Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1898, Page 15

_——_ THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1898-16 PAGES. 15 pretete We have a splendid show The Great Providers—The Great Providers. ing of Fine Clothing. We do not say very much a but by the steadily increasing bus’ must have better values than othe boast of anything like such an as: take your own time in settling. bout our Clothing Department, iness it is very evident that we rs. Our stock this spring is ex- tremely well selected and stylish—in fact few stores in town can sortment. Remember you can always have your purchases charged and Men’s Suits, $3.50. Finely made goods in black 2nd blue chev- fots. Cut after the latest fashions. Spring veixhts. Men’s Suits, $5.50. : The quality ts really Eee cemmeeiate for this «malities anywhere else Men’s Suits, $10. Fine Worsted Dress Suits. tee everything about them—the cloth, tailoring. It is a bargein such as * to offer. We will gnaran- seldom Men’s Pants, $1.95. All-wool Ch in the newest shades and patterns, well made and exactly right in the cut. A large assortment to choose from, Men’s Hats, $1.25. | an lntest styles, nd $2.50 and $2 elsewh ble Derbys —exee shades —in quality you Boys’ Suits, $1.75. Boys’ Suits, $3.50. Suits witk long pants—in fine Cassimere. Cloths—well made and will give excellent wear. You cannot equal them anywhere at this price. Ladies’ Suits, $9.50. These are regular €20.00 Man-Tailor-Made uits, in all-wool cloths the newest shades ad styles. Shirt Waists, 39c. Ladies’ Percaline Shirt Wafsts—splendid. choice of colors and styles—worth T5e. every- wh Silk Taffeta Waists, $2.75: A very handsome lot of rich ‘Taffeta Sil Waists—perfect in fit and made with the ut- most care. 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Few In s of Wealth Made ee z Pe wurdeendces (Geis hlutter of TH West Baltimore = spa | employed as a general helper at pera ai Peer Camden station, fell forty feet yesterday Sees UEC EU E from’ the: secondiatury.elndawi or Des oes ee and almost miraculously es- arabinose by landing upon an empty ae a meats He was cleaning the window » a lucky strike wl Se ee Sacra ain Cetin yw him, Somehow he 2 See and ple backward «expired man came to the mar- ae adap aes : Re gat » fell he stretched out his loose Beebe Ls EL und hold of the main line t had no money, but he ph wt ir rewulates tle cacy give his plot of land for | ments of many trains. He hung suspended pi m™! for u moment, then the wire vieptiek Ges levis. and ged downward. He eee ee seme ANS) crashed » orange box, and this of his descendants, for | aie. uved his life. If he hai ad d by a wharf, | | himsett | st believed that destroyed his found tins of snuff sn in the tire. Curiosity promp to open the canisters. He found action of the flames had ma jally improved the aroma and pungency the snuff. The discovery made him very a fire next day he of ery of the Mount Sheba mine | fluke, and its output of gold is the £ St of any mine in the world xcept in the Klondike district. | A bank clerk in London heard that the: Was a rich of gold at a certain place 1 Hope. He set @bout forming a provisional syndicate ero his ‘fellow ¢ und they raised out $1.9") among elves. A neer Was sent out. He m zh investigation, but found no gold 1 decided to give up the s ‘ch, ndy ™ to leave for home when he ran ner. tranger,” he said, t fer the shiny. $ you Tain’t here, ks up the | by that h: @ sample of th worth very de Neer examined th hat there t in goid, k for it.” | specimen and was gold in it. He act- 2 what I'll do, you $80 on the ris Was struck, and An abund: most unlike mate,” he of losing it.” | reain the expl m | veins. shares, the face value of w worth $00,000 each = ee ane alendar for the present year ex- repreduces that of 1887. Each year b on a Saturday, had a 2sth day ot February, and in poth year ter falls pn April 10, e = eee 2 BH eh debe dbp “Credit here is an accommodation—not a Burden.” NeW MATTINGS. Housecleaning time is sell you the mattings. wear. duplicated for less money free. a carriage. prices can’t be lowered in have no notes to sign and PEEL PEELE EEL EEL | the | einia up and mattings take their places. the wire he would ha Ave en his head. As it as badly sprained and and for a time it he was injure; ally. falling he immediate d to his fe und ran into th of water, quick, ingman, window. his ain't April fool day, the man’s answer, but seeing the blood Schlutter’s face, he suddenly r the s injured. One of b after v to inform he said to a fellow wo: first a the main hne was broken. saw him greatly commended his nerve the matie: Birds Changed Colum From the New York Herald. In the present strained relations betw! t me a glass rk- “f just fell from the second-story was on alized that ets the blood from his face wa telegraph department that very one W 0 in een this country and Spain it might be well to remember that the flight of birds was m floating over this land and United States from bee pertion of the Spanish kingdom. During the voyage of Columbus the saving the ans of preventing the Spanish flag from the oming an integral mi- ted gration of birds to the southwest attrac the attention of his lieutenant, Pinzon, who advis ailing in that direction. Colum! yielded to the opinion and steered to t €d on San Sal of his subordi southwest, and he lat pursued his original rout quence lan coast, and unfurled "thereon of and the emblem of tyranny. wrote Humboldt, “had a fii more important consequenc pee of birds al number of office holders in ¢ of the country is 17s, ate salaries amount to $),: at hand—carpets come We want to Our stock does not contain a pattern of which there is any doubt as to good We have hundreds of the prettiest patterns for you to choose from, and the qualities can’t be than we ask. We'll measure your rooms and tack the matting down ABY CARRIACES., Don’t keep baby in-doors these fine spring days just because you haven't the ready money for We offer you anything in our store— ON CREDIT—and a handsomer Carriages can’t be found anywhere. you like and pay a little each You'll own a carriage without feeling its cost. Our line of Baby Take the one week or month— the cash stores. no interest to pay. You'll GROGAN'’S Mammoth Credit House, 817-819=821-823 7th St. N.W. Between H and I Streets. : ee ee , and as a cons din the vicinity of the Vir bus ate nd= ador, one of the Bahamas, Had Columbus treated the migration of | the birds with indifference, or ignored the Imporiunities of Pinzon, ‘he would have the Standard of Spain, a flag that is the symbol avery ght th HIGH MASS ABOARD An Impressive Service in the Harbor of Honolulu. CHAPLAINS OF MODERN MEN-0’-WAR Their Calling is Replete With Op- portunities for Good. POPULAR WITH THE, MEN —___+—___ The man-o’-war’s man means no disre- spect when he refers to his ship's chaplain as the “sky pilot.” Rather, it is a term of epproval. The bluejacket, at heart, 18 Ferhaps the least sacrilegious of uniform- ed men. Profane he may be; the blue- Jacket’s profanity is as much a habit as his attendance at the mess tabl2, and it is innocuous and meaningless. But nine out of ten American man-o’-war’s men have a contemptuous word, and not infrequently a hard fist, for the “man-o'-war chaw” (g2nerally the ship's fool) who invites sup- pression and a black eye by speaking sneer- ingly of religion. No man can go to sea for any great length of time, no matter how coarse his fiber, without experiencing an infusion of what, for lack of a better term, might be phrased the religion of the s2a—which is first a vague wonderment over the beauty of its quictude and the power of its wrath, and then a settled conviction, just as strong, because It is rarly expressed, that there is direction and meaning m the sea’s depths as well as on its surface. Beyond this, the man-o’-war's man undergoes som: convincing experiences which he never talks about under any circumstances; for the bluejacket despises th> thing called Chadbandism, and in the matter of silence on affairs that lead down to the roots of him he has nothing to learn from the clam. He simply purches the newly shipped Lib- bar who makes too conspicuous a parade of a cheap brand of atheism, and lets It go at chat. You'll never find an old man- o’-war's man an atheist. One of the first regulations of the United ates navy recommends, in effect, that “officers and men shall, when>ver possible, participate in the worship of Almighty God" aboard their ships. While this regu- Jation is not mandatory, being simply in- serted in the form of a recommendation, officers and men are much more sincer> in their respect for and observance of this clause, which is read out on the quarter deck by the executive officer at every monthly muster, together with a short ab- stract Of the navy regulations, than if at- dance at religious services aboard skip compulsory, as it is in several of th> navies. While there are chaplains United States navy who are favo there commanders of ships for whom the n would fight b than for others, all of the “sky pilots’ gain and hold the respect and confidence of the enlisted imei. Chaplain Chidwick of the Maine was not second even to the gallant, cool-neaded pt. Sigsbee in the affection in which he was held by the crew of the doomed bat- tle ship. . The First High Mass. Memorial services have been held in churches of all denemina‘tcns throughout the United States in honor of the men who S among the men forward, just in th it passed with the Maire, ard there have been many requicm masses in the Roman Catholic churches for the repose of the souls of the man who went down in. the batle ship. But iff mass ashore and high mass afloat are two very different matters. The writer happened to be pres- ent at the only bigh mass of the Koman Catholic Church that celebrated on an American m - ‘There ar two Roman Catholic chaplains in the Unit- et States navy, and cach ef them re the of pis creed aboard his ves- day merning, as well as on y days of obligation. These masses in general pretty well ettended by the enlisted men of all manners of religiou belicf, and the officers not infrequently at- tend the sin a body. But it was on the Uni cruiser Baltimore, when that fine v anchored in the har- bor of Honolulu in January, 1896, that the i h mass in the his| of the Amer- y was chanted, Itimore, on her way from China nited States, with her “homeward pennant streaming 200 feet in her steamed into a terrifle typhoon a low mas’ the ho! ar bound’ wake few days after leaving the coast of Japan, and, hove to and wallowing in the thick of it for eight days, came near foundering. When she rounded Pearl Harbor Point, on the Island of Oahu, and crawled to her anchorage in the harbor of Honolulu she Wes a pretty rusty-looking craft, with her cutters stove in, her davits twisted and tern off, her chain rails carried away and her fighting tops lowered to the deck to prevent excessive rolling. Officers and men were glad to get into port, for their dan- ger had been of the most imminent. Tw seamen had beer carried away by green seas that washed the high-standing top- gallant fo'c'sle, and there were a lot of broken heads, ribs, legs and arms among the men forward. The ship's carpenter, a warrant officer, died of his injuries the day the Baltimore steamed into Honolulu harbor, and was buried in the beautiful of Honolulu, Punchbowl, valley of the Nuuanu shadow henors. Ax n Spe The Chaplain of the Baltimore was a young Roman Catholic priest, a scholar, an athlete, and a finished man generally, born and educated in Maryland. He decided to have high mass as a special ceremony of thanksgiving on the Sunday following the Baltimore's casting her mudhook in the harbor of Honolulu. This was as impres- sive a religious ceremony as any ever seen or heard in a great cathedral. It was cele- ‘ated on the ship's wide and long berth ck, forward. The carpenter's gang built an altar especially for the occasion. Some of the men got shore Mberty and gathered the gorgeous wild flowers that bloom in the woodlands around Honolulu. Then they decorated the altar, which, when its orna- mentation was completed, was a wonder- ful blaze of color. Two young apprentice boys served as acolytes, habited in cas- socks and surplices. The fact that these two chubby boys strove to be consistent and emulative ruffians under the ordinary conditions of man-o'-war Hfe did not mili- tate, in the minds of the uniformed wor- shipers, against the impressiveness of the mass which they served. Nor did the rat- tling of the double irons of the half dozen prisoners, confined up forward in the “brig,” in full view of the congregation, have any disconcerting effect. Nearly all the officers and men of the ship's company of four hundred and odd crowded down the berth deck ladders to attend the mass. The mess benches of the men were the seats. The officers were in their full dress uniforms, and the men wore their musteying clothes. Besides the ship's company, about 100 of Honolulu’s most notable society folk, men and women, came off to the ship in shore boats and steam cutters to attend the man-o'-war mass. Three of the members of the Hawaiian cabinet, with their wives and daughters, were of this number. These resident H: waiians, the most of whom were of Ameri- can, English and German nativity, with a sprinkling of notable Kanaka men and ex- ceedingly lovely “half white’ Kanaka so- clety girls, were fashionably and pictur- esquely dressed, many of them wearing around their shoulders the woven “laas” or wreaths of flowers so commonly used for personal adornment even by staid, mid- dle-aged business men during the business hours of working days in Honolulu. Impressive Music. The Baltimore was a flagship, and the misic of the high mass, which was one of Mozart's, was under the direction of the’ ship's bandmaster, who utilized the ser- vices of his fine string orchestra to render the music effectively. But the real fea- ture of the music was the singing of some tv enty-five Roman Catholic priests, bearded men of @ monastic order, with its Hi walian headquarters in a monastery on the outskirts of Honolulu. The chaplain had invited these priests to assist him in the celebration. They were all trained singers with noble véices, and their music had the effect of the male choir heard in the Sis- tine Chapel in Rome. One of the menks presided at the small cabinet under the with naval organ. The — chaplain was a fine baritone er, who easily dis- counted all of the ward room officers in the singing of water, heavy-weath- er” songs at the mess table after dinner. He sang the cult mass well, and the swelling answ.rs;te his intonations by the choir of priests were, beautiful and inspir- ing. Naval officers of experience in every quarter of the World afterward declared that they had neyéryheard such music be- tore. Three of the trumpeters of the band scunded the “Sanetus? and the ‘Te Deum.” Only about one-thitd of the members of the crew present were Catholics, and not more than a fifth bf the ship's visitors from Honolulu belonged to; the Church of Rome, yet the enthusiasm of all after the cere- mcny was over was remarkable. It ap- peared that the bearded priests who assist- ed in the chanting of the mass were very rarely seer by the residents of Honolulu, one of the requirements of their order being that they keep to: themselves. A Peculiar Position. ‘The office of a ship chaplain in the United States ravy, to whatever religious denomi- nation he may belong, is a singular one. Tke chaplain must be a man of great natural tact to preserve properly his some- what difficult relationship with officers and men. He ts, of course, an officer, and lives aft among the ward room officers, but the functions of his office are mainly exercised among the men forward. In order to be of any actual spiritual service to the men for- ward, ke must move among them and enter into their ideas, which are often peculiar and perplexing. Naval officers who were attached to the Baltimore when that ship was on the China station often speak of the remarkable hold which the young ath- letic Catholic priest (the celebrant of the high mass described) who served as its chaplain got upon the affections of all the bluejackets to a man, as well is upon the esteem of the watch officers with whom he lived aft. This young priest was a first-rate boxer, and he often put cn the gloves with the crack bluejacket sparrers cn the ship. There was not a man among them who could handle him in a boxing bout. When Sharkey, the now famous pugilist, was a second-rate master-at-arms on the Phila- delphia, this yourg priest donned the gioves with him and gave the expert boxer plenty of exercise, too. He rather enjoyed putting on the mittens with a bluejacket bexer of ruffianly irstincts ard giving him a thoroughly good pummeling, all in good nature and as pgrt of the game. The men whom he thus man-handled, although com- pelled for a while to pipe low and sjng small, like fellows just out from a ten days’ cruise in the “brig? in double irons, afterward became the priest's sworn friends. The commanding officer of he Baltimore often remarked to his officers that this twenty-six-year-old priest could reduce the bad men of the ship to subjec- ticn and decency a good deal more effec- tively and quickly than he himself could with the aid of all his masters-at-arms, ship's corporals and double irons. He talked with the men on equal terms, wrote their letters for them if they were insuffi- ciently educated to write well themselves, took a personal interest in their little affairs at their solicitation, and often in- terceded for them when they got them- Ives into scrapes: either aboard ship or ashore. He refrained from talking re- ligion with them at all unless they que tioned him, whicly they often did after they got to know him pretty well, and then he talked with them straight from the shoulder, without eny superfiuous beatiag about the bush, which man-o'-war's men detest. Influence for Good. Without any particular effort this young priest practically,,putzan end to drunken- ness among the then forward on the Baiti- more. His influeace jgver them was such that they gradually grew ashamed to lum- ber over the gabgway drunk from shore Kberty, so that, in order to come off to the ship sober and to meet the glance of the chaplain's big brown, eye with as clear a geze, they got inke the habit of letting the shore liquor alone; He made babies of the professedly hard: eases of the ship's com- peny forward, so that they drepped ‘heir Swagger and brutality. He had hard work to keep the apprentice boys in shape, for naval apprentices,. being young, sappy an of lmited expertencey can't sense in being anything but horribly devilish blades while they wear the figure-of-cight knots on their shirts... Jn: time, however, he brought them around so they would fight for him. The influenve he exerted was not confined to men ¢f his own. religious faith. His fair way of treating all hands brought all of them into his camp in time. At Hong Kong a party of English man-o- war's men on a shore spree made some sneering allusion to the Baltimore's “sky pilot” in the presence of a party of the Kai- timore’s blucjackets. They were thrashed to within an inch of their lives, and on be- ing let up were compelled to give three cheers and a tiger for the chaplain whom they had assailed with their mouths. The man-o'-war's man hates to be caught red-handed in the act of performing some sort of religious duty incident to his faith, This youthful priest confessed the Catho- Hes among his bluejacket flock. He would use the engineer's log room as a confessional on Saturday nights. The schemes to which the men would resort in order to attend this requirement of their faith without being observed by their mates were amusing. They would hang around the engine rooms for hours before the time set for the hearing of their con- fessions, and then pop into the log room with a rush, and pop out again looking guiltier than when they went in. It was net that they were in anywise ashamed of the creed which they professed, but that sailormen hate to suffer the danger of becoming known as “long-eared,” whica is the navy vernacular for “truly good. A Whole-Souled Man. Aft, this wrestling, boxing, running and high-jumping chaplain, who could beat all hands in the athletic events on holidays, was regarded as a splendid f»>llow by the officers. There are numerous chaplains tn the navy whose mere presence at the ward room table exercisss an uncomfortable re- straining influence. This was not the case on the Bultimore. The chaplain told a pretty good story himself, although he was a dignified man, and he was a critic in the matter of cigars. He could and did sing “Larboard Watch, Ahoy!” and “Biow the Man Down,” with sweetness and effect, and he was able to calculate to the exact second the proper time to withdraw in order to permit the recital of a story not exactly fitted for his hearing. In brief, he was a successful chaplain, which is in som> respects harder than to be a successful ccmmanding officer. Most of the chaplains of the United States navy, of whatever religious denom- ination, are devised of the sam> rough-and- ready, frank, manty, open-and-above-hoard material. Every chaplain who has ever en- tered the United States navy with the pur- pose of converting his ship's company into angels has failed dismally in his attempt, and chaplains of that sort no longer wear the uniforms of Uncle Sam. The naval chaplain the gist of whose argument with the rough, generous fellows forward, blue- jackets and marines, is “Act on th2 level— keep yourself on an even keel, and. guard against a list either to starboard or port” is the chaplain about whom the men talk affectionately when'they gather at th> gangway to smoke, their pipes. > ‘The smallest perfect watch ever made is owned by a Russtan princess. It was first Piaced in an exquisite gold case, covered with the most. minute, but lterally perfect Wateau scenes inienamel; then, at the prin- cess’ desire, the ‘works were removed and Placed inside a gpjendid diamond scarcely two-fifths of an inch jn diameter. aa “For six years I was a victim of See ut at not retain and di that. Last March I began taki ITS and since thenI have steadily ‘tm until I am as well as I ever was in my life.’ DAVID H. MURPHY, Newark, O. ow. GCURE NSTIPATION. ... pornbee ora (oes NO-TO-BAG seg:rLuMEs, Wee FREE. Souvenir Thermometers with each shoe purchase tomorrow. An Easy Victory Over any and all Shoe Competition ! 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Spectal Special tomorrow at... $2.95 eee eee - panvene $4 1914 & 1916 Pa. Av. 233 Pa. Av. S.E. | ws iS) MONEY AND MUSIC. Why We Have More Women Vocal- ists Than Men, From Godey’s Magazine. In preparing this list of American concert singers it was curious to note that the num- ber of tenors now at large just 2xactly equaled the combined number of the unre- strained baritones and basses. It is proba- bly true that there are just about two culti- vated tenors to :ach baritone or bass. There are, similarly, about twice as many sopranos as there are mezzo-sopranos or contraltos. Continuing in this stat al humor, there are probably two trained so- pranos to every tenor, The reasons for th2se ratios are probably these: A higher voice, being the more unu- sual, attracts to its owner the more alten- tion. It lends itself to music of a far gre er range and brilliancy. The natural t-nor and soprano are accordingly encouraged to cultivate what may, after all, mediocre ability. oD he mezzo-s baritone, however, is thought of as only an ordinary mortal, and a voice of the utmost possibilities may be left to w: its fra- grance in the dark, unfathomed caves of its owner's thorax. A village church is the epitome of the world in this respect. The women “sing alto” or ke th> top not et, or strain and squeal he men drone out a bagpip- ish bass. The good voices are lost in the lugubrious average. But if there is a girl who takes the high notes flutily, or a boy who can interpolate the tenor part without danger of scarlet fever, these voices sing out above the groundling chorus; every one pricks ear to listen and the word is that Sukey Smith or Jakey Jon¢ Voice!” It may be that that voice ought to be cultivated; it may be that it ought to be confiscated; but to the teacher it must go. The steps from this first discovery to a ca: reer of public weal or woe are easy. So much for the disproportion of high and low professional singing. The fact that more women than men study song is doubt- lass to be accounted for by the superstition that flourishes in many districts that sell- ing dry goods or keeping books is a more manly career than singing. This public creed keeps many a man from developing the gold mine in his larynx. Besides, there 1s, 2specially in America, a sentiment that a'man should not depend on his father after he has reached his majority. It is a wholesome sentiment on some ac- counts, a pernicious sentiment on others. It has much kinship with the old belief that as soon as a girl is of a marriag>able age she should stand ready to hop off her father’s shoulders upon the first pair of empty male shoulders that come within reach. But many a father will set his son up in business with a sum of money which, if de- voted to paying his artistic tuition a few years on in his twanties, might give him a capital of unlimited possibilities. The re- sponsibility of a father toward his son does not always end at twenty-one. There can be no arbitrary line drawn to decide every case. But until thy golden day when the career of an artist {s recognized as a substantial career, to be soberly prepared for—a career worthy as any trada or profession, and quite as likely to repay Investment and la- bor—and until women are put on a parity with men in th matter of lvelthood—until that inevitable time the vocal conservato- ries will turn out twice as many women as men. a —_——_+ 2+ ___ WISE OLD CROWS. How They Solved the Clam-Opening Problem and Administered Justice. From the Youth's Companton, Few pastimes are more interesting and instructive to a person living in the coun- try than observation of the habits and pe- cullarities of the common birds and ani- mals which he sees. You may read the ob- servations of others with a great deal of pleasure, but there is a singular fascina- tion in becoming a discoverer on your own account. Of all the birds that I have watched I think none has repaid me more richly than that amusing old reprobate, the crow. His Sagacity is notorious, and from some t .ngs that I have myself observed it would a most seem as if he must be endowed with something nearly akin to reason. On one occasion, while I was Hving in New Jersey, near Long Branch, I was one day attracted by the loud and excited caw- ing of a number of crows down on the shore of the Navesink river, which ran only a few yards from my door. Curious to know what all the excitement was about, I seated myself at a window to watch them. It was just after the equinoctial storm in September, and I soon found that they were disputing about the best way to deal with some soft-shelled clams which had been washed up from a sandy shoal. These clams, of which crows are very fond, are oblong in shape, about four or five inches long and two wide, with a shell not much thicker than a mussel, but still too hard for a crow to break with its beak. From one end of the shell protrudes a long neck, sometimes more than half as long as your finger, through which the clam sucks its food. For half an hour or more the crows ar- gued noisily; then the dispute subsided, and it was evident that they had arrived -at’ some decision which they were about to put to the test. Almost immediately one crow, which had been particularly noisy in the discussion, picked up a clam by its long neck, and, flying up in the air some distance, let it drop. When it struck on the stony shore all the crows, about fifteen or twenty in number, flew to learn the 're- sult of the experiment. That it proved the soundness of their rea- soning was evident, for each crow at once possessed himself of a clam, flew up into the air with it, let it drop on the stones break its shell, and then ate its con! with great apparent satisfaction. they continued until they had eaten as pitched on the unfortu er and government among themselves, and that an | pecked him to death hthey dis- infringement of their laws is followed by | persed as quietly as they had come punishment. This happened in Virginia.| I afterward went out, Viewed the re- which, by the way, is a perfect paradise | mains, and wasted consklerable time in for crows, with its immense corn and pea- | vain speculations as to the offense which nut fields. I was sitting at an upper win- unfortunate bird 1 have committe dow one quiet Sunday afternoon, looking jinst the laws of crowdom, and what across a broad field toward the Jam have been the result if the jury had river, there about seven miles wide. The | field had been newly plowed and harrowed, | for planting, and was perfectly level | and smooth, so that any object could be | |. é distinctly seen upon the ground at a dis- | Pam the Adantt tance of three or four hundred yards. A The mania for land was curiously illus- I was looking, T saw a crow alight on the | trated by the rush of settlers and specu- ground about 200 yards aw Soon two | ators upon the opening of new lands im more came from the same direction and | ( se ultitude — te alighted near the first one. Crows contin- | Oklwhoma. An immense multitude lett ued to arrive, sometimes singly and some- | homes in a dozen states and flocked thither times by twos or threes, until there must | by rail, in wagons, on horseback and on have been about fifty, or perhaps more. | root, camped out f weeks and months All came from the same direction and took | aicng the borders of the promised land, ground on a space perhaps fifty or sixty 2 ‘ otis ; 4 REESE | suffered all kinds of privations, and ra They were very quiet, which is unusual | ™#¢I¥ across the line when the gun was where many of them are together. and it | fired, only to find thal there were ten com- wa ident that they met pur- | petitors for every quarter section, evidently was, sat with dre head, and still guarded. | ps should have ‘sen began a great noise. Each crow | ! | Ty city and town in the regions c affected by boom” con familtes impoverished by the ping wings and seemed to be trying to outtalk every other. 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