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    TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. APRIL UK 1000.
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LEAF OF CIVIL WAR HISTORY
Reoolltctioni of a BarTiring Member of the
Proviiiontl Conzre i
CONFEDERATE HISTORY NOW FIRST TOLD
UrlKln of Mrtitnrlnl liny, Itrrekln
rlilnr'a I'lnn to Mnrrcnilrr tlir Cnn
(cilrrncy mill Oilier Itirltlcnta
of the (treat Ml turkIc
In a comfortable frame house at Wood
land, a pretty suburb cn the Wabash rail
road, lives one of the only two survivors
of the provlBlonnl congreta of the southern
confederacy, reports the St. I-ouls Hepublle.
He Is Dr. Samuel Howard Ford, for more
than sixty-two ymra a clergyman ot the
Uaptlst church, an LL. I)., a D. D., and a
rb. D.
The other living member of that mem
orable congress Is J. U. M. Curry, formerly
of Alabama, now of Washington City.
Doctor Ford Is 82 year old. For more
than fifty years he has edited the Christian
Repository, one of the foremost Uaptlst
periodicals of tho country. He claims Mis
souri as his home, not by birth, bu,t by
adoption. lie was born In Knglind, but
came to this country with his parents lu
bis early childhood.
Doctor Ford camo to St. I-otils from
Memphis In 1871, after the yellow fever epi
demic In the south. It was his tfecand com
ing to tho city In which' bo had been edu
cated and bad served In editorial positions.
Trior to his Memphis rcsldenco he Jived In
Mobile.
On Tuesday, April 3, tho date ot the
thirty-fifth anniversary ot tho fall of Rich
mond, ho told tho reminiscent story of the
beginning of the war to a Republic repre
sentative. It contains Information not here
tofore published.
It constitute tho vencrablo clergyman
tho first Memorial day scrmonlst.
It accords to tbo women of Memphis tho
distinction of having Inaugurated Decoration
ministration, but opposed with great power
by Robert Toombs of Georgia, who said In
the language of Arlstldes In regard to seiz
ing the shipping In the port of Athens: 'It
was a good thing for Athens, but most un
just, and so let no unjust act mark the
course of the confederacy.'
"It was due to Toombs ntrong Influenco
that the bill failed. There was a Krcat deil
of discussion Just at that time In regard to
the failure of an advance on Washington
aftor the battle of Manataan. Ileaurcgard
had sent out a report of the battle, which
seamed to Imply that Mr. Davb wra tho
cause of tho nonadvanco. Davis indorsed
something like a demurrer on the back of
the report and a very heated dimension en
sued, but tho matter was amicably adjusted.
However, I was sent by Mr. Davis with a
member from 8outh Carolina, Iloyce, to s?o
Beauregard In regard to his going acrots io
Kentucky to co-operate with Sidney John
ston, which he consented to do. In that
conversation I learn! definitely from
Beauregard that the advance on Washington
was not possible, as they had no traniporti
tlon, and everybody thought the whole war
was over after the Bull Run victory.
InntiKiirntlon of Darin.
"The day Anally arrived for tho Inaugura
tion of Jefferson Davln no permanent presi
dent of the southern confederacy. It wan a
cold, rainy day. Tho congressmen and tho
members of the cabinet met In tho Virginia
state house preparatory to proceeding to tho
stand creeled xomc llltlo dlstanco from it.
There sat Davlri, with his face pale, fixed,
moveless as marble, entering, upon what
would either cover him with glory or per
haps bring nn Ignominious death.
"Wo marched through tho rain tho short
distance to the stand, I took part with
Illshop Johns In the chaplaincy of the occa
sion. With firm volco and fearless utter
anco Davis announced In his Inaugural his
determination to pursue to the last tho holy
effort ct defcrne tbo confederacy was making.
'J. I.. M. Curry, then of Alabama, now ot
Washington City, Is the only ono left, be
sides mysidf, who served In that original
provisional congress. Senator Vest, from
this state, becamo a member afterward anl
was In tho permanent congress. I declined
to run as a candidate for the permanent
day away back In 1866, a pious custom fol- sfMi hut u'nn nffnrprl nnaltlnna in enn-
( lowed rinco by thousands of communities In npcton wi,n the cabinet, which I also de-
It relates how surrender of tho confederacy .-u'lcfaii nf tptsh. nnn of hn mont ettea-
was planned by a few patriotic men aftor ve 8pCnkera nn(1 a ,OVoted chainpluu of
urani naa crossru mo i inuiuBu iiYt-i. Dnvls. nnssed at onco out of s cht. .No ono
It cites John C. IJrccklnrldgo as tho orlg- h known what his end was. Heagan
Inator of tho plan and names as his strong
i est opponents Jefferson Davis and Congrcss-
'snan Wlgfall of Texas.
It gives Ueaurcgard's reason, personally
tetated to Doctor Ford, for his non-advancement
on Washington.
It tells of men In tho provisional congress
of Texas, a member of the administration,
Hill lives.
I was living In Moblio during part of the
war, attending tho sick and wounded; In
fact, I led the retreat from I-oulsvlllo to
Mobile. When Canty camo up tho bay 1
alirri.nrlnrnrl. T nnver fired a. elin in nllKCr.
who wero not originally secessionists, but but min8tcre,i n grCnt deal to the. Missouri j ,,ced no delivered an i
wero drawn Into tho whirlpool of secession and K.ntucky lro3pg. Senator Cockrell of Tabcrnaclo in which I
against their own convictions. tnjs 8tat0 ws a warra f rcn(j 0f mine and
This Is Doctor Fords story: was ... nicrtalncd at my houso during
I have not prepared anything at oil for ,,. . , Vno,.. ,nhn H MorBan verv
this Intcrvlow, and, tncrciore, i sn.ni give L1 wnfl a dashing, fearless man
It in colloquial phraseology, ueing rcareu wlth a Erpa. it for management. IIn
In Missouri and an alumnus of lt stato uni- COuld outwit whomever ho met and withal
ladles to deliver what would really be a
semi-sermon In memory of tho dead, and
that I would certainly do It, unlets pre
vented by force, In which case tho respon
sibility of what might o:cur would not rest
with me. Tho matter was published In tho
Memphis papers, and created great excite
ment. The commissioner1 telegraphed my
answer to General Thomas at Nashville, and
he sent It on to President Johnson at Wash
ington. I'lrnt .Metitnrlnt Dny.
"At midnight preceding tho day appointed
for tha memorial (the mlddlo of May), an
omcttr knocked at my doar. I looked out
of the window wo wero rather cautloui
those daja to see who It was, The officer
Informed mo that liberty had been granted
by thci military authorities at Washington
for mo to mako the address. I asked him
If he had communicated It to the papeis, and
he eald bo had.
"Tho next morning at about 10 o'clork tha
wholo city turned out. More than 30,000
peoplo repaired to 131m wood cemetery. The
ladles were seated on tho grant around tho
platform amidst tho graves ot tho confed
erato dead. Many federal ofneera In undress
uniforms were In tho throng. I opened my
addrees to that hushed throng by saying:
" 'When tho beauty of Israel was slain
on somo high places, David took up the
lamentation In Inimitable strains that have
drlftol down to us with a pioullar pathw.
"Let there be no dews on Ollboa, nor rain,
nor Holds of offering," and so on down to
tho conclusion ot tho chant, "How havo the
mighty fallen!"
" 'If David could tako up these strains of
sadness and eulogy,' I continued, 'over the
death of his lifelong foe, Sul, why shall
not wo utter tho same words of tenderness
over our own loved frlcnxs who sleep
nround us In silent, unmarked grnves? . Of
them I can say:
"No battle banner o'er them waves,
No battle trumpet sounded;
They've reached tho citadel of graves,
And hero their urms aro grounded!
"It was my own composition and ex
pressed with tears. And tnen I exclaimed
somowhero In tho address:
" Mistaken they may havo been, but
traitors, no'ert' A thousand women, with
tears streaming down froin tender eyes,
responded; 'Never! Never!'
"This ppeech was published all over tho
United States, It was tho first Decoration
day speech, and Inaugurated tho solemn
custom wo obscrvo nt tho vrcscnt day In
memory of tho 'Hluo and U.o Cray.'
Spiiiiiioh iu I'rl viitrcrliisr.
"You ask what I havo to .ay about pri
vateering going on on tho seas during the
war. I knew Admiral Semmes personally
In Memphis after tho penco roncluslon. Ho
was editor of tho Hulletln, I bcllove. In-
addrcrs In tho great
nreacacd on 'Tho
KANSAS AND ITS HIGH WINDS
Reporter' Imagination Q1td Full Eweep
in the Eirlj Djs.
STORIES ABOUT QUEER FREAKS OF WIND
Deendeiiee nf Tnrnnilnen Mint Once
Jn.o the Stnte llrnnwn-SprlitK
Wlniln Remind n Correiionil
rut nf (loud Old Time.
.Alabama and Privateering.' In this ad
dress he denied emphatically and bhowed
documents to provo It thai no was a pri
vateer In any senso any more than the
nrmlps wero marauders. 'Ills shin was a
l 1 1 .. nnMHilB.lnnni1 pnnf.llflr.ltn VPMROl
veraltv. 1 -was mado editor of the Western h. .a. Bl.ntin. iovlnir sort of fellow. For- I . . , . u-m . i.h0
Uocnrdor 4hn leadlnr Danllat PBDCr of tho I ,- nn ii nihnr hand. wn Inclined to be ; .. " . .
west. This was early In the 'SO's. hence I BeVeTc, although after the war ho became a "llu" ... '...i .,crted that
became, associate,! with tho preus ot this city very mlMc, acllvo c.t.acn. In m, ; lZ'2no an unkind act nor a
nnd I navo occn so rouuctwi - opinion uragg was mo puunn i
lU tho-ngo of 20 I was made assistant cuuor tho war. After tho battlo of cnattanooga,
with Colonel Chambers ot tho then Missouri instead of pursuing tho federal army, he
Ilcpubllcan, now tho Republic. In that ca- expended his wholo mental energies upon
paclty I wroto some things In regard to getting up statistics, showing how many
when that movement was started, nrlsoners he had, how many flag.? ho had
but not in favor of It. I believed that tho takon, and thus let the whole thing slip
totes' should remain In the union ana nauio out or. nis grasp, ins marm uiruuK
- n,.i. nnriir 4ho old tlac. I tucKy snowea indecision, out it in iuhhui
Wl iuvii .u - ....I. .V,. m
Kmlnrkr llefore the War. now io puss ou uih tuuua i ......
iinnvr,r I was sourht out br Mr. Hal- have gone
- .i n... Lmilavllln Courier. Why Tonmlm W nn fiheUrcl
OUIUnUi 111U uw "w ' - .
.u .i.,.inrnl In answer, edl- "My own opinion IS mai u loomua uau
torlally, articles by Ocorge D. Prentiss lA been president of the confederacy tho wholo
tho Journal, and by degrees I Became cai
" , , ,, , vi . , cntiriw l raonius. loomw wouia nnvo uu inwi-
vonai wriiir-iii-v.cl .... .. .... . , naUi. ir h ,lv nf the
. nl t n t Inn warn rMrninff Its I uci.u iii.imu .., -
en, us " "" 1o,in v, n. ,prn thn worse for
height, there was called a race ing c crrat odaoa
. . . i . . vAni t miw rv ra noiii nr tiih - -w '
leaning mt m r..., - --- nrlll.innahlv nnn nr the finest orators
finll House. Among those wno eutnnra " ' .
a belligerent pcopio me
He spoke of his
he had
an act that
was not strictly honost In all his captures
of American vessels. Then ho Btated wlln
bold uttcranco that ho was personally
responsible for every act hi. nad committed
and that his freedom today proved to all
thn world that he had novtr been a pirate,
but a legitimate admiral ot a legltlmato
government.
"Ho spoke of tho sinking of tho Alabama
by a chanco shot in somo portion of tho
vessel, which Immediately Incapacitated it,
and had it not been for that ho had every
reason to supposo that bo ould havo been
u i...k t,- Mrf in ihron victorious over the Kcarsarge. It had been
IUUIK WV.MU 1.I1VV L';v,
thin meeting -were John C. iirccKinriago,
whoso term as vlco president bad Just ex
pired; Governor McOuffln, ex-Oovcrnor
wnnrnhesd. Richard Durrett, Humphrey
Marshall and others. The business under
rnn ldic-allon -was tho courwo Kentucky
but at tha samo tlmo Inclined to quarrel
even with his best friends. His language
In regard to Joe Rrown of Georgia, a very
intense secessionist at first, and wbo ordered
tho embargo on the northern ships In
Savannah harbor beforo there was any
confederacy, and who, after Appomattox, bo
nhould nursue. I "wns Invited to take part ,. ',K10 . .hn mntt wither-
In the consultation and tho opinion generally ,nB Wnd galj Toombg )n tt Bpecch: 'Ig-
exprcsscd was to pren-ent, if possible, the nohe v1Ian mloyed on by corruption, he
necosslon ot any of thn southern etatffl, as r,g(;g ag hp ro,g ,
that would draw Kentucky Into the war tax. nut aovernor nrown was not deserving
Letter wero wrltton by somo ot theso gontle- of tneg(J gcatnng remarks. Ho was said to
men to tho leading men of South Carolina ,ho only raan In the confederacy against
not to pasa a secession ordinance. All know wnom a direct charge of treason could be
what happened, however, and state after brought, and, as ho said to mo 'I agreed
etato seceded. with my adversary quickly.' llobert
"Fort Sumter was attacked, the country Toombs regretted In other years that bo
was In a blazo and Buckner, with his State na(1 USCQ ,ncse nevcro words,
fjuard. retired to tho rendezvous on the "Toomba might havo been sent back to
borders of Kentucky, when, suddenly, the tho genato after tho reconstruction, but ho
news reached us that bo and tno aiaio dccllnod. Ho told mo himself ho baa
Guard had onteired Kentucky, camped In fought the government with all his might
Howling Orcon nnd eelicd tho Green River, ami therefore took no cognizance nor asked
miittlnc olltnosts. on Muldraugh's hill, favors of It.
Carans had already been formed acrosB the "nen Hill of Georgia wns In many respects
river In Indiana and Sherman, with his the greatest statesman In tho confederacy.
troops, passed through Ioulsvlllo to stay jo was one of thoso who favored tho clos
tho approach of nuckner. Ing of tho war long before It camo to paea,
"That nl6ht tho Courier office was raided, a fact which has never been recorded.
'Articles In tho handwriting of ex-Oovcrnor "Shortly after Grant'B army bad crossed
Moorohead and of Durrett were found In the Potomao to make the final stand near
the otnee. Doth these men were arrsstad Petersburg It becamo apparent to many
nnd sent to prison. I wa' somewhat that tha cause waa lost. The border .states,
alarmed, for I was not In a condition of including Tennessee and Arkansas, wero in
health to rnduro prison life. I had reason the possession of tho federals. Tho wholo
to believe that many of my articles would iWeep ot tho Mississippi wns under their
be found In the office, or that tho printers control.
would make It known that I had been editor Trj -Inn to Quit,
for somo time; so In tho gray of the morn- ..Tnn representatives o! theso border
lug I packed up what was necessary, en- glatcSi including John C- Breckinridge,
tered my buggy and drove off to a place nelll a consultation and decldod to propose
called Boomfleld, where the camp of John to lno K0Vernmcnt at Washington a com
II. Morgan waa secretly located. pl(,l0 BUrrcnder f the confederacy bb a
Snfnty In i-'llwlit. whole, with all Its arms and general assets,
"That night we passed through, or very on tcrmg that Bnouid be agreed upon. It
near, Sherman's army, and reached tho wag beneved t0 h0 the only way to savo tho
other sldo of Green River, where the con- B0Utn fr0m rulu. Davis was approached In
federate troops wore encamped. To go into reganl (0 tnis proposition, but'oppoteJ It.
further details, would bo unnecessary. Suf- d(1 (he nCn from cxtreroo points ot
flee It to say that very soon nftor tnlsJ.be tho goulh nnd especially opposed to it was
ocnventlon wns called for all tho counties wiKfoIl. I was not preient nt thla con
in the state to meet t Russcllvllle. Dele- guaUoni but Scuut0r Vest was, and had
gates were elected In somo way. and quito th)g bcen nccom,,inwi, guided by the dl
a largo gathering took place In the main pIci:naey of nrecklnrldge, all the evils of re
hall of tho Bethel Baptist college, of which tonstructlcn would bavo been avoided, it
Dr. Scott Blowett. now president WOuld have bcen tho best thing for the south
Jennings Female college, was president. nnd gavcJ a t ()eal of D,oodf,he(li
John C. Brccklnrldgo was maun pr.UBv j bspara0 farauiar with Jefferson Davis
of tho assemblage, ino mouon '""'' Uhlle wo were both In Memphis.
in that convention to elect a pcrmamui nr9,UNlt 0f an Insurance comnanv and I
lilature. which Breckinridge opposed, but wag r of R chur(,h attfr tho wRr j
Anally yielded to. A legislature and regu- wag asked by the fdUoM Qf a mugnj,,no to
Jar offlcers wero elected and Bowling ureen deU1J for them my conversation with Gcn-
was designate as tho mectlug place. craJ neaurcgnrd In relation to tho non-
"That legislature met. I waB In Nash- d Washington. This paper I
vtllo at the time, to which place Haldoman to Dav(g nnJ hj gev(;ral
had removed hla Courier, but passing on Uw (, gubjm KlvlnR tbe
railroad through Russellvllle I was aston- P th..lr. but the manu-
ishe.1 to learn that I had been elected by ' '
the legislature a c ommlssloncr for tne state
of Kentucky to get that state to the con- '"t ,or Uint non-advnnco.
federaey. and that I was a member ot . the r dPCOratlon that over o.
planned by nn 'English gentleman owning
the yacht Deerhound that If anything hap
pened to him he would lay by as a refuge,
and directly thn vessel sank Semmes got
Into a boat nnd tho yacht picked him up
and carried him to a French port. When
Franco was asked to dcllvor him over that
country docllned to do so, and the United
States accepted Its utterance that Semmes
was a legitimate admiral of a belligerent
power, a worthy successor of tho famous
Paul Jones of other days."
FAIII.i:S 1111 TO DATE.
Topcka Mall nnd Breeze.
A tramp, who In his earlier nnd more
prosperous dcys bad bcen a politician
stopped nt a house, and, raising bis battered
hat to tbo woman wbo came to the door
with a deep frown on her face, said
"Madam, I am a hungry wayfarer, but I do
not como hero to ask for food or charity.
noticed this house as I was passing and said
to myself: 'I can toll by tho appearance of
this place that It la presided over by a lady
who Is cultured In mind, neat in person and
an excellent cook.' I could not resist the
temptation to ask If I might sit here for a
few moments nnd rest." Then the lady
said, with a benevolent smile: "I Bee, poor
man, that you are no common tramp." She
thereupon brought' out enough pie, cako and
meat to feed a strong hired man. And wrhen
tho tramp had filled himself to tho limit and
moved off down the road without having
been even asked to chop a stick of wood
he communed with himself, saying:
"Verbal glucose Ib cheap, but I know of
nothing that ytcldB bigger returns on tbe
investment."
Moral thore Is nothing Ilko understand
ing human nature.
A stranger pausing along a road heard
In tho dlstanco a tremendous bellowing and
said to a companion: "I presume when we
get In sight of that animal wo will find
that ho is the largest and altogether the
finest bull In this country." But when they
finally camo to the place whoro tho animal
was bellowing nnd pawing up tho earth they
found that it was a narrow-hammed Texas
bruto that would not weigh over 700 pounds
and would not sell for moro than $17.50 In
any market.
Moral You never can tell by the amount
of noise an Individual makes how much ice
ho cuts In tho world.
A farmer's boy, who was born weary, was
Bent out to plow. Ho had been cautioned by
his paternal nncoitor to labor diligently, but
almost as soon an his ancestor was out ot
He was sight ho concluded that ho would take a rest.
Tho ftnit
currcd was In Memphis.
Tho ladies do:ldcd
provisional congress from tho IouUvllie
flisinct. V.u" ...V.':1-."."1. ."":':;., h u to raise funds to erect a monument to the
" " :j; '"TC n confederate dead nnd adorn tbelr grave,
I"' "r""',7,,M.; .id at with dowers. That was in May. 1S6C.
i felt Inclined not to accent, but I went They selected me to deliver an oration lu
Hlmwood ccmettry, Some time ue.'oro tho
event tho mayor of the city called on mo
and Informed mo that the military authori
ties, who thon occupied Memphis, had ronm
to him. ordering him to forbid the as-
on to Richmond and was duly sworn In.
That waa In February, 1861.
"It la a fact not generally known that a
number ot the men In the provisional con-
. - w.rn tint nrlirlnaltv cnremlnntats.
(Aloxandor Stephens, the vlco president, wra eeniblage- and the address, but as tho ceme
not: neither was Ben Hill ot Georgia, nor . tc-ry was outsldo tho city, ho had declined
Hlven of Virginia, and I wra not. with many I to tako any part In the maiier. a lew
othora. But wo wero In tho current and wo days later on orderly brought me a letter
i,.,i n do our best. There Is one thing I . from tno commanucr. teiiing roc mm
He was a dreamy, unoluorvlng sort of youth
and did not notice when ho sat down that a
colony of busy ants wero doing business
right there. Then, Just as the boy had
dropped oft Into a peaceful slumber, about
forty-flvo of tho ants took a recess from
their rejular work and crawled up under
tho boy'o pants and bit htm In several dozen
places at once. Then tho boy waked from
his slumber a little quicker than he had
ever dono In his I lfo bofore and ran howling
home, And hla father said as he bathed
him with pain killer nnd such other liniment
as happened to bo about the house. "My
son, you will learn from this that there are
things In this world that are a lot worse
than work."
Snrlng winds are pretty high In Kansas,
but It seems to me they are zephyrs now to
what they once were," remarked an old
newspaper correspondent, as ho ordered
drinks all around, In a corner drug itore, re
lates a Wichita correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean.
"Pcffer and his whiskers and Sockiess
Jerry Simpson have taken the shine off ot
the tornado stories we useu to write :or
eastern naners. Mary Elizabeth Lease also
did her sharo In wrecking the tornado busi
ness for enterprising newspaper men. hy, I
can recollect that about the time Wlchtta'a
world-famous boom was on and tbe town
growing nt the rate of n mile a day that I
was good for six columns oi nign-wiuj
btorlcs every week."
"Sure." assented tho nignt euitor. "11111
thero'a really somo truth In the rise and
fall of the homo-grown Kansas cycions.
Hedgo fences and apple orchards nnd peach
orchards and claim hunters' sod shanties
bavo dono moro to tame Kansas brejzo-i
than all our long-whlskcred pops. Twenty
years ago you could start at tbo western
border of Kansns. and drlvo half way acrojs
tho stato without striking a yard tree, an
orchard or a hedge fence. . Now It s differ
ent, and it takes a broncho buster of a
cyclono to make flvo miles without getting
a tired feeling."
"That's right." nut in the old-timo re
porter as ho drank the last of his cough
drops, "but the 'winds no mow ana craca
their heels' out horo yet occasionally. You
know Bud Johnson runs a chicken farm
out two miles from Wichita?"
"Yes, of course. Everybody knows nun.
"Well. Bud's a friend of mine, and I drove
out thcro with hlra a few days ago, and ho
called tho chickens up. AH of 'em were Just
otnrtln' pin feathers.
" 'What, got all these spring cnicKcns
a'ready, Bud?' I asked him.
" 'I havo spring chickens tbe year rounu,
said Bud, 'and always tho earliest In tho
market, but I don't wnnt you to give mo
away on It. I've got a place penned In with
wire net at tho top of that little knoll yon
der. As soon ns breozea oegin to blow In
tho spring I drlvo In all tho superannuated
chickens on the ranch, and In less than a
week tho wind strips their covering off
down to pin feathers and thcro you ore.
Nice spring chickens, tremendous size for
their age!"
Plight of l''nriuer Smith' Ciiw.
"That reminds' mo of Jim Smith's cow
ono of the most thrilling specials I ever
wrote, and all straight facts. One day In
ho boom tlmca Smith came driving In to
town from his farm llckety clip. Ho wanted
tho Wichita fire department to come out nnd
rescuo his best milk cor. When the hook-and-lnddcr
company got there they found a
tremendous long-homed b::ndle cow pinned
up to tho sldo of Smith's red barn, thirty
feet from the ground. She was literally
'up against It. and Smith and iMrs. Smith
and tho hired man and entire Smith family
had been trying for a week to get her down.
" 'A stiff breozo klm up kind o' suddent
like,' tbe old man explained, 'an' Brlndle
was h'lsted beforo I had t!:ne to run a lariat
over her lalgs an' aroun'd her horns and
mako her fast to U 'mfbstantlal hole In the
ground dug for thnt purpose. An' thar sbo
Is, pinned up nglnst the barn for six days
and n dyln' down of the breezes tha
blowed her up 'thar."
"That reminds me of a story a friend of
mino told me," put In t!ie drug clerk, as he
poured out some more cough drops for mo
dlclnal purposes. "He vas walking across
tho ilelds one day and tried to whistle. The
wind was blowing pretty hard and tho
whlstlo was no go. He puckered up his
mouth, but not a sound camo from it. Six
miles away another man was driving nlong
on a road parallel to the whistling man. He
met the whlBtlor next day and compli
mented him on his whistling.
" 'But I didn't whistle.' Bald my friend.
'I tried to, but tho wind blew so bard I
couldn't make n sound.' Experiments
proved that the Kansas spring wind had
blown tho whistle six mtles away beforo It
had tlmo to make a sound."
"For years tho Santa Fo railroad main
tained a continuous orchestra at the
Wichita depot," said the nowspaper re
porter. "The company had a lot of tele
graph wires strung oveir tho depot, some
tight and somo loose, with largo and small
wires. Tho Kansas zephyrs blowing
through these kept perfect time. Tho clerks
noticed It, and by putting In an Ingenious
wooden contrlvanco between tho wires they
had all tho popular tunes of the day.
Wichita first heard 'Johnny, Get Your Gun,'
and 'Whlto Wings,' and I Want You. Ma
Honey,' via tbe Santa Fe orchestra, which
picked up the airs from Chicago drummers.
Crop nioTrn Out of (irouaJ.
"Western Kansas for years was known
as 'the short-grass region,' because tbo wind
blew so hard the grass never got more than
two Inches high. A mr.n from 'Missouri
moved out hero onco nnd sowed a crop of
fall wheat. Ho put tho w'aeat In on a hill
sldo field nnd next spring when It came up
It was all In tho valley. Spring winds and
fall breezes had mado av. Interchange ot
crops In the two fields. Another man from
Missouri had hla garden truck blown out
of tho ground flvo times wefore ho learned
to plant It a foot deep and weight It down
with Hat I reins,
Pioneers used to be In considerable fear
of Indian raids on the border of the state
and when John P. St. Johw was governor he
used often to carry on talks from Topc'.:a
with tbe commandant nt t'ort Dodgo it the
wind waa blowing right. I onco heard Gen
eral Miles ask Governor St. John to please
send out a barrel of flrowater, and Governor
St. John, who, you recollout, was a prohibi
tionist and easy as a child, said that he
didn't think they bad I: In tho arsennl.
"Kansas winds wero pretty high for a
fact in those days. I told you about
Smith's cow being plnnec to tho side of tho
barn. Well, not long after that Smith no
ticed that somo scoundrel waa milking his
cow over night. Brlndle came up every
day with the sun, but didn't rIvo milk
enough to spread over a dish of oatmeal.
Smith finally stood guard ono night. Ho
found tbat tbe cow took shelter from the
wind behind some big bowlders. Tho wind
whipped nround tho rocks with a sort of a
rotary motion nnd milked tho cow."
There was a pause after the correspondent
told this.
"Havo some more cough drops," snld the
drug clerk, who likes to ?icar good stories.
"Ono day when tho brezen wero pretty
stiff," put In the newspaper man's crony,
"some hunters out In Sumner county turned
a bald caglo loose within twenty rods of
tho nest ot its mate. Ordinarily nn eagle
can make thirty miles an hour, but It took
that eagle alt hours and fifteen minutes to
make the twenty rods In the teeth ot a
spring wind. 1 know this to be so, for 1
timed the flight."
SOGHY'S GHKAT NIT.IJCII.
Cherokee Tnrueil the I.atiRli 1'ium the
Stnntom nt Tnhletiniih.
"Soggy" Sanders, a noted full-blood
Cherokee, who has held office ever since ho
was old enough, talks the English language
brokenly, reports tho Globo-Dcmocrat.
When united States Senators Jones of
Arkansas and Piatt of Connecticut were at
Tahlciuah about eight years ago Investigat
ing nnd looking Into Indlnn matters they
held a meeting In tho opera houso and
mado speeches to tho Cherokee senntors and
councilors, ndvlslng them to take their
lands In severalty and change their manner
of government to becomo a territory or
stato ot tho union.
They also told tho Indians that tho
Dawes commission would soon bo down I
among them to treat for some change. the
federal government desired In tho Indian I
territory; that they camo among them as
friends to advlso them for their best In
terests.
After they had finished their talks
"Soggy," who was nn nttcntlvc listener
for their remarks had been Interpreted Into
Cherokeo by nn Interpreter "Soggy" aroso
slowly, and In a very dignified and courteous
manner Bald ho would like to make a few
remarks. Senators Jones and Piatt wero
anxious to hear him. Said Sanders:
'Yesh, It Is great fron's all tlmo good
frlcn' to Injun Is whlto man, when ho want
it some mo' Injun Ian'. Whlto mans who
Jus' talk put me In mln' of a story I once
heart It. Man goln' to get hung, he's lawyer
tola hlm dls: 'I can save It neck from being
hung.' 'How do dat?' asked it prisoner.
'I pay you $1,000 you savo It my neck.'
'All lite, said It dat lawyers, and he gave
It dat lawyers moneys $1,000. Den dat
lawyers ho tell It dat prisner: 'You go shoot
It yourself in bed.' Dat's what white mans
want It hero now he want It Chulluckco
Indian to kill hlsso'f."
This speech of "Soggy's" brought
down the house, and tho staid United Stntoj
senators Joined In the encore.
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who was in reality white. This romance pervades
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recounted.
Two young men living in a Louisiana parish
undertake to deliver negro slaves into the hands
of tho Abolition Society in the North. No dan
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than those related here. And yet such was the
adroitness and caution observed that the under
taking succeeded, and successive large parties of
human chattels were piloted into the promised
land. Glimpses of life on tho plantation, the dismal
swamps traversed in escaping, the superstitions
of the fugitives, the country store operated as a
"blind," tho part played by Horace Greeley and
his associates in the north, and the happy issue
out of so many, perils, are elements which com
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