Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 December 1896 — Page 3

She §?ifec County Jnaomt flft MeC. STOOPS. Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - * - INDIANA. ••OH, WASTE NO TEARS.** Nor rot at sorrow’s dire demand; Think not to drown regret with weight Of weeping, me the see the strand; When was death's victory leas elate That grief o’er-sobbed his grasping hand? Wot for the flaws of life shall fall The tear most exquisite—eh. no; Bat for its tine perfections all; For morning's Joyous overflow, ■For sunset’s fleeting festival. And what midwinter moons may show; Bor wild-rose breath of Keats’ line; For Titian’s rivalry of June; Bor Chopin’s tender notes that twine The sense in one autumnal tune; Bor Brunelleschi’s dome divine. In wonder planned, with worship hewn. -Save them- for heroes.not their blood. But for the generous vow it sealed; For babes, when mothers say: “This bud Will be the blossom of the field;’’ For women, when to vengeance’s flood They hold for guilt a stainless shield. And when two hearts have closer come. Through doubts and mysteries and fears, TUI in one look delirium At last the happy truth appears. When words are weak and music dumb. Then perfect love shall speak in tears. —Robert Underwood Johnson, in Century. Oh. waste no tears on pain or fate. IN THE TKANSVAAL.

ANY year* ago, long before the now existing railway was builf between its borders and the sea coast. I went with an American youth named Charles Tryon to the Transvaal, this being my second visit to that country, then a veritable “sportsman's paradise," and at present exciting so much of the world’s interest. Although cnft- objective point was, iu a straight line, little more than 50 miles from our port of debarkation, Delagoa bay. we spent nearly the whole of three ■days in reaching it, being obliged to toll, with our Kaffir escort and heavy bullock wag-ori. through a difficult paks of the Libomba mountains, which form the Transvaal’s eastern boundary, separating it from Zululand and Portuguese South Africa. On the afternoon of the third day, however, we arrived safely at the kraal of one lfnns Wynkoop, a sturdy Boer whose hospitality I had for several days enjoyed IS months before, and with whom and hi* two stout sons, Franz and Hendrick. I had at that time shared In some rather perilous adventures. All three of these men—in addition to ■their mother tongue, Dutch—spoke English fluently, and all instantly recognized and warmly greeted me. while the simple fact of my comrade’s American citizenship secured a hearty welcome for him also. After manfully helping to make way with a prodigious supper, I said to our host: “Well, Hans, what’s the prospect for -•port? Is game as plentiful as when I was here before?” “There’s no great facing off in buffalo, eland, springbok, gnu. and such like,” he replied, “but lions, leopards, elephants and giraffes, and even oatriches. nre getting rather scarce.” “That’s a pity.” observed Charlie Tryon, “for there’s nothing I’d like so much as to get a shot at an elephant •and take home with me a pair of tusks of my own procuring.” The whole family seemed to have already taken a great fancy to my brightfaced young chum; aiul Franz, the •elder son, now said:

¥ A “Perhaps you can do it, Mr. Tryon. After you’ve pot tired bagging* smaller frame. lit take you two to a tree jungle, about ten miles from here. I’ve heard that a solitary old tusker is hiding there and has lately played the mischief with the poor Kaffirs’ cornfields. If we ■can find him. and if you then feel like it and will shoot exactly as 1 or your friend tell you to do. you shall have the first crack at the beast.” “All right." responded Charlie. “I’ll obey orders like a soldier, and will try to keep my nerves steady, though Pve read that these *rogue* elephants are mighty dangerous brutes to tackle." "They often are.” rejoined Fran*. **Yet a single heavy bullet put in the right spot will down the biggest of Thera; and we’ll Hake care you get n fair show. What loads do your guns •curry?’’ “Toth our rifles are. as you sec. 32caliber breech-loaders, and some of our ■•hells are charged with e5ght drachms •of Hartford powder behind one and a spiarter ounce steel-pointed bullets." I explained. “The very thing for elephants, lions, and buffalo. You couldn’t have anything better,” approvingly remarked old Hans. We spent the first few days in hunting over a part of the Packer veld (open terrace, grasslands between the Drakenberg and Libomba ranges), where still abounded vast number* of quaggns, true aebras, hartebeestes, a dozen varieties of antelope anci numerous other wild creatures, of which, however, not being game butchers, we killed no more than could be consumed by the great horde of Zulus and Kaffirs continually following our trail. Not only the three Wynkoops. but al! the Boers I met. both on this and my former expedition, were wonderfully expert shots. I myself had been, from early youth, as the result of constant practice, highly skilled in that line, and young Tryon was gold medalist of hit. college rifle team; yet neither of us couid, in long range shooting at live game, successfully compete with these men of stolid temperament and iron nerre, many ofVhom thought nothing of bringing down a small antelope at a distance ol GOO yards. ‘ f

y, !fo wonder, then, that they had, in the lately closed war, been so uniformly successful against well-disciplined European troops* comparatively few soldiers, in any regular army that I hare ever seen, being: what 1 call good marksmen. Though my opinion is of little consequence, I want to say right here that I consider accurate shooting so desirable a thing for the conservation of a people’s liberties, that, had I the power, I would make rifle practice an important part of every American boy’s schoolcourse, even should this entail the neglect of a half-dozen olqgies; for a great nation of expert marksmen must ever prove unconquerable. On the sixth morning of our stay, Frans Wynkoop, Charlie Tryon and I, with three attendant Zulus, rode off to that part of the Bosch veld (bush country) previously referred to. On coming within a half mile of the particular tract in which the “rogue” was supposed to be, we dismounted, left our horses in charge of the blacks and proceeded quietly on foot, Franz having meantime carefully coached our inexperienced young friend how to act in any emergency likely to arise. For some little time we walked slowly along the toils—impervious, matted growth of tree jungle, keeping always 40 or 50 yards from its edge, and keenly watching for any break that might indicate the passage of the huge brute we wished to Interview. But none such occurred, nor could we anywhere see elephant spoor until we had reached an outlying Kaffir cornfield'. Here we came upon traces of the beast with a vengeance; for scarcely a stalk of corn was left standing, and everywhere the rudely cultivated soil was marked by its footprints, as wide across as a halfbushel measure. “I guess we>e found the old fellow at last,” gleefully exclaimed Tryon. “Not just yet, I’m afraid,” replied Franz. “Likely as not he’s miles away, being too cunning to stay long near a field he’s destroyed. See, the tracks don’t lead back to the bush, but right over the open veld. We’ll have to do a little more, tramping.” For a short distance we succeeded in marking the elephant’s course, but soon lost all trace of it in the dry. elastic grass. Yet we went on, hoping to find I

tin pony things. At any rate, without the slightest warning, he charged furiously out on us, crushing down great saplings like so many reeds es he emerged from cover, and tearing his way through a network of clingiog Tines, as might a strong bird through a spider’s web. Not more than 50 yards of open ground lay between us and the thicket, and the stupendous brute—an unusual* ly large male—presented a truly ter* rifle sight, as. with upraised trunk and harsh, scream-like trumpeting^, he rushed on like a fiend-possessed mountain of flesh and blood. But not one of us moved! All stood with rifles poised, as coolly as if waiting for the springing of a target trap. I glanced at Tryon. The boy was actually smiling! I could not repress a thrill of pride as I noted his resolute bearing. . “It’s all right, Charlie. You’ll do the trick,” I hurriedly said. On and on, faster and faster, his small, pig-like eyes glowing with vengeful fires, came the enraged monster, straight to where stood the undismayed young ’ student. But,' exactly as foretold by Frans, when within ten yards he lowered the shielding trunk and depressed his huge head for the final assault. Then, seeing the critical moment had come, the Boer softly said: “Now’s your time, boy!” Whereupon my gallant chum, far more steadily and quickly than if shooting in his home club, threw up his rifle, aimed point blank at the hollow of the enormous beast's forehead and touched the trigger, while we stood ready to supplement, if necessary, his fire by our own. But no second shot was needed. The heavy steel-pointed bullet pierced the elephant’s skull, tore its way clear through his brain, and the mighty creature, though already dead, was borne so far forward by his own momentum that he came crushing down so close to Charlie that the boy had to spring.aside to avoid being crushed. Then, all need for repression being passed, the young marksman gave free vent to his delight, laughing, shouting and hurrahing as if leading on some specially daring enterprise a whole host of Fourth of July enthusiasts. A very excusable jubilation, for not one inexperienced hunter in ten thousand

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wine spot where he had made an opening into the jungle for us, though we did not expect to find him near the en- ! trance of such, for, as Wynkoop said and I very well knew, the sagacious brute would probably make a great circuit after seeking cover and return to the outer edge of some especially dense thicket, perhaps directly behind the ravaged field, whence, himself absolutely motionless and Invisible, he might wJfch the neighboring plain. I have known a group of four full-grown elephants to remain for many hours so perfectly concealed that hunters repeatedly passed and repassed within ten feet of them before suspecting their propinquity. We had gone nearly a mile beyond the1 ruined cornfield, carefully scanning the line of jungld, when Franz suddenly stopped, gazed intently for a moment, and then said: “Be ready, men! If I’m not mightily mistaken, 1 caught the glint of an elephant’s eye in that clump of mimosa and wait-a-bit thorn,** pointing to a {Mitch of thicket that looked almost solid enough to defy penetration by anything larger than a mouse. -Vs previously agreed upon, we now; ranged ourselves a few feet apart, alt fating the jungle, and Tryon occupying I the post of honor in the center. While we stood in an expectancy that I might well have tried the nerves of a veteran hunter, Charlie quietly listened j to and promised u> obey the reiterated instructions of our guide, w ho was evidently astonished: at the boy’s nonehalar.ee. Indeed, watching n':$u closely, 1 could not detect the tremor-of a muscle. The only signs of suppressed excitement wert a slight paleness of | face and a firm compression of his beardless tips, at he calmly said: “If there really ia an elephant in there. I’m going to shoot for the prize | of mv life, and I’ll win it, sure!” **That*a the piuckieat youngster I : ever saw,” smili ugly observed Franz. “Doyou have ncaay like him in—Ponner und blitzen! .11 we he con-ea! Steady now. boy—stea^f!" For. with the curious instinct common to most wild creatures, the elephant at once knew that he had i l«oen discovered: and. 1 suppose.gradually working himself into a rage at the scent and sound of his plotting enemies* merit tip !»>» *v '"*1 to annihilate

could have performed the feat of which he (and I for him) was so justly proud. The Zulus had slowly followed'us; and now, hearing the firing, came up with the horses, when all hands wen: to work, and in the course of an hour, by the aid of axes and a peculiar saw brought along for the purpose, cut out the elephant’s tusks. These splendid trophies, as we afterward found, weighed 13ti pounds, and were worth on the coast at that time the equivalent of $400 of our money, though I presume their happy possessors would not have parted with them for twenty times that sum. . Leaving the immense carcass to be disposed of by the great crowd of blacks, who. by some mysterious intuition, began to flock to the feast from all sides, we lashed the tusks to two of the Zulus’ horses and got safely home with them, to the great content of old Hans, and Hendrick Wynkoop, who both declared that they had never before known a mere boy, and a green hunter at that, to stand firm in the face of a charging elephant, much less to kilt the brute at his first shot. Indeed, their admiration of Charlie’s prowess was so great that, though money-loving men, and by usage entitled to share in the proceeds of all our hunts, they joined with Franz and me insisting that he, Charlie, should be sole owner of the magnificent pieces of ivory, and must take them to America with him; which the boy did on the expiration of bis long vacation, while 1 stayed several more months in the Transvaal, enjoying such sport as could nowhere else be found, and finally, through, the sale of ivory and rare pelts, clearing quite a considerable sum of money. I hare not seen my friend Try on for more than twenty years, but have lately met one of his sons, who tell* me that the tusks taken from his father’s first and last elephant are still treasured by him as the most precious mementoes of his South African oufr ing.—.N. Y. Ledger. —During the tenth century, when wars between the noblemen and the king were eontinual in almost every country of Europe, all ranks of the nobility assumed a sort of crown or coronet in order to assert their quality with tho king.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Bate Omabmmf K*»a mm Current low— Pay Colon to Xovoltjr SvUlagi. A season of very elegant, very fancy fabrics and styles is before us. A medley of brilliant colors shows up most effectively among the new French and English novelty suitings. Checked and striped tweeds and chew lots, Persian wools in bi-color melanges* in fancy silk and wool mixtures, and in winter brocades, moires, satins and silks that are basket wo*ea, plaited, shot-jacquard, striped and iridescent A new double woven French caohmesp that closely resembles drap d’ete, with

a fine Asian like tailor doth, is ore of the faTored materials for demi-drefcs gowns. This handsome material, like otb<.r V soft wools, lends \\ itself admirably J to the style o* gowns as they are now fashioned. Cashmere in single or k double weave ■ looks best in ■ single colors, and Fdlmcnd russet pale tan, d o ▼

pray and fawn are considered the most artistic when this textile is lised. A sty 1ish costume of the new double weave in fawn color is combined with very lustrous repped silk of the same shade relieved on the bodice with Lyons velvet of a deep ruby color, and another handsome model, formed of mauve cash* mere, has a simulated underskirt, sleeve-puffs and vest of pale reseda faille silk, with collar, girdle and deep turnback cuffs of reseda velvet. Heavy faced cloths, Venetian, ladies’ and the stylish costume cloths are extensively used for very dressy and elaborate tailor ' gowns, with the gored skirts trimmed j with only a band of fur, braiding or ; galloon. On the jacket or waist, how- ; ever, fancy runs riot, and the most ex- j travagaut and astounding colors and ef- j Jrets are indulged in; velvet, satii j gtlt braid, jet and fur often appear ; tu one bodice, yet, strange to say, this mature in French hands is most effective. .Rich moire fabrics are again extremely fashionable, and tbe moire poplins which came out last year, and «nnot really be called novelties, arc be- j -ag made up in great numbers. This ; watered material can be found in all tfca fashionable colors, and, in black | particularly, is very handsome for , street costumes, while for evening tae j tints are exquisite. Vel vet jackctsr of j every description are worn with moire J ikirts, but on all moire or all velvet costernes considered more elegant, and are I certainly far more fashionable. Fine I cut jet is used to decorate gowns of j almost every color and kind, and, of course, on black poplins as well a* j ivery other handsome black textile, tbe j new jet garnitures are most entrancing, j The sleeves of moire gowns und other i .& such rather wiry materials have little n no stiffening in them, but in wools and similar fabrics a silk liuing with only the thinnest of crinoline is used. The rbund waist is very much in evi- ! lence on both day and evening gowns. In the last edition of the Robes deLuxe nearly two-thirds of the colored Frencl | plates showed a round waist or a round | effect among the superb models. There are likewise many fancy styles ; with short points, postillion backs, cir- j eular backs, and eton, bolero and ■ basque effects ad libitum, ar.d therefore all cau be suited; but, alas, all will tot cfioose aright. Fine ribbed woods, •ilks and velvets were very largely en evidence at a recent fashionable gathering of society people in New York. Ac»l eorduroys in dark colors were us«4 j Doth for waists and entire costumw*. ! Velvet jacket bod- d&fejk

ices with cloth ikirts are worn, but they match the skirt in color, which is usually dark and the regulation cream lace aver cream satia forms the vest. (Hack and white 'ombinations com>oee some of the n o s t elegant jrowus of fashion this season; and they are worn / Uike by matron «nd maiden. Al!£j| the shades of yel-^

low irom orange "" ■ to cream are used to brighten up dark rloth dresses, when the new deep Dan - ish red. military scarlet or ripe cherry . dyes are not desired. Surplus waistappear on a number of dressy Freed , jrowns. The folds lapping at the bel | with folds of bright velvet cr frills a. . bee or chiffon showing at the edge of each fold. Tucks of various wMthr decorate many of the winter bodice* l*bey are added to yokes, sleeve-puffs eeintures and girdles and Breton vesta Violets reign supreme for winte ; bouquets for the hat. muff and corsage Costume hats are large and top heavj with trimming. Pietnre hats for special wear exceed everything In the w>»y of height, | jreadth and audacity ef style and"gsr titure that w* have ev>»r known of 1* >w geneiatkm. KA1K IUMUL A laundress in a family that prefer* the fragrance of orris root to the sweet ! n«ss of “no smell at all” puts a' large ) piece of orris root wrapped in linen ir 1 the water in which the body liner ! is boiled e*eh week. When ironed the j linen clothe* are placed In drawers con- ! taining violet sachets and are as sweei ns a breath of woodland when wanted for wearing purpose*. Jamaica has the allspice which geta ‘ the credit of taking the place oj many different spices; South America rejoices ra the chile, which la used in great quantities.

gioiitiMoir * Tinoi, Attorney* at Law» rimucita, ind. pOUT * CHAPPELL* Attorneys at Law, PETERS BUBO, IND. OflM ou Ant floor Cltisea’a book building g Q. DAVENPORT, LAWYER, PETERSBURG, IND. Oflleo onrJ. R. Adam* A Son's dnifiton. Prompt attaotloo given to oil buslnees. Dillon a greens, t. h. duiob V. R. Greene Attorneys and Counsellors at Law PETERSBURG, INDIANA. Will practice In Pike and adjoining oounUaa. Careful attention given to all bualneas. Collection* given prompt attention. Notary Subtle at way a la office. Office over CiUsene’ tate Bank. M. A C. L. HOLCOMB, LAWYERS, PETERSBURG, IND. Will practice In all courts. Prompt attenUon given to all bualneas. Office in Carpenter block, first floor on Eighth street. Physicians and Surgeons, PETERSBURG. IND. Office In Cltlseha’ Bank building, 3rat floor, Reeldenoe East Main street. TTIME A BURGER, J.T. Klme, J. R. Burger

Physician antfSurgeon, PETERSBURG. IND. Chronic Diseases a special ty. Office over Citizens' state Bank. JJUNTER * BASINGER. Physicians and Surgeons. PETERSBURG, IND. Office In the Carpenter building, first floor, apposite court house. All calls promptly answered. F. E. HILSMEYER, Physician and Surgeon, VKLPEN, INDIANA. Office on Third Street, next door to P. O. Office Hours—7 to 9 am, 1 to 8 pm, • to 8put. All calls promptly answered. ^ C. MURPHY, Dental Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. Parlors over the old J. B. Young store on lower Main street. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to. give satisfaction. a W. H. BTONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND.. " Office In rooms • and 7 In Carpenter bonding. Operations flrstclass. All work warranted. Anesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth.

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