Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 May 1897 — Page 3

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IT IS NICE FOE PEAKY

HE DRAWS GOVERNMENT PAY PRIVATE EXPLORATIONS.

Groelytj expedition to the north was made under the auspices of the navy department, (imiy's mission was to establish station at Lady Franklin bay in accordance with the plans of tin international polar conference held at Hamburg. Relief ex|editions sent in 1S8SJ and 1883 failed to reach Oreely, and congress authorized the secretary of the navy to organise a third expedition regardless of expense. Commander Schley had charge of tho third expedition. He found Grwly and a few of his men almost dead. Seventeen of the party had died of starvation. Meantime a reward of $28,000 bad been offered to any one not in government service who would find Greely.

When James Gordon Bennett fitted out the Jeaunette expedition, the government gave no aid, but congress had to appropriate $176,000 in the following year to fit out a relief expedition. The government also sent a relief expedition to fiud Sir John Franklin in 1850, but almost all the expense of the enterprise was borue by Henry Grinnell, a New York merchant.

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Men Whom Uncle Sam Treats Generously. A Scandal Which Secretary Herbert Unearthed Science at Government Expense—Literary Men In Public Life. [Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, May 10.—We who sit here through iiaauy changing administrations and study the men at the bead of the executive departments are sorry to see Secretary Long yielding to th* Peary poll. Mr. Long is possessed of such a splendid independence, he is so free from all tha petty influences which have made many cabinet officers contemptible, that a great many people •were disappointed when the secretary rescinded his order assigning Lieutenant Peary to doty at San Francisco and permitted him to contiline at the Brooklyn navy yard with the avowed intention of making another arctic voyage this summer. Great is the pall in the navy department No naval secretary has been able to resist it.

When Senator Chandler was secretary of the navy, be used to say that there was only one thing in his department which he could not control, and that was the Walker pull. Admiral Walker held his own up to the day of bis retirement from rctive service a few weeks ago. Ho always had the pleasautest assignments in spite of mighty protests

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from other officers and their sponsors in congress. The Walker pull lost its potency wlieu tho admiral went on the retired Jist. He made an effort recently to obtain the appointment as assistant secretary of tho navy atid he failed. The charm is broken. The Walker pull no longer works.

Peary's Coming Onting.

But tho Peary pull is in good working order, nnd this summer, unless conditions change, Lieutenant Peary will go away

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one of his private polar expeditions. Now, a polar expedition may be an excellent thing in its way, but what interest lias the government of the United States in a jxilar expedition that it should pay one of its naval officers for 12 months' work every year and give him six months of that time for a private enterprise? Lieutenant Peary has been in the government servico for 16 years, and one-half of that timo has been spent "on leave."

It is not a very serious matter, this salary of Lieutenant Peary, but the principle is all wrong. Lieutenant Peary's recall has stirred up a great deal of feeling among tho less favored officers of the navy. One of them is at work on a new gun which will bo of much more value to the navy than cither the ncrth or the south pole could ever be. Another has a design for an anchor in nii.:d. Still another is inventing a new engine for marino use. Why not give each of these men six mouths out of every yeur to pursue hi? private work? Why wasn't indefinite leave given to Optain Malum, so that he could pursue his literary work unhampered? Captain Mali an resigned his commission within few months of the time when ho would have gone on the retired list because his official duties interfered with his literary work. It would have been far more appropriate, it seems to me, to have given an indefinite leave of absence to Captain Mahan than to release Lieutenant Peary from active duty. Malum'a books haven greater value for the navy than all of Peary's contributions to our knowledge of the Eskimo.

After the Schley expedition con grew appropriated money for presents, which France, General Porter told me recentwere taken by an officer of tbe navy ly that be was urged to enter Literature across Siberia to be delivered to the persons who had been kind t* General Greely and his men in their hour of need, bat with that tbe government washed its bauds of polar expeditions, drew D. White is another litterateur and the excursions of Peary have been whom this administration has honored. nad« without direct government aid. I GBORQB G&IJTRAUI BAT*

Congress does make a fool of itself now and then. It appropriated money for the rainmaking experiments eight years ago. Before that it spent many thousands of dollars for a bole in the ground which was to be a tunnel between the capitol and the government printing office. Some persons have an idea that the government ought to encourage all scientific research with liberal appropriations. One of these is Professor Langley of the Smithsc-iian, who wants $200,000 for his visionary flying machine. But if the government is to support science why should it not subsidize music and art? Some persons will tell you that music and art are as valuable in the work of civilization and enlightenment as science is.

Of all tbe abuses which have grown up and been suppressed from time to time in the last century, one of the worst was the granting of leaves of absence to navy officers who wanted to engage in private business. Just four years ago this month Secretary Herbert took this matter up and reformed the general practice of the department, though he did not succeed in overcom ing tbe Peary pull. Mr. Herbert found that Commander Folger, who was then at the head of the bureau of ordnance, had got leave of absence for two years on the ground of ill health and was working for the owners of the Harvey process for hardening armor plates. He was even calling at tbe navy depart ment in the interest of his outside employers. Lieutenant Commander Swift had been on leave since August, 1890, in the private employ of a Philadelphia concern which sold a great many supplies to the navy. Lieutenant Com mander Symonds and Chief Engineer Robinson were on leave doing private work at tbe World's fair. Lieutenant Commander Cornwell had been on leave and drawing two-thirds pay for two years, and in that period he was employed by a copper and nickel company which was doing business with tbe navy department. His pay from tbe government was $2,000 and from the contractors $2,500 a year. Lieutenant C. A. Stone ha(. been on leave for more than two years, and during that time he was in the employ of tbe Carnegie company, which was furnishing armor plate to the government. Lieutenant A. V. WadLams was delivering lectures on the navy for his private profit. Lieutenant Driggs had been on leave for fh years, looking after the manufacture of a gun which he had invented and which a private corporation was manufacturing to sell to the government. Lieutenant Clason was off on leave, settling up an estate. Lieutenant Seabury was working for a company which was making ordnance for the army. Chief Engineer Towne was working at the Cramps' shipyard at $6,000 a year, supervising the making of machinery whose designs he, in his official capacity, had approved. Lieutenant Wood had been drawing $1,800 a year from the navy department for years, and in all that time he had been managing the affairs of a projectile comvany which did business with the government. Naval Constructor Armistead was representing the interests of some Boston contractors against the government while drawing government pay. Civil Engineer Menocal had been on leave for four years, looking after the interests of the Nicaragua Canal company, of which he was the chief engineer.

Looking For Kasy Jflaces.

A great many of the men who are here after ffii now say they want "si-ne-cu-rees." They want pleasant places in which there will be little to do. Something liko the place held by Buchanan Schley of Maryland under Secretary Carlisle would suit them very well—a plaoe they would not have to visit more than once a week, or, better still, would be the place of tbe auditor just removed by Secretary Gage, who staid at his Lome in the south and kept up communication with the treasury only to the extent of drawing his $ay. Many men want consulates because they think consuls have little to do.

A great many men want consular places because they think they will have plenty of ieisure for literary work abroad. The government lias been very kind to writers. There are many conspicuous cases of literary men who have held places in the consular service. William Dean Howellsdid his 'prentice work at story writing while holding an Italian consulship. He won his place by political woik—the writing of a life of Abraham Lincoln for campaign use. In the year of Howells' appointment John Bigelow was sent to Paris, and later he was made minister to France. Hinton Rowan Helper was sent to Buenos Ayres by Lincoln. George Perkins MarsU was another literary man honored by Lin coin. He had been in the diplomatic service, though, for many years before Lincoln made him minister to Italy.

Literature and Office.

Bret Harte was consul at Orefeld, Germany, for two years and at Glasgow for five. He was appointed by Hayes, and Hayes also sent Andrew D. White as minister to Germany, the place Mr. White is going to fill again. Garfield sert Lew Wallace as minister to Turkey. Sunset Cox was another literary man who went to Turkey, though Mr. Cox WRB more a politician than a litterateur. James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, George Bancroft and Edward Everett were tbe literary predecessors of John Hay at London. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Donald Grant Mitchell held consulships, tbe first at Liverpool and tbe second at Venice.

The list of literary men in the archives of the state department is long. This administration furnishes its fall quota. After Mr. Hay comes General Horace Porter, our embassador to

when he left the army, but be saw no promise of reward in it, so be entered business life. Now that be is wealthy, literature is a recreation for him. An-

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AMONG THE PUEBLOS.

THEY ARE ABOUT HALF CIVILIZED, ESPECIALLY IN "BUNKO" GAMES.

The Geography of Water and Soil—Huntlag Strange Game—Indians Who Prefer Kalsiny Corn to Raising Soalps—Mr.

Ober In New Mexloo.

[Special Correspondence.]

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., May 7. —If that old Yankee skipper who could a) ways tell his exact position by tasting the mud. brought up on the lead when on "soundings" should take a journey across the continent he could easily locate himself by the color of the earth in the water he had to drink. Now, for instance, in Cincinnati the sediment in your tumbler is yellow, showing the washings of the Ohio. In St Louis it is black, betraying the rich soil along the banks of tbe "Big Muddy." In Kansas the water is limy, reminding you of the great fossil monsters for which the bed of that vast inland sea was once famous.

When New Mexico is reached, the whole aspect of scenery, soil, water, and even of sky, changes as by a miracle. You have leaped at once from the Occident to the orient Our Yankee skipper, unless he had voyaged to Egypt or North Africa, would be entirely "thrown out of gear" by the radical changes in his surroundings. He would see mountains with sharp, serrated edges, toothed like a saw, some snow capped, others polished like crystals, and all glistening beneath a sky of orient azure. The soil, too, has changed. In fact, the native of Kansas or Missouri would aver that there was no soil at all. It is thin, that is a fact, and the grass seems so scanty that, as a Chicago man once said, a "cow will have to hustle to find enough to chew." Even the crows, it is said, have to "tote their rations" when flying across New Mexico. But, like many other things seen from a distance, the New Mexican soil pans out better than it looks. In the mountains it is rich in many a mineral, and on the plains it is valu for its own sweet sake. It is here th

encounter the humble "ad i" hut, taking the place of the Kan us "dugout," but sometimes assuming far grander proportions.

A more interesting people than the Mexicans made use of the adobe as building material hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years before the latter came to this region. These were the Pueblos, glimpses of whom you may get from the train as you are carried along the banks of the great Rio Grande, tbe "Nile of the north." They may be seen scurrying toward the station or water tank as th« panting engine stops for water, thirsty after its long run across the desertlike stretches. They do not differ greatly from the "Greasers," ex-

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cept that they will run on occasions, while a Mexican was never known to move at a gait faster than a slow walk. They carry in their hands bowls, water jars, grotesque figures, all of pottery of their own designs and baking. They also have arrowheads, jades or turquois es and specimens of minerals to be found far away in the hills. These they offer to the traveler for a consideration, and if be should happen to be on his homeward journey he had better stock up with some of the pottery, for it is quaint and curious. These Indians all have pretty much the same cast of countenance and expression and are either grimly stolid or idiotically smiling, but they are "not so slow," after all.

I ran against one of these Pueblo Indians. not long ago, in one of my excursions after game. It was at a lonely station called Wallace, where the only other human being in sight besides myself and tbe station agent was the Indian aforementioned.

I took my gun and went out after tbe prairie dogs, which were as plentiful as woodchucks in a clover field, but a great deal more wary. They dodged into their boles so promptly that I at last got tired of stalking them and looked about for other game. A big, shaggy animal like a wolf loped across my field of vision, and I asked the Indian, who was following me, if it was a "sure enough" wolf, or merely a dog strayed away from its owner's ranch. He assured me that it was a wolf and urged me to shoot it, and thereby earn the gratitude of himself and other Indians, who had suffered from its depredation* So I pulled my gun and filled the brute full of lead. He keeled over and, with his legs in the air, howled his death •ong then and there. When I came to examine him, I was obliged to confess that be looked more like a dog than a wolf, and this opinion was confirmed by no less a personage than that same Indian, who soon after came up leading one of his red brothers, who, be said, was tbe owner of tbe dog, and demanded payment

I then saw that I had been bunkoed, bat the train coming along just then I broke away from tbe unregenerate "Lo" and bolted for a car, locking through the window of which I saw my late friend shaking his fist and gesticulating like a madman. I have no doubt be was mad after having slipped spon a "dead sure thing."

The Pueblos are peaceable, and they

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are more than half civilized, living in vast communal dwellings of adobe, where they have resided some of them from time immemorial. This is a much abused word,'immemorial, but I use it advisedly, as expressing a time to which the memory of living man goeth not back, for the Indians have no tradition that is authentic of their beginnings here, and tbe white men know only that they were found here when the first Spaniards arrived in 1536 or 1589.

The various pueblos are found scattered over the area of New Mexico and Arizona, most of them distant from the railroad, but a few within sight of it. Only ten mHes from this thriving city of Albuquerque is one of the smaller ones, known as Isleta, and 66 miles west of this city is La gun a, which is a most interesting village to study. But the most picturesque of them all, and a pueblo which may be taken as a perfect type, is that of Acoma, which is perched npon a mesa, or table rock, 850 feet high and 7,000 feet above the sea. When I first visited it, there was no other white man in the pueblo, yet I was received hospitably and entertained with the best the Indians had. The top of the mesa is reached only by three steep trails, all but one being inaccessible to any but Indians. Fierce battles took place here when the Spaniards attempted to take Acoma, and at one time the fighting lasted three whole days. Acomi is about 12 miles from the railroad, which is left at or near Laguna. Another and very famous pueblo is that of Zuni, about 40 miles south from Fort Wingate, where some 600 Indians occupy a 200,000 acre reservation. All these Pueblos are good Indians, who prefer agricultural pursuits to fighting and the raising of vegetables to lifting a white man's scalp.

FRED A. OBEH.

The Language of Crime.

The general tendency of the criminal to reduce the abstract to the concrete, to denote the substantive by one of its attributes, is shown very clearly in his synecdochical phraseology. Thus a purse is a leather a street oar is a short, comparing its length with a railroad car a handkerchief is a wipe, and a pair of shoes a pair of kicks.

Again, some of the terms appear to be purely arbitrary, and were it not that the creative power is absent in criminals as in women I should not hesitate to state it as a fact. But it seems wiser to conclude merely that the origin of these terms has become obsoured. To suppose that they were created would be in too distinct contradiction to all obtainable evidence, indirect though it may be. Such expressions ar3 to kip, meaning to sleep to spiel, to make speech jerve, a waistcoat pooket thimble, a watch to do a lam, meaning to run.

Some of the expressions are very descriptive. To run from a police officer is to do a hot foot A person who is always listening to other people's conversation is called a rubber neck. The word push, meaning a crowd, is occasionallly seen in the newspapers. To be arrested is to be pinched to be convicted is to fall. To refuse a person's appeal is to give him the marble heart. Such expressions require no explanation.— A. F. B. Crofton in Popular Science Monthly.

Diet and Hair.

The relation of the diet to the hair has been tested by good authority. A diet consisting of beef, starchy materials and milk causes atrophy of the roots and falling of the hair. Probably no article of diet nourishes the hair so well as oats. A bald headed Scotchman who takes his porridge regularly is a rarity. The poorest diet for the hair is milk. It is claimed that the loss of hair as the result of fever is largely due to the habit of feeding the patient almost exclusively on milk diet, and it will be interesting to note the cases where those having fine heads of hair are known to live principally upon vegetable and grain foods.

Giving Away a Secrct.

"Rivers, how can you always afford to smoke so much better cigars than I do?" "Because I always beg my matches. Give me a match, Brooks."—Chicago Tribuna

Early Exports of Cheese.

The first exports of cheese from the United States are believed to have been made about 1826, when Harry Burrell of Herkimer county, N. \\, opened a regular cheese trade with England.

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tate of Richard A. Tlernan deceased. In pursuance of the orders of the Vigo Circuit court, will offer for sale and sell at public auction, at the south df or of the court bouse. In Terre Haute. Vigo county, Indiana, on the 5th day of June, IWT, at 10 o'clock m. of said da tbe following parcels of real estate, situated in the city of Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana, to-wit:

Lot o. three (9, In the subdivision made by tbe commissioners in tbe proceedings In said court for tbe partition of the real estate of said Richard A. Tlernan. being In outlot No. ®, of tbe outlots of Terre Haute also

Lot No. six (8). la said subdivision, and tbe undivided one-fourteenth, 1-14, of the north half, oo, of lot No. eight, In Gookins' addition to Terre Haute, sakl real estate to be sold in parcels to tbe blithest bidder.

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