1 Extracts from
.U LEWIS AND the history of the
. CLARKE. Lewis and Clarke
expedition show
that their limiting trips , which were
purely business ventures , were any
thing but the pleasure excursions en
joyed by the modern Nimrod.
Ninety-seven years ago , Captains
Lewis and Clarke hunted the Missouri
valley , in what is now North Dakota ,
and , as you may readily see , experi
enced more or less difficulty in pre
serving the game after killing it.
" the 18th. The
"Wednesday , morn
ing was cloudy , the thermometer at
2 ° below zero , wind from southeast.
Captain Olarko returned last evening
with all his hunting party. During
their excursion they had killed forty
deer , three buffaloo , and sixteen elk :
but most of the game was too lean for
.use ; ' and the wolves , who regard
whatever lies out at night as their
own , had appropriated most of it.
When ho left the fort on the 4th in
stant , he descended on the ice twenty-
two miles to the new Mandau island ,
having killed nothing , and therefore
without food for the night.
"Early on the 5ththe hunters went
out and killed two buffaloe and a deer ,
but the last only could be used , the
others being too lean. After break
fast they proceeded down to an In
dian lodge and hunted during the
day. The next morning they en
camped forty-four miles' from the
fort , on a sand point , near tho. mouth
of a creek , which they called Hunt
ing Creek , and during this and the
following day , hunted the adjoining
plains with much success , killing a
number of deer and elk. On the 8th ,
the best of the meat was sent with the
horses to the fort.
"Thursday , 14th. Last night the
snow fell three inches ; the day was ,
however , fine. Four men were dis
patched with sleds and three horses
to bring up the meat , which had been
collected by the hunters. They re
turned , however , with the intelli
gence that about twenty-one miles below -
low the fort , a party of upwards of
one hundred men , whom * they sup
posed to "bo Sioux , rushed on them ,
out the traces of the sleds , and car
ried off two of the horses , the third
being given up by intercession of an
Indian who seemed to possess some
authority over them. They also took
away two of the men's knives and a
tomahawk , which last , however , they
returned. Wo sent up to the Mandaus
to inform them of it , and to kno-jv
whether any of them would join a
v ; * " - party to pursue the robbers in the
morning. ' '
, . . The history goes on to relate how a
fruitless chase was made after these
dusky highwaymen , who succeeded in
getting off with the spoils of the chase
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which those hardy pioneers had se
cured by such energetic search , the
party of hunters having , upon one oc
casion , walked more than thirty miles ,
knee deep in snow , in a single day.
In his speech at
RETROSPECTIVE. Buffalo , during
the struggle which
preceded the publication of the First
Battle , the Peerless said :
"I am aware that in the making of
a platform it is impossible to please
all. I recognize that people who
think will differ , and that a platform
often contains declarations which the
voter does not like , and omits things
which he would like to have in
cluded. "
That lays bare the real motives of
this statesman , when building plat
forms. No lament is heard that he is
unable to make a platform which , be
ing successfully carried out , would
steady the pulse of commerce ,
strengthen business , promote good
will between capital and labor , stim
ulate industry and secure to posterity
the blessings of free institutions ; but ,
"to please all" seems to bo his only
object , and , his inability to do so his
only regret.
There the bray sounds , though the
form bo enveloped in the hide of a
nobler animal. A platform ; a toy ; a
plaything constructed to "please"
and , pleasing , to procure votes.
Commoner indeed !
It is not impossible that there are
readers who doubt that the Peerless
ever gave tongue in this strain. Wo
regret to say that wo can bring no
positive proof , neither strong circum
stantial evidence , that those burning
words ever floated in the flood of elo
quence which once fell in cascades
from the mouth of the Platte-liko or
ator ; all that we can produce by way
of authority being the none too con
clusive fact that the nursery talk above
quoted may be found in the Firs' '
Battle , page 858i for the voracity of
which we by no means stand sponsor.
Emperor W i 1
IMPRUDENT OR liam has laid be
IMPUDENT. fore the Reich
stag a draft show
ing the comparative strength of the
Gorman and the American navies.
Those who attach a sinister motive
to this impulsive act , will do well to
remember that the comparative effect
iveness of navies can only bo fount
by giving duo consideration to the
comparative effectiveness of the mei
behind the guns.
When the Kaiser does this by i
simple 1 equals 8 method we may
well believe that ho has intentions
and an appropriation of a few billion
for defense will be strictly in order
Judging- from
MESERVE. the editorial effu
sions in the fusion
ircss of this commonwealth , Mr.
Mpsorvo , late populist treasurer of'the
tato.is a much persecuted individual.
His indictment is entirely political
and persecutional. In other words ,
Nebraska grand juries evolve only po-
itical indictments. Bartloy's indict
ment , howeveraccording to populism ,
was brought about by the fusion love
of justice. But Meservo's indictment
is the result of republican love of in
justice.
The two cases demonstrate the folly
of asking bonds from state treasurers.
The great majority are supposed to be
intelligent enough to select a compe-
; eut and honest man to handle' the
public funds. But when that majority
nsk a few citizens to jeopardize" their
fortunes in protecting that majority
from the peculations or misdoings of
its own selectee , they plead the baby
act and admit that they are incapable
of self-government , incompetent to
choose competent , efficient and honest
men to count , conserve and pay out the
tax-gathered money of the state.
The good ladies
BE IT ENACTED , of Greater Now
York some of
them have improved the interval be
tween the holidays and spring house
cleaning , by organizing a "Society
for the Improvement of the Speaking
Voice. ' ' Of course the country should
expect this fraternity to have the
usual number of state conventions ,
district organizers , local officers , half -
faro excursions , satin badges , ice-
cream-ou-the-grass fetes and soliciting
committees , but this grand order goes
the whole length ; it has a "legislative
committee. "
Soon , then , will the'harsh , discord
ant note of the rag-and-iron man bo ,
by the stern mandate of the law ,
toned to a cultivated alto , while in
harmony with his dulcet tones , will
bo heard-tho soaring tenor of the train
announcer , and the trained barytone
of the park policeman , as they feel
ingly deliver their respective solos ,
"Don't crowd" and "Move on
there , " and the itinerant vender of
the " " will
ever-popular "bay-nan-no"
sing the virtues of his wares to the
melodious airs of his own fair Italy.
All this , and much more , by law ;
then the stately dames and giggling
damsels of Greater Now York may' ' pin
on their S. F. T. I. O. T. S. V.
badges , and rest in sweet content , well
knowing that the military and naval
branches of the state government may ,
at need , bo invoked to protect their-
aristocratic ears from any loss melodi
ous sounds than the periodical yowl
of the circus calliope , and the nightly
lamentations of their own pot poodles.
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