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Show ESI I say, Mr. Yankee 8 Expelled havent told us Br" , Not Disgraced g boys of Freshfleld school, at 'hich Frank Leicester had been but a few weeks, hardly knew what to make of that young gentleman. Born and reared In Texae, he had all the characteristics of the typical American boy, though his parents were English. Dying within a few weeks of each other, they had left him to the care of his relatives in the old country, who placed him under Doctor Polluck to have him fitted for English commercial life. He apparently neither knew nor cared anything about cricket or fives; but at running and swimming he had proved hlmcelf equal to the best; and he was already looked to for ideas when mischief was brewing. His latest proposal was causing a great commotion. Imbued with ihe Yankee spirit, he wanted to celebrate the Fourth of July. Like true Britons, the whole school had at first objected. But when Frank vaguely hinted of the many new fireworks that he would show them how to make, and dilated on the fun they could have with them at this time of the year, their patriotism cooled, and most of them agreed to assist him. The elder boys, however, jealous of Fnfttks growing popularity, did all they could to suppress the scheme. There had been many angry disputes, for Frank, accits:omed to leading, chafed under opposition; and a crowd was now fiercely wrangling over the matter round the cricket pavilion. Who cares tuppence about the Fourth of July? said Polling, their and the principal objector. I dont know anything about the Fourth of July. Or anything else, I guess, put in Look here, Frank, aggressively. you fellows; youre as good as Americans Felling protested "Well, nearly as good; anyhow, youre not duffers to stand out when theres such mighty fun about. Fourth of July be bothered! shouted young Jackson. "I vote for the fun." Fun! said Pelling; all rot, I But the Texan would stand na more. Tell you what, said he, beginning to take off his coat; if you can lick me, I reckon the thing can slide. Pelling was ready enough; in a moment he threw off his coat, and faced his challenger. But it was not to be. Jackson, senbetween ior, their captain, stepped them. The doctor had asked him to keep an eye on Frank; and the youngster looked no match for Pelling, who was one of the best fighters in the H vice-capta- in school. Whats the odds, Pelling? said he. the Fourth of July! Let him Blow have his fireworks if he wants them. The boys, though ever eager for a fight, backed up their captain; and Frank being well content with this compromise, the matter was amicably settled. For the next few days Frank was hard at work. Nearly all were ready to assist him, hut only a faithful few were permitted to have a hand In the arrangements. They made several surreptitious Jour-i.eyinto the town, and had quickly collected all the necessary materials. At every available moment mysterious 0 S 1I NUMBER 33. MARYSVALE, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1890. I. YOL, PION PIU 'u HELP! BRING THE ESCAPE. meetings were being held In the outhouse abutting the left wlug of the school, the rest of the boys loyally combinvog to keep all knowledge of the proceedings from the authorities. It was the evening of the third; and Franks preparations were practically complete. As soon after tea. as possible, he and his assistants slipped one by one to their temporary workshop, and were now putting the final touches to their creations. Hullo, young Jackson, what are you said Frank, doing with that fuse? he had looking up from the just finished. Dont waste it, you little idiot; we shall want that set-pie- . He snatched the burning fuse from the boys hand, and throwing It on the Jrround, put his foot on it. The supper cell then ringing, their things were packed away in Franks locker, and the coys trooped off to the dining hall. Pelling ran against Frank ia the doorway let em off, how he Jeered. Doodle, you 1 ' am sure I put them away quit SOCIETY K youre going to safely. Frank hadnt thought of that, so took refuge in a lofty silence. No talking, was the rule during but as soon as that meal supper-timwas over, file point raised by Pelling was eagerly discussed. Fine specimen of Yankee cuteness! You wont dare to let laughed he. them off. Wont I dare? said Frank. Ill show you Suddenly cries of Fire! fire! and of womens screams from the kitchen, made every boys heart stand still. The next moment they were all rushdo.vn stairs. ing pell-me- ll My stare! shouted Frank; its the outhouse. Lreckon theyll go off now. He was right. There wTas a sudden explosion, and immediately the outhouse burst Into a mass of flames. The doctor was heard above the babel of voices. Run for the engine you, Jackson! Jackson made off to the town; hut in an incredibly short space of time the whole wing appeared to be in flames masters, boys and domestics gazing helplessly at the conflagration. The next few minutes seemed an age to them, for they could do absolutely nothing. Keep back, hoys. Here they come! the doctor shouted, as the noise of the approaching engine was heard. Suddenly an excited figure pushed its way through the crowd; and Mr. Joyce, the junior master, made a rush for the burning doorway. Come back, Mr. Joyce, come back! was the cry taken up on all sides. But the master dashed on; and only a few heard his My papers! my papers! as he disappeared into the smoke. The fire brigade was already getting to work, and all was bustle and excitement. Is there anyone in the house? demanded their captain. He was answered by a cry from the boys. The unfortunate Mr. Joyce, his retreat cut off by the rapidly advancing flames, appeared at an upper wine, dow. Help! help! he shouted; bring the escape! But the fierce flames, bursting through the lower windows, rendered the escape useless. It was death for him to remain there; already the room beneath him was well alight; and the crowd gazed horror-stricke- n at the master's desperate plight. But British firemen are never beaten. A yell of delight went up as one of the plucky fellows was seen clambering along the roof, with a rope attached to his body. To fasten one end to a chimney-stack, slide down to the coping, and lower the other to the master, was the work of a few seconds. Cheer after cheer rang out as through the smoke the two were seen standing together away from all reach of the devouring flames. B this time the efforts of the firemen were meeting with their reward; and though it was a hard struggle, they managed to keep the fire from the rest of the building. Just before midnight the flames were finally subdued, and the boys sent the firemen off with three hearty cheers. Lucky for us it isnt In the dormi-- t Dries, remarked Frank, as he turned into bed that night or rather early the next morning; "though it doesnt matter much to me, I suppose. Guess I shall be like my fireworks, and go oft suddenly. A few of them laughed feebly, but the rest took too serious a view of Franks situation to appreciate his joke. My word, said young Jackson, softly, to himself, wont there he a row There was a hush of expectancy over all when the school assembled the next morning, and the boys hardly dared to breathe when the doctor rose to address them. Quiet y and impressively he spoke, dwelling on the seriousness of the previous nights events, and then, suddenly holding up the charred case of a squib, said: Now, boys, one of the firemen brought this to me. Which of you has been making fireworks? For a moment no one spoke. the doctor added, "Come, boys, sternly, which of you has been making fireworks? Now for explosion number two, Here goes. Please, muttered Frank. sir. it was me. A sigh of mingled relief and admiration escaped from the hoys as they realized that their leader In the enterprise meant to take the responsibility. How comes this, Leicester? the What were you dodoctor demanded. ing with fireworks? They were for the Fourth, sir, reI made them to celeplied Frank. brate it, sir. The doctor looked mystified. But do you mean to say that you let them off in the "No, sir; I was keeping them for today. But how came they alight? thundered Doctor Polluck. Fireworks don't light themselves. I dont know, sir, faltered Frank. out-hous- I need hardly point out what the re-- 1 suit of this must be," said the doctor, This ie a most turning to the boys. serious matter for all concerned in it As for Leicester, who ie obviously the leader, it is quite impossible that his name should remain on the books of this school. I am very sorry, said Frank, tearBut it was all my fault. fully. No, t ELECTRIC CARS. To Be Csed In Connection with the chester Ship Canal. Man- BE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERATION. tlra. Alice Ies llrceil of I.yim, V aH.. la Among the Prominent ('ai'ilhlat. I for the Honor Has Two Daughter Alao ConKitcuoua in Swelldom. Alice Ivet RS. Breed of Lynn, Mass., is the woman most talked of for the next president of the General Federation of Wom- ens Clubs. Mrs. Breed is a woman She is also a great traveler, a systematic worker in her intellectual and club life, and, above all, is a devoted mother ind homemaker. Mrs. Breed has hosts )f admirers in Chicago, gained during her visits to Mrs. H. O. Stone, whom she has known for many house on the rock is of Massachusetts in of wealth evidences culture. There the most distinguished men and women in the world of art, music and literature may he met, drawn is they are to the beautiful place by ihe Intelligent sympathy of the gra-:iohostess. Personally Mrs. Breed Her mast most attractive, combining in her manner the graceful charm of the well bred woman with a simplicity and sincerity and render her wonderfully enBesides discharging the sogaging. cial duties that fall to her lot Mrs. freed superintends the education of tier five children. Two of them. Miss Is 1I1ST0RY MUST TAKE ROBBERS ALIVE. Reward tor U ad lays ro.tofHe. Plunderer. So ms very curious cases have fc!ea decided by the law department of the postoffice department relating te rewards for the capture of robbers of postofflees. Judge Thomas has Just rendered a decision against a claimant at California, Mo., whore a postoffice safe was robbed. In such cases the department pays 200 each for the conviction of the persons engaged in the robbery. There were five persons in t.ie affair, but the authorities had no clew to the men. It happened that the guilty persons were in a saloon some time afterward, and one of the crowd got Into a dispute with a farmer. A row ensued In which the farmer shot and killed the man. The other men ran and were captured by other persons, not because they were postoffice robbers, but because they wers engaged in the row. It turned out on examination that the man killed was the ringleader and had the hulk of the booty on his person. His death resulted in proving the complicity in the robbery of the four other wen. The men wh captured the four have been allowed $SOO. The farmer made application-for 9200, but it is said that the reward being offered for the arrest and conviction of the robbers, he cannot be paid the amount. The dead robber was neither arrested nor convcted of the offense. Judge Thomas said that it was rather hard, but under the law he could do nothing else. He recalled a case in Oklahoma, where there had been a robbery and three, notorious desperadoes were pursued, and, after a fierce encounter, one was killed, another mortally wounded and the ether captured. The dead robber wa the leader and had nearly all the stolen ITuTe Saui MAY It wasnt! The whole school turned, startled by this sudden interruption. Twas Pelling, stung into speech by the manly way in which Leicester was taking the blame. What does this mean, Pelling?" Pelling, flushing and paling by turns, looked a pitiable object. I did it, sir, he gasped; I wanted to spoil his fun! This is most extraordinary," said Did what? the doctor. Set fire to them, sir. I found a bit of fuse alight in the outhouse after hed gone, and I threw It In his locker. And, fairly overcome by the terrible result of his spite, he burst out blubbering. The boys evident distress so moved Doctor Polluck that he said little more. Sending the two boys to his study, he dismissed the school. Both Leicester and Pelling were expelled, though even Dr. Polluck felt a touch of regret at the loss of his two black sheep. At Freshfleld school their names will never be forgotten, for the boys consider that their behavior In the hour of trial more than atoned for their previous misdeeds. lVO'u.VN. CRAPS. MORE THAN HUNDRE9 YEARS AGO. ORIGINATED . A Faarlnatlaui Peculiarly African Method of Gambling That Is Not Without Its Now Prohibited In th Intricacies Crescent City, and Many Other Places.- - F there la ono game to which the Savannah negro is devoted above all others, it Is craps. City or country, it is all alike, says the . Savannah News. On Sundays the negroes country In little gather groups in the shade of the trees, out of sight of the big house," and play all day long, or. until the wages .which they received on Saturday nlglvt are gone. In the cities they gather on the wharves, in the corners of warehouses, . or any I'avorable spot out of sight of the cop" and play for any amount they may possess, from coppers to dollars. The Savannah bootblacks and newsboys, like those of any other city, gamble away their earnings, and many a game is carried on in the lanes,- - the players often becoming bo Interested ; that they lose all thought of the policeman until that worthy appears In tbelr midst and nabs a couple of the players. White boys play the game, too, but negroes of all ages and sizes shoot craps. There is only one other game which equals craps in fascination for them, and that is policy, and as pol- icy is more likely to be Interfered with by ihe police, craps has all the advan- -' tage. Thore are fascinations about the game peculiarly African, It is not without Us intricacies. The ordinary come seven, come eleven plan of the game is simple enough, but if there is a crowd around the players there may n be a Interested in the game , and a dozen side bets. How they man-ag- e to keep run of the game is a mysy tery to the ordinary observer vbnt they d sa'WVk'u.y 'lying accuracjJ. Fights crap games are rare. The expressions common to ihe game are amusing. New dress for de baby, See my gal Sunday exclaims one. De little night, exclaims another. number 2, says one, as that unlucky numlier shows up. I eight you, says another, meaning that he bets that that number will not turn up again before And so it goes. the "lucky seven. The city council of New Orleans has just passed a law making the game of craps illegal. It does not matter where it Is played, whether in the streets, in the (lub or at home, craps is especially singled out as the most depraved of gambling games, not to he tolerated anywhere. The game, according to a modern writer, is of New Orleans origin and over 100 years old learn a rd de Marigny who entertained Louis Philippe when he came to Louisiana, and who stood seventy yearn ago as the head of the creole colony of the state, as ils wealthiest and most promineut citizen -- he was entitled to call himself Marquis In French was the inventor or father of craps, and brought it Into higii favor as the fashionable gambling of the day. When he laid off his plantation, just below the then city of New Orleans it ie now the Third district, blit was then the Faubourg Marigny and divided it into lots, he named one of the principal streets Craps, and explained that he did so because he had lost the money he received from the lots on that street in this favorite game of his. It remained Craps street until a few years ago, when a protest was raised against such a disreputable name for a very quiet and respectable street, esThe Craps pecially given to churches. Street Methodist Church sounded particularly bad. After Bernard Marig-ny- s death craps as a gambling game descended in the social ecale and was finally mainly monopolized by negroes and street gamins. Some five or six years ago, however, 6ome Chicagoans who happened to be on ths levee in New Orleans were struck by the game as offering novelties to the and took it jaded taste of home with them. It crept into favor at once ia the west, and craps now ranges from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and no is without a gambling-hous- e craps room. But, while it has flourished elsewhere, ,t has been tabooed in its birthplace. i,nd now, not content wKh the ordinary laws against all gambling gamea the council has declared craps especially prohibited, and' not to be played for money even in ones back bedroom with the blinds pulled down in front. , The motor car has long been a familiar sight in the streets of Paris, and the French have shown great ingenuity in the invention and Improvement of the different types of this convenient vehicle. It seems not unlikely that before long it will be as great a favorite in England as it is In Franoe. A scheme is on foot to supersede a large number of the London omnibuses It Is said that by electric vehicles. the electric omnibus is to surpass in comfort and spaciousness anything of the kind hitherto constructed. Moreover, the service will be quicker, and the banishment of the horse will make the roads cleaner and less unhealthful, more particularly as nearly all the main thoroughfares in London are paved with wood. The motor car is to be a leading factor in another great enterprise. The grip of Liverpool on the shipping trade has been so loosened by the competition of Manchester that the ship owners and the merohants of the city have become alive to the necessity of taking measures to retain their trade. They propose to introduce motor cars, each of which shall be capable of drawing three wagons, carrying ten tons of produce. The wagons are to be loaded at the ship's side, and the special advantages of their use will be that goods can in this way be conveyed without transfer to other vehicles direct to the warehouse, wherever it may be The situated. ordinary highways will be utilized, for this purpose and no rails need be laid. It is expected that by this means the cost of conveying merchandise to and from Manchester and other towns will be reduced to a point with which the ship canal cannot compete, and the further expectation is that the railway companies will be compelled in to lower their rates, which again will tell against the ship canal. It is believed that a fully loaded train of three wagons can be drawn at a uniform speed of six miles an hour. Another proposed application of the motor car is that now under discussion by the town council of Dover, Kent, for devoting a number of horseless vehicles to the street scavengering service of the town. half-doze- self-defen- se ALICE IVES BREED. Alice Breed and Miss Florence Brped, property on his person. The others are just out in society, and passed a were tried and convicted and the couple of months of last winter in Chi- wounded man died. The reward of cago, where they were the guests of ?400 was paid for the capture of the Skunk Oil. Mrs. Stone and Mrs. Fernando Jones. two, but, although the special agent reAn Iowa expert gives the following ported in favor oi paying the reward information concerning the origin of Mrs. Breed has also given much time for the (lead robber, it was found not to philanthropic and reform work, beskunk oil: As I live in a district where to be in accordance with the law and of several large charthe ing president the skunk is only too well known, peritable societies In Boston and Lynn. was refused. Postoffice robbers must haps I may be able to answer your cor- Since the of the General be taken alive in order to secure rerespondents question about the origin Federation organization she has been prominently wards. of skunk oil, commonly sold in the drug connected with her general its plans, stores around us as a remedy for rheuAmerican Camels experience in club work making her a matism. Skunks lie in their holes durvaluable in counselor its deliberations, The Photni.. (Aiizona) Gazette says: ing the winter, never appearing above it is this wide ther with About thirty years ago a number of tog experience, on fine very excepting ground days. her unusual executive ability and camels, nearly 150, were brought to Before retiring under ground they bepersonality, that has marked Arizona, having been purchased by the come well loaded ivith fat When delightful her as the strongest candidate for the United States government for the purkilled, by drowning them by filling up in the gift of the great pose of carrying supplies to the regular their holes with water, they are dug highest position federation of Women's Clubs. troops stationed in the territory. After oat without producing any offensive a thorough trial they were found to be odor. The sting bag is removed, the useless, as the gravelly sands of the Why He Was Annoyed. skin Is secured, and then the fat la deserts cut their feet, making them remarked Sometimes, Methuselah treated taken out and just as the fat to his favorite unfit for travel. The entire lot was ofof a hog is treated in making lard. The sometimes I wish I fered for sale, and some were purpreparation of skunk oil is a profitable had died in my sixth or chased, but the larger number were young; say, industry during tha winter months. A seventh turned loose to graze and roam where century. German family near my residence does they pleased. For awhile they seemed Why, grandpop? a considerable business ia its preparaWell, it is peculiarly annoying to to dwindle in number, but of late yea-tion every year. me to hear my ninety-fourt- h wife say, they have multiplied rapidly, and toas she does every day or two: You are day probably 1,000 of these animals roam over the desert. A miner reProof Positive. certainly old enough to know better. -Bits. Theres no doubt about it; Jack is cently counted 518 in one herd on the Gila river, near the White mountains, Youre sure dead in love with you. Of the gold coin now in circulation and it is known that some graze in the Sure of it? Of course of it, are you? in England, a small proportion orly Bradshaws, while a few roam over th e I am. Hasnt he lent your young brothbear an earlier date than 1879. hills In Mojave county. Truth, er his bicycle? s -Tit- r OF Mo dice-playe- rs well-regulat- ed A GkI Reason. "Can any of you tell me why Lazarus was a beggar ft askell the female teacher. Why was Lazarus a begPlease, gar? she repeated sternly. maam, replied a small boy whoso father was a merchant, because ha didnt advertise, Chicago Chtooiele, , |
