Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 March 1890 — Page 6

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DAILY JOURNAL.

SATURDAY. MARCH 8. 18S0.

FROM WASHINGTON.

Booth and Modjeska at Baltimore—OivJ Service—Pensions and the Eight Hour Law.

WASHINGTON, Muroli -T.—The sonsation in the city at tlio present is the exposure of the methods of the Civil Service Commission. Fniuk Hutton, of the Post, ib proving all the charges of rottenness in the Commission's conduct of affairs iu away to make reformer Roosevelt want to go off somewhere and die. The man Shidy, who was the Commissioner's prinoipal witness against Paul, the Milwaukee postmaster, has covered himself with glory as the champion "torturer of rascals,"as he puts it,while other witnesses have unveiled a state of rottenness that has never been equaled since the days of the St. Louis whisky ring. Asa consequence of this expoiure of its methods, there is a general demand for the resignations of til Ceommissioner's from the press all over the country.

The old saying, "In the Spring the young man's thoughts lightly turn to love," may be true, but this Spring the thoughts of young men turn to shooting the one they pretend to love, two cases of the kind ocourring in this city within a week. The yonng men put a bullet into tlieir sweethearts because their love did not run as smoothly as they thought it should.

Congressmen's thoughts, this Spring •seem to turn to the erection of public buildings within tneir respective bailiwicks, as on last Monday there were over forty favorable committee reports for buildings in different sections of the country. Indiana was remembered with oue at South Bend and one at Lafayette.

The Pension Committee of the House is in a quandary as to what disposition is to be made ol the numerous pension bills that have been sent to it. The amount of money which it would require •annually to pay pensions under the bills introduced would be about six hundred and seventy millions of dollars.

The committee is unanimously in favor of liberal pension legislation, but see that it is impossible to agree to all of the propositions before it, and are carefully investigating the whole subjeot to determine which is the most meritorious and most pratical measure.

Certain Democratic labor papers are trying to make political capital out of the repeal of what was called the eighthour resolution of Columbia Typographical Union by charging that the eighthour law is not observed in the Government printing office, but the fact is, the eight-hour law is observed there as strictly as in any place in the country. Kight hours, lrom 8 to 5 constitute a day's work, but when there is an un usual press of work, us is the case just now, some of tho employees work more than eight hours, but are paid pro rata for every minute tho time they are in tho office over tho eight hours.

Mootli and Modjeska aro playing together iu Baltimore, and Washington people who want to see them together must go there, as Iiooth still adheres to the resolution made years ago that ho would never play iu thin city. It ijLiite a lark t.o take the ears at (»i0 iu the evening, travel forty miles in an hour, see the play aud get home at 1-Theater parties are of nightly occurrence for the trip. l'.ven if Chicago does get the World's l'air Washington is determined to have a celebration, and the plan now i.s to enlarge the National Museum into a Three America's Museum, to build a memorial bridge across the Potomac and put up a btutuo of Columbus, to bo unveiled on October ]2, 1S!)2. All of the American sister republics are to bo invited to attend, together with tho King of Italy and the (,)ueeu of Spain. It seems to be the idea here that Congress can be induced to help in such a national celebration, aud while Chicago has tho Fair, Washington will luive a truly national-celebration. It remains to be seen whether the scheme, which looks so well on paper can bo materialized.

Warner Wilhito has returnod from his trip aud is again at his desk. H.

THE MEN WHO DO 1NOT LIFT.

Tfce world is sympathetic. The statement none can doubt: When A'sln trouble don't we thiuk that should help hltn out? Of course we havent time ourselves to care for any one. But yet we ho|x» that other folk* wJll see that it is done. \N want the grief and ixmury of earth to be relieved. We'd ha*e the battles grandly fought, tho victories achieved. We do not care to take the lead, -and stand the brush am! brunt. At lifting we re a failure, but we're splendid on the grunt.

And there are others, so we And. as on our way we jog. Who want to do their liftiug ou the small end of the log. 'They do a lot of blowing, and they striae to make it known That were there no oue else to help, they'd lift it all alone. 11 talking were effective there are scoresand score® of men Who'd move a mountniu off its base and more it tuck again. But as a class, to state it plain, in languace true and blunt. They're never worth a cent to lift, for all they do t«r grunt. —Chicago Herald-

TllK KLECTI1IC HAND.

Early in tho summer of I860 I was sent from Yuma with dispatches for the commanding officer at Prescott, Ariz., being at that time in the employment of the government as courier and scout. All tho tribes in the territory were hostile, and most of them were on the warpath. I decided, therefore, that it would be less dangerous to cut across the country than to follow the usual roads or trails on which travelers were being daily killed. I struck out in a northeast course, and followed that direction as nearly as the configuration of the country would permit.

On the afternoon of the third day, shortly before sundown, struck the trail from Woolsey's Agua Caliente ranch to Wickenburg, and, following it for two miles or more, came to some water tanks. As I was getting into the Indian country I resolved to be very cautious. After preparing and eating my supper I carefully extinguished the small fire, and scattered the embers and ashes 60 as to leave no trace of it. After having given my pony a good drink at the tank I resorted to tactics with which every scout and mountaineer is familiar. Having ridden forward on the trail until I found rocky ground, where the hoofs of my pony would make no impression, I dismounted and put tho mufflers on his feet. 1 then turned round and rode back, and passed the water about half a mile, where at a point some five or six hundred yards from the trail I found good galletta grass for the horse and made camp. I was on the east side of the trail, and safe from observation from it or the tanks. As these maneuvers were executed after dark I felt sure that they could have been witnessed by no one. I laid down my blankets and went to sleep with a feeling of absolute security.

Some time about the middle of the night I awoke without any apparent reason. Listening attentively, all seemed quiet. Sinking back to rest, I noticed that my pony had quit eating. This again roused me. and soon the perfect silence was broken by faint sounds of horses' feet in the distance. "If it be Indians," I thought, "my caution has been warranted, for they can't find me for some time at least."

The Bound of the hoofs became plainer, and I was soon able to determine that a single animal made them, and that it was being hard ridden. Wonder and alarm took possession of me when, at a point on tho trail directly opposite from which I was sleeping, the gallop broke, and at a much slower pace the horse came in my direction. I reasoned that it could not be an Apache, for a solitary Indian would select an open place at some elevated point to sleep. It followed, then, that the midnight rider was white and a stranger to the trail, and his approach was nothing more than a chance. This reasoning was completely upset when, in a loud voice, the strange horseman, now quite near, sang out: "Hello, stranger! where is you? Don't be 'tall alarmed it's all right!"

How the man could possibly know that I was in that vicinity was something passing niv understanding, but I answered his salute, although in a lower anil more cautious voice and when he came up to me proceeded to inform him, in language more forcible than polite, that we were in an Indian country, and that the people who went riding over it yelling like Comanches wero likely to lose lock or two of hair that this might be a trivial matter with him, but for my part 1 considered my tresses valuable. "Bog pardon hut that's all right, partner," lie coolly replied "there ain't no Injun in live mile of here that I can bet. But it's lucky for me you camped on tho right hand side of the trail or I wouldn't have found you. Where's your water?" 1 handed him my canteen, and as 1 was thoroughly vexed at his impudence as ivell as nettled at. the ease with which he found me. I inquired, in a manner not at all intending to disguise my feelings: "How in the detu'e did you lii.» me, anyway? Were you hanging around hero watching me make camp, and waited until this time to make yourpresence known':'' "No," ho answered, in an undisturbed manner, as he took his lips from the canteen. "I know you did not trail me. My horse must have attracted you by some noise." "No, partner, I did not hear you or your hoVe, and 1 reckon I was fifteen or twenty mile out on the desert, seeing tho time of night it is, when you sprout your blankets. I didn't trail you, either I felt you. It's lucky for me you're on the right hand side of tho trail."

He felt me at a distance of five or six hundred yards. The reply convinced mo that 1 had been overtaken by a lunatic.

Before 1 had a chanco to speak again, lio inquired: "Where's highest water?"

I told him where the tank was, and with the assurunco that he would be right back he rode away. That 1 was completely confounded at tho strange visit and nonplussed with the traveler feebly expresses niv sensations at the time. After the unknown traveler had returnod from water, he unsaddled and staked out his horse, and 1 heard him gathering up twigs of the mesquite. Divining his intentions, I asked: "What are you going to do now?" 'Huildn little lire, partner, and have a bite to eat '.haven't had nuthin'since niornin'." "Well, if you are an escaped lunatic, and desire to commit suicide, 1 am not. Do you want to bring a hundred or more Apaches down here within the next hour, and have us both killed? This is my camp, and you shall not build a fire here to-night. You can wait until morning to oat if not. no some place else and make your lire, far enough away so that I will not be compelled to suffer for your stupidity and nonsense," said 1. losing all patience. "Well, partner," the midmght horseman replied, in an injured and disappointed tone, but free from all offence, "I don't like to be unsociable, and won't do nuthin' when you savs no, and I can wait till mornin' for mv coffee and bacon. Man, I don't danger myself or nobody. A little fire in that wash there couldn't be seen ten yards by Injun or nobody else, and when 1 tells you there's no Injuns nigher to us than live miles, I know what I is talking about. 1 was born in western Missoury, twenty-nine years ago, when the Injuns was try in' to burn our cabin, and my good mother— leastwise. 1 never seen her—died two hours after I came to the world. Do you think that's for nuthin'? Do you think a good woman gives up her life for a boy who grows to be a man, and give up whites to the Injuns? No, sir-ee. I hates 'em, and I wish I could kill every one of 'em, for the whole lot of 'em, ten million times over, is not so good as my mother. I can feel 'em if they is nigh, and I have had one of 'em for every hair that was in her head—leastwise, if sho was like other women. Travel with me, pard, and there is no danger to nobody. I'se a friend to every man as had a white mother, and an enemy to all Injuns. Good night to you!"

I awoke first in the morning, made a fire, and was getting coffee ready when the stranger got up'. He was tall and slender, with a round, good naturod face, black eyes, hair and mustache, and appeared several years younger than the ago he gave the previous night. His countenance was frank and open, and his actions simple and modest. He gave the name of Dick Harbert was going to Santa Fe—a very dangerous trip at that time—and was glad to have company. So, after our breakfast, we saddled up and started off together.

I learned little of my strangely met companion during our ride that day. He was a good rider, excellently mounted and weil armed, and the only physical peculiarity I noted was that he was decidedly lefthanded. His right arm and hand may as well have been of wood for the uses made of them, yet they wero apparently sound and uninjured. I bccame more and more mystified with the man. He rode along, so far as I could see, without giving the slightest attention to his surroundings, but his peculiar confidence was expressed and illustrated whenever he detected me inspecting the country with especial care, by some remark, as: "There's no Injuns here never you mind, partner, I'll tell when they is around."

We had a good hard wagon road for the greater part of the day's travel, and, as water was plentiful, made good time. We entered People's Valley toward evening, and intended ta make the old station, a few miles further up, for the night. Harbert was riding slightly ahead of me, when I noticed him drop a switch which he carried in his right hand, and extend that arm in front of him. A moment or two afterward he turned to me and said, with a smile which I thought unsuited to the situation, "There's Injuns about here."

I could not see tho slightest thing to justify the assertion, and we rode on for about fifteen minutes before Harbert drew up his horse and said: "Yes, they is to the north of us, and not uior'n half mile ahead of us. They think they'll s'prise us, but they won't do nuthin' of tho kind, llow's your guns, partner?"

I took a careful look at my weajtons, while Harbert examined his pistols, handling them with his left band, but did not take his rifle out of the holster. My curiosity had by this time overcome all other considerations, and I could not refrain from asking my companion how he knew that Indians were in that vicinity. "Know? Why, I alius knows. Didn't I tell you before? I feel 'em. Listen."

With this, he held his right hand close to my ear, and my astonishment was complete. His fingers, which were slightly trembling, as I first supposed through fear or excitement, gave forth a very faint yet distinct metallic sound, more closely approaching that, made by a tuning fork than any I had before or have since heard. "It's my alarm clock it alius goes that way when Injuns is nigh," said be, in answer to my countenance. "Now, if you is ready, we'll go on. We'll cut from the road to the right, and give the Apaches along shot. You use the rifle, and I'll make my pistol count at short range, if need bo leastwise, I won't waste no ammunition, you can bet."

Wo started down the gentle slope at a long, swinging gallop, and sure enough when we had covered about half a mile I saw an Apache raise his head from behind a rock on tho hillside to our left. As I drew up my Winchester to shoot a volley from four or five rifles was fired at us, hut tho range was too long, and we suffered no injury. I returned the fire, and, although there was no prearranged plan of action, both Harbert and

myself wheeled our horses and started toward the Indians. They broke from their shelter and scattered, all endeavoring, however, to pass beyond the ridge of the hill of the side of which they had made their ambush. I followed several up the hill in the direction from which we came, firing eight or ten shots, and having the satisfaction of seeing one of tho murderous fiends fall to tho grown...

As I had not heard a shot from llarbort, I turned around to see what lmd become of him, and thus witnessed one of tho most extraordinary and inexplicable occurrences in my life. Harbert was pursuing, in a diagonal direction from me, three Indians, who were endeavoring to cr:ss the ridge at the lower point than those whom I attacked, but, while within close range, did not attempt to shoot. Just at this moment buck, who was nearest to him, pulled up his weapon, but the pistol in the left hand of my companion cracked, and the Indian fell over dead. 1 could see that llarbert's horse had a free rein, and that it understood the work in hand as well as its master, for in another moment it was alongside of the second Indian. No shot was fired this time. 11:»rbert clutched the Apache by the neck with his right hand, and threw him from the ponv ho was riding, scarcely pausing in his mad chase after the third savage.

Thinking that the Indian who had been pulled from his horse was simply stunned, I rode rapidly towards him, but was surprised, U]on reaching the body, to see, by the distorted features aud protruding tongue, that life was extinct.

By this time Harbert had come up to the last wretch again his right arm went out and his hand clutched the throat of the Indian, who rolled from his horse as though his skull had been cloven. Again turning into the road and shouting to mo to follow, Harbert started in the direction we had been previously traveling at a speed which my pony could not begin to maintain.

The entire fight, if fight it might IK? called, did not last over five or six minutes. Although not unfamiliar with such things, I was completely bewildered. IIow did Harbert kill the last two Indians? He surely did not strangle them to death, for he did not take sufficient time, and he certainly did not JKJSsess the strength to dislocate a man's neck while using but one hand. Why did he not shoot them like an ordinarv man would have done? Was he a wizard, and what unseen powers did ho possess? hile trying to settle these and other questions of a similarnature which rapidly catue to my mind, I overtook my companion, who lay writhing on the ground in apparent agony, while his horse was quietly grazing on the grass near by.

Believing that he had been wounded. I sprang to his side to render what assistance I could, when he turned his face toward me and fairly hissed: "For God's sake, man, don't touch me: it'll kill you!"

His jaws set, his eyes rolled and his features gave evidence of the most intense pain: great beads of perspiration stood out on his brow. His limbs were twitching, and his entire frame was convulsed. I never saw any one suffer such agony as Harbert did for the next five or six minutes, and when the throes became less violent he sat up and began rubbing and beating his right arm, repeating over and over again, in a low moan, "Oh, it'll kill me it'll bust it'll break some tiuio I'll cut it off—cut it off!" It was fully half an hour before the suffering man was able to mount his horse and ride to tho station, but in the meantime he assured me he had not been wounded by the Indians.

We reached Prescott the next evening without any further encounter with the Indians, and during the day Herbert explained to me reluctantly—for ho was averse to talking on the subject—the nature of his peculiar gift or ailment. It seems that he had possessed it since childhood, and was inclined to attribute it to the painfulcircumstances attaching to his birth. It was never thoroughly developed until he came into the Indian country, when lie found that by the sensation in his right hand he was able to detect the presence, at considerable distances, of his inkerent foe, and also that of other people if they were to the right of him. When induly excited or angry his "electric haul," as Harbert himself chilled it, became an instrument of certain death. instantaneously killing unv one upon whom was laid. After such occasions he inrariably suffered the agony I had witnessed the day before.

Poor Harbert i.ever reached Santa Fe alive, his dead body—stripped of its flesh by the coyotrs—having been found near Navajo Springs some two months after our meeting. The cause of his death still remans a mystery, and his premature demis unfortunately closed to the medical fraiernity all opportunity of ascertaining tin cause and determining the nature d' the storage power which 1 saw him (Mercise.—Charles Lane Moshei in Boston True Flag.

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A physician of lew York, at a little gathering there retently, told of one of the first profcssiona'tcalls made by a fellow practitioner. lie was sent for by a rich but avaricioustnan who had dislocated his jaw. Tie young surgeon promptly put the metibi-r in place. "What is your Inllidoctor?" asked the patient. "Fifty dollars, sir.'lJ "Great heavens!'' j^ul the man opened his mouth so wide as it dislocate his jaw a second time. The jiysician again put things to rights. "What did you sal your bill was?" again asked tho patienl "I said it was fifty dollars now it is one hundred."

The man grumbled, bit paid it.—Philadelphia Ledger.

No Chance for Dtuugeg-

Mrs.'Merritt—I hearydr husband fell on the ice and broke his eg. if. dreadfully unlucky.

Mrs. Giles—I should saj it was. He fell on our own sidewalk.—Epoch.

An Alarm llottle for PoUoit*. A Chicago man has invented a bottle topper to be used exclusively for ]oisons, l'Iio superiority over the old fashioned irlielf' lie.t iu the construction of tho top|er. The projection which enters he neck of the bottle is ground glass, .vithasmall hole in one side, through •vhicli protrudes a little rod or trigger. The top of tho stopper is covered with a miall bell inclosing cog wheels, whiuh ire so arranged that when tho stopper is removed the bell will ring. When it is laid down it rings again, and when returned to its place in the bottle it again sounds an alarm. Tho mechanism is so arranged that it is absolutely ini]K)ssible to remove or replace the stopper without first ringing the bell, thus making it impossible for a druggist, if he is careful in the filling of his bottles, to deal out |oison in the place of harmlc.ss drugs without receiving a warning as to the dangerous nature of the preparation,—Chicago News.

Senator Our I A MII1 IIIN Wife. It was the good fortune of Davis to win a splendid woman, and it was Miss Agnew's good fortune to wed one who was destined to occupy a oeat in tho United States senate. Mrs. Davis soon became prominent in Washington as a social ieader, though she is by no means ashamed of having made her living by the needle. Indeed, she make-s her own clothes because she can make them better than the artists in that line. She is now a very accomplished woman, painting iu od and waters, speaking or reading several languages and being an excellent horsewoman.—Washington Letter.

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