Corvallis gazette., July 31, 1903, Image 4

HIS CABIN SUITS HIM, 1
ALTHOUGH CATTLE KING HEALY
IS A MILLIONAIRE.
A Unique Character in New Mexico,"
Whose Wealth la In Land, Cattle,
Copper and 6ilver Mines-He Spemdi
Less than $600 a Year.
On a bleak and lonely side of the
Santa Margarita mountains in New
Mexico is a rude, barn-like cabin of
rough-sawed
boards. It ia the
home of Jame3
Healy, one of the
wealthiest cattle
men in the South
west. Healy would
be taken for a
tramp by almost
anyone, and none
would laugh more
at the error than
Healy himself. In
jim healy. some ways Healy
Is one of the most interesting men in
the territory. His possessions in land,
cattle, copper and silver mines in New
Mexico and in Chihuahua, Mexico, are
easily worth several millions of dollars.
His average annual income for several
years has been upward of $80,000.
Last year he sold cattle that alone
brought him $65,000, and it is believed
his income ran up to about $105,000.
Yet, with all this wealth at his com
mand, and with a knowledge that his
great fortune is in gild-edged securi
ties, he lives as cheaply as the com
monest Mexican vaquero in his employ.
He boasts that he spends less than
$500 a year on himself. His income ia
greater than that of some leaders of
American society and notable votaries
of fashion and elegance, but he has ab
solutely no knowledge of the influ
ence and prestige his riches would
have in other people's hands amid a
different environment. "What good is
there in money, if you can't buy land
and cattle?" is the terse answer he
gave someone once who was trying to
tell the cattle king how other folks
would use an income of nearly $90,000
a year.
He has not been farther away from
his range than to Kansas City in over
thirty-five years, and he seldom goes
farther from his shanty home than
over to Las Vegas or down to Albu
querque. His wealth is piling up in
land, cattle, copper property and mort
gages to the amount of thousands of
dollars every year. One hears homely
speculations among the people in Las
Vegas and the white settlers in San
Miguel and Bernalillo counties in
northern New Mexico, as to the dispo
sition this strange and taciturn mill
ionaire bachelor cattleman is going to
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MILLIONAIBE HEALY'8 CAELX.
make of all his money and property
when his hair gets white and his stal
wart frame is broken by age and dis
ease. Healy's Career.
James Healy went to New Mexico
from Texas. He was born in Sedalia,
Mo., in 1838, and with his parents went
to Austin, Texas, in 1850. He has al
ways lived on the plains and has no
knowledge of any other life. He never
went to . school but three years, and
that was on the plains of Texas. But
he was born with rare sagacity and a
peculiar border shrewdness that reads
men at one glance and knows a schem
er Instinctively. So, while he is ignor
ant of worldly ways and has not the
meagerest knowledge of the thoughts
and aspirations of the people in the
busy, pushing, progressive! world out
side of the lonely southern spur of the
Rocky Mountains, where he has lived
for longer than a generation, he knows
cattle and sheep as thoroughly as any
man ever did, and he has the natural
rough skill to drive the best bargains
for anything he buys or sells. His
chief stock In trade is an iron consti-.
tution and a bravado nerve that made
him well known on the frontier before
he was 20. -
He became a vaquero in Texas when
he was but 17, and he has been at it
ever since. He never talks about his
possessions, and he is as close as an
oyster when anyone tries to get him to
tell what sums his semi-annual cattle
shipments to Kansas City yield. But
he will sit all night and smoke and
drink whisky and claret mixed and
tell his ideas about breeding long or
short-horned cattle, about the relative
profit in sheep or cattle and how he
has many a time saved a good critter
from death by disease and for ship
ment to the slaughter house. From the
meagerest beginnings and with only
a stout heart and two brawny arms as
his equipment for wealth production,
James Healy has come to his present
wealth. The story of his rise is as
thrilling as any border fiction. The
story tells how young Healy herded
cattle in a region infested by Apaches;
how he rode as a Texas ranger in the
last Comanche campaign and was once
picked up for dead on the scene of an
Indian ambush; how he has fought and
killed the most dangerous desperadoes
in the cattle country at several times
in his long experience on the southern
border, and how he has trailed cattle
thieves and rustlers for weeks at a
time, all go to make Incidents in as
lively and veracious a biography as
was ever penned.
That was the school this uncommon
millionaire of to-day was reared ia
His associates have been Mexican va
queros, American cowboys, hardened
characters on the border and half-
breed Indians. "All I know is Mexi
cans, Injuns, cattle and ranges, and It
ain't bo use for me to fry to put on
- dog," said Jim Healy recently to some
one who wondered why the man lived
"so meanly, in spite of his fast-increasing
wealth. -
When the Na vajos were moved by
the government to southern New Mex
ico, in the latter 60's, Jim Healy and
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Kteht hundred miles from the nearest physician and with her husband in
danger of dying unless operated on immediately Mrs. William H. Logan, of
Bethany, 111., who recently went to China with her husband as missionary,
gave him an anaesthetic and successfully removed his appendix, following
instructions he gave her before he relapsed into unconsciousness. When Dr.
Logan had rallied sufficiently from the operation Mrs. Logan took him 800
miles by rail and wagon to a physician, where the treatment' was completed.
other vaqueros went northward with
little bands of cattle and settled on
tracts of land close to the Arizona ter
ritorial line. That was the real begin
ning of the Healy fortune. In a few
vears he had several hundred head of
steers. Then he had several thousand.
He spoke the Spanish tongue as well
as his own, , and no American knew
the border and its rude, rough ways so
well as Jim Healy did. W hen he cold
his cattle be bought more land. Then,
witih more land, he increased his herd.
With further sales of cattle, he bought
more land. So he kept on buying land,
trading for cattle and water rights, oc
casionally dabbling in sheep and wool,
until he has become a millionaire.
Healy reads with difficulty, and he
has someone employed in the Las Ve
gas National Bank to keep his cash
and collections there shipshape. He
has never seen a drama, heard a con
cert or anything theatrical or operatic
since 1870, and then in El Paso. So
far as dress is concerned, he would be
taken for a poor, forlorn cow-herder
any day.
HAMMURABI OF BABYLON.
Kins Who Reizned Over Twenty-two
Hundred Yean Before Chriat.
Hammurabi reigned in Babylon
about 2250 B. C. We know nothing
of Babylon before his time. There
were other local capitals: Ur, Erech,
Nippur and Lagash to the south, and
Agane and Sippara to the north, each
the seat of a temple of some one of
the gods. At Sippara the local divin
ity was'Shamash, the sun god. We
know the form under which Shamash
was worshiped, for Mr. Rassam, in
bis excavations at Sippara, the modern
Abu-habba, dug up, from a great
depth, the sacred image of the god,
a bas relief on a large slab, accom
panied by a memorial inscription of
King Nabu-abal-idin, or Nebo-glves-a-son.
The sun god sits on his throne
under a canopy, and the king is pre
sented to him by two divine attend
ants. Before the god, resting on a
table. Is the symbol of the son, with
alternate rays and streams; and above
are two figures who direct the course
of the sun in his dally journey, much
as a Persian artist would place the disk
of the sun In a chariot to be drawn
by his horses, or as a Greek artist
would give him a charioteer. There
are smaller symbols of the sun, the
moon and Venus, and the cuneiform in
scription explains the meaning of the
composition. When this . stone was
found by the Arab workmen, they
came running to Mr. Rassam and told
him they had found Noah with his
eons Shem, Ham-and Japheth; and Mr.
Rassam was so pleased that he killed
an ox and made them a great feast.
In this city of Sippara and before
the sun god's temple Hammurabi set
up one of the great stone columns on
which were inscribed the laws. It
remained there three hundred years or
more, until, In feebler succession, the
kings from the mountains of Elam in
vaded and conquered again the rich
plains of Babylonia. We know not
what costly spoil of gold and embroid
ered vestures they carried away; but
much more importantf or us. was their
loot of the historical stone monuments
of Babylonia, and most fortunate of
all was their choice of the stele of
Hammurabi. He had first brought the
heavy stone, perhaps, from the moun
tains of Arabia, it may be by. boat
from the western side of the Ara
bian peninsula, some think even from
the Sinaitis quarries at the north end
of the Red Sea. That would have
taken a year's travel. The Elamite
conqueror put this stone and a con
siderable number of smaller stone rec
ords of land grants, called kudurus.
into boats, and, following the main
canals, reached the Tigris River (for
Sippara Is near the Euphrates), and
then passed down to the Persian Gulf,
and thence up the Karun or Eulaeus
River, or quite as likely through some
of the intersecting canals, and by this
long Journey they were brought to
grace his triumph at Susa. Century.
Women always pity a man during
his period of convalescence because he
caa't crochet.
HUSBAND
WHU5L Llrt Mil SAVtD
It is interesting to find a familiar
theme considered from a new point
of view; it is more interesting to find
that there is a new point of view from
which to consider the ever-discussed
tragedy of "Hamlet." In East Hently
the other day two women met on the
threshold of the village library. She
who was going in noticed the book
which her neighbor, who was coining
out, was carrying, and remarked, "I
didn't know, Mrs. Binns, that you
were a reader of Shakespeare."
Mrs. Binns looked apologetic. "Well,
Mis' Brown," said she, "I ain't given
to wasting time on light literature,
generally speaking; I really ain't. With
a family the size o' mine, I'm too
busy. 'But doctor's been telling me I
got to lie down every day after dinner
if I don't want to go all to pieces an'
give him another case of nervous" pros
tration; .and goodness knows I can't
afford to do that. He said to take
a nap, but I told him that I couldn't;
It ain't in me. I'm as wide-awake a
body as there is stirring from sunup
to sundown, an' I couldn't go to sleep,
not if I held my eyes shut by main
force. So then he said, 'Take a book;
lie down and take a book, and don't
pick out anything solid or edifying,
but take the lightest thing you can get
hold of, and put your feet up, and pil
lers to your" back, and if it ain't as
good as a nap, why, it's the next best
thing.'
"Well, it certainly does seem as If
there couldn't be anything lighter and
less edifying than plays. I don't know
what, my poor mother'd say to me.
She disapproved of play-acting an'
shows stronger than anybody I ever
knew. I remember I used to feel it
quite a grievance that she wouldn't
let me go to the circus when I was a
girl. But some real good people feel
different nowadays; and under doctor's
orders
"That's why I took out a play; and
of course I've heard tell of Shakes
peare as the best play-writer, and I
asked Letty to ask at the high school
which was his best play, and she said
'Hamlet.' Well, I can't say I fancied
the glance I had in the library before
bringin' it away with me. But I don't
suppose hasty jedgments are good for
much, so I took it, after all. Perhaps
it'll turn out more entertaining than
it looks to be." Anyway, I'm goin'
home to mind ' doctor's orders right
away light lit'rature, six pillers and
a sofy and if I 4on't improve-under
'em it ain't my fault Well, I'm glad
to hear you found it so interesting.
Land, you are enthusiastic! Well,
maybe I shall, but I don't hardly think
so. Good morning!!' : Youth's Com
panion. Washed Coins. , , .
Queen Alexandra, . it Is said, has a
great horror of the microbes. She will
in no case accept a piece of money un
til it has been thoroughly cleansed.
Whenever a check Is turned into hard
cash for the queen's use the coins are
plunged Into a basin and scrubbed in
a latter of spirits of wine, water and
soap, to which has been added a few
drops of carbolic acid. After this
bath, the coins are placed in the royal
purse and her majesty is ready to start
out on her purchasing tour. , But when
she tenders a coin in payment for any
article on which change is due " the
change is never on any account hand
ed to the queen, but is turned over
to her lady in waiting. At the end of
the shopping excursion all of the coins
received in f he way of change from
tradesmen are put into the microbe
destroying bath before they get into
the royal purse. . . - : . .
When a mother has been away two
or three weeks, it is worth watching
her three or four little children when
she returns home. You may not cry,
but the sight will make something
tremble Inside of yon. , ' ; ;
This is how Important a groom Is in
a girl's life: When she was graduated
from schooL the event lasted ten days
longer.
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER-
EST1NG ITEMS. :
Comments and Criticism Baaed Upon
the Happeninira of the Day Histori
cal and News Kotea. .
Man is of few days and full of con
densed cussedness.
Always view a scene with a mule
in it from the foreground.
When told to take a back seat the
average man will take affront.
Any one in Parist is likely to have
Santos-Dumont drop in on him.
A man's true friends keep quiet when
some one is enumerating his virtues.
Some women confide in men for the
purpose of extracting secrets from
them.
What good will it. do us if they have
found the smallpox germ? We didn't
lose him. .
The Chinese invented firecrackers;
but the Christians figured out the au
tomobile. Presently he may go fourflushing
down the corridors, of time as King
Peter Out.
The doctors say fat babies are not
healthy. . Is this to be construed as a
deadly blow to the nursing bottle?
Good advice has a monetary value.
It's the other kind that is handed out
by those who are running a gift en
terprise. While a negro and a Chinaman divid
ed class nonors at Yale, the athletic
honors of the Institution are still held
by the whites.
Porto Rico held a flag day, at which
fifteen hundred American flags were
carried in procession. It seems as if
this were a loyal colony.
While the easy-going individual is
trying to figure ut which is the best
foot to put forward the strenuous man
gets there with both feet
When. King Peter arrived at Bel
grade the bands played the Servian na
tional anthem. The Servian national
anthem is "God Help the King."
A scientist assures us that the earth
Is good for 20,000,000 years yet. Un
less, of course, : Morgan and Baer
should decide to take it with them.
The largest man in the world has
been discovered m Kustjak, Russia.
Good! We have several unbeaten
specimens of the smallest right here.
It costs some young men as high as
$25,000 each for a four -years' course
at Yale. But these young men would
spend the money even if they were not
at Yale.
To be sure the office should seek the
man, but any of our statesmen would
tell you that there is no necessity of
hiding in the cellar when the office is
going by the house.
An eminent scientist connected with
the agricultural bureau states that the
world's demand for beans has passed
the supply. The roar of apprehension
in Boston papers sounds like a yard
f ul of locomotives letting off steam.
A pastor has preached against what
he is pleased to call "the peekaboo
waist" The waist may be immodest,
but calling public attention to It comes
nearer to being immoral than the gar
ment itself. Beloved brethren, let us
think twice before speaking three
times.
"Freedom, home life and content of
heart" were some of the possessions
for which a former member of the
President's cabinet declared himself
thankful, when speaking at a public
dinner recently. He had been re
ferring to our multimillionaires, and
the blessings of which their great
wealth' almost necessarily deprives
them, and "I am glad I am not a rich
man," he said. A great many thought
ful people feel the same way especial
ly those who are able to add, "I am
glad v I am not a poor man."
Some curious person asked the late
Oliver Wendell Holmes about his age.
"Seventy-two years young" (not "old")
was his reply. Some men are younger
at seventy than others are at forty or
fifty. Some men are never . young.
Old age hovers over them before they
reach mature years. They are rotten
as soon as they are ripe. Some men
1 are never old, but carry to the latest
hours of their lives the buoyancy, the
blitheness of disposition, the faculty
for mental labor, the power of thought
and expression, the susceptibility to
higher culture which marked .their
growth from adolescence.
I When it is here remarked that the
male American is declaring symptoms
of dawning effeminacy no occasion is
offered for indignant reprobation. The
average American has so much thor-
ough masculinity that he can spare
j enough to dower a less vigorous peo
, pie. What Is meant is that the natural
reaction to the paramountcy of the
American girl has set in. As she
shares the pursuits, the pleasures and
the liberties of her brothers and im
poses her commands upon them she
becomes more masculine, they more
feminine; her shoulders square off,
theirs begin to slope. She dons the
sweater and the blazer and wears her
skirts shorter and shorter; they take
to pink shirtwaists and clocked open
work stockings, and their ever baggier
trousers, worn so long that they have
to be turned up at the bottom, seem
fashioned on a seraglio pattern.
Servian government bonds, despite
the precarious position of rulers and
people, have been rather more steady
in the recent fluctuations of European
public securities than those of other
states. During the Boer war period,
between 1899 and and 1902, when Brit
ish consols fell 20 points and German
Imperial 3 per cents 10, the extreme
decline in Servian 4s was 8 points.
What is more striking still, their price
at the opening of June, 1903, was high
er than the highest figure reached in
the period from 189S to 1902 inclusive.
This did not result, however, from
blind confidence In Servia's willingness
or unwillingness to pay. Servia is
mortgaged to the bankers as tightly
as Turkey or Greece or Portugal or
China. There sits at Belgrade a so
called "autonomous administration of
monopolies," which, without reference
to the government, receives and ad
ministers for the benefit of Servia's
creditors, (1) net earnings of various
state railways, (2) liquor licenses, (3)
tobacco monopolies, (4) customs duties,
(5) salt monopoly, and (6) petroleum
monopoly. This has an Interesting
sound. It makes one wonder what
sort of figure a "trust plank" would
cut in the platform of a Servian minor
ity party. -
Once upon a time a boy drifted away
from the teachings of a good mother
and got into bad company. It is a
strange characteristic of the tangle
that he Is' not satisfied with being
tough. He wants to spread the conta
gion, to extend his meanness to .make
otler boys, as bad as himself. And
he finds many converts. So the boy
who figures in this editorial learned to
lie, to pilfer, to drink, to curse and all
these things were hailed as virtues in
the small circle in which he had been
initiated. At heart he wasn't a bad
fellow, but he was weak. Finally, he
was caught stealing, and was sent to
the penitentiary for one year. He did
a lot of thinking. . In his little stone
cell he. discovered that the way of the
transgressor is always hard, and the
one mighty resolve he made was, "I
will be good." He meant it, too. He
had a foolish notion that he could walk
out of prison one day, begin at the spot
where he took the wrong road, look
the world in the face and start anew.
When the term was ended he walked
out Into God's sunlight and went to
work. The bad thoughts were gone,
the bad living was only a memory, and
he went to work almost happy. He
got a job as brakeman, and did his
duty as a man who owed society noth
ing beyond what had been paid behind
the gray walls of the great prison.
Society, as a whole, never quite for
gives a human being for a crime.
There is always a some one to give
the struggling man a kick in the face
when he needs a helping, hand. The
anoymous letter writer got in his dead
ly work. "You have an ex-convict in
your employ," was the burden of the
missive, and it reached the mark and
lost the young brakeman his place.
Men do not like to work with ex-convicts.
If they know it. There is a
sneaking feeling that the fellow who
has been in the "pen" isn't fit to as
sociate with free men, and nobody
cares to go into details. Yes, they dis
charged the penitentiary brakeman,
and in the books of hell a long fiery
credit mark was set down to the cur
who wrote the anonymous letter. The
young man? The last heard of him
he was idle, trying to remain honest
with the road to ruin wide open and
the narrow way to respectability al
most barred.
TICKET AGENT'S TROUBLES.
Much Harassed Because He Does Not
Know Man Named Peters.
A young man called up a ticket of
fice the other day: "What's the fare
to Buffalo, round trip?" he asked.
"We haven't any round-trip tickets,"
answered the voice from the other end.
"Well, what's the fare one way?"
"Ten dollars."
"Then the round trip -would be $20,
wouldn't It?"
"I don't know."
"Well, It would be fair to presume
that it would be, don't you think?"
"Can't take anything for granted
these days."
' "Seems to me you railroad people
don't know very much, or if you do
you don't care to tell it."
"Sorry you don't like us." " , -
. "I don't." V
"Tell you what, old man, don't you
travel by railroad any more; take a
canal boat. They're always handy,
and they say some of the mule-drivers
are very polished gentlemen. Good
bye." "Good-bye."
Vacation times are not the happiest
days that are spent by the clerks in. a
railroad ticket office. Sometimes their
patience gives out, and no one won
ders much. . .
Yesterday, for instance, an elderly
woman wanted a ticket to Laurel.
"Maryland or Delaware?" asked the
ticket seller,
"I don't know. Just LaureL Ever
so many people go there. My nephew
lives there. His name is Peters. He's
an undertaker. I suppose you know
now which one I want."
"No, madam I can't say that I do.
Suppose you go home and find out
which State your nephew lives in. It
will be quite the safest way. No use
starting off on a wild goose chase."
"But you sell my nephew tickets
about once every three months," per
sisted the woman. "If you think, I
am sure you will remember him. - He
has a red mustache and one front
tooth is gone. He is going to have it
put in the next time he comes to Bal
timore, but if you've ever seen him
you surely must remember him. Are
you the only person who sells tickets
at this window?"
"I am not." ,
"Well, then, If you'll just call the
other people who do, I am sure one of
them will know him. He is about
your build, only a little taller, and
with gray eyes."' v
"The other gentlemen are not In."
"Then I'll wait for them." .
"But they are almost certain not
to know him."
"Yes, they will. Peters is ' well
known."
"Very good," said the ticket agent,
wearily; "wait then. . They will, be
here within the next ten hours."
. But the woman walked out, grum
bling. --r -;
" The ticket seller isn't always: the
most amiable of ' men, but' he has
some reason for his tempers. Buffalo
News.
I-KI"i"--t"l4"I--l"I"H-t-H-I"l"l-l-
OLD
FAVORITES I M"M"M"t"t"M "t'l1 1-1 1 1 1 MH H'lT
Mcodemnt the Slave.
Nicodenuis, the slave, was of African
birth,
And was bought for a bagful of gold;
He was reckoned as part of the salt, of
the earth,
But he died' years ago, very old.
Twas his last request, so we laid him
away
In the trunk of an hollow tree;
'Wake me up," was his. charge, "at the
first break of day
Wake me up for the great jubilee."
He was known as a prophet, at least was
as -wise,
For he-r told of the battles to come;
And we trembled with fear when he
roll'd up his eyed.
And we heeded the shake of his thumb.
Tho' he clothed us with fear, yet the
garments he wore
Were in patches at elbow and knee,
And he still wears the suit that he used
to of yore,
And he sleeps in the. old hollow tree.
Nicodemus was never the sport of the
lash,
Though the bullet has oft cross'd his
path;
There was none of his masters, so brave
or so rash
As to face such a man in his wrath.
Yet his great heart with kindness was
filled to the brim.
He obeyed who was born to command,
But he longed for the morning, which
then was so dim.
For the morning which now is- at hand.
'Twas a long, weary night, we were al
most in fear
That the future was more than he
knew; - I
'Twas a long, weary night, but the morn-
. ing was near,
And the words of our prophet are
true. f
There are pigns in the sky that the dark
ness is gone,
There are tokens in endless array;
While the storm which had seemingly
banished the dawn
Only hastens the advent of day.
CHORUS:
The good time coming is almost here!
It was long, long, long on the way;
Now run and tell Elijah to hurry up,
Pomp,
And meet us at the gum-tree down in the
swamp.
To wake, Nicodemus to-day.
I Cannot Pinar the Old Song.
I cannot sing the old songs
I sung long years ago.
For heart and voice would fail me
And foolish tears would flow;
For bygone hours come o'er my heart
With each familiar strain
I canuot sing the old songs
Or dream those dreams again,
I cannot sing the old songs
Or dream those dreams again.
I cannot sing the old songs.
Their charm is sad and deep.
Their melodies would waken
Old sorrows from their sleep.
And though all unforgotten still
And sadly sweet they be,
I cannot sing the old songs,
They are too dear to me,
1 cannot sing the old sougs,
They are too dear to me.
I cannot sing the old songs,
For visions come again
Of golden dreams departed
And years of weary pain;
Perhaps when. earthly fetters
Have set my sxirit free.
My voice may know the old songs
For all eternity.
My voice may know the old songs
For all eternity:
Claribel.
A New Disease.
"Motor intoxication" is a now diseast
discovered by the savants of Paris. II
Is the temporary mental disorder ol
speeding automobilists. M. Hachel
Souplet, at the last meeting of the So
ci'ate d'Hypnologie et de Psychologie.
spoke of the Intoxicating effect of i apiti
motor locomotion. The mental ami
moral state of the driver becomes ab
normal. He grows vindicative, furl
ously aggressive, and lets himself bt
carried away by the angry impulse ol
the moment. The high rate of speed
works him up into the very same statt
of mind which makes the habitual
drinker of alcohol regardless of coiwv
quences. Both abuse, swear and use
vile language. M. Mac-net Souplel
quoted a number of instances from po
lice reports of trials of automobilists in
which self-control and the sense of dig
nity entirely deserted gentlemen ol
high education and breeding. Dr. Ber
lllon, an eminent man, corroborated ev
erything M. Hachet Souplet had said.
Dr. Berillon' knows a motorist who
ran over a peasant and rushed on after
he did so as furiously as oerore. He
returned home in a state of depression
that follows a long rush forward at the
pace of an express train, and never
gave a thought to his victim on the
road until he read three days after how
he had killed him. He then felt very
sorry, declared himself guilty of the
death of the peasant and settled an an
nuity on his family.
Miss Solomon and Her Lover.
A woman was walking in a palm
grove when a man saw her and has
tened after her. When she asked him
why he followed her, he replied:
"Because I am in love with you."
. "And why are you In love with me?"
she asked. "My sister who comes af
ter me yonder Is far more beautiful
than. I; go and fall in love with hei
instead." . .
The man complied and went back,
but only .to look upon a woman as
ugly as sin.t He was vexed and re
turned to the first woman and said to
her: :
"Why did you deceive me?" .
. And she made answer: ,
. "Did you not also tell me an un
truth? For if you were really In love
with me, why did you turn back tc
the other woman?" New York Sun.
. - Consumption in Ohio.
"r Consumption claims 6,000 persons a
year in Ohio..
When business gets out of Its ordi
nary channel .?-, some men use up ; all
their time telling how to handle It.
The others go ahead and do the best
they can.
DU CHALLU'S FIRST GORILLA.
A Thrillina- Incident in the Life of
the Famous Kxplorer.
Paul Belloni Du-Chaillu, the famous
traveler, who died a short time ago,
was the center of a fierce controversy
forty and flfty( years ago, when bis
stories of life in Central Africa, and
his discovery of the gorilla, since con
firmed, were menounced as gross ex
aggerations, If not absolute lies. He
never fully overcame the effects of
his defamation and vilification, and
although he lived to enjoy many hon
ors, he did not reap the full' reward
due to his achievements. Born In
New Orleans In 1838, he .was early
taken to Africa by his father, wno
held a consular appointment in the
Gaboon. In 1852 he published a series,
of newspaper articles about the Ga
boon country which attracted much at
tention. In 1855 he returned to the
West Coast of Africa. Ucac ?om
panled by any white man, he traveled
a distance of 8.000 miles In a practic
ally unknown country. He killed :ind
stuffed 2,000 birds, including many
new species, and many gorillas, of
which he brought the first accounts to
Europe. It was his vivid and elo
quent description of these huge and
ferocious apes that excited Incredu
lity. Here Is the account which he gave
of his encounter with his first gorilla:
"Suddenly an Immense gorilla ad
vanced out of the wood straight to
ward us, and gave 'vent, as he came
up, to a terrible howl of rage, as much
as to say, 'I am tired of being pur
sued and will face you.'
"It was a lone male, the kind
which are always the most ferocious.
This fellow made the woods resound
with his roar, which Is really an aw
ful sound, resembling the rolling and
muttering of distant thunder. He
was about twenty yards off when we
first saw him. We at once gathered
together, and I was about to take aim
and bring him down where he stood
when my most trusted man, Malaoi:en,
stopped me, saying, in a whisper, 'Not
time yet.'
"We stood, therefore, In silence, gun
in hand. The gorilla looked at us for
a moment or so out of his evil gray
eyes, then beat his breast with his
gigantic arms and what arms he had!:
then gave another howl of defiance
and advanced upon us. How horrible
he looked! I shall never forget it.
Again he stopped, not more than fif
teen yards away. Still Malaonen
said, 'Not yet.' Good gracious! what
is to become of us If our guns miss,
fire, or if we only wound the ' great -beast?
"Again the gorilla made an advance
upon us. Now he was not twelve
yards off. I could see plainly his fe
rocious 'face. It was distorted with
rage; his huge teeth were ground
against each other, so that we could
hear the sound; the skin of the fore
head was drawn forward and back
rapidly, which made his hair move up
and down and gave a truly devilish
expression to his hideous face. Once
more the most horrible monster ever
created by Almighty God gave a roar
which seemed to shake the wood like
thunder. I could really feel the earth
tremble under my feet.
"The gorilla, looking us in the eye
and beating his breast, advanced
again.
"'Don't. fire too soon,' said Malan
ncn; 'if you don't kill him. he will
kill you.'
'Thfs time he came within eight
yards of us before he stopped. I was
breathing fasf with excitement as I
watched the huge beast. Malaoneiv
only said, 'Steady,' as the gorilla came
up. . . . When he stopped Malao
nen said, 'Now!' And before he couid
utter tho roar for which he was open
ing his mouth, three musket balls were
in his body. He fell dead almost with
out a struggle."
SONDAE HAD NO PATENT
And Any Eoda Dispenser Con Id Sell
His Drink.
Sunday, Sunda, Sondae.
Take your choice, for they all mean
the same as applied to the refreshment
offered at the soda water fountains.
Nearly everybody calls this form of
cold refreshment "plain Sunday." If a
hundred admirers of the food, drink or
what you may be pleased to describe
it, were asked how it got Its name, the
majority would cither say, "don't
know," or probably "first served on
Sunday." .
The Sondae (properly spelled), came
from the name of a man. Robert Son
dae, of French descent, was formerly
a soda dispenser In Buffalo, N. Y.
When the ice cream soda came into
vogue, Mr. Sondae noticed that a great
number of the people simply ate the
cream, and left the liquid. He had
before noticed, as had probably hun
dreds of others, that many people
would not take plain Ice cream, be
cause it was not flavored highly
enough. From these observations he
took the cue of the present Sondae.
He put a little ice cream in a small
glass and covered It with crushed
fruit. It looked good, and it tasted
good, so it became the most popular
form of cold refreshment in Buffalo In
a few short weeks.
From that city it spread to all parts
of the country, but while it retained
the original sound of the originator's
name, the spelling came to be erro
enously accepted as "Sunday." From
one part of the United States to the
other, in every city, town and cross
roads wherever a soda fountain is to
be found there are posters in win
dows which say "try our Sundays."
The spelling is almost uniformly given
the same as the first day of the week.
Mr. Sondae had no patent, copy
right, or other safeguard on his orig
inal formula, and so he Is still dish
ing out the "cold stuff" at the same
old stand. Many men have , acquired
fortunes for producing considerably
less. '. ' ' : ; "
Largest Traction Station.
The electrical traction station Yan-'
kee are building to furnish power for"
their underground railways in London
will be the largest in the world. It
will have ten" steam turbines of 7,5007
horse power. The trains used will be
similar to those on the, Boston Ele
vated Railway, made up of three "mo
tor" and four "trailer" cars.