The age-herald., 1900-12-20
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

Iostefsi uOdBefSs circulars and ealen-. dars are getting more artistic every year." said prominent railway official while calling attention to a wooden panel recent ly Issued as 'ad' by a railroad. It was about two feet-high, foot wide and on it was painted the picture of an Indian war rior in full war regalia. The panel was well executed and would have sold for formerly $2, now s1.s9 in a store-that Is without the railroad 'ad which was painted in the center. An Indian in his natural state is very picturesque" he continued T was out West on a hunting trip with some friends about 1888. We had private car well stocked with provisions, a good porter and altogether we were having a very comfortable time. One night our car stopped at Arkansas City. This was be- fore Oklahoma Territory was opened up and the country was very wild and woolly. Arkansas City was little village at the time and the Indians constituted the larg- est part of the population. About a thou sand of them surrounded that night. They were dressed in their war paint for there was some little trouble at the time between them and the govern ment, although hostilites had not actually broken out. We were dining in the car when they appeared, and they seemed very much interested in our meal They crowd ed up to the windows and looked in, while We pretended to be unconcerned and con tnued eating. I felt very much as if l was dining on stage, and I think we all drank little more wine than usual to steady our nerves. At any rate when we went to bed we slept pretty soundly, so much so that a tremendous pounding on the car door about 1 o'clock did not im- mediately awaken us. Some one finally awoke, and going to the door let in the porter. He was not as white as sheet, but was the whitest black man I ever saw. He had been out somewhere and the h. danS had got hold of him. A black man was unusual sight to them, and they had been scraping his face trying to get him white. The negro was scared to death, and fear accomplished what no amount of scraping would have done"
 "The Indian" he continued, "gets his grace and ease of motion just as the tiger gets his-from the mere fact of being an animal He, of course, knows nothing about calisthenics or Delsarte movements, but no amount of practice of these sys- tems can teach a man to walk like an h. dian The Indian is not only an animal in his movements, but in his method of fight ing. He will not attack foe unless he is greatly his inferior; If he finds he is strong CT or as strong he will sneak away and lie in wait ito take some cowardly advantage. The education that they get at the Indian schools does them no good. They are probably less susceptible to the benefits of education than the negro. When an Indian graduates from school he will get posi- tion which he will keep awhile, but not having any staying qualities so far as civ- ilized business methods are concerned, he will soon abandon it, and he finally drifts back to his tribe, dons their costume and then Richard is himself again! The h. dian in the midway and wild west shows is almost as different from the native h. dian as the Indian of Cooper. The latter is a creature that never existed and the wild west Indian is always more or less veneered with a thin and cheap coat of civilization which fits him as i'll as the real coat of civilized man when he attempts to wear it.
 'It is time that Birmingham was sup piled with new directory" remarked a business man after an unsuccessful at tempt to find the name and address of the person he wanted. "The present directory was issued ten months ago, and in live, growing city like Birmingham thousands of people have located here and other thou sands have changed their address or moved away during that time. It is astonishing how people come and go. directory year old IS almost obsolete and one live years old is quite This is true even in cities that are not growing much, and sim ply illustrates the migratory character Of Americans. How many of the people whose names were in Birminghams direc- tory five years ago are here today? I ven- ture to say that half of the people could not be found in the city. In a growing city for every two thousand new people who have located there, probably one thousand of what might be called old people have left This in ten years would almost change the entire population. Of course there are always some families who stick in place until they did out, but they are a small percentage of the entire population. I first noticed this changing of names when I was secretary of a club. held the position for five years and every year about twenty per cent of the older mem bers would drop out, and new members take their places. At the end of five years there were hardly a dozen of the original members in the club. charter member of club in course of time feels as lonely as an old bachelor who has been on the carpet for years and during that time watched his originally youthful friends marry off one by one. The charter mem- Der and the bachelor either become old beaux who as they grow older with each year become attentive to a younger and still younger generation of girls, or else they retire to lonely rooms where faces of bygone friends look at them through the clouds of tobacco smoke.
 Spoke to Scandinavians.
 Stockholm December 19.-William Thom- as, Jr., United States minister to Sweden