Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-09
IRVING L. LENRooT.

They became very much attached to 1t.
and when the business was finished and
they We're getting ready to return to their
own homes in the western part of the state,
they proposed to take the pretty little crea-
ture with them. The old maid objected She
loved the playful hefer as much as they,
and explained that it would be a great COM
fort to her during the lonely days that must
come afteraher relatives had departed.
very small spark will sometimes start
very large flame and unfortunately the dis
agreement over the calf occurred before
the final papers were signed by the brother
and his two sisters executors of the es-
tate. The maiden sister refused to sign
unless the calf were left to her; the other
sister refused to sign unless she were al
lowed to take 1t away. and now, twenty
years later, the estate is still in litigation.
The calf became roats beef and beef
steak dozen years ago, and the original
cause of the quarrel Is forgotten by almost
everybody except few neighbors with
long memories who chuckle when they
tell the story.
Yankee Humor.
A new minister in one of the towns down
here shortly after his arrival heard of an
ill-assorted couple in his congregation, and
was Immediately inspired with desire to
bring about reconciliation between them.
The husband, he was told had not spoken
to his wife for four years, although they
continued to live in the same house and
share the good things that Providence had
bestowed upon them. The good dominic
went first to the man in the case and found
him buSily at work at his bench, Tor he
was a carpenter. The greeting was cordial,
and after exchanging the time of day and
discussing the weather, the minister re-
marked in. an Apologize tone:
THE neghbors tell me- that you and
your wife have serious differences, and l
have been very much grieved TO hear 1t, be-
cause she seems to be most excellent
woman.
Yes. so she is was the laconic reply.
II am informed that you haven't spoken
to her in four years; could you Tell me the
reason?'
The carpenter looked up with an amused
smile upon his face and answered:
She don't like to be interrupted.
Invasion of the Adirondacks.
The trolleys haven't yet invaded the Adj
rondacks but they are nevertheless be-
coming thickly settled with summer cot
tages and camps. and being very rapid
~ improved. They comprise an area of
COCO square miles, almost the same as
Massachusetts. with more than a million
acres of primeval forest in which the sound
of the AK or the saw was never heard. 1t
is estimated that there is now a summer
population of more than 5000, mostly health
and pleasure seekers, and persons to look
after them, and winter population of
twelve or fourteen hundred, chiefly con-
sumptives. They come from almost every
state in the Union.
Fifty years ago the Adirondack region
was a blank on the map, marked North
woods" and John Browns tract" One
of the early gazetteers describes the country
as wild and unsettled. as IAN interminable
and painless wilderness. nearly houseless
and savage. The lakes are lonely, but full
of fish and the woods abound in moose.
bear. wolves and panthers." The descrip
ton l have quoted was written and pub
lshed In 1s43. and for twenty-five years
thereafter very few people ever entered
the Adirondack country except for shoot
ing and fishing, although about 1850 a few
small hotels were built around the edges
of the tract CAUTIOUSLY enough, Joseph
Bonaparte. once King OF Naples was the
first TO recognize the possibilities for
game preserve. After the downfall of his
brother Napoleon Bonaparte, In 1919 he
came to the United States, bought 10000
acres in Lewis county, built spacious
bungalow and lived in great state surround
ed BY a group of courtiers and retainers.
Browns Colonizing Effort.
The original John Brown, whose name
was given to the tract. was a wealthy
merchant OF Providence, r. l., who bought
an area twenty miles square about the
same time that Joseph Bonaparte came in,
but for a different purpose. His land lay
in Herkimer county and was reached from
the city Of Rome, where he intended to
Colonize and introduce manufacturing in
order to utilize the timber. He built
forge and an immense machine shop, which
he surrounded with comfortable dwellings
for about 800 employees. But he found it
difficult to induce workmen from Rhode
/ Island to emigrate to that wild country,
and those who actually went were
frightened and dissatisfied with the lone
illness and the severe winter. that they de-
| serted and returned to their old homes
After struggling for five or six years. John
| Brown abandoned the enterprise and blew
| out his brains In despair.
John Brown of Ossawatomie lived for
| time near the village of North Elba in the
| Adirondacks. where a farm of $50 acres
| was purchased for him by Garrett Smith,
the famous abolitionist, in order that he
| might retire from public notice after the
| war in Kansas. He was living there when
| he conceived and organized the raid upon
! Harpers Ferry, and there his bones were
| brought and buried after his execution.
Charleston Trieste Steamship Line.