M OZARK FOREST
Railroad Tie Cutting Is the Lead
ing Industry There.
WORK OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLE
Hard Labor with lint Little I’ay for
the Hardy Mountaineers — The
SuiH'ly of Tie Timber Is
ltnpidly (living Out.
In the great hardwood region of the
Ozarks the tieman will soon be a thing
of the past. Like his predecessors, the
Indian and the lumberman, he will be
only a memory.
After 1836, at the forced migration
of the Osages, the noblest of the red
tribes, the white pioneers who entered
these primitive forests found a wealth
for the gathering. Then came the era
of lumbering. Great rafts of oak, wal
nut, elm and hickory filled the creeks
and rivers tributary to the greater
streams emptying into the Mississippi.
These were the palmy days of the big
timber.
Rutfelessly the vandal axes hewed at
the monarehs of the forest, whose sap»
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ever seen a dead mulk or a rich tie
maker. The tie jugglerV^'ho has laid
by money in his occupati«p is yet to be
found. Indeed, it is general' ly conceded
that followers of this speck’s of wood
craft experience financial refi'ogression.
Many have begun tie making with a
stake in the shape of a patch, \Vagon and
team and other accessories c?f fortune
and wound up a career of tie making
patchless, teamless, wagonless and pen
niless.
For the most part, the tieman has no
permanent home, but lives in one of
those architectural makeshifts, a shack
of rough logs, in which glazed windows
are not considered an actual necessity.
In these shacks there is rarely more
than one room, and with this scant ac
commodation the patriotic tieman
raises a large family. It is not necessary
to publish President Roosevelt’s warn
ing against race suicide in this region.
The girls are strong-limbed and for the
most part comely, and the boys sturdy,
sinewy and totally disregard hardships.
For the tieman's boy the woods have no
mysteries. His eye for a fresh track is
keen, and it is all over with the “var
mint” he trees or can draw a bead on.
At an age when the city darling has his
curls cut, the heir to the tieman has at
tained a mastery of the ax and can keep
thehvoodpile heaped up. At ten he is an
adept in woodcraft. At 1G he is a man in
muscle and ability to perform a man's
work. He is then a tie maker and can
hew out his eight or maybe ten ties a
day.
An expert can average 15 ties a day
where the timber is choice. Where it
has already been picked over the output
is less. In poor ground, that is where
considerable cutting has been done, a
tieman may cut down half a dozen trees
or more and find only two or three per
fect ties, the result of a day’s work. The
most experienced tieman never becomes
strictly accurate in his judgment of the
quality of a tree. When he cuts it down
perhaps he finds a flaw at the heart or
the grain so twisted it is impossible to
work it out.
All over the Ozark country consider
able poaching for tie timber has been
| done on government land. It is being
| done to-day. This is out and out steal
ing of timber from the many quarter sec
tions not yet entered or homesteaded.
Once in awhile Uncle Sam finds out
about it, and the thieving tieman’s days
are filled with woe. Besides this bare
faced stealing, there is another method
of procuring cheap material, equally il
legal, and in which the federal govern
ment is hoodwinked. Unscrupulous tie
agents are generally the guilty ones in
this, their instruments being the hum
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“Can you tell me what sort of weather
we may expect next month?” wrote a
subscriber to the editor of a country pa
per, and the editor replied as fol
lows:
“It is my belief that the weather next
month will be very much like your sub
scription.”
The inquirer wondered for an hour
what the editor was driving at, when he
happened to think of the word “unset
tled.” He sent in the required amount
next day.—Tit-Bits.
These Strenunim Times.
’Twas Shakespeare first declared to ut
That “all the wor'd’s a stage,”
But It's more like continuous
Performance in this age.
—Philadelphia Press.
WOULD IIE HARD LICK.
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Vistor to Asylum—That’s rather a bad
case, isn’t it? What brought him her?
Attendant—Well, they say his wife
once made him go shopping with her,
sir.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Tlie Universal Belief.
I say with due civility
That some time, soon or late.
The thought comes unto each and all
That they might soon be rich and great
If. with their own ability,
They had their neighbor's gall.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Irrefutable Argument.
Aged Husband—You are going to ruin
me with your extravagance. You don’t
need that cape any more than a cat needs
two tails. How often have I told you
never to buy anything because it is
cheap?
Young Wife (with an air of one who
has got the better of the argument)—1
But it was net cheap; it cost $50.—Tit
Bits.
A Narrow Escape.
Although the boy ne'er learned to spell,
His future wasn't wrecked;
He simply used quotation marks
And wrote in dialect.
—Washington Star.
YELLOW JOURNALISM.
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A TIE CUTTER'S HOME.
ling days were centuries before. But
even in these extensive forests, in time
the big logs became a scarcity.
Then at the extension of railroads was
created the demand for railroad tie3.
Timber too small for lumber could be
worked up for the purpose, and the
■oak ties of the Ozarks were in demand.
That was the beginning of the tie era.
Tiemaking is still an important indus
try, though by no means what it used
to be. Except in inaccessible places the
tie timber is growing scarcer.
The man who does not cultivate a
“patch” in the Ozark’s is in all probabil
ity a tieman. “Patch” is the vernacular
for farhi, and the vernacular is as rug
/ged as the Ozark patch usually is. Tie
i man is a generic title, for the tieman
' may be a tie maker, tie marker, tie
gauger, tie putter out, tie rafter or tie
agent. The tieman, any way, has some
thing or other to do with the making
or handling of railroad ties.
After farming and fruit raising, the
most important industry in the hard
wood regions of the Ozarks is tie mak
ing. Thus it follows that if you do not
possess the desirable “patch” you
must either make ties, gauge them,
mark them, put them out, raft them, ped
dle them or starve.
The tie makers, the men who actually
fell the trees and hew out the ties with
adze and broadax, have the big end of
the hard work. But the fellows who
make up the rafts on the rivers and pilot
them down to some collecting point,
could not be said to enjoy a snap. The
tie agent, who buys the ties from the
makers for delivery to a contractor for
some railroad company, has the best
of it. It is generally allowed he makes
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A TIE RAFTER.
about all there is in the business. The
“tie jugglers,” who do the work, get
a bare living.
The tie agent is usually a man with
money who conducts a general store
in the tie country, and the maker, rafter,
■or putter-out is invariably dependent
on the storekeeping agent for the neces
saries of life. The luxuries he is una
ware of. It may be said the tieman is the
dependent of the tie agent, for out of
the industry has arisen a system of vas
salage. The tie man, however, is a
happy-go-lucky being, who is careless
of his social condition.
The trade with the tieman is a species
of barter in which the ties represent a
primitive currency. The agent makes
a double profit, one on the goods he
barters for ties and one on the transfer
of the ties to the railroad company. In
this way he waxes rich, while the stren
uous tlemen pursue the even tenor of a
way that is invariably behind.
It is an Ozark axi^m that no one has
TYPES IN THE TIE WOODS.
ble tie juggler. It is the custom for these
agents to borrow names with which to
homestead lands: From the home
steader only a nominal entry fee is ex
acted. The land is then denuded of the
timber, which is converted into ties.
For their lands a title is never perfected.
J. F. O'RYAN.
FACTS ABOUT TWINS.
The Remarkable Kenenihlxinee* anti
the Strange !* j ni pat bleu Some
time* .Shown by Them.
We have all heard of the twins who
got somewhat mixed when babies, with
the result that one was bathed twice,
got all the medicine and thrashings
intended for his brother, and later on
in life finished up by marrying the
young lady whom the other had court
ed—and she didn't know the differ
ence. Not long ago the American po
lice got into trouble by arresting the
wrong man. He protested his inno
cence, but they were quite convinced
that they were in the right, until his
iwin brother appeared on the scene,
and then they were bound to acknowl
edge that they had made a mistake.
The history of the past furnishes us
with many similar instances, says
Golden Penny. A sixteenth cen
tury couple were so very much
alike that the nurse, and even
their own parents, had the greatest
difficulty in distinguishing one from
the other, and, unfortunately for tfie
twins, the likeness did not stop there.
If one had the toothache the other had
it, too; if one developed a headache,
so did the other; in fact, no matter
how one became ill, the sympathetic
brother was soon similarly afflicted.
Should one feel sad. the other could
not be lively, and even if one went to
sleep the other must needs have a
nap. The chronicler who enumerates
these details of resemblance, quaintly
adds, “and so in many other things ”
Fulgosius also records an interesting
resemblance between twin brothers.
They were not particularly alike iD
outward appearance, but they were
very much alike in their careers. We
read “they were born on the same
day, both of them were preferred to
the Episcopal dignity, the one to the
see of Rhotomage and the other to
that of Noviodunum. on the same day.
and they both died on the same day."
Taken altogether, they had not much
to grumble at.
NeWsie—Extry! Four hundred found
dead!
Rube Comeon—Where? Where?
Newsie—In a graveyard! Extry! Ex
try!—Chicago Chronicle.
The FooIIkIi Worm.
De eahly buhd he coteh de wuhm—
Leas' ways dat what I heahd—
Which show de wuhm ain’t got no head,
Foh if he had he'd stay in bed
En fool de eahly buhd.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Enjoyed n Joke.
Jimson—I just tell you, you can’t find
a man anywhere who enjoys a good joke
better than I do.
Friend—Guess that’s so. I have heard
you tell the same joke 40 times, and laugh
at it every time.—N. Y. Weekly.
A Wise Boy.
Sunday School Teacher—Now, Bobby,
can you tell me what becomes of people
who steal?
Bobby—Yes, sir. If they are not
caught before they get rich they become
kleptomaniacs.—Puck.
TRADE MARK.
Shuffles—Dey say Bulky Butters is
from Boston.
Limper—Yep. He allers carries a
baked-bean can.—Chicago Daily News.
Indirectly.
Nockem—I suppose you find It neces
sary to mind the baby occasionally ?
Peelcham—Y—yes; that is, I find It
necessary to mind my wife when she
tells me to mind the baby.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
TheyNl All f'atch It.
•“Subbubs is trying to give all his
friends the shake.”
“You must be mistaken. Every time
I meet him he tries to induce me to move
out near him in Swampville.”
"Exactly, and Swampville is full of
malaria.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
One Indication.
“Do you know whether that stranger
who is going to settle down in this block
has a large family or not?”
“I am quite sure he has. He has icntcd
the smallest house in the neighborhood.”
I Chicago Tribune.
Miss Knowsitt (pensively)—I believe
that what a man does in this world he
will do in the next.
Mr. Wise—I hope not. I’m a fire insur
ance agent.—Chicago Chronicle.
A Mour.cc to Society, ^
The Colonel—Well, boys, this is my
last night at the club. I’ve gotten to be a
fearful menace to society, so there’s no
thing left for me to do but go away and
be a hermit for the rest of my life.
The Chorus—Why?
The Colonel—Because I’ve lived here
so long I know everybody’s family his
tory.
The Chorus—What, of that?
The Colonel—And, confound it, I’ve got
into the habit of thinking aloud.—N. Y.
Times.
ALL THAT AVAS NKCESSAIiY.
I-"W--1
“Charley never thinks of playing the
races any more,” said young Mrs. Tor
kins.
“I'm glad to hear it,” said the friend.
“How did you persuade him to quit?”
“I didn’t persuade him at all. I accepted
it in a spirit of patient resignation and
told him that if he lost any more I was
going to do the cooking myself.”—Wash
ington Star.
Ilec<»Knixed It.
“This,” smiled the fond young wife
as she passed a plate of dessert to her
husband, “is cottage pudding. I made It
myself."
The man tasted of it.
“I’d known it was cottage pudding,”
he asserted.
“You would?” she asked, delighted.
“Yes. 1 can taste the plaster and the
wall paper. What did you do with the
shingles and the bricks for the chimney?”
—Judge.
Rather t'nninal, •
She—Have you nouetd ihat young
Shortleigh is paying a good deal of at
tention to Miss Gotrox?
He—Yes; and it’s the first time I ever
knew him to pay anything,—Cincinnali
Enquirer.
What Would Happen,
“What would happen to-day," said the
thoughtful citizen, "if Diogenes were to
go through one of our great cities with
a lantern looking for an honest man?”
“That’s easy,” answered the Chicago
man. “Some one would steal hi» lan
tern before he had gone three blocks.”
—Washington Star.
Hunk Onfaider.
Bacon—To what family of vegetables
does the onion belong?
Egbert—I don’t think it belong to any
family. I think it’s a rank outsider.
Yonkers Statesman,
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