ETDIAUA PEOPLE 13 WESTZB.H
CANADA.
What Shall TVe not I've Got t
Build Urstnarlea."
A letter written to a Canadian gov
ernment agent from Tipton, Ind., is
but one of nrinj- similar tbat are In
tbe bonds of tin? Canadian jwernmcnt
agents wliose privilege it is to offer 0110
hundred and sixty acres of lund free,
and low railway fa rod. lSut here Is a
copy of tlie letter:
Tiiton, Ind., Nov. V.S, l'Kirt.
"At your earnest solicitation a party
of us from Tipton h-t't May 15 for
Western Canada. Our Interviews wlt'i
Jon and n earerul study of your lilera
ture led us to expect great thine of
your country v. hen we should arri ve
there, and we were not disappointed.
We went prepared to make a careful
examination of the couutry and Its re
sources, and wo did so. At early dawn
the second lihiruing out of Tipton we
woks In n new world. As far as the
eye could reach was un apparently lim
itless cxp.ir.se of new sown wheat and
prairie grasses. The vivid green of
the wheat just beginning to stool out,
ind the Inky blackness of tbe foil con
trasted In a way beautiful to see. An
Sour or two later we steamed Into
Winnipeg. Here we found a number of
surprises. A hundred thousand souls
well housed, with every convenience
that goes to make a modern, up-to-date
'"city banks, hotels newspapers, stores,
electric lights, street railways, sewer
age, water works, asphalt pavements,
everything. With eyes and ears open,
we traveled for two thousand miles
through Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, going out over tbe Canadian
Pacific Railway, via Calgary to Edmon
ton and returning to Winnipeg over
the Canadian Northern Railway. In
the meantime we made several side
trips anu stoppeu on ai a uumoer m
points where we made drives Into the
surrounding country. On every hand
wero "evidences of prosperity. The
growing wheat, oats, rye, flax, barley,
not little patches, but great fields,
many of them a square mile iu extent,
the thiee, five and sometimes seven
horse teams laying over an Inky black
ribbon of yellow stubble, generally iu
furrows straight as gun barrels and
at right angles from the roads stretch
Ing into the distance, contrasted
strangely with our little fields at home,
Tbe towns, both large and small, were
doubly conspicuous, made so, first by
their newness and second by the tow
ering elevators necessary to hold the
Immense crops of wheat grown In the
immediate neighborhood.
"The newness, the thrift, the hustle,
the sound of saw and hammer, the
tents housing owners of buildings in
7 various stages of completion, the piles
of household effects and agricultural
Implements at the railway stations
waiting to be hauled out to the
'Claims,' the occasional steam plow
turning its twenty or thirty acres a
day, the sod house, the unpalnted house
of wood, the up-to-date modern resl
donee with large red barn by, all these
were seen everywhere we went, an ear
nest of prosperity and wealth to be,
.We talked with men and visited their
places that four years ago was unbro
ken prairie. Their houses, barns, im
plements and live stock were the equal
of anything in Tipton County and why
not, when they were raising five, ten
and twenty, yes In one Instance forty
thousand bushels of wheat a year.
The fact that such large yields of
wheat are raised so easily and so sure
ly impressed us very favorably. And
when we saw men who four or five
years ago commenced there with two
or three thousand dollars, and are now
as well fixed and making money much
easier and many times faster than lots
of our acquaintances on Indiana farms
fifty years cleared and valued at four
l times as much, we decided to Invest
W So we bought lu partnership a little
f over two thousand acres, some of it
Improved and In wheat.
"Before leaving Iudinna, we agreed
that If the opportunities were as great
as they were represented to be, that
ve would buy, ana own in partnersnip
body of land, and leave one of our
number to look after and operate it
This we accordingly did.
"Just before time to thresh I re
ceived a letter from him. 'What shall
we do,' said he, 'I've got to build gran
arles. There's so much wheat that the
1l,ana a 4. . 1 tl' '
set cars and the elevators are all full.
- I never saw anything like It In re
ply we wrote 'Good for you. Go ahead
and build, your story sounds better
than the letters wo used to get from
our friends in Kansas when they be
wailed the fact that the hard wheat
had been destroyed by tlio chinch bugs
and the corn by hot winds, and tbat
they must sell the stock for means te
l.ve ou.' 'Yes, build by all means.
And he did, and our wheat put in by
a renter made twenty-seven bushels
per acre.
"Very truly yours,
"(Sd) A. G. Rl'RKU.UtT,
"(Sd) J. TRELOAR-TKESIDDER,
"(Sd) WALTER W. MOUNT."
Slarrlaae n Ileal Lottery Here.
Every year in the Ituuiai country, In
tndia, a marriage lottery Is held, gen
erally in Octolier. The nuiujs of all
the marriageable girls and of the
r' young men who are tired of bachelor
life are written on slips of paper and
thrown Into separate earth pot.' One
f each kind is drawn ut one time by
a local wise man. The youth whose
name Is drawu out obtains a letter of
Introduction to the young woman whose
name accompanies his, and theu all
that remains for him to do is to start
courtship, wii all the ardor of which
he is capable. Such fortuitous court
v ships might not appear nt first sljrlit to
promise very well for future connubial
happiness; but, nevertheless, In the
majority of cases, everything turns out
very satisfactory.
Reaction.
With a heavy nih the candidate thrnt
himself ou the lounge in the family sit
ting room.
"Maria," he said, "the election is going
against uie. I am sure to be defeated."
"Then," iwike liix wife, in a cold, metal
lic voice, "I don't get th fmu new bonnet
you were going to buy for me when yea
were elected."
"By O.-orge !" he exclaimed, brighten
Inf up. "I badu't thought of tbat!"
VI;
a
"Is he out of danger?" "Xo. The
doctor still attends him." Cleveland
Tlalu Dealer.
"Would you get married If you were
izie?" "I don't believe I could If I
were you." Houston Tost.
Wise Now, he's got what I call
"horse sense." Ascum How, for In
stance? Wise lie never gets on one.
Philadelphia Press.
He I always have my evening din
ners served a la carte. She From one
of those night lunch wagons, I suppose.
Chicago Dally News.
"Mabel accepts more rings from men
than nny girl 1 know." "I don't under
stand." "She's a telephone operator."
Milwaukee Sentiuol.
"Do you see any great future for
Pauatua?" "Certainly. Look nt the
great excursion resort it bus already
become." Washington Star.
Whyte Sj you went to that special
ist for your rheumatism. Did bo give
you relief? lirowuc Ho relieved me
of ten dollars. Somerville Journal.
"I admires a man," said Uncle Ebon,
"dut keeps hopin' l'oh do best Rut I
doesn't like to see 111 iu sit dow n n' call
it a day's work." Washington Star.
"Do you consider a chauffeur worth
two hundred dollars a month?" "Well,
the last one 1 had ran away with my
wife, and you knew my wife, old man."
Life.
A woman in northern Missouri hat
sued an editor because, in writing the
obituary of her husbaud, be stated "lie
bus gone to a happier home." Kansas
City Post
Paticuce Don't you admire her
hair? Patrice indeed, 1 do I I al
ways admired it In fact, I came near
buying it before she did. Yonkers
Statesman.
St Peter What makes you so busyl
Recording Angel Taking the names of
New Yorkers who are still insisting
that they have no taxable property.
Harper's Razar.
llyker 1'ou don't seem to be worry
ing any about jour failure in business.
Pyker Oh, no ; that's one of the things
I have turned over to my creditors.
Chicago Duily News.
Myer There goes the widow Nagga.
They say she drove her husband to an
untimely grave. Gyer Well, that isn't
so bad. She might have made him
walk there. Chicago Daily Newa
Mr. 'Iggs Is your program full up,
Miss 'Awklus? Miss 'Awkius (under a
slight misapprehension) Not much It
ain't I've 'ad nothln' to eat since I've
been 'ere. What time's supper? Pick-Me-Up.
He Oh, pleudc, Mile. Jeanne, do not
call me Mr. Durand. She (coyly) Oh,
but our acquaintance is so short Why
should I not call you that? "Well,
chletly because my name Is Dupout"
Nos Lolsirs.
Benedick That luminous paint is a
splendid Invention. Singleton What
do you use it for? Benedick We paint
the baby's face so we can give him a
drink iu the night without lighting the
gas. Chicago Chronicle.
He (after the refusal) Had I been
rich, perhaps your answer would have
been quite different She Perhaps.
He But poverty is no crime. She
Oh, yes, it. is and tbe punishment is
hard labor. Illustrated Bits.
"My daughter Is positively dollghted
with her new piano," said Mrs. Nex
dore; "she's quite familiar, you know,
with all the classic composers "
"Familiar?" exclaimed Mra Peppery,
"why she's positively flippant" Phil
adelphia Press.
The Gentleman Farmer (anxiously)
What in the world, Uncle Totterly,
do you suppose is the matter with my i
bens? Why, this morning I found six ;
of them lying on their backs, cold and
Btlff, with their feet sticking up In the ;
air. The 'Ancient Man (after n suit-'
able season of cogitation) Yer hens la
dead, Mr. Cittlly. Puck.
The Ttvlna.
The Harmon twins looked so much
like as babies that their parents could
scarcely tell them apart As they grew
older It became evident that to Grand
mother Ilarmou at least the twins were
a unit
"You were asking me how much the
twins weigh," said Grandmother Har
mon to a neighbor. "When I went out
that afternoon I put ono of them on
the scales at the grocery, and found
they weigh Just twenty-six pounds,"
"Do they always weigh exactly the
mine?" Inquired the neighbor, and
Grandmother Harmon looked quite im
patient "The twins V she said. "Of course;
why not?"
The neighbor hud no reason to give,
but she rebelled a few days later when
in answer to her Inquiry Grandmother
Harmon said:
"Where are the twins? Oh, they got
a cinder In one of their eyes, and their
inn' her has taken them down to the
oculist's to have it removed, they vera
fusing so over it."
The l'rufenor."
A bandmaster tells of an Incident that
occurred during a country festival la
the Southwest. The advent of the fa
mous laud had been awaited with in
ton.c Interest by the natives, and wl.ea
the musicians arrived they were quick
ly Kii.'roi.ndi-d by a surging crowd which
hemmed them la so that it was ililliilt
for t':eiu to proceed with their coo
cert. The l.andmnRter appealed to one of
the "committee" to keep the crowd
away, saying that unless bis men haj
more roou they could not play. The
couimitteeuiaii shook the musician's
hand warmly; then turning to the as
sembled multitude, he bawled out:
"Say! You-uns step back and give
the purfesser's nurfcFaers a chauct U
i.lay!"
llicle Kbru'a I'liiluaoBb,
"De muii dat keeps tcllln' all he
knows," said Uncle Etieii, "Is ll'ble not
to git time to II i. d out v"?u wutb tell
to'." Washington Stur.
MARY O'MAILET.
Mary O'Mal'ey lives down In our alley,
Upstairs, lu tbe rear of a flat,
With her father and niotlicr, her sister and brother,
A parrot, two dogs, and a cat.
Her face Is a losy, her chocks are so rosy,
Her mouth Is like honey and dew;
Your heart's In a shiver, your lips In a quiver,
When Mary Is looking at you.,
0 me'! O my! 0 Mary O'Mallcy!
The neighbors all know you're tbe pride of the alley I
You're fair as a dream, you're poaches and cream,
You're sweeter than clover, a thousand times over!
, .And would you but marry you dear little fairy!
Is It single I'd tarry?
Nay, nary !
The first time I met her bow can I forget her!
She was bringing a basket of clothes;
1 looked at her sweetly, she spurned me completely,
And turned up her beautiful nose.
She's cunningly saucy and very criss-crossy
And stubborn, yet once in a while
Your heart gaily dances because her sweet glances
Have wrapixxl ioi all up In a smile.
O tne! O my! O Mr-y O'Mallcy!
Your glance Is the light and the life of our alley!
You're better than gold to have and to hold!
Be done with your teasing, your melting end freezing!
O could I possess you I'd food you and d. ,ss you
And love and caress you,
God bless you !
-Nlxon Waterman.
Changed
Speaklng of circumstances altering
cases, there was the case of Miss
Eupbemln Sellox.
You may not remember the name,
but It Is quite probable that your wife
will. If she belongs to n woman's efub
or society of any sort, or even Ir she
was a reader of the Woman five or six
years ago. The Woman Is a publica
tion devoted to fashions, Action, house
hold science, uplift and problems of so
cial etiquette, and Miss Sellox, strange
ly enough, contributed to the uplift de
partment Strangely, Ttrruuse her arti
cles mainly "tlirew the hooks," to
use a figurative expression, Into
the tyrant man and dragged him
from tbe pedestal upon which he
had been permitted to pose for
ages by reason of the other sex.
She also lectured and her Icono
clastic eloquence Is said to have been
largely Instrumental In securing the
suffrage for the women of Wyoming.
From which you will gather that Miss
-IS OUR VANITY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE VANITY OF MAN?"
Sellox was not any spring chicken. She
was not That Is, she had not been
for some time.
'She was a good woman, undoubted
ly, but hardly a good-looking one, ac
cording to common standards of beau
ty. She was tall, but not divinely so;
fair, but with the fairness associated
with freckles. Her eyes were blue and
her hair golden, but the blueness had
a steely quality, emphasized by eye
glasses, and tbe gold was pale and lus
terless and there wasn't any too much
of It
"Lords of creation!" she would ob
serve, with bitter sarcasm. "Let ua
examine tills lordly creature, ladles.
So far as our limited minds will en
able us, let us analyze him and find a
reanon If we can for bis supremacy. It
Is treason, of course, but suppose we
be a little treasonable, for a change.
Do we find the reasons in his superiori
ty of Intellect? Let the names of wom
en Illustrious In science. In the arts, in
all fields of intellectual endeavor, an
swer that question. .We are t' Id that
these are exceptional. To a certain ex
tent that Is true, but they are numer
ous enough to demonstrate what wom
an can achieve when she bursts
through the trammels with which the
selfishness of man has bound her, and
as our liberty Is extended, us wo eman
cipate ourselves from our thraldom,
more and more we gain eminence In
the professions we have adopted. Ex
amine the statistics of coeducational
institutions.
"If we are not inferior Intellectually,
are we so morally? With all his pre
tension, man bus not dared to assert
this. Then we ar physically Inferior.
That Is to say, we have less of mere
brute strength, of muscle and sinew.
Therefore, khjs generous, chivalrous
man, we must lie kept In abject sub
jection, caressed or abused recording
to his whims and generally abused.
Ixills, toys, creatures without souls al
most 'Wives, obey your husbands.
Why? Because'they arc nble to kmick
you down with a blow of their list If
you don't
"We are vain, but Is our vanity to
be compared with the vunlty of man?
Do we not all of us know that weak
ness of his, my sisters, and lu our
weakness take advantage of that
knowledge? We are vain and we love
to talk. Merciful goodness. If our
loquacity approached that of these
lords of creation we should Indeed
bave cause to blush with shame.
"Marriage! Slavery that Is what
marriage means to woman. Abject
slavery. You married women toll day
and night, year after year, drudging
at nieulal tasks till your limbs will
Her Views
hardly support you and your nerves
are worn to a thread with the trivial
cases of the household. Yes, your
sphere Is the home. Darn your hus
band's socks, cook his dinners, rear
his children, make your year-before-last
hats and be happy and contented.
Why on earth do you do It? Is It an
unreasonable question?"
A nilsogamist by conviction, a man
hater, It seemed by instinct Miss Sel
lox, never missed an opportunity of
expressing hcrelf either by tongue or
pen on the subject of woman's servi
tude. She had a hard time of It naturally.
The profession of emancipator Is not a
pnying ono from a pecuniary point of
view. She went here nnd there over
the land, attending conventions, lectur
ing, organizing and what not, riding
iu stuffy day conches, staying nt third
rate hotels, patronized, ridiculed,
abused, applauded In turn, and with
no prospect of anything else before her
in life. Not that she would bave ask
ed for anything more.
Then a rich relative happened to die
and left her a pretty good thumping
legacy.
Within a month after that her views
became radically changed. She grew
tolerant of the monster man. A month
later she married him.
If you ask for the reason, I can only
reply that It was a very good and suf
ficient one. I don't know whut the
man's motives were. He may not have
been mercenary. As I have said, Miss
Sellox had many excellent qualities.
There has to be a first proposal for
every woman, however engaging, If
you come to that. But the reason was
that the man asked her to marry him
and she concluded that sho liked
him. Chicago Dally News.
Odd Ouint of m llrunnan.
Ills name Is Barnes. Until recently
he was a mechanic. Now he Is a trav
eling salesman of distinctly novel va
riety. He lives In the prairie section of tho
middle west, and when gasoline engines
began to approach their present prac
ticability decided that they were bound
to replace windmills for farm purposes.
In this belief he secured an agency for
the one bo considered best, procured a
sample and set It up on an ordinary
farm wagon from which be removed
the pole.
By a few simple connections he ar-,
ranged bis wagon to steer from inside
the body. One shaft, with sorne sprock
et wheels and chain, made all the
mechanism necessary iu order for the
engine to drive his combination at the
rate of six miles an hour.
He carri. s a pump jack and a small
assortment of small .'tieys so ar
ranged as to be capable of attachments
to churns, washing machines and the
like. Ills outfit attracts attention and
makes talk, all of which has advertis
ing value, while when be pulls Into a
fanner's yard he can show bis pros
pective customer just whut the machine
will do.
As a result be sells more engines
than all other agencies lu his territory,
and us he carries blsxifthv In his jiockel
his territory Is limited only by hl
sjieed.
Good Tip.
"Gladys told me she was going p
bleach her hulr."
"What did you say?"
"Keep It dark." Princeton Thjjw.
Be polite to some people, and the)
will be Impudent in return. FortUD
ately such people are not numerous
. MCENT LEGISLATION I vftWf
AGAINST REBATES AND 1 W!tntr0 76w
"W-'isH SPECIAL CONCESSIONS HAIZyss JASWfIyIS.
The old-time wagon show, "like our
fathers used to see," Is to come back.
Let the trumpets blare and the Img
pllHs skirl!
There are many causes for this. One
Is, that while men may come and men
may go, like Tennyson's brook, the
w agon show w ill go on forever. I'.ut
the main reason Is to lie found In the
action of law-makers, grave nnd seri
ous, at various state capitals and at
Washington.
Tho wagon show thrived like the pro
verbial green bay tree and was then
supplanted by the railroad show. Jum
bo was no longer called on to hoist the
wagon out of the gully Into which It
had sunk while en route across country.
The boys of the vicinity no longer found
their opiiortunity, asirlde rail U :ices In
the uncertain light of the morning,
when the circus straggled Into town,
and vied with each other for oppor
tunity to carry liquid refreshment to
the elcphaut. Railroad competition
surely and by no means slowly proved
too fierce. Great circuses could lie
moved hundreds of miles while the old
time show was laboriously creaking
along muddy roads, where tho Klhg
drag was a thing unknown.
But there Is a movement toward a
revival of the wagon show. Excessive
freight rates, the scarcity of rolling
stock and the legislation, by states and
nation, against the granting of rebates
or making any comvsslons to circuses
or theatrical companies, no matter how
many people and animals and para
phernalia are transported, are resKn
slble. The managers of circuses can
no longer obtain concessions that make
profitable long Jumps from one city to
another. The margin of profit In a
great show is necessurlly close and un
certain; heart-holding nets are high
priced, comiK'titlon Is strong.
No less an aggregation of circus tal
ent, with millions of dollars at stake,
than Rarnutn & Bailey's, is consider
ing this matter. It Is proposed to
abandon railroads for motor conches
and vans, to quit the regular steel rails
of the steam roads for the wagon roads
over which tho countryman drives to
the city with his produce. In huge mo
tor vans and cars, such as those now
used by large concerns to move freight
to depots and warehouses, It Is pro
posed to move the show from city to
city.
Smaller shows would undoubtedly
follow suit The old-stylo wagon show
may flourish as It did two decades ago.
Many of the wagons will bo propelled
by machinery, cunningly contrived, and
hidden away In their Interior. V-ut
there will be plenty of shows which,
from necessity or by rea-ons of econ
omy, wllj depend on horses, as of yore.
There Is no more Interesting Institu
tion in the world than a circus, from
the lieutenant general In eommnnd to
the humblest stake driver In the rear
rank of the privates. Tho plcturesque
ness of a show, particularly a wagon
show, does not end behind the scenes,
though the bareback riders and tho
acrobats, the contortionists and tbe
wild animal trainers mingle in ordi
nary clothes, talk ordinary topics, such
as tbe weather, the size of the day's
attendance, the latest bit of Interna
tional scandal. Outfitting a circus Is
Just about as small a Job as getting an
army ready to go to Cuba at a day's
notice, and not die of starvation or bo
killed because of Inexperience the first
day out.
If anybody thinks getting un old
styled wagon show reudy to quit win
ter quarters und take to the rood Is
a sinecure, let him buy two or three
dozen head of horses, train ait elephant,
a few camels, give a monkey dally
practice lu looping the loop strapped
In a toy automobile, show some fifty
negroes how to erect a tent so that It
will stay erect, manage n side show, a
menagerie, two rings and a platform
and hire a few cooks Into tho bargain.
And the hiring of the cooks Is not the
slightest part of the task, by any
means. Imagine hiring one to cook for
IL'5 men and women, hungry and peev
ish, three good, big locals u day, with
the kitchen In a new plait; every day!
After all, an old-styled wagon show
Is no small uffalr. Take, say, thirty
five wagons, for instance. They hold
as much circus paraphernal la as fifteen
railroad cars. One is apt to think of a
wagon show us u small affair, of unu
ring, a dozen performers, a half dozen
or so horses. That was the wugon
show of yesterday, while tho railroad
how flourished, but now that the re
turn movement has begun there are
wagon shows und wugon shows.
There Is a routine about the day's
work that Is as well preserved as
though tbe show were un army moving
ou an enemy.
At 0 o'clock in the evening, two hours
before the evening performamt Is to
begin, tbe cook bouse Is dismantled,
four horses are hitched to It, and w!S
rattle and bang, the cooks In their
white caps and aprons vociferously
houtlng out some last message and
Jie Dans hantclus azalnst the side of
Che wagon, while the aroma of coffee
sod bacon greets the nostrils, the cook
tent disappears down the road toward
the town of the next day's stopping.
The cook tent reac'ies Its destination
early In the night twenty 10 twenty
five miles Is tbe average dal'y Jump of
n wagon show and all la put In readi
ness for the serving of early breakfast
the next morning.
At 8 o'clock the performance In the
big tent begins, and the crowds which
have stood open-mouthed before the
cages lu the menagerie tent rush to
their seats to see the big show. Im
mediately tbe work of demolishing the
menagerie tent Is begun. The animals
are fed, then the sides are put on their
cages, the horses are bitched up, four
to each den or cage, and across coun
try, accompanied by a route finder, tbe
menagerie, making up the first main
section of the show, starts In the wake
of the cookhouse.
This route finder Is an Important per
sonage In the circus; It Is his business
to scout ahead, ascertain the best
roads, and by laying laths down at the
Intersections and divergencies disclose
the route to the wagons tbat follow
him.
The menagerie section comes up to the
cook tent some time during the night
and camps until morning.
At 12 o'clock, as a rule, the baggage
train takes up Its start The big show
Is over, the tent hns been struck, the
stakes have been pulled, the parapher
nalia has been packed In wagons, the
people have gone to bed, but , while
they sleep, with a merry, ringing chorus
of "Yo-heave-o, St. Louis, Kansas City,
Omaha," and so on, with the name of
the home of every roustabout sung In
a long drawn out chant the circus has
been torn down and packed up ready
for transiiortatlou.
Midnight strikes In the city, and tbe
man who saw the circus dreams of the
queen In pink tights and tho fairy In
glittering spangles, but the wagons
creak across country and the roust
abouts snatch what little Bleep they
can as tho wagons topple back and
forth and the horses pull and plunge.
In the meantime, what of tho span
gled fairy and the plnk-tlguted queen,
to say nothing of the musicians and
tho men performers of the sawdust
rings?
They are sleeping the sleep of tbe
Just lu the best hotels the town affords.
That Is ono reason why the averago
circus performers would rather travel
with a wagon show than a railroad
show. After tho night performance of
a railroad show, he or she must wend
their weary way to the train, hunt for
It In an iutenntnable tangle of tracks,
and seek what repose they can In
crowded bunks as the car Is switched
around or pounds over the rails. But
In the big wagon show, the perform
ers go to hotels, get a good night's rest
METHOD OF CUBING FEVER. AMONG BEDOUINS.
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SAM) AS A SI BS'IITLTK FOR ICE,
llcdoulus that wander iu tho desert have many rough und uncouth ways,
but perhaps the uiost unique of these is the way they doctor fever patients.
They have a rough und reudy method of attempting to cure fever caused by
the wounds they have Inflicted ou those they have captured for saJe ft slaves.
Ice Dtithu being out of tbe question, the patients are buried up to their necks
in sand lu the hope that the cool soil will allay tbe raging fever. Tbe victims
remain burled for several days until) Indeed, it is said they are either killed
or cured. Statistics obtained by those who have Investigated tbe matter say
that fully 80 per ceut of tl) irl8oiitrB siKvumlt to the treutnipnt. Tbo UMfr
of medicines Is almost unknown among tne trllxsuiea who luuablt the desert&w
In a bed and sleep soundly until ths,
next morning.
At 5:30 o'clock the musicians and
performers are routed out of bed ; at 6
o'clock they have breakfast at the ho
tel, and a half hour later tbe third
section of tbe show takes up Its Jour
ney, the band wagon In the lead, and
busses, carrying the musicians and per-;
formers, In the van. This third sec
tion usually strikes the town of the,
day's performance at 0 or 10 o'clock.;
At 12 :30 comes the parade, at 2 o'clock
tho afternoon performance, at 8 o'clock
the evening performance, at 11 o'clockj
bed; and so on, day after day, week
after week, until the season la ended.
Such Is life In the wagon show. St
Louis Globe-Democrat
MADE MIRTH AND TROUBLE. '
Some Anoalof Incidents Over DeW
alanlnsr the Flrrt Dollar. ,
Documents In the Congressional II -!
brary at Washington show that wbem
the establishment of a mint was tin-:
der discussion In Washington's time
there were some amusing debates Inj
Congress concerning the devices the
coins should bear. There Is one ac-l
coant of a squabble over the design!
for the silver dollar. i
It appears that a member of the
house from a southern State bitterly
opposed the choice of the englo on ac
count of Its being the "king of birds"!
ana nonce neitner suitable nor proper
to represent a nation whose Institu
tions and Interests were wholly Inimi
cal to mouarchlal forms of government.
Judge Tatcher In reply had play
fully suggested that perhaps a goose
might suit the gentleman, as It .was
rather a humble and republican bird,
and would also be serviceable In other:
resiiects, as tbe goslings would answer:
to place upon tho dimes.
This reply created considerable mer-
rlineut and the irate southerner, con-j
sideling tho humorous rejoinder as ani
Insult, sent a challenge to Judge That-i
cher, who promptly declined It The
bearer, rather astonished, asked: "Will,
you be branded as a coward?" I
"Certainly, If ho pleases," replledj
Thatcher. ' "I always was one and he
knew It or he would never have risked,
a challenge." J
The affair caused much mirth, but:
was finally adjusted, cordial relations,
being restored, the Irritable southerner)
concluding there was nothing to be
gained In fighting one who fired noth.
ing but Jokes.
The Aleutian Iatanda.y
The Aleutian Islands were bo called i
from the river Olutora, In Kamchatka.
The people living at the mouth of this'
stream were called Alutorsky, and a
modification of the name was given to'
the Islands.
