The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1895, Page 6

ee ea te valent SNORE tomes « i j | ‘ 4 6 THE WASHINGTON BEE. DEMOCRATS WITH O0GGESHALL, Bumor Has It That They Will Indorse Him in Their Convention. Rome, Aug. 20.—The result of the Re- publican Convention, held here Satur- day, and the bolt by the Coggeshall fac- Mon, have caused no end of comment among Republicans end Democrets. Mr. Coggeshall is being severely criti- Cised but the more severe the criticism the better pleased he seems to be. If what ea prominent Democratic leader in Oneida county politics told me to-night is true, were is sOme method in the bolt of yesterday. He said: “Did you know the Democrats of the county are going to indorse Coggeshall for Senator? That is the talk. And it ts understood that he is to run as the independent candidate, and, if elected, he has promised the Democrats to be independent on all questions.” If this be true there will be no doubt thet Henry J. Coggeshall will be re- elected for another term, making seven terms of service. To-day I went into the country and talked with many people, especially in the farming dis-. trict. Coggeshall is strong among them. She trades unions of Rome and Utica have passed resolutions indorsing him and advising all members of unions to support him. I heard John C. Davies, chairman of the Republican County Committee, say that Frederick G. Weaver, the nominee or the regular convention, would be elected by an overwhelming majority, and that the bolt of the Coggeshallites would be a good thing for Weaver's vanvass. The Democrats of the county are to hold their caucuses on August 31, and the true state of affairs will then be known. Any way, Coggeshall is jubi- lant and he is confident of success. Nearly the required number (500) of signatures has been obtained to the petition to entitle Mr. Coggeshall to run as an independent candidate. The full number will be obtained this week. Se ees HIS RIGHT TO SELL ROCKS. What the “Brooklyn Eagle” Says About State Geologist Hall. Brooklyn, Aug. 20.—The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, of which St. Clair McKel- way, who is one of the Regents of the University, is the editor-in-chief, has this to say editorially about Melvil Dewey's unfounded charges against Dr. James Hall: “State Geologist Hall comes from the official investigation with fiying colors, whether the investigators raise the col- ors or not. It is, in any case, proved that there was not the slightest intent of wrong in his selling specimens to the Museum of Natural History. We are still enabled to respect the brains of the State and to believe that scientific men will not sink themselves to the level of Tammany politicians. Professor Hall receives the sum of $1,500 a year from this State for the purpose of writing and publishing his annual reports on its natural history. But for years, while in and out of the State service, he has wandered over the hills and into the dales and has gathered collections of fossils and minerals that interested him He made a collection that he was able to sell for $70,000. He felt himself un- Ger no more obligation to give his speci- mens to the State, to be poked off into an obscure museum, than a professor of geology in Harvard or Yale or a mem- ber of the Brooklyn institute would be, if he were prosecuting a similar series of investigations. He did the work that he was paid to do, and that seems to end the matter. His gains from rocks or flour or stocks or real estate are his own affair.” ‘ 2+. cae See ee __TEwis PREFERS JAIL TO TELLING. Refuses to Say Who Offered Him Money to Vote for Coggeshall. Rome, Aug. 20.—Robert Lewis, of Lowell, who charged the Coggeshal} faction with offering him a bribe com- mencing at $200 and going up to $1,000 if he would change his vote in the Repub- lican County Convention here Saturday and support Coggeshall instead of Weaver, for whom he was pledged, is now in the Rome jail on a charge of contempt of court. District Attorney Klock heard of the alleged bribe Fri- aay morning and summoned County Judge Dunmore from Utica. He brought Mr. Lewis before the Judge, but on ex- amination Mr. Lewis refused to reveal the name of the person who offered the bribe, as he had promised not to. At Mr. Lewis’ request the examination was adjourned until he could have time to think the matter over. Last evening Judge Dunmore again came to Rome and the examination was continued. Mr. Klock asked Mr. Lewis if he was ready to reveal the name of the person who offered him the bribe, and Mr. Lewis said, “No, sir; I will rot in jail before I reveal his name.” A rommitment was then made out and Mir. Lewis was locked up in the Rome jail, there to remain until he tells the court . 1 the name of the person who offered the | bribe, or until discharged by law. —— TRAIN IMPERILLED BY FOREST FIRES. Four Bridge Carpenters Perish In the Wilderness of Washington. Spokane, Wash., Aug. 20.—Passen the west bound Great Northern @ narrow escape from death last The train had passed through a fie est fire for a distance of ten mt when it reached the little Spokane about twenty miles east of this city ers on a bt. e for- and r, a huge tree fell across the track from the mountain above, just as the train was passing. The engine struck it, and for a moment the train toppled to one side and almost went into the chasm 150 fcet deep, on the other side. The track was cleared and the train succeeded in reachin, here badly damaged. The fires have now reached south along the line of the Great Northern and con- : gression for the feelings which agitate ; My breast—I love you! (dropping on his i | tinue with unabated fury. Millions of feet ; of timber have already been destroyed. In the section where the flames are now burning, are several smal) settlements and a good many settlers are scattered throughout the timber and fears are entertained for their safety. In the Northern Pan Handle, of Idaho, a wild and uninhabited wilderness, the fire is rapidly licking up the Vast timber. Never »efore in the history of the northwest has the fire caued euch havoc. Superintendent of Bridges McCreary. of the Northern Racific, confirms the report of the death of four men. They were bridge carpénters and had gone cut o: long bridge to extinguish the fire and f: ing to do so, they sought to return, to find their retreat cut off. Th ‘om the bridge into the chasm, 136 fee below, and were dashed to death. a Se 17 PERSONS DROWNED AT HAMBURG. Steamer Concordia Collides with a Boat Containing Twenty-five People. Hamburg, Aug. 19—A boat contain- ing twenty-five passengers was run down and sunk to-day by the steamer Concordia, from Stade. Seventeen per- sons were drowned. ‘ 1 j THE TIRED FEELING. Xs Monotony That Makes Men Want a Change. He was a poorly dressed and rough in appearance man, but nevertheless ‘he ‘was something of a philosopher. He was plodding along Ashland avenue, mear Sixteenth street, when a young man overtook him and made some in- quiries as to a street in that part of the city. The street was about half a mile away, so they continued the tramp along the rough wooden sidewalks together. “Taint so long ago,” said the rough man finally, making a motion toward a prick pile near the street, “since I used to pile them things for a living.” “Hard work, I should think,” suggest- ed the young man, for want of some- thing better to say. “That's what it is.” “And monotonous.” “What?” “I say it must be monotonous—tire- some.” “Oh, sure.” Then, after a pause: “So’s everything else.” “Oh, there is variety in some things,’ protested the ‘young man. “If a feller doesn’t have to do ’em there is,” returned the other, “but I guess any business is tiresome to the feller that has got to ’tend to it right along. I knowed a feller that worked in a store—reg’lar work and all that. But he got tired of it. He wanted variety, he said—wanted to travel and have change all the time. He got the chance and grabbed it quick. He was sent here and there, and was on marching orders most of the time—lots of excitement and change, but he got tired of it. Actually Kicked to get back at a desk again, ‘cause he said traveling was so blamed monotonous and tiresome, and he want- | 2d a change. Same way with everybody, [ guess. and tiresome, and I’m doing better now, but sometimes I feel ’s if I’d like to pile bricks again just for a ohange. .There ain’t anything that ain’t tiresome to the feller that’s got to do it every day. What's ambition but a hankering for a change, anyway? The only diff’rence detween people is that some of ’em want a change so bad that they’ll go back- | ward to get it, while the others have sense enough to swear and kick, but hang on till they can get it goin’ for- | ward."”—Chicago Times-Herald. A Terrible Kicker. “Please, sir,” said the bell boy to a Texas hotel clerk, ‘No. 40 says ‘there ain’t no towel in his room.” “Tell him to use one of the window curtains.” “He says, too, there ain’t no pillows.” “Tell him to put his coat and vest un- | jer his head.” “And he wants a pitcher of water.’ “He is the worst kicker I ever struck = my life. Carry him up the horse pail.” “He wants to know if he can’t have a ight.” “Here, give him this lantern, and ask him if he wants the earth and if he'll have it fried on only one side or turned over.”—Texas Siftings. The Usual Result. “Papa, can I go to the store and get me a new dress?” “Why, child, you have got plenty of | good dresses.” “Yes, papa, but they are out of style.” “Nonsense, girl! The trees always tome out in the same style every spring, | ion’t they?” “Yes, papa; green, too.” “All right, go to the store and get a! iress.”—Texas Siftings. | a A Summer Delicacy. { The White Cow (gleefully)—Did you | see that young city fellow out with the | sity girl gathering wild flowers? | The Muley Cow— ; they go through | she pasture heré every day. and they always took | The White Cow—Will, he had them in| . ais straw hat, and when they sat on the | stile to rest she put her straw hat over is to keep the sun from them, and I— aa! ha!—I ate the whole business as a sandwich.—Puck. ee Nee New Kind of Lozenge. Mrs. Briggson—Harold, mother called n at your office yesterday and seeing some cough lozenges on your desk took several. To-day she is suffering dread- fully, and she thinks you meant to doison her. Mr. Briggson (the architect)—Cough ozenges! Great Scott! That was a box of samples of our little mosaic tilings ‘or hotels and office floors.—Good Com- dany. A Powerful Preacher. Housekeeper—So you are located at} Dairyville? That’s where our milkman tomes from. Rural Pastor—Yes, he is a regular at- cendant at our church, and always. ap- years deeply impressed during the ser- vices. Housekeeper—Yes, I’ve noticed that | ais milk ‘= alwa icher on Mondays chan on other days.—New York Weekly. Se ee ee Poetry and Prose. | Lieutenant Miss Emily’s private | sitting room)—Emily, I cannot find ex- knees). Behold: me lying here in the dust before you! Emily—I beg your pardon, Lieuten- } ant; tha an insult. I dusted every- thing myself only a minute ago!—Gell- tustreerd Zondagsblad. —— How to Get Out. Prisoner—I wan't to get out of here oad. Jailer—That is the way you came in. What we want is for you to get out of nere good.—Norristown Herald. ee ga ecmeree A Thoughtful Youth. Mamma.— Robbie, why didn’t you speak to Mrs. Bangle when you met her just now? Robbie—You said I must always think before I speak, and I couldn't think of anything to think, On the Lake. Mills—Did you ever know of a man being killed by the explosion of one of nis theories? Hills—Yes, one. He had a theory that ne could run a steam launch alone. ee At the Seashore. Mills—Every time I come on piazza I find women discussing clo Madge—Yes, and a mighty small it is, judging from the bathing s see about here. 5 ae! aaa SS Bicyclical Enthusiasm in the West. There is an Emporia man who is so pleased with his bicycle that he tried to get into a funeral procession next to the hearse with it the other day.—Emporia Piling bricks is mighty hard | | Civilization has evidently not been a | of color varies, not only with the in- | dividual, but with the c:vilization of INDIANS IN A NEW LIGHT. They Are Becoming Oivilised and Ro- mance Has Departea. There is not so much romance sur- rounding the Indian as there was fifty years ago, and there are few red men to-day who would answer to the de- scription of a painted warrior in one of Cooper’s novels. Since the Indians have been placed on reservations and put in charge of agents of the govern- | ment, greater changes have been seen in them, and it does not look as if it would be long before all the members of the Lo family are patronizing the tailor, the dressmaker, the upholsterer and the house decorator, just as their pale-faced brethren and sisters do, This is especially noticeable to any one who looks at the advertisements | for bids for Indian supplies which are published every spring. Among the | items in last year’s advertisements were white linen and turkey red hand- kerchiefs, hemmed; calico, gingham, fast colors and good quality; Kentucky jeans, hickory and calico shirting and mosquito bar. Everything, too, it- was announced, must be of the best kind and style. Miss Minnehaha must have a gingham dress that will wash; Mrs. Old Horse- in-the-Mud a white handkerchief of fine linen, and Mr. Man-to-hold-your- Horses delicate netting to hang around his couch, so that the mosquitoes will not disturb his peaceful slumbers. We have never been accustomed to think of an Indian as without his blanket, but the Indian Bureau is try- | ing to discourage the practice of wear- ing blankets on anything but the beds on the reservations. The Indians do} not take kindly to this, but they try to! secure some compensation for the | | hardship to which they are thus sub-! jected by securing slumber robes of the | | most brilliant colors. | Here are some of the things which | the wards of the nation needed last) year. Nine hundred and twenty pairs | of men’s boots, 930 pairs of men’s arc- tics, 920 pairs of women’s arctics, 12,- 000 pairs of women’s shoes, sole-lined, | 220 dozen hair brushes, 1,100 gross dress buttons, 1,650 coarse combs, 1,075 fine combs, 120 dozen bottles of indel- lible ink, 62 dozen mirrors, 41 gross of darning needles, 1,320 dozen of sew- ing machine needles, 8,000 dozen spools of cotton, 19,130 pairs of suspenders, 680 dozen closed thimbles, 55 dozen open thimbles, 10 dozen clothes brushes, 78 dozen tooth brushes, five gross of hair pins, three gross of but- ton hole. twist, eight gross of safety- pins, 1,500 yards of ribbon, 35 dozen 50-yard spools of scalet silk, and ten gross of collar buttons. | After reading this we must revise all the opinions that we have formed about the noble red man. It was Gen. Sheridan who said that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. | But here are live Indians who must be good and respectable because they use tooth brushes and lose their collar buttons under the bureau, and part their hair before the mirror, the while their wives are wearing thimbles and darning their husband's hose, and mak- ing the wigwam cheery with the whir and the rattle of the sewing machine. failure in aboriginal households. But there are other things in the lists of supplies which seem foreign | to Indian tastes. Requests for 280,000 pounds of soap and 2,000 pounds of washing soda are startling, and_ the crockery list is full of interest. In it are to be found plates of every variety —breakfast, dinner, tea, soup, sauce, and pie. Then there are students’ lamps, hanging lamps, bracket lamps, shoe blacking, stoves, cocaine, chloro- form, pepsin, beef extract and sugar- coated pills. Tl (ede Indian Dogs Kickapoo Indians are very fond of dogs, both alive and fricassed. Around their tepees or wickiups there always is half a dozen wolfish dogs. An Indian dog hates a white man as far as he can see him, and loves an Indian as far as he can smell him, and that is saying a good deal. When a white man driv- "ing through the Kickapoo country sees a dog by the roadside, his natural im- pulse is to whistle in a friendly way. But the instant you whistle to an In- dian dog he turns his tail, and is out of sight quicker than if he had been kicked. An Indian never whistles at his dog when he wants his beast to come to him; he places his tongue against his teeth and hisses. The col- ored population of Oklahoma have al- most as many dogs as the Indians. These dogs have a deep-rooted aver- sion for the white man. Sense of Color, According to Prof. Hugo Magnus, of Breslau, the visual capacity or sense a people. At first the human retina is insensible to colors, and only a gray more or less clear, is visible. Later on red and yellow are seen, these colors corresponding to light of the greatest wave length. Thus neither the an- cient hymns of the Vedas, nor the end-Avesta, nor the Old Testament speak of the blue sky. Homer (as Mr. Gladstone remarks) and Ezekiel do not appear to have been sensible of all the tints of the rainbow; Zenophenus des- cribes them as purple, red, and green- ish yellow; Aristotle adds the blue. in Hebrew and Assyrian the.colors yellow and green, and in Arabic blue and black, are often confounded. Diamonds Are a Mystery, = Where the diamond comes from no- body knows. You can no more predict the existence of diamonds than you can; the existence of genius, although, to be sure, all diamond fields to a certain ex- tent resemble each other, and all are | found only in warm climates. Nor can you tell where the diamond goes to on combustion. Burn it, and it leaves no ash, the flame is exterior like that of a) cork, and when it has blazed itself out, there remains not even so much as; | would dust the antennae of a butter- fly. Ventilate Stables. From even the cleanest horse stable | monia, which will effect the milk if; the cows are compelled to continual-/| ly breathe it. Spare no pains to pro-| | mote the purity of the surroundings, if you wish to make good ‘butter of) good keeping qualities. There should Gazette. ; tween the stalls, 5 CREW ’S W. ALLISON SWEENY. No doubt this gentleman is one of! the best known colored editors in this | country and one of the most polished. | He is a fine speaker and a good writer. | Mr. Sweeny is the editor of the In- dianapolis Freeman, one of the best known editors in the West. The success of the Freeman is due to the efforts of this brilliant young | journalist. Mr. George L. Knox, one of the JOHN MILLER WILCOX DEAD. Editor of the Cleveland Penny Press Ex- pires at Rose Island. Watertown, Aug. 19—John Miller Wilcox, editor of the Cleveland Penny Press, died suddenly yesterday after- | noon at the summer home o” his friend, | ex-Mayor W. G. Rose, of ( veland, at} Rose Island, St. Lawrence river, aged | 52 years. | The cause of his death was heart fail-| ure, resulting from an attack of the grip two years ago. | i Barbecue! Lamb Slaying! Free Beer Drinking ! semrceren ers Al GLY MONT, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1895. BY THE CREW OF THE Steamer GEORGE LEARY. As this is the first excursion given by these™men this season they look for} every person to come and help them on There will be TVO BOATS RUNNING on that day so as to make three trips. The LAMB and OXEN will bes on her first trip, so that every person can see how a beef is roasted whole. DINNER WILL BE READY by 2:30 p. m., so that all who come down on the second boat will be in time to EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY. There will be plenty for 5,000 people to eat and drink, so let everybody get tickets in time. ROUND TRIP, - - - - - - - - | edited by a negro in the West. | about the middle of the table’s length. | EXCURSION. leading citizens in the West, is the pro- prietor of the Freeman, and it is re- ported that he pays Editor Sweeny a good salary for editing his paper. The Freeman was the first illustrated colored newspaper in this country, published under a former management. It still retains its high literary excel- lence, and is no doubt the best paper Editor Sweeny has been in the news- paper business for a number of years, and, from his sticking qualities, he has | been a success. { Salt-cellars first came into use in| mediaeval times.. There was only one| on the table, and it held from two to three quarts. The salt was placed Bunches of sassafras hung in the win- | dow will mitigate the fly nuisance. | This is worth remembering by the sum- mer boarder, who frequently finds her- | self not only five miles from a lemon, | but an equal distance from window screens. this day. lain after the boat arrives at Glymont | wound exposed from which t | very beautiful = DO FISH FEEL Pain? An Experienced Angier Inclined to im the Negative. Decide Last fall, while across a shady pool " able size and depth, wherein | , certain lurked some of the ageq zens of the creek. It was in ing, and I was fishing up s my ilies under the overha: and hardly had they touched water before I was made a presence of a lusty trout strike. I was kept pretty b few minutes keping out o which lined the banks, w suddenly slackened and I discover that my lower fl) hackle—had been broken off hook joins the gut. I repaired and made another cast, being ir ately rewarded with a second which, from the disturbance concluded must be the same ¢ in some manner, failed to hook but a second later my line s out and whizzed through the 1 ward the right bank, and not to lose my prize, I turned ward him, when the hold aga & my flies in the t In trying to dis ke the gut, and, as wu cases, my flies remained top—probably do yet—and discovering, to my ay, | fiy book was in my coat | camp, a couple of hundred yar 2 | the creek. to the time it took to rea I cannot say; but in a ve | iod I had returned to whe was lying, and affixed a new a cast was made, and again t responded in fine shape. Thi was successfully landed—a specimen, tipping the beam over two pounds—and upor tion I found my brown ha in the roof of his cavern also a strip of skin, about o: quarter inch long by one torn from his side, and a @xar still dripping. In striking tb time he had probably snagged on my lower fly. Later, we were fishing in th Lakes—a very beautiful group ror-like ponds that are the de the disciples of Walton from a the country—and gradually wo: way round to where a si empties its crystal waters in We were having splendid suce ing landed thirty-four in near many minutes, and then we had to after that, managing to sect trophies. W creek enters the lake it falls foot embankment, leaving a stream of about twenty feet the falls and the main body Several large red fellows . lazily moving about in the shallow ter, and we took great caution should be observed. They would not take the fly in creek with any great activit companion could not resist t tation, and, pulling his 33 Wesson shot at a fine large which he hit. After consi splashing he started down th like a flash, leaping clear water at one time. My fly w ing on the water at the mouth o: creek, dancing on top of the cu a when suddenly my reel began to sing and about thirty yards of line it into the lake, which was immedict hauled in after a slight strug a trout of considerable wei end. Blood was running out very profusely, and we found a | jagged hole torn through him by the revolver ball. A short time ago a young Mine was g in the Gr a short distance from the landed a twelve-pound whiteiish a big steel hook fastened in to which was attached about line tied in the centre of a or four feet in length. So evidently, fastened his line over r and the stick had pulled out bank when the fish became If he could have felt pain he ce wovld have felt it pulling that four-foot stick through ¢ ter. The hole, which the bh torn nretty hadly, was apparenti much inflamed. Several other instances have red to me, but I will not reconnt at present. 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All stock must be paid for in cash before a certificate | can be issued, or one-half cash, for which a receipt, officially sealed, will be | | given, and the balance in 30 days from date of first payment. RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED to sell Stock on percentage. Apply to| diet, other conditions being © | would be impossible to find 4 F. D. LEE, General Agent. D. B. WEBSTER, President. O.D.M at least be free circulation of air be-| }OHN A. GRAY, Sr.,Vice-Pres. W. H. THOMAS, Gen. Man. F. D. LEE, Gen. ieee The Rational Steamboat Co, OF WASHINGTON, D. C., AND NORFOLK, VA. Ofice Minth and Strsels, Washington, 0, C. ORGANIZED JANUARY 14, 1895. OF THE PisTRICT OF CoLumara. LEARY, STATE-ROOMS, 100 BERTHS, ED BY THIS COMPANY, D. C., AND NORFOLK, VA., AND ORRIS, Jr., Sec. R.H.KEY, Treas. } Agent. stinct for preying on insects i inant over ail others, and t their greed.—Forest Keeping Old Age at Tay A few years ago an Italian bacteriol- ogist proclaimed that he had discore ed the “germ of old age.” The scouted by all scie te be goed gro germs, if not t t influen age. It has long been kn ptemaines or poisonous sub duced by microbes are cap: i degener: Degenerative che joints, the liver, orga have been directly t this cause. The writer has for some time held the opinion that the « erative changes incident to ad: age are due to the same cause Bs the poisons absorbed from the alim«tt- ary canal. These poisons are 20 ‘ ly present in greater or less qu: according to the extent to which meniative and putrefactive pro prevail in the stomach and intes These considerations suggest at 0” the thought, while all human must necessarily be constant’ to the influence of poisonous ces generated in their own alim canal, and consequently must gr’ and succumb sooner or later to th generative process of old ag’ processes may be greatly ac« by subsisting upon a diet whic the production of poisonous su in the alimentary canal. If this theory is correct we expect to find the greatest among those animals and th who subsist on the simplest an contrast than that which exists respect between carnivorous ao¢ * tarian animals.