Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1906)
January 14. 10. AROUND THE WORLD WITH WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN TIIE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. S 4 interest came the fish and chicken, wrapped in the leaves of a plant called ti (pronounced like tea), and cooked underground by means of hot stones. The flavor of food thus cooked it excellent. The crowning glory of the feast was a roasted pig, also cooked under ground and a toothsome dish it was. Besides these, there were bread fruit, alligator pears and delicacies made from the meat of the cocoanut. The salt, a native product, was salmon colored. The invited guests were about equally divided between American and native population. But for tho elegant surroundings of the Young hotel, the beautifully ' appointed table and the modern dress, it was such a dinner as might have been served by the natives to tho whites on the first Thanksgiving after the New England missionaries landed. Funny Fish in the Aquarium After a call upon Governor Carter, a descendant of the third generation from missionary stock, we visited the aquarium. When we noticed on the printed program that we were scheduled for a visit to this place it did not impress us as possessing special interest, but we had not been in the building long before we were all roaring with laughter at the remarkable specimens of the finny tribe here collected. Language cannot do this subject justice. No words can accurately portray what one herye sees. The fish are odd in shapo and have all the hues of the rainbow. The tints are laid on as if with a brush and yet no painter Tales Told by an Engineer Who Pulled Throttle WAVING; lantern alongside, two answering blasts from the loco- motive ahead, and the heavy special of Pullmans slowly gath- ered way for the climb over the Delaware divide to Port Jervis. N. T. In side the last drawing room car the con ductof stamped his feet and slapped his arms, while the passengers snuggled down In the deep upholstered chairs and watched the wintry scene slip past in the twilight, Snow-capped ridges glistened in the moon- light and tha river flashed back the re- flection of the hills. A nowerfullv built man with closely A cropped white hair held the attention of me out Into quite some of a young man. a group near him. Ho had something to That was when I first took a fancy to rail- tell of each station light that (flowed In roadlng. , passing. His manner was droll and his "The line was building while I was g row merry face Irresistible. Old-fashioned chin lng. We cae up together. My father had whiskers marked him a pioneer, and the the contract for laying down the first sec twlsta ha gave his sentences denoted a nn throush Deposit. When the first loco vigor that was refreshing. "The oldest engineer on the road," said ' " a railroad man, aside. "Fifty year In the service and still driving. Up to on year ago had nothing but express trains. Stepped down himself. Surgeons passed him sound as a dollar, but he said fifty year waa good enough for him. He asked to ba allowed to make room for the young lads behind htm! On the superintendent's books his record Is marked 'exceptional.' Got a milk train now. Runs 210 miles every Other day. Fastest train between liitlniia Awi tk. Iln.l" VM. HUH. VI, V . UU "Yet, I waa born right up there," the engineer was telling tha group . around him. "Bad house and barn, stuck on a hillside under a blasted pine.' Oollyt I can' sea It in the dark. The healthiest country you ever found. Nobody aver seems to die up here. Years ago the trus- taes got proud and thought the town ought to have a burying ground. They built a fine one. planted grass and all that, fenced It In and waited for somebody to die. But nobody would. They say they never would have anybody to rut In It - " - i wiin Shot a man full ot holes out ot mere sym- patby for the grave digger! Theynever did anything by halves in those days. "It waa along here that a sheriff from Port Jervis had a fight with a prisoner who was trying to get across tho river uiW rmijriviu. im prmoner goi me aherlff under the water, and a stuttering fireman I used to have danced up and down on the bank, shouting " 'L-l-H-ook out, Bill, he'll d-d-d-d-d-drown you. I'd c-c-c-c-come in and h-h-h-help you, but my legs're too s-s-s-short!' Hot Work on Won4 Boners. "We had wood-burners then, and It was hot work feeding them. Probably that was wny my n reman lert me some time after- winl in warlr An th. Monol a ..... - . - i a great rival of tho Erie at that time. A rew years later I saw the same fireman and asked him what he waa doing. 'F-f-f-f-feedlng a h-h-h-hay-burner,' ho I replied. , " 'What is a hay-burnerr I asked. "'A h-h-h-h-horse,' says he." Charley Mygatt climbed aboard bis own engine In ISM. For three years before that ; he had "flred" for other engineers, and dreamed perhaps of the day when he him- ( sen wuuia sit on the throttle side of Ills the best meat we can land on. Not on own cab. watch his fireman pull the bell- your life. Bill. Why. a farmer's a rotten r. cord and work the oilcan. Tha day My- ' peanut for coin, and when I was In the gatt got his engine was a big event in bis business I wouldn't give a mutilated post . life. Hla boyhood days had been spent on age stamp for a chance at a rube. It'a f the suffering ana danger in store for her, robs the expectant mother of all pleatant anticipations of the coming event, ana casts over her a shadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women have found that the use of Mother's Friend during pregnancy robe confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother and child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at the time of their most critical trial. Not only does Mother's Friend carry women safely through the perils ot child-birth, but its use gently prepares the system for the coming event, prevents ''morning .sickness," and other dis- containing valuable information Ik Bsaalfietd Bequletor Co.. Atlanta, Homeopathic Medicine Our store la tha largest depot tor Horaoeopathlo Medletnee to be found la the wet. We are la a position to supply WU0LK8AUB and RETAIL tl HOLSKS. as well ss PHYdI CIAN8 and RETAIL, TRADE. NOTE When ordering alwaya state What form, (pill, liquid or povder), ot medicine Is desired, also what strength, Shsrman McCcnnsIl DrugCo. Cor. letk and Oodgo Sta Osaaan. farms among the hills, where there was more work than play. His schooling, at least by his books, was confined to the long winter nights, a primer, Webster's diction' ary and a "book of fractions." "If a boy ain't got a head for mathematics he's no business In college, was the way my father looked at my early education.' said My gat t. "Consequently I didn't go east, although I never had a chance to prove whether I was long on figures or not. Tou bet I went to work, though. They didn't waste any time finding out what my lifting power was, neither. I was fairly husky for a boy, and the life I led rounded "City Jays HE word "jay," as used in the newspapers and by the general public, la ordinarily assumed to T mean a person of hayseed appear- ance and with a habitat In the old taTm nome Visions of gold bricks, shell games and other hoary swindles are he's dead leary ot everything. You can't no on8 could, that this must be a genuine, bunko steerer doing time for his game de- wera as wise aa wa war. If tbey badn t to tell hla stories for tha Joy of ram conjured up In connection with' It. We spring any old game on him now but what bona fide case of an Indian with a real cldedly smaller than they would be with thought that they'd hava Stayed away from nisein. say "as easy as a Jay," and the meaning of the, expression In our urban minds Is synonymous with "as guileless as a farmer." In short, we consider the horny- handed agriculturist, the stock raiser, the tlmbprman and what not others of the 4, who Hve ftpart from the clUeg to easy plcklng. for any of th8 gentry who v, by thclr wltB and ..Jay.. "reuten," -tarrnBr hnv- r. intar. twined by Interlocking In their meaning, aU a byword and a reproach, an insult to be applied eplthetlclally and an affront that no city bred Individual can hear be- .towed upon him without his gorge rising .nd the red corpuscles of hla blood In- flaming with passion. In sooth, we fondly think, because we are city bred, we are not easy, swindles can not be perpetrated upon ua and only tho "farmer." the "Jay," the meat on which the bunko man feeds, the fountain from whence he gains his sustenance. The first shattering blow at my Own be. lief of thla sort was struck when I en countered my first bunko steerer in a pro- feeslonal way. I had pulled him on gen- eral principles and we were sitting In the chief s office a -waiting his return from the Bertlllon room. The bunko man grew communicative. I asked him something atutnt kl. 17- - ...... h.l "'""" icvmu himself already and was merely pleading the white rag, complete reformation, and In the course of the conversation re- marked that as long as the farmer al- lowed the hayfceed to blind his eyes I ex- pected tha bunko steerer would continue to exist. Tho "Con" Man's Vlasr. "Say. now." said the con man. "don't you ever get it In your nut the farmer's is an ordeal which all women approach with Indescribable fetr, for' nothing compares with the pain and horror of child-birth. The thought free. G. . every 7oraan k islatsi3 mm! thooM know MARVTL -fihSriX: wl- suu'.t ui wuiKtarnil TtM MW Twtal llX.. M iJL Khar, but MRd t4m faf aa a. a ., For Bala by SHERMAN MrtUNNELL tRU3 CO, Corner Sixteenth aad Douglas Streets. VV3rVSCvv,L aW V'aVAiX MMU COUfni4M could imitate these shall we call them pictures in water color T Some were long and slim; some short and thick. One had a forehead like a wedge, another had a very blunt nose. Some looked like thin slabs of pearl with iridescent tints; others had quills like a porcupine. One otherwise respectable looking little fellow had a long nose upon the end of which was a fiery glow which made him look like an old toper; another of a deep peacock blue had a 6tick of indigo, which it wiggled as it swam. There were convict fish with stripes like those worn in penitentiaries, and of these there were all sizes; some moving slowly and solemnly like hardened criminals and others Bporting about as if enjoying their first taste oi wrong doing. One variety wore what looked like an orange colored ribbon tied just above the tail; the color was so like the popular flower of Hawaii that we were not surprised to find that the fish was called the lei. In one tank the fish had a habit of resting upon the rocks; they would brace themselves with their fins and watch passers by. At one time two were perched side by side and re called the familiar picture of Raphael's Cherubs. Besides the fishes there were crabs of several varieties, all bril liant in color; one called the hermit crab had a covering like velvet with as delicate a pattern as ever came from the loom. And then there was the octopus with the under side of its nrms lined with valve-like mouths. It was hiding .under the rocks, and when the attendant poked it out with a stick, it darkened the water with an inky fluid, recalling the use made of the subsidized American motive came through the town, hauling a train of cars, I was about 10 years old. The engineer fetched his tender up alongside a pond In the town, and the men, women and children, with pails, dippers, milk pans and pitchers, helped fill the water tank. They shouted to each other that they were 'glv- lng the Iron horse a drink.' Engines in those days had double trouble In carrying 1.600 gallons of water. The tender on a hlg Mogul of today will carry 7,000 just as easy as you and I will hold one drink every gallon weighs about eight and one-third pounds 7,OOOx8H think of carrying such a load! "Railroading after that was tha ambi tion of every boy In the Delaware town ships. All the' Inhabitants used to come down to the station to sea the trains go through, and the conductor, in his new blue clothes, brass -buttons and military cap was almost as big a man as tha Easy only the city people that are worth while, and, besides, they're the easiest to work, too." "Easiest to work," I exclaimed lncredu- lously. "Sura. When the farmer comes to town he loses his suspenders and begins to yell for the police. Time was. I guess, when that wasn't so, but he's on now, that Is, the mort of him, and even If an old friend he didn't quite remember'd' come and shake his han th h.., h.' v..,,- hi.- plnched But the cUy mant Tnere's the wise boyj there's mother's own white-haired infant. No one'd have the nerve to spring ' . v..ii, not on your fife: therefore If you tell him of an Indian friend who haa a secret to sell, why It's gospel truth; couldn't be otherwise He's Johnny on the spot got the electrlo eye. knows all about how gold brick are .m ..,1 k one." no one would 'trv-he'. too i n,i you can hand him the gold brick dead easy, because' he Is absolutely certain he's getting tho real thing. , "I waa In the business fifteen years, more or less, and I'll bet I never had a deal on with more than one or two farmers in the whole time, and all of them had city homes. so you couldn't call 'em more than half- breeds." $ . city Mm Too Wise. He's too wise. That's Just exactly what makes the city man an easy prey tor all sorts of swindles, new "and old. The farmer i . , - . . . . ......... is uBuiciuua ui everyming. ms guiUDiuiy Is such a standing Joke that even in hla own home he eyes every proposition that la made him critically, while In a city the shrewdest bunko steerer might as well give him a wide berth. But the city man! He's so certain that he's onto all the tricks of Curious and Straw Poll tow Hnsbnad. iVMix, wuuam ana Henry Mock, brothers, handsome and well to do, live In Pavls county, N. C, and near them lives the family of Jacob Depass, of which the chief ornament la Mis Nellie Depass. Kach of the Mock boys waa In love with Mlsa Nellie and she said she loved each of the brothers, but that she could not decide between them, At last Mlos Nellie decided she would have a wedding, and she told the brothers she would select one of them, and the others would be -"best men." At-S o'clock New Year's night she walked Into the par- lor in her finest gown and anonunced that she had decided to let the brothers draw straws to see which one she would marry. ene would manipulate the straws, aa she was "disinterested." Tho youngest brother won. Miss Nellie took his arm and the bridesmaids and their attendants ranged themselves In front of tha minister. In less time than It takes to tell Miss Nellie was Mrs. Henry Mock. Diplomat to Wed Heiress. The engagement of Miss Durline Bpreck els. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ous Bpreckles, and Spencer P. Eddy, seoretary of tha American embassy at Bt. Peters- burg. haa been announced In Ban Fran- clsco. . Miss Sprockets Is at present at 'the Spreckels apartment In Paris, whither she went with her mother after a brief visit to Ban Francisco laat summer. The news of the engagement waa a surprise. The cablegram from Parts did not state when tha wedding will take place, but It Is understood that It will be soon. Miss Bpreckel Is tha daughter of August Spreckels and It Is said that some day she will Inherit 130,000,000 or mora from her father and her grandfather, Claus Spreck els, the augar king. She Is a blonde, rather tall, with some claim to beauty, and pro nounced very chic. Mr. Eddy Is regarded as ono of tha most promising of tha younger members ot tha fPTwl newspapers by the trusts when attacked. No visitor to Honolulu should fail to see the aquar ium. Every effort to transport these fish has thus far failed and to enjoy the dudes, clowns, and criminals of fishdom one must see them in their native waters. Riding the Surf Exciting Sport The tour of the island closed with a trip to the beach and a ride in the surf boats. The native boat is a long, narrow, deep canoe, steadied by a log fastened at both ends to the boat, and floating about ten feet from the side. These canoes will hold 6ix or seven persons and are pro pelled by brawny-armed natives. Our party clad them selves in bathing suits and, filling three canoes, were rowed out some distance from the shore. The natives, expert at this sport, watch for a large wave and signal each other when they see one approaching, and then, with their big round paddles, they start their canoes toward the land. As the wave raises the stern , of the canoe, they bend to their work, the purpose being to keep the canoe on the forward slope of the wave. It is an ex citing experience to ride thus, with the spray breaking over one while the canoe fifes along before the wave. Sometimes the boatmen are too slow and the wave sweeps under the canoe and is gone, but as a rule they know just how fast to work, and there is great rivalry between the surf riders when two or more crews are racing. It is strange that a form of sport so delightful has not been transported to the American seaside resorts. There is president. Jim Dandles they were, too; proud as peacocks and twice as natural. Polks along the road used to boast that they rode down with this conductor or that. 'Charley Greene sat with ma pretty near all tha way to Port Jervis,' was a boast of the pretty girls, for Charley Greene was a great beau. "He was a fine figure of a man. We boys used to worship him. Many' the time I blacked his boots, and when tha trout were jumping I beat the streams every week to fetch him a mess for his Sunday breakfast. Charley took a shine to me and we were great pals. I was a barefooted little shaver then, and he used to pat me on the head and ask me what t was going to be when I grew up to ba a man. 'He a conductor!' I piped, just as I was reciting my lesson. He nor I never thought the time would come when I would ba pulling his train and him, too, Aoney for Confidence Aen life, so sura that no one would try to flim flam him, that his very poise is his undoing, and, aa the bunko ateerer said, he might buy a gold brick though, recognizing every phase of the swindle because he was sure o one would try to "Work him, so certain bunch of gold to hand over for a paltry price, Recently I Investigated the departmental records concerning swindles and other cases revealing the fine hand of the bunko steerer and out of 400. riving round num- n. that had been perpetrated during, tho la8t few y" not over ( per cent of tna victims were from the country or smaller towns. Lots and lots of visitors to tn clty were among the number; but thel" victims hailed from such hamlets as XNew or. vnicago, L-incinnati, uetrou, Pittsburg, Kansas City. New Orleans, Memphis, etc.. while the majority of the swindles were perpetrated upon actual In- habitants of the city, and generally the Interesting Incidents occurred in the stores or residences of the victims. In this lat ter case, however, the swindles, while they were probably the work of bunko men, were not of the same complexion as the stunts usually associated with the word "bunko." Easily Taken In. City dwellers are easy marks for bunko men. when they are visiting another city, for the very simple reason that they haven't got their nose attenuated with suspicion continually aa has the farmer. The up-to-date bunko man Is, of course, V w.tt A... j n, .... i..i,i. - - ...... ...... . . . v,i . .v.. . ...,. apt to become convivial with such a chap when a conversation ensues by chance (?) n some bar. The rent Is a elnrh for m. good bunko steerer. The lock trick or Romantic Capers of Cupid diplomatic corps, and, as charge d'affaires uipiumauc corps, ana, as cnarge a anraires at Bt. Petersburg, was acting ambassador during the recent troublous times in Rus-V sla, acquitting himself with great credit, He Is from Chicago. Is SO years old and has been attached to most of the principal embassies In Important positions. He was once reported engaged to Daisy Letter, and was a suitor for the hand of the Countess de Merenberg, a member of the royal house or Kussia. He is handsome, rich. able, and ! thought to have a brilliant future in diplomatic life. Ha is now on leave, owing to a breakdown caused by his strenuous duties at Et. Petersburg. . When the C'aar Proposed. At Walton-on-Thames, says the Royal magasine, the czar met the lady whom he wUhed to make his wife, and he bod ob- talned licr father's consent to the match, but it still remained for him to make his proposal to the girl herself. But the sacred word, had to be uttered In the old formula which Ruslan court etl- quette prescribed for such occasions. Beating himself beside the girl, he took her hand In his. . "The emperor, my father," he said, "has commanded me to make you the offer of my hand and heart." "My grandmother, the queen." she re- plied, her eyes twinkling with mischief. "has commanded me to acept the Oder ot your hand.' Then she broke into a merry laugh. "Your heart." she added. "I take cf my own accord." Wnlstlos Herald a Waddle. About ISO friends and relatives witnessed one of the mort brilliant weddings that has taken place in the village of Bever head. N. J . when Mary Elisabeth Le Val ley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Jeffries, and Dr. Frederick Carl Dettner, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dettner, wera married at tha home of the bride. Dr. and Mrs. TMn., then started for aa extended tour, cheered on their way by tha over tha Delaware division. "Those days didn't last very long. My folks chased me away from the railroad tracks and set ma to work on a farm. I lost sight of Charley Green, but I never lost my desire to 'railroad It,' and every chance I got I mixed in with the train crews. Those were rough times, but I was a rough boy, and could take a lot of bruising. None of them could stand up In front of me very long. Then came my chance to 'fire,' and I took It. That was In 1853. I waa still In my teens, but big for my years, and could do a man's work. If I waa a bit wild the engine and the firebox took It all out of me. . Hotels and dance halls were pretty thtck along the Erie then. The boys called these places 'ell racks,' 'cause they were so hard to get by. It took a clear head and steady nerves for railroading then Just as It does now, and I cut out the 'high Jinks.' Never any other of his modern assortment can be sprung and carried to a successful conclusion. The farmer would back away at the first Word of an attempted conver sation. Then, again, making a victim of a city man renders tha chances of tha the farmer. Tha city man will not, nine times out of - ten. say anything about what has befallen him, for reasons that are obvious. He doesn't want to be guyed, and as he knows if he says anything to the police the matter of his swindle will probably become known, ha remains snt. Even when he does muster up nerve enough to state what haa happened to the police, he usually begs vigorously that his name be completely suppressed In connection with the affair, but it's a safe bet that not more than one out ot ten w. w luuit.uwi vu u u who are victimised by a bunko steerei-s device, one , which is clearly that from every point of view, will ever aay any- thing about the matter at all, and tho bunkolst is thus enabled to operate for a longer period without detection than would otherwise be the case. One of the colony of get-rtch-qulrksters wa had with us In such force a few years ago, one of the fellows who backed tha tmnles for his patrons, said to me not very long ago that he didn't have five customers out of 1,000 on his books whose addresses showed they lived anywhere but In big cities. "I tried trying to Interest the yaps for awhile," he said, "but It was no go. I advertised in all sorts of papers, that go direct to farmers, and my ads were prepared In a manner that I thought would prove especially attractive and bring , i0. i . i-. . nn.k .,, to pay half the cost of the advertising, When I did get inquiries and mailed in re- turn some of the mattor that brought clrv people to us so fast we could scarcely keep snrin wnisties or the locomotive hauling shrill wh the train. It is an old and honored custom for the engineer to keep his hand on the rope and have his locomotive constantly emit -ear-splitting shrieks in recognition of the fact that another Long Island bridal couple Is on a tour. Passing engines take up the chorus, and even factories blow at the well known signal. Bo tha Long Island bridal send-off Is always most uproarious, and there Is no such thing known here as a "quiet" wedding. J Priest aa Cupid's Agent. Flfty young men of St. John's parish at Tin. ton, Pa., have been urged to propose and have their coming weddings announced in church. Rev. M. J. Mauley, announcing the bans of two couples, took occasion last Sunday to declare that Instead of two there should be fifty.' He said there were many young couples In the parish "keeping company" and be urged the young men to pep the question and advised the young woman not to miss so good chance In the belief that they can hava a jolly time and receive much attention as unmarried girls for some years yet Instead of settling down as married women. "Propose tonight," be said In conclusion. Pointed Paragraph . What a man's wife thinks of him Is not fur from the truth. You can t Insult some politicians by offer- lng them tainted money. Only a brave man would marry a woman who Isn't afraid of a mouse. Many men are more anxious to save their money than their honor. Fish make excellent brain food; even fishing stimulates the imagination. It's a good thing for some cf us that wa are not recognised as "good things." If marriages are made in heaven it is evident on the face of the returns that divorces are arranged In tha other place. -Chicago Newa. surf bathing the year round at Honolulu, and few beaches can be found -which can compare with Waikiki. Pearl Harbor's Many Advantages The Oahu railroad, which carried us out to the sugar plantation, and which has soventy-one miles of track on the island, pusses within sight of Pearl harbor, which is the only large inlet in the islands capable of being de veloped into n harbor.. The United States government is already dredging this harbor and preparing it for both naval and commercial uses. The Hawaiian islands occupy a strategic position as well as a position of great com mercial importance, and as they are on a direct line be tween the isthmus of Panama and the Orient, their value as a mid-ocean place will immeasurably increase. The islands being now United States territory, the advantage of the possession of Pearl harbor is accompanied by a responsibility for its proper improvement. No one can visit the harbor without appreciating its importance to our country and to the world. When we departed from the wharf at nightfall to board the Manchuria we were again ladened with flowers, and as we left the island, refreshed by the perfume-of flowers and cheered by songs and farewells, we bore away grateful memories of the day and of the hospitality of the people. Like all who see this Pacific paradise, we re solved to return some time and spend a part of a winter amid its beauties. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. for Half missed them. They certainly wera grand times, though, and no mistake. "I know a good Christian lady, who Is as nice as she can be, and she never falls to lecture me 'causa aha and me disagrees on this temperance business. Temperance is her hobby, and while I never was much on liquor, I got her riled by telling her I put enough arsenlo in ma when I was a boy to properly season my system. "The day I got my engine was tha proud- est in my Ufa, and Charley Green waa proud, too. Another person was also proud. Her folks lived up In my town, and her eyes and hair wera tha darkest you ever did see. That's her sitting over there. Her eyes are just as bright as the day I married her, and her hair is just as black." The engineer paused to Introduce the stranger to his wife. "She always Insisted I talked too much." track of them I never heard, from them again. They wera suspicious, and wera wise, because they thought they could ba easily dona, and that everybody was camp ing on tha trail of their money. All of tha people We did business with thought thay tha game, ( lackers m Plenty. Fake bond companies, shady Investment schemes, all these reap their harvests In the city, and the men who operate tbem know that the human "sucker" abounds mora on tha city pavements than along tha rural thoroughfare, Swindling had grown to ba a dead letter among farmers. grown to be a dea, because they have grown just really wise enough to be suspicious, but It will con tinue to flourish until the city man acquires as much wisdom aa his country brother. He hasn't It now, that's a sura thing. Look at the green goods game that was con ducted out of New York. Those fellows mailed letters to addresses all over tha country, inviting the publio to come and buy ot their wares, "so perfect that they would escape deteotlon anywhere," but few of those addresses were on a rural free delivery route or In a small town. It was city people the green good men wera after, and they grew fabulously rich on the unsuspecting denlsens of the oities, many, of their victims being men of such reputed experience In life that If their names had been published aa among the list of "dead easles" no one would have believed It. If the green goods men had written to farmers the latter would hava w.nt ih uni. n.. ,Mn. imunat th i,tr mi. the new swindling bolt like hungry trout after a fly. It's not alone In criminal annals that wa And abundant evidence of the verdancy of tha city man or woman. Every year wa buy gold bricks galore In the shape of bogus charity entertainments, subscription schemes and other easy things that ona would think even a child would grow sus picious of. but they are never recoa-nlied for what they are until after the explosion; but experience doesn't lend wisdom to the city dweller, for the next year he'll prob- ably bite again on a scheme almost lden- tically the same as that he was stung on before, and so it roes from year to wear. Nor are the gentry who live by their wits out of tha "easy marks" olass, either. They are dead wise, sure; therefore, tha small fry who balls hla victims In saloons loses his gains at faro or poker or crape; the poker player souses his In the buoket shop; the bucket shop man trades his gains oft to people In the next layer up, and there indl- vlduals lose theirs on Wall street or In squeezed stocks of all kinds, in the theatrical business there Is no room for comparison between tha marks of the cities and the wise people of the fields. I was down In Illinois on some business last fall and during the evening, having nothing else to do, wandered over to the opera bouse to sea a show billed there for that evening. It was rotten and the manager rang tha curtain down on the bunch In the middle ot tha second act and Invited the people to step out and get their money back. Only a short while ago that same show played hero with precisely the same east and as bad as it bad been before, yet the theater where It held forth contained large audience at every performance and the play and players appeared to make a hit. Then there ar other players, stars. so-called, who draw well In big cities, but who wouldn't captivate a handful of the country yokels. We admit that they are not stars because they are superior actors or actresses, but talk vaguely about their personality. What rot. They've managed to become fashionable somewhere in some manper and tha city sheep flock to see them. In consequence and are really pleased at being gold bricked. In muslo and art It's the sama. City people will be fooled every time by a six months' lack of haircut and by a flowing black tie. And as for the so- olally elect and their Uonat Forget about tt If you ever fancied there was wisdom there. A Detective la Bt. Lou la CMoba-Demoorat a Century he said, apologetically. "But, as I was telling you, there never was a happier young fellow than Charley Mygatt when he was hauling the dandiest conductor the Brie ever saw, had such a fine engine and a good looking girl. Oreen lived to be a veteran In the service, and there never was another man like him In my eyes. I've had them, all kinds, good and bad, too. Some of them liked to ride fast and some of them slow. Their disposition ran aa Irregular aa a ram's horn, Knocks and Wrecks. "Did they ever complain of met Sure. A Pullman agent claimed that I smashed $1.76 worth of dishes In making time be tween Susquehanna and Port Jarvls. You sea I hod my training before the days of tha dining coach. Funny, wasn't it? I never thought of plates and saucers at all. What waa my answer T This: That the train had tha regulation bell cord and If tha boss behind didn't Ilka to ride so fast all ha had to do waa to yank it. Never heard anything mora from that Pullman man." Mygatt has had tha usual accidents com mon to railroad engineers. Ha haa been In wrecks and coma out unharmed. Probably his escapes have been miraculous and hla bravery proved mora than once, but ona would never leant It from htm. Although the old engineer is candid and a ready talker, there is no trace . of conceit or egotism In his word or manner. He seems "Ever bean In tha river r someone asked him. "Twice." ha replied. The tracks at thla aectlon of tha road wind along the banks ot tha Delaware, picking their way through tha great hills of the Pennsylvania border. "Would hava gone to a third time," ha continued. "If tha ground hadn't been so soft. Wa wera beaded straight aa It was when I brought the train to a standstill In a cornfield, clean off the track and sixty feet from tha river. Tha first time I got In waa In '82, when wa bumped the rear of a way freight Wet night, sllpperv track, no air brakes! I saw we were going to hit her, and yelled to my fireman to Jump. He never moved. 'Jump, you craxy Ike I' I shouted, and let go. I don't re member where I landed. Tha angina went through tha caboose, shot Into the river, hit a rock and tha boiler spilt In halves. Wa never found much of tho fireman. In '88 I had my second wreck. The engine left tha rails so sudden like and so easy that I never had time to jump. She stuok her nose In tha mud, turned over on her side and laid down like an old hoss. I was draped over tha lever and up to my middle In water. My fist was closed so hard on the handle that tha tendons on my forearm tore loose. To this day that arm bears tha scar." New York Evening Post. Dollar Package FREE Man Medicine Free You can now obtain a large dollar slsa free package of Man Medicine free on re quest. Man Medicine cures man weakness. Man MeUlclne gives you once more the fusto, the Joyful satisfaction, the pulse and be throb of physical pleasure, the keen en if man sensation, the luxury of life, body power and body comfort freo Man Meuiclne does It. Man Medicine cures man weakness, nerv ous debility, early decay, discouraged man hood, functional failure, vital weakneas, brain fag, backache, prostatitis, kidney trouble and nervousues. You can care yourelf at home by Man Medicine, end the full else dollar package will be delivered to you free, plain wrap- firr, sealtd. with full directions how to use l. The full alxv dollur package free, no payment of any kind, no receipts, no prom ised, no papers to sign. It is free. All we want to know Is thav you are not sending for It out of Idle curiosity, but that you want to be well and become .our strong, natural self once more. Man Medi cine will do what you wsnt It to do; irrvke you a real man, mun-like, mnn-powerf.il. Your name and address will bring It; all you have to do la to send and get It. We send It free to every discoursed ons of the man sex. Interstate Remedy Co., tl Luck Bldg., Detroit. Mich. ICEDAC8 We sell all kinds of Rubber loe bass some made pf soft rubber, the mouth to be cloted with large cork. Prices. Sc. fiOo, too and 7tc. We also have the large "English" Ice Bags, made of checked rub ber cloth, with screw cap metal mouth, T&o and Si'SO each Ice Bags sent by mall on receipt ot price. We buy our Rubber Goods direct from) factories and guarantee every article sold to be In prime condition. Write for cata logue. SHERMASOSoPOftHELL DKl'O CO Corner lota aad Dodgo Stan
