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fed outright because she used to tie him
all the next day, did he come back too
late at night or not quite sober,
and her favOrite remOnstrgnce was
slapping him in the face with
the dish rag. Very well did the colonel
remember Uucle Hobson's plant: 81
knows l does aggererawate an rile VAL
ley, an l makes 'lowances an forgibs
de dishwater trowed at me, for it rightly
did git cool. An forgibs de dishrag;
but dis bein' strained er my liberty, dat
amt whut 1 gwine stan no mo-, eff VAL
ley kin cook a mighty fine meal er Wit
ties? Oars mo- dan vittles an eatin'
in dis life, an Valley an me libe
apart. -
Unconscious Aunt Valley went on:
$50 bein' dat away, l locks de DO an
wakes every night. So las night l did
yeah sorter rum 'lin' noise an been
feered dem chickens fly pale aouter
de de gyardin% an git los, SO L
"A chicken, yard is surrounded with fence
'palings, and when chicken escapes between
the palings he is said to pale out.
does go tide do an looks out, an see
him, Cunnel, on dat big brown horse er
hisn, wild de blaze face, jes a flynn daon
de road. va as, sab. An [ ies mach
so later I says. 1 looks at de hause
over yander. Oar ben hight burnin in
de back winder. Says 1: you emery Daw-
sey, you gwine play a bin cannon
sOmebuddy, dat sho! but praise de Lawd
faint me, an ism t t. watch yell So
gifts t. bald an l gifts t. sleep an by n
by l ben dreamln' it de las day an de
las trump did saOun', an I ben low
ing 'ole Dawsey git he desarvin s a las
but 1t didn't ben muffin esp Melodeon.
Dat Melodeon got lubly strong vice.
links. 'Drat dat mule fo' wakin' of
mel bur open de do jes' de same lax
done afo' Cunnel SeYton, TO de
Lawd, dat man jes' ben a-fiyin backi
Dat time, nigh onto sun up, 'kalse L
didn' t go back to bald agin -
''Did be wear mask?' Col. SeYton
interrupted.
''Dat l cayn't say, sab, seein' cud
on y see de back an dem bunch wethers
er hisn -
''Did you watch him?"
Gin cose. Twell he ride frow he own
gate.
"And was the light burning?"
''Ys as sab. Den hit go aout.
'Well, I reckon 1 must look into
things, said the colonel.
He gave sign to Ally, The horses
the old negro woman showed him her
gaunt black figure moving about the
cotton field behind the house, the three
mules following, doglike at her heels.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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plumb forgit ever ting on yearth, wen l
git studyin baout dat. Cunnel, you
been akin of me questing, sah?''
''At the store? Who all came to the
store?''
Aunt Valley ran over half dozen
names which sounded very queer to c.
Gil. 90 Everybody seems to be an uncle
or an aunt, or brother or and old man,
South - thought he.
"Who told Peat any one was killed?'
came the next question. Aunt Valley
didn t rightly know. "Dey all ben tur-
rIble skeered up an fusticsted an talk
IN to Wunst - ''Was any one else
hurt?'' ''She lowed not, dough Brer
Nicademus Sutherland, dey did shoot
shoot frOw he cook room. Nav, sab, de
onlies' culled pusson did darst look aout
on dem, ben Marcus Looney; he say ID
dey been risin er six on 'em, all mid
W lite masks-turrible see.
'Did they come to you, Aunt Val
ley?' said the Colonel.
NAV, sab, said Aunt Valley.
Gwen, IN look it up. Good
al vent sayin' 1 didn t see suthin' ,
yestiddy night, sab. -
"Ah, - said the colonel, "that puts
another face on it. WellT"
dis yere young gen lmapy VINO ne!
mishappen black hand wavered in the
air before Cecil. ''Boss and missy, dey
Seytons, but who am he?''
"Oh, he won't give you away, Aunt
Valley said Alan, and Sally added
with flush and her head a little higher
in the air: "He's our cousin.
'Then knows well huff Use safe. -
was Aunt Valleys comment. eva al,
1 seen las night the way on 4 ben by
my lone, habin no man pusson t gyard
of me. - Here Col. Seyton had some
ado to smother a ohuckle, it being COM
mon gossip that Aunt Valleys husband
had lived in abject fear of her and finally
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TIE UNITED STATES SENATE.
BY SENATOR INGALLS, OF KANSAS.

BY SENATOR INGALLS, OF KANSAS.
Copyrighted 1890 By the Author.
The senate Of the United States is COM
posed of two senators from each state.
They are chosen by the legislatures for
the term of ak years. The number Of
states is now torty-two, and when the
senators from Montana are admitted the
whole number Of senators will be eighty
four.
At the organization of the body in 1889
its members were divided by lot into
three classes. The seats Of senators OF
the first, second and third classes were
vacated st the end of the second, fourth
and sixth years, respectively, so that
one-third might be chosen every second
year. This classification has been pre-
served, and thus, of the present mem
bership, the seats of twenty eight sens-
tors will be vacated in 1891, twenty
eight in 1898 and twenty-eight in 1895,
the term ending at noon on the 4th day
of March. If vacancies occur during
the recess of a legislature of a state by
death, resignation or expulsion, then the
governor appoints for the interval.
Congress has power to make or alter
the regulations for choosing senators,
but can not change the place prescribed
by the state. For many years there was
great irregularity in the choice of sena-
tors by the legislature, and the intrigues
of party leaders sometimes prevented an
election altogether. The evils became
so fragrant that congress passed al act,
July 25, 1865, to regulate senatorial
elections. Each house Is required to vote
viva voce on the second Tuesday after the
organization OF the legislature. On the
next day the two houses are TO meet
Jointly. Should it then appear that the
same person has received a majority in
each house, this fact Is stated, and he is
elected Otherwise the joint meeting
must take at least one viva voce vote
each day while the legislature remains in
session, until some person receives ma
ioTity of all the votes, quorum Of each
house being present. Should q vacancy
occur while the legislature is in session
the same course OF procedure begins on
the second Tuesday after notice of the
vacancy is received.
No person can be a senator who has not
reached the age OF thirty years and been
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copyrighted 1890, by the Author

Col. Seyton?'' he asked, with his little
man-of-t world air.
.'WelI, a Dit, - answered the colonel,
his eye twinkling; wild turkeys, deer,
now and then wild-hog hunt. Ally
can tell you of some good sport, l
reckon.
''I'n teach you to shoot, - Ally raped
out, eagerly; lyon can have my gun. -
''Thank you. - answered Cecil, coidly,
'I have brought my gun.
"And / expect you shoot, too, - said
Sally.
- have been shooting for five
years, - SAID Cecil with great dignity.
Ally, who should have properly been
Disconnected, burst into laugh.
"Oh, what a jokeH' said he. ISIS
and l put it up you couldn't shoot or
ride anything, and she was going to
teach you to row and lend you her boat.
Say, can you ride and row?'
81 thought could, " said Cecil, his
dignity undated, while Col. seyton, on
the front seat, chuckled in his sleevei
and Sally looked distressed. j
"Oh, we re so sorry We made such q
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CHEROKEE

The ball is tossed up and the struggle
begins.
Catlin IS spirited painting in the Ma
tional museum of the Chootaw balI-play
gives an idea of what it is like; his vivid
description, also, cannot be omitted.
sin these desperate struggles for the
ball, where hundreds are running and
leaping actually over each others
heads and darting between their adj
versaries' legs, tripping and throw
ing and foiling each other in
every possible manner, and every
voice raised to the highest key, in shriIl
yelps and barks, there are rabid success
sions of feats and OF incidents that as
tonish and amuse beyond the coucep lion
of any one who has not had the singular
good luck to witness them.
"In these struggles every mode is used
that can be devised to oppose the pro-
gress of the foremost, who is likely to
get the ball; the Instructions often meet
desperate individual resistance which
terminates in violent scuff1e, and some
times in fisticuffs, when their sticks are
dropped, and the parties are unmolested
while they are settling it between them
selves, unless it be a general stampede,
to which they are subject who are down :,
il the ball happens to pass their direc-
ton. Every weapon, by a rule of ell
ball players, is laid by in their respective
encampments, and no man allowed to go
for one so that the sudden broils that
take place on the ground are presumed
to be as suddenly settled without any
probability of much personal injury,
ssThere are times when the ball gets to
the ground, and such a confused mass
rush together around IT, knocking their
sticks together without the possibility OF
any one getting or seeing it for the dust
they raise, that the spectator loses his
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"Lived in it, and will have to pay rent
for it, fear. Look out for the holes,
boy!''
Though Cecil was brave lad, he felt
his heart drumming.
They appeared to be in a veritable
quagmire. The horses would plunge into
great holes and the wagon lurch after
them.
Yet Alan calmly pulled and shouted in
his boyish treble, and guided the pant
ing, struggling beasts i'll zigzag course
until the firm land was reached.
Cecil drew long breath.
'You do drive very well - said he.
''That's not q much bad road - said
Ally, simply. "Look, there's Aunt
Valley and the mules! Howdy, Aunt
Valley, howdy?'
All three saluted a bent black woman,
who hobbIed through q gate TO the road
side.
She was. it seemed to Cecil, the very
BLACKLIST negress he had ever seen.
She. wore piece of -four sack for
turban, and the grotesqueness of her
rolling eyebslls, wide nostriIs and hollow
cheeks was enhanced by pair of brass
earrings, set with red glass. The ragged
apron of jean and the faded print skirt
and buttonless blue wooden "bass~' did
not consort on equal terms with the
hnery above, but around her gaunt black
neck sparklcd a string of amber beads.
A fit background for this weird figure
was the wretched cabin, with its "stick
and dirt chimney its beetllug roof and
yawning pillars. Behind two great gum
trees, il seemed Sinking out of sight,
vet SCowling at the same time like q
beggar that hates the charity by which
he ilves
"Howdy, Cunuel.' said the old
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a wateTy path between the trees. Great
shrubs bare of stalk, but surmoanted by
black plumes, as it we're, stood among
the giant trees.
Col. Seyton pointed out the cypress
tTess and knees. "Aud that tree with
warts on IL and the limbs growing so low
DOWN. said Cecil.
"a good description, - aaid the COL
onel. THAT is hack berry tree. There
is a tupello gum; see the swell butt, like
the cypress, but no knees. They used to
make bowls and platters out Of tupello
gum. This is the ford. &"
- call it q river" observed Cecil,
ruefully.
Alan twisted in his seat enough to
smile. "It's got good bottom, " said
he; "better hist your feet up, Sis. Say,
Cousin Cecil, won't you have chew Of
gum? l got fresh piece
This was q very long speech for Alan to
make 10 a stranger. His father and
sister appreciated the motive of courtesy
but Cecil only noticed how he held the
horses with his left hand while his right
tugged at his packet. Being like most
boys, pockets, il was inconyeuiently full.
''He will certainly spill us!" thought
Cecil, yet he could not but admire the
nerve OF the young savage, as he called
poor Ally.
"No, thank you, - said he hastily
"The water did not quite get into the
wagon, neither did the horses quite have
20 swim; but that is the best you can say
about the ford. - So Cecil described
their passage in q letter 10 his father.
He was glad when they were on the
corduroy agein, but he did not vince: he
was not going to let these barbarous
children laugh at him.
"DO you have much shooting here,
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slugging, the whole aided by as many
lamentations as the medicine men can
muster. Lacrosse is a modification of
this game. The principle on which it is
played is similar to that of football and
hockey, driving a ball through goal
defended by the opposite party. Two
bases are fixed from 200 to 400 yards
apart, depending on the ground, and
two stakes, four or five feet apart, are
set up at each, through which the ball,
that has been thrown up in the middle
ground, is to be passed.
The painted players, twelve or even
400 on side, wear only the breech-
clout or short trunks; in some tribes they
wear flowing tail made of dyed horse
hair fastened on a belt. Among the
Cherokees and Choctsws each player
carries two raCquets about three feet
long, with small netted head. These
are held so as to inclOse the ball, made
of buckskin stuffed with deer h6Ir. The
ball must not be struck or picked up
with the hands; all try to run with it, or,
pressed, to throw it to a friend or home.
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woman, calmly. She almost smiled on
Ally. "Howdy, boss; howdy, Missy
Is you all done heeTd the news?'
'What news, Aunt Valley" said
Sally.
Aunt Valley chewed at her snuff stick
before she answered. ''Wall, Unk'
JOSEF Peat he came by yere, spell ago
back, an he been telIin of it time.
Hits awful, amt it2'
"Awfuli WHAT" cried both the
young Seytons in a breath.
''Waal, he did say. the Ku Klux ben
aout agin, las night.
THAT g nonsense" Col. seyton in
terrupted, "there aren't any more Ku
Klux in the country -
"Den dey come some new uns, per-
sisted the negress, 'saYd dey ben aout
all night an warnin' all de niggers t
light aout, mighty briefly, an lebe DER
homes an Sessions; firing guns an pis-
ills frow de haouses; sayd dey done kill
Sis Pearl Kotchkiss plumb daid!''
Basque. Negroes are very fond OF ''Basses. ("
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the glimpse of head out of a window, a
waving of hats, the last look in his
fathers eyes-ab, 1t was all gone, only
the horses splashiDg recklessly through
the mud, and the forest and these
strange, un0outh people, and the lump
tight in bis throat!
But no matter how miserable a boy
may be, he must care for his life, and
very soon il seemed to Cecil that they
were in imminent peril.
All traces Of q road had disappeared.
Before them, to the right and the left,
was nothing but water under the trees.
Yet Alan drove confidently along, and
from the continuous jolting and bnmping
Cecil argued that they must be on a road
of some kind.
Sally, who had OWNED his emotion at
parting and pitied him as much as she
dared pity such a superior sort OF young
being, answered the depressed conster-
nation in his face.
ms lucky there g only soft mud to-
day, - she said, land there's a right
good hard corduroy underneath. It's
when we get past here on to the bad
road where the holes are that it = bad. -
''Oh, there s worse then?'' said Cecil,
gloomily.
ASthou LuoIG isy answered. AiaI.t
with enthusiasm. ''It's nothing driving
here, but just you wait until we get past
Aunt Valley Lemew's old place; it's
ike falling off a table, the holes are SO
big!"
90 And we have a ford, too, big
ford, - added Sally, proudly.
6 Is this your only road to the rail-
road?' Cecil asked, after pause of dis
may.
Gwen, practically, yes, said Col
Seyton; ''but the road is good enough
three fourths Of the year. -
Cecil occupied himself in studying
scenery. The swamp stretched all about
him. Trees OF strange and grotesque
growth, such as he had never seen, rat
tied their huge branches above'the mo-
Tass. Soft green moss was thick on
some of them. ON the surface of the
water pale green briar interlaced and
bTistled. a small tree to the right was
spattereG with a swarm of berries, red
like blood. On either side the ROAD made
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once a year, when it is best to take it to
professional gun repsirer. The barrel,
however. should be cleaned thoroughly
at the end of each day s shooting. Wipe
it out first with a wet mop OF cotton
cloth, then with dry one, after which
swab it well with wooden mop slightly
saturated with pure oil.
l scarcely need say that rife must be
kept always dry and that the ammunition
should invariably be the best. A filthy
gun aud poor loading will make duffer
of the most expert rifleman. Cleanliness
is said to be next TO goodness. and the
saying holds good with the marksman.
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the snake farther than rival. Andrew
John. Jr., an Indian OF Carrollton, y.
y, has thrown the snake 600 yards.
The game is usually four snakes, that Is,
the best three throws IN four.
Large crowds assemble, and there is
great excitement when skillful throwers
contend; it is an honor, generally well
bestowed, to be 6 champion snake
hurler. The Indians so believe in their
side, or their favorites in the two games
described, that they wildly stake their
whole possessions, and even their wives,
on the result. 1t is difficult to say
whether they care more for the honor for
superiority in athletic games or for the
opportunity it affords to indulge their
pernicious proclivities for gambling.
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mands a great deal of training and the
utmost GOODNESS and steadiDess of nerve;
for the slightest movement OF the gun
will send the ball wide of the mark.
Formerly rifles were made with hair
triggers, that is, with triggers that fired
the gun at the slightest touch, and they
are sometimes SO made now; but l do not
recommend them TO boys. Still, a gun
moderately easy to fire is best. In other
words the trigger should be easily con-
trolled by a gentle pressure of the fore
finger.
Now to fire rife grasp the gun by the
stock just below the guard with the right
hand, while with your left you support
the barrel. Lift the weapon steadily TO
the level OF the eve, the end of the
breeoh resting against the hollow OF the
right shoulder, the right forefnger al
most reaching the trigger, the hammer
cooked and the barrel level.
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Among the Choctaws the game was 100,
and sometimes lasted eight hours before
either side reached this figure. The
Cherokees haxe fewer on a side, and
play but twelve innings. There is q great
deal of science displayed in the present
game.
The side that wins twelve innings has
reason to be proud of the victory and to
forget the hardships they underwent to
prepare for the "pIay.'' 1t takes a
brave man to be an Indian ball player.
The most athletic men OF the tribe are
chosen; there is great rivalry between
neighboring camps.
For one day before the game the play
ers are not allowed to eat anything; the
medicine men of the tribe are the train
ers. Good luck ceremonies are gone
through, and the whole night the players
dance around by torUhlight or freight.
Next morning the Cherokee brave is
scratched till he bleeds. This is done by
going over the muscles in regular order
with comb having seven sharp teeth
Mr.. James Mooney OF the bureau of eth
nolOgy says that he stood near enough to
hear the comb rip through the SKIN at
every stroke, and that the Indian never
WINGED or showed that he felt it. How
they endure the agony, no one but a
stoical Indian knows; they think ii
makes man active and gives success.
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The racquets used vary with the tribes:
that of the Sioux has d circular head
the Maine Indians use one similar to a III
crosse racquet, which resent Ies q shiny
with g net stretched along the curved
end.
The game Of ''Snow Snake, - Of Kow-
sport OF the Iroquois.
A straight, elI-beateu road is now
usually chosen in preference to the open
as formerly. The 'snakes' are brought
out, to the great gIee of the boys, whose
ears are on the alert, when some one
says, n-di-wa-sa-ye, "Iet's play snow
snake - because they have the honor %
run and bring back for the throwers.
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mistake said she. But Alan con-
tiuued to regard the mistake as joke.
''Never you mind, You shall lend me
your gun, them SAID he, with broad
smile, which Cecil was beginning to think
odious: Sally, he said to himself, really
was a nice little girl.
'''There is Aunt Valleys old house,
and there is the bad road, - said Col.
Seytou, diverting all their thoughts.
They were passing ruined howell which
had sunk backward off its rotting props
into the swamp.
"Did anybody ever live in such a
hole?'' snid Cecil
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HOW TO USE a RIFLE.
BY MAURICE THOMPSON

In training to shoot with the rife what
is called OF hand firing should always be
praotloed. In doing this you stand
firmly on both feet and fire from the
shoulder, that is, you hold the gun with
the breech resting in the hollow of the
right shoulder and with the weight of
the barrel sustained by the left hand.
To fire with ease and grace, and at the
same time with perfect accuracy. de-
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Hat our national game
is to the American boy
ball-play is to the IN
dian. Even the new
tactics introduced by
Princeton, Yale and
Harvard leaders do not
quite make football
such g combination
sport as this, Indian
ball is partly baseball,
football, sh in n y,
sDrintinO and general
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out any one being able 10 see the bal
which they ere often thus sCuf1ing for
several minutes after it has been throw1
off and played over another part of tn
ground. -
MIR Mooney says that among the Cher,
okees of North Carolina q man Is ap-
pointed to club apart players who get
locked in q tussle on the ground.
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The snake is q
thin, rounded strip
OF hard wood from
seven TO ten feet
long and one and
one half inches wide
at most, IN ad e
smooth, shOd at the
forward end with q
pewter nOse-piece
II is balanced in the
left hand and held
by the ball IN the
right hand, the fin
gers beneath and
the thumb above
Holding il thus the
player runs three OF
four rods, and Just
before he throws be
jumps. The stick
skips away over the
snow with some
what the motion OF
q snake
The skill required
to start the snake at
the best slant, 81
none Of the impetus
given by the power
full right arm is
lost, is very great;
the object Of the
game is to throw
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strength aud everything else but his
senses when the confused mass of ball
sticks, shins and bloody noses are carried
around the different parts OF the ground
for q quarter of an hour at 8 time with
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He parting was over
IN r moment. The
black man had bun
died Cecil . luggage
int to the wagon.
HurTiedly Cecil had
kissed his father ;
hurriedly the two
friends had shaken
hands. There was
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Take aim by seeing the foresight, which
is near the fore-end OF the barrel, rest
ing low in the notch of the rear sight,
while at the same time it covers the ex-
act center of the object used as target.
It will take some practice to be able to
make the sights correspond as l have d.
rected, and when this has been accom-
pIished, the pulling Of the trigger will,
if you are not very careful, destroy the
aim by causing the gun to wabble. Per-
severance is the only road to success in
this as in everything else.
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SPORTS Of THE IxDIANs.

and Snow-Snakey-By Walter
HOGgh,
Of the National Museum at Washington.
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CHAPTER III. - THE OLD "coNJURE
WOMAN. -
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WE ALL.

RY OF YOUTHFUL LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN ARKANSAS
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CHAPTER Iv.-wHo DID IT?

Basque. Negroes are very fond OF ''Bass
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BY OCTAVE THANET.