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TEXAS’ CATTLE KING-
‘SHANGHI " PIERCE, WHO STARTED
OUT AS A COWBOY.
He \I’aéa Rhode I‘sland Lad and is Known
Throughout-the Entire West as One at
the Most Remarkable *Men of‘ the'Lone
Star Stste. ' “
’Way back before the war there went
to Texas from the wee State of Rhode
Island a tall, raw-boned youth, who
wanted to make his fortune. He was
not yet of age, and- his stature was so
unusual that it was not many days be-
fore he became known by the sobri-
quet of “Shanghi.” The youth was
earnest, painstaking and willing to
work. He had nothing in the world
but good health, a fair amount of
strength, a common education and the
clothes that he wore. To-day that tall,
raw-boned youth from little Rhody is
perhaps the richest man in Texas, and
the best- known stockman in the
world. The sobriquet of the early
days has stuck to him, and, although
he signs his name, “A. H. Pierce,” no-
body in Texas ever refers to him ex-
cept as “Shanghi” Pierce. Sixty-three
winters have come and gone since
“Shanghi” first saw the light of day,
but he is as hearty and vigorous now
and as earnest in pursuing his work as
if he were under the twoscore mark;
There is’not a town of any account
in Texas in which “Shanghi” Pierce is
not known. The same may be Said of
the Indian Territory and Oklahoma,
while as for Kansas City, St. Louis and
Chicago, the stockmen of those cities
are as well acquainted with him as if
he had been born and raised among
them. He is a mighty traveler, and,
by reason of his unusual size, ‘he‘is
marked among men. A man who has
never seen him, but has heard him de-
scribed, will unconsciously recognize
him. .
Some great stories are told about
this unique man. Most of them are
fanciful or have but a grain of" truth,
but the plain, unvarnished facts about
“Shanghi’s ” career, if once gathered,
, would serve for tales of adventure suf-
ficient to keep a writer busy for many
a day. But “Shanghi” is chary about
telling the story himself, and few of
those who know him well are fully
cognizant of the happenings in the
days before he became recognized as
one of the characters and one of the
big men of the state.
His friends say that when he came
to Texas he went to work on a farm,
but left in disgust when he discovered
that a negro was worth more than a
white man. It seems that the farmer
by whom he- was employed owned sev.
eral slaves. 0n the plantation was a
horse that only a negro named Pete
and young Pierce could ride. The ani-
mal was unusually fractious one day,
and threw Pete, and then fell upon
him. This happened near the planter's
house. The; planter and .his wife and
a lot of attendants ran to the assist-
ance of Pete. The negro appeared to
be dead. The planter’s wife, as soon
as she saw the slave’s body, exclaimed:
“0h, geodness, how unfortunate!
There’s an $800 nigger killed. Now,
if it had only been ‘Shanghi,’ it
wouldn’t be so bad.”
“Shanghi” tells this story himself,
so it is probably true.
The young Rhode Islander was a
natural horseman, and his knowledge
of cattle was good. When he, in dis-
gust, left the planter he naturally drift-
ed into the cattle business. In those
days—this was in 1854—there 'was lit—
tle else than cattle raised in Texas.
“Shanghi” became a cowboy, and for
several years he endured all the trials
and hardships of that wild life. Oc~
casionally nowadays he tells of the
times when he slept on the bleak
prairie in midwinter when it was so
cold that rattlesnakes crept .into his
blankets to get warm.
It did not take the cattlemen long'
to discover that the lanky'fellow who
rode so well was not only a. remark-
ably good judge of cattle, but had con-
siderable latent ability. There was a.
cattle merchant named W. B. Grimes,
who got to know “Shanghi,” and he
employed the young man to travel
through Southern and .Western Texas
and buy beeves for him. The cattle
bong-ht by “Shanghi” were shipped by
Grimes to New Orleans, and the mer-
chant is said to have made big profits
owing to the shrewdness displayed by
the young Yankee. When the war
came on the reputation of “Shanghi”
as a cowman was so well established
that a contract was made with him to
supply a Texas command with beef. It
is said he was always on hand with a
good supply of beeves, and that he and
his hard made up the rear guard in all
advances and led the vanguard on re-
treats. ..
Immediately after the close of the
war “Shanghi” formed a connection
with the great firm of Allen.&-Poole.
He traversed Texas for three years as
the representative of the firm, buying
droves of cattle and sending them to
Galveston, where they werg shipped to
New Orleans. In 1869 this firm dis-
continued the business. “Shanghi” had
an interest, and drew out $100,000 cash
as his share of the profits. He pot-
tered around for a year buying here
and there, always making money, but
11' 1871 he got a notion that a fortune
awaited him in Kansas. He moved
there and embarked 'in business on a
large scale. Three years’ experience
in the Sunflower State convinced him
that he was in the wrong pew, and it
'was only by exercising admirable busi--
ness judgment that he managed. to
save himself from heavy loss. ‘
"Shanghi" returned to Texas and
has made his home here over since.
Despite feuds and petty warfare.
i.asplts “gunc-' and bluster,“Sh1-ngh1
v'tl':;an ir the state.
' fully stalked.
‘Wh-y, last yeah my name wz-r
range v. idened his herds grew and
soon he loomed up as thé biggest cat-
He attended to
all his affairs himself, was continually
on tle go, \isified every section in
which he had cattle, took his steers
to market at. the right time and super-
visedevery detail of his scattered busi-
ness with a watchfulness and care that
was surprising to his competitms.
ESomehow it seemed that “Shanghi” ai-
ays did get things just right whether
it was in the time for selling cattle or
the. selection of land for grazing. His
cattle were always as good as the best
that went to market from Texas.
With his continued success “Shang-
hi” began to have more money than he‘
could,convently handle in his ordinary
business. He loaned out the surplus
at a good percentage, and has con-
tinued doing so up to the present time.
Mr. Pierce is big and bluff and
hearty. The frugal, temperate habits
he learned in the early days in little
Rhody he still retains. He lives sim—
ply, but well. There is no ostentation
about him. He drinks occasionally but
sparingly. He never uses tobacco, and
doesn’t want anybody about him who
does. He is a. curious admixture of
the Yankee and the Texan. Some peo-
ple do not like him. If he likes any
one particularly well, if he takes a
fancy to a person that person has his
utmost confidence. Here is an ex-
ample: Some years ago “Shanghi”
did his banking business in Galveston
at the'Island City Bank. In that bank
was a young man named Ed. Mc-
Carthy. This young man attended to
Pierce’s affairs. He was polite, quick,
accurate and sharp. In many instances
he went out of' his way to accommodate
“Shanghi.” Mr. Pierce at the time
showed no evidence of appreciation.
T-o-day that young man is a member
of the big banking house of Weekes,
McCarthy & Co., of this city. He runs
the banking end of the establishment
exclusively. “Shanghi” is the “com~
pany.”
THE JUVENILE WAR WIDOW.
ASect That. is Liable to Perpetuate the
Pension Department. ,.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans has
directed attention to the custom of
granting pensions to young widoWs
whose husbands. were army veterans.
While the nation is grateful to its de-
fenders, and will not forget its obliga-
tions to them, the nature of its debt
to girl infants born long after the
war is not so clear. Mr. Evans says
that, while less than a dozen soldiers
of the war of 1812 survive to draw
pensions, the names of 2,800 widows of
that period are still on the rolls. Of
course, most of these are women born
a generation after the second conflict
with England, who married old sol-
diers. They still number a fair-sized
army brigade, though hardly enough of
the brave men of 1812 survive to make
a picket post. This is doing some-
thing for posterity with a vengeance.
There are female babes now in arms
who, if this form of pensions is to be
continued, will be drawing a govern-
ment allowance through the next
century and even beyond. Thousands
of veterans of the civil war will be
alive in 1925. Those of their number
who are destined to marry girls of 20
can now reflect on the fact that their
future wives will not be born until the
year 1905.
It is no surprise to hear that the old
soldiers themselves, or at least that
,vast majority who have no romantic
interest in the girl babies of the twen—
tieth century, are protesting against
this unreasonable drain upon the pen-
sion appropriations. Commissioner
Evans says he is receiving many let-
ters from veterans who favor a propo-
sition to deny pensions to widows of
veterans married after a certain date.
Unless this measure'is adopted, tens
of thousands of young women will be
drawing pensions forty or fifty years
from now.
A PATENT COW FOR HUNTERS.
A‘Man Can Stand Inside the Frame and
Shoot at Will. 1
As deceptive and dangerous as the
proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing is
a patent cow just invented by a West-
ern genius. The device presents the-1
perfect outward semblance of a most
peaceable and amiable cow, but the
fore legs and the hind legs are in fact
the legs of two men, who are armed
with guns, and have a plentiful supply
of ammunition.
The device has a flexible: outer shell
of canvas or other suitable material,
decorated exteriorily to represent the
animal in imitation of which the de-
coy is constructed, and said shell is
adapted to be supported or held in its
distended position through the medium
of a collapsible metal framework,
which allows the covering and frame-
work of the decoy to 'be
folded into a small space for
transportation. In the sides of
the frame, at suitable points, are
windows or openings, protected by out-'
ward- -swinging flap blinds, and
through these windows the sportsman
in the rear may discharge his fowling-
piece when the game has been success—
For the firing of the
hunter iii the front of the decoy there
’is provided a downward-swinging por-
tion, which includes the head and neck
of the animal, so that by simply releas-
ing a small catch from the inside of
the framework this swinging front por-
tion drops by gravity, and thus leaves
the sportsman free.~——Chicago News.
So Dreadfully Common. 1
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HE TRUE DEFINITION OF CREQLE.
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Colored Blood,
What is a, creole? A creole properly,
1nd in strict sense, is the child of‘any
'Si‘eign parents who is born on Ameri-
2: :01. " The accepted use of the term,
torts: er, is one who is born of French
1"‘02115 inthe Franco—Latin states of
the south, especially Louisiana, Ala-
In those states the,
is the high-castenative, but
1: term has been misused to desig-
ethe mixed mulatto races, descend-
French or Spanish fathers and
..1c2:la.1 or other native mothers; but
his use is incorrect in toto. The word
:crncs from the Spanish “cri‘llo,” or the
word “criada,” signifying ”born here.”
{11 the gulf coast region the generic
:ei‘m “Daygo” (a corruption of the
Spanish name, “Diego”), is used to
zovcr all the mixed races except the
Creole proper. He is the very Hidalgo
woolen
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' 3f the coast country; the F. F. V. of the
south,__ as it were. He is ever proud
if his blue-blooded descent, and not in-
’requen_tly comes from an old and titled
family. He is proud, gracious, fond of
:igarettes and sometimes absinthe, and
has an inborn boycott on labor. The
:reole women have a, languid and slim-
311$ beauty and. grace of their own,
rarely equaled by those of colder blood
1nd skies. It is a fad with the old cre-
ale, families of New Orleans not to mix
socially with the American society. A“
:ype of the class is Madame Latour,
in De Leon 3 novel, “Creole and Puri-
:,an” a grand dame of eighty, who
knows no word of English and has
never crossed Canal street—Atlanta
Iournal.
THE CICYLIST’S VOCABULARY.
Some Up-to-Date Expressions Affected by
the IVheelers.
Cyclists who want to be up to date
must keep posted on the latest cycle
expressions and similes. Here are a
few gathered by Sporting Life, at the
late National meet:
An awkwaid person is a “wabbler.’
A gossip travels with a “loose
1procket wheel.”
If your clothes are not in style you
rm 3. “’95 model.” .
Any ride? abraiding the spin by a
tall merely “scrapes off some of his
enamel.”
A’ stupid individual, if thiere be any
web on bicycles, has “sand in his
scarings.” ‘
A proud peison, or one unduly
1aughty, “rides with his handle— bars
aised too h1gh ”
One who is disposed to be imagina-
iive to the extent of romancing, “is
geared up to 100.”
The individual ’who shouts at night
when others desire to sleep, is the vic-
:im of “loose spokes.’
The unfortunate condition of being
oroke is described as a “compound
puncture of the pocket—book."
Needed in Beast of Burden.
Visitors to Devon and Cornwall, can-
10t fail to notice what an important
part the patient ass plays as a beast
)f burden. A very good story is told
11 this connection of a rather 'hand—
tome Devon maiden, living at T—.
[‘he young woman had had little edu-
ration, but there was none to beat her
'n‘the whole district in the preparation
)f‘linen. She got it up equal to new.
Every one was surprised when last
year she'proposed to and married Tom
D———, ajpoorrlooking youth that no
girl would-glance at. Meeting Sally
the following week, the person’s wife
told her how surprised they all were.
“Oh,” said Sally, “ ’ee zee, ’twas this
er way: If I didn’t ’a ’ad he I should
have had to buy a donk’, ’cause the
:lothes is getting too many for me to
lake round.”—Weekly Telegraph.
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Killing Rabbit-s for Their Fur.
Out on the plains they are killing
lack rabbits by the hundreds for the
fur hat trade. 'The rabbits are so
- numerous on the Western‘ Kansas
plains that they can be scared up by
the score simply by dragging over the
sod a long wire that will brush the
grasses. Behind this, as horses haul it
forwaid, come the hunters, and they
shoot the hares without mercy, filling
the wagons by the end of the day. The.
Good
skins are qonted as follows:
skins, 3 cents each; damaged, half
price; culls and pieces, 5 cents a
pound; cottontail rabbits, 3 cents a.
pound. The Kansas farmers are put-
ting in their time in this way and are
making money.
'7 Something to Learn.
As Mr. Ruffedge sat down after hav-
‘ing elbowed his way back from a be-
see '
tween-acts trip, he happened to
some Japanese students sitting farther
in front. ‘
“A great many Japanese come over-
to this country to get civilized, don’t
they,” he remarked. “I suppose it
takes them a good while to get used .
to our ways.”
' “I suppose so.” replied Miss Cayen-
ne. “And I don‘t think those young
men have been here very lon-g.”_
“Why?"
“I haven’ t seen one of them climb-
ing over the people between him and
the aisle every time the curtain Went
:lown. —Washington Star.
A misinterpretation.
Mrs. Dewtell—It aggravates me or-
tul tew hear people lie,
Mr. Dewtell—What’s ther matter
neow?
Mrs. Dewtell—Why, ol’
relations, ” when I know puifeCkly well
there haint never bin '2. Prime thét
didn’t live in Podunk.-——Ne'w- York
Journal.
Madge—“Jack, clear. We rude or you
10 turn your back on me:
van reading?” . ,
Jack-1" 'Manneu for In ” dearest.
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Cy Prime,
wuz talkin’ terday ’bout “our furrin' '
Wet are .
A HUNGARIAN DELICACY.,
Live Fish Served from a mountain Located
, I "~ in the Centreol' the Cafe.
The head waiter, to tempt me as I
came in, passed me with a live thing.l
flopping on a plate—it was a. fish this
time, just out of the water—and
stopped just long enough to allow me
.a rapid glance at its beauty. I at first
‘ supposed that some lucky line had but
a momeanefore drawn it struggling
(from the lake, and that it was then
( being taken to die elsevvhere.
It was
only when I overheard the mihute in-
structions for its immediate and proper
serving—it was passed toan epicure at
I the next table to mine—that I was un-
decei‘ved, and it was not long before I
discovered that such a fish formed one
of the chief attractions of the place.
i I then began to watch, from
where I sat, the small boy, who, in
the center of the cafe, presided over
the fountain under the blazing gas
, jets, dipping his not into the marble-
;lined pool, chasing the dodging fish
1 round and round, until some unlucky
ivictim of the right size slipped into
' the mesh, and was flopped wriggling
on a plate. The sight had rather
dulled my appetite. I would as soon
have ordered its mate as I would have
thought (if driving in a spring lamb
and carving out a brace of chops while
the little fellow waited. , I had» the
curiosity, however, to inquire the
price of this gastronomical luxury. It
equaled that of two bottles of extra
dry—the price being the same to com-
Smith in Harper’s .
WARFARE THAT WILL NOT KILL.
Enemy Conquered by Anaesthesia Instead
of Bullets.
The greatest benefactor of modern
chemist named Simon Pavlowski, of
’ Warsaw. This obscure chemist has in-
l
I vented a new gas which, if used-in the
" battles of the future, will put an end
mon-ers and to kings.—-—T.v Hopkinson-
1 nati Enquirer.
DISTINGUISHED LAUNDRESS.
firs. Hayes Equal to the Joke Perpe-
, trated. on the BanteeI-nit.
When the regiment of Col. Ruther- 1
lord B. Hayes, late President of the
United States, was encamped at Char-
leston, W. Va., Mrs. Hayes, with her
mother and little children, joined her --
husband, the colonel, and occupied a
cottage close to regimental 'headquar-
ters. The soldiers were alwaiysready
to relieve the’monoto’ny of camp life .
by apractical joke or anything that
promised a little fun, says the Cincin-
One day a raw recruit
interviewed a group of men in full
view of the Hayes cottage as to where .
he could get his clothes washed and
mended. . , .
The man was a private, new and
green, having arrived the day before
, with a squad of recruits, and the temp-
tation to make him a victim of his
,own innocence was too strong to be
overcome. Pointing to, the, colonel’s
cottage, one bolder than the rest re-
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times may be found in a. poor Polish ,
to horrible mutilations and terrible .
deaths on the battle—field.
The battles of the future will be the
harmless bursting of Pavlowskl’s
as freed from its gelatine cage, will
permeate the atmosphere breathed by
the enemy and lull them into a fifteen
hours’ sleep, from which they will not
awaken until their standards have
i been seized by the Opposing army, and
) their sleeping bodies removed to a
place of safety. ~
The gas invented by Pavlowski is an
anaesthetic which is forced into a shell
made of gelatine. When the latter
bursts in the ranks of the enemy this
gas escapes, rendering every soldier in
the immediate vicinity soothingly un-
conscious for a long time, but with no
othervinjury than to incapacitate, him
for the time from working against the
opposing army.—‘-New York World.
A Colored Mrs. Partington.
A colored Mrs. Partington lives in
Georgia, and she talks interestingly.
She is about 70 years old, and makes
a great show of reading the Bible——
though it is well known she cannot
read a line.
The other morning she was seated
on her front porch with the large fam-
ily Bible open on her lap.
Some one was passing and saluted
her. ‘
“Good morning, Aunt Caroline.”
“M-awnin’, suh—mawnin’! It’s right
pievious weather, sub.”
“Yes, rather previous.”
“De clouds hang so low; bit look like
dey ’bout to hab a. collegience wid de
airt t.h "
“Yes, it does look so.’
“Well, do Lord’ll take keer on us.
De Bible say He distempe‘rs de wind
ter de born lambs.”
“Is that the Bible you’re reading?”
“Oh, yes, suh.” ' .
“Why, it’s upside down!”
“Look heah, mister!” said the old
woman, indignantly, “don’t you sup-
pose I knowed it? What dilfunce do
it make? De Bible is so plain, ”on
‘kin des read it any way!”-—Atlanta
Constitution.
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A Religions Ceremony in Alaska.
In one of the Alaskan religiouscer-
emonies a big wooden wedge is driven,
apparently, through a woman’s head,
from one temple to the other. The
effect is exceedingly realistic, the wo-
man’s eyes seeming to start ‘out of
the sockets and hang down on her
cheeks, while blood flows in streams.
As a matter of fact, the Wedge shown
to the audience is secretly exchanged
for one which consists of two parts
with hair, that is slipped over the
head.
end stuck out on one side, the point
having passed through the skull. At
the same time bladders containing
blood, attached to the band, are punc-
tured, and the blood flows down the
woman’s face. The wedge being re-
moved, she is all right again, a‘gd
the phenomenom passes for a. qm\_
religious miracle. The outs'tartik
eyes are the eyes of a seal, lowered
over the forehead.— New York Jour-
nal.
attached to a wooden band covered .
Thus it seems as if the butt '
marked: “There’s a. woman over in
that house who’ll do your washing. '
She’ll be glad to get the work.”
simple, confiding fellow march off
with 'his bundle, ‘ and walk
boldly up to the colonel's front ., ‘
Iioor. But when Mrs. Hayes under-
stood the errand she‘divin-ed the truth,
and quietly took the bundle, telling
him to return for the clothes at such
a. time. ' '
In the meantime the joke had been
widely circulated through the camp,
and every man who was not on duty
had a pretext to be in the neighbor-
hood of the cottage when the recruit ‘
alled- for his laundry. Great was the
astonishment when 001. Hayes him-
self met the recruit at the door, at the
same time delivering to him a neat
package containing the soiled clothes,
all carefully Washed and \mended,
walked off with his customer and re-
lated the circumstances, which up to
that time the raw recruit was in ig-
norance of. The jokers had no laugh
coming. “Yet,” said the narrator of
‘lhe anecr. date. “I venture to say that
‘ Hearts,
~or’cl.
Try—m ORIGINAL . ‘
both the soldieis and thei1 intended
shells’ filled with a gaswhich, as soon '— Victim honored and “we" M’s Hayes
for that evidence of her womanly met.
and kindness of heart.” 1:
KANSAS PEDAGOGICS. '
A List of Unusual Questions Prepared for
Teacher’s Examination.
It is understood that Superintendr
ent Stryker, in order to grade up the
teachers, has prepared an entirely new
set of questions for- examination.
Among them are these:
“You can frequently see a white
horse;~why d0'you never see a white
colt?” ,
“Why does a horse eat grass back—
ward and a cow forward?” '
“Why does a hep vine wind one
way and a bean vine another? Ex-
plain fully.
“Why does a horse tethered with a
rope always unravel it, while a cow
twists it into knots?”
“What is the length of a flour bar-
rel?”
“What animals have no upper teeth,
and why ?”
“Why did Abdul Hamid delay ac—
ceptance of the proffered mediation of
the Powers?”
“After the Omaha platform, what is
the greatest American document writ-
ten since the Declaration of Indepen-
deuce?”
“Give an historical fact of the fol- .
lowing great men: William Stryker,
G. Washington, William Shakespeare,
Jerry Simpson, Napoleon. ”——Abilene,
Kan, Reflector.
Expensive Pieces of Cardboard.
A pack of cards was recently sold
at a London stationer’s for $600.11:
was one of the handsomest Italian
copper- -plate card games called “tar-
occhi di Montegna,” made during the
fifteenth century. Another pack of
cards recently sold at Paris for nearly
5400. Each of the cards in this pack
is a masterwork of the engraver ’3 art,
and all the figures in the game were
historical portraits. The Queen of
for instance, represented
Queen Anne of England; the King of
Hearts being her husband, Prince
George of Denmark. The Queen of
Diamonds was Queen Anne Sophia of
Denmark, the Queen of Cfifbs the then
Crown Princess of Prussia, the wife
of Frederick William I., and the Queen
of Spades, P1incess Anna of Russia,
later on the Czarina. The Jacks in
this deck of cards represented the
most prominent diplomats of EurOpe
at the same time—Philadelphia Rec-
Renl Estate. .
Real Estate Agent (out West)——Gopa "
1norning,>Sir. What can I do for you?
William, bring the gentleman a‘cigar,
1:0 you want to buy a lot?
Calle1-—No, I want to sell one.
Agents—Willifim, never mind the ci-
garr—‘New York Weekly. '
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One Exception.
“The good die young,” said the cas-y
11a1 caller,» apropos of any old thing.
“They may if they are chickens,” said
the editor, “but if they are jokes they
do— not.”New York Truth. ’
Norwalk Chronicler