New-York tribune., 1889-12-21
, YEw-JERSEY M1NS ExpERIEy0E.

A NEW-JERSEY MANS EXPERIENCE.
Mr.. j. II. ,McIIauser, a former resident OF
Morristown, n. j. has just returned to that place
and tells story which shows how hard it is for
an independent man TO get along peaccably in
this country. Some time last summer Mr. Nc
Ilauscr decided to remove TO the commonwealth
of Oklahoma. closing up livery and feed stable
business in Morristown. Mr.. McIIauser's eX-
perience with railroad employees and officials had
been so stormy, and his love of peace, when
possible to obtain it with honor, was so great,
that he decided TO have nothing to do with rail-
roads, but to travel in the good old-fashioned
way. lie accordingly put white top on farm
wagon, making what is known in the untram-
melled West as prairie-schooncr To this he
attached team of mules, and in this he put his
family and after having fought with and de-
feated two men who laughed at the general ap-
pearance OF his team and wagon he started for
distant Oklahoma
AS we said at the first Mr.. AcIauser's eX-
perence seems to show that it is no longer possi-
bic for Of spirit to travel in this country
without having trouble. This was illustrated
before he had gone hundred miles Happening
to meet a Pennsylvania man, Mr. McIauser
sylvanian stubbornly replied that it looked more
like fair weather. Mr.. McIIauser reiterated his
rain views. when to his astonisment the mis-
guided Pennsylvania man again mumbed some
thing about clear weather. Nothing remained
for Mr. McIIauser, Of course but to get out Of the
wagon and engage the other in physical combat.
which he did. The fair-weather man was con-
siderably larger than Mr. McHauser, but the
1otfa Io... tlo
fair-weather prophet in highly demoralized and
dsfigured condition
Mr.. AIcIIauser now began to notice this
phenomenon: that the farther he proceeded in
the direction of Oklahoma the more stubborn and
intractable the men became. At Athens, Ohio,
he got into conversation with a man who was the
proprietor and manager of blacksmith shop
Mr.. McIIauser, wishing to show friendly spirit,
asked the Athenian to guess to the age of his
bay mule The other guessed seven years, and
after a critical examination of the animals teeth
insisted that he was right. As the mule was only
six, trouble of course, followed but it took
twenty minutes of Mr. MclIauser's time and some
very hard work on his part before he could sub
due the Ohio man and cheerfully drive away
toward the setting sun.
Things were now quiet till he reached Scots
cussion with man who kept small grocery
store as to the best lubrcating substance with
which to grease a wagon. Mr.. McIIauser fought
him thirty minutes but did not succeed in whip
ping him; only tiring him out Two weeks later
he reached Shawnee, ILL.,, and fought for forty
five minutes with a farmer about the best kind
Of a crop to plant wet soil, and was himself
tired out. while the farmer comparatively
fresh Some men would have been discouraged
and turned back. but Mr.. McIIauser was still
resolute Pressing forward, a week later he
gagged the fcrryman at Commerce, Mo. This UNI
reasonable waterman had remarked that the wind
was north. when, to Mr.. McFIausers mind, it was
clearly northwest. The conflict lasted a half
hour. and at the end of it Mr.. McIIauscr was
astonshed TO find himself most effectually
thrashed while the fcrryman had only sustained
a few bruises. Mr.. McIIauser pulled himself to-
gcther and determined to make one more trial.
He proceeded by easy stages for some two weeks,
being somewhat loath to enter Arkansas with the
prospcct that was before him, but at last turned
south and crossed the line near Eureka Springs.
He experienced no difficulty till lie reached Fay
etteyille. where n h0tcl-kecper accused him OF
beinc Of a ouarrelsome disposition. Mr.. Mcllauser
could not of course. brook such remark as this,
md pulling of his coat, attacked his landlord
vicorouslv. At the end of five minutes he found
himself in a dazed and bleeding condition and
complctcy whipped while the hotel man did not
annear TO have been touched at all. As 500 as
Mr. McIIauser gained sufficient strength he hob
blcd 70 his wagon and started back for Morris
.ov,r \ I where he arrived n week ago.
Mr. NcIIauser, in his letter to The Tribune
tellino of his adventures asks two questions: Is
tbere any chance for peaceably disposed but in
donondent man in this country any more? and.
do tho mon continue to he better fighters the
further West you proceed? As to the first OF
tbesc questions. we should say that in the light
of Mr. McHausers experience there seems to be
little show for the quiet and peaceabe man. In
rccard TO the second question. we can hardly be-
uovc that the men increase in pugilistlc ability
nc we proceed toward the Occident or, as Mr.
,tcUauser aptly observes what must they he in
california? We believe, the whole that our
oorrcsnondent must have been unfortunate in the
non no encountered Our advice to him is to try
ogoin. We can scarcely ask him to be more
lonosufering on his second trip, though, perhaps,
no might refrain from attacking man who only
.s ono of his mules is older than it Is, preserving
lie strength for the individual who shall 90 so
1a as to make the outrageous statement that he is
,,,orrelsome. We hope to hear that Mr.. Mcllauser
cot reaches Oklahoma without accident.
--
The dangerous faith-curc delusion received a