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THE OKLAHOMA POST—SUNDAY,
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SEPTEMBER 2. 1M - f
Places Where- Bird and
Animal Life Is Sacred
Reservations Set Aside by the Government fbr the Pro-
tection of Birds and Game.
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Few persons know what the govern-
ment is doing for the |(reservation of
birds and game throughout the coun-
try. and for I his reanon fail to appre-
riate the service which Is being ren-
dered Previous to 1900 the general
government had sea aside only three
reservations for the protection of ani-
mals and hlrds—the Yellowstone park
In Wyoming in 1872. the National
Zoological park In the District o( Co-
lumbia In 1890. and Afognak Island,
on the southern coat of Alaska, ia
A TEN MINUTE TRIP
QUICK PASSAGE FROM NEW YORK I
TO SAN FRANCISCO.
considerable harm by shooting: at the
pelicans merely because they fur-
nished an easy mark, or drove them
from their nests, thus exposing the
young to the scorching, often fatal,
rays of the sun. All this is now
changed. For the last lour years the
birds have enjoyed the protection ol
the state law. In 1903 the lelaixt was
made a government reservation by ex
ecutlve order and placed in charge oJ
the department, of agriculture, and th«
warden was duly commissioned as ar
MAP SHOWINQ FEDERAL PARKS AND RESERVATIONS FOR THE
PROTECTION OF BIRDS AND GAME.
(No. 1, Yellowstone National park; 2, 8tump Lake reservation; 3,
Siskiwtt Islands reservation; 4, Huron talands reservation; 5, Wichita For-
est reserve and game preserve; 6, Breton Island reservation; 7, Passage Key
reservation; 8, Pelican Island reservation.)
ptM. The first two were national ■ officer of the department FV>r several
fiarks established by acts of congress,
■ ad Afognak island, Intended as a pre-
serve for the sea otter, was set aside
|>y executive proclamation and placed
under the jurisdiction of the bureau of
fisheries Other government reserva-
tions, such as the General Grant, Se
gjuola, and Yosemtte national parks in
California, the Mount Ranler National
g>ark in Wyoming, the naval stations
«n the Dry Tortugas. Florida, and on
Midway islands in the Pacific; the
lighthouse reservations on the Faral-
lone islands, California, on Sand Key,
rear Key West. Florida, and at various
joints along the Atlantic coast, con-
seasons the birds have bred free from
molestation, and the colony is now In
flourishing condition. The Island has
been visited by naturalists, who have
made careful studies of the birds;
data never before available are being
collected regarding their food, moult-
ing, and nesting habits, and the reser
vation is fast becoming a point cf in-
terest for visitors and students of
nature, who are attracted by the ex-
ceptional opportunities afforded for
observing the birds and studying their
habits.
The second reservation in Florida,
Passage Key, was not established un-
Latest Device In the Moving Picture
Line Is Remarkably Realistic—
Seems Like Actual Travel
by Railroad.
As you are passing with the throng
llong thiB busy city shopping street
you hear presently a sound unexpect-
ed there, that of a locomotive bell,
rung with the slow deliberation with
which the fireman pulls the bell rope
just as the engine is about to start.
As you approach a little nearer you
hear somebody shout: "All aboard!"
and a moment later you rome upon a
little crowd of people halted and
looking in at a store whose entire
front, on the ground floor has been re-
moved. Looking in with the rest you
find yourself viewing the latest,
wrinkle In the moving picture busi-
ness.
The celling is supported, apparently,
by Iron trusses, giving a semblance
of the appearance of the trussed roof
train shed of a railroad station.
Backed up in this train shed you see
the ends of two railroad passenger
cars.
You hear the bell clang again, com-
ing. as It seems, from the locomotive
up ahead and hear once more the
shout "All aboard!" and then you buy
a ticket at a ticket office on one side
and drop it Into the ticket taker's box
and pass on Inside the platform rail-
ing and over to one of the cars and
step up its steps and so on within
the car itself.
There you find it rather smaller
than yon had expected; but it Is very
carlike for all that, a regular railroad
car, with its aisle and Its seats and
windows on either side.
T he passengers all aboard, that is
to say when the car is pretty wtll
filled up. which Is train time on this
road, the lecturer or guide walks down
the long aisle to the front end of the
car, and then. If of the two cars you
have chosen the one for San Fran-
cisco. you will hear him beginning:
"Ladies and Gentlemen; This is the
Overland Limited Special, bound for
San Francisco, where we shall view
the wonderful ruins of that splendid
city devastated by earthquake and
fire. All aboard!"
Thereupon you hear the engine bell
clang and feel nnd hear the car wheels
turn and rumble under you and feel
the motion of the car as It starts on
Its journey
FREE AT OUR EXPENSE
Round Trip Ticket to Oklahoma City and Return .Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday untn Further notice is Given
The leading merchants of Oklahoma City in their different lines will pay the railroad fare of their customers to and from
Oklahoma Citv each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, until further notice is given, upon the fol owing conditions: AbK
YOUR AGENT AT YOUR HOME TOWN FOR A RECEIPT FOR YOUR ROUND TRIP RAILROAD FARE and upon your
arrival at Oklahoma City call on any of the following merchants and ask them for a shopping card Your purchases will be
registered on this shopping card and your fare will be paid up to ten per cent of your purchases. Oklahoma City merchants
carrv bv far the largest stocks of merchandise to be seen in the southwest, besides having beautiful stores with all modern
conveniences. All customers are guaranteed to be satisfied in every particular. Remember the dates and read the specials
advertised by individual members.
Be Sure and Buy Your Goods of the Following Merchants
DRY GOODS—
Kennedy Bros. Dry Goods Co.
The Lion Store Merc. Co.
Sidney L. Brock D. G. Co.
MILLINERY—
Richardson Millinery Co.
HARDWARE—
W. G. Wright.
SHOES-
Piersol Shoe Co.
Corder's Shoe Store.
Housel-Barron Shoe Co.
CROCKERY
Myser China & Glass Co.
GROCERIES—
Holtzschue Merc. Co,
Racket Grocery & Meat Market.
VEHICLES AND HARNESS-
Columbus Buggy Co.
MUSIC HOUSES-
Frederickson-Kroh Music Co.
PIANOS, ORGANS AND SEWING
MACHINES- -
Durham & Co.
CLOTHING-
B. & M. Clothing Co.
Knight, Helton & Beck.
H. B. Houghton.
FURNITURE -
The Johnston Co.
Downey & Thomas Furn. Co.
Doc & Bill.
Bass & Harbour.
DRUGS-
Westfall Drug Co.
SPORTING GOODS-
Oklahoma Sporting Goods Co,
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES—
Arnold & Wetherbee.
WALL PAPER, PAINTS, GLASS-
H. G. Chamberlain Co.
WINDMILLS AND PUMPS-
Eastland Bros.
FOR FURTHLR. PARTICULARS WRITE. OR CALL ON ANY OF THE. ABOVE FIRMS
The Old Santa Fe Trail
SOMETHING OF THE HISTORY OF THIS ONCE
FAMOUS ROUTE
Washington school children are in-, because they themselves did not know
terested in the announcement that a | how to trap, and chiefly because,
collection of almost half a million pen
nles has been made from the school
children of the state of Kansas, the
fund to be used for the marking of
the famous Santa Fe trail. The idea beaver skins.
A Famous Poker Game
BEING SOME REMINISCENCES OF
THE LIFE OF GENERAL HAZEN
On the records in the register of I and the interest taken by the chant-
deed's officc the past week was written pions of the two players was feverish,
the statement that Mildred McClain and several bets were made as to the
Dewey and George Dewey wife an hus-. final outcome of the game. Soon af-
should one of the despised "Yankees"
have a lucky season, there was ample - „ . .
opportunity of throwing him into jail , band, had conveyed by deed to H. B. ter the opening of the second days
-i suspected spy and seizing his Jones, lot 16 on Wichita street in the ] game the tide turned in favor of the
original town of Wichita the considers general, and Ihough Bancroft kept his
tlon being *20(1. And thereby hangs nerve and made frequent winnings, lie
a tale. The George Dewey mentioned ended the day considerably the loser,
is no less a personage than Admiral At the beginning of the third day's
Dewey of the United States navy, the play the interest of the spectators was
i man who gained fame and won one at. white heat. The place was crowded
. • , if!! _ j -1, WBV„ I of the most noted naval battles of I l>y men who loved a game for its own
Louis in 181.. ana an w r. , recen( yean by disobeying orders, and sake, and who had become intensely
his wife is a sister of John R. Mc-
Concerning the settler and trader,
however, the authorities held no such
tolerant |dni> Score® of traders, no-
table among whom were McNight.
Chambers and Baird, made the trip
m
on Pelican Island Reservation.
was originated only recently, but al-
ready 309,166 children have responded
with contriuutions of from one to five
cents, and the pennies are still pour-
ing in. It is the intention of those in
.charge of the project to expend the from St.
You feel the bumping {und in the purchase of posts which arrested as spies, their goods ron-i hig wjf"e "iH a" slgter of John R Mc-1 Interested in this particular game be-1
and rolling motion of Ihe car rolling j will be erected at Intervals along the | floated, and themselves thrown into ^ Qwncr an(J e(Jitm. ()f fhe Cincln. ,.ause of the well-known ability of th«
along the rails and rocking as It , route once traversed by so many thous- j jHil, where they were kept nine years. natt| En frer she was rior to her m(m engaged in it. Bancroft, appar-
rounds the curves—all very realistic I ands of prisoners, pcfore the days of j Bui such treatment seemed to Increase | miln.|aKe (he widow 0f General Hazen, cntly fresh and entirely at ease. h«
Then the lights in the car go out j the railroad. The posts will be set as j rather than dampen the enthusiasm of i ^ funited States armv. The lot gan the game with a determination to
„oth«ns=r„ Th  stream of set- jn quegt)on waa a par, of the P3taie win. The general, always cool and de-
i linn i lie ii.ifiiiin iu iuo vui |,ii uui i mmiiuu.i. •   - ; imiici inn" >nnii|<v«   j
and the shutter* at the forward end close together as the amount collected the pathfinders. The stream of set- .
of the car fly back, and the first,
thing you know you find yourself look-
ing at scenes In the streets of. the
burned area of San Francisco, with
i men and horses and wagons passing
I to and fro amid the ruins.
i The guide describes the scenes as
of the summer.
The Santa Fe trail, reaching from
Kansas City to Santa Fe, is about 800
miles in length, s^niost every mile of
which was o nce the scene of some
Here? struggle engaged in by the early
they pass, or as you seem to come ; western settlers with fhe hostile bands
upon them, for sometimes, when the i of Indians who half a century ago
car has that rocking motion on, the I roamed the plains, wreaking ven-
pictures no longer seem to be passing seance on the white man who kept.
Brown Pelicans
fctttnte Important breeding grounds
/•here various native species are pro-
jected; but they were not set apart
•specially as preserves for birds and
f ame, and ,copsfqycqtly tjiey ajemere-
> mentioned in this connection.
Since 180(1 -eight, additional pre
perves have been established—two in
Florida, two in Michigan, and one
^aeh in Louisiana, North Dakota,
JDk lahoma and Alaska.
] The best known of these reserva
Hons Is Pelican island. In JmJiaji elver,.
(Florida, not far from Sebastian It is
BUtJe mom than a mud Hat. with only
a tew blaqk mangroves, oqe or two,
cabbage palms, and large patches of
graas to conceal Its expanse of sorae-
ffhlng less than four acres. For many
years it ban beeu the home of a large
jeoiony of brown pelicans, the only
threading grounds of the specie* thus
jfar known bn'th'e eaBt c'oafet 6f Florida.
Prior to 1901. when the state passed a
romprehenkife lav protecting non-
game birds, their nests and eggs, and
jfhe Audubon societies placed a ward-
til October. 1905. but already bids fair
to become an important refuge for
both land and sea birds. Within three
months after its establishment more
than 50 species of birds were found
on the island, and among these were
noted 200 common terns. 200 Cabot
terns, 500 royal terns. 150 laughing
gulls, 600 herring gulls, 800 brown
pelicans, and about 5,000 red-breasted
mergensers.
Kveu more Important as a breeding
ground for4erns are the key* Included
in the Hreton Island reservation off
the mouth of the Mississippi, which
tjrete sel aside as a Federal reserve
on October 4, 1904 A photograph
takeu on July 2, 1906. shows thou-
sands of terns which were then breed
ing on Southwest Harbor K«y. one of
the Old Harbor islands (see PI. LXX.
fig. 2). These included Cabot, common
and royal tern3. During the winter
months this reservation becomes the
refuge for thousands of ducks of vari-
ous species, especially mallards.
Of the northern preserves, suffice 1*
j the car, but you seem to be picking up
ihe scenes, bringing them info view,
j ns from a car rounding a curve.
So it continues for ten minutes, the
| length of the show, and then the pic-
tures stop, and the lights In the car
reappear, nnd then you hear the guide
I saving: "This way, please, out at the
j front door.' and you make your way
there with the rest of the passengers
j and step down from the forward end
of the car Into an alleyway that you
now discover leading to the side of
the station, and between it and the
sidewall of the store In which the sta-
tion is built, and so on out again to
the street.
Out there, just hack yourself, you
are likely, before passing on, to pause
for a moment to look at the bunch of
people standing on the sidewalk in
front, as you had stood a few minutes
before, looking In at the railroad sta-
tion and at the ends of the cars
steading there, looking in at the rail-
road station and at the ends of the
cars standing there with their tail-
lights brightly burning, and listening
to the clanging of the engine bell and
to the "All aboard!" and meditating,
as they looked and listened, as you
had done, on whether they hadn't bet-
ter blow in a dime und take that trip
to San Francisco.
will allow, and it is expected that the (lers continUed to migrate over the nf General Hazen.' These facts are liberate, seemed more cool and delib-
work will be completed before the end i trail to the westward, and by 1821 the set forlh jn the deed jn the following erate than ever, and the crowd felt.
Santa Fe authorities had so far re- language: 8l,re frora the s,art that.it was to be
signed themselves to the invasions "And we hereby covenant and de- n game to the finish. At. first Bancroft,
which they found themselves unable   ciare that the grantee, Mildred McLean w«a the winner. At every turn it
to check, that. Glenn. Bucknell and I Dewey was formerly Mildred McLean seemed as if the cards had been dealt
Stephen Cooper, whose names are by- | Hazen, and she has been since Septem- with especial reference to his Interest
words in the early history of the na- , ber, 1898. the sole survivor of the lega- &n(i his friends felt sure that, he would
tion, had made successful expeditions tees named in the will of William B. n°t only retrieve what he had lost,
to that city. Three years later, in 1824, Hazen, a copy of which will is on file but. beat the general in the end The
the first wagon train started from In- in the probate office of Sedgwick i general, however, did not lose his
dependence, Mo., for the new country. { county." self-control. He simply smiled a grim
Prom this time on Ihe Santa Fe ! At one time General Hazen owned ; smile and played on. Presently the
trail became ihe focus of the western ; about forty lots In Ibis city, but the \ tide turned^InJlls favor and the win
invasion. The entire route was lined j others have been sold from time to r "" p
with prairie schooners, and in 182S i until only this one remained. They
a special act of congress made the have been in charge of Stewart &
trail an authorized road. In Ihe next : Burns, of this city, through whom Mr.
two vears It was surveyed and marked Jones purchased this remaining prop-
out, the survey being described in erty interest of Admiral Dewey and
the records as "from the western ; his wife in Wichita.
frontier of Missouri, near Fort Osage. There is a story connected with the
to San Fernando do Taos, near Santa ! acquiring of the title to these lots by
!.•« " A few months later, in order i Gen. Hazen that is Interesting, and
 Ilitarv protection lo the trad whlch is vouched for by an old-timer
whose dealings with the south- wl>o says he knows all about the
wesl were still atlended with the great- 1 transfer. To be plain about it. he says
driving them farther and farther west.
It is a landmark in American history.
and Ihe proposition to perpetuate it.
through the medium of penny contri-
butions wa.; hailed with delight by
the school children.
The trail leading to Santa Fe, then
an unmarked course through a wild
but little explored country, was first
traversed in the early years of the
nineteenth century by a band of trap-
pers and traders. Santa Fe was at
that time peopled by Spaniards and - i which is
Mexicans, who. since the founding of mi^prolertlon '^hejrad; .which
the city In 1596 had been permitted to I erH-
unmolested by western invasion
Following the entrance of the first
caravan for fifty years a steady stream
of settlers poured over the famous
est danger. Fort Leavenworth was es- ! 'he general won Ihe lots In a game
tablished ! °* P°^er  an^ ,^at. he witnessed some
o. looe *u i 11 u „ I °* the games that resulted in render-
- —  , u Since 1865 the trail has been prac- , one mnn tica„ banUnlpt
trail. In spile of the onslaught by the tlcally abandoned, and there are but and add al, Qf h,g ' S9l(m 't0
Indians and a thousand other dilti ; few who remember lis original course. that, of another
culties they pushed on. finally settled j As originally traversed, the Santa Fe R as jn the fa„ of m, Generfti
and made the country thei. home trail began at Westport (now Kanns Hazen then a C()mparat|Vely young
Many stories of murder and bloodshed. City) and followed Ihe Kaw river to man had ,,ommam| of thp lroops at
with which every school boy is fa- Lawrence. The Arkansas valley was | Qnp of 1h? num<>rou8 ln the
miliar, have been written concerning ; reached at fort Zarah, whence the d,an Territory and wag a frequent Vls-
those days. The history of the trail well-worn pathway wound s way to | , Wichita. This was the largest
from the very beginning is a thrill- I Bents' fort, in the foothills. Raton pass
ing tale of romance and adventure. afforded passage through the moun-
Almost unbelievable were the hard- tains and a short cut led from Dodge
ships endured by thOBe who traversed to Las Vegas Practically the same
the trail with the idea of settling or route through the pass Is now fol-
tradlng. The unprogresslve residents i lowed by the Atchison, Topeka & San-
of Santa Fe tolerated the trapper, first | ta Fe railroad.—Washington Star.
len in chsrge of the Island, the colony I ^ pay that fhr Huro|l aQd Sisklwit
Iras in dan*<-r of extermination Plume
hunters could easily destroy the birds
Mor their quills, which were then in
fashion as ♦rimmings for ladies" hats.
and «Kg collectors could carry away
reservations, in Lake Superior. Mich-
igan. form the largest breeding
grounds of the herring guu thus far
discovered in the interior; and that
. Stump Lake reservation, in Nortti Da
larpe numbers of eggs. One collector although small in extent, Is In
 ho vlalted the Island In April, 1894
records tbo fact that in about an hour
tie gathered some 126 seta, which
dust have represented a very ronaid
•rable proportion of the eggs then in
In the nests F.ven tourists often did
the midst of the extensive breeding
grounds for duc'.ts In that state and
during the autumn forms a haven of
refuge for migratory waterfowl on
their way south.
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RUSTLING LIFE INSURANCE.
Mot a Bad Way to See the World and
f to Study Human Nature.
After all Is said and done, we life
Insurance solicitors do not have such
a hard time of It, writes one of them
In the American Magazine. We get a
drop of appreciation now and '.hen,
pvhlch compensates for the rebuffs
and we would not quarrel with the
three of them for the work!.
We are actors essaying burlesque
comedy sometimes and often tragic
roles, but always holding ourselves in
readiness to smile when we may feel
like fighting and to weep when it
would be easier to laugh.
Nothing can disturb us and no hu*
man being can bowl us over. It Is all
1 the same whether you call us wise or
We kuow uo boss and can go any j foolish, because we know how little
Inhere In the world we wish and work know, which is the beginning o!
lor the same company—If we are wisdom
good When we are glad people will know
' We cau turn our backs on hard win It. and if we have the blues uo one la
lers and go south we can go north jawaie but ourselves—and the muna- |
iwhere the cool lake breesea are
leave our friends to the midsummer
piadnees of "a hundred above."
We kuow how to enter a drawing
room and we know now to sit In a
larmer'a kitchen and discuae the price
of pork while the wife la frying out
lard
We know lots of things because we
2nust. and possibly some which we and If 1 gained thereby the little In
I have been taught a lesson in these
II! strange years—that honesty Is the j
best policy, and. more than that, 1
have found out that the best invest
ment Is honesty for honesty's sukf
alone.
I have lied In writing Insurance, but j
always found that it recoiled upon me |
Remains of Magna Charter.
The remains of the Magna Charter
granted by King John, which was par-
tially burned by a fire In the museum
In 1730 are In the Rrltlsh museum
It Is the most precious piece of paper
in England.
Uncle Ephr'm.
"Take de case oh de Postle Paul."
said I'ncle Rphr'm. "He nebber stud-
ied fur de ministry, an' ylt dar ain't
a preacher on dis yarth dat kin hold
a candle 10 'lm."
A Long Wait.
"What I'm waltln' fur." said Uncle
Jerry Peebles, "la a chanst to vote fur
some man that isn't the 'people's J
candidate,' hut is Just runnln' fur of
flee on his own hook."
Kind Hearts.
Write your name In kindness, love
and mercy on the hearts of those who
come In contact with you. and you !
will never be forgotten.—Chalmers.
Safe! Safe!
"Where Is our gold?" asks a New
York paper. Don't know where you it
Is. pardner. but most of us carry ours
in our teeth.
Power of the Cartoon.
The cartoon Is one of the most po^
tent educative agencies in the woilo
today. Melbourne Review of He
views.
Tagged Salmon.
Scientific investigators who have to
trace the travels of salmon in the
northern waters are tagging the fish
Mid setting them free. If you find a
*ag In your can of salmon report It
fo the fishery commission and not to
vhe dog license clerk.
town within easy reach of the post.and
though «it. that time it was only a
town of a few hundred inhabitants, it
was a change from the life of the
barracks, and the general, as well as
many of the Inferior officers and pri-
vates found it a pleasant place
  I which to while away the tint th.it to
an idle soldier is always irksome Mora
Did You Knew This? than that, Wichita at that time count-
"Say, d'you know anything 'bout ed among its citizens some game sports
bosses, hey? D'you know they'll eat who would make the five-cent variety
pork?
'em i
stops,
all fir
Well, they will, when it's fed
n' they have to. The heaves
subsequent, though they're an
 d sight wuss afterwards. Belle
ought not to know, but men, womr
%iuf, Jmjm oonaolta Xo jiue .us wlsdoaj
crement of commission I straightway
lost a hundredfold as much
Two Kinda of Flying Fieh.
Flying fish of two distinct kinds
ire known to man—namely, the flying
munards and the flying herrings.
Equatorial Football.
The football mania ia still upon us
to the exclusion of almost all other
cames. with the exception of golf and
a little tennis. In the football league
conlest there are nine teams playing.
Penang correspondence of the
Straits Budget.
Afterthought.
A small bey offered the following
prayer before retiring: "God bless
papa and mamma, and sister Mildred,
rnd Rosa, the cook and Mary, th*
nurse. Oh. no. Lord, you needn't
trouble to bless Mary, after all, cause
she left this morning.-'
Screamingly Funny.
"We will now." said the clownish
member of the vaudeville musical
team, "do a nocturne." After which
he knocked his fellow player down
with a slapstick and turned a hand
spring
Motor 'Buses Not Popular.
Motor 'buaes have been tried in Syd
ney, Australia, as a solution of that
city's traction problem, but they lasted
only a very short time and now have
been withdrawn from the streets be-
cause of a lack of patronage. The pub
lie preferred the horse-drawn 'buses,
| which. If less speedy. are more com
1 tort able and less odoriferous. The
Sydney motor-'but service was a gov
< rnment enterprise and l>\ some crlt
I los the failure is attributed to tactlesa
: tatu management.
of the present day look very tame by
comparison. It must be admitted that
this was one of the principle amuse-
ments and it hay be truly said, the
occupation of some of those who made
up the motley population of the town.
Now If General Hazen had at that
time a weekness. it was for a certain
game at cards commonly known as
poker. Life at the numerous military
posts where he had been' stationed
were conducive of this form of amuse-
ment and the general in time became
an expert at ihe game. It was this
perhaps, that frequently attracted
him to Wichita, for here he always
found congenial company, and not in-
i frequently he left a good share of his
Remember Your Umbrells. monthly salary In the hands, or more
How do you manage to keep your 1 properly speaking. In the pockets <>f
umbrella from being spirited away?! some local gamesters. Thlc was not
And how do von avoid leaving them always true, however, and It is said
on trains?" asked a girl who wan a that he as frequently look with him
frequent "Ixist " advertiser. On this | th<4 fort ,h* ™«nlngs. honest or
occasion she was exulting in the sur- i
prise of seeing an answer to her en- i
treaty for the return of her rain-
went right onto a meat diet, hog-meat
an' oil cakes. Yep, linseed oil—It'll
fat a rail fence. Belle took on weight
amazln'. Cur'us thing 'bout oil cakes,
ihough; once a hoss has been fatted
on em. an' then grows plckld agin,
there ain't notnln' ln God's world'll
put flesh onto him a second time.
You can try as much as you're a mind
to: it ain't no use."—American Maga-
zine.
nlngs of the Bancroft began to melt
away. Then he began to draw upon
his resources. This also dwindled
slowly but surely before the skill of
the warrior, and it became evident
that If Bancroft's luck did not turn
soon he would lose the game and the
honor of being the best poker player
that ever sat down to a table in Wich-
ita. By the middle of the afternoon
the crowd which up to this time had
been more or less noisy, became qui-
et as the men who were In the pres-
ence of the two best players In the
west and that the battle royal would
soon be ended.
Night, spread Its sable pinions over
the town, shutting it In from Ihe out-
side world, but the two men still play-
ed on. Hunger drove most of the
spectators to their homes or boarding
places to get something to eat, but
they hurried back anxious to be pres-
ent at the end. One after another the
deals were made and the hands were
played, and though Bancroft occasion-
ally won a little, even his friends fi-
nally saw, that be stood no show to
win from the general. Like himself,
they were gone m^d, however, and not
one of them would think of counseling
him to stop until he had won or lost
all. At last, well along toward morn-
ing. the game ended. Bancroft had
risked his last dollar on a hand that
he thought as particularly good, but
that of the general proved to be the
better, and when they finally left th«
table, it is said that the soldier had
not only all of Bancroft's cash, but
that. It was necessary In order to
square his account, to dend the latter
a block of forty lots which he owned
on Wichita street. Tt was the last of
these that the genera's widow, now
the wife of Admiral Dewey, sold to
Mr. .Tones last week
Not long after this Mr. Bancroft,
left Wichita, and It Is not known
whether he ever engaged In any more
big games. It is known, however,
that his had luck in this case did not
follow him In after life as hp Is now
vice-president, of the Oregon Short
Line, with headquartes at Sail Lake
Cil v.—Wichita Eagle.
the ter-
shedder. "When you sit in a car,"
said her companion, "place the um-
brella on the outside, between your-
self and the aisle. Thus the umbrella
Is a fence. It bars you In. When you
jump up hastily to get off at your sta-
tion. you fall over the umbrella. You
caunot forget It."
Ten Cents on a Dollar.
Swiss hotel keepers are trying to
arrange a ten per cent, scale of tips
They complain that the scale of gra
itittles has risen greatly owing to the
reckless generosity of Americans. If
they can reduce it to ten per cent.,
well and good; but If they wish to
keep Americans from giving more
the\ must first employ a class of serv
arts who expect no more from Ainer
^>anu m'Umw ouecU
fort the
otherwise, of those who h
merlty to play with him.
In one of those trips In September,
1871, so it is said, General Hazen en
gaged in a game with one K. P. Ban-
croft. whose home was here, and who i
was credited with being an exception ,
ally good player of ih«' gaine. i
There had been considerable talk pri
or to this concerning the relative
ability of the two men, both of whom
were known to be what are known as
dead game sports, and It had been
predicted that if they ever got togeth
er there would be something doing
worth a man's whllo to watch. A<
cordingly when It was reported on ihe;
streets that the general and Bancroft
had engaged In a game of poker i'
created quite as much of a stir as a (
Wichta Topeka baseball game does
now. ln the rear of Wichita's famous
resorts, stripped to shirt and trousers
the 'wo men prepared for the game
which both felt was to be one of the
greatest of their lives. At the end of
the first day honors were about even.
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