The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-22
TOLD BY MIR. MORTON.
The Argentine Minister'S Errors.
Crooked Hands string of scaIPs.
from the washington Post.

Crooked Hands string of scaIPs.
From the Washington Post.
When Senior Zeballos was minister to
Washington from the Argentines," re-
marked Secretary Mortyn. he and paid
visit 10 the blue grass regions Of Ken
lucky Zeballos is a great stock raiser
and knows the pedigrees Of American
horses as well as ever did Robert Bonner
or old John Harper. He's also finished
student in the matter Of thoroughbred cat
tie ana sheep.
''Zeballos and were the guests Of Repre-
| sentative Berry while in Kentucky. As We
We're admiring some sheep OF the mutton
sort tremendous, too, for iatness and
size, Berry turned 70 ZehallOs with a view
70 furnishing his mind with a few facts
can pampas.
You have big sheep in South America,
'Oh. sure replied zebaIlos. in his
suave, courteous way sure we have yer
How heavy do your muttons dress%
continued Berry
Oh, two thousand, maybe. three thou
sand pounds, said Zeballos.
- Berry and / looked at him curiously.
Was this southern hemisphere joke?
Zepallos face seemed as innocent as a
| chllq's- No humor In IT,
How big did you say your sheep
grew 1 asked, thinking perhaps the
courteous senior had not understood Berry.
How tall do they stand? 1 inquired,
About 50 high said zebanos. indica-
ting a hight Of three feet with his hand.
They stand YER tall"
How long are they? ] went on, deter
mined 70 get the full measurements Of
these three thousand-pOund sheep.
Why replied ZeballOs casting about
Tor a comparison. about so long as that
settee, The settee was four feet.
Ihey are also so wide continued Ze-
balios, chopping OF "a space in the air OF
say eighteen inches with his slim hands
You can't mean, senor.' l remonstrat-
! weigh 5000 pounds?
. oh, no. no" he answered. energeti-
| caiiy. i make meestake. I mean hun
dreds, not thousands. The sheep weigh
@D pounds. Did i say thousands" It
was error. / make often such meestake
when l speak Americana.
" made a bad blunder.' Zeballos went
on, laughing, the last time / am received
az the white house. \ beautiful ladee
tel me something which happen in your
clvll war. she. say she see 1t.
-, NOW, thing TO myself / will be 20
NE ana make the sonora grand compli-
1T is impossible that you see it. mad
anne, / say. You must have been born
many many years before the war
All the time concluded Zeballos, I
mean after the war. But l make a mec-
stake. / say before" No, the ladee was
not pleased. She left much contempt =
This has nothing to do with Zeballos.'.
continued Secretary Morton, but the
sight of some Indians this morning re-
called an incident which happened when /
nrst went TO Nebraska. II illustrates q
savage view of the doctrine of chances
business took me out along the Platte
INTO INTO what was then a very rude. wilG
eral bands of Pawnees camped together
near where 1 was staying, and I felt a
curiosity to take look at them.
Ihere was a renowned warrior with
them; one of their celebrated fighters,
called Crooked Hand His left hand
was withered and drawn up until it
| looked like the closed claw of a bird
let he had killed many men.
When l visited the old killer and
talked with him | asked him how many
enemies he had butchered.
He said fourteen, all Sioux, Then he
hshed a key attached TO a string from
under his calico shirt and opened little
cheap traders trunk which stood IN his
wickeyupy and took out the fourteen
scalps, mounted in red flannel, with the
shining black braids of hair which made
the scalp lock all tied 10 the same string,
much like a string of fish.
80 DO you fight now when you are old 2
asked, as 1 looked over the old buck 5
"'Oh, yes, he replied, stoutly; fight
If Sioux come. Me fight Sioux. But no
stay so long now. When get one Sioux
"'Why do you now quit when you've
got one SiouXY ] questioned. why don [
you go on and get .another-get three?'
Il was anxious to learn why an old
/ sage savage like Crooked Hand should
get lazy over his work
CROOKED hand shook his head with an
air of much wisdom. Then he proceeded
! TO eXpOund.
| "He held up one finger"
=" That's Crooked Hand he said, me
only one
See there he went on. holding aloft
| his string of Sioux scalps. SO many,
/ Here he held up his fingers for ten, and
/ then four second time to make four
/ teen.
after he had made me see that he was
| only one and the scalps fourteen he
| proceeded to explain that now when he
/ tackled q Sioux he ran fourteen chances
to one Of getting killed. The chances
grew, he said, with each one you killed.
/ when he went after his first Sioux, -
! he explained, the chances were even.
| with No. 2. the chances were two to one
! the Sioux would kill him.
! But he got Drawer all the time. His
! courage grew so that every time he killed
a Sioux his courage was equal to the in
| crease in the chances against him
had climbed with his last fight to be four
teen to one against him. He had begun
to consider the odds pretty stiff; what
one might call a hard game. So as he
| stated now, when the PaWfees got into
a squabble with the Sioux-their national
| foe-he restrained himself to a point
where he merely lodged into the fight and
arranged one Sioux for burial and quit.
| One chance at game where the odds
were so horribly against him was all the
! wise Crooked Hand care to take.
1t was a new theory of chances to me.
/ but the Pawnees all justified the Crooked
| Hand logic; so l didn't debate 1t with
! him."
BICYCLING WITHOUT LEGS.
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