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TFIE DALLES CHRONICLE.
TVHDAY, IEPTEBKR Z, IMMK.
HO FALTERING UNDER
THE NATIONS DUTY.
Silver and Expansion Are the
Paramount Issues.
H. C. IerallJ, Lite-Loot Sound Money
Democrat, Writes of tbe Nece
lity for Assuming a Larger
National Life.
Oat of the most successful, distin
guished and popular railway presidents
la tlit United Statea ia tbe Hon. Mel
ville B. Ingaila of Cincinnati. From the
MrT ground of railroad construction he
sas worked bia way up to the presidency
e( the Chesapeake and Ohio and Big
Four railway systems, among the most
prosperous of our great trunk lines. Mr.
Infills la one of the people, and ia prac
tical In every idea, lie ia a lifelong Dem
ocrat, and from the September issue of
tat North American Iteview the follow
ing extracts are made from Mr. Ingalls'
Advice to Gold Democrats:
What has happened since Xorember,
1890, to warrant reversal of the judg
ment which the American people then
pronounced at the polls? Under what
conditions hare we entered on the pres
ent presidential campaign, and what, in
this regard, is the duty of patriotic citi
sens, independent of pnrtisnn affiliation?
To the Democrat who Toted for Palmer
and Buckner, as well as to the Democrat
who Toted for McKinley four years ago,
the situation to-day presents peculiar
embarrassments. Preferring to act with
his party, when possible, the patriotic
Democrat must, nevertheless, answer the
call of duty, no matter in what direction
It leads him.
The second and supreme trial of the
great financial issue, which never should
Save been dragged into partisan politics,
will be made at tbe polls in November,
1000. This test will, I believe, be con
clusive. What are the conditions under
which It la to be made?
There Is in the United States at the
W. PATENT LAWS
BREED MONOPOLIES.
A Drummer Continues His Chats
on Trade Changes.
Reorganization of Employing Companies
Affords Larger Opportunities lo the
Meo Expansion Qives Drummers
New Fields.
(Concluded from last week.)
Monopolies in this country are due
we to tbe patent system than any oth
er cause; the average trust could not ino
aopolize ita product, and it will not try.
If It does, there is the same old remedy
which we free American citizens, who
art supposed to have something to say
ia the election of our State legislatures,
eta apply. We can pass Stat laws for
the regulation of those monopolies. And,
fcj the way, speaking ot politics, the Itc
tubllcaa national platform declares
last monopolies and would propose
ttlonal legislation against them.
Got. Roosevelt, a singularly clear
headed public man on civic questions, let
nt tell you, sees the point. He would
legislate against monopolies. I Srmly
believe that this legislation will couie,
sad with it other laws intended to regu
late Industrial corporations, a good deal
Why not? When the trust really get to
.totoi so that they themselves know what
Itbty cin do, and ao that they won't be
sihtmed to show in what a cheap, prlm-
t,Te, experimental stage most of their
methods now are, then, like the banks
nd the railroads, tber ought to be made
" snow down," and they will be.
Jaen the Wall street investor for
whom we don't care anything In pnrtleu
will be protected from making bad
'jvntments, and the unwary Investors,
he Widows and the ornhnns. whom cei-
ln sand-bagging plutocrats like to tell
about with so niunv tears, will be
Woobly protected. Moreover, the em-
H;S of the trusts, the clerks in the
lofflces and the hands In the mills, can buy
P"t stocks, and they will want to.
U 'Poke about the Wall street Investor.
fl hasn't been making so very much
Pooey In Industrial stocks of late. He
P1 Canaht lots nt tm Prhna vou
fKall the case of the bicycle trust. The
fremoters of that scheme went to cer-
f'i bankers In New York on an eighty
illllon dollar basis. It wouldn't go. ft
run't worth h rtiAnaf 1 haras wan f
t1 property In planta, good will, etc.
'boat a year later the promoters, the
Promoter, nn itiniht whn hail lparn.
f fod deal In the meantime, came
""a with the bicycle trust proposition on
forty miuon dollar basis, and It went
't thttj could earn dividends on the forty
nilllons. It Is probably true that the
r1ran Bicycle Company Is not fully
"Bed with eTery single oue of the tnill
1 details of Its business, but doubtless
Wl'l get there. Other manufacturers,
a big manufacturers, in the bicycle
Alness will also get there; and other
f trusts In than K las kiiinaa ft res
Had to get there, too. Vou can't keep
Mood man down or a good proposition.
0 ean't corner all the capital and
"" in the country. Remember that.
I was speaking about the Investor,
S war - .
kt ' win,, mo uie wioow or me vi
I lit hmm m ...! .., I . ka
....in wm kvwwh, wa ...
peeonit day unparalleled prosperity. IB
which every citiara has a right to share.
If any citizen ! prevented from sharing
in that prosperity, ho ia the Tictim of
conditione which cannot be righted by
the election of Bryan, strongly as he may
be tempted to trust in that remedy. , I n
der the golj standard we have become
the leading creditor nation, am we are
financing the world. We have produced
three great crops in aucceasion, and we
are feeding Kurope. We have bad three
yeara of unexcelled manufacturing in
dustry, and we are finding a prompt and
generoua market all over tbe world. The
American farmer, the American laborer
and tbe American business man were
never as prosperous as they are to-day.
It is by their suffrages that this presiden
tial election must be decided. In what
direction do their interests lie?
The American farmer is selling for
37! ceuta a bushel corn which it cot
him 13 cents to produce. His wheat and
cotton, his beef aud pork are aeliing at
profitable prices. He is spending his
money in luxuries and enjoying himself.
He is riding in railroad trains, and, as he
looks from the car wiudows over the
bountiful harvests, he is taking a new
view not only of his native land, which
waa never fairer ot happier, but is also
minking of bis new markets aud new
possessions" across the seas.
Tbe laborer la to-day receiving more
wsges than he ever received before, and
he is receiving them in a currency that is
jom all over the world. In many in
mnres, unaouDiraiy, mere must be a
readjustment of wages, and the aporadic
strikes now reported in various manufac
turing centers point probably to the be-
ginning ot this readjustment. In my opin
ion, these and kindred difficulties will be
safely and speedily settled.
Now, can any sane man tell me how
the laborer will help his condition, or the
solution of the problems so vital to him,
by voting to debase our standard of Talue
and thereby reducing his own wages?
What has labor to hope from Bryan,
ostensibly the friend of the dissatisfied,
the champion of the aggrieved, and the
chosen candidate of all the long-hcircd
reformers in the United States? Does
not the supreme salvation of labor de
pend, after all, upon preserving our
standard of value, upon the non-pnrtisan
regulation of trusts, and upon the appli
cation to those great commercial aggre
gations, which are so peculiarly a pro
duct of this age, of a system of license
and taxation? Is it not idle to denounce
the trust as an evil, a menace to the na
tional welfare? l's not the trust a nat
ural and essential development of our
time? A quarter of a century ago the
word "corpoeiition" implied an inherent
reproach in the minds of exactly those
citizens who to-day regard the trust,
which Is the Incorporation of corpora
tions, with tbe same disfavor. Yet it is
to the solution of the trust problem that
the American business man, as well as
stock-watering evil along with the trust
"magnate" and the promoter. He is get
ting down on the earth again. Some of
the trusts in which he Invested have even
gone to pieces. They were badly con
ceived and badly mannged. They couldn't
hold together. They didn't "do business"
on a business basis.
There was no reason why they should
expect to hold together. Perhaps there
were too many purely ornamental per
sons in the otilces with high salaries.
Perhaps there were too many sons and
nephews of "the president," who sat
around looking handsome and thinking
that there was no other task of Impor
tance connected with their job. What
ever the cause, the badly organized and
badly managed trust has gone to pieces
or is going. Nothing ran help it, if it
enn't help itself. So, too, the people are
realizing that the problem is economic
after all, thut no person, nor any party,
Is to blame for this condition of things;
nor, iu fact, that any person, or party,
or policy can prevent the good ones from
succeeding, can prevent the bad ones
from failing.
That auggests another thing. I spoke
of the more or less handsome nephew of
"the president." He has got to be up to
his job or he can't stay. It lsn t enough
for him to succeed in his new position in
doing the same old things that be used
to do in the old one. There'is new study
for him, new problems; buying, handling
the labor situation, aeliing the product
at a profit, studying the world's mar
kets. All this he has got to do bees use It bns
got to be done; snd if he hasn't tbe in
clination or the brains to do it, you can
wager your last dollar at the risk of
walking from Kokoiuo to Kankakee that
neither the "President" nor any one else
will keep him In. That ia why it is tbe
worst kind of fol-de-rol, unworthy of
anybody as intelligent as the Great
American Traveler, to pretend that there
are no opportunities in manufacturing
and trade now, and especially none for
young men.
Fudge!
There was never so good a chance for
brains, and good health, and sobriety,
and acumen, and vitality. Have these
things and capital must have yoa. And
if it must have you it must pay you. The
larger the corporation, the more Impor
tant in it Is the man. There sre just aa
many large corporations now as there
were small ones before. As many big
men are required as there were small
ones required before. Whnt these so-
called magnates want Is somebody who
can do the work. Price la no object if
tbey can depend upon you. Yon can't
strike a $10,000 position all at once. You
hare got to show that yon are worth $!,
000. or 12,000, or 3,000. It Is the same
old climb ss It always has been; there Is
the same old ladder to go np by, and the
same old persimmon when you get to the
top round and the same old persimmons,
too, all the way up at all the rounds.
All this seems pretty long unless It
also seems to have some bearing upon
the drummer question. I don't know
whether yon ever thought of it or not,
but many different causes have been op
erating In the last few years to throw
commercial travelers out of work. Man
ufacturers have sought to eliminate com
mission men, who mint have laid off
good many of their travelers. The cata
logue houses, ao-eiilled. those doing busi
ness direct with the consumer by means
of catalogues and other printed matter,
have grown enormously. Tliey have Inld
off drummers If they ever nnl tnem: ana
one of the reasons why they ran sell so
cheaply to the consumer Is that one ele
ment of selling expense, the drnmmtng,
Is eliminsted. Any nonse tnsi corre
sponds extensively, that takes care with
its correspondence, ny jnsi so raucn
,tt ... ..J ts w -
mskes tne selling rssjt im n m
ess were kept np long eaouga, tins
tbe American farmer and laborer, mast
addre- .maelf. And in the solution of
that t-.oblem he will find the present goal
of patriotism.
The businesa man who doe not inquire
into the politics of his bookkeeper Is
asked by the supporters of Mr. Bryan to
allow partisan politics to be injected into
the circulating metlium through which he
carries on his businesa. He refused in
IS I, as he will refuse, I believe, in
to impute either Iemocrscy or Republi
canism to the dollar. He will say that
it ia not a polities! question, and that it
should not be made such. Asking him
self where he shall seek guidance in tbe
casting of his ballot, he, like the laborer
and the farmer, looks out upon prosper
ity unprecedented. He sees trade follow
ing the flag all around the world, and
new markets openiug to him under new
national responsibilities. He realizes, aa
a busiuess man, that these responsibili
ties must he grappled with and adjusted
on a business basis. No policy of evasion
or retreat can commend Itself to him.
Yet, into the field of partisan discussion.
be nn iJs these responsibilities dragged.
like the dollars from his counting room,
by the politicians who seek his vote. And,
like the farmer and the laborer, he finds
bis next national ballot invested with
unioue importance.
What will be the reply of the American
patriot, who U now asked to believe that
his home and his pocketbook are staked
on tbe next turn of the ballot, that a
wrong decision spells ruin, and that he
must decide issues of such moment aa
were never before submitted to the Amer
ican electorate?
Bryan's election appears to
me Impossible. Good citizens,
irrespective of party, should vote for Mc
Kinley in November. That it is the duty
of patriots to do so I have no doubt.
The safety of the American republic Is
not ineuaced by a bogey, crowned with an
Imperial diadem of straw. The cry of
imperialism is simply a pretext of the
Democratic leaders to save themselves
from the fatal blunder they made In
1SSMI, the blunder of dragging the dollar
to the polls aud endeavoring to degrade
It. Imperialism is not the paramount
issue, despite all efforts to make it so.
Now, as in lHiltl, the real issue is the
Silver Danger. That Is the peri! threat
ening this country, not the Imaginary
evils attendant on the acquisition of new
territory, which was the inevitable re
sult of a war for which the sbriekers
against imperialism were largely respon
sible. The only peril now threatening
the United States is ruin and retrogres
sion under silver, the turning back of
the wheels of progress and prosperity
to the stnndurds of China and Mexico,
and the abandonment of our position as
the greatest country in the civilized
world.
Shall we go forward or shall we tnrn
back? That is the question for the vot
ers in November. Under McKinley we
would cause drummers to lose their
places.
Then consider that millions and mill
ions of dollars are spent in this country
for advertising purposes, not merely in
the newspapers and the magazine,, but
on the fences and the bill boards, In
signs, In distributions of printed mat
ter, and what not.
What is all this money spent for?
To sell goods.
And the study of hundreds of the
brightest men in the country is devoted
to making advertising more and more
effective, so thnt a given expenditure will
result in greater and greater sales at a
lower and lower expense. Why do the
advertisers want to sell more and more
cheaply? So that they can beat their
competitors by giving the consumer bet
ter things for the same money, or just
aa good tilings for less money. All this
effort to sell things cheaper means that
drummers are going to be laid off if they
by their methods have been selling things
more expensively.
There Is another thing that we owe it
to ourselves to look fairly in the face.
Many drummers in the past have consid
ered that the business that tbey helped
their houses to do belonged to them and
not to the houses. Others, surely all the
houses, used to take a contrary view;
and of late yeara they have resorted to
the various more or less direct methods
of selling in order to get their business
back into their own bands.- No doubt
about it! No doubt about It!
One of the things which a trust alms
to do Is to reduce its selling expense. If
four manufacturers making tbe same ar
ticle are drumming Indiana, and their
four able and persuasive representatives
light into Indianapolis aome day, they
all go around among the trade doing lit
tle except neutralize one another. About
four times the talk, nerve force anj
money are spent to sell only as rniny
goods as Indianapolis wants that day,
as needs be spent. This is one of the
many things that the trusts have found
out that tbey knew before they started
in.
Now, It Is Inevitable in the very econ
omles, lu the very natural law of the
fltuation, that some of those drummers
must go some time; they may be sent
into new territory, they may be recalled
to work In the office at home, or tbey
may be dismissed entirely. Just so much
of their work as has been unnecessary
will surely be dispensed with in time.
Competition does that, and we couldn't
have any better illustration of the fact
that competition is always active. Here
it is potent, actually, fn the case of the
glucose trust that was afraid to encour
age too much competition (of other capi
tal and brains) by making more than sev
en per cent, It was active potentially.
It Is preposterous to say that fifty
thousand commercial travelers, or thirty
Ave thousand, have been thrown out nt
work by the trusts. There are probably
not sixty thousand sf them In the whole
country. Reside, If ten per cent of
them have been thrown out of work by
the various changes in producing and dis
tributing that have come about in the last
few years, other causes have probably
rontributed equally with the combination
movement. Kven so, and putting the
case at its very worst, the general Im
provement In business, the wide expan
sion of trade at borne and abroad, which
all of our producers, manufacturers and
trailers .have helped to bring about, and
by which they have all inevitably profit
edthis has put all of those commercial
travelers back Into places just as good.
or better, or will do so. It Is Inevitable.
More people were employed after ma
chinery waa Introduced simply because
the want of the human race became
greater and wider erery year, and these
wants had to be supplied, snd could be,
because things were ao much cheaper.
We aavo taken over Porto Rice, Ha
go forward, ander Bryan wo tura back.
The coming test of silver question
at the polls must, in ail human probe i
bility. bo the final one. The will ot the
ffnlM ftwl.A Mai-. m.1 Brill nift k. K
third time disputed. Each year that e
nri,.. .. . . . .,....
preserve our present money standard
gives it additional security. The Amer-j
icaa people do not like experiments w ith
their currency, their school houses, their;
churches or their savings banks. A re-!
rersal ot the popular verdict of l&sj I
would mean reversal of all the achieve-1
meats that make up our national pros-1
perity, Bryan's election would mean that ,
the sovereign people had decreed that our j
laborers shall be paid in silver, while!
our foreign debts must still be paid in
gold.
Convinced as I am that the financial
question is the paramouut issue in No- j
vember, 1900. aa it waa in November, j
lfCW, it ia worth while for Democrats 1
who supported McKinley, as I did, four
years ago, to ask what are the issues
upon which our party could have appeal
ed to the American people with fair pros
pects ot success, and what we can con
tend for in future contests, after this
economic and financial question is finally
settled. To my mind these define them
selves as reform in governmental admin
istration, economy in governmental ex
penditure, the taxation and regulation of
oppressive trusts and combinations, and
tbe immediate enactment ot a just and
honest scheme of colonial government.
These would have been Issues upon which
every patriot could have been honestly
asked to vote. Why should we not act
fairly about a reform In our old system
of taxation, and, at the same time, initi
ate a departure which might well result
in throwing tbe cost of government upon
those who can best afford it?
The silver problem solved once for all, as
it will be in November, the colonial prob-i
lem at once becomes paramount. We
must either give up Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, haul down our flag,
and shamefully abandon the righteoua,
fruits ot our prowess by land and sea,;
or we must prepare to govern these dis
tant additions to our country fairly and
honestly and capably. A per.
petnal, constitutional barrier must be
erected against tbe statehood of all our1
non-contiguous possessions. That su
premely important problem is to be met)
and overcome, not by cowardly evasion
or disgraceful retreat, for the America
people will tolerate no such course. We;
must institute honestly and wisely and;
administer economically an American co
lonial system, worthy alike ot our new'
possessions and of their mother country.
We are not incapable of governing them.
We are, as a nation, incapable ot nothing.
I fully believe In the future of the!
American republic, and thut we are wise,
and brave enough to bear the burdens,
and fulfill the task Providence haa allot
ted us. Let us not falter at the thresh
old. M. B. INGALLS.
waii and the Philippines, and have some
interest in Cuba; and I venture to say
that the increased and increasing busi
ness in those distant islands has already
more than absorbed the work of all the
drummers in the country who have lost
their positions through industrial com
binations. If that is true, and I believe
it is, consider whut a chance there is for
ten per cent of our commercial travelers,
or for fifty per cent of them. In time in
foreign lands or at home here, helping
their new employers, or their old ones,
to meet all the numberless new and in
creasing demands of our prosperous and
proud American men, women, sweet
hearts, wives, cousins, aunts and chil
dren, and nil the countless millions, who,
as we can be certain, are going to want
our American products more and more'
because the counted millions that we
know of have begun to take them now
almost faster than we can supply them.
That is expansion.
You cannot stop it In a million years!
It has been going on since the world
began, and It will contiune to go on:
faster than ever, I gness, to the end of
time. It happens when a people fairly
burst Its manufacturing and commercial
bounds. There must be an outlet for the1
products of our farms and factories, for
the capital and talents of our business
men and hustler.
Sometimes this expansion of new
strength, which amounts to an explosion
of new strength, must be preceded by a
battleship, even by a part of a standing)
army, or a permanent garrison, as in
Porto Rico or the Philippines. At other
times the battleship and the standing1
army, or a part of it. Just enough to hold
our o'.vn and make no doubt of it, must
follow.
The missionaries (who typify In a way
tbe advance of civilization into heathen
lands, as we call them) are best of all the
daring forerunners of the commerce and
the progress that have to get there too.
The human race, especially the Anglo
Saxon, are always wanting more and
better things; they are climbing, climbing,
climbing, always upon a higher plane of
living. These things they work for, and
fight for, and die for. So long a that
restless, world-conquering sentiment ex
ists, there will be expansion. So long,
too, the races of the earth which have
found themselves, and are still finding
themselves, nnequal to the trading, and
selling, and fighting, and civilizing rapac
ity of the Anglo-Saxons, must step aside;
they must learn to fight and to trade, and
to trade and to fight, much better; that Is
all.
I try to aay these thing thonghtfnllv,
a a drummer, notorious as he is for talk
ing, may sometime do. This expansion
that I speak of I what we optimist
mean by destiny; we are not afraid of It.
we welcome it. We have done In the last
three year a hundred years of work
which, however, we couldn't have done.
If we hadn't been prepnred, if we hadn't
been that kind of people.
There I not a true American man In
these United States that is not better off.
In his patriotism or his pecuniary pros
pects, for the tssks of war and of states
mnhip thst have been undertaken snd
discharged In the last three years. You
are better sff. whoever yon are; and I am
better off. Kven if T had not been nec
essary to my employer in the field and
had not been kept on the pay-roll, then
there would have been ten times the
freedom of opportunity, which Is all any
good man can want. There is freedom of
opportunity for everybody; but opportu
nity won't come looking for ns. We must
go running for It, watching every open
ing, looking for Improvement, looking for
the way which our employer mnt find if
we do not make his capital and his ef
forts pay him a little bitter. In that
way onr effort, which are our capital,
will pay ua better and better.
DitUMMLR.
RULES OF Intt ROAD.
three C1asro of Person Ought to
Know sad Observe Thesn.
, " ru,,T ot ,!le r,mi,1 V'1"' V
Indifferently understood by a large
uiimlK-r of persons alio use (he st rests,
or tuey are willfully disregarded. The
ordinary rules of the road, and they
apply to road vehicles, horsemen aud
tdcyeles, are as fallows:
Kur the lriver. Kuow bow to drive,
Kec-p to the right.
In passing another vehicle going In
the same ilircctioa keep to the left
Iu approaching crowing slow up,
To go around a ooruer o up and
make a wide turn to carry you to the
right, and avoid vehicles coming down
the cross streets on their proper side.
A city atrevt la not a tneetltiig track;
It Is a highway for the use of uuiny
and various vehicles. Therefore drive
at moderate ihh1.
I'm judgment.
If you can not drive do not bnnillo the
reins. Let someone do It who can,
Keep a cool head.
A jtersou who drives should be a re
sponsible person. A slight accident or
luck of Judgment on Ills part lulisbt
cost a life.
Senile men, young and untrained
boys, ulne tombs of the women, oue
luilf the men and a few of the coach
men should never tie allowed to drive
in the city. It takes knowledge, judg
ment and strength to pilot a horse or a
ten in of horses lu n crowded city street,
For the Pedestrian. If a pedestrian,
keep off the roadway, except to pas
over It at the proper crossing.
lo not stop lu the middle of the
street to converse with a person you
meet.
In crossing a afreet step lively; ob
serve all sides for coming teams. They
have the right of way.
Do not stand In the street while wait
ing for a street car.
If n bicycle wines behind you and Its
bell la Mitldcnly rung, do not get rat
tled. Stand still. The wheelman will
ride around yoa and avoid hurting
you.
If you do get rattled, do not try to
"balance on the corners" with the
wheel; make a bold (lush for the side
walk, or else stand still.
The sidewalks are for pedestrians,
The ro.idwnys are for vehicles.
For the Wheelman. lo not ride a
bicycle on a crowded street until you
arc Its master.
Do not "scorch."
Do not pass close In front of a ve
hicle or a street car.
Take your time unless you happen to
be going for a doctor. Kven then go
with reasonable speed and be extra ob
servant and cautious.
Keep to the right except when pass
ing a vehicle going lu tbe same direc
tion, when imihs It to the loft.
Do nut turn the corner of a down
town street while riding faster than
four miles an hour.
Do not const on down-town street.
It Is dangerous to your owu life and
the lives of others.
uo not attempt trick riding on a
crowded street.
When you see a wheelman riding on
the wrong side of the Htreet warn 1)1 in
This is customary In Chicago, St.
Louis, Denver and other large cities.
If you are so warnea do not get angry,
If you ride at night without a lamp
and arc accidentally run into It Is your
fault. One of the chief pm-poxes of n
lamp Is to keep other vehicles from
running you down.
Wheelmen should never ride more
than two abreast when riding In par
ties, enpeclnlly at night.
If you are a beginner get off and
walk down a bill. You are aure to bo
tiervotis and might run Into someone.
Every wheelman should know how
to dlHinotint from both sldt-s of the
wheel. This Is especially necessary In
down-town streets to avoid accidents.
Men who ride down town should
practice dropping off the saddle astrad
dle the bind wheel where dismounting
from either side Is Impossible.
Every wheelman should know how
to brake with the foot on the front
wheel. Many serious accidents on
down-towu streets would thus be
averted.
Every woman who rides a wheel
should have a brake attached to It.
No man should take a woman on a
teudetu on a crowded street. Tandems
are not fit vehicles for down-town
streets during business hours. Kansas
City Star.
A Bear that Could Ititn.
Another nmn who depended on the
assurance that bears nre nrrnnt cow
ards, and will run from any human
being who approaches them, has hnd
occasion to amend his opinion. On the
third of Inst May a wheelman, riding
through the country nlxiiit 1-ewlston,
Idaho, took It Into his head to go out
hunting for grouse. Leaving his wheel
In a secure place, ami taking a small
twenty-two-ciillber rllle, lie obtained
the services of a civilized Indian boy
nnmed Matthew, ns a sort of guide, and
set forth. The boy also had a rifle of
the same size, and they hnd a couple of
dogs. Between them they were pretty
well armed, ns they thought, and coiint
pd upon bringing home a good bng. Itut
hunting Is uncertain business.
They had not gone far Into the wood
on Mission Creek, fifteen tulles from
Lewlston, when the dogs stirred up
something which, to Judge from their
excited actions, was not a grouse. Tho
hunter went to see what It was, nncl
found the dogs barking at a she cinna
mon Iwar, which, with her culm, was In
a kind of den tn the rocks.
Tho Indian Iniy was In advance, and
the War bad no sooner seen lilm thnn
she rushed out nt him. Matthew did
the best thing he could think of -lie
flrrd bis little rllle In the lienr's face.
Itut the woundonly enraged her. She
sprang on the boy, bore him down, and
begnn to tear him with Iter teeth and
daws.
The white n:: n " :n meantime com-
Ing to the rescue with hit little gum
Although the sight of tbe bear tearing
the boy made him sick, bo poured tnt
small bullets Into her body, and at Uurl
succeeded In hurt Ing her so much that
she let go the boy, and suarllng at th
men, fled Into the wood.
Poor Matthew was now unconsctooat
his clothes were nearly gone, and hut
flesh was lucvrated In fifty places, Tbo
w hite man thought be was dead, but If
turned out that life was In til m. and U
luau took It 1 nt to a place where hi
frightful wounds could lie dressed.
This particular bear Is well known tsj
the people. alxiut Mission Creek. Bba
bus Kcvcral times attacked men and
boys, who have heretofore got off, la
the language of Job, by the skin of
their teeth.
The iHople have resolved not to tol
erate longer a bear with such repro
lienHible habits, and at last accounts a
party bad been organized to go aftef
her with more formidable weapon
thau twcnty-two-calilx-r rifles.
'Yes, My Iortl."
At a meeting of teachers In New
York City many suggestions were mad
as to the bct methods of clearing tho
cloudy uncertainty ot children's mem
ories. "It Is almost hopeless," said the prin
cipal of a public school. "American chil
dren, for Instance, are usually sure of
but two dates In history, but they at
tach very different events to them.
Oue pupil told me yeoterday that Wash
ington was born tn 1770 and that tho
civil war ended In 1402."
"It Is not only their memories, but
their minds that are hazy," said a well
known literary woman. "Parents sel
dom know the strange meanings that
timid child puzzles out alone from or
dinary phrases. Until I was a large girt
and found courage to ask bow all of tho
prophets could be hung on one rope, I
always believed the two command
ments from which 'hang all the law and
the prophets' to have been two scaf
folds." 'English children are no brighter
than our own," said another teacher,
and repeated an anecdote told by aa
American bishop who, while In York
shire, hnd been asked to address a Sun
day school.
"I am the Bishop of the diocese of
Washington and Idaho," he said; "and.
by the way, can any of you tell mo
whnt it diocese Is?"
Several hands were held up. Dr. Tal
bot nodded to a yellow-haired, red-
cheeked lad In front. "You know," ho
said.
"Yes, my lord. A diocese Is a hlga
point of laud, with a bishop sitting on
top and a lot of clergymen all around.
It Is not the children who are to
blame," said an old professor, who bad
listened In silence. "It Is we, who. In
these modern days, are urgent to
crowd Into their vacant minds the rudi
ments of too ninny branches of knowl
edge. It Is botter to take a week to
plant In a child's mind one Idea, so that
It may take root and grow, and becomo
a part of bis life, than to pour Into It sv
hundred facts In a day, which he doe
not understand nor receive."
.Iroitu (Seasons.
The seasons tn the north frigid zone
or arctic circle follow the seasons la
the north temperate zone, though, ot
course, about the pole and for 1,000
miles south of It In every direction tho
winters are much more severe and
longer, while there Is practically neith
er spring nor fall, three or four months)
of unseasonably warm weather consid
ering the latitude, being whnt the resi
dents In Alaska and Northern Siberia
may expect. The equutorlal regions
have Hiclr wet and dry seasons, tho
change of seasons being usually accom
panied by severe storms, which occur
In September and March, often attain
ing the violence of hurricanes. What
we call our'wlntcr Is the dry and pleas
ant season In equatorial regions, both
north and south, and our summer Is, la
the tropical cone, the rainy and un
healthy season. St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
ITmbrellae.
Umbrellas will hint much longer If,
when they are wet they are placed han
dle downwards to dry; the molxturo
then runs from the edges of the frame
and the mnterlnl dries uniformly. If
stood handle upwards, as Is usually tho
case, all the moisture runs Into the top
of the umbrella and Is kept there by
the lining underneath the ring, conse
quently It takes a long time to dry, and
Injures the silk or other fabric with
which the umbrella Is covered. The lat
ter Is one of the chief causes of um
brellas wearing so soon at the top. Um
brella cases are not so much used as)
formerly, for these nre responsible by
their constant friction for the small
holes In the fabric that appear very
early. When not In use nn umbrella,
should be left unrolled, and wlicu wet
should be left loose to dry.
Trapped,
Animals enught In trap have some
times mil mi Kill to escnpe with trap and
an, but In most cii.se the trap has In
the long run been the death of them.
This wn the fate of an eagle thnt had
flown away with a trap dangling from
one of Its legs. For several weeks
neither bird nor trap wns seen, till one
day, a gentleman noticed a curious ob
ject hanging front a tree-branch.
Climbing np to find out what It wns, ho
discovered that It wns the eagle, qulto
dead. The peg ami chains by which
the trap had I n fastened In tho
ground had lieeome entangled among
the boughs nnd the poor eagle had been
slowly starved to death.
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