TflE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. PKCEMBETi IP. 1004
FLOPPINC BULL'S ROUND UP
InTtiion of the Haunts ef Haitian ia If cm
Una and What Game of It,
SEVERAL PRIMITIVE FUNERALS HELD
A Cothor'i Reminiscences of What
Was Probably Moat ElfeetlTO
Lynching; fsmpolga Ik
tho Wt.
"It la a story of which little has been
told. Mont of ua who rode with 'Flopping
Bill's' vigilantes hav left the atate or
crossed tha great divide. Those who have
remained are reticent," said an ex-cowboy
the other day. "As to the thirty or
more desperate horse thlevea and cattle
rustlers who operated In northern Mon
tana In the early 8s well, bleaching
bones on the wind-swept pralrleo tell no
tales.
"In 18S8 tho cattle and horse business In
northern Montana was becoming more and
more unprofitable, for the reason that there
were organized bands of horse thlevea,
who had stopping places from tha Canadian
line to Mexico, and who made more money
In the business of stealing horses and live
stock than the real owners could in rais
ing them. Of course more horses than
cattle were stolen, because they were easier
to get away with, and In those days were
worth a great deal more money. The steal
ing became so serious that the cattlemen
of northnrn Montana were forced to do
something, and In the fall of 186 they did
It. When the cattlemen start to do any
thing they do It up brown, and It was so
In this case.
"The tale of the hanging of road agents
of 1SW-64 by the vigilantes of Alder gulch
has been told so often that It haa become
known from one end of the world to the
other, and Is looked upon as the biggest
thing of Its kind which was ever pulled
off In Montana. This Is a mistake, and
the rowboye of northern Montana, during
the year of 1S86, from September to No
vember, hanged and shot more men than
the vigilantes of Alder gulch ever dreamed
of. This may seem like a fairy tale at
this time, but It la, a fact, and there are
men In northern Montana at the present
day who have the papers to prove the
assertion.
"During the fall round-up of the Judith,
In the fall of 1885, It was decided to do
aome hanging. Who proposed the mat
ter, or by whom meetings were held. It
Is not necessary to state, as one of the
leaders of the cowboy vlgtlantea Is now
a prosperous stockman within a few miles
of old Fort Maginnls. Another Is a pros
perous sheepman living near Ubet and
another Uvea In Butte, after having spent,
a number of years abroad. And there are
others, but the matter of the real ex
termination of the rustlers was carried on
under the dlreotlon of 'Flopping Bill' Cant
well. .
" 'Flopping Bill' was a desperate charac
ter himself, and worked against the
rustlers because it paid better than to
work with them. From September, 1885,
until the weather became too cold to ride,
'Flopping UlU' and his band of horse thief
exterminators worked, and when they had
finished there was no count of the men
whose candles had been snuffed, but there
are men In Oreat Falls today who can
name at least twenty-six of them, and It
haa always been estimated that about
thirty people were hanged or shot by
'Flopping Bill's' band during that fall.
"The first performer in the bloody drama
of extermination was a half-breed near
Fort Maginnls. Some one believed he had
stolen a ateer and butchered It, and one
nigni aunng August, lsso, ne was taken
near tho ranch of Reese Anderson and
strung up to a oottonwood tree without
a chance to aay his prayers, If he knew
any. That was the beginning, and shortly
after 'Flopping Bill' called for volunteers
to search for horses which had been stolen
from the herds of several well known stock
men. The requisition was made upon the
round-up, which was camped upon the
Musselshell, about sixty miles above its
mouth, and reckless riders and desperate
men only were chosen.
Catching? On.
a ua jKjave iiiuuo ct nam riue mat aay,
and by night they came to the cabin of
a man named Downs, near the mouth of
the Musselshell. Downs kept a sort of
trading post, and was suspected of being
In league with the thieves. It was early
daylight when tho posse surrounded the
cabin, and when Downs came out it was
'hands up I' A search of the corral and
vicinity discovered twenty-two "D. H. 8.'
horses, and Downs was asked to explain.
He saw that he was up against it, and
gave a full list of all the men connected
with the 'rustling' business,' and Indi
cated where they had their rendexvous.
The Missouri runs swift and deep where
the waters of the Musselshell enter it,
and the banks are high and steep. A rope
was placed about the neck of Downs and
a convenient tree was looked for. Some
on spied a large grindstone which stood
alongside of the cabin.
" Tie it to his neck and drop him In
the river,' was tha suggestion, and It was
carried out literally. Today tho big round
grindstone, with tha hole In tho center.
Ilea In the bottom of the Missouri, near
tha mouth of the Musselshell, and if time
and water have not proven too much for
tho hempen rope, the neck bones, at least.
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of Jim Downs are the grindstone's com
panion. "Armed with the Information derived
from Downs, the posse rode south to the
mouth of Ixxlge Pole creek, where there
were several 'rustlers' located, and' In tho
early morning light three of thorn were
captured and strung up on the same Cot
tonwood trees which surrounded tho cabin
where thy had lived. One of tho hempen
ropes with whli-h the hanging was done
swung in the breete for many years, and
perhaps is there yet it was up to five
years ago. Some of the cowboys in the
posse began to get more than they had
bargained for and wanted to quit the busi
ness, but 'Flopping Bill' pointed out to
them that they would be hanged by the
civil law if their share of the impromptu
hanging was known, and that, together
with other cogent reasons, prompted thorn
to remain.
Only One not Anir
"The next bunch of rustlers was located
along the Missouri. They passed as wood
choppers, and a large number of them had
a rendexvous at Ixing John's bottom on
the Missouri, a short way below the mouth
of the Musselshell. Flopping Bill's" posse
came upon the camp early one morning
and was discovered by the horse herder,
whom they promptly shot, and charged
upon the camp. There was a blockhouse
with a stable attached, belonging to the
rustlers, but most of them were asleep
In tents, and when the shooting began one
of them was shot while getting to the
blockhouse. Once there they defied the
posse, and It was only by strategy that
they were dislodged. While the posse kept
a hall of bullets against the house one of
the cowboys, sneaked up through the grass
and set fire to the stable, and It, In turn,
fired the blockhouse. Just how many
rustlers were killed will never be known,
but there were at least eleven In the house,
and six were taken prisoners, while one
escaped.
"The or.e who got away was Dixie
Burroughs, a half-breed, and well known
to northern Montana. Burroughs man
aged to get away from the house, and was
stopped by one of the outer guards, but
dropped behind a log, and at the fourth
shot managed to get his man and escaped.
Who the cowboy was that was shot has
never been divulged. He was burled where
he fell, and a hint given that nothing was
to be said about It. That night 'Flopping
Bill' went away, and during the night n
number of men rode up to the camp of
the cowboys with six prisoners, and In th
morning their bodies were decorating the
cottonwooda on the ent side of Long John's
bottom. 'Flopping Bill' came back and
said the men who had taken the prisoners
were a posse from Miles City and nobody
Inquired further." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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NARROWEST AND CR00KEDEST
Snakcllke Railroad in Arlsona I'sed
for Transporting Ores from
Mines.
Between the mining towns of Clifton and
Metcalf, Ariz., there runs the steepest, nar
rowest and most tortuous railroad In the
world. Passengers as well as long trains
of ore are raced down dizzy grades, dragged
up steep Inclines, swung around sweepinpr
curves and carried In safety In a snake
like course over one nf the most pictures
que bits of mountain land In the country.
The compact and sturdy little engine
which draw the precious metal from the.
mines In one town to the smelters In an
other or which puff and steam up to the
front or back doors of the homes of mine
owners and "workers," there to await the
mistress of the house as she prepares to
take the entire family to market or make
an afternoon call, run on a twenty-Inch
gauge.
It will be readily seen how narrow is this
railroad, which winds up to the very peaks
of high mountaalns, hangs suspended over
deep canons, and borea Its glittering way
through miles of solid rock, when the
twenty Inches are put side by side with the
standard four feet eight and one-half
Inches.
From the mines to the smelting works it
Is pretty much down grade. The pluck-
little engine, with Its train of eighteen or
twenty heavily loaded ore cars, each
guarded by a miner in picturesque garb,
who takes this opportunity to secure a
little fresh air and sunlight, hugs the moun
tains for miles at a stretch, thenr suddenly
swings Into a desolate valley and tears
along a river bank until it Is forced to
climb a alight Incline to a bridge which
stretches over a yawning canon. There are
three of these bridges from Metcalf mines
to Clifton smelting works, and the trestle
work ranges from 12S to 135 feet In height.
From mines to smelter Is twenty miles,
so circuitous is the route; the trains tear
down the mountatn side at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, with power at the low
est possible gauge. Heavy brakes are used
on each ore car. and the locomotive, al
though a powerful little puller, Is seldom
called Into service on this downward trip,
which Is made for sixteen of the twenty
miles with brakes on full.
Automatic dumping cars are used, and In
fifty-four minutes from the time the train
starta from a mine with Its load it is ready
to start on Its backward trip empty. lTp,
up, up the train climbs, the ascent never
being less than degrees. It reaches in
sections such heights that the brain turns
dizzy at the mere thought. From a sta
tion In the valley. In the little village of
Metcalf, the cars seem to be clawing the
mountain sides In a perfectly perpendicular
line, and as the lanterns swing out when
the train takes a loop the traveler seeing It
for tha first time would be readily excused
for naming it some new mountain terror.
The trip back to tha mines consumes
nearly four hours, for the little engine
which waa literally pushed down the moun
tains by the weight of Its train, Is now
obliged to pull the empty cars up grades
which test Its timber to the fullest.
An Idea of how winding Is the route will
be gained when It Is known that Clifton Is
but five miles from Metcalf as the crow
flies, but as the railroad Is obliged to wind
Its w'ay It Is a trifle over twenty miles. To
get tho credit even within this limit whole
mountains of solid rock have been tun
neled. For nearly one mile the Morencl railroad
carries Its trains through Inky blackness.
Jagged rocks are overhead and on each
side. A passageway was literally hewn and
hacked through these rock mountains, for
it was deemed dangerous to use dynamite
in many places, as the nature of the secret
gas pockets therein was unknown. Two
and a half years It took to complete this
tunnel, but when It was finished It cut
nearly five miles off the route Chicago
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Attention, Sheet Metal Workers!
All members of local union No. I are re
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o'clock p. m.. sharp, Sunday, December 18,
to attend the funeral of our lata brother,
Quatav Huhn. By order of committee.
Presbyterian day Thursday, December 22
at Bhook's Jewelry Store, 406 South Fif
teenth street. Ladles of tho First Presby.
terlan church will receive and wait on customers.
CROW INDIANS ROOST MCI1
Eeoccnpy the 8it of Tort Custer, from
Which They Were Drmn in '78.
VILLAGE FORMED ON PARADE GROUND
Old Cnlef Whit Earth Hlte th Pipe
In th Commanding Officer's
Quarters History of a
Famons Post.
Tha Crows have come Into their own
again. What was once the site of old Fort
Custer, one of the moat famous military
posts of the northwest frontier, where the
United States troops for a quarter of a
century held In check the fierce red men
of the mountains and plains, has reverted
to the original owners of the lands, and
the Crow Indians now gather to discuss
the ancient glories of their tribe.
Th9 parade ground has become an In
dian village. The barracks have been dis
mantled and hauled away, to be used In
constructing Indian huts. The command
ing general s fine residence Is now the domi
cile of old Whlte-Earth-on-the-Forehead.
who stables his favorite pony In the grand
reception room where formerly gathered the
military chieftains of the white army.
Already more than 100 Indian shacks have
been constructed from the materials taken
from the old fort, and dally the tal
men gather round the historic old ruins,
fighting over some choice piece of timber.
Irony of Circumstances.
It Is the Irony of fate that the site of
the old fort, wrested from the Indians by
force of arms, should In time return to
the keeping of the Identical band of In
dians from whom It was taken, and who
today are making their campfires Just
where their tepees stood before General
Custer was massacred and before the per
manent Invasion of the "Crow country" by
the white soldiers.
After Sitting Bull and Raln-ln-the-Facs
and their 6.000 Sioux and Cheyenne war
riors had exterminated Custer and his lit
tles band of 20 soldiers of the Seventh on
the brown hills of the Crow country, the
government war officials determined to
build a stronghold which would overawe
the natives of the northern plains.
An expedition was sent out to find a suit
able place, in the very heart of the new
post. Just two years after Custer died a
fort bearing his name was built about ten
miles down the Little Big Horn river from
where the monument stands which marks
the resting place and bears the names of
the gallant soldiers who rode with Yellow
Hair to a frightful and glorious death.
At tho confluence of the Big Horn and
the Little Big Horn rivers, on a high bluff
which commands the country in all direc
tions, was the chief village of the Crow In
dians. In the spring of 1878 long wagon
trails and large bodies of American troops
came up the Big Horn Valley, and aoon
small flat-bottomed steamboats pushed up
the Yellowstone and thence into the Big
Horn, coming to anchor at the Crow vil
lage. Moat Extensive Post In West.
With scant ceremony the Indians were
driven from the traditional home of their
great chiefs, and before the snow fell that
winter Fort Custer was well under way.
In time the new post became the most ex
tensive In the entire northwest, and many
expeditions went from the shelter of Its
barracks In Wyoming, Montana and other
states. The stream of settlers that pourel
into the great northwest owed Its protec
tion from the Indians more to old Fort
Custer than to any other army post along
its line of travel.
That which the Indians failed to accom
plish with tho bow and arrow and scalping
knife they have effected with the plow
share, and by accepting to a certain ex
tent the civilization of the white man have
rendered unnecessary the close proximity
to their homes of an army post.
When the call to arms came In the spring
of 189S the soldiers at Fort Custer were
sent to Cuba, and the post Itself was
abandoned. A small guard was stationed
there for some years, and last summer the
work of dismantling was begun.
When the post was abandoned the build
ings reverted to the original owners of
the ground, and so the Crow Indiun tribe
became the proprietor of tho old fort. The
Indian agent, Colonel S. O. Reynolds, has
been distributing the building materials
contained In the different structures to
those Indians living in tho vicinity, and as
a result many old bucks who have lived
in tepees all their lives will this winter
for the drat time spend the cold months
within a small shack, tho walls of which
were formerly some part of tho barracks
or even "officers' row."
On House Standing.
Over on "officers' row" there Is just
one house standing. Years ago tho com
manding officer of the post lived thera
and many military functions took place
within Its walls. But now the new owner,
Whlte-Earth-on-the-Forehead, proudly
passes his red plpestone calumet around
the circle which he and his friends have
formed within the large dlningroom, while
the favorite "calico" pony of the old In
dian stamps his feet and eats his hay in
the big reception room and watches his
reileetlon In the French plate mlrrora
which line the walls.
Just within the confines of the post, off
toward the south, is still to be seen the old
stage coach and the station at which the
vehicle ended its long Journey from Chey
enne. 600 miles away. Both the stage and
the station are in a dilapidated condition,
but the former will be removed to the
agency and preserved as a memento of the
early pioneer days.
In Its pulmy days the old fort boasted of
a haunted house, and every stick of timber
In that building remains on the original
site. Not a brave on tho reservation will
accept a piece of the house which was
formerly "bad medicine" to them, and the
Indian agent says he can do nothing ex
cept burn the debris of the structure.
Remains of the waterworks system are
on every hand, the Iron hydrants lifting
their heads even among the tepees of the
Indian village on the parade ground. But
no water can be drawn from the pipes and
the supply tube to the standplpe Is dry and
twisted.
Even the earrings of the old cannon
which commanded and protected the pump
ing station In the river valley was left In
position when the troops started for Cuba.
One wheel is broken and the iron tires have
fallen from the felloes, but the ammuni
tion box Is yet Intact.
The magazine is being torn down by the
Crows and the bricks are being removed to
some of the new Indian houses, where they
will be used, to build chimneys, the very
first the Crows have ever used.
Establish a Cemetery.
A mile above the old fort tho Indians
have founded one of the above-ground
cemeteries, the dead being wrapped In
blankets and deposited on high scaffolds.
There was a time when the Crows burled
their dead with the weapons and trinkets
owned while alive.
But when the craze for elk teeth eroai
the Indian climbed the scaffolds, un
wrapped the bodies and secured tho elk
teeth, which they sold at good prices. No
more teeth are burled with the dead now.
The old fort and the new Indian village
atand on the dividing line between that part
of the Crow reserve which will be opened
to the white man next year for settlement
and the portion which the Indians reserve
to themselves. Of tha former there are
about l.ttiO.OOO acres. Before tho tepee of
tho chiefs, as far as tha ays can poo, both
tip and down tho Bl Horn river. Is a
magnificent valley, milea wide and mure
than 100 miles long, which some day will
be one of the garden spots of the world.
But at present old White Earth sits smok
ing his pipe and gazing witn contented eyea
over the land which haa returned to him
and his after being In tho hands ot the
whlto mm for a quarter of a century. St.
Louis Republic
STOLEN KISS LOST HIM VOTES
Defeated Candidate for Offle Yields
zolnlonsly Foil.
Tho far-reaching effects of so light a
thing as a atolen kiss may at some future
time turn the whole world topsy-turvy. It
was a stolen kiss the other day that cost
State Sentaor Meyer of Carbon county,
Mont., his re-election and turned many
votes from President Roowevr k-BUhough
he really didn't need them In the Yellow
stone valley.
So great danger lurks In a kiss It may
transmit disease germs: It may defost a
candidate for office. Senator Meyer, who Is
a married man with a family, met Miss
Orovea of Red Lodge in the street Just
after dusk and Imprinted a passionate kiss
upon her lips without permission. The In
cident aroused a storm of Indignation In
the atate, became a public scandal and
overshadowed the Issues of national and
state politics.
"Beware of stolen kisses" hereafter will
become one of the Important working rules
of campaign managers. It was Pascul who
said: "If the nose of Cleopatra had been
shorter the whole face of the e;irth would
have been different" which shows that
momentous events sometimes may flow
from a very trifling cause. The perils and
pleasjures of the smuck reluctant can
hardly be overestimated. In gnlnintr the
klscs of Cleopatra, Antony lost an empire.
Some years ago an English court laid
down the law that "when n man kisses a
woman against her will she is fully en
titled to bite out a piece of his nose if Fhn
so pleases." An Australian who stole n
kiss from a pretty girl fared -ven worse
than Senator Meyer. To begin with. li waa
brought before a magistrate and fined.
Thn he was horsewhipped by the girl's
brother and harried into brain fvrr by his
own wife. ' The clergyman of the parish
condemned the affair In a sermon and the
press reviewed It with hostility In print.
Finally the caterpillars ate up every blade
of the malefactor's wheat crop.
Yet things will go by contrarif. It is
on the records that a stolen kiss once
brought a man Into possession of a for
tune. This offender, an obscure butcher
In Sydney, N. S. W., was prosecuted by
his pretty victim for assault. lie was
heavily fined by the locol magistrate and
the press gave sensational reports of the
case. This publicity attracted (he notice
of a firm of solicitors who had been ap
pointed trustees of valuable property which
had been left to the man by a illstant rela
tlve twenty years earlier. They had failed
to trace the heir Until this newly acquired
newspaper notoriety revealed his where
abouts and secured him his heritage.
Whenever and wherever the value nf
stolen kisses has been appraised by courts
opinions have diverged widely. Mrs. Mag
gie O'Boyle, 25 years old. red-lipped niu!
a widow, sniffed her scorn openly w- n
Justice Fitzgerald of the Chicago K
Yards police court assessed Joseph BiMnnl
gan 110 and costs, or 111.50 In all. for a
purloined smack at her chwk. She said
J400 would have been nearer the mark.
Down in the blue grass region recently
a verdict for 700 was rendered against
a kiss thief. In Rochester, N. T Charles
Drobblo was compelled to pay $400 for
klsfclng Mary E. Dimple, his stenographer,
only once. In San Francisco pretty Adele
Nelson sued Tor $10,000 because her em
ployer kissed her against her will. Mrs.
Sarah Slayton of Richard Center. Wis.,
appraised three stolen kisses at $.",0CO each,
or $15,000 for the lot, to enforce the col
lection of which she aued David G. James,
a prominent Grand Army man, but the
Jury decided against her.
"Kisses given In reluctance are a price
less commodity,", was the dictum of an
Omaha Judge. On this theory he sent to
Jail Miss Fern Atwood, a very good-look
ing young woman charced with having
"kissed a man wilfully and without his
consent." Passing Captain Henry Hit, an
army officer, in the street, she suddenly
caught him In her arms, and before he
could cry "Help!" or "Robbers:" she had
Imprinted six resounding smacks upon his
ruddy cheeks The captain, a confirmed
bachelor and austere as a monk, was scan
dalized. Judge Zimmerman of St. Louis recently
handed down the legal opinion that public
kissing is not a crime. Miss Ida Ooodalr
having been arraigned for that alleged of
fense he set her free with the remark
that he saw no harm in It, and would
therefore not punish her for kissing her
best young man In the streets or public
parks. Chicago Record-Herald.
REMARKABLE OCEAN VOYAGE
Canadian Sails Aronnd the World In
Dngont Caaot to Make
Good a Boast.
John C. Voss, master of tha Tlllkun, la
a Canadian, now In London. In 1901 he
left Victoria, Vancouver island. In a salt
ing yacht weighing two and a half tons.
Intending to go around the world In It.
He succeeded In his object.
It was a long cruise, because Captain
Voss Is a born explorer, and he visited
many strange out-of-the-way spots, besides
touching at all the continent
He completed the circle this year, and
has now come back across the Atlantic to
give a lecturing tour In England,
"What made me start on the trip?" suld
Captain Voss to a reporter. "Well, because
everybody said I couldn't do It not In the
Tlllkun. It's a, canoe, really, and the In
dians on Vancouver Island dug it out of
a single tree. There's big trees In British
Columbia,"
There were two men in the boat at the
start, but, unfortunately. Captain Voss'
mate fell overboard and was drowned.
After that the gallant skipper waa the en
tire crew.
Nothing can upset the equanimity of
Captain Voss. He will tell you of tha most
alarming, lonesome experiences In tha same
friendly, matter-of-fact way as that in
which he speaks of the weather. Tho se
cret of the survival of tho Tlllkun and its
cheerful owner waa the use of a aea an
chorCaptain Voss' own patent Ho has
sketches abowlng tho Tlllkun climbing the
most appalling seas or moving in a trough
with vast mountains of water on every
aide; the sea anchor trailing behind kept
the boat safe were the aea eevr so furious.
"After my mate left me, and when I wa
alone," aald the master, "I used to set the
aea anchor and then go below and Bleep
till next morning. I never had a drop of
water coma aboard unleaa I wanted to."
One effect of the aoa anchor, which was
a cone-shaped vessel made of canvas and
wood, waa to raise the boat as It crested
the waves, keeping them from breaking
over it.
Captain Voss made a thorough Investiga
tion of that most romantic region, the
South sea and its Islands. Very gingerly,
with ammunition ready and a camera near
at hand, he approached the Ul tenanted
by cannlbala "A very bad reputation
soma of these Islands have," suld tho cap
tain, "and a woman waa oaten at one of
them just before I landed, notwithstanding
tho protest of a missionary. Cut a Eu
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ropenn is ns safe among cannibals ns he Is ;
in London, providing he doesn't Interfere 1
with them." Captain Vosa met tho captain
of a ship which had been wrecked off one ';
of these inlands. The natives treated the;
survivors splendidly, but when a boat put j
out from the Island to hall a passing ,
steamer it was fired on. It was many
months before the party got away.
The Tlllkun started with six months' pro
visions and three months' water supply.
But on leaving Sydney the captain forgot
one If his two tanks. Consequently he and
his new mate ran dangerously short of
water. They had 4,000 milea to go before a
fresh supply could be obtained, and oven
drinking so little as a pint a day this were
bound to cxhausr their stock long before
the distance was covered. But Captain
Voss is the equal of Captain Kettle In re
sou i oe. "Rolled oats," he said, "saved our
lives. Soak rolled oats in water and eat
them, and you do not need to drink."
Thus the water supply waa eked out.
LARGEST BANQUET EVER SPREA
Thirty Thonsand Provident French
People In a Twelve-Acre
Banquet Hall.
The greatest banquet of modern times
was spread in a twelve-acre hall in Paris
a few w.teks as;-?. The occasion was the
convention of the National Federation of
Mutual Aid and Saving societies. Thirty
thousand delegates were present. The ban
quet was held In the gallery of machines,
covering twelve and a half acres of ground
and with a dome 1) feet high. The presi
dent and other highest dignitaries of the
French republic ate with them; and then.
In after dinner speeches, these 30,000 provi
dent French clerks, atlsans and workmen
and their wives and daughters, were told
what they knew already that they aro so
much the hope of France that the, govern
ment is willing to become their patron and
partner, and to this end haa endowed them
with a special "director of mutuality" In
tha ministry of the Interior.
Never before at auch a banquet had al
most as many women aa men sat down
a thing In Itself epoch marking. The
decorations of the central dome of the
gallery of machines occupied 200 workmen
a week, and 8'0 wagons were needed to
transport the material. There were 4,009
tablecloths and 30,000 napkins. There were
SO.otio plates; piled together they would
have made a column three times higher
than the Eiffel tower.a nd the knives, forks
and spoons would have made a raetalllo
line twelve miles long!
The bill of fare Itself was a proof of
what can be done by mutuality and co
operation, when you ccnslder that It cost
each Individual only 70 cents, wines, li
queurs, coffee and cigars Included.
Aperitif (eyo opener), "wine of the pon
tiffs." Hors d "Oeuvres Olives, whipped folegras,
illletes fsplced cold sausage meat In tiny
pots), mousse of ham (chopped and whipped
up In a cream), sliced Aries sausage, but
ter. Entrees Cold ham, truffled pressed meats
in Jelly, Strasbourg sausages.
Roasts Beer, English style; bresse chick
ens with water cress.
Vegetables The famous ealado Rusee.
Desserts Assorted cheeses and fruits,
nuts and raisins, little cakes.
Coffee, cognac, Benedictine, white Cura
cao. Wine, red and white; beer, milk, mineral
water.
A glass of champagne, special clg-ara
Parfstaus heve been making wonderful
calculators concerning tha material of this
banquet. Had all the sausages been
stuffed Into one, It would have made a
sausage as big aa a house. The rounds of
roaat beef superposed, would have reached
to the first platform of the Eiffel tower.
The napklna and tablecloths would have
carpeted tha Place de la Concorde tho
largest public place in the world. It was
the monster salad, however, that most Im
pressed them This waa a "salads Russe,"
composed of 126 bushels of young vegetables
and chopped ham mixed In mayonnaise a
salad so apocalyptic In Its proportions that
tho president of tho republic went to sea
it mixed.
So It was also the greatest formal and
orderly banquet of the world, almost dou
ble that of the record breaker of the ex
position of 1800, when the mayors of 19,000 :
French towne sat at a monster meal be- I
neath tenta in the Garden of tha Tulllerles.
Wise ero.
Nero was playing- his riddle while Rome
was burnlns.
"Why do you select auch an unusual mo.
ment for practice T" asked tho Roman sen
ator. "Because I am quite aura thst the neigh
bors won't say I disturbed them," replied
Nero -"hlcsso News.
Methodist day Tuesday. Deremher Co at
Bhook's Jewelry Store, 405 South Fifteenth
street. Seward Street M. E. church ladlea
will receive and wait on customers.
Knllstod for I. He.
"Can't yr do a little aomethln' fr an
old soldier?" whined Tired Tiffins.
"Well, I don't know," replied tho portly
rltlsen. "If you can ahow your discharge
papers, I may do something for you."
"I hain't beon discharged yet, b.,," re
plied tho hobo. "It's a soldh r of fortune I
am." Houston Chronicle,
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