Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 May 1897 — Page 2

MIDNIGHT TELEPHONE CALL

HOW A RAILROAD WAN'S SLUMBER WAS VER|JNNOYINGLY DISTURBED,..

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FEARS OF 4 TERRIBLE DISASTER

A Message That Nearly Paralyzed Him— Aii Important Question That Was Settled By Another Official.

Superintendent S—- has been connected with the profession of railroading in New England for the past thirty years. He is a genial sort of a fellow a man with nerves of steel and other qualifications that particularly fit him for the important duties of his office. There is also a vein of humor running through his composition, and no one enjoys a j?ood story or a practical joke more than he. During the early days of the telephone he was a party to an incident in connection with the "hello" machine which, while it at first slightly nettled him, yet by a happy thought was turned into a first-class" "rake" at one of the other officials on the road, and to this day Supt. S refers to the matter with keenest enjoyment. It was past midnight some years ago when the superintendent arrived at his home after a most trying day, and as he crawled into bed -he said to his wife he hoped the telephone would not ring during the hours he was to devote to rest, as he was as near the point of complete exhaustion •as he could get and retain his normal balance. He was troubled over a number of perplexing matters relating to_the care of side mon "nature's sweet restorer." Finally he fell into a doze, but before reaching what is known as a dead slumber there was a tremendous rattle of the telephone bell. His wife sprang out of bed to ascertain the cause of the alarm, and made haste to disconnect the wires so that the racket would not disturb her husband.

pel pirA.llJg UlCtttCJLO icittiiUft vtiiv Df his division, ajacl A^tos^d., ^out ff°m side to side in' ^ifc je^jcliaA-or to ','sum-

But he had heard the clanging, and ALMOST BREATHLESS listened to catch a word that indicated trouble on the division. He had already pictured to himself a terrible wreck on the road, with a hundred or more men, women and children making a death struggle- to extricate themselves from the mixed timbers of the bridge and the shattered passenger coaches, which were threatened with destruction from fire ana flood. "Who is it?" inuqired his wife. 'i#.?

A momentary pause. "Unless it'is something very important I shall not call him."

Another pause. it reaMy necessary that you should eptCk with him?

This was sufficient for the superintendent he was out of bed in a flash, and, slipping his pantaloons on after the manner of a fireman when an alarm comes in, he was about to jump into his boots, coat and hat when he stopped and listened again. "He is very tired and unless your inquiry is of the most urgent importance I shall not call- him," softly spoke his wife through the 'phone. But as the superintendent was now out of bed, and his curiosity had been raised to know more about the business of the party at the other end of the line he took the receiver and placed it to his ear. "Who. is it?" he inquired, and there Was a firecracker snap to the words, "It is Mrs. "Who are ypu?" "I am a lady in search of information, and as you are the only one whom I know that can give it to me I rung you up." "I don't know you, madam, but if I can be of service to you. let me know what you want., and I will do the best I can to help you." "Well, then, what's the fare to Yellowstone Park?",

The superintendent was so startled by the question that he let THE RECEIVER fall from his hand, and it struck him upon the left knee pan. He hastily secured it and again placed it to his ear. "What's that?" he inquired in a tone that nearly melted the wire. "What's the fare to Yellowstone Park, please?"

The heated superintendent was about to hang up the receiver and treat his inquirer with cold silence, when, upon second thought the whole situation struck him as being decidedly amusing, and, notwithstanding his desire for sleep and his indignation at being disturbed, he concluded to go further into the details of the matter. "How is it that you call me up at this unreasonable hour of the night? Don't you know it is nearly 2 o'clock in the morning?" "1 know it is quite late, but as I was coming home from a party at Mrs. 's I became involved in a heated controversy with Mrs. on the matter of the cost of a trip to the Yellowstone Park. She insisted that it would take at least $500, while 1 contended it could be done for $400. She was so persistent and annoying that I could not go to bed until I had found out from a railroad man the true facts in the case. You had not retired, I hope?" "Yes, I had retired after one of the hardest day's work I ever knew." "Oil, I am so sorry but now that you ere up will you kindly answer my question?" "I know nothing about rates I am the superintendent of the line, not the passenger agent he's the

ONE YOU WANT

|o talk to." "What's his number?" "Wait a moment, and I'll gflve it to you."

The superintendent did not give his late caller the general passenger agent number, but that of the passenger agent up in Woonsocket. who had the reputation of being a great practical joker, and Ihe superintendent never lost an opportunity to,- in a way, square the account he had against him. "Are ^u there?" inquired the superintendent. "Yes I'm waiting." "Well, if you call No. —. Woonsocket, you can obtain all the information you Wish concerning the rate to Yellowstone tark. Good morning," and the tired superintendent made haste to curl himself Up for the remainder of his sleep. The liext day the superintendent happened to be at Woohsocket, and in passing through *the station, he stopped at the window of the ticket office and looked in. The agent was sitting at his desk, holding on to his head with both hands. "What's the matter? You appear tired," shouted the superintendent through the opening. "Not tired, but I have a ripping headache." "Out late last night?" "No I went to bed all right, but about o'clock I was awakened by a woman flown the line who wanted to know the rate to Yellowstone Park, and I was so worked up over the matter that I did hot get wink of sleep afterwad."

The next time the two met the superintendent noticed a coolness in the air of the ticket agent, and from that time he had a very strong suspicion that in some nay the practical joker must" have learnjd that the early morning call was inspired by his superior officer.

A Present-Day Slave Market. A regular slave mart still exists in aiany country districts of Finland. Once year such paupers, lunatics and aged people of each parish as cannot support themselves are put tip at public auction fcnd consigned to- those families or farmMs who wilt board them at the lowest brice offered by the parish authorities. |"he helpless creatures are made to work much as possible by their owners, rho have the right to chastise them.

At last we have taught the Chinese Dspping. They«haven't yet claimed that they used the airship 2,WO years ago.

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THE BICYCLE LIFE SAVER

WHEEL-LIKE APPARATUS OF RUBBER AfjD CORK-WORKED BY PEDALS.

ALMOST AHT ONE CAN RIDE IT

Scheme of a ltich Frenchman, Who is Going to Give It to the life Stations on tri&l.

It used to be that bicycling on the ocean was an idea belonging,-to clanks—a curious delusion of confirmed cads on casters who thought nothing too good or too bad too hard or too easy ,for bicyclists. But now you see models of b'oats, run by leg power, so plentiful that you have ceased to wonder and only notice them for some peculiar newness that may. be about them. The idea of balancing yourself and doing the work of locomotion with your feet, without much effort, is so good that you are always ready to know something more than you can do in this way. The very newest bicy-cle feat has been accomplished by a Canadian Frenchman, Edouard de Rignet of Toronto. He has invented a bicycle lifesaving apparatus, which he has patented, and is finishing to present to the United States life-saving stations along the coast. There are 260 of these picketed along the Atlantic and the Pacific and tne great lakes. No country has the same amount of coast work that the United States has, and no country is, consequently, more in need of aid for the already overworked coast life-savers. Last year they either rescued or assisted 4,600 persons. The bicycle invention is called a life-buoy. It is destined

TO SAVE LIFE

when the ship goes down. It is to be carried on board ocean steamers and on ferry-boats in place Of the life-saving belts now in use, and it is to be sent to the life-saving stations ttr be .stored away in some handy piatfe'whfefe tlte life corps can get hold of it at tile Signal of distress. The virtues of' the life-buoy are that it cannot sink.itMs^boiind to float, and you cannot put ^it pn \yDong. Once launched, and you are bound to use it right. In a life-belt you may make a mistake and put it on below your centre of gravity, and in many persons this falls above the waist line, and in that case you float feet up and are drowned. Thirteen unlucky persons perished this way last year because in their excitement, they forglot to buckle the belt under the arms. They fastened it, instead, around the waist, where it slipped down to the hips and brought the feet up above the water and the head underneath. Edward Cottelyou, one of the volunteer life-sav-ers of an Atlantic coast station, struggled with a drowning man an hour in the water to undo the life-preserver. The unfortunate had it on below the waist line and was floating feet up. As fast as Cottelyou would right him and try to unfasten the belt the struggling man would fight him off. At length he became unconscious from swallowing salt water, and Cottelyou raised the belt to his armpi.ts and towed him to shore, still unconscious. The life-buoy has four large air compartments, each

ONE COVERED.

with cork and made absolutely non-sink-able. Rising above these there is a seat upon which the person sits, as on a bicycle saddle. As soon as he is seated the buoy begins to float along. A sail overhead carries it rapidly. This sail is kept set, but in the hands of anyone who understands yachting it can be turned and shifted, raised or lowered, until the right direction is obtained. In the hands of an inexperienced person the buoy would sail rapidly in one direction, bringing the person either to land or in sight of a ship in a short time. Mariners say that in. case of being adrift upon the sea without chart or compass there is nothing as good as persistent sailing in one direction. The course is bound to cross that of some ocean steamer, while if a drifting course is taken a' man may, by some misfortune, miss every ocean craft upon the sea for days Once seated in the bicycle seat, a person is bound to be saved. Even if there is no knowledge of the bicycle he can sail superbly on. But if ho understands, the art of pedaling —and the man who does not is scarce nowadays—ho can carry himself rapidly through the water. The motion of the pedals operates the wheel at the rear of the machine, and that propels the bicycle onward. A lantern up in front of the sail lights the water and renders the lifebuoy an object that can be spied far off. This apparatus,

WHILE IT LOOKS

very complicated, is most simple. It can be taken apart into seventeen pieces. But ordinarily the whole is left in one piece, folded together like a camp stool. The pedals and handles fold and the blades of the screws come together, thus making the buoy one that can be stored in small space. The question of lifesaving is onei that is occupying more and more of the attention of the United States authorities. When the life-saving service was organized in lSYl ocean travel was small compared with the present day. There were scarcely a hundred first-class passenger steamers plying between the seaports of the countries, and, though accidents were more numerous, fewer lives were imperiled when the accident did occur. The lifeboats were adequate to hold all the passengers. But in these days, when hundreds of cabin passengers can be booked on an outgoing steamer, it is impossible to supply half the number of rescuing boats needed if such a calamity as an ocean disaster should occur. For these steamships the bicycle life-buoy is of the utmost value. But its principal use i^ for the life-savers of the coast who dp' heroic Work every day in the year, and'-who iast year saved $11,000,000 worth of. property from passenger and merchant steamships. The will ride the life-buoy. out to -ihe wreck, and come back riding 4h$- machine with the rescued' firmly. tied: 4p one of the cork pillows that are warranted to float in any sea.

HIS MOUTH A VAST CAVISRX.

Negro Amazes Spectators by Putting Four Pool Vails Into It. A negro named Diamond went into Ivuntzsch's saloon in Syracuse, N. Y., the other day and asked permission to exhibit his mouth, which he said he believed was a little out of the ordinary. He began by spreading it apart with both hands and the spectators clung to their seats through fear they might fall in. He ran a burly fist into it to show that there w«s as much room within as the outer door indicated. He put four pool bails inside before Frank Kuntzsch could stop him, fearing that he intended ta swallow the framfc. At Simon's saloon in Genesee street Diamond later showed the lateral expansion of his mouth by ramming a dinner plate of the usual dimensions into it. And to put a whole pie into his mouth, close his lips and make one wonder what has become of it, Diamond counts as one of his lesser tricks. The colored people at the Colored Citizens' club in Railroad street say that Diamond is not of the best colored society, that he hangs out along Water street, and negroes of Water street, it is of course knowh, are not of the colored high class society. It may be that his table manners are not the best, for a man who can inclose a loaf of bread 'it a bite and chcw it at leisure, who can hang a small pail of beer on his upper bicuspids and tilt it over with his tongue every time he gets thirsty is scarcely content to eat slowly and deliberately as do those with miniature mouths. Diamond. however, evidently is satisfied with himself and saya he will try to worrv along without the indorsement of the Citizens' club.

Pericles.

"Sav, boy," said Uncle Mosea as he paused spelling out the war news. "What is It, uncle?" i,-.? "What is dis yah Perry Icicles I sco so much about?"

TEE.BE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MOBN1NG, MAY 25, 1897.

GEN. ROSSER'SIDpiUflE

A THRILLING ADVENTURE WITH INDIANS NEAR IRANDAN, DAKOTA, YEARS AGO.

SORYEYED FOR NORTHERN PACIFIC

Gen. T. Bosser Meets Hostile Indians— Although Attacked by a Hundred He Makes a Masterly Retreat

There was recently exhumed from the archives of the Northern Pacific engineering department a highly interesting report of Gen. T. L. Rosser, dated Heart River, Dakota, October 10,. 1872, on the surveys he was then making oh that river. The point from which he writes is not far from Mandan, opposite Bismarck. The details of his search among the torturous valleys of that then but little known region for a feasible route are still interesting. But still more so are his incidental references to the difficulties' under which the surveys were prosecuted. For the country was full of hostile Indians. He would have examined the valley of the Cannon Bali river more extensively' if he could have been furnished a sufficient escort. His reconnoissances on Cabin creek and the Little Missouri river had completely used up the horses of the scouts. Then follows a narrative of a thrilling adventure which illustrates the perils under which those surveys were prosecuted, as well as the cool gallantry of this ex-ccrafedcrate general. It has probably never before been in print and will be read with deep interest. The reader will remember that it is only twenty-five years since this encounter with hostile Indians occurred in a region now covered with peaceful farms and thrifty settlements. Since the scouts' horses broke down I have done my exploring alone, and on the 4th inst. came near making my last reconnoissance for life. The country was considerably chopped up and I had been ahead all day looking up the line, and about 4 o'clock p. m. I was riding alone about three miles in advance of the party and its escort, when a p,arty of about one hundred Indians rushed out from behind a hill,

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THEIR PONIES ^'.

at full speed, their lances flourishing, and came at me with all the fury in their savage nature. When I first saw them they were not over one thousand feet away. If you will indulge me, I will attempt to picture the situation but to give it the life in which I saw it is beyond human expression, and I sincerely hope that you may never witness a scene so akin to it, as to enable you to appceciate my situation. My eyes swept over the prairie in vain for friendly support. None was to be seen. A few ahtelope stood on the hill close by, apparently amazed at this strange conduct of human creatures. I was wretchedly mounted and knew that it would be useless to run, as their ponies would soon overtake me, and there appeared hut little possibility of escape from a horrible death at their hands. I was well armed with an army musket, and had a belt of cartridges around me, and made up my mind that there was nothing for me to do but light. At the first shot I fired they immediately dropped down behind their ponies and began circling around and threw out parties to the right and left ivlth the view of gett^ aroi^d ^c-. I began retiring at a brhik gall^.. holding my gun in hand and haltijjj|. wheeling about and firing whene\*»r.,an opportunity offered itself. This ey/lent fear of m'y gun on their part gave W1 great confidence and hope and I supnf3e I maneuvered with great sh'Jl, until wcwhad in this way skirmished -over Itbout .• two miles, which occupied very "shoi time. Here I saw off to my ri Vh't ab&ut a quarter of a mile a soldier ho had

COME INTO VIW

and appeared not to understand what was going on. The Indians were hearer him than I was and I ctfulcl n#t jbin.'but motioned him back: He at .once started back at a double quick towards the escort and party which were then^ about a mile back, and over a hill and out of sight from him and the Indians. As soon as the Indians saw their, dismounted man they turned off,from me, and went in pursuit of the soldier,. As soon as I was liberated I ran my horse at full speed to the crest of the hill, a few hundred yards ahead, where I could see the party. I was soon observed by the gallant Eckelson, who, seeing the Indians galloping around me, snatched a musket from the hands of a soldier and in a moment was at my side. The Indians were then very near the soldier and we rode back to help him. The'few scattering Indians fled before us, but just as we reached the soldier he was shot, and fatally wounded, but we jumped off our horses at his side, drove the Indians' away and held his body and one of the Indian's dead in face of the entire cowardly savage band for at least half an hour, until the company came" at a run to the spot. The soldier for whom we risked so much to save was Lieut. Adair of the Twenty-second United States infantry. As soon as the company came up, the savages went off to the hills whence they kept up the usual skirmish until we finished work for the day and started to camp then they came on the field and carried off their dead. Lieut. Adair was taken into camp ii^ our wagon, where he soon died. He is a cousin of Mrs. President Grant, leaves a wife and several children in destitute circumstances. A few moments before the Indians made a dash at me

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Gen. Stanley's servant, who had straggled out of camp ON A HUNT, and when they saw me I suppose they took me for a straggler from camp also, and as I retreated from camp they doubtless concluded that they had me safe, and hence the leisurely manner in which they pursued me. This circumstance was likely all that saved my life, for they could easily have rushed on me and killed me in the first half mile. Before they came on me they .had come upon Lieut. Crosby of the Seventeenth who was out hunting and had killed and scalped him, and during our skirmish with them one of them would occasionally ride out from the others and flourish over his head a long pole with a scalp on the end of it which we knew had been taken from some of our fr-iends. We soon learned that it was poor Crosby's. These Indians were evidently hanging around camp for the purpose-of picking off stragglers and I assure y.qu they have proved a most efficient set of file-closers. No man gets behind and no one asks permission to go hunting" now. I hope we have seen the last of them. We have had some very cold weather. Heart river has been frozen over for several days. The grass, however, is still good and our stock is looking well. The government stock has been over ten. days without grain and has done well on grass. The train from Rice came in last night with forage and I have succeeded in getting 2.000 pounds from the quartermaster, which will take me through comfortably well. A fresh escort will join me in a day or two and Stanley will go in. but I think I will complete ihe location into the Missouri river by the 25th inst. The party has worked superbly since you left and not a day has been lost, but they have worked seven days out of seven and from daylight till dark, and checked over the notes and platted the line at night. Their zeal devotion and energy cannot be too highly praised. Yours respectfully,

THOMAS L. ROSSER, Division Engineer.

Climate of New Zealand.

New Zealand enjoys one of the finest climates in. the world trees present, as well as herbage, a never-failing verdure. The small portion of cultivated land yields in great abundance all the fruits and grains of Europe. In New Zealand it is quite practicable to raise two crops on the same soil within the year and in the pardon not an inch of pi'oufl'l need remain idle for any length of time.

RACE OF A DEMON HORSE

HE tiU&EO LIKE AN EXPRESS TRAIN TO HIS DEATH.

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BujUi^Patterson, a Texas cattleman, tell^'^fa horseback ride he Had that makc%*hiin think the black pacing wonder, 'jot? Patchen, tvith a record of 2:0S, a mtfretferawler. "IHTit seen a horse that could pace a heap faster and keep it up a heap longer. I'm not yelling ncr tearing my clothes over no second grades. I've rid this horse.i'm talking about, and I rcckon I'm the only man that ever did. It was nigh about twenty-fiva years ago, and I was working for old Calico Ferguson, down close t^ where Schullonburg- is now. "What's the reason they called him Calico? Why he always rbde a spotted pony.. There wasn't no town around there, nor no railroad. The Dutch hadn't come in and took up- the country. It was all clear, open range and no fcnces. We always had fine riders out, so's to keep the cattle, in, and stop them from drifting off to nowheres. I was a. stout feller then, stuck on myself, and didn't believe there was anything with hair and hoofs on what I couldn't ride. If there was any peny around what had a name of being unrideable, I went over there, if it was 100 mileis, and rid him. The more pitchful he was the more fun it was' for me. There was lots of wild mustangs running around there then—mighty hard to ditch and mighty bad nuisances. We couldn't let

OUR OWN PONIES

out on the. range loose, but what these wild ones would come around and call tjjem off. When a broke pony takes up with wild btlnch, he's sure lost fcr evermore. Now, there was one bunch what everybody knowed, for it was led by a stallion as white as milk. It made no difference how bad this bunch was skeered or how fast they was running, this white pony was always in the lead and always a pacin'. Nobody ever see him break a pace, no matter what was doing- /..Eve'/ybody noticed him and honed for Jiini, but nobody could ever get close enoiisft to rope him. Fellers come from every\yheres after him, but all they ever goti was a see. Well, one season old Ferguson had a big corral built of upright posts 16 do his branding in. It was all done but a gate, and for that an open spac# had been left with a cross-bar over it, from post to post, about nine or ten feet from the ground. One night we tied a lot of ponies in there to have 'em handy, next morning. We was all eating breakfast early, Vhen there come a nigger cbok running down from the corral, his ,eyes just a busting, right out from his blaqk face.

Dat ar white pacer up aar in oa aSfightin' ah' a-teazin' wid de ponies.'"®' ''We^all sHpped up a little draw w.hat rur? BS8k of the corral. I run around and got inr the open gateway. The pacer see me right away,- and

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at. me, ears back and teeth a-showing. I took a skeer, turned round and jumped for tiat bar. I got a holt, and was a-drawing myself up,, when he come a never knowed till then the quickness of a man's thinking. The horse went under me so fast no split-tirner ever made could a-c£i*ght it. Yet in that frazzle of a second, (thinks I,' I'll ride you.') I dropped and' I lit rightf straddle of him. I flattened out right forward, stuck my heels in his flanka, and got a savage holt with my-arms around his neck, for I expected to feel the most topliftical, joltiful pitching ever felt by man. He never pitched a pitch. Just sorter squatted, give a sprtgr.,sqii.eal,.,..an(J took out straight nortlj, pacin' like the wind. He was sigoing so 'fast it would a-toofc two men, a quarter mile apart^ to tell about it. One to say, 'Here he comes,' and t'other, 'There he goes.' I heard a yell back of me and turned m'y head a little to look. Here come the boys after us on their ponies, a-giving them the quirt and spur every jump. The ponies* necks wat' stretched and'-they was running their durndest but Lord, Lord, Whitey was pacin' ten feet while they was running five. I dasri't looty around no more. If the wind had caught my face I'd a-been strangled/ The boys' yells growed fainter and "'fainter, until right soon I heard ncH?fiirl& but a zooing and a humming in m'^afe. It was the easiest ridin' I ever ria?i:a«d the 'swiftest, at -was like ridin' a straight streak of lightning, sitting in a rdclring chair. He was so easy gaited you: "would a-put a marble in the hollow of his?.fback and it wouldn't a-been jostle£- c§E. He was the smoothest pacer in thft.werld, and if old Jehu had a-seen him heTwqvUdn't a-bragged about his team no mo^'jl begun to thfhk it was near time fof'W^i to sorter slacken, but the furtlt It® went the faster he went. We pa^ecPwhat I knowed was bunches of cattle.0 but they looked like flying red aft&5 Wftite streaks. We passed birds a-fl-iitfi jhgiway we was goin' went right past th€*n,*and I never was on a railroad train wl*»t- could keep even with him. We pa,gsed" two or three line riders, Thej givs a- yell and put

THEIR PONIES

after us, but it was like a three-k-gged terrapin trying to run down a skeered jack rabbit. When we come to a ditch or low place,, he'd rise in the air, and light a-pacin' on the other side. I never heard him breathe hard once, or show the least sign of quitting. If he sweat any, he cut the air so fast the foam flew like whip lashes. I begun to think of all these here ekeery stories about ghosthorses, and witch horses, and a queer kind of sick feeling begun to spread around down in me somewhere. I lifted up my head, caught a look of where we was. and then, you bet, I was sure skeered and it wis a 'solid, sure enough thing to'get rattled about, too. Wc was twenty miles away, and right in front of us, about a mile, was the Colorado river. I wouldn't a-cared a cuss for just water, but we was just a-bu'gin' straight for a place where I knowed the upland prairie broke right off short, and there was a straight fall down over a bluff of ioO feet. It wasn't no distance for that flying critter to cover. The place seemed to be coming up itself right at

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loosened all holts, said a prayer and rolled off—kcr-blim. I was tough in them days, or something would a broke when 1 hit the ground. I was a heap jarred, but I staggered up in time to see the horse pace right into the air off of that bluff. Then there was nothing but the blue sky. the grass and the scattered frees whirling In a mad dance all around me.. The fastest horse ever foaled had suicided. I fell down in a faint right where I was. The boys never found me till late in the day, and they brung me to If I'd a stuck on—well, did you ever bust a red. ripe tomato against a rock

the way I'd a-dtioked at the

botton of them bluffs. This Patchen's pacitf looks tame and.slow to me. Fact i« that ride has ^piled^me for speed. I've never rid nothing since so fast, but what it seemed to sorter have a slownt^s about it:

A Unique Tablecloth.

Ar.tXamous restaurant in "V ienna po~ sesgseii a remarkable tablecloth, on

WUKU.

are Inscribed the signatures of the vaajorftf bf the reigning sovereigns of Kurbfee, the members of the house of Hapsburg? and of the majority of the celebritis'fn art. music and letters. The names wferea written on the cloth in pencU, the projjrieT&ss of the establishment afterwawls carefully embroidering them.

A Useful Officer.

«\Vhat a taxidermist, papa? asked Sammy Snaggs. "Oh I suppose it's some sort of a chap who stays awake all night to think up more taxes for IMtuburgers «"eolied Mr. Snaggs.

NOT SO AS ALLEGED

TURF PLUNGERS GIVE WAY TO EMOTION JUST LIKE COMMON MORTALS."

HIOIDER GOT OFF IH TIME AND ARE AWFUL HARD LOSERS

Buc^ ^stterson Says That Every Fast Thins He Has Seen Since Seems to Htive a Slowness About It.

Riley Grannan and Pittsburg Plitl Don't Like to be "Hit Hard"— Mike Dwyey is the Exception.

Ever since the great American plungers of the turf became recognized celebrities and legitimate subjects to be pointed out t,o visiting country relatives, the, public has loved to picture them standing "calm and emotionless, winning or losing vast fortunes without as much as the quiver of an eyelash." Sometimes the plunger may stand ,'nvhito and emotionless," or "lean indolently against a piliar#in the grand stand," while fortunes ar* being juggled before him. But whether c&frn or white, or leaning indolently ag&inat a pillar, he must be emotionless and his field glasses must be as steady as his after-dinner coffee cup. That is the way it is in fiction and in the public fancy, and precisely the way. it is not on the turf and track.. Pittsburg Phil—that young plunger who came suddenly out of the wilds of Pennsylvania and established in the swish of a whip a reputation for daredevil disregard of dollars that seldom 'has been" equalled—does not stand indolently against a grand stand pillar while the animal that curries his thousands is racing before him. He even does not have regard enough for popular tradition to betray a decent lack of emotion. Pittsburg Phil chews gum, violently and at times spasmodically, and his features are as far from calm and repose as any far gone victim of the habit. He looks like a strong, healthy country boy, dressed up in city store clothes and full 'of the healthy joys of seeing the sights. August Belmont carries his fleltfc glasses by a ligftt brown leather strap, rakishly thrown over his left shoulder OH trailing on the ground. Pittsburg Phil carries his by a :,tc

CLUMSY SILVER. CHAI^N,,

which he wears across h|a breast ,like a general's sash. After he has Icirt the betting ring he jams his light Fedofa hat, which is one size too largp for him, down over his ears and, shaking off the crowd of touts that follow him, he bolts up into the grand stand and seeks a place where he can be alone. While the horses are at the post the little Pennsylvania plunger has a curious way of talking to himself and commenting nervously on the action of horses and jockeys. When the flag falls and the field glasses are raised, Pittsburg Phil's glasses tremble and shake, just like those of any young ribbon cierk with a $2 bet on a good thing. Every jump of the runners is followed nervously and with frequent imprecations. When Nay Nay was beaten by poor old Declare in the second race at Morris Park the plunger from Pittsburg violated all the public's notions of plunger's etiquette. The field glasses were thrown into their case with a healthy country oath that could be heard far out on the lawn, and their owner walked sulkily down to .the paddock, refusing to accept the condolence^? of the touts,, who again swarmed around him but devoted fifteen minutes' time explaining to his trainer how it didn't happen. Riley Grannon. that other bright light of the new school of turf plungers, has one thing in common with Pittsburg Phil. He chews gum, not as desperately as Phil, but at the same time conspicuously and audibly. With the gum chewing, which seems to be the badge of all plungers, the similarity between the two ceases. PittsBurg Phil takes the plunging business seriously. In the betting ring he goes from one layer of odds to another

WITH THE SOBERNESS

of a wool merchant or a butter dealer. Riley Grannan, being only recently graduated from the arduous school attended by hotel bellbojvs, seems to look upon his new profession* more as a diversion than as a business. Obviously, he finds it far pleasanter to hobnob in the betting ring and on the lawn with the white-haired, venerable old chaps who flock around him, than it used to be to "hop bells" for them or race the merry cocktail to their rooms. There is a retroactive joy in addressing these old chaps as "my boy" that Riley Grannon does not overlook any oftener than he does a bet. "My boy." he said to ft particularly baldheaded one who was fawning about him just before feensselaer won his race at Morris Park. "My boy, I like Wdlhurst," and straightway the baldheaded went and plaS'ed WoThurst, whi!« Grannan whispered in the ear of a bookmaker arid won large sums- thereby on Rensselaer,r which horse easily defeated .-Wolhursjtf Grannan flits about the ring like af lighthearted schoolboy, cracking jokes with the layers of odds, and, in his own vernacular, "stringing" his friends. The exbellboy, however, loses with oust as bad grace as the man from Pittsburg, and betrays just as much excitement and nervousness when the race is oeing run. When the flag falls he leans as far from his seat as he can without falling,, humps up his shoulders as if he had a stomach ache, and chews to the beat of his favorite's strides. Grannan has a typical sporting face:

THE THIN LIPS

are dnhvn tight, the pointed nostrils contract, and the smail. black eyes, that look like weasel's eyes, snap when he is under the excitement of ^a good hard finish. Mike Dwyer is the gray-haired, weatherbeaten old exception that proves the rule. He has won and lost too many thousands on the races to be worried by a trifle like a fortune won after a splendid finish, or a fortune loBt by the length of an equine eyp-lash. Outwardly at least Mr/'Dwyer conforms in all details to the yptiblic ideal of a plunger. He is -neither! £ia ted with victory nor depressed v.iUiv.failurc. He is a philosopher in his own quiet way, and he takes what the gods of the turf and the- bookmakers provide t&Tfmrut any comment. When' Harry rtcede-.'.in. his first race of the season the other day, landed a good purse for his owner, and won a comparatively' large o.iuount of mondy even for the high standard of measure of the turf, Mr. Dwyer Old not even take the trouble to srnlie. He was standing with his betting commissioner on the clubhouse lawn.* and after the victory he merely turned his head with the remark: "I didn't think he wou.d s.^y the distance."

Neither Belmont nor Keene come under the head of plungers. They racc for the sport of the thing, and when Mr. Keene places a wager of $100 on a horse ho dees not get over his exeitemcnt all the rest of the afternoon. When you

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Mr.

Keene chewing ferociously at a long, slim cigar you may wager a Ipt that he has sent in a commission on his stable.

Accomplishments of Royal Parsons. The Prince of Wales is said to have learned in his youth to make stockings. His son, the Duke of York, learned the, trade of rope-makinff. His late cousin, the Czar Nicholas JI., could plow, sow and rejip. The Emperor William is a, practical typesetter: King Humbert is not only an excellent shoemaker, but cobbles also to perfection. Oscar of Sweden handles the axe with dexterity, like an approved woodman, not yielding the palm in this respect even to Mr. Gladstone. Queen Victoria is exceedingly fond of knitting. Not many days ago she finished a woolen coverlid and presented it to the oldest and moat deserving of the inmatc-s of an asylum for disabled working women in the Isle of Wight.

Remarkable Frankness.

jfrw. Newad—They say he beats his wife. Mr Newad—I wouldn't wonder. Mr* Newad—You wouldn't wonder? Why. I always fomid him a very fascinating man.

Mr. Newad—Perhaps that why I felt that way. Why not heavy tariff duty *on Pink toes? 4 1

IIS CIIIZEKSJE IMPS

,rT0URlSTS"

RULE SUPREME IN A DESERT* ED WISCONSIN VILLAGE

HOTEL- AND HOMES OCCUPIED

Its FOrmer Industrious Inhabitant* Clevedon En Macse-MnoamtHt to the Judgment of English 't^npftalisti.'

Trampville, Wis., cannot be fotfnd ill the postal guide, nor is it shown oh an# railroad map, but it is there, ievetlhw less, with an average population of hef less than 200 souls. Trfempvilie is sllu« ated in Douglas county cn a clearljis oi^ out of a dense pine forest, where the rltfl er Brule gives up its rippling waters Lake Superior. It is c*il!6d Trarapviil* because it is the home tramps exciu^ sively nnl has beau fev nearly thro-* years. PiroviQus to tn&t tim'* it known as Clevedon, but that name seldom heard how, notwithstanding tha( it was once a thriving little vill&fcg witli graded streets, bvo*d sifiawalks and rswi of dwelling-houses tnd stOros. Cl^rel den was founded about fifteen years Ejsfl by a syndicate of English capitalist* where scheme- was to bulid up a lukspori tewn to rival Duluth and Superior. Th two hoad-of-ths-lRke cities ware conn mencing to bc-om about that time anq the Englishmen mention:d became iateN estcd in their devo'-opmsnt to a large ex tent, but they thought there should one more lake port city or. the south shore of the "great unsaited" and accord ingly determined to establish one at thfl point suggested by a resident agent* They purchased the required land, appro* priated vast sums for the purpose of im^ provement, and there sprang up a magid city in the pine woods which seamed aj one time to be the Lake tiuperiay destiny. Neat little cottages, hanrtscir.y store buildings, boariUng-houses, a hotaj and a costly wood worsing mill equippcq with expensive machinery for the munu* facturc of various

HARD WOOD PRODUCTS

were constructed in a remarkably short space of time. All of these buildings wer« faced uppn a bread and winding main street which was turn-plked at the ex* pense of the prompters. The town was built, however, bororo a tide of migration had been turned toward it, and it seemed provokingly difficult to inducfl people with more or less capital to believe that in Clevedon they would find their fortunes, but the zealous labors o( the promoters were at last crownsd with success and had it r.ot been for an un« fortunate disagreement between the pro^ mofers, Weary Wiggles and his assoi ciates might never have acquired title ta the handsome little burg by right of pos*' session. Prospective residents came In droves for awhile and it was claijnea fo Clevedon at one time that she had population of 1,000 people. But ther.e peo pie, though at first impressed with tlii location and prospects for future greatf ness, discovered after living on hope

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some months that the bubble was no more that the great resources of the town had failed of development. They left the place, as they had come—in droves—and Clevedon, the magic city, dropped into the lethargy of a deserted village. Several attempts were made td revive Clevedon, but without avail. But the turn-piked street is still there and the buildings are occupied, but the tenant* have no calling, except to be merry, and the Englishmen make n'o attempt to col« lect from the invaders. As before stated^

WEARY WIGGLES

discovered Trampville about three year* ago." He took possession of it in the nam* of his tribe and the growth of the viU lage from that time on has been .healthy* though perhaps not very clean. During last winter the tie walkers entered Trampville In small bands, and by Christ* mils time there were said to be 300 resi* dents 'in the place, all without visibls means of support, but all comfortably situated in quarter's of their own selec tion with plenty of wood to burn. Jus! how all these, people saved themselves from starvation is a secret that can only be told by the tramp himself, but it a well-known fact that they did live thert 300 strong last winter and no cases- of starvation have thus far been reported to "the authorities. Some say they lived upon fish taken out of Lake Superior and the deer that abound in that region. Oth* 6rs say they robbed the root houses or the numerous settlors, and it is prpbablfl that both theories are correct, hot thj settlers made no general complaint and the* game warden made no arrests, though there were reports in general circulation that deer wejje being slaughtered wholesale all winter. During the first two years of its existence Trampville was pimply a half-way resting place for the wayfarers. They went anq came In pairg and dozens, but seldom remained in th« town over a day or two, but last winter many of them made Trampville their rendezvous for weeks and even months. It was an exceptionally hard winter for travelling because the weather was severe and the handouts were scarce, but they could always find a eheetfful welcome in their own town and it W'us con« venient of access, while the prospects fot "grub" were just as good as on Ihe road, all of which conditions had the effect of swelling the population of the place. Since the weather became mild there has been an exodus from the town, and now it is claimed it is deserted save for tli presence of a few straggling "travelers, but the old-established residents will have made the rounds in another month and then the tide will turn again toward Trampville. The big frame building o:icd occupied as a Iiolel now furnishcsr ,fh principal rootling place of the

INHABITANTS OS* THE TOWN. Its lobby containing a great old-fashion^ ed fireplace, serves the purposes of kltclu cn, .«?moking-room, dir.ing-roorn an^ sleeping-room and every night during th winter great curls of smoke may be seen coming from the chimney. whUe dozeuf of seedy individuals may be seen huddlerf about the blazing log engaged in th regulation pastimes, sornfe smoking.- somi chewing, some telling stories. Others lis' toning, and still others.sleeping the slum/ ber of the weary traveler. The smallef houses are usually occupied for sleeping places, probably beeau&e of their fair!} well preserved condition, but ths hotel the general rendcsvci.,.' ar.d cvsry travi eller registers there when he comes t/ town. All this time Trampville has beet without a municipal organization. b»l the residents have finally determine that an organization shall be effectei without unec'cessfiry delay. Just how ti get at the matter of organization h.U been the all-absorbing topic of discussiol in Trampvii'.e for two years, but now 1 plan has been agreed upon which is con* curred in by ths masses ar.d which it lj expected will provide the town with novel but effective system of govenu ment. Conspicuously posted ou the buil»»( ings of the town is the following no.i'^dj

To All Residents of This Town: Tf k( notice that on the 10th day of July, 1#9|. there will be an election held at the hoi tef at^8 o'clock in the evening for thl purpose of electing a mayor of the cltyt a clerk and three trv.stees in accordsr.?t with a resolution adontfd by a mee!ln| of citizens held Slaruh 5 In**. The offl& cers

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elected shah hold th*ir oi*lce.s a(

long as they remain in- the Ctfy, b.rt the event of t.heir departure rroci tl:4 city to be gone more tv/cniy-fouj hours St shall be their duty to resign :u:«i appoint successors. .Tt sn&il 1:3 t.fto fi'A'l of the mayor to preside at all meeting* of citizens, to enforca ihe latrs made the board of trustees, to ai! in h'4 power to protect the /isthis of cit'.aejis is all respccte and to eaoourftC* t.n t-.v*?} way the growth of the town. It shall the duty of the clerk te niRJiS as:d prnr serve the record of aacl ihf trustees will be req'air?5 t'* reU-.i'.i tit eustddv of all property in the lily and -1« make tha laws fcr the j*ople's government. OOM-vHTTiOiv.

Tt will be in't.:est::«r t: l*Ain w# n»Mch ballot box stuiiing will t«l'e piaee at iM chcti'JU.

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