Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1896, Page 19

WERE_ WIPED OUT Existence of the Few Surviving Buffaloes Threatened. ONCE HERDS OF MILLIONS ON THE PLAINS It is Proposed to Bring the Yellow- stone Park Animals Here. OPINIONS OF SCIENTISTS Se (Copyrighted, 1896, by Frank G. Carpecter.) HE SCIENTISTS OF Washington are much alarmed at the possible extinction of the buffalo. Mr.Lang- ley, the head of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, does not think that there are as many as 100 buffaloes left in the United States. There are a few here in the Na- tional Park, and a small herd at Phila- @elphia. Austin Corbin, the New York millionaire, has several, and it may be that there are some small scattering herds in different parts of the west. Of these, however, the Smithsonian Institution has no record, and such as exist are probably half-breeds. The only pure buffaloes out- side of the above are those of the Yellow- stone Park, which two years ago numbered about 200 head, and which are now reduced to fifty. Mr. Langley has just received let- ters stating that ten of these animals have been killed within the past four months, and that the others are in danger. The thances are that they will last only a short time, and Congress has been notified that if something is not done at once this won- derful animal will disappear from the face of the earth. There are no other buffaloes on the earth but these. The small herds of the east cannot be made to perpetuate the buffalo without inbreeding, which will deteriorate the species, and its only salva- tion is the bringing of these from the Yel- lowstone Park to some point where they ean be carefully watched and cared for. It is Mr. Langley’s idea that they should be brought to Washington and put in the National Zoological Park here. The main purp*se of purchasing this park was for the protection of such things as the buffalo and of other American animals liable to become | extinct. It contains plenty of ground for a good buffalo park, and if these buffaloes can be put in it they will serve as a nucleus for the raising of buifaloes, which can be suppiied to the different zoological gardens of the United States and furnished to colonies of them over the country, by which the species can be perpetuated. Prot. Goode, the head of the National Museum, Says that we ought to have at least 10) | buffaloes in order to maintain the spe- ies, and that there should be herds in ions of the country, the ani- vhich might be interchanged to prevent the deterioration w the in- breeding of a single colony would produc Habits of the Buffalo. One of the largest buffaloes ever known was shot by Mr. Hornaday. It is now pre- | rved in the National Museum. It is five feet eight inches is ten feet two incl. h at the shoulders, and -s long from nose to tail. Many buffaloes weigh over sixteen hundred pounds. The natural life of the animal is | about twenty-five years. The cows usually breed once a year and begin breeding at the age of two years. The buffalo calf at birth is covered with red hair. This hair changes after a time to brown and then | * Black. The hair on the head of a butfato is | very long. Many a woman, in fact, would be glad to have as long hair as that of one of the stuffed buffaloes in the National Mus: um. which measures, I am told, twenty-two inches. The buffalo cows weigh less than the bulls, a good, fat one weighing from @ thousand to twelve hund pounds. ‘They have small udders, but their milk is very rich. It requires, in fact, the milk of two cows to satisfy one buffa‘o calf. best time to look at a buffalo is in or winter. In the summer he is ugly and dirty as any animal on e sheds his hair every year, beginning about February. The hair cemes off time. It often hangs in bunch skin, and he will fight you to his bh a touc He is troubled by the flies «t this ti but he goes off to the nearest mudhole a: rolls in it until he has plastered his with mud. If the hole is not deep en he will dig it out with his horns and he: 3nd will then get in and roll ove entire skin is coate: i ot mud throughout th the first of October h suit of mer, and about 2 out with a fail iful black hair, which thickens h affords | What a Baffato is Worth. The value of buffaloes has been increas- ! ing more rapidly than anything in this ecuntry. Town lots in Chicago are nothing to them. About ten years ago they were a drug in the market. Thousands of them were killed for their tongues, but a good buffalo is now worth at least $500 when de Its skin is worth fri ward im wonderful protection from the cold. m $1 VIEW oF Swans. “arnivora or Lion house. Com Ruminants. The | { whipped up, and the skin was either torn | ter. The Smithsonian Institution has’ no interest in the matter outside of a scientific information cerning ‘the buffalo, much forma: zon muc of which was collected by Mr. W. ‘T. Horn- Diaced at mr dloposal and tiraveh “aed ma and it am able to g-ve some of the details of oue of the most disgraceful deeds of American history. z Few people are now aware of the former wonderful extent of the buffalo. No animal has ever existed in such large numbers nor covered so much territory. Buffaloes for- merly roamed over the country as far east as Washington city, and there are records of herds of thousands being seen in Pennsyl- vania not long before the revolution. A hundred years ago they came in great droves to drink at the Blue Lick springs of Kentucky. Daniel Boone speaks of them and it is now only a few yecrs since they existed by the millions on the great plains of the west. In 1871, now only twenty-five years ago, Col. R. I. Dodge rode for fifty miles through a herd of buffaloes which he estimated as being twenty-five miles wide. This was along the Arkansas river. Four Million Buffalves. At one point he was able to get upon a hill, and he says he could see this vast herd of buffaloes stretching out from six to ten miles In every direction. The herd was moving and ft took it five days to pass a given point. Prof. Hornaday says that at the lowest estimate there were 4,000,- 000 buffaloes in this one herd, and this, as I have said, was only twenty-five years ago. In 1868 a traveler along the Kansas Pacific railroad states that the train at one time passed through one hundred and twen- ty miles of solid buffalo. The plains were biackened with them and more than once the cars were stopped by them. The best authority of the National Museum as to the early buffalo is George Catlin, who spent the greater part of his life in the west studying the Indian, and who made many pictures of the buffalo as they existed be- fore the great destruction began. He tells of herds of millions and says that their roaring sounded like thunder, and tells how the Indians killed them by the hundreds of thousands for the skins, for which they re- ceived only a pint of whisky apiece. How the Buffalo Were Killed. You would not think that such immense Lerds could be wiped out. The buffalo, however, #re very dull beasts in many ways. They are a mixture of stupidity and intelli- gence which it is hard to understand. These mighty kerds were made up of ‘companies, or clumps, cf buffaloes of from twenty to cne hundred each, ecch clump being led and taken care of by one strong bull. In going for water one of the old cows of the clump would start ahead and nose along the track of a dry stream for miles until it found a waterhole, the others of that company fol- lowing in single file. The herd would then 6rink and would lie down to rest before eating. This would seem to mean a high EVENING STAR, it was: esti- @ half million buffe- radius of 150 miles of Miles the last carload of buffalo theeast was sent over Money in Buffaloes. t: The hunting of the buffaloes was tmmense- ly profitable. According to the figures of Mr. Hornaday, hundreds of thousands of loes killed ‘up to that time within twenty years realized a sum of more than $3,000,000. ‘There are records of single fur firms who handled hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of hides. Joseph Uliman of New York and St. Paul in 1881 bought about $90,000 worth of buffalo robes, in 1882 an equal amount, and about $120,000 worth of buffalo hides. This firm within four years paid more than $310,000 for byffalo robes and hides, and, in connection with one other firm, they sold enough skins to bring in other fur dealers who made money out of the business, to say nothing of those who got rich off buffalo meat and buffalo bones. In a trip which I took over the Canadian Pacific road a few years ago, I saw moun- tains of buffalo bones at many of the sta- tions. The railroads shipped them east by the millions of pounds. In 1872 more than 1,000,000 pounds were shipped over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road, and tbis road in 1874 handled nearly 7,000,000 pounds. The bones were sold by the ton, to be ground up for fertilizer. In some cases they were crushed before shipment, and crushed bones were worth $18 a ton, while the uncrushed sold for $12 per ton. The meat of most of these buffaloes went to waste. It seldom brought more than two or three cents a pound, and it was chiefly of value when dried or jerked. Jerked meat *# THE zo oO HERD. gree of intelligence. But such eviden s hot shown in their attempting to from man. pecting rifle near such a herd and pick olf one after the other without apparently frightening or scaring the rest. If they ran it was usually against the wind, and they | Were cowards except when brought to bay. | At first the sxirs brought but little and the temptation to kill was not so great. Still, thousands were killed for the pure fun of killing them. The southern herd, which ined about four million, | existed as 1870, up to which time only about half a million’ buffaloes a year were killed from it. As soon as the railroads came in, hunters came by the scores and, with brecch-loading rifles, killed the animals by thousands. Capt. Jack Bridges killed by contract 1,142 buffaloes of this herd weeks. Buffalo Bill earned his title by the numbers of buffaio he killed in a short time, and Mr. Hornaday tells of one hunter who told him that he had killed sixty-three buffaloes in lers than an hour. In some places the buffaloes were driven over preci- breakirg their necks by the fall and being skinned afterward. Skinning Buffalo by Horse Power. With some of these hunter murderers the ordinary process of skinning was not fa enough, and they invented a way of skin- ning the buffalo by means of horses. TI would cut the skin at the neck and down the belly and around the legs at the knees. A stout iron bar, like a hitching post, was then driven down through the skuil about hteen inches into the earth. Then a rope s tied to the thick skin of the neck. The De A hunter might lie with a re- fle tree of a pair of horses, or to the ear axle of a wagon. The horses were in two or torn from the buffalo, with about y pounds of flesh sticking to it. This aethod, however, was not a success, and was soon given up. About fifty thousand THE GROUNDS, 1--Llama house. r end of the rope was hitched to the | sometimes brought as high as ten cents per pound, the tongues being worth much more. The Domestication of the Buffalo. It will be surprising to many to know that the buffalo can be domesticated. Had the government prohibited the killing of wild buffaloes years ago and provided in some way that they might be captured and bred for domestic uses, the United States would today be hundreds of millions®of dol- lars richer and there would be a new breed of cattle used by man. The buffalo crosses readily with domestic cattle, and it is shown that the half-breed are much hardier than the ordinary stock, much larger and that they pro- duce good meat and milk. Buffaloes | bave been used as oxen. They are easily. tamed and they could have been of great value in logging camps end for the hauling of heavy burdens. They do not need much | to eat, subsisting on the same things as other cattle and being much faster and more active than the ordinary ox. Half- breed buffaloes can stand the cold of the open prairie during our severest winters Where the thermometer is from thirty to forty degrees below zero. They are very prol:tic, the cows haying calves every year. Such animals are almost as large as the buffalo, being covered with the same woolly hair, though the hair is not so long nor so When it is remembered today that a buffalo hide is worth at least $100, it can be seen thit the having of a herd of buffa- loes, of which the increase would be regu- larly estimated, would be of no small value to the owner, ‘The bringing of the buffaloes to Wash- ington will be a very good investment for the government. As they stand they are worth a thousand dollars apiece, and there | 18 no doubt that any increase of the herd will bring this amount from the Zoological Gardens of this and other countries. The buffaloes which are already here have shown by their increase that the climate of Washington 1s perfectly adapted to them. They are thriving and with the ad- dition of these in the Yellowstone it is be- Leved that the herd can be perpetuated. Such action as Congress takes upon the matter, however, should be done at once, as a single party of vandal hunters may wipe out the herd at almost any moment. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ——_ The Child's Face. ‘There’s nothing more pure in heaven, And nothing on earth more mild, More fail of the light that is all divine, Than the smile of a ‘iitie child. ‘The sinless lips, half parted With breath as sweet xs ‘the air, And the light that seems so glad to shine In the gold of the sunny hair. O little one, smile and bless me Vor somehow—I know not wh; when children smile, ussing ‘That angels are I feel that th Are nearei That the light and th that sweeter world, Like the dawn, thro Kind to Ali Concerned. From the Boston Gazette. To get rid of a bore, try the method pur- sued by a certain friend of ours. When accosted by one, he shakes hands warmly with his persecutor, glances round anxious- jy, and dropping his voice, confidentially remarks: “I must be off. There's an awful bore here that I want to dodze--talk a fellow to death. You understand, old bo: The Bore (with a wink): “I understand, old fellow.” (Departs without the least suspicion that he is the bore.) 1s wcrth from $300 to $500 for mounting and preservation as a relic of this great arimal of the past. Such is the value of a dead buffalo. Live buffaloes for breeding @re worth much more, and I am told that She government buffaloes are worth from 81,000 to $2,000 apiece. At this rate the fifty un the Yellowstone Park are worth from $50,000 to $100,000. They are worth $25,000 to the hu:iters who can sneak in and kill them in the wilds of the Yellowstone Park. Suppose there were fifty $500 deer in the Adirondack mountains; how long would it be before they would be killed by hunters, no matter what the laws might be? The Yellowstone Park is four times as large as the Adirondacks, and is fifty times as far frem civilization. The country about it contains people who care nothing for the tvffalo or other game, except for the money which they can get out of them. When you think that a half dozen such men could clean out this herd in owe day, provided they could find it in one of the many wild valleys, and thereby make $25,000 out of the job, you get some idea of the danger which exists. During the present week I have had chats with Mr. Langley, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Prof. Goode, the head of the National Museum; Dr. Baker, the scientist in charge of the Zoo- Jogical Park, and others, as to this mat- buffaloes have been killed for their tongues, no account having been made of their skins. For a long time every skin sent to the mar- ket represented about five buffaloes, the others having been destroyed. Thousands of buffaloes were killed by firelight and moonlisht, the fires in such cases be! made for the purpose. During the year 1 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe raii road alone carried a quarter of a million buffalo robes, and more than a million and a half pounds of buffalo meat, and during the three years following 1872 more than three million buffaloes were slaughtered by” the white men, and of these 1,800,000 were wasted. The great southern herd had been annihilated by 1875. At this time the mar- ket had been overstocked with robes, and the hunters got from 65 cents to $1.15 for them. There was then left only the great herd of the northern part of the United States. | Its destruction began in 1880, at which time about 10,000 buffaloes were shipped out of the country every year. The Indians of the northwestern territory marketed about 75, 00 buffaloes a year. As soon as the rail roads came into the country the hunters came in, and in 1882 there were 5,000 hunt- }ers and skinners at work. They killed the buffaloes by the thousands for their robes, getting from $1.50 to $3.50 aplece for them, j aed wi-hin about four years this other vast toe. Brittle Finger Nails. From Harper's Bazar. Many women who have pretty hands are constantly mortified in cold weather by the rough appearance of their finger nails, caused by the fact that they break and split. The intense cold causes the nails to become so brittle that it seems impossible to trim them so as to make them smooth. The possessor of such nails should cut them with nothing except well-sharpened manicure scissors, and the nails must never be cut or filed unless the fingers have first been soaked in warm water. The brittle- ness may sometimes be lessened by rut bing almond oil thorouglily into the nails and finger ends on retiring at night. An old pair of kid gloves must then be pulled on. The housekeeper whose nails break easily should never stir anything on the hot range without first slipping on a loose glove, as the dry heat from the fire will make her nails more brittle than ever. Neither must she allow herself to stay out- of-doors for a moment without having her hands protected from the cold, which is even more injurious than the heat. All these precautions may seem to be a bother, but in the end are worth while. about $2,000,000. There were a number of | TALK WITH FORAKER He Chats About His Relations With 19" 0 A GOOD PERSIUENTIAL CANDIDATE 5 aera, Cee But He Thinks That There Are Other Avail le Candidates. ch Sh a eS FACTIONS IN OHIO Copyright, 1806, by George Grantham’ Bain.) Jee: B. FORA- ker, ex-governor and Senator-elect from the state of Ohio, is one of the “head centers” of political interest in the Unit- ed States just now. He divides attention with ex-Senator Thomas C, Platt of New York. Every- } one who is interested HY i in the political sit- atiahae uation has known for some time that Mr. Platt claimed to be in earnest in the support of Mr. Morton for the republican nomination for the presi- deny, but even at the present day there is some doubt in the minds of a great many Peopls as to Mr. Platt’s sincerity. That doubt wes removed from many minds when Mr. Platt gave to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette last week a clear, con- cise statement of his attitude. which was Dyblished over his cwn signature. ir. Foraker’s relations with Major Mc- Kinley have not been of the pleasantest character of recent years, and though the ex-governor both befcre and after his elec- tion to the Senate stated that he was in favor of the nomination of Major McKin- ley, many doubted his sincerity. Only a few days ago a statement was telegraphed from Ohio representing Mr. Foraker as be- ing secretly opposed to Major McKinley and saying that Mr. Foraker’s friends would divide the Ohio delegation to the St. Louis convention. Other reports have rep- resented Mr. Foraker’s friends as saying that they would never let Major McKinley have the vote of the solid delegation from Ohio. Others have credited Mr. Foraker with a personal ambition for the republi- can nomination. In a conversation which I had with the Senator-elect a few days ago he stated his attitude as clearly as M Platt has defined his relations with Gov. Morton and his “boom.” Mr. Foraker does not sign this statement, but he authorizes me to use what he said to me in conversa- tion. I called on Mr. Foraker more for the pur- pose of having a general conversation with him about his political experiences than to obtain a statement from him about his at- titude toward Maj. McKinley, and our con- versation took a broad range. I asked Mr. Foraker if he liked public speaking and he said he did not. “I post- tively dislike put: he sald, “but If there be any ty for making a speech, I can‘try it. Yes, I recall the first public speech I ever made.. It was when I was a student at the Ohio We leyan University. There was a_ politi al meeting in the county school house near by and they asked several of us young stu- dents te speal I have been at it more or less ever, year since.” Start in Politics. “Did you inherit your political, tastes?” I asked. “No, my father was never active in poli- tics. He was a farmer and my life was that of any. boy on a farm. My father never held office or took any especial part in political affairs. He was always inter- ested in public matters as every good citi- zen is—a little more perhaps than some of them are—but Whatever taste I may have for public affairs developed in me; it was not a heritage. I began to take an in- terest when I was quite a boy. But, as I said, I never expected to enter politics, and when I left college it was with the am- bition to devote myself to the practice of the law. declined once or twice to go to the legislature, but finally I was nominated for judge. That is an honor which {ts appre- lated by every lawyer who has a pride in his profession. That was the start. of my public life. I was on the bench for three years, and next I was nominated for gov- ernor. No, I did not put myself forward as a candidate for the nomination. It came about naturally without any effort on my part. The first suggestion of it came to me in a newspaper paragraph. All the other recognitions I have received have come about in the same way. I think a man should never seek an office, nor shun one if, without injustice to himself, he can render the service it requires. I did not seek the office to which I have just been chosen, but I none the less highly appre- ¢iate the honor of having been elected to Mr. Foraker repudiates the idea that there was any “deal” by which he was to be elected to the Senate and the Ohio dele- gation was to support Major McKinley for the presidency. “That was simply the will of the republicans of Ohio,” he said. “I am for Major McKinley, though, and unless something extraordinary and entirely un- foreseen happens, he will have the vote of the entire delegation in the convention. I told him a few days ago that I thought it was right that he should be a candidate for the nomination and the candidate of Ohio, and be supported by an unbroken Ohio delegation, and I am satisfied there will be no opposition to him in the state. He will get our forty-six votes. There are many reasons why this is so, and no rea- son that I know to the contrary.” What MeKinley’s Friends Say. “Have you made any estimate of his Strength outside the Ohio delegation I asked. “Not yet,” said Mr. Foraker. “I hope to have a talk with him soon and learn more about his strength. All I know now is that his friends, who have given the matter close attention, think he has the best chance, but, of course, changes may occur between now and the time of the St. Louis convention. Ohio expects McKinley to be nominated, but the convention cannot go amiss if it nominates any one of the men who are named—McKinley, Reed, Harrison, Allison or Gov. Morton. They are all available candidates and any one of them would poll the full strength of the party, I think.” I suggested that the Senator-elect had not bad so good an opinion of Mr. Harrison four years ago. “Oh, yes, I had,” he said. “I was op- posed to Harrison four years ago only be- cause I was sure he could not then be elect- ed. I never haye disparaged Mr. Harrison, He is a man of styong intellectuality and absolute purity, of character and purpose. He gave us a wise administration, and will hold a high place in history. But he is a man who fails to get close to the masses. The people of the, United States want a man of blood ag well as of flesh and bone in the White House. ‘His friends claim that he never makes a mistake. If that be true, it is against lis popularity. “According to popular esteem, there is something wrgng with a man who is al- ways right. He is generally either a trim- mer or cold and calculating. But, however that may be as to Harrison, I opposed him at Minneapolis because I believed he was not the most available candidate. The re- sult of the election proved that I was right.” “But do you think it possible any candi- date before the convention could have been elected if he had been nominated?” “I think Goy. McKinley could have been ¢lected,” said Mr. Foraker, quickly. “I be- eve Gov. McKinley, as the representative of the protection idea, was closer to the voters than any other man then mentioned as a possible candidate. But at least no man would haye been beaten any worse than Mr. Harrison was.” No Time for Deals. I referred to the statements which have appeared in a number of newspapers specu- lating on the possibility that Mr. Foraker’ was making a “deal” with some other can- didate because of his former political en- mity to Major McKinley. Most of these statements have been based on the sup- posed visit of Mr. Foraker to Mr. Platt on the day when ‘Mr, Platt was supposed to have sent to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette his long message assuring the peo- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1896--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. of Ohio “the republicans of New Kent were sinocre in fait suppor of Mr .any pledges to anybody; but the Lewspapers which criticise me constantly have got their ideas of me, I have no doubt, from stories put in circuletion from time to time which have no real foundation in fact. Here is a sample of the mischief- making articles, I find in a Cincinnati newspaper a long circumstantial pad Ad @ meeting by me with Mr. Platt on Mon €vening just after my arrival in New York. It details how we parted in the hotel cor- ridor, how I sent up my card later and ‘was closeted with Mr. Platt for hours; that other gentlemen sent up their cards and were in conference with us. ‘Now, the truth is, I did not see Mr. Platt till Tuesday evening, and I had no conference with him of any kind at any time. I never told Mr. Platt or any one Senator-Elect Foraker. else that the people of Ohio thought he was not sincere in his support of Gov. Morton, and none of the other things were said or done that are set forth so elab- orately in this article. It is probably in- teresting reading to come people, but it is all manufactured from beginning to end. I have no time for ‘deals.’ I am practicing law and I have a family to support by my profession. That keeps me busy. I had ro knowledge of Mr. Platt’s message to the Commercial Gazette until I saw it re- printed in a New York paper and I am not interested in any candidate except our own. If I go to the convention at St. Louis, I shall vote fcr the nomination of Major McKinley because I believe he would make a good candidate and because he is from cur state, and I believe the delegation should support the natural candidate of the state.” Why He Voted for McKinley. “That was not your reason for voting for Major McKinley in 1888,” I suggested. No, not entirely. And yet it was partly. I was for Mr. Blaine in that convention, but it became evident on the vote to admit the Alabama delegation that Blaine could not be nominated. I then changed my pur- pose and voted for Major McKinley because his friends came to me and asked me to do so and becatse I believed by casting the solid vote of the state for him we could Givert votes from Harrison and. perhaps prevent his nomination. As between Har- rison and McKinley, 1 was for McKinley.” I recalled the fact that it had been said at the time that Mr. Foraker voted for Major McKinley with a view to discredit- irg and embarrassing him. “Of course that was sai aker, with some feeling. “And if I had re- fused to vote for him, they would have found some hidden motive for that. They would have said I was mean, envious and jealous. But the plain fact is that I voted for him because he would have made a good candidate and because his friends in the convention and outside of it asked me to do so, and because I hoped in that way to Erevent the nomination of Harrison.” Foraker and Sherman. Mr. Foraker, although much criticised of late years, has said nothing in his own de- fense, preferring to let time and the nat- ural course of events take care of his case. The story which was told recently (and which he confirmed) about the offer to spring his name on the convention in 1888, and his rejection cf it, cught to settle the question of his loyalty to Senator Sher- tan, and if that did not, the fact that Mr. Sherman does not criticise Mr. Foraker in bis recently published book is a negative compliment of a high order, for Mr. Sher- man has swung out right and left in his distribution of wholesome political truths, and he certainly would not have spared Mr. Foraker if he had had any reason to feel resentful toward lim. Mr. Foraker says he thinks it was not possitle to nominate Mr. Sherman in 18Si or in 1888; and there is no reason that he knows why Mr. Sherman should have be- lieved on Saturday night and Sunday of the convention week that he was to be nominated on Monday. But in spit of his knowledge that Mr. Sherman was beaten, Mr. Foraker refused to permit the use of his name, and he telegraphed Mr. Sherman (who seems to have heard of the rumors connecting Mr. Foraker’s rame with the ticket) that his name would not be used in the convention. Mr. Foraker is not bound to Major Mc- Kirley as he was to Mr. Sherman, but he will not discuss the paragraphs which have been going the rounds of the newspapers recently suggesting him as a dark horse. When I asked him If he would like to be President—some day—he sai® “You ought not to ask me a question like that. Suppose I should say that I don’t want to be Pre: dent; most people would think I was lying. Suppose I should say, ‘I do;’ people then would all say, ‘What an egotist the man is,’ That is a subject no man can talk about with propriety—in a personal sense. His Senatorial Datics. “But do you look forward with any pleas- ure to being a Senator?” I asked. “Not especially,” said Mr. Foraker. “I realize that it is a great honor and a great responsibility. Any man should be proud to hold_the office, and if I were independent of my profession I might feel very much gratified at the prospect. But I must keep up my law practice, for there is no money in politics—only an outgo larger than the income all the time. My services in the Senate will give me, therefore, double labor, and that is not desirable at my time of life. Besides, it breaks up home life and inter- rupts business.” Speaking of his election to the Senate, and of his support of Major McKinley, I asked Mr. Foraker if the factional spirit had died out in Ohio, or was in process of extinction. “The subject is a rather delicate one,” said the Senator, smiling. “But I think it likely there will always be, as there always have been, factional differences of greater or less degree in Ohio. The spirit is very strong there at times, but I think they have the same experience in all the states. You see, it’s this way: When a young man succeeds in politics, the old ones encourage him and beckon him on, until they get the idea some day that he is growing too rapidly. There 1s not very much room at the top of the lad- der, and the old fellows on the top rounds soon get cfraid he may crowd some one o “Then they commence to ‘suppress’ him, They go to fighting him, and he and hi friends fight back, and the result is a fa tional difference. It is simply the old ques- tion of the survival of the fittest. Yes, I have been ‘up and down.’ I was defeated in 1889, the last tlme T ran for governor. I have been out of politics ever since. While I did not exactly like the way I got out, yet I was glad that I was out. The last six years have been the happiest of my life. I do not know what the future will unfold, but all our inter-party differences in Ohio are buried for the present. I am at peace with all the world. I have no gricvance against anybody. It is not my nature to cherish resentments, but I don’t forget, and if one has played double or false with me once, he will not he likely to have a chance to do it again: not because of ill-will, but as a matter of self-protection, and in accord- ance with the general law of nature.” “And do you think the party in Ohio is any worse off for these factional differ- ences?” “Probably not. They bring out the full strength of the pariy, and when a nomina- tion is made all-hands, as a rule, turn in and work together against the common enemy. So perhaps we are better off for them. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN. _ Too Late in the Day. From the Chicago Tribune. “Grandpa,” said one of the young per- sons at the table, “you shouldn't eat your soup that way. Do you notice how I do it?’ “My dear child,” replied the old gentle- man, “I've been eating it this way, as nearly as I can remember, for 957 years, 11 months ard 24 days, and I don’t think I'll change my style now to please a great- great-great-great-great-great-great - great - great-granddaughter with banged hair.” And Methuselah gazed dreamily out through the walls of the tent into the fath- omless void. beyond and wert on pulling | his spoon toward him. said Mr. For- HOW MR. HUNTINGTON GOT EVEN. He Had an Experience Which Was of Benefit to the Public. From the Rochester Post-Express. Collis P. Huntington,the railway magnate, has‘returned home from the Pacific coast, whither he went in August to look after his rajlway properties in California. An inti- mate friend of Mr. Huntington tells some interesting stories concerning his western trip. Mr. Huntington is a plain sort of a man, who does not travel with a brass band before him, even if he is president of the Southern Pacific Company. Mr. Hunting- ton travels very much like any other ordi- nary citizen, and dresses like a well-to-do man of business. He is known among the employes of the Southern Pacific company better by name than by sight, and all this is the reason why the restaurant man on the San Francisco ferry boats is cursing his luck and Mr. Huntington's unobtrusiveness. Now, Mr. Huntington gets hungry just as does the brakeman that cries in indistin- guishable English the names of the stations along the route, and when Mr. Huntington boarded the ferry steamer in Oakland, op- Posite San Francisco, he hung his dark overcoat on a hook, jumped on a stool at the restaurant, and ordered a steak just like any one else. It was a busy trip, and per- haps te cook had been out late the “night before, but, at any rate, the steak was not forthcoming in good season. The cook flop- ped it around on the counter and threw it on the. stove with a flourishing big knife, and burned one corner of it, forgot all about who ordered the steak, and finally dished it out just as the boat was pulling into the slip at the end of the trip. Mr. Huntington didn’t say much, but just as soon as he got to his office in San Francisco he wrote a lit- tle note to the lessee of the restaurants on the ferry boats, and doubled his rent, and he now pays $8 a day instead of $4 for each ferryboat on which he conducts a restau- sane where fried steaks are supplied behind ime. +o+—___ THEATER USHERS. The Di From the New York World. “Theater ushers are of two kinds,” said @ well-known manager. “They are either men who eke out a slender salary by tak- ing this work to do in the evening, or else they are stage-struck youths who think they are on the road to histrionic fame when they get a job seating the audience. The airs some of these latter fellows put on are much more amusing than many of the shows they are with, and they become Proud as peacocks by imagining that they share with the actors the plaudits of the public. “The pay of these men is small, and it will never be otherwise, for the glamor of the show business is very attractive, and many are willing to work at any price for the sake of being connected with a theater. A good usher is worth much more than he receives, but he has to suffer on account of those to whom the calling is little more than a pastime. “The temptations to swindle are very great, and many of the men make good money at the expense of the manager. A man who happens to have a bad seat is ready enough to pay a little extra to get where he can see the stage. No ©: knows this better than the usher, and he can pocket the money with little dang of being detec he often yields temptation, “I recall the case of a leading Brooklyn manager, who was once running a variety show with rather poor results. One night he entered the theatcr and was delighted to see that all the seats in the boxes were © cupied. ‘The boxes panned out very w: tonight,’ he remarked to the ticket seller, with a satisfied sinile. ‘I can hardly agree with you,’ replied the man, checking up the list. ‘They brougit us in just $: .’ The next night th were new ushers in that theater. “The most money is made out of persons who hold general admission tickets that do not entitle them to seats. This method of swindling has been going on for a long time, and the managers have often grown tired of it. Several arrests were recently made in a cxse of this kind, and it looks as if the managers aad at last combined to put a stop to it.” to HUNGER AND CANNIBALISM. The Desire to Eat a Fellow-Man Stronger at Sea Than on Land. From Science for All. Then it comes to pass, when the mo- ment of keenest agony is reached, that the starving man begins to eye his com- panion with the wolf-glare of a beast of prey. His pangs become paroxysmal. During their greatest intensity there springs up within him a fierce impulse tc slay his neighbor thaa he may ed on his fesh and slake his thirst with his blood. This terrible prompting to cannibalism, it may be noted, is, however, rare, save in ceses of famine from shipwreck. Altough it is customary to regard it as a common feature of starvation, and to make thrilling statements of the fre- quency with which even mothers w: 1, un- der the goad of hunger, kill id eat their children; and though startling assertio: to this effect have been made by historians of great sicges, yet it ought to be said that, as a general rule, well-authenticated vases of cannibalism among civilized peo- ple will be found to occur only at sea. They are very rarely found on land. And what is more ctrious still, whenever fam- ished, shipwrecked men set foot on shore, no matter how desolate and barren m: be their rock of refuge, they seen as if by magic at once to banish from their minds the very idea of anthropophagy, cr man- eating, and that, too, though they might have been resignedly contemplating it as an imperative necessity a few iours before. In the case of Ensign Prenties of the eighty-fourth regiment and his compan- ions, who were wrecked on the barren island off Cape Breton in 1780, the differ- erce between famine on shore and on sea is curiously exemplified. Prenties records that they were able to endure the most fearful pangs of hunger without cver so much as a thought of resorting to canni- balism for relief, so long, however, and oniy so long as they kept on land. But when they took to their boats—and it was not once merely that they experienced this—in order to escape from their rock-bound prison, though they were not a whit worse off for fcod than they were on land, yet the mo- ment they put to sea with one accord they began to think of killing and eating one of their number. On the other hard, when they found their attempt to escape futile and put back to shore, whenever thi landed, the horrible idea of cannibalism seemed to vanish. Two Jast Conclusions. From the Snow Hill (Md.) Messenger. It is related of a well-known merchant of a neighboring city that, after making his will and leaving a large property to a trustee for his son, he called the young man in and, after reading the will to him. asked if there was any improvement or al- teration he could suggest. “Well, fat said the young gentleman, lighting a ci: ette, “I think, as things go nowadays, it would be better for me if you left the property to the other ,fellow and made me trustee.” The old gentleman made vp his mind then and there that the young man was quite competent to take charge of his own inheritance and scratched out the trustee clause. B 0 RE ee fal lars trying. varl- ous remedies and physicians, none of which did ine and good. “My finger nails’came off and my hair came out, leaving me perfectly bald. I thea went Hot Springs Hoping to be cured by this celebrated treatment, but very soon becaine disgusted and decided to try SSS. ° The «fect was truly wonderful. I com- menced to rerover at once, and after I had taken twelve bottle: I was entirely cured—cured by S.S.8. when the world - reaowned| Hot Springs bad ‘ failed. WMS LooMIs, ‘Shreveport, ° ° re) Louisiana. Our book on the Disease and its Treatment free to any address, r- { could get relief from a most hor- rible blood dis- ease I had spent SWIFT SPECIFIO CO., Atlanta, Ga. age-0-0!" 19 HEALTH IN OLDAGE An Old Lady Finds the True “Source of Vitality. A Reporter’s Interesting Interview With a Lady of Seventy-Two Years, Who Tells a Mar- velous Story. From the Union, Port Jervis, N. Y. But a short time ago, in a distant part of the country, we beard of a cure by the use of Dr, Williams’ Piuk Pills, which seemed almost mar- and ‘more recently another substantial emécnce of their value reached our ears. Being of an inguiring tum of mind, and wishing to know just how much there was in the story, @ Teporter was sent to interview the person said to be thus benefited. If the narrative as it Teacked our ears was true it was only simple Jus- tice to let it be known—if it proved untrue, it Would be well to know it. The person alluded to above as having been thus greatly benefited by the use of Pink Pills is Mrs. Jane ‘Hotalen of Hamesville, N- J. a plenniat Lamiet in Sussex cfunty, about fifteen miles from this office. | The reporter had no difficulty in tind- ing Mrs. Hotalen. “It was curly noon when we reached ‘her pleasant home, a double house, one Part of which ts eccapled by ber son. She is a pleasunt-faced old indy, looking to be about sixty- five, but is in really” seventy-two years of age. After a few prelitniuary remarks in explanation of the call she was asked if she had any objection to giving us the ils of the case and how she came to try this Low famous remedy. “Not at all,” sai “If my experience cam be of any good to they are wel- it—it ean do me no i Z were you taken sick what was the nature of the malady?” was asked. “It was about two yoars ago. ‘The trouble was rheumatic in character—seiatica, and it was very painful began in my hip and ex the limb, crippling me tensely from it, and tl me not the slightest treatment about a Worse instead of better, amd was fai discouraged.” What brought Pink Pills to your notic My eon called my attention to an article In w per, in which it stated that a Mr. Struble of wanchville, a village in this county, bad beeu greatly benefited by their use, and suggested that it would be a good plan to try them. — But I was skeptical in regard to their value—in fact, I had confidence in their efficiency and rather laughed at the suggestion. Lut the trouble increased and I was badly crippled. A few days later my son Was about to visit a neighboring town and sug- gested again that it might be well to try this Wuch-talked-of remedy, and I then consented. Ho bought me a box of them and I began taking them at once. At the end of a week T noted a marked improvement, and by the time I had takem the rst box I was ‘able to walk without a cane, I contluued their use, taking several Loxes, and Fou see, in a very comfortable state of “Have you had ai return of the trouble?” ‘Not as yet, though at the time of life, seventy- two, it would uet be surprising if I should have, If it comes I should at once begin the use of the pills. I suppose I iuherit a tendency to troubles of this kind—my mother died from them.” “Did you ever note any ill effects from the use of Pink Pills “None whatever. ‘They never disturbed my stomach in any was or ed we any annoyance, Neither did I tind it necessary to increase the dose, as the directions fay 1 desirable. Lam , 8 YOU see, to attend to my own. work.” e reporter thanked Mrs. fo. ber coure tesy and bade her good day. It is not often that one ness such a Tecovers, frum such @ pertinacious trot an advaneed and such i nnot fail to produce @ fers of the Union may hsolute. aceuracs L the state: ven--nothiug bas ated, 4a Pink Pills cont: a con lensed all the elements necessary life blood 0 the or will be sent post paid ) cents a box, or six boxes for &: Dr. Willlams’ Medicine Cc World's Feir! HIGHEST AWARD. Mi RANUH, The STANDARD and BEST prepared FF OOD Prescribed by physicians. Relied on in hospitals. Depended on by nurses. Indorsed by the press. 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Press back the the sides and base with the very sharp, curv i any inte d manicu hangnaiis or oval oth with powder, and pc once more to powder, mailed | Street Serio (singing)—“Er—yew will think hov me and love me hee in dies hov long Prach.