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THE STJNDA1 OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1900.
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X Editor Oregonlan, who got a 60-horse sense, racing runabout
-" braia what can go at very speed rate, but must slow up some
- times when Ladies & Childrens wish take pleasure-drive and
see scenery,
jlon. !Mr.
TTOMOBILES is like babies. When you got one In the
5 house it are hard to talk about something else. Naybors
might drop around for slight conversations about Tariff
6 other scandals; but you merely set around with absent-mind
txpression awaiting for chanst to mention something. Of finally
Jion. Naybor find he must be polite or go, so ne ask to know,
"How are Dearie behaving itself today?" Immediate brite ex
pression for your face. "Thank you, Dearie are quite well," you
blow out, "with excepting of slight knocking in engine & bursted
cjlander which will soon get fixed and it can still pass every
person on the road, but can't do today because of 4 punctuated
tires " And if Hon. Naybor are a true friend he win observe
that you are beginning to enjoy his visit.
I got a very motoring mind today because I just rode in one.
You are requested to imagine my surprise. "
This A. M. while standing by curb with toothpick, American
custom, suddenly Hon. Death riding on wheels and decorated with
red paint come booflng round corner snoring loud wads of smoke
and low! I was collided from behind by a blow which caused
my footprints to seek such altitudes that I arrived down on my
brain.
It you was ever overtook by a Ottomobile you will understand
them simptoms I mention.
Silence followed for me & cease-to-think. Soonly I arrive
sensible again; but I did not durst ope my eyes because I might
be dead & regret it.
"Do you enjoy great injury?" require a Voice at my ear in
Japanese.
"Where am I located?" are first question for me, Decause it
are correct to say that when coming to.
"You are safe In my ottomobile," say same Voice in calmly .
manner.
"Are anybody safe in a ottomobile?" are next question I take.
Blushing silence from that Hon. Voice. I peek slightly
through my eyes, & beholt! I are In front seat of a huj red tour
car of angry appearance, & next by ma set G. Washida Nishi,
Japanese coachman for ottomobiles. I am very much pride to be
there. I forget my wounds for enjoyment. There I were looking
quite natural & setting in chumbly companionship with a actual
Chaffer to include gogged spectacles and a beast-skin overcoat of
enormous plumage! This must be too much pride for poor
Japanese Schoolboy.
. Thus are hummbel persons, oft by axldent, tossed In company
of richness & high quality.
' With fierce expressions of General Prince Oyama this Hon.
Nlshl clasp pilot-wheel with elbow, press clicker with thumb &
kick 3 golden handles with foot. Rores from Hon. Machinery.
Deep breathing by Hon. Ottomobile, and of suddenly we are
wending away! !
SY wr$HtNUA T00C ( WALLACE IRWirtf)
COASTING BY GAS POWER
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"Hon. Mr. Sir, where are we Intending to go?" I qulzz with
sorted emotions.
' "Chaffers is not required to answer fooly questions unless
they feel so," are snib from Hon. KIshI while ottomobile make
carelus curve around corner.
By this time we are 2 miles away & I do not care. Thick
dust-winds. Hon. Nishi keep firm eye forward & chew gum with
goggles. We are now in rural suburbs. I can tell this by green
streaks which go booling past. Occasionally we break through
villages. I suspect they are there by American curses from indis
tinct inhabitants.
"Have we arrived to Chicago yet?" I ask for nervus teeth.
"I should like to know when we do, because I got a cousin there
in the tobacco business."
Harsh smiles from Nishi. . -
"We are still approximately in San Francisco," he spark up.
"At such slow rate we are going we should never reach nowhere."
"Are we not progressing some?" I ask with clutches to seat.
"Merely 40 miles per hourly," he absorb. "Should we meet
a straightway stretch of road we might be able to singe-up to
Blight speed."
(I make a Shinto prayer for continuation of wiggly roads.)
Pretty soonly Hon. Nishi show signs of kindness.
"So-ha!" he say, "Straight befront of us are 1-mile stretched
with straight speedway. Now we shall get some joy from this
motoring!"
Pushes by gasolene Whoof!! already my derby hat & spec
tacles is blown out. With one hand I clutch-on to my hair, so that
this also will not depart by wind. With other hand I -make crab
pinch to seat & permit my Intellect to vanish. Cannon-ball feel
ings of entire digestion. I close my eyes because I can see better
that way. In 40-second by clock-time that mile of smooth-way
road have been entirely removed, and I was glad to see It gone.
The Car are then gradually appeased by Nishi who command
it to stop near road-side saloon.
"We was going to some extent," he announce for information.
"I suspected maybe-so It was," are deep sob from me.
"Let us enter this saloon for slight whisky-ceremony," say
Nlshl. I do so, thank you, because my soul require some medicine
to smooth it down.
I set to table by Hon. Nishi & whisky-drunk are obtained from
waiter. I admire to see this great Gas Driver throw 25c care
lusly away for this refreshments & 5c extra for Hon. Waiter to
tip himself with. Formerly I have admired Hon. Napoleon, but
I have no room to do so now, thank you, because Hon. Nishi are
so much grander.
"Exalted Mr. Sir," I blow out when Hon. Whisky have ceased
hurting my voice, "please to tell me 25 or 30 historickal facts
about yourself."
"Five years ago from date," commence Nishi with stiff-brow
air of a hero, "I was a poor Japanese Schoolboy like you are
now"
"I am discouraged already," I reverse. "What you did to give
you such sudden riz to be famous?"
"I firstly work in livery stable of Baron Motomatsu, samurai
& sugar merchant. Here I begin life by being poor & lazy. By
ernest effort in this direction I gain contdence of my employer
& was promoted up from time to time until, of finally, I get com
plete control of hla tour-car and have been there every since,
loved & respected by all who know me."
"There are a great moral lesson to be cleaned up from this,"
I motter.
Patient expression from G. W. Nlshl.
"Lesson are: Begin life by being poor & lazy and you will
have great distance to rize up," I say for wise remark.
"High jobB of great success Is nice, but they is oftenly
squashed down by considerable responsibility," gear-up G. W. for
crumpled forehead.
"What must persons learn-do to make a complete Chaffer?"
are queery .1 ask-it.
"A complete Chaffer must know slightly something about
the inside stummick of a ottomobile so be can talk the language.
When broke-down occur Hon. Boss require, 'What are cause-it?'
' Hon. Chaffer must open cover-lid of enginery & coyly peek inside.
'Oil-cups Is dripping Into feed-box new ones would cost $16,"
he might say, or something else inteligent. When Hon. Car
travel with morbid noise like a bagpipe, then Hon. Boss might
require, 'What makes the machinery lament so?' So Hon.
Chaffer must again got out & look worried into interior digestion
of Hon. Car. Of finally he must say with voice, 'Speed-gears has
all come loose & got bound around inner tubes. This will cost
$40 for a new on').' Pretty soonly Hon. Boss will cease enquiring
questions, because It always cost him some more money."
"All animals comes In different breeds," I negotiate to Hon.
Nlshl. "This are especially true of dogs. Do ottomobiles also
come in sorted kinds?"
"Something slightly," kindly explan this noted man. "Otto
mobiles arrives In elaborate varieties and very wise persons can
tell them apart by looking at them."
I stand gast with otter beswitchment at such wlsedom.
"Tell me ear-marks of a few brands," I pleed. So Nishi give
me following statestick about 6 brands of ottomobiles.
1 The Mercy D. are a German-speaking motor of kind disposi
tion. It look very expensive when in motion & filled with
Vanderbullts.
2 The White Steamboat are a American-raised car with a large
bird-cage in front.
3 The Hard-Pan are a French speaking car with a sloping roof
on the tront porch.
4 The Reno are likewise French, but It got a kind face like a
porpoise with brass teeth.
5 The Locomubble go very fast when pursued & ar a tine tree-
climber.
6 The Placard have a stealthy disposition and yellow legs.
Hon. Nishi would gladly told me more about the habits &
home-life of ottomobiles; but I were nervus to go away because
Hon. Waiter kept cluttering around with expression of wishful
hope that I would buy something. So soonly we was off In
roadway again pushing away miles in confusion of dust & honks.
"When we approach to Market Street, Hon. Nishi persuade the
Otto to go more gingerish.
"Are it true you are completely void of any variety of fear?"
I ask-it with what breath I can use up.
"Completely so," he relapse with modesty. "To be a Chaffer
a person must be accustomed to look death in the teeth; so what
could he tear from mere human mans?"
I were admiring this fearless super-Gentleman who was not
scart of nothing when of suddenly! , by street-corner one Hon.
Police make hop-out with bounds.
"Stop-It your Car!" he dtb.
(Obedient stops by Hon. Nishi.)
"How many times I told you about carelus manner you twist
the handle-crank of Hon. Machine to danger life & 11m of pas
sengers on sidewalk? I warn you oncely again & no more, impu
dent Japanese puppy-cat of a Chaffer! Will you obey or go
jail?"
"I will obey, please!" revoke my Hero with stotter of voice,
which is sure simptom of timid frite. v
So slowly Nishi continue on with chaste & plus ottomobile.
He let me sadly off befront of Patriots of Japan Boarding &
Lodging; and when I alighted down It were a society scandal
among Japanese naybors. Running back & forthly; throw-open
of windows; and nearly a riot every wheres.
I were such a celebrated person & manicure of every eye, so
I was oblige to tip Hon. Nishi 10c & dismiss him with proud
' expression. Honks from him. When I intend to go to my room
I were escorted by 2 5 Japanese friends to include Uncle Nlshl
with kimono & derby hat. I escape to my bedstead & lock away
their questions which Is less Intelligent.
Pretty soonly little Annie Anazuma make tap-tap to my door.
I permit her enter because she are childish & require education.
"How do it feel to ride In a ottomobile, TJncle Togo?" she
ask-it.
"Childly Japanese," I renlg, "if you wish to have the sensa
tions you ask you must put your head in a flour sack & Jump off
a high building."
"I should not care try such a jump," say Annie, "because I
are not used to It."
"Never try It for first time," I exasperate. "Because who
knows when it might become a habit?"
So I go-sleep quite weary.
Hoping you are the same. Yours truly,
HASHIMTTRA TOGO. :
(Copyright by P. F. Collier & Son.)
tFMBlEf? OF TBBEE--Wl&F AND
JENATOK fWOM WREE SffiTE,
BY RICHARD SPILLAXE.
In Statuary Hall at Washington. tho
Valhalla of the great Republic, you will
find a memorial to James Shields. CMany
of those who stop before the bit of stone
never heard of Shields, or. If they have
heard, remember him; yet In all history
there are few men who were the peers
: of Shields in gallantry, In valorous en
deavor or in remarkable experiences. He
was & 14th century character In a 19th
century setting, who played well his part
from the day when, a lad of 15. he
crossed the hills of Tyrone to fight a
duel with one of "Wellington's veterans,
until, war-worn, battle-scarred, broken in
body, poor in purse, but rich in honors
and occupying the highest office the land
of his adoption could give him, the cur
icln fell and his wonderful career closed.
Shields was born in Altmore. Ireland.
May 6. 1506. It was a time of strife and
struggle. All Europe was in the throes of
war. Mighty battles were being fought,
empires were crumbling, thrones were
I tottering and the whole world seemed to
' lie In convulsion. To the homes of the
Shields family came soldiers who had
fought on the Continent or in the penin
sula under the Iron Duke, or In Italy, in
Prussia, 1n Russia or on the Danube un
der the great Corsican. By the fireside at
night the warriors talked of sieges and
sorties, of deeds of daring and devotion,
of campaigns and armies, of the Little
Corporal who dazzled the world with his
military genius, and of the man who
crushed him on the field of Waterloo.
The boy who listened to these tales was
singularly impressionable and emotional.
Before he could read or write he played
the soldier. He drilled his little play
mates, built forts, charged the enemy's
intrenchments and fought as only a boy.
spurred by the enthusiasm of youth, can
fight. Whatever he got in the way of
military preparation he obtained in those
days. Great soldier certainly he proved
himself. Great commander he certainly
was not. He could handle a brigade, but
not a division. Perhaps that was due
1e the fact that the veterans who watched
tho boys in battle and taught them what
llltle they knew of tactics were soldiers
oT that old school that embraced In its
curriculum much of the pageantry and
heroics of war with little of the science.
From one of Wellington's captains
Shields took lessons in swordsmanship.
and 60 adept did he prove himself that
lie became one of the beat swordsmen of
his time.
The Iiincoln "Duel."
, Ireland offered little to a youth who
craved adventure and whose dreams were
of the great world of achievement. Amer
ica seemed to the boy the land of prom
ise and when he was 16 he sailed away
serosa the Atlantic. One of his uncles
had been In the War of the Revolution
and In the War of 1S12. but when the
youth reached America the uncle was
dead. Business had little attraction for
Shields, so he turned to the sea for a
livelihood. The vessel on which he shipped
furnished more of excitement than he
bargained for. It was wrecked on the
Carolina coast. and when it struck.
Fhields, who was in the ringing, was
1 hrown to the deck and had both legs
broken.
Hardly had his bones mended than he
had lus first chance in actual warfare.
The Indians in Florida were making
trouble and an expedition was organised
to so against them. Shields volunteered.
He got a commission as a lieutenant,
served with distinction, received two
Slight wounds and. when the Indians sur.
rendered, he turned to what was then the
Far West. Out In Kaskaskla. 111., then
a. frontier metropolis, he established him
self. Kaskaskla has long since disap
peared, swallowed up by the Mississippi
but In those days It was a trading post
at which Indians, Frenchmen and Amert
cans gathered in considerable number.
' In 183a he was elected a member of
the Illinois Legislature. Stephen A,
Douglas. I.yman Trumbull and Abra
ham Lincoln were members of the same
body. When his legislative term ended
he was elected Stat Auditor and served
two terms.
; It was in 1842. while he was Stat
Auditor. that h had his famous en-
Sizr or the Ball
TRATPlERCEb
atCcrroCordo
counter with Lincoln. It was a time of
bitter partisanship. Shields and Lin
coln were members of opposing parties.
Newspapers were given to malevolent
personalities, and few men In public
life were spared. Out of some happening-
in the State Auditor's office, a con
troversy arose that stirred the passions
of many men.
Shields was lampooned unmercifully
In a series of articles that appeared in
one of the Whig newspapers, and that
were known as the "Rebecca of the
Lost Township letters." Shields was
rather vain regarding his good looks.
He was five foot nine, distinguished
looking, something of a dandy and ex- 1
tremely sensitive to criticism. The
Rebecca letters were cleverly satirical
and drove Snields to frenzy. He de
manded the name of the author from
the editor, and when Lincoln assumed
the responsibility Shields challenged
him to a duel. The challenge was ac
cepted, and swords were selected as
the weapons.
Against such an antagonist as
Shields, Lincoln had little or no chance,
and had they met there might have
been different chapters in history from
tnose tnat nave been chronicled of the
Nation, but the seconds were men of
sense, and when they learned that Lin
coln had written only one of the letters
and that most of the others were
penned by Mary Todd, with whom Lin
coln was in love and who later became
his wife, they decided that the afrair
did not warrant a hostile meeting. Lin
coln was prevailed upon to write such
a letter as would permit Shields to
withdraw bis challenge, and he did so.
"Your conduct toward me," Lincoln
wrote, "so far as I know, has always
been gentlemanly. I had no personal
grudge against you and no cause for
any. I had no Intention of injuring
your personal or private character or
offending you as a man or a gentle
man." The whole affair was ridiculous. Lin
coln never referred to it except with
chagrin. He acted throughout in a
most manly spirit, but his political ene
mies made the most they could of the
"duel" to his disparagement. Shields,
on the other hand, gained public ap
plause, and In the following year was
appointed Justice of the Supreme Court
of the state to succeed Stephen A
Douglas. But he did not remain on
the bench long. President Polk ap
polrrred him Land Commissioner of th
United States, and he was in Washing
ton occupying this office when th war
with Mexico began.
Cerro Gordo.
It was in this war that Shields earned
his greatest laurels and became a Ka
tional hero. He was commissioned i
Brigadier-General and put In command
of volunteers from South Carolina. Illi
nois and New Torlc Along the Rio
Grande he served under General Zach
ary Taylr, and after tho battle of
Buena Vista he and his command
Joined the forces of General Wlnfleld
Scott at Vera Cruz and took a leading
part In that marvelous campaign which
earned for Scott undying fame.
Scott himself won no higher laurels
In the eyes of the public than did
Shields. It was at Cerro Gardo that
Shields became a National figure. He
was leading a charge of one of the
wings of the army when a grapeshot
struck him In the right breast. The
bullet, which was 1 1-3 Inches in diam
eter as big as the marbles with tcik
boys play in Summer days passed Into
th right lung, and. going through the
body, came out of his back alongside
iua oyine.
In 999 cases out of 1000 such
grievous wound would result fatally,
but. as Shields lay on the ground, bid
ding farewell to his companions, a
French surgeon, who had been serving
in the Mexican army and had been
taken prisoner, begged permission to
examine the wound. Calling for a ram
rod and a silk handkerchief, he bound
the handkerchief about the ramrod and
forced the handkerchief through the
General's body. Then h pulled th
handkerchief through th wound until
re naa cleared away all the coagulated
blood. Then he dressed the wound as
well as he could. In 75 days Shields
was In th saddle again and had re
sumed command of his brigade. At the
battle of Contreras. where he was in
charge of the right wins of th army,
he was shot In the arm. This was 15
days after he had returned to duty.
The wound was slight and did not In
terfere with him talking: part in the
battle of Cherubusco, and he was one of
th first to climb th heights of Chapul
tepec and drlv tho Mexicans Into th
City of Mexico.
When Scott Rebuked Him.
After Chapultepec h had charge of
the force at the Belera gate In tho In
vestment of the city. Here he was
guilty of an act of folly which, how
ever, much It merited military cen
sure, served only to add to his popu
larity with th public Into his camp
there came one night an English boy
who lived in the city with his mother
and sister. The boy fell on his knees
before th General and begged him
to save his mother from death and
his sister from worse than death. The
boy said that one of Santa Ana's
chiefs, a leader of a band of braves,
infatuated with th English girl.
planned1 to seize her, kill the English
If necessary and escape from the city
with the girl.
To a romantic minded, impulsive man
like Shields, such a story made strong
appeal. torgettlng his duty to his
command and his orders from the com
manding general, ho called for volun
teers to go to the rescue of the girl
and her mother. Four hundred men re
sponded. Into th city where Santa
Ana's s.rmy lay Intrenched. Shields
and his 00 went late at night, led by
ths English boy. They . reached th
house, got the two women out and
started back for camp. But they had
not' proceeded far when an alarm was
raised. Shots were fired and It was by
the greatest good luck only that the
band of volunteers managed to escape
capture and death.
When General Scott heard what had
occurred, he was furious. Ha threatened
Shields with court-martial, rebuked
him publicly and probably would have
relieved him of command had not more
Important matters claimed his atten
tion within a few hours. Th more Im
portant matters had to do with tho
crowning triumph of th war the cap
ture of the capital. Here, again. Shields
offended. General Scott planned to give
to General Quitman the honor of be
ing the first to enter the city and raise
the American flag, but Shields, im
patient of delay, rushed the Belem
gate and raised the Stars and Stripes
in advance of the General's programme.
Elected Senator.
A victorious people are forgiving of
a brave. Impetuous man, and when
Shields returned to the United States
he was greeted as one of the great
heroes of the war. What did a few
infractions of th military order sig
nify? Illinois, eager to do him honor,
elected him a member of tho United
States Senate, and in 1S48 he went to
Washington to take his seat. His col
league was Douglas. In the Senate at
that time were Webster, Clay, Cal
houn and other great statesmen.
It is not of record that Shields won
renown In that august body, but some
of the speeches he made show a homely
wisdom and a grasp of the leading
Questions of the day that are highly
creditable to his intellectual capacity.
When his term as Senator closed,
President Pierce appointed him Ter
ritorial Governor of Oregon. He did
not accept but came East and took up
his residence in Minnesota. He estab
lished the town of Shields, and in 1858,
the first Legislature of Minnesota sent
him to the United States Senate once
more. Ke got the short term of two
years and when his service ended in
1860, he went -o California.
There is a pleasant story, probably
apocryphal, that he narrowly escaped
election by California to the United
States Senate, his determination to go
East alone preventing it. However that
may be, he was In New Mexico when
Fort Sumter was fired on. With all
haste he hurried eastward and offered
his services to the Federal Govern
ment. He was commissioned Brigadier
Gneral and sent to the Shenandoah
"Valley. There he won and ther he
lost whatever renown came to him In
the War of the Rebellion. In April,
1862, he was In command at the battle
of Winchester and defeated Stonewall
Jackson. It was the first and only de
feat the great soldier of the Confed
eracy sustained. Perhaps Shields re
ceived too much credit for that victory.
Defeated Stonewall Jackson.
Those were trying days for tho
North. Defeats were many and suc
cesses few. Shields loomed large in the
public eye, and the country rang with
his name. In fact, it is said that Sec
retary of War Stanton seriously con
sidered placing him in command of
tho Army of tho Potomac and visited
him at his headquarters with that end
in view. The Army of the Potomac was
In dire need of a vigorous general at
that time. But If Stanton or tho Presi
dent had any such Idea they soon
abandoned It, for In tho battle of Port
Republic, where Shields was desperate
ly wounded by the bursting of a Bhell,
and where he planned and fully ex
pected to annihilate Jackson's forces,
tho Confederates won a decisive vic
tory, so decisive that Shields, mortified
that his account of how the defeat re
sulted' not from his being wounded in
tho action, but from tho failure of one
of his subordinates to obey orders
was not accepted, resigned In dis
gust. He sought retirement In California, but
the wanderlust had possession of him.
and he drifted East again. In Missouri
he took up his homo and served one term
in the Legislature of that state. In 1875
he was elected Representative In Con
gress, but the election was contested and
the Republican majority ousted him- And
now there came the drab, the bitter, the
sorrowful days of this man's life.
Never much of a business man, never
provident, crippled by his many wounds,
old and failing, and suffering much in
body and spirit, he was unfitted for any
real work, so he sought to support him
self by lecturing. Around the country he
went, from small town to small town,
addressing audiences. He was eloquent,
brilliant almost, but the Nation was
weary of war and stories of war, and
there was little of profit to tho old, bat
tered campaigner, as shown through the
box-office. Many times his pockets were
lean to emptiness. But IX there was lit
tle of profit to hiroslf, he was willing
enough to help others, if he could, and
when tho 'South was stricken with yellow
fever In the Summer of 1278 no one did
more within his power than did the
broken-down old warrior.
Of the half dozen lectures he delivered
for the benefit of the sufferers the last
, was 1n the Academy of Music. Brooklyn.
on September 26, 1S78. Many great audi
ences had assembled In that house, but
never one to equal that which greeted
Shields. From the time he arrived In
Jersey City until he departed tho day
after the lecture a guard of honor from
the Irish Brigade attended him, and the
leading men of New York and Brooklyn
gathered round him on the stage. And
while men applauded him wildly few
knew of his- poverty and his needs.
At last too weak physically to stand
the strain of traveling, unable to earn a
living in private life, he went before the
Congress of the United States and sought
the position of doorkeeper. The House
was Democratic, and Shields, twice a
United States Senator, hero of three wars,
scarred with 12 wounds, had little longer
to live.
General Benjamin F. Butler placed
him in nomination. Ho told of the Gen
eral's poverty, of his wounds, of his
struggles, of the pathetic last phase of
a career without parallel in American
history. But Congress was swayed by
politics, not pathos. Shields was re
jected. However bitter the old soldier's feel
ings may have been when he hobbled
away from the Capitol; however dark
the future may have seemed, fate had
in store for him a curious turn, a
crowning triumph such as no other
man In American life has had.
Missouri elected him United States
Senator- sent him back to Washing
ton, made him a member of the upper
branch of that Congress, the lower of
which a few weeks before had refused
to have him as doorkeeper.
And so, for tho third time. James
Shields, plaything of fortune, became a
Senator of the United States.
The sands of life were running low
with the old soldier when he took the
oath for the third time and he was In
his seat only a few times. His last ap
pearance in the Capitol was on March 4,
1879.
On June 1 of that year he died at Ot
tumwa. Ia., where ho had gone to deliver
an address. Ho was burled at Carroll ton,
Mo.
And when he was dead more honor was
paid to him than when he lived. Con
gresa appropriated S16.000 to buy his
swords the swords that Shields had to
pawn a little while before he died. Tho
second monument that was placed in
America's Valhalla was the statue of
Shields. There it is today, with those of
Washington, Lincoln, Grant and other
great Americans. South Carolina. Minne
sota. Illinois and Missouri laid laurels on
his tomb. Poets sang his praise. The
school children of one state contributed
their pennies until thousands of dollars
had been collected. Then they raised a
monument in his memory. And they de
clared that it needed no epitaph. The
name SHIELDS was enough.
And they had th monument made of
rough granite, because it typified hla
character, rugged and sturdy and true.
(Copyright. 1909. by Richard SplUsne.
Bishop Potter's Cornbread Recipe.
Among the many things that the late
Bishop Potter knew was a first-class
recipe for cornbread. There Is nothing
better and nothing easier to make well.
Take one and one-quarter cups of corn
meal to one quart of boiling water, one
teasponful of salt and a desert spoon
of butter. Put all the materials Into a
big bowl and pour over them the boil
ing water, beating the mixture to
gether thoroughly. Let it stand for
ten or fifteen minutes before you pour
It Into buttered pan. It must not be
more than an Inch and a half thick,
as the corn bread is tho thin kind.
ana must De baked brown and crisp.
Why a Poett
Why should a man be a poet
A great big, healthy man
Who might be puddling a furnace.
Or driving a furniture van?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he dare refuse
To put out his hand to a shovel.
But hang to the skirts of the Muse?
Why should a man bo a poet?
What Is th reason that he
Should take it for granted a lady
Should support hlra In luxury?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he dodge and shirk
The labor that good men are doing
Why doesn't he go to work?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he wander In quest
Of flowers In the fields of Parnassus
When farmhands are needed out
West?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he handle the pen
With lily-white fingers when railroads
Are looking for traclc-laylng menT
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he stroll on the shore
At his ease by th sea of the lotus.
While the muscles of millions are
sore?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he build away
His fabrics of faney while masons
Are earning five dollars a day?
Why should a man be a poet?
Why should he sing like a bird
While the rest of us work for arriving?
God knows, and He won't say a wordl
Exohanga.