Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 June 1897 — Page 6

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Peach Springs at the time of my first visit was merely a town of tents and shanties, a typical railroad town, and when the train slowed up a moment and 1 was dumped out into the wilderness at midnight to shift for myself I was not in an enviable frame of mind. I had seen an advertisement in a paper somewhere of what I took to be a hotel which read as follows:

Traveler*' Rent. Comfort, en«e, Liquid RefreahmentH and the Choicest Brandt? of Cigars. In addition to a well fitted and furnished saloon, I have added a LrfxltfinK House, which is provid«*d with comfortable Beds, and alwayf polite attendance. Tho Weary and the Thirsty rent with Me. JACK CAMMACK.

I was woary, and I was thirsty, and, chancing to run across a solitary individual in the darkness, I inquired the way to the Cammack hotel. The man I accosted was the station agent. He carried a lantern and a very consumptive looking mail sack, which latter had been thrown out by the roadside along with myself. The station agent lifted tho lantern so that he could scan my

''•"Aj-Ljo A jUlljiij JlllJil.. that I should not have had without it I had slept an hour or two when I MR. F. A. OBER DESCRIBES THE! was awakened by a sound as of sharp

Weary Tenderfoot at the 'Traveler*1 Best"—In I lie Grand Canyon of the Col—rado River—One of the Most Stupenioni Creation* of Nature. I

[Special Correspondence.] 1 PEACH SPRINGS, A. T., June 2.— You urn somewhat prepared for vast and surprising things if you chance to cross th«j canyon Diablo by daylight as,' the train crawls over the spider web structure that spans this yawning! chasm, for this devil's ditch is 850 feetj wide, 225 feet deep and so many miles,

WORLD'S GREATEST CANYON. skirmishing along a line of battle. I put out my ears and listened, while my

in length that you will get tired long! before you have half explored it. But this rent in the earth's crust isn'ta'every

"smell" compared to what awaits you if you leave the beaten track of travel and wander down into the bowels of the earth to the point where the sullen Colorado frets between its cliffs and rocky banks.

I was advised to leave the road at Flagstaff and take the trail there, 06 miles, to the Grand canyon, but fortunately made tho acquaintance of an engineer who told me to keep on to Peach Springs and hire a guide down Diamond wash.

CANYON DIABLO. ARIZONA.

features, and, seeing that I was a tenderfoot and hence erratic, not to say incompetent, said: "Cammack's hotel? Oh, h—1, you mean Jack's saloon. Just foller me, and I'll show you. Fact is, I'm kind of thirsty myself."

Ho led tho way to a small shanty, which lv daylight I saw was not over 80 feet long and 15 feet wide, and push-j ing open the door, shoved me inside, "Here, Jack," he said cheerily, "is a| tenderfoot huntin for a lodgin, and he'll set 'em tip, I reckon. Won't you?"

Of course 1 "set 'em up," and about 20 loafers there stepped up to the bar and drank at my expense. The proceed-' ing was so satisfactory to them thatj they wanted me to repeat it, but I refused, and there was a good deal of prumbliug and some show of compel-1 ling me to treat them again. But the' landlord, a big, burly fellow, sang out: "Oh, shut up. This man's tired. Here, Tom, show the gentleman up to room

SCKNK tS THK GRASI) CANTON.

15." Tom grabbed my "grip" and rlimbed a shaky ladder to aloft through ii hole in the floor, where I found the "rooms" merely space# about feet square partitioned off with unbleached sheeting. My room had two "shakedowns" in it, on one of which lay a hrute with his boots on. sleeping off an attack of "D. T's."

I didn't nndress, but «xm fell asleep, first having placrd my revolver handy, in case my companion should wake and remonstrate with me for this invasion erf his chamber. My "gun" had big barrel, but a small bore. It was oI the kind referred to by the eminent Texas gentleman when he told an eastern Rtrangrr that if he shot him with it. and he (the Texas gentleman) ever found it rut, he'd "hck the life out of him. But Jt locked Urge and fartuida-

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drunken friend thrashed about uneasily, knocking the tallow dip off the soap box and thereby adding to my trepidation. I was scared, really frightened, but I lay still while a fusillade of pistol shots outside, accentuated by shouts and oaths, told of a terrible tragedy being enacted. Now and then a bullet tore through the frail walls of the shanty, but the shouts soon grew fainter, and the shots finally ceased.

My first and almost overpowering impulse was to get up and seek safety in flight, but I didn't know where to flee to and so wisely lay still, not daring to breathe above a whisper and shaking in

Strange to say, I fell asleep

again, and when I awoke it was broad daylight and the atmosphere breathed of peace and the fumes of whisky. I descended to the saloon and, assuming an air of tranquillity I by no means felt, remarked casually to the landlord: "By the way, how many men were killed last night? Where do you bury your dead?" "Killed?" he replied, with a stare of astonishment. "Oh, well, you are— Why, that wa'n't nothing. Only two of the fellers a little excited. They just locked arms and fired round promiscuouslike. Hope you wasn't disturbed. It's a way they have. Didn't mean no barm, you know."

Feeling perhaps that he owed me something in the way of reparation, the landlord secured for me a guide to the Grand canyon of the Colorado, which was distant from Peach Springs a little less than 20 miles. This point, in fact, is the neari.it along the line of railroad to that greatest of nature's wonders and at the time I made my first visit was the one usually chosen for place of de parture.

Our course lay down the dry bed of a sometime torrent known locally as Dia inond wash, which, ever descending finally opened into the wall inclosed Colorado. We started in the afternoon on horseback, with water and provisions for two days and stout hearts. By the time the region of the Colorado was reached my heart wasn't quite so stout a at starting, and before we got back all the provisions and liquid refresh

ment had been utterly exhausted, for that canydn was the sultriest place I have ever struck, and my experience includes some of the hottest sections this side of the equator.

We arrived at the embouchure of Diamond wash in the Grand canyon along in the morning while darkness yet covered the scene, but even then it was oppressively hot, and as the son got higher I felt as though I had been thrust into a Dutch oven and tho mouth stopped up. We wandered up and down, seeking vainly for shade at the bases of cliffs that towered into tho air 6,000

feet above our heads and down to the swift flowing current of the Colorado, where not a tree or even a shrub offered shelter from the pitiless sun.

But, despite the terrible heat, despite the discomforts of the situation, I was compelled to wonder and admire, for risiug sheer into the sky above me the gorgeous cliffs and rock walls, showing all those varied colorings depicted in Morau's grand painting in our national capital, seemed to support the Ken it h. a nr'e above my head. It seemed incredil ie that the narrow, turbid stream before me or one like it had worn this stupendous channel, this mighty gorge, to a depth of over 6,000 feet from the normal earth's surface, yet such was the case. I was gazing upon a small section of the mightiest canyon iu America, which, with a total length of over 200 miles and a breadth in places of a dozen miles, was at this point 60 times as deep as the great chasm of Kiasrara.

Words fail oue in the attempt to describe this glorious creation of God. The impression it leaves upon the mind is overpowering. One feels as though he had been admitted into the presence of the genii of the plutonic regies, h*d penetrated to the very heart of the inner world of elemental and titanic creations.

Standing at the brink of the roaring flood, whose thunder filled the chasm, and pent in by the sky supporting walls of rock, I felt dwarfed and shrunken and of no more consequence in the economy of nature than a fly crawling over the face of the Washington monument F. A. Ober.

Aa latcrprttaUoa,

"I wonder," said Mrs. Cumrcx thoughtfully, "what that nice, old fashions! lady means by pnttiug *P. P. C.' on h*vr card." "Thar means she hi going away,** re* plied her daughter. 'Oh. 1 per, and she wants us to know that she is going to travel in a Pnllxuao palact car."—Washington Star.

Fortunes Made la Textile Trade*. Eminence in the textile trades does sot lead with the same certaiuty to social distinction as the possession of breweries and distilleries. The Lancashire manufacturers gaiu titles mora hardly, and, unless we except Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, the turkey red dyer connected with that industry, neither peer nor baronet nor even a knight is to be found among the 3 full millionaires and 17 semimillionaires who have occupied that enviable position in the wills of the last ten years, because custom requires that we should wear clothes. The late John Rylaud of Manchester, who was in his youth a traveling packman, died possessed of a personality of more than £2,500,000, and his affairs were in such perfect order that the intricate business of valuing and declaring so colossal an estate was completed within a month. Mr. George H. Strutt of Belper and Mr. Samuel Fielden of Todmorden, both cotton spinners, were millionaires, the estate of the former reaching well on to £2,000,000.

A London draper, the well known Peter Robinson, was close up to the million, and his fellow tradesman Mr. James Marshall of Marshall «fc Snelgrove not far behind, but the majority of the semimillionaires who helped to dress us were manufacturers of the district which has Manchester for its center. The repetition of names among them demauds attention. There are two Woods, Samuel and Daniel, of Glossop another Fielden of Todmorden and two Lees, Eli and Charles Edward, of Wernetb, near Oldham. This last was oue of the rare cases iu which the exchequer draws death duties twice from the same estate within two years, as O. E. Lees was the son of Eli, and the fortunes were £850,813 and £849,428, respectively, which shows how little the son must have disturbed his father's investments. —Contemporary Review.

Then She Left.

One of tlio dwellers in woman's club land, whose views of tho hereafter are somewhat pronounced, recently expounded them with saddening results to her maid, who was bewailing tho loss of a friend. "Death," said she, "is nothing but transition. There is no occasion for so much grief and fear." "Yes, ma'am," agreed the maid, with a fresh outburst.

When we die," continued her mistress smoothly, "it is only part of the process of evolution. We wake up to another life that's all." "It's in heaven we'll be waking up," sobbed the bereft one, "with angels and harps ana"— "What nonsense 1" corrected the clubwoman, with a pitying smile. "The next life will be just like this one. All things prove it. You and I will be doing there all the things we do here."

But the maid had dropped the apron from her tear stained visage and was gazing at her comforter with every sign of righteous indignation. "Is it working out in service you think I'll be?" she demanded. "Precisely," rejoined the evolutionist, "but you'll probably be doing it rather better, you know." "Well, if you think I'm going to heaven to wait on you, you'll find yourself mightily mistaken," gasped the irate handmaiden. "I'd rather stay out of it. So you'd better supply yourself with another girl to train up for the next world."—New York World.

American Violin Wood.

It lias been recently discovered that the bar maple wood grown in Washington is superior to any wood yet tried in the manufacture of small stringed in struments, such as violins. This is veri fled by the practical experience and tes timony of a well known Chicago instrument maker. He finds that the Wash ington maple is superior to any he has yet used, and he has heretofore been importing maple from the mountain regions of Switzerland as the best he could find in the world.

The Washington maple seems to possess the necessary qualities of being very difficult to split, capacity for satiny finish, resonance, strength and lightness in the superlative degrees. While the demand for such wood does not call for any great amount, it is steadily increasing and will almost command its own price. As an instance of the superiority of some American made instruments, a purchaser sent to Europe lately for a high priced instrument and when it was received it was found to be the product of the aforesaid manufacturer.—Buffalo Express.

Washington Profane?

Rev. F. E. Williams, a Presbyterian pastor of Baltimore, told his congregation that he had no doubt George Washington swore. Round English oaths were common in his day. They were close to hand when a man forgot himself and was carnied away in a torrent of passion, and Washington was capable of this. The true«Washington was a man of terrific temper. Passion is power. A man who is not capable of getting mad is not capable of getting much of anything else. Self control means nothing unless a man has something to control. —Cleveland Plain Deal*.

ia Unfeeling Comment.

"Willie Wishington," said the friend, 'is one of those people who tell every thing they know." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne wearily, "and he doesn't talk very much, either."—Washington Star.

The Wise Indian.

"There is this much to be said in fa* vor of the wild men of the fdres£" says the Lanniganvilla saga: "They always smoke a pipe of peace never a cigar rette."—Philadelphia North American.

Tikm HI* Tim*.

She—Oar minister don not jump at conclusions. He—I should say not. I never knew him to reach a conclusion in less than an hour.—Brooklyn Life.

TEKBXHAUTE SATUKDAY EVENING MAIL, JTJiNE 12, 1897.

A V«n|cM Transaction.

He looked apprehensively up and down the street as he and his wife emerged from the restaurant. His steps were rapid, and it was not until after the corner had been turned that he said: "Maria, I don't want to go through life with a secret in my bGsom. Rather than that, I will risk forfeiting your esteem." "What is the matter? Have you been robbing anybody?" "Don't talk about it in that way. There were mitigating circumstauces. You remember the counterfeit 50 cent piece that I got last fall?" -44Yes It's the only money you ever iabcceedcd in saving." "It's gone with tho rest. I gave it to the cashier in the restaurant." "By accident?" "No. I did it in cold blood. I have been thinking about doing it for a long time. Ordiuarily I am not vindictive, but I got to brooding over the matter till I yielded to temptation." "How did your conscience permit you to do such a thing?" "That's the worst of it. Every time I think about it it seems to mako my conscience feel better. We have been patronizing that restaurant on occasions for a year at least." "Yes." "The proprietor has given us veal in the chicken salad, codfish in the deviled crabs, chicory in the coffee and water in the cream." "There has been reason for suspicion?" "We have had evidence that would convince any jury. After I had given him a 50 cent piece with some lead in it I tried to be ashamed of myself, but I couldn't. It may have been contrary to the statutes of the United States, but it was poetic justice."—Washington Star.

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Wliou a Man Is Fifty.

"A man's advancing age tells on him in no other way more unmistakably than in his habits of rising iu the morning," remarked Colonel Peter Toliver of Philadelphia to a St. Louis Republic reporter. "I wake up every morning with the sun. Time was when I used to regard it as a hardship to bo waked be fore 8 o'clock. That was when I was young. Wheu I reached 50, I began to wake with the sun, and no matter how late I sat up the night before I found myself t.ralnf sleeping beyond the hour of the sun's rising. Many men about 50 you meet now will tell you that they find themselves sleeping less than formerly and are uuable to account for it. Whenever one of them complains to me I know what his age is,

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BMebali Terms.

"I mentioned the other day as a baseball term that had fullen into decay," said Mr. Bifferly, "the 'goose egg.' This term, time honored and once commonly employed, is now no longer heard. Two other terms, once as familiar and almost as commonly used, but now put away on the same shelf with the goose egg, are the 'redhot grounder' and the 'daisy cutter.' "The daisies grow now just as they did then, for which let us be duly grateful, but the baseball is a daisy cutter no longer. The balls are heated now as redhot as ever—if anything, a little hotter—but such a ball is no longer described by the phrase, once familiar, a 'redhot grounder.' The extreme warmth of the sphere is now referred to in some other manner. "The fact is that in baseball, as in all things else, fashions change, and phrases that today seem to glow with descriptive fervor may tomorrow seem dull and spiritless indeed."—New York Sun.

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Bard One.

"Speaking about remarksbleaccidents," said Hilt, "I once fell 40 feet—from the masthead to the deck—and, would yon believe it, 1 eaoapad with only a few scratches." "Um," murmured Davry. "Landed 00 your head, I presume?"—Philadelphia North American.

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