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Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09
wHA1 HE TRAPPED EYE SEES.
little Thing That Make the Panor@ma
Of Life Interesting

little Thlngs that Make the PanOrama
Of Life Interesting.
Robert hOudin. the sleight-of-hand
man. orse said that he owed much OF
his sucO. IS to his persistent cultivation
Of the faculty of observing ordinary
things. lie cultivated this by watch
ing people as he passed them on the
street. by noting the details Of differ
ence. He said that he finally got 90
proficient that he could glance at a
shop window on passing Il and tell
everything in It. even TO "DETAILS od cor
struction Of the small articles. as the
pattern Of a chain In a jewelers. window
for instance.
In addition to It's mental training thh
observing of details has a more attract
i've side. 1t furnishes amusement and
makes an ordinary going forth for busi-
ness or pleasure a veritable tripto won
derland. II yOu will take the trouble
to incuire into the matter you will be
surprises 20 find how little people. even
women. observe what is going On about
them
Women are a.N@ys mentioned AZ
alert and infalhble observers. As =
matter Of fact they observe very little
! eS1tside Of the details Of other wOinenf
hats and gowns And they do not Oh
serve these as much as they get credit
for doing. as any dressInaker OF millinei
can tell
You will notice this difference in OBJ
servation In the conduct Of people n
the elevated trains One man. sitting
n a corner. peering ever his newspaper,
will suddenly laugh he has seeH
Flmething 70 aiuuse him in some per
on iu the car OF in some window tho
sar has Just passed. Now. others have
1een looking il the same direction a
ae but have seen nothing to laugh at
The truth l. they did not see whai
ne saw. They were looking at It. bui
hey were looking with eyes UNFRAMED
or details The small. ih4ongruoui
sements which make up humor haf
escaped them But If the laughing
aan had told what be saw the other
4ouId have laughed IL was not lael
Of a sense of humor. but simply lack O
observation
In any crowd that jostles along tn
idewalks OF Broadway there are
thousand pecnliarities Of dress am
manner. a score Of incidents full o
/ aumor or Of that gentle melanchOl
which refreshes like tears s5ed over
novel The people wb5 are fond Q
parading and seeing WHAT is going o.
are conscious Of this crowd IN only
dim way. They do not think Of ssps
rating II further into details than prett
g ugly. handsome OF unattractiv'
. And Ia that way they mis- almost
me life and beauty and interest
They see. but at the same time the
do not see. And they forget that a
: she fun and all the shadow that write
put into print for them % read are b'
eaint reflections Of the fun and shade
' II the panorama Of life which Is aroun
everybody
J. The solor Of bootblack's shirt, Il
, cut Of a working girls gown. the wa
% In which women do their hair, the kin
= Of eyebrows and eyes. expressions
II faces-all these things may b. observ'
and noted IN such a way that score
other things, unnotieed before, wiz
opened to view. The more this minu
4 and careful observation IS cultivat'
n the more entertaining and prohtah
!. 100 Il bs,aoInes. New York sun
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09

put In the MN Head waters. writes
Mr. Garrett from Hertford. 500 trout
at IL so About half an hour after
ward / went 10 see how they were get-
ting on and observed a sinan pika
among them went and fetched =
rod and line. but be darted into TIE
weeds This ! repeated several times
tin O'Clock. when l succeeded ln cap
turing him On opening him 70 eeo
what mischief he had committed I
counted no les than nfty-one young
trout. Pal Mall Budget
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09

His Desperate and Unequal Fight vita =
Bad Band OF Apachea.

Bad Band OF APaehes.
We were sitting one night at .
freiQhter's camp fire, around which
s~ere drawn half a score or more Of tns
freighters, who. with their outfits, were
in camp for the night. Stories Of old
times when the Indians were bad, and
Of the bravery Of the white pioneerS
had gone around the circle until it came
10 old man Wilson's turn. who said:
Talk about sand in a mani ] tell
you it takes sand in a man 70 try anc
stand of single handed forty OF fifty
Apaches when he knows just how the
scrap will end, and thar the end VIII bs
his own death; but that was Just the
kind Of sand that was in Felix Knox
when he was killed by the Apaches-
You see. Knox was an all around gam
bier such as the teDderfOot from the
east seorn 50 much and know 50 Little
about, but he had heart in him big
ger than any tenderfoot's head
Well it was in the spring Of 1882
Knox. with his wife and baby and
Mexican driver, were coming from Sn-
yer City'to Clifton. They got to York's
ranch. which is ON the GIa river, about
thirty miles from Clifton, all right, but
were told there that signs Of Apaches had
been seen. and that they had better 60
In camp there for a few days, but Knox
who had fought the Apacbes dozens
of times and didn't know what fear was
said ne wanted to make Clifton THAI
day.
They drove on, and were about two
miles from York's ranch when Knox
saw an Indian come from behind q
low, round topped hill, and feeling a.
sured there were more Of them, and
that il was a fight to the death, he
filed kis pocket with cartridges, kissed
his little sleeping girl baby and his wife
for the last time, and, with 'goodby
10 them, he jumped from the wagon
$nd quickly turned the team. and told
she Mexican driver to whip them back
to the ranch, and that he would stand
the Apaehes of
IS the wagon turned and was fun
ously driven away the Apaehes, who
now came in sight. fired a volley, but
killed no one. Then Knox faced his
toes and pumped tie lead from his
Winchester into them The Indians
gradually cireled around Knox and the
end came. The Mexican driver lashed
his team back 20 the ranch. where b 9TH
Of the horses fell dead from wounds 70
eeiSsd From the Indians first vollny.
a party, after a little delay, wa
made up and returned to the plact
where the fight took place. and thers
they found Knox's body. and the In
dams, contrary to their usual custom
had lot mutilated it in the least, bul
had taken a clean pocket handkerchief
from Enox's pocket and earefuiil
spread ii over his face, and had fast
ened it there by putting a small ston'
~ each corner of it to hold il in IL
place and keep the sun from the dea<
mans face That was their tribute q
the sand in Knox. Seventy emptl
shells were found that had been emp
lied frpm Knox's Winchester. and on
Of the raiding Indians afterward sai'
I tarir party numbered fOrty-two, am
dat Knox had killed seven Of them
Arizona Republican.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09

SHAMoKlN, Pa, Seiember Mrs.
Robt. Ray Hamilton's "All a Mistake
company disbsnded here Saturday be-
cause Of lack Of patronage. Members
Of the company objected to continuing
the tour unless their irsalaries were paid.
rhey returned toNew York on railroad
tickets said u have been purchasi !
with money borrowed by Mrs. Hsmil-
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09

the cap ain and fret mate both dead.
The vessel left Sydney last March
10 July all stores gave out and sioee
then all the crew had To live on was
tea and -four. The appearance Of the
crew i frighiful. Some are toothless,
Others pitted and SCARED with gan
grene. II 10 believed that the lives Of
All RiIl be saved
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09

Young Doctor ION bis wedding t,uII
Wiley. dear. just look az thar pecuI
lar blending oi colou IN The slzy. The
cloud oVerbanging yonder peak b r1
nctly the color Of a dI1eaeed liver -
Figaro II W'en
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09

Is the new Household sewing Ma
chine. TIE only real easy and noise
less machine made. i sold at c. L.
Merrilps hardware store.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-09

A Frenchman's gallantry 70 ladies ia
said 10 be always equal to an emergency.
At party. a gentleman Of that race
stepped hsavily upon the toe Of lady.
who looked up with an angry frown-
Pardon. madam. he said b0wing
low. - have forget 70 bring my micro
scope
Your microscopeF
But yes. for 70 sse ~ little feet Of
madam Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11
n True Story by Little Nelly.

One day my mamma, in company with
some other ladies, met at the church in the
village to clean it and put il in order for
the winter. This they did every autumn.
Mamma went with old Prancer and the
buggy, and took Aunt Carrie with her. I
suppose that you all know that buggy Is
hike carriage without top, and nam
mas buggy was shut in st the back.
When they came 70 the church mamma
hitched sid Pranoer, and then she went 10
the buggy TO take out the broons and pans
and rags that they had brought When
she lifted the curtain of the seat what did
she see but little hen sitting in one cor
ner looking as peaceful As if on her nest At
home. That little ban had crept In under
the seat TO lay an egg. and of course she
did not expect to take ride.
Mamma fastened her in TO STAY while
she was AZ work in the church, and when
they got home biddy was in one corner
and an egg in aAotherl-Lttle Men and
Vaman
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11
4 PernlexinC Sifnafion.

Hello, Willie" said small boy as he
met a comrade in the street about dusk.
yer mothers looldn' fer ye."
as she?"
Eyes, she's got the whole family out
and she's goin on terrible. She says You
We're the pride of her heart and was
goin' to be the comfort of her old age"
Go way; she didn't
Honest. She says she never did see
one so smart fer Yer age nor such a COM
fort around the house. You'd better go
on home"
Il was hurryin' with all my might.
But are you sure she said all them
things
Yes. and a lot more. Go on, she's
waitin' fer We now"
We'll. don't know. tell We, Jimmy,
I'm mighty doubtful in my mind about
whether l hadn't better stay lost
Washington Post.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11

i0r-enid hand T1;,a The MAINE WILDERNESS
Americans marched toward the garrison
and cheered Justify, remaining under the
range OF the guns while Arnold attempted
70 communicate with the British leader
and brighten him into capituiation. Gen
Montgomery, who bad succeeded Schuyler,
was at Montreal seeking a junction with
Arnold IN order TO storm Quebec,
The commander at Quebec refused 10
''parley with rebels" and as be also re-
fused 70 venture out of his castle and fight
them IN open plain Arnold reluctantly re-
tired His soldiers carried but FIVE rounds
OF ammunition per man, and a sudden out
burst OF salutes and reioicings in the Bri .
ish lines announced that heavy REINFORCE
meuus under Gen. Carleton were at hand
On Dec / Arnold and Montgomery met
twenty miles above Quebec, and then fol-
lowed their daring bat i'll starred assault
GEORGE L kILaEE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11

A SNOW FANCY.

The yellow girted things of June
Whose hum is like dull bassoon,
Sweet homes they have on swaying beds
When are unpacked the clover heads
Those bursting globes of purple fire.
The fuzzy coats upon each spire
OF blossoms perch to search the rim
Lest it with honey overbrim.
But unlike these Che wild, white bees
That swarm upon the leaflsss trees;
For our dull ears they have no song,
They do not to the earth belong.
No stirring of the soft white wing
Was ever heard or iiuttering.
Although the darkened air they crowd,
Their happy hive is in the cloud,
And they for the sky children there
In unseen pastures of the air
Distil the dew. o happy bees
That swarm among the winter trees.
Annie Bronson King in Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11

| faithful soldiers unabated-such was Ar
| nold's marvellous feat when dispatched by
Washington to aid Schuyler in his cam
paign against Canada in 1775. The plan
was to take the shortest cut across country,
and the route selected was up the kenne-
bee to the highlands, and then down the
Chaudiere to the st. Lawrence. The path
way was unmarked for a long distance,
and Arnold's only guide was the journal
Of an engineer officer who had made the
trip fifteen years before. The troops de
tached from the Continental army to ac-
company him consisted of ten companies
of infantry and three companies of rife
men, numbering all told LOO men. The
ri6emen were mountaineers from Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia hunters and fighters,
skilled in woodcraft and at home in the
wilds. Daniel Morgan led the riflemen,
and he was hero whose exploits during
the revolution would fill volume. The
way he happened to be at Cam bridge, where
Arnold made up his detachment showed
the stuff that was in him. He was farming
peacefully in the Shenandoah valley when
Lexington and Concord aroused the ardent
souls of the yeomanry, and with company
of rugged spirits like himself marched all
the way to the New England coast, over
600 miles, in three weeks.
Many adventurous young fellows joined
the Canada enterprise for the fun of the
thing, among them Aaron Burr, a slender
youth of twenty. Nearly all of the men
were Of the restless, energetic class that go
in for novelties dashed with danger and
testing human pluck and endurance, and
Arnold was a fit leader for them in every
respect. Pluck and boldness he possessed
equal to any, and those higher qualities
that belong to men of brains and genius,
and which the ordinary mind is quick to
respect and to bow to, showed themselves
in his every feature and every act
The expedition started up the Kennebec
from Augusta on Sept. %, travelling in
boats specially constructed for the purpose
A small accommodating party led the way
Morgan's rifemen had the van of the col
umn and Arnold accompanied them in
canoe. The difficulties of the journey be-
gan at the falls of Skowhegan. near Nor
ridgewock, for here the boats and supplies
had to be carried On the shoulders of the
men mile and half around. Draught ami
mails could not be used, and the banks
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11
THE MARCH TO QUEBEC.
GEN. ARNOLD'S MASTERIY JOURNEY
THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.

The Enterprise Was Carried Out with
Ability Never Exceied in War-Daunt.
less Energy and Heroism Saved tho
Expedition from Disaster Many Times.
copyright, 1891, by American Press Associa-
ton. Book rights reserved.1
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11

Mrs- Alice 3. Dawson. OF Broad Ripple,
Ind, hiss entirely lost the use Of her voice,
this being the third time sne has under
gone similar experience IN the past six
years Once her voice was restored by
the use Of .'lsaghing gas" in the extrac-
ton OF 8 tooth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11
This Is a Mechanical s-e.

Hrs. Brown (at Mrs Smiths tea}-Oh
dear, that dreadful Miss Smith is sing
ing again wonder what started her.
Ton Brown aged seveaeI dropped
penny down her oack when she wasn't
looking. -Loa6oa TIr-B.Is.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11
Funsous Diseases ofthe Grape.

Experiments with copper compounds,
particularly sulphate of copper or blue
vitriol as preventives of the several fun
gous diseases Of the grape, have been in
progress in France for number of years,
and have been attended with remarkably
successful results. The subject was taken
up in America about the middle of the last
decade, and wonderful progress has since
been made
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11

through the will
derness to accom-
plish, and [ b ey
drew up before the
walls of Quebec
ready for further
acts OF daring. At
tempts were made
to draw the gar
rison from their
shelter and pro-
woke an attack. I5
was known that
the French citi-
zens and many of.
/ h e militiamen.
were friendly to.
the revoluuonists,.
and a slight sue.
cess in battlei
might stir up a fire
in the rear Of the
British regulars
and thus give vic-I
tory to ArnOId's
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-11

JOURNEY or GUU
miles through the
trackless wilder
ness of Maine, con-
{ e n ding against
ST C kness, storms,
freshets, desertion
and treachery, and
loss of food sup
plies through dis
aster, arriving at
last at the point of
d e S tination with
the ardor of his
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-31
The Wills of Noah and Jacob.

The origin of testaments is lost in OBJ
security, but doubtless they followed soon
after the first institution of private prop
erty. Eusebius says that Noah made a
will soon after the flood wherein he dis
posed of the whole world. He was GER
tainly possessed Of a considerable landed
estate, but Eusebius' story of the tesla
ment in writing and witnessed under his
seal needs confirmation.
In the forty-eighth chapter of Genesis,
however, we do find mention Of a will,
wherein Jacob bequeathed to his son Jo-
seph twice as much as to his other chill
dren. This was not q testament in writ
ing, but a verbal or "nuncupative' testa-
ment, declared by the testator Sin ex-
tremis" before witnesses, and depending
upon oral testimony.
Such "nuncupative" testaments were
at one time recognized in English law,
but in the eighteenth century Black
stone says they were fallen into disuse,
and hardly V heard of.-All the Year
Round.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-31
A Tanners Strange Infatuation.

The incident in reference to the wheel
wright's infatuation for Miss Gabrielle
Greeley, even after she decided to marry,
led to the publication of a similar story
in Halifax, N. S. When Professor
Schurman was dean of the Dalhousie
college a Pictou county tanner conceived
the idea that Mrs. Schurman was in love
with him, and would desert her hus-
band to become his wife. When DR..
Schurman became dean of Cornell uni
versity the tanner visited New York
state every few months to fondly gaze
upon the lady on the street or in her
pew. The tanner even went to the ia
Their Of the lady, George Munro, the
New York publisher, and declared his
conviction that his passion was recipro-
Gated, and asked him to interfere in his
behalf.-Cor. Chicago Tribune.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-31
ManuScrinfS Ahead.

Some of the larger magazines keep
MSS. for years unpublished, their stock
hand is so great. This is not so hard
upon the young author when they pay
upon acceptance, but sometimes it in
ficts great hardship upon the struggling
author when he has to wait for his pay
until his story is published. One of
the editorial staff of The Youths Com
panion told me not long since that they
had over ?l00, 900 worth of MSS. in their
safe, all accepted and paid for, and it
a question if some of it could ever
be Enthusiastically A. Thackray in
New York Epoch.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-31
Tie Orange Industry in Pararuar.

The orange tree is generally under
stood to have been introduced into Para
quay by the JesuitS and the seeds dis
tributed by the birds. However this
may be, the orange has spread all over
the country, from the river banks to the
tops Of the hills, and from the cottages
even to the deepest solitudes Of the vir-
gin forest. Paraguay is the land Of
orange trees more truly than the coun-
try of Mignon. And what orangesi
Juicy, perfumed and of a delicacy that
Spain and Italy have never attained.
The chief industry consists in the ex-
portation Of the fruit.
The great orange season is from May
to August, when the ports Of the Para
quay river, from Humaita to A~suncion,
dispatch enormous quantities by steam
ers and schOoners. Villeta, San Lorenzo
and San Antonio are the principal ports,
and there best may be seen the pictur-
esque professions Of laughing and
screaming girls and women, who carry
basket after basket Of fruit on their
heads from the shore to the ship, like a
swarm of busy ants. Up to the present
no industrial use has been made Of the
orange. Some sixty millions are ex-
ported annually, the same quantity is
consumed by the natives, and perhaps
treble that quantity is devoured by
monkeys aud birds, or left to rot on the
sround.-Theodore Child in Harper's.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-31
Where Horse Meat Soup Is Popular.

Every day, at early morning, noon
and evening, in Paris, you will see poor
people gathering at certain shabby cook
shops in the quarters of Belleville, Mont
martre, the Batignolles and others Of the
sections outside the ~boulevards, where
poverty houses are thickest, each armed
with a tin pail, a pitcher or something
else calculated to carry liquid.
These receptacles are duly filled with
thin but savory broth, labeled from huge,
steaming caldrons, and which costs only
a cent or two a quart. Ihave drunk this
bouillon and found it nourishing and
good. 1t is made Of the bones and scraps
of horse meat after the choicer pieces are
sold to the cheap restaurants, and the
very essence and marrow of the meat are
in it, for the boiling is kept up until the
bones are fairly honeycolnbed and the
meat reduced to shreds like bits of Irvine.
This broth provides the principal ami
NAL nOurishment for the average laborer
in the gay city. He adds to it a few
vegetables, thickens it with bread, and
it having, as the cook book might say,
been seasoned to taste" makes a palat-
able and hearty m~eal.-Alfred Trumble
in New York Epoch.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-31
No TyrO at the Reins.

saw a big three horse dray in Four
teenth street the other day, the driver
of which l admired very much. He was
backing the truck down, and before him
was the trio of powerful, gray, half bred
Percherons. He used his reins merely
to give the direction Of the desired
swing to his horses, and for this a touch
sufficed. Then he would speak to them,
and they would move as he wished, most
intelligently. When they backed the
reins lay idle and loose, a mere Come
back here!' being sufficient! Any man
who has the sense to manage horses in
this fashion is a man worth knowing
New York Telegram.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-31
How Lean Year Started.

Hampson, in his "Medii GVI. Kalan-
darium," quotes the following quaint
tradition from an old Saxon treatise:
''Some assert hat the bissextus Or leap
day comes through this, that Joshua
prayed to God that the sun might stand
still for one days length, that he might
sweep the heather from the land that
God had granted him and his followers.
1t is true that the sun did stand still for
one days length over the city Of Gebaon,
but the day went forward in the same
manner as other days. And the bissex-
tus is not through that, as some do
think" In France and some parts of
Spain and Portugal there exists a ira
dition known as ''the ghost of leap
year" Believers in this say that a mar
vellous monster annually appears on
leap day and disarranges human affairs
for the remainder of the year.-St. Louis
Pa71711io