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water yet he made Gedonio very unhappy
by splitting showers of acrid saliva into
his face and eyes.
Meantime Antonio, who had witnessed
his partners inglOriOus retreat and almost
split his windpipe in laughing thereat, be-
came uneasy. He began to fear that GedO-
Mo was either drowned or killed, as he
could see neither man nor camel after
they plunged down over the bank of the
river. Leading his mustangs he ventured
near the bank of the stream and shouted,
"GedonioI GedoniOi MIC amigop'
GedoniO heard and shouted Justify for
Antonio to come to his relief. He in
strucIed Antonio to tie the two mustangs
fast together and leave them, then slip
quietly down the bank. get hold of the
trailing end of the lasso and tie it to
tree.
All went we'll until Antonio was about
to pass the end of the Iasso round the tree.
1t would not reach by foot or two, and
he hauled upon it. Instantly Heenan
wheeled about and went for Antonio open
mouthed.
Up the bank went Antonio with the big
camel close at his heels. He tried TO reach
the horses to mount and ride off, but at
sight of the camel the mustangs gave a
snort OF terror and dashed away up the
river. Heenau's attention being attracted
10 the horses he gave chase to them, much
TO the relief OF Antonio who had plunged
head first into big bunch of sagebrush to
conceal himself from the enemy, though
his hiding was merely tt at OF the ostrich.
Presently the two men got together and
went 10 search of their horses. Half a
mile ND the river they found both animals
drowned in a deep hole, with old Her
man upon the bank looking down at
them. It was only after Infinite trouble
! that the two MeXicans were able TO re-
cover their saddles and brides. AS they
sneaked home to Buckland's that evening
| they were sadder and wiser men. They
went for wool and came back shorn"-
even their shears were lost
The pair told all manner of lies to ac-
count for the drowning of their horses,
| but as it happened the Frenchman who
! owned the camelS had climbed a tree TO
watch the MeXicans, not knowing what
they were after, and had been an amused
witness of the whole affair. When the
! true story reached the ranch there were a
thousand jokes among the men about the
| fun to be had in performing the feat of
''shearing the bull camel In the ruttng
season."
Sam auckland himself was the boss
! joker, and almost laughed himself sick
| over the business. The two Mexicans
stood the joking about a week, then disap-
peared between two days, two of Buck
| lands best a1d fastest horses disappear
! ing at the same time. Then Sans
merriment was turned to wrath. He
| would hear no more of the jokes In which
his heart had formerly delighted. He told
his men that there had already been TOO
much said about shearing camels."
When the camels were first taken down
TO Arizona to be used in packing ore one
of them was shot and killed by German
miner. The man who did the deed suf-
fered about as much distress of mind as
did the sailor who killed the albatross
| The German was working for a mining
company at place about three miles from
where were located the men who were
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Washington. His eyes are just as bright.
aud there is no austerity or snobbishness
in his manner. He leads much the same
life that he did while he was in Congress.
He lives at hotel and walks like an ordi-
nary citizen every morning to his Office. He
spends his day In attending to the duties
of his position, and walks back to his hotel
at sunset. He remains almost the whole
time while be is not in his Office in his
rooms at the hotel. and his manners and
tastes are Of the simplest character. He
goes to bed early and sleeps well. He is in
good physical condition. and his men tai
health seems TO be sound.
| went over to the State House this morn
ing to look at his workshop. The Ohio
city. Ii has big park about it and wide
stone walk leads up to its front entrance
On each side OF this walk are now big
BLOCKS OF granite, from the pedestal of the
Ohio statue at the exposition. and above
these and by the steps of the State House
lie the bronze statues which formed that
monument. Giant figures of General Sher-
man, President Garfield. General Grant
and Chief Justice Chase are laid out on
their backs on one side of the walk, and
on the other the great bronze matron, sup
posed to be the mother OF the State. lies on
bleed and wanted to let the fluid trickle
off into the gutter over which her bronze
nose rests. Passing these you reach the
steps of the Capitol aud 20 through long
row of stone pillars up the steps into
gloomy rotunda, filled with bad paintings,
which you see through dim light.
The whole State House is solemn and
funeral. 1t is built of brown sandstone,
and it looks like a prison. 1t was made
by penitentary convicts. and their sad
souls seem TO have shrouded this great
stone box in gloom. and Ohio taste has
come to help ID carrying out the illusion.
In the rOtuDda, for instance, one wall is
given up to great glass case filled with
the flowers that rested on Garfield's
catafalque. and other solemn relics hang
here and there. Passing through the
rotunda you have to go down a gloomy
corridor to get &c the Governors office,
which lies below this. The Governors
apartments consist of two large rooms.
His private office is finished in mahogany,
and he does his work behind big, fat
desk, seated in a mahogany chair on a
cushion of drab leather. He has his pri-
vate secretary on the opposite side of him.
aud there are one or two clerks in the
front room, but looked in vain to find any
literary bureau, and saw no signs of the
activity which usually hangs about the
Office Of statesman who IS pulling his
wires Tor presidential nomination.
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he has got 'em at lastp' said they. and
marching him off TO his room they put him
TO bed. called doctor and had him dosed
for about a week, he all the time swearing
that he had really seen the ''gonses."
With the herd of camels when it was
owned By the Frencbman on the Carson
River, was huge old bull camel known
as "Old Keenan," because of his fighting
prOclivities. He was a giant and the
patriarch of the herd. He had hair on
parts of his body that was from foot to
eighteen inches in length. The animals
ranged down the valley of the Carson
nearly to old Fort Churchill. At Sam
Buckland's ranch, a mile above the fort,
several Mexican vaqueros were employed.
These men had seen the big camel and had
looked with covetous eyes upon the long
silken hair that hung from his huge frame.
They thought this hair IN ight be spun into
beautiful riatas, bride reins and Orna-
ments for brides.
One fine Sunday morning In spring two
of the MISUNDERSTANDING and Gedonlo-
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trouble which seems to affect men so much
as that of apparent interpretation and dis
appointed ambition. Take a look at the
careers of the most noted men of our his
tory and you will find every one of them
1ull of disappointment. Times change.
Conditions change and men change. The
story of the ableSt of our statesmen and
the most famous of our public men runs
through the graveyards Of their own dis
appointed hopes. No. [ would not ad-
wise young man to make politics his pro-
fession."
Looking at the condition of parties to-
day do not the signs of the times point to
the organization 10 the future of party OF
the poor against the rich Z"
NO" replied Governor Mckinley;
there will never be party of the rich and
party OF the poor in this country. If the
present state of things keeps on there can
only be party Of the poor, for we will all
be poor.
What are the causes of the bard times ?'
Il think there Is not doubt but that it
is the uncertainty as regards the tariff
No one knows what the Democratic party
is going to do, and there will be 20 chance
for better times until that matter is set
tied"
How about the Wilson DilI?"
mo one knows what the Wilson bill is
going 10 be. l must say that it does not
promise we'll, and the voice which comes
from the Ways and Means Committee room
at Washington must besa very unwelcnme
Que to the starving among our people, 1t
is poor comfort to the 1000 idle miners on
Lake Superior to be told thai Congress
proposes to admi: into free competition
with them Spanish iron under its clause Of
free raw materials. 1tdoes not take much
thought to tell how such men would re-
gard this bill, and | might go on as to a
dozen OF other items. Every one knows
my position on that question. You ask as
to the remedy for the hard times, and If
you want my answer / will say in the
words OF Mr.. Ingalls,, the railroad presi-
dent:
Kick the Wilson tariff bill under the
table and let it stay there
My talk with Governor Mckinley was
rather in the nature of running chat than
a fixed interview. The conversation
drifted here and there and covered quite
a wide range. During it l asked him when
he first became interested in the protective
tariff IDEA and when he made his first
speech upon il. He replied:
Il was brought up, as it were. on the
protective tariff principle. My boyhood
was spent in an iron-manufacturing dis
trict and among miners. and my youth
was spent in the manufacturing district
of Stark County, where the questions of
the tariff have always been living ones,
The first speech | made in Congress was
against Fernando Woods tariff bill. [
remember that made the speech at night.
and the Congressional committee thought
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equipped themselves with a lasso and a
pair Of Sheep-shears and set out to catch
and shear Old Heenan.
Usually the ferocity Of the camel is on
par with that of the sheep, des pite all hiss
ing, splitting, showing of teeth and VEN
omous looks. There is one season, how
ever. during which the old bulls are really
not to be fooled with. The Mexicans had
sailed forth in the midst of this season,
but were unaware of the fact
Old HeeDan was found guarding his
harem on greasewood fat near the. river
The Mexicans were mounted upon mus
tangs, and dare not 90 near the camels on
horseback. Gedonio dismounted, and
taking with him the lasso. left Antonio to
hold the horses and the shears.
Gedonio found the big camel easy of ap-
prOach. The old fellow stood stock still
He was dreamily chewing his cud with half
closed eyes. The lassO swshed through
the air, and in moment was about the
big camel's neck. Then. as the patriarch
felt The rope tighten about his throat, the
fun began.
Alongside the giant beast the Mexican
looked a mere pigmy. When old Heenan
realized that the small two-Iegged creature
was actually trying to gather him in his
little eyes turned green with rage. Hiss
ing like redhot locomotive he charged
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AS far as can learn Mckinley is not a
wire-puller. He has faith in his destiny,
and he believes that all things come to him
who waits. He thinks that the people lead
the politicians. and he recently said that
when they laid out a campaign the poll til
clans had to follow. He believes in the
people rather than IN organizations. and
think he is something of a fatalist as re-
CARDS himself. He will not talk about his
chances as a Presidential candidate, and
he will let no one else talk with him on
the subject. He gets bushels of mail every
week, and there are scores Of letters now
coming in from politicians all over the
country who want 10 organize their dis
tricts TOR him. They say that they did so
and SO in such campaign, and they can
now do as much for Mckinley. Such
letters generally find their way into the
waste basket unless they are from per-
sonal acQuaintances or men of un-
doubted standing. In the latter cases
they are respectfully acknowledged. but
nothing more. A great manv political ad-
venturers call at the State House to see
Governor Mckinley on this subject. All
are received. for there Is no red tape about
the office, and access is as easy to the beg
gar as TO the millionaire. No encourage
ment, however, is given to the adyen turers,
and so far as l can learn Mckinley has n OF
yet laid out any campaign nor planned any
organization with view to 1885, / have
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.

or NICK nley as to the tendency of politics.
Associated as he has been with all classes
OF statesmen at Washington during his
term In Congress. closely connected with
the organization of politics in Ohio, and
living to-day, as he does, under the shadow
of legislature which has been accused
several times of having sold its choice of
United States Sen ator, it struck me that
he oughtto know something of the purity
or impurity of politics, and asked him if
IL was not true that public life was full of
corruption. He replied: mo, it is not, The
profession of politics is as pure to-day
as any profession in the United States,
and our public men have as high sense
OF honor as any other class Of men in the
world. Take Congress. l was in the
House of REPRESENTATIVES fourteen years,
and of the 800 or 400 men with VIII ON / was
associated from year to year during that
time L do not know one whom / would
have dared to approach with a corrupt
proposition. Had | the money and the
inclination to have bought Congress l DO
not see how [ could have gone about it,
and don't believe there Is body of men,
legislative or Otherwise, on the glO be which
has higher sense of honor than the Con-
gress OF the United States. There may be
corruption and corrupt men among them,
but do not know where il exists if it is
so. Politics. L believe. grows purer as
this country grows older, and our standard
OF political honor and political morality is
higher to-day than ever before"
The most CT your life has been spent in
politics. Governor" said l. What you
think Of politics as business? Would
you advise young man TO adopt public
life rs profession?"
NO" was the reply, 81 would not. There
is n life more full of disappointment. No
matter how successful it may be at the
start it is sure before it comes to an end to
bring sorrow and grief. | know OF no
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men who own the camel will be after

men who own the camel will be after
you"
Bonner witterw groaned Bans.
AS the men did not wish to be caught
near the dead camel all hands beat hasty
retreat for home.
When they got back to the mine and
told of Hans latest exploit with his old
jaeger the whole camp was in roar. Every
man who looked at Hans burst into horse
laugh, and wherever he went lie heard the
cry: "Hil Here comes the man that
killed the camelp
For about week Hans endured the
jbes and jeers of the camp. then he came
up missing and his old lager" with him.
The men had made the camp hell for
him.
At meals and on all occasions when
Hans appeared among the men of the
mine the killing of the camel had been
made the topic Of conversation. The
atrocity of the act was enlarged upon and
the value of the beast gravely discussed.
Several put the cost OF the animal at
$3.50, and $500 was the lowest estimate.
OF course the owners would soon come
and demand pay. This talk at meals did
not give Hans an apDetite-it was a poor
sauce to his victuals. Then the men al
ways went through the ceremony of plac-
ing some one on guard as picket that the
owners of the camel might lot come aud
atch them all in a bunch at mealtme.
All InlS so WOIKeu upon I16 nina oil
poor Hans that one night he folded his
tent and in imitation of the Arab silently
stole away.
Five months later Tom Alchorn went TO
another camp about hundred miles away
to work upon set of hosting works. At
the first meal when all hands were seen
together he recognized Hans among the
employees. "Well. by the holy pokerw
cried Tom, "here is Hans! Here is the
man that killed the camelr'
Tom was, of course, called upon to ex-
plain and before the story was half fin
ished Hans slipped away from the table,
That night the poor fellow and his old
lager" disappeared from the mine. The
after history OF Hans is unknown to me,
but doubtless he is still occasionally rec.
ognized in some camp in Arizona or New
Mexico as ''the man that killed the camel.''
DAN DE GUILE.
Virginia City, New, Jan. 10.
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OHIO'S GOVERNOR.
Mckinley Talks About
Public Matters.
VIEWS ON THE WILSON BILL.
The First Tariff Speech Ever Made
by the Buckeye States
man.

COLUMBUS, Jan. 81 have come to Co.
lnmbus from Washington to give you a
letter about Governor Mckinley. He is
to-day one of the most interesting charac-
ters in the United States. We are ma
ton of hero-worshipers, and each Of our
great parties has to have its demigod
Mckinley is the demigod of the Republi-
can party. He fills the niche where stood
Garfield aud Blaine, and his worshipers
hope to elevate him to the White House.
| have no doubt but that the gray matter
und er his black hair is permeated with the
Presidential itch, but have looked in vain
to find any evidence of the disease in his
face or his surroundings. He has the same
clear brunette com lexiOn which he main
tanned under the malarial Influences of
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THE LAST BUCCANEER.

The winds were yelling the waves were swelling
The sky black ana drear.
When the crew with eyes of fame brought the
ship without name
Alongside the last Buccaneer.
whence flies your soop full sail before 80 fierce
gale,
When all others drive bare the seas:
say, come We from the shore of the holy Salvador
Or the gulf OF the rich Caribbees?"
From shore no search hath found. from = gulf
no line can sound,
Without rudder or needle steer;
Above, below, our bark die the sea fowl and the
shark.
AS we fly by the last Buccaneer
"To-night shall be heard on the rocks OF Cape de
Verde
loud crash and a louder roar:
And tomorrow shall the deep. with heavy
moaning. sweep
The corpseS and wreck 20 the shore"
The stately ship OF CLYDE securely now may ride
IN the breath OF the citron shades:
And Severn's towering mast securely now flies
fast
Through the sea of the balmy Trades.
From ST. lagos wealthy port. from Havana's
royal fort
The seaman goes forth without fear:
For since that stormy night not mortal hath had
sight
OF the flag of the last Buccaneer.
LORD MACAULAY.
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Gedonio. The little Mexican held to the
rope for time, hoping to choke the camel
down, but found the animal apparently
able to subsist as long without wind" as
without water Besides Heenan made for
him so rapidly that be could get no pull
on the old fellow. At last Gedonio was
so hard pressed that he was obliged to
drop the lass0 and take to his heels.
By this time old Keenan, was wild with
rage. The Mexican tried to dodge the
irate beast among the punches of grease
wood, but these being only two or three
feet high afforded poor cover. He then
struck for the river, intending to climb
one of the cottonwoOds on its banks, but
HeenaD was too close upon his heels.
There was no time for elm bling and be
was obliged to plunge into the river. Not
being able to swim GedOnlo was con-
strained to halt when the water came up
to his chin. Heenan charged down 10 the
waters edge and there stood on guard.
Though the old fellow would not enter the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-14
Warming Rooms.

In warming room by low-pressure
steam one square foot of plate or pine sur-
face will heat from forty 10 one hundred
cubic feet of inclosed space. The range
from forty to one hundred feet is to meet
the different exposures of rooms. A room
in the corner of a block is necessarily
colder than one intermediate, and rooms
az the top of the house have sometimes an
advantage. The medium is about seventy
five feet, and the rule will apply when the
temperature in the open air is 10 degrees
below zero. This will illustrate the diff.
Guilty sometimes in sufficiently warming
the apartment houses. the landlords being
too economical in giving sufficient radiat-
ing surface to the pipes.
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enough of it to reprint it and circulate it
Qc d0nrp4anr -

enough OF IL to reprint il and circulate IL
as a campaign document"
The conversation here turned to speech
making, and l asked Governor Mckinley
as to whether no wrote out and committed
his speeches. He replied: "No, do not; [
think the matters that am to talk about
we'll over beforehand. and after / have
pretty thoroughly settled in my mind what
1 am going to say sometimes call in a
stenographer ana dictate the speech to
him. 1t is the speech that always goes to
the printer. Il is by no means the exact
speech that l make On the stump. This
may be changed by the occa sion, though I
usually follow the lines laid down in the
speeches L dictate. | find that ] change
my speeches a great deal during the cam
paign, and seldom repeat the same speech
in the same words, though, of course, the
matter is mnch the same"
what i Ohio doing to relieve the un-
Employed"
"She is responding nobly to the occa-
slon." replied the Governor. Popular
charities have been organized in all of our
towns and cities. Some of the cities have
commenced public works in order to give
relief to the unemployed. and we are do
ing all in our power to alIay the suffering
and want" FRANK @. CARPENTER.
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In 1920 Stephen Gray discovered that
electricity acts at distance.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-20

|lH Mack was {
|day.
Gross went cas-
FTening.
figured
Eiamin Co.
b Adams and G
|Faubay Satur)
lsnk" Turner al
\ state fair this
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-20

The defeat ot w. G.. p. Breckin-
'idge for a re nomination for con-
,ress in his Kentucky district is a
,ause Of congratulation to those
Who 81 heroicalIy fought this leper
IN society. The battle was a long
md bitter struggle that promised
personal conflicts and bloodshed
put, Notwithstanding, was brought
o q successful close with q victory
or morality and truthfullness and
he vindication Of Kentucky's
shonah sah."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-20
CONVENTION NOTES.
Kelleyites VS. Searsites.

hCiicy itcS NS ccdTSlttS.
Peace and harmony prevailed. Oh!
Yes.
That compiled list would be inter.
esting reading.
Did you hear "Scrip's" way of
reading that sign?
Think of turning down men like
Sateren and Jones.
Jones helped Egeland, but did
Egeland help Jones?
That Sunday meeting at the court
house failed to do up Kelley.
Who wa on that complied list
that the slate managers were afraid
of?
1t was a good thing for Kelley
that senator was first on order of
Molee's face was a study when
Egeland crawled through that hole
in the slate.
1t looked at n time during the
b%alloting for sheriff as if there would
be a free fight.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-20

James Rathbun, OF Andover, re-
eived the Republican nomination
or sheriff of Day county last week.
4 Jim could get the vote of oil the
Brown county boys who would like
o see him succeed, there would be
10 question as to the result. But
hey do say Day county politics are
ncertain.-Groton Independent.
As that same friendly feeling
oward Jim extends throughout
Day county, there will be no
.ncerta;nty on November 18th.