him. His name was Dick. This involved an invitation to drink, which I compromised by the less of two evils—a western cigar—which I smoked to the bitter end. I had just re sumed my good old pipe in order to re move the unpleasant taste of "friead ship's offering," when I heard a door open and was surprised to see Wilson come into the room. He said he had just run down for a moment for some cigars, and I let him court liis fate and purchase some of tbe brand I had smok ed. To my surprise, he offered a $20 goldpiece in payment. This was the keynote to the whole trouble. The barkeeper, a big, burly, foxy eyed fellow, slid the gold back of the counter, passed ont the cigars and returned change for only $1. Wilson told him he had given him $20. The barkeeper bluntly denied this and pro duced a silver dollar as tho one banded him and appealed to a bystander, who, of course, confirmed his statement, and, moreover, challenged any ono in the house to differ. Although many had seen the transaction, no one objected, and Wilson, after hesitating a moment, came back to me. In language more em phatic than polito I told him to go up to his room. Dick looked surprised, and when Wilson had gone asked if he was one of our party. I replied in the af firmative and gave the circumstances of Wilson's connection with ns. Dick studied a moment and then asked, "Are you going to let him lose that money without making a kick?" I told him I did not see any other way to do, as to make a row in that place would be foolish. He wanted to know what I would give him to get the coin back, and I replied that he could have the whole, as we had lost our claim. "Will you back me up, and has your friend (meaning Bob) got any sand?" said Dick. I was very much worked up over the whole affair, and although I don't be lieve in getting into a row unless it is forced upon a man it goes against one's Brain to see snch a barefaced robbery as Wilson's, so I said, "res," although i did not really believe that he was in earnest—in fact, I conld not imagine how he wonld go about a recovery. 1 was soon to learn. We had remained in the barroom an hour after Wilson's retirement, and the place had gradually become deserted Until there were but half a dozen peo ple besides the barkeeper and ourselves remaining, and several of these were sleepy drunk. The barkeeper, though he glanced now and then in onr direc tion, paid us no other attention. He seemed to have forgotten the gold epi sode. I had given up any idea that Dick's suggestions were coming to a point, and was thinking of retiring, when he got up, sauntered over to the bar in an easy manner, and, quick as a flash, covered the barkeeper with his re volver, and asked him to "return that money." Bob and myself at once cove A * the remainder of the party, who pro tested, however, that they had no in tention of interfering. The barkeeper saw his predicament and sullenly hand ed out a $20 goldpiece. The only re mark he made was, "You'll wish you was 'burning' before you ever started iStr lr— L—, and if you think you are going to come it on ns so easy you are making a big mistake." Dick did not reply, and soon we all went up to Wilson's room. As we went np stairs we could distinguish among the babble of cries the words, "That's a plucky enss," "Are you going to let those tenderfeet beat you?" "Gee, Bill, you've been held np. You've got to treat." "It won't do for those fellows to boast that they did up L— L—,'' and then Bill's deep voice: "And they won't either. I'll get my innings be fore they leave, you mark me." We found Wilson barricading the door of the room with bureau and wash stand. We held a council of war. We could hear the men talking below us. Wilson's room was directly over tho bar, and by cutting a hole through the flooring we left only the ceiling between them and us, so we could hear distinct ly everything they said. Fortunately the affair occurred too late to bring out a big crowd, and only a few of the near neighbors, attracted by the report, had come in. They decided that we were too well armed to assanlt us iv our rooms, especially as we were ou our guard, but thought the best idea would be to attack us when we came down, as we would have to do or starve. With this idea, one of them commenced bor ing holes in the stairway casing, pre sumably to shoot through. Naturally we prepared to go out the window. The bed was one of the old fashioned roped kind, and removing the rope from this and blowing out our light we laid the bedclothes on the roof, removed our boots and carefully crawled to the far end of the piazza. The noise in the barroom seemed to have drowned any noise we made, and our only fear was of some one coming out Tying our ri fles and other things into two bundles, Dick lowered them, and then we all slid down the corner, post and put for the woods. There we finished dressing, and Dick and I then went to the stable for our horses. The clouds had been breaking away for some time, and the moonlight made us so conspicuous that wo had to watch the shadows as we dodged across the open space. Wo had little trouble in finding onr horses, and started out, each leading two, I in ad vance. As my head horse approached the threshold of the door his sharp hoofs came down upon a flat stone with a loud clatter. I expected every mo meat to see the hotel door open, but they either did not hear or thought it a common noise in the stable. - Fearing a repetition of the alarm, 1 ripped up an old blanket, and muffling the horses' hoofs we led them out where the others were waiting, trying to account for onr long delay. Then all commenced arranging their things on their saddles. I finished first, aud mounting my horse, with my rifle on my knee, placed myself as a scout to watch the hotel. I confess that I then felt comfortable for the first time that night. It was well I did, for no sooner had I mounted and my horse moved a few steps away than one of the other horses sounded a neigh that roused all the occupants of the house we had left. Flinging open the door so that the light fell full upon me, somo one yelled, "They are getting away!" and emptied his revolver at us. Wo could hear the bullets sing about us, but no damage was done, and as the others were ready Bob called to me to "pull out." This I would have been glad to do, but my horse refused to bndge a step. I think he was dazzled by the flashes from the revolver. I never thought of dismount ing, but receiving another salute open ed up with eight of my heavy cartridges at the doorway. When I finished, it was vacant. I heard the bottles break as the balls went crashing into the woodwork of the bar. Dick in the meantime had ridden back to see what tho trouble was and was firing his 44 rifle as fast as he could. L— L— was certainly being waked up. You conld see lights appear ing all along the street But no one came our way on account of the bullets. I think the people thought we were the landlord's party in the woods attacking the unruly guests. One fellow I shall never forget He came ont of the house and was just aiming to fire as I shot. He made a per fect picture of the tragic as he gave a little spring, his rifle fell to the ground and soon he himself staggered into a sitting posture. I had hit him in the shoulder. A second later I saw a flash from the bam and felt a burning sensa tion in my neck. Jabbing my spurs into my horse, to my glad surprise he start ed on a run after the others. Dick lost no time in following. We found Wil son suffering from a severe wound in ; the cheek. A ball had glanced from a ! tree and cnt him quite badly. My neck ; had just a scratch. We pushed the horses along at a sharp gallop for some distance, in spite of the mud, and then halted for a consulta tion. It was perfectly silent in the woods. I advised going on to L d. ! Dick, however, raised objections, say ing there were lots of short cuts by which the L— L —ites could get ahead of us, especially as they had fresh horsea, and they would certainly try to. He knew of an old claim np a creek which the road crossed a littlo way ahead where we would be perfectly safe, if we could throw them off our trail. This we ! decided to try. When we arrived at the j creek, Dick sent Bob and Wilson up tho ! creek, telling them to keep in the water j all the time. The creek was one of those shallow, rapid streams common to the section, and the directions were not difficult to follow. Having started them, he and I crossed the creek and contin- ; ned on tho road for nearly a mile, j Then we came to a rocky ridge. Riding ! to the top of this, we followed it until j we reached the creek, about half a mile i below our first crossing. We continued m> to the roadway and over the same routo again, and at last on ana alter onr friends. Thus we left a plain trail go ing along the road from tho creek should the searching party examine our tracks. As we turned on up the creek I thought I heard voices back of us, but was not sure. We hurried along, the rushing of the water drowning the rat tle of our horses' hoofs against the stones. It was some time before we overtook Bob and Wilson, and all were feeling tired out, horses and men, when Dick led the way up the bank, through the redwoods, to our goal. Wo found there a fair cabin. Tether ing our horses, we went inside and built a big firo of dry wood, and arrang ing our saddles and helmets lay down to rest. How wo did sleep! It was broad sunlight and a gorgeous day when at last we awoke. After a wash in tho creek, had it not been for Wilson's cheek, it would have been hard to real ize that our previous evening's experi ence was more than a dream. The horses were feeding on the rich bottom grass, and this reminded us that we had noth ing to eat To shoot would attract at tention, and although we had seen deer about we left them alone. Bob's ingenuity came to our rescue. He had noticed several covey of quail in and about the clearing, which on his approach scurried through a gap in a thicket. Acting on this idea, he con structed a fence in shape of a V, and at the apex fixed a cage trap, so that by pulling a string it locked the quail in. We went out as beaters and soon had a fine covey running along his new road way, and when he sprang the trap we were possessed of over 20 fine quail. These we broiled, and no one objected because they had not been hung up two weeks before. We rested all day undisturbed and re tired to another night's rest. Getting up early the next morning, we ate a breakfast of cold quail and started for L d. When we came to the road, it looked as though a small army had crossed, but as the freshest-tracks point ed toward L— L— we kept on toward L d, confident of not being disturb ed. Once there we felt perfectly safe, as old L d was noted for his sterling qualities, and Dick knew him well. On our -Arrival his greeting was in deed cordial. They had heard of the L— L— affair, and hearing nothing of us feared we had been captured by the pur suing party. We remained with him two days. During that time the rumor became current that the L—L—iteshad | got wind of our whereabouts and were : coming up to clear us out and L d, ) too, if he made any objections, but we j never saw anything of them. On leav- ! ing we asked for our bill and were sur- j prised to bo told there was none, with ' the additional remark, "Any one who ' can clean out L— L— travels free at L d." Dick I persuaded to remain with us, I promising him work. Wilson was for starting home at once, but after hiti face healed ho enjoyed many a month's hunt in the woods. , The $20 goldpiece I purchased of ; Dick and keep as a memento of a very hying time.—Arthur Llewellyn in New ?ork Post. POISON FOB ABfiOWS. HOW THE DEADLY STUFF IS MADE BY THE INDIANS. Beads of Rattlesnakes and Abdomens of Tarantula Killers Cooked Together—The Thrilling Method of Testing—A Secret Carefully Guarded. I had been a cattle ranchman on the plains of southeastern Arizona for some two ygars before I could find out how the Apaches poison their arrow tips. The Indians inherit from their ances tors an intense secretiveness as to the manner of their preparation of venom for hunting or warlike purposes. A trib al chief years ago would as soon think of cutting off his own head as to let an other chief know some method peculiar to the tribe for preparing a powerful poison. Now that the savages use fire arms almost to the exclusion of their primitive weapons the older warriors will not, if they can, allow information concerning their tribal manufacture of venom to become known among the palefaces. I had in my employ a bright young Indian buck, who gavo me full information concerning the way the plains Indians have for many genera tions made the poisonous fluids for their arrows. One day he went so far as to get permission for me to go over to the mountains to see a tribe of Yavapais get their weapons in proper poisonous condition. Rattlesnakes afford most of the Apa che and Piute Indians' venomous com pounds. To see the savages prepare the poisons and try their efficacy on them selves is enough to distress even a fron tiersman's dreams. The bloated rattle snake of the hot alkali deserts of Ari zona or the panhandle of Texas makes the most powerful poison. There is no more hideous and deadly serpent in America than the bloated rattler. It is a terror even to an Apache Indian, and if there is one thing that is worse than a rattlesnake in the opinion of plains men and settlers in eastern Texas and southern Arizona it is an Apache Indi an. The Piutes, although a more cow ardly gang than the Apaches, hold this rattlesnake in less horror, but they give it plenty of room. The Piutes draw on the snake for their poison after it is dead. The Apaches, in spite of. their fear of the snake, make it contribute its venom to them while it is alive. The rattlesnake of the Arizona desert grows to a length of 6 feet and attains a girth of 6 inches at the thickest part. They have tremendous sets of rattles. This snake has fangs an inch long and is frequently fitted with two sets. The poison sacs at the base of these fangs are as big as a hazelnnt The snake is a bright yellow in color. The desert rattlesnake is a dreadful enough customer any day in the year, but during August takes on the fullness of its frightfnlness, both in appearance and conduct About the middle of Au gust when the weather is insufferably hot, \ his snake becomes bloated from some cause until it is a third larger than its normal size. Its appearance is as if the snake had been blown up like a bladder or charged with gas like a bal loon. This rattler is always sluggish and slow in its-movements, and like all of its kind usually makes an effort to get out of the way of its intruders, but in August it simply lies still in bloated repulsiveness and will not move for any thing, being ready at all times to strike at everything that comes near it. As near as you can get at it, this rattle snake at that time of the year is simply a swollen reservoir of venom. A Piute Indian who wishes to lay iv a stock of poison for his arrows kills, at this time of year, enough of these rat tlesnakes for his purpose. He cuts off their heads and taKes tnem to vis louge. He places in one of the rude earthen vessels that are among the Piuto house hold effects ten or a dozen of these snake heads. To them he adds perhaps a pint of tarantula killer, as the big hairy Texan or Mexican spider is call ed, or rather he puts the abdomen of the spider in with the snake heads. This spider has a sting that injects a poison subtle enough almost to kill a ta rantula instantly, which is itself about as poisonous a member of the animal kingdom as one would care to meet. The poison sac of the tarantula killer is in the lower abdomen of the insect, and it is this the Piute brave mixes with the rattlesnake heads. He then pours in a pint of water, seals the lid of the ves sel on with moist clay and places the vessel in a pit where he has made a bed of hot coals. He buries the vessel in these coals, and besides that builds a blazing fire on top of it. This fire is kept burning fiercely for several hours, when it is swept away, and the Indian digs his vessel out of the coals. With a long pole he knocks the lid off and does not venture near the pot until the steam that arises from it as soon as the lid is taken off entirely ceases to appear. The Piutes say that to inhale the smallest quantity of that steam would be instant death. Whether that is true or not I am not able to say, as I never saw it put to the test After the fiery ordeal to which the snake heads are put is over, a brownish residuum remains in the bottom of the kettle. That is cer tainly the double quintessence of poison, if its action on human blood, or, at least, Indian blood, is any indication. The Piute always tests his poison before trusting his arrows to it. He cuts a gash in the fleshy part of his leg and draws the blood, which he lets trickle down his leg. When the red stream has run down six or seven inches, he dips a stick in the poison and touches it to the lower end of the bloody streak. If the poison is all right, It actually burns the blood almost like hot iron touched to water and rapidly runs up the tric kling -stream. The Indian has his knife ready and scrapes the poisoned blood off. If it were permitted to reach the wound, it would be all up with the Pi ute. The arrows are dipped into this poison, and the Indian feels that what ever such an arrow hits would much better not have been born.—Exchange. THE BOWLDER WAS ALIVE. An Apache Stratagem That Nearly Cost a Government Courier His Life. "Talking of Indians and their strata gems, '' said D. A. Marston, lately of the United States cavalry, "they are past masters in the arts of skulking and de ceiving. An Apache will lie behind a soapweed on the open prairie, and you may ride past 200 or 300 yards away and never have an idea that there is a redskin within 50 miles of you unless he decides to risk a shot at you. As yon pass the soapweed he works his body around so as to keep it always in line with the plant and you. Even on the open prairie, with no more shelter than that afforded by some little inequality of surface, he will sift dust over his body, flatten himself out, face down ward, against the ground, and lying as motionless as a stone will escape the observation of any except sharp and practiced eyes. Sometimes in a group of cactus or Spanish bayonet, his buckskin garments blending with the hues of the plants, his face and neck concealed by the head of a Spanish bayonet, he will stand like a post, indistinguishable to the inexperienced eye, even at close quarters, from the grotesque plants about him. "A queer experience of this kind oc curred to mo in my service in Arizona during General Crook's last campaign against the Apaches. Tom Merriam of my troop and myself were detailed to carry dispatches from Camp Bowie to Camp Grant, up on the Eio Benito. It was a dangerous service at that time, and we had to keep a sharp lookout and be ready to fight or run at a moment's notice, for there was no knowing at what point on the route the Apaches might not be lying in wait to jump us as we came along. "We were on our return to Camp Bowie and had just crossed the wooded canyon where the cold spring is and were coming out upon the open prairio that stretches down to the San Pedro river, when through the branches of a low tree I saw what I took to be an In dian on the plain, about a half mile ahead. But on spurring my horse for ward so as to get a better look nothing was to be seen save the bare prairie, with no sign of man or beast upon its expense. "As we rode along I spoke of the matter to Tom, who laughed at what he called my scare, which he said cansed me to see imaginary Indians. We came opposite a low, gray bowlder upon the prairie 200 paces or so from the trail. " 'I don't remember ever to have seen that rock before,' said Tom, who had been over the route several times. 'How in the devil did it get there? I'll ride over and take a look at it 1* And he reined his horse and rode toward the object I followed him, a few yards be hind. "His horse had scarcely taken a doz en steps when the seeming gray rock moved slightly upward, and there came from its lower edge a flash and report with the scream of a big caliber ball that flapped Tom's coat with its wind and caused his horse to plunge so sud denly that Tom, one of the best riders in the troop, not being on the lookout for such a happening, was thrown. At tho same instant an Apache leaped from beneath the gray blanket that had serv ed him to masquerade as a bowlder and ran liko a deer for the canyon, leaping to left and right as he went to avoid the shots that Tom and I sent after him from our repeating carbines. "We knocked up the dust about his feet and mado him do some tall dodging to tbe whistling of our bullets, but that was all, for we didn't hit him. To have chased him would have been folly, first, because we were bearing dispatches in haste and needed the last ounce of re serve force in onr horses, and, secondly, because with the start he had we should not have overhauled him in his inn for the canyon, into which we conld not havo followed him. So wo took tho trail again and rode onr way with another wrinkle added to our experience of In dian trickery and cussedness.'' —New York Snu. Boil tho giblets—heart, liver and gizzard—soft, chop fine and add to the brown gravy you usually make. Fried or scalloped oysters may be served with the turkey. Either is better than oyster stuffing, as long cooking spoils the fla vor of the oyster.—Exchange. Decided. Maud—Have you decided how yon ■re going to vote? Miss Qnivers—Oh,, yes. 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