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REINDEER FOR FOOD
United States to Provide for Aleutian
Islanders

To transplant reindeer from the main
land of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands is
a task which has been assigned to Com
modore George r. Salisbury of the United
States navy, retired. The commodore,
the home of his brother, Mark Salisbury,
two and half miles east Of Indepen-
dence. left for Seattle. where he will take
steamer for Alaska, says the Kansas
City Star.
Commodore Salisbury undertakes this
mission at the request OF the United
States department of agriculture. A gov
ernment revenue cutter has been placed
at his disposal to transport the reindeer
and herders. He expects TO be in Alaska
three months
This enterprise has been undertaken by
the government with view to lettering
the condition of the Inhabitants of sew
erai of the Aleutian Islands. which ex-
tend out from the western shore of
Alaska a thousand miles into the Pacific
toward Asia.
up to the present time these people
have been kept in abject poverty by s.sa
rapacity of traders the commodore said
yesterday The traders visit them for
the purpose of purchasing furs and skins.
paying to 10 per cent of their actual
value and then selling TO the ignorant
and helpless natives flour at profit of
| from 200 to 800 per cent"
Tt Is believed that the establishment of
reindeer herds for food on the smaller
islands which are now destitute of them
will render the Inhabitants less dependent
on the trader for supplies 1t is the pur-
pose of the expedition to transport a
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frankly the representative of the people
who sweat and suffer, gave him such
further training of tongue and brain
as afterwards made him mightier for
good than hosts of partisan voices.
So mighty was he indeed that Disraeli
earnestly plead with him TO join tory
cabinet, as Gladstone afterwards forced
him to join the liberal cabinet that
succeeded it. Those years strengthened
his convictions and gave certain fin
ish to his speeches. / cannot help
thinking that the furnace of heart
burnings and griefs in which he walked
to his lonely genius than all the crit
ical atmosphere of Westminster.
When Gladstone demolished Disraelrs
budget and formed great liberal min
istry in 1868, with the confessed pur-
pose of beginning justice to Ireland by
disestablshment of the Irish church.
Bright was forced, as he thought, to
accept office. 1t was an act of loyalty
to Gladstone, who reckoned on the
enormous moral influence of Bright in
the constituencies. Bright shrank from
the burden because he distrusted the
traditions of the foreign office, still
tinted with the doctrines OF Lord Pal
merston. who regarded England as the
policeman of the world. Bright could
not endure that view. and loathed the
whole imperialistic conception of war
as a policy.
Yet he was no fanatical religionist
How unjust was the charge that he
preached peace at any price," and that
he would have diclSered for his coun-
try's honor at the worlds bargain coun-
ter, may be seen from what happened
In 1857. The Indian mutiny was in
fun blast. Little European communi-
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Early in life he came into possession
of fine plantation. which he every
way beautified. while his homo was
made the abode of the worst vices TO
which the Indian was addicted. all Of
which served to elevate him in Indian
esteemd. His physique afforded him
another advantage. for he was tall
symmetrieally built. and bore himself
with the erectness of Flagstaff. while
his large black eyes were flashing. his
nose of the Grecian mold, with his other
features in harmonious blend. Such
was the Red Eagle of the Creeks, who
was to become their great leader and
champion In the stormy years that We're
to be. Like Hannibal of old concerning
the Romans. Weatherford had early In
stilled into him, a profound aptipathy
Tor the whites. His uncle. General
McGillivray, to whom the young man
was greatly attached and 10 whom,
too, he was an ideal, had early In
jected into the heart of the nephew
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In the structural proposition. the apex
of an anticline would have much to do
with the finding of oil This is accounted
for by the nature of oil to rise above
water This will account for some oil
propositions in a field being gushers, and
yet others SLOW running, requiring arti-
ficial llfting-pumpng.
The Democrat Ridge we'll Is that known
apex of the Sequatchie antichine 1t has
been driven through the Hartselle sand
stone 100 feet, almost through the Tren-
ton limestone $500 feet. and it is esti-
mated that within reasonable and com
paratively short distance down 1t will
strike the Knox dolomite of 1000 feet
thickness. the known reservoir of high
grade oil.
A very remarkable fact is. that much
of the other oils than those Of the Knox
dolomte reservoir. have an asphaltum
base, while the dolomte product has a
parafine base The difference Is marked
in the market values of crude oil. The
southern oils so far produced have as
phatum base and are sold at prices rang
ing from so cents to 81 per barrel The
Pennsylvania oils with a parafine base,
brings $3.50 per barrel Thus It will he
seen that when the Jefferson oil Is found
in commercial quantities as is confidently
predicted by the best authorities. it viii
be equal to the very best in. the world.
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ROMANCE OF ALABAMA HSTORWEATIERFORD RED EAOLEy

eumseh wished him to plunge into the
war of determination at once. but Wealth
erford asked for time to consider the
assumption Of charge Of grave. and
promised to give his final answer ON the
return of Tecumseh in the near future
The truth is that Weatherford had Sc
rious misgivings about his relation to the
pending troubles, and with all his dash
and venom he was not without Judgment
and discrimination. While he hated the
white man, he knew his courage and
force and besides he had many rela-
tives and friends who would resist any
demonstration of hostility on the part of
the Indians. Yet Tecumseh by fervor of
appeal had fired the Indian heart. and the
tribes were seething for the onset. Under
these conditions Weatherford found him
self in a dilemma.
Quietly stealing away from his pianta-
ton in the neighborhood of Wetumpka.
he went down the Alabama river to the
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of its gravity and woe. and confessing
that he spoke after exact study of alt.
the records. he concluded:
Il am not. nor did / ever pretend to
be. a statesman; aud that character is
so tainted and so equivocal in our day
that l am not sure that pure and hon
orable ambition would aspire to 1t. |
have not set my sails TO every passing
breeze I am plain and simple citizen,
sent here by one OF the foremost con-
stituencies of the empire, representing
feebly perhaps but honestly, | dare
aver, the opinions of very many and the
true interests of all those who have
sent me here. Let it not be said that
am alone in my condemnation OF this
war. and of this incapable anl guilty
administration. And even If were
alone; If mine were a solitary voice.
raised amid the din of arms and the
clamors of a venal press ! should have
the consolation have tonighi-and
which | trust will be mine to the last
moment of my eXistenee-the priceless
consolation that no word of mine has
tended to promote the squandering OF
my country's treasure or the spiliing
of one single drop of my country's
blood"
Bright died In 1883 6March ~. To
him is due contented Irish peasantry,
which this year for the first time in
sixty years shows an increase over all
causes OF decrease; a democratic basis
of franchise, a beginning in national
more contented India, and
a progressive land policy throughout
the world He lies buried. the Peoples
Tribune, in the graveyard of the
Friends meeting house at Rochdale
Still. like the Shunammite, he Is among
his own people.
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whether they have been worthy. lie
knows whether he is entitled to seek his
rest He knows whether he may honestly
apply to himself the saying of the Good
Book.
He giveth His beloved sleep"
There Is no boon, no blessing greater
than this-that a man may go to his rest
knowing that he has earned 1t. To the
tired body, wearied with hard toll sleep
comes as an anodyne. To the wounded
spirit, bruised by the bunetng of the
world, 1t soothes and heals as no other
physical. mental or spiritual medicament
can.
Blessed sleepl
Shakespeare the great knew this when
he wrote of:
"The innocent sleep, sleep that knits up
the raveled sleeve of care.
The death of each days life, sore labor 5
bath.
Balm of hurt minds, great natures second
course,
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cerest truth from Bright. Even when
his best years had flown. something i'm
perishable and increasing still re-
mained, the weight of his pure and sim
pie character. He went on from
strength to strength. He knew that
murder is wrong, and he could not over
come the fact that war Is murder by
convention. He was devoted to orderly
development of social life. To him 10y
atty seemed the highest virtue, but not
loyalty to an institution: loyalty rather
to the community. the brotherhood, the
nation, the people themselves. lie de-
clined to assail those who wronged men
on the ground that they loved their
Queen and their country. He transla-
ted country into flesh and blood folks,
whose stomachs need food, whose hearts
need family ties. This Is the main
spring of Brght's philosophy And
with it goes the element that men
called his opportunism. 1t meant that
when he could not get all he wanted for
the people, he would see the difficulty
and take the best he could secure. His
mind, in other words, was practical,
his eloquence never soaring amid the
clouds beyond the reach of visible inter-
ests, but vivid, constantly brooding over
things familiar and near Spread ca gle
ism and screeching were impossible to
him. The eloquence that is not sane is
tiresome. Oratory divorced from the
common interests and realities drifts
into the inane and produces nausea
Only the speech calculated to end in ac-
tion is rightly called eloquent; only
when it does produce action, can it be
accounted good.
1 name as one other element superbly
illustrated by Bright's great speeches
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TO HEART TALKS-By lanes A. Edgeron

life, George f. Brainerd, Jr. ME sorrow
no one knows. My hope is in the Lord
and that I soon will be with my boy and
his mother, who has gone before. Life
has no more inducements for me. His
father. George F. Brainerd, Sr." The adj
dress followed.
The newspaper account of Brainerd's
bereavement told of the death of the wife
and mother -four years ago. Dying, she
left the son to his fathers tenderest care.
The little fellow was then years old.
Il am going oleave you BOTH" sighed
the dying woman. Watch over him, care
for him, love him as you have loved me.
can ask no more
Then came four years of careful watch
fulness over the boy, of pride in his
growth. of love in cherishing him for tie
sake of the loved one gone before. But
vehicle and was killed.
! Pity the grief of the husband and
father. But condemn his despair.
If he really felt that life held no more
inducements for him, as he told the world
in evidently heartfelt sorrow, all the more
| reason for his living for others. For sure
ly the man who holds that life can give
him nothing can use that life for others.
While there were orphan girls and boys
to help, poor women to be aided In tfe
struggle for the means of livelihood, out
cast men to be reached with the words of
hope and sympathy, If not with material
aid, surely Brainerd could. have found
some adequate outlet for the love that
was in his heart.
He had felt the hand of sore affliction
fall heavily on his own shoulder. AS a
thinking man. he knew that 1t rested on
others as we'll
Why not help to lift it from them?
In the lifting he could have found sur
cease of his own sorrow, a tightening Of
his own burdens. He could have initiated
the master who said 10 centuries ago.
"Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and will give you rest"
II you have read the history of Eng
land closely enough to know the careers
of her greatest men you know that the
name which stands out highest and
brightest in the naval annals of the ISL
and kingdom is that of Lord Nelson.
AS a sea fighter he heads the list.
Not even our own Farragut. Porter,
Decatur, Semmes or Perry or any for
engineer is classed with Nelson. Indeed
one recent writer on England and the
English calls him the greatest English
man who ever lived.
That. of course. is an exaggerated
expression OF one personal opinion. but
| the fact is that as a naval commander
no nation can bring forward a man to
compare with Nelson
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the wild pursuits of whom the lad entered
with a gusto. With them he hunted and
swan, praetieed athletics, on foot and on
horse, danced with them at their rude
frolics. We'd with the best in the use of
the bow and arrow, the rifle and pistol,
In all of which he became an expert. much
to the delight of the warriors. He was
especially skilled in horsemanship, his
taste for which was gratified to the am
plest by the fine animals in his fathers
stables, which animals were kept for rae
ing purposes.
The pronounced force of Weatherford' s
leadership was early shown, when he
would join in the perilous expeditions
of his tribe against others in the fire.
quent wars along the Cumberland and the
Chattahoochee. and in other regions. as
we'll. Not only for these qualities was
the handsome and chivalrous young man
idolized, but also for his gifted oratory.
He had a voluble tongue, possessed a
wonderful power of persuasion, and his
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region of Little river. in the lower pari
Of Monroe. to confer with his brother.
Jack Weatherford. and his half-brothefs
David TAFT The difficulty Of the situa-
ton was increased when both advised the
younger brother to have nothing TO de
with the impending troubles and urged
him to return to his home and with his
family. slaves and stock to fee to the
region in which they resided. These older
brothers predicted not only defeat. but
disaster to Weatherford, If he should yield
to the solicitations of the tribes 10 be-
come their leader. The brothers pointed
out that while much injury might be in
ficted on the whites. they would in the
end crush the Indians and that he would
do well not to be drawn into the hostile
campaign. The advice was accepted and
William Weatherford retraced his steps
to the upper counties with the intention
of adopting the course suggested but it
was too late
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NTUMPING the country is not the
best shool of oratorical art. When
~ John Bright went to work in his
fathers business he took the ambition
with him to cultivate his powers for
human service. At 81 years he was
president of the debating and philos-
optical society of Rochdale, which he
himself had founded. There was laid
the basis of is practical education. and
a Baptist minister. the Rev. John Adds,
himself great speaker gave the sug-
gestion which freed the young student
from slavish adherence to a manuscript.
During the years of the great cam
paign of popular education. six or seven
years before Bright entered Parliament,
he was making daily appeals to the
common people, instructing, awakening,
inspiring them. impartng a new self
respect, lest they be content forever
to be starved, forever to be sacrificed
10 add lustre to the peacock's tails of
the aristocrats.
Such speaking easily degenerates into
the demagogues vulgarity and though
it cultivates a ready wit, 1t does not
minister TO nice balance or artistic
finish or careful accuracy and restraint.
Perhaps Its greatest advantage Is the
training of voice and physical endur-
ance, that substantial basis of high ell
oquence without which indeed no art
can reach its zenith of power.
There was none of the demagogue in
Bright. He lived amid the passionate
cries of chartism. but kept his head
level and his judgment unimpaired by
emotion. But the years in Parliament,
years unincumbered with the cares OF
office, when he was free lance,
pledged neither to whig or tory, but
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reply and the house filed silently into the
lobby. still giving a majority to support
the government After sketchlng with
dammng precision the negotiations
which led to the war. he said:
when l look at the gentlemen on
that bench dhe government. and con
slider all their policy has brought about
within the last twelve months, scarce
ly dare trust myself TO speak of them,
either in or out of their presence. We
all know what we have lost in the
house Here, sitting near me, very Of
ten sat the member for Frome ,Colonel
Boyle) ] met him. short time before
he went OUT, at Mr.. Westerton's, the book
seller near Hyde park corner. [ asked
him whether he was going out, lie an
swered he was afraid he was: net afraid
in the sense of personal fear he knew
not that; but he said with a look and q
tone that ! shall never forget. 1T is no
light matter for man who has a wife
and five little children The stormy
Euxine is his grave his wife is wild
ow his children fatherless.
ION the other side of the house sat a
member. with whom | was not ac-
quainted, who has lost his life, and
another of whom / knew something
Colonel Blair. Who is there that
does not recollect his frank, amiable
and manly countenance? doubt
whether there were any men, on either
side of the house. who were more ca
pable of fixing the good will and affec-
tion of those with whom they were as
sociated. Well but the place that knew
them shall know them no more for
ever"
Then after reprovng the government
for entering on war without due sense
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knowledge of Indian character enabled
him to inflame and sway their volatile
passions at will.
At an early age Weatherford be-
came a dominant figure among the
tribes, and soon came TO be proclaimed
a great leader. He understood per.
fectly the Indian character, and his
power of discernment taught him when
to speak, and when to keep silent. Ge-
MUS, judgment, oratory and courage
were the ranking qualities of Weather
ferd's character. which when taken in
connection with his natural graceful
ness and agility made him an object
little short of alteration to the untu-
tored tribes. Nor was this yet all,
for to these meritorious qualities were
added others that while forbidding to
sense of refinement, greatly enhanced
Weatherford In the estimation of the
indian. He was avaricious, treacher
Gus, blood thirsty, and glutton and de-
bauchee of low cast.
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hatred for the white man. and hostility
toward him. Weatherford when young
would accompany his favorite uncle to
PENSACOLA and while assooiating with
the Spanish he would imbibe additional
rancor for the Anglo-Saxon. To him
the encroachment of the white popu-
lation on Alabama soil meant robbery.
and ruin to the Indian. and the worst
blood of his nature was fired with
growing intensity throughout the Pc
riod during which he was ripening into
manhood.
weatherford was scarcely 30 years old
when Tecumseh, the celebrated chief. vis-
tied the Muscogees in 1872. The popularity
and bearing of the young favorite OF
the Creeks caught the eye of the astute
old chief, who took the young man at
once into his confidence, opened his plans
for the extinction of the white race in
Alabama, and fiattered him not a little
when he named Weatherford the intrepid
leader of the tribes of the south. Te-
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6HHE most picturesque figure among
the Indian leaders of the Alabama
: tribes, was William Weatherford,
called by the Creeks, of whom he was
the splendid commander. Lamochattee, or
the Red Eagle. He was a nephew of Gen.
Alexander McGilnvray. and had an equal
admixture of blood in his veins. weather
ford was reared near Montgomery, at the
village of Coosada, just below the juno
tion Of the coosa and the Tallapoosa
rivers, where his father owned a planta-
tion, large store. and popular race
track. Charles Weatherford, the father.
was white man who had married half
breed, and became very popular and in
fluential among the Indians as an agent
in important functions in negotiating with
the Spanish and the Americans
The son. even from boyhood, was a pet
among the Indians, by whom he was
greatly pampered and flattered, and into
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ties had been brutally butchered by the
rebel troops. Bright was sick or barely
convalescent. Birmingham needed a
representative and opened enquiries by
asking il the Quaker statesman consld-
cred that it was right to suppress the
mutiny by force. He replied that the
English had become responsible for In
dias welfare, that order there must be
restored, and that England must do that
work. He urged. however, thorough
revision of the method OF Indian ad-
ministration. The essential point of his
proposed reforms have long been in
force, so that even in India there is
growing a progressive democracy under
British rule.
What, then must we set down as the SUI
premely formost element in great or
atory? | venture to answer, with John
Bright for an example, that the highest
eloquence flows from a vast mountain
chain of moral and intellectual convic-
itons. Such a majestic mountain range
was the spiritual backbone of this
sturdy Saxon. Not once did he surren-
der to nationl tradition or yield his
conscience to the authority of members
When Manchester turned her back on
him he elbowed his way to the platform
of the great hall where hostile meet
ing had been called and faced his ira
ducers as he had faced contemp-
tuous Parliament When to be true to
conscience meant the breaking CT long
and precious frienship he did not falter
Never once did he argue and plead for
that in which he did not heartily be-
lieve. His words were weighty first
because they were born of conviction
and secondly because the hearer grew
accustomed to expect nothing but sin
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The mark of his genius was prompt,
decisive action.
Asked once what the secret of his
success was, Nelson replied:
II owe all my success in life TO hav-
ing been always a quarter of an hour
beforehand"
1t was the quarter of an hour before
hand that did the trick.
He was just a little beforehand in
the series of naval victories which
made him the most idolized man Eng
land has ever known.
There is much in Nelson's life that is
neither admirable nor worthy of imi-
tation, but in this trait of being be-
forehand he was thoroughly praise
worthy.
In all the affairs of life it is we'll for
us all to emulate Nelson in this respect.
If there must be waiting let the other
man or woman find you waiting DO
not enforce patience on others. Rather
practice it yourself.
There are men and women nowadays
who seem to have-~a chronic Inability
to tell the time. They have learned
the appearance of the clock dial in
their schooldays. but they forget it
almost as soon as learned. They are
never on time to keep appointments,
and the number of hours lost to the
punctual in the course of year by
these dilatory persons amounts in the
aggregate to a great deal
You remember some wise person has
said:
Time is the stuff of which life is
made. Therefore let us not waste It,"
Still more important is 1t not to
waste the time of some one else II
you have nothing more important to
do than to misspend your time his may
be more valuable to him.
Like Nelson, be quarter of an hour
beforehand. Be punctuaI.
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large number OF reindeer from UgashilS
to Unimak and other islands and there
establish herds with Eskimo herders in
charge. This proposition is not simple.
owing to the weather conditions, poor
harbors and Inadequate facilities for
loading and unloading.
Commodore Salisbury will take advap-
tage of his visit to Alaska TO visit and
inspect the fisheries and the native vil-
lagos fox ranches, streams and harbors.
He arrived in Independence only a few
weeks ago from an expedition TO the
island of Laysan, 500 miles west of Hon
olulu, where he made bird survey Of
the island under the auspices of the de-
partment of agriculture