Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1893 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA. STIXE SEVTIVEL. WBDVSSD VY AIOHNIYS. Will 12. LS93 XWEVLE PAGES.

THE LIFE OF AN ESQUIMAU ! I

AS NOTED AT HIS QUARTER3 CHICAGO. IN A Rj;u1.ir r.fxaimau Villng Fitted Up nt the Fair willi All the Concomitant Except Utonn- A ireat Study to Watch These Inhabitant of the North. Chicago, April S. Special. At a recent visit to Jackson park I was much amused at the various minora ailoat con cernio? the Esquimau and hia lifo in Chicaso. Some said: "It is a money-making scheme. Tbay did not brinz their manners and customs with them, bat are forctd to accommodates themselves to their eurroundiDfs here. They do not even wear the same style of dress that they use at home." Others estM : ''15t all raeaLB visit the Esquimau. Yea can see everything e'so next summer, but in order to get a good idea of the Esquimau tou niuat eee bici while the weather is coll." That it was a money-making chemo I did not doubt, otherwise its lon-.dinean in Chicago would be aa pathetic us Mark Twain's prief over the trrave of Adam. That they did not brinz their food, hou.obo!d utensils, and buildinz material all the way from Labrador I could easily believe, but I was convinced that they mu3t needs brinjr their own lies and blood, and upon this conviction my decision was rendered in favor of the visit. The discoveries and invention of man excite wonder and claim admiration, vet to m, more interi-B;inr than a 1 is man himself a condition tertiär more easily accountcd for when I confide to you, my dear reader, that I am & maiden lady of thirty summer. Tho Eeu'imaa vil'az i9 located in the extreme northwestern corner ol the fair prounda, and is surrounded by a Lih tizht board I -m o with but two opening ; one, about the center of tho lajoon that Hows through tho inclos'ire, allows tho exit of an inhabitant to drum up train when hueineed ii dull in his canou when the lagoon i not frozen over, but in a ele.l drawn by dosa when tho ico ia suiliciently trens; the o!her adsiits the victim whose curiosity has been screwed up to the 25 cent point. It was through this aperture that I passed on the afternoon of leb. 27. Instructions were given at the pate to open tho door and walk into sny hut on the ground. The day wa! cold and dreary and the lake was very lAviäh cf its breeze, yet, notwithstanding, I fully expected to see the entire population pitting out in tho bnow fanning vigorously, for I had read the newspaper. I was greatly disappointed. Tho first thiaz that met mv praze was a row of little rquare huts built of elabe, with the bark on the outride. Scattered around could bo seen about forty sijfht-soers, and perhaps half that nuTiber of creaturea clad c.ip-a-pie in fur I inferred that thtett were Esquimaux, aud upon investigation I found my interwnco correct. They renemblo very much in form and feature the Indiana of the United fct.ites, except that they are very much smaller in stature. I thick 1 did not nee a single one over five fest ia Light. They all had copDer-coIorod skin and straight black Lair. I had watched ths men. lounjinj around and smokinz their pipes for some time when my mind naturally turned to the women cf the tribe. I failed to see any out of doors, so I mastered my courage, hastened t one of the nuts, turned the latch, and stepped in, and to my utter amazement I did net sea a woman. My first irutreion was that they had left the pirls bchiu J them, but later I noticed a little babe, who, tt.o euard who happened alonz just then kindly informed me was l'otter l'slmer, jr., and waa three and a half months old, an 1 now imagine, if yon can, mv consternation when 1 discovered that the patterns for the entire family varied only in size and ItOt in style. In order to detect tho women it woa necessary to btudy tho feature?. Mr. l'almer, jr., of Chicago you will be glad to know, was thriving. lie had the strength of an average white babo of eikht months and without any apparent exertion co&ld sit alone upon his mothf r's lap. His very nod seemed to bo voluntary. He and Christopher Columbus, ir., who is of the eaooo ago and is a'po Chicago-born, seem to be vicing with tach other to see which could Urot attain manhood. The houses wsro very email and each contained but one room, but the capacity of that room (or bad air was marvelous. Our own mammoth Tomlinson hall never held half aa much as the emnlleat hut in an Esquimau villace. It was bo Urong that at first it seemed to be animated, and I almost feared asphyxiation. Hut it toon cea;ed to be so formidable, and I lingered long enough to count fourteen persons in oneroom, eix of whom wer children, and to observe two benches that served as rests, one medium sized bed and four box od, two sitting on the floor and two tanging on the wall. These 1 judged Were used also for bads. And a cook Itove and a few cooking utensils that looked very much as though tl.ey had come from a down town hardware store. 1 saw also a washing tub sitting on a etool with about two gallons of very dirty water in it, the only indication I hail that waithin had been entered upon their program of life. The ix men who were in the house were all ernoking pipes, and the pnioke was so denrd that not all the objects in the room could be toen until tha door had stood open some time. Eresh air did not, however, teem to be in demand by the inmates; the men quickly moved out of the draft and the women immediately i'oined in a miserere of woe. 1 did not inger loner, but soon gained the freah air and proceeded to rinse my lungs with many a full, deep breath. Eor soma minutes I stood aloof and contemplated them. I svondarad what was their conception of earth, of life, of heaven, If they really Lad any intelligence, any aspirations, any soul, whan suddenly a fur pocket-book, redolent of tobacco end other odors less attractive to the olfactory nerve, was llourihhei before my face, and a voice cried: "tjuarterY Quarter?" I thought that that was my opportunity to gain information and began questioning the young woman, but she immediately whirled round, just in time to attract the attention of a reüned-Iooting. middle-aged couple who were making their way to the nearent hut. .She stationed herself before the door and, extending her hand, said: Tenny? renny?" "Ah, a penny for your pur" said a kindly voice, but she hook her Lead. The gentleman knitted his trow a moment, then exc. aimed: "Oh, a penny to get in; et, certainly, I will gladly give you more than n penny for admission," snd dropped a silver coin into her palm. Her hand clenched the money, her mouth widened into a broad grin, she cried out: "Just go in." and disappeared around the corner. We immediately discovered that she Lad sold admistiou to her neighbor's Louse and that she lived tae doors away, bat I did not leara

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' - - - A V. V a TV Iii. II '. I K S N U ia. .Ulltl I in ChicKzo. 1 made up mv mind, How ever, that, whatever her conception wan of life and eartti an. I heaven, the certainly had an eve to buniief. MH. KLINKNSH Or KUNKNEHVILLE. The Dentil of nn Irr preaaihle nnl Unique r.phldent tit the I'aeifle Coast. Ska l'ranosco Examiner. J Charles A. Ehnkaer, tho man of red rubber tnpi an 1 b'ue donkoys, die 1 at his home at (Jol den (late this afternoon. Rnd th mo.it unique advertiser on the coast liai passed away. Klinkner was one of the shrewdest m-n on the coast, an i one of the mo?t persistent and original a 1vertis vs that ever did business in San Francinco. Hi "red ruober stamps" had become a household word, tl.oug1! why red rubber should have been any better than blu- ruhher or green rubber Mr. Klinkner never explained. hut heu Mr. Kiiukner turned hie advertisirg fancies loose he etopped nt nothing, lie wns known lo every ped striau in San Francisco and Oaklaud by the little red cart in which he rode, drawn by a patient dun key that was dyed sometimes blue, sometimes green, and nijiia poika dotted in all co'or of the rainbow. When the prismatic donkev he:an to loe its atiractiveiHa Mr. Kiinkney added " a f con I, and ded them uilferent colors. Then ho gave ah donkey a rider and chained a smali red-coated monkey to lh back of each. Tho little red cart, which Khnxner nevor hesitate! to drive himKeif, hecaute a veritable menagerie, and whs 11 i el with p.n assortment of animals of a.l kinds, so that whenever it cim to a standstill thero was always a crowd of mall beys amend it. One of Mr. Klinknr'g ndvertisinz scheme cost the nickel in-tht-sdot machines anv quantity of mono and got the originator fcitoacrious trouble. About the time that tl.: machine; were tint introduced on this, coa.tt when catidv, chocolato and chewing u:n wer sold ia this way, and when you couid getyour weight, height, and everything but your photograph from one of them Mr. Khnkner heg tin the manufacture cf a lot of small lead aud altiminu.a ad verti.-ing coins. It was too:; found thct thne coins, whether by accident or deign, wou d work one of the nickoi in-the-td't machinr as weli as the coin of the realm. So Klinkner's advertisements wer in great demand, and the owners of thse machines soon found, to thdir cost, that there was buch a man i:s Klinkuer. On i day whin a candy machine was oitr.ed it was found that out of $2.S." worth of candy sold there was worth of Klinknor'a advertisement. Other machines were found in a like condition, and tho 1'. S. authorities interfered, und the coming ceased. Kiinkner iiiade a great deal of money nt what i now tho town of (iolden (late. Many year r'o hu purchased the land w here the little town now Kands. He bough: th-j iaml when it could i had for a mere Hing, m l then begui to put it on the market. J'.ut there wsa iittU demand for lets "out in tho country" in those days, and Kiinkner had very poor ucceHS. Then he built a little houni and tried to pell that, but thet nlsi failed. At lust lie hit upon a scheme, and he applied the ruhlo plan to his Louso. II sold tickets for n dollar each, und realised iiior? than if L had sold the lou-. outright. Tno winner wm only t J L'lr.d t' r?nid. in a house that cost him fo little, and after Klinkner had sold cevernl honsea in that manner he had quite a little vsttlement, and that he called Klinknervi.le. Ihn eettletnent grew, but as it prospered there came come citizens who did not fancy the name Klinknervslle. Itwas not poetic enough, aud o the town wai divided ajjaint't itself. U'htn a pOf.toiI.ee was established; tho (iht waxed warm, hut Klinkuer carried the day, and it wes named Klir.knervjllo. lint hero the red rubber stamp man made a mist ike. He issued ar. a lvcrtisinj card th.it dealt with the personal f.rPenrarce of tirovcr (' ev-dand and Iiis family ailairs. Thia was ßeizei with nvi litr by thso who wanted the lumu changed. Copies of the card were sent to the president, and almost before the poatollice ha I been established the name was chanted to (Sölden (iato. Then Klinker put up n sign on every lot ho Oivnpd. "This is Kliuknerville." He etrung iuimense sign Bcross the main streets and placa'do l Oukland and the surroun-iin.' coai.try with liithi signs telling the distance to "KlinknerviÜe." The light endcl when the Southern Taciiic company changed the nr.me of their station to (ioden Gate, and this broke Klinkner'a hvart. Hut there urn tili iiianv who know it only ss KlinknerviÜe. Klinkner was a familiar 1'uure on thboats, and Le carried for camples badges reading, "i oundmuster of Kiinknerville" and"t:hiefof i'olice of KlinknerviÜe," for he was mayor, city council, and the cook, the crew, and the captain bold of the little settlement. JANE HADING AS A SCHOÜLM ARM. Her Lensuna Cost n Jupnneie 1'rlnce Large NllMtH. Iiii bin Truth 1 The cost of goiui? to a I'uririan actress to learn l'rencli is not email. l'riuce Kotohito-kan-in, a Japans.se of tho i:npviftl home, came to l'aris tontudy in the Latin quarter a few winters hack. He was told that the best French was spoken on tho stage and ttie but teachers were the Bctrecue. ilelieving w.hat he heari, he applied to Mine. Jane Hading for lessons. She had no objection to give them. liut she ret a high vului upon her teaching, as the bills ho ran at Mine, Fanny Vincent's in the name of the Japaneae priuca conclusively established. The total was ÖÖ.UUO francs. Here are a few of the i;ms: A pair of open-W'irk, cream-colored t-ilk ftockim;?, 110 francs; L'O yards of Valenciennes for nuhtdrerses. at (.XjO francs a yard, ESUül) frnncs; G me ters iU rentimeters of Chantiilv, 1,74:1 francs; 11) meters ot Valenciennes for sheets, l.(J4 fraucs; apinkeilk chemise, 1C" francs, etc. The bill, when the prince was obliged by an imperial order to return to Japan. was sent to his father, who did notdiaputa it. He lost patience, however, when a second one, that had been forgotten, was forwarded to him. It was for more Valencunnes at U X) francs a meter; an Ophelia ribbon, !i) francs; a pair rf gauze stockings. 55 franca; extra fine ditto, ditto. IUj francs; and divers o htr articles. The claim has been placed in an avoue's'.han Js. and the judges of the Seventh chatnher are to hear comael wrang'eand Indulge, doubtloes, in faceti'e ateut it. A l ion HUli. La l-'pocs. "I should so much like to be you for a couple of hours!" said a lady to her hus band as she embraced him with the ut rnofl t at'ecti' n. "Why. my dear?" lecaase then I would gr and buy a new uress lor my little wifey. I'rotert the (.'nni.-irrleil Men. luiirill C ;ur;rr-Juro!. A bill has passed a house ot the Ohio legislature punishing married men who reprent themselves as unmarried. There is something in this. The unmarried man Las enough sins laid at his door without Laving to shoulder those of the benedicts. Merely Local. (Street & SaiitVs Goal New. Sick Child VI want some more meat, an' potatoes, an' bread, an'" Mamma "Dear met I thought you were s ck." KickChUd-uiIy moul iaa't lick."

iHS.ORY OF A MAMV.04H NUGGET.

Tba Arsonuu "I know where there is a piece of gold that four men cannot lift with their bare hands." I'ancho Gonzalez made this remark to me as he and I were Fitting alone at our camp Ore in one of the lonely canons of the Gaudeloupe mountains in western Texts. We bad been out several days and nights on a fruitless search for a bunch of cattle that had strayed from their range on the I'ecoa, and camped for the night among the rocks and bowlders of this rough mountain gorge. Oar talk had naturally drifted around to mining and goid-huuting. Joking was not one of I'ancho's characteristics. He was rather sober and taciturn, and not given to speaking often unlets Fpoken to. Consequently, when he made the remark with which this stcry opens. I glanced at him in surprise, and prepared myself to hear of something ot interest. Eor three yeara I had known Francisco or Pancho, as he was called for short and during that time we had como to be pretty good friends. He waa a handsome, brigsndibh-looking fellow, spoke English well, and t ore traces of what wes probably considered in hiscountry a good bringing un. He was ekilful and daring in handling stock, and, as we were both in the employe of a large cattle company, we were much of the time together, und knew, by many actual experiences that we could rely on one another in the frequent trying nd dangerous situi'ions that constantly beset tha trail of the cattlemen on tho frontier. He had always been reticent as to his past; but I had many theor.es of my own in regard to his former occupation ia his nutive land. "Yes," he answered, as I urged him to goon with the story, "I will tell you all about it. I never told any one else, beeanH it is dangerous; but I can trust you not to tell another. It was five years ago, in Mexico, that I saw that plecj of gold, and it is there yet, for no one knows of it but me. It weighs over four hundred pounds, and will bring death to any one who discovers it. That is why I have left it therj all thee years, where I saw it buried and helped bury it. There were eight of us bunded together then Mexican all. We called ourselves foresters, but I believe the soldiers called us brigands. My cousin was captain, and I was Iiis lieutenant. He was a man rash and iaring, and all of us were afraid of hirn even I, his lieutenant und cousin. "Thern was a rich gild mine in the Sierra Madre, worked by a big Eng ish company who employed about twenty white men cud several hundred Mexicans and Indians. The mine was far in the mountain, over I V) miles from tho rail.road ; but the company, ut areat expense, bad built a wugou-roud to it to get the machinery theM for tho big mi 1. We had a frind or two among the Mexie ins there, and, though our mountain stronghold wai about threo leaut , from tho mine in tho direction of the railroad, we always knew when any treasure was to be shipped, and frequently prolit-d by it. Finally the company took lo shipping their bullion under a strong ecoit of twenty men, aud this balked us for a while. lUit this, it aoums, proveü too troublesome and expensive, and trie superinti. nd. nt at lat bit upon another plan that tie thought equally eafu. He had the bullion output for the entire mouth molted into one lump. As this amounted to nearly 100,1)0'.) peso its weight was over 1(!) pounds, and in its transportation by wagon would no'd on y a nominal escort, as n piece of gold too heavy to handle or to disposf of nafoly would bo of no U3 to us men of the r.Jid. "Of course wo were duly notified of this now plan bv our friends at camp, and we, very unwilling y, allowed the bullion to reuch the railroad in safety. Meanwhile, the captain, who hated to be thwarted, worried over it day and niht, until he tinally invented a sch3me that proved successful, co far as getting the gold was con cerned, though it never did any of us any good. He told us his plau one nilit. and orJero I mo to go to the mintj myself and wait around until I c ..lid find out the day when th nxt siiipmer.t of bullion was to be ieii The next day I proceeded to tho mine, and easily got a job of shovelinn tailings near the mill. In lees than a week l!iv iiung up' tho stamps to make a 'cleanup and the next day the furnaces were in full blant, retorting the amalgam and melting down tho go:d. I5y loafing around the corral and ta king to the teamster, I found out that the team was ordered out for the railroal tho nxt morning That night I caught my horse, and, returning to camp, reported to the captain, mho immediately ordered us to pa I lie up Rud follow him, and before midnitfht we drew bridle in eorr.e heavy pine timber, 100 yards Iron the wagon-road, where we un-addle l and went in'.o ca:np. "At dayliirht a lookout was ported on the road, and tho rest of us while l away the timo dozing an l playing; monte, until we wer brought to tho alert by a signal from the lookout. Laaving oir horses secured in the timber, we followed the captain, and ambushed ourselves, four on either eido of the road, among the rockt and underbrush I Ire. keeping well under cover, we couhl see up and down tho road for nearly two mi es in either direction, for our captain bad chosen a place where tho road, after climbing a steep hill by a tortuous fcra le, was level for on y a few yards at tho summit bsfore plunging downward into a deep canon. "Far down, in the direction of the mine, though, of course, the mine itself was not visible, being over two leagues distant, we could see the team approaching. It was drawn by four animals, and, as it came nearer, we noted that the animal were mules, and that tho wagon held four men besides the driver. Nearer yet, and we knew that the four men sitting behind were white and tho driver was a Mexican. I was sorrv for the la'tcr, for I had met him and b en quit- friendly with him at th mine the day before. Hut the captain's orders were etrict. We were to kill every one, as only by so doing could we hope to succeed in our plau for keeping the gold after we bud obtained it. I felt glad, however, that I was not to be among the first to shoot. Five were to shoot first, at a given signal, each picking bis man, while the captain, myself, and another were to reserve our fire in. caso the first vol.ey should not be fatal to all of the victims. "Nearer came the wagon, the little mnlss struggling up tho steep grade, and now we could distinctly see the facea of the men. I recognized one tall, powerfullooxiug man, with a long bsard, as the superintendent himself, aud his son was beside him. AH were well armed, but they did Pot look as though they expected to Lave any oceusion to use their weapons. For a few minutes they passed from our sight under the brow oi the bill, but we knew, ss we knelt breathlessly in the brush, that those live men were slowly approaching their death. Now tho heads of tho mules appeared a thty nenred the Hummit a few more turns of the wheels and the wagon wssnn tho level, and then a whistle a rattling discharge of rifles, and a l was still. The mules bad halted at the volley, and were breathing Lard from the heavy pull, and as we waited in our cover for a sign of life from the victims, the only sound we heard was the drip, drip of the blood from the wagonbed. During those few moments I remember I was gszlng with a kind of fascina

tion at the hideous grin on the face of the driver, who had fallen forward, with both arms and head bangiug over the dashboard. A ball had struck him in oneeyev and had taken part of the top of his head o but the ether eye was open and glaring horribly. "The captain stepped out of cover and advanced to the we.gon, while we all followed. The four men behind Lad been seated facing each other, and ha I fallen forward from their seats. They were piled together in the bottom of the wagon-bed, a ghastly, b'oody Leap. Bat we were after gold, not dad bodies, and two of the band, climbing into the wagon, dumped the unsightly corpses into the road, ono on top of another. When the last corpso was thrown out there lay the gold at tho

bottom a Luge lump in the shape of a sugar-loaf standing nearly a foot high, but ! so covered with the life-blood of the men that only a few yellow streaks indicated the metal beneath. With its red. coneshaped iL'R?3 it resembled a great gory heart torn from some monster larger than an elephant. Some ot the bond crossed themselves on seeing it, muttering that blood on bo d portended bad luck. Just then, while the caotsin was cursing them for a set of superstitious fools and declaring that they need not claim their share if they were afraid ot it. the mulea, becoming irnntic at the smell of blood, before any one could spring to their Leads, dashed forward with the wagon over tho brow of the hill. Instinctively we raised our rifles to stop them in their headlong course; but, an instant later, we saw it was unnecessary. At the beginning of the descent the road swerved to the right along the steep hill-sl le, the ground sloping oil" rapidly on the left side for twenty feet to the brow of a precipice. In making this turn at full speed the animals swung the waeon ott' the edge of the grade on to tho abrupt Flope, and. in less time than it takes todifrcrihe it, wagon, harness, mules, together with the dead body of the driver, were pi ed in an inext.icable mars among the bowlders of a mountain torrent sixty feet below. "On fir-t leaving the road, the wagon had upset and dumped the lump of gold on to the yielding soil of the slope. It lay half imbedded wheo it fell, and as we gathered eround it some of the superstitious ones again started back in horror, for all that was visible was a bloody cross lying nearly fiat upon the ground, tilted slightly forward toward us. But the mystery was easily explained. The cross was merely a frame-work on which the heavy bullion could be mcro entdiy band e l while in transit. It was formed of two I links, each two feet in length, spiked together in the form of a crot-s, aud as four of us put our united strength to two of the en Is wo had to strain hard to turn it over, for the cone-shaped maps of gold was still firmly fi'.tiuhe i to thj lower side nnd B'.r.king the ground when it feb, before the frame work, it half burio 1 itself. It bud been set on its bane at the intersection of tho two planks, and firmly bound to its p ace by thong after thong of green raw-hide that continually contracted as it dried. Tnis was a ureat convenience to us, and w hile four of the ino i wore dispatched to lead up tho borne nn l tecure the arms and other vaiuaLleB that were now df no use to the victims on top of the hill, the remaining four laid hold of the four ends of the frame-woik and, strugwlins up the few yards of steep f-lope, set it down in the center of tho roadway. Here, when tho hors -s hnd arrived, we spread n number ol saddle-blankets around an open apace about two feet square, und with a pick and shovel that had been brought along as part of th uiptaiu'a plan, we soon hud a hola dug rout two feet iu depth, into which, using two ria'as. wo lowered tho treasure, frame-work and all. Ail the earth that we had taken from the excavation had been carefully placed on the outspread blankets, and no-.v, after reÜ.ling and carefully stamping the hole, we carried tho remainder of tho earth to a lilllo distance and scattered it over the bank. Our treasure was safe, for no one Would ever l o:t for it there. '"Now. muchachcsl' nr.'ul the captain, 'our wurk is done. For three or four months we will operate in auother part of the country, and when it is alt forgot ten we will come back somo day with a wagon and carry awav our gold. Yamamh! before fcix months aro tas.-cd we ahull ali bo rich men.' So Baying, he vaulted into Lis esddle and we followed his example. But before leaving tho spot we rode back i.nd forth at a gallop up and down ti.o roai to obliterate a 1 traces oi our work. "A month later, whilo operating in a distant part of thenta'e, we w-re Furprined one evening whilo in camp by a largo body of soldiers. Most of us were drunk with mescal, hs we had just returned from a successful raid. I was ba by hurt at the first lire, and, unporceived, crawled away among the racks, where I lay till daylight withiu hearing of the eo.diers. After they had go no I managed to get back to tne scene id the batile, where I found every one of my late companions lying deal and naked. Tho soldiers i.ad robbed them even of their cmtlwa. 1 was found that day by some Indians from a village near by, aud cared for tili my wouud had hald. "At first, in thinking about the treasure, which was now ali mr own, I felt dn.zled with my riches. Tln-n I remembered the impossibility of moving it and gettiug it out of th country without others to help me. Finally, brooding over the fate that had overtaken all who Lad in any way been connected with it exempt me, 1 becmue superstitious. There were the four Englishman who had guarded it and the poor Mexican who had been driving for thsm shot down in cold blood; there were my s-ven comrades, who bad been pari owners in it, mansacred by the poldiers and their bodies robbed. Twelve men in all, and 1 was the tnirteenth, for whom death was surely awaiting whenever 1 again gazed on that blood-stained gold and the gory cross to which it was attached. I vowed a vow to myself never to go near it nor divulge the place of its burial. I even ieare 1 to stay in the coun try wher it was, and working my way to the Kio Grande 1 crossed into Texas. Squirt i;inl Out or Their Eyes, llbdtt petulant. It Las been said that horned toads, when teased, sometimes squirt blood out of their eyes. This has been proved by Mr. O. P. Huy, who, to facilitate the shedding of the skin tossed one into the water, when "on the side of the basin there suddenly appeared a number of spots of red fluid which resembled blood." This was microscopicaby proved to be blood. A day or two afterward Mr. Hay was holding the luard between his thumb and middle finger and stroking its horns with bis fore finger. All at once a quantity of biood was thrown out against his fingers and a portion of it ran down on the animal's neck, and this blood came directly out of the animal's right eye. This Las been noticed by others, and Mr. Hay states that more than twenty years ago Mr. A. E. Wallace published a letter from a correspondent in California who described this creature a squirting from one o! its eyes "t jet of bright red liquid very much like blood." A Lesnon In Patriotism. (S.r?et A Smith's G o l Little American Girl "D d you see the godJess of liberty?" Viiiling Biy "No. Where?" "Oh, you must have seen it. It's awful bis, end stands on an island all by itself, holdin' up a light. Tho ferryboat goe real near it." "Wot s it for?" "For? Why, to make folks patriotic, to be sure. She's n real American lady. Her 1 areas was made la Farls."

FLIMSY CHICAGO HOTELS.

TEMPORARY STRUCTURES, TO BE TORN DOWN. Dentil Trnrs tn Case ot Tire Agent hnre Scoured tho Country Iteireeiiting Mythical Housea and Getting Money In Adonce The Swindled Will Howl. fCljie?o Special to V. Y. Herald I made mention a short time ago of the numerous hotels that are now in progress of erection and those recently built in the vicinity of the world'a fair grounds, par ticularly in reference to their dangerous character and the difficulty experienced by their owners in securing insurance upon thf m because of their flimeiness of cone'ruction and the danger to which they are constantly exposed from fire. I have obtained since then a complete list 3f these buildings, most of which nre merely temporary, and will be torn down at the cioce of the exposition next falL There are, all told, 279 of them, containing 33,'.t45 roomp, and they are located in w hat is known as the world's fair district, comprising the territory south of FortiethSt., north of Seventy liftl -sU, and east from the boundaries of the south parks and the Washington park club. Must Menn Disaster. What are denominated as legitimate hotel men aro astounded at what has been done in the vicinity of the fair. They have givon warning that this must mean disaster, but the warnings have been unheeded. Underwriter! Lavo looked over the field in rerplexity, and then, as the cssiest way out of the dilemma, have named riks which they meant should not be risks at all. The furniture and housefurnishing companies have drawn the lines of creoit so tightly that much inconvenince hns resulted, but the result shows that nothing on earth could stop the craze for these world's fuir hotels. The great profits to accrue from these hotels havo been the bait held out to men with money, altho'igh undoubtedly some of them have boon put up with the cash sent in by thoee credulous people who thought they were purchasing accommodations at reason ibie prices during the fair in houses already built and furnished. Mold for Swindlers It is a great field lor swindlers of all kinds and they have worked it for all it is worth. These hotels will be fidud ; no one need doubt that, (luesta will bo in danger from tire, nnd some of these hnstily construct! d houses may fall down, but they wi 1 be lilted all tt.o snme. The great idea is to make money for somebody, and somebody will surely make it. It shou'd he understood that this applies to all the hote'e in this d:s'rict. Many of them aro f.lii enough, aud after tho fair wi I bo tur.ied into apartment houses, but most of them will be torn down. Hundreds of agents have been sent from on end of tho country to the other singing one song, and it is feared these gi-ntlemen did not alwnys ad hero too closely to the truth. They often bud their credential from tome incorporated company with a hiih sounding titie, and promised accommodations at respectable figures. It was often tho case that tlu'se a ent represented hotels that were not at that time Greeted, and possibly are not at the present timo finished. All these agents wanted wss that bills should be paid in advance, and in this wav thev secured iiianv hundreds of thou sands of dollars. Somo o.'Iered member ships in clubs which entitled holders to accommodations at regular rates. Others sold ptock, and when a prospective visitor bought a share it entitled bin to rooms for a week or two so tho agent said. How many people have been swindled by really irresponsible agents representing mvlhieal hotels will not be known for eome time, but a fine how l wi 1 go up from the throatfcof the deluded ones when they come here this summer and find how they have been taken in. I'rj'et ly the Hundred. Projects to draw dollars out of the pockets of visitors to the fair were conceived bvthe hundred Inst week, and many men of good financial position put money into them. Being incorporated, tho investors ran no risk except losing the money they rutin. Others, however, who entered into hotel project, were of that ciatis of impecunious speculators who are alwavs to the front wbenever any eon oi a Doom Flmwi ite.-lf. A list of the people w ho are back of pom. of these hotel enterprises would bring out na nes that are not worth much on the business eud ot a check ut any of theCLicag.i banks, and tho history of the "promotion" of some o' those sch-mes w ould make an interesting chap ter in financiering. Out of the lrg;J number of paopla who have become lritorof ted in these projects il would bo unreasonable to suppose that some knaves would not develop. Sq-ho honest folk Lave been entrapped into schemes that will prove too henvy to bo carrlai out on the basis of the capital at command and wid meet with disaster, the prospective patrons who have paid in ad vance being among tho heaviest lowers Some of theo enterprise will aleo be con ducted in a way well calculated to bung odium upon the citv and the fair, but tho projectors won't euro much about this so b.nir as thv irnt the cam. iuia ia what they are after. Very yueer A ft, lira. Some of tho temporary wooden struct ures that aro to do duty as hotels will be very aueer aflairs indeed. They will be devoid of elevators, electric bells, water conveniences and the necessary sanitary arrangements. What does it matter. though, if the money comes in? Dining room and kitchen app iances will not be by any means what they ought to be for the number of people who have engaged ouarters. Of tho 270 hotels a'reafy completed in the world's fair district about seventy-five are entirely of wood; others have a staff coverinw'. and yet others are de-cribed as being of brick nn l wood. Scores of those designated as of brick have but e.ight walls, with the interiors a mass of pine flooring, scantling and other inflammable materials. Orrnt Knutern. It may not be a bad idea to take a glance at some of these hotels, in the construc tion of which about Jj.OOO.O' O has been absorbed. The largest of these is the (ireat Eastern, which w ill cover the entire block bounded by Sixtieth, Sixty first, St. Eawrence and Champlain-aves. It is built of stall and contains 1,100 rooms. Its construction was begun about six weeks ago. and the owners say it is entirely fireproof. In appearance it will resemble a great stone structure and has accommoda tions for 2.Ö01) guests. The claim is made that it ia the largest hotel in the world As it has several courts, ornamented with crass, flowers and fountains, the proprie tors claim that the guests w ill be at once safe and comfortable. The Hotel Endeavor, in llond-ave , eventy-fifth-st. and the lake front, is a temporary structure containing U2 ) rooms and built for the purpose of accommoda' ing the various Chrirtlan Endeavor societies of the country. It is three storiis in hmht and ouite comely. Foreign delegations, said to be mostlv from Vienna, are to be accommodated at the Security, built of frame and titcaled at the corner of Seventv-third st. and Stony Ieland-are. It has 3Ö0 rooms.

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