Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1875 — Page 7

THE MAIE

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Three Weeks* of Sav-

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age Lire.

XAL'BICB THOMPSON.

I was not altogether pleased at- first when mine hont, Mr. Leonldaa Berkely proposed t« lir me off his schooner, or rather his i»Mxat, into the canoe of Tommy the Indian. True, I had a^eed to this long beforehand, requested it as a favor, in fact hut then Tommy looked i?ood heavy nhako more repulsive in person than I had antldpaled, and, as to nte canoe, it was the frailest, crank-iest-looking thing I h.-ul ever seen.

Imagine a threat, aquare-shoultiered, half-nud-Hava«e, whose features betok ened wto'.idity, ruelty, cunning, and cll*,hone*ly, if nothing worse, standing in tiif middle of a little slim shell of canoo, tho thin gunwales of which were already nearly on a line with tho waternurface: then think of a pretty stiff wind blowing and white-taps running glibly, and 'jonnect all with the idea of stepping il a staunch «ail-craft nlnrnp into tlit aii along-side of the Indian, knowing that from that moment you would not«o

white man for a week at

she very I. a.st! felt my flesh make a movement as if preliminary to disintegration, and for a moment I was not wholly inywlf. In fact, my first impulse \v to utterly refuse to trust my precious Ixnly to (iie mercy of winu and wave an all tho sharks in San Lucie Sound. 1 rkely no doubt discovered my trepidation, for bo at onco legan to uustle alxmi Hie miniature half-ilock and to hurry up the noeessary preparations for translating inp with bag aud baggage into the canoe. I saw at once that I was rea'.iy in for it. I could not back out if I would, so I went to wrestling mightily with mv nerves. I sot 1113' teeth like a vice as 1 tool' hold of Miv ropo and swung over The boat's Him-. Instantly two strong hands granped my legs aud guided them into the bottom of the eanoe. I would have fallen out into the water immediately if I had not squatted

down in the-bow. The foam leaped all round the gunwales, tho canoe danced like a roasting poa. llowa came my long, lance-wood bow and my bundle of arrow*, and were stowod besido me. Then mv huge provision-box was low1 ered ami set across the middle of tho canoe, it* ends lapping far over the gunwale*. Then "«»ooa-by, old fellow! wish you big luck J" camo from above, and, before Ioould get my mouth read to return tho salute, I felt the fral leathery bark affair under me leap like rabbit, and canting back a planeo I

Haw the ''schooner" of Sir. Uerkeiy goini away from me like a phantom. How Unit Indian could hanc*l» a pad die! We fairly whistled through wind and water. My nerve eaine back to me at onee. Tho canoe couldn't powibly sink or turn over. It was a charmed thing. It was sentient—endowed with instinct! I drew in a long breath aud sat 1 ."It upright, letting my eyes wauderover the creaming waves to the limit of vhiou in tho direction of ourlligbt. The wind was lK.faterously musical, and the green salt water was in a high glee. Away Iwifoie us a slender crescent of sand" lav between the surf-line and a low shore-bank, set with dumps of slender palmettoes, and fringed with coarse, rush-like grass. Tho sun was low and w« wore running right in his face, so that as I looked over my shoulder hh light shot into my eyes with blinding effect. Noon, however, wo dipped through the margin of shadow as if wo had found those shore-lines one sees on map*, when all at once a sense of delielouH coolness and misty dampness, like that which hovers about a waterfall, eiept over mo. Tho "salt air had never lnf«ut* sinell' sweet. A flight of whlte-wluged plovers overhead lot full u|M»u us a silken rustle of nlumage. One extreme follows another, suddenly became as lold as I had lately been timid. 1 actually turned round so as to sit faeing our course. To bo sure, I accomjJtshed the feat by a aeries of gingerly move#, but, wnen I oneo got round, what exquisite, what charming sights I saw We tlew into tho mouth of tho crew-cot, and lo a crock opened, as if bv magic, Into which tho canoe walUed like a French man, after-which tho white caps disappeared, leaving ns upon a tranquil surraett, over which our little vessel *lid liko a new moon down a June sky. Points of mareh-land, heavily overgrown ivltli rushes, strode out at'us, but the crwk tntarpoeed Ita sllverv hand,.and a* wo glided on wa heard'1 he low swaah of the laxy tide in the miniature Inlets. Presently a swell Gf hummock-gmund, with a tincture of duskv jialmettoes and dotted with pine* verv ganien of the South—rose up before us. The paddlo*«trok«B grow slower, gt»ntler, and then, jnst as a breath or tlower-periftime gave us a hint of wild-blooms, with a littlo jarring of the canoo and a short Jerk, we touched shore on a keen bladeW sand sheathed In tho bo»om of the cr«ek.

Hit ont, titth!" waa\ho word of command fmuiTonmiy. I obeyed, bnt, in doing

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ly pressed back upoftUto reiwel's prow, and sent it skating awtiy frotn the bank, whereupon tell flat upon my face in the sand. Tommy made a wry mouth,

Rort of hideous tndle, as be paddled In again. Ugh 1 dam mauf!" bo remarked, as he picked up my provision-box and lugged it ashore.

I niade no reply, but busied myneil with taking care of my bow and arrows, which Tbmmv acometl to touclj, he, no doubt, looking upon my London-mad® weapon with much the same sort of cont*mnt ttiat back woodameu usedto hav* tor "newfl»ngled'* r4lle®»

Wo i&horfr, inu, under the uitneakr guidanoo of Tommy I was soon at home, bag and bagsage.ln the Indian* hunting-lodg*, which stood on the hlgW*M swell of the hummock. Dcrkeiy had giv«i aw some ln«4ni«Uona Uierefonj the flnt thing did wa* to preoent Ihmtuy huge new p«t» ami a iwund of lohacen. lie took the gift In aifamco, but I saw 11*d woo him. Tils IVkw wuftened, ami h« wagged hit

smoke. .1 drew on suoh clothed as I thought the state of society demanded, and ran down to the water's edge 60 bathe my hands and face. The merest breath of wind was abroad, and so still was everything that the boom of the sea was distinctly audible. To breathe was to become intoxicated with delight. Long and lovingly I dabbled in the cool salt-water absorbing its healthful essence through every pore.

Suddenly I became aware of the pres eoee of a companion, a beautiful, slender, tawny animal, sknlking und6r the fringe of rushes on tho other margin of the slim finger of water. It did not seem to see me. I withdrew from my bathing phrce, and went to get my bow and arrows. When half-way to the lodge I heard a sharp, angry cry, half growl, half scream, that started the blood in my veins with painful suddenness. I ran ami snatched my bow, strung it, seized a handful of arrows, and hurried cautiously back to my bathing-placc. The animal w*as still there, but it was now standing on its hind-feet, making its fore-paws play about its head, which was covered with blood and foam. I drew a steel-pointed shaft full to the bracing, and let drive. It struck the thing in the breast, and passed in to the very feather. A lunge, and a plunge, and a plash, and here came the agonized animal, over and over through the water, growling and howling terribly.

Whiz! thwack! An arrow from a point higher up the creek struck it in the head and settled it. A few *trugand it lay floating near the hither edge of tho water. When I walked down a little nearer. I saw four arrows in the cat, instead of two and, with a grunt of satisfaction, Tommy joined me. Tie held in his hand a stubby bow, a foot and a-half shorter than mine, and almost twice as thick. lie had a quiver of short arrows at his back. Instead of paying attention to the dead animal fomniy put his hand fondly on my bow and said

Ugh! dam good! ugh! shoot hard!'' According to instructions from Berkely, I returned this compliment by some very fulsome flattery of Tommy's admirable weapons and his skill in their use. Then we hauled the dead cat to land, and over its body we silently wedded our new-born friendship, and ncncoforth oar mutual confidence was firmly established. For the first time in my life I had found a true archer-compan-ion, one who could rightly appreciate me and my love of the long-bow and arrows. This savage sportsman at my side was in an instant dearer to me than all tho enlightened men who had ever laughed at what thoy wero pleased to call my "medireval crotchet," my "mild insanity for a useless weapon of antiquity." And Tommy, too, was an IslimaeJito 011 account of tho long-bow. He liad come out of the Evorglades bocause his companions had, as I10 expressed it, 'gotriflo too dam much. I'gh! bang! bang! Scare all deer, turkey, crane, bear, clear off—ugh O noble red philosopher your words went to tho thirsty places "of mv being! They wore sweeter than flute-notes heard from afar! ^We skinned the cat—not gymnastically, but literally—and, after a thorough bath and a sliert bout up tho creek to look for tracks, we took breakfast in tho open air—such a breakfast as Tommy's jaws novci before had closod over.

Think of a wild Indian eating jellycake and canned fruit, to say nothing of ehow-ehovF and sardines, along with the bioiled meat and crackers! Berkely had laughad at me when ho saw me Htutting my box with these things, procured at no trifling exponso at the Indian River settlement above his place but, if ho had seen Tommy consuming Wint jelly, he would have awarded me high honors as a caterer for a savage I101. The ml-man smacked his lips delightedly, and, when at last lie was filled he drew a long breath and grunted after the nianner of a bassoon. As for me, I ofltfoyed seeing him eat. lledisplayod a satisfaction utterly childlike.

Ovir against tho wide door of our houseful If a dozen palmetto trees wero fenulfully grouped together, forming a chahning arbor, their great fans lapping across from top to ton. Their gracefully rough stems, penned in five or six feet high with tho bono-like middle of their fallen leaves, gave them a weird, skeleton look, but under them a kind of wire grass made a most inviting carpet. Hero we went for a smoke, and to mattiro some plans for the future. Tommy began to bo moro sociable and communicative, giving 1110 a rough outline of the surrounding country while he mended tho leathers of some of Ills very elaborately finished arrows.

Of course, alter the morning's adventure, I expected to see a tiger cat everywhere, aod was surprised to learn that the one just killed was tho first Tommy had seen for month 1. lie had heart! ft

had seen prowling around In the night, and had got up early to look for it. Doer, too, were very ecaroe, ho said, but turkeys and wild fowl were plentiful and near at hand. I drew from him, by degrees, his theory of archery, which was summed up al*ut thus:

Anv stick do for bow—goml arrow dam heap work—ugh On clone examination I found his bow to be tho stem of a small sapling split in halve*, with very little finish but his arrows were a wonder of exact work, and feathered on the true scientific principle. I could not bend his bow in the slightest, and, when he had strung it, it would bare taken the balls of my fingem off to hay# drawn an arrow to the i»ead on it, vet his great horny hand used it without any trouble, sending an arrow of bis make farther than I could, with mv bow, shoot the bcac-footed High tie Ul target shaft! My hickory hunting-arrow^ made at great expense by ft cunning carpenter, and pointed by a smith of approved »klll, were appreciably tcfes nicely adjued than hia. Vott could easily discover tho difference, watching their flight throngh a long *Ih4 over open ground. JI«n» a triumph of savag* cunning oyer enllghten-

I science ana art! What a fortnight followed my Introduction to Tommy! It was a short, deep draught of the kind of life 1 bad so often dreamed of and longed for. 1 became a savage of the purest type. In lew than three day* I could p*ddi« a cano? second only to Tommy himself, and at the end of a week I knew along li»i of Ivuiian buntlng-tricka, and had beeotiM a third better shot than when I landed at the batnooek. What days spent coasting about the fringe* of tho inlets for wild fowl, or stalking the

head pi isauaUv We (t nrtn, «i down In front of the palntetto-1 thicket* and javannas for ^rkey

We" ft our pipes then, and, lighting sun toocWl ihe borf-

thatched hot faring the sound, with the I \\hon I •weet wind singing in the plow oyer- •bo«*dull ftap *nd head, and au»ak«sHlke two smalt w&sft- the fcnrill nuffWt no**. We ataeked and smoked In si- ing with peculiar ^fanck aa it paflted !..«»• mMtini* tho mrriat n«M Imii til# fcllhlffl ft*® dUC*,

lenca. watching tfw myriad wavw* tamp tl* ,#*«»•» •mi wrre*Ue and tumble round tho low- tnrkey through and through, and liy« lying bars and marnh-fringWl ialets bo-1 tb«*» da v* over again. wind the mouth «f Um» ewk, till tho Frouith* rtntf, I f-i»»ht died and the «Ur» camo out and my tn wj "obtoaoeeoe and art frtf areh«rv, and I W»wa nara to.win hia approbation by aone achievement worthy nolk*. At !aa* I acoompilslJithte. arrow, that he had named jHooboo" on account of a pi«ttl£ rowing joond

»pt through tltt dallgh lilght wi&Hit brrak In my

cembor WTfcftn awoke ft was dawn.

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Tammy was already op and gwwe, leaving tofciad hla tbeNgrawaeof »booc»-

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It mado in it* YoaesmM hewr two hundred yarda. Oaco be abol thk arrow at a ptov-er landing on a paint of

On one of the sweetest days that ever blessed a semitropic country wo drifted in our little canoe out of the creek's mouth, and shot off among the wilderness of islands, beyond wluch the ocean kept up its eternal booming on the reefs. I let Tommy do the paddling, while I, pretending to keep on the lookout for wild fowl, lay almost at full length,gazing over the gunwale, enjoj-ing the delicious sail.

The water was as smooth as glass, and the tireless arm of my stalwart comrade sent the light vessel along like a swallow skimming the surface, with scarcely a ripple in the wake. It was while I lay thus that Tommy gave the finest exhibition of archery I ever saw—the finest, probably, ever seen by any one. An albino fish-hawk, almost snow white, came drifting over us, high up in the calm readies of mellow sunshine. Tommy let fall his paddle on the bottom of the canoe, and seized his bow and an arrow. lie stood upright, his half-nude body swaying to the motion of the boat. For a moment he steadied himself then fixing his keen eyes on the bird, ho drew with such power that the great muscles on his dark arras writhed into big kinks, and the tough timber of the bow soemed strained ready to break. When lio let go, the arrow fairly screamed througn the air. I could not follow its flight, but I saw a puff of snowy feathers as the hawk whirled over, and came slowly tumbling down, impaled 011 the shaft!

That night we slept on a merO tuft of an island, in full view of the open ocean and had the bad luck to be caught in an awful gale, which flung the spume of the hungry white-caps to tho highest point we could find, coining very nearly washing our boat away in spite of us. The worst was over, however, in less than three hours, and then what a sweet sleep I had on the cool sand, washed as clean as a sheet by the ebb and flow of the water in the pulse of the storm! I remember that when

sport with the long-legged, stately-step-ping birds Tommy and I took turns about paddling the canoo round mo vdgu of the pond, while tho other lay in wait for the wary victims. I killed a beautiful white heron on the wing, no doubt an accidental shot but Tommy, who witnessed the performance, praised me roundly, nevertheless. Our leading adventure, however, was with a huge alligator, which came near ending me most ignobly by a twirl of its tail. We had headed the big fellow off from the mash he was making for. He soemed stupid and slow, as if something had but half aroused him from his winter torpor. An arrow or two that bounded from his flinty hide served to somewhat enliven hint.' He raised his head and gaped at u*. Simultaneously Tommy and I lot him swallow a couple of broad headed arrows. What contortions! He came tumbling toward me. and in my hurry to avoid him I tripped on a bunch of saw-palmetto, and fell full-length on the ground. The next moment the giant saurian's caudal weapon jost graced mv body, a blow that would have bowled over an ox! lie escaped very pasily, plunging Into the mud-slush of the marslu This was as much alligatorfun as I could stand.

Day by the fascination of savagelife wound its silver snaro-thread* closer and tighter "upon me. Its sweetest part was the idling time at noon and night, when, stretched under the pavilion of a palmetto-tree, or lying on the white sand of the beach. I felt time drift by mo, like a fragrant tide, every moment a bobble, and every hour a warm, foamy

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sand. It went roaring closeabove the bird's back, making it settle low down, as if struck by a hawk or frightened out of its wits. I was at Tommy's side when ho shot. The bird was a good hand red yards away. He did not miss it five inches. Now was my time, and I settled myself to tiiy work. Selecting a light, slim feathered shaft, I planted my feet firmly, measured the distance with my eyes, drew to my ear, and let go. It was a glorious shot. The arrow went like a ray of light, noiselessly, unwaveringly right to the mark, striking the bira in the craw, and killing it on the spot. I leaned on my bow as gracefully as I could, while Tommy gave m® my meed of praise. He pattea me on theoack, and wagged his bead signiftly he gruntecl in various keys, and finally wound np with— "Beat—ugh! good! nice! dam!"

awoke the sun

was above «,he eastern limit of tho ocean-plain, and Tommy was sitting close down by the surf-line, smoking his pipe, and looking not unliko a giant bull-frog. Faraway I saw a white sail. Some ship had been driven out of its course by tho storm. I11 a short timo it had dipped below the horizon.

When we returned to our lodge, lo! it was gone on the wings of tho storm, blown entirely away. No great loss, however, for Tommy erected a new one, larger and better, in less than two hours. For tho remainder of tho day we lounged 011 the stiff wire-grass, smoking and dreaming our dreams with a heaven blue as turq.uoiso above us, and tho wind, liko a cool stream, washing us from head to foot. I had adopted, in the main, Tommy's fashion of dress, and with it 1 had received a new insight into freedom. Savage liberty is indeed something for poets to bo fond of. There is 110 other liberty. Free limbs give frej thought. A fashionable coat knocks all tho poetry out of tho soul—a pair of patent-leather boots can rnin a deal of philosophy. Let in the wind and sun to your skin, and you wiH absorb and assimilate the very essence of healthful Naturo, after which it will well from your heart in song as true and grand as that of tho sea.

Several miles back on tho main-land west of our lodge was one of those cof-fee-colored lakes so common in Southern Florida. It was a tranquil, woodlocked sheet, reflecting in its brown depths tho magnolia and bay-trees that fringed its margin. We reached it by infinite labor, poling our canoo up a narrow, crooked, Styx-like stream, which every here and there was choked up with rushes and giant aquatic weeds, many of them flaunting variously-tinted flowers. The lake was called by Tommy "Crane-crane," on account of the numbers of craues and herons that haunted it. We camped near it for several davs. enjoying some delightful

of quiet toy. S-Hneti.ios,

Ico, while floating at the will of the tide Ib Tommy's little canoe,a breath wonM fall upon me, as if fresh from God's lips, and I wontd suddenly become, in truth allying soul. To and fm-to and fro, the little cradle swayed, rocked by the shining finger of the sea, lolling me to aleepTwitb the wind above the water below mew How refreshing and yet how quieting thoae "lnaniaberecsaeeUda loistr mtaaaer

No man with a aocl can ifelattbem— the man bo has once tasted their nnkjee ctr** can *»r**t it n«v*r. Tbe other ex mxne ot savage lite lathe wild joy of the ebaaa, Uae whirof tbe anww-Oie bard, aocceaafnl shot, the straggle wUh dangar "by field aad flood." Then the Swnp-fli*, the deep, swwt aleep and the healthful awakWtw, tbe jttay ofstroiw musclni and taut tfoewv-ato, wb«& all does enter into it! Banning from one limit of this lite to the other is the eaatnos oif ragged, «tter fteodom-the free

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dom of nakedness, if yon like the freedom to run, and leap, and yell to lie down when ygn list, and get up when you please to oat freely and drink copiously to smoke good tobacco without seeing elevated noses and hearing polite imprecations to meet Nature face to fiMe, and put your hand famfliArly against her cheek, and talk to her as if to an equal—all this I did with a gusto, and found it all good.

But I must hasten with my rambling story. If I stop to reflect, I shall never know where to end. We went from one bright place to another—ont of one charming excitement into another.

Our next trip was down the coast to shoot curlews and marsh-hens on a reach of strong rush-marsh hemmed with a beach of sand whereon ran innumerable birds whose names I did not. know, a sort of stilt, I should say. They could dodge an arrow with surprising ease. We dwelt on a tussock of this marsh for a week, shooting till our limbs ached, then resting and smoking to surfeit, botkered very little with insects, intensely happy, and careless of the morrow. We bathed in shoal water, rolling and tumbing in the freedom of nakedness, just out of the reach of great sharks that now and then lifted a sword-like tin above tbe green surface of the sea, swimming round and round, snifflng the fragrance of our clean flesh, no doubt, and longing to munch us. Ah, what a lover salt water is! It embraces one all over, and thrills him through nerves to his remotest marrow. If there were 110 sharks I should be delighted to undertake to swim from the Florida coast to the Queen of the Antilles!

But all things have an end, and betimes my savage life drew near its close. I started" with a feeling of sudden pain and sorrow—a sort of sore sinking at heart,when, one night,sitting out by the water under the great red stars, I happened to count the days I had been with Tommy. Seventeen days! Three or four more, and then farewell! Tommy was lying near me, smoking away as peacefully as a bit of punk in still weather. Good, strong, f'reo Tommy! any model archer! how could I ever leave him and tear myself away from this glorious, careless iife by the' warm sea? But duty is inexorable. The days leaped past, liko fawns in a fright and one morning we saw, from our door, the white sail of Berkley's schooner shining beyond the creek's mouth. A puff of white smoke from the larboard-bow—a moment, and then, boo-oo-111! a signal from Berkely's heavy fowling-piece. I must get readv. Must I go! 1 looked at Tommy. His laca was inscrutable, but he began to get ready my things to hurry 1110 off. Perhaps the dear fellow was tired enough of me—who knows I sighed, and swallowed a lump of discontent that seemed ready to choke tears from my eyes.

Again my box lapped over the gunwales of the canoe, again I sat a-squat in tho forward part of the frail thing, with my bow and arrows beside me. The green water whispered to me from the flying keel, the wind sang to 1110 and the reofs boomed far eastward, but. I felt 110 shiver of delight leap through me. I was waking from my sweet dream—bidding adieu to my wild life, never to taste it again. The musical dip and ripple of Tommy's paddle were like a dirge. I pulled inv cap over my eyes. ""Hillo! All ready there below?" cried Berkoly.

I clutched tho ropo in a desperate mood, and climbed aboard the schooner. My box and my weapons followed me.

Good-by, ugh J" said Tommy. "Good-by, dear friend," I replied, and then we flew apart like two sea-birds, and all was over.

The onl}' tangible thing I have by which to remember those wildi sweet savage days, is a stuffed flamingo-skin. Tho uird was killed by Tommy.

Thk best and cheapest in the world. Dr. Bull's cough Syrup only costs you 25 cents, and if it "does not" cure your cough you can get your money back.

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WEtMAKE A SPECIALTY OK THK

TERRE HAUTE SPRING WAGON.

SOUTH THIRD STREET, TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

J. W. SCOTT. J. K. UIIAFF. lb. l\ &COTT

SCOTT, GRAFF & CO.,

CARRIAGE MAKERS!

WEST SIDE PUIILIC SQUARE,

TEKKE HAUTE, IMDIAIV i.

REPAIRING SOLICITED AND PROMPTLY ATTENDED To]

Planing Mills.

CLIFT & WILLIAMS,

Manufacturers «»f

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Lath & Shinges, Slate Roofing,

AND

ROOFIXO FFXT.

Coatom Satrfag. Plalnia»«ml Wood Tor»iBgkm«too(der. All work warranted.

Cor. 9th and Mulberry Streets.

pEO. W. HABERLY,

(9cx«««Mr t# CIIAICE 4ft

Deater in all kind* ot

DRESSED LUMBER

North 2nd St. Corner of Linton, TKRHB HAUTE, nCO.

Mr Coatom work dona promptly aad wartanfd loglTt wilift^Uoa.

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laute,'!

"'STEAM ENGINES, COAL SHAFTS, FLOUR AND SAW MILL MACHINERY, JHS BANK CARS, KOAI SCRAPERS.

BUILDING FRONTS, CANE MILLS,

VARIOI'S PATTERNS OF FEKCIXO. NCHOOl. Fl'HXITCRE, Ac., and bavin* the

LARGEST ASSORTJIENT OF PATTERNS IN THE STATE!!

Can give its customers tho advantage of repairs without cost of patterns.

J. A. PARKER & CO., Prop'rs.

M. J. SPRACKLEN, Proprietor of

ECLIPSE BOILER WOKKS!!

Mannfactnrer of all kiiatln of

BOILERS, STACKS,

LWAYS RELIABLE

r.SUf?.-yr*

Union Steam Bakery!

—A D—«

CANDY MANUFACTORY.

and

For your BREAD. CAKEH, "HACKERM, ul ('ANIiIEKor nil klnrU, FoilKION

tllSBf

Antl

fl l«*l» IT ITU ««. 1« V/'Y (JJ^I iaDO

W,WFJTM KHUITH, and FANCY (iltfjCb H1I» WimMIiik and Party Or!»*r«axpfc tv, which «r«» arc- prepamf lortll Rtshort tic, anrl to *ult all claiwcii of etnitotnern.

OnhTH left at our ntor«, Between the two Railroad* on Ijirhfetic Mtreef.

OR OI RRAKC1I It'fORR,

Corner of 12th anaMain Streets,

I'tCOMITI.Y ATTKSVKU TO. FRA ISK EI NIG & BRO., Proprlactora. 1

w. x. cvtrr.

CLIFF

T»

UfcJTRT flirt

A SON,

XAKt-rACTCKEas or

IXH OnOTIVE, CTATIOXARY A MAKIJVK

BOILERS.

TlltlLAR A!V1 (TLLVBIvR, Flrat Nlreet, bet. Poplar and WnMni R«paltinff done In the moat rabtAantlai manner at short notif*. and aa IJbrrM to prlc*- aa anr Mttabilxhment In tlw Htat,

Onlm *Mldl«d and ouvfttlly attendfd

HORSE

SHOEING

r.'

A*D ALI. OTHER

JOB WORK!!

KIZER&CO'SXew Shop.

TH1RI) HTUKKT. WF»T mcTWKKI* WALNUT ANUI-Ol'LAlt. Rnvlnf )twt fompiHrd attd pot la aetlvr operation oar large and fomiriMllow britk MaeluuniU) «bop at th« atov« location. w« deaireto Inform threlUnraaof Terr* Jiaate ind MimwndlnKmaDiir Uil weucnvw fbl-* IrmpuMl to promptlj" and Mti«factoril.r 6" (Ul work in oor lino on t*m» driyinf rwn»* petition by anr otber e«tftMbihin«at in tiie city, (hir work for over ftftera paM «r» Ten* llaat«s warrant* t» in *ayiHf ttoet opr HlMMdna Job# «sannot be eicrIM, and lo^ every tnatanee we ha*e no hwlullmi In aa-. atrial etutommof

tett wwk, uul «mt*:

p|#4e*a*i*teeion. We oae nothing bat thr best material, iumI' have tbe work done onijr fcy Ih^moat e*perinifCd and beat practical workttken in tbecT City. Kr/ERACX-