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haps the most Important decade
In the history of the United
States.
Ten years will then have passed
since an explosion from the outside
sent the battleship Maine to the bot
tom of Havana harbor, started a war
that was to blow Spain from the new
world, and launched the United States
on its new career as a commanding
factor In the affairs of the nations.
Cougar Hunting in the Palouse Country
Ktxraordinary Story ol Adventure, as Told by Grandpa, in tlio Year of Our Lord, 1961.
Garfield Enterprise.
1MB do fly," said grandpa Nev
erlie, as he gased thoughtfully
into the electric fireplace and
reached for a hcatless ember with which
to light his stinkless pipe. He had been
listening rather condescendingly to a
hunting story as discussed by a group of
younger men. "Sure, things do change
mightily," he continued. "Why, incidents
that appeared as commonplace 60 years
ago along about 1907 would now seem
almost too wonderful to relate, and I
would never make the attempt were it
not for the fact that you boys know my
reputation for truth and veracity." The
old gentleman gazed at his younger com
panions and, accepting their silence as
permission, proceeded.
"Boys, do you see this sear on the
back of my hand? At the time I got that
injury there was game hereabouts that
was game. The time I'm thinking of was
long before any of you were born about
3907, I reckon. Then our country was In
a primitive stage of development. Affairs
of government were conducted chiefly
by a Rockefeller-Morgan syndicate, as
sisted by what was culled a V. S
Senate." ,
"Whafd the U. S. stand for, grandpa?"
asked one of the listeners.
"Don't know exactly Universal Suckers,
I guess. But, as I was sayin,' those
were times when the overhead
trackless track railroad had been
thought of only in the imagina
tion of the dreamer. We lived
in rude-constructed houses made from
a substance called wood. This wood grew
like any other vegetable, but was larger.
However, millionaires organized them
selves Into corporations for the purpose
of destroying it. These men were kind
hearted wanted to do something for
humanity, so they sent for armies of
Greeks, Italians and Japs. These foreign
ers cut the timber, pocketed their wages
and went back where they came from.
In the meantime I, and others like me,
looked on and cheered at what we called
'our tremendous timber output not real
izing that we were permitting others to
eat our cake when there was no more
flour In the bin the millionaires taking
the profits, the foreigners taking the
wages and we well, we didn't know we
were getting our teeth pulled until they
were. out. By our methods of ruthless
devastation It-was not long ere the native
tree became but -a curio, and with it
went th large gams which made the
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The 10 years of the Nation'e life
from 1776 to 1785 were important be
cause they saw a nation born, the 10
years from 1856 to 1866 were Important
because they witnessed the salvation
of that Nation after one of the most
terrific internecine wars in history, but
the decade now in its final days will
take at least as big, perhaps a bigger
place, than the two preceding; epochs
of notable events because of the im
mense bearing it is likely to have oh
the future of the Republic.
life of the true sportsman really worth
the while.
"But to make a long story short, at the
time I got my hand hurt word came to
Garfield that a mountain lion, an animal
quite common then, had come down out
of the mountains and had eaten a team
of valuable horses and several cattle. We
didn't pay much attention to this, but
wien we again heard of the critter it
had 4orn the roof off a country school
house and on a hot Summer's day chased
a pretty schoolma'am seven miles through
the snow. The young lady was a friend
of mine and, let me tell you, the actions
of that cantankerous beast nigh made my
blood boil. So we organized a bunch of
men and went on the trail. In the party
was a man named Follis, a fellow who
stood about seven feet eight and weighed
some 325 pounds a pretty fair man as
men went in those times. With us also
was a hotel keeper named Carter, who
was not quite so large, but, nevertheless,
a quick thinker and a good man to have
along. If you will excuse me for drifting
from my tale for a moment I'll just add a
little story about this man Carter, to
show you how handy he was when it
came to meeting an emergency. One
time, about a year before our lion hunt,
he was returning from a trip into the
country when he saw a large buck deer
feeding but a short distance away. He
had shot away all of his shells and when
he realized that he, was out of ammuni
tion he got so all-fired mad that his nose
commenced to bleed. Quick as a flash he
got an. idea. Holding the shell beneath
his nose he filled it with blood, placed the
shell In the gun, took good aim and let 'er
go. The charge struck the deer on the
side; the animal turned, saw the blood
upon its glossy coat, imagined that it
had been mortally wounded and dropped
dead in Its tracks. That's the kind of a
hunter my friend Carter was.
"With us there was also a long, slim
man who used to run a newspaper here.
He wasn't much of a hunter, but he was
the most truthfullest newspaper man I
ever did Bee, and we took him along so
that he could give an accurate account of
the trip. Poor old Mike he died along
about 1920 because through his efforts to
tell the truth he became so thin that. he one
day by mistake buttoned his suspenders
to his backbone, accidentally fell down
and pulled out something like six feet of
his vertebra and more'n a pall full of
brain. After he was dead several hun
dred delinquent subscribers got to feelln'
sorry for him and as a last tribute of re
spect filled his grave with stiver dollars
they owed him, but, even at 'that, old
Mike got the worst of it on his final
draw, 'cause some folks who didn't agree
with him concerning his Interpretation of
that story of Jonah and the whale came
along and took the money away, saying It
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 9, 1908.
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The Maine went to Cuba "to relieve
the tension between Spain and the
United States, to be a token of the re
sumption of friendly relations between
the two nations."
The historic letter in which Senor
Depuy de Lome dealt so insultingly
with" President McKlnley had further
enraged a nation already maddened
over the horrible atrocities perpetrated
by the butcher Weyler on the helpless
Cubans. Spain speedily withdrew the
offending diplomat, and a more wel-
wouldn't do him any good, seeln' as he
was dead, and if he took it with him it
would melt in 20 minutes.
"However, I'm drifting from my
story again. There were perhaps a
dozen other fellows with us, but 1
don't just remember 'em. We cornered
the lion about four miles from town,
about where the present airship sub
station now stands. Well, sirs, when
I first got a look at the brute I felt
like goln' home didn't blame the
schoolma'am for running. There he
was. backed up against a strawstack
and beneath his paws lay the newly
killed carcass of a 6-year-old Durham
bull. In those days hounds were more
plentiful than now nearly every farm,
er owned 15 or 20 and I reckon we
had about 200 with us that day. The
dogs annoyed the lion considerably,
and if he had not backe'd up to the
strawstack they might have helped us
some, but as it was they "only made
matters worse as fast as they would
.rush in the Hon would strike them
with its paw and then pile them up
to serve as breastworks to protect
him from our bullets. Before we knew
what he was doing, he had a row of
dead dogs four thick and six high
about him, and when he fired our bul
lets Just plunked into ie dog meat
without touching the beast. In our
excitement we foolishly used all of our
ammunition, and when the lion saw
that we were through shooting It
crawled out of its fort, swung that
bull across its back and trotted away
In the direction of the Palouse River.
The hunters were discouraged and
wanted, to give up the job, but I Anal
ly persuaded Follis to stay with me.
We followed the beast until it stopped
near the river bank, where it ate the
bull and then lay down and slept.
SThile It was.sleeplng I thought out a
scheme for its capture and,' although
the plan took nerve, 'we decided to try
it. Just et the edge of the river was
a poo lof quiet water, forming a min
iature lake apart from the main stream.
I had In my pocket a bottle of the
stuff which was in those days quite
extensively used as a stimulant bv
those who believed that 'a rose by
any other name will smell as sweet'
It was called whisky. I anticipated
that when the Uon awakened it would
be thirsty and would make for the
water nearest at hand. Into the little
pool I poured all I had left of tho
stimulating distillation. Then we went
downstream and, crossing at a shal
low place, came up on the other side
to await results. In the middle of the
night the beast awakened and. after
gazing cautiously about, started, as I
had hoped, for the pool of doped water.
It drank heartily, almost knowingly
and drank soma more. In a few mo
Tenth Anniversary of the Explo
sion in Havana Harbor Which Brought
Such Enormous Consequences
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of state
come Minister was sent to replace him.
Then to improve the feeling the Maine
went to Cuba.
Perhaps war would eventually have
come anyway, but undoubtedly the first
etep In the conflict was the innocent
one of sending the Maine to Havana.
There was no hostile intention, for
President McKlnley had been opposed
to war from the first.
But when treachery destroyed a mighty
Dattleship in a friendly harbor in time of
peace, and sent to their graves 266 men
of the crew, the anger of Uncle Sam
could have been stayed toy no power on
earth. To the desire to help the Cubans
to their freedom was added the fierce
desire for revenge. The hand that started
the explosion under the steel hull of the
Maine, no matter how malign the mo
tives, igorantly became a greater force
in the destinies of the country than any
since Washington and Lincoln.
Ten years! It seems longer since those
stirring days, when every week saw a
new hero become an object of National
worship.
The firqt of all these was poor Bill
Anthony, now gone to the Walhalla of the
brave.
The shock of sundering steel plates had
hardly sent its message quivering through
the frame of the doomed vessel before the
gallant seaman, a perfect picture of com
posure and discipline, was quietly salut
ing the captain in charge, now -Admiral
Slgsbee, and announcing:
"I have the honor to report, sir, that
the ship is sinking."
A nation cheered that act of quiet
heroism, but before the salvoes had died
ments the potent liquor began to get
in its work. The beast staggered about,
moving in circles, and finally again
climbed upon the bank. Then was the
time for me to put my plan into action.
I knew that because there is little oil
in the fur of any animal of the cat
family the beasts are no good in the
water.
To attract its attention FolIIe . and - I
waded into the stream until we were
just far enough away so that It could
not jump upon us. The beast crouched
low and -growled. When I pulled the
Peruna bottle from my pocket and held
it in plain sight the animal whined like
a puppy crying for a 'bone; when I re
turned the bottle to my pocket It became
frenzied with rage, running up and down
the bank and roaring so that the noise
fractured one of my ear drums that's
why, boys, I'm now slightly deaf. I kept
aggravating the brute until It backed
away, still sort o' wabbly on its legs,
and plunged at U9. It struck in feet
of water right In front of us. Follis and
I knew what to expect, and with long
clubs kept pushing it back into dee-p
water and hittin' it when we could.
Luckily the current shifted it eo that for
Just a second it got sideways to us. That
was my chance I Jumped straddle of its
back, grabbed it by the ears and forced
its head under water. Talk about racket
but, as I eald, a lion is no good under
water. Once it nearly, got out from .un
der me, but Follis then crawled upon it,
too, and within five minutes It had quit
kicking. I lifted its head up to see If it
was dead, and the blamed thing made a
dying grab, one tooth striking my hand
and, boys', that's where I got this scar."
"But," queried one of the listeners, it
seems to me that grandma, now dead,
once told me that you mangled your hand
in a feed cutter."
"No, sir n-o-o, sir-ree, sir; no such
thing, sir." replied the old gentleman,
indignantly, "and, besides, before the
house burned,. 30 years, ago, I had two
teeth of the animal to show, sir. I used
one tooth for a hatrack in the hall and
the other to hang the harness on. The
animal measured 16 feet and 9 Indies
from tip to tip, sir; and if you young up
starts know more about hunting big game
than your grandfather you can do your
own srtory-telllng hereafter. Good night,
sirs." and grandpa limped away to bed
to dream of the good old days of yore.
At Sunset.
Uncle Remurf Magazine.
The sun-god stooped from out Jthe sky
To kiss the flushing sea.
While nil the winds of all the world
Made Jovial melody;
Tho nlcht came hurrying ud to hide
The lovers with her tent;
Ths governed thunders, rank on rank.
Stood mute with wonderment.
The pale worn moon, a jealous shade.
Peered from the firmanent;
The early stars, the curious stars.
Came nefpingr forth to e
Whiit mighty nur-tluls shook the world
With such an ecstasy
"Whn as the uttn-giwi loft the sky
To mingle with the sea. .
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out, doughty little Joe Wheeler sent a
thrill of patriotic joy throughout the
length and breadth of the land by tender
ing his services to Washington with the
announcement that though on the side of
the Confederacy In the Civil War, he
"would fight like hell" for Uncle Sam
in the conflict against the Dons.
This sword was eagerly accepted, and
the former Rebel leader was made Major-General
of Volunteers. U. S. A.
In Washington, foreseeing the conflict,
Theodore Roosevelt, then esteemed rather
than loved as a somewhat bookish and
pedantic student of polities, famed for
his devotion to civil service reform, and
suspected by the party regulars of be
ing Inoculated with the reform virus, had
been doing yeoman service as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy in achieving that
condition of preparedness which was
afterwards to reap its frui't at Manila
and Santiago.
He adorned the post. He filled it. with
credit to his country, but the spirit of
strenuosity told him that the field was
the place for him.
The Rough Riders were organized, with
Roosevelt as Colonel, and from the min
ute he donned the slouch hat and buck
ram of the troop he had started his ride
to the White House. A nation cheered
the former student as he dashed up San
Juan Hill.
.Knowing it to be their only chance of
victory, the Republicans of New York in
their next convention traded on his 'great
war reputation and made him their can
didate for Governor, a nomination fol
lowed by an election.
He was a satisfactory Governor to the
Some Good Stories Told of Prominent People
The Snake and the Umbrella.
DR. EMIL REICH, the noted au
thority on woman, holds that
woman should do the proposing, not
alone In Leap Tear, but all the time.
"Before Dr. Reich went abroad,"
said a Pittsburg clubwoman, "he- de
clared at a dinner that intelligent
women, if they did not actually do the
proposing, always did the choosing,
which amounted to the same thing.
" 'The women here, I can see, agree
with me,' said Dr. Reich, looking
around the table. 'The men don't be
lieve me. They appear as skeptical as
If I were telling one of my large col
lection of snake stories.'
"Then he told a lot of snake- stories.
I remember the last of them. It was
abcut a man who took a nap in the
woods, laying his umbrella ona rock
beside him.
"After awhile it began to rain and
the man awoke. He was all wet. He
took hold of his umbrella and opened
it hurriedly. It seemed rather stiff
in ROing up, and there was a ripping,
tearing sound. Then a live, black snake
fell to. the ground, split In two from
its head to Its tail.
"You see, it had swallowed the um
brella, all but the handle, and the man
did not notice what had happened till,
putting the umbrella up, he halved the
snake from stem to stern."
A Railroad One.
CM. DANIELS, the famous amateur
swimmer, was being congratulat
ed at the New York Athletic Club on a
particularly speedy feat.
"I did go pretty fast, didn't I?" Mr.
Daniels said. "Not like the 'mixed'
trains of the early '60s, eh?
"Don't you know what a mixed
train was? It was a freight to which
one or two passenger cars were
hitched. Our fathers were carried
cheap on these mixed trains, but they
were not carried fast. Sometimes, en
route, they growled.
"A man on a certain mixed train
said for the fiftieth time:
"'Are we nearly there, eolductor?
Remember, my wife is sick and I am
anxious.'
" "We'll get there,' said the conduct
or. 'On time, too.'
"An hour or so later, -as the con
ductor was passing through the car
again, tho man grabbed him by the
sleeve.
"'I guess she's dead now.' he said
sadly, 'but I wouldn't mind giving you
a little something extra if you could
manage to get me home for the funer
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people, but not to the gang, and noting
his growing power, Piatt and Quay sought
to commit him to obscurity by naming
him for the Vice-Presidency with Mc
Klnley in 1900. The unhappy off-taking
of the President sent Roosevelt to the
White House, and in 1904 he went there
again by the biggest majority ever given
a candidate for the office.
The war also started William H: Taft
on his way to fame, though he took no
actual part in it. Ten years ago he was
unknown, but his work of restoring order
in the Philippines disclosed administra
tive skill of such rarity that he has gone
from preference to preference, and is now
conceded to be the leading candidate for
the succession to Roosevelt.
Dewey, too. might have gone into
retirement untiown save for his minor
exploits as a young lieutenant in the
Civil War, had not the destruction of
the Dons at Manila Bay given him a
place in the American gallery of naval
heroes beside Paul Jones, Decatur,
Bainbridge, Barry and Farragut.
Dewey, only a few weeks ago, cele
brated his seventieth birthday, wear
ing a title vouchsafed to few men in
the naval service of Uncle -Sam Ad.
miral.
When the Oreyon completed lier won
derful voyage around Cape Horn, and
dropped archor with its sister.warshlps,
ready to get into action in 20 minutes.
Captain Clark had made his place se
cure in the affections, of his country
men, and he had a chance to gain fur
ther prestige when in the conflict a
few weeks later, the American fleet
under Sampson and Schley sank the
al. I guess she won't be so decom
posed but what I can recognize her."
"The' conductor jerked his sleeve
away with a growl.
"He was nabbed again on his next
round.
" "Say, conductor,' the man ex
claimed, 'If the wind ain't dead ahead,
put on some more steam, will you?
I'd like to see where my wife is
burled before the tombstone crumbles
to pieces. If you '
"'Oh, dry up,' the conductor snapped.
"Two hours passed. . Then the man
said: u
" Conductor, I've got a note falling
due in three months. Do -you mind
Speeding her up a little?" .
" 'If you say another word to me, I'll
knock you down'.' the conductor
shouted.
"That threat settled the man com
pletely. Making no more complaints,
he entered into a pleasant conversa
tion, with an old farmer on his left.
The conductor, seeing him some hours
later, laughing and chatting gaily,
could not resist saying to him with a
sneer: .
" 'You don't seem to be grieving
over that dead wife any longer, eh?-'
"' Time heals all wounds,' the man
answered calmly.
" 'Well, how about that note?'
" 'Oh, said the .man, 'it's outlawed
now." "
A Queer Excuse.
CAPTAIN PRITCIIARD. of the Mau
retalnla, said the other day of a
strange sea custom:
"All of us have our customs. We
Welsh have certain customs, you
Americans have certain others; and if
ours seem strange to you, why, yours
seem strange to us.
"Strangest of all were the customs
of a young' Abyssinian prince who
once sailed with me.
"The passengers liked this young
man, and, at the end of the voyage,
they arranged a dinner in his honor
at Claridge's in London.
"It was a smart dinner orchids and
champagno no end but, the prince
never turned up.
"Reproached the next morning by
the chairman of the committee, asked
indignantly why he had not come to
the dinner, the Prince answered sim
ply and calmly:
" 'I was not hungry.' "
Expressing a Thorax.
DR. LEOPOLD J ACHES, of Cornells
medical school, recently returned
from a study of the use of the Rontgen
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ships of Cervera, and rendered the out
come of the war a virtual certainty.
Schley is Btill living, but Sampson
has gone to his final accounting.
Santiago Harbor gave Hobson his
chance, and, the gallant, if useless, ex.
plolt of sinking the Merrlmac in the
channel in the hope of . preventing the
escape of the fleet, made the captain
an' idol, and resulted in a freitzy of
osculatory demonstration when he re
turned home.
Now the captain, made more serious
by the ten years that have passed, has
just become a. member of the House
of Representatives, where he promises
to be most useful to his country.
Major-General Shatter and Secretary
of War Alger, who came in for much
criticism during the war, have passed
from all influence of human censure.
Root, who succeeded Alger- as Secre
tary of War, is now Secretary of State,
and one of the giants of the administra
tion General Miles, to whom fell the task
of restoring order, in Porto Rico, Is on
the retired list, but still holds a warm
place In the affections of his country
men. McKlnley and his great Secretary of
State, John Hay, have both passed to
their final rewards, the former the most
grieved American since Abraham Lin
coln. In another decade nearly every big
leader In tho war will have probably
passed, but the inf)uenc of the conflict
that began with the sinking of the Muine
will outlast a century.
Already the results have been stupen
dous. A policy of insularity, of isolation
from world politics . that governed the
country for a century and a quarter, has
been abandoned never to be resumed.
He first tried his sword in the arena
of world dlplonracy when, after the
Boxer Insurrection, tho powers would
have made an excuse of the disorder to
divide China among themselves. It was
the heroic stand of John Hay that pre
vented this piece of international thiev
ery. This victory was followed by another
still more notable whenPresldent Roose
velt put a period to the war between Rus
sia and Japan.
No longer on the checkerboard of
world politics can the United States be
ignored. The ten years of triumph that
followed the blowing up of tho Maine
have brought responsibilities iut to be
shirked. - and whose discharge will fur
nish employment for the best brains the
Nation can produce in the next century.
rays abroad. , Pausing in an account, of
his tour. Dr. Jaches said:
"Abroad, as here at home, the great
public's knowledge of the rays continues
rather vague. Investigators receive all
manner of queer letters and requests.
Thus I heard in Berlin of a man who
wrote to a specialist:
" 'Dear Sir: I have had a bullet in my
thorax for 11 years. I am too busy to
come to Berlin, but hope you will coma
down here with your rays, as my case
should be worth your while. If you can
not come, send a packet of rays, with in
structions as to use, etc., and I will sea
If I cannot manage to work them my
self.' "The specialist replied:
" 'Dear Sir: I am sorry that my en
gagements prevent my coming to see
you, and that I am out of rays just now.
If you cannot come to Berlin yourself,
send me your thorax by express, and
I will do the best I can with it." "
Only a Dodge.
THADDEUS STEVENS HOULGATE,
the Western insurance expert, was
relating in Chicago some oddities of In
surance. "And then," said Mr. Houlgate,
"there was that case of the general
store man in Duluth. This man's store
burnt down, and, because his atock was
so heavy, the company disputed his
claim.
"I remember one Item in his stock
list 17,500 mourning hatbands.
"When I came to this item, I thumped
it with my pencil and said to the store
keeper, severely:
" 'Look here, this is unreasonable.
Why should you have had 17,500 mourn
ing hatbands in stock? What possi
bility was there that death would
create, in a single small shop like
yours, a demand for 17.500 mourning
hatbands?
"The storekeeper smiled at me In a
condescending way and replied:
" 'I didn't keep those hatbands for
men who grieved for the death of rela
tives or friends, but for men who went
jnto mourning for the grease on their
hats." "
That's All.
EDWARD PAYSON WESTON, the vet
eran walker, talked 'regretfully in
Chicago about walking's decay.
"Pedestrianism." he said, "has died
out shockingly. A little boy said to me
the other day:
" 'What Is a pedestrian?'
"I . answered, truly enough:
" 6h. he's just one of those fellows
who kick up a row when an autumobile
runs them down." "