The Albany Star. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [24], Ed. 1 Friday, June 8, 1883 Page: 5 of 7
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idc, i smed si •«.
ssNSffiKftSi
• cot;
albesweet repose .
I when their labors done
* poor au'i sleep,
rope on hie atambers
her sekias bead;
mtfcetodtf
th«B wild is a thinking
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IV Ki«rie of qnpirea peeaadaw
r* pw ®*"
t pi—ire In
dig lots of
Xtatths
ore,
of yore,
„ sway;
will thus uufold
gold,
Mier «u 9^i ■ • PMMM hoMe,
^^.s^srsrrsw.,
,arewter,or wife;
Or tried iiT aonww wMt heaven's decree,
jke Umw ' ■* "W 1 ««w <*
And center tbew, ace better titan gold.
It tw on the last stage of the loug
aud tedious ride from Craig to Santa
fe. We had taken up the l*st relay
of {risky mustangs, said good-night to
the last sleepy hoe tier, and were dash-
ing away iato the darkness with the
BMee of the leaders pointing towards
tkCity of the Holy Faith. We had
beta under headway an hour before
my attention was attracted towards the
driver. He aught have heen fifteen, or
1m might have been seventy-five. He
waa cocked and primed with all the
I. slang of the frontier, which he inter-
laided with lata of lingo from the
nines, quaint with quotations from the
tmilur poets and humorists, and
when at a loss for a word or so to point
a Mat oa«, slung ia a Latin or Spanish
phrase with an inimitable pronuncia-
tion and a graceful ware of the hand
that signified hi* utter disgust with the
mother tongue that was so paltry of
fitting terms ia an emergency.
"how let me tell you," he would re-
mark, dose on the Wsls of some long
aud astonishing yarn, "now let me tell
yon what happened to me one night on
the Yellowstone," or the Union, or the
Bouth Fork of the Canadian, or the
Sea of Galilee, or some other equallv
distant locality, and off he would gal -
lop at a break-neck pace, keeping time
«i4U£ti- scampering team in front of
■w. IT was in the midst of this medlev
of abounding adventures by fiehl and
hj flood that he spun the quaint little
yarn that is an excuse for these pa.ru-
#*phe.
"One night out from Los Animas,"
he began after carefully lighting a
proffered cigar, and shying the burn-
UM5 match at the off-wheeler, "A l*su-
tiful moonlight night, I remember, one
of those. nights, ^On know, Cap, w hen
the prairies seem all aglow with mel-
lowness, I found when I had mounted
the box and anlaatened the lines
feu* taaj^ndle of the hraki-, the
drwgest outside passenger in mv ei-
It was a woman -that' is, I
C'OOglit her a woman when she drew
uersaf ap with dignity, as I bade her
^ 'good evening,' and turned up
* noee at being so familiarly
by a driver, bat when I said
filled
be said if he
could go to the
gold, and then come borne and
would be ao happy aa two bugs in a
rug. Sow wiuui t that nice of Jack?
Well, so I had been saving up ever
since he went away, ao I sent him the
money, and then I did not hear from
l im again until about a week ago.
Then a letter came from Arizona, and
it was from Jack, and he had been
having more trouble and unless
be could have more money in two
weeks they would put him in jaiL I
can't understand why every one is so
down en Jack. So you see I drew all
my money from the bank, and as I
was afraid the mail might miscarry,
I just thought it would be safer to
to bring it myself. And so here I am
—and that's all. But won't he be glad
to see me, the dear old darling, and
wont it be splendid when I get there
to face the wretches who are
Armstrong, the then efficient chief of
lines north of the Braaoa,
to think of my quondom
river.
"A queer character, General." I re-
marked, "that driver of yours at Santa
Fe. Johnson I think is his name, Ben
Johnson. A most remarkable feUlow.
Seemed to have picked up a great
deal of information for a of his
sphere. Uses good language you knew;
has many original ideas; rude sort of
eloquence, pathos, and all that sort of
thing you know. Ayd besides, he is a
meat wonderful raconteur."
"Tea," said the General, musingly,
"aud the biggest liar this side of the
Bocky Mountains. If Johnson ever
told you anything for a fact, you can
bet ten dollars to a cent that it is not
so. Why, that unprincipled scamp
so j lays awake nights studying out yarns
down on him, and pay them their nas- j to beguile travelers on the box. Do
ty money, and say: "There, you old ] you know Carl, he once told me a cold-
rascals, I am a little woman as you see, blooded fiction about a woman and a
Oh,
dog that—"
"Pass me the wine,General," I falter
ed, "never mind about the woman and
the dog; Idare say I have heard it all
before. What time do we leave for
Concho?"—WoMhingUm CojAtol.
but I am Jack Seymour's wife.
won't it be nice, Driver?"
"Great Heavens!" j thought, "Jack
Seymour! the roughest desperado in
the Southwest and the biggest rascal
left unhung!" Jack Seymour's wife!
She had better been the wife of old
Nick himself. And then I happened
to think that sure enough the sheriff Twenty per cent, is a
had taken liim a few weeks before, and -or money invested in a farm and
that if Judge Lynch did not try him stock; $200 for $1,000 or $2,000 for
in the meantime, he would certainly ! ^1^"0 is a very common income from
bang by due process of law, and all, a w ell-conducted farm, and * there are
IV Profits of Farming.
Without entering into m
of cyclone*, their
and origin, it is sufficient to give
the premonitory signs, easily percepti-
ble to and comprehensibleby every one.
On the day of the storm, and for sev-
eral hours previous to the appearance
of ttaAqmpado clouds; the atmosphere
is sultry nd oppressive. Clouds form
fire in seuthwreci, and then almost im-
mediately in the northwest, or vice
u they are light, their appear-
ance resembles smoke issuing from a
building or straw stack, rolling
ttastic sbai
up m lantastic shapes to great heights;
again like a fine mister quite white like
fogor steam. These dark clouds at times
present a purple or bluish tinge, or at
times, are strangely lurid, but always
with what appears to be black smoke
surrounding them.
The clouds form in the southwest and
northeast, and finally come together
with a terrific crash, and then the fun-
nel-shaped tornado cloud appears up-
on the western sky, moving beldly to
the front from within this confused
mass. A heavy roaring noise, like that
of a heavily loaded freight-train pass
ing over a bridge or through a tunnel
is heard and then the cyclone or tor-
small return j nado is upon you.
! pL _ „,
HOW SHE POUND HIM. fthe wives in the world would not save ' abundant opportunities for doing bet-
ltim 1 aiu afraid my face, even in the j ter thau that. Many a fanner has
moonlight, must have shown something g°ne West, and has bought land there
of my horror at the thought, for j which lias paid him 100 per cent, for
she peered curiously into it, and! several years. Hop-growing, fruit-
grasped mv arms with a little clutch, j growing, poultry men, bee-keepers and
as she said : even dairymen, sometimes make 100
"Do you know, Jack V Mavbe you l*"r cent, profit, and rarely less than 25
have seen him He is tall and fair, and or P®r cent- Let a farmer sell his
hit hair is ever so light, and curls all! farm for $10,000 and put it in a 20 per
cent. mine, and get $2,000 a year income.
He rents a house, buys his provisions
)jot ' and his fuel, hires a horse or carriage
over his head in the cunningest little
tight ringlets."
'Oh, yes,' I groaned to myself,
-the slightest doubt but that your ^enhcwant* U> go «ut, and at the
man and mine are the same infernal
scoundrel.' But to her 1 said some-
thing entirely different
imagine, and 1
up the conversation, uow-ucu w <ui >. . _ ... . .
her queer little confidences, and am j e ou o
listening to that merry little voice as
t chatted all night long plumb to day-
ght
"A half hour after sunrise, we drove
1 nto the little ranch where we were to
change horses and breakfast. 1 noticed
] a crowd around the relay-house long
I before we reached it; saw a dozen men
armed to the teeth, and horses all sad-
i died, as though a party had been stay-
! ng there over night and were about
to start on. But you can imagine how
my blood curdled in my veins, when,
as we drew-hp before the piazza, two
|men with drawn revolvers come out of
door, ami between them was a tall,
fair mau. witb blue eyes, and curling
; hair, and wearing the most dare-devil
expression 1 ever witnessed, it was
the Sheriff"s jxmm- taking a prisoner
to Kanta Fe.
Now, as some of these signs appear
hours in advance of any danger, as
these storms occur only in certain sea-
sons in the year, from April to Sep-
tember, and as they are restricted to
certain sections of the country, it would
seem that there ought to be means of
foreseeing them and preventing any
very great loss of life. And there are.
The far western and north-western
states suffer far more severely from
tornadoes than Mississippi does. Kansas
has as many as a dozen every year, and
Iowa is annually visited by them; but
although these stoma are just as bad •
on the western prairie as in Mississippi, I
the loss of life there is very light, be-1
cause the farmers and villagers know
what precautions to take vlien a tor-, i
nado visits them.
The signal service gives this warn-
ing: If caught in a tornado always
move with all possible dispatch to the
north, unless in so doing you are
ebliged to cross the entire path of the
j storm. A glance toward the west will
! tell whether you are on the southern
| edge of the probable path of the tor
j nado cloud or more to the north. If
tionate element of risk in it. But | in the centre or halfway between the
what risk is there about a farm that is
free from debt? The bottom never
falls out of that, and one may securely
enjoy it as long as he lives, and leave
it to his children, knowing that a
thoua# id years hence the soil will still
be retiming its generous dividends.
pma] !eu<* year he wrili find his income
quite insufficient to keep him in the
comfort he enjoyed on lus farm, while
Linerent, as you may i , .. -1 - - , , ,
did my best to keep "beuig worked
ion, and listened to all ?ut' f"d " d,
confidences, and am ; ^ fel/ ottJ ?.f ^
afraid 1 forgot all about the truth in , out with the 1*^
e .... torn of his mine. No certain, sure and
permanent investment can be expected
to pay ur re than 5 per cent, now-a-
days, and all above that has a propor
Wonderful Ice Caves.
One of the greatest wonders of
roj e is the Hungarian ice
Ku-
center and southern edge, your chances
are best in a direct course to the north.!
If further to the south, bearing slight- 1
ly east. In no event should you ever !
run directly east or northeast. There'
is always sufficient time to escape a tor-
nado even if it is but a few rods from
you for its breadth is only a few bun
dred feet; as a geueral thing tho tor-
nado cloud is seen at from one to tlirer
the foot of the highest group of Car
patluan chain lies the Coinitar of Go-
mar, a district of singular Ijeautv and
variety, in which aro mountains on
whose summit grows the Arctic lichen
Just at tliat moment the ! and the pine, wliile at their l>as<* to
cave. At | miles distant, giving you from one to
with
tkidayH
•d a cleat
-cut,
va only a
turn-
profile
• pair of Ute
I 4W looked
It
for then
two rows
all over the
waste
friend, "the
nd ia the world," skr uito
■ HaprondlOtl. gMtaM.'aMl
If **** tktna&m. I am mot
lMwr Mom who the
PI
! Newfoundland made a spring from the
roof of the coach to the piazza, and a
ringing voice siiouUxl: "Wbvthat is
my Jack •" and my little woman made
one flying leap to the ground, w ith a
glad iike cry that 1 shall never foiget
i to my dying day, and then I sa« Ser-
i mour struggling w ith his guards, heard
lnuffied oaths, saw hiiii wrench a revol-
1 ver from the belt of one of them.
'Standoff!' he shouted. 'Stand off
; men, or I will have some one's heart's
blood! Stand off, J say!' Then I haw
the burlev Sheriff advance tow aid him
when, quick as a flash, Seymour leveled
and fired square at his head. But the
SheKfi had dodged, aud as my little
woman bad bowu trying all the Mine to
reach bis side, the cruel bullet struck
her full in the breast, and she fell for-
ward just as Seymour sprang aud caught
<her in his arms. Then we all gath-
ered round her as she lay there w ith
her little white arms around his neck,
talking to him in Iter sweet little votee,
while the anguish <>u Jack Seymour's
tme was terrible to witneaa. How lie
cursed aud imj/recated bis captor*, and
petted and sooth**d the dying wonan,
nod swore by all the heavens that be
w"«ld make mankind pay dearly for
that moment And abe—Use dear little
angal- oh. sbxil I ever forget it—aha
talked of nothing but Jack. 'Never
mind, mv darling abe whispered/
it waant your fault; you could
not help it, you see, and I am sorry
you take it so hard, Jut Sever mind,
sweetheart, it will soon be over, aud
Jack' - -hers she pulled bis bead down
to bees, and whiapered witb liar last
breath 'after I aui gone, look ia my
bttle satchel aud you will find the mou
ey.- 14 was to be all jvmn anyway,
yon know, aud I am ao glad I naitaj
row in time,' aud the ,mre, faithful
little baert had eeaaad to bant. I
It no longer. Cap,«
(ram my ejrea, 1
drwe I
at a dead gallop.'
9 W
V* IWJBWW|
<Ofc1keen
aaaara of — lw agate* bhn, yon
IImImI aad wont una
of murdera, let
baeco, Indian corn aud melons flourish.
It is in this country, within a few tuiiex
of the town of lJoiisiiaui,
newly-discovered ice caverns arc
atc<l. The existence of these extraor-
dinary caves was well known, but, al-
though situated at the low elevation of
•iJMJ feet, where snow rents only in
winter, it was left to a youth named
liuffiny to explore these secret recesses
of the earth. Having provided himself
with everything that could be imagined
neoeesary for such
entered the chasm
way over blocks of ice and a chaos of
debris, which ia the course of ages had
accumulated there, he became tost, for
in the darkness of a new world.
With infinite difficulty be reached what
appeared to him a froxen lake, aad re
1 three minutes warning- sufficient time
! to enable you to get from a quarter to
half a mile out of its course.
j As for houses they arc no protection, |
j aud are to be shunned in a storm of i
I this kind. No building has lx*en or is
' likely to l>e devised that can withstand j
jibe force of a tornado, A frame house
that the' i> safer than a brick or stone one, lie- j
situ- cause it is more elastic, and a one-story ;
buiding is safer than one of two stories. I
But whatever the style or character of
the house, always leave it if it is in the
path of the tornado. The signal aer-,
vice ri-commends as tlie best place for
safety s cellar or s dug-out and many
farmers in Kansas have coustru<-ted
these dug-outs, simple holes in the'
an expedition, he ground, coverned to protect the inmates :
and, working his i from flying tunbera, where tbev can ruu
in the event of tornadoes. C'nder no1
circumstances, whether in a building
or cellar, ever take a |*osrtion in a
northeast room, or in a northeast
corner in *u east room, or
' against an east wall, ltemember that
turned to his point of departure. His ! the tornado invariably moves in a north
companions now joined him, and peue
trated still further into these iey soli
tudee. Not alone do tha«s oaves con
tain pillars and waterfalls of ice, but
three walls ate studded "with thouaauds
of tea structures, heiangular in form,
front n half to one iaeh in diameter,
which, clustered together, iwaembted
anemones and other flowers scintillating
like diamonds ia the magnesium
w
A book agent nnmed Joe Smyrk,
Was pnt out and hurt by a jerk,
. He aeys as a cure,
St. Jacobs Oil ia sure,
AA all tiaaaste get in iU work.
A lightning rod inau iaSt. Fan),
Prom a home bad a aerious (all,
Though battered and braised.
He MM, whan be used
St. Jacofae Oil— it simply
semcdt
for nm
RHEUMATISM,
EEADian,T09IlAlSK.
QCIXSY, 8WELLINQ8.
FBOSTB1TBS.
bfkm, kalm,
▲nd-allotbrr bodily scbes
i U
FIFTY COTS UNTILE.
Dealers.
lnupmn.
Ike Charles A.
IfciaMun u A. VUGELSS * 00-1
S.«l_r.. U.C.L1.
10
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8
VEGETABLE OOMPOUTO.
I« S IVwIUrt rare
Nr .11 tkM* fmlmtml CmplaUt<ui tfc.him
mm iiwii U mr beat tmmmU HtaUtlM.
A Ididu for Wosua. UniM bf s Wisis.
Frtfsrtl bf s tr«su.
TW IHitll ISmmrrj S«* IS* b «> vt HimLrnrj.
rwit rrrl'M tlx irtoplug aplrlU, InrlgunU* mot
htfiuulJlu tSe unpuk' I anctlvu*, ISM riilUStj «w]
itum to the Rt«p, ratvra the natural luatr* to lln
«jr«, and |4aaU vn Um pal* ehwfc ut womnn tls Inok
pna t UWm spring and carlj amnrrtiat.
t^fPbjriielsss Ute It sal Pr«scribe N Fredi
It Wiwia tmialwm, fiatafc-nrjr, 4t*Lwvj* all crarbw
(ur rtlranUnt. and raUara* weakncai of tbe iluaivk
Til*1 r<xliJW of Iwartoc duxa, cauSnr I sis, weight
anl Wiicht, U olwaya pamunllr rored I.y Iti aw
Far tbe tart Kldner tan>lal«to st fltUr ae>
i.tpia e. rixajgrs tun ri niriKn
wlil <m<ltcnt« e erjr teSIa ut Hiinun from Ur.
Huud. and K<«a tone and afreaftb to tbe mjaLttm, or
iuuu or child. lulS (auvluf U.
IMfa the Coaapvand and Bluod Portlrr are yr- vmrvo
al ZC and ZX Wcatera AreDue, Ljdm. Mu>. I'rW <jf
eltWr, (1 SU lauUlta for fi. B«-nt b/ i all In tSe Iurm
of pi IU, or of lofcro;**, "O mn4pt •*' prior, $1 v*-r bol
fur either. Xm Pluktuun trarly mnnrm «:i li-Ueaa <if
Iwjuirj t*M*ioat let HU-'i.p. lead lor pswphM
fuallr •S.uld ba oltSout IT IS A E I'IMCHASS
IJVKB I11JJI. TBer cure oubatipaUu*. UUviua>-n.
au& K*|SdUr of the U er. V* crata pe-r Iwi.
Id by all Dr«ifUu.1il O)
KIDNEY WORT
FOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF
CONSTIPATION.
tip yrJvm U moprerml in t^U r* im-
try m GoasUpatiou, nou1 no rnundy htr \m
tLm ortHjrftlMl KJUMKf WOST m
ourt Wkntrvrr Ui«c 'ji«,fcv #tcr oln t
tUm CM0P. tliim r<vnodjr mil uvmumm. it.
Qi f KTft TUlU6:iU~*ur. oom:*dM
■ I LeEsO • IM VC.T *■ A t* txm p'Un(>|
WitM ouutipmtua. iLhdo'/ -*
tu« WC++*: m4- J c xrtm mV kinds'
of JHlm aven bU'B mjxd m-XLcUifli
ilnd
RHEUMATISM.:;^!
JVLTVL OUBM. — U tm tor ALL lln pilnftS
ISaaaaae m KMnaiw.Uwr aad Bosali.
UalasMasIksaratatnofthracrid ■ 1 iU
mmm Ska SaaadfSI asSarlaa whtA ouljr ths
. ui iSwaeUaa ML r* - lM
easterly diroction. 'litis simple rule
will save ninetcru -twentieths of the
lives nee sacrificed to the storm fiend.
If fornMd to remain ia your
house, and wiicts yon have no cellar
always take a poaition against tlie went
or south wall—the former is the la-Uer
-either (sm downward upon the floor ]
or standing with your Lark to the wall; j
aud always take your final uoaition on
the first or ground floor. Merer stand
or lie in front of a door or window,
near s stove or heavy piece of furni-
ture, aud always elose your doors aad!
'ij^you are out of the bouse avoid
forests grovea, amk# for the upisi
face down-
- . .. a -
yaw hand to
KIDNEY WORT
failed To
•s < s# Hi, r m.
Uuat. -U«. uJu.
■ aad crovas, make foi
aad throw yourself, f
toward the earth and
-our haad to protect it.
taeeridsmliufnjnnub hmi
IsTiaIa| isUiihiUoa Md rnUef U um rsasit' !
tfjtmt. «Im uHa
a|xamu3S
aw •.s*raB|r.
A max la
la asaklng a narfaat i
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