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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-17

Nor1Olk, April l4-The lighthouse inspector
of this district gives notice that an experimental
bell buoy has been placed near Boush's Bluff
buoy No ) i'll Hampton Roads, on the eastern
side of the channel. Sharp's Island fog bell has
been temporarily discontinued
Philadelphia. April 14-Notce s officially
given that the lighthouse tender ZiZania is now
engaged in removing the ice and winter buoys
in the Delaware bay and river, and substituting
iron can, nun aud wooden spar buoys similarly
painted and numbered.
Notice is also given that the spar buoy painted
rcd aud black horizontal stripes placed TO mark
wreck Of barge sunk near the Shears Shoal
Delaware bay in September last, being no
longer necessary has been removed.
RECEIPTS.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway April
16-25 bbls rosn, Dbl spirits turpentine | car
bbS. 304 crOsstes. car wood 23 pkgs tobacco.
tank oil 3 bdls chairs, 1 case hats, 3 boxes
marble, box and u bdls castings, 80 bds rims,
II pkgs stands. bdl pals.
Per savannah Florida and Western Railway.
April 1918 bales cotton, car p apples, case
hardware. car -four, - sacks bran, ) sacks <
seed 20 sacks meal. 3 granite blocks, / box mar
BILE, box music 1874 sacks oats, . boxes toma-
toes, crossing angle, box pickles, IS bbls rice,
box shoes, 20 bbls sugar, cases parapharna-
liza, cases clothing, bdl goods, 3 bales bur
laps, 30 coops poultry. II bbls eggs, boxes eggs
2 pkgs co.'s, / Dbl puileys, | tub butter | box
groceries, box oat meal, bbls potatoes 6 p
beams, bols syrup, ools bottles, kegs, ,
boxes mchy. boxes tobacco, 46 cars wood, .
bols palmetto fibre, 459 obs spirits turpentine, 1
car boards, 1,Ol4 bbls rosin l7S bbls vegetables,
$3.50 boxes vegetables. 33 refrigerators.
Per Central Railroad. April 1926 bales cot
bdls paper, bales hides. 8 rolls leather, 60, 900
lbs bacon, 100 pkgs tobacco, 200 lbs lard $50
bales hay. 81 bales domestics, 42 bales yarn, %
bbls beer, $50 hf bbls beer II cars lumber, cars
Dbl NATL, ~ cords wood. 160 bbls vegetables 90
bales Irvine. cases liquor, bales paper stock. /
iron safe, 113 pSgs iron, 100 empty bbls. k d
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MINIATURE ALMANAC-rHlS DAY.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-17
NOTICE TO MARINERS

Norfolk. April 1.-THE lighthouse inspector
of this district gives notice that an experimental
bell buoy has been placed near Boush's Bluff
buoy No in Hampton Roads, on the eastern
side of the channel. Sharp's Island fog bell has
been temporarily discontinued.
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COMMERCIAL.
SaVANNAH NJ Xxx ct.
OFFICE OF THE MORNING NEWS.
S.vaSSAH, GA, April IS. 4 p. u.

SAVANNAH, ia, Apru 10, 4 p. u
-.-,ox-The market was very firm and ad-
,'ng There was fair demand, but with
49, ANAL offerings and business doing cor
-,,,dingly light. The total sales for the day
r ,1 only So bales. On Change at the opening
III a. 10 a. m, the market was reported firm
"a UNCHANGED. with sales of 81 bales. At the
s..ond cali. at 1 ?. n. it was firm,
.5s sales being % bales. At the third and last
cali, at p m. it closed firm At an advance
~ at t,I,rin sre the official closing spot quota
. -ev ~ the cotton Exchange:
Good -oi,tdling ----.-.-.- = 5-iS
Nidtling. Us
sc mid Hing --..-..- us
t,,,aIs-'Tne market was duh but it con
sea NJ mutations, There we're no sales
,ss,,cS during the day.
80 stap'ed sssiy cotton. .2l%9 22A
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Ne linn fiue ...-----..------....- SSs2 y01S24
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MEMORANDA.

ME1tJKANDA-
New York April 14--Arrived schrs Aaron
Reppard Steelman, Savannah; Gertie NJ Rick
erson, Anderson. Jacksonville.
Cleared, schr K Baker. Hewitt, Fernendina;
steamship Bellingham lBr), Watt, Port Royal
sc.
Amsterdam, April f1--Arrived ship Rialto
Ger, Genttirs, Pensacola 49, N
Fecamp, April 2-AFgived, ship Star OF India
CSorl, Michelsefi, Pensacola. l4
Isle of Wight, April ~ -.Passed, steamship
Austerlitz (Brl, Frazier. Coosaw, s G. for New
castle
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but out on the plains they employ some-
thing very different. Capt. Philo Clark
of the old Second cavalry, who WAS an
authority on all such subjects, said that
the plains Indians rarely used smoke
signals at all. Yet 1 very well remem-
Der how in the Sioux campaign of '76,
when 1 was pushed ahead of our regi-
ment in command of the advanced party !,
as we neared the valley of the South
Cheyenne, twenty odd miles ahead of our
supports, we distinctly saw two
signal smokes going up among
the distant ridges both to the
right and to the left OF our line of march.
Among the plains Indians, however,
where all is open country, the mirror is
pet means of making signals. Almost
every Indian has one of those little cir
cular hand-glasses, and with it if the
sun is only shining, he can telegraph
back for miles. If the enemy's force Is
but small he sends distinct flashes, and
by shifting them to the right and left In
dlcates which way he wants the support
to move IN order to catch and strike
them. If the enemy he discovered be y
strong force, the little mirror only sends
back shivering, tremulous beam, and
that means "soatter and hide II ON
hunt, the Indians used to have pre-
concerted arrangement as to what should
be indicated by each number of flashes,
but the buffalo days have gone forever.
1 have seen picture representing an In
dien chief sitting upon height and look
ing down upon his braves engaged in
battle below. and apparently directing
their movements by the flashes of the
little mirror he held in his hand. This
is possible thing but rather improb-
able, for i'll the dust and smoke and ex-
element of combat there would be little
opportunity for studying flashes.
On the other hand, in love affairs the
little mirror has been very useful. A
young Indian brave who longed to have a
meeting with his sweetheart would slip
quietly away from the village to some
neighboring bluff, and from there fash
his message to the entrance Of her lodge;
she would be quick to see It, quick to ap-
pear at the doorway, and, presently, to
stroll of after berries or wild plums.
Perhaps this system is still in vogue.
The blanket is universal as means of
signaling, and in the days Of the old In
dian red blanket they could be seen for
miles. It was the blanket that conveyed
to the villages OF Sitting Bull and his al
lies that fateful Sunday morning in June,
1876, the news that the s'Longhair -
Custer-with cheap soldiers was coming
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fast. - A number of reports nm.
and answers can be made bv Ausstloni,
the blanket, but, as in our arnv 'c oa9 o.
flag and torch signals, they an TOas o.
from what might be called the start
sition, which calls attention. ana 1ls' 20.
consists in standing erect, boIJi.n Simply
blanket with hands up aud outs.us ths
as far as possible, so as to show a.steasi
surface of the blanket as can eo,-s . oss
ly be handled. 4'eaien..
From this position it Is easv 70
to the enemy in the midst of An o.. Hsaal
ment to call for q cessation of bo,.4iis.IAes'
to call for all OF a party to c,r,'..''es;
approach; TO warn back oil I'M, 10 O.
indicate the discovery of g. mar, OIe' 70
OF the enemy or friends, approacbinyr,. as'
indicate how many; to indioata 70
nature of the herd Of game that IN
seen in the distance; to say do ~, .aa b
prosch, - or to signal "come in ~ ap-
these can be readily indicated MI, All
blanket. One example will snfio1u Ias
the old days an Indian, far or, II
scouting for buffalo, could sar5 "a I'oat
word to his friends that he had si.L oaeS
herd ;he simply took the First no;'''sIa
facing toward them, then, beu6ir,,
ward, spread the blanket on the e.s. 'Ot'
and then with his hands and fas, 9LIy;lla,
up the dust in the immediate nsf" 1yAd
hood Of IT,; that meant "laree bs su'f.
buffalo, If an Indian with his bIsl,H
wishes to indicate "come in - t ..-s'
towards me, ;" he first takes the ,,. S.na
of attention or ''look. - then bar pI s!a
ward, bringing the blanket mao. W.
ground, repeats it, making two Nus 'a5
of 1t, and then, holding way ONT ~
right, makes a circular sween vi ~ 'ls
holding the other end close in ~ ~
right shoulder with the left hand s ~ 'as
he orioles from right to left in toyo sIl %
body of the blanket, that r ~ sl'
"come. - '1'Aa'
But the pony, the Indian war ,,.
can convey almost as much informo,!i
in the way OF signalling, and - n
universally used in war than anv,b,-
else. An Indian far in advance ~ y,
comrades, and acting US q scout ors Az
vance guard, when he approach,
ridge will ride cautiously towari "a
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we might rent a little place
with little ground that we
could plant. We might keep chickens
and we could work for other people. OF
course we couldn't earn as much as
grown men and women, but then we
would not need SO much to eat. -
Mr.. Roberts listened gravely as she
unfolded her plan. Then he stole q
keen glance at the boys.
''And what do you say?''
He looked at Ned as he spoke. Martin
was glad that it was not he who had to
answer, for he had sneaKing fondness
for sceool and the playground, and the
noise and whirl of the city. Ned an
swered in a most resolute way:
81 am ready for anything that will
help US to keep together aud get on in
the world, sir. Father always said that
little Hope had more sense than both of
US boys put together. -
He passed his arm proteetingly about
his sister as he spoke. Mr.. Roberts rose
and took two or three turns around the
room in silence. 1t was the masters
way. When he stopped before them
again his face was animated with new
idea.
"Why don t you take up some landP"
he asked.
''Take up land?' exclaimed the three
in breath.
'Yes. Enter a quarter section of
government land under the homestead
act. -
"We're not old enough.
eff I'm not mistaken, Ned, in view
OF your fathers hopeless incapacity,
you can declare yourself the head of the
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7 60 Together It is together, F" said
the little girl.
The sick mans eyes frightened, but
still wore the eager, anxious look that
had come into them when he first saw the
children.
"Father, dear, do you mean for US to
| keep together?'' asked the child.
How the sick mans eyes shone in an
swer.
Then listen, father. Here, Ned.
Here Martin.
She took their hands and drew them
close to her, where she could see them
Listen, father. We promise-Ned and
| Martin and THAT until we are men and
woman grown, we will never be parted.
We promise, faithfully. You tell him
SO, Ned; and you, Martin. "
CHAPTER II. WAYS AND MEANS.
"You were called away this morn
ing, :" said Mr.. Roberts, the principal of
their school, when he found the children
awaiting him in his private Office that
noon. "Nothing wrong, l hope? 1 see
you have your books"
"Our father began Ned, and then
his voice choked and he could not go on
"Dead?" said The master, in q shocked
tone
''Worse; paraly2ed. The doctor says
he will never get over it. They have
taken him to the hospital-to stay
'Why, boys, that is bad, - said Mr..
Roberts. "What are you going to do?''
It was noticeable that he did not in
clude the little girl who was standing at
the window looking down at her young
playmates as they ran blithely through
the yard on their way home to luncheon
Nobody knew it then, but Hope was at
that moment saying goodbye to her
childhood.
''That's just the trouble,'' explained
Ned, gathering strength as he spoke.
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''It has come upon us so suddenly. We
don t know what to do. And we hedn t
anyone else TO talk with.
''I suppose you have small means?'
"Almost nothing,'' said Ned decis-
lively. 81 think there are some things
we could realize little on, but nothing
that could begin to support us or to start
us out in any way. We shall have to go
to work, Martin and 1. -
The schoolmaster IS face frightened.
''That is the kind of spirit that always
succeeds, - he said heartily. 81 think
| we can manage it. We will hunt up
places where you can go to school and
work your board out or school hours.
"But we don t want to be separated.
We promised father we would keep to-
gether, protested Ned.
"Ah, yes, 1 see; but we must oontrive
way for you to keep up your studies.
1t would be such pity for you to stop
now, said the teacher.
''Mr. Roberts, - said Hope, coming
away from the window and standing be-
fore the principal with her small hands
elasped before her shy eyes raised to his;
"Mr. Roberts, my father used to say
that the most valuable part of education
was what one got outside of school.
Suppose we never went TO school any
more and learned what we could from
those about us. Or suppose that ain q
few years we could earn enough 10 take
the boys through school. Would they
be hurt by waiting, Mr.. Roberts?'
II an oracle had found voice and
spoken the sohoolmaster could not have
been more surprised. Hitherto he had
been thinking entirely of the boys, fine
promising fellows, as he had always re-
garded them; indeed, Ned was the star
pnpn of his school. He had even
thought, with pity for them, that this
young sister would be heavy burden
upon them. She had never been counted
among his brightest pupils. II he could
have seen Hope bending at night over
the family mending, while the boys were
despin their studies, he might have knwon
why she always seemed little dun and
slow at her books. But loI Here she
had risen up before him, like a fearless
little woman, and was challenging his
views.
iWhat do you suggest?'' he asked, a
quizzical smile playing upon his face.
81 was thinking, said the girl,
flushing at his tone, 'that we might do
better somewhere in the country. It
would cost less to live in some small
town than here in the city. Perhaps
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follow. That will be the end -
The rays of the morning sun fell
through the tall windows of San Fran
cisco furniture factory and filtered
through the dust laden air until they
reached corner where the speakers were
standing.
At their feet lay stretched a man of
unusual stature and almost herculesn
frame. He was laying on pile of shaw
lngs, over which some sackIng had been
thrown. Body, limbs, muscles, even
the features of his face, might have been
fixed in an invisible frame of iron, SO
rigid and motionless were they. Only the
brown eyes, large and gentle, looked
forth with pitsous expression, telling
that human sOul was still prisoned in
the helpless body.
HAS the man any means, anyone to
care for him2 He ought not to lie here.
The city and county hospitals receive
suoh cases.
The foreman cut him short with de-
cisive gesture.
every few Woodworking, forehanded
mechanics ever come to that. 1 happen
TO know he is paying member of the
- mutual relief society. Most of our
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men belong to some association of that
sort. Danger of accident, you know.
That has its own hospital, and will take
care of HIM as long as he lives.
The physician turned to go. There
was plainly no money in this case; yet
one more question forced itself upon
him.
"Has he any family?''
The foreman s face clouded.
''HIs wife died last year, - he said, in
low voice. "There are three children.
He set g store by them. Here they are
now"
There they stood on the threshold of
the great shop, and, unconsclously, on
the threshold of new life. Three chill
dren; two boys aud a girl, with their
school sGtchels under their arms and q
look of anxiety aud dread overcasting
their youthful faces.
The boys were the oldest, manly fell
lows of twelve and fifteen years. The
girl We year or so younger, a quiet
little creature, who shrank back at sight
Of the strange men there; yet she was
the FIRST TO go forward, as her eyes swept
the place and fell on the PROSTATE figure.
Silently and swiftly, like one accustomed
TO duties Of the sick room, she sped
EcTOSS the uOOT anu kD6iE Oeslu6 HeT
father, chatting his rough hands between
her own. The boys followed and looked
helplesslY down upon him.
'What is the mstter?''
Her white lips seemed TO shape the
words. The physician, lingering against
his will, answered shortly:
PARALYSIS. He must go to the hos
r1tal."
"Why not home? We can take Of
him. He viii get well sooner there.
1t vas Ned, the eldest, who spoke.
The doctor turned away. The boy ap-
pealed 20 the foreman.
''You don think-you don t mean
that father Won't get well?'
Then the blow fell upon them, and fell
heavily, and many eyes grew dim at
sight Of the children s grief.
The lips of the stricken man moved,
but only an inarticulate murmur es-
capped.
''He is trying to say something, - de-
clared the foreman.
90 'Gatha, Agatha, is your name
Agatha? he asked the child.
'No, p sir; i am Hope
90 Gather. Gather. That must be
the word. Gather what2"
Again the sick man made desperate
rttempt to speak.
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autumn of 1874 the matter had been
pretty thoroughly accomplished, and
with the exception of very few small
bands, the indians had been whipped in
to their reservations, where they were
subjected to frequent roll-calls in order
TO verify their presence from week to
week. Northeastern Arizona had hardly
settlement then, and my post, Camp
Verde, was the northsrnmost Of the lot.
Here were two companies to guard the
position, and two troops, A and X, of
the Fifth cavalry, to do the mountain
scouting SO constantly required. Twenty
miles north of as up the valley OF the
Verde was the Indian agency and edge
Of the reservation, where some six or
seven thousand Apaohes, men, women
and children OF various bands, were kept
under surveillance.
Over In the Beaver Valley to the north
east of us was q solitary ranch, and W
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

| signal fire built at such a point that it
| could not be seen back at the agency
and yet would catch every Indian eye all
| over the broad plateau toward Jarvis
| Pass. The few Indian scouts with us
wanted to 20 back forthwith. emo use
follow Dow,' said the one who could
speak little English. 'Tonto see fire
and run hide.
We kept on, nevertheless. and, after
| quite chase, caught the cattle and had
q lively fight in which, as far as punish
ment goes, the honors were easy. 1t
transpired that the hostiles had received
accessions TO their number, and, though
they abandoned the beef on the hoof,
they gave us about as good as they got
in the way of fighting.
When 1 asked our Indian guide how it
was that they had not run and hid as ne
predicted, he grinned and said: next
day see smoke, tell 'em only twenty
soldiers. - And then it leaked out that
there had been signal smokes by day as
well as the traditional pillar of fire by
night.
Now it may interest the bows to know
how an Indian signals with smoke:
When he wants to attract attention,
give warning of an enemy's coming, tell
his numbers, etc.. it is all q very easy
matter. He simply builds a brisk little
fire of perfectly dry sticks, so that there
is hot flame and very little smoke; if
possible this is built in little hollow in
the ground. AS soon as he has got
good hot fire with plenty OF Goals he
heaps on over this a lot of green brush;
this, of course, raises q column of
heavy smoke. If the wind is not
blowing it rises straight in the air and
can be seen for miles and attracts the
Indian eye at once. Now TO convey in
formation: he throws blanket over his
brush heap; that checks the smoke, con-
fines it; then by suddenly lifting the
blanket and letting little puff of smoke
float in the air, covering it up again,
then letting another little puff, you can
readily see that he can send up in separ-
ate puffs five ten, fifteen or twenty lit
tie clouds of smoke, each one entirely
separate and distinct from the ether, and
each to al Indian eye visible for miles
and miles. In mountain country and in
wooded country this system of signals is
almost exclusively used by the Indians,
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the valley above us, perhaps dozen
miles, we're several herds of cattle owned
by the contractors. One night some
renegade Apaches swooped down from
the direction of the cred Rock coun-
try, I" drove off lot of steers, aud were
far up in the mountain with them before
their loss was discovered. When it was
finally discovered the commanding officer
sent me with twenty troopers to follow
them up, reeapture the cattle and punish
the thieves. They had perhaps three
days start. We marched by night and
hid in the deep oanons by day and 1
thought we had managed to keep our
movements from beng seen until the
second night, when crossing high range
up on the Mesa toward Stoneman g lake,
I saw sudden column of flame shooting
up far to our left and rear. 1t was
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| duu upOu any 4OO dOACS vi
land that is open to entry" said the
master. tWhat is more, 1 am very
sure that across the bay and along the
fruit belt of the foot hills there is some
excellent land still open TO settlement.
| How would you like to try it?''
Small need of answer. The children IS
faces were radiant. To be raised in q
moment from the depths of poverty to
the prospective ownership of 160 acres of
land-California land-with all its splen-
did possibilities and latent wealth-was
something SO magnificent that they could
scarcely credit its reality. The school
master saw their exultation and tried to
check it.
f'It means hard work, plain living and
self -denial-years of it! - he said. "But
go home, take account of all your re-
sources, and report to me next Saturday
morning. Hold yourselves ready for
action
CHAPER uI.-THE HEAD OF A FAMILY {.
When the boys went to keep their ap-
pointment with Mr.. Roberts the following
Saturday, they found the schoolmaster
seated at the desk in his study, with an
open letter before him.
"Well?' he said, as the boys took
seats near him.
awe have acted on your advice, Mr..
Roberts, replied Ned. ''We have
made list of all the things we have that
would be useful on ranch, and another
of all we can spare. By selling these we
can raise q little over $50, less what it
costs us to live while we stay here. -
The schoolmaster knit his brows.
'tThat is very little,' he said. FWhat
have you to begin on besides that?'
Ned pulled a memorandum from his
pocket. 1t read:
Working clothing enough for one year.
Cook stove.
Kitchen table.
Three chairs.
One rocker.
Two beds and bedding.
Plenty of dishes and table linen.
One small carpet.
One screen safe for food,
One meal chest, nearly full of white
flour, oat meal, corn meal and Graham
flour.
One bureau.
One sewing machine.
One lounge.
Garden tools, rake, hoe and spade.
''You have made a wise selection
boys said Mr.. Roberts. "But speak,
ing of garden tools reminds me of some
thing else Your father was cabinet
maker. Didn It he have set of tools?'
''Of course he did, - said Martin,
quickly; and the INCEST ones you ever
saw-a whole kit-everything from
brad-awl TO spirit-level. :"
IA good set of tools ought to be
worth considerable, said the school
master. "Have you seen anybody from
the fartory-since?'
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NIT of the range and crosses the noun
tains through picturesque canon, cours-
ing through our little village on its way
to the bay. 1t has for Its watershed q
vast area of mountain country, many
hundreds of miles in extent. When the
winters rains come down braveIy, the