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A RUSH FOR FREE HOMES.
Homesteaders Making Itrady for the
OPENING LRI Oklahoma.
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passed last June, a tract of land sixty
miles square in Oklahoma Territory is
to be opened for settlement some time
this year. Just when President Mc-
Ivinley will issue the proclamation en
titling the public to race for home
steads in what is known as ' Beautiful
Land" cannot be definitely announced
at present. But officials believe that
all preliminary work will be com
pleted by the middle of next August
This will be the last great struggle
for free homes in America. Descrip
tions of the wealth and fertility oi
Oklahoma have e.: it d much int.rcst
In the farms in that part of the coun
try, and already Intending settlers arc
camping on the border line waiting
for the President to proclaim the
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dies attending drawing rooms. Hith
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j MICHAUD'S EXPLOIT. *
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% BY FRANKLIN WELLES CALKINS. \
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Trapper, boatman, interpreter, trad
er and freight-captain by turns, Felix
Michaud bad. when I knew him, spent
40 years in the Upper Missouri and
Platte countries. Short, stocky, of
great breadth of shoulder and uncom
mon strength, he was of iron endur
ance at 60. He was a man of singu
larly placid and even temper, yet of
most adventurous spirit, cool, de
termined, alert, seeming never to be
taken by surprise.
He was my captain in a wagon
march from the Northern Pacific road
to the Black Hills when every mile
of our route from oid Fort Fctterman
was beset by hostile Sioux. Three
times they attacked, only to find
Michaud ready to receive them. The
close order of our march and the un
remitting vigilance exacted by our
leader undoubtedly saved the band of
35 adventures.
When Felix Michaud went to Fort
Bridger from the Missouri country in
1840 or thereabouts, he was a young
man, untried among the trapper com
panies. Some weeks after his arrival,
and in the time of revels at summer
rendezvous, he had the misfortune,
unwittingly, to provoke one of Bridg
ets fire-eaters, a hot-headed trapper
who could not brook to bo crossed
without fighting. Felix was immedi
ately challenged to fight,thechailenger
naming his own weapons—rifles at 60
paces.
The peaceful Canadian, however,
not only refused to fight, but attempt
ed to explain that he had meant no
offense. This breach of frontier eti
quette could not., of course, be over
looked, so Michaud was branded
"squaw" and promptly cut by most
of his new associates.
Some days later the offended trap
per, somewhat in liquor, attacked
Michaud with a pistol, declaring he
would blow the "squaw Kanuclc's
brains out" if he did not immediate
ly get a gun and fight, whereupon
Felix promptly disarmed his opponent,
seized the astonished trapper by the
telt, bore him outside the fort's de
fences, and flung him, neck and heels,
into "Black Fork swimming-hole."
This matter raised such a laugh
against the trapper that he did not re
new his attack. In fact, when sober,
hs laughed as much about the affair
a 5 any one.
Nevertheless, such was the mountain
c ide that Midland's reputation was
not fully established. "Kanuck," as
ho came to be called, was tolerated
merely as a good man at taking
beaver, and handy about the camps.
Two years later he was trapping
with a small band near, or within,
territory now included in the National
park. Among these little-frequented
mountains he and his companions
gathered so great a harvest of peltries
that when spring came their small
outfit of ponies was found inadequate
to pack all to the fort. Months of hot
weather must elapse before the expe
dition could return, and no cache
would preserve the furs from spoiling
so long. It thus became necessary to
leave a man behind —one who could bo
trusted to caro for the furs, and also
to hold the ground against invasion
from a rival company.
The choice of a man was determined
by lot, but Michaud was loft out of the
drawing. Some thought be wouid re
joice at this, but the young Canadian
was niueh hurt at his comrades' lack
of confidence in him. When the un
lucky member, "Haze" Fonton, ex
pressed a conviction that he should
never see Fort Bridger again and mndo
some final requests of a friend,
Michaud promptly volunteered to stay
with him. The trappers were sur
prised, but ottered no objection to bis
remaining.
Thus Felix and the big, raw-boned
Yankee, Haze, were left in a mountain
wilderness to guard some thousands
of dollars' worth of furs. As their
winter dugout was getting damp for
the peltries, they fell to work with
their axes, and built upon the bank
of a small lake a pine-log shack with
a rough wareroom overhead for stor
age.
Weeks passed into months. The
trappers fished, hunted, picked ber
ries, or lounged about in enforced
idleness, Notwithstanding there were
hostile tribes at no great distance,
they saw no man, red or white, for
four months, and were looking for
ward to the return of their friends,
when Haze came in one evening from
a ramble about the lake, wearing a
sober face.
"Kanuck," he said, setting down his
rifle, "we've got comp'ny on this lake,
and a mighty poor sort. Lope Vas
quez and bis gang, six of 'em, arc
camped down here away."
Michaud said nothing, but his face
must have shown tho concern he felt
at this piece of unwelcome news.
Lope Vasquez, a cousin of Bridger's
Spanish-Mexican partner, had been
employed by the trader. William Sub
lette, but had been whipped out of two
camps for steal In v. Subsequently ho
had gathered, f'-om the unprincipled
sort, a band of free trappers, who were
more than suspected of being free
booters as well.
Haze watched the effect of his news.
"Guess you'll be elimin' out of these
mountings right sudden, Kanuck," he
said.
"Mebbe so, mebbe not," replied
Michaud, in his terse and often non
committal fashion.
They ate a supper of jerked venison
and berries in siienco. Then Felix got
somo c'ry deerskins and tied them up
along the e.-osspieces overhead.
"That's a good idea," admitted Hazo,
"hut 'twon't do any good. They know
about the beaver. Some fellow got
drunk at the fort, and let it out amo ig
their friends or spies. They saw m
as I came by their camp, but I didn't
let on to see them. They've got u
under close watch, and we've got to
cave or fight—which?
"Mo—l t'ink fight," said Michaud.
cooliy.
"Three to one is big odds," said
Haze, dubiously, "and they'll just
simplv watch for a chance to shoot us,
IIMO rhc sneaks they are, when we stir
outside."
"All the same." replied Michaud, in
his slow, imperturbable way, "me, I
weel not run till eet ees nccessaire."
"You talk brave enough," said Fen
ton. doggedly am. doubtfully. "Guess
I 11 stay around here as long as you
will. We'll be served like two rats In
a trap, that's all, but I*ll stay just the
same."
The trapper's apprehensions were,
indeed, well founded, as Michaud was
soon to discover. The attack came
sooner than they expected, and like
a lightning stroke.
Fenton lay sleeping upon his blank
ets, while Michaud sat upon some
skins with his back against a wall and
rifle across his knees. The Canadian
had removed a couple of boulders
which filled a hollow under the logs
at his side, thus making away of es
cape, if escape should become neces
sary. Primarily, however, ho wanted
to listen, with his ear close to tho
ground, for any sounds of stealthy ap
proach.
But the attack did not come in that
manner. Michaud was aroused toward
morning by a sudden rush of feet out
side. and instantly there was a crash
at tho door. Its puncheon slabs—
they had been pegged to crosspiecfcs—
burst into the room, followed by a
crowd of dark figures tumbling in at
tho opening.
Instantly Felix ducked into the hole
he had made under tho logs. :i:ui was
outside in a twinkling. So Haze was
the only "rat" found in the trap.
Michaud waited only long enough to
hear n short scuffle, and to know that
Fenton had been secured and was be
yond his present assistance; tli. n he
sped away among tho bush and rocks.
No one pursued, however, or came out
to look after him. If the outlaws
knew of his presence—and he felt sure
that Haze would not en I .:*-'..ten them—
they did not con:-icier his escape as
dangerous to their enterprise. Michaud
did not believe they would kill Fen
ton if they could in any way use him.
Tho Canadian posted himself upon
a height where he couid overlook the
shack, and waited for daylight. There
was no stir among tho men until about
sunrise, when the whole party march
ed out. Hazo Fenton among them,
each man bearing a pack of beaver
upon liis shoulders. Michaud at once
made an accurate guess at their plans.
He waited until they were well out of
sight and hearing, and then descended
to the deserted cabin.
Tho marauders had taken nothing
but the more valuable bales of beaver
and otter peltries, in packs of some (50
pounds each. Michaud furnished him
self with a blanket, as much meat as
he could easily carry, and leisurely
set out upon their trail.
He had little difficulty in overtaking
them, loaded as they were. He was
very wary in his approach, watching
them from cover and at a distance.
As the country was exceedingly rough,
he had not much trouble in keeping
out of sight. Once ne got the general
direction of their course, he had no
need lo trail them.
They traveled to the northeast, and
Michaiifl knew they had come without
ponies. They were packing their booty
to the big lake of the Yellowstone,
where they had canoes hidden, or if
not., could hew them out of logs. Once
on the great watercourse, they could
easily drop down to the Missouri and
sell their plunder for enough to give
each of them some six or eight hun
dred dollars.
All daj Midland followed, at one
time getting close enough to see that
Haze Fenton, with hands tied behind
him, was packed like a burro, his
sturdy shoulders bent under the weight
that was strapped upon them. Michßiid
hepod lor no greater success than to
set. the unwilling toiler free. To that
end he was ready to incur any person
al risk which did not involve obvious
foolhardlness. That nisht he watched
Vasqucr.'s camp as an. owl watches
the 1... rows of whistling rabbits.
But the men slept in a row, with
their feet to their camp-fire. Ilaze
lay in their midst, and a man, gun in
hand, stood guard. Evidently they
were running no unnecessary risks.
In the morning so near was Michaud
that he could hear the men's voices
as they cooked a breakfast of young
"fool hens" which they had knocked
over the evening before. He could
see the grinning face of their black
Mexican leader, who appeared to be
in high good humor.
tho Canad'an followed through
a day's slow march. Another night
passed, and the vigilance in the camp
proved unremitting.
On the following forenoon the route
lay across a long stretch of rough, ex
ceedingly tumbled bench lands which,
from the description Michaud gave
me, I think must have been ancient
Java beds.
In crossing these arduous stretches,
the outlaws followed on old elk or
buffalo trail, and toward noon their
line bad become stretched out over
a considerable distance along the path.
A high wind was blowing nearly in
their faces. Mere Michaud saw his
opportunity for a bold stroke.
With the stealth of an Indian and
the daring of Boone, he wen. swiftly
forward, keeping under cover of rocks
Kid crawling rapidly over exposed
uramocks, until had overtaken the
?.!• straggler. Keeping softly be
hind until the man descended a little
pitch, Michaud sprang upon his bur
dened shoulders, and the '.'ellow went
lown with a smothr*ed yell.
He was quickly convinced of tho
uselessness of a struggle, and a gentle.
>rick from Midland's knife brought
hio band 3 across his back, where they
were tied with the strings of his own
pack. Michaud then tied the man's
'egs, smashed Jiis gun upon a rock,
and sped on.
He caught tho next man carrying
his load upon his head, and gave hira
i stunning blow in the back of the
'icck. To tie him and break his gun
was the work of a moment.
Then seeing a fellow, who was but
•i short distance in advance, go up on
a little ridgp and drop his pack to rest,
Michaud covered him with his rifle
and advanced rapidly along the trail.
The man did not happen to turn
around imm u lately, and when he did
;o was looking into the muzzle of the
Canadian's gun at less than a dozen
tops. His own rifle—like those of his
.'ellows—was slung under his arm. He
prang to liis feet, stared wildly at
Michaud for an instant, and then put
up his hands in token of surrender.
Me was made to lie upon his face
while Felix, with a knife in his teeth,
made him fast as he had done the
others.
Michaud now carried two cocked
rifles, one in either hand..as lie hurried
forward on the trail. He hoped to
overtake Haze Fenton next.
The ground was very rough in front,
and he could see nothing of the men
in advance. He had gone but a short
distance, however, when he came face
to face with Lope Vasquez, at the bot
tom of a rock-worn waterway. The
Mexican liad dropped his pack and
turned about, apparently to look after
his fellows, or to give some direction
to the next behind. In a twinkling
the outlaw's gun was at his face, and
his bullet whistled through Midland's
skin cap, cutting, as he afterward dis
covered. the skin upon his left ear.
Michaud returned shot for shot,
dropping one rifle and raising the
other with mechanical swiftness, and
the freebooter fell in his tracks. Be
fore Felix could recover from aston
ishment. at his own success and the
narrowness cf his escape, lie heard a
ioyful shout close at hand, and saw
Haze Fenton stumbling toward him.
Haze was almost ready to drop with
fatigue and the weight of his load,
lie had been with Vasquez, and as the
latter turned hack, had seated himself
to rest when he heard the shots. In
stantly upon seeing the Mexican fall,
he bad divined the situation. His
exultation must be imagined as the
faithful comrade freed him from fet
ters and burden.
An extra rill© was quickly reloaded,
and the trappers hurried on together
to overtake the other two of Lope's
men. They wore found at the foot of
some rocks awaiting their fellows.
The stiff gale that was blowing had
carried all suspicious sounds away
from them. They were surprised to
see the big Yankee coming, unloaded,
but his hands were behind him, and
apparently one of their mates wa3 at
his heels with a rifle in either hand;
so they were caught off their guard.
Haze enjoyed their discomfiture im
mensely Their guns were broken,
and they were made to carry their
packs back to their fellows. Then the
band of five were set free, given what
provisions they had, told to care for
their wounded leader, and take them
selves out of the country as best they
might.
The trappers guarded their furs for
a day or two, and then, certain that
the miscreants had taken themselves
off for good, they cached the bales and
returned to their shack.
The peltries were recovered two or
three weeks later, after the coming
of the band from Bridger's.
As for Felix Michaud, he could not
bo induced to take pay for the service
he had rendered, but when he was
chosen captain of the company he ac
cepted joyfully.—Youth's Companion.
Workmen'* Cora Tort unci Efficiency.
The introduction of steam power
into the manufacturing world drove
the little blacksmith's shop, shoe shop,
the country dairy, and weaver's loom
from the village into the city and
opened many new problems. In those
early days the small workman found
it best to consider carefully the phy
sical, moral, and mental welfare of his
apprentice and his assistant. If it
paid the small employer to do this,
It will pay the great employer many
fold more to have the same thoughful
ness for the hundreds of thousands in
his employ. The difficulty will be to
determine what is needed for this ad
justment, and how to accomplish the
arrangement even with the needs rec
ognised. It would seem, however, that
all will agree that among the essen
tials to economic production and a
proper adjustment of relations are op
portunity for thorough training of the
workman and his co-operation in sav
ing and in perfect manufacture.
Attention to personal comfort Is an
other of the essentials in the recogni
tion of the needs of employes. By
this Is meant thoughtfulness for com
fort In work —proper arrangements for
lunches and food—opportunities for
rest, for baths, and for all those
things which add strength and en
courage contentment. It is not suffi
cient, however, to think simply of the
physical wants. To accomplish one of
the great aims of all such plans—that
of securing Intelligent operatives—lt
is necessary to afford mental training
and mental growth.—The Engineering
THE TEN MASTER MINDS.
THESE MEN HAV-I BEEN PROMINENT
IN TnE WORLD'S PROCRESS.
It Is By lis Sclentmr Achievements lllnt
the Mnefventli (*uitir.v I> 31ot Dintln
— Hi,. Muh t Valuable l>i*covr
--1 it-s—lltf (.real Work of a Delicate Boy.
j If the nineteenth century has been
marked by progress in any single di
rection it is emphatically tint of
science. Standing now at its voiy
close a glance at the personalities who
did most toward the shaping of this
tendency and the molding of men's
minds is timely. There have been
greac men in other departments of
human endeavor—great writers, great
scaieamen, artists aud musician.? -i t
it is by its scientific achievements
that the century wiil be marked o'ut
from all preceding centuries. No les3
a man than Alfred Russell Wallace
has pointed out that the scientific
achievements of the last hundred years
have been greater in extent and num
ber than those cf all previous cen
turies combined. And it has been not
only in theoretical, but practical,
science as well that most has been
accomplished. In the lifting of the
burden of labor by machinery, the
speedy transit of men and goods and
the alleviation of human suffering this
has been the century of centuries.
This has been the age of steam. One
of the pathfinders in this direction was
James Watt (1736-1891.) The delicate
boy who could not play the rough
j games of his fellows was to startle the
world by his discovery that water, so
long considered one of the elementary
substances, was really made up of two
j gases—oxygen and hydrogen. .But he
i did not stop here. He invented the
j condenser of the steam engine, and
the closed cylinder, which has made
the locomotive possible, opening the
j way to all the progress which the rail
way has brought with it. In 17G9 he
! constructed the first steam engine that
, would work satisfactorily. It was he
who suggested the metric system,
1 which has been adopted all over Eu
' rope.
Next to steam it is electricity that
has done most for the advancement of
the race during this century, and fore
most among the original miiuls that
solved the preliminary problems mak
ing advancement possible wa3 Michael
| Faraday (1791-ISG7). He may well he
j called the first electrician, for his dis
| covery of the principles of voltaic and
magnetic induction laid the basis of
j the science of applied electricity. Be
| fore his time scientists knew that
| there v. as a f-ree which they agreed
| to call electricity, but what could be
done with it remained to be proved by
Faraday's experiments. That elec
j tricity was possessed of a chemical
quality had not even been suspected
' until his experiments in what has
since been known as electrolysis.
John Ericsson (1803-1889) was a
! competitor of Stephenson in the trial
I of locomotives in 1829, but his work
( was to be connected more with the de
! velopment of locomotion by water
; than on land. By the time he was 10
j years old his inventive genius had
J commenced to work, but it was only
[ alter his coming to the United States
j in 1839 that his most famous work
was dene. He had previously invented
| the hvit air engine which has been so
j well utilized in our modern gas ma
chines. but he will live longest in the
j memory of men as the inventor of the
screw propeller for ships. Tho first
vessel to which he applied this original
device was the Princeton in 1843. His
place in history will be always con
nected also with his conception of the
Monitor which played so great a part
in tho naval engagement in Hampton
Roads. Th type or vessel modeled
after this first example is called a
j monitor even now. In the later years
i of his life Ericsson devoted his in-
I ventive genius to the perfecting of tor
pedoes and torpedo boats.
I Natural science has progressed mar
vellously in these hundred years and
it is to the mi ml of George Cuvier
(1709-1832) that much of it is due.
What Linnaeus had done in the previ
ews century toward the classification
of animals was now put upon a scien
tific basis. Cuvier established the his
tory of the animal kingdom in the
light of comparative anatomy, and
laid the foundations of tho study of
prehistoric animal life by his wonder
ful restorations of extinct species from
single fragments. It is a common
place new to speak of the age of the
mammoth or the plesiosaurus. Cuvier
was the first to grasp the fact that our
ago is only the latest in a long series
of geologic ages.
I The natural successor of Cuvier,
profiting by his researches and at the
same time bringing to bear a new theo
ry by which he explained the rela
tionship between tho different species
in the animal kingdom was Charles
Darwin (1809-1882). It seems strange
to us that it is less than 50 years since
the publication of the "Origin of
Species," in which the principle of evo
lution was laid down explicitly for the
first time, for it has been so generally -
accepted that it is as familiar almost
as our A, B, Cs. Others had dimly per
ceived something of the universal
law. but Darwin made it clear, and
furnished the key to the many prob
lems of zoology which had been con
sidered unsolvable before his time.
His work crowned that of Cuvier.
Medical science has progressed
along the pathway of bacteriology
chiefly during the century and among
tho leaders in this work has been
Louis Pasteur 1822-1895). As a
young man he succeeded in solving
more than one difficult problem in
chemistry, interesting the world of
science by his discoveries in the field
of bacterial life. He devised a method
of filtration of water which has stood
tho best tests, based as it is upon solid
scientific principles. His work best —„
known to the public, however, is his
discpvery of the virus by which rabies
is prevented.
If medical science has made some
steps ft rward surgical scic nee has ad
vanced by leaps and strides. Much of
this hn3 been made possible by the dis
covery of anaesthetics and antiseptics,
but chiefly by the latter. No one
has ('.one such pioneer work in this
direction as Sir Joseph Lister, born in
1827. As early as 18C3 he had sug
gested the valuable method of guard
ing against danger from the use of
chloroform in operations by noting
the breathing of the patient. His
study of micro-organisms led him to
present some startling conclusions in
ISC7 when he suggested that wound
fever was caused by little germs in the
air, and that if operations were per
formed under proper conditions there
need be no fever. Carbolic acid was 4
first used for this purpose, and later
other drugs were found useful. The
surgeons of Germany accepted the now
idea immediately, but it was only after
years of demonstration that the con
servative British practitioners were
convinced of a fact now accepted by
every student in the world who knows .
anything at all about the subject.
The man who did most to alleviate
the woes of a certain class of workers
was Eiias Howe (1819-18B7), the in
ventor of the sewing machine. It may
seem that he has only substituted me
chanical slavery for manual, but the
possibility of cheap clcithipg arose
with his invention, and if the machine
has been abused it is not the fault of
this most useful invention. It is only
48 years since the first machine fac
tory was opened in Bridgeport, but
what a change it has made in the in
dustrial and commercial world.
A discovery which has done much
for science as well as art during the
century is that of photography, duo to
Louis Jacques Mande Da guerre (1787-
1851. It is true that it was an acci
dent by which he found the combina
tion or chemicals which would fix
sun-pictures permanently on a p'.ate,
but no had been working to find this
agent for many years, perfecting the
camera obscura, and laboring with
might and main toward this end. The
accident only hastened a discovery
upon which Daguerre was bent, and
which has proved invaluable with all
of the improvements which have fol
lowed upon his primary labors. <
In geography the century's advance
has been extraordinary. The greatest
of the leaders in this work was David
Livingstone (ISI3-1873), who be -:;n as
a medical missionary to Africa and
enned by adding wide areas of the
"dark continent" to the map of the
world. In 1849 he found the Ngami,
the great inland lake or central sea of
South Africa; in 185G he had traversed
South Africa from ocean to ocean,
and by 1859 had discovered Nyassa
lake. For 30 long years he had been
under constant pressure, fighting his
way through the wilds of Africa, not
with mighty guns and hosts of car
riers, but by the might of entharia-.m
and tho gentleness which wins when
all other means fail.
It lias been a marvelous century,
with many marvelous men in it, but
these ten may servo as representatives
of its scientific achievements.—Wash
ington Star.
Trigonometry in X-liny Work.
"Few people know," said Dr. J. C.
Egelslon while performing an o;., ra
tion at the city hospital, "that il. takes
trigonometry to locate a bullet in the
body. But in every X-ray op ration
in which tho bullet or foreign sub
stance is deeply imbedded a mathe
matical computation is necessary to
show just how deep the bullet i.. The
X-rays make the fiesh transparent,
leaving only the hones and foreign
substance visible, so that you see just
where the bullet is and yet you don't
know where It is. You know its lati
tude and longitude, so to speak, but
those measurements are surface
measurements and you don't know
how deep the object is beneath the
surface. The point on the surface
of the body beneath which the bullet
is can be readily located, hut how tar
beneath that point is the bullet?
"This is the question that trigonom
etry has to answer and by knowing
tiie answer a great deal of unneces
sary cutting may bo saved, and what
might otherwise be a difficult and dan
gerous operation may be rendered
comi>aratively safe and easy. If the
bullet enters one side of the body, for
instance, and lodges within an lilrh
or two of the skin on the other side,
the other side of the body would be
the one from which to operate."—Kan
sas City Journal.
Knlll. (•punish Titles l'nr Snle.
Aii agent in Paris is sending out a
circular marked "confidential" to rich
but untitled people in Europe offering
to sell them titles of Spanish nobility, r
Some circulars have been received in
this country, but have met with few
or no responses. When an American
wants to buy a title these days he is
mighty particular as to the quality
and buys it in the open market after
n careful examination of the goods.
Not so a European, who will take any
old title which he can buy and be
thankful. The enterprising Paris
broker offers the tille of baron, vis
count or count at prices ranging from
SSOO to SIOOO, and declares that the let
ters patent conferring the title chosen
will be attested legally by the Spanish
government.
One Well-Paid Bunk Cleric.
"I tell you. bank clerks are not
sufficiently remunerated," exclaimed
the broker, quite forcibly.
"Oh, I don't know." said the bank
president, with a sad smile; "our last
receiving teller got about $20,000 a
year for six years."—Brooklyn Life.