Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 November 1893 — Page 3

f ike County femur rat M McC. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERfeUUlIG. - - INDIANA. WHILE THEY SLEEP. B« glveth while they sleep Vo Hia'beloved strong tb; The nerves that tire, the e yes that wee®, Wake calm and clear at length. His angels obme with healing hands For all our loss and pain; Life's empty cruse, that broken stands, They mend and fill again. At morn tree mounts the thought That, wearied, earthward fell; Plain looks the task we vainly wrought, But how we oannot tell The somber-curtalned night. With silence-guarded hour. Has held 'inid waves of starry light Tho biding of His power. Lay anxious thoughts aside; God's ways are not like ours. Look how His gifts unchanged abide— The air, the light, the flowers: At night, though victory bo unwon. And many fears will creep. Just take thy rest, O toiling one! He glveth while they sleep —& S. ltice, in Boston Tfanscrlpt «

M STAGE with six passengers in it O held up by one man, and the paper says they were a pack of

cowards, saiu me man in «me seat, ahead, us he turned lutnself round. “But, doesn't it look that way to a man up a tree?" I said in reply. “Very likely, but there's where your eye deceives you. You’ve read of these stage-coach robberies quite frequently, haven’t you?” “It’s always where from four to eight men are held up and cleaned out?” “Most always.” "Well, let me tell you there’s another side to it. I’ve been right on deck on several occasions when a hold-up didn’t work worth a cent. The papers never seem to get hold of the other side, though.” “Let’s go and have a cigar and talk about road agents. If you have been held up, give us the particulars.” .“Yes, I've been held up,” he said, as we got seated in the smoker. “My first experience was about twelve miles from Tuscarora, Nev. There were seven men in the coach, and every one of us had shooting irons and sand enough-to use them. We were stopped just where we didn’t expect it, and that was the trouble. Before we knew what was up a fellow had us covered with two revolvers. It wasn’t his guns that made us take water so much as his general demeanor. You had only to” glance at him to realize that he was a devil and held human life as cheap as dirt. lie could keep all of us covered, but we had no show at him. If one of us had fired and missed, he’d have downed the whole crowd before he stopped shooting. I believe that any one of us, if alone in the stage, would have pulled down on him, bht as it was each one feared |o draw his vengeance on the rest. He took watches, rings and money to the value of five thousand dollars from’ our crowd. He had us stuck up for half an hour, and there wasn’t a second in that time he didn’t have his eye on every man and hold himself ready for a shot. That chap . stopped over a dozen stages before he got his dose.” “And you spoke of several failures.” “Yes, I’ve witnessed several. Of all the road agents in the west for the last twenty years not more than five or six had any business to take to that line. The others were chumps and failures. Why I’ve been from Cheyenne north when weftl pass three or four dead bodies in a day, corpses of chumps who’d tried to make a hold-up and got left. One day, about ten miles south of the Platte, when there were five of us in the stage, a fellow jumped out and yelled his yell. Every man in the stage knew he was a galoot by his antics and the trembling of his voice, and we weren’t a bit surprised when the driver out with his gun and dropped him without checking the gait of his horses. Another time on the same road, about nine o'clock of a pretty dark night, the driver sees something ahead of him and pulls up and calls out: “ ‘Who’s there, and what d’ye want?’ “ ‘I’m Jim Rich; and- a hoidin’ of this stage up,’ came the answer. “You git along!’ “ ‘Hoild up yer hands or I’ll shute!’ “The driver shook his lines and yelled at his horses, and Jim Rich was knocked down and run over. He had a broken leg, and I was one to help pick him up. He hadn’t sand enough to hold up a coyote, and the driver knew it the minute he heard his voice At another time a fellow overtook us on horseback and commanded the driver to halt This was also at night, and he rode up so close to the right-hand door of the stage that I reached out of the window and got him by the leg. One of the other passengers came to my assistance, and we pulled him off his horse and held him dangling against the door ior a good three miles. > Then we got down and gave him the boot and drove him into a thicket He wasn’t worth shooting. He cried and begged like a !boy of ten, and we felt that he deserved : to live on and enjoy his own miserable society.” “Then a man has got to be a good one to make a successful hold-up?” I asked. “There’s where you hit hardpan,” he ■answered. “There may be cowards

traveling around out west, but 1 nevei met any. The idea that five or s Lx wellheeled men are going to submit to be cleaned out by one if there’s a show to stop him is all bosh. It’s all in the man and his way of doing business. If he's got a voice with a sort of laugh to it—if he’s got a gnn in either hand and keeps ’em moving about like the heads of snakes traveling through the grass— if his eyes seem to be looking fight through you and watching everybody else at the same time, don’t make a fool of yoursejf. ” “You inean give up your boodle?” “Exactly, and don't be too long about it, either, for those chaps are always in a hurry. These newspaper men seem to imagine that the passengers in a coach sit with revolvers in their hands throughout the trip. Their guns are right down in their hind pockets, of course. Give ’em five minutes to get\ ready and they’d clear the road, but they don’t have five seconds. When you get the hail you know you’re covered. Only one man—the one next to the door—^could do any shooting, anyhow, and he’d be more apt to miss than to hit. - What then? Why, the robber would turn loose and kill or cripple everybody inside quicker’n you could • count. You’ve probably noticed a limp in my gait? That comes from a bullet I got in ray left knee when the Deadwood stage was held up by ‘Wyoming Charlie.’ It was in the afternoon and there were six of us. A tenderfoot had the seat by the window, and he thought he’d show his sand by opening fire with his pop. The robber wasn't fifteen feet away, and the idiot had three shots at him without a touch. The shooting made him mad, and he began firing right and left into the stage. He killed two men and wounded the other four, and all of us were robbed besides. The tenderfoot was one of the killed, and I can't say I was ever sorry about it” “I think I remeihber reading that ‘Wyoming Charlie’ was killed while holding up a stage somewhere out west.” “Yes, down near Plum creek, in Nebraska, and it was curious how it came about There were seven passengers and one of ’em was a woman—the wife of a cattle man. She was with the driver on top. Charlie took the outfit at aHum-4n the road and made a complete surprise. He got the men out and in line, and when his back was turned the woman fired at him with a Derringer. ller bullet passed through his liat, and as he wheeled about to see what was going on one of.his own guns was accidentally discharged and the bullet entered his groin. I saw him at Plum creek .before he died. He was a tough looking customer and even in dj’ing he boasted of the number of men he had killed. I forget his figures, but everybody was willing to believe he had killed a full dozen. He’d been robbing for a year orso and had several thousand dollars planted somewhere along the Niobrara river. If he had

— THE WOMAN FIRED AT HIM. any relatives he didn’tWre for ’em ani when he found he was going over the crqek he tells the woman who shot at him where he had cached his plunder and just how to find it. I had this right' from her own lips, and I know that her husband afterwards • got the money. Queer, wasn’t it, being as she brought about his death, but he didn't lay it up against her. He was a born road agent and had the business down so pat that it was almost a pleasure to be robbed by him.”—Detroit Frer Press. _ Willing to Try. Presence of mind and willingness are good qualities in a servant. M. Martins’ new valet possessed these qualities, though he certainly had his faults. A day or two after Baptiste came M. Martins inquired where he was. “He went out and-has not returned,” some one said. Three days later Baptiste came back. “Where have you been?” his employer demanded. "Monsieur, 1 had seen your house but once,” replied Baptiste, “and it took •me all this time to find it again.” “That is a very poor excuse,” said M. Martins, sternly. \ , “Is it?” “Certainly it is.” Baptiste was disturbed, but he remembered his duty. “Very well, monsieur,” he said, blandly, “if you will step into the next room and wait a moment I Will try to find you another.”—Youth’s Companion. Only Three. An honest mistake was that of a colored man in the south, whose former master had allowed him -the use of a piece of land on condition that he. the owner, should receive one-fourth of the crop. When the corn was ripe, the .laborer hauled three loads to his ow,i house, and none to that of the white man. Then he went innocently <ap to the great house to return his landlord’s wagon which he had used in the hauling. “Well, Frank,” said the gentleman, “where’s my share of the corn?” “You ain’t got none, sah,” was the sympathetic reply. “Haven’t got any! Why, wasn’t I to have a fourth of aU you raised?” “Yes, sah, but dey wa’n’t no fourth. Dere wa’n’t but jes’ my three loadat”— Youth’s Companion.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Roast Sweetbread.—Parboil and blanch by laying in cold water ten minutes. Wipe dry, put in pan with bits of butter, season and bake. —Apple Snow.—Sift steamed apples enough to make one pint of pulp. Beat the whites of three eggs stiff and stir together, using one teaspoonful of sugar to each tablespoonful of apple; beat the whole stiff, and keep as cold as possible. Serve with cream or custard.—Rural New Yorker. —Indian I*udding.—Boil one quart of milk; stir seven tablespoonfuls of corn meal into nearly a cupful of molasses; pour the boiling milk over it; stir thoroughly, add a little salt and one pint of cold milk. Bake in a moderate oven four hours, the last hour with decreasing heat. Serve with sauce.—Home Queen. —Whortleberry Pie.—Fill a deep pie plate half full of berries, add half a cupful of sugar, a small piece of butter, a little nutmeg and a few drops of lemon juice: fill up the plate with berries, add a little more sugar, butter and spice and sprinkle a little flour over the top. Cover with a good paste and bake one hour.—Boston Budget. —Egg Nogg.—Beat the yolk of an egg in a tumbler with a tablespoonful and a half of sugar and two teaspoonfuls of brandy. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, mix it thoroughly with the yolk, add a heaping tablespoonful of pounded ice, and fill the glass with milk. If the patient can not take egg it may be omitted and more milk used. —Health. — Hot Biscuit—One quart of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt one tablespoonful of white sugar. Sift and mix thoroughly; work in one tablespoonful of lard or butter, and make into a smooth dough with a pint of milk; roll to the thickness of an inch, cut with biscuitcutter, and bake in a quick oven. If milk is not at hand use a little more butter and substitute water.—Farm and Fireside. —Crust for Melton Mowbray Pies.— To mdke the paste, a la Melton Mowbray, take fourteen pounds of the finest wheaten flour, two and a half ounces of corn flour, and two ounces of fine salt Place these in a large bowl, or trough, and form a well in the center, into which pour five pounds of boiling lard, to which 'unust be added about three gills of "boiling water. Then knead the entire mass into a rather stiff paste. In case the quantities of lard and boiling water mentioned fail to give, the desired consistency, add a little more boiling water.—Rural New Yorker. —Graham Biscuit—A dainty little biscuit df graham flour, lightly sweetened and baked to perfection, is so good, either hot or cold, that it is worth while to make a stable “batch” at least once a week;. Take a cupful of white flour to three of graham; sift with it a teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar; rub into this a piece of butter or lard of the size of an egg, with a heaping tablespoonful of sugar; mix very quickly and lightly with milk to a soft dough. About a cupful and a half of milk will be required. Roll out lightly and cut in small rounds. Like all soda biscuit, these should be made with as little handling as possible. The cook whose soda biscuit are the very best I have ever seen, also makes them in the least time.—Country Gentleman.

MAKING MANLY BOYS. Bight Surroundings at Home Much More Kffectlve Than Too Much Control. It is scarcely too much to say that almost as many children are spoiled by too much governing as by too little. As between the two courses, the child that is judiciously let alone is much better off than the one that is too much controlled. With naturally good impulses, the youngster, unless brought up in solitude and with selfish instincts and habits, is fairly likely to develope a not objectionable character. Continual contact with play-fellows of his own age and condition brings out the manly and independent characteristics, and, if there is freedom from irritation at home, there is little to fear for the average youth. He goes out light of heart and free from annoyances, and all the world looks bright to him. But the child who goes out from home with a mind warped and temper soured by perpetual fault-find-ing and bickering is in a mood to tajreall things ill. He goes about with a metaphorical chip on hU shoulder, and there is little wonder if he gets in all sorts of trouble. An experienced teacher used to Say that he could always tell the children who live unhappily at home. They were much more troublesome at school and were almost always on the alert for slights and offenses, and far more difficult to control than the children who came from happy and peaceable families.—N. Y. Ledger. Colors to Wear and to Avoid* A blue-eyed person never looks so blue-eyed as in a blue dress or white with a blue cravat, whereas the strong blue of the fabric might have been expected to dim or kill the slight blue of the eye.’ A woman with remarkably red lips, clad in dull heliotrope, with amethysts, has all the coral taken from her mouth, which wears instead a light heliotrope tint, and with this tint the pink of her cheek is also touched. An ordinary or even sallow cheek never looks so beautifully white as over a white dress, which seemed to threaten to darken it And, beautiful as the “aesthetic" colors were in their day, they quenched and dimmed their wearers to their own tone. This is not to be easily explained by any known chromatic rules. Nor ca one say why turquois blue darkens dark eyes and adds to their brightness. Experiment and verification should be as much valued by the women as by the Comtist philos opher.—Chicago Tribune. Unlike Other*. “It’s funny about bridal pairs. They are not like other pears at all.” “Why not?” “They’re softest when they’re green. —Indianapolis Journal.

THE FARMING WORLD. FARM TELEPHONES. Homemade Instruments Which Give Excellent Satisfaction* After you printed a description of my ' telephone I received a letter from one of your readers, saying that he could' not understand how we put it up. I have made some drawings which I think will enable anyone to understand it Our telephone is 500 feet long and has been in operation over two years and gives perfect satisfaction. We converse over it almost as easily as if we were sitting in chairs beside each other, and at night when the house is still and there is no wind I can hear the clock tick at the other end of the line, or the ticking of a watch oan be heard if it is held against the diaphragm. Two boys seventeen years old put it up, and the material cost less than one dollar. At each end of the line we have a box seven inches square and three inches deep. Fig. 1 shows the front of the box with the piece of drum-head, which is at once the receiver and transmitter. Fig. 2 shows the back of the box with a small hole through which the wire passes and the projecting strips bif which it is fastened to the wall; and Fig. 3 shows the front of the box with ragged edge of the diaphragm covered by strips of molding which are mitered together at the corners. We cut out a circle three or four inches in diameter from the front of the box, and nail a piece of drum-head across it, having first soaked it in warm water, and when it dries it will be stretched tight. A small copper wire (which we buy on spools) is passed through the center of the drum-head and also through a button mold about three-fourths of an inch in diameter. This distributes the pressure over a large enough space to en

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PUd FIG-2 able us to stretch the wire tight without danger of tearing the drum-head. The wire should have a support about every 150 feet, but the poles should be a little out of line so that the wire will not press against them, but be held in place by a piece of twine. We bought a fifteen-cent toy drum, and the heads of it furnished us the material for our diaphragms. When we wish to call up at the other end, we give three knocks on the button at one end, and one knock, dr goodby spoken, closes the communication. The call cau be heard in an adjoining room, or even a third room if the doors are open between them. This telephone is more than a scientific toy, for it enables us to communicate'"Between the two houses with ease, and it saves time and steps. I do not 'know over how long a distance this would work, but think it could be used for a fourth of a mile or more. The points essential to success are: The wire must pass through some medium which will vibrate: it must be stretched tight, and it must not press against anything between the two ends, as this would deaden the vibrations. Where it passes through a hole to enter the house, strings must be stretched to keep it in the center so that it will not touch the wood. I would not be willing to do without our telephone if it cost toO a year to main tain it. but all that is necessary is to take up the slack in the wire occasionally.— Waldo F. Brown, in Ohio Farmer. GARDEN” AND ORCHARD. One of the best ways of preventing erotehed trees from splitting is to twist or fasten two small limbs together. As the limbs grow they will prevent splitting. When a young tree is set in the orchard in place of an old one that has died remove all the dead roots and the .pjtr dirt that surrounded it and fill in with new soil. The seed of red cedar will germinate Readily if it is treated with lye or strong soapsuds that will destroy the gummy covering. After treating in this way rub with sand and then plant Gooseberries do best when well trimmed, as in a good soil they make a rank growth. They do best if growing in a partial shade, and if the mildew does not attack them are reliable bearers. One way of determining whether or not house plants growing in pots need water is by tapping the pot with the knuckles. If the pot has a sharp hollow sound or ring, the earth is dry. Wet soil gives a heavy, thudding sound. If the strawberries are-mulched with fine straw the moisture will hold better, the yield will be greater, the berries large and they will be kept nice and clean. A good time to apply is after the ground is frozen hard.—St. Louis Bepubl ic. , WitkIn certain limits cross budding is successful. The peach will succeed on the plum, and plum on peach and pear on quince. Other varieties succeed also when cross budded, but the nearer alike the varieties are the better the chance of success. He Has a Hood Case. Harvey M. Sigafoos, a milkman residing near Carpenterville, N. Y., while driving on the public highways leading to Phillipsburg recently had his arm broken by the upsetting of his wagon, which he alleges was caused by the bad condition of the public road. Mr. Sigafoos has employed ex-Judge Silas M. De Witt, of Phillipsburg, to bring suit against the Greenwich county authorities for $1,500 damages. The suit will he a test case.

FROrBMIOy.tL CAROS. J. T. KIME. V. Dl. Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. jarDfflcr In Rank building, first floor. Will 6e found at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to all Bnslnssa * .-Office over Barrett & Son's store. Francis B. Posit. Dewitt Q. Chat pell. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constat)tly in the office. J^Offlce—« On first floor Rank Building. K. A. Ely. 8. G. Davenport j * ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ixd. .re-office over J. R. Adams ft Son’s drug store. 1 rompt attention given to allbusi.less. Richardson. A. H. Tatlob RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to ajl business. A Notary %iblic constantly in the office. Office n Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. II. STOXECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, * PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms 6 and 7 in Carpenter Building. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession^! a fine library and case of instruments, ^Ir. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle SUTCCICSSFXJLX.Y. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store. Machinist AND Blacksmith. I am prepared to do the beat of work, with satisfaction guaranteed In all kinds of Black* miithing. Also Moving and Reaping Machines Repaired in the beet of workmtuahlp 1 employ none but Urst-alaae workmen. Do not go from home to get your work, but call 01 me at my shop ou Main Street, Feteraburf Indiana. CHAS. YEECK. TRUSTEES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAY. NOTICE is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at home on EVERY MONDAY. All persons who have business with the office will take notice that 1 will attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties interested that 1 will attend at my office in Stendal, . EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of. Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. 49~Positively no business transacted except on office days. .. SILAS KIRK, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with tke office of Trustee of Madison township. AyPositively no business transacted except office days. JAMES RUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons interested that I will attend in my office in Velpen, Q EVERY FRIDAY, 4 To transact business connected witlj th« office of Trustee of Marion township. All persons having business with saKl office will please take notice. W. F. BROCK, Trustee. XTOTICE is hereby gives to all persons 1Y concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY DAI To tracjaot business connected with th« office of Trustee of Jeff arson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trust**

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This Trad* Mark is on the best WATERPROOF COAT giX**? in the World! A. J. TOWER. BOSTON. MASS. YOUKfiMEN nod situations. Loam Telsgrapnr and Railroad Agent's Business here, and seems* Write J. D. BROWN, 8*dtU**Jft% imraqttMiaids