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The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-20
A RATIONAL SPARROW,
Recognized Timely Aid n Remembs,

the Helper.
The truth of the following incident
is vouched for by a correspondent O..
the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal
1t Is a rare occurrence for animals in
a wild state to select man for a com.
panion and friend, yet well authenti.
Gated instances when this has beer
done are a matter OF record. The fol-
lowing instance is vOuched for by my
correspondent. a young oma who is
a close and accurate observer: Last
week my brother Ia lad OF ~ killed
a snake which was just in the act of
robbing a song-sparrow's nest. Ever
since then the male sparrow has shown
his gratitude to George In a truly won.
derful manner. When he Eoes into
the garden the sparrow will fly to him.
sometimes ~alighting on his head, at
other times on his shoulders, all the
while pouring out q tumultuous son
OF praise and gratitude. 1t will ac-
company him about the garden, never
leaving him until he reaches the gar
den gate. George. as you know. IL a
WV wy, NV ioNGb 6utLu6lb, ana InlH
may account In q degree for the SPAR
rows extraordinary actions. I am per-
fectly convinced that the nesting birds
on my place know me, and that they
remember me from one nesting time
to another. have repeatedly ap-
preached my face to within a foot OF
sitting birds without alarming them.
On one occasion ! even placed my hand
on a sitting cardinal. which merely
iuttered from, beneath IL without
evincing further alarm; yet no
wild bird has ever evinced to-
ward myself any special de-
gree Of friendship. When / was a lad
I remember that a certain decrepit old
drake would follow me like a dog, and
which appeared to enjoy himself In my
society. ] could not appreciate his
friendship then, and greatly fear that
| was, at times, rather cruel to thu
old fellow.
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sale next morning and I sold my pork
ers for 16 cents a pound, as they stood
squealing in the pens. That was the
o successful trip across the noun
tains l ever made. though I had charge
OF many bigger droves. Once / rode
west over the A~lleghenies with $175. 900
In my pocket. II was all in bills. a good
sized lump Of money even now. and a
princely fortune in the early '30s."
When eastern Ohio became more
thickly settled. Mr.. Page moved into
Illinois. He lived a score of years in
Braidwood, and has been in Joliet for
more than a dozen years. He has
lived half a century with only one leg.
II is some four years ago that he be-
gan to carry papers. lie became popu-
lar at once, and Is now one of the
most trusted and most eficient news
boys in the employ OF George r. Nc
Clelland, the local agent Of the Chi
cago papers. He refuses to sell any
thing but Chicago papers. He claims
that his high-water mark was reached
ore exciting evening during the big
strike in 81, when he sold 315 copies
and then stopped only because his sup.
ply gave out.
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Bob was defeated two years later by
Pettibonc. Then he returned home
and was nominated Ivy the Democrats
for governor. His opponent on the Re-
publican ticket was no other than his
distinguished brother All. 1t was
called the war of the roses. and had the
contest occurred a half century ago it
would have been the most picturesque
event In American politics. ALI made
a great race. but was defeated. Then
he went to congress and made u better
reputation there than his brother who
had preceded him had made. II IL his
ambition now to be a prosperous farm
or In East Tennessee.
For fifteen years II has been Bob's
desire to go to the senate. Once he was
elected senator. That was In 1881.
But before the result could he an.
nounced a vote that he could not spare
was changed and Bob retired TO one of
the cloakrooms and spent the balance
Of the day In tears. The successful
man Was Jackson. He has had the
senatorial fever ever since that day.
II was for this that he ran for governor
the irst. time. II was for this that he
took the nomination for the same Office
last year when he really did not want
It.. A. u word painter he has no equal
In Tennessee. Had he been contcmpo-
. raneous with William II. Haskell he
would have rivalcd that prodigy Of ira.
ditional oratory.
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than anything else that he ever did
while In the house. Bragg gave Bob
4 cruel blow, and 1t took the Tonnes
seean a long time to recover from it.
In the course of his remarks General
Bragg said: II regret much that my
duty as a congressman requires that |
oppose the passage Of this act granting
a pension to this poor soldier who was
shot to death with chronic diarrhea In
1861 and never found It out until 1881"
, AS a declaimer his friend Bryan is
not a marker to him. While In con-
gress Bob got the floor as often as the
would allow him. When he
couldn't make a speech to his fellow
members he would go to the commit
tee rooms and crate to the clerks. 1t
was a passion for him In those days.
to repeat the celebrated speech deliv-
cred a half century ago by his famous
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will celebrate his eightieth birthday.
And he is laying his plans, too, for a
celebration that will set a high old
ozark for all newsboys who may reach
the ~ OF fourscore in the twentieth
century.
Morning, noon and night, month in
and month out. Joliet's champion old
newsboy stands on the depot platform
with his bundle of paper tucked neat
~ under his arm. Like the ancient
mariner OF old, weathers have no ter
rcrs for him and when the mercury
sizzled In the shade at the rs notch
recently he stood at his post as stead
fsstly as when the thermometers frozc
hard in the blizzard of last winter.
Joliet commuters and the regular
passengers and trainmen who ride
through this city have come to look
upon the weather-beaten newsboy as
an immovable landmark. A bare
glimpse Of his tall, slim figure reas-
sures Joliet passengers that they have
reached their right station more con
vincingly than the brakenian's bar
tarous yell Of "%Jolly-ett." Between
trains the aged "newsboy' stumps the
block or so to his coy little cottage on
Jefferson street. Once at home he
places his papers on a stand close by
the open door, drops into a high-back-
ed armchair that looks older than he
does, and unbuckles the wooden leg
which has given him his nickname OF
"Peg-leg." Then he goes to sleep. His
nap lasts until train time. Orsanius
Page is proud Of being the oldes.
newsboy In the world. But he wants
everybody to realize that he hasn't
always been d newsboy. He has lived
a life full OF interest. and he has in
his time handled thousands of dollars
where he now counts over cents.
He was born in Cattaraugus county
in the western corner of New York
state. February IL. 1873. When he
was 10 years old his father moved the
family a distance of about 100 miles
ere the state line into Ohio. 1t
was there he grew mp and spent the
best years " his life.
Il began to work about as soon as
] could stand alone" said the old gem
tleman. giving an account of his ex-
periences. In the first quarter of this
century boys. and girls. too. for that
matater. we're brought up to begin
work as soon as they were strong
enough to sit on a horses back or
cour a tin pan. | wasn't more than q
years old when my father lifted ne
ON the back of an Ok. My hands were
hardly big enough to go around the
whip handle, and that's the way |
learned to drive oxen to pillow. When
| had grown up to be a man and was
20 years old. | was given charge of a
drove OF hogs. and told to drive them
to New York city and sell them there.
II was about 500 miles. and part of
the journey was pretty rough. | got
across the ridge OF the ~Alleghenies and
vas pushing the drove down the slopes
on the Pennsylvania side. when a
snOwstorm cane on. | had a couple of
drOvers with me, and by hard work
We finally succeeded in getting the
whole 7s5 hogs into pens in a little vii
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He Is II nephew Of Gen. Ruino Bar
rios. who was killed in 1886 at the bat
tie Of Chalcuapa by the Salvadoreans
and other Central Americans opposed
to his scheme Of restoring the ancient
co%nfederacy under Guatemalan inf'u-
ence and moral direction. Gen. Jose
Maria Reina Birrios was only 10 years
old when he marched in 1866, with the
small troop ~ patriotic volunteers led
by his uncle. Ruflno Barrios. In his
first but unsuccessful assault upon the
government of President Carna. The
young volunteer participated In the
several attempts to free his country
from tyrannical government and won
his military grades on many battle
fields.
He was married in New York ten
years ago to Miss Algerle Benton OF
New Orleans. He was elected president
Of the republic on March IL. 1892. and
his term will expire next March. On
May 81 last he met with the most seri-
Gus. II not the hrst. opposition Of the
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-20
WRITER OF ADJECTIvES. I
r,oi"my Was the Greatest User of the
Qualifying Words.

Qualifying Words.
The greatest writer OF adiectives
that the world has ever known was
Claudins Ptolemy, the renowned Egyp-
tian astronomer and astrologer. who
nourished In the second century. The
present revival OF the latter science
has recalled the use Of adjectives by
famous wizards OF the Nile. Here Is a
passage from one OF the books which
has come down to us through the cen
turtles having lately beer reprinted:
When Jupiter alone has domonion Of
the mind, and Ia gloriously situated.
he renders II generous. gracious. pi-
GUS, reyerent. joyous. lofty. liberal,
Just. magnanimous, noble. selt-acting,
compassionate, fond Of learning, ben
efcent, benevolent, and calculated for
ly, he will endow the mind with quail
tiles apparently similar to these. but
not Of such virtue and luster. as. in
stead Of generosity, he will then cause
%profusion; instead OF piety. bigotry;
for modesty. .tlmidity: for nobleness,
arrogance; for courteousness. folly: for
elegance, righteousness: for nagnan-
unity, carelessness, and for ,iherality,
Indifference. Conciliated with Mars,
and being In glory, Jupiter will make
men rough. warlike. skillful in military
affairs, d~icytatorial, refractory, impet-
nous. daring. free In speech.
able In action. fond of dispu.
tation, contentious, imperious. gener.
Gus. ambitious. irascible. ju%dicious and
Fortunate; but. II thus connected, and
not placed In glory, he makes men mis-.
chievous. reckless. cruel. p~itiless, SO.
ditiOus. quarrelsome. perverse. calum.
NOUS. arrogant. avaricious. -ap%acious
inconsistent. vain and empty. un.
steady. p%reclpltate. faithless, injudi.
cious, inconsiderate. senseless. and
ofiicious, inculpaters, prodigals, triHers.
altogether without conduct and giving
way to every impulse. When concili.
ated with Venus, and in glorious posi-.
ton, Jupiter will render the mind pure
joyous, delighting in elegance In the
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family of charming daughters. WI
Ting Fang will be succeeded here by
Lee King We.
The Moons Atmosphere.

As to the question OF a lunar at
mosphere the eminent astronomers I'm
charge or the Paris observatory, NJ.
Loewy and NJ. P~usieux, appear to hold
"A somewhat different opinion from
that commonly entertained by sclen-
lists. Admitting that the determine.
ZION as to whether there Is a very lit.
tie or none at all Is not really neces-
sary, here are evidences, they con
clude, that IL must be very rare-not
more than one nine-hundredth of the
density OF our own, the reasons why
this must be so being as follows, name
ly: That when the moon detached itself
from the equatorial regions of the
earth, II must have taken with It as a
portion OF its materials some OF the
material chemical elements of the
earth or at least those lighter ones
that lay near the surface at the time.
II being probable, however. that II
planet retained the greater proportion
OF the gaseous envelope. Such being
the case. the weaker provision Of free
gases fell to the moon, and this guam
tity would naturally diminish as the
material began to so%lidify-the
water would enter into stable combi-
rations with the elements of the soil.
and without doubt such minerals as
gypsum and lime would be formed,
which imprison the water within solid
salts that are little affected by the play
OF natural forces. Reasoning similar
ly, Mr.. Loewy and NJ. Pusieux declare
that what is true of water is true also
OF the air.-New York Sun.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-20
ORSANIUS PAGE.

lage nearby. The snowstorm turned
out to be a blizzard, and for three
weeks we we're corraled there. II took
= heap of corn to feed almost 800 hogs,
and c0rn there was worth SIPS a bush
el. ! had just about run out of money
when the o began to melt. I rode
20 miles to a town where there was a
bank. In l walked, and, going up 10
the president, ! said; i want $1,000 on
a drove of hogs that are snOwbound
up in the mountains. They belong TO
Wolf brothers, Of Eastern Ohio He
forked over the bills. and | rode back
NJ the mountains and got my hogs and
pushed on toward New York. | kept
them going most of the time. and when
my drove reached New York city they
were the first hogs or fresh meat OF
any kind to get into New York after
the blizzard. Butchers by the dozen
followed me aud the hogs as we push
I'd along toward the pens. I found the
crowd OF butchers all on hand at the
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BREAKING MONTE CARLO.
Figures showing the Financial Rai,bov
to he DiT,cui Of Captura.

Figures showing the Financial Rat,bov
to Be DimcuIt Of Capture.
Those who have II passion for gamU-
ling and haze found IL improbable. "A
class nearly as numerous as those who
gamble al all. might well consider tho
recent announcement that a dividend
OF $4,000 SO for last year has been de-
CARED by the stock company cunning
the gaming tables at Monte Carlo.
That amount, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, IL the interest on 800, 00O,-
600, and represents an extraordinary
profit There are about 400. 900 visitors
a year at Monte Carlo, and AZ, in addi-
ton to the dividend named. they pay
the expenses OF the gambling resort.
with It's thousand attaches, they will
not be disposed to deny that gambling
IL a highly expensive amusement.
Though there Ia n tradition hat I'M
body occasionally breaks the bank ~
Monte Carlo. It's dividends are neve,
seriously affected. As the m in
Monte Carlo appear to be what IL
called square. I'VE those familiar witc
them are at a loss To account for tho
enormous profits. The chances in the
play seem to he almost evenly bal.
arced. yet the millions gravitate rapidly
TO the side of the bank.
II the mere betting on red and black
which Is prevalent at Monte Carlo Is
40 profitable to the bank many other
forms Of gambling are far worse. It
Is needless to name them. The visitors
$4,000, 600 a year by not going there.
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national assembly. This happened
about a government bin proposing to
make in the United States II loan OF
Si5, 200, 900. destined to flnish the north
ern railroad Of Guatemala and to pro-
mote other enterprises. II was inn
possible to get a quorum for several
sittings and finally the president was
compelled to dissolve the assembly
and assume himself all the powers
which the constitution gave him.
President Reina Barrios liz popular
among his countrymen. notwithstand-
ing the fact that the favors the intro
duction OF American ideas, inventions
and products In his country. All the
British influences are at work against
him.
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Advertisement. Of Ane,.a. Po-p.,,.

An advertisement pillar" has been
brought to light In the excavations OF
Pompeii. 1t was covered with adyer.
tisement bills one over another. The
different layers could he separated
from each other. anl the contents were
d,ciphered a. theatrical programs and
programs OF the arena. proclamations
for the forthcoming senatorial cleo
lions, notices of tribunal gatherings,
festivities, etc.
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uncle, Hon. Lanc'on c. Haynes, which
was perhaps the finest piece of oratory
that ever fell from a southerner's "lips.
1t was about the mountains and the
valleys, the streams and the skies. the
sunshine and the starlight. the grass
that grew beneath the trees and the
birds that nestled among the branches.
Bob always delivered IL beautifully and
for a long time claimed 1t as his own.
He finally confessed that he had been a
pirate.
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A Great MuslcIan,s Father,

The father Of Sir Arthur Sullivan
was bandmaster of the Royal Military
college at Sandhurst, and as a boy was
made to learn every instrument In the
band except the bassoon aud the haut-
boy. II Is to the severe training this
father gave to the present composer
that the latter attributes his magnif.
cent powers or orchestration.-Ex.
change. -
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Wa ring Fang.

WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minis.
ter. who is soon to be transferred from
the American capital to Tokyo as
Chinese representative in Japan. is a
gentleman of education. culture and
modern ideas. He is perhaps the ablest
man that has ever represented the
Chinese government In the United
States. He speaks English freely, and
Is we'll informed on current affairs and
the politics of the world. The minister
liz an English barrister. He is "a grad
uate of Lincoln's Inn. London, where
he lived for several years. When he
went to Hong Kong he practiced law
In the English courts there for five
years. His early education was ac-
Quired in China. where he held several
high positions in the Chinese govern
ment. This is his first mission abroad.
although he was in this country about
twenty years ago on a private errand.
. He is n courtly. affable Chinaman,
and represents the very best class OF
his countrymen. He has a wife and a
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-20
THE WAZiRIS,
A Wild and WarIike Tribe on the
British Indian Frontier.

ttTittsh suutdn bTonttef.
\ few weeks & a strong body OF
Waziris beat back a column of British
troops and native auxiliaries. on the
Afghan frontier of India. The Waziris
are a tribe on the borders OF that
frontier, and are one OF the widest
ond most warlike tribes ON the from
tier. Their character has long been
established for murder and robbery.
They have In former years received
more than II exemplary lesson for the
improvement of their manners. In
1860 Sir Neville Chamberlain was sent
to punish them. and passed almost
right through Waziristan. II was in
1879 that they again became trouble.
some, and this led to General Kennedy
being sent among them with u rotrih.
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PTOLEMY.

arts and sciences, and In poetry and
music; valuable In friendship, sincere,
benehcent, compassionate, !noffensivs
religious. fond Of sports aud exer-
cises. prudent. amiable and affection
ate. gracious, noble. brilliant, candid
liberal. discreet, temperate. modest
pious. just, fond Of glory, and In all
respects honorable and worthy.
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What u Model Bakery Should Be.

What should be the essential condi-
tons Of q model bakery? First, the
building should be above ground, per-
fectly drained and ventilated, well or
ganized, absolutely clean, and the ex-
pense of labor should be of no consid-
Grafton. The men should be sys-
tematically inspected with regard to
their personal cleanliness, having, In
the first place, been selected for en-
ployment on the ground Of their good
general health and temperance. The
hours of labor should be limited and
convenience for washing purposes
should be provided. The buildings
should be dust-proof In order to make
dust contamination impossible: the
ovens should be fired at the back OF,
and not in, the bake-house itself.
Water used should be Of the very best
and guaranteed quality, and, II order
that only a proper proposition should
be used for Its corresponding equival-
ent OF -four, II should be measured by
meter. These are roughly the essen
tails to n typical b%ake-house.
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What becomes Of Them?

or the ll9, 000, 900 old copper cents
which were sent out from the mint
only the 900, 900 have ever been ac-
counted for and only now and then is
a stray one of the remaining I19, OOO,-
900 seen In circulation. or the 1900, 900
bronze 2-cent pieces sent u only
/, 800, 900 ever found their way back,
leaving 5000, 900 to be accounted for,
and there are an equal number pf
nickel 3-cent pieces somewhere In the
country, though II Is very rarely that
one IL @ or che 500 900 h%alf-cents
not one has ever been returned to the
mint. A few of this denomination may
be found In the hands of coin collect
ors. but the whereabouts OF the rest
Is a mystery. II is estimated that the
daily supply OF needles for the entire
world amounts to 5000 600 OF varying
shapes and sizes. while the United
States alone calls for a yearly supply
OF 800, 900 900. or pins. II Is said that
come Of the large department stores
often order 100 cases at a time. Each
case contains 10S dozen papers. and
each paper holds $50 pins, so a little
use OF the multiplication table will
what an immense thing even the
one order The yearly output
OF pins from the largest factory In the
States, 1t is claimed, would II
end TO end reach three times
around the world.
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oombast about the man, but he Is as
honest as politicians get to be these
days. During all of his life he has
stood up straight as Il trivet for Dem
ocracy. lie has never been a back
slider. Even when his party's candi-
date did not conform to his ideas in
1884, 1883 and 1892. he swallowed ii un-
complainingly. He Is an inimitablc
story teller. He loves fried chicken
better than a hound dog loves pot H.
qlor. lie drinks his whisky straight
and he pulls off his hat To every lady
that he meets. lie can play the middle.
he can ride a horse bareback. and he
can follow the hounds until the horn
blows for breakfast the next morning.
lie knows the difference between IA
thoroughbred and fetlock stock, and he
~worships a blue eyed baby with n de-
votion characteristic OF the mountain
man. He can talk. he can sing. he
can fiddle. and he can u the pigeons
wing. He is breezy and he is bright.
BY a peculiar accident Taylor was
elected to the forty-sixth congress. lie
He beat Pettibone, a carpet Dagger from
Michigan, not by his own strength or
the strength of his party. but because
his brother ALI took the stump for him.
In congress Taylor was a general IA
vorite. When he spoke the galleries
listened. He got more notoriety be-
cause Of a speech made by General
Bragg Of Wisconsin one night when
some pension bill that had been faith
cred by Taylor was up for discussion
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Paid For.

Mrs. Cumrox' children seem to b
very fond Of their school," remarked
one woman. What makes you think
so?" They are always speaking OF
their dear teacher" ''Oh, Mr.. Cum.
rox insists on that, He says tina,
considering how much he pays for ex.
ira tuition it's only proper. Wash
ington Star.
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FAVORS OUR IDEAS.
WHY GUATEMALA HAS A
DICTATOR.
Rem. Barrios Iikei The American way Of
Doing business and Wants to Trade
with This country -Brltish Influence
10 Against Vim.

EINA Barrios IL
now occupying In
Guate m a the
4 C y. or,
rather, the dicta-
torship, since late
events have com
PEELED him to AS
sumo the uncon-
trolled direction OF
the %country's af-
fairs.
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Ills Idea Of EcOnOmv.

She Father says We shall have 10
economic at our wedding. He-Well.
we'll be married in the day time and
ave the gas.-Yonkers Statesman
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-20

Down in Florida the yeracious chron
iclers report a mare that has developed
an appetite for genuine spring chick.
ens.-New York Sun.
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GOV. bob" TAYLOR.
ONE OF THE GREAT CHARAC-
TIERS OF TENNESSEE.
He Wants to GO to the senate
Two Years Hence sketch of Ills
Career His Brother Ar and Their
Political Battles.
Robert

ONERNOR Robert
10 r. recently
mentioned as u
probable successor
10 the late lsham q.
Harris In the senate
OF the United States
is one of the most
popular OF Tonnes
scans. He Is south
ern to the core.
There Is m u e h
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Joliet, Ull.)

ROUND the rail-
road station of
Joliet hobbies a
man who is prob
ably the oldest
~"newshoy" in the
world.
w b c tn G
dawn ushers In
the 1lth day Of
next February
Orsanius Page
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Boys OF Flint, Mich. got $500 from
the county treasurer during June on
bounties on sp2grow heads.