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The Yakima Herald.
YOL. 1. *
THE YAKIMA HERALD.
Official Paper of YaKma Comity.
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E. M. Rrbo. Editor and Boaineea Manager.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
OBOBSB TtJEgXB. W. J. MILBOY. L. >. MOWLXTT.
B. 1. MILBOY.
TURNER, MILROY A HOWLETT,
Attorneys at JLaw,
NORTH YAKIMA, WAIH.
L. 8. Hewlett, ex-Receiver of Public Money* st
the 0. 8. Land Office, wIU give
Special attention to making out papert for
Settleri, and to Land Contette.
M. T. CATOS, I L. e. PABBISH,
Sprague. | North Yakima.
OATON A PARRISH.
Attorneys at Law.
B9*wut practice laaUthe Courts of the tent-
H. J. BNIVELY,
rramtiig Attwujf hr Vtiiu u4 Uttilai
Cnitin, and
Attorney at Law.
gm*Oa<* with County Treuaitr, at Um Comrt
House, North Yakima. WIU practice in all the
coorta of the territory and U. ft land offices
J. a. MaA* | a* mala. | c. a. eaaTm
REIVIB, MIBBS A GRAVES,
Attorneys at Law.
JfITWiU practice In all Courts of the Territory.
Bpeelal attention riven to all U. 8. land office
business. Office* at North Yakima and Ellens
burgh, W. T. L
EDWARD WHITSON, I JOHN R. ALLEN
'“jlorto Yakima. Walla Walla.
allen, Whitson & parker,
Attorneys at Law.
8. O. MORFORD,
Attorney at Law,
Practices la all Conrta in the Territory. Es
pecial attention to Collections.
Office ap stairs la BIU Block. North Yakima
wm. o. COB, M. D. E. LIN, M. D.
00E A HEG,
Physicians, Surgeons ud Accoucheurs.
Office Howa-4 till 10 a m.,50114p. ra.and
7 till I o’clock p. m.
Offiee on Baeond Heat. near Allen 4 Chapman’s.
DR. J. JAY CHAMBERS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Hu had Ire yean’ practice-one year Assistant
Harveou of City Hoapltal, Baltimore.
Especial attention given to Surgery, Obstetric*
and Dueaw of Women.
Ofßoe over Buahneli'a Drag store. ■ my-tf
JOHN A WALKER, A. M., M. D.
TJHYBICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR. Especial
Jr attention given to obstetrics and diseases
of women. For U yean have bad considerable
promptly!** COT««l't^on?rae? l *Priiva2*dweUlng
frlnt Street north of Yakima arena®. North Yah
ima. Washington.
O. M. GRAVES,
DENTIST.
AH work In my Una fint-claes. Local aneethet-
Ics need la extract tooth wlthoat pain. Ha
Ch^o^o m r^r l .nt National Ban..
J. T. KINGSBURY,
(City Engineer.)
Otril Engineer.
Room No. 1, Klngibary Bnlld-
InTTorth Yakima. Waabiagton.
HALL & GARDNER
Civil Engineers.
Un LnM ■< Mb bUkM.
OBoe la Elngsbnry Building, Yakima Are.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An Economical Fence,
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" it b raw Hiuu in «ir.
Win and MMhln«for niklo, oakaad. linn
A. F. SWITZER,
Contractor and Builder,
mm TABIHA, w. X M
WEI Contract for the erection of all alamos at
M Aecordiad to hnemtit.
aaruaoca: nmKat’llaak ol Monk T.klau.
jgsfix? anurse •*££
FIRST NATIONAL MI
of North Yakima.
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SSSSI; •KiSS
SZi'lwSlmt
W.L. SniirwM, Caahtor.
DOBS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Mi fate? at *«■****••
BATS HTtEBBT ON YOKE DEFOSTTB.
NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1889.
Taken Up-Estray.
4 NEhTRAY TWO-YEAR OLD BTEBR.COLOR
A dark brown, branded with an 8 running
lengthwise on the hip, haa been In my pasture
(or the part two uoniha Owner ran have Mine
by naylug charges. A. LENOIR,
dffit North Yakima, Wash.
NOTICE.
City Tain Dae.
XTOTICK 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
Duplicate Assessment Roll o( the City of
North Ysxims (or the year iww la now In my
poaacealon for collection of taxes levied thereon.
Taxes will be delinquent on February i, new. at
six o'clock p. m.. and unless paid prior thereto,
10 per cent, will be added as penalty fee and in
terest at the rale of 10 per cent charged tram
dale of delinquency.
J. D. CORNETT, City Treasurer.
North Yakima, Wash., Dec. 4, IMP. d.*-6t
Notice far Pabllratlaa.
■\TOTICEia hereby given that the follow I ng
1> named settler has (Had notice of bis Inten
tion to make Anal proof in support of his cUhn.
and that said peoufwtU ha madebcfni* Rcglrtcr
and Receiver of U. H. Land offlue at North Yak
ima, Wash., on Jan. S. UN, vU;
SAMUEL UQHTLE,
For the iU seW see 18, twp 9 n r 37 e.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continaous residence upon and cultivation of
■aid land, via: Solomon W. P. Drawing. J. W.
Browning, George L. Finley, W. c. Nell of Kloua,
Washington. IRA M. KRUTZ,
■va-fl R^fator.
Not lea tor PaMlcatlaa.
Land Omci at Nobth Yakima. Wahm.,l
November 14,1889. |
XTOTIC E Is hereby given that the following
Jyl named settler has tiled notice of his In
tention la make final proof in support of his
claim, and that Hid proof will be made before
the Rgflater aad Receiver of the 0. & Land Of
fice atNerth Yakima. In the stale of Washing
ton on the 38th day of December, 1889, vis:
JOHN A. BURWICE,
Homestead entry No. 1091. for the tH nwL nw
B “ e
Be names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
said land, via: Peter Uervals, James Cook, of
Yakima City, Yakima Co., Wash,
nva-d* IRA M. KRUTZ, Register.
■•TICS V PUBLICATION.
Lm Onm a Nam Yuu, w. T.,l
November 22, 1802. )
XfOTICR Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of hi. Inten
tion to make Anal proof In support of his claim,
and that Mid proof will be made before the reg
ister and receiver of If. 8. Land Office at North
Yakima, W. T., on January 7, two, vis:
HOB ACE B. PARTON,
who made D. 8. application No. IMS, (or the S'i
of BP4 and ES BW'i sec. 22. tp 9N.K22K. He
namea the tallowing witnesses to prove his con
tinuous residence upon and cultivation of aaid
land, vis; Charles Morgan, Charles Schser, Paul
Yolo and William Brown, all of Prosser, Ysklraa
county. Wash. IRA M. KKI'TZ.
n2S-J2 Register.
Notice for Pabllcatloa.
Land orrus at Noetu Yakiha, Wash.. I
December 10, UN. i
XTOTICB IH HEREBY GIVEN THAT TUB
j>j following named settler has filed notice of
bis Intention to make final proof In support of
his claim, and that said proof trill ha made be
fore the Register and Receiver of the U. 8. Land
Office at North Yakima, Wash, on January 17,
1890. via:
CHRIST L. NELSON,
of Brown,Waah.,who made Hd Entry No. 684, tar
the Southeast of Section 10. Township 7, north
range tl B. He names the following wltnaane
to prove his continuous residence upon end cul
tivation of said land, vis: J. M. Brown, Jacob
Howe. Hants Schmlt, John T. Wilson, all of
Brown, Yakima Co., Waah.
dU-Tu IRA M. KRPTZ. Register
NOTICE—TIMBER CU LTURE.
U. 8. Land Ornca at North Tabiha, W. T.J
December 2,1889. j
OOMPLAINT haring been entered at this office
Vy by RaassllW. Boe* of Prosser,Wash.,against
Henry Harala for failure to comply with the
law as to Timber Culture Entry No. 296, dated
November 27,1888. upon the B|* NWJa and l»ta 8
and 4, see. 4,twp. 9. N R 26 E, in Yakima county.
Wash., with a view to the cancellation of said
entry: contestant alleging that said Harala dur
ing the year IHW failed to plant first five acres
and during 1987,1888 and iwiu. up to the present
time has failed to comply with the law Id any
manner and baa totally abandoned the same—the
said parties are hereby summoned to appear at
this office on the 10th day of January, 1880, at
10 o’clock a. m., to respond and furnish testi
mony concerning aaid alleged (allure.
da-) 9 IRA H. KRDTZ, Register.
BtiMSim
VANCE A MULFORD, Prop*,
AS OUR TRADE IN
cmitfrea’^”ClotHing
Hu rutty iHKHtd *• mu >4(M to mt
Stock and bow hare a fine aanortmaiit of
CABBIMERE SUITS.
WORSTED SUITS,
CHEVIOTT BUTTS,
Jersey surra
File Line of CkiUra'i Overcoati
sJiaa,“<ss
Haia. Capa, Otoua. Shlita. Uwtovvaar
Sou and ararythlat a maa vaan can be foasd
hate.
dead dead* aid U* Vtlaia to
Vkat Telia.
An axamlnatioa of oar Stock will pcore what
waaay la Into.
GEO. 8. VANCE,
T. L. P. MULFORD.
Yakima Am., Opp. Yakima Nafl Bank.
THE BELLES OF AFRICA.
Their Costumes Consist of Strings of
Buds end Castor OIL
How They lenght Hlny of aa Ansa
tsar Pbotacrapbsr aa*
His KoAak.
Prom a letter by Mr. Stevens, the New
York World'e African explorer, descrip
tive of experiences on the coast of
Africa:
As we bad supplied our men liberally
with cloth to trade for food, and were
remaining a day for purposes of traffic,
the VVa-Telta celebrated the occasion by
turning out in their gorgeous costumes.
Gorgeous is hardly the word to apply
to the get-up of the ordinary African
savage, bat it may well be allowed to
stand in regard to the gala costumes of
the plump and oilyscinned Ws-Teits
belles, who (airly took possession of our
camp on this occasion. The ladies of
this tribe believe in the time-honored
idea of enhancing their charms, instead
of concealing them. To carry out this
happy feminine conceit they array them
selves almost exclusively in a costume of
beads, of which ornaments they manage
to wear a moat astonishing quantity.
Young women came strutting proudly
into our camp with certainly not leu
than thirty or forty pounds of beads, of
various bright colors, disposed about their
persona. As the ladies of western Asia
carry about in the form of Jewels and gold
coins their husband's surplus wealth, so
the bellee of Teita burden and at the same
time decorate themselves with their little
all hi beads.
The weight of heads they carry and tbe
manner in which they are worn must lie
exceedingly uncomfortable. But they
care no more far comfort where fashion is
concerned than do the ladies of Paris or
New York. The savage belle is, in fact,
always a greater votary of fashion than
her civilized sister. If Miss Fashionable
of America converts herself into a wasp
and the Golden Lily of China discords
her feet at the dictates of fashion, rest
assured that the dark daughters of the
savage continent act well op to their
lights in the same direction. But tbe
Wa-Teita belle does nothing very absurd.
There are holes Itored in her lips, nor is
her well-oiled body disfigured by tattoo
ing as are the women of many savage peo
ples. She files her front teeth to a sharp
point, which leads you to draw irreverent
comparisons between her knowing smile
and the Jaws of a rat-trap. Her chin is
elevated like a British soldier’s by the
enormous collar of beads she wears, and
various other little peculiarities reveal
themselves to our eyes or our nostrils as
she poses before our tent to be admired;
but with all this, I say, she is neither a
human wasp nor a person who has to be
carried pick-aback from having destroyed
her feet.
But let ns endeavor to draw a picture
of her, as near as one may in mere words,
and for the rest, perhaps, a photograph,
snapped off before she becomes aware of
our intentions by means of the World
office detective camera.
In tbs first place, yon see nothing of a
fashionable Wa-Teita woman’s neck. The
whole contour from chin to collar-bone is
filled out with a bulky roll of hundreds of
strings of many-colored beads that ele
vates the chin and impedes movements
of the head. Forty or fifty other and
longer strings, suspended from each shoul
der, cross between the breasts, forming a
bandolier that seemed to os as much of a
burden as an ornament. Another huge
coil encircles the waist, or in some in
stances, instead of innumerable strings,
a bead belt of curious pattern and neat
design. One would think this were beads
enough to satisfy even tbs moot bead
loving African damsel. But even these
massive accumulations (all short of per-
fection in the eyes of the Wa-Teita belle.
Wherever there is room about her person
to bestow a bead, there, rest sssured, will
the bead be found, it she has enough to
go round. The head is shaved so ss to
leave a circular patch of wool on the
crown, about three inches in diameter.
A broad band, or coronet, of beads encir
cles and covers this shaven part, and the
hair of the crown is gathered and twisted
into hundreds of tiny strings, on each of
which Is threaded a red, white, blue or
green bead. Loops of beads threaded on
wire adorn the ears; neat cuff-like bands
of the same bright articles encircle arms
and legs; and, indeed, the very fig-leaf,
with which her simple soul satisfies the
requirements of decency, is a tiny apron
of beads, fringed and embellished by a
border of tiny iron chains of Chaga work
manship.
But the most curious object about the
Wa-Teita ladles’ costume, and which was
seen by os on the women of no other
tribe, is observed from a back view. Sus
pended from the beads around her waist
is a piece of goatskin, patterned after an
exaggerated swallow-tail, the pointed ex
tremities of which descend to the calves
and flap Jauntily about her legs as she
walks. It Is needless to add that this
strange garment also is adorned with
bends.
Picture to yourself a hundred or so
chocolate-hoed women of all rises and
ages, one-half of their persons glistening
like patent leather in the bright sun with
every motion of their snple bodies, by
reason of the liberal dressing of castor oil
they have plsstewd on, and the other hall
beads; and yon have with oa seen a truly
east African spectacle. But take my ad*
vice and clap your handkerchief to your
noee in deference to that particularly
dashing young lady who is approaching
the tent. She haa been making her toilet
afresh for the conquests of the afternoon
among the porters. In other words, she
haa just come from her hut. after anoint
ing from head to foot with a pint or so of
extremely odoriferous oil. How she shines
and glistens—and what a bouquet! And
bow proud and self-conscious she is of
these added charms! She can not help
smiling aa she notes our looks of admira
tion and approval. Or very likely she
smiles to let us see to what fine |ioints her
teeth have beer hied. We note the teeth
and also a carious sharp and lively twink
ling of the bright, beady black eyea.wbkh
betrays tiie fact that every lash, which in
other lands are coveted by the fair sex for
the softened expression they impart, has
been removed.
Having seen all this and been profound
ly impressed thereby, I issued forth with
the Hawksye camera to obtain, if possi
ble, correct representations of the same
for tlie benefit of eyes at home. With
pardonable deception, 1 summon what we
consider the flower of the flock, on the
plausible pretext of inspecting the bunch
of bananas she has brought to sell, and
as she approaches, all unconscious of our
wiles, "click,” goes the camera, and—
have I got her? Most likely, and yet,
possibly, not to any great extent, for it is
a day of sunshine and shadow, and a
troublesome cloud went scudding across
the sun at the very moment .1 clicked,
threw our interesting "subject” in the
shade. Moreover, slie flinched awfully
from fear as I leveled the mysterious
"sandusky” at her and touched the
spring. I shall have to try again. Bat
suspicions as to my intentions had in a
very short time circulated tlirough the
camp. Already my first victim had told
with superstitious awe of the bright and
baleful gleam of the lens that bad far an
instant glared upon her from the white
man’s sandusky and of the ominous
"click” she heard. Word went round
among these superstitious dames and
damsels that the mxungu was, by means
of a mysterious little box with eyes in it,
bewitching them, and the ladies instant
ly become keenly alert to avoid coming
anywhere near them. Many of the more
timid fled the camp entirely: others,
hovering warily on the outskirts, fluctuat
ing between a desire to sell their produce
to the porters and their fears of the dark
designs of your bumble servant.
Seeing the mischief I was creating I
discreetly retired into the tent to abide
my time. The coo teal between their
commercial designs and their superstitious
awe of my fell intentions was an amusing
spectacle. But, seeing that I remained
in the tent, the ladies gradually returned
to camp. I then tried it with the kodak,
as their suspicions were particularly di
rected toward the large camera. 1
wished particularly to obtain the queer,
swallow-tailed appendage above described
In addition to a full portrait. 80, bring
ing a crititcal eye to bear on our sur
roundings I observed one of tbs choice
bads of the assembly standing with her
bask beautifully presorted to the son.
Sauntering carelessly toward her, prim
ing tbs kodak as I went—oh I now; splen
did! but, no; it is not to be! Just at the
supreme moment the damsel is warned of
my approach, turns round, and in a
twinkling the coveted swallow-tails are
flagging against her shapely limbs as she
directly flees the field.
Growing desperate, I resolved to obtain
a picture of this unique garment or perish
in tbs attempt! But 1 didn’t perish, not
do I know at this present moment whether
any of these coveted designs will "come
out” properly as a result of my patient
manoeovenngs.
Not tbs least amusing of the scenes in
our camp at Mutate were the flirtations
between the caravan porters and the
native women. Flirtation advances in
Africa are not to be Judged by the Ameri
can standard. The Feita ladies often had
occasion to show their temper by way of
rebuke. Curious enough, their mode of
expressing anger was to hide their thumbs.
—Before yon buy your holiday presents,
do not miss to give H. Koechler, the Jew
eler, a call and inspect hla line. St
—Six lota given away to people who
will build. GoodwinlA Pogsley.
—Highest price paid for eggs snd bol
ter at Boyers ft Co.’s.
—Go to Bartholet Bros, for your Yaki
ma dairy butter.
-Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy is a_pori
live cure for catarrh, diptheiria and Cank
er Month. For sale at Janeck’s Phar
macy.
—Call and see the useful Christmas
gifts at Henry Ditter’s. •
—Santa Clans’ headquarters is at (I.
Kuectiler’s, the Jeweler. 3t
—The public will please bear In mind
that coal and wood is cash on delivery.
John Reed, Agent. 82-tf.
—The finest line of neckwear ever
shown in North Yakima Just received at
Myron H. fills’. .
-A fun line of shirts always on hand
at Myron H. Ellis’.
—Five hundred boxes of soap at Barth
olet Bros, only $1.25 per box.
—Six lota given away to people who
will build. Goodwin ft Pngsley
—That hacking cough can be so quickly
cured by Shiloh’s Cure. We guarantee
it Bold at Jansck’s Pharmacy.
A POLITICAL GAMBLER.
I Claim Tilt Stephen L Douglas Pre
cipitated Ike Rebellion,
He Was m Political I'rechaster—Hie
Aasbltloa Katas* Mias aa* Male
Lincoln aa* Jeff Davis.
The Boston Herald, in a notably inter
esting article, argues with force aud plaus
ibility that “The man who did the moat
to precipitate upon the country the state
of affairs which led to the rebellion was
not Jefferson Davis; he was Stephen A.
Douglass.”
After the compromise measures of 1850
were passed Davis, who had opposed
them, resigned his seat in the senate and
appealed to his state to elect him governor
on that issue, but was beaten by his col
league in the senate, "Hangman" Foote.
Up to thia time Davis’s extreme ideas
were those of the minority in bis state,
for Davis had been elected in 1847 on the
strength of his gallantry as a soldier at
I’>uena Vista and Monterey. In 1851
Davis could not carry bis state on the
issue of his extreme pro-slavery views.
The Herald points out that "It was Doug
las who made Davis, while he ruined him
self.” Douglas wanted to be president,
and he proposed the repeal of the Mis
souri compromise in order to make him
self acceptable to the south as a candi
date. Douglas was, in fact, utterly desti
tute of moral sense, and spoke the exact
truth when he described himself as one
who "did not care a pepper corn whether
slavery was voted up or down”—with
this qualification, that be would vote it
up or down to help himself. A more
arrant, unpatriotic, selfish political scoun
drel than Douglas never lived in this
country. Douglas upset the Missouri
compromise, when even President Pierce
would have been glad to let the compro
mise of 1850 stand as final, because he
(Douglas) expected to get the support of
the south for the presidency. Douglas
woifld have succeeded had he not under
rated the moral sense of his own state of
Illinois, where his proposition to repeal
the Missouri compromise excited the
strongest indignation among many adher
ents to his own party. In order to secure
his re-election to the senate from Illinois
Douglas was compelled to take the back
track and oppose the south in its further
policy regarding slavery. This step
saved him temporarily in Illinois, but it
lost him the south finally and forever;
for the south, even as it never forgave
Van Boren for wavering on the Texas
question, never forgave Douglas for his
shuffling. Douglas at last saw clearly
that the south would never support him
for the presidential nomination, and in
revenge he deliberately refused to with
draw as a candidate, split the democracy
and thus assured the election of Lincoln.
The result, as the Herald truly says, was
that Douglas ruined himself and not only
made lin coin but made Davis too.
After Davis’s defeat by the Union can
didate for governor in 1851 Pierce re
stored him to public life by making him
secretary of war. Douglas, who was at
best nothing but a gifted demagogue, by
forcing the repeal of the Missouri com
promise killed the whig party at thesouth
and drove the moderate union democrats
over to the Calbonn-Davis extremists.
Douglas made a sectional democratic
party that absorbed the whole south, snd
of such a party Davis, Douglas’s old-time
rival for the leadership of the democracy
in congress, naturally, became the leader,
and the result was a premature, abrupt
precipitation of secession, rebellion and
war, which, bad it not been for Douglas’s
incendiary action in repealing the Mis
souri compromise, might have been pot
off for many years.
Douglas receives his deserts from his
tory. His devotion to the union in 1861,
which by bis selfish ambition he had
done so much to break up, was nothing
but ''Hobson’s choice.” He was a ruined
political gambler; he bad no friends at
the south and had made his party a help
less minority at the north. But in event
of victory for the union he would bo mor
ally certain, through the fusion and re
casting of parties by the fervent beat of
war to draw a prise. He was too able
and aggressive a man to have turned
"copperhead,” and he was by nature too
aggressive and vindictive to spare the
south. He would have been as sealous
and merciless a unionist as Butler, while
the war lasted, and after the war he would
have stolen the thunder of the republi
cans and sought the democratic nomina
tion on bis war record, thus forcing Sey
mour and all the copperhead democracy
to the wall. But the man had no moral
honor or patriotism in politics; he was a
worse man than Davis, who was always
loyal to his section, while Douglas ruth
lessly betrayed the interests of the north
by his repeal of the Missouri compromise,
and then cheated the south. Hs miscal
culated the moral sense of the north and
was ruined in consequence, for he was
ground to powder between the upper
millstone of the republican party and the
nether millstone of the southern democ
racy. He cared nothing for the north,
nothing for the south, nothing for the
union, and only became a unionist as
Andy Johnson did, to take his revenge.
Fortunately for the country, he died early,
in the conflict. He died a victim some
thing to his bitter political disappoint
ment, but chiefly to hia reckless, intem
perate habits ol living, which left him
unfitted in mind and body to resist men
tal trial or physical disease. Take him
all in all, Douglas was the worst, because
the ablest, demagogue that was ever
spawned by the democratic party since
Jefferson and Burr.— Oregonian, Dee. 19,
1889. _
Prim Hint (tpitiUta.
The announcement is made that Prince
Murat baa capitulated, and that he and
Miaa Caldwell will soon he married.
l*rince Murat haa promised to be satisfied
with whatever Mias Caldwell may see fit
to allow him. In an interview he ex
pressed admiration at her independence
of character, and said he was charmed to
know that he had found a woman who
knew enough te carefully look after her
own interests. He knew, he said, that
once wedded. Mies Caldwell will never
permit her husband to he placed in any
position regarding hia finances that would
prove embarrassing to him or reflect upon
her liberality in any way.
Tk Cemet VUtug Ctrl
The preferred visiting card just now for
the married lady Is rather large, not quite
square, very stiff, and dead white. Year
oldest daughter is Miu Black, your sec
ond one Miu Virginia Black, and your
sons always preface Mr. before their Chris
tian names after they pass the egotistical
age of 16. These seem like small matters
to people who are absorbed in the big
things of this world to the entire seclusion
of the small courtesies, but aa everything
in being is judged a little by the card,
certainly care should be taken to make it
correct. A vulgar card will impress a
woman with the bet that there m a strain
of vulgarity in you, and she may not care
to make an acquaintance that might moan
a great deal to you, and all because you
did not think it worth while to notice the
little things of life.
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Last night a fat man, wearing a low*
necked shirt with a turn-down collar three
siied too large (or him, eat down to a
table in a Clark street restaurant and
called for a plate of raw oysters. He got
them cold and Juicy right off the ice, and,
harpooning a (at one with his fork, be
lifted it toward his mouth. But the
slippery, slimy, chilly bivalve dropped
off the fork before reaching its destina
tion, carromed on the (at man's chin, and
then slid down Inside of bis shirt and
nestled on his breast.
No one saw the incident. The obeae
gent himself didn’t see it, but he felt that
something bad happened and that ha
bad arrived at a crises in his life. A
pained, startled expression rested for a
moment on his face; then with a low,
plaintive wail of heart-breaking agony ha
half rose from his chair and cbpped his
hand on his stomach. Ha stuck the
oyster, but that coy creature was one
of the most alert and agile of its species.
It at once changed Hs base on feeling the
pressure, and shied upward and across
the fat man’s wide expanse ot palpitating
bosom, leaving a trail of arctic (rigidity
in its wake, and took up new quarters In
his left armpit.
With a wild bowl of anguish the un
happy proprietor of the oyster leaped two
feet in the air, ottered another yell like a
wild west Indian, and commenced to
work bis arm after the manner of a bag
pipe musician. The oyster got excited
and started again on its travels, bat wee
apparently unable to select a permanent
location. After making several blind
rashes it halted for a moment under a
short rib near the spine to catch its sec
ond wind.
The unfortunate fat man waa now la a
state of mind bordering on insanity. He
kicked over hie chair, yelled and swore,
grabbed himself in front and behind and
on both aides, rolled np his eyes, frothed
at the mouth, and spun round like a top.
Bat the slippery bivalve was now thor
oughly rattled and scooted here and there
like a streak of greased lightning, taking
great pains not to travel over the same
ground twice.
“He’s got a fit I” screamed a wild-eyed
men, making a rash for the door, with a
napkin tucked under hie chin.
“It* either that or he’e afire inside of
his clothes,” said another pale-faced
diner edging away from the sufferer.
"For mercy sake take him off. eome
body; I’m dying!” wailed the stricken
man aa he threw up both bands and eat
down heavily on the floor.
When the victim of misplaced refresh
ments struck the floor the oyster shot out
of the back of hia neck like a bullet, hit
the ceiling with a squashy plonk, and
then fell back and hung limp and liieleaa
from the chandelier.
The fat man’s physician says the
patient will recover from bis attack of
nervioas prostration in a few days.
—New goods arriving dally at Henry
Hitter's, direct from the east. Great
preparations have been made lor the hol
idays. Call and see the latest In the line
of dry goods and clothing. *
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NO. 48.
WESTERN JUSTICE.
Roo£h ud Rud; Methods Gltlil Tij
to Eiston Fonnility.
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Bllndl u«44«u tm Early Bays.
Um4 ABHdelet.
New York Dribune: Several lawyer*
were chatting over a bottle ol wine in an
up-town restaurant the other night, and
as one of them bad spent some yean of
his younger days in Nevada, the conver
sation naturally drifted Into the reminis
cent channel. “I suppose your judges
out west are a different class ol men from
what they used to be years ago when the
country was more uncivilised,” said one.
“I remember once we had great difficulty
In securing a Jury in a newly laid out
town in Nevada. Nobody seemed willing
to serve that counsel on one side or other
bad not serious objections to. Finally a
desirable looking stranger was called.
“ ‘Your honor,’ said he, 'I am not
qualified to serve. lam not a freeholder.’
“ ‘Where do you live?’ said the judge.
“ ’ln my tent on Washington boule
vard,’ was the reply.
’•’Harried?’
” ’No.’
” 'Living all alone?*
” ’Yes.’
“ ‘For how long!*
“ ’Six weeks.’
” ’You’ll do,’ said the judge decisively,
’I never knew a tenderfoot yet to keep
bachelor’s hall in a tent for six weeks but
be had accumulated enough dirt to be a
freeholder.’ So the man served.”
“That’s a pretty fair sample,” said the
westerner, “of the rough-and-ready style
of the olden-time justice, and it has not
all died out yet by any means. Not long
ago a miner, who had experienced all
kinds of fortune, from the hardest up,
struck it very rich in bis old age, married
a young wife and started on a prolonged
spree which ended in bis death. A will
executed a few hours before be died left
ail his property to hia wife. His relatives
in the east began suit on the ground that
the testator was out of his mind when be
made the will. The case came op before
a judge who is known as a good liver
and a gallant man. Certainly some re
markable freaks were proved to have
been performed by the did miner in the
last few days of his life and the widow
was pot on the stand.
“ ‘What ware your husband’* bat
words?” said bar counsel.
“ Td rather not tell/ said aha, blush
ing prettily and hesitating.
” ‘Why not?’ said her counsel. ‘You
must tell. The judge will think you are
afraid it will damage your case.*
‘‘Still blushing the pretty widow de
clined to tell. Finally the judge himself
argued with her and told her that if she
persisted in refusing it would go far to
ward confirming his suspicious that the
man was insane.
“ ‘Well,’ said the widow, reluctantly,
‘be said ‘‘Kiss me, Puss, and open
another bottle of champagne.”'
“ ‘Sensible to the last,’ blurted out the
judge. And so be decided and would
hear no more evidence.”
“Tbs most severe rebuke I ever got
from the bench,” said the first speaker,
‘‘was from one of those typical western
judges who had determined that It was
time to introduce a little mors of the
formality of the east in his court than he
had formally insisted. It was my first
case in court anyway. I had gone out
there about as green as they make them,
and had purchased a half interest in the
practice of a sharp bwysr, whp immed
iately retired from practice in that town
and mads ms a present of tbs remainder
of his business, when hs felt my money
safe in his pocket So I was thrown on
my own resources and was floundering
so deep in legal quagmires that the judge
felt called upon to to interpose. A few
months before hs would probably have
poured out some choice abuse on my
heed, and would have offered to fight me
if I did not like it But now be was
standing on formality.
“ ‘Young man/ hs said, impressively,
‘the beet thing yon can do for yourself
and for your client would be to hire a
lawyer/ I did so."
‘That reminds me,” said the other, “of
a rebake administered by one of our old
justices to a fly young lawyer who came
out there from the east with a determine
tiion to show everybody jost how things
should be done. He wee well connected
end well introduced, but soon got Into
debt, and wee an inveterate borrower
from acquaintances. One day three
justices were sitting on our young friend,
who forthwith tried to get off the old gs(«
about contempt of court.
“ ‘I wish your honors to fine me |6 far
contempt of court/ ” said be.
“‘Why so. Mr. Smith?’ asked one of
the Justices, who did not at once tumble
to the point; ‘you have not displayed any
e ° !? sft cherish a decided contempt lor
this court and am willing to pay forlt,*
said Smith with a rhetorical flourish.
“ ‘Your contempt for this court to not
to he mentioned in the same bteath with
the court’s contempt for you.’ said the
second Justice.
“ ‘And we won’t fine yon. Mr. Smith,*
■aid the third, with u triumph in hie oyo,
‘because we can’t tall which one of us you
would harrow the money from to pi pit
with. •
“While the ushers were trying to re
store order in the court ont of the tumult
of laughter that followed this neat and