Evening star., 1896-12-24
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.


81 noticed a mention of Admiral Brown.
and it reminded me of a famous campaign
in Indiana" said A. L. Byles of Indian
apolis at the Shoreham. "Ex-Gov. Dave
Wallace represented that district in Con-
gress at the time Morse secured the APP
preparation to test his magnetic telegraph
between Washington and Baltimore. Gov.
Wallace voted for the appropriation. ana,
as is well known, the line was put up, and
was the nucleus from which has grown the
Geographic systems of the world When
Gov. Wallace ran for reelection he was
opposed by NJ. j. Brown, editor of the In
dianapolis Sentinel, father of Admiral
Brown. Wallace had good majority in
the district, and would have been triumph
aItly elected had it not been for the vote
in favor of the Morse appropriation. What
did Uncle Davie do? said Brown. Why,
ll.natic wanted to string a lot OF poles,
thinking he could talk by lightning, and
Uncle Davie voted to use the hard-earned
money of the people to buy lot of poles
and wires This statement was too much
for Gov. Wallace's constituents, and when
he was mentioned the old men would shake
their heads and say: lister be smart fel-
Ter. Gone crazy ntw- Look at that fool
vote for throwing away that money on a
lunatic.' And Brown was elected by Il
good majority
Luck has a great deal to do with min
ing ventures said l.. r. Cochran of Den
ver at the National. THE best illustra-
tion CT this that ever knew was the case
of an acquaintance of mine who became
wealthy in the Sacramento valley. He had
gone to. California with some money, but
in a few months this was all exhausted in
digging dry holes, ana he became a gruO
stalker and as unlucky one as ever pros
pected any country. He became uh6wn as
a luckless man who brought hard fuck to
every one and the miners became supersti-
tious about it. They concluded to get rid
of him, SO he was carried in sack one
night to a place several miles from camp
and dropped down what they supposed to
be a gulch. The next morning he looked
about him and found that he was in a
cave, ard directly in front of him was one
Of the richest veins ever discovered in Cal
ifornia. He was not badly injured, and
succeeded in getting out and locating his
claim. He was beaten out of il finally, but
not until ne had secured a large fortune"
1.-The practical workings of the timber
cuttir statute are not very good" said
ex- United States Marshal l.. A, Devine of
St Joseph. Mo-. at the Metropolitan. The
statute was passed to prevent the lands
belonging to the United States from being
denuded, but where the law is needed. 1t Is
almost impossible TO enforce Ii, owing to
the difficulty of apprehending and convict
ing the violators of Ii. Most of the cases
IN the courts occur IN Sucn states as MIS-
souri, and Alabama, where the government
still owns land because Ii Is not worth ell
tering. In the Ozark mountains they cut
timber on government land for frewood
and when one citizen beconles enraged
against another he has him arrested for
cutting government timber. 9'he accused
and the prosecuting witnesses are taken to
st. Louis and the costs run up to from one
hundred dollars to five times that amount
The culprit is given year In the peniten-
tiary for cutting down a worthless tree,
while millions of feet of valuable timber
are being taken from government lands
farther west"