The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-23

movements and the gentIeness Of the
touch OF these men are wonderful, One
has Difficulty in believing the story about
the native who climbed a tree and took
an egg out of a. nest without dfsturbing
i she Dlrd which, was sitting on it; and
one mas a little more difficulty in be-
ileving the addition to the story that
Wmie the man was taking the egg 4
second man climbed the tree and stole
MS trousers. Bat have known servants
VINO put the socks on the feet of their
masters without disturbing them, before
they awoke them for morning parade
with. g ''Sahih, Sahih, bugle gone;n and
1t is a, well known fact thar a. good
] professional p will take the sheet
4 ~ from under q person lying upon
IT, even after he has given warning
!hat he will do so. The plan adopted
Is ingenious. The performer folds very
smoothly the one side of the sheet
which is not occupied. He then tickles
the ear or the nostril of the sleeper
/ gently, but sufficient to cause him to
turn round little. The piece of sheet
thus gained is added to the folds. The
process Is repeated until one-half the
sheet is in folds. The operator then
goes TO the opposite side of the bed,
and with delicate use of the feather
ne soon has the sleeper over the folded
portion and the delicate trick accom-
plished. F - - :.
A very good illustration of the conf
dence which the hillmen have in their
aoillty to do their work quietly, oc-
CURED some years ago. One of the
highest military officials. whose name
IS we'll known along the western side of
india and who should have been a very
prominent person in the late war was
promoted on account of excellent sery-
ices to an important post 'sdown coun-
try" A night or two before his de-.
parture, and after all his goods had
been packed up, he and his wife were
awakened from their sleep by a noise
in their bedroom. Before them were
several men coolly removing their
boxes. The officer, with perhaps more
courage than prudence. at once made
an attempt to defend his property, but
this quickly induced one ofthe robbers to
fire pistol at him, with fortunately o
badly directed aim. They knew thas I
the report would arouse the neighbor-
hood and that further chance for that
night was gone, and accordingly they
took to flight. Subsequent INQUIRIES /
showed that the robbery had. been de-
hberately planned and that many were
engaged in it. Men were placed at
short distances from each other con-
siderable way along the road leading to
the country, to hand the boxes one to
the other. The men who entered the
bedroom had the hardihood to light a /
candle and the cunning to shade its 4
light from the eyes of the sIeepers by
Keeping the lady parasol, which they
had opened for the purpose, between
them andit. 1t was found that some /
of the officers servants had hand in |
the attempt to rob him, and one or two
were punished; but their accomplices
were never caught. a-.es4s,
q have only to allude to the way in /
which the hillmen try to get possession
of firearms There is nothing they prize
SO highly as the British soldiers rifle
and some rounds of ammunition; Every |
precaution is taken to secure the rifles, /
but during the time / was in the station 1
many were stolen. An order was given |
commanding every soldier to place his
rifle under his cotton mattress and sleep I
upon it. Still the rifles were lost. There
was suspicion that some of the sol
diers soldthem, and accordingly strong
presses were placed in the barrack-
rooms, in which the rifles were lodged
every night; but still now and then
rifles were missing. The hillmen, find
ing that their chance in the barrack-
rooms had gone, turned their attention
to the guard-rooms. The guard con-.
sisted of a sergeant and twelve men at
least Each man had his rife, and every
sentry had his rifle loaded. The thieves
easily managed to escape the notice of
the sentry in dark night, and slip in
to the guard-room, and there they gem
orally succeeded in finding at least one
rifle handy and made off with it. If the
sentry discovered what was going on,
ne was unwilling to fire, because if he
sent bullet through one of the rob-
oers, he was tried by general court
martial. Though g honorably acquitted
vas always the finding, the trial never
;heless brought great amount of
,rouble to him--a fact of which the
hieyes were doubtless aware. Cham /
,ers' Journal. f