TIIF OMATTA DA1T.V tttfK ; Tlll'U.Sn A V. mr.r l..M ur.I ? 9M.
AS Oil ) STORY IN NEW GARB
Orleans Rtv ro3 Ibo Memory of a Msn
Despised in Lifei
A MISER BECOMES A BENEFACTOR
i
mil I'lillnnlliiiiitj of John
r.li. f'diitiilor of ( lie rhj'n i
Scliouli I Iloiiiurl.itlilc
Ulll.
Oft tlio COth Ony of this month Hie school
tftlMren rf Nrvv Orlcam. will Inj flowcra 6u
a stiuuo cictted to a tnlwr.
It Ifv prtbftbly the c ly gtatuo which may
ho rolled by U-r-sc tcrtrs In the world
John McDonogh was not n miser , BS his-
lory proxrs. Ho wrn n rjrent and noblo-
Imnrtext gentleman , relates the Philadelphia
I'ross , mil like many cthrra , he bit erly nl-
lowed the wcTd tOtnlstnUo Jils greatness for
(
BrctvUnotn nnd pns-l htm by with contempt.
Today In N'evt Orleans they revere and
lionor lila memory with their GnAnrro cud
Atmonnster and I.alnndc. I
Tbl" nunuiii < nt to a miser In the Pro'ic'j j
clly of Amctlei Is distinctly utilituo. No
city III this country but N'cw Orleans puts
lln imotloiiH Inln marble.
Othr : lilies nay It Is flcklo , but no cno
ilwlcn that when It loves It glvea great
hearted sweeping pcealon to the person of
Its love.
It hated McOonogh once with nil the
BtrettRth of Its volatile French nature Tj-
day It lovun him , Its adoratlcn ntlnqlcd with
conti lllon.
The Btory Is a lotig one , heaped up uml
i mining over with all the romunco nnd adventure -
venture nnd tragedy thta acorns to belong
T'l . t- the hlstoij of Kivv Oileantf and Ita
natives.
. i IP first jcir of this century there came
to New Orleans a singularly handfomu
young man He was born of Scotch-Irish
stock nnd combined with his business abili
ties a romance with which seemed after
ward the lte > stone of his life.
U that day New Orleans considered Itself
the leading city of America
H had brought from the old vvo-ld the
pirfumcd ctlnuetto and p-lntllntlng culture
that had n.iido I-outo1 court the most talked
f f In Europe The people o' Now Orleiina
nirlvcd In thin countiy fion tha best
arlitccinry of Spain and Kranco and when
lb"y bestowed upon a stranger the latch-
l.oj of thcli doors the rest of America ac-
kro.v lodged this PLTEOII as one socially
made
New Oilcans save to John McDonogh the
latchkey of It" doors
Ho was of the race called "Americans"
but he Ind como from Lord Baltimore's
land , nnd foi the courtly cavaliers ef Mary
land the cavaJlcro of Louisiana had respect
I. < ' \onnif Drcnni.
In all that gay confusion of masked balls
and raceh and duels nnd Trench plays , he
was a high figure The little green gates
thut barred the entrance to the Inner court
yard of aiit'tocracy were opened to him Ho
fell In love , and doing all things mightily
nnd well , ho chose the most hlgh-liced ) girl
in all of that ante-bellum aristocracy
She was courted by the best wclons of old
Franco and Spain Her father dreamed for
her a ro > al match
She was beautiful , she was witty , bhc had
inuiiej.
\Vlij not , then , take her place across the
sea. In the splendor of royalty and not waste
her life on this side of the sea among the
baibarous Americans from the north and
Hieisavages to the vvcsf
Ii'i those days , however , young Americans
did not woo and wed ns they do today. The
Now Orleaiib woman ot those da\n was ns
full of romance as she Is today , but the word
of hci father was the law of the house.
And the beautiful young Creole's father
thundered < i decided "No" to young McDon-
ogh's eult "Marry an American , " he said ,
"a man without mono } * My daughter , who
must many Into court llfo In the highest
circles of Hurope' Never' "
She WHS \lmonnhter. . You who know-
New Oilcans UnoA what It Is to be that. One
Is not allowed to forgot It even today , for
at the great cathedral the Angclus bell al-
wajs times the musses for his soul
Ho was nn altercx roval. he practically
icbiillt. New Orleans after the b-rcat fire , his
word waa 1111 Deputed and over the beautiful
child of his Cist } car ho kept ro > al guard
lie. made her to marry do Pontalba , page
to the Empty01 Napoleon
It Is nho who , with her Louisiana mllliont ) ,
bought and demolished the great palace
built by Louis XIV for the Due de Maine ,
so that it might not bo occupied Ijy the
enemy
Shu icsoived Its treasures , eieded a now
palace which la now owned 1 > > a Rothschild
at a prlco of fi.OOO.OOO francs
She had all the gloiy her ambitious old
father iraved for her and the handsome
joting cavalier from \larjland' Why , he
fell really In love with anotlu'r woman
Ilctter had ho thought himself alwajs In
love with Mlcaela Almonastcr1
The woman of his heart had ionic fiom
liU pwn land of Mailand She has lived
In the tiadltlons 01 the town an ono of rare
and lopnotlc power She had all the fascin
ations Hint makn men never forget nor
want to forget
It vvns said that every week brought Us
proposal from tome joung blood of Lou
isiana
She retiuned the love of hindsomc , clever ,
nmttorful joiing McDonogh Uoth had
inoup } both lived In the very Innernirst
circle of tl'o fjny life Society was delighted
at HIP lovn aiTah of thi two It thought
It onlv tight that the moat desirable paiti
In LonlHlnna should marry the belle of
belles foi bv IhlH time Mi Donogh had made
Genuine
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a fortune with thnt S otch-Irlih thrift be
hind hl Maryland emoilone
li < O'K Aiilliiu Drrniii.
Ho lived m well-placed bachelors of his
day lived In a aplcndld house with dozeni
of * lcr l and his entertainments vvcro the
talk of the town.
We went to the father of the belle , con
fident that M he hail the girl's love there
was natifiht In bn life to dcscno him n
"no" from the parent
Hut "no" it vvn conditionally An affirm-
atho If he vvould bccomo a CVthollc
To this prop sit Ion Mcttiingi ] atmnorcd
"no" fore\cr Ills
Scotch-Irish ITcshMcrl-
nniBm vvai the Rtrongen faith he had and
htfl dDtrmlnntlon not to chungc that faith
wan an Inexorable as that of his loves
father TUP girl and the joiing man com-
tortod Hictr : cl\c8 Vth the theory that the
. old man would relent , that when ho saw
her dc\t > ted they vvcrd nnd thnt it was not
a raising fancy ho vvould jleld to their
rrtrcatles.
The years jinftcd on. McUonogh and the
bcllo routlnucd to live nt the apex of the
BUY Mantaiton llfo
Ho hud dUtlngulihnl himself In the war
of 1812 and win leading sctlcly with a
results1 ? , tnoncjcO hand. They met con
stantly In the crov.dcd routine of a small
city. They had all around tr-om the nt-
mixiphpro of romance , n background of
moonlit cvenlnris nnd h.ilcony whisperings
I'lnnlly the Innt demand fcr hla dauRhter'9
linml was made m tl-c fervent Catholic
The same answer wm given
"If you renounce jour creed , " said one ,
"I thould not he worthy of jour daughter
If 1 did , " mild HID other.
In thiiHO days glrK did not marry without
ihi- consent of their fathers The hello of
.Vow Orleans took the veil
In the famed old Uisullne clnpcl she been -
en mo u nun
No gossip of old New Orlcnn Is com
plete unless the gosslptr * tell the story of
thin day She confessed that If she w.is not
allowed to many the man the loved who
vvould vvol no other.
All New Orleans sighed over the unhappy
termination of as pretty a romance as novel
ist wanted to create
And he what did ho do *
Dropped the world away from him , too
( Javp up hH pumphioiii ostibllshment , hU
horses , his dinners , Ms brilliant , sunshiny
life , tcok nil his vlavcs and went across
the treachoious rlvci to Algiers
Then began hlT downfall , In the evcu ot
that city that hail fawned on and loved
him.
him.M
M first t-odety took his decision with
mcluncholj and much curlosltj Thej Htlll
lemembcrcd his cavalier hospitality and bis
lovahlu nature and folks snld his retirement
was a whim so romantic1 but bound to
pass over
MI.-Ki lo Ills \\hlin.
nut jears went on .mil the whim re
mained McUonogh came ovei to the tlty
every day In his own row boat , ho estab
lished a glcomv plato of business anJ
stajed there all di > long until the return
over the ilvci In the afternoon
After a while his friends looked at him
askance Humors were on lloat that this
man was "a screw" that ho was coining
money for moncj's sjkc
In short , ho was n miser , they said
Tales went the rounds that to the poor ,
to the widow ind the orphan he showed no
mcrcj , In a commeiclal bargain ho was mer
ciless
Ilia garb was threadbare , mean , ho grow
grey and bent In bis prime
It was whispered that hodid his own mir-
kctlng and .screwed down the venders to
n "pIcayune'K worth of thib" and "a two-
bits' worth of that. " Thej halt ! he used his
own row boat to avoid ferriage
His friends stopped speaking to him. Of
nil the thlnjis that particularly gay society
despised it was greed. To make money to
spend was like a gentleman , but to make
money to hoard was bah1 too contemptible
to talk of
" .McDonogh , the miser , " became a by
word
Old mammlch frightened the Creole chil
dren with the phrase In the gloaming His
iiaiiio was the bugaboo of the nurscrj. As
it Is known today , this last condition tut
him more nearly to the heart thin any
other.
Tor thirtj yeais this life was led At the
end of It men dcfrplsod him utterly. It was
even said that ho staived his hlavcs and
confined them over In Algiers , nnd that was
why so many had escaped and gone to sea
So easily does the wrong side of things
grow'
Another generation grew up around him ,
and all that was known of him was that ho
was "the mi er" a personality of the com
mercial ttrccts ; one to bo dreaded and
fchunncd and the old balcony gossips knew
his old romance , nowa part of their folk
lore
VlHltlix ; Illn Olil riiiinc.
Onlj ono change came In those thiity
jcais. The Uisullno sister became mother
t-uperlor , after thirty jears of work , and
every Sunday , rain or shine. "McDonogh ,
the miser , " rang the bell of the L'lsaillno
convent and paid a visit to the mother
Think of the patho of this ! What a story
for a novelist1
How Now Orleans cries over this part of
bo whole nd story todaj
Think of the man with the splendid face ,
arrajcd in his ono line eult .mil spotless
linen , rowed over by bis slavn to the gates
nf the convent by the river , then the long
Sunday afternoon together In the djlng MIII ,
their two lives going out together'
How ho mint have told her all his great
hearted plaiih , how she must have pleaded
with him to lit the vvoild see him as he
was , and how his coiihcrvatlvo proud , hint
Scotch spirit n.iiat have said , as h did In
one nf his letters Hlnco found "I will not
tell them what 1 do , hut I promUcd joii the
ctory shall bo Known some daj. " At the end
of thlitj-flvo jears of this life the mlsei
\\r , dead ,
Now Orleans cared lltllc His slaves
burled him nnd the slaves remained to hear
the will read ,
Nc v OrlciiiH became keyed up when It
was known .but the mlEci's will was to be
read In tbo puEcnco of distinguished per
sons
Their only ei.rloBltj was as to how much
monej bo had left Ho loft JlOO.dOO , nn
cnoimoi'8 Hum lo have outHldo of slaves in
thoau dajs , and when the will was finished
the state of LcuUlana , and cspccinllj the
( Ity of New Olrcans , eat agh iat , tear-
ttrlckcn , repentant.
Tills will was the tulk ot balconies , clubs ,
ccmmerclal houses for weeka , for this miser
hid left his great mint of money lo the
( blldren of the clt >
It was to build for them public school
hmiBt's , the Hist In the country. .Mtiiohud
to his will was the outline e > f the far-rojch-
liiK scheme of education for thece beloved
children that he h.ul mapped and planned
for the last thirty years
It had been said by all strangers that New
Orleans danced bettci than plio spelled , and
McDonogh's millions and met IK d were to go
toward equalizing the two
Tart of the money he left to nilt.more
chlhlrcn for thp eame purpose
I'alliolle HeiiiifHl ,
His long will was the moit pathetic docu
ment of Its kind over worded It told of
li'o great schemes , his loneliness , how ho
had sr-runk more Into hlnieclf nnd bitterly
loft tills world to go on with Its go lp At
the end of It all CJIIIP the ono tragicnot -
of the. entlro will It WHS the sentence that
| la thoreakon of the monument todu >
I In return IT this I * k us a small favor
that tie llnlo th'ldrrn b'nll romo' ri s
'
-mo nn 1 plant a few flowers abovr n >
grivo
l.ni.o . King tbe brlllUM New Orleans
writer , said of this will that In reading U
I
one quivers Involuntarllj nt ihe harah , rude
pceohr that dogged the man s old RRO and
one shrinks awaj from the presentment b >
ltnRpclnat1 n of the long , loncl.v ovcnlng * that
flllrd HIP thlrtvfhciears nf the njlltw
plantation home , nn 1 one wishes that ah ,
how one w tones that the HtHo children had
not mocked and pointed at him , and that nt
least one In his life hid proffered him the
flowers IIP cnucd for Ills grave !
Another part of this will read tbuv
"They ald of mo , 'He (9 ( rkh he Is old ,
without wife or child Let us take from hint
what he has' Infatuated men' They know
not that that wan an nfcmpt to take from
thomseUes , fcr 1 Imc been laboring all my
llfo , not for enysclf , but for them nnd for
their children "
Troin that day to thla New Orleans has
been teaching Its jounx to love the man
whom they were taught to fear
The old mammvs In the Creole quartern
Imc hud to secure a new bugaboo for the
nursery.
McD-n-Rh Is no moro the miser ho Is
the patriot.
Troops of little children were led from the
schools to lay Mowers on this man's giavo
nnd In each one of the school houses which
has boon erected from his money there Is
placed n bronre bust of him. Once n jear
It hco been the custom of all HID children In
Now Orleans to lay llowcrs around this
Image.
Out of the money the > raised was erected
this new statue , which his Its first anni
versary the 20th of this month. The day
It was unveiled thousands cf school children
gathered around In multiple circles and sjni ?
to his mcmorj. Then , In small regiments at
a tlmo , they marched forwaul nnd presented
tholr wioaths
The < lay was one of New Orleans emo
tional moments.
Size doesn't Indicate iuaii'/ | Beware o !
counterfeit and worthless salve offered for
DeNVItt's Witch Hazel Salve DcWItt's Is
the onlj original An Infallible cuie for
piles and all bkln diseases
\MOLb AMMIVN HI'STUH.
" \VoMtcrn Hi'liM'lUilni lU'lloirt HIP
Init (11 'Iliolr Home * .
Perhaps tbe most famous "woman hun
ter" In the delectivo force of America Is
Detective Abraham Antho.iy of thu Sun
Tranclsco police department , whoso capacity
fcr discovering the lost women and restor
ing them to their Inquiring friends nnd fam
ilies Is proverbial
"Hov do 1 man.igu to find those people"1"
Detective Anthonj repeats' when he Is aski'd
this question "That I cannot toll vou , for
1 do not know mjself If they arc known to
have swcetheaits I Rcneiallj hunt for them
the first thing , but It there Isn't anj thing of
tl-at kind to get a clew from I II.TVO to studj
pictty 1'iird As for the 'descriptions' that
folks glvo ut. do you icallro how widely
what is known as n 'general do ciiptlon' ap-
rlleii0 Sl"-ud ! > cu bo sent out to arrest u
confidence m.in or a regulir 'crook , ' de
scribed as bcliij ; 'short , dark' or light i's
the case might be 'well dressed , with a
grayish moustache and a hr.blt of smiling
.ippieclatlvelj and paternillj upon joung
ladles , ' jou might mlstakeiilj run In Instead
of t'o peison for whom jou are scaiching ,
several hundicds of our reputable o"lld citl-
/tns who would ' 1111 the bill" pcrfectlj ab far
as listed personal appearance goes
"Theio ale onlj a certain number of klnds
of ejes , ncscj. , mouths , complexions , hair
and llgurcfo to divide among all the millions
of this world's Inhabitants , and they are
necessarily given out in blocks , as jou might
t.aj U Is tbo way wo use these very much
alike glft.s our mannerisms and expressions
which Individualizes us , und these are the
hardest of all things to describe recogniza
bly , and for this ic.ison the descriptions of
missing 01 wanted persons which are fur
nished to the police nro gencrallj more con
fusing than helpful
"Women and girls are harder to hunt up
than men and boys , because they aie moio
bklllful about simple disguises and are gen-
eiallj cleverci nbout choosing their hiding
places I guess thtj put me on to that work
when 1 first began juut to kind of discourage
me and take nij' pride down But it didn't , "
ho bald with conviction
"N'ot entlrcljanjwaj , but then It Is
mchtlv luck after nil , that helps me out
1'vo had girls I was looking for walk right
tip to mo on the street and ask me to direct
them somewhere , und then I've hid to put in
dajs and nights hunting for others vv how era
bidden almcbt under my no&e Tbo joungest
truant I ever discovered was Ctlicl Lash-
wood , a G-jear-old baby , who , It was claimed ,
was kidnaped bj Dertha franklin , known as
'Dig Dertlm , No ' < . , ' and the oldeat wat > a
Mrs Limont , who vvns hunted up at the
li stigatlon of hei bon-in-hiw , Thomas Jones
of Dogto.vn nut to count j not because he
loved her , but bcciuse ho accused her of
having Htolcn two Baddies and a bridle from
his barn just previous to her dlsappcaiancc
Of the young girls who Icavo their homes the
majority nro led awaj bj false promlncj
built on n foundation ol > romantlenllj secret
love affairs ' 'Street flirtations , ' Indulged In
at first In a splilt of Innocent fun bj groupi
of pretty .schoolgirls , lire the source of some
of the worst crimes that blacken the police
annals of our large cities
" 1 hero uio glilw , however , who seem to bo
naturallj Incontglblc and who desert their
bonus not because of outblde. persuasion but
tilmplj for the rcauon that thej chufo imdni
the bonds of respectability and long for ad-
vuilure and excitement and personal froo-
d.om To this class belong pretty Mm la
Kmiiison , who ut the age of 1C etole $300
fiom hoi mother and went up to Oregon ,
where she Joined the Salvation Armv , in
which she wan a shining light vocally and
j piiijcrfullj until her brother hunted her up
j i nnd brought her home , where she vvns freely
foi given and lovingly reinstated rhero wim
I no man In the case \.bntover \ > \ \ > the girl
| was ono of the kind who hated quiet home
life , and ho , after eight more months of
monotonous mlscij , she eiit open the hick
of her mother's Hunk with a hatchet , tojk
out $40 and vanished again I found her
living qullc alone In n hC'ond-il.iss but
thoioughlj icspectnblo lodging house and
with only 12 In her posbesolon , the lest of
her pliindei having been bpent for cheap
Jcvveliy und bolltarj but presumably uoul-
B.ulofjIiiE hack rides.
"Thieu ji'.iis ngo Kato I'lood was neirly
the death of me 1 arrested her and eho
begged so l.nrd not to go up lo the city hall
In thu patrol wagon that 1 look her on a
car j net t nd and Jutt as wo got to Leaven-
wcrth Btiect slio Jumped off and pulled no
after her when I hung c i to her dicss Wo
both fell flat and I lay ilyht In fiont of
another cai and thought I was n dead man
for a minute , but 1 managed to get out of the
way Just In time and keep my prisoner too.
" 'Nor ' , as to what makeb bo manj run
away from home sometimes It's wo thing
a Ml sccnetimcG It's another
1 " .Most people ere too eaey nnd careless
I v Ith their glrU and let them run around
I too much wliji other glilj without any older
'
tn look after them. And then again
others are too h.nd vlth them and koip
1 them to cloRo tint thcj'io bound to break
eu. As for women 1'vo known * ome to
Icavo the best of homes and take up with
Hompa nnd gamblers and morphine fiends
nnd worbe and I've knonn otherc to give
up their Ihca blavlng for worthless hi -
lands and uneiutclul children and cun
Uicad goins to heivcn tocauso they would
hq > o t Jcaxo thuo buidons bohlnd
"Women and girls nro puzzling , " coiHuJed
Detexthu Antluny.
HiieKK'ii H MIIIru
Tfcp bett Etil\n in the vorM for cuti ,
* ise * sores ulcers , alt theuui fever
orti > if tier chapped bin.Is , chllbhlni.
coiio a i il s1 in c'up' OPS anj posl'Ucljr ,
or s r ' a 11 pa. , rruired Ir Is juar-
Bntcea t- > give j > c fee s-aiiE'a"llun or money
refunded Price : i cen : per bos. Tor
by Kubo & Co.
IIO\Y \ THE BISON PERISHED
Millions of Them Slnupbtered by Hide
Hunters in a Few Years.
TALL TALK /BMJT MGH1Y HERDS
One ( bill \Vii I'ln > MM.- , \\lilo iiiul
Took rio llnjt In I'll" ' \initln-r
lluil m i-rliii-iii'il i < Itnlli oiiil
Tittlu In IVIIIIHIIS.
Oneo' the most extraordinary events Umt
linn characterized the Inst half of the present
century , telates the St. Louis Ulobe-Dotno-
crnt , I1 * the extermination , the wiping out ,
of the Atncrlcnn bison. There Is little use
In resorting to Invcitlvc or endeavoring
to stigmatise those who arc gulltj of Ihla
crime , but It would be well If the acts could
be held up In a bright light , thnt those
who committed them might be excoriated
In the tlmo to come , when n few of the bonus
anu pictures will nlono tell the storj of a
mighty raeo swept from the face of the
earth by the civilized ptoplo of the nine
teenth century.
"In 1S70 and Inter , " snld nn army oillccr
to the writer , "the plains were alive with
blron and In crossing nt places 1 hid dlf-
Ilrultj In avoiding thorn , 50 vist were the
herds If any ono hail told me then tint
In twenty or tlilrtj je.ira the ) votild have
bc'omo almost i rarely cvtlnet I should
ha\r rogarclrd the statement as that of an
Insulin pcrion. "
Tlmt co mmy of these animals could ha\e
been killed In mcro wantonness srcms In-
crullble wl-cn thcli va t numbers are rctl-
Ized Wo first hear of the bison fiom Cor-
te-s and his followers In 1S21 Monteztima
hid one In /oologlcal garden , the speci
men. In nil probibllltj , having been caught
In Coahulla In 1530 Caber.i aa\v them In
Texas , and In luIS Ooronado found a herd
In what Is now the Indian Tenltorj , one'
of hh officers describing them ns horrthl-
beasts that demoralised the her es In
161. ! Sir Samuel Argoll observed herds of
bl ° on near the national capital and. In all
probiblllty 2ST jears ngo herds of bison
grazed on the site of the capltol building
at Washington. In 1C7S rather Hennepln
ob ervod them In whit Is now northern
IHn ols and In October , l"2'i. ' Colonel W
n'r-1 ' sav herds In North Carolina and Vir
ginia.
Iri'ii of IlufTnlii llniiuf.
Thr o and olhei facts have provided dala
by which the carl > geographical distribution
of the bison has been detei-iilned and It Is
Known that thl * grand animal , tint Is todaj
leprcscntcd by a few Individuals , formerly
tanged "n " millions from the Atlantic sci-
board to the Oulf of Mexico , from Texas
to the Kroat Salt li'tc nnd as far west a *
central Nevada As to their numbers' , they
Acre like the sands of the seashore and
the accounts 0lvon bj those who hunted
them twentv or thirtj jears ago , todav
seem like vagaries of a disordered Innelna-
tlon Mi Hornndav , who has hinted In
South and Ccntial Afrlci v > hcrc gimc Is
ic-muikably plentiful , stitos that the hi" n
of this countrv moviola to 1S70 excopdcd.
In all prrbablllty , all the African numo
of evciy kind An armj ofllcer In scivlce
on the plains in 1837 stated to the writer
tl'at on one occasion ho vvns surrounded ! > /
bt'ffilccE and that from fie ton of a sm ill
hill ho could see mthing but a black mass
of tl'elr bodlef It was Impossible to estl-
mite their numbers and the paily were in'
Kieit feai lest thcv shoiild be caught In i
stampede , the rush beintr Irresistible Colonel
nel Dodge , in his memoirs , , states tint on
one occasion he rode twcntv-five ml'es ' In
Arkansas , always being in a herd of buffaloes
lees , or man } small herds , with but a small
separating strip between them The ani
mals paid but little attention to him , meiclv
moving slowly nut of the. way or advancing ,
biinglng the whole herd of thousands dnvn
on Mm with ( he lear of an avalanche
This he met bv Mamllng fast and firing
when thev came within short range the
ehot causing them to divide In one day
Colonel Dodge killed tvvcnty-.sK bison from
his wagon , not In sport , but as a protection
Otherwise they would have run him down
nnd crushed man , horses and wagon
This held obaervel by Colonel Dodgn was
luter found to be fiftv miles wide and to
occupj live davs in pageiui ; a given point
on Its waj north Prom a high rock , from
which point ten miles distant rould bo seen
in every direction , the earth seemed to bo
covered with bison To make an accurate
estimate rf the numbers seen would be Im-
poesiblo , but Mr Ilornadaj , bv a conserva
tive calculation , est'mates th it Colonel
Dodge must have sosn ISO,000 and that the
herd comprised " 00,000 buffaloes A train
on the Kansas Pacific lead In that state
In ISCfi iimse l between the to-vils of nig-
worth anil Sheridan 120 miles through i
conllnuoL'K he-d of buffaloes They vveio
packed eo thnt the earth was black and
morn than oncn the train vvns stopped , the
surging mass becoming n menace to human i
safety
MlrieK a Train.
"You cannot believe the facia as they ex
isted In the davs of 1871-7.2 , " bijs an arm }
officer "I was at that time on dut > In the
pay department , which made It iiecchsary
for mo to travel on the Atcliimn. Topeku
& Santa To rullro.ul One < iay the train en
tered a laico herd , which Bcniteiod mid
seemed lo go wild at the shileking of the
whistle and the ringing of the bell AH
wo went on the thicker they became until
the \orj nrth appeared to be n rolling mm
of hump * so fai ns we could see Mil
denh seme of the animal. unreal iw tinned
j and iharged , other * fell In Behind nnd don
on us thej o-iino lll.c an avalanche The
i engineer stoppc-d the engine , let oft stnm
j anil whistled to stop them , while we llro.l .
from the platforms and windows with
and revolvers , but It was tike tr.vlng ID
May a tidal wave We stood In the cenier
j of the * car to awaii the crash , someof the
men solus to the rear. On they came , the
enrth trembling , nnd plunged beads down
Into ti" ! . Some were wcxlged In between
| the cars , others bftienlh , nnd no great vvns
I the crush that they toppled three cars over
i nnd actually scrambled over them , one
buffalo becoming bogged by having his leg *
caught in the window Suih accidents oc
curred Fevcral tlincp nnd twice In one weil.
were trains derailed bv charging buffaloes.
whose lumbers it was Impossible ( o can-
pule "
Hunter * have heard the roarlns rf buffaloes
lees nt a distance of from thro lo five mllet
nnd that the eatlh trembled wlun they
charged wo can well Imagine when the largo
bulls nro known to welsh 2,000 p nnds and
!
the cows 1,100 pounds The rjucstl n of In
terest today Is how was It posslb'o to destroy -
stroy so mnn > animals In so abort a ll-no
and what methods wore cmploved Th
natmal fatalllloH were fovv compared to tin
I cnornKiis numbers The cow bison dlsplavs
little nffectlen for her > oiing and mnnv
cah 's weie lost ovoiv year , but all In ill
I i the conditions were extrcmolv favorable lo
them ami their Increase was cnor-nous
Many were dcstnved by stampeding over
picclplcrs In 1SC7 , 2.COO buffaloes , or half
: i herd became entaiiBlcd In the quicksands
of the I'latte river At another lime a herd
was lost b > breaking through the I o of ha"
Qul I'arlo In Minnesota The cold w Intel s
sometimes kllloJ man > tint remained In
the far not Hi. but these dangers were as
nothing compiled lo man Mini soon founl
that the buffaloes had a value The Indians
slaughtered them bj the thousands for their
skins , bone and for food , thej killed KO
' oftentimes to secure five an I waste nnd
i ' prodigality were the Mile Yet soast were
their numbers that drubtlcea the Indian
I I
I i Inroads upon them had little effect so fir
las extermination 13 toncernel
j ' liHlNi'ilnilnulis'miulitri. .
Hut with the white man It was different
Some wished lo make locords and killed
foi sport , some killed for the hides and
,
' heads , snme became piofesslcml buffalo
butchers to provide the gangs of rn'lroid
men with meat , slaughtering a magnllkont
anlmiil for its tongue alone It has been
estimated tint previous to 1S70 nearlj 750-
000 buffaloes could have been killeJ > earl >
nnd the herd kept Intnct , how many were
'killed ' a nl wasted will never bo kmwn
I Hacli animal , howevet , had a vnlue nl this
time estimated b > Hornaday nt $1 , the robe ,
$250 , the tongue 25 cents , hlndquniler
I meat. $2 bones hoins nnd hoofs 25 cents ,
j nnd this was eulllcient to atliact an aim > of
'destio ' I > er8 The hides were the greatest
i fealuio , and one fit m in New York b ° two2ii
1S70 and 1SSI paid the killers nearlv $1 000-
OCO , rr , to bo exact , $ ri2J,070 , for the robes
! '
and hides , which lepresents the final cx-
tln-tlon of th > animal The government
never Intel feied , owing to protests of In-
tcicsted legislators nnd th < - neglect of higher
olllclals Another firm paid $10,000 for robej
and skins and there were scores of private
'
traders In tbf Held The woid went out to
kill everj thing In sight , and from 1S7G there
was a price on the hs.ul of rry buffalo
It Is a dark and disagreeable subject to
piobe , but it Is Intel esting to note tome
of the methods of those national cal.imlt >
makers A band of half-biceds in two
hunts , according to Koss , Killed -17,770 buf
faloes. C20 men being engaged In the sport ,
out of which nbout 30.000 animals were
wasted or partj ) caten Ilornadaj esti
mates that from 1820 to 1S2 , " ) flvo buffalo
expeditions went out , composed of 610 carts
each , killing 118,150 buffaloes Piom lS2"i
lo 1830 five expeditions , of 750 carts each ,
killed 111 ! 210 buffaloes Prom 1830 to 1S75
six exptdltlons , of S05 calls killed 171-
5JS animals Prom ISJ'i to 1810 fifty-four
expeditions , of 1 010 carts each , killed 212-
550 buffaloes Total number killed by the
Itcd Hlvor half-breeds alone In twent ) jeirs ,
GJ2 275aluul at $1,2C1J75 An Intcicatlng
'table has been fuinlohcd the government
b > the firm previously mentioned , I & . I
Iloikovviu , showing the decline of the buf-
I I falo as an article of commerce It shows
that in nine > car this firm handled 24C 175
skins , costing $ ' 121,7 % In 1S7S they icccivej
11 2CS lobes , In 1SS3 , f.,000. In 1SSI none
The end hud como and tlui buffalo was a
mcmoiy Another dealer. loscph Ullnnn ,
, states that In 1SS1 ho handled 000 robra ,
'valued ' at $350 , and 1J.OOO at $750 In 1SS2
ho purchased 10 000 hides at $3 10 and 10 -
00) robes at $ S 50 The prices hunters re
ceived were Cow hide , $3 , bull hide $250 ,
, $1 r)0 , calves , 50 cents The ex-
I pcnscu of transportation bioiiRht the hldo
i up to $ J 50 In New York This dealer In
j four > earo paid out $ .110,000 to these men ,
who killed buffaloes by flic tens of thou ands
, for $ J 50 a head Hath of the above-men-
I Honed dealers In eight jcais paid out $1-
23u,070 to the exterminators
Pi-iimnilH of Tiul ' ,
That the real extermination of the buffalo
was caused by the demands of tiadc there
can bo no doubt , aided and abetted bj
sportsmen , Indians and otheis , but the
blame ically lies with the government that
In all these jcars permitted a few Ignorant
I congressmen to block the leglalatuio In favor
' of the protection of the bison , so that all
| the efforts of liuinanltailaus were dcfeitcd ] 1 I
.and the Mils when pissed pigeonholed I |
Thcro wcio many methods of cxtormlna- j 1
tlon that aie graplilcnlh Illustrated b >
paintings and models In the Smithsonian
Skating Shoes for Boys-
Aie tin1 "WHIP shoes tli.H piove sueli
Rood satlsltii lion } ; lvi'tn as silmol slioes
Hie loj tlmt sets tliem now ean ll.ive
vvaini feet nil vnuitlnii our new Ar-
inoieil CiiiNors me tile pcutest hlioi'S
ovei jiut on n boy's loot Uio helen ni
Inlaid v\ltli tln.lioiselioeN Unit Keup
them lioni vveaihu out wlicn the lioys
inaKe skates out ol them-mid theio b
no win- about tlirin to sUa- , the caiiet |
like the illllled ] In lionilines ( lilj ; IIOJH
and litile lui.v.s can be lilted with Hicsu
if'Jixi slniet !
Drexel Shoe Co. ,
Omaha's Dp-to-dat * Sboe UesM *
1410 I'AKNAJl STKEEf.
Wuz Terribly Dispinted
'i os it didn't Miovni'ie , lint my boss
tliillV Mr HIIJ mei lie Kin" eoiiMiled
me lij -ifvin' I eonld tide m.whoel . -
; is In * wanted me to pi to them Ieo !
people and till tliem to put in tliou *
paper that be bad JUHI iniule up bit !
mind to nt tin * piiie on all IiciHIng
htove am ] bhuls just U' ( per emit Say ,
but be'e > f'C'ttin' leeUlefcaVby a btovo
Hull's been belling for SU.'i joii ( Mil HUW
buy for v'i-and STIIIO wu.wltlj hlcils
lie HMI ! lolil Jin to tell tliem ] icople l ! ) . .
luiV Ktlll gut Jou ol siHe.larvlii } ? v t i ,
( liitilng disliit'-tliat be Is Kcllin * uuial
elieap If jnu Know ol anj juo Uutt'is
Koin' to buv amthlitj : In the Imulwaio
PI.I.von . ii-ll 'em all about my bo-b
Hint n
nA. . C. RAYMER ,
1514 Famam St.
uS&i V&A i & fcifei w
for infants and Children.
. . . .
| tra ij. jtu i < * fc.ro j mm UHtv r ' > K * > * * * uwna Mi. ii
Cna'ovia \ * n liurtnlo s sulsino ( ( lor O ' < or Oil , Paro-
, ; ; ( > rlc , Drojw tuul Soodiinjr Hjrups. 11 is Ptcustnt. It
oontjiins nviUioi * Opium , JMorpliinc nor < t1ur Narootiu
Milf-tatu-p. ! ( losn\s ( . Worms ami allujs 1V\orl lnu > ss.
1 ( c-tiros lHarrlxva and "Wind Colic. II roiU \ " Tooth-
injr Troubles ami tMiros Constipation. It rojrnlatos the
Sloniitoh ami Itowols , t > l\liir lit > aHli > ami natural Mcep.
TSio ritihlivn's ranaooa-Tlio Mothor's rrloml.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the Signature of
in Years.
In-tllutlon The Mil ! huilii wiis t ir nuiit
Invldloie cne'nv of tin lufiilo an 1 a "ingle
man bv sneiklni ; uj on x hirl has luml
kii'ivvn to kill 1000 in a single season One
Ci'ptnln Jack Ilildgcs of Kansas his the
honoiablc ( " ) rciord of hiving killed 1,11.
buffaloes In nK wccka He look the conliact
to ( hut effect and bagged his game. Up tu
1S71 tliere were undoubtedly seveial millions
of buffaloes alive , but the lust for blood
was on , and eon came the demand for robes
mil hides from the dealers and men who
could not make n living at nnjthing else
went out to kill buffaloes In the different
stales there were tegular killing outllts
that cost , In lilies , horacs. laits , etc , fiom'
$ JOOO to $5,000 Such methods developed
some famous characters IlulTalo Hill was
one He conliactcd with Hie Kansra Pa-
cllh rallroul to furnish thrtn with all the
bi'ffalo the men could o-t .M th toad was
built nnd , accoidlng to Mt Cod > 's state-
mcnt , Ihoj ate I.2SO buffaloes In elRhtcen
months , foi vvMch he iccelvcd $500 per'
month , the price he paid foi his title.
U III'K. Of till * llllllllPH.
Manv biilfaloe'S were killed bv limning
them down This was the papular method
among the Indians , who shot them with
illlo or bow and airow , or chased them over
pieclpice.s The great holds north of the
Missouri wore mostlv c\tci initiated by the
Indians of the Manitoba Hcd rl\ei settle-
inent , who hunted them in a icgulai ami }
One division of such an army of cxtoi-
mlnators consisted of HOI carts , 700 half-
breeds , 200 Indians , 000 horses. 200 oxen
nnd 100 dogi The movements against the
buffalocn In Nebraska were often made by
S.OOO pejple and as each man killed at least
ten , ! 0,000 buffaloes bU lie dust In this
wa ) Indians as above killed , it I * ) estimated ,
C52.000 buffaloes
The completion of the western railroads
divided the buffaloes Into two herds , north
ern and bouthcin In 1S71 the southern
'
herd was comp = hc 1 of an cstlmited " ? ,000,000
and from now on the nnlmais dropped away I
so rapidly that It w is estimated tint 3,000
or 4 UOO a day were killed It became evi
dent that thoj wore doomed and appeals ]
wen ) made to the government by hundreds
Prom 1S7J to 1S7I there were I.'bO.lCl
buffaloes kll'ed ' and wasted , 3,158780 In all
killed b > white people and the skins shipped
cant over the Atthhon , Topeka & . Sinta re
load During the same tlmo the Indians
killed , ! 90,000 , bct'des ' thctv hettlers and
mounted Indians killed 110,000 , so that the
grand sum total for these } cars was T fi')8 ) -
7SO In the following jeai , 187" , the deed
was done T'c southern held had been
bvvcpt from the face of the earth , the north
ern herd went In the bamo way In 1SS2
It was believed theic were 1,000,000 buffaloes
allvo in the herd , but theic wcio at least
3,000 white hunters in the field shooting
them down at overv point Such a merciless
war of extermination was never before wit
nessed In a civilised land Then came 1SS1 ,
thousinds took the Held Ihlb } car and Sit
ting Hull apd sonic whltm had the honor
of killing the last ten thoiiuand
There were living at the last government
census made eight yeais ago , 25G pureblooded -
blooded buffaloes in captlvlt } , the last of
the untold millions that covered this con
tinent during the list century
V-IIIITN for \iiu-rlriiii i\llllillK. :
I'AUIS. Dec 27 1'iof llcnjamln I )
Woodward , assistant I nlted btates com
niissloner general to the Paris exposition
today took olllclal posses-Ion of the spaces
allotted to the United 3tnt .s In the ntilld-
lnp of imLhlnciy and clo tncltj. There
was no ctrcnionv
POUT \\HlTi : Pla Di J7 Tom White ,
a negio , vvhllr rcHlstlng mrest , was
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK ?
Don't Rive them tra or coffee Ilnvo jou
trlid the new fund drink called OFIUN-O'
U Is dellcloiiM and nourishing nnd lakes
the pl-icp of entire The moro Oinln-O you
RlVP the children the more health vou dls-
tribute through lliclrj lems flrnln-O I-
made of pun Kinlns nnd vvlii-n properlv
prepared taHtts like the cbnlce crados ot
roffep , hut costs about V4 as much. All
grocers sell It l&c and Me.
i ami Ur.li > ! In Hie lovn mti'hil tc ilav ' 1 Im
11,1.1.1. . < in IM n 1 u iiniklni ; tbtiais
t > iiii'i tlu touii ml kill tbi matnlm !
] \ \ or \ii\u\ \ i > r.silitrr.
(
Point nit liili'ri'Ml Inn Prntttri * of ( lie
Crrnl M'n-itc lit Mini ) .
Ono of the most h rlUlns I'vldeniCM of the
ndvnntnKe I'ovvlnt ; from tlu > I'lcnch poxes
I alons of Algeria nnd contliuou3 teirltorv Is
j nfforded bj the numerals wells In the Rnat
I dciictt of Sahara llv ( his mcnno 1 irre
] aicni can bo rendered productive b } means
i of aitcalan wells 'I he oasis on which the
nnclc'iit town o' fouRKOiirl la built , In iSin
'
lllto many other oaics In the desert hud
become more m less uninhabitable , owlim to
the old wells having bcecmp filled up an 1
| the water nereoaarv for the liilqntlon nf
the Rnrilcns reducul In nmounl The con-
j Bcnnenco vvno thnt the people bccan to ml
I urnto In scarcn of moio hospitable quarters
j 'Ihcso facts belnR brought before thel
'
Ktrlnn nuthoilticB , nn nticmpt wns made to
tap the iiipplira ot vvatei which weie Known
to underlie so large n portion of northern
) Afilcn After live weeks of persevering
laboi Iho confldenrc of the engineer w.as
| I rewarded by n vvatei deposit being rcMclnd
at .1 depth of li > s than 200 foot from the
out face and immcillatelv afterward a ilvir
|
rushed foith , > itldini ; SSS gillons u mlnutt
double the quantll > poured out b ) the fa
mous well of fiienelle , it I'nrls The jo >
and giatltude of the Inhabitants can be
umlers'o. ' > !
When thp i nglncen llrst began to slnU
In the tnnil the vlllago grajbeards slioolv
theli heads over the lIKellhood of thcli
tiials bringing forth what 'o them w.ui
the gicattst neceeonry of life With tine
Mcslem fatalism they considered that the
tilling nn of the old wells was an act of
Hod nnd that It was useless foi men to op
pose the wnjs of Pi evidence "Out chll-
clien nro vvcnK , " bald ono of Iho chiefs , 'If
Allah the worl.er ot mliacles , docs not help
vii In ten jears the Wad Hlr will bo de
veiled and our gaidcns burled In Iho bind '
The people would then perish of thirst Hut
when this unexpected liver foamed over the
pirched ground the jojlul oson-slon was cel-
ebiated by hinging d Hieing and Arab "fan
tasias" of overj deseilptlon and the "foun
tain of peace" was the name given b > gen
eral consent lo the llrht artificial well bored
In this oasl Slnco that date numerous
other wells have been sunK In the same
region , with cqu il suucts , If possible ,
with a greater amount of astonlhhment nnd
with no lees lejoicing 'Ihus , in October ,
ISSo , there woio in this irrigated district
111 aitislan wells belonging to the Prenih
settlers nnd 4H. belonging to the natives.
Including a few nitural supplies of water ,
tbcio wells jlcld over fit,000 ! gallons ol
water n minute , or about 111 cubic feet n
second equivalent , M Xey calculates , lo
cno-tentli of the flow of the Seine in sum
mer
The modern and most effcttlve euro for
constipitlon and all liver troubles the fa
mous little pills Known as DcWItl'B Llttti
Harly Illsers ,
Film Development
Uccom'ii u ppiuiirp | jf joii UFO "Loyd's
Ideal rilm Hold rs throughout the
lnr prai ess Tbc } knop the
off llu lllins No cuiling In
the bath no mon unt ven dc vplninn'lU
no hoaklns before development no
loss of jiitlPiiic handled as casj as
plates ICr raih $1 W i doz n ,
THE AlOE & PENPOLD CO. ,
.Imnrrur I'liologi nji/ilc Atiiilr ; *
108 Fnrasun. OMAHA
OI'l'OSITK
PAXTON HOTJIL
We Are Taking Stock-
Tills vveeK , and \\lll make spet'liil ptlces
on any nnd all liolld.ij sloel. still on
our hands-So If > ou vviini anything In
ait or muslf-lio It plctuiu or Inline
piano or iiiiihh1 lmoi mi or violin
101 net 01 acioidlon ol nniHlial RUO ls >
ot any doMilplloii , .von will ot It at u
pike that will hell H-In our lianiliu'
depaitniPiit we aie In shape to jl\u jou
pioinpl attention , asHie lilj ; null Is
now o\ei , and II will jnullt .von to In-
\esti : ile this Mile , t'alendais at half
pike.
A. HOSPE ,
Music and Art , 1513 Douglas ,
Mr , Frederick Halter-
\Vnlllil luok pl'lllll.lf plajjllK K1IOVV-
b.ill in a MlU hitHUM.'finn lu > pUUc > i |
oui one of HIO.Ijiopul.ir am ) diohny O
duth i-.ijis that ue me xliouliiK In htli'li
a uii'ielj ol sljles and i-uloi-H jun will
Uml tin-ID not only HiyllMi , lint comfuit-
iinlu llii'siclillly nioinliiKS tliey LOIU
fiuin r > < ) ii'nis tip. \Ve liiivo ijulto u
iiiuulH'r of line liu HUH iiu niiiitli't
Cloves anil unilnellas lelt Hint uio niotit
ilppiopilali- liolidav piei-enlH.
FREDERICK
The llallcr ,
Tbc Loading JI.it .Man of the West
120 South 15th Street.