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The morning call., 1893-07-08

Apply to J. L. BARKER. cor. Eighth and Frank
lin sts., Oakland. JyS tf
L'OR SALE CHEAP FOR CASn-A NEW HOUSE
i OF rooms, bath and laundry. with lot 50xl 80,
In the most desirable section of Berkeley: viii be
sold furnished or unfurnished on the most reason
able terms: an extraordinary bargain. Apply TO
MRS. c. HOUSTON cor Shattuck ave. and Vr-
ginia ST.. North berkeley iva tt
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"a LEY BROS. 93I MISSION-FURNITURE
W carpets. stoves cheap; cash instaIlm'ts. MOB ly
n OTIGT-I AM NOW AT 1876 FOURTH .(NFw
~ buiGing), and offer large stock of general
household furniture atreduced prices; 500 carpets,
good as new; stoves, SO; antique chamber suits.
SIS parlor suits. $25: cash instalments; all at
bedrock prices 7. H Me- SON. 1875 Fourth st a1tf
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FURNITURE WANTED.


4 UCTIONEER - WILLIAM 'BUTTERFIELD,
~ 5f3 California ST.. near Kearny; 20 years In
th Q business; buys, sells and rents furnished
houses "a If
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o.O- n HORSESHOEING SHOP: q OOD
II ZOO. tools; pays we'll; best location IN city:
see Today. STRAND, 50 hearny st 1
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PAClfIC STORAGE WAREHOUSE, 30l STOCK
l. tonst furniture. pianos, etc., stored estimates
gwen; furniture moving: packing jy6 tt
E'IRST-CLASS STORAGE: ADVANCES MADE.
o42-644 Mission st. CHAS. L. TAYLOR. jel3 tt
EURNlIURE ST0RED-WESTERNP PLAN. L.
i H.RoONEY. Cal. Stor. Warehse 722 Mission. 3m
CHEAP STORAGE: FUR >ITURE, ETC: NEW
~ building; money advanced. 23l Third my9 3m
CTERLING FURNITURE COMPANY, 1889
~ Market ST.; Eastern plan; low rates apl9 3m
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FURNITURE FOR SALE.

bedroom SETS: EXAMINE OUR NO 2O7
j solid OAK French bevel plate. pieces only
&25. while elsewhere you pay very nearly this for
pine set: 10 per cent off for cash; if cash is
handy your credit is always good with NJ. Fried
man q Co. 224, rs go ana 500 stockton st and
257 Post st; open evenings. je2 IF
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HOUSES TO LET.

ok 2-STORY SUNNY HOUSE; ROOMS
ID y. plank yard; basement. Key ar 222
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no BUY. SELL OK EXCHANGE BUSINESS OF
/ auy Kind see GUS STRAND. 80 Kearny St l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
WITH THE INDIANS.
Night Scenes Witnessed by a
Traveller in Their Camps
Antics That Would Not he Considered
Proper in Polite Society-An Under
ground Gambling Den-A Court
ship without Waste of Words.
lcoPYRlGHT 1871

An Indian camp at night is the nolsi-
est spot on earth. However the savage
may wrap himself in silent and stole
dignity when in the streets of the
crowded city, hc IS Invariably found TO
be a rollicking. shouting ealathumpian
in his night drawn camp. If il IS not
the .Indian german. in which a WON
an instead of man leads. and from
which modern civilization" has stol-
en- our german" bodily, then il
is blind mans buff, or story telling
accompanied by peals Of laughter
or love-making, or the reeouuting
Of exploits, hunts. battles, journeys,
fortunes, dances, myths, legends. tradi-
tions, or private theatricals ON a large
scale, OF games of various sorts or
geography taught from sand pictures.
1t is night. The tom-tom sounds.
The crowds assemble What shall be
the fun? That win depend upon the To-
cality Of different camps. Some
times it is noisy, sometimes noiseless.
Let me describe some Of these night
scenes in Indian camps as ! have wit
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

their love for gambling, they began to
put themselves in pawn, piecemeal, say
ing: ''I'll bet you my hand, my arm,
my leg" and at last, when all the
capital organs Of the body were lost,
I'm bet you my whole body" That
means: I'm put myself in pawn to you
as your slave, TO serve you as you viii
for a specified time"
So it was that this Indian mother
stood leaning back YEARLY against the
wall. half drunk and dazed with smoke
and heat, when all at once the Indian
who lived with her said to her in In
dian: Put in the baby for q week
Then pay day viii come" Il was done.
The baby was handed over. That is
what civilization has done for the In
dian. Its virtues escape him; its vices
I inoculate him.
One Of these vices is gambling. The
Indian is kept poor the year round and
pluclzed Of every pinfeather That is
the principal reason why he steals not
only to reimburse himself for loss. but
also to revenge himself upon the white
man, who he knows well enough has
constantly robbed him.
Gambling as witnessed in an Indian
camp at night, is very different affair
from the cache. The tom-tom notifies
all that the bouts with fortune are
about to begin. During the game the
music is steadily kept up. In the inter
walls between the game the players all
sing. Crowds surround the camp.
When a man loses heavily the whole
camp know it in few minutes, and not
infrequently the wife rushes in and puts
a stop to the stake by dragging her
chief away. Gambling is the great win
ter game. 1t is often played from morn
ing till night and right on all night
long. Cheating and trickery of every
sort are all practiced.
The Utes play with two bones in each
hand, one of which is wrapped about
with a string. The game is to guess
the hand that holds the wrapped bone.
The plum stone game is played by
the plains Indians 1t is only another
name for dice throwing. The plum
stones are graved with hieroglyphics,
and counts are curiously made in way
that often defies computation by white
men. The women gamble quite as much
as the men, and grow even more ex-
cited over the game than their lords.
Their game as witnessed by me among
the Cheyennes is played with beads,
little loops and long horn sticks made of
deer foot.
The Indians have all sorts of tricks
that were originally invented by them
and long afterward learned by the
white men. Some of these tricks have
even crept into the schoolbooks and
arithmetics of civilization. They can be
very easily traced to the savage.
An old Comanche trickster, Me-la-que-
tab, said to me: 81 will show you lit
tie string trick which, after show you,
you cannot do for a long time, even
after you see it done, and when You can
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
DANCING AROUND run FIRE.

do it You viii soon forget how to do it
till you are shown the second time.
The trick is 10 take a little loop of
string, catch it on the two fore fingers,
bring the thumbs to the fingers and,
giving the latter dexterous turn, sud
denly leave the tied loop lying loose on
the two fingers. 1t is one of the
simplest and hardest string tricks that
can be tried. 1t was originally devised
by the Comanche Indians.
Here is a Cheyenne puzzle in srithme-
tic which, although placed in progress
sive ratio, is not easy to solve. II any
white civilian thinks il inconsequential
let him try it. The problem is this An
Indian mother had three sons To one
she gave ten apples. to another thirty,
and to the third fifty, saying: go, my
sons, sell all your apples for the same
price and bring me back each Of you
the same amount OF money"
How did they do it? Mu-la-que-tah
can tell YOU.
This is the way the plains Indians
split buffalo hide
'What is the half of twelve" Every
body says six" of course.
Mu-la-que-tah says seven. OF course
il is "a trick. but how posSiblye The In
diaus simply take the numeral Nil and
draw a line through one-haIf ii it. or
fold one-half back on paper. and say:
''See@ VII; the half Of twelve is seven.
The halyed top - the numcral tells the
story
Curious tricks like these serve to
while away the night
/ Geography Is taught 10y rude tracings
4 in the sand saw an old Indian teach
+ ing little Indian boy the whole coun-
try from the Mississippi to the Pacific
i coast by river and railroads and large
towns drawn in earth
But dancing with the Indians. MS with
us, is the main pastme 81 the nocturnal
hours, For these dances both men and
women robe themselves in their best at
tire and deck their hair, limbs and bod
les in beadwork of all devices and de
scrlptions. The dances are as many as
! the dancers. a few only il fell to my
lot To witness,
The sign dance is q very clever and
curions one. A pretty woman leads a
man into the room set apart for the pur-
pose This is one of two tepees thrown
together In one are the tom-tom beat
ers. in the other the dancers. In this
room the couple begin 70 dance, max
ing signs to each other, the meaning OF
which may be: Well, what do You
think Of me- DO on like me- DO you
think me pretty? How do ! affect you2'
and S. on, the signs being ali
closely watched by the spectators
who applaud eiFgle. chuckle or laugh
uproariously ~ turns as the case may
he. SUeh a dance IS a questioning
bee a collision of wits on the part ~
two really facetious indians. Wit j. a
universal trait of the savage Some
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

messed them. ! was riding near the
outskirts Of one of these camps at even
ing. The night was falling and moth
ing was To be heard in the haunts of the
Indian reservation save the stirring of
wild game under the brake and the
twitter of the birds. The horses were
given their heads on the trail and we
passed by at smart gallop.
Suddenly the hoofs of my horse rang
hollow 1t was a cavernous sound and
had ghostly, muffled echo.
Did you hear that sound?" asked,
turning round In the saddle toward the
guide.
Yes" said the trained scout, whose
nice ear detected instantly each differ
ent shade Of sound, come back here a
bit, sir, we've struck shack :"
"A what?" | queried, reigning my
horse round and drawing up to the
guide.
"A shack. A gambling hole under
the ground. Now be still please, sir,
said Happy Jack.
The scout dismounting lneeled down
on the ground over the hollow sound
ing spot, and after dipping his finger
tips through the sand and auscultating
it very much as a surgeon would a lung
drum called down as be raped;
Hello there. , open up old boy.
could hear dim, st.Aed voices under
the ground at the sound of the scouts
call, a> II thcy were arguing the advis-
ability Of lifting mp the door of the
shack"
Finally. however, the earth suddenly
started up almost under the very feet
of the guide and a red, swart Indian.
with long black hair aad a fierce glance.
peeped'suspiciously ont AT first but on
recognizing the guide raised the trap to
the top
\ light shone up through the opening
and east dim ray on the soft, spongy,
sheep tracked earth.
looked down through this hole as
sat on my horse and saw by the help OF
the light lurid picture
At the centre OF the shack" was a
small table, covered with cards and
cups On one side OF the table sat three
Indians in a half intoxicated condi-
ton. Behind them stood two squaws
also in partially inebriated condition.
On the opposite side OF the table, and
resting his elbows on it. sprawled q
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
An Autumn Landscane.

No wind there is that either pipes or means;
The fields are cold and still; the sky
Is covered with blue-gray sheet
or motionless cloud and at my feet
The river, curling softly by
Whispers and dimples round its quiet grey
stones.
Along the chill green slope that dips and
heaves
The road runs rough and silent, lined
With plum-trees, misty and blue-gray,
And poplars pallid as the day,
In masses spectral, underlined,
Pale greenish stems.half hidfndry, gray leaves.
And on beside the rivers sober edge
A long fresh field lies black Beyond
Low thiclSets gray and reddish stand,
Stroked white with birch; and near at hand.
over little steelsmoOth pond.
Hang mutitudes Of thin and whitening sedge
Across a waste and solitary rise
a plowman urges his dun team
stopped gray figure with prone brow
That plunges bending TO the pillow
With strong uneven steps The stream
Rings and reechoes with his furious cries.
Sometimes the lowing OF a cow longdrawn.
Comes from far on; and crows Ia strings
Pass on the upper silences
A flock OF small gray goldhnches,
Flown down with silvery twitterings,
Rustic among the birch cones and are gone
This day the season seems like one that heeds
With fixed ear and lifted hand
All moods that yet are known on earth,
All motions that have faintest birth,
II haply she may understand
The utmost inward sense OF all her deeds
Archibald Lampman, in Harpers Magazine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

huge desperate-faeed man, profess
sioual gambler. He was the best monte
PLAYER in that country lie was never
beaded He had won 5000 from the
Indians in that very cache, and had
put properties of more Indians in
pawn than any other man about the
place,
The Indians are intense gamblers The
women watch the men. and viii stake
their necklaces. leggings, ornaments.
and in fact their all on the play, which
is done sometimes with blue wild plum
stones, hieroglyphicanJ charactered,
and sometimes with playing bones but
oftener with common cards Above
ground the tom-tom would be sounded.
but below the ground the tom-tom was
buried.
The thing that moved me most in
this dissolute den was the spectacle in
the furthest corner Of the shack" Of
IN indian mother with papoose in its
baby case pceping over her back There
She stood behind an Indian gInbler to
whom She had joined her life. painted
and beaded and half intoxicated The
Indian husband had already put his
saddle in pawn tn the white pro
fessional gambler fur IFS i've dollars
and il was not five minutes before the
white gambler had the saddle aud the
five dollars both. Then. when they had
nothing else left 70 bet, 50 intense v.ae
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

The senior proprietor OF this paper
has been subject to frequent colds for
some years. which was sure to lay him
up if not doctored at once. He finds
that Chamberlain Cough Remedy is
reliable. 1t opens the secretions, re-
lieves the lungs and restores the system
to healthy condition. If freely used
as soon as the cold has been contracted,
and before it has become settled in the
system, it greatly lessons the attack and
often cures in a single day what would
otherwise have been a severe cold
Northwestern Hotel Reporter, Des
Moines, Iowa. % and so cent bottles
for sale by j. I. Bennett Druggist
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
Hard, Soft or Calloused Jumps and
Blemishes from horses. Blood SPAWN
Curbs, Splints, Sweeney. Ring Bone,
STILES, Sprains. Swollen Threats,
Coughs. etc. Save $50 by use of one
bottle. Warranted the most wonder
full Blemish cure ever known. Sold by
Stone & Hassell Druggists, Lancaster,
Wis. VI
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
Catarrh in Colorado.

used Ely's Cream Balm for dry ca
tarrh. 1t proved a cure.-B. F. NJ
Weeks, Denver.
Ely Cream Balm is especially adapt
ed as remedy for catarTh which j:
aggravated by alkal ne dust and dry
winds.-w. a. Hover. Druggist. Den
yer.
1 can recommend Els Cream Balm
10 oil sufferers from dry catarrh from
personal experience. Michael Herr.
Pharmacist, Denver.
Eiy's Cream Balm has cured many
cases Of cstarrh. It is in constant de-
mand Geo. W. Hoyt. Pharmacist,
Cheyenne. wv
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
suckLlN,s ARNIcA sALvE.

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
BeuiseS, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains. Coras. and all Skin Erup-
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed 70 give
perfect satisfaction, or money rel lnded.
Price Is cents, per box. For sale by
JOSEPH T. BENNETT. As "
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
Marion Hartland.

the well known authority on cooking,
says: II cheerfully commend the Bak-
ing Powder OF Prof Horsford to the
housekeepers of America. 1t deserves
as honorable a place in the store-room
and kitchen as does his Acid Phosphate
in the family medicine chest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

You can never tell what slight cold
may lead to; it is best, therefore, to give
yourself the benefit of the doubt, and
cure it as soon as possible with Ayers
Cherry PICTORIAL. A days delay, some
times an hours delay, may result in
serious consequences.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

My little one came to me weeping. weeping,
over her bright checks the bright tears creep
ing;
'ohi mamma, lis raining and pouring awsyl
We cannot 80 10 the picnic today
took the darling Up in my lap,
And tried 20 make light OF the great mishap:
BE patient my child. with the rain; for OIL
1t makes Mr. Somebody's garden grow.
Yes, il makes Mir. Somebody's garden grow. -
Ny little one came 10 me signing, signing.
Almost ready again for crying
"Oh mamma the sun is 50 derv hot
The flowers planted have died on the spot"
took The darling UP on ny knee
And kissed and spoAe 10 her cheeritv:
"Be glad my child. u the sun today
II helps Mr. Somebody maze ms hay
q, IL helps Mr.. Somebody make his hay"
There's many thing may seem quite too had q
For this little lass 81 that i4t-.s Lad.
Bun the thinc that & yoG may :he hardest he
MAY Hh MI Somebody S heart with rIce.
u 6. may aa Hr some o3y'S heart with glee-
Laura I Richards in st Nicholas
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Anger wishes that all mankind had
only one neck; love, that it had only
Que heart; grief, two tearglands; pride,
two bent knees-Richter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Stores Sarsaparilla is powerful
Blood Purifier. The best remedy for
Plmples, Salt Rheum, Catarrh, Scrofula
Constipation and Rheumatism.
per bottle. Sold by STONE & HASSELL.
Lancaster, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
The Panacea Of Youth.

The playthings drop from the tiny hands,
And all UNDECIDED lie,
And the households darling whimp'ring stands
With pursed-up lips to cry
But soon he's forgotten his woes 70 tell,
For mother has kissed it and made IL well"
A rosy boy with o wooden ship,
A cry and . wounded handl
oh, why will g jack knife always slip.
With the vessel high on landi
But the gravest trouble that e'er oefell
Is nothing when mother has kissed Is we'll"
pain,
When cares outweigh our joys,
Could ny 10 our mothers side again,
Just as we did when boys
And feel the power OF that old time spell
When mother kissed US and made 1t we'll"
Louise r. Van Norman, in ". Y. Ledger
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Cough Cream is a scientific CON-
pound fol coughs and colds, prepared
by weIl-knogn druggist from the for
mula OF celebrated physician, and
must not be elassed with the many
auack compounds in market. Your
druggist sells it. SO cts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Washington Star: Here is another
idle shattered said the young man
who found be had to 90 to work.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

No man ever offended his own con
science, bot first or last it was revepgeC
upon him for it. Fuller.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

a miser grows rich by seeming poor;
an eXtlavagant man grows poor by
seeming rich. -Shenstone.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
4 Matter of Prejudice.

VI
heard you ask for bread today think you
called II bed:
heard you speak Of rats also, but WAITS" was
what you said,
You wished cracker too, and asked your nurse
"quacker' for;
You also thought you'd like to have wide"
along the floor
Now viii you tell me, baby dear, in confidence
OF course
And IN the reason that youH give I'm sure
there'Il be much force
just why it is you have conceived unknown to
your papa,
Such prejudice against it that you drop the let
ter Il?
John Kendrick Bangs. in Harpers Yonng
People
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Trust men. aud they will be true to
you; treat them greatly and they will
show themselves great.-Emerson.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

No on is as happy, as reasonable, as
tian.-Pascal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

"The love of glory can only create a
hero. The contempt of it creates a
great man."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Education is the only interest worthy
the deep. controlling anxiety of the
thoughtful man.-Wendel Phillips.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Perfection is attained by slow de
grees; she requires the hand Of time L
NOltaire
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02


stand tonight by a rivers brink,
tPiarid and slyery clear II fows);
have but 70 stoop and from il drink
Ana shall forget my cares and woes.
That were boon 10 forget the past.
With all lis sorrow ana all It's pain
Its pleasures and Joys too sweet to last
The struggle and toll of hand and brain.
The doubts and follies, the faults and sins
stoop 70 drink-and yet-and yet
j pause before oblivion wins;
Is there anything would not forget'
The sound OF voice I heard Of old
The eyes that glistencd with love and trust,
The touch Of hand that's long been cold,
The pressure Of lips that have long been dust
With start turn from Lethe's brink;
Oblivion may be sweet-and yet
The fates be praised that l ala not drink
There are some things would not forget
Edith Sessions Topper, in Once Week
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

AL other knowledge IS hurtful 70 him
WHO has not honesty and good nature
Montague
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Without content, we shall find it
almost as difficult to please others as
oursef,-Greville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Doctors? Pshaw! Take BEECHAM's
PILLS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

The use Of 'Castoria is so universal and
its merits 50 well known that it seems a work
of supererOgatiOn TO endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach
CARLOS MARTYR, D. D.,
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02
for infants and Children.

"castoriaissowe wen adapted to children that
Ireco-1mend itas superior to any prescription
known TO me" II. \. ARCHER, N. D.,
III So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, n. Y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-02

Ripans TabuleS cure collie.