Arizona republican., 1898-01-23
HIT AND MISS CHAT.

It is strange how Fate. sometimes deals with a man. She picks him up as though to make something noble o1ns of him; trains and shapes his mind and then suddenly tires of him; puts some disagreeable mark upon him and throws him Off-llke child grown tired of it's plaything. It may be that Fate makes mistakes. Perhaps after she has started the work of building a man she finds poor material has been selected or that she has done her own work faultlly. If the point is not clear to you yet l will give an example, which is really the subject of ,this writing, and the foregoing is only predatory. Em1 Marquarhardt is a German of mldd- @ age who lives on claim on the rlv8r bottom few miles below town, who makes his occupation that Of raising and selling goats, of which he has herd of about one hundred head. Various Latin quotations painted cn pieces of boards attract your notice about the place. Conversation WI him reveals that he knows the mean ing of these quotations and is fam:l- far with the classics. A funny thing is the picture of a goat over the kid house with the inscription "1n Hoe Sigmo vinces" Every dog has his day" he said, "and with the goat I shall conquer" He went to school in Leipsic and became and extraordi- nary scholar in Latin and Greek. He had trouble and was expelled from the school His father wanted to send him to another school but his incIinations were to go to Australia and become a sheep herder. He was finally senb to an uncle in Galveston and later took to his life of sec-usion. You are suspicious at first that some thing is wrong but when he begins to talk seriously and earnestly about his flying machine and take in the character of the surroundings you are doubtful no longer. Where did the fault begin? Did Fate make the mistake and find out there was a weakness after she had gone so far? Or was it only disobe dience that was responsible for his rejection and the mental decline never came till Ee segsn his isolated life.
 kny one who gees down the river
 though can hardly help being at
 Eted to his place by the strange
 sarance of the buildings and
 Ilnds The two main buildings
 kset up on posts about ten fee-
 the ground and painted black.
 larger one of these, he says, con-
 lis his flying machine, and is com
 6sed of 1900 one-gallom tin cans which have been cut apart and spread over an inner frame work The small CT one is his living room, or you might say, his sleeping room, as he lives out of doors the rest of the time. He says the flying machine house is now vacant, having burned up his last model after almost com pleting it because some man induced him to exhibit it and then stole the idea from him. Privately though I believe he is shrewd enough to give out this impression in order to kesp persons from trying to see his flying apparatus and prevent another expos ure, while in facc whatever progress he has made in that way is still in- tact in that building. He says he is going to begin over again on rev model and firmly believes he will fin ally be successful He talks of it in such matter of course, confident way that you sympathize with him at 0nee and pity his final disappoinIt ment, because his plan must i.deed be crude and the material of con- struction is likely nothing mere than the ground in every direction d e curious little buildings of odd shapes made of cottonwood branches wove" and worked together.One of these is chicken house, another dog house, others for pigeons, kids and goa1s and some for no use whatever One strange contrivance is what he calls his swinging bed. He is work ing on a new structure which he. calls a "gentlemen's dressing room," and when that is completed his next work will be the building of a ladies' dreS-- ing room. He is also building a Summer resort on the river bank. sI was determined to have something written in the sky,' he said, "and so l put that up," es he pointed to the lettering Dee. 12, 1S97," which was hung on a cross piece on his lockout post, some forty or fifty feet above the ground, where he wa ches his goats. The letters, I thought, were made of stuffed goat skins and twisted into the proper shape. That was the date on which the picture of his place was taken.
 2 nator DeDoe, although Ken tuckian, is not to the manner born, because he has an antipathy to horse racae. His predecessor, Joe Black bur-. thinks that a horse yace is tho finest sport in the world. When Depoe first went to Washington Blackburn thought he would make everything as pleasant as possible for hi lccessor, and as the races were in progress he suggested that Deboe go with him out to the Benning course.
 | really do not care to go,' said the newly elected senator.
 q ot go?" exclaimed MT. B'ack- bu~n in undisguised amazement. 'Don't you like a horse race?"
 @well, the fact is," drawled D boe, Ja..<41;dlv CT really do mt care mUch