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The Omaha Sunday Bee. PAGES 11 TO 20. g EDITORIAL SHEET. ESTABLISHED JUE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 190U. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. INDIAN BEFORE THE CAMERA How the Noble Eed Man Likei to Have EU Picture TaVen. ABORIGINAL BEAUTY PERPETUALLY SAVED Rlnehart'a Idea and How It Mas Carried Oat to the Point of 1 Snrcess la Art at Any Rate. With Secretary Ethan Allen Hitchcock cf the' Interior department as authority for the atatement that the total number of Indiana In the United Statea at the clone Of 1902 was but 2-59, 306, and with a great tnany of these climbing Into overalls, som breros, country schools and politics, even a very short -sighted man must see the finish of the race. This conceded, how very apparent It be comes that F. A. Rlnehart made a master stroke when, in 18f8, he undertook to photograph the best remaining epeclrnena. The "Rlnehart Indians" In five yeara have spread over pretty nearly the whole civi lized world and parts of Missouri. Ugly old Uerontmo'a face is In almost as many libraries as la Andrew Carnegie's. Hattie Tom's la on the wall of many ,a den be tween the Olbson girl, the Stanlslaws girl. the Christie girl and the real girl.. Jack Red Cloud has Intruded Into many a dainty boudoir where formerly James K. Hackett and John Drew reigned aupreme. Chief Wets It la selling strong in Milwaukee and Chief Three Fingers has become almost a fad In Kentucky. Burtelda is being stamped In dainty ware by a Frenchman because of his rcaemblance to the young Napoleon and a German crockery decorator baa appropri ated half a dozen other beads. With this growth of the demand forxthe pictures has come a growing demand to know something of the Incidents of their taking, and on this point Mr. Rlnehart and fala first assistant, A. F. Muhr, were Inter Tiewed the other day by The Bee. Motor's Account of the Campaign. Patrons were claiming much of Mr. Rlne- hart'a attention, so Mr. Muhr did moat of the talking. Mr. Muhr Is an easterner who saw. few real Indians until ne came to Omaha and who realized what the eastern demand for the plcturea wouio. oe. n said: I knew the pictures would take safely enough. but whether or not he inmana would take waa another matter, and Mr. Rlnehart wisely took the precaution to get Into their good graces at the TransmU- Ippi Exposition through Captain W. A. Mercer, who waa fathering them tor tne government. , - Even with the captain s very vaiuaoie assistance It waa rather difficult work for a time. We had to get acquainted, to begin with, and that Is not a particularly easy task for a man who speaks only English and has to parley through an Interpreter. "Then there were numerous superstitions to be overcome. For example, they bad an Idea tbat the photographing would shorten the life or tne suDjeci. we PnQvu,r. - baby early In the exposition period and ahortly afterward the Infant chanced to die. Of course, that, to the Indian's mind, waa ohcluslve proof Bt tn eorrectneea of their theory." BtlH. It didn't hamper us much after we once got them going. Once photo- graphed and shown the picture, a buck would display the eagerness of a child and the vanity of a woman. He would wish to pose every time he got a lew ornament or new design In paint and It waa hard to rid mrnl ves of aome of them. . ... , ., , I ttoa noas o ' "OtherB developed a shrewd business in- I atinct. They wantod money usually $2 for a Bitting. I bad trouble with young jaca Red Cloud, aon of the famous old chief, over that word alttlng. I waa to pay one of his braves $2 for a Bitting and Jack came along. I took one ehot and prepared to take another While I waa arranging tne camera Jack motioned the brave out of tbe chair and wasn't going to let me take an other ulcture unless I put up another $2. "This same Jack and 1 .became good friends later, and had our only difference when he insisted on my getting bis whisky flask re-filled tor him as a medicine for old-, , ' Btronsr oa Poses. "How are they at posing? Splendid. Once in a position they will bold it rigidly from sunrise to sunset if you desire. ln greatest trouble we had about tnn waa mai they wanted to do their own designing. White Nan of the Klowaa got the notion that be should be taken while recumbent on bla lance with one arm upraised in defense, and we had a hard time to get him to change. Many wanted piciurea 10 perpetuate some fight or other incident of their lives. That Is the Indiana way of writing history. Not a lew oi tnem make crude drawings on skin or linen, pic- turlng their struggles and valiant deeds, and I have Been aeries of sucn drawings which told the history of a whole life. White Swan series includes ten drawings, and among these is one or luster tne day before bla last battle. "Very few of the Indians cared for pic tures of their families. Goes-to-War was taken with his squaw and children aeveral times, but not many others. The squaws themselves were entirely Indifferent to the slight, and not many of them would have anything to do with the camera men. Some of them sealously guarded their pappooses, too. I spent July, 1904 up on tbe Crow agency and for more than a dozen mornings I laid for one particular squaw with a particularly elaborately decorated and beaded pappooae-csriier. I had my camera planted In some bushes near where she came for water, but ahe detected my de signing and morning after morning came down with a huge umbrella concealing her back. Oa the Crow Reservation). "Tbat reservation vtalt waa a great ex perience. I had become well acquainted with A. B. Vpahaw, a fullblood Crow who livsd among bis people, but who waa a per- fectly. educated man and was planning to write a history of his tribe, for which book the pictures would be valuable. Though a son of an old chief who belonged to the 'Black lodge,' an organisation of patriarchs who will bave nothing to do with the white man, young Upshaw helped me In many ways and was sponsor for me at the reunion of Indians beld at Pryor Gap, thirty-live miles from Billlnga. Tbls made it possible for ma to take pictures of some very won derful scenes, as at tbls reunion tbe at tendants gave themselves up to aboriginal pastimes. They drove their cattle about madly, as they used to do with the buffalo, I secretary of that organisation $1 in pay and shot them down for roasting orgies not ment for a rids In a car which ths conductor unlike the southern barbecue in some re specta. They had a real bear dance, too, and I waa permitted to photograph the bear women as they leaped about the stump wbers ths bearskin was, ths young brave as be tore the skin with his teeth and the whole acrne just as another brave shot dl rectly In front of the first brave and killed ths bear-demon supposed to bo emerging from the suffnrer's mouth in response to the Incantations of the women and the ef fect of the herbs they had rubbed upon his head. Lived I.Ike a Crow. "Tbat reunion was the strangest affair 1 ever attended or perhaps ever will attend. 1 was the only white man there and I ate with them, slept with them (whenever I could find a quarter where no tom-tom waa beating), and literally lived as one of them. Then I went back to town and had a good stiff attack of typhoid fever. The Indians said It was because I had carried away with me the buffalo head from the Cree Indians' sun dance pole, but I can ascribe other reasona easily jtuessed by any tenderfoot who ever subsisted long on Indian fare. "My visit to the reservation was a profitable one, however, as It was easier to get pictures there than when the Indians were here at the exposition. Tlirre they wished to be taken on their horses and with realistic western surroundings. They appeared Interested In Upshaw's plan to write a hlBtory, and no doubt that helped me some. On the whole I round tnem a very hospitable and accommodating people. I also found there a Bister of Hattie Tom. who Is prettier than Hattie, but who wouldn't be photographed, as It was against the wishes of her husband, a grouchy young chief. In this connection, I might add tbat pretty Is as strong a word as I care to use, for never have I seen a really beautiful fullblood Indian. Always there Is lacking In the face that light of intelligence which ,s ,Dg0l,eiy necessary to beauty, "CleanlyT Well, don't press me for par- ticulara on that point. Won't it be enough If I just say that they go to the medicine man whenever they are ailing and that his medicine lodge is In reality only a hut in which berb water Is thrown on hot stones and so made to create a steam, while the patient la at the same time thoroughly sweated. The lodge usually is on the edge of a stream and Into this stream the patient, nude, must plunge when the treat ment is finished. Of course patients are clean then, and aa to what they are at other times I am not going to Bay a word. Stronir on Ornaments. "Their ornamentation, however. Is always elaborate and freauently aulte artistic. The old style, of course, was the design wrou-ht with norcuolne oullls. but now the sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe are strong on 6ea(js and the tribes farther south equany strong on silver ornaments. The greJlt troublei perhaps, for the photographer Is that the average Indian will overdo In making- Up. He wants to have on every- thl ha TO nd ererTthin. ne can bor- rofr wnen na is to have a picture taken. For stance, here la a picture of Caslmlro vertabjy a patchwork of nearly all the trlbes at the exposition. His headdresB he got from M 0mana hB Bnlrt from a paleface, his rest and moccasins from a Rln.. - kln ho.. from a chevenne. hlg breecn clout from a Fox and nls jeggins from , Klowa. Yet the buck himself Is a pj,, and mU8t naTe pal(1 at jeaat- tne equlvalent of t6S for that rig. To cture tne8e 0rgeoua costumes lust h ., .,. ... - . .ninP one p,cture by nan(, an(, the reproduce wth tnB Buper,mi08lng colorg. A1I tlntB an(J BhadeBi of course, are secured with the three baalo MiorB( ,e,,ow, Wue and rad... hjaiiT PK13TRES or LIFE. ' ; . . .. . The editor of the Oak Hill (O.) Defender discourses: "Ye editor went to church last Friday night. Before entering the audltor- lum he removed a pair of cloth overshoes ana set mem aown careiuuy in me ciass room. At the close of the service be found P" of wornout "gums" where the new overshoes ought to have been.. It is bad enough to be a sneak thief any- where, but the most detestable scamn of all lB tne Bcamp who will come to the house of Cod wlt an .hiding Impulse to steal what- eTer ,B found ioie, And tne crime Is all the biacker when a man will steal from an itinerant preacher or a country editor. . . oh the bBsenesa of it all Is black eBB cimmerlan. The remnant of a strange tribe of Esqul- maa has been discovered on Southampton Island, at tho north end of Hudson bay. These people had never seen a white man until recently. Their huU are built of the great Jaws of whales, covered with skins. In tbe middle Is sn elevation, on which Is a tone lamp, used for lighting, beating, cook ing, melting snow and drying clothes. The I trlb. (l m08t extinct, only tome sixteen being left, Oklahoma paper prints this story 6he WBB ij.om Boston, be from Oklahoma, ,.you nave traveled a good deal In the weBt have you not, Mlaa Beacon? I ..oh ye indeed in California and Arl toca al3d even in New Mexico ..uld you ever Bi the Cherokee 8trlp?" xhere vai a painful silence, but finally the loed over her glasses at him and said i th ,... iacc. Bir. i deem your aues tIon exceedingly rude; and, in the second. you might have been more refined In your inguage by asking n.e it I bad ever seen ,he cherokee disrobe The Minnesota legislators are wrestling with the problem of bow to provide against accidents from the use of kerosene and rasolcne. One member has introduced bill providing that all kerosene or coal oil kept or intended for sale In Minnesota must be colored a deep red by the use of al kanet or similar dyestuff. The offer for sale of oils not conforming with the re qulrements of the bill la defined as a mis demeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100, or In default of fine by Imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty nor more than ninety days Other bills provide that all gasolene must be kept in red painted cans. Dried holly leavea, the bark of tbe willow and leaves of the stag's born sumach are among the substitutes tor tobacco used b the American Indiana. In Swltxerland a I weed called mountain tobacco Is smoked in I great quantities. It is powdered before I using, and causes the smoker to become a I uental and physical wreck. The natives of South Africa are peculiarly affected by I smoking the dried leavea of the camphor I plant. Tbe smoker trembles with flight ai I nothing, weeps bitterly, and uses all sorts of words which do not In the leaat express I his meaning. Tbs wild dagga, another South I African plant, polsona slowly anyone ua I ing It. Assemblyman George B. Clark of the Twenty-ninth New York district bas not only returned a Iullman sleeping car pais I aent him by tas company, but haa sent tha - I had failed to rolled, knowing tbe official I position bis psssenger beld. "I called on I the attorney general," Mr. Clark said In I speaking of tbe occurrence, "and was In- I formed by blm that it would not be right I to use a pass. That was enough for me. 1 - I Immediately returned the pass with my I rhsck for ths amount of tbs palace car I charge." PDnnr ivn ffcTiv cvctcu ' UilLLj AM) VUMLI 01 J J LJI ' Vast Amount of Labor Involved in Hand ling Honey Orders. ARCHAIC METHOD OF AUDITING ACCOUNTS Tons of Orders Retarned, Verified and Filed la Kamerlral Order Plans for Redaelac the Work. Few who fill out occasional money orders at the postofflce, relates the Washington Post, Btop to think of the almost unlimited number of similar orders which are issued dally throughout the country, much less do they realise the enormous amount of labor Involved In handling tbe millions of dollars thus deposited with the United States postal employes. If one takes Into consideration the 35.000 money order offices under our government alone. Including Alaska, Ha waii, Guam and Porto Rico, it will be easier to gain an adequate Idea of the work of keeping track of the 60,000.000 of these vouchers which pass through the hands of our postmasters every year. Yet all these money orders, which, as blanks, were sent out In book form and by serial number, though they are widely separated and travel thousands of miles, with handlings by many people, are brought back after use. and, like tbe parts of every well regulated system In the heavens above or the earth beneath, are restored to their original form for once more they are placed In proper succession in books. The headquarters for these Inconspicuous but nevertheless consequential slips of paper are in the office of the auditor In tbe postofflce building at Washington. The accounts of all the postmasters are settled there, where weekly and monthly state ments, ccmprtslng hundreds of sheets of figures, are sent for Inspection. Large city offices sometimes send weekly 600 sheets, or thlryt-six columns of figures, enumerating each of the 100,000 or more orders accom panying them. To compare and settle ac counts as vast as these, to Inspect and verify them, assort, label and file them, la, only a skeleton psrt of the work required of this bureau. At the head of tbe great number "of people required is Henry A. Castle, chief auditor for the United States Postofflce de partment. Bis bureau Is under the treas ury, but It has entire control of the settle ments and accounts of all branches of tbe postal service. During the six years which Mr. Castle bas been in office he says that be haa witnessed a growth of more than 70 per cent in the business. This he at tributes to the enormous expansion or tbe postal service In every direction. From 91,OOO.OUO to $3 13,000,000. When one considers the fact tbat dur ing the first year of the money order Bys-, tem, which waa started In 1864, only a lit tle over $1,000,000 was issued In domestic orders, aa Bet' up againat the $313,000,000 of the year Just ended, some idea, of its growth may be Imagined. Money order offices are springing up all over the coun try, 8,000 of them having been added Blnce July 1 last. This la due in a large part to the opening tip.pf the West and to the greater free-' delivery facilities. In one week over three-quarters of a million dol lars Is paid In the Chicago office alone. Every money order paid in the United States comes to the auditor's office aa a voucher and must be bandied many times before tbe accounts of the issuing and paying postmaster can be properly audited. Arriving at tbe office, these statements are first taken up In the inspection divi sion. Needless to say, numerous mistakes are found, and, strangely enough, most of them are against the government. la addition to verifying the amount, all the columns of figures must be footed up and technicalities as to signatures and in dorsements attended to. Tbe vouchers are then carried forward in bulk, weighing hundreds of pounds a day, to what la called tbe "round-table section." Here In two large, rooms men stand at circular tables and throw the vouchers Into pigeon-holes labeled with the names of each state where the orders were originally Issued, Including the new possessions acquired by Uncle Sam. After having thus been distributed by states, the slips are taken to another section, where a number of busy women are em ployed In assorting them Into alphabet ical order, according to the town of Issue in each state, another section assorting them by towns themselves. As some states have 2,000 or more post offices, the nivnltude of this task may be easily un derstood. Tips for Wo With all the new woman's vaunted pro- gre8slveness, she bas not yet mastered the art which seems to come naturally to men that of traveling sensibly and com- fortably. When a man 'of affairs finds blm- self face to face with a journey halt way across the continent he accepts It as a gut from the gods a rest and respite from the maddening rush of bis dally business life. A woman, pleasure-bound for the same destination, sees In the railroad trip only an evil to be recompensed by social attentions at the other end of the line. In reality, the Journey la what she makes It. either a rest curs or a purgatory of un- rest and nervousness. If she looks at the situation sensibly and dropa some of the provincialisms which cling to her despite rmlnv Ha sklrta anil rliiha tmt th fMiltlva. " ' . ', .v. .... lion OI aiuiu.l ""Ji-iiui unuur wio luu, Bhe will arrive at her destination younger than when she started and In Juat the right mood to appreciate the further pleas ures in store for her Taking It for granted that a woman doe. not undertake a pleasure trip until .he is able to loosen her clutch on the purse- strings, she Is recommended to study mere ., . v, k. ..,. , i,k, doe. he stint, to make hlmaelt comfortable .v. n, i. .11 ,,. .n . theory, but In practice a day coach la an abomination. Railway . lunch counters on the live-minute plan are excellent in their place which is tbe comic supplement of the Sunday paper. But to begin. Let ths prospective, trav eler look well to her luggage, making It as light aa possible. If she does not atop enroute, an umbrella will prove merely an incumbrance: therefore It should be packed case of accident, or, as often happens dur- private sanitarium for nervous diseases, in ber trunk. Should be be compelled to log the winter, when trains are snow- Rest. Relax. Think about pleasant go from one depot to another In a large bound. A gentle laxative should always be things. 8tudy types as they flit past you city, she will find the omnibus or cab serv- in the bag and one's most dependable bead- on the long journey. Learn how small Ice Inexpensive and simple. ache powder as well. your own world Is and bow much pleasure In planning her traveling gown, ths wise Eat In the dining car regularly, but. with other people find in a world that has no woman should select a lightweight skirt discretion, avoiding rich entrees. Two attraction for you. Get out of the old which, at the conclusion of the Journey, meals a day usually suffice unless one bas groove, and when your friends receive you will lend itself easily and cheaply to the an abnormal appetite. The sensible women l the other end of tbe line they will ex service of a tailor and presser. Over- sleeps as late in the morning as ths dining clstm: trimmed skirts and fancy waists are singu- rar call permits and then enjoya a leisurely "My dear woman, wbers bave you laxly out of place oa a journey. A simple breakfast, ths first course of wblcb is fresh dropped off ths ysaxs V Tne neit "p to rrn th order numerically In each town, so that they msy follow In tbe rotation of their orlg tnal Issue. It Is little short of marvelous to watch the deft fingers of the girls who count them. Each young woman manages to hold In her band a hundred of these orders at a time, which she sorts and counts at a lightning rate of speed. No one can know It all In such a place, but each pemon must be accomplished in his or her particular line they must all be parts of the one machine, whose work- j Ings are as perfect as the gingham mill. where "a broken thread or shred spolli the web through a hundred yards and is traced back to the girl who wove It." In the recording division the accounts are registered and settled with the post masters. The final process, which la the object of all these distributions and ac countings. Is the checking of each voucher by the statement of the postmaster who Issued It. This laborious task requires careful attention and unerasing watchful nes, for thousands of errors or attempted frauds creep Into these postmasters' state ments. Orders issued for $75 or $100 are reported at $1, $2 and $.", wblcb error, whether deliberate or unintentional, It not discovered, would be so much profit to the Issuing postmaster and a corresponding loss to the United States treasury. The work of checking 60.000.000 of these vouch ers yearly occupies thirty-five quick wltted clerks, whose dally labor Is Incessant. After the rinal auditing the statements are bound In volumes aggregating many thousands, and are kept for seven years In the flies which honeycomb the balls of the bureau. The millions of money order vouchers are also collected and labeled with the names of the postoffices where they 'were issued. At this point H Is that the orders have reached tho original shape In which they were first sent out, Flan to Rrdspe the Work. The necessity for thus preserving the statements and vouchers Is Bald to arise from the fact that tbe accounts are often reopened and overhauled after several years to verify settlements or to correct alleged errors. The money orders are also valuable In private lawsuits and are called for many times In the year for auch pur poaes. 'Litigation may arise in Tennessee or Arizona, for Instance, involving the dis puted payment of a debt. One party al leges that he paid the debt by remitting a money order, which the'other party de nies. The local postmaster requests a search of the files in tbe auditor's office and If the money order Is found It 's sent to the post meter, who presents It In court and afterward returns it to Washington, to be again placed on file. At the end of every seven yeara the bulk of one year'a statements and money orders is sold under the law aa waste paper, which Is ground to pulp at a paper mill In Hagerstown, Md., under tbe eye of a representative of the Treasury depart ment. ' The necessity for all this routine audit ing work, with its Infinite detail, Is due to the fact that every money order comes Into the office as a separate voucher. At present a bill Is pending In congress, called tbe "post check bill," which Is de signed to treat the chocks as mutilated currency Instead of vouchers, thus saving the almost unlimited task of the present process. Insteadof sending the vouchers to the auditor, the poet master -would take one of these checks in its place, deposit it in. and get credit for it from the na tional banks. The banks vould forward the checks to the treasury, wLere they would be destroyed aa money unfit for use. Instead of the separate slips, which, to quote tbe auditor, occasion "a hundred mil lion checkings and 200 additional manip ulations of the sixty-odd million money or ders in this office before they can find their final resting place In the 'morgue' of tbe files room;" Instead of this the postmaster would send the bank receipt, which would Include numberless vouchers and thus re duce to a very small fraction tbe present work in the audltor'r office. Flight of Birds. Interesting facts as to flight of birds have resulted from a long series of observations, whose general results have recently been published. An eagle waa observed by Hergessell of Strasburg to fly at a hdlght of 9,000 feet. A lark was detected at an altitude of 1,000 feet. Aeronauts have encountered crows aa high as 4,200 feet from tbe earth. These, however, are exceptional altl- tudea for blrda to attain. As a rule, 1,300 feet seems to be the limit. The German Ornithological society bas been conducting experiments with pigeons, and that when liberated at a height of 9, 000 feet down to as little as 2,700 feet they drop rapidly to a much lower region of the atmosphere. men Who Travel bhlrt waist of sltk or wool, preferably black or some other dark color, will last tbe en tire journey. Experienced travelers find comfort In bloomers of soft black silk or sateen. In addition to her ordinary toilet articles let ncr lurk, into ner grip a pair or easy slippers, a kimona of black India or China silk and aeveral turnover collars or soft stocks, to make her plain shirt waist look trim and fresh. once aettled on the train she will find her house simpers invaluable, and, owing to the vestlbuled cars, she can even wear them to uer meals in the dining car. Do not take lunch boxes along. They invite a feeiing akin to seasickness. The uge of lhe kmon u obvloug Tne ... woman who attempts to dress and undress . . . ,h . nnu, ,. ,,, n0f, : ". X. V7n7 .i 7.1 . ...... a .u. - she may need, or she carries grip and all to the dressing room, and there, in a le'Burely fashion, prepare, herself for the " 8"" ,0" ,n a 'lnf """" ,'"':'" , .? , v ' "7"" "'B"lv "' ' strlpee. Over this she throws her black 11,k "ona Pcks what she can into her "P. "d. folding the rest of her garmenta. ""le. them back to ber berth laying them mo.0,h1y h" ' Nothing musses clothes more surely than tbe tiny hammock. In tha morning she reverses tbe operation, and haa reason to bless tbe kimona twice a day during her journey. It silk Is too expensive, cotton crepe in dark red or blue may be substituted. A small flask of liquor is' most useful In CONFESSIONS OF A CONSUL Experiences of a Man Who Represented tbe United States Abroad. ---SBBB-- A PICNIC THAT DID NOT PAN OUT How Cemetery Filled with "Yellow Jack" Victims Enabled Hint to Scare Those Sent to He llers Him. (Copyright. 1903. by T. C. McClure.) "These are my 'Confessions of a Consul,' " said the lately returned atatesman as be reveled In a strictly up-to-date Yankee chair, "and thank your guardian angel for keeping your patriotism below the point of making you yearn to serve your country In a tropical land. "I had learned that this consular business was a perpetual picnic upon which a de serving few were sent to fatten by a gen erous government. There was no work anl unlimited pay, an arrangement especially true, so I waa told, in the case of the con sulate tbat I longed for. The fees also ln volved no labor In their making. Likewise, there were no expenses. Tbe fondness of the natives for American consuls and their longing to support them gratis was a pe culiarity of that part of the country not generally appreciated. In fact, there seemed to be nothing better on earth, all things considered, ttian just this consulate. tioes Into Eille. "When I reached my post my predecessor endeavored to disabuse my mind of the in habitants' partiality for representatives of the foreign service. That was before I re lieved him of his charge and the fees. " 'This is not what it is cracked up to be,' he said. 'There is no money In It. You will find It hard to make a living here at all. As for work, you have to be on hand every hour out of the twenty-four.' "I expressed my deep sympathy In what be had endured. Then he went on with bis disinterested information. " "This climate is the worst on earth. All the foreigners get fever. Most of them die of It. ThoBe who recover are not worth anything. As for snakes', a man is always In danger of them. Only yesterday a friend called my attention to a centipede crawling up my back. A bite of the animal would bave been fatal. Such encounters are com non here.' "I complimented him on the courage that he had shown In staying so long at bis post, and congratulated him on being finally re lieved from such martyrdom. He was i good man and deserved better things. "But he was not so skillful in these mat ters as another consul I knew. This offi cial had managed to hold bla place through five presidential terms, despite the fact that In each term his successor was appointed His mode of procedure was simple and ef fective. I always admired that man. He was a thorough statesman. This is the way be managed things: ... , . t'alllnar a Cemetery t His Aid. ' "Tbe new appointee arrives. My friend greets him effusively, with a sort of I-bave walted-for-you-so-long 'air,, trots him around to all tbe big officials, gives him a flno dinner with much toasting and patriot ism appropriate to tbe occasion and con vinces him of bla undying friendship. Then comes the master stroke. He takes his sue cessor out driving, 'just to see the town.' During the drive, quite casually, of course the bewildered representative of Uncle. Sam la rounded up at the cemetery. This ceme tery la a well-arranged affair. Its occu pants are all classified. They He around In groups of various nationalities and occupa tions, not promiscuously, as In your ordi nary, vulgar cemetery. So it happens tbat in one particularly gloomy corner there Is a long row of graves that, by tbe inscrip tions on them, belong to Americans. " 'Who are they?' asks the trembling candidate for consular honors. " 'These? Oh, these are my predecessors at tbls place, poor fellows.' " 'There seems to have been a great many of them. What did they die of?' " 'Oh, yellow jack. All foreigners die of yellow jack down here. I urn tbe only con sul who has ever lived through lt.Curloue, Isn't It? Yes, the last man who came down to relieve me caught it like all the rest. He was a nice young fellow, too. I don't know why, but I took a great fancy to him. Strange, but you remind me of bim. Re markable resemblance, now that I look at you closely. Just tbe same physique, the same brave, frank, unsuspecting manner. Well, I paid his way home, but he died be fore he reached port. Yellow jack, poor fellow. So young, too so promising.' "Then 'there Is 'a stampede for the steam- Whit Not to Carry and How to Make One's Self Comfortable. fruit. When one spends the day lolling in a sleeper she baa no desire for luncheon, unless it be for fruit, which she may carry with ber. Dinner la usually served early, at 5 or ( o'clock, so the two principal meala are not so far apart after all. One hint as to these meals In tbe dining car: Do not allow the attendanta to hurry you. The speed of the train and the anxiety of the waiters to clear the tablea and prepare for other diners are likely to make one eat with a rapidity that la fatal, especially when combined with the rocking motion of the train. Ample time la allowed for serving the meala as a rule and no one robe some other passenger of a place, aave In the Imagination of the alert waiter, . Rekding matter, such as maeazlnea and ,. v . "'r"'u"-"-' purcna.ea as cneapiy un Doaro irains as si nome, so mile need be carried. A deck of carda tucked Into the grip may prove a veritable blesslna- if yeu meet a devotee of crtbbage or pinochle. Thu amu8ement nflltely less trying to lnB ,n,n """. ". in tbe end, more resiru.. ana rignt nere it may be stated that only the urovlnclal woman looks upon her neighbor, aboard train aa social highwaymen. The unconventionally permitted aboard ship Is rspldly making Its way on the rail, and an acquaintance thus rormea may be pleasantly continued . In after years or dropped when the parties go their ways at the final destination. Above all things, do not attempt to aew on the train. A Philadelphia woman who once boasted that, during ber annual trip to visit her mother. In the midwest, she always emptied tbe stocking bag, is now in boat office. The perpetual consul smilingly pays tbe fare. The flitting consul weeps tears of gratitude on bis shoulder; and for the next four years this benevolent rep resentative of I'nrle Sam gives the ceme tery and the steamboat office a rest. I Intended trying this yellow jack method on ray successor, but It wouldn't work. He wss a Cuban. He weighed 32 pounds. Yellow Jack was as familiar to him as a revolution. He had been brought up with It had It for a playmate when he went to school. He positively gloried in It. I was dldgusted when I found this out and 1 have advocated the reform of the consu lar service ever since. Consul Heads Two Rooks. "I had not been long In the service be fore I began to find out that a consul must be a lawyer, a merchant, a doctor, a clergy man, an undertaker, a statistician, an ex pert bookkeeper, a lightning letter writer, a linguist and a philanthropist with a bot tomless purse. To keep up with this varied calling I started to read everything' In sight on a consul's duties, and I am proud to say tbat I succeeded In mastering one of the strang est compilations ever Issued from the gov ernment press. "It was called 'Consular Regulations.' Tbls book was neither a novel nor an epic poem, but I read it and by next mall I was notified by the State department that the book was a back number. A new book ar rived at the same time. It was three times the size of the antedated volume and I bad to digest It, too. The Coasnl Meets His IHateh. "One morning, as I was finishing my breakfast, a sailor stalked Into the consu late and defiantly announced that he bad deserted from an American schooner tben In port. I mildly remonstrated with tho man and told him that It would be my painful duty to arrest him. This pleased blm greatly and he invited me to fulfill my duty. As he measured over six feet In height and was massive in proportion, I recalled that I had not read any 'regulation' relative to a consul's powers In such an emergency; so I told the sailor tbat there waa.no necessity for undue haste and that he would hear from me later. He departed in high glee and I spent the day In solitary confinement studying 'regulations.' Al though three-fourtbs of the book la devoted to the American seaman, there was noth ing In it, of course, to shed light on the case In hand. Meanwhile my sportive de serter was sprawling all over town and making disrespectful remarks that did not reflect creditably on his country or its rep resentatlve. "1 wrote despairingly to tbe State depart ment: " 'What am I to do with deserter left in port by his ship?' "A month later I received a voluminous packet from Washington, containing reama of transcripts from law books on tbe his tory and nature of deserters. Then, as a climax, I was referred for further particu lars to 'Consular Regulations,' and solemnly admonished to form my own Judg ment from what I found therein, together with tbe legal discoveries that bad been dug out for my edification. "I concluded to fall back on a cardinal principal of diplomacy and do nothing. This was an excellent solution of tbe question, I thought, as the deserter was dead of yel low jack; and, tberefero, aSt for long im prisonment, even in a foreign jail. .. Started . a Sanitarian!. "After that experience I devised an in fallible method for the treatment of my needy countrymen. Whenever a stranded American insisted that I was obliged to support blm I would sympathetically In quire after bis health. Tbls always took. On this hint every case that came to me developed a startling complication of ail ments. " The hospital la the place for you,' I would remark, writing at tbe same tlrfie an official note to the head of that institution, stating the lamentable condition in which I found my poor countryman and begging tbat be bo taken in and cared for. This hospital wss run by a benevolent old mother superior who seemed to have an unwavering predilection for taking care of graceless Americans. The more tramps I Bent her tbe more pleased she seemed to be. She took It a's a kind of favor had some sort of notion that It boomed ber hospital. "One day I went to tee the good mother and Incidentally her Yankee patients. Such a healthy lot of men I've never seen before or since. One after another of tbe charges told me that it waa the beat thing that they bad struck In years and hoped their good luck would bold out Indefinitely. As the mother superior appeared to be especially pleased with the condition of her patients and showed no disposition to let tbem go talked also of building an addition to ber hospital and Invited me to come and live there the whole colony may be with her yet for all I know. When I left that hos pital was the most satisfactory and profit able feature about tbe consulate." PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Small Fred Where are you going, auntie? Aunt May I'm going to the professor's to take a fencing lesson, dear. Small Fred Oh. pleaae take ma with you, auntie. I wish to see you climb a fence. . "Johnny," asked the teacher, "have you ever seen a drydock?" "I seen Doo Jones behind his barn drinkln' out of a bottle ylsteday, but I dunno whether he was dry or just takln it 'cause he's got the habit." Little Vegetarian Papa, why do you go away again? Why don't you stay home with mother and me? Papa Hut I must go, little daughter, to get bread .and butter for you. Little Vegetarian Oh, papa! if you'll only atay borne I'll eat meat! ' Mr. Watkyns What are you thinking about. Willie? Willie I was wondering why you didn't marry Mlsa Hlggtns, instead of having ber for my governess. I1 like ber ever so much better than I do mamma. Papa (severely) Did you ask mamma If you could have that apple? Five-year-old Yes, papa. Papa Be careful now. Do not tell a story. Did you ask mamma? Five-year-old Papa, I asked her. (A pause.) She said I couldn't have It. James, 4 years old, has been naughty to tbs point of evoking a whipping from bis long-suffering mother, and all day long a desire tor revenge rsnkled In bis little bosom. At length bedtime came, and, kneeling be fore ber, be Implored a blessing tor each member of tbe family Individually, she alone being conspicuous by ber absence. Then, rising from bis devout posture, tbe little suppliant fixed a keenly triumphant look upon ber face, saying, aa bs turned to climb Into bed: "I s'poae you noticed you wasn't In It." LIFE OF A WELL BOUND BOOR Library TJage Determines the Work of the Maker Very Readily. EXPERIENCE IN OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY Operation of the Illndery Proves a Kurrni and Adds llooh to the Availability of tho Volumes for Patrons. Miss Tobltt bus a reasonable pride In tha bindery of the public library, which baa been In operation In tha library basement since January, 1901. "When we began this work, she said recently, "we had on hand a large number of books which had accumulated, and ths unbound magazines and newspapers of years. We have worked away at these during the two years, decreasing the stock of dilapidated books by the larger part, and at the same time repairing and re- binding books which were put out of com mission in the library. During 1902 we bound 4.209 volumes, of which 358 were periodicals and newspapers. During the same year only 1.818 books were withdrawn from the library, and this number Is prob ably twice what It will be this year, be cause I went very carefully through ths fiction and children's departments and threw out all doubtful volumes. So you see we will soon work through tbe accu mulated material of years." Cheaper and Better. It bas been found that the average coat of binding Is .636 cents per volume, which is a trifle cheaper than It could be dona by outsldo firms. Then the books are only withdrawn from' circulation for two weeks, or seven days for a volume which Is in constant demand, while under the old ar rangement, where they were sent to hinders, a longer time was necessary. For books which are seldom taken from the library, canvas has been found to bo the best binding material, as It seems to Btand the shelf wear much better than other covers. Heavy reference books, which are in constant use, are much better covered wit,h morocco, although the expense pro. hibits a large use of this material. The Turkey red morocco seems to make tbe very best binding. Books of Action have been rebound In half leather, that Is, with leather back and board covers, and this may be said to be the standard binding of the library. Recently the experiment has been tried of binding these books In can vas, because the leather has been found to crack and tear. The material for tho canvas binding Is cheaper than the half leather and will, therefore, be better If It is found to wear as long. It haa the draw back of taking more time In the binding. Red leather la used morn than leather of any other color, as It wears better, the dye, especially black, apparently rotting tbe material. A new art canvas Is being tried and makes a handsome volume. Knallsh Minding- Tuasts Longest. The English-made books, while they do not look aa well as the American, are muoh better for reblndlng, as their paper la thin and strong and does not' crack, as does the heavy starched .paper used In . American volumes, especially the Illus trated tones. Tbe library la forced to buy the mofe expensive editions,' because tha cheaper books bave such narrow margins that they can be rebound only with diffi culty, and do not then last, as tho reader Is constantly straining the binding in an attempt to see easily tbe typs at ths Inner end of the line. It Is difficult to form an opinion as to the life of a book In tbe public library. Original bindings differ, and also the usage. For example, the original set of Bulwer'a books la still In use, but some of ths duplicate volumes, which were acquired at a later day, are now worn out. Thla can In a measure be accounted for by the fact that the best volume, where there is more than one copy, Is vsually given out. Fiction Rooks Not Durable. The original binding of the ordinary book of Action is not at all durable. The covers themselves wear fairly well, but become detached from the leaves. This structural weakness Is due either to the fact tbat tbe binding strings, three in number, are cut short as a means of economy In produc tion, which causes tbem to tear out of the covers, or are not carried to the cover at all, but a strip of material resembling a coarse cheese oloth paated on as a substi tute, which It is not. One volume of tho Tauchnltz edition printed in Germany has been in the library for eighteen years and has been taken out on an average of once a month for that time. It la still In serv iceable condition. Three very popular books are "The Mississippi Bubble," "Dorothy South" and "The Virginian." The flret of these has been in commission since last April and the others since June. They have been taken out nearly every week and are still good for from one month to six weeks, after which thoy will have to go to the bindery. Children's .books last longer than those for adult 'circulation. They are taken out In the ratio of 4 to 1 and last as long as the others. Moffett's "Careers of Danger" has been out twenty-seven times during 1902; "Custer, the Boy General," twenty two times; "Story of Lincoln," nineteen times, and Drake's "On Plymouth Rock" fourteen times. These are still in good condition. "Rolfe House" was in use seven months tefore being rebound; "Bonnie Prince Charlie," two years and seven months; "Allco In Wonderland," nineteen months; "True Story of ColumbuB," thirty three months; "Five Little Peppers," eight een months; "Child's Rhymes," thirty-two months. He term re Rooks live l.ona. In the reference room the "Scientific American Recipe Book" waa used three years and -three months before being re bound; Encyclopedia Brltannica. tourtsen years, bound agutn after eight years; Pool's Index, fourteen months, bound again after eight years; Century Dictionary, three years. Among popular Action, one of Henty'a books was used eighteen months and re bound, then withdrawn after two years; "Princess Idleways" waa worn out In two years; "Vanity Fair" was uued nine years, being rebound after six; "Captain Polly" ran three years and was withdrawn a year after reblndlng; "John Paget," five years, rebound, tour; two of King's books ran one and two years respectively and were with drawn two and three years after reblndlng. The life of public school text books is more uniform than that of library volumes and tbe minimum of usefulness may ba put down at five years, wlthxmost of tbs books lasting several years more. In most of tbe buildings adhesive paper Is kept on hand and torn leavea mended Immediately. At tbe end of each school year tha stock of books Is gone over and repaired as much as possible. They are classified as good or nearly uew, worn and ueles. Probably tbe greatest destruction of books la In tbs second, tbtrd and fourth grades.
