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and is properly administered. 1t is now
lime to observe that robbery may be com
mitted by Governments as we'll as by in
aivlduals. If the business of governing is
paced IN the hands of men who have an
imperfect sense of their duty toward the
pun RuDlIc, IL such men raise money by taxa
s s,Un ana then spend it on their own plea
gu ouies OF 10 increase their political influence.
r ra oi ioi 3tner iilegltimate purposes, it IS
really ROBBERY just as much as If these men
were to stand with pistols by the roadside q,
ana S empty wallets of people passing Inv.
Ihey make dishonest use of their bi9h
position as members of Government. and
eXtort money for which they make no re-.
turn in the shape of services to the pnbljc
History is full of such lamentable instances
OF misgovernment, and one of the most i'm
portant uses of the study of history is to-
leach US how they have occurred in order
That we may learn how to avoid them as far
as possible in the future.-"Ciyil Govern
Ment in the United States"-John Fiske
The morning call., 1891-01-04
Tried to XIII Her Husbands Slayer.

During recess in the trial OF Dick Bird,
colored, in the court at Vicksburg, for the
murder Of Alexander Calvaceio, aud while
the prisoner was being escorted 10 Jail by
an officer, the murdered mans wife made a
desperate attempt to shoot down the assas-
sin, and but for the interference of friend,
VINO wrested the weapon from her grasp.
would have succeeded. Quite struggle EN-
sued, even after she was disaImed. The
murder was peculiarly atrociOus, CalvaceiO
having been shot down by burglar viii lie
defending his home, and his little da lighter
being badly wounded at the same time.
The widow, fiery young Italian, has
brooded over her loss for months, and her
desire for revenge goaded her to despera-
ton. She identified Bird as the murderer.
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TAXATION AND ROBBERY.
Difference Between individuals and Gov
arumanf OAicarS

Difference Between individuals and Gov
eminent Officers.
Ii individuals take away some OF your
property for purposes of their own. II IS
robbery; yeu lose your money ana get
nothing in return. But if the government
takes away some of your property in the
shane of taxes. it is supposed to render to
Won an equivalent in the shape of good
government something without which our
lives and property would not be safe.
Usre,n seems to be the difference between
taxation and robbery. When the highway
man points his pistol at me and / hand him
nv purse and watch, / am robbed. But
when / pay the tax-collector, who can seize
my watch or sell my house over my head il
l refuse, am simply paying what is fairly
due from me toward supporting the Govern
ment.
In what we have been lying it has thus
far been assumed that the Government IS
in the hands Of upright and competent men
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part in a standing high jump is when the
jumper is right on top of the bar. 1t re-
quires considerable practice TO manage both
legs SO that neither one will knock the bar
down. There is no such fear in the running
high jump.
TO perform the standing high jump cor
must be used. Whatever side the athlete
puts next to the bar in jumping, the leg on
that side must go up first and be put over
the bar before the other leg has been raised
much. Then before the leg which was put
over first assumes perpendicular position,
the other leg must be pulled up ana will
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best record for the standing broad jump,
10 feet 934 inches. made by W. NJ. Ford five
years ago, says the Boston Globe.
The very same apparatus is used in a
standing high jump as for the running high
jump a bar supported by uprights, with a
matte land on if in a gymnasium. is all that
is used. When the standing high jump was
first Practiced athletes used TO face the bar
and jump over straight, pulling their feet
M underneath them. But the science
was soon learned, and jumping front
ward was done away with and
the side jump was adopted. The illustra-
ton, Just Before the Spring" shows Rob-
EFT b. PTitchard, who is the second best am
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Precious Metals Hoardcs.

1t has long been a puzzle to economists
what India, China and Japan can have done
with such vast quantities of gold and silver,
which never by any accident return. In
dian 1ewelry and oriental magnificence of
costume and fondness for gaudy display will
doubtless account for a considerable por-
ton, but as no great quantity is found in
tentative is the assumption, born of imagin-
alton rather than information, that IL must
be boarded. 1.-The Gentleman's Magazine.
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ateur standing high jumper in this country,
standing with his left side to the bar ready
for jump. lie has raised his arms. and the
first motion Of his leap will be to swing his
arms down, and then on their upward move
''Springing for Standing High Jump" shows
an instantaneous view of Pritchard just as
lie is sprlnging. he has lowered his body
by bending his knees and is on the upward
movement. As he rises he will assume a
position shown in the picture, THE Criti-
cal Point" He has thrown his left leg
over and it has commenced coming down on
the other side. 1t Will be seen that the
lower part of Pritchard's body is close to the
bar, and that in reality he has not jumped as
high as many would think. The hardest
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dians were at one time "squaw-men" or half
breeds, and their moral character has not
been of the best Tepute. Yet they compare
favOrably with our own citizens who have
clustered around the many Indian reserva-
tons simply for greed. There is certainly
and true religion will not overcome, as it
does in either white man or Indian, I'M
mixed. o. o. HOWARD.
Gouernors Island, " Y. Nou. s, 1890.
The morning call., 1891-01-04

One of the Senators from Montana is
proud of his State and resents any imputa-
ton upon its fame or its greatness. The
other evening a lady meeting him for the
first time asked where he was from
Helena" responded the Senator proudly.
HelenaY Helena?" queried the lady.
" Pray where is Helena? %
The Senator, boiling over with righteous
Indignation. answered the quest ton. and,
with a gallant smile, said:
And may inquire where you are from? ?"
Certainly she said pompously. Il am
from BROOKLYN"
"Oh, yes. Brooklyn" echoed the Senator
beautifully. Brooklyn is fine town.
Quite near HGboken in New Jersey, isn't
t?"-Washington Star
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tiful language" rendered thanks that it was
only short ride home. Il intended to
write description of this winter outing
he remarked on the boat, "but the way L
feel now shall only require three lines to
tell the whole story"
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foTe;he makes his spring, and when he does
leap. he clears dUub the distance that
.sErQd<standiug broad jumper can do.
.-..<Fhere are many more athletes who can
:c.ear TWENTY-FIVE feet for running broad
- imp than ten feet for a standing broad
Since the Amateur Athletic Union
::;S.lnau-urated the indoor championship meet
.ing the standing nigh and standing broad
u jumps have received considerable develop
=.Tnent. The record for the standing high
jump was broken last spring by Samuel
Crook, who cleared feet ! 4 inches Crook
also came within ] q inches Of breaking the
The morning call., 1891-01-04

Senator Stewart of Nevada is married to
the daughter of the famous Senator Foote
of Mississippi, so prominent in. Congress
sional debates before the war. Mr.. Stewart
can talk long aud to the point when he gets
warmed up.
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SQUAV-MEN.
General 0, 0. Howard Explains Why They
Cannot Be Happy.
In Nearly Every Indian Tribe There Are White
Men Married to Indian Women-soms
Very Interesting Stories.
Written for THE SUNDAY CALL

N OLD friend
of the writer of
this paper often
remarks that
the Bible his
tory of the chill
Ifren OF Israel
land their heath
len neighbnrs al
ways remind
one of the pres
ent Indian Gus
toms. Probably
the converse is
the more exact
statement, viz. :
The morning call., 1891-01-04
THE COWBOY.

,sIAH LIGHTHEART,
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Cant you make bread with milk emp
tins, or somethin'? My mother used
to-"
II shall have to, this time" said Mrs.
Dane. but the compressed yeast is SC
handy, for / can set my bread over
night and have it all baked before the
heat of the day comes on
1T costs somethin' though" pursued
Deacon Dane, whose strong point was
economy. Twice SO is IO4, a dollar and
four cents every year jest for yeast
even If you only use one cake a weeki
And l tell you it takes a good many
hard knocks to earn a dollarlr
Mrs Dane made salt-rising bread the
mex day, a process which kept her in
the heated kitchen most Of the hot sat
urday afternoon seeing 10 the rising
and baking. The next time bread was
required she managed to send for the
yeast by Darwin, the son next older
than Georgiana. and be brought it home
safely.
The next week proved the verv hot
test one Of the season. "a regular
s~corcher.' and Saturday seemed the hot
test Of all; but the churning and baking
had to b dSne. as we'll as the general
cleaning up and preparing for SUNDAY;
90 1t was not strange that the morning
OF the holy day dawned upon Mrs Dane
With . sick headache It was no new
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HE 0 1000 HORSES.
The Daring Deeds of Old Jim Bird
ger. the Famous Trapper.
By Ernest Ingersoll.
lcoPYRIoHT, 1891

rONDERFULar are
the stories told
about old Jim
Bridger, n of
the heroes of the
early West Here
are some notes
which ! made at
Fort Walla Wal
la, Washington,
last summer, and
l give them just
as they r writ
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thing, for overtaxed nature would tax.
revenge once IN awhile.
"Georgiana," called the deacon OF
the stairway, about six o'clock thai
warrl morning, you will have to gel
ap and get breakfast Your mother
has a headache"
Like most damsels of sweet sixteen
Georgiana hated to rise early, but any
ailment of her mother appealed to her
at once, and she was soon downstairs,
Swimming the milk, getting breakfast
and stealing now and then softly into the
darkened bedroom to change the wet
cloth on her mothers forehead. By
nine o'clock the Sunday work was we'll
out of the way, and Geergiana came into
the bedroom again.
"Tm not going to church to-day,
mother; I'll stay at homo and lake care
of you"
"Ohl no. dear" said her mother; sit
won't be necessary. my head is a great
deal better, and all / need is quiet.
Tommy can't go, anyway; his toe is so
sore he can't wear his shoe, and he can
wait on me all l need"
Then Darwin and l will get ready
right away and go to choir rehearsal.
They want to practice some new an
thems."
An hour later Darwin and Georgiana
had gone, when the deacon, washed
and shaved, came bustling into the bed
room.
where's my meetin' suit?" he asked.
20, dear! l meant to have had Georg-
lana bring it out from the spare bed
room closet You'll have to get it your
Feeling much abused not to be
on as usual, the deacon de-
rarted in pursuit Of his Sunday clothes
Wife," he said, as he returned with
Them, there's an awful smell about
that closet; must be a dead mouse in
here. You'll have to see to it as soon
IS you're able"
81 will tomorrow" sighed the poor
whose head throbbed afresh
With every suggestion of work or
are. 1t was a relief to her when he
vas at last dressed and had driven
way, leaving the house in quiet to her
nd Tommy.
No memory of the rank smell in the !
loset came to Deacon Dane as he drove
D church in the pleasant summer
reeze. But he had not been FIVE min
ties seated in his church pew listening
the choir and waiting for the services
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, to begin, before it came to him NOR,
than a memory-a decided Whit.
Must be my clothes got tainted
with it, hangin' there" he thought
A subdued giggle in the pew behind
him made him glare around at two
young girls who sat there. They were
whispering behind their handkerchiefs,
and directly they got up and went sew
eral pews further back. Some people
came into the pew in front of tho dea-
con, and soon they grew uneasy and be-
gan to cast stealthy glances around
at him. He felt his face growing red,
everybody near seemed to be looking at
him so. ordid the trouble cease when
services began. All through the read
ing and the prayers, the singing and
the sermon, poor Deacon Dane kept
getting occasional whiffs Of that same
disagreeable smell; and try as he would
to keep his mind on the services, it
would wander, as he saw people near
him looking about, one way and
another, but always settling to stare at
him.as though thoy spotted him for the
unsavory party.
His feelings eliminated when. as he
rose with the rest for the last hymn, an
overpowering stencil greeted his own
nostrils, and a little boy in frontof him.
holding his nose in disgust, whispered
loudly to his mother: MA, somethin'
smells GujuIP' Deacon Dane picked up
his hat and went hastily out of church.
No one could have thought he was
faint, but so deeply red was his ~counten-
ance that they might have feared apo
plexy. He made for the horse-sheds
and drove Of towards home before the
congregation came out
His wife had a nap and was feeling
easier, but her establishment was un-
bounded when her husband came home
at an hour which showed that he had
not remained to Sunday-school. Such
a lapse from duty was wholly without
precedent in his case.
These clothes are Jest fairly spilled |
hangin' in that closet" he burst forth
IS he came into the bedroom, pulled of
The coat and threw 1t on the bed. jest
lee for yourself how it smells. /
couldn't endure myself all through
neetin' time"
Mrs Dane pulled the offending gar
nent up to her and began an investiga-
ion into what her nostrils plainly said
vas a serious matter, while the deacon
hastily discarded the other portions Of
he suit With a woman's quick wit
he followed the trouble to its sou-ce
nd found in a corner at the bottom of
be coat a small square-something.
Hand me the scissors" she said to
who stood watching her.
A few stitches ripped, and out fell
be missing y~east-cske after its nine
avs Imprisonment in the warm closet
a lo~athsome, rank thing, which Tom
" immediately limped of with, hold
lg 1t at arms length. A little further
i~vestigation showed the hole in the
'rner of the pocket where the yeast
had worked its way through. Ths
ole was duly mended, but as a matter
policy, when q yeast-cake is wanted
DIV in the Dane family, the deacon is
over asked to do the buyinG-Mattie
Baker, in Good Housekeeping.
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Final Settlement.

STATE OF VERMONT. In Probate Court held a
RANDOLPH DISTRICT. Ssi Randolph in saif
District. on HE S0th dsy Of Dec.A. ID. 1880. Mar
Priest administratrlN OF the estate Of Chas. X. Prfesi
late OF Randolph IN sid District
deceased, presents her adminis'n acc'nt for examina-
ton and allowance, and makes application for a de-
cree of distrihuii0n and partition Of the estate of said
deceased. Whcreupon n is ordered bl said Court
that said account and application he referred to ses-
sion thereof to he held at the Probate ONCE
In said Randolph
on tie 2d day OF Jan. AID. 1891, for hearing and
decision thereon; and 1t Is further ordered, that all
persons Interested be notified
thereof by publication Of notice Of said application
and order Thereon. three weeks successiyelv IN the
deraldand News, a newspaper published al Randolph
before said Time OF hearing. that the, may appear at
said Time and place, and show canse ifany they NAV
have why such account should not be allowed and
such decree made by the Court. Attest.
SOL WILLIAM H.. NICHOLS. Judge.
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gathering in a herd OF horses. This. O
course, was to be sheer robbery. but a,
Bridger and his men were allied to thu
Bannocks, in whose country they ther
were, and who regarded the Apaches a.
enemies, the robbing expedition was
looked at as a military foray quite iusti-
liable under the circumstances"
The Major went on to say that, who
ever proposed 1t, the captaincy of the
raid was given to Bridger, whose lieu
tenants were Carson and an almost
equally noted character called Pegles
Smith. They kept their plans as secret
as possible, scattered from the camp by
twos n threes. as II to go on ordinary
trapping excursions, and thus deceived
the Indians around them, so that no
rumors could travel ahead and upse.
their purpose.
Then the party gradually assembled
at a rendezvous down near the mouth Of
White river and made their wav all to-
gether by night marches through the
country OF the Utes into hat of the
Apaches, where they collected no less
than seven hundred horses, by good luck
striking an unusually wealthy village
the very first thing.
Then the retreat was begun. Tbav
nad to travel slowly, Of course. with
this large and unruly herd, and it was
not long before a war party of Apaches
were on their trail. But they were al
ways In mountain defles, where il was
Tor the savages to get around or
ahead OF them. and the pursuit was for
the most part a stern chase.
Bridger was equal to it and fougbt
the indians in their own STYLE. He
would send twenty or thirty men ahead |
urge on and hold together the horses
While he kept the rest behind to form
al ambush into which the pursuers
Rouid be ~entrapped, or to hold some
harrow passage until the herdsmen had
. good start. Then these would ex-
mango places with the advance.
Moreover, the Apaches soon fonnd
themselves led far into the territory of
Utes and therefore liable to have
heir retreat cut of by these traditional
oes 50 Bridger and Carson got awav
attn the whole great band and actuallv
ove $500 ponies into his own camp.
what could he do with SO manv
orses?" W Il,
"oh. trade them to the Indians g. ,
ars ana ouckskins and squaws and I
needful articles, or sell them 70 I
ne whites, who were then beginning I.
aver 70 oregon through South Pass G
1 am aware that that adventure Is 9
after OF history" remarked another
ncer' who had been listening in '
fence, but I have heard anotba- {
DRY OF Bridger of which I am no,
sure l viii tell It to you as IL was
"a 70 me BY Lieutenant Bradley. Of q
. ssent Infantry. some years aga :,
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This time it was Georgiana's clea
young voice that cleft the warm ever
ing air, and the deacon twitched sharp
ly o. the lines.
Whoa, there, Dolly What d'y,
want?' looking back through the dusl
at the two figures on the porch.
Get a yeast cakel" responded
Georgiana, in the same clear tones
Her father nodded his head in toker
that he heard the errand and CLICKED
sharply to Dolly, who started off again
lbriskly.
Strange why the women think SO
much of them pesky little yeast cakes;
think they can't make bread without
'em," unused the deacon as he drove
along to the village. Compressed
lyeasti My mother nor grandmother
never heard of such a thing. but / be-
lieve they made jest as good bread in
old times as they do now"
Deacon Dane was not a progressive
man, you see. what was good
enough a century ago is good enough
now" he thought Fleischman g. Co.
and a whole army of other inventors
'had lived in vain, as far as he was con-
cerned. 1t would have been no un-
iheard-of thing If be had forgotten the
errand. nor would it have troubled him
greatly; but we are all quite sure to re-
member the things we would like to
forget, so he bought the yeast-cake at
the store, along with the gallon of
kerosene and pound Of saleratus, put
ting the yeast in his coat-pocket.
: At home his wife was meanwhile
busily at work mending his second
best coat, which he had accidentally
torn badly that day. She found the
garment otherwise in that dilapidated
characteristic of old coats,
forcibly reminding one of the classical
zone boss shay" and Georgiana coming
out of the parlor, where she had been
playing gospel hymns on the organ,
found her mother still at the task.
Don't sew on that black work any
more tonight mother" she said; ait
tries your eyes too much"
II must, for father will want it TO
Q tomorrow; he always goes to
Saturdays, you know. He had to
wear his meeting coat tonight, and /
hate to have him wear it so common
get 1t full of dust. | didn't s'pose
It would taxi long to mend it., but l
lind 1t out OF fix everywhere"
Let me finish it, them" said
..eorgiana; and she fairly took the old
coat away from her mother, who, re-
leased from that duty. went into the /,
and made ready for setting the /
oread-sponge. The fiour was sifted, the
and cooled milk all ready. and /,
'nly waited for the yeast when the
leacon should come home. !,
IBID you get the yeast2" asked Mrs. :
Dane when her husband came in, after }
up the horse. '
Eyes, / got it" and he put his hand :
a his pocket, but failed to find the :
east-cake. One pocket after another =
e hshed in till he had gone the rounds =
I his coat, then his vest, and then his =
'%ousers; then went the whole over :.
yain-and a mans pockets are legion. =,
Its no use,' he said, "Ive lost it -
'mehow; pulled it out with ny hand p
srchief or something" ~
Are you sure you bought it?" asked ~
sorgiana. :.
Sure? Don't | knou? l paid two -
nts for the little thing. and might as ",
NJ have throwed my money away. ~
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ten down, because to rewrite them
would be to risk spelling them.
SEVEN THOUSAND R s CAPTURED.
Thursday.-To-day a knot of the Off
GERS in Captain NJ. s quarters were tell
ing stories Of old Jim Bridger, whose
exploits in this remote West half a cent
ury ago placed him foremost among the
wild trappers and frontiersmen Of that
time.
He was a man of rather better educa-
ton than the average frontiersman of
that date, and this fact, combined with
his natural shrewdness and experienced
in the earlier days as Kit Carson became
in the South; and, like Carson, Bridger
figured prominently later on as scout
In the military service Of the frontier.
I'm fact remarked Major A., a griz-
zled veteran who remembers when there
wasn't a railroad west of the Missouri,
and Fort Riley, in Kansas, was a remote
and dangerous post; 'in fact, Bridger
first became notorious in an exploit
where Kit Carson was a companion. Car
son was then a rising man in the South
ern Rockies, and a good deal younger
than old Jim, had joined Bridger in the
year 1s45, and they had gathered around
them in their camp on Green river, near
where the Union Pacific now crosses,
se~venty-fve free trappers."
Somebody had the temerity to inter
the Major to ask what was meant
by free trappers, and was informed,
brusquely, that they were fur
hunters who were not under contract to
any n Of the fur-trading companies,
nor in debt to them so much as practical
to be their slaves; though, the speak
added, some we're really free only be-
they had run away from their OBJ
igations. On the whole, however, the
rec trappers were a higher class of men
han those in the employ of the COM
Somebody in the camp, the Major
esumed, conceived the idea of max
ng a raid far southwark into the coun-
ry of the Apachss and Navajos, an,
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A REAL LUXURY!

Looking out over the many homes of this country, we see thousands
OF women wearing away their lives in household drudgery that might Ia,
materially leSSened by the use of a few cakes of SAPOIJO. If ar hour
IS saved each time a cake is used, if one less wrinkle gathers upon the face
because the toll is hghtened, she must be a foolish woman who would
hesitate to make the experiment, and he a chunish husband who would
gudge the few cents which it costs.
II your grocer sends you anything IN place of SAPOLO. send if
back and insist upon having just what you ordered. SAPOIIO always
gives satisfaction. On floors, tables, and painted work it acts like a
Charm For securing pots pans, and metals it has no equal. Everything
SHINES after It, and even the children delight in using it in their attempts
to help around the house.
croces often substitute cheaper Foods for sAPoLIo to nars n.e~ ue,
sno oSk sucna rHeesa and insist on having just what you ordered