THE SCBANTON TBIBUNEr SATtifeDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1896.
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BONDERS OF THE
QUEEN'S DOMAIN
Stncthlng Abort the Wonderful Orala
Fields of Maaitoba.
WHERK MARVEL FOLLOWS MARVEL
Wheat Yieldlni Fiay-lhree Bushels
to th Acre and Weighing Sixty-four
Fouadi to the Bushel Is No Eicep
tioa ia This Fertile Bed Kiver
Valley.
fecial Correspondence of The Tribune.
Brandon. N. W. T.. Sept. 15. Hegina.
though the capital of the Northwest
Territories, with a population of 2,500,
Would hardly fret Justice done It by the
general run of traveler, for it has no
special beauty of situation to recom
mend it. Its striking feature Is loneli
ness and Immensity. The country sur
rounding: it for about twenty-live miles
is known as the "Kegina plain." and
While It looks barren and desolate. It is
Bald to contain some of the best soil to
be found in the dominion for growing
wheat. It Is a clay loam, often black In
color, not less than two feet, and often
fifteen feet deep. In wet weather it la
very sticky, and Inclined to cake on the
surface. This treeless pluln extends
westward as far as the "Dirt Hills,"
which is the northward extension of the
great Missouri coteau, as seen rising
tin the horizon In a dark blue Hue.
As we travel eastward we find our
selves coursing over an apparently
boundless tract of undulating, swelling,
and flower-scented prairie, our vision,
only limited by the horizon, which plays
deceptive tricks. Despite the rate we
are traveling, we Beeni to be no further
advanced on our Journey today than wo
were yesterday: the stations ure so
similar, so uniform in distance and
style, and each stretch of prairie Is so
much like the one that follows It, It Is
difficult to realize from the features of
the landscape that the train is making
any headwuy. Still, there Is a fascina
tion rather than monotony In this re
markable prairie ride.
After leaving this capital town, in six
teen miles we stop at Hnlgonic, where
is another of the Canadian experimen
tal farms devoted cliielly to grain grow
inglor wo are soon to enter the great
wheat-growing districts, Qu'Appelle,
Indian Houd, und Urandon. Since leav
ing lU'glnu. we have been traveling on
an up grade, instead of a level pluln,
rising 200 feet In twenty-five miles, and
in. eight miles additional, we are 375
feet higher than when we left the great
lU'glna plains.
IN THE WHEAT BELT.
Qu'Appelle is a vigorous new town of
l.MW population situated amidst small
bluffs of light timber. It is a supply
end shipping point for a large section of
country and the supply depot for the
Qu'Appelle Indian agency. There ure
several Indian reservations in tills vi
cinity and an important Catholic Indian
mission and school established by the
Jesuits in the (I f tiff under the care of
Father Laconibe. Here are two hun
dred Indian children varying in age
from ten to eighteen years. The boys
are taught a trade and the girls sew
ing, knitting and household work, and
thoroughly fitted, many of them, for
domes tie servants. It is said these In
dian children show great excellence In
Writing as compared with the whites.
Two miles west of the town is St.
John's college governed by the Itlshop
of the Diocese. Here the pupils ure
taught farming, the premium charged
'being from fifty to one hundred pounds
n year. At the farm connected with
the college, stock of every description
is kept. Near at hand is the Edgerly
estate of H.ooO acres. This is an old
post of the Hudson Hay company.
Fort Qu Appelle is situated a few miles
distant on the "Pishing Lakes," six In
number In all about twenty miles long,
with an average width of one mile;
- they extend along the valley for twen
ty mlleg. Not only Is good fishing
found here, but good "chicken" shoot
ing all along the river and valley.
The land during the next ten miles
to Indian Herd is a rolling prairie,
dotted with bluffs and the soil Is black
loam and clay subsoil, the road tra
versing several large wheat farms the
Canadian Alliance farm, the Sunbeam
farm, these being portions of Lord
Itrassey's colony, also the great "Bell
Farm" which embraces one hundred
square miles of land or 61,000 acres.
The town of Indian Head itself lies
within the farm boundaries. This farm
is a veritable manufactory of wheat.
Here the work Is done with an almost
military organization, ploughing by
brigades and reaping by divisions.
Here wheat is cultivated on the same
stupendous scale as on the famous
Dal vmple and other bonanza farms we
visit il in North Dakota, along the line
uf tin Northern Pacific railway.
LARGE SCALE FARMING.
Think of a farm where the furrows
are ordinarily four miles long and also
of a country where such a thing is
possible. To plow one furrow outward
and return la a half day's work for a
man and a team. This farm was laid
out in 18S2, by Major Bell, at which
i he was 200 miles from the nearest
rail, ad station. Here are 6,500 aires
devoted to wheat which produce from
thirty to thirty-four bushels of wheat
to the acre. Major Bell claims that
wheat can be raised here with profit
at twenty-five to thirty cents per
aushel, the yield varying in different
seasons about ten per cent. The neat
square stone cottages of the farm
laborer, and the immense barns and
collection of other buildings about the
headquarters near the railroad station.
make a respectable village, there being
also a church, a hotel, a tlour mill, and
uf course, a grain elevator. As we rode
along, harvesting was being done by
the regular staff of laborers, increased
by, various Indians. At the Kxperl-
ental farm here are numerous belts
of young trees, which were planted
and sown round the farm three years
ago and are growing so rapidly as soon
to afford complete shelter. The growth
of the belts of timber throughout the
prairie cannot be too much encourag
ed. Beside taking away the bleak ap
pearance of some parts, it helps ma
terially to equalize the climate.
A fifty mile run brings us to Broad
View, a railroad divisional point sit
uated at the head of "Weed Lake,"
with population of 600. Near here is
a reservation of Cree Indians, who
visit the station on the arrival of
trains, the braves being under the care
of the mounted police. Here the squaws
sell polished buffalo horns, millions of
which are said to be bleaching on the
prairies. The Indians color these horns
black by some secret process and pol
ish them until they shine, and then
mourtt them in various forms, an art
yet undiscovered by the white man.
GOOD GAME PRESERVES.
In the next 131 mites to Brandon we
?ross a rolling or undulating prairie,
lotted with fifteen stations and occu
pied by prosperous farmers, of which
these thriving villages at frequent In
tervals bear evidence. Their prosperi
ty Is particularly noticable as we ap
proach the district of Manitoba, which
we enter after leaving Fleming, 75
miles west of Brandon, joining the dis
trict of Assinlboia which lies along the
American border. The railway build
ings at these stations are uniform, con
sisting of an attractive station house
for passengers and freight, a great
round water tank, cottages for the sec
tion men, and the never ending grain
elevators: tall, solid structures always
telling the same story.
' All the wayfrom Broadview to Bran
don ponds and underbrush are fre
quent, and afford excellent opportuni
ties for sport. Here water fowl and
prairie chicken are specially abundant
iiu buiii(7 lunula neon, nnu nil occa
sional prairie wolf. Every minute or
two we see broods of, chickens rising
from the grass startled by the passing
train, while ducks, wild geese and
cranes and also the great white pelican
are seen. Sportsmen drop off at these
various stations.
All along during the day the alka
line lakes glisten like Snow in the sun
light. Alkali exists in the surface soli
In places through the prairies and we
see either dry beds of soda or ponds of
water with broad white alkali borders.
In reading over the game laws, we
find that the Canadians are under similar-
restrictions as are our American
sportsmen. It is a closed season in
Manitoba from January 1 to October 1
for elk, deer, moose, caribou, reindeer,
antelopes or their fawns. From De
cember 1 to September 16, for all kinds
of grouse, including prairie chickens,
pheasants and partridges, and from
May 15 to October 1. the bear, sable,
muskrat, and several other animals.
No description of game can at any sea
son be hunted or shot, or caught on
Sunday. Every person not a resident
of Manitoba must pay $25 for a license
to hunt game, but the guest of any
resident may have a three days' penult
without charge. In the Northwest ter
ritory, elk, moose, and caribou deer are
restricted for six months and under no
circumstances can any one person kill
more than six head in one season. The
building of the Canadian Pacific rail
road has driven all big game into the
Interior and hunters to have what they
call a "sure thing" must penetrate the
primeval forests northwards.
BRANDON TOWN.
Brandon is beautifully situated on
high ground at the crossing of the As
sinibolne liver, and Is the market town
for an extensive country north and
south. It Is only thirteen years old, but
has a population of 6,000 and Is the sec
ond city In Importance in Manitoba and
between Vancouver and Winnipeg. It
Is well laid out with excellent paved
streets and has many handsome build
ings. It Is the distributing market for
an extensive and well settled grain
country. In fact. It is the largest grain
market in Manitoba. It has five grain
elevators, besides flouring and saw
mills. The grain elevators have a ca
pacity of 310.000 bushels. It Is, too, a
divisional point and also nn Itrrportant
railroad center north and south. From
here is a complete network of the Ca
nadian Pacific branches, extending
along the International boundary above
Dakota, and leading to the fertile dis
tricts -of the Sum Is river, and coal dis
trict to Estevan. on the Soo Pacific line,
which connects the Canadian Northwest
with the Middle and Northwestern
states of the I'nion. It Is also the west
ern terminus of the Manitoba division
of the Northern Pacific railway. At
Brandon the standard time changes
from Mountain to Central time, which
is one hour earlier as we go east.
Here is another experimental farm
under the rare of Dominion offlcluls.
The amount of good that these experi
mental farms are doing throughout the
Dominion Is Incalculable; not only at
the present time, but in years to come,
the results obtained from them will be
seen and appreciated. In so extensive
a domain, soils of different qualities are
to be met with and the experiments
made and results obtained enable the
new settler to start In uiidorstamllng
ly, selecting the variety if seed lust
adapted for his particular soil as pre
viously ascertained by experienced ag
riculturalists. Here In this deep, black
soil Is grown the "Hard Ued Fyfe"
wheat, the most famous of all the vari
eties of wheat. Every endeavor is made
to obtain a wheat equal In quality to
"Red Fyfe," which will ripen curlier.
Many early varieties have been obtain
ed, but they do not come up to the
standard of Red Fyfe. Over two hun
dred varieties of wheat alone ure being
tested, besides, about as many of oats,
barley, rye, and Indian corn. Think of
this! Fodder corn was grown here last
year yielding twenty-five tons to the
acre. Aside from monstrous yields of
oats, rye, barley and llax. gigantic pota
toes, and almost everything that can
be grown In a temperate climate are
here produced in the greatest yields and
perfection without an appreciable drain
upon the soli. Fertilizers are not util
ized on the great wheat fields of the
northwest. From the Brandon experi
mental farm this spring C0.000 young
trees were distributed to farmers
throughout the country In lots of one
hundred. To the prospects of Bran
don no one can set limits, for a vast
and must extraordinary fertile country
is tributary to It.
ON THE WAY.
Proceeding on our Journey eastward,
the horizon only limits the view and
as far as the eye can reach on either
Bide the prairie is dotted with newly
made farms, with great black squares,
where the sod has Just been turned by
the plough, or with fields of grain,
grain stacks, and farm houses, or with
the short, sweet prairie grass, studded
with brilliant flowers which cover the
land on both sides of the train as with
a carpet ever changing In color, that
has never been cropped.
We passed several wheat fields where
the cutting was finished and thresh
ing was in progress, the click of the
binder being heard on all sides. Some
of this wheat was In perfect condition,
well and handsomely stacked. In some
fields the wheat was In a damp condi
tion, owing to the stacks being badly
built and unthatched, and in other
fields the standing wheat was so
lodged as to be impossible to cut it
with the reaper, and it was thereupon
suffering from over-ripeness nnd want
of attention and help to gather it. An
Interesting sjght, never before wit
nessed by us, was for a hundred miles
the thousands upon thousands of
stacks, as far as the eye could see, of
wheat in all condtions ready for
threshing and shipment. Owing to the
enormous Increase over last year's
yield (say some thirty per cent.), there
was a lack of help to gather It and the
farmers were then sending calls for
men. and according to the Winnipeg
morning papers, some five thousand
people passed through the city west
ward, over the Central Pacific railway
this autumn to gather the "waving
grain." Well may Consul Taylor say,
In speaking of the wheat fields of
Manitoba. "The future wheat area of
this continent lies north of the inter
national boundary line between the
United States and Canada."
THE TOPOORAPHY.
In describing the topography of this
country the Dominion side of the
"Continental Divide" we must say
"tip south and down north." The read
er should bear in mind that from this
divide, or water shed, the waters How
northward and downward Into the
Hudson Bay ami Arctic Ocean. The
drainage of the "Red River Valley"
runs northward and downward. This
valley, once a great ocean bed. com
mences with Fargo In the ITnited
States and extends northward to Win
nipeg, and hundreds of miles further
northward, growing broader and
broader with each mile. The farther
north we go, or lower down the Hud
son's Bay valley we reach, the black
noil, or mould, the organic vegetable
deposit become n heavier and deeper as
the area liecomes wider. It is safe to
sny that were the population of this
province of Manitoba as dense as is
that of Dakota and Minnesota, in the
production of cereals, Manitoba, with
Its broadened area, would excel either
of those states. Already with a popu
lation of 200.000 souls, including only
24.000 individual farmers. Manitoba
has this year raised sixty millions
bushels of wheat, half of which is the
noted Red Fyfe.
AV'heat Is being raised a thousand
miles north in Peace River county, a
tributary of the great McKenzie river
In Lat. 55 degrees, 5 minutes north. We
were shown grain In the office of C. N.
Bell, secretary of the Grain and Pro
duce Exchange. Winnipeg, that was
sown In Peace River county on May 2,
and harvested on August 29. yielding
thirty-four bushels an acre and weigh
ing sixty-four pounds to the bushel
or six pounds higher than the standard.
According to the government report,
Manitoba wheat will averase twenty
seven bushels of hard wheat to the
acre, practically free from smut. The
seasons here are so short that the seed
Is sown when frost is In the ground
or only enough frost Is out to receive
the kernel, which is often sowed
through puddles of water and furrows
soaked with it, consequently, the roots
are kept moist all summer and little
rain is needed, the hot sun bringing out
the crop juiickly. One Bolssevaln far
mer got 2,278 bushels of wheat from
forty-three acres, or 53 bushels an acre
and his oats yielded one hundred and
thirteen bushels per acre. On the Man
itoba penitentiary farm, the wheat
averaged forty bushels and oats sixty
bushels per acre.
The reader can have but little concep
tion of the beauty of the country
through which we are passing with its
fields of golden grain portions of it
standing and ready for the sickle;
others being cut and made ready for
the binders; others again being placed
in shocks for curing, preparatory to
being stacked and housed; and others
again leading In huge loads to the stock
yards; the whole presenting a scene
of rural animation which Is rarely
seen, and must be seen to be appre
ciated. The longer we roam among
these seas of ripened grain, the more
we are Impressed with the fact that
this region, already a great wheat
mart, is destined to become the chief
granary of the world. But we are
told "the half has not been told"
and further discoveries may appear
next week.
J. E. Richmond.
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
Coquilin Is a millionaire.
Frank Punlels Is ati years old.
The Vulloan contains a theater.
Klaw and Erlanger employ 4U0 players.
New York has three Jewish theaters.
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueruy" ll in
Rome.
Not one of the Bostonlani is a Bos
toniun. Sumlow is the happy father of a daugh
ter. Bernhardt has been photographed 1,000
times.
Comic opera Is the bill at seven New
York theaters.
Bernhardt will act Magdalen In Bovlo s
"Christ."
'A Crown of Thorns" has not made a
hit in London.
O. W. Couldfock has Joined Wilton
Lntkaye'H company.
WIlKnon" has been given 1,100 perform
ances in Lonilon.
James H. Mackie will be seen in "Lit
tle Jack Horner."
An, Iran's new operetta is entitled "Mon.
sler Lohcnsrln."
Laurit Kurt claims that she employed a
valet two years ago.
i:!y n liympton will be seen In Keith's
vaudeville theaters.
Frederick Paiiliilng Is reciting In the
houses of New York's "400."
"Arizona Joe" 1ms been played by an
English company eighteen years.
Anthony Hope's "Heart of the Princess
Osni" It to tie dramatized.
Arthur Nikiscli is the best paid of all
Eiiroean conductors l,Vto a year.
Ada Hehun played Lady Gay Spanker
In "Loudon Assurance" last week.
Dr. N'eltzel declares that the Germans
ire the most musical nation in the world.
Jessie Honslelle, Joseph Dowling and
Myi.i Davis will be seen in "The Grout
Northwest."
Louisville has never seen Duse, Tree,
Willard, Nctlursole, Hare, Coquelln or
Jlounet-Sully.
In Italy there are more theaters in pro
portion to population than in any other
country.
Aiiclina Pattl Is to sing at Nice the leail
Ing part in Gaston Pollonais' new opera,
"1 lolores."
lie Kuvpn nnd Smith's "Mandarin" was
given at I'Minbui'gh, Scotland, for copy
right purposes.
Victor Herbert has submitted an opera
to the BostoniansT They illil the "Bohe
mian Girl" in Xew York last week.
Gustavo S.ilvlni, the second son of
Toinass Salvini, has been Beting at Na
ples with great success in "The Merchant
of Venice."
Mrs. Putter v.'lll be seen hero in "Jo
seph of Canaan," a play that was turned
down by England's play censor. Bellew
will act the title role.
"The Tiber's Refused" is a Rome at
traction. The "refused" are the drowned
which the river rejects and throws up
on its shores.
The cast of Klaw and Erlanger's pro
duction of "Jack and the Beanstalk" em
braces Donnelly and Girard, Hollins sis
ters and Madge Lessing.
The only theater In the country that
has a tailor shop Is B. F. Keith's new
theater In Boston. One hundred and fif
teen attaches are employed here the year
round, and three tailors are kept 'busy
keeping their uniforms in perfect repair.
The English Lord Chamberlain has de
clined to lii-ense E. Vivian Edmonds'
"For Faith and Freedom," or any other
play about the Armenian troubles.
In Stanislaus Stance's comedy Andrew
Mack will play Dan of Hallyharu. Not
an Englishman in the cast. Etange Is
writing an opera for Jeff De Angelis.
At the Neustadter theater, Dresden, and
in many great Merman theaters, music
between the acts will be discontinued
with the beginning of thetjew season.
.Maggie Mitchell appeared in publlo
again last week at New York, but not
on the theatrical stage. She was a wit
ness ut Coroner Hoeber's inquest Into the
cause of the death of John Connors.
THE FOl'It KNIGHTS.
The moon came up In the misty east,
while the sky was red in the west.
When out of the dusk, across the moor,
four horsemen rode abreast;
Rising before them remote and dim they
saw the towers of the town.
Over them, out of the peaceful sky, the
solemn stars looked down.
For many days they had traveled far to
gether and traveled fast,
Together eaten, together drank, through
peril and danger passed:
But now, beyond where the river flowed,
they saw their paths divide.
And each to his Journey's end alone
through the lonesome night must
ride.
One was as fair as a woman, and sat with
an easy grace.
The long, bright locks of his yellow hair
blowing across his face;
The light laugh broke from his smiling
lips and snatches of merry song,
While he beside him complaining sighed
that the way was dull and long.
One had the ace of a soldier, bronzed by
the wind and rain.
And a moody manner that he had learned
In battle and long campaign;
His dark eyes under his helmet shone
with a feverish, restless light,
And his stern, fixed gaze as he onward
rode turned neither to left nor right.
One seemed silently bearing a burden of
secret care, .
His head was bowed and his eyes down
cast and he muttered a broken
prayer;
The glory of sky was not for him, the
light of the earth was gone,
And he heeded not how the hours slipped
by through the desolate night or
iawn.
But one looked up with a thoughtful
glance and his eager pulses thrilled
To the Joy. and the hope, and the sweet
content with which his world was
filled.
He read the secrets the growing things to
common ears withhold;
The whispering leaves and the rustling
grass to him were stories told;
In the faintest voice from he wavside
hedge, and the song of the soaring
bird.
In the murmuring river and babbling
brook a magical music heard.
One rode Into the silent East to meet the
golden day,
A faithful heart and a gentle hand were
waiting him far away;
The hand would serve und the heart te
true.
Though the tenderest friends grow cold
No fenr of the future his fond faith
marred, for love cannot grow old.
And one rode into the West, where the
sky the carnage of battle veiled.
The hot blood leuped to his swarthy cheek
and his stout heart never quailed.
Though he in the gloom of another night
should lie on the trampled sand.
Dead on his shield, with a broken swoc.l
clutched In his Icy hand.
And one rode Into the barren North as a
fuguttve flees from Fate.
By a rocky path, up a mountuln side and
into castle gate:
No fagot blazed on the blackened hearth,
and the air was damp and chill.
The halls that his vassals, had crowded
once were empty ami dark and still;
Through the oriel window's painted panes
he saw the dim Unfit fall
O'er faded banners and armor old that
covered the mold'rlnK wall;
Lost were the treasures too lightly held,
the honors of knightly fame. .
The pomp and the splendor that com
pass klnjf and the power of the an
cient name.
But one heard far In the sunlit south the
murmur of surging seas.
The low. faint sighing of perfumed winds
through blossoming orange trees;
So he rode nwny to the sinner land and
rode In Its hourgeonlng bowers.
And (he songs he sang to the sad earth's
heart were as sweet as lt fadeless
flowers.
The Beautiful clad In shliilnc robes be
side hlni stood with Trut I,
And under the shadows of waving palms
lie found the Fountain of Youth.
-Mary H. Krout.
CUTE TRICKS OF
THE POLITICIANS
Some of the Devices by Which They
Win Votes,
GOVERNOR BRADLEY'S OVERCOAT
It It aa Old Creasy Garment Which
Catches the PoorSenator Call's
Faatoas Ripped TrousersTom
Carter aad His High HatOther
Tricks ia Campaiga.
From the Philadelphia Times.
A few years ago when D. R. Francis,
leader of the gold forces In Missouri,
was a candidate for governor of his
state, the Republicans put forward
"Nick" Ford, a long, lank backwoods
man. I was on the floor of the Mer
chants' Exchange in St. Louis, when
Candidate Ford made a speech from
the rostrum. His lank figure, his cada
verous face and his general bucolic ap
pearance aroused the brokers and mer
chants to much quiet merriment. They
nudged each other and chuckled under
their breath and winked and In many
other ways showed their contempt for
Candidate Ford. Perhaps the fact that
Candidate Francis had been a trader
on the exchange for many years inllu
enced the Judgment of the members.
But the bucolic Ford came within a
comparatively small vote of carrying
Missouri, and the Republican manag
ers of that campaign have said ever
since that If the national committee
had given them a little money and a
few speakers, they could have carried
the state for a Republican candidate
for the first time since reconstruction
days.
Senator Cockrell, one of the leading
figures of the Democratic convention,
retains his popularity In Missouri
largely through his simplicity and his
genial manner to all who come to
Washington from his state Tls sena
tor is Just as plain and simple today as
he was when he first came to Wash
ington from Warrensburg. But cam
paign simplicity is not all natural.
Much of It Is assumed for the purpose
of making votes among the farmers
and laborers. That the plain people
have no sympathy with wealth and dls
pluy was Indicated plainly enough by
the feeling aroused twelve years ago by
the "Relshazzar feast" given to James
O. Blaine, which many people still
thluk cost him the election. At least
it cost Mr. Blaine a great many votes
alt over the country, and particularly
In New York state.
BRADLEY'S OVERCOAT.
Many are the devices adopted by can
didates and their friends to cajole the
farmer or Inbnrer voters. The friends
of Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, be
lieve his success in the last election
was due In a great measure" to an an
cient overcoat which he wore when he
was stumping the state. This over
coat, which was hopelessly dilapidated.
Mr. Bradley displayed ns an evidence
that he wus not on aristocrat. The in
genuous mountaineers saw In the
grense-stalned garment proof positive
that Bradley was one of "the people,"
and they voted for him In such num
bers that he was elected the first Re
publican governor ever chosen in Ken
tucky. It Is hardly necessary to say
that this overcoat is not the one which
Mr. Bradley wears when he Is not cam
paigning. It Is simply one of his politi
cal "properties." He keeps it ut the
executive mansion, however, for use in
emergencies.
Mr. Bradley's campaign device was
by no means new. It Is practiced In
some form In almost all the western
states and in some of the southern
ones. Few newspaper readers have
forgotten the socklossness of Simpson,
Jerry Simpson, of Kansas. It was ex
aggerated In some of the newspaper
stories about him, but there Is no doubt
he made his best point when he made
a point with the farmer Populists of
his district of the fact that he wore no
socks.
I wonder how his constituents would
have felt if they could have been with
me not long after the meeting of con
gress and seen their sockless represen
tative returning from the launching of
one of the vessels of the new navy at
Philadelphia. The simple Kansan was
sitting in one of the cars of a special
train of the Pennsylvania railroad
drinking champagne and eating sweet
breads, all at the expense of the Cramp
shipbuilding firm. It was not long
after his Initiation Into Washington
ways before Mr. Simpson was riding a
bicycle. I believe he never aspired to
belong to the "smart set," but he cer
tainly learned to wear socks and a
great many things less practical.
SECRET OF CALL'S SUCCESS.
Senator Call, of Florida, has been
going to the senate steadily since 1879
and no one understands Just why. Per
haps an incident of his campaigning
explains It. Mr. Call goes out among the
common people when he Is a candidate
for re-election. He travels about the
state, stopping over night nt the
cabins of the natives. He wears a pair
of trousers In which there is a large
rent. Arriving at the cabin of the plan
ter Mr. Call talks politics with tl
owner, discusses crops and Inquires
after the children. Presently he is In
vited to stay to tea and to spend the
night. The Senator always accepts, and
as he Is about to go to bed he says to
his host: "I've a bad rip in this pair
of pants. Will your good wife put a
few stitches in It for me?"
Of course, the good wife is overcome
with the honor of mending the trousers
of a United States senator. She sits
up for an hour darning the rent until
it can hardly be seen. The Senator is
profuse In his thanks when he comes
down In the trousers next morning.
Waiting till he Is at a safe distance
from the cabin the Senator takes out
his knife and rips open the trousers
where they have been darned bo care
fully. He is ready now for the next na
tive with whom he will spend the
night. And so the trousers are mended
ail over the State of Florida. Mr. Call
may not know so much about the Con
stitution as he thinks he does, but he
Is well Informed about the character
istics of the people of his State.
Mr. Rtnsom, now Minister to Mexico,
kept his place In the affections of the
people of North Carolina by Mattery,
and so extended his term In the Senate
to twenty-four years. I am inclined to
believe his defeat finally was due less
to the political revolution in his State
than to a consciousness of his Insincer
ity which had been growing with his
people for many years. When I wus In
North Carolina a few years ago I
heard a cod many people speak of Mr.
Ransom, not unkindly, as an "old
fraud." But to the people In the back
country Ills Insincerity wai not so ap
parent. Whenever one of these went
to Washington and received attentinns
nt the Senator's hands he returned to
his home a confirmed Ransom man.
The Senator always showed everyone
of his constituents the most marked
consideration. Other Senntors, who
knew the amiable weaknesses of Mr.
Ransom, used to' stop good naturedly
when they saw the Senator from Ncrth
Carolina talking with a bnckwoods
friend. Then the backwoodsman would
be Introduced to the ether Senator (with
.whose name no doubt he was familiar)
as "one of our leadin' citizens," and his
bosom would swell with pride at the
distinction. A quiet smile lurking aboul
Mr. Ransom's Hps left you always In
doubt whether he was in earnest cr not.
But sincere or Insincere, Mr. Ransom
was liked by almost all who knew him
In the Senate: and his appointment to
the Mexican Mission was made at the
request of Senators without regard to
party.
Mr. Ransom wore about Washington
at all times a slouched hat of black
felt the typical headgear of the South
erner. He wore It because it was com
fortable and he never felt the need of
conforming to Eastern prejudice and
wearing the high silk hat which was
affected by moat of his colleagues.
Most of the Western and Southern
members of Congress are converts to
the silk hat habit and some ludicrous
results are to be seen about the streets
of Washington and the hotel corri
dors of New York. Senator Tom Carter,
of Montana, lately the chairman af the
Republican national committee, wears
a silk hat in the East, but he returns
to the black slouch when he Is among
his own people. Montana wou'.d not like
to believe that "Tom Carter bad be
come a dude;" and to the frontier
mind topper) is indexed by the silk
hat. Some years ago a newspaper man
met Marcus Turelius Smith, delegate
to Congress from Arizona, wearing a
silk hat and puffing away at a cigar
ette. "Smith," said the correspondent,
"I'm going to write a letter for a
Western paper describing your ap
pearance on Pennsylvania avenue,
wearing a silk hat and smoking a cig
arette. Do you think your constituents
will take these things as an evidence
of mental or moral perversion?"
"My boy." said Delegate Smith, "you
may say what you please about the
cigarette. The Mexicans down my way
smoke them all the time and no tine
thinks anything of that. But as you
love me ignore this high hat. If the
people of Arizona thought I wore a
thing like this In the East they would
retire me to private life at the next
election or sooner."
He was not In Jest, either. It would
be a pretty serious thing for some men
to be caught by their constituents
wearing silk hats. Mr. Reagan, of
Texas, once postmaster general of the
Confederacy, then a United States sen
ator, and now railroad commissioner of
the state of Texas, used to tell on him
self how he wore a silk hat unthink
ingly Into a Texas town. He always
carried ins slouch hat with him and
when he reached the borders of the
state of Texas he put on the soft hat
and consigned the silk hat to a box.
On one occasion he forgot all about the
soft hat and went sailing Into his homp
town with the silk hat on his head.
Mrs. Reagan saw the hat just as the
senator climbed into his carriage. She
snatched It from his head and thrust
It under the carriage scut. So the sen
ator drove homo without a hat. But
he always thought Mrs. Reagan saved
his political life by her presence of
mind.
. JERRY RUSK'S TRICK.
The late Secretary Rusk was a great
man to get out among the people, lie
had been one of them and he could
cooper u barrel as well an di lve u .t;ige
coach. He told me once that he could
foretell the result of an election with
almost absolute accuracy because he
made It a habit when he was in Wis
consin to sit aroui'd country stores.
whittling nnd swapping stories with the
farmers. There was no bettor barom
eter of public? feeling- Just before elec
tion, lie snid, than the farmer. He
told me after Harrison',-: defeat that lie
had expected the result because he
found the farmers wire n gainst the
Republican party in that i c:l.n. Mr.
Rusk always made a personal canvass
when he was a candidate for oillce in
Wisconsin.
Baliy kissing was the specialty of the
late Representative O'Neill, i f Ivnn
sjlvanui; and Hint has l e.ii from tlmo
immemorial a strong factor in election
contests. Mr. O'Nt ill kept up a Con
stant correspondence with his cuii
stlluents. Ho knew rveiyone In his
district by name and could address him
on sight. Colonel Mc.rrl.'on, of Illinois,
who wan considered at one time a likely
candidate for the Democratic nomina
tion this year, tol'l mo some time after
he had been retired from Congress in
favor of Jehu Baker tli.it he would not
go back to Congress again unless he
could have assurance of u longer teim.
He said It wore him out to be cam
paigning constantly nnd that if he
wanted to be elected he hud to be doing
campaign work all the time he was
not attending to Congressional duties
at Washington.
What makes for popularity more than
baby kissing or socklessne?s Is a good
memory for faces. Mr. Blaine hud a
remarkable memory. So has Mr. Har
Irson. Major MeKlnley seldom forgets
a face. One of his young fellow towns
men told me at Canton not long ago
that one cause of the Major's great
popularity In that community was his
unaffected cordiality toward all, and
the fact that, however long his absence
from his old home, he always seemed
to remember even the most casual of
his acquaintances there.
Indications.
Caller Is Mr. Swlgham at home, mad
am? Madam I have a suspicion that he is.
Caller A suspicion! Don't yu know?
Madam Not definitely, but if you will
go to the cafe: on the corner you can find
out; that seems to be the only place where
lie Is really at home. Boston Courier.
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