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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-07-21
SCALES AND PLANTS.
ITEMS PURELY LOCAL CONDENSED FOE TIE
BUSY READER

Town full Of strangers.
News very scarce this week.
The grocerymen are cutting prices.
Nsg's Head 10 now in it's fall bloom.
DIR. Baker Hoskias. of Norfolk, is in
the city.
Population of Edenton is increasing
vspidly.
Mr.. Frank Wood and family are at
Nag's Head.
Miss Matte Badham left Tuesday sfor
Ocracoke.
MI. E. L. Woodland is home again
from Norfolk.
Sturgeon fishermen began work again
Monday last.
All of the sound cottages at Mays
Head are occupied.
Mr.. NJ. F. Bond carried his family to
NGg's Head Monday last.
Sixty people registered at Nag's
Head hotel last Saturday.
Prepare something for the Fair. The
time is fast approaching.
Edenton Fair will be held this year
November z, 6, 8, and 10.
The Str. Plymouth is on the ways at
Norfolk undergoing repairs.
Our harbor is filled with vessels wait
ing to load with watermelons.
Merchants are complaining of dull
times. They should advertise.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Spsight Of Hert
ford, visited Edentou this week.
The new houses Of Mr.. w. A. Bond
on Church street are nearly finished.
Rev. R. 7. Vaun and family are
spending the summer at Mays Head. :.
Mr.. G. W. Simmons spent last week
at his old home in Northampton county
Mrs. n. Baker has returned home
from her visit to relatives in Baltimore
Our market is we'll supplied with
wauermelene, canteloupcs aud vegee2-
bies..
Work on the new mills of the Bran
ming Mtg. Co. L. being pushed rapidly
ahead.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford McCraw, OF
Richmond, Va, have located in Eden
ton.
qhe Italian string band, playing at
the Ma Is Head hotel this season, is Il
good one.
Mrs. K. r. Pendleton and daughters
and Miss Ciaud " GODDARD went to Na6s
Head Tuesday.
Mr.. W. e. HolIowell has opened a
bar and grocery on the corner Of Broad
and Water streets.
Mr.. J. A. Woodland and wife left yes
terdsy for Nag's Head where they will
remain during the summer.
Mr.. Augustus Byrum, Of Newport
News, Va, is spending the week with
his father ia shis city.
SUFFERING CHILDREN can be cured by
usiag Baity's Worm Killer, or money
at Leary's, only CSC.
Master Ethel Burton had two OF HE
fingers badly cut by a saw at the plan
ing mill Tuesday morning.
Mr.. A. G. Mitchell, accompanied by
his sister, Miss Cora, left Tuesday for
Ocracoke to spend few weeks.
The judges in the fisheries depart
ment at the Worlds Fair are headed
by DR.. W. r, Capehart. of Avoca.
People leaving home for the summer
must notify us if they wish to receive
the FISHERMAN & FARMER while absent.
The steamer III. E. Roberts carried
Ii excursion to Nag's Head last Satur-
lay night and returned Monday morn
ng.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-07-21

Everybody can go t. the sea shore fo1
a week or Two aud nothing il said. b"i
if the poor printer steals off for fe~
days there is always some folks ready
to 'growl and kick about it. Let 'enI
kick.
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was not dlficult for any of us to make
u the direction the Comanches had
taken Their ponies footnarks were
que p~erceptibie to the unframed eye,
Wnen we had buried the dead trooper
we look up a trot and travelled at a
good pace. 1t was abvious h a the
captain was as n~ervously anxious as
any to come upon the reds. for he quite
frequently, allowed his horse to break
into a gallop, and we followed readily.
A consultation between the '.old man"
ana the scout and first sergeant look
place at noon. but OF hat 1 knew moth
ing; am speaking as n from the
ranks. We had only a few days rations
for horse and man, and we knew we
no. a single man mprmured., We
coffee and went steadily onward.
Ths 9la tI9op had the reputation Of
on the march. but that day there was no
song. no laugh, no horseplay. Healy
rode by me, and. poor chap. once when l
Looked at him l saw a tear trickling
down from beneath his heavy red eye.
l;ow.
All, the afternoon and on into the
evening. till the sun sank down among
the sullen clouds to the west OF us. and
1t grew chilly and dreary-all that after
n on we rode silently on.
A parting CLEAN OF gold and crimson
Just tinged the horizon when the cap
tain halted n again consulted with the
scout. To our right lay the mouth of
ore of the tributary creeks OF the Cana
dian, and the stream descended from a
prectpitous canyon, whose upper waters
were cushioned In a cloud OF cedar trees.
AS the daylight spent itself as the sun
went down we turned I'm column of twos
and crept up the narrow pass. the Kiowa
a few PAGES ahead of the column
1t was on the very verge of night, and
the Captain was reckless, else he would
have never ventured his meE In such a
deiile at such a time. We were getting
up. up the stream, and the banks were
beginning to reach far above our heads,
shutting cut the last CLEAN of sunlight,
when suddenly from beyond came the
clear. shrtll notes OF a bugle. The Cap
ain halted. instinctively, and the troop
drew up behind him.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES was that, Ser
geant?" the old man asked as he turned
In his saddle and looked the First Ser
geant anSlously in the face.
Healy grew tremendously excited. He
left his place In the RANKS and galloped
to the front.
TITS the KID he shouted. Its Billy!
Captain, l can tell him-no one ever
blew a note like his-it's Billy"
lie was 80 wild that he would have
charged up the ravine by himself, but
the ranking Corporal caught his bride
rein.
The Captain looked sternIy at the
Kiowa scout and drew his revolver.
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darkness, not knowing the strength OF
the enemy. However, We we're pleased
to find that only two of US had dropped
from their saddles. and we hoped we
minutes fight. ] say We were pleased
for a moment, but before daylight 1t
was whispered along the line, "Biliy's
The poor little rascal. He had al
ways had a fancy for riding Tip when
he could, because the brute was the
hardest mouthed. most n~nmanageable
horse in the troop. and Billy-as they
say-fancied himself on his riding. and
Tip was now with us rederless.
i don't remember much talking or
swearing or lamenting on the Part OF
mex to me. and / Know I heard him
sobblng,. lie wasn't alone IN thai wea X
ness. either. At last morning came. and
there was never a sign OF a ~Comanche,
We didn't talk much about what ought
10 be done. The captain didn't say a
word until we hastily boiled some coffee
SOW belly. for those who had been
wise enough to put a piece of pork In
their sad"lebags, Then we fell in. n
the Gao, , gave order to mount.
He Was as grave as n Judge, and spoke
quite softly as he drew his sabre n
faced the centre Of the troop.
Men, he said. ] was sent out here
with YOU to scout for cattle thieves
round the ranches here. Something has
happened, though no fault OF yours or
mine, to make me break throug my in
structiops. ! don't now the strength
OF that band that we ran into last night
In the darkness, but one OF your most
cherished comrades is eithe dead
among the bluffs over there or with
them a prisoner, ] am going to disobey
my instructions and find Billy
We cheered the captain. OF course. but
We knew n he knew that. though the
cattle thieves had raided the whole OF
Kansas and Texas, too. and the Com
handing General and every other officer
downward had given orders to the con-
trary, the old troop woI.d have hunted
up Billy themselves.
We crossed the river cautiously, for
there was Il belt OF woods on the other
side, affording an enemy shelter, and We
reached the scene OF the disturbance the
previous night without any attack upon
us. We hunted the ground all about and
found our dead comrade mutilated.
There was no signs OF his horse. We
waited a little time and buried him with
more sorrow because We kne that he,
like the rest Of us, had always hoped.
should nc fall, that Billy would blow
taps over him.
The guide wss a Kiowa. and trusted
az friendly, aud skilful at following a
trail, but the rain Of the previous night
had SO saturated the grasses OF the
plain and the earth Of the trails that 1t
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serious, whatever il was. and Billy kept
c%hirruping away as he rode behind
the captain, as Jolly MS if We were going
to break up the whole Sioux nation.
l remember how he had his iavortte bu-
gle slung OH its yellow cord round his
shoulders. IL bugle he used to handle
as tenderly as a girl does her doll-.aye.
and a bugle that Is handled tenderly to
this day by those who have the great
privilege of cleaning 1t.
We took up n trot after getting out
Of the post and made for the Canadian
River. and we kept up a trot for a
long time. saving when we halted every
hour for four or five minutes TO tighten
girths and breathe the horses-a good
it was drizzling rain, and It looked.
We thought. lke "A bad night, The scout
that was with us was little better than
II ~greenhori. but he was supposed to
know the country, and at. n rate none
of us expected any trouble or the use
Of a revolver or sabre.
These came. however.
Whether the guide lundere or the
captain, AS some may say, was obstinate
and stuck to his opinion. IL Is needless
to argue here. The big chiefs did that
afterwards. but instead of keeping to the
trail and going the ordinary way down
to the ford we braLChed Off and struck
right into a wandering band Of Conan
ches. The devils saw US before we knew
they were anywhere near, and the first
thing we knew we were greeted with as
horrible a yell as ever n Comanche man
aged to make. 1t was, as | have said,
raining. and 1t was nighttime, and, more
than that, we did not expect them, so
when We dimly saw them whirling round
us at top speed, some lying on the ON
side OF their ponies' bellies and some OF
them lcaping to their feet in the sad
die, and all OF them firing into us ~
best they could, We were too ratified
Just at first to do much. We had walked
right into a nest OF them.
The old captain just realized the state
OF affairs, He devoted just thirty sec
onds 10 cursing the guide. and then
began business. We were near the
river. and our immediate safety was to
get across that. Forming us up-tor We
had already opened a scattering flre ON
the ~Indians-the old man charged in one
direction, tented and. forming in col
umn OF fours turned to the river, and,
swimming and struggling. We reached
the other bank. There we formed AZ
dismounted skirmishers, while the re.
serve held the horses behind the blum
and waited the crossing OF the Indians.
but they either thought we were
stronger than they, or, as Is likely, they
remembered the Indian principle, never
fight IN the dark
AT any rate. they did not come. and
the roll Of us, In the gray OF the dawn,
was called In whispers. II was a dts
graceful AFFAIR. We all thought, but we
could not have done any more In the
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adopt her son-the Pet.
And adopt him We did. Poor little
chap. The old sergeant had acquired
Ia bits which were not conducive to
longevity and was reduced gradually
In spite of the man, chances given him
to the ranks, and ] remember few
things more pathetic than when little
Bill Jones, four years old, came crawl
ing on hands and knees up the steep hill
to the guardhouse and demanded furi-
ously that l., who was only a humble
sentry on NO. l." should give him his
'da1a," who had been recently con-
fined for being under the influence Of
intoxicating liquors" while a member OF
the post guard.
Whether the sergeant of the guard con-
suited the officer on duty or not ] don't
know. He said he did. Anyway 1t was
against regulations to let that f~our-year-
old desperate into the gulrdroom. The
officer and the sergeant have the blame
between them. for he came in and raised
havoc with the guard. A sweet little
domineering chap he was and took us
b. storm. The end Of 1t was that he led
his father out by the hand. and the SER
b'ail VI 'nt RudIu Sfnt " Try HiOHB
after them. Poor - -~,.uylkill never
came back alive.
The boy drew lis father away to ook
at his mothers grave In the lonely GENE
terry on the bluffs, and there the old sol
der became overcome with a sense of
his W degradation and his child's lone
Illness and mad ii lit, and was found by
the doctor and ambulance men lying
dead or. his wifc's grave. And the SER
geant Of the guard was tried by court
martial and reduced to the ranks. for
regulations are regulations.
Bnly's father and Billy's mother hav-
Ing died without thinking 1t necessary Ia
notify anybody OF m relatives they
may have had. Billy was left with what
pay was due his father and the debt to
he sutler which his father owed, which
ras rather rough on the four-year-old.
Tor the debt considerably exceeded the
pay. Under these circumstance the
,roops determined to lick Billy into shape
and put the kid" into the hands OF
Mother Brickenscheuffer, an old German
woman who had done washing for Amer,
lean soldiers and made pies Tor them and
lent them money since the DAYS when
Fremont first crossed the Sierras. But
enough Of Billy's childhood and child,
hoods troubles, which he certainly took
quite cheerfully.
When he was old enough to hold the
bugle to his lips he made q noise which
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The Worlds
Harlem Office,

his partial stepfathers said was mighty
near like taps" and he took to the
bngle after that AZ he might to q suck.
ing bottle. Vhei, he was ten years old
he could blow all the calls and ride Tip
to water, while leading two others. which
was moro than any recruit could do.
When he was fifteen and had a decent
education at the post schools. our dear
consultation with the Colonel and the
Adiutant. and Billy was called in at the
end of II and asked il he would like to
enlist.
1t required a special order from the
got his hearts desire, and not n SOCK or
when ne entered. w all drew for him
out Of our own clothing allowances. ]
remember big Bill Healy on quarterly
draw day-he was six feet by three. j
of No. ] trousers, which would not have
done more than make IA couple OF patches
on his own huge pants.
And a bugler Billy w~as-neyer one
blew a cheerier reveile-never one blew
"A sweeter. more heartrending laps
over a poor fellows grave N the wilder
~ness-never one could thrill you more
when your horse was Juggling at your
bride arm and your sabre was In the
air and you was longing for the Captain
to tell him to sound the ~"charge!"' .
buglers, but we loved him for more than
that. When ! was down with the ma.
iarial fever at Fort s., and although
j was reckoned a surly fellow enough.
must have paid through the nose for
them, the poor little angel Ana J
guess other fellows hod some sort OF the
same experience. Never Il man In tn"
guardhouse hut Billy would find some
way to ease his mind and raise his spir-
It's, and cheerful he WAS always and the
Cleverest Jockey in the regiment except
but, there, he was a very light. weight.
He used to sing. too, and the boys
would be cleaning up for Sunday morn
ing inspection, and Billy would chirp up
something jolly, and we'd yell a chorus.
and hen he'd sing quietly some home
the prairie. and the trouble to get wood,
and the half ration, and the boys
wouldn't Join in that chorus. but Just
keep on wiping the rust from the car
bines, and some OF them may be drop
ping something on the barrel that would
turn to rust very soon.
Well, well, Custer was there. and that
meant fun and hghting-more OF the
last thar the frst-and down we went
w the chill Of a late Autumn afternoon,
! ilst our old group under the captain, 70
DO something. ! don't recollect now
what II w~as-maybe to break up a small
vilisge-maybc to bring in a chief. Any
how the captain didn't seem from his
manner to think It was going 70 be very
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Chinatown e. r. Rice keeps the skit
p~erpetuaily up to date. and the latest
events are always touched upon funnily.
For those who like good. clean variety
.'l492" is just the thing.
"Panjandrum' has had a twenty
and It has trotted pleasantly through
the torrld and u~ntheatrical months OF
July and August. The last two weeks
of Hopper's present engagement Will be
begun Monday night. and he. will not
APPEAR in New York again until Feb; Is.
"a Straight TIP" John ]. McNally's
farce comedy. will be given under the di-
~Iection of Messrs. Murray and Lob
man at H.. II. Jacobs's Theatre, next
week. In the cast will be Flora Irwin,
Haynes, Lenora Earl. Belle Sanford,
Earl, Frank A. Howard. John IL. Kcefe
and the Straight Tip" quartet.
At Huber's Museum the attractions
next week will be the Aama sisters and
minstrsls; Mile. Burgess and her per.
forming birds: Markelle. Olga, Patrics
Kane. Prof. Hutchinson, Balbroma, WI.
son and others. The Boston Novelt,
Company. including Ncnetta and Adams
Loring and Leslie, Gilmore and La Rose
will give hourly stage performances.
Fanny Herring returns to Doris''
Eighth Avenue Museum Monday. and ap
pears in n play called .'rhe Far West
or, the Fifth shot" She will be sup
ported by Frank Base, Frank johnson
Dave Posner, Louise Buchanan IAN,
Freddie Adams. In the curio halls Prof
Woods opium joint, James Wilson ant
Tot Kirby will be seen.
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.what does this mean?' he asked:
The Kiowa turned with the caloss@
"' sThey are there" he said. big ehiss
And he rode forward at a gaiiop. -.
through the night air. n nov ~ our
one but he could tongue. q bugie nke
thai but even as we raised oureeives ~
our saddles there was the rnE otS
rifle and the ,whiz of a bullet ana me
An ambush! Twos., right sDouti
And we did and got out Of that ravins
Blu. first the Captain levelled his "Coits.
flying scoundrel-our false guide.
and got the horses under cover In :
clump Of cottonwoods. All that night
and next day we fought, skirmisning:
charging and retiring, n1i q ssme ~
our relief. But o mIle Billy..iet me
tell you what Man With-a-knife" said
of his eathE"Mano tina smpiov Is h'~
He told us how Tip stumbled n
threw the bugler, n in the
no one saw the mishap. He told US Joy
Killed two savages. He told us how. Thu
chief, laughing at the pluck OF the :" Rse
poose"-as they called himIsaved mn Mts
then ana LOOK nlUl Will t'chA
Comanches Joined another party anQ
waited for us. All that march their
scouts had ined the neighboring piuns
and ~signalled our approach, the
t~reacherous Kiowa had signalied back
to them, unseen by our poor old can
tain. They drew us on into the ambush
we were nearly surrounded-when
Rilly realized what was going on ana
blew the bugle the fools never thought
of takinS !. from him
The MAN. ith-the-Knife shrugged hi9
shoulders as only an Indian AN. y
Big white chief hear papoose blow
big white chief turn round and run
If we had not heard the bugle,'' said
Heaiy gently, 1--WE would none OF "
have been here. 1t was a death hole
they had ready for us"
We didn't ask anything about .Btlty
from Man-With-the-Knife, for we knew
II all to we'll. They killed him-the dev-
iis-before he could blow another warm
And that is why, in the cemetery
boards, there is only one stone monu-
ment, on which is written simply, In
memory of William Jones, aged sixteeA
years, who ave up his life for his com
rades."-P., Y. Black In Louisville Cou'
rier-Journal.
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HIS LAST BUGLE CALL.
h Story of a Brave Boy Who Died to
SAGE Others.

the Nation" and the Kiowas and CO.
manches were causing trouble. Win
them were, Of course, some C~heyennes
and Arapahoes-they never could Keep
out of trouble-and a lot OF ~douShboys
dnfantry), with somC other caNairy be-
sides Clusters own, q heap OF scouts
and so forth, were all there chasing
those fellows, who were harder to catch
End corral than SC many prairie dogs
They fought, too, and fought magnlh-
cently-learning from US how to handle
themselves. All, these Comanches! j
have seen them charge a corralled bag
gage-traln in %platoons, and agai in
battalion line In a manner which could
only praise from an onlooker
for the correctness Of Its alignment
al the ~steadiness of its wheels, al
though that onlooker might at the mo-
ment be plugging -0-calibre bullets into
hem as fast as his carbine could be
hFLdled. Pity. indeed, that such splen-
did cavalrymen could not be organized!
However, this has nothing to do with
the Pet, or only directly.
When the regiment was organized.
after the rebellion. %schuylkill Jones was
inc nTst eeIscdiit VI the oiu tToop, anu
he married before the end OF the war;
whom l don't know. and neither did he,
for she had been wife to so many men
previously-that stalwart old cam
paigner--that her original name an1
her pedigree were lost In the passing ~
the ages. But she bore him a son, and
while dressing q young private's wounds.
In the course of an attack on a train
which her husbands troop escorted, was
shot dead. For her sake and for the sake
Of the old Dutch Pennsylvanians, the
troop buried her mournfully and with
out any method Of procedure decided to
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Avenue Theatre. MIR. Goodwin Is getting
very ambitious.

Avenue Theatre. Mr.. Goodwin Is getting
very ambitious.
Miss Lizzie Don. of the London concert
hall, and formerly of various companies
In this country. has been telling u Lon
don interviewer OF her experiences IN
is one OF them: when I was playing
in Philadelphia / did not taxi much
notice of u young fellow. who ,regular.y
did the polite to me nntii the las' II n, Ign
l Il 4 yes, but he must be quick about
II. He simply said. Il want you to be my
wife l was so %astonished that ! really
last. j do not even know your name;
or anything about you He pleaded
very hard for an answer, ana IN the emu
promised to write to him but nav hins
very rapidly in America"
"Coralie" is the name of n play adapted
by Peter Robertson, q caustic San Fran
cisco critic, from Albert Delpits novel,
The piece. 1t liz said, is to be done In
New York.
a. NJ. Paimer's comany, in addition
to Saints and sinners will do Ala
ha ma and. as Il double bill. "a FAR
OF S~pectacles' and Mercedes" These
PLAYS will be presented until H0vG meG
1t Is said that the receiver or the
Casino cleared the neat little sum OF
81, 900 by the roof garden entertainments
after the termination of the "Adonis,
season, This is considered very excel
lent business, especially when 1t Is re
membered that the entertainments were
not Of the best. The rental of S3S 900 Il
he paid for the Casino by, Messrs
Lederer & Canary is generally looked
upon as very low.
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n was in the old days. They seem
vary far away indeed now. after all
that has happened since then. 1t was
men of the Seventh United States Cav
airy were massacred by the Sioux In
dians. and that was in 1876. We were
not yery much on parade out on the
plains then. and It mattered little to us
II q man dressed In a forage cap or
campaign hat when he was in the
field. There was not, in fact, any one
to soc us ave those we were protect
ing-the settlers-and those we were
fighting.
It Is different now, when a buck"
gets fined for a stain on the right palm
OF his glove or a misftting blouse. Then,
I remember Sergt. M, OF the TIL,
sreasing his body over when we left
post in February, and never-so II was
said-washing until November, when we
got back again after the campaign.
And II you study the question. and
know the way we had to live. you will
unde' stand that the Sergeant was nei-
Their a beast nor a fool. They were
rough days, and more than one man
have / seen rid into garrison in the
late Autumn with breeches made out
Of buffalo hides by his " hands. We
thought ourselves M-treated II We had
TO spend more than three months Of
cold weather In the lonely picket build
ings they called barracks. and were al
lowed no more than eight or nine to
roam with packed saddles owe the
prairie and chase the red man. who GER
tainiy kept US going then. Now he
has got to growing corn and living on
his ration and begging, and he does
not afford as much fun a. he used to,
Custer was down on the washita In