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from the windows of Magyar homes and
even from the poor quarters Of the town.
The Austrians have been endeavoring for
a long time to settle down these nomads
and have offered many Inducements. On
account Of its wild and rugged character
Pennsylvania is more to the gypsy's liking
than any other part Of Hungary, and as a
result they are here in proportionally larger
numbers than in any other province.
The Magyar, who represents only about
one-fourth the people of the province,
has more or less difficulty in maintaining
the superiority which he feels. He is not
80 wealthy as the Saxon, but wealth is not
considered as emitting one to introduction
into Magyar society. Besides he thinks that
the Saxon wealth has come more through
extreme thrift and p~enuriousness than from
any other source.
The Magyar nobleman Of Pennsylvania
is pleasure loving and entertains with
great prodigality. Cut off for a long time
from the remainder of Hungary, the Tran
~sylvanian families have intermarried to
more or less related to everybody else.
tivities continue for days.
At one time a law was framed to put
restrictions on the excessive dancing.
The people in defiance followed their
pleasure with even more zest han before.
To show their disregard for what they
considered the unjust interference of the
Austrian clerical party they danced with
great vigor right on into Lent.
They danced during the day, and con-
tinued throughout the night. Daylight
found them still at it, and for fear that the
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two out OF every three Of the races in which
he was entered, and the business man won
tens Of thousands Of dollars in bets on that
one.
"The racetrack i%nfatuation in the mean
time grew Upon him and he developed
into a foolishly reckless ~plunger. He lost
out a whole lot more han he won on his
same named two-year-old in betting on
other horses Inc he allowed his business
to run for the end book, so to speak, devot-
ing most Of his time to the horse game.
He got to following them all over the coun-
try, summer and winter, and the rapidity
with which he lost his clutch on his business
and political int rests was a sin to watch.
THE t~wo-year-old named after him that
started him on the down grade proved to
be q sore disappointment as a three-year-
old, but the Cincinnati man was so stub
bornly confident OF the beasts ability to
wipe everything standing on legs off the
map that he bet literally scores Of thousands
Of dollars upon the colt without any return
whatever. The brute won but one race
as a three-year-old, and that time the man
after whom he was named di dn't have a
dollar on him having finally given the horse
up as q hopeless proposition. The slough
into which this man fell over the mere
naming Of 0 racehorse after him was just
too deep to be talked about, and yet, as
/ say, he was the very essenos of conserv-
atism before this destroying incident oc-
Cured. When I ran into him in New Or
leans the other day he was just a seedy
hanger on, business and everything gone,
and doing the best he could. as the saying
goes.
you don't get so far away from home,
either, to meet up with victims OF having
colts named after them saw one of 'em
on Broadway last fall, wearing wire in his
shoes in place of strings, who lost every
thing-wife, fortune, family, happiness and
all-from the fact, as l verify believe, that
a racehorse had been ramed after him.
the worst Of it was, the very next day
after / met this man, all but a bum, the
horse that had been named after him won
q race on Q New York track with 90 to 1
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against his chance, and the bookmakers
were bruised hundreds Of thousands on
the event. And yet the man after whom
the colt had been named not only didn't
have a nickel on the race, but he was all
but a public vagrant.
He'd been noted as a national guardsman
and as a writer on military matters concern
ing the National Guard up to the time that
one Of his friends involved him, about Ave
years ago, in the racing game by naming
atwo-year-old colt after him, and his decline
from that time was one Of the suddenest
things / ever saw. 1t is a curious circum-
stance, by the way, that when a man who
has attained middle life gets mixed up
with any kind Of a gambling game his out
breaks of the fever are a whole heap more
violent than those of mere lads who have
been in a gambling environment from their
carly boyhood, and that's the way it was
with this man. He ven to the bow-wows
in a romp, and he'd have been q man OF
substance to-day IL that two-year-old colt
hadn't been named after him. / believe II,
and say it.
One Of the most delightful men l ever
knew was the late Col. Waring, who was
about the best street cleaner New York
ever had. While Col. Waring was Street
Cleaning COMMISSIONS Of New York one
Of his fool friends named a t~wo-year-old
after him.
THE horse was a good one, too-so good,
in fact, that his work was capable Of con-
vincing so hard headed q man as Col. Warins
that he was the greatest four legged thing
that'd ever worn hair, Now, Col. Waring
wasn't any gambling man, and yet he
thought a whole heap Of that colt that had
been named after him. I'd hate to say
that the horse shortened Col. Warnings life,
but IL that colt didn't come pretty nigh
saddening the old mans soul to the verge
Of dissolution by his incessant defeats once
he got int the bad nut then I'm a poor sort
Of analyst.
"1he horse that won more Q than any
other on the American turf in the year 1904
was q shifty one, racing most Of the time
around Chicago, named Lucien Applsby,
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RED DEVIL IN ACCOMAC.
Auto Invades 4 Happy and L~eisurely Region
OF Virginia.

O~NANcocK, Va, March 1.-THE auto
mobile has appeared in this village, creating
almost as much Of a sensation throughout
Accomac county as the railroad did years
ago when it came and drove out Of bust
ness the big feet Of sweet potato schooners
which took Onancock's chief product up
the Chesapeake to Baltimore for trans
portation to nearly every corner Of the
land. The auto is owned by the paying
teller OF the Onancock bank.
Occasionally a machine has been seen
rolling serenely over the sandy roads,
stretching almost in an unbroken level
clear down to Cape Charles, but never
before had a resident of this place INDUCED
in the luxury Of owning an auto. It was
thought that nobody would have the
audacity to thrust aside time honored
precedents and give up the little Acoomac
horse for an invention OF the old boy.
The Accomac fancy once painted this
creature black, but since the red auto
came they have changed his color. The
pace OF the auto Is most disconcerting
to tho natives, who are accustomed to
drive leisurely In their buggies, phaetons
and sweet potato carts through the streets
OF the village, giving q bow, after the i'm
memorial habit Of Aocomao folk, to all
white people they meet.
The horses OF Aocomao wear no breeching,
as they have no hills to descend. They
are strong, but they are not swi1k, and
In these respects they may be likehed to
their masters.
The auto frightens the horses and gives
them a tendency to run. A running horse
would be an innovation In Accomac. The
country is 80 level hat even the brooks
refuse to rum; they simply lounge and
ripple.
shocked by the auto. Their conservatism
is the greatest institution in Virginia.
When the auto was first observed on the
main street OF the village there were several
carriages before the biggest store. The
chug=chug OF the auto and ne stfangenesA
cot the horses pranoing, and men and women
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out exquisite fabrics that, made into folk
costumes, make q Wallach fete q revel Of
color.
Lack Of grace is not one Of the charges
that can be- brought against them. Walk
out to their quarter on a festival day
they have as many as the Church and EN-
pire can give-and watch one Of their
dances. You will have a sight that would
make IN operate impresario in search
Of a chorus Of merry villagers green with
envy.
Men in white with embroidered waist
coats and bright belts gllttering with brass
and silver ornaments dance with women
who have punches Of peacock feathers in
their hair, long white flmy robes, en-
broidered jackets, bright colored aprons
and brilliant ribbons streaming from hair
and shoulder. The festivities begin in
the afternoon. At sunset the fun Is
scarcely on, and late at night you will see
the white figures moving among the trees
in the moonlight to widest strains OF gypsy
music and hear the dancers break into
song when some particularly inspiring
air is played.
The gypsy musician has won a home
for his people in Hungary. No festival or
entertainment is complete without a gypsy
band. The traveller who stops in a Tran
sylvanian town may object to the board
and bed that the inn furnishes, but seldom
to the orchestra that begins playing every
evening at dinner time.
The town folks gather around the tables,
drink, smoke and talk, while the younger
members of the community dance in the
wide street in front or beneath the trees
in the court. Strains OF other bands come
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Turkish rule has left its mark upon them,
30 that thsy nave not shown any great
initiative or originality in the develop
ment of their own country.
The Hungarians have built railroads,
highways and hotels. They have developed
the mines, the mineral springs and the
forests Of the country. But the Bosnian
continues slowly and comfortably in his
own way. He lives in his thatch COW
cred, twig walled house, wears his fez
and enormou turban and looks imper-
turbably on at the improvements.
He does not care to p~atronize the rail-
road or the telegraph, because he is never
in sufficient haste. The highways are no
particular convenience to him, because he
owns no vehicles, and with his little pack
horse he chambers over the rocky trails
and leaves the roads to the mail and army
wagons.
The Bosnian woman is rather good look
ing, and what is more she is the ruler Of
her home. She met her husband when,
as children, they both we're tending hooks
on the m~ountainside, and he sang sonnets
to her and accompanied them with the
melancholy tinkling Of the guzla. She
early discovered his little weaknesses and
played on them during the remainder Of
his life.
Long lines Of red fezed, white robed
men and women working their way with
crude farming implements over the acres
Of some rich Mohammedan's oornfeld
are a common sight. The mothers bring
their babes with them to work and ines of
cradles are found by the roadside. The
sun streams down into the faces Of the in
fants, but their walls of distress find no
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who owned them rushed out, grabbed the
brides and looked with disapproval at the
vanishing vehicle.
The news spread fast over the county,
and within a week the Accomac imagination
In the isolated districts pictured the red
auto as a thing somewhat like a trust mon
ster in a comic supplement, and the trade of
the village merchants fell off, because the
country people were afraid to venture into
town.
The horses are getting somewhat accus-
toned to the auto now, but the natives are
still timid. II they are out driving-and
nearly everybody in Accomac drives-they
turn their horses in on the side Of the road
and wait until the red devil passes. Women
afoot lift their skirts as II somebody had
shouted "Mice!" and get close to the build
ing line.
The driver of the auto is not greeted
with the usual cordially. Grandpa Parks,
the Oldest man In the county, always alights
when he sees the machine coming, and,
firmly holding his horses bride, he bows
low, not to the owner Of the auto, but the
auto Itself. The bow is one OF the most
elaborate and ironical ever seen in Accomao,
which is famous for its fine old colonial
brand Of courtesies.
The paying teller has hopes that the
people finally will get accustomed to the
auto and buy a few themselves as many
Of them are quite able to do.
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Of 71AMSYI X4W7A=

OF about all the peoples concerned in
tho present political turmoil in Hungary
representatives are to be found in Transyl-
vania. Should any be missing there they
could be found in another mountainous
region Of the Dual Empire, Bosnia.
Transylvania, the extreme eastern part
Of the country, scared and cut by the
CArpathian Mountains and their foothills,
and Bosnia, the most western Of the Balkan
lands, have often beer likened to Switzer-
land. However true this comparison may
b; they possess one strong point of re-
senblanoe to the Swiss republic in being
ppopled by a multiplicity Of races.
In T~ransylvania there are six distinct
na~ttonaities, Ave different languages and
a. many different religions. Bosnia has
an tho races Of the empire as we'll as all
Ito languages and religions. In these two
provinces they all mingle, but never mix.
sWithin the limits of my parish" said a
priest Of q village near H~ermannstadt,
Transylvania, there are Saxons, Szekles,
Walleobs, Bulgars, Serbians, Croatians,
Jews, Armenians and Magyars. What
this strange conglomeration Of races means
you viii better understand when you re-
member that each race is stubbornly en-
0t8VoIInB 10 TeUaln lub own ldnBuaB &c, To-
uRion and customs, and that the Magyars
are 70 strenuously endeavoring to weld
The whole into q Hungarian unit
The military frontier that for centuries
was maintained against the invasions Of the
Moslems is responsible for the introduction
% some Of the races that have given diver
stty to tho country. This frontier for the
protection Of Christian Europe extended
from the Adriatic to the Carpathian Noun
tains, and was guarded its entire length by
people ever ready for military duty. A
nag signalled the approach Of the Turks
by day, and q torch flashed q warning by
night.
For this guard Saxons were brought
down from the upper Rhine and Szekles
from the Far East. Finally, when the
Turks were no longer a menace. the frontier
guard was abandoned; but Saxons and
8Dehles remained among the people whom
they had protected, zealously guarding
6yery privilege and right that was theirs
When their services were most in demand,
and not giving up one whit Of the language,
customs or religion that centuries ago they
had brought to the country.
The Saxon is a hard headed fellow. He
had to have thick walled houses and fortified
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authorities might not be aware Of the In
fraction Of the law they took down the
shutters, threw open the doors and windows
and gave the police patrol an opportunity
to hear the music and see the weary merry
makers.
Their principal own is Kolozsvar, and
to the Transylvanian Magyar it is what
Pesth ia to the Hungarian. 1t is gay and
brilliant during the winter, and every
Transylvanian endeavors to go there at
least during the holidays and carnival
times. A town more unlike the sturdy
Saxon Hermannstadt, with Its staid air OF
eminent responsibility and puritanio cor
r~ectness, it would be difficult to imagine.
Kolozsvar is the Sioux Falls of Hungary,
for here the unhappily married can find
relief from calling matrimoni al bonds
quicker than any other place In the king
dom. All that has beer necessary is to
be Of a proper religious faith and a citizen,
Conversion could easily be arranged and
citizenship secured by the purchase Of a
house. Houses were easily bought" and as
easily sold" again after they had served
their purpose.
The Hungarians, as well as other
Austrians, have crowded into Bosnia. The
Saxons' freshly w~hitewashed houses and
we'll kept farms are conspicuous along the
rich valleys Of the Drina and Save. The
Wallachians compete with the Croats and
Serbs as laborers, and in all the towns
Hungarian shops are close against the
bazaars of Moslems, Bosnians and Herze-
g~ovinians.
The Bosnians are spoken Of as Of Serbo-
Croatian origin. The years Of oppression
to which they were subjected under the
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BENARBTHENAMESAKEH HORSE
A SURE HOODOO, SAYS THE En-
PERT ON RACING LUCK.

IrwO Men He Knows Have Gone All TO
Pieces Through Following the Fortunes
81 Horses Named for Them-Lucien APP
pieby Didn't Profit by Many wins.
"A Kentucky friend Of mine who breeds
runners wrote to me In December that he
was going to name one Of his two-year-olds
after me- said a we'll known turfman who
10 inclined to conservativeness. Il wrote
him back that IL he did I'd hit him with a
rnailet on sight. It's bad luck, in my opin-
ION, to have @ racehorse named after you.
I don't take much stock in hoodoo tales,
but I've seen enough Of that sort Of thing
TO become convinced that the mar who has
q racehorse named after him is hoodooed
from the day Of the horses christening.
I've got q dozen such instances in mind.
sDown In New Orleans the other day, for
example, / ran into a man / used to know in
Cincinnati. he didn't look as il he had a
dollar, and he told me-, in fact, that he
hadn't. This man used to be q business mar
o big way In Cincinnati. He had O manu-
featuring business that raked him in an In
come Of fully $50, 900 a year, and he was COM
ing along In politics in great shape, too.
"He had never visited a raoetrack in his
Iffe till one day he accompanied one Of his
business associates, an ex-Mayor OF Gin
einnah. TO q sale Of thoroughbred year
iiaes held In the paddock Of the old Latonia
faostrack. His friend, the ex-mayor, bought
a this sale o likely looking yearling by a
fdhous sire and dam, and on the impulse Of
the moment decided to name the colt after
bis companion.
SWhen this colt was first sent to the races
la O two-year-old the Cincinnati business
man made his first visit to a raoetrack.
Htts been q raoetrack fend ever since.
The colt THAI wa christened after him was
ss6orbee In his two-year-old form, winning
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BOOKS OF WALL PAPER.
Hundreds OF New styles Produced Annually
Ways OF the Trade.

ways OF tne ITaue.
@In England and Germany" said an
American wall paper man, @they get out
new styles, to be sure, every year, and
plenty of them, but they continue more
styles from year to year than we do. Here
we get out practically all new styles every
year.
The people expect them and the dealers
look for them and they must have them.
If we carried forward the old styles o dealer
looking over a book Of samples would cay
when he came to an old style, Why, here's
something we had last year. And that
wouldn't do.
There may be q few styles that have
particularly caught the fancy and that we
run for a second season, but practically
all the wall papers offered here at the be-
ginning of a season are new.
when a season closes, about July /, w
ave worked our stocks down just a. close
and fine as we can, and after that we begin
getting ready for the next season, almost
a year ahead. There are many designers,
men and women, who devote themselves
solely to wall paper designing, working
at that the year around, just as one might
at any profession or calling; and now we
begin getting out the new papers. with new
designs, or new colorings and oombtna-
tions of colorings, the new styes thus pro-
duced numbering hundreds annually.
And when our styles are all ready and
we nave begun to print we make up our
sample books for the trade; we get thsse
out for the next season along about January
1. Like great aliases these books are
only bigger, each book containing hundreds
of pages, each page a wall paper sample Of
the full width Of the paper and in length Of
page a little longer than the width, enough
to show the PAPER amply.
sOf these great sample books We send out
thousands, tons in weight Of them, annually,
and with these books at n the dealer
begins ordering his wall papers Of tho pSW
STYLES in readiness for the new peaSonu
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Marrying for Money.
From the Atehis on Globe.


When Mr.. Jephso,l was thinkIye OF marry.
ing 4 girl with money. his friend Rogers
advised against 1t for reasons which he was
quite ready to give.
My boy. he said. before | was married
my wife Inherited $500 from her grandfather.
The whole town knew II. When I built a
store. they smiled.
His wife's money they said.
When 1 built a house, the same smile went
round.
His wife's money
After a while ! took stock in the new gas
and electric company.
Aha said the treasurer, i see you are
inyesting some OF your wife's money
All my life that poor little $500 has re-
ceived the, credit for everything | have been
able 20 achieve,
AS o matter of fact, my wife spent the
money the day she got 1t for q diamond ring
and ! guees eome ofthe neishbors have wished
heartily that she would lose the piano
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Why He Had n Grievance.

Half-time had been called, and. as usual,
the sides were fraternizlns. The goal keeper
was talking earnestly to one Of the backs.
George" he said. will you do me the favor
OF going into goal. while | play out In the first
ten minutes?"
Whatever forI" asked the back. You're
doinR very we'll"
Yes that's all right. But I've been LOOKING
over the opposition lot. p~nd-and--"
His voice broke for q moment; then he con-
tinued rapidly: ,
Many years ago, their centre for ward
and 1 were rivals for the hand Of a beautiful
maiden. and for what 1 ave suffered on his
account IL should dearly love to come to on
understanding with him"
Poor old ohapi" murmured the back. You
eesm 10 feel IL badly. suppose be. married
heE. and left. YOU cut in the ,c9ld-ehf-
ne stood aside for me. and I married hefl"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-17
u. 5. AIDS SICK COWS
and IGNORES HUMANITY

~ - Z ~
In lecture entitled Consumption, a
Social Disease, given before the
tuberculosis congress in the munich
pal museum at Chicago, Thursday.
DR.. W. "A. Evans severely censured the
national and state governments for
the "disgraceful policy that expends
$1,000 of federal and state funds for
the health and sanitation of cattle to
every 81 expended for the health and
sanitation of human beings"
cit is the shortsighted and almost
inhuman policy of former govern
ments, or legislatures, or whoever
was to blame for initiating the govern
ment rule prescribing that the health
and comfort of livestock are to be
considered more important and de-
serving of more official solicitude than
the health and comfort of human be
ings that I am incensed with" ex-
claimed DR.. Evans. "But the facts
that confront us are indisputable.
t'Let farmer have COW, sheep or
goat that is suffering with some dis
ease by no means new, and of little or
no scientific Importance. The amaz-
ing thing, that happens in such case
is that the national government rushes
an expert veterinary surgeon to that
formers barn, though the distance be
5000 miles or more. The purpose of
the government is to show the farmer
how to nurse that COW back to health
and to make him familiar with the
measures necessary to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Does the farmer have to pay fee
for this distinguished medical service?
Not cent The bureau of animal in
dustry, a branch of the department of
agriculture, seems to exist for the sole
purpose of protecting the lives and
health of the American farmers cat
tie.
SIS it not time for the establishment
of a bureau of humanity, department
of sociology, or some such cabinet
position, the reason and object of
whose existence would be the care
and protection of the lives and health
of the working population?''