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FAMOUS FUED in MONTANA.
\V ITH MARCUS DALY.
licitinn Omtrn a Long Way
Back. hen the Tw© Men Were
striving <" r Snprcniacj in Alining.
; |nrU c Secures HLgl.t to AVater
for *IO.OOO, Which Daly Wa. ( m
-llc.l to llor for iMoo,ooo—The Po
litical Rivalry Has Been Very
Strolllt—Rot' 1 Me “ Are R ,<>h — Da, >'*
Horses.
From the Omaha. Bee.
Th fight tor the United States senator
.* in Monlana. which has just lermin
f lin th< election of A. W. Clarke, has
prominently forward Marcus Daly
and \ \v. Clarke, who are well known
*ll' over (he West, and not unknown in
* p,c| There is a feud between the
Z men that has existed for a number
0, | iule has been heard of the feud for
' (|S| yrar or two, and it was supposed
havp buried by the reported re
’°.,val of Clarke from Butte to New York
"’ll-' within a year or so Clarke rented
resilience among the swells bordering
Central Park, and came into prominence
„1 n patron of art. He was conspicuous
' the Stewart art sale, and created a
sensation by outbidding all others for For
,unys masterpiece, "The Choice of a
J,paying $42,000 for it. This splurge
naturally gave rise to the belief that
Clirke had shaken Montana for Gotham
and for good. But Clarke had other plans
_ (he greatest of which was his ambition
to represent the copper state in Congress.
This was the fourth time that Clarke
tried to break into Congress. He ran
for A legate to Congress in 1888, and
was defeated by T. H. Carter. Twice be
fore he has SI niggled for the senatorsnlp
and me! defeat, in these contests, as in
Ihe recent one, his Nemesis was Marcus
l)a!v Various stories are (old concern
ing the feud, hut the most reasonable one
wis related to the writer in Montana.
Fifteen years ago Daly and Clarke were
an thick its molasses in midwinter. To
gether they manipulated political and min
eral affairs west of the range. Daly was
aggressive and progressive. He planned
great enterprises for Bulte, and was anx
ious for Clarke and other men of means
to Join in executing them. Failing to se
cure the support he anticipated, Daly
sulked. From an enthusiastic promoter
of Butte's interests he became an enemy,
roundly "cussed" its miners, and at length
appeased his wrath by founding the town
of Anaconda, some twenty miles away.
Here the great Anaconda mills are lo
cated. employing from 3,000 to 5.000 men.
The town is an active, growing one and
boasts of the finest hotel in the state, built
and equipped by Marcus Daly.
Clarke's interests were concentrated in
Butte He lives there, his residence being
conspicuous because of the great size and
attractive surroundings. When Daly pull
ed up stakes and moved away, the friend-
ship previously existing between him and
Clarke was rent in twain. Enmity suc
ceeded; every opportunity presenting it
self by which one might get a cinch on
the other was improved.
The Anaconda mills are located on the
southern slope of the bluffs on the west
side of the valley in which the city is lo
cated. The slope facilitates the work of
the mills. Tracks run to the top of the
bluff over which the one is carried and
unloaded at the roof. Water is brought
10 the mills at the same elevation. The
water and ore pass by gravitation from
floor to floor Water is a prime factor in
the work of separation, and the water
rights of the Anaconda Company have a
value second only to the mines of the
corporation. Some distance up the valley
two young men pre-empted water rights.
Daly wanted the claim. He gave the men
positions in the mills and utilized their
water rights. They soon learned the value
of their claims and suggested to Daly that
110.000 would be proper compensation.
Now, of all things, paly disliked a jug
handle bargain. He. must control all the
water. There was the price. He fumed
and let loose a choice assortment of rich
ly brogued expletives. The men who play
ed for a share of his pile were discharg
ed. By depriving them of a Job Daly cal
culated he would secure the coveted wa
ter right by default. His oalculations
were wide of the mark.
Clarke Mnkes a Haul.
The discharged men moveel on Butte and
put their claim on the market. When
Clarke’s attention was attracted to it he
saw in it an opportunity to play even with
Daly, and at the same time hold him up
for a good round sum. Twenty-five thou
sand dollars was the sum paid by Clarke
for what Daly could have had for SIO,OOO.
Meeting Daly on the streets a few weeks
later Clarke suggested the propriety of
the Anaconda Company purchasing his
water rights. The announcement astound
ed Daly, and when Clarke placed the price
at JlOO.Oi.in Marcus nursed his wrath for a
few days and paid over the money. The
loss of SOO,OOO, coupled with Clarke’s part
In the deal, rankled in Daly’s bosom. So,
when Clarke was nominated for Congress
in ISBB Daly rose in his might and smote
him wiih an avalanche of adverse votes.
To this circumstance Thomas H. Carter
aw'S ihe success of his first plunge In
Montana politics.
■'' various times in the last ten years
iiilo reciprocated and Daly retaliated.
hen the slate capital fight came up for
'(■finite s ‘ element, three years ago, Ana
' Oodu was ihe chief rival of Helena. Ana
-11 ..s l( *ly's town, and he championed
with all the means at his command.
.like took up n le fight for Helena,
m . on ou *’ and Daly was knocked
a. Then Clarke jubilated. Now it is
I,al V s turn to wax glad
Clarke’s Career.
S e S ° year 9 af HO WIS
' „ 1 H f:lrm near Conneiisville. Fay
" “hnty, Pennsylvania, on Jan. ft. lS3ii.
i V. 1 wa “ ,ohn Ciarke, and his
I'.,';,, ry Andrews, both natives of
t-1 ,k 5 a " 11 a grandfather, also John
the re’v.oi' m -" ’° ppn nsylVania shortly after
th,. \v. r ?a 1 ?? { rorn bounty Tyrone, in
h* tifiv i ° f * re * arK ** a farmer’s son,
•li-trir , T™? 1 farmin &* attended th*
•IW h , <X> ‘ ,n the '' inter. At 14, being
th.- r iurpl Sm ? f b l ookSi he wa R **rit to
w- n* to rn M Academy, his father s idea
,i ! lm ,or ’he law. He remained
: -* y <hrco years, and then
ln lF.fi s for a year
h, i, ld | , la i h(, r removed to lowa, where
t-ountv rx' Sh ' a farm in Van Buren
William $< , c °* in the new home,
minghlTm U thp acad emy at Bir-
I’oll.-L,. - JL." *® ,inißh his preparation for
Iff, 7 he enters t dld ln a yoar - and in
' t.ik<- tr, It, Pleasant University
■ Hit, r could‘ a ° f law ’ Although his
'■ligation to Bive him a college
wealth v m->„ e ", as 11 ot . in a sense, a
'■'t o' cojlcir 1 an<l llle ” l>n kn<?w that once
own XV., v wouW have to make his
He " 5 n the world.
>r for nvo?’ n . H * ll ' Jcilt at Mount Pleas
aiel I 'ni u.. ( H ,. rs waK a hard worker,
<h* ITogn k . nowlf d K rapidly, so that
during ma<le wafi rapid. But
the unlv, i .i,,. ,W ° ye;,rfc news come to
n,j w gold in y ’ f v, ’ ry now and again, ot
'her v, -overcs in the country fur
if°rnia the c*' the new came from Cai
:,o m Mom ,na Colorado, and finally
Hoated i n „ a ' course, the stories that
h-rful i. o ia S?*! ,hp campus of the won
’ 1 ut u**! 1 were usually exaggerate
s ’u<l, ~ (hplr effect on the young
®ld h, i ‘he more stories of the gold
J ro. the .ess Interested to him
the law became. And so it happened that
the young law student, with only a year
behind him and an examination for admis
sion to the lowa bar, turned his face to
ward the West. He had little money,
and when he reached Western Missouri
he had none. In a fairly good education
he had some capital, however, and school
teachers were scarce. When his money
gave out he got a Job at school teaching.
He kept at this from the fall of 1859
through 1881. In 1862, having saved some
money, lie purchased an emigrant wagon
and an ox team. With these he set emt•
across the plaitxs. He disposed of his out
fit at South Park, Col., and went to work
for a mine owner in Central City.
RountlLng l T p the Camps.
One day in 1563 a man rode into the Cen
tral City camp with a story of rich discov
eries of gold at Bannack City. Mont.
Young Clarke knew (he hearer of Ihe news
and believed tlte story, with some discount
having learned that ail stories of fabu
lously rich gold should be discounted. Ac
cordingly he persuaded the owner of the
Central City' aiine to abandon his claim,
and join him and three or four other
miners on a prospecting tour in Montana.
At Ihe end of a journey of sixty'-five
days, the party? reached Bannack, and the
next day Clarke happened to hear that
on the following night a party was to
"stampede" io Horse Prairie, a few miles
away, where ihte rich mines were supposed
to he. Although he had no invitation,
Clarke joined the stampeding party',
reached Horso Pairie in safety, and
staked out a cltaim. At the end of a year's
hard work, thei young miner had accumu
lated $1,500. Wit h that sum he abandoned
the mines forever as a claim worker. With
unusual foresight he saw more money in
business, in the bartering of merchandise
for the gold that others took out of the
earth.
With this $1,500 he bought a load of pro
visions in Salt Lake City, and sold them
at an amazing profit. In the winter of
1865 he repeat*! the venture with equal
success in Virginia City. In the spring
of that year he opened a general store at
Blackfoot City, anew mining town, and
from everything he sold he realized large
profits. The loilowing fall he noticed
that tobacco was a scarce article in the
Montana mining camps. He saw' money
in bringing in a supply. Disposing of his
store, he mounted a horse, rode to Boise
City, Idaho, bought all the tobacco he
could at $1.50 a pound, loaded it on a wagon
and sold it in Helena at $6 a pound.
During the years that Mr. Clarke was
growing rich as a merchant and banker
he did not lose interest as a miner. In 1872
he purchased four well-known quartz
mines, the Original, the Colusa, Mountain
Chief and Gambetta. While buying these
mines he became convinced that if he was
to know absolutely the worth of a mine
of his own knowledge, he must have mote
of a technical education than he possess
ed. As he never relied on anybody’s
judgment but his own Ln going into any
enterprise, he determined to know some
thing of mining engineering. During the
winers of 1872-’73 and 1.573-’74 he studied
at the Columbia School of Mines.
With the knowledge thus acquired he
went back to Montana, bought more
mines, erected stamp mills on his silver
properties, and made other acquisitions
ln Idaho and Arizona. In the latter ter
ritory he discovered the United Verde
copper mine, which is now reckoned the
richest copper mine in the world, and
Anaconda and Mountain View not ex
cepted. Besides his mining properties
and his banking interests, Mr. Clarke,
concluding that there was money In re
fining sugar, bought a sugar refinery in
Los Alamos, Cal., and then, coming to
the East, he concluded to add wire making
to his other interests, and built the Wa
clarck Wire Works, of Elizabethport, N. J.
Then he built and operated a system of
water works in Butte, established an elec
tric light plant, and built all the cable
and electric railways in Butte.
Rise of Marcus Daly.
Marcus Daly itv a wondrous character.
He found himself a boyish waif from Ire
land at the California coast at the age of
13. Nature had granted him a fine
constitution and good, common sense. He
did not hunt around hopelessly for fancy
jobs, but took the first thing that offered
a mode of livelihood. After a little he
drifted to Nevada and was employed
around the great mines of Virginia City,
where he, became a practical miner, and
grew thoroughly familiar with the in
trinsic mysteries of mineralogy. About
1878 he came to Butte, and was mainly in
strumental In selecting and securing the
great copper and silver mines for the
Anaconda company, of which he is now
general manager. His wealth Is very
great, and no just estimate can be made
of it.
In person Mr. Daly is middle-sized and
trimly built. He has a pleasant, intel
lictual face, fresh colored, and his keen,
flashing eyes are now shaded by gold
rimmed glasses. Not a trace of Irish ac
cent remains in his speech, unless when
he grows vehement or becomes really ex
cited.
Like all men of strong will and decided
character, Mr. Daly has his enemies—
chiefly political. But his bitterest enemy
will not deny his wonderful ability as a
man of affairs. While uniformly kind and
mainly just to his employes, he never for
gets a dereliction of duty, and he keeps as
sharp an eye on the minutiae of mining
work to-day as he did when he was a
young straggling overseer, twenty years
ago. No man in the employ of the Ana
conda company knows when Marcus Daly
may drop ln upon him, whether in the
womb of ihe earth, at the bottom of a
shaft or casting up his accounts in the
office on the hill. Those who love Mr.
Daly, and they are many, call him, in his
absence, "The Old Man.” Those who have
a grudge against him speak of him as
“Mr. Daly." Those who admire and are
at the same time a little Jealous of him
call him also in his absence the "Marquis
of Butte’’—a play, of course, on his Chris
tian name.
Daly is well known throughout the coun
try as the owner of some of the fastest
horses in America. His colors have be
come familiar on all the great race
courses. Two seasons ago they were
borne to victory In the Suburban handi
cap by his wonderful colt Montana. His
horse farm in the Bitter Root Valley in
the “treasure state" is slocked with the
finest equine* that money will buy.
Carter Case Still Under Review.
Washington Coi-respondent New York
Herald. Jan. 31.
Col. Thomas F. Barr, who was judge
advocate of the court which tried Capl.
Carter, has not yet returned to Chicago,
understanding that when the attorney gen
eral wishes to confer with him relative to
the Carter case he will send for him. It
was stated to-day that the attorney gen
eral is still examining the record and find
ing. and will not complete his review un
der iwo months. I understand that Col.
Barr saw the President on several occas
ions, and discussed the case with him. but
it Is not believed that the result of these
conferences will he to expedite presidential
action. _
—All the Same to Her—“ln one respect
every woman is ambidexterous.” “How
do you make that out?" She can throw
just as well with her left hand as with
her right."—Chicago News.
SEVEN |
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THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1890.
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“INFANT h.EALTH Sent FREE.
MARIYE JiRTEULIGESCE.
Local and General News of Ship*
and Shipping.
The schooner Ida Lawrence, Capt. Camp
bell, eleven days from Baltimore, arrived
yesterday with a cargo of coal, consigned
to the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railroad. It was an unusually long pas
sage for this vessel, ns she has made a
number of record-breaking trips during the
past several years. Capt. Campbell reixxris
that it was the roughest trip he has ever
experienced. The vessel encountered a
succession of storms, which not only de
layed her progress, hut made it very te
dious and disagreeable on board. Fortu
nately no serious damage was done, and
tho vessel arrived safe and sound.
The British ship Earl of Dalhousie, Capt.
Thompson, has reached Cape Town after
one of the quickest trips on record, from
Tacoma. The voyage, which was made in
eighty-four days, was the result of a
three-cornered challenge entered into by
the skippers of the ships Earl of Del
housie, Imberhorn and the Atalanta, three
boats of about the same build. The last
one of the three to reach port was to pay
for an elaborate supper and a feast for the
crews. The Atalanta was lost on the voy
age, and it was said that the vessel ven
tured too close to the Oregon coast in or
der to get the benefit of distance saved
by a cut-off. She went on a reef and was
ground to pieces, nearly the entire crew
perishing. The Imberhorn is still at sea.
Out on the lakes they have decided to
try something new in the line of marine
architecture. The Cleveland Steel Canal
Company proposes to build a steel barge,
360 feet long and 45 feet wide, with a double
bottom and sides, which can be pumped
out like a drydock. Into this barge will
be loaded small boats for transportation
to the head of the Erie Canal, where they
will be floated out and sent on their way.
By the use of this barge the smaller boats
will be saved from the dangers attending
a trip on the lake in rough weather.
The Norwegian bark Mabel, from this
port for Goole. which has been reported
before ashore in River Humber, was as
sisted off and beached. She is discharging
cargo into lighters and forwarding it to
Goole; has four feet of water in her hold,
her pumps having become disabled. The
Mabel sailed from Savannah Dec. 20, with
a cargo of naval stores.
The schooner John F. Kranz, Capt. Mc-
Donald, from Philadelphia, arrived yester
day with a cargo of coal, consigned to
Bond, Harrison & Cos.
Key West, Fla., Feb. I.—The British
steamer Trifusis, reported yesterday
ashore at Dry Rocks, floated last night
without damage and arrived in port.
Passengers per steamship Itasca, from
Baltimore,—A. W. Finley, A. H. Henry,
James Adams, Mr. Michael, J. B. Baker,
M. Ringold.
Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises at 6;46 and sets at 5:14.
High water at Tybee to-day at 11:56 a.
m. and 12:15 p. m. High water at Savan
nah one hour later.
Phase* of the Moon for February.
Last quarter, 3d, 11 hours and 46 min
utes, morning: new moon, 10th, 3 hours
and 53 minutes, morning; first quarter,
17th, 3 hours and 13 minutes, morning; full
moon, 25th, 8 hours and 37 minutes, morn
ing.
ARRIVALS A\D DEPARTURES.
Vessel* Arrived Yesterday.
Bark Cosmo (Nor), Orland, Cardiff.—
Paterson, Downing & Cos.
Schooner Ida Lawrence, Campbell, Bal
timore.—E. B. Hunting & Cos.
Schooner John F. Kranz, McDonald,
Philadelphia.—C. W. Howard & Cos.
Steamer Clifton, Strobhar, Beaufort.—
Geo. U. Beach, manager.
Steamer Doretta, Chadwick, Bluffton.—
J. H. Judkins, manager.
Steamer Ethel, Carroll, Augusta.—W. T.
Gibson, manager.
Arrived From Rnarantlne.
Bark Paragon (Nor), Burch.—Paterson,
Downing & Cos.
Bark Blandina P. (Aust), Romanich, Rio
Janeiro.—Strachan & Cos.
Arrived at Tybee.
Bark Dalston (Nor), Nielsen, London.—
Dahl & Andersen.
Vessels Cleared Vesterday.
Steamship Gate City, Googins, Boston.—
Ocean Steamship Company.
Steamship Itasca, James, Baliimore.—J.
J. Carolan, agent.
Steamship Barry (Br), Holt, Genoa.—W.
W. Wilson, agent.
Steamship Nordkyn (Nor), Beer, Bre
men.—Barnard & Cos.
Steamship Hartington (Aust), Dabino
vich, Venice and Trieste.—Strachan & Cos.
Vessel* Went to Sea.
Steamship Clio (Aus), Barcelona and
Trieste.
Steamship Armeniq (Br). Havre.
United States transport Michigan, Porto
Rico.
Shipping Meinornnd*.
Charleston, S. C., Feb. I.—Arrived,
steamers Seminole, Bearse, Boston via
New York, and proceeded to Jacksonville;
Cedardene (Br), Balls, Hamburg; S. T.
Morgan, Anthony, Norfolk, with barge
Maria Dolores in tow; U. S. transport Sar
atoga. Johnson, Matanzas; steam yacht
Narada, Brand, New London, bound for
Florida.
Sailed, bark Annie Fletcher (Br), Hinds,
Leith.
Key West, Fla.. Feb. I.—Arrived night
Jan. 31, steamer City of Key West, Bravo,
Miami, and returned.
Feb. I— Arrived, steamers Alamo, Hicks,
New York; Meridian (Br), Wilson, Liver
pool.
Fernandina, Fla., Feb. I.—Cleared and
sailed, steamer Lowlands (Br), Darmand,
Rotterdam.
Georgetown. S. C., Feb. I.—Arrived,
steamer Oneida, Staples, New York, via
Wilmington; schooner Bayard Hopkins,
Eskridge, Baltimore.
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. I.—Arrived, steam
ship Hightield (Br). Richardson, Funchal;
barks Haccicin Revelle (Ital), Raineri. Ge
noa; Marla Adelaide (Hal), Olivari, Mar
seilles; schooner MiDnie Bcrgln, Davis,
Havana.
Sailed, steamship Serra. Calzado, Liver
pool; barks Barba Luigi (Ital), Hcotto, Ge
noa; Italia (Hal), Pedntella, Palermo.
Cleared, steamships Heathvllle (Br),
Hocken. Leghorn; Cardinal (Br), Kemp,
Antwerp; bark* Arclurus (Nor). Thynes,
Rotterdam; Concordia (Nor), Salve*en,
Buenos Ayres; Conquestatore (Ital), Tra
pani. Leghorn.
Port Tampa, Fla.. Feb. I.—Arrived,
steamer Whitney, Wertseh, Havana, via
Key West.
Sail*!, steamer Florida, Smith, Havana.
Notice to Mariners.
Pilot charts and all hydrographic infor
mation will be furnished masters of ves
sels free of charge in United States hy
drographic office in custom house. Cap
tains are requested to call iit the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
for transmission to the navy department.
Foreign Exports.
Per Norwegian steamship Nordkyn, for
Rremen—s,92s bales cotton, valued at $165.-
9SS, and 5 cases canned Dints, valued at
S2O.
Per British steamship Barry, for Genoa
—6.046 bales of cotton, valued a I $171,147; 7(10
cylindrical bales eottori, valued at sl<Ml3;
200 tons pig iron, valued ai $2,000; 15,117 bar
rel staves, valued at S!KK).
Per Austrian steamship Hartington. for
Venice—2,2oo hales eotvon. valued at $62,-
941; 1,000 barrels rosin* valued at $2,400; 6
barrels soap stock, valued'at $24 For
Trieste—l,ooo tons pi iron, value.! at $lO.-
000; 100 bales cotton, valued at $2,980 ; 3,7<i0
barrels rosio. valued at $8,218; 100 casks
spirits turpentine, valued ut $2.1X2, and 6
barrels stock soap, valued at $24.
Coaatnrl Exports.
Correction.—The cargo of lumber report
ed yesterday to ha.ve been shipped on brig
H. B. Hussey, was an error as to the ves
sel. It should ha ve been schooner Samuel
B. Hubbard, for New York.
Receipts nt Railroads.
Per Central of Georgia Railway. Feb. 1.
—4,337 bales cotton, 139 packages merchan
dise, 128 packages domestics, 128 bales
sweepings, 334 barrels rosin, 10 casks spir
its turpentine, 18 cars lumber, 1 car meal,
1 car wood, 2 ears fresh meat.
Per Georgia and Alabama Railway, Feb
I. 581 hales c-otton 907 barrels rosin. 73
casks spirits turpentine, 8 cars merchan
dise, 45 cars lumber, 1 car government sup
plies, 2 cars oil.
M’COHMICK-GOODHAHDT.
The Father of the Lady Is Proud of
Her and Her Husband.
The cables dispatches of the Morning
News a day or two ago announced that
Queen Victoria, at the desire of Leander
J. McCormick of Chicago, has granted a
license for Frederick E. Goodhardt of
Hadlow Castle, Tonbridge, to assume the
name of McCormick. The London Morn
ing Post taid at the time: “We believe
this is the first occasion upon which a
Britisher has added his American wife’s
maiden name to his own.” Mr. Goodhardt
is the Conservative candidate for Parlia
ment from Devon port.
A CMcago dispatch thus gives the Amer
ican end of the story; Mr. Leander J. Mc-
Cormick, father of Mrs. Frederick E.
Goodhardt, explained to-night that the
sole reason why the Queen was petitioned
to permit the prefixing of the name of Mc-
Cormick to his son-in-law’s name was the
desire of his daughter to perpetuate her
family name. Mr. McCormick and his
family are now living at the Virginia Ho
tel here. He said;
“It has been the wish of my daughter
for some time that her family name should
be perpetuated with her descendants* I
told her that she had my consent; that I
would be glad to have my name handed
down with that of so honorable a family
as the one into which she married.
"I filed no petition for the change, but
suppose that the laws of England require
some form, as is required in many cases
in this country, so that it would apixar
that the request came from me. It is the
intention to prefix McCormick so as to
make the name read McCormick-Good
hardt.
I rather look U|>on the request as an
honor than a privilege. I am prouder
Mian ever of my daughter, Mrs. Good
hardt. America owes much to England
for her friendliness in our recent unpleas
antness with Spain, and no request made
by a subject of the Queen, especially one
so distinguished as my son-in-law. would
be refused by me when it can be complied
with so easily.”
Mrs. Goodhardt was Miss Henrietta Mc-
Cormick, and met her husband in Chicago
in 1883, when he was here oil his way
West to look into some mining properties
owned by his father. It seems to have
been a love match, although the bride
was wealthy, her father, a brother of Cy
rus H. McCormick, of reaper fame, being
many times a millionaire.
Miss McCormick and Mr. Goodhardt
were married in the. hitter part of 1883,
and have two sons. Leander J. McCormick
has been a resident of Chicago fully sixty
years, and came here from Virginia.
HOW PATTI MET THE BARON.
He Was n Massage Artist in Her
E mploy.
Washington Cor. Chicago Record.
The marriage of Adelina Patti will make
the massage business more popular than
over, for she first became acquainted with
her new husband by employing him in that
lino. It has become very extensive in
Washington and all Ihe cities of the East,
as I suppose in th© West also, and Is
now regarded by rich and self-indulgent
people as one of the necessaries of life.
The fashionable physicians in this city
prescribe it as a cure for the grip, which
leaves the patient weak and enervated.
Nothing seems to take the spirit out of ti
man so much, and there is no ine.lnation
for the recovery of strength. The mas
seurs of Washington have been very busy
during the last, few weeks. They called
in vain for assistants from New York,
and then cabled (o Sweden for them. The
masseurs in New York report that they
also have more than they can do.
Anew feature of the massage treat
ment, as practiced in this cily, is to re
store youth and beauty in women who are
showing signs of age. A good-looking
woman dreads nothing so much as wrin
kles, and a masseur here guarantees to
remove them by an application of hot
water and the pressure of her fingers upon
th© flesh. The operation requires a good
deal of patience and sacrifice, however, be
cause while under treatment the patient’s
face is swathed in bandages of hot water
for several days and she can eat nothing
but liquid food taken through a tube. There
have been at least three successful oper
ations of this kind. One lady In Wash
ington, who a year ago showed unmis
takable signs of age, blossom out last fall
in the fullness anti bloom of youth, or, as
she said, sixteen years younger than
when she left Ihe city in the spring.
—Mr. Watts, R. A., who is over 80, is
going to devote himself to sculpture for
a time, the subject to be a life-size statue
of the late poet laureate, Lord Tennysoo.
AMERICAN OSTRICHES.
CHAR ACTERISTICS OF THE
STRANGE BIRDS.
The Farm In California—'Their Meth
<*<! of Defense—Domestic Arraane.
ments—An Extraordinary Iliucs
tlve Cnpnelty—l'lneklnn and Dress.
In* the Feathers.
From the New York Evening Post.
So varied are the climatic condition!! of
our country that there seem to he few
members of tMe animal and vegetable
kingdoms, indigenous to foreign soils, that
cannot find a congenial home in some part
of its vast territory. Every year additions
are made to our fauna and flora, and many
of the strangers seem to thrive here quite
as well as on their native soils. Califor
nia, especially, has been the scene of some
Interesting experiments in this line. One
of its latest importations is the strange and
furious bird that we have been accustomed
to associate with the awful solitudes of the
Sahara, hut which of late years, has heen
successfully domesticated and seems to ac
cept quite philosophically its seeming des
tiny to devote its life to the adornment of
womankind.
In 1885, Mr. Edwin Cawston embarked
with fifty-two birds from the Cape Colony;
but the ostrich is not a good sailor. Ten
of the birds perished In transit, and the
remaining forty-two seemed never to re
cover wholly from the effects of the long
voyage, so that now only one of them sur
vives. From them, however, a number of
fertile eggs hatched, and the good work
went on until to-day there Is a total of
over 300 native Californian ostriches in this
country.
The two largest farms are at Norwalk
and South Pasadena; but the company has
a branch farm at San Antonio, Tex., and
contemplates establishing a fourth one In
some other of the Southern states, which
will be stocked with the birds that have
been on exhibition at Omaha during the
summer. In addition to these, a farm has
recently been established by another com
pany at Wllshire, Cal. So that ostrich
farming in the United States may be said
to have passed beyond the experimental
stage, and to have become a settled In
dustry.
In Africa, the farms are very large, of
ten covering thousands of acres, and the
ostriches roam at will over this extensive
territory, pasturing on its herbage. At
the South Pasadena farm they are con
fined in a number of corrals, the whole
covering only a few acres. What the bird
thus loses in freedom It gains In safety,
for on the great African farms many birds
are lost through accident. There are on
this farm at present not quite ICO ostriches
Most of these are confined in a corral con
taining about two acres of ground. But
several pairs of full-grown birds have been
separate! from the troop and keep house
each in a corral of its own. These fav
ored individuals have been named after
prominent men and women of the day.
Thus. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley occupy a
fiat adjacent to that of Mr. and Mrs. Gro
ver Cleve.and; while Just across the way
Mr. and Mrs. LJlllan Russell live in re
markable harmony for the time being.
Messrs. Corbett and Fitzsimmons, as it
seems, have renounced the emoluments of
the pugilistic arena for the more modest
domestic felicities of the paterfamilias.
The full-grown male Is a handsome and
imposing creature. It stands about seven
feet high and weighs 250 poundß. Its body
is covered with black feathers, Its tall is
a bunch of white plumes, and In each wing
are twenty-four beautiful white feathers,
which fall over the body in a lovely
fringe. During the breeding season the bill
and the scales on his legs turn a deep rose
color. The feathers of the female are of
a uniform dark drab. The large, power
ful thighs are perfectly bare and of a
bluish color. The long neck and small flat
head, too, are bare, except for a thin cov
ering of bristles. The large eyes have a
curiously bright soft look. The head is
absurdly small. No wonrler the poor os
trich is stupid when nature has grudg
ingly bestowed upon so large a body a
brain smaller than that of a cat.
Not being gifted, therefore, with intel
lectual resources, the ostrich, like the sol
dier that is deficient in courage, places his
chief reliance in his legs. It is well
known that the ostrich will outrun the
horse. 'But, unlike the soldier, he uses his
legs not only to flee from the enemy, but
also to attack him. During the breeding
season the male often becomes very fierce.
On the aproach of an Intruder, he draws
himself up to his full hight, standing on
tiptoe, strecthes his long neck, and raising
tipte, stretches his long neck, and, raising
his curious two-toed foot, gives a forward
kick at the hight of about three feet, pow
erful enough lo fell a man, and even to
kill him. Men on horseback are especial
ly obnoxious to ostriches, and they have
a strange aversion to negroes. A sav
age ostrich is fought in Africa with the
weapon known as the tackey, which 's
simply a branch of thorny mimosa that is
waved 111 the bird’s face to confuse and
bewilder It, enabling the man to step aside
and avoid its kicks.
An ostrich walks with a curious springy
movement like a person trying to walk
very quietly on his tiptoes. It is strange
that so foolish a bird should have so ter
rible a voice! The roar of the male os
trich is said to be identical with that of
the lion, except that the former when neat
sounds like the latter far off. Hunters
in Africa are sometimes deceived by the
resemblance. The female, however. Is
voiceless and calls her chicks by rustling
her wings.
Notwithstanding Its proverbial stupidity,
the ostrich holds some very advanced opin
ions on social and Industrial questions. So
it comes alpout that. In an ostrich house
hold, husband and wife share each other’s
duties so far as may be. As soon as they
have set up housekeeping, Mr. Ostrich
begins at once lo prepare a nest for their
future family. This he does by squatting
down on (he ground and scraping Ihe
sand out from under him with his feet,
until he has scooped out an oval cavity
of sufficient size. When all is ready, Mrs.
Ostrich comes forward to perform her
part. She lays an egg every day until
she has from twelve to fifteen. And now.
if you are unscrupulous enough and ran
manage to elude the watchfulness of her
husband, you may sadly outwit poor stu
pid Mrs. O. After a few days, you may
abstract an egg from the nest dally, and
the poor creature will go on laying until
she has laid about thirty. The surplus
eggs may be hatched in an incubator.
The nest being at last full of eggs, Mr.
and Mrs. O. take turns in sitting on them,
he performing this duty by night and she
by day. Every morning and evening they
leave the nest uncovered Mr a quarter of
an hour, while they go for a walk, taking
the precaution, on a warm morning, of
placing a pinch of sand on each egg to pro
tect it from the suns’ heat.
The baby ostrich, when it first makes
Its appearance in the world, is a most
delightful little creature. Its oval body is
covered with soft, fluffy, yellow down,
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Special Sale on Ingrain Carpets
For this week. All wool, yardwide. The regular price 75c a yard. This week
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lining.
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striped and streaked with various shades
of brown. Its bright round eyes gaze at
Its surroundings with the same pert, In
quiring look as do those of our barnyard
chicks. Later it loses Its Infantile prettt
ness—the soft down gives place to a rough
covering of stiff, bristly feathers of a dirty
drab; and this transitional period lasts for
two or three years. Then the beautiful
plumage of the adult begins to develop,
and, at the age of five years, It reuches
its full growth. Being now of age, If It
meets with no accident, a long life is be
fore it, for on ostrich often lives for sev
enty years.
The birds are, however, rather liable to
accident, their legs being, like Achilles'
heel, their vulnerable part. On a large
farm, they sometimes run into the wire
fence or become entangled in a thorny
hush, and, in their frantic struggles to
eseaiie, break a leg; or this may occur in
a fight txtween two birds; and, once the
leg Is broken, all the king's horses and
all the king's men cannot put it together
again, for It is us brittle as a piece of
china, and breaks Into countless splinters.
All that can he done Is to put the poor
creature out of his misery, pluck his lieau
tlful feathers and turn over the massive
thighs to the cook, who will make u most
excellent soup out of them. As steak, Iho
(lesh Is not a complete success, lieing
somewhat stringy; yet, on a remote farm
in the f’ape Colony, where fresh meat Is
a luxury, ostrich steaks are not disdain
ed. The rest of the body is hut a hag
of bones, and so of no use for culinary
purposes
The digestive capacity of the ostrich Is
extraordinary. It consumes gravel, broken
glass and pottery, pieces of leather, and or
anges, and It has been known to swallow
gimlet’s, lighted pipes, and other lm[K>ssi
bllitles. It is said that an ostrich once
plucked a costly diamond stud out of the
shirt front of a spectator; and a lady's
ears as well as her ear-rings would Ist en
dangered by too close proximity to the
voracious birds. These hard substance*
serve the purpose of grtndlng the food In
the stomach, and so take the place of teeth
ill the bird's anatomy. In California os
triches are fed on the sugar-beet. The
pieces are swallowed whole, an<l it Is curi
ous to see them travel spirally down an.l
around the long throat, the lump appearing
first In the front, and then In the hack of
the neck.
The birtls are first plucked at the age of
nine months, hut the feathers obtained are
stiff and narrow. Not until the third or
fourth plucking do they attain their full
width and softness. The plucking of the
birds 1* a great event on an ostrich farm,
and occurs about once in nine months.
They are driven, one at a time, into a
small triangular enclosure, where two men
take them in charge. A hag Is drawn over
the ostrich's head and one man holds him,
while the other clips and pulls the feathers.
The operation finished, a gate at the
small end of the enclosure is opened and
the bird runs away with wings extended,
quite relieved to find himself stlfl olive.
The short feathers are pulled out without
l>aln. It Is saitl, hut the long wing feathers
are clipped with short scissors, the stumps
being left In the skin. In about three
months these are ready lo be extracted,
{treat skill is required m the operation to
determine which feathers are ripe, for If
they are pulled too soon and the socket is
Injured, the feather will not grow again.
Having laen carefully assorted, the
feathers must undergo a number of opera
tions before they ate ready for the market.
They are graded, according to size, and
weighed; then they are shipped to the
ostrich-feather dressers In J,on Angeles,
San Francisco and New York. Here they
are washed, dyed, sewn together, curled,
and made up into the various shapes ami
styles demanded by fashion.
Tiie profits of ostrich farming, though
they see in to have fallen off considerably
since the early days of the industry are
still very fair. The feathers of each'bird
are worth about *3l* per year; a pair of
adult birds in valued at |3OO, and a pair of
chicks at HO. Ari ostrich egg weighs about
three pounds, and is equivalent to twenty
four fowl’s eggs. They are quite edible
having a pleasant flavor, and are said to
make delicious cakes and custards It
taken an hour to boil one hard.
Much has been said, and apparently with
reason, of the stupidity of the ostrich. Un
like all other animals Who have been do.
rnesttcated, he shows no attachment to his
master, nor docs ho em lo acquire any
new ideas or habitudes from association
wllh him. Scarcely, indeed, does he learn
in years to recognize the person who brings
him his daily food. What scanty wits the
ostrich has seem to desert him on the
slightest provocation. The least alarm will
throw u whole troop Into a panic, and send
(hem racing across the field for dear life.
If one of them is taken sick or injured
through an accident, no efforts to cure him
will avail against his stublmm determina
tion to die. He refuses food and drink,
and shmfles off this mortal coil at his
earliest opportunity.
The culture of the ostrich evidently re
quires for its success, in addition to favor
able climatic conditions, experience, skill
and care on the part of the ojieralors. It
would seem that, in the California experi
ment, these elements had been most for
tunately combined, and we may look for
ward la the not distant future to seeing
the home market supplied by American
feathers, and anew name added to the al
ready vailed list of American industries.
—When Mr. Edmunds retired from the
Senate and took up the practice of law
he for a long time refused to accept cases
which Involved his appearance before con
gressional committees or which would
place him in the position of lobbying among
tils former colleagues. Apparently he has
found it Impossible to live up to this rule,
for he has of late made several such ap
pearances.
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