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Pi After Harrest. The days of harvest are past again ; We have cut the corn and bound the sheaves, And gathered the apples green and gold, 'Mid the brown and crimson orchard leaves, With a flowery promise the springtime came, With the building birds and blossoms sweet ; ; But oh! the honey, and fruit and wine! And oh! the joy of the corn and wheat! . What was the bloom to the apple's gold, And what the flower to the honeycomb? What was the song that sped the plow To the joyful song of the Harvest Home? 80 sweet, so fair, are the days of youth; 80 full of promise, so gay of song ; To the lilt of joy and the dream of love Right merrily go the hours along. But, yet in the harvest time of life We never wish for its spring again. We have tried our strength and proved our heart ; Our hands have gat hered their golden gain. We have eaten with Sorrow her bitter bread And Love has unl us with honeycomb. Sweet youth, we ran never weep for thee, When Life has come to its Harvest Home. When the apples are red on the topmost We do not think of their blossoming hour. When the vine hangs low with its purple fruit, We do not Ions for its pale green flower. 80, then when hopes of our spring at last Are found in the fruit of the busy brain, In the heart's sweet love in the hands' brave toil, f We shall not wish for our youth again. Ah, no! we shall say with a glad content; "After the years of our hard unrest, Thank (rtxl for our ripened hopes-and toil! Thank God, the Harvest of Life is best.'' Amelia E. Barr in Independent. "ALL IN THE FAMILY." A DETECTIVE S STORY. One of the hardest things in detective life is for the officer to be obliged to re port on family matters. Xo matter how long he has been in the business, or how fireproof he has become, the detective who can make a report which he knows will break up a family and bring wreteh- eduess to half a dozen persons, is a scarce j ,u.u i. ue report 10 ms ; chief verbally or by letter and thus let , J ' Ul , tne-information get to those who hunger t . ' 8 lor it and yet dread to hear the truth. A fair share of the detective business ! Of every city in the land hinges upon fam- j ily matters, and the work done seldom appears in print, or if the newspaper re- porters get hold of the circumstance, the ; pMi.Lu.ai. are Kept away irom mem. For a long term of years my assignment; as a detective connected with the force in one of our large cities, were entirely of this character, and some of the inci dents cau be related without injury to any one's feelings. I did not associate with the criminal detectives at all, and the majority of them did not know me by name. One morning I was sent for by the Chief to take up a new case, and when I ntered his office I found a ladv present. She was a woman not over 25 years of age, handsome, educated, and a society ornament. Sue was the second wit' nd wile ot a rich old wholesale merchant whom I will call Williams. They had been mar ried about a year and a half, and it was said that it was a love match. She had come to headquarters in her own carriage in broad daylight to tell her story to the Chief and seek the services of a detective. I may tell you that I was prejudiced in U . C i" A 1 . "ci iuur imm I ne vorv nis r hn,- w, was one of those women 4o.se every word is of interest fld 12 word is of interest, and whose every gesture has a touch of art- as tlie saying is, and while there was no lessness in it. And she could probability that the dissolute brother 3hed big tears, and catch little W0llld be punished, I did not rest until sobs, and put such a look into her brown ne n;1( ,)een taken into Williams's pres eyes as would make even an old detec- ; cnoe ana m:l t() confess all. The vic tive almost want to die for her. When tml n:l( 110 desire to resort to the courts, her story had been simmered down it be was a man of considerable temper, amounted to this: For some time past and his remarks were anything but corn she had been missing jewelry and sums pigmentary. I left the house in company of money. A private detective had been wita the brother, and as we gained the employed, but had met with no success W;llk he asked: in discovering the thief. One robbery 'r)o vou think the old man would included a valuable diamond ring; an- suo11 out a couple of thousand for me?" other a pair of earrings; a third the sum j "You must be crazy." I replied, of $400 in gold; a fourth the sum of I "Tnen the game is up, and here's $300 in greenbacks. About ten days j 00(l-by to you !" he exclaimed, and be previous to her visit a package of $12,000 1 fore 1 co,ll(1 lift a hand he had pulled a had been taken from her husband's sec- ! I)istl and sent a bullet into his head. retary, and at the same time she had few York Sun. missed a diamond brooch from her dress- I , ing case. One of the regular detectives I Tf . SlCe,,hl T;. had been working on thfs 'last steal for 1 , t0 SleGp ! T tCdl Ior , alone. The unhealthfulness of two per- over a week, and was still at it, although M , , 1 , hp hrl fbc f.f i , , sons occupying the same bed very much ne naa thus tar been unable to secure a. ' 3 i V, . , duc Lcurc a j depends on the physical condition of Tt i , , ! either or both. If one is diseased, in- lt was not only natural that Mrs Wil- i , i- , , . m vvu I jury to the other is sure to result The hams should be interested in the recov-i - r u,f , , ortr r . . ' iaov practice is unhealthful because the ex- ery of the property, but that her great 1 I w f i , , lntOTMt ' , , . " . ' halations from the body of one come n interest should ead her to ca l at he-ul , nna rc , , ( ,U1 at nead-1 contact with and are absorbed bv the quarters to consult with the chief I i t v i i r f . , , , LUltI- ! skin of the other, and because each one In fact, her husband was con-i , a j i nneu to nis room bv n oft..v t ' gout, and, for all we knew to the CntltrUriT if limn 1... 1 I .1 . . w y ms aavice tnat she came. It would appear sharper in me to say that I suspected something wrong from the very start, but honesty compels me to say that I didn't. When she had departed the chief said to me : "This looks like a very simple case, ' young men. If he meant the last gradu and I can't see why Taylor has not ating class we caKinform him that one picked up some clue. The robberies of them is embroidery counter clerk in a have been perpetrated by some of the dry goods store, another is driver of a servants, and I'll give you a fortnight to herdic, a third is a horse car conductor trap the guilty party." I was at liberty to consult Taylor The only servants who had access to the bedroom were the chambermaid and the butler. This 'ast.personaere had no rinht there, of course, but having the run ol the house ho could s ip into the room. Taylor had suspected him, rather than the chambermaid, and had devoted his whole time to watching the man. Joth ing but disappointments had turned up. The butler had the best of recommenda tions, was without vices of any sort, and a search of his effects had brought noth ing to light which could implicate him. It was agreed that I should look out foi the chambermaid, and I put in a week on the case to find out that she also had the best of recommendations, and that the probabilities were all in her favor. If it was true that cither of the servants had committed the robberies, it was likewise true that they had covered theii tracks so well that we had no hopes ol making an arrest. I worked on the case three weeks, and then abandoned it. Mrs. Williams seemed much more dis appointed than her husband over my failure, and she shed tears of vexation when informed that 1 was to drop the case, or at least to cease active work. I meant to keep the butler and chamber maid under surveillance for 11 time longer, but I could not promise that any thing would come of it. The third day after this. Fate played me a curious trick. I had dropped into a family restaurant for a plate of oysters, and not caring to have comers and goers study my face, I went up stairs to be served in one of the little rooms or stalls. I had devoured my oysters and drunk my coffee when a ladv and gentleman en tered the next stall on the right, and it wasn't ten seconds before I recognized Mrs. Williams' voice. The man's iden tity I also soon established by his tones. He was a handsome, dissinatcd ehan Uamed Raynor, known in all the clubs as ! 1 1 a great spendthrift, and reported to the J police as a reckless gambler. The pair were scarcely seated in the stall when the lady said : "Will, I can do no more for you. I have robbed myself, stolen from my husband and ;. 'd ,f th offiperg to hel you QUt of V()Ur troubks - a ' 1011 are no sooner out of one trou- ki th.m 1 n ble than you bring another upon vour- sejf ..'Softlv sisU,r S()ft,v,, rhided the man ,.T have ;lhvays tQ vou. T h;lve ;ihvavs th(l best hrother in the W(),,(1 " Gjv( m(i a t was horril)ly in ((,M Y()U )mve (.()mc to my aid in a -rand wav. ami rtml will bless you for it." "Hush, Will! (rod cannot bless me for stealing from my husband to pay your gambling debts. Do you know , tlie value ot tnat package I gave vou the mgnt you came and threatened to com mit suicide?" 'About $12,000, I believe, and it helped me out of three or four bad scrapes. " "And I thought it was only $200! Oh, brother, I am afraid you are down to ruin." 1 'Pooh! pooh! Nell, I am no worse 1 1 1. . r .1 ... v i r their wild oats. Make a raise of a couole in. 111 ilium i ip 01 o s u 10 ;iri' snu ir of thousand for me this week, and I'll go to Europe and remain away until I can steady down." I cannot do it. T can'f even r:iisn $50." "But you must. It's either Europe for me or a bullet through my head." TI' f A. 1 A A T It T 1 . few words had made the case as plain as I dav. While it w,s .,11 iu L; I" 1 ltll riiai w:i k'o in on fhn nnir - day. While it was "all in the familv.'' I mini, ui ucuwsnv, oieuLiie some oi ine . . ... im un.li iii uiuuniu uy me other, and consequently rendered im- pHre. Herald of Health. Where They Are. ' 'Where are those who have gone be fore us?" yelled the valedictorian at the commencement exercises at a collen-e for a fourth is 8eiu a k- , f f . ture polish, and a fifth is learning the first principles of the mercantile businesg as janitor in a shoe and leather house. Tid-Bits. THE WORLD'S WASTE How Fortunes Are Yearly Thrown Away in Trifles. Three Millions Wasted Annually in Lost Pircf. A writer in the Philadelphia Evening Call thus whimsically treats the subject of useless waste : I wish I had a nickel for every dollar wasted in this country. Yes, I'll reduce that proposition to a cent on the dollar, and then retire rich in a few years. I don't mean wasted by the rich but by the poot and the moderately well off. And when I say waste, I don't include flowers, pictures or articles solely for the eye, nor do I consider it waste for a rich man to have a suit for every day in the year, or 500 pairs of pantaloons, like that estimable New York gentleman, Berry Wall. I mean waste in every day matter-of-fact articles such as everybody uses. Let us take pins, for a starter. You have doubtless been asked what becomes of the pins, and don't know. Nobody knows; not even the English journal that recently offered a cash prize for a solu tion of the problem. They arc lost, and that's all you can say about it. But why should they be lost ) You don't lose your diamond pin, although it's not much larger than a common brass one. It is evident that the pins could be taken care of; that they ought to be, let figures attest. There are 00,000,000 people in the United States, and every one on an average loses five cents' worth of pins per annum. That makes $3,000,000 a year gone nowhere. My 1 per cent, on inai would give me ju.uuo a year; enough to clothe me at any rate. Just think of $3,000,000 a year lost forever, as'not one pin in 20,000,000 is ever found again. But that is only a beginning. Let us take up cigars and pipes as the next ar ticle on the catalogue of waste. Don't be alarmed! I am not going to compute a. . - . - i e 1 1 ... me cost 01 smoKing and call it waste, because I am a smoker and have scruples. I am going to concede that money in vested in tobacco is well invested .nd then open your eyes to another awful leak. Let us approach the subject grad ually, because it is vast. There are 1.000.000 cigars a week smoked m this city and 2.000,000 pipe loads of tobacco. 1 Don't ask me how I know this data vou 4 AiA Ami ' . put me out. Average cost of cigar to consumer, five cents; total cost. S50.000 Average cost of pipe load, one cent; total cost, $20,000. Grand total. $70, 000 a week expended, and of this amount one-fifth is wasted. After long observation and careful calculation I find that one-fifth of each cigar is thrown away unsmoked and the same proportion of each pipe load. This may seem large, but I am confident that it is rather under the average, and it represents a loss of $11,000 a week, or $72s,Ol)0 a year. Re- member, this in Philadelphia alone, ami I ean safely multiply it by fifty to include the rest of the country. Grand total. $o(i.400 000 I A. . -. . A $,504,000. I already have a respectable income, you perceive. I am only in the suburbs of this sub- f Tf T 7 . " f tmabHy that stretches before me. it is estimated by careful house- ($10,000,000) a year. His favorite at keepers that one-tenth of each pot of : tendant. Kishlar Aga, the black eunuch, coffee or tea is not fit to drink, and ' receives two hundred and forty thousand what to do with the slops no one knows, francs as his salary, with many rich per Lumping the crusts of bread, ends of quisites. He bears the high-sounding steak, dabs of butter, crumbs of cake title of Guardian of the Gate of Delights, and pie remnants, I am within bounds j '.Argonaut. when I say that one-tenth of every meal goes to waste, and since everybody eats, even if they don't smoke or drink, the aggregate must be enormous. I will not enter into figures, but will content myself with taking $50,000 a year as my percentage. I have not finished, even If I do quit. In the matter of buttons there must be a large sum coming to me, and likewise in the item of matches. Very few persons make a match do its full duty. Then look at the unnecessary amount of paper that is used in making fires by women, when old paper is worth a cent a pound. There are other things too numerous to mention, and I have not taken at all into account the things ttiat are thrown away and return to their original elements, and so in a measure are not wasted. I am aware that the list is incomplete, and I feel sure you will be able to supple ment it from your experience. But it will do for an example and serve to maintain me in idleness and ease during . , . ... i.uiuiuui.i mi my me. iti y percentage on the various wastages enumerated is the enormous sum of $1,210,000 and some small items not enumerated. With that income I could afford to do some wast- ing on my own account. A tidy income, isn't it? How much have you contributed toward it? The Earnest Man. The man not in earnest seldom accom- plLshes much in this world. Bulwer once said: 'Nothwffis so contao-im, ao I said: "Nothing is so contagious as en thusiasm ; it is the allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it chains brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sin cerity, and truth accomplishes no victo ries without it." J A r ioatinfc miner JR K. Van derbi It's yacht, says the ,' New 1 1 rk World, cost somewhere be - tf'tn 000 .wl m AOO OOO Klin is I V I l i I JltH,VW IIIKI 'If I ,M7', M". K"y the most elegantly and luxuriously ap- pointed yacht afloat. On the hurricane deck, below the pilot house, is a spacious smoking room, beautifully finished in mahogany. An extension table occupies the centre of this apartment, and velvet eushioned seats extend around the sides. On the saloon deck is a wonderfully ar ranged system of rooms, in which every device is employed to economize spad without convevinir anv suinrcstion of cramping. Directly below the smoking room is a well lighted and elegantly ap pointed nursery for the millionaire's children. The staterooms, 16 in num ber, with accommodations for 25 persons, are arranged about the nursery, and ex tend aft nearly to the stern. They are as far superior to the staterooms of an ocean steamship as those of an ordinary yacht are to the cabin of a trading ves sel. They are variously finished in cherry and walnut, and supplied with dressing cases, wardrobes, colored marble basins, running water, and every modern appli ance for adding to the comfort and con venience of the occupant. Among these are bathtubs -unk in the floor, covered by trap doors that give no idea of their existence, and fitted with contrivances for taking hot or cold, fresh or salt water baths at will. The dining room is a spa cious apartment beautifully finished in white and gold, and capable of comfort ably seating 50 persons. A passage from the dining saloon leads past the engine, where a settee is provided for those who may wish to see it work, to the library, a charming apartment finished in French walnut. It is an evidence of the com pleteness of the yacht's appointments to say that she is provided with the means of making all of the board of her. ice required on The Turkish Ruler. The Sultan Abdul. Hamid, is thirty eight years old, about the medium height, with dark hair and eves, swarthv complexion, prominent nose, and slender i! Tl 1 .. 1 injure. 1 ne lower part ol ins tace is 1 covered by a full black beard. He is not handsome, but has an intelligent expres sion. He i progressive for a Turk, and wishes to introduce some of the useful inventions that are known in more civil ized countries, but in this he is opposed by his ministers. At present there are ' not five hundred miles of railroad- in the ! whole of Turkey. He is eontemnlatino i 1 1 a line from Constant inople to the Persian Gulf, in order to bring to Constanti nople the rich products of the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, as well as the valuable commerce of the East Indies, thus making his capital the great dis- tributing centre of Abdul Hamid live Lurope and Asia. s in Oriental seclu sin. . He is an inveterate smoker, and shows his European taste bv smoking cigarettes instead of Turkish pipes. His i i i Mitacc surpasses, m oeautv and mag- . . ' , " nineencc, tnc rich descriptions m the "Arabian Nights." The "hall of jewels'1 contains a dazzling collection of dia monds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and other precious stones, heaped in large basins. The immense army of cooks, at tendants, and others required to keep up the Sultan's large household is a constant T" personal expenses are tiftyvmillion francs Seats at Royal Processions. The growth of prices for scats to see royal processions in London is noted in extant works on coronations. In Ed ward the First's time a farthing was given. On the accession of Richard II the price had risen to a penny. From Henry Y's coronation to Henry YIPs the sum asked was twopence, or half of a grosus, or groat. A whole groat was charged in Henry VIIPs day, and until Elizabeth, when ateston or tester, or six pence, was charged. A shilling was given to view the coronation procession of James I; half a crown was the reco"--nized figure in Charles IPs time. A crown was paid in William Ill's day. Half a guinea was given at George IPs coronation; and curiosity was considered to have risen to an amazing height when in some houses ten guineas, and in ordi nary houses five guineas, were given to view the procession at George the Fourth's coronation. London Tele graph. A Pleasant Time. "I have spent a most delightful even- i ing, Miss Breezy," remarked young Mr. Waldo of Boston. "To a gentleman far away from home an hour or two such as U nave passed is peculiarly grateful and refreshing." "Thanks, awfully!" responded Miss i Breezy. "As it is quite early," went on Mr. Waldo, "I would be' very glad if you ... , . , J ou anu your mother would go with me for a little ice cream." "Thanks," said the young lady bright ly. I presume mamma is agreeable, and as for myself, Mr. Waldo, my mouth is always wide open for that sort of thinsr." . "Silotwor" is a new explosive ten timna th. ufrpnrrtb nf mmnnwdrr. ox . ........ . . v . J 7 ; ploding without smoke or noise, ; Russian invented it. j t has bet n computed that the death rate of the world is about 67 a minute, 1 97,790 a day, and 35,639,835 a year, while the .birth rate is 70 a minute, 100,'- ; ()0 a ,iay and 30,702,000 a year. A recent computation makes the velocity of the solar system in space only - ' , i0, 000, 000 miles a year. By a dif- ferent method another computer has de termined the rate to be about 525,000, 000 miles in a year. The penetration of largest guns on shipboard in 1800 was less than four inches of iron and less than- three feet of granite. It is to-dav thirty inches of iron, ten to twenty feet of granite, and seventy-five feet of earth. A large piece of meteoric iron has been found in a bed of tertiary lignite. Upper Austria. This is the first find of that sort in distinct geological periods, a proof that meteoric stones fell also in former periods of the earth's existence. An inclination of one inch in fifteen miles is sufficient to give motion to water. An inclination of three inches per mile in a straight, smooth channel will give velocity of three miles per hour, while three feet per mile would produce a tor rent. In the Sydney (Australia) lighthouse is the largest electric light in the worfd. It has a power of ISO. 000 candles, and may be seen from ships fifty miles out at sea. The next largest is in the Palais dTndustrie. and has a power of 150,000 candles. The largest light in America is 24,000 candle power. It is at San Jose, California. Professor Bolton expresses the opinion that the crowning glory of modern chemistry is the power of producing, in the laboratory, from inorganic matter, substances identical with those existing in the vegetable and animal kingdoms it being known now that the same chem ical laws rule animate and inanimate nature, and that any definite compound produced in the former can be prepared by synthesis as soon as its chemical con stitution has been made out. One of the most mysterious and re markable of the changes witnessed in the solar system is the variation in the brightness of Jupiter's moons. Two of the four satellites occasionally cross the planet's disc as dark objects, although their sunny sides arc presented to us, and should appear no less brilliantly illumin ated than the planet itself. The third and fourth satellites often make these dark transits, and the first is sometimes seen as a brown object, but the second has never been noticed otherwise than as a bright disc. Medicinal Qualities of Buttermilk. For a summer beverage there can be i , u, , ' nothing more healthv and strengthening than buttermilk. It is excellent for weak "or delicate stomachs, and far bet ter as a dinner drink than coffee, tea, or water, and. unlike them, does not retard but rather aids digest ion. A celebrated physician once said that if every one knew the value of butter milk as a drink it would be more freely partaken of by persons who drink so ex cessively of other beverages; and further compared its effects upon the system to the cleaning out of a cook stove that has been clogged up with ashes that have sifted through, filling up every crevice and crack, saying that the human system is like the stove and collects and gathers refuse matter that can in no way be exterminated from the system so effectually as by drinking buttermilk. It is also a specific remedy for indiges tion, soothes and quiets the nerves, and is very somnolent to those who are troubled with sleeplessness There is something strange in the fact thnt nnnnln whn om tA nf W :iu never tire of simmuT its oraises- ij those who are not loud of it never weary 0 i-, , of wondering how some people c in drink it. So far as possible, peopL- should overcome their aversion to it and learn to drink it for health's sake. One gen tleman of our acquaintance is so fond of it that we knew him one time to drink l i. 1 i , . . about three glasses, then set his glass rW ,r;n, i a, ClOWn With ft t hlin PVf iliminrr e.irtioctKr - -. " - . .... i a uic: uuuvdbll as he did so: "That's food and raiment both," while another buttermilk enthusi ast made the statement once that where the liver has become lifeless from tor pidity and inaction, and is too dead to perform its functions, buttermilk will cause a new one to grow in. Whatevei exaggerated statements may have been made concerning buttermilk, its medical properties cannot be overrated, and it should be more freely used by all who can get it. Every one who values good health should drink buttermilk every day in warm weather, and let tea, coffe and water alone. For the benefit of those who are not already aware of it, I may add, that in the churning, the first process of di gestion is gone through makin it one of the P,W nnd lLne to dio-est Tt mikPQ ernefn-n i it makes gastric juice and contains rrrmor;a j-, . properties hat readily assimilate with it, with little or no wear upon the di- gestive organs. Chicago News. Echoes. ! As one who walks upon a win.lv :, , Through unknown streets ' Minster rlo- - i Guides not his fr-l-x k,- i. . -v..uvj0 LIJ LllPnr,, But by the clangor that the wii.l Yet oft he pauses, when in the w-j And much he iov jwmo nmuci ctuu tans mm left r s when, full , bright. He sees the great rose-window So if the wanderer in life's wav 11: aitiP Mt-ni Its earthly echoes Nature, Art amu" Then in kis ears, as earth's sweet v., , " 1 he hells srs:nrt etanror- Dn,i 1.., .u) , vv,,, aim IM'fi,-,, RriP'llt, winrlnwr nnon i, i o " in me (j , c--mn "'11. -ThoSi,r,f,ta HUMOROUS. A deaf mute, it is said, is m,t of his word. It is a bold man,' indeed, who wi : dodge a boulder. If you think nobody cares f()r v, . this cold world just try to play tin die in a populous neighborhood. A Nevada man who started nt look for a grizzly bear, found m time for dinner the bear's dinner The man who determined to nil,, family with an iron hand has l.,.,lri ruhid by his wife with a wooden a ! Vm- This is what n nnnt n-i-o . ..r .11 i vvi; m 1 n t , j j -, sweet songs I cannot sing." nf(1,.,. nately, however, he keeps right on tJ ing to sing them. Post. Is there any rest on earth? plaintiv. asks an exchange. Well, it must , admitted that there isn't much daily in fly and mosquito time. The boy who was employed to that the hens were kept away IV, ,m ti garden congratulated himself u., jjuoowoiug a juu Liiau was a .SIlOO p thing. Heiress lam afraid it is not fY,r that you come here so often, but for money. Ardent wooer You are crm- say so. How can I get your 11m without getting you? v 0 sl ue.u, siuu a wiie who ima i.r married three years, as she hea'nmi across the table at her lord and' nuu-r, 'tell me what first attracted you t- nit. What pleasant characteristic did j possess which placed me above nth-r women in your sight." And her k.rii and master said, ."I give it up." A Desperate Fight. -'Our regiment did a good dwl f fighting during the war," says B. P. Critchell in the Cincinnati Times-Star. "About the hottest fight we ever - ,t into was on Mission Ridge. We were close enough to the Coirfeds to h:ike hands with them, and they fought like fiends incarnate. We were two close to each other to rclond nnr mm. t'nn boys were using their weapons for clubs. ' There was a tall, raw-honed Jolrar gunner, who was fighting like the Old Xick himself. He was laying .about him with a heavy gun swab, and he seemed to me to be the biggest m.-ui I ever laid eyes on. A half-dozen of our Imys went at him, but he stbod his ground. A heavy revolver, all the cartridges dis charged, was thrown at him. It struck him full in the face with force sufficient to knock out a bull, but he only shook his head and went to work again. I threw up my Sergeant-Major's sword and cracked away at the swab, and I'd almost be willing to bet the pieces of my blade are flying around there yet. It shattered it clear to the hilt. The big Confed wouldn't yield an inch, and finally one of our boys, a Cincinnatian named Boyd, who died here a few years ago, caught him off his guard and j rammed a bayonet clear through him with such force that the barrel, too. I passed out of the other side of the big ! fellow's body. Well sir, that man, mortally wounded, didn't give up? and ' . M n me bldy tUrt' 1 hlS entrails hanging frOIIl tllO awful ll as he lay there on the bloodv turf, with ln h stomach, he grabbed a pistol and winged another boy in blue before he died. That was about the wickedest I fight 1 ever Sot into- Gambling in Mexico. A short distance from the church booths are erected, from which proceeds i LliC music oi uarps ana guitars in t ne u L ... , r Ulldl" the vlsltors to Guadalupe may gratify 1 J C . r i i i , . anv tnnrlnocc Oin,- t t - U. ""j tii iiiuv nave ior oiv- great national vice gambling The strange, harsh cries of those who. have charge of the games, as they call out the details of stakes to be offered and the result of each deal and play, are posi tively repulsive. The group of players in each booth comprises men, women, and even children, of every class, in about the proportion in which the several classes exist in the country. Tiere are small stakes and large ones, i.jd the variety of games by which the appe d to chance is made seems endless. Th players chat and laugh as they play, and though they watch the games very closely, and, if their money lasts, play sometimes all night long, there is n,,ne r CXClte(1 10K which is noticeable in the faces of of that feyerish or excited look about ' gamblers elsewhere. It is evident that ! tne Mexicans gamble entirely for the i. , . . ... sport there is in gambling. Thev , 6 , , the j ose Wlth the same haPPv 100 ' same gay laugh. American 31;
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