Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1887 — Sixty Miles a Pay on a Dog Sled. [ARTICLE]

Sixty Miles a Pay on a Dog Sled.

WE Dl.l'KEt JATE Sr.'TIoNAL STRIFE AND l»iV. E HAVE PLAC ED THE V ill. WITH ITS HATES AND REVENUES, Ii.MHND Is. BVT THE SETTLEMENTS OF .TIE MAK Ml>. t-TAND I REV ' H AHLE-in>’|•EC-TED, HON<' RED AN D DBSEIIVED TN F.VEKT I’AKT DE THF TTETt BT-TCT MOKE WE. H WE NEVER DEMANDED; ' J 'S. WE WILL NOT HAVE. CONiiKES' SHOULD E.KEKCIsE ITS CON'TITI TION A L ATTTTDTtTTT AND 'TATTff T‘< INTK'OT; AND ': T’E RVISIONTVf ELECTIONS <’ 1 KEPR E'i.NIATI VE' TO VON-HKES' —'»HIO KEI’. IiIJCAS Pl AtFORM. ■ The follbwing is a partial list of pet appellations for members of the Grand Army of the Republic, compiled from Cleveland organs: ••Rummers,” “beggars,” “medicants,” "cowards.” “poltroons,” “shysters,” “bloody shirt shriekers,” “bounty-jumpers,” “panpiers,” “government robbers,” “insolent whelps,” “yelping curs.” Literary people all over the country are much excited over the fourth-coming work of Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, in which he will attempt an elaborate demonstration of the truth of his alleged discovery that Francis Bacon was the real author of the plays which bear Shakespeare’s name. From what has been made public regarding the character of the proof Donnelly has to offer, it must be admitted that there is a possibility that his theory will be established as true. ■« * • An exchange uses the following pointed, sensible and timely remarks: “Young man,, when you jeer a-"a lady passing along the streets or haunt or startle her with your glances, docs it ever occur to you that some other scoundrel might insult your sister, your wife, or, in coming years, your daughter, in the same infampus manner? Flow would you like that? Would you think it smart? Would you regard it as manly or an evidence of blood? If so, you ought to be kicked from one end of the continent to the other and horsewhipped back again.” The Star, of New York, is about the only out and out democratic paper in that city; and it supports the administration, through thick and thin, in season and out of season, and is, par excellence,derecognized administration organ of the metropolis, and • gets all the government patronage there -is to be had. How do democratic soldiers, who, some of them, like to meet their old comrades in arms and talk over their soul stirring experiences in war times, enjoy this classification cf them by this •. leading organ, of their party ? “la its horina! state the Tribune ;w<.uid know that the war ended ’some years ago and that nobody Talks about it nowadays except a

few iiwignifientit old bummers who I want.to work it- for n small office , or a fne lunch. In its normal, tslale, tire Tiibune would put its ! 'Vasbiugto'i c u rest> indent in a i strait jacket and hold up Tuttle and I'iiirchiM ■<> ridicule.” The town of Eist Aurora, New Yelk, in L’re.-idcilt CleAelahd's ho:n r ' county. Erie, is preparing to i have a big fair; anil tlie directors havi:. , i pn-'t'‘d Mr. Ch-ve’ni.tl ■ to do something for his own county fair, ht? opened his heart with . characteristic libernlitj- uhd sent ithe-m a Avhole doller-feill tube * present- d-tid the finest “litter’’of hu- ; man triplets; shown nt the fair. Now most people may think that ten dollars is not a very munificent sum for the President to spare out of not-at-all hard earned sal ar \ of some one hundred and

tbirty-sdven dollars a day, especially considering the great labor and wear and tear involved i in the unremunerative industry of j triplet production, but it should be J borne in wind that the liberal i Grover overdrew his charity fund I euoi mously, a year ago, when he actually sent twenty dollars to the relief of tile sufferers from the Charleston earth-quake. In fact thaue can be lid doubt but that the President wrenched this ten dollars from his unwilling bosom wiili feelings of deep regret, and it is sad to reflect that the political advantages he expected togain by his self-sacrificing munificence have been set at naught and himself covered with ridicule through the acts of unfeeling and less painfjilly economical adversaries. Gov. Hill, Cleveland’s most dreaded rival, has quite overshadowed the ten dollar triplet oiler, by giving twenty dollars for the liestpiiirnf tlie“tiiucly more common and easily produced twins shown at the fair; while another man has burlesqued them both by offering twenty-five dollars for the finest pappoose, and eynieal-GW-Beu Butler caps the climax of ridicule-by donating two sets of silver spoons to a couple that is to be publicly married at the fair. Verily the shrewd investment by which the frugal Grover expected to secure su ch a large measure of popularity for such a small measure of cash, has brought him motiving but ridicule and contempt. Jn view of the scores of failures to find gas north of the Wabash river, it would be folly for anyone in Rensselaer to cherish any very sanguine expectations of finding that very desirable substance in the rock strata underlying our town. In regard to the chances for finding oil, however, the same thing can not be said. Oil was discovered here, twenty-two years ago, in what was believed to be considerable quantities, although the find proved Unavailable at the time, from causes which.«we have already explained; and if there was oil here twenty-three years ago, of course there is oil liere now. Moreover, the discovery of oil at the neighboring town of Francesville furnishes considerably grounds for a reasonable hope that it may be found here. Thus, all things considered, the chances for developing a paying oil field here are sufficiently great to fully juQtjfy our people in putting themselves to the collectively and ■ Comparatively slight expense: of boring a test jvell. And even the chance for finding gas is not wholly desperate. No less an authority than the present state geologist i has expressed the opinion that gas would probably be found, over a limited area, in the northwest part of the state, and if bis theory be correct, the chances here are AVorth making one hole fdr, anyhow. The discovery of a permanent, if- not very powerful, flow of gas, in'deep seated Francesville, years ago, also gives some grounds for bvlieving that a stronger flow of the substance may yet be found in the vicinity; and, lastly, if nothing else is found, tbexe-still- a. good chance for finding a good, strong artesian well which - will ml-1 timately, be worth all that the boring will cost, and much more.

Thus, all the chances fyeing sum-1 ined up, our people may be con-' sidered as doing wisely in perfect-j ing their gas company r.ud going on with the work of making a deep I'hole in the ..-r,.< ygu if it !><■ jr. ! despite .of manv failures f similar attempts in the. cout’gnens coun.- , try..

When nt Fort AlLiihy we sa-.v eeveral -JSsipunaiux-xloHii, a u-.pccics. oi . .unknown in ’'-iviJizv-r e->; ‘niii.i-ti-'s. These a.-ep .ry large- -’•» r,-r than ui}r,.Newfcnn4Lui'<l ; :.d stronger when' iii <’on<l.t j i. Tlii-ii : rength, ho,ta:A-cr, .ALirifis. Zu the .wait, r, A.’he’.i th y are well fell for ipivii g they are much jstoutei-aiid stronger than in summer, when they are i oorly led, without exercise and langrtii.r from the heat, Avliicli is vi-ry 'telling upon them, as their native climate far to the- north is very severe. Their colors are white and yellow—while impure breeds are ’Avhitc- ami black—the hair thick ami bn iiy, no.I tl: ■ fail lon , Lil curling up nt tlm on<l. At times they are very quiet, and others very savage. They are driven ordinarily five in number,Mt often more, before sleds, one invariably a female, leering, for the others will follow her more readily. EiH-h dog has a separate rein, avhich is held by the driver, who has also a great long whip made of sealskin, plaited as ordinary whipc bu.t with the heavy part of the lash about the thickness of a man’s wrist. Tin- lash is from six to ir'ne fathoms long, ami the hamlie. made of Avood, from a foot to a foot and a half in length, AVhrn. a dog is not drawing properly or misbehaving in any way, he or she is- drawn by his or her KefifiFate rein o:t from the rest of the pack to receive chastisement with the avhip, and so well do they know what is coming that just as soon as the rein is pulled the vii-rim bl gins yelping and struggling to corrccf his or her ayays before the wi.ip comes thundering along, (irc.’t skill is required in the use of these whips, for if not properly handled the great heavy lash cracks around the manipulator's body and legs; indicting very painful amLsome-., times severe wounds, but in the hands of a person skilled in the use of them", these whips can be I with p;r,-at preteision and ellcct, someti.i.os completely eufti’ig a doz's < u!F. Tliey are quite unmanageable when they get oil the track of a deer, and no person can check them in their svild career as they ■gallop “up hill an 1 down dale/’ oyer ice ; ami "snow mid through liiish, with the sled behind them, in ’ nrsuit of Hhe prey. Ordinarily tkey make sixty miles a day, dud Very pleasantly and comfortably does a man travel in these knoi-thern regions, Avrapjmd up in blank-e ets and furs upon a do.g sled.—Cor. ~Foroi? so tHo ’•t’r- —~ -