The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1903, Page 6

B, 7 477 &5 THE SUNDAY CALL.- | | | | s SORROWS OF A SOUL || First of the Negw'"F;ables for the Foolish” | in Which High Art Comes a By NICHOLAS NEMO.. e : Cropper. ilization Has ARCUS AURELIUS SMITHERS - was long on soul but :short on money and other useful things In fact, he had $o much soul that it hurg down' all around and ‘dragged on the ground when he walked. Whenever the good, the true, *and the beautiful went up against _him it took thie count in the first round, and what he didn’t know abotit art wouldn’t have made’ even a: first-class criticism of a picture show. .He simply couldn’t stand the coarse, com- mercial 2tmosphere of America and divided his time’ be- tween gay Paree and Monte Carlo, with odds in favor of the latter. Ungrateful Monte Carlo never made the odds in favor of Marcus Aurelius. 5 - g From the 2bove temarks it must not be assumed that Mare Aurelius ever -did anything that was artistic, ~ex- cept to chisel his créditors out of cotd cash. He had tried study of a flock -.of setting hens struck by lightning; he had also written a few little things, as he ‘modestly- expressed it, bt the sad old world was compelled by the ignorance and hardness of heart of envious editors to forego the pleasure of reading them. g the highest ideal that 2 man could:follow; - this ‘was: all very well for Marcus, but it was a terrible responsibility. for art. s Another objection that he had to the land that had been the unwilling witness of his birth was the fact that it had no traditiofs. There were no world-old battle-fields nor storied castles—except the sky scrapers; no ancient families —revamped by American heiresses. : In fact, America was altogether too young to be attractive to. one whose soul vearned for the esthetic and the useless as did Marcus Au- After having unloaded a few of these choice com- dy of art as it is arted on the boulevards, or to recline on a mossy bank at Monte. Carlo and ponder the artistic hand at painting. but the result resembled a composite ) As he often put it, art for art’s sake was( ents ori a long-suffering land, he would return to the effects to be obtai®d by a display ef black and red against a “background of green.: Another theory that Marcus Aurelius was fond of expos- the unfeeling gaze of a heartless.world was. that any »uld ‘make a living; money-making: was popular .be- e -it was ‘easy. - If plastering alleged nymphs and -nude: apes on a piece of cotton sheeting ‘had. been half -as e the world would have been futt"of Michael Angelos i James McNeill Whistlers, not to mention.lesser gods. . The day came in the fullness of time when: Marcus Au-' relius was. given the proud privilgge of pulling -himself to-! gether and taking a fall out of the cold, cold- world. - - The bottom' suddenly dropped out of the patrimony: that had? been. accum cestor and fou wolf ringing his front d t with his soul, he hrough long years by elf ‘on. his or bell. ~Then, ait¢r a long ‘consul- hied him forth: to battle: with fate: e. latter individual he met first in the peérson-of a short- red gentleman with a low collar and a commanding mien acquired by a-long period of supervision over the destinies of a pork-packing establishment. - It took Marcus Aurelius somewhere between three and four miniites to discover that better prepared {or the ‘strenuous than 2 yearling infant. He couldn’t ures twice the same:-way in an hour of ancient: Coptic- could have de- paternal ‘an- io t a-prof: ered his - handwriti This_was more or less of a facer to:Marcus, but -he took another long draught of soul,” with a little desp thought on ide, and set out to have another try, as he had been in- ucted 16 do by the copy-book of his early and untutored outh. t The next place that he waited into was a magazine fac- tory, where he thought that his soulfulness ‘would surely)" pass at par, The first thing the: head foreman asked him was whethier he could run a typewriter. Iiterary 'men that Marcus had ‘ever known knew any more about “running a typewtiter than they did about .making; a living—and that was very little. “So he confesséd-—nay, he asserted—hjs: ignorance: of the anatomy and general habits of the gentle Remington. The foreman looked dubious, but ‘took another chance. - This time:he asked him if he thought that he could fun down to the Carnegic book.sar- cophagus and pile up a;few well chosen words on the eco- nomic significance of ‘ping-pong, or knock together:.a thrill ing account of a personally conducted ‘trip ‘down the crater, &f MBunt Pelee for the next number 6f the “Boys’ Own.” If ‘nécessary. he could devote a wholé day to each article @ithough’ theirexpert aperators could turn off literature at the rate of fifteen hundred words an hour. Then he might try his hand at.an illustrated réview. of the historical nevels! the - recently .discovered library of King Deadone of Cor-i inith. - When-Marcus carhe otit'of his trance he was standing on-the sidewzlk with his-délicate -white hand’ pressed against his throbbing forehead and wondering -who paid: for the last round, 7 i . By thi¢ time:he had. begun fo_think that perhaps there might be more to thesmoney-making’ game than he had( dreamed of “in ‘his phikasophy, but his soul counseled an- other throw for luck. :Not enly his oul -but his stomach was standing up and tr¥ing to get the attention of-the chair: and- his ‘wandering footsteps drifted-naturally into’ a place where a philanthropic citizen daily- dispensed meat-and drink 1o the hungry multitudes at so:much per dispense. - Hum- bly ‘he petitioned fo beé:allowed to assist in the dispensing act that ‘he ‘might cob off! " = ) ) pers: with ‘an: adulty on the wall or -anywhere: €lse:) None of the{’ ( salubrity. . Marcus Aurcfiqs split the difference and went to Brooklyn. i Rt s P In his temporary refreat in:the emboiwered: shades of that bedroom ‘of the-metropolis he fell into -the:clutches. of a wily widow who had lately come into a heritage of free- dom’ and five thousarid dollars a yesr. by the untoward de- cease of him on whose strong’ arm she had leaned ‘and’ whose leg she had pulléd for some ten hadppy years.. Now she was taking a house in the country and was. ldoking around for choice bits uf bric-a-brac. that ‘would.harmonize with the wall-paper. Marcus Aurelius ‘was i the - market and she bought him up.and carried him away along with the rugs and the wicker furniture.. To-day he sits. at.the late widow's table surrounded by :soul ~and hand-painted china-and carves the corned beef hash and .deals-the. po- tatoes.- And the end -of that manis peace. : His case:is-a_sad one, but in it thé young men of the land may read the useful lesson that art is not.only long but exceedingly High, and that what'some people cprsider soul- fulness is merely a disinclination to indulge in hard laber. ~—p———&—2 ORT MYER, ‘Va, July 28.—All that the {\\_n _‘;‘) & X [ii'\\ - societies of -this ‘country -have done and =Nl 3rc doing toward the civilization of the {¢ R * redmen’ of the plains cannot and does not i) .g ‘ take' from. the Indian that cruelty that (BT z forms.a large part of his composition. “:The crueity of the Indian is mexplicable except on .the hypothesis that cruelty is a normal trait of humanity. - 'Wild beasts. dre not cruel;: for, aithough the wolf may tear and devour- the’ entrails :of a-deer while that animal is yet alive, “he does it from-greedimess. alone.. The members of the cat family play “with and: torment their victims, but they' un- doubtedly do this ‘as_practice in catching. Besides, if we are to believe: the men who have been in the jaws of these -animals, naturs has.kindly - comipensated - this ‘exceptional apparent cruelty by .inflicting on-the victits. of the: feline race a nervaus paralysis, which not only deprives them. of any sense of pain; but prevents a realization of the horror of their position. e MERGHART TO AIS3ON .. " This Is the Fifth | / 5 & ,_'o:f'.‘!'heseg‘ ; o -',Fgmous. e Pastels in Pork” - AR .PIERREPONT:: Your Ma got back:safe this morning and:she wants me to be Xy “sute o tell. you not.to over-study, and I want to tell you to be sure not to.under-study. What 'we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get-a little of the education that’s “ so good 'and plenty there. © When it's passed around:you don’t wan! be " bashful, “but reach right out and take a, big-helping eyery time, for-I.want you 4o get your g " ‘share. ~ You'll find that ediication’s about the only thing lying around Iéose in this world, and that it’s about the onily thirig'a fellow ean have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. Everything else is sscrewed ‘down tight and the screwdriver lost. * -~ 3 i .. T'm anxious that you should be'a good ‘scholar, but"I'm mote anxious that you should be a good clean man. And if you .gradisate with a-sound conscience, I shan’t ‘care so'much if there are a few holes in your Latin. -Theére are two parts-of a college education—the part that you get in the schoolroom fromi the professors, and the part that you get outside of it fromy the boys. ~ That's the really: important parf. For the first can only make you a schilar, white-the second can make you a man. £ 1 S 2 i ; ~ Education is'a good deallike eating—a fellow can't always tell which particular thing did him good, but he can usually tell ‘which one did him harm. : After a square meal of roast beef and: vege- tables, and ‘mince.pié and watermelon, you can’t say just which ingredient is.going into muscle, but vou don’t hiave to be very bright to figure out whith one started the demand for painkiller in your in- skdes,. or to gue's's, next morning, which one made you believe in a personal devil the niglit : before. And so; while a fellow: cah't:figirre out to an oynce whether it's Latin’ or ‘algebra or history or what among the sdlids-that is building him tip in this place or that, he can go right along feeding them in’ and betting that they're rict thie things that turn his tongue fuzzy. - It's down among ‘the sweets, among his amusenents and recréations, that hi¢’s going to find his stomach ache, and it's there that he wants to go slow and o pick'and choose.. . il ot 8t D £ "‘Does’a college. education pay? - Ddes it pay to féed ‘in.pork trimmings at five cents a pound at-the hopper and draw’ out nice, cunning, little “country”. sausages at twenty cents a pound at the other end? Does- it pay to take a steer that's been running.loose on the range and living on cactus 4nd petrified wood till-he’s just a bunch of barbed wire and sole leather and feed him corn till he’s: just a solid hunk of portérhoiise steak and oleo oif2 "7 - : e . You bet it pays. Anything exira that trains a-boy to think and to think quick pays; any- thing that teaches a boy to get the answer before the other fellow gets through biting the pencil, pays: . College doesn't make fools; it develops them. It doesn’t make briglit men; it develops them. A fool wilt tirn out a fool, whether he goes to college or not, though he'll probably turn out a differ- entsortof afool. T s S i 4 . From “‘Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son,”.by George Horace Lorimer. By pernission of Small, May- ° hard & Co., Publishets, Boston; Mass. ¢ o RS o e a few sordid -dollars and so prevent his-soul from- sever- ing all diplamatic . felations with -his body. For once he appeared to_~have hnded.s and.armed with 2 tray, :a e : dark-brow determimation.y — he ‘entered upon: his- career(" -} ' s comioried -and ‘upheld by! tlie thought that - they: also serve - who only stand and)’ wait. - -FHe stood and waited for three days, in-the avhich he succeeded in spilling four-2 |1 teen ‘plates. of soup. most ai§ niapkin-and .a_look of decp.g them .on :customers. and breaking seven china dishes:; said. performances . bringing his_ stipend - ‘up . toa minus four dollars.. Then: his “érst-} while” erployer' . concluded that he would ‘make a ‘Chris- tian endeavor to.condyct 4! affairs of shis beanery for/a)" few miriutes without the "as. sistance. of “Marcus: Ayreli and. so informed him. - sug: gesting - also -that- he’ betake/: himszelf : to - a ‘region: more). noted " for- its heat than its\ OING down. to church the other ramny ‘Sunday evening with a'good deacon, I - - ‘was’ rather-surprised -to . hear. him. re- . mark: " “Well,-we shan't have many. out to-night, but there’s one thing-that-rec- - “onciles. me to a rainy Sunday.in summer _ -and that is it keeps people off ‘the trol- e e .-ley cars and parks ‘and.'so lessens the amount of Sabbath desecration;” A I wa -otit the opening sentence of my ‘evéning’s discourse- 1 did" not ‘reply to him, since 1.knew I.should becomie-involved “in an argument.. For I should have. put these queries point “blank to him: How.about the"childrén and babies who " have been shut up all this long, wet day in stifling rooms— - do. you think they are better physically-and morally, do you - think their parents are in‘sweeter témper to-night, do ‘you veally believe there lias' beén less Sabbath deésecration to-day in this place because there has beeri this steady downpour from-the clouds?” I am inclined"to: think ‘that this string of questions-would have:led the deacon to have modi By THE PARSON. . ‘statement, for he is one of the most tender-hearted men: I know. -He.probably hadn’t thought of the other side of the “shield.. Lo : : At any rate, I for one would ot want fo take the respon- sibility’ of prohibiting people from excirsions and-other re- creative. opportiinities on Sunday. -No doubt. our congre- gations dre somewhat dessened - thereby,:and no”doubt -a great many persons. abuse: their privileges, but it i tle. ‘American way ‘to’ put ‘the résponsibility on the ‘individual and let him take the risks along with the freedom.- And there are - risks in the. summer Sunday" even- for right- T Il._ trying to work’ ' minded persons. -:It is'a seasori whei the ysual religiou straints, are ‘reditced- to -the minimum, when the direct and immediate influence of the churches is at.its lowest point. Mariy of them: are closed. - In many-others strangers . oc- -cupy the platiorm. . If you ‘are at home you:can stay away( and your church friends will infer-that you are out of town. I you aré on your vacation’ hours. his | his 7 U INDIAN CRUELTIES. Inborn and Inbred Savagery Which Civ- Failed to Eradicate. By GEN. A. A. BURT, U. S. A.’ ‘United :States authorities and the various, - the torture of hum;n ‘( :subject for experiment. DAY DESECRATION. T e out much fear of discovery, becaise few people around you know what is your habit as respects church attendance. . A summer Sunday is a:great revealer of character, which has been cleverly: defined as what a ‘man is in the dark.- And we might extend the definitiori and say that character is what 4 mran 1s on summer Sundays, And there ‘are risks, too, for the-man who makes no pre- - ‘tense of going to chiirch at any. season . of the year. summer. Sunday' may ‘work the ‘mischief with him. He may take a long, wearisome excursion, blow out a.great deal of hard-earned ‘money, hear. a ‘good ‘deal of ‘cheap -talk -and "come: home ‘with the crowd late ‘in the day, tired, hot, cross’ and-entirely unrefreshed in body or spirit by his outing. I: yant.to enter a plea for a-saner, happier use of; the summer Sunday. Let a man go, not with Tom; Dick-and Harry-to .some distant point; but with his family, if le ‘has one, or’ »wilhds x‘x}x;&fr.iehd, to* sp‘r:;il qqi;t.‘ ,b_c;u_txf:gl place int God’s (out. ‘world, which can be reached without travéling a great many )i, ¢ a Boata: " And shere jer him not only Test his-body, but et § iy onstoruation, refresh his soul by listening to.the birds and getting ‘acquainted with the flowers-an . The cruelty- of the Indian is inbosn and’ inbt:ed, and it :clings to him.through life’ as a distinguishing characteristic of -his humanity. . As.a bey, his special delight is the torture of every bird or animal he can-get hold of alive. As a maii, beings 'gives him more pleasure -than any ‘other -act . of his"life, ‘and at no time is his laughter so joyous and heartfelt-as ‘whien some special ingenuity wrings a groan-or cry-of anguish. from the victim of his cruelty. For: extravagance of delight in the. anticipation of 2 seene of torture, for: hellish ingenuity in devising and re- morseless -cruelty in ‘inflicting. pain, the Indian woman far exceeds - her husband and son, and they can give her no keener. enjoyment, when returning from a foray, than by bringing soime prisoner an, which ‘this ingenuity can-be prac- “ticed. _“I'have been told that when a female prisoner has been brought to ‘camp, 'stripped and staked out for the benefit of :all. comers, the women will come around:taking the liveliest interest’ iri -the -proceedings, inciting their lovers, husbands and sons- to repeated violations of the victim, their jealousy (if 'they have a spark of that feeling, which I doubt) is com- pletely extinguished in. the pleasure of the suffering inflicted. ‘Cruelty to_animals is equally marked, though of a- more passive nature. ~The torture of a human being is an ‘active, exquisite pleasure.'. The suffering -of an animal is simply a matter -of indifference. An Indian will ride a horse from the back :of ‘which - every .particle . of “skin. and- much flesh has been torn by the ill-fitting saddle. . He will ride him at speed until he'drops,.then force hirh to his feet and ride him again. . A “plains” saying is that “a white man will abandon a ‘horse as: broken down and utterly unable to go farther; a Mexican will théen mount.and ride him fifty miles and-aban- donkhjm; an Indian will then’ mount and - ride him for a week. > Once, when hunting in the Guadalupe Mountains, we very nearly lost a bear because Espinosa-failéd to fire at a critical moment. - After- the bear. had been ‘killed I-took him to task for not firing. He replied: I could have killed the bear, but. I "had: only one shot. We may be jumpéd by Indians at any time. I will nevér be taken prisoner, and always:save the last shot for myself.” . The answer made a deep impression- on.-me, and I ‘have always tried to act on Espinosa’s rule,. but in-the excitement of the chase rules are oftenforgotten. ‘A few years ago. I met a gentleman who told me that he was one of a party that went to the front. after the, terrible Minnesota ‘massacres of 1862 There- was ‘no fighting, the Indians having retired, and the party devoted itséif to bury= ing the: dead:and- relieving the necessities: of those whites who, hiding “in thickets and ravines, had escaped the fury of ‘the savages.- He said that no words could express the horror of the scénes that must have been enacted. . Scalped and .mitilated. corpses of ‘men-and women and ‘of babes whose ‘brains_had been ‘beaten out against walls or trees were. collected and. buried. They found at one farmhouse -the scalped and mutilated body of an old man lying on tlié floor of the living-room. - On the floor of an:adjoining bed- room-the corpse of. an- old- woman ‘was found in the samie condition.. "On:going. into anotlier bedroom a most pitiable, sickenifig sight ‘met -their eyes. Three young girls, the cldest about 20,” the youngest not .miore than 14, scalped and ‘terribly mptilated, were hanging against the “walls by large nails: driven ‘through " the palms of. the. cufstretched: hands. - The youngest had -been, dead. 'some .time, anothér died almost immediately after being taken down; the third lived for a day or two and gave some account of the mas- sacre.. . The ringleader of. tlie- outrage was well known to the family and had always been regarded as a ‘special: ffiend. He had:often taken' rheals with:them, and on the morning of the niassacre he and two or three others canie in, friendly as usual, shook hands all around; and asked for something ‘to eat. A few monients after this friend suddenly. drew his tomahawk. and crushed ‘in. the skull of the father. The women ran:into the bedroom: and: attemipted 'to barricade themselves.: "A yell brought twenty or thirty more Indians, who surrounded the house, cutting off all chance of escape. Y The door of the bedroom was then broken up and the mother killed by-a blow. The three girls were then stripped of .all .clothing and successfully violated, the .special friend being -the first to begin the outrage. The girls were thus kept all day serving the lusts of these fiends in_ the same room with the dead body of their mother. Just before night an Indian came in with some report which seemed to alarni them, and, after consultation, one went out’and brought in an ax and some large spike nails. The' girls:- were then taken singly -into-their own. bedroom, forced into a'standing position with their backs against the A wall, their armg’stretched out and the hands held open in ‘position while the nails the wall. ; % Enough is on official record of the horrors of the Min- nesota massacre'to take from this story even an appearance were driven through the palms into Y of improbability. : Cruelty is both an amusement and a study. So much pleasure is derived from it that an Indian is constantly thinking out riew devices of torture and how to prolong to : the ~utmost. those already known. His anatomical knowl- edge of the most sensitive portions of theé human frame is wonderfully accirate, and the amount of beating, cutting, stashing and burning he: will make a human body undergo without seriously affecting’ the vital powers is astonishing. When_ there -is time for the indulgénce of the pastime no wounded man falls into his power but becomes at once a The bodies of enemies are almost always terribly matilated, but it is not generally difficult to tell from the nature of the mutilation whether the body fell into their hands before or after death. If the: body is pierced with many bullet holes or arrows or cut and slashed with deep and careless gashes, the spirit had passed before the Indian got - possession.- But _ artistic dissections, partia.. flayings, dislocations, - breaking -and splitting of fingers and toes indicate that the poor fellow went to his long home with all_the accompaniments . - of pain. -and ‘horror -that- these devils can’ devise. It is a rather curious fact that, while T have heard of but one or two .instances_ of Indians committing ‘suicide; they have a sort:of respect ) for * that “act. in- the whites. Ine one: instance; to- my personal . knowledge; - - the horse of a gallant fellow fell; gpl_nping hith_to ‘the ground His nnhn'r_t,a but ‘surrounded : by a.crowd: of -yelling, ‘grinning ~ Apiches. - Some -had already. dismounted to - secure him, when, placing his ‘pistol _‘to his head; lie blew. his braing . - The Indians. fled away not not mutilating the body, but arms, etc.. I have hedrd“of", several similar instances.” . \7. d looking up into the. infinite , only: 229, not even . despoiling it of - -