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The TRtWEKKLY GAZETTE, or country
editor, contains all the news Of interest in
this State, and will be Of especial interest to
Alexsodrians living away from here, bat
who wish to keep up with shsir home nsss.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-03-01

ErOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MINERAL
T. WATERS.
STAFFORD,
GENEVA LITHTA,
COLUMBIA LITHIA,
BUFFALO LITHIA,
LONDONDERRY LITHIA,
OTTERBURN LITHIA,
APOLLINARls,
HUNYADI,
RUBINAT,
vERONICa and TATE EPSON SPRING,
constantly on hand at
WAKEFIELD n HALLS,
Co~e~r Prince and Faivfsv streets
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

Bisbee Bill had built him a 'barricade Of
sticks. It was this that first attracted
Stampede's eyes. He jumped down to in
vestigate and found the hole SO large
that he felt sure he had at last come
across a tarantula that could straddle a
plate sa: : ..1+ -. -- s. :. .s.s-i Il
fortunately some proprietor had erec-
ted monument of stones to mark a
claim near there and had filed papers in
meat tin. Stampede got this tin and
brought it over handy before he dug out
the tarantula- Tt proved to be u1ors-
ter, a great, hairy black fellow, with
'nouse-colored spots and mandihles like.
lions claws He was full of fight. In
stead Of scurrying away, he made for
Stampede's boots, and the cowboy almost
had to trample the spider to save him
self. But at last he got him in the tin
and tied over him a piece of leather cut
from the leg of his chaps. - 1s L
In camp the boys went crazy over Bis
bee Bill. They wanted to take him over
to Tucson that Sunday and challenge the
world Pink Murray offered Stampede
his new Gallop saddle for the tarantula.
But Stampede told them about his plan
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

homesick to see his own brand on cattle,
but that happy sight seemed long way
Off. Even with no more expenses than a
cowboy who stays out OF town on quar-
ter days it takes a long time to save
even few thousand dollars out of $50
month. Nor was it probable that any
other gamblers were going to leave him
a stake. However, he had his three thou
sand down in the bank at Phoenix, and,
gradually, there grew in him a deter
lnination to find some tarantula to more
than double that stake for him by whip
ping Hairy ella. So he took to watching
the range narrowly as he rode. s'
+ Stampede found Bisbee Bill over in the
foothills about Stag. For the most part
tarantulas keep out in the hot sands of
the desert, but evidently Bisbee Bill was
misanthrope and had left his kind.
Perhaps he had condemned himself to
perpetual solitude because there were no
tarantulas for him to conquer. He had
MADE him a. hole under the edge of a,
rock and lay there in ambush Usually
the tarantula spins him a web fence
around his hole to keep the rain out, but
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

1897. In a very real way it will be the
expression Of the respect and affection OF
great body of younger men to whom he
Stood at one time or another, in the dual
relation of teacher and leader. He had
been designated for the position, by a
happy provision, by William Barton Rog-
ers, the Institutes founder and first pres
ident In starting what was then a new
departure in the history of education
PRESIDENT Rogers had indeed founded q
school Of applied science which was to
become in less than forty years the lare-.
est in this country and one OF the mos.
important in the world; but when Gen.
Walker first came to it he found the in
st1tute In period Of great discoura gs
ment. His great talent for organization
already tested by his management Of the
nlnth and tenth censuses- before which,
1t will be remembered, the country had
mad no scientifically trustworthy statis-
tics on any adequate scale-was never
H:ore needed. The number OF students
had decreased. within six years. near1y
one-half, and the faculty consisted Of
.thirty-nine teachers. while the whole in
stitution was housed in a single hind
Ing. During the term Of his administers
$50 sAAS5 AoAA W SlQOSulS+ increased from
BOP to more than "a thousand and the
number of teachers from 50 to 1O3: while
three new buildings ere added to the
permanent plant. This growth, it is true.
conceded with a great growth of popula
ton and prosperity In the country at
large, but It is safe to say that no man
could have been found better adapted
than Gen. Walker to take advantage Of
these conditions. But his title TO graft
tude, said Senator Hoar at the time Of
Cen Walkers death, sis that in MS time
the institution grew toward the zenith
as well as the horizon; It is that while the,
number Of students grew, the efficiency
and fitness for their life's work, to which
their diplomas certified. grew in like pro-
portion; It is that the personal character
of the presi lent exerted an ennobling and
charging influence on the Character and
intellect of the pupil I,
It is an excellent exemplification of The
affection as well as respect which zen.
Walker inspired in the students of the
institute that the first tribute to his
memory took shape at mass meeting
held only few days after his death. AS
q result Of this meeting q commission for
a bronze bust was given to Mr.. Daniel G..
French, whose work. AZ III the figure OF
John Harvard in Gambr1ds and the JOIN,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

cOWchdSer, betbng ambitious to have cows
OF MS own. In other days he might have
earned running iron tied to his saddle
anu nave 1ndustr1ously accumulated a.
nero mat way, but in these latter DAYS
the cattle associations have frowred sue
cessfully on such thriftiness. So stampede
saved his money, which proves that he
was an extraordinary cowboy The
Gays or free grass were past, and he had
10 ouy stretch Of water right before he
could start his own herd. He had got
together $1,000 Of his own when a faro
man down In San Antoine died suddenly
VI neart dlsease, caused by the excite
ment OF being shot in that organ and
lert stampede two thousand more. But
$4,000 was not quite enough
AT that time the fame Of Hairy ella.
had spread through Southern Arizona
along the lines Of the Southern. pa citic
Hairy ella was a tarantula owned nv
f11nkey, the proprietor Of the White E,le-
phant. 1t was said that he could strad-
ole one of the tin plates which form s,,ch
an important part Of the cooks outat
he had fought twenty battles with chi.
ders brought from far and near and
mad won twenty victories. Apnaren+1v
ne had never been much hurt which i.
strange. It is not often that tarantn1,
comes out of a fight with all his eight
legs Hinkey used to say that. Hair,,
ella had won $4,000 for him. and ~ ID
propably near the truth. Hinkev had !,
little cage made for his spider and
used to keep him on exhibition in his
place with a placard pasted above the
cage offering to give odds Of four to three
~ all corners up to any amount the ex~
act wording Of the placard being:
The Bride Is Plumb or. 49,
Stampede heard Of the challenge M :
boys on the ]. I. T. used often to discuss
II: But those of them who had been 70
tucson recently were firm in declarine
tnat 1t was mere folly to shape anv
: tarantula against Hairy ella unless Won
ooaia ma one that could straddle a plate
ana mad an armor that would Just abont
turn bowie. Stampede used to SMOKE
ms cigarette thoughtfully when Hairy
ella was discussed. Ee was gettine .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

Boyle O'Reilly memorial near the en-
frances Of the Back Bay Fens in Boston,
is notable for a certain idealism as well
as for genuine characterization of the
more human side of his subjects; and
certainly lost nothing in this instance
from the fact that he was an intimate
friend of the man whom he was called
upon to portray. The bust now stands
in the Rogers building, at the entrance
Of the Offices Of the institute.
The new memorial building is to be an
adequate tribute, both in appearance and
purpose, to the man 1t honors It will
be devoted in large part, as has been said,
to physical culture. In the arrangements
for this end, however, the question of
health will outweigh the mere cultivation
Of muscle. The gymnasium proper will
be. rather q laboratory devoted to praeti-
cal instruction In useful physical develop.
ment than gymnasiumssin the ordinary
sense Of the word-its object being to
produce healthy and soundly developed.
men and not 30 much to break records or
send out winning athletic teams, although
the building will naturally become tho
center Of athletic as OF other institute
1Htereses A department Of physical cul-
ture will be added to the regular instruc-
ton OF the. institute, to be begun as soon
as the new building is ready for occu-
pancy- The general schemes of this new
department has been outlined by Presi
cent Prttchet in a recent add1 ess ..The
department of physical culture, he said.
shall have for its object, not the deyel-
opment Of athletics In the acute form
but the instruction Of the entire student
BODY in the care Of health; it shall inform
them as to proper rules Of exercise: IL
snail make a physical inspection of each
student who enters, and shall prescribe
for him in the light OF such inspection
the exercise which is suitable for his
needs. At the head of this department
snaIi be man able to advise students
rot only concerning their diet and ex-3
ercise and the general care Of their
Codes. In other words It will do for the,
physical side OF students what the other
departments do for the intellectual side -
There is no building in the world with
functions of just this kind
Its social side VIII perhaps be No less
important. The institute, situated az Is
is in the midst OF 4 large city, has had
neither dormitories nor .scommons. al
though dormitory for students Is now
about to be erected as a private enter
prise and the sTechnology club, whicf, ID
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17
stories of Phillips Brooks.

In his biography Of Phillips Brooks,
Alexander V. G. Allen of Cambridge tells
Of a clergyman who was going abroad.
ind talked in jest of bringing back a new
religion with him. You might have
tome trouble in getting It through the
custom house," some one remarked. '.No."
observed Bishop Brooks; 1--WE may take it
Tor granted that new religion would
Dave no duties attached Another per-
son, for the sake, no doubt, of argument,
once drew attention to the fact stAat some
men, calling themselves atheists, seemed
to lead moral lives, and Brooks promptly
disposed OF It, "They have to-" said he;
they have no God to forgive them If
they DON'T
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

the only place where students can mingle,
except for purposes of study, is open
only to students Of some years. stand
ing-not to the undergraduates as a
whole. The life Of the institute there's.
fore, has lacked much Of the attraction
Of college life, and the students have had
little opportunity, except by groups, for
the intimate association so geneI ally CON.
nected with the undergraduate existence.
Quite apart from its usefulness in the
directions just indicated, the Walker
Memorial is intended to meet this want,
and In meeting it suggests comparison
with the Houston club OF the University
of Pennsylvania, recently erected with
practically the same object; that, is ito
draw together students, officers and alum
in Of all departments OF the university in.
I a wholesome social life and to provide
forsthem suitable amusements and recrea-
ton The Walker Memorial will be, in
short, a great club, of which every
Tech student is oficiossa member,
and in which every student will have
daily opportunity to meet and know his
companions. .3l
The building itself has been designed
by the institute department Of archltec-
ture. It will stand in Trinity place. a few
steps from the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts and In the center of what might be
low well called the technology district of
SBcston-the district, that Is, in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of Copley square.
1t will cover something over TO- 600 square.
feet of land and will Include basement
with large swimming tank, I. great
memorial room with a serving room adj
:eining, and library and other rooms
or social purposes. The gymnasium will
occupy nearly the entire fourth floor ard
here will also be a similar gymnasium
for systematic work by classes of fifty
men, probably in connection with the
regular first year work OF the institute,
and enough lockers to accomm odate
svery undergraduate. 1t is expected that
the larger gymnasium will be used for
alumni dinners, and kitchen ard serv-
ing: room are accordingly planned IN con-
nection with It In the top Of the build
ing will be the handball. court, and the
fencing and boxing room. Altogether,
after looking over the architects plans.
one feels that here is building which
Gen. Walker himself would have most;
liked to seea building, therefore, which
se1ery one must feel is the best possible
memorial Of his generous and devoted
life. PubHcity Bureau, Boston.
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A1nende Honorab bic.

We feel that an apology is due" exl
plains the editor Of the Spiketown Bliz4
gard, to the estimable young lady who
teaches at the schoolhouse in District
No. 5. Through the wretched blunder
OF worthless tramp printer whom we
trusted with the setting up of an item
just as we were closing the forms for
our last weeks edition, we were made
to say that Miss Ruby Mcconnell, the
handsome and popular teacher in the
Riggs neighborhood, is the proud posi-
SCISSOR Of an elegant new black beard.
We wrote 1t blackboard &C Chicago
Tribune !
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

for fighting Hairy ella, and the boys
were mad with, delight. They turned
loose a few smaller tarantulas, because
they: didn't want Bisbee Bill to be In
5ured before his big fight. The way Bis
bee BIZ killed those other chaps filled
the hearts of the outfit with pure joy.
stampede reasoned his tarantula would
not improve with captivity, so he slipped
away with him the next day. He did
not lets the boys know he was going, be-
cause he felt that the honor Of the OUT
ut: would i1npel them to back Bisbee Bill
to the last of their possessions. lie was
willing to risk his own stake, but he
did not want the boys to go broke.
Hlnkey's dark eyes flashed when STAN
pede rode in to propose the match. SIAM
pede simply told him that he had $1,000
In Phoenix to stake against the gamblers
$4,000, and Hinkey accepted the statement
without asking for proof.
Want to see my leetle ole spider?''
asked Stampede
Nope, said the gambler. Just 80
long as he is straight spider and ain't
crossed with no crab I don't care what
he looks like -. -. .s--'0
Ihere was no standing room in the
White elephant when the fight came off
that night. Stampede was pretty lonely
IN backing his tarantula because Tucson
had local pride strong and all strangers
had been quickly cleaned out in other
lights. However, drummer, to whom
!, stampede had given a private view of
Blsbee Bill that afternoon backed SIAM
pede to the extent of $780, though thou
sands were offered him.
me ring was blanket spread on the
j. END OF the bar: There was no need of
renee, for tarantulas have thoughts
only of getting close. Stampede, with a
trembling hand, shook Bisbee Bill out
or the tin Bisbee Bill blew little bub-
bic from his mouth. twinkled his aizhA
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

she got diamond hitch on that nest and
prepared to meet all corners. We all al
loWed to let her go after that, but Red
ool came In with the fahtods and saw
ner there on the bar. He was a bit I'M
easy about his own condition, so he took
snap at her with his gun, Just to make
sure she was real. /,
But it was the old male tarantulas that
the boys used to round Up and keen in
empty meat tins for Sunday fight. TJsr-
ally, Il cow man does not love tarantula
any more than he loves a scorpion or 2,
Finegaroon or a ella monster. There are
boys who have been on the range for
years who still loop a rope around them
when they bed down for the night on
the plains to keep tarantulas out of
their blankets. A tarantula does NOT
'savvR' a rope, and thinks it will hurt
MIN lot II he crawls over it, So, when
the. rainy season drives the big spiders
out of their holes, and they take to ram
bling nights, the boys coil hair lariats
around their blankets The tarantula of
this territory may not be the real italian
article that Doc tells about, but he Ia
certainly organized to make a man dance
if he bites him.. F.sy$ ~ Il. .-}ss ~ -.
It got so, a while back, that Monte was
seriously injured by tarantula fighting.
II is no trouble to get tarantt,Ia hostile.
All you have to do is to shake a counle
of male tarantulas out of your meat tins
onto blanket and war is declared as
soon as they see each other. Such war
1t is, too! Cockfighting is just a sham
battle beside it. Dog fighting is a mere
church sociable side OF tarantula scraps.
There Is nothing to compare with it un-
less 1t Is a couple of stations clashine.
but good stallion is too valuable a brute
and needs too much scenery to set him
on. IN a fight to be convenient like taran-
tula contests So the boys when thew
started out on the roundup early morn
1ngs used to ride with their eyes on the
sand to spot unusually big tarantulas to-
add to the camps string. Sometimes! the
cook would have a dozen Of them in the
chuck wagon when the outfit came Mack
to the home ranch -: ..' "
Then would come glorious trying OUT
till the outfit had three or four survivors
that filled them with hope Into some
cow town or mining camp the boys would
ride, splitting the wind, some Sunday IN
meet the tarantulas Of a rival outfit.
These were the days when COWBOYS rode
back on unsaddled and borrowed ponies.
having lost everything on some big hairy
spider whom they backed to win out. %
stampede Maxwell was roundup boss
on the j. L. T. ranch at the time he
found B1sbee Bill. Stampede was the
! best roper and buster in that part of
Arizona. There are plenty who think
that he was the best in the territory. He
was trriftier than the average brand of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17

Gen. Walker occupied, indeed, during
his crowded life of fifty-seven years,
something like thirty widely differing Of
fees, including the teaching Of Latin and
Greek at a country academy, lectureships
at Johns Hopkins and Harvard univefs1-
ties; the presidency of the institute of
technology and Of the American Statis-
tical association; and the vice presidency
Of the National Academy Of Science, the
Military Historical Society of Massachu-
sets. the American Society for the Pro-
motion of Profit Sharing, and the society
of naval architects and marine engineers.
He was connected with the two great ex-
positions held in this country, acting as
chief of the bureau Of awards at the CEN
tcnnial and as chairman of the Massachu-
sets board of managers at the worlds
fair at Chicago. He was an officer Of the
French Legion Of Honor, and was one OF
the five recipients of the degree OF doctor
Of laws at the tercentenary of the Uni
versity of Dublin honor which was
later duplicated by the University Of
Edinburgh. In the Civil war he enlisted
as a private and received his discharge as
brigadierS general. He served on the
staffs of Warren, Couch and Hancock,
was wounded at Charlottesville, was
captured, escaped, SWAN the Appomattox
river, and was retaken and confined for
six weeks in Libby prison. His name was
mentioned for gallantry in ten different
engagements. AS an, author-and biblio-
graphy of his writings and addresses
published by the American Statistical as
ISOLATION covers nearly sixteen pages-he
wrote what is often declared to be the
hest treatise ever issued on the Indian
question; a volume entitled Money
which is an accepted text book In many
foreign universities; three textbooks on
political economy the largest of which
is said to be the most widely used of all
textbooks on this subject; and an essay
wages and the Wage Fund which
revised an accepted doctrine in the same
science. In addition he prepared the
statistical atlas Of the United States.
which one authority has called "a reyela-
ton of the capacity Of graphic represen-
tation. - 5sF5s s. 80
The new memorial building, however,
though It will stand as a monument to all
these yaried activities. naturally COM
particularly the service Of
Gen. Walker as president Of the institute.
a pos1r,on 60 wnIcn ne was eaecred ia
1881. aud which he held tin his death in
~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17
The Slender star.

want you to remember snapped
the leading lady, who. had had a misun,
derstanding with one of the chorus girls
behind the scenes, that I'm the star in
this play!" {;
know you're the star" returned the
chorus girl, glancing at the slender pro-
portions Of the other, and struggling her
plump shoulders, "but you'd look better,
my dear, II you were a little meteor
Chicago Tribune.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17
I Politeness I'm Politics.

Thackeray. anxious to enter parliament3
stood for Oxford, thinking he might win
the seat from Lord Monck. who rep-I
resented It. Nesting his opponent on
the street one day he shook hands with
bin, had little talk over the situaticn.I
and took leave Of him with the quota
ton: May the best man win" Il hope
not" said Lord Monck, very cordially,
with a kind little bow. /,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17
Seen and Unseen.

II can see your finish" shouted the
Briton tauntingly.
The Boer bit his lip. IS
Well. you can't see a joke. anyway.
he called back, after a moment. s thought
The Briton made no reply, but, with
drawing within his Notifications, WINGED
quietly Detroit Journal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-08-17
Depreciation Resented.

The thief thoroughly ransacked tha
house" said a Hutchinson paper, "Dut
failed to find anything of value. :. And
the next day the lady came furiously into
the Office and told the editor that She
had as many things Of value ia heH
house 40 anybody.-Kansas City Journall