Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1894, Page 16

16 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 83, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. INDIANS WHO VOTE A Large Number Exercise the Right of Franchise. —_.—___. ACME ARE THE PRESIDENTS NEIGHBORS rete raed They Are No Better, No Worse, Than White Men. LAND IN SEVERALTY ——_+—__—_- Weittem for The Evening Star. NOTEWORTHY manifestation in our national life “ef late is the spectacle of the American Indian acting as a full- fledged voter at the polls. At the com- ing elections next ‘Tuesday not less than 22,000 Indians in various states of the Union will have the privilege of casting the ballot for candi- dates of- their choice, and a greater num- ber will enjoy the right next year. This is mainly a new departure, due to compara- tively recent legislation in Congress, mak- ing the red man an individual citizen and property owner. At first thought, one would suppose that these Indian voters are located almost entirely in the new states of the far west, but out of the 22,000 who can vote this fal! at least 5,000 live in the older states east of the Mississippi river. But this year over 5,0) more Indians will vote in the west than voted there at the last congressional elections, and the num- ber is bound to increase still further, both in the east and west, so that to people of all sections the matter of Indian suffrage becomes of special interest. A couple of years hence, at the present rate of in- crase, the Indian vote will have grown to be quite an appreciable political factor in many of the states. In many of the newer western states the striking scene will be witnessed on election day of hundreds of Indians, who, only a year ajo, were blanket braves, exercis- ing the functions of full citizenship at the polls. ‘Turning eastward first, however, to the obtest states of all, those on the Atlantic seaboard, one is surprised to learn that there is a considerable’ number of indian voters even in New England, from whica the Puritans and Pilgrims and their deseendants are popularly credited with having driven the last vestiges of the abo- riginal tribes. The President's Summer Neighbors, In Massachusetts, for instance, there are about /25 Indian voters, 110 belonging to the Marshby tribe of Cape Cod, and fifteen to the Herring river tribe, who live not far from President Cleveland's summer cot- tage at Buzzard’s Bay. ‘The Marshbies, numbering 375 souls in all, reside in a lit- tle community or reservation about ten miles square, situated eight miles from Sandwich, and, although the settlemeht 1s only nty miles from Boston, its ex- isteace is probably unknown t® the ma- jority of even the well-informed Boston- and the place itself is in fact a sort erra incognita to most citizens of the y state. bese Indians are the progeny of Elliot's colovial “praying” bands, and while nom- inally free for some generations back, they never had the right of suffrage until the year ISG], When it was granted them by the state at the instance of Marshal Wat- son Freeman and Gov. Andrew. They are thrifty and respectable, they wear white n’s cl ef modern fashion, they live comfortable houses of their own, send their children to school, and follow farming for a living. Most of the grown males of the little remnant tribe on the Herring er are employed on wheiing vessels shipping from Provincetown and New Bed- ford. Down east furtber, also, in the state of Maiue — the child " of “Massachusetts — there are living in Mr. Boutelle’s congres- sional district at least 150 eligible Indian voters, chiefly of the Penobscot and Pas- Samaquoddy tribes, of the old Algonquin stock. The Pen scots mostly live in Old- town, on an island in the river above Ban- gor, while the Passamaquoddies live in Washington county. Both tribes, compris- ing together about 360 persons, men, wo- men and children, receive snug annuities from the state of Maine, and with these they manage to eke out a more or less sat- isfactory livelihood in connection with basket making, fishing, acting as guides, and kindred occupations. Then there are fifty citizen Indian voters scattered through the state of Connecticut, and about forty in Rhode Island. - Middle and Southern States. Throughout New York state there are 220 Indian voters, who have practically as- similated with the surrounding population. twenty of these are Oneldas, who recently ed their reservation into shares and became citizens, Except by tradition, blood and friendship, none of these New York voting Indians are any longer con- nected with the Six Nations of New York, who live on their r ‘ations under state laws and do not vote. The old Keystone scate, Mkewise, con- tains over 2 Indian voters here and there, thirty of them being what are knowa as Cornplanter Senecas, a branch of the Seneca tribe of New York, occupying prop- erties in s ralty in Warren county, Pa. fifteen miles above the original ¢ vania, n pre nting the Six the war confederac: ern Indians in the outbreak of 1790. old deed to the ‘s’ Field” bears the signature of Gov. Mifflin. The Cornplanter Indians now number ainety-elght, and they services from joinin have an interest in the Allegany and Cat- taraugus lands of the Senecas of York, and draw annuities with them. Down in Virginia there are seventy-five Indian voters, relics of the old Powhattans, who are trying to keep themselves together in James City county, not far from the site of Capt. John Smith's historic settle- ment of Jamestown. In the southwestern part of North Carolina also there are 400 Indian voters, members of the eastern band ees, a favored race, residing in Ch , Graham, Jackson and Swain counties. In Georgia, t here are 300 Indian voters, of whom 250 are eastern Cherokees; of in Tennessee there are eighty the same tribe, and In Alabama there s ) other voters of va- . while In Louistana there are 1 Indians who are eligible to vote, and in Mississippi, Due to the Severalty La In addition to all these, there is quite a considerable sprinkling of regular Indian voters In states of later erecti Indiana, Kansas, Minne 4 Oregon, who secured citizenship years ago, either through cld treaties or by abandon- ing their tribes and becoming naturalized. In Ohio there are iifty such Indian voters, in Indiana Ww, in Kansas 200, besides newly created allottees in Michigan 1,200, in Wisconsin 900 and in Oregon 300. Still the bulk of our new Indian voters have secured the ballot under the recent severalty lav athern and northwest- ern California Mission, Tule river, Yuma Desert Indians will be able to vote this year for the first time as the re- sult of the new policy, together with fifty Rincons, Palas, Potreros and Klamath river Indians. Besides these are 3,000 Mis- sion Indians, who were eligible to vote be- fore—the tribes whose hardships and wrongs a generation back were so touch- ingly portrayed by Helen Hunt Jackson in her beautiful novel “Ramona”—making in all 3,300 California Indians entitled to vote next Tuesday. In the state of Oregcn 120 new voters have been created recently at the Grand Ronde agency, 30 at the Siletz agency, 800 more at the Umatilla agency from among the Cayuse, Walla Wallas and U tillas, and 225 at the Warm Springs agen from’ the Wascos, Teninos, Warm Springs and Pi Ctes. Up in the state of Wash- ington a stil! larger crop of voters been produced—275 from the Tulalips, Mad- isons, Swinomish and Lummis, 630 from the Yakimas, Klickatats and Wascos, and 400 from the Puyallups, Chehalis, Nisqually Squaxons, S'Kiallams and S'Kokomish. Making New Voters. In Idaho well-to-do Nez Perces have lately come into citizenship and suffrage. In southern Montana 500 new Indian voters have blossomed out at the Crow reser- vation since the last congressional elec- tion. In North Dakota 850 Sioux have been enfranchised at the Devil's Lake agency, and in South Dakota alone 2,700 more Sioux have been prepared for suffrage. Of these 500 are Lower Yanktonal and Lower Brules at the Crow Creek agency, 75 are of various Sioux bands at Rosebud, 850 are of the Sisseton und Wahpeton branches at the Sisseton agency, and 1,200 are Yankton Siovx at the Yankton agency. Over in the northwestern part of Minne- sota 350 Chippewas of the Mississippi, Otter Tail, Pillager and Pembina varieties, have been newly armed with the ballot; in north western Michigan 53 L'Anse and Vieux de Sert have been similarly uplifted, and in Wisconsin 425 Oneidas and Stockbridges and 3) Chippewas ‘have obtained the fresh dignity of suffrage. Coming southward, in Representative Case Broderick’s congressional district, in northeastern Kansas, on the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha reservation, we find 230 new Indian voters among the prairie band of Pottawatomics, Kickapoos, Iowas and Sacs and Foxes, and in Congressman G. D. Meiklejohn’s district in northeastern Nebraska, currounding Omaha, we encoun- ter 2%) voting Omahas, 500 Winnebagoes and 335 Santee Sioux and Poncas. Next year an additional batch of Indian voters will Le matured in several states, inasmuch as the process of allotting lands in severalty and investing the owners with citizenship is now progressing rapidiy. In California the Hoopa Valley and Round Valley Indians and some more Mission remnants will be ready for voting; in Ore- gon some Klamath and Warnr Springs braves; in North Dakota some more Sioux at Fort Berthold; in South Dakota a fur- ther installment of Lower Brule and Rose- bud Sioux; in Wyoming a lot of Shoshones; in Minnesota some additional Chippewas, and in Kansas the remainder of the Potta- watomie and Kickapoos of adult age. The Six Nations of New York, which contain 1,200 men over twenty-one years of age, are in all respects fit for citizenship, and when- ever they get ready and choose to apply for it they will get it. Much Like White Men. Some cdd stories are told of the manner in which certain bodies of new-made In- dian voters have exercised thelr right at the polls. As a rule they cast their votes prztty much as they may be ‘nfluenced by thé surrounding whites, or according to the political complexion of the ruling ad- ministration in state or nation. Sometimes they are polled as republicans, then as democrats, and aguin as populists. But this is only natural and to be expected. A couple of years ago, at the Santee agency in Knox county, Nebraska, the whole outfit of voting Sioux there was swung one way by the Indian agent. Theo. Roosevelt of the civil service commission, and Mr. Her- bert Welsh of Philadelphia, the eminent Indian-loving philanthropist at the head of the Indian Rights Association, and known to the tribes as “Gray-Hat," happened to visit the agency shortly @fterward and the agent gleefully described to them how easily he had induced the whole tribe to vote the republican ticket. By signifying his wishes, the agent explained, to a few leading 1en, he readily controlled the vote of all. Mr. Welsh, in relating the incident, says that the agent took his breath away by the frankness of his declaration, and that it was evident he saw no impropriety in his conduct. In a number of cases the situa. tion has been really worse. At the Puyal lup agency, at Tacoma, Wash., the agent reported to the Indian bureau that probably one-third of those voting there were affect- ed by corrupt influence—bribery, either downright or indirect, .or the hope and ex- pectation of immediate personal gain, in- dependent of any public consideration. ' But to say sweepingly that the whole of the new Indian vote is cast without intelligence would be far from the truth. The fact is the Indians register and pay their poll tax with creditable promptness, and the char- acter of their vote, like that of other races, necessarily depends on the character of the advisers who obtain their confidence. No doubt a considerable proportion of them re- gard their vote as a proper merchantable article, to be disposed of in the best market; but this is also said to apply to many pros- Berous white voters, and hence cannot be a distinct! : ¢ fadicn socistinctive characteristic of the ————-+e+. THE GREAT PEARLS. A Necklace That Sold for Nearly 80,- 000 Pounds—Other Rich, Rare Gems. From the Gentleman's Magazine, The Inman of Muscat possesses a pearl weighing twelve and a half carats, through which you can see daylight} it is worth about £33,000, The one owned by Princess Yousoupoff is unique for beauty. It was sold by Georgibus of Calais, in 1620, to Philip IV of Spain for 80,000 ducats; its present value is about £36,000. The pope, on his accession, became the owner for the time being of a pearl, left by one of his predecessors upon the throne of the Vatican, which cannot be of less vaiue than £20,000. The Empress Frederick has a necklace com- posed of thirty-two pearis, the total value of which has been estimated at £35,000. Her mother, Queen Victoria, has a necklace of pink pearls worth £14,000. That of the Bar- oness Gustave de Rothschild, made up of five rows of these precious stones, is valued at £40,000, while that of the Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild is even more costly still, Both these ladies have given orders to their jewelers to bring to them any “pearls of great price’ which may come in- to their hands in the way of business; the gems are usually purchased by one or other of these ladies and added to her necklace. Good judges are doubtful whether to award the palm to either of the above two, or to that of the Empress of Russia, which has seven rows of pure white pearls, valued at something like 80,000 roubles, but the stones of which are perhaps less beautiful to the eye. The one belonging to the Grand Duchess Marie has six rows, and is said to have cost 00. Mile. Dosne, a sister of M. Thiers, has a necklace of several rows, which has taken her thirty ‘3 to collec', and has cost her upward of £15,000, The Iimpress of Austria possesses some of the most beautiful black pearls it is possible to find; her casket and that of the Czarina of Russia are, in fact, the most famous in the world for pearls of this color. Mme. Leonide Leblane sold her necklace of pearls a year or two ago for nearly £80,000, but in consequence of certain ma‘ ters which were whispered about at the time, she bought it back. The stones in it graduate in size, and are exceedingly beau- tiful in shape and luster. ps soe The BI mer Question Abroad. From the London Telegraph. English lady cyclists are less “advanced” in their ideas with regard to costume than their sisters in France. On the other side of the chanzel—in Paris especially—knick- erbockered women on bicycles can be seen by the hundreds on Sunday afternoon. Probably if they could s@e the ridiculous appearance they present, with their baggy knickers and spindle shanks, they would discard the “new costume” forever; but the fact remains that, while foreign women cy- clists have universally adopted the zouave style of lower garment,most Englishwomen who go cycling prefer the older-fashioned and more graceful manner of raiment. It is worthy of remark also that the few who don the knickers invariably carry a little bundle tied behind them which looks su: piciously like a spare skirt. Very likely the extra costume is for use in cases of emergency—such as when a strict landlady refuses to acknowlege the right of the wesrer of baggy attire to a seat in the dining room unless the knickers are hid- den from sight. From Life. Mes. ma'am. I done raise dis yere chile on de bottle." Freddy—“Huh! I guess it must have been an ink bottle.” - IN OCEAN'S DEPTHS Wonders and Mysteries of Life Be- neath the Waves. WHERE FISHES CARRY LANTERNS An Almost Unknown World Blazing With Moving Lights. Written for The Evening Star by Charles F. Holder. HE OCEAN, WHICH has so long been a mystery even to those who live on its bor- ders,is gradually giv- ing up its secrets,and the seemingly inex- plicable _contradic- tions are becoming more and more un- derstood. To the layman, the reader who has not followed the investi- gations of students of the deep sea, it is difficult to realize how life can exist where the pressure is so great that it is compared to a train of cars loaded with pig iron bearing down upon a man’s shoulders, or many tons to the square inch. Neither are the conditions of life readily understood at a depth where a ray of sun- light never has reached, where eternal night apperently reigns; wheres the tem- perature is nearly at the freezing point, and where in all probability a silence so profound exists that a sound has never broken the quiet of ages. Such a region, finding its extreme depth in five or six miles, does not appear to offer many inducements to the investigator; yet it has been a most fruitful field, and the discoveries which have been made during the last few years have entirely changed public sentiment regarding it. ‘The deep sea, while forbidding and unin- viting, has its inhabitants that are well adapted to the strange conditions within its borders, where eternal darkness was supposed to reign. We have every reason to believe that there is at times a wonderful azsemblage of light-givers, who illumine the dark unfathomed caves of the ocean and change its abysmal regions into scenes of weird splendor. If the ocean bed, which is popularly sup- posed to occupy three-fourths of the world’s surface, should suddenly be laid bare we hould in the main find a duplicate of ter- restrial cond‘tions. The bed of the present ocean has at some time been dry land; has Beneath the Waters. been cut by wind and weather, washed Into river beds by streams; thrown up by vol- canic action into mountains, or elevated and depressed by oscillations of the crust. It has undergone all the changes of the land with which we are familiar, and in a meas- ure resembles it. ‘The Imaginary Jo ‘vy. To make the ocean bed a reality I will ask the reader to imagine that he tis equipped with a diver’s armor capable of resisting pressure and accompany me into the deep sea. As we descend into the blue depths we realize that we have entered an- other world, where to all intents and pur- poses water is the atmosphere, If we entered the ocean on the Pacific coast from the beach we would gradually walk down an easy descent for many miles; und the same is true of the Atlantic. Almost immediately the light fades, so that when at a depth of 500 feet it is comparatively dark and in- tensely cold. Deeper we descend, the sun- light gradually fading, until at a depth of a quarter of a mile the darkness is intense so far as the sun is concerned. In shallow water we have passed through the region of abundant life. Along the shore are schools of porpoises, immense whales that occasionally venture far below the sur- face, and a number of air-breathing fishlike animals that are kept near the surface by their structure and requirements. Here are schools of fish—salmon and sardines; and passing is a migrating herd of seals. Deeper we pass and leave them behind, descending j to a depth of 1,500 feet in daricness pro- found. An electric light would show a sin- gular change. Many of the fish are of gay colors, and could we whisk one to the sur- face its eyes would be popping from its head when it arrived, from the sudden change. Strange animals inhabit this region, and the deeper we go the mcre remarkable they appear, and finally, at a mile or so, they fairly compel our admiration. Here are scarlet scrimps; crabs on stiltlike legs; others that are blind; more that carry their own lights, for long ago we saw living stars, moons and comets in this abysmal region that serve a variety of purposes in the economy of nature. Everywhere there is life. Every drop of water is alive; and standing in this strange region, at a depth of a mile or so we find ourselves in a rain storm beneath the sea. All about are count- less objects dropping upon us, Invisible to the eye, but so result producing in the ag- gregate that the raindrops pile and heap up in such masses that with those that die on the bottom they round off the tops of sub- marine hills and mountains, fill up the val- leys, and the thick gelatinous ooze through which we have walked with so much liffi- eulty is the visible result of the rain. In brief, we are in the region of the globiger- ina ooze—a condition found in great depths, but not always in the greatest. It has been estimated that if lime-seercting organisms are as numerous down to a depth of 600 feet as they are near the surface there would be more than sixteen tons of calcarcous shells or carbonate of lime in the uppermost 100 fathoms of every square mile of the ocean. A Submarine Rain Storm, The rain storm is the falling of these countiess shells to the bottom. They are ever dying; the animal is destroyed, and the little shell sinks, piling up at the bot- tom and forming the well-known globigeri- na ooze. The increasing weight grinds up the lower stratum into an impalpable powder, and slowly plies up the bottom, forming a mass, which, if elevated above the surface, would resemble the chalk cliffs of Dover, which were formed at the bottom of the ocean in much the same way. Descending into deeper depths we still find life. Many of the fishes are blind; nearly all have phosphorescent lights, and their shapes and forms are strange and un- canny. Sunlight does not reach below 1,000 fathoms; beyond this no plant life exists, and the various forms of life prey upon one another. Among the deep-sea fishes espe- cially there is constant warfare. Assuming that we are walking on the ocean bottom at the depth of over a mile, we move cautiously along in water icy cold, ard suddenly ere confronted with a blaze of light, and find ourselves in a field of light- givers. Imagine a cornfield with stalks from two to four feet in height, the tips gleam- ing with light and waving gently to and fro. Such an appearance the flelds of um- bellularia present. Off St. Vincent the Challenger dredged in a fleld of light-giving gorgonias with stems about two feet long. The trawl came up choked with them from a region a mile below the surface, each one emitting a vivid Itlac-colored light. Above this forest of living lights strange and weird fishes are passing, which we + 5 recognize as formg that have been dredged from great depth by the Albatross, Chal- lenger and other’. One, the Chiasmodon, dashes by, emitting a light from its own body; and, wonder of wonders; we see it seize a fish five times its own bulk and draw itself gver like a glove. Its jaws, by a special ngement, separate, and the mcuth is a ike posst- cgvern of india-rubber-! bilities. A similar fish, Malacosteus, is of a rich black velvet hue, and as it poises we see upon its head two large lights. One emits a golden light, the other throws out fitful seen favs, hich have some hidden meaning in the economy of nature. Some of the fishes seem to be Hteral mouths. Such is the Curypharynx or pelican fish. The mouth is enormous, the bones of the jaw being attached to the skull by movable joints, so that it has enormous powers of distension. jf A curious black fish calléd Echiostoma has its lanterns arranged about its head; two are just below the eyes, while there are several others at various portions of the head. At a depth of two miles we find the fish Bythites, and at three miles. we shall find others more remarkable. A hid- eous snake-like creature is Stomias, with pointed teeth and a row of lights along its ventral surface like the lights that are seen in a dark night in the car window as the train dashes along. This fish has been taken from a mile and a quarter beneath the surface by an English dredger. Blazing With Light. Beneath our feet are forms equally weird, the bottom blazing with light at every step. Here are phosporescent crabs, and seafans that emit golden, green and lilac hues. Blue scintillations ecme from sea-pens, while others give out gleams of gold and green. Almost every animal 1s a light- giver. Some of the crabs are phosporescent over the entire surface; others have their lights on stalked eyes, while the very mud that rises seems to seintillate with light that would appear to be an essential fea- ture of the deep sea. We might in this walk of the imagit.ation descend to a depth of six miles beneath the sea and still find life. In all probability the largest and most remarkable fishes have not been seen, and escape the dredge. Many of these strange forms of the abyssal depths are types of extirct forms, and we can only imagine what wonders the deep sea hides. In the Atlantic and Pacific gigantic squids from fifty to seventy feet in length are found, and glimpses of strange snake or eel-like sharks are suggestive of the uncaught mysteries and unseen dwellers in the deep sea. Among the curious light-givers is a shark which was caught by Dr. Bennett. It was perfectly black, but emitted a strange phosphorescent light, which re- mained some time after the animal's death. The shark was placed in a Jar in the cabin of the vessel, and is described as presenting a ghostly appearance, emitting a rich green light almost sufficient to read by. In descending into the intermediate depths the jelly fishes and forms that live in theopen water attract our attention. Here is a jelly fish, its disk six feet across, its train of tentacles possibly emitting a vivid light and stretching away in a maze of brilliant lines for peyhaps one hundred feet. Such is the cyanea, one of about this dimension being seen by Mrs. Agassiz off Nahant. Such a jelly fish moving through the upper depths of the ocean, gleaming with its peculiar and unexplainable Mght, might Well be compared to a great comet. Other forms—huge disks are the moons and lesser planets of this submarine world of space. The variety of tints and colors emitted by the jelly fishes {s almost beyond comprehension, and so diverse are the lights that the bellef {s forced upon the beholder that they have some marked sig- nificance in the economy of nature. One known as lvcernaria emits a pale bluish light all over its surface. Obelia has a luminous stem alone. Cestus, or the Girdle of Venus, has a yellow light. Idyia emits roseate hues," while the light of Aurelia is of such a brilliant yellow that when one of the animals wes squeezed into a glass of milk the latter was rendered so luminous that a letter was read by It. From thesé instances, and they are but a few in many, it is evident that the stroller through the ocean, either in the moderate depths at night or the abyssal realms of day, would not wander about blindly, but would have “his pathway illumined by lights effectite and brilliant, rendering the deepest oceay a region the opposite of the conditions of styglan darkness that it is erroneously supposed to hold. sol _Sovta eas TOOTHLESS VILLAGERS. A Condition Cansed Largely by the Enterprising False Teeth Peddler. “There is many a New England village in which you will hardly find a natural tooth,” said a dental surgeon to a Star writer. “That is to say, not an adult inhabitant will pos- 88 any teeth of his or her own. All of the grown-up people wear false teeth. “This rather odd state of affairs is due to the operations of certain unscrupulous per- scns who go about the country with false teeth for sale. One of these fellows will go through a village and literally pull every tooth in the place. To take the places of the teeth extracted he offers artificial sets for $8. “In rural parts, for obvious reasons, peo- ple very commonly suffer from toothache. ‘The malady is distressing, and the custom- ary way to get rid of it is to have the tooth drawn. No dentist is at hand to restore the afflicted grinder to a healthy condition by filling. The peripatetic quack comes along with his forceps and offers to give final and permanent relief from all such suffering in future. “For the small sum of $8 he will remove all the natural teeth from a customer's head and substitute for them an artificial set of much better appearance, which will never cause any pain to the wearer. By this attractive offer the people are deluded into parting with the chewing apparatus with which nature has furnished them, and the result is a toothless population. AS you are probably aware, tooth pulling is rarely resorted to by a good dentist, inasmuch as it must be an extraordinarily bad tooth that cannot be fixed up so as to be better than any false one.” ——__ Written for The Evening Star, Novem I noticed all the afternoon ‘Things looked kinder hazy, An’ squirrels skippin’ thre Jes’ like they wars crazy All erlong the medder road Flowers bang a dyin’ Where the wind comes ereepin’ up Like a baby eryin’. It’s kinder chilly out o’doors, And makes yer wanter hustle When the leaves go dancin’ by, ‘A-singin’ as they rustle. All across the garden lot Golder rod is farin’, An’ the smoke is bangin’ low Over all the clearin’ Round the wiltin’ fodder shocks Pumpkins He a-peepin’ An’ the sighin’ o° the trees Mukes you feel like creepin’ Right in doors, where the logs Are cracklin’ an’ a-blazin’ In the kitchen chimley place. ‘Tell you, it’s amazin’ Comfortin’ and snug to stand An’ snidt the apples roastin’, An’ give yer joints a stretchin’ out ‘An’ yer, shins ,a-toastin’. Well, here's a mug 0’ cider, boys; A healtW to every feller ‘That when the purple autuma comes the trees An’ thiags is gettin’ meller Kin look old Winter in the face With eyes that’s clear an’ steddy, Acknowin’ that {he harvest’s In An’ things is’snug and ready ; An’ here’s a heii!th to Autuma time, With Nature’, gorgeous painti When all the world is sleepy lik ‘An’ when the, bills look faint, an Far away along; the bra Yer heag the lowin’ An’ chestuuts fs a-fallin’ dow An’ make the dead leaves r So fill yer mugs an’ drink wit It's somethin’ to remember: A rousin’ theer for all the sear An’ thrée fer ole * i. ‘W. H. CHANDLEB. eee The Bicycle System. From the New York Weekly. First citizen—"It is not enough that bi- cycles carry bells; the law should enforce a regular system of signals that all ean un- derstand.” Second citizen—“What would you sug- gest?” “First citizen—"Well, I don't know ex- actly, but it might be something like this: One ring, ‘stand still;’ two rings, ‘dodge to the right;’ three rings, ‘dive to the left;’ four rings, jump straight up and I'll fun under you;’ five rings, ‘turn a back hand- spring aad land behind me,’ and so on. You see us folks who walk are always glad to be accommodating, but the trouble is to find out what the fellow behind wants us to do.” A THRILLING ADVENTURE The Condor, the Giant Bird of the Andes, and Its Ferocity. An English Traveler Describes the At- tack of These Fierce Birds on an Abandoned Ho: Correspondence of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Few hunters or travelers in South Amer- ica have actually seen any condors, the powerful birds of prey that make their home on the summit of the Andes. Stay- ing at one of the uptown hotels there is a young Englishman, Arthur Baird, who has just returned from a two years’ trip through South America. He was there on business, but being something of a hunter he found time to indulge a little in his fa- vorite sport. He determined to see a con- dor before he left the country, and with a guide and two companions he made a hunt- ing trip to the foothills of the Andes for that express purpose. This is His Story. “It was a long and tiresome journey in- land to the foot of the Andes, where, I had been told, I might be able to get a shot at acondor. During the trip my guide and the native hunters who accompanied me told me so many wonderful stories of the con- dor thet I was beginning to believe that the bird was a myth and existed only in the imaginatign of my companions. “One of the things they told me about condors was that the birds would attack any kind of animal that was wounded or crippled and make short work of it. They told me stories of horses, bullocks, and even full-grown pumas, or South American lions, that had been killed and eaten by the big birds. MF steer ‘two days of the hardest climbing I ever did we crossed what I was told was one of the foothills of the Andes, but what seemed to me @ mountain about as high as the Rockies. On the other side of this range there Was a narrow valley, through which flowed a small river that was fed by the snows on the peaks of the real moun- tains. Beyond this valley was the base of the giant Andes, on the summit of which I was told the condors lived. It was to this valley they came in search of prey. There had once been plenty. of wild game along both banks of the river, but most of it had been killed or driven away by the big birds, and it was then unsafe for a domestic ani- mal of any kind to be at large during the day, and even men were sometimes at- tacked. Approach of the Birds. “We had been two days in the valley with- out catching sight of one of the birds, and 1 was getting discouraged. On the morn- ing of the third day a small party of pack traders passed our camp, bound down the valley. From them we learned that they had abandoned one of their pack horses about a mile up the trail. The animal had a sore back, and had become so lame it was of no further service. “The condors will make a meal of that horse,’ sald my guide. He had scarcely spoken, when look- ing away toward the tallest peak of the Ardes, I saw what looked like a black speck on the sky. In a moment there was another of the black specks, and then an- other and another, until I could make out a score of giant birds sailing majestically down toward the valley. “They are coming! said the guide, as soon as he caught sight of them, and gath- ering up our guns we hurried up the trail to find the abandoned horse. “I suggested that we approach cautiously for fear the birds would see us and be frightened away. But there I exposed my ignorance of the condor. “Take care that you are not the one to be frightened away! said one of my com- panions. We soon caught sight of the horse, which was slowly following along the trail. In less time than it takes to tell it the score of condors were circling around above the doomed animal and not more than a thou- sand feet high. The first time their shad- ows fell across the trail the poor old horse threw up his head, and, catching sight of the black cloud above him, gave a snort of terror. “He wheeled about and tried to run to- ward the river, which was close at hand, but was too lame to make much progress. ‘The birds were still flying around in a small circle, but every moment they were getting nearer the earth. We stood still and watched them. The Doomed Horse. “When they were within 500 feet of the earth they suddenly shot downward lke a biack cloud of doom. The whir of their giant wings was like the roar of an ap- proaching storm. It was a sight never to be forgotten. “As the condors swooped down the poor horse uttered a scream of terror, the like of which I never want to hear again: It was like the cry of a human being in mortal agony of terror. For a minute the animal was almost cbscured from our view by the big birds circling around him, and then his snorts of terror were changed to wails of pain. “The horse was now running around in a short ciccle, and making the best fight he could against his assailants. As he came closer to where we stood I saw that his eyes had already been torn from their sockets by the long beaks of the condors. They had torn his flesh in a dozen places | with their sharp talons, and blood was | streaming down the sides of the helpless animal. “Up to the time that they began to strike their victim with beak and claw the birds had made no sound. But now, with the smell of blood whetting their appetites, they began to give voice to short hoarse cries that were the most hideous noise to which 1 ever listened. “I had for a moment forgotten that I | carried a repeating rifle. The horrible fas- | cination of the scene completely over- powered me, but as the pitiful cries of the doomed horse grew weaker and his fight against the terrible odds had weakened to a feeble kick, my senses came back to me. 1 raised my rifle and was taking careful im at the nearest condor when the guide caught me by the arm. His face was drawn with the terror and excitement of | the scene. |“ Wait,’ said he. ‘Don’t disturb them now, or they may turn on us, and then we | will have a fight for our lives.’ “In an instant I realized what a hope- | less fight that would be if all those giant | birds should attack us as they had the horse, and I put down my gun. “But the fight with the horse was soon over. With the flesh hanging in shreds from his sides, neck and haunches, the poor anima! sank to his knees, then rolled | over on bh’: side dead. In a moment the whole swarim of the great birds were around the body, tearing the bleeding flesh from the bones in strips with their beaks and swallowing it without an effort. ‘Tenacious of Life. “In less than five minutes, {t seemed to me, every bit of flesh had been torn from the bones of the dead horse and eaten. The skeleton was torn apart, and the blood- stained bones scattered about on the ground. “Then, one by one, the condors began to | fy away. With a great flapping of wings and uttering hoarse cries, they rose slowly at first, and, circling around until they were at least 1,000 feet above the earth, they sailed away toward the distant peaks of | the Andes. “Not until more than half of them had flown awoy did the guide give the signal to open fire, All this time the birds had ap- parently taken no notice of us, although we were in plain view less than fifty yards from where the horse fell. “We all began shooting at once at the few condors that were still pecking at the bones of the dead horse. Talk about a cat having nine lives, there is nothing that walks or flies so hard to kill with powder and lead as a condor. 1 am sure that I sent three bullets through the body of one of them, and then the big bird flew away to his mountain home as if nothing had happened. “For a time It looked as if we would be unable to kill one of them. But all four of us finally opened fire on the same bird, a big one still on the ground. After we had fired one volley it rose slowly some fifty feet above the greund. Then we fired again and it fell, but it was still alive when we came up, and not until the guide had cut off its head did it cease to struggle. “When we examined the dead bird we found that five rifle balls had passed | through its body, and that one wing and both legs were broken by our shots. We must have hit four or rive others, but they were all able to get away except the one on which we had concentrated our fire. “The dead condor measured nearly four- teen feet from tip to tip of its wings. . “After that experience I was ready to be- leve almost any story I heard of these giant birds of the Andes.” DISPOSAL OF LONDON’S GARBAGE. Ex-Postmaster General James Says All Refuse is Put to Practical Use. From the New York Times. Ex-Postmaster General Thomas L. James wes to have presented before the gurbage commission yesterday some facts addition- al to those he has already given concera- ing his observaticns of the diferent modes of disposing of refuse in cities in England, but he was unable to be present, and no meeting of the commission was held. He will probably appear before the commission today. While abroad as the representative of the commission, Mr. James gathered a great deal of information in Bristol, London, Manchester and Liverpool. His first investigations were in Bristol, where all refuse is delivered to the “de- structor” by means of immense carts drawn through the city by traction en- gines. Two of these carts are attached to each engine. Mr. James was unable to inspect the “destructor,” as the mayor was engaged et the time of his visit. The meth- ros employed is that cf complete incinera- jon. Mr. James next went co London, where he found, in his opinion, the ideal mode of disposing of a large city’s refuse. The Stanley system Is the one used. It is intri- cate, but complete, every article constitut- ing the make-up of a load of refuse being put to some practical use. The system is operated by the Refuse Dispesal Company of Chelsea, undor contract to the city of London. A repr-sentative af this company has presented in detail before the garbage commission the merits of the system. Huge refuse carts deliver their loads mto a revolving cylinder ten feet in diameter and twelve feet long. This cylinder is made of iron ribs, placed about ten inches apart, upon which are fixed wooden bars, The woodea bars are used to prevent bottles from being broken. The spiadle is driven by external gear, as internal gear would catch the material and the works would be clogged. The cylinder has a tilt of nine inches in its length. There is a worm through the inner surface of the cylinder, for the purpose of assist- ing the materials in traveling through it. Most of the material entering the cylin- ders from the refuse carts passes out at the further end in from two to three and one- half minutes, The material which does not pass out is removed and sorted by hand as it arrives at the further end. It consists chiefly of cardboard boxes, tin cans, bottles, fuel, clothes, and rags. These are placed in separate baskets, the vegetable and ant- mal refuse being taken to a mill to be ground up. The material which passes out of the first cylinder into a second one, similarly con- structed, but having a smaller mesh, is treated likewise. When the refuse falls from the second cylinder into the third one, it is subjected to a powerful blast of air, which blows the paper away from the heav- ier material, and into a-large iron chest, where it undergoes a hot treatment. The heavier materials are raised by an elevator to a revolving plate or table, which carries them to a number of boys for sort- ing. The ccal and metals are saved, and the other refuse ie ground up and used for fuel for generating heat and electricity. A ready market is found for all the as- sorted refuse. In Mr. James’ opinion, this system is in- comparably better than senything he has yet seen In Liverpool the system {s almost as good, but It is more wasteful. The refuse, un- assorted, is burned in an immense open furnace. This burned material forms a slag, which ts ground into a fine dust, out of which mortar and fuel are obtained. The Liverpool plant is owned by the city, and is superintended by the city’s engineer, who is the inventor of the system, which 1s not patented. Mr. James says that there is absolutely no odo: in the London or Liverpool “‘de- structors.”” There were several complaints presented to Lieut. Delehanty yesterday afternoon about additional garbage scows having opened at their varicus dumping stations and deposited their contents in the river. alate eat DANIEL WEBSTER’S FEES. The Great Lawyer's Income Was Un- usually Limited Even for His Day. From the New York Evening Post. One of our correspondents has been so lucky as to fall in with a little leather- covered book, like those of bank depositors, which contains Daniel Webster’s autograph record of his legai receipts. This chronicle fills twenty-eight pages, and extends a little more than from 1833 to 1836, inclusive. The first entry, dated September in the former year, is of $0, and the second of $20, for retainers on the New Hampshire circuit. The first tee of $1,000 was paid in May, 1834, by a Mr. Badger. Services regarding Cilley’s will commanded $800. The total amount for the first year was footed up as $13,140, with the remark, ‘Sept. 22, 1834, thus done and concluded.” A similar sum- ming up appears at the Close of each other year. The second total ‘s $15,183.74; the third is $21,798, The first entry of $2,000 was in 1835, March the first entry of $8,000 December 7, in the same year. This last payment was in respect to Florida lan The largest single honorarium was 300. In February of the fourth year $5,000 is set down as bestowed in a case of Trinity Church (New York). In turning over this record leading metropolitan and even provincial lawyers are astonished that W>bster, although twenty years in Boston, so undervalued his services. He learned better at last. When Robert C. W! looked at the earliest date he sald just the time that I was ending my studies in Webster's office,” and the chirography Jed him to add that Webster never wrote a firm hand. Nobody has surveyed the relic with more interest than Dr. O. W. Holmes. Among other things he said: “Had the in- flux been ten-fold, Webster's purse would have remained empty still. Had its ca- pacity received like the sea, whatever en- tered thore would have run off like water from the back of a duck. ee Stage Driver and Road Agent. From the San Francisco Call. “There ts quite a difference between stag- ing in the early days of the state and now,” seid William Miller, the owner of the stage Mine running from Cazadero to Ukiah. “Wnen I came here from Boston in 1854, I drifted about a bit, and finally went into the service of Charles McLaughlin, the owner of the longest stage Iine im California at that time. It ran with relays from San Jose to Los Angeles. “I remember once in a lonely coast range canon, through which the road wound, we had a little experience that was thrilling for the moment. It was about 10 o'clock, and a moonlight night. I was just pptting the horses through. The stage was full of passengers, and there was a heavy treasure x. “Just as I got around a bend in the road I saw a figure of a man on horseback standing by the side of the road. He yelled to stop, and I saw a gun-barrel gleam in the moonlight. The horses were going at a speed that might be calied breakneck, and I just made up my mind to take the chance of getting through. I saw the gun raised to the fellow’s shoulder as we approached. I had my long whip in my hand, and, with a desperation born of the peril of the mo- ment, I made a vicious swipe at him, “I don’t know how it occurred, but the lash wound itself around the gun, and as we dashed by the whip was drawn taut, and I knew it had caught, so held fast. I was pearly pulled out of my seat, but the gun was dragged from the robber’s hand and fell to the ground, at the same time it was discharged by the shock. It rattled along the road for quite a distance before the whip lash unwound itself. I don’t know what the highwayman thought, but I'll bet he was surprised.” shee eee. ae A Good Idea. From Le Petit Parisien. “Yesterday,” said Ixe, the painter, “I dis- covered a véry simple method of avoiding payment of tips at the restaurant. 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