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THE BABY.
ffiirrfeff* <n the Benoklyn Engle.
The little fot'rintr nabyfeet,
With faltering steps and alow.
With pattering echoes soft and sweet
Into my heart they go;
Thev also go, in grimy plays,
In muddy pools and dusty ways.
Then through the house in trackful mate
They wander to and fro.
The baby hands that clasp my neck
With touches dear to me.
Are the same hands that smash and wreck
The inkstand foul to see:
They pound the minor with a cane.
They rend the manuscript in twain.
Widespread destruction they Ordain
In wasteful jubileo.
The rffoamy, mumi'rlng baby voice
That cook its little tune,
Ths: makes my listening heart rejoice
Like birds til leafy June,
Can wake at midnight dark and still,
And all the air with howling All,
That splits the ear with echoes shrill
Like cornets out of tune.
MASKED VIGILANTES.
The “White Caps,” or “Knights of the
Switch,” in Indiana.
A dispatch from 1/ouisville, Ky., to the
Kew York Herald says:
The “White Caps” are to Southern In
diana what the “Bald Knobbers” were to
Missouri. Not so desperate in character as
the latter, their organization is identical and
thev have equally set law at defiance.
Tlie headquarters of the "White Caps” are
in Harrison county, Ind., but the organiza
tion extends over'into Crawford, Jefferson,.
and half a dozen other counties in the oldest
civilization of the State.
There is not a more intelligent, peaceable
or orderly community in Indiana than in
Harrison county. Corydou. tiie county
seat, was the first capital of the State, and
its court house, built in ISII, was fourteen
years the capital. The country is rich and
schools and churches alvmnd. A branch
railroad has been built to Corydon, and
its citizens are prominent in State and na
tion.
In spite of all thiß, the “White Caps” or
'“Knights of the Switch,” as they are some
times called, have existed for seventeen
years. The courts have been set at defiance,
jails have been opened and prisoners liber
ated or punished. Men, women and chil
dren have been dragged out of bed at deoil
of night, and their homes burned before
their eyes, while they themselves have been
whipped, tortured with fiendish ingenuity
and made to 11 ee the country.
.PEALING SUMMARILY WITH WRONG-DOERS.
? Like the “Bald Knobbers,” the professed
motive of the “White Caps" is the punish
ment of crime more swiftly and fittingly
.than can be accomplished in the courts.
For this reason there has lieen little outcry
against them, and even when public indig
nation has been aroused by some unusually
jflam-ant act, nothing has lieen accomplished.
1 The identity of “White Caps” has been
revealed time and again, hut not one has
•ever been brought to punishment. There
‘have been many attempts by grand juries
to indict the offenders, but so far they have
proved ineffective. For years and years
•hardly a circuit court is held in Harrison
•county that the jury is not instructed to
investigate some case of recent occurrence,
but “White Caps” are on the jury and in
jtke court room, and nothing has ever been
•discovered in this way.
i There liave been hut few confessions of
membership, but one of these furnishes in
formation of the regular nature of the or
ganization. The “White Caps,” or
“Knights,” are organized with regular
lodges. There are signs, grips and pass
words—crude, of course, but sufficient for
the recognition of, and for communication
between, members. They meet at appointed
places, but not often at the same place, and
but seldom in a house. Secluded groves are
their favorite resorts, and here they assem
ble upon notification of the leader of the
lodge. Councils are held, expeditions deter
mined upon and punishments inflicted.
The sign for the assembling of these
“lodges” is the laying of crossed fence rails
in the middle of a road.
The earliest known band of this organiza
tion was in Scott township. Harrison countv,
:itecn years ago. .Tames -V. Khan, 'a
email farmer, accused of petty thievery,
was tied to a tree and severely whipped.
He was their first victim, but oases were
frequent alter that.
ACTIVITY OF THE SWITCHER.
Of late the “White Cai*’’ have been very
active. The latest outbreak was in Jeffer
eon county, two miles from the small village
of Brooksburg. A band of masked men
last Friday night broke into the farm house
of Stout 'Brenson, dragged him from lied
with his wife and child, removed the furni
ture from the rooms, burned the dwelling
Rnd quietly disappeared. Neither Brenson
cor his neighbors can assign any reason for
the outrage, but it is supposed the “White
Caps - were headed by a personal enemy.
That the party was from the organization
was shown by their wearing the white
inasks, which have given them their names.
The lynching of John Davis, near Eckerty,
lad., three weeks ago, for an assault upon
Annie Flaimogan, was the work of the mys
terious bond.
WOMEN WHIPPED.
The “Knights” were guilty ten days ago
of a less serious but als- > less extenuated of
fence. At midnight a bgnd of some twelve
or fifteen white masks visited the house of
Joseph Lynch, a farmer who lives near
Leavenworth. They broke in the doors,
Seized Lynch and his wife, entered the room
where slept his daughter Mary with her
three little brothers, amt dragged the whole
barty into the front yard. The two younger
boys broke loose and fled into the bushes.
Five men held Lynch and the older boy,
and the remainder' whipped the two women
with stout hickory switches. They mounted
their horses when sufficient punishment had
been inflicted and quietly rode away.
The outrage created no excitement either
Rt Corydon or Leavenworth, though brief
notices were made in the pajters here. The
Lynches live in a prosperous neighborhood,
but whan a correspondent visited the place
■nen only shrugged their shoulders and said
it.tie beyond remarking that the “whip-ups
generally get hold of the right ] parties.'’
A TALK WITH VICTIMS.
•The home of Lynch was visited, and his
wife was found ut work laying a rail fence
In front of the house. Her boys were around
the house, and Mary got up out of bed to
Stare at the unaccustomed v isitor. Very
shabbily dressed were all. Mr. Lynch was
Rt work at a neighbor's, and his wife was
so frightened that she trembled from head
to foot when questioned, thinking the re
, porter was oue of the "Knights.'’
Bbe said the “Caps ’had been there n week
go and whipi>ed her and Mary, but she
couldn't remember anything. When anv
trouble earns her heart lam so fast that ft
her and she fell down like dead, and
the way with her that night. She
identic afraid t<> tell anything, but.
■Hi isTstiiision made the following
i. -nt:
KBi lived here all my life, and belong to
hut I've had a hard time. Mr.
HjHi owns a farm and I'll get this place
mother. We've hurl trouble and
girl Mary got into trouble, but the
titan said he'd marrv her. They wire
in the bill, but my son "Willis
>.'l and they ui lift lie. Then
to be iitamed 111 the spring, but
made such a trouble they
HBd. His name is Bryant (freon, mid
lie !"ilie Km of Wesley Green, our nearest
(might ur. He says bo ll marry her yet.
MOW THE “WHITE CAPS” MANAGE.
“The other evening Andy Green, Bryant's
young brother, earns over and borrowed
our shotgun. That night the ‘vigilance’
rente ana they whipped me and whipped
Mary, i don't know who it was. They
whipped us in our night clothes. First, one
Rid then another laste dus both. MarvVi so
iwfujly hurt I’m afraid she'll die. I guess
there's some people wunt our little property
ual are trying to drive u* away.”
Mary Lynch is not more than 17 years
f,| d and rather good-looking. Bhe could tell
more than IwtuvUwr.
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Wesley Green, father of Bryant Green,
was found by the reporter and said that the
Lynches kept a bad place—playing cards
and “whooping’’ on Sundays. The vigilants,
he thought, had done right In whipping
them. Mrs. Lynch was a respectable woman,
he guessed, and the “cutting up” hail only
been going on seven or eight months.
PUBLIC OPINION.
Public opinion in the neighborhood is
much divided over the matter, but the gen
eral opinion is that the “Knights’ought not
to have done tne whipping.
The whipping of women is too frequent
in the annals of the “Knights” to lie pleas
ant. Generally thoir victims are charged
with unchastity, but it is admitted that
there have been cases when whippings were
given as the result of disappointment or
malice.
More serious things than these have been
recorded against them, and the list of fami
lies whipped, houses burned and victims
forced to leave home are distressingly com
mon. Hardly a week passes that these
minor outrages are not reported from some
where in the territory of the “Knights.”
More than one tragedy has resulted from
what was meant to be a trifling punishment.
MAKING A LAZY MAN HAUL WOOD.
In Blue Kiver township Lem Arnold lived
a couple of years ago. He was apparently
stout and healthy, but was accused of sliift
lessness and letting his wife haul wood.
Tliat winter a band of the “Knights” visited
him at midnight, took him out of bed and
hauled up a good supply of firewood. Ar
nold drew the sled in his night shirt, and
although he was literally whipped to keep
up the circulation, he died a few weeks
afterward of consumption, brought on by
the exposure.
■ In tne same township lived Henry Long,
a lawyer accused of being of a disturbing
element, especially at elections. He was
brought to trial before a magistrate. While
the case was in progress a band of masked
men, with their coats turned, surrounded
the house. Long sprang to the door and shot
dead the first man who entered. The victim
proved-to lie a respected young Frenchman
named M. Heuriot, whom the mob had
forced into the lead. Long tried to shoot
again, but his pistol failed him. He made
a dash through the crowd but received sev
eral shots, from the effects of which lie died
next <lay at Corydon. None of the baud
was ever brought to justice.
a town CArrrnF.n.
Corydon was once captured by a band of
the “White Caps." In May, 18S5, there was
talk of corruption in the county offices, but
to the demands for investigation no atten
tion was paid. On Saturday evening two
men rode into town aland dark, saying they
had come to sec the Ku Klux. Soon homo
men liegan to ride into town from evory
road, in half an hour between 300 and IXX)
had gathered Upon the public square. The
men had their coats turned, and all wore
white masks, with a dozen other forms of
disguise. All the horses luul white masks
over their beads, with holes cut for their
eyes and ears. A number of horses had
white strips tied around a fore leg. The
band lode through every street in the town
in military order, then once around it and
then disbanded. Two or three were ote
served to ride into a livery stable and leave
their horses.
The next morning letters threatening to
burn the town and kill evory one of the
officers unless an investigation was ordered
wore reeoivod by the Couuty Commissioners
and several of tne prominent citizens.
Ail investigation was ordered the next
week. Discrepancies were found in the
Treasurer's and Auditor’s offices. Treasurer
Bowling turned over a large sum of money
he had collected, was sued on Ills bond and
jkJOO more was recovered. The records iu
the Auditor’s office werej mutilated one
night, so a complete investigation could uot
be hud. Auditor A. W. Brewster, however,
paid over $3,000 which it was thought he
owed the county.
John Jacob iUilcr. a well-to-do Tanner
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1887—TWELVE PAGES.
living near Corydon, was brought before the
grand jury as one of the mob. Ho refused
to testify and was ordered to jail for con
tempt. He secured a few minutes' talk with
the Judge and the prosecuting attorney,
however, and the order was revoked. Mil
ler went homo and nothing more was ever
done in the case.
These instances could be multiplied by the
score. Queerly enough the Indianians seem
not to he much opposed to the “White
Caps” and conclude they rarely make mis
takes in punishments. The more thought
ful, however, admit that the organization is
sometimes the weapon of private malice
and that great wrong is done. Still, nothing
is done to break up the “Knights.”
WITHOUT A LENS.
Photographs Taken with Pill-Box and
a Pin-Hole.
From the Missouri Hepnblican.
Hereafter it will be possible for the
economical amateur photographer to make
his camera out of an old blacking-box, with
no more costly accessories than a very small
hole, bored in a piece of metal, and pre
pared dry plates, which retail for 00c. a
dozen. There will he needed no costly lens,
no elaborate camera, no complicated ma
chinery for focusing—nothing more than u
pin-hole and a sensitive surface in a light
tight box.
The gentleman who has patented the de
tracting process which renders all these
wonders jiossible is Dr. John Vansant, the
physician who has charge of tho United
States Marine Hospital.
Like all remarkable new things, the idea
is not entirely new. The pin-hole aperture
in place of the lens has been used in the
camera obseura for many years, but it has
never lieen applied successfully to photogra
phy before. This Dr. Vansant has done.
A reporter railed on the doctor at the hos
pital yesterday, and asked to he shown some
of the results of his experiments. The doc
tor very courteously proceeded to explain
the process.
“First,” said he, “f will show the little
instrument which takes the place of the
lens." And he drew out an old cigar box in
whose interior were a number of interesting
looking packages done up in paper. “You
know,’’ he said, "that the detraction process
forms an image of the camera by means of
a minute aperture instead of a lens. Hero
are some ot t hose which 1 use."
Ho handed over some disks of metal in
some of which there were apparent minute
pin holes and in others the closest examina
tion failed to discover any aperture. "Try
(lie microscope,” said the doctor, and only
thou could tile hole be made out. It was
liquate, cut. as smoothly as with a die and
of two thousandths of an inch wide. "1
have them cut square,” said the doctor, “be
cause it is easier to get rid of only acci
dental blur, or inequality or raggedneas of
edge that way. although a Circular aperture
does just as well. That represents
THE WHOLE OK MY PROCESS.
You can replace the lens of an ordinary
camera with one of these diaphragms nn'd
go to work; or you can do as 1 do, and fix
up an old pill box mi that it will do every
thing that you need. There are a number
of advantages which the simple aperture
has over the lens, nnd but one defect. In
the 11 rut place, it is achromatic, and thou it
is orthocnrouiatic. ”
“Do it oue at a time, doctor,” protested
the reporter, feelingly.
“Well, it bus not the blur which a cheap
lens always gives, and it is more perfect
than the "best possible lens in giving tin
proper tone value of colors in black and
white. It needs no focusing; the definition
is as sharp one inch from the aperture as it
is at one foot, the only difference lieing that
the latter picture is of course larger. The
only objection ie that the detraction process
does uot give os good and Unitiou as the lies!
louses, tins, of cuurye, beteg due hugely to
IP E RSPECTIV E VIEW.
DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN.
Size of Structure— Front, 33 feet 6
inches. Side, 3S feet, including front
veranda.
Size of Rooms—See floor plans.
Height of Stories —Cellar, 0 feet fi
inches; First Story, 9 feet; Second Story,
8 feet.
Materials Foundation, stone; First
Story, clapboards; Second Story, clap
boards; Roof, shingles.
Cost—#2,soo to $3,OtX), all complete, ex
cept mantels and kitchen range.
Special Features.—The centra? hall is
tl feet ti inches wide. There is a fire-place in
the parlor. In the sitting-room and in the
dining room there are flues for stove con
nection, and small, neat hard-wood manlcl
shelves.
A bath-tub is provided in the second
story, but no water-closet. Hot and cold
water are carried to the tub and to the
kitchen sink, a galvanized iron boilej fur
nishing the hot water.
Four very good bed-rooms in second
story. Two good rooms can b finished in
the attic, if desired, still leaving storage
room. The finishing of attic rooms is not
included in our estimate of cost.
Cellar under the whole house, with walls
laid in cement mortar, and cellar bottom
concreted.
the crude manner in which I have had to
cut them.”
“Let me see some of your pictures.”
They were produced." There were pictures
of the marine hospital, from the north, east,
south and west, and from many of the inter
mediate points of the compass. All of them
were clear, sharply-defined and well done
photographs which would have been credita
ble to any professional. One of them, the
capitol atr Washington, was especially excel
lent, and
TYPICAL OF THE WORK
which the machine could do The visual
angle was over 100 degrees. The whole front
of the building wan shown on the plates
taken while the camera sat across the street
from the main entrance. Very clear and ex
act likenesses of Dr. Vansant and his wife,
photos of statuary, even mteo photographs
in which the common pedieufus punmnua
became a monster that to lie bated needed
to be seen, were shown; each of which was
a work of art and most of which had been
done with a pill liox with a hole in one end
about one-fiftieth the size of the finest needlo's
eye.
“Of course," said the doctor, “this is a
practical application of an old process but
some of these pictures have been developed
by a discovery which I know is my own
development by phosphorescence. I have
made a sheet of phosphorescent )iaper and
seven hours after exposing it to the sunlight
have taken a negative and a piece of sensi
tive paper and made tnat, picture." And he
handed the reporter one iii which t here was
a peculiarly beautiful tone of light and
shade. “I don't yet see much practical use
for this discovery,” said the doctor, “but it
certainly is something tlvat the authorities
have declared could not be done. Come
into the dark room and I will show you
some remarkable experiments in phos
phorescnce.”
Tlie doctor has an array of phosphorescent
preparations, one of which—sulphide of cal
cium with a little zinc—blazes like a violet
fire in the dark after it has been exposed for
a couple of seconds to tbe sun. Taking a
sheet of paper covered with this prepara
tion, the doctor held a negative over it for a
moment in tho light. The redd violet flame
shone all alxuit the paper where the negative
had not, prelected it. hut left the picture
dark against tho bright background. Then
exposing another sheer of paper until it was
all aglow, the iv*utivo was replaced and n
sheet of red glnss nut over it, nnd the whole
exposed again. When tbe glass:* were re
moved the red rays lmd blotted out the vio
let, whole the negative had not interposed,
and
TIIE PICTURE BURNED FORTH
brightly ngaiict a Held of black, just the
reverse of the former one, Taking either
picture in one's hand one could follow every
shade and tone, in one, iu violet tire against
blackness in the other, in black ugainst
purple light.
"This,” said the doctor, “is not origins!
with me, but I believe I am tbe first man
who has succeeded in putting phospho
rescence to work on a sensitive plate.”
“You have patented your defraction pro
cess, of course.'”
“Yes.”
“What shall you do with it!”
“That, remains to lie seen. Borne people
who attempted to use mv idea, doubtless
under misapprehension of my rights and
intentions, got, up a paste-board camera
which they sold for 25c. nnd which really
took very good pictures. I have stopped
the sale of them, however, and I have not
yet made up mind what I sliall do.”
“We are apt to have workable cameras
at 35c. a piece, however f"
“Why, an old blacking box will do—all
yon need is a light, tight, camera. You uui
get the apurture to as costly a lsix as you
choose to buy, or to as cheap a one. I think
myself the result should be to popularize
photography greatly. There is nothing
that tbe lenamMjMkiii <he apertures can
not, d<> ■ t* 1m take mnantaneous
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SECOND Ff.OOR.
The Belle of Sierra.
“We’ve got a girl up in our country,” said
James Farwell of Sierra valley yesterday at
the Grand Hotel to a San Francisco Exam
iner reporter, “that discounts the world.
' Ain’t another one like her anywhere. Make
a good catch, too, for some fellow, only he
should have plenty of hustle to him, else
he’d get laid out. She’s a rippper. Runs
two ranches and makes a barrel of money.
“You see, she’s a girl who is alone in the
world. Two or three years ago her only re
lative, a brother, died, and consequently she
had to run the property. She is Miss Ellen
Callehan. Everybody throughout the Sierra
valley knows her. She can yoke up the
steers and plough as much in a'day as any
body. She can build fences, pitch hay, or
take her place with a crew of men at a
threshing-machine and keep even with any
of them. As for riding refractory moun
tain horses, she’s a regular vaquero. It
takes a very supple and long-jointed nag to
get her off, now. I tell you. He’d need to be
lubricated with the best material a going to
do it.
“Miss Callehan has gone into the cattla
business a good deal lately. It is only a few
days ago since she sold rortv-six beeves in
one lot to James Miller for $3,31275. And,
if you think she ain't shrewd on a trade,
all I have to say is she got 8 1-3 c. for them,
which is the highest prtlvpaid in the Sierra
valley for several years.
“She wouldn't take paper money—nothing
but gold—and she carried it ali home with
her, and stowed it away in her cabin. She
has a holy horror of banks, and thinks they
do little else, but swindle. Now some people
might think this girl would be good game
for robbers, but die wouldn’t. I have an
idea it would be a very sorry time for the
man who got to poking his nose about her
place. She can shoot, and she does It, too,
whenever the occasion requires.
“No, I never heard that she ever shot a
man, but she is as handy as any fron
tiersman on the game that comes around
there.’’
“ ‘ls she pretty?”
“Not from the city standpoint hardly, I
presume. Fact is the girl's got too much to
do. Rut she is not ovor 25, weighs about 130
and is dashlug and really attractive. If she
gave her time and attention to frills and
furbelows instead of bulls and beef, I’m free
to say I think she would eclipse many of the
dazzlors who listen every night to the
music of the National Ofiera Company. The
girl's environment has had much to do with
the formation of her habits, the same as it
has with all persona. But Miss Callehan is
ambitious. She says she is soon going to
have a piano and an extensive library, and
as soon as she turns off her other lot of
lieef cattle, which will be early in the fall,
she is going to take life easier. My word
for it, Miss Callehan has the real stuff in
her, and we’ll hear from her further and to
greater advantage before long.
“Some of the young ranchmen in the vi
cinity there have shown an inclination to
win the young woman’s hand. But she
hasn’t encouraged them much. She says
most of them are no account.
“I suppose Miss Callehan is about the best
judge of live stock on the Pacific coast. Hhe
is to the Pacific coast what Minnie Morgan
is to tho Atlantic. You know Miss Morgan
made such a reputation as a judge of hoof
ed cattle and horses in the East that the
New York World wanted her, and now she
does the fine stock department exclusively
for that paper, tho World paying her such
a salary that she writes lor no other paper
whatever.
“At guessing on the weight of a steer, or
on giving an opinion of the points of a horse
or cow, Miss < allchan is acknowledged to be
the queeu of that country.”
IViKTUAMTER Pams, of Solar. 111., receives 10c.
a veaj. The postmaster at Pork, 111., got 30e.
lasi year, while the postmaster at Lear, Ark.,
got 31c
There Is one admirable feature about a wire
fence The patent medicine man can't paSHM
legend on 11 in regard to his liver cure.- -
HOFFMAN HOUSE EXCITEMENT.
Tom Ochiltree’s Appointment as Post
master Causes Pertift'bation.
From the New York Evening Sun.
At precisely 5:45 yesterday afternoon a
tall man with a sad expression whispered
gloomily in the ear of Prof. Billy Edwards,
whom he found examining his pink finger
naili in the Hoffman art gallery.
“No, by my stars, you don't say so,” said
Prof. Edwards, with a manner of surprise,
and then he added: “Well, I heard some of
the gents say that he was going over to the
Democrats.”
In less than ten minutes it was all oyer
the Hoffman House, and had been wafted
on the quick wing of gossip to Dwight Law
renee, who was keeping a sofa warm in tne
Eifth avenue lobby. “Cleveland run; ap
pointed Tom Ochiltree postmaster, that
was the story.
Mr Lawrence assumed his reflective
mood. He expecting to hear that
Tom Ochiltree imd gone over, but he didn t
t hink anything short of the New \ork post
office or Consul to Cork would buy him.
Mr Lawrence shook his head sadly as he re
flected that where Tom Ochiltree led others
would follow. „ „ TI
At the tables in the Hoffman House
nothing else was thought of. Justice
Powers was not surprised that Ochiltree had
pone over to the Democracy, but shivered
when he heard that he had taken a petty
post office. Telegrams began to pour in.
They asked if it was true that Tom Ochil
tree had accepted an office from Cleveland,
and no doubt it was this news which caused
Dorman B. Eaton to walk pensively down
Broadway, shaking his head and muttering
to himself. .
Mr. Ochiltree himself was nowhere to be
found. He was either at the races or the
ball game. When the ticker announced
that Hie New Yorks were beaten the clerk
informed the crowd that had gathered that
Tom was at the races sure. The hew
Yorks never lost a game when he smiled
upon them.
loiter in the evening the Hon. Thomas
Prognosis Ochiltree strolled into the Hoff
man House. A telegram was thrust into
his hand and he tore it open. It asked if
he had been appointed postmaster of Rush
ville. Mr. Ochiltree thought it was a joke.
He even suspected when his friends thronged
about him and plied him with inquiries that
it was one of Adonis Dixey’s tricks. But
when a dispatch from Washington an
nounced that the report was true, and that
Tom Ochiltree had just been appointed
postmaster of Rushville by President Cleve
land, Mr. Ochiltree was puzzled.
With a throng of friends gbout him as he
sat at the head of a table, Mr. Ochiltree em
phatically denied all knowledge of the ap
pointment. His friends smiled a dry smile.
Mr. Ochiltree insisted that no office was
there which he would accept. Here Jake
Hess slyly nudged the ex-wicked Senator
Gibbs. Some of Mr. Ochiltree's friends
urged him to decline. The clerk of the
Hoffman seemed I to weep, and Prof. Ed
wards looked as he might if Sam Collyer
had whipped him.
Bets were offered that Ochiltree would go
on the stump next fall for Cleveland. Odds
were accepted that the appointment was
only temporary, and that he was booked for
something higher. Mr. Ochiltree was him
self so perplexed that he forgot his engage
ment for billiards.
“Yes. sir. It appears to be a fact that the
President has appointed either me or some
body of my name to the post office in the
great city of Rushville,” Mr. Ochiltree said
reflectively. “But do you suppose for a
moment I could take that officer’ When I
step politically I step up, not down. As I
once said t > the Juke of Cambridge, as we
were riding Hyde Park together, ‘Juke,'
said I, ‘I have been Marshal of Texas.’ 'I
know it,’ says he. ‘I have represented the
Galveston district in Congress, and that
borders on Palestine.’ ‘I know it, Tom,’
says he. "And I’ve had enough,’ says I.
‘You might go higher, Tom,' says he. ‘But
I won’t,’ says I, and I meant it when I said
it to the Juke and I mean it now. I won’t
have the office. I didn’t ask for it, and no
doubt Reagan, who wants to get me into
the Democratic party, put the President
up to it. What, I who have dined with
kings serve as postmaster at Rushville! You
may say I decline.”
When this deeision of the Hon. Thomas
was announced bottles were cracked and
Prof. Edwards smiled. .
Later there came unother dispatch saving
that the Tom Ochiltree appointed Post
master at Rushville is not Thomas, known
1 as Thomas Porterhouse, or Prettyman. or
Prognosis, but Thomas M. Ochiltree. When
this dispatch was shown to Mr. Ochiltree he
went off and played billiards, and the ex
citement at the Hoffman subsided.
, WOMEN RULING A CITY.
And Doing It Fully as Well as Mascu
line Officials Could.
Salinn (Kan.) Letter to iftmphis Appeal.
1 have just returned from a trip on the
Santa Fe road, west. Syracuse, 16 miles
from the Colorado line, was the Mecca of
my pilgrimage, because here, April 4, they
elected a City Council of women, and I was
bent upon seeing the town that had made
this innovation and the women who were
filling the Council chairs. I wanted to ask
the people how it came about and how it
was working. The first of these ladies in
troduced to me was Mrs. E. B. Barbour, a
fair-faced, gentle-mannered woman, with
an unmistakable air of business about her.
I found this accounted for by the fact that
she is a businesswoman. Her husband dors
a large and complicated business• the books
are entirely in her charge. Mrs. H. D. Nott
is a business woninu. too. I expect, much of
Mrs. Nott in the management of their Suf
frage Society, because of her experience in
lowa as President of the Eighth District
Woman Suffrage Society. Mrs. Coggeshall
says they were very sorry to low Mrs. Nott
from their ranks. She "is chairman of the
Syracuse Aldermanic force. Mrs. M. M.
R'iggles is a quiet little woman, a careful
•and conscientious mother and housewife.
She has a way of making up her mind for
herself and standing firmly by her convic
tions. She has a reputation among Syracuse
male citizens for being a person of excellent
judgment. Mrs. S. N. Coe is a woman of
excellent ability, with enough conservatism
to ko<q> her enthusiasm in proper check. No
one of these women is more anxious to do
exactly right than is Mrs. Coe. She is sister
to Mrs, l.emort. President of the Saxon
Equal Suffrage Society, organised at Dodge
City by Mrs. Baxon and named for her. She
has several such namesakes in Kansas. Mrs.
L. M. Swortwood, the fifth member, I did
not see, although I made an effort to do so.
She was confined to her home by sickness;
hut T am told she is a woman of ability and
by no means behind her sisters in any re
quisite for her position. My short acquaint
ance with these women convinced me that
sitting in council eliairs and wrestling with
questions of city polity have had no effect
to unsex them—whatever tlmt ay be- for
these were as womenly women as l have
ever seen. I looked in vain for masculine
tendencies. There was not a hint of it In
dress or manner. Meeting them on the
street or in the cars, you would never guess
that, they were city official*. From conver
sation with them I learned that they were
exceedingly anxious to make their adminis
tration a just one—one that would advance
the best interests of the city; and when they
spoke of advancing the interests of theft
city they betrayed the fact that they had in
mind the city’s moral as well as temporal
prosperity. It is said of them that they ure
doing hotter work than the body of men
who composed the previous Council. Then
townspeople say they were elected because
“somebody proposed it and everybody was
pleased with the idea;” because "it was l*>-
lievod thov would make excellent officers ”
1 localise ‘Hhe temperance people thought
women wouldn’t be afraid to enforce the
prohibitory law;” liecnuse “we wanted to
advertise our town’-this last from a mem
ber of a real estate firm; because “women
would take time to do the work well and
thoughtfully.” Altogether, I was pleased
with my first, sight of a woman Council
This it the only oue inthe United (states.
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