Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-03
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

IT don't go deer hunting any more" said
r. c. Burkitt Of Ottawa, Ill. at the Shore
ham. "Judge Cation has a number Of tame
deer, including several species, in his park
near my home. Several ran away from the
park and not being captured. found their
way to the starved rocks as they are
termed. a few miles down the Illinois river.
Here they bred until Deer Park once IA
nous for deer. has again become a hunt
Ing ground for them. l went to the place
and the man who lives at the entrance to
the little gorge, in reply to a question.
other side of a small stream that flows
through the park. I cautiously crept
| through the woods and was soon rewarded
by seeing the two fawns lying in the
| rifle. and two shots killed both creatures.
Then the owner Of the place appeared and
| settled for two registered Jersey calves on
basis Of 500 each. Even after they were
dead. they looked enough like fawns to be
| mistaken for them"
| Il have heard many stories about the
| lack Of cleanliness of the eccentric preacher
and politician. Henry Clay Dean, who
| served in Congress from my state" said c.
| T. Alone Of Des Moines at the Arlington,
| but the best was related to me 4 short
| time ago by man who knew him well and
| who vouched for the truth of 1t. Dean
| went to Iowa in the early days of that state
1
| he raised considerable quantity Of oats
| and assisted in cutting and placing them in
| his barn. After the oats had been disposed
OF Dean started to dig well. jask that
occupied TWO or three weeks, owing to Its
| caving in before he completed it. nearly
| purying the orator. Some time after the
| well was finished, he complained Of mead
ache, a trouble he seldom had. IN week
! or two after the headaches started they be-
! came so severe that he called upon ply
sician and was given medicine which did no
good: Another visit resulted, and.;he doctor
| concluded to examine the head and see
| where the trouble lay. Mr.. Dean, go and
have 1t moved was his comment The dirt
from the well had fallen upon oats, and the
| result was a good crop starting in The I'M
kempt hair of the preacher. He mad the
| hair cut, the only time, it Is said. that he
| allowed such operation after he was
grown"
THE Natural bridge Of Virginia has al
| ways been regarded great wonder. and
justly so,' said E. r. Paine of Bozemar.
| Mont, at the Howard. but there is a far
greater one in Idaho near the Bay Horse
miDe. which is known to very few people,
and they have never paid any attention to
1t, except to make some exclamation OF
wonder when they first saw it. There is a
tul mel through a granite mountain The
tunnel Is little over mile long, is wide
enough for double track railroad to pass
through, and is straight The walls of this
natural tunnel are nearly even they
| WOulC nave Deen nad IL been Dla.ted
| through by men. OF course, 1t has been
| formed by erosion, but how is a mystery.
Scientific men can explain 1t, just as they
| can explain any cave that has an entrance
at either end, but ii does not satisfy those
who see 1t. If railroad should ever be
built through that country the natural tun-
rel will be found exceedingly useful"
Mexico is being cited in SO many diff
ferent ways and so contradictory by po-
| al Of "
at Wizards that it seems 20 me some
. | one ought to write a series of popular ar
, tices on affairs as they actually exist in
Mexico. The fact is that there is 10 pos
sible way of making accurate COMPARE
sons between Mexico and the United
States, conditions are 50 very diff arent that
| there Is no point whore comparisons can
begin. Mexico is in a state Of evolution.
The natives. except in the cities and few
leading country families. are no more civ
| ilized than the American Indians We're fifty
years ago. Yet high state of civilization
exists there among the higher class of
Mexicans l employ men as low as s. a
e month and they are scarcely worth that.
while have men whom l pay SO a day
and could not replace for less. 1t is a coun-
try where changes very slow, and il
will be many years before conditions be-
) | come different in the mountain regions OF
| Mexico
Il have seen discussions pro and cor
| as to whether there are any rattlesnake
dens." said A Z. Cobb Of Wheeling at the
; Ebbitt Il do not know whether or no,
| rattlesnakes as rule hibernate togethe,
, | and form communities in dens but l saw
: one Of these dens once, and / will never
? forget it CT doubt that such things exist
| l have been In a good many places infested
5 with rattlesnakes and never located re-
| liably but one den, although l have heard
: OF others. hence I do not think they arg
e | common or that the snake; usually live in
; that manner. The den l speak Of is IL
, | Leslie county, Kentucky, twelve mile:
5 north Of Hyden, the county seat in a.
| wild country could be found in
e years travel. l was travelling horse
| back, when my horse stopped, tremblin.
in every nerve. l could not urge him for
| ward. and. dismourting. was nearly over
| come with peculiar sickening odor. Look
ing into a rock house or shallow cave
saw innuneraDle snakes, twisting AM
j squirming. 1 turned the horse arount
r | and went another road, contented to know
the den was really there without invest
eating any further"
Color blindness Is on the increase" sait
DR.. D. l. Bliss Of New York at the Metro
| politan. 1.-THE causes of this defect IL
vision that may be otherwise perfect ar,
not all very we'll understood. 1t woult
seem that the use of tobacco had a GOO
deal to do with it. 1 have examined :
great many for color blindness having OF
road companies to do So. and in every in
stance where the man examined was fount
to be color blind he was of tobacco
Women are seldom afflicted in this way
hence It must be caused by something tina
men do which women do not. What case
exist among women will be found to b.
inherited from male ancestors. l hav
never known woman to be color blin
whose father free from the defect
am a smoker ard my perceptions Of colo
are unusually good. so that it is not impos
lsI 10 hat ma Wi m
such an effect, but l believe large pro
| portion of the cases are caused by tobac
CO."
1T notice that the people in the cities ar
fond Of white daisies, and they are Yer
pretty" said L. B. Brown, q farmer
Bucyrus, Ohio, at the st. James; but wit
the exception of thictle5 they are the wor:
pests a farmer has to deal with. Dandt
lions come early. are good to eat, and fe
medicine; thistes, although a great nu
sance, are not SO generally scattered
morning glories, while eXasperating, are M
so plentiful. White daisies are fit for notl
ing but decorating purposes: they gro
everywhere, they cannot be killed out an
| u,ba With hav rlIip If The