THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAN, PORTLA2TD, NOVEMBER 11, 1900.
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STOglFWESTERN If E
S'o&ss? BJLrraERS' -wonK has -fb-
' CU&XAR. PASCXKATXOZC
InSinn'm experience Tlfltl-. a Ghost
43-roXesateaal Eaters" Asionff Ab
' erlarlSies-SodADan la Arlxoss.
J "WA6H1NQTON, Not. . There aeejnj
ta he & .strange fascination about the
work with surveying parties sent out by
the Geological Survey every Summ.tr
that clings to a man for years after he
2xas had his first experience. A young
,-man, -bow private secretary to a promi
nent Government official, who morethan
12 years ago spent a .Summer with &' sur-,
veytejr "partyiin Astoona, was'speaking -ot
this the other day, and said: "Itteould
Clve" a good- deal today If I could get out
-ot ofilce work and. Into the flsld once
snore. That was life, a life worth living,
when yoU- could feel yourself a -man, and
.not u machine, which the Government or
any confining' occupation makes of one.
In those days, we had to -work, "and we
had to go at It with a wllL Hours were
long, accommodations were what ydu get
In any moderately well-regulated camp,
and play was unknown, 'but we liked it,
and, once having experienced it,' you
ean never get over a longing for just
ueh another experience. Our party went
into the petrified forest region of Arleona.
The climate was extreme, but It was
exhilarating. "We were up every morning
at 4 o'clock; and, after a speedy break
.fast, set out for the scene of operations.
We kept at it all day, getting back to
camp about at night. Heals were
'served twice a day, breakfast and din
ner, but no meals were aver relished
more than those two. I tell you, I have
seen men eat, and I have seen them
eat with relish, but never as they did In
the wild Arizona country. Each party
'Had its 'own cook, generally a Mormon,
a man well equipped . for the work In
camp. When our supply of fresh meat
ran out, and that was not long In that
hot country, we were thrown on our own
resources, and each man had to shoulder
his gun and go out after gatae. We8odn
came to appreciate the difference between
shooting for amusement and shooting for
our dinner. As necessity Is the 'mother
of Invention 1 so Is she the mother of
good marksmanship.
An Element of Danger,
"Down In the Southwest there Is gen
erally more or less of an element of dan
ger Involved in the surveys, and for,
many this has a 'peculiar fascination, for
.many men will take ta work that in
volves danger where they will not relish
anything that Is purely routine. When
we worked around and over the canyons,
many dangerous chances were taken, and
in order to seouro choice photographs the
Instrument often had to be placed in some
almost laccesslble point. But there were
always some men In the party willing
to take the risk. The averago reader
perusing one of the elaborately l"lus
trated. reports, of, the Geological. Suryey
does not realise what perils were braved
In order to moke that volume more at
tractive, or what difficulties had to be
surmounted In order to give him accurate
information about ttiis or that locality.
But we k,now what It means. I recall one
instance "when the photographer of our
.party wanted a view of one of the can
yons In 'Arizona. He tried place after
place, but could get no satisfactory view
point Finally he discovered a. project
ing point of rock which answered every
purpose, and set his heart on getting
there, which he did. The cameras in
those days were not the compact Instru
ments of today, and the size used by our
party made up a package much larger
and heavier than the average dress suit
ease when tightly packed. When be got
down he ealjed f,6r some one ta "hand him
his came'ra. He could ovfty be reached by
a edge"not . mor.e than IS Inches. wide,
,fil04lhg at ilyat, end looking over lts'edge
you could see Bhnost straight down in
the. canyon for a thousand feet. It was
enough to curdle jour blood to look over,
Jet alone, try to climb ground with a
heavy camera, and no one would venture
around. Finally, In a rage, he came
clambering back, , grabbed the Instrument
Jvnd made a dash for the rock. He got
back, safely, but every step he took ov.cr
that ledge 'sent a shower of earth to the
bottom, nf the can, on. His photograph
pro ed a Success, but no pne but those In
the party ever appreciated at what a risk
l as secured.
Leaner- Through Accident.
""Of course -there are frequent losses
through accident. Many tlnfes the trails
that we had to follow would lead along
ledges on the side of some canon, and
our Instruments would always be carried
by pack animals. Those ledges are not
always reliable, and once lh a while a
mule would 'make a misstep, 'or the rock
would slip frdm under him, and both he
and his burden would be precipitated in
to the canyon. If the fall was for any
considerable distance, there was never
any use in going down, for the instru
Tnent would be smashed into a thousand
pleos and "the animal dead If not crushed
to a Jelly Sometimes there might be a
slight fall, and in those cases the dam
age was slight. I recall one Incident of
our Arizona survey. Our packtraln was
crawling along one of these ledges on
the side of a -can j on, when the leading
mule jnade a misstep, slipped, and over
he went. ,Phe fall was long, but the side
pt the,iadbn s&ldjiiofe than ordina'
iy. However, it was such a great dis
tance to the bottom that no ona even
looked over the side to "see where the
poor animal landed. We knew-. It was
useless to try to reooer the fragments
of the Instrument. When our party re
turned, two months later, .over te .same
trail. -one of us locked Ndown" IntttMhe
cano.n.,and there. In a. little grassy plot,
much, tatter -than h'e had "been before, was
bur fcng-lest mule, given up for dead.
He had." had two solid months of -good
pasturage all to himself, with no work,
and had. made the best of it. Some of
the old -straps, still clung to him, but the
Instrument was not to be found. The
sjopead evidently broken the force of
his fall, and he probably gained his feet
befdrehe reached bottom, and made the
remainder of the descent at his leagure."
t .An Indian Ghost Story.
"I have heard all kinds of ghost stories
In my day," said 'Supervisor A. O.
Wrjght, of the Indian office, in recounting
his various experiences among the Tea
.tktns. "but the most novel that ever came
te my ears I had from a halfbreed Sioux",
who related the following story to me as
an. actual-occurrence, in which he played
opposite, the ghost:
"This halfbreed, far more Intelligent
than the average Indian, after, serving
through the Civil War in an Iowa regi
ment, enlisted as a scout, and was sta
tioned at Fort Sill. He had not been at
his pOjSt many months before a band ot
Kiowas were taken captive by a detach
ment of troops from the fort. Like other
Indians, however, they watched their op
portunity, and under cpver of darkness
slipped away the second night of their
.captivity.
The commandant of the post was con
siderably worried, for fear they would be
.gin jl disastrous raid among, the unpro
tected whiter, although it was- possible
they "wou'd resume their hunting, In or
der to find out "the exact facts, -he de
Ujl;d tTO scouts the following morning
io fojlow, the trail and ee If .there was
ny real cause for apprehension. One ot
ike scouts was a white man; the other
this halfbreed.
, "Toceiaer they followed the trail across
the prairie- for two days before they
sighted, he band. On the evening of the
tecond day smoke was seen rising ahead,
end a -closer Inspection disclosed what
appeared to be a permanent camp on the
Jwmksaf a stream. Tepees had been
Hjcte, '.and. yerythlng indicated that
tae Indiana were,n a purely hunting ex
pedition with -no-intentlon of destroying
Mtto or -property. The scouts could not
vry veil spend the sight on the open
prairie,, for there waa po water. The half -breed
suggested that, they make their
camp'zftar a dump of trees, a short ways
ehoTo the Indian camp.but on the same
stream, put tne wait scout aissentea
&n& treat off by himself. . r
"Left wholly upon his own resources,
the other, after nightfall; crept stealthily
over to the bank of the stream and pick
eted his pony In a protected patch' of
-grass. When he came to look about he
found that his coffee-pot and cup Were
gone. 'He had nothing in which to make
coffee. About to give up in despair, he
recalled that a bed Indian, shortly be
fore killed in a fracas, was bUrled In dne
of the trees nearby, according to the
custom of his tribe, and that there would
surely be a bowl or cup of' some sort
placed on hi? bier. It belngthe belief of
those Indians that the spirits of depart
ed Indians return, and must be fed. Gen
orally an Indian, like his white brbther,
LwIU not .venture. In a, grayeyard after
dark, but for. this particular one the dead
.then, had less terror than-the livlpg, and
,he chanced It,, climbed the tree, borrowed
tne Dowi rom tne- aeaa jjiaian, ana re
turned to his. rire, buJlt In a protected
crcvlce7 where It could not he seen. J" "
"When he had supped he carefully re
placed the, bowl, half filled with coffee,
saying to himself, 'Any decent ghost
would be satisfied with that.'
Ghost From the Heavens.
"Hardly had, his eyes closed-befere a
ghost, horrible to see, came swooping
down :from the heavens above, whistling
and screeching In the face, of my friend.
2rf his right he pulled his blanket over
-his head, but .the- ghost only reached
down, clutched It In his bony hand and
snatched It off, laughing In a flendlsh
manner as he witnessed the growing fear
1n the poor scout. As the ghost continued
his derision, however, this -fear gave way
to anger. .
"The only thing the scout had wl,th
him. aside from his rifle, which ho knew
would not hurt a ghost, was his lariat,
with which he had staked his pony. ie
Jumped to his feet, ran to his pony, and
was- about to mount and make a break
to get away from the haunted spot, when
he rsallzed that the ghost could lollow, .
and that the 'noise of a speedy escape
might also bring lntp the chase some )f
the unfriendly Indians. l3o he loosened
the pony, and, doubling the larjat, waited
for the upearthly fiend to approach. As
the ghost flew at him he gave the rope a
swing, hoping to lash his antagonist into
submission, but, a successful dodge saved
him again and again.
"The one thing on which my Indian
friend prided himself was his ability to
lasso the wildest horse or steer. Almost
In deperatlon, he colled the lariat and
waited his opportunity. The third throw
was successful,, and "caught the ghost
around the neck. Then, with heathenish
glee, he dragged Mr. Ghost away off to
one side, picketed him out as he would
his pony, arid proceeded to pelt him with
rocks. Jeer at him and torture him In
every way for an homy getting' hack a
full measure of revenge forwhat he had
suffered. At last, when he tired of It, he
went back to his blanket and to sleep.
"Next morning before daylight, he
awoke, knowing he would have to reach
a point of safety before the Indian band
was astir. His first thought was of the
ghost, but he dlsmlssed-the thought, say-
ing It was all a dream. When he camo
to pack, he found the pony loose, and
the lariat gone. This made him doubt,
and even wdnder If, after all. It had not
beert a dream. To assure himself, but
only half hoping to find the lariat, he
set out for the place where he remem
bered picketing his captive ghost. v Sure
enough, there was the stake driven fast
in the ground, the end ot .the lariat 'se
curely fastened, but at the other end was
apparently an ehipty noose. Upon close
Inspection he found Inside the nooee a
little pile of fresh ashes. What became
of the ghos't he knows not. How 'to ac
count for" the asnes He knows -not This
I J&,hls atory as he gave Jt to mtf. I have
no explanations to oner.
The "Professional Katcr' ,
One of the raost striking customs ot the
past that Is preserved by the- Indians of
today is found among the tribes on the
Trm-' Lake Reservation, Jn North Da
kota. Supervisor Wright tells the follow
ing story In regard to this peculiar prac
tice. "From time Immemorial the Devil's Iake
Sioux have adhered to an old custom )n
"regard to the treatment of a guest. Ac
cording to their etiquette, It is the bound
en duty of the hoBt to supply his guest
with all the food he may desire, and
as a rule the portion set before the vis
iting Indian Is much In excess of the ca
pacity 6f a single man. But by thejsame
custom, the guest is obliged to eat all
thatia placed before him, xelso he gross
ly Insults his entertainer. It was found
that this practice w ould work a hardship,
but Instead of dispensing with the cus
tom, the Indian method of .reasoning was
applied, and what is known as the Pro
fessldnal Eater -was brought to the front.
"While the guest is supposed to eat all
that is placed before him, It serves the
same purpose If his neighbor assists In
-devouring the bountiful repast, Ahe main
object -being to hae the plato clean when
the meal Is finished. It Is not always
practicable to depend upon a neighbor
at table to assist in getting away with a
large dinner, and in order to Insure the
final consumption of the allotted portion,
visiting Indians call upon these Profes
sional Eaters, whose duty Is to sit beside
them through a- meal, and eat what the
guest leaves. The Professional Eaters
are never looked upon in the light of
guests, but more as traveling companions
with a "particular duty to perform.
"These eaters receive from U to $2, and
keVen S3 for each meal where they assist.
It Is stated by the agent at the Devil's
Lake Reservation that one of the Profes
sional Eaters has been known to dispose
of 17 pounds of beef at a single 'sitting.
That thejr are capable of eating a fabu
lous am&untJ,T myself can rfestlfy."
Trne to His Trni'tnln'r. "
Foe a great many years the Indian Bu
reau has striven to impress upon Poor
Lo a proper realization of the facts that
his only redemption lies In work. The
education of the Indians everywhere has
been, aimed at making them, bread win
ners, making Jhem independent of Gov
ernment support, and In fact making good
citizens of, them In every way. But how
hopeless has this effort been In so many
Instances, They cling with such persist
ence to their old customs.
Supervisor Wright recently visited the
Kiowa Agency, in Oklahoma, and Just
before leaving for Washington, was ac
costed by a strapping Indian buck of IB
or DO, but yet in the school, who said to
him:
"I like our school. I like to study. . I
like the teachers. I like It all except
one thing, and that Is bad. I want you
to go to the Great Father when you go
back to Washington, and have him cor
rect this at once. They make the boys
work here. It la all right for the girls to
work, but the boys ought, not to be made
to work,"
A Soda Dam. ...
Probably but few people ever heard of a
-soda dam, but such a freak of nature
really exists In an unfrequented part of
the great West. Mr. Wright, who travels
extensively through that section of the
country west of the Missouri River, in
speaking of strange things he has on
countered in his tours, alluded to. this
soda dam. Asked what he meant by a
soda dam. he said:
"In Box Canyon, Just above the hot
springs of the Jemez Rl,err Arizona, Is
a dam extending from one wall of the
gorge o the dther. This dahf Is nothing
more nor less than a massive wall of
pure soda, rising to a height of 100 feet,
and probably "COO feet from end to end.
Nature's forces, of course, started their
work of construction away back in the
dim and distant past, when deposits bf
sods, contained In the water thrown, off
by the springs, were made at the base of
what has since developed into one of the
natural wonders of the West. Those de-
posics musi nave -a xaaue wiia
m&rkahla rapidltyt too, . , . .
re-'
rose J
"Just 10- years ago the Jemez River rose
to ah unprecedented height, and under
the abnormal pressure of the torrent,, a
J(ower section of the dam gave 'way, leav
ing a oreacn in we wu.11 vl suuu. auuui
20 feet high. When the water subsided,
the lake formed by the dam was, of
course, destroyed leaving the upper BO
feet of the dam high and dry.
"I passed through that section of Ari
zona this last Summer, and purposely
visited the soda dam. X was most as
tonished to see that the3-foot breach
had been nearly filled In. The soda from
the springs had made fresh deposits, and
gradualy patched up the hole made In
1890. -At the present rate, the breach
will be entirely closed In another year,
and the .lake will assume its,former pro
portions. "Previous fd the break' in the dam, the
lake above was fully 600 feet wlda. and
extended up the canyon for at least three
quarters of a mile. Scientists who have
examined the dam are of the opinion that
It. Will never attain a height much above
.100 feet, for the deposit-- in the water
Lseem to. sink in that great depth before
the brink is reached. As they f alL how
ever, they will tend to strengthen the
base of the dam, and will gradually de
creaaeHhe depth 6X-the lake at its lower
end." ARTHUR W. jN
ENCOURAGING THRIFT.
-& "Western. Merchant's 'Way of Help
ing: Employes ,to X.ay Up Money.
Washington Evening Star.,
"I 'always have confidence "In peoplo
who save a little money out of their sa'-
ries."' said a Drominent Wsufom mr
"chant, ''ana I do wha.t I can to encourage
naons 01 innit. i employ about 75 clerks
In my establishment, to whom ' I pay
weekly salaries ranging from 410 to 540.
Naturallyyeriough, more of them get the
STATE TREASURER
C. W. Maynard, ot Lewis pounty, the Republican candidate for "State Treasurer, wa
born in Rockford, 111 , December 7. 185D. He attended the public schools and hcademles in
the vicinity of his birthplace until 13 years of ase, when he came West, aid took up a
farm in Lewis County, which Is now his home. He Is extensively Interested W farming fo
Iwls County, and U,also engraved In the hardware business in Chehalls, the county seat.
He has always been a Republican, and his strength and popularity are attested by the fact
that ho Was'elected Coupty Treasurer at a time when all other county offices were filled
with Populists, aod served. In that capacity for four years. Ho has held no other political
qfilce. j;-.,v -,'.,
f - - - V ., "' -f ' " . . v ,, ,
farmer than, the' latter, amount, but they
are- none the less worthy on that, ac
co.unU - t -! i ip
t'lu the beginning, when I ' employed
only two- people, I lived pretty .close to
them, hnd I knew how thrlftlW they
could be when they were not encduraged
to do otherwise,. I have discharged more
clerks for that sort ot thing than for any
other cause. They spent their salaries,
large or small as might be, in a reckless
fashion, and let debt'accumulate quite re
gardless of the rights of creditors. As
my business Increased, and with it my
prollts and my force of people, I began to
give the. matter more study, and in thu
end. when I folt able to be of material
assistance in encouraging thrift and hon
esty, I proposed a yearly recognition to
those who would save somerning- out of
their salaries. It, was small at first, but
was so -successful that today 1 haven't
& clerk who has not some kind of a bank
account, and not one who "willfully "re
fuses to pay his debts. When we get a
new one who refuses to take advantage
of the opportunities affofded We let him
go at the end of the first year.
"My present plan Is to double the sav
ings of all clerks who receive $10, $12 and
$15 a week; to add 23 Rer cent to all who
receive from $15 to $25, and 10 for those
over $25. A clerk on $15 a week or "under
cannot save much, but as a rule that
class of clerks have no one to maintain
but themselves, and If one bannot save
more than $25 out of his years' labor. It
Is rather pleasant for him to get $25 clear
profit. Those who receive the larger
amounts usually Have families and their
savings are not large, but whatever they
are they are comfortably Increased. One
6f my $lS00 a year clerks, with a wife and
two small children, saved $400 last year,
fend my chedk for $100 additional was de
posited to his account the day after New
Tear. A young woman in charge of a
'department at $000 a y,ear Was almost paid
for a nice little cottage In the suburbs
otit of her extra, and so the list tups on
tnrough every branch of the business. I
mal"e'it a condltl6h that? elf current 'pb
HJjatlons must be met atjhe end, of tljje
year, so that the savings are actual net
profit. Every year some of the clerks are
not entitled to any extra, but It this Is
the result of sickness; I assume a pdrt or
all ofthe doctor's bills. Tou may say It
costs something for me to do this, and I
am under riQ pbjigatlon to do it, and you
are right. But I have the best class of
clerks In the city, and as a result I have
the best class of custom In the city, and
I guess. I dorft lose enoughby It to ne
cessitate an assignment at. an. early date,
and the merchant smiled with a very evi
dent .satisfaction.
r Autumn flTrajcedles.
Philadelphia Times.
Bald Mr. Baldwin Apple
To Mrs-Bartlett Pear.
"Tou'ro growing very plump, madam.
And also very fair.
"And there Is Mrs Clingstone Peach,
So mellowed by the heat.
Upon my word she really looks
Quite good esoush to'eat.
"And all the Misses Crahapple
Have blushed so rosy red
That very soon-the farmer's wife
To pluck .them will be led.v
"Jut ree the Isabellas:
They're growing so apace.
That they really are beginning
" To get purple in the face.
i
t. 'Quj happy time is over,
For Mrs. Green Gere Plum
Says she knows unto .her sorrow
Preserving time has come."
Yes" wild Mrs. Bartlett Pear,
"Our dayfia almost o'er, '
And soon we shall be .smothering
'Ift syrup by the icore.""
'
And before the month was ended
The fruits thst .ooKed so fair.
Had vanished from amonr the leaves,
And, the trees were stripped and bare.
They were allj of them 1n plcHle,
, Or In soiae. dreadful scrape,
Tm elder.' s'sheditne angle;
"Tm-leuy." cried the grape.
"Caey were"". Ja.Jars nd bottles
Upon the anelf arrayed; .
And-in thelrm!dst poor Mra. .Quince
Was turned to marmalade.
FREAK ELCTIOIT BETS
PEOPLE WHO AGREED TO MAKE
SPECTACLES OF THEMSELVES.
A Man Who May Have to Be Fnnny
.. With John L. Sulli-ran An
other, to Tackle Croltcr,
New York Sun.
Those peculiar Individuals known as
freak election betters seem to be -stor.ng
up more post-election humiliation' lor
themselves Just now tban any prede
cessors ever" did In thestory of National
I campaigns. Many of the. plana whe.ebjf'
uie loser is to make himself foolish in
the eyes of his f riendsrnelghbbrs and fel
low citizens are ' Ingeniously contrived
with thit-ena in view. Ift by" some
J. miracle, McKlpley faljs of re-election, a
Wall-Street'curb broker will be compell'd
to mount the Subtreasury steps on the
day after 'election' and, from that con-'
splcuoua rOstrum,"declalmr "Mary Hal a
Little Lamb," from start to finish, ten
times. The Sllverite with whom he made
the bet undertakes to malie the same sort;
of a spectacle of'hlmself if the 16-to-l can
dldate loses; with the difference that tha
Bryanlte will he compelled to 'recite the
piece only twice, the prevailing odds, of
5 to 1 on Mr. McKinley governing the b2t,
,A couple of clerksln an uptown cloth
ing store made a freak bet on the gen
eral result the other day. If theRepubi
lica,n- loses, he, has undertaken to wak
up to John ji Sullivan, as that bulky
worthy sits m. state In the rear room of
his saloon, tap the mighty John play,
fully on the cheek, and rattle oft the
- ELECT MAYNARD.
childish words, "Bean porridge hot, bean
porridge .cold, bean porridge in tne potr
nine nays oia,". tmtll such time as the'
ex-champlon of them all takes notice.
If the Nebraskan candidate is wlpei out'
at the polfa, the Bryan clothing clerk will
have to trip lightly into the saloon of
Joe Waicott, the ebony Barbadoes middle-weight
pug, who has walloped a num
ber of heavy-weights, skittishly poke hm
n the ribs, and then, exclaim wlththo
full power of his lungs, "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cale,,
baker's man. bake & cake as
quick as you can," etc.
The bet was made beiore "yours on the
Ievel" the ponderous John L,. went to
the hospital to .have an operation per-
xormea, Dut it is to hold good until the
mighty man from Boston gets back to
his saloon, in case the man who took
that ends of it loses. Mr, Sullivan -does
not permit even., hla lntlrdate friends 'to
toy with him, nor, 13 his immediate at
titude toward atrjangers who approach
him. even in,a, properly reverential spirit
invarlahly cordial, go it ought to be
easy to, Imagine the sort of reception-a
Lfreak election better would be likely to get
n. ma iiiLU.ua, particularly one WHO COUla
presume to tap .him playfully on the
cheek, and more particularly still; one
who would take such a grievous chance
Just after John L. had been turned" loose
after a month's restlesSooh.flnement- In a
hospital. The black middle-weight is also
a person of dignity, and woul not "te
apt supinely to submit to having his ribs
poked and to have anybody bawl dog
gerel at him at short range. So '".hat
it look3as if the loser of this rash wuger
t-Ort Vitn -von wit Mi-it- Allf ah "UfM
A Bryan man. who llyes in the Twenty
first Assembly district will, when bis
candidate is found to have been swamped,
be compelled by hi wager, to walk into
the offltje of RusselJjjSagajmd blandly re
quest that gentleman to let him have the
loan of $1,000,00') ijpot cash., "of, this
should be a somewhat dangerous under
taking, under the most favorabje, circum
stances. A number ot years ago a crazy
man. walked lnto:JMr. Sage's office and
made a similar demand In all earnestness,
and when the, demand was reftised he
hurled a satchel containing a bomb at the
capitalist The crazy man was blown to
smithereens by the explosion, and Mr.
Sage escaped -onjy, by the barest chance.
Since that time Mr. Sage ha been by
no means accessible, "and extreme care
haa been taken that nothing of the sort
.should happen again. So that if tnis
Bryan loser succeeds in running the
gauntlet and actually made hla Way to
Mr .Bage for the purpose -of preferring hla
Idiotic request, he is likely to produce
such-a sensation around that pfllce -that
at the end he will find himself rough
housed almost beyond recognition.
Another Harlem Bryanlte, who has nev
er eeeri Mr. XJroker In his life, has bound
himself to do a very foolish thing when
It is1 found that-the Boy Orator hai been
"snowed under. He will have to walk up
to the garrulous and embittered Croker
and solicit from that eminent personage
a subscription, of $10 to be added to a
fund for the purchase of a huge floral
wreath to be presented--that Is, the lea.
Ing freak election bettor will have to
say that it is to be presentedto Senator
Hanna. Considering the state of tnlnd
that Mr. Croker will probably be in when
the reurns are tabulated, this Sllverite
Is doubtless in for what is vernacularly
"known as a "bunch of language" that
ought to cure him for all time of fhe
Tiablfbf making electldn bets of such a
nature.
A clerk in a Broadway sporting goods'
establishment has bound himself for p.
solid month of that gruelling kind of Ira
'happlness that springs 'from ridicule.'-Beginning
on the morning after election,
when tne Bryan catamaran Is found toi
have been swept "by green seas and con
verted into a derelict, this rash youth
will have to wear to and from his: work
'arid' htf-llves In One Hundred and Thlr-ty-nlnth
street a brlmless silk hat, rubbed
the wrong way. All the rest of his
dress Is to remain just as visual, ahd. the
young man is "jc pretty natty dresser.
But. his make-up will have to be ,sur
.mounted. Tnr. the. brlmless. cowllcky top
J hat for one month after Bryan's defeat.
Can it be doubted that he will regret that
he did not perish in his extreme youth
long before bis month of misery has rolled
hy?
A middie-agsd apa otnerwise Tespeeta
ble citizen Is now bracing himself' for
an oraeai io wmcu oe wm nave io suo
mit on the night following the eleotion.
He is a follower of the lfi-to-l'candldate.
On Wednesday night next, at 8 o'clock, he
will be accompanied by a delegation' of
his friends to a Sixth ayenu.e corner,
and he will have to bestow' ail osculatory
caress upon the first Afro-American
woman, of whatever age or condition,
who passes that corner. He has got to
take the chance of finding himself the
central figure In a race riot when he does
this, and it is a virtual certainty that
he will be arrested for disorderly con"
duct, anyhow. A Bryanlte made sJ sim
ilar wager four years ago. The dlfsky
Amaron whom he clasped" In hlsv "em
'braca -didn't resist a little bit. Oa the
contrary, slie seemed rather to' cling to
the freak better, 'whereas'" 'the
least he 'had expected was thht
she -would endeavor to macerate
his countenance to a pulp. It was not
until -fully 10 minutes" after he had fiil-
fllled the terms of the het that he discov
ered that his fine gold watch and wallet J
were absent, and his three-carat dia
mond stud had been bitten off close to
the screyr.
A youni? Southerner employed in a rail
road office, will in all human probability J
do seen stanaing ior an nour on one ieg
at the main entrance to Central Park on
next Wednesday for the delectation of
one of his office mate3 If Bryan lost, and 1
the office mate, being naturally confident
that any odds were good odds, bound
himself to stand on one leg forflve hour
If Bryan won.
A Brooklyn Bryanlte, who Is known
among his friends for the meekness with
which he submits to tho dictation ofhis
wife and tho domineering of hl3 wife's
mother, who is his permanent guest, is
Just now standing on the verge of a lot
of domestic Infelicity. When It la found
on Wednesday that Bryari and hw the
ories have been hurled out of sight this
meek partisan will be forced by the
terms of his wager to acquire a Jag ot
largo, proportions, and make the best of
his" way across the bridge and to his
homo, apd when he finds himself under
his own vine and fig tree, proceed to
slang and lambaste his mother-in-law lo
a finish. A large party of his friends
will have quietly assembled around the
house to see the finish and to call up
the ambulance in case of need. The
betting" among this poor man's friends Is
'already 8- to 1 that he will never nius-
terup enough courage, Dutch or nauvc,
to make this bet good.
Over-in Tenth avenue there is ah elder
ly, Hibernian saloon-keeper who froths
at' the mouth kith rage when a tramp
arnltra Intn hla Tilaee and trle3 to Oan-
Jmndlehlm for a-free drink. A Seventh-
avenue saiopn-Kecper wno iu.es oryan
to 'win will have1 to. walk Into this old
Irishman's saloon on Wednesday morn
ing next, made ur in the garb or a uodo,
whlnlngly beg for a hooter of the red
etuff, and take his chance on bungstart-ers-and
flying beer , glasses.
Another . peppery-tempered Irishman,
who keeps a lumber-yard far oyer on tho
West Side, Will probably have a young
man to thrash on Wednesday mg.ra.lng
next. The young man Is the proprietor
of a sign-painting- establishment, and an
expert workman in that llpe himself.
When Byan Is found to finish In the ruck
with Deb? and the rest of the also-rans
on Wednesday, this, reckless .young man
will have to walk oyer to the Irishman's
lumber-yard, with his paints and brushes,
juid start In to paint, In huge orange let
ers, n all four sides of the lumber-yard
office, the letters, "A. P. A." The amount
of bother that Is likely to ensue by the
time he has completed one inscription of
that kind will undoubtedly prevent the
young man from becoming- chilled.
THE DOMINANT SECTION.
Where the ricvr BnsflnnXl Conscience,
Has Gone to 1tve.
New Tork Evening Post.
Mr. Charles Francis Adams never de
livers an address which falls to be-inter-estlng
and suggestive, and these charac
teristics peculiarly mark the one that he
made at tne aeaicauon oi ine Wisconsin,
Historical Society's new building In Mad.
lson. Particularly noteworthy seems to
us that passage in which this Bo"stonian,
descendant of generations of Massachu
setts statesmen, recognizes the powerful
Influence In the Government of great
states, over a thousand miles from the
Atlantic seaboard, which were only
$hlnly settled territories when be, was
a hoy. Here is his statement:
"I hold It not unsafe to say that, look
ing forward Into a future not now remote,
tho mission of the Republic and the ideas
of tho founders will more especially rest
lh the bands of those agricultural commu
nities of lthe Northwest, where great ag
gregations of a civic populace are few,
and the principles of natural selection
have had the fullest and freest play in the
formation of the race. Such la Wisconsin;
such Iowa; such Minnesota. In their
'bands, and in the hands of communities
like them, will rest the ark of our covenant-"
Mr. Adams mentions three states in tho
Northwest, but what he says applies
with equal force to tho others which are
commonly grouped with these under the
title of the Middle "West. The common
wealths which lie between tho Allegha
hles and the' Missouri Ohio, "Inulana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Iowa these are the states which
any dlscernimr observer can already see
are coming to constitute the dominant
section in tne development, ot tne .Nation.
The policy which can command their
deliberate approval will be pursued hy the
Government; the party whloh they reject
will lose the country.
It in Interesting to contrast the share
of these seven states In the electotol
oollege when the Republican party first
ran a National ticket, and tdday. In 18j6
Minnesota was still a territory, and the
other six states had 62 electors out of '191,
or a trifle over one-fifth. Now they have
110 out of 44T, or almost 'exactly one
fourth, i Fourteen mpre states havo come
Into the Union since then, ttnd old com
monwealths have doubled (thelr popula
tion, but this reglpn, now' hecome cen
tra Is relatively more powerful than it
was half a century ago,
Mr. Adams speaks of these communi
ties as largely agricultural, with few great
aggregations of n. civic pbpulace, and as
having allowed the principles of-natural
selection the fullest and the freest play
in 'the formation of the race. "In truth,
the Middle West Is the most cosmopoli
tan section of the country In the con
stituents of Its population. It was orig
inally settled from the East and from the
northern fringe of the Sohth. while It
owes Its rapid growth largely to Immigra
tion from all nations of IHurope. More-
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migration. It was only the strong..thrlfty.
and enterprising who could maker their
way 1200 or 0500 miles In order to establish
new homes, like tho many thousands of
Norwegians and Swedes who are now llv-
ing In Minnesota. The seaboard cities
know such races a3 the Poles- and .Bohe
mians chiefly by the "leavings" 'Which
remain where they land, but Milwaukee
finds this element Industrious, saving and
lawabldlng.
In the hands of these communities, a3
Mr. Adams perceives and confesses, ''will
rest the ark of our covenant." Happily
the Tecord of this section' during the fast
half of the 19th century Justifies hope as
to the effect of Its dominating Influence In
the 20th. Tho most striking characteristic
ot its settlement "was the devotion of the
peoplo to public education, which led to
the establishment not only of a good com
mon school isystem, hut of the' stare "uni
versity as lt3 cap-sheaf. The support of
this system is as hearty in afconrmon
wealth like Minnesota, where .nearly two
thirds of the voters are men of foreign
birth, as In one where native influences
are more powerful. The Eastern tritlc
may sneer at "Western culture, but n& can
did observer could deny that thi great
metropolis Of the West, materialistic Chi
cago as the country considered it, pro
duced a scene and a setting for tho
"Wood's E'afr ot 1S93 worthy of an. an
cient European capital.
Tne Middle West haa from tho flrr-t been
intensely Interested In public questions.
Political campaigns engage the attention
of the people more largely than- in Uys
ast,s and the voters are glad to 'hear
thoughtful discussions of. pending Issues.
The first great National question to come
before this section was the extension of
slavery, and it furnished the charnplons
nf the two conflicting policies inJUncoln
and Douglas. When Fremont ran in 1S5,
Indiana and Illinois remained steadfast
to their Democratic traditions, but by
1860 both of them were ready to vote for
Lincoln, with the rest of their section.
The sober second thought of the re
gion was again vindicated when the finan
cial Issue came to the front. Greenback
ism, inflation, .the free coinage pt .silver,
appealed powerfully for a time to large
elements in the population, and there
were occasions when a snap Judgment
en anyone' of them might put one or
another state temporarily on the Wrong
side. But as the Lincoln-Douglas ' Joint
debate of 1353 converted Illinois to the
cause of freedom, so did the sound-mohey
fight made by Carl Schurz"and other
speakers In 18TC rescue Ohio from its sur
render to the inflation Idea. By 18S6 even
Indiana, where party leaders like Oliver
P. Morton and Thomas A. Hendricks had
from tho first done most to lead the peo
ple astray, was brought to an Indorse
ment of tne gold standard.
That the Middle West Is Intensely in
terested in the treatment of ''our new
possessions" was demonstrated a few
months- ago, when the" question of Porto
Rico legislation was before Congress. The
East seemed apathetic by comparison,
and "the New England conscience" ap
peared to be less stirred by the proposed
tariff than the sense bf Justice beyond the
Alleghanles. Republican Congressmen
from Indiana, Michigan, Iowa- and Minne
sota stood out againsC'the programme of
their party, and many more would have
done the same thing If- they had reflected
the wishes of their constituents; Nor
-was this - an evanescent feeling Bi-
LOOK HERE, YOUNG MEN!
ARE YOU 6NE.0F THEM?
If so, write to old Dr KESSLfeR tocJay; Pon'tyotf J-mow?
613 MEN WANTED-' -
There are .all over "this county old; yoUng and mltldle-aged men suffer
ing from the effects df fcad-Tnabtts wherr boys. Hundreds caught private'
diseases, which have never been properly cured. Such men are unfit for
1 marriage or business, and If .(bey let this (disease oonjt'nuB they will break
out with pimples or sores,, sornetlroes rheumatism, heart disease, paralysis,
dizziness, stomxeh trouble will follow. rThcy go to sleep sometimes while
reading or resting. PRIVATE DISEASE, ! not CI3TRBD properiy, will run
into stricture, gleet, prostalltUs, catarrh of "bladder and kidneys, and that
awful disease called chancres ahdrbubolst thst have, rained act many young
men for life. DR. KESSLER, at the eld -St Louis Dispensary, has been
doctoring .theso cases right In Portland foe many years. He alsp cures
tumors, w,ens, warty growths, old sores, cancers, all kinds diseases of nose,
' throat or liver, or any kidney or bowel trouble Call and see the tape
worms they have taken from persons some 36 feet long.
Rheumatism. Piles, Neuralgia, Headache, Indis&etion, Dyspepsia Itch
ing Skin Diseases and that Av FULEST OF AJL. DISEASE. .Syphilis
(Pox).Gonorrhea he cure QL'ICK ,WIXHD11T ANY CnpTX&a His private ..
. office is filled with pictures of these awful diseases, ":hlL old. dtjetor cat. ,
refer.to prominent business menjlawyars. 'ministers, professors, etci, as
to bis honesty. 'EVERYTHING PRIVATE '
When you go- to see him he sees you Inprivate rooms. When you writ
him, only the doctor reads -your letter. Whemyou go to consult this doc
tor, take a small bottle urine (mxfda ttio, previous xaornlng) wlth-youv It
writing, send it hy express, pr mailA Address K , .
J. HEftRI K-E&ft'lVM.'b't
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L -President, Harrjspn showfc"C "& t""f r-dfy
jtat he considers jt&e. policy adopted 3
UfLU&VlVUa US flVBl, SUU pL .lVCyUUUtp.l flCU"
aior xrom nat section recently aomjueu
that he found the people stilt talking
about' the treatment 01 Pfjrto Rlcd. Tho
issue has been practically' submerged fay
the .general feeling "that BryanIsmBad to
be dealt with once more, and, that a. Ver
dict for sound money was again the 4U
impQrtant thing; but the sentlraeht ltf fa
vor of .falEpiay-rfor JPorto "r-icau, tor
Cuban, for Filipino remains,, arid, it la
sure to make Itself felt as powerfully
lrts the "tUTe as to the past haj tho
sentiment against tho extension of slavery
and against a dishonest dollar. The ideas
of "the founders of the Republic continue
dominant lh that section, which Is itself
hecbmlntr dominant. and the history of tho
t Middle West assures an ultimate vtctoj
ior the right ori this, issue.
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