Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-05

SNVS - Voxy
curious and at the same time lamentable
figure as champion slugger Of the world
OF sluggerdom, and I am convinced that
the social stratum of low necks. silk
dresses, swallow-tailed coats, opera
boxes, swell dinners, and napkins which
are used but once between washines, to
which he seems to have reached. has nm
'dermined his courage and untitled him
for the sphere in which it is his duty to
rotate.
The Pullman strike investigation COM
mlttee convened al Washington q day
or two ago, spat on it's hands, and pre-
pared for the second round. The roll of
stenographers was called at 9 o'clock in
the morning, and at 10 o'clock, when the
commission adjourned for dinner, 3,279
had responded. Immediately after din
ner, in consideration of the great impor-
lance of the session, it wal resolved that
a special venire of clerks be summoned,
and at 8 o'clock, TAG had been secured.
and the commission was ready for bust.
ness. MI. Tittleback Gooseberry was
the first witness, aud after the doors had
been securely locked, the keyholes put
tied up, and the curtains drawn closely.
MT. Gooseberry was told to relieve him
self of what he knew, which might or
might not have had any relation to the
strike. Mr.. Goosebarry was somewhat
dlthdent at first, but finally upon a sew
ere cross-questioning, admitted that his
wlfe's sister had sold milk to the Pull
mans some years since, and that he, him.
self, had often times been employed
about the Pullman mansion, IN the ca
paclty OF ash-remover, garbage-barrel
~reJuvenator, and had at times ohiclated
as chief of supplies in the department of
pig pens. He had not been at Pullman
since 1891, but from the broad scope of
his vision into Mr.. Pullman's private at
fairs, while engaged in the garbage bus
mess, he was convinced that the strike
might or might not have been avoided,
according to circumstances. Mr..
dooseberry was closely questioned as to
the general disposition of Mr.. Pullman,
as ne had observed it from his point of
view in the Pullman pig-sty, and while
eliminating the refuse from the Pullman
stables, and finally admitted that aside
from a very broad social chasm, there
has never been much in common between
him and MI. Pullman. The stenopraph-
ers and clerks were carefully chloro-
formed after MI. Gooseberry had finished
and the members of the commission con-
fined themselves carefully in a large,
brass-bound chest, which was after ward
locked by the %janitor, and wrescled for
several hours with Mr.. Gooseberry's
testimony. There are only 23,2OO wit
nesses to examine, fnow, some of the
more important being Mr.. Jimcrack
Doodo, who was a schoolmate of Pull
mans IN 80, and has been in South Am
erica ever since, Mr. Eat-'em-up Blifkins
whose grandfather's aunt made Mr..
Debs' great uncle's baby clothes, and Mr..
Crackerbill Bustedseed, who is editor of
the Hempseed Bugle, and who went on a
strike with the Editors union in Hick-
ory Nut Gulch SWAY deaown yin yeast
ern Injeany."
The college season having opened at
the various centers of education through
out the country, I hope sincerely that
the students will have benefited sufi
GENTLY from the civilizing influence of a
summers vacation, to abjure the various
practices of hazing, which have been in
force for some years. Last year, there
occurred a temporary relapse from semi
civilization to barbarism, among some of
the students at the larger colleges, and
cemetery lots went up several points
nearly every day. The customary pro-
gram to which the unfortunate victim of
the playful tendencies of the older stud
ents, was forced to submit, was fashion
ed partly after the example ret by the
Spanish Inquisition, and some of the
more delicate torments were adapted
from the customs of the Sioux Indians,
when on the warpath. The established
routine of initiation consisted of scar
ing the skin upon the arms and legs
OF the hazee with a red hot poker,
A soothing solution of salt and
water was then applied to the blistered
surface, after which the soles of the feet
were upturned, and driven full of carpet
tacks with a sledge hammer. After a
rest OF two minutes, several papers of
pins were inserted under the finger nails,
and the victim was gargled with a mix
lure Of sulphuric acid and I've, to pre-
vent the contraction of chills. Scalping
was the next feature Of the evenings
amusement, and the closing act was the
seating OF the victim upon a redhot stove
to cool off. The program finished, the
hazee was strapped, and tied up securely
to a post in some adjoining ice house,
and left until decomposition had set in
and the smell had attracted the health