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A FREAK
COLLECTOR
He Had en Eye Gone and He
Bought Remarkable Substitutes
'Tve known a lot of freak collectors
in my time," remarked Archer Way of
San Francisco, "hut the queerest
■whom I ever knew of was that which
caught Ike Smalley. Ike and his
brother Amzi were earlies at Cripple
Crek, although they didn't line up
under the family name there. Ike was
the elder and fought his brother's bat
tles, likewise those of his brother-in
law, Barzilla Tinton of New Jersey.
One night Ike took up a scrap that fell
to Barzilla and lost his left eye.
"When I met him in San Francisco ,
he was pretty lean in frame and pock
et, but he managed to get to Alaska,
and sent for Amzi and his brother-in
law after making a stake. He came
back three years ago with something
less than a ton of dust, leaving Amzi
and Barzilla up there to share a half
interest in a paying proposition, while
he held them accountable for the other
half.
while up In the wilderness of that
cold clime Ike was satisfied to go one
eye on things. When he got down to
San Francisco he began to think about
appearances. He got to talking to ine
about glass eyes, and I took him to an
optist’s shop and showed him a tray of
eyes in the window. We went in and
the eye sharp matched his eye pretty
well and charged him $20.
“It was a difficult job to find any
thing to gee with Ike’s good eye, for
It was a yellowy greeny lamp with a
fishy look to it; but the optist did his
worst and it wasn’t his fault that the
clay bird had more expression in it
than the real pigeon, ike spent an
hour looking in the glass and prac
tising with it before he left the shop,
and on the street he admitted to me
that the phony lamp had more charac
ter than the real looker.
“He wore it a week or two night
and day and sorter became absorbed
In it. Then he branched out. He’d
got the habit and just went in for
glass eyes.
“He bought light blues, dark blues,
, browns, hazels, and all kinds of com
binations, all of which diverted atten
tion from his live eye. He used the
artificial eyes like an English duke
would his collection of scarf pins, and
soon had a different glass eye for
every day in the week and two or
three for Sunday.
“The field on the coast got too nar
row for him, and he came east and
looked up a Frenchman who makes
eyes in Chatham square and got him
to make some specialties for him. He
had original ideas, and the lamp ex
pert was willing to humor him at $50
a throw.
“Ike startled me one night with a
topaz eye. only an imitation gem. but
mighty fetching. Then he had an ame- \
thyst eye and a turquoise eye, but
really this was only a starter.
“He was looking over the shop win
dows in Malden lane one day, when he
came across a crystal brooch scarfpin
with a picture of a trout painted in it.
He wanted something just like that
for a glass eye, and made inquiries
about how the work was done. He
managed to find out that an old
Frenchman in Newark painted such
things and chased him to his dugout.
i “There he made a combination be
/ tween the glass eye maker and the
/ miniature man and set up a new line
of work. He gave the artist a line of
L
subjects to bring out on the blanks
made by the Chatham square man and
had the colors baked Into the glass.
“As artistic specimens they were
great, *but. as facial ornaments they
were rather startling. The first time
1 saw Ike with one was in the cafe of
an uptown hotel. It jumped me when
I saw a pretty butterfly staring out
of his left optic.
“I met him again that night to go
to a theater, and he called my atten
tion to the fact that be had changed
the ornament for the occasion. The
picture this time was a woman's head
and bust.
“We went to Boston on the boat,
and on the way to Fall River he wore
an eye with a picture of a steamboat
in it. He said it cost him $200. Next
morning he showed up with a locomo
tive head-on in his eye-socket.
"That afternoon he showed me what
he had in his collection. He had a vel
vet-lined leather case with 24 eyes in
it. There were fish, game, flies, elks'
heads, steamship^, yachts in full sail,
bulldogs, insects, actresses, an auto
mobile, a monogram, and a lot of plain
eyes of different colors.
“fke wasn't satisfied. He said that
the work wasn't fun enough for him
and that he was going abroad to see
what he could do in Paris and Geneva.
Somebody had told him about a fa
mous Swiss miniature painter, and
somebody else had put him wise to a
firm in Paris that made splendid little
photographs on glass. He let on to
me that he was going to travel some
and have eyes made reproducing all
of the famous buildings and art works.
“He's got the collecting habit in
him bigger than a woodchuck and
Lord knows he’s got unlimited money
to indulge himself in the fad. He car
ries a pocket magnifying mirror
around with him, so that he can see
the results, and he makes three or
four changes of eyes a day. Ike is
never so well pleased as when folks
notice his artistic eyes and talk to
him about them.”
DISH OF MEXICAN ORIGIN.
“Chili Colorow” for Those Fond of
Highly Seasoned Viands.
A dish that cannot fail to delight the
palate of those who love highly seas
oned viands, and yet, strangely
enough, will not induce an increase of
the body’s internal heat, is recom
mended by Harry Leighton, w-hose tal
ents as an amateur cook are quite on
a par with his ability as an actor. This
is a Mexican concoction, called “Chili
colorow,” and those who care for such
dainties will find it a most delectable
mixture. To make it, Mr. Leighton
takes a quart of boiled tomatoes and
one onion that has already been chop
ped fine. To these he adds three ta
blespoonfnls of granulated sugar, one
tablespoonful of the prepared ground
Spanish pepper—a condiment. that
may be purchased at any first-class
grocery store—and a little salt. The
mixture is then permitted to stew rath
er slowly for some 20 or 30 minutes,
when, if it seems too dry, a little water
is added.—The Bohemian.
Feared Whisky. •
A friend once said to Croker: “Dick,
I don’t believe there is any fear in
you. Is there anything in the world
you are afraid of?” “I ara not afraid
of any man or animal on earth,” re
plied the Tammany chieftain, “but
there is one thing I’m afraid of. and
very much afraid of.” “What’s that?”
“Whisky.” He was never known to
drink a drop.
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PEOPLE TO BLAME
HAVE THOUGHTLESSLY AIDED IN
CENTRALIZING INDUSTRIES.
EVILS flOV/ CLEARLY SEEN
Unequitable Distribution of the Earn
ings of the People Inevitably Fol
lowed—Growth of Small Towns
and Communities Retarded.
During the last few months of 1907
the people had a striking example of
the effects of too much centralization.
W hiie all over the United States there
was prosperity, a few embarrassed
concerns in Wall street, New York,
brought about a financial stringency
that became generally felt. For years
the agricultural sections have been
sending money by the millions to the
great financial centers.' Here it was
used for the building up of great
trusts and combinations, which were
greatly overcapitalized. On this
watered capitalization the people have
been compelled to pay ponderous divi
dends.
wn<r uaiuiai iaw is uiai or concenirai
ization, segregation, and in these mat
ters Nature carries on its work well,
but unnatural concentration, like oth
er infractions of natural laws, bring
quick punishment. The centralization
of industries w'hich has been going on
since the trust era started has
brought about an unequitable distri
bution of the earnings of the peoplp.
It has retarded the growth of towns
and communities. It has brought in
its wake many evils that affect work
ers in every field. Yet for these evils
the masses of people are to blame.
Every man, woman and child who. la
bors and who sends the products of
that labor to other places than the
home community assists just so much
In centralization of business and
financial power. Every resident of a
rural community who sends his dol
lars to the large city helps along the
trust builders and the centralizers.
While the mail-order evil is one that
is serious, it is only so as it is a
means of centralization of business,
and the consequent sapping from com
munities the wealth that should be re
tained in them.
* \yvuuuui v-uu t sitri jn ioco anr uip?
life elements of the rural towns.
When these enterprises are destroyed,
the town deteriorates. With the dis
appearance of the town Roes the home
markets, the good schools and the
churches and the other public con
veniences that the town affords: With
the going down of the town, real es
tate values are depreciated, and de
pression comes to all the community.
How would the farmers fare if the
towns were wiped out and only the
large cities allowed to exist? What
kind of markets would the farmers
have for all their produce? How does
the average farmer find dealing with
city concerns at the present time?
When a shipment of eggs is made to
the city commission man, does the
farmer get as good returns as he does
from the home dealers? How about
other produce? It is the home mar
kets that afford the growers of pro
duce protection. When the calm
thinker who is engaged in agriculture
considers all these little matters, he
will find that in home patronage lies
the keystone of his success. How
would the agricultural districts be as
living places were there no home
towns? But this is wdiat the situation
would be if all the people of a com
munity sent to some foreign place for
all the goods required.
Hom^ is a word dear to all good
citizens. That man lacks patriotism
whose inclination it is* to oppose the
progress of the place where he re
sides. By makfng better the home
town, we are Improving the com
munity of w*hich we are a
part. We cannot improve with
out benefiting ourselves. We
cannot give patronage to concerns
in the large cities without giving just
so much help to the trust builders
and thp business centralizers. AH
these things are worthy of the most
serious consideration of every citizen.
No Good to Town.
The man who spends his time loafing
about the town stores and complain
ing of the conditions of his environ
ments is no good to himself, his family
or his town. There are a class of men
who spend their time in bemoaning
the fact that they are not getting the
right kind of living which the world
owes them, and who never once think
how much better this living could be
if they would only hustle. The man
who is constantly grumbling about
the dullness of his town is never found
looking around to discover a means by
which he can make it livelier.
It is all stuff about the big crop tills
year. Cotton is short, and the de
mand is good. Xo stocks are <«i hand.
It was only a few months ago that
some American mills reshipped cotton
from the old countries to fill orders.
Your cotton is as gmd as money,! keep
it or gut a good price for it. \
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