about irrigation
further proceedings opthe
OMAHA CONVENTION.
jlrfolnttons aa rmailtM krtte Com
nlutrc Adopted—Him tor Seearlag
National UtUlatloa for tho Adrure
,,,,.,.1 of Irrlgatioo—TnUtf ot Arte
Walla—What tho Gonnatst
Should Do la ThU Dlroetloa—Visit to
thr stork Tarda.
The Irrigation ChtmUh,
Omaha, March 33.—The second day's
session of the Interstate Irrigation con
gress was called to order with Presi
dent Moses in the chair. The conven
tion went into executive session to take
action upon the report of the commit
tee on resolutions, previously formu
lated
The report of the committee on reso- !
lutions was adopted.
Colonel C. S. Chase of Omaha occu
pied the attention of the congress with
an address on “The Dnty of the Cities
of the Plains in the Development of
Irrigation.”
Charles A. Gregory of Xew York de
livered. an address upon the subject of
•Irrigation and Continental Develop
ment." in which he defined the word
irrigation in all its phases. Scientific
application of water to land was ex
hatt'tively reviewed, in which he re
ferred to it as an art which required I
diligence to learn. The speaker could
not handle the subject as exhaustively
a*, he desired in the time allotted, but
asked -leave to print” in the official
proceedings. 1 i
Ml wood Mead, state engineer of
Wyoming, then delivered an address on
the "Progress of Irrigation in Wyom
ing." in which he reviewed the gratify
ing results of irrigation and the excel
lence of the water laws of the state.
Colonel Hogeland of Lincoln made a
tall; upon the cheapest plans for utiliz
ing the rivers, creeks and sheet waters
of Ne braska, which commanded general
attention. Colonel Hogeland spoke, in
part, as follows:
"The convention has not met to con
sider the question as to whether the
soil of this state is less fertile than it
was the day that it was broken by the
first farmer who located on it, but to
consider the subject of a gradual de
crease in the rainfall, especially over
the western part of the state, then to
suggest the most available methods for
getting at and placing upon the soil the
necessary supply of water as a substi- !
tute for the rainfall. I have for several
years past been engaged in experiment
ing with a series of pumps and water
elevators, efficient and simple in con
struction, and in this matter I will say
to the convention that I have succeeded
beyond my own expectation. j
"The first of these pumps I nse is al
most without limit in handling water
from ten gallons up to one ton per sec
ond, and operates on an incline of forty- :
five degrees. The other one is a single j
chain pump or elevator and operates in
a vertical position. Both had been
tested. The one working vertically for
rivers, wells, creeks, draws and lakes
can i-e furnished to any farmer or gard
ner at less eost than an ordinary wind
mill, including the power to operate it. j
1 have also recently experimented with
an inclined well or tunnel for reaching
the sheet waters of the state and have
given considerable time to the investi- |
gat ion of the utilization of our sheet i
waters for irrigation. To convince this ]
convention that my theory is not a vis
ionary one, I will ask my heaters to go
with me to the Antelope well or pump- j
ing station on N and Twenty-sixth
streets at Lincoln, and from which the
city of Lincoln receives its drinking wa- i
ter. I made a personal examination of i
that well and learned from the super
intendent the following facts: The i
well proper is forty-five feet deep, with
brick, l-'rom the bottom of this well i
the engineer drove five five-inch drain ;
pipes seventy feet into what we call ■
sheet water, but which is in fact arte- ,
skin, as the water pours over the 1
tops of these pipes like the opening out
of a large umbrella, and the pumps ;
which are stationed at the bottom of
the well raise to the stand pipes 1,250,- j
000 gallons of water every twenty-four
hours. If the pumps cease operation
for a few honrs this body of water rises
to within eight feet of the surface of
the ground.
"Now this is a fair sample of the
great great body of sheet water under- 1
lying the magnificent stretch of fertile
prair.e lands traversed by the railroads
of the state along the divide through
central Nebraska and Colorado to Den
ver, and if wells of the capacity of the
one referred to can be sunk along these
railroads at intervals of a few miles,
aay to the depth of thirty or forty feet,
anu from that depth drive down drain
pipes to the body of sheet water, the
farmers along the route are sure of get
fin? a supply of water for irrigation
purposes and they are certain of get
tln" a flow of water that will in most
case„ come to within ten or twenty feet
°f ti: surface of the ground.”
He'erring to the probable water snp
P‘.v in the Platte river bed for irriga
tion purposes by means of pumping well
"atcr, Mr. Hogeland quoted Chief En
gineer Nettleton as an eminent author
1 v f' H' tlie following:
" 1 ii is estimate is verified by a deep
Wea ration made on the South Platte
nver twenty-five miles southwest of
flenve , where the company has put in
a sub onduct near the bed of the river,
whi, n is eighteen feet below the water
‘“e. In the 700 feet of this conduct
there is obtained 9,000,000 gallons each
riventy-four hours, or at the rate of 153
culm- feet per second for a mile of such
*°n<iuct. Therefore, by means of a cen
irifugal sand pump, we have excavated
", la' may be ealled a gathering well
a ,ut 500 feet long and eight feet deep
(bfciow the river), and have placed two
P°" ciTul fifteen-inch centrifugal pumps
lift the water out of this well into
’he canal-”
'‘t-iorenee was also made to the fol
oi.vin rr- paragraph from the final geolog
. !'!">rts of the underflow investiga
'0|,‘ wade by Prof. Robert Hay. F. G.
' to the secretary of agriculture,
" 1 he streams thus becoming entan
? ®1' ‘n the silt of their own valleys are
nuivil iost to view, but they are not
. llolly lost. They go to feed the un
erflow. J»o physical feature of the
?rpat plains is more impressive, when
fully realized, than the fact that
“Wighty invisible river accompanies
visible one. The under-flow is
vutly broader and deeper than the vim
iblerirer and is always there, while
Uw-rirer insight may cease to flow.
Ihe only point in which the river ex
cels n velocily. The percolation of wa
silt if rery slow as com
pared with channel velocities and this
Umts the volume which may be devel
oped by subflow ditches or pumping-.
Where the silt is very porous, by reason
of its coarseness or theformof its per
ticules, and at the same time the water
is under considerable pressure, the ve
locity of percolation may approach that
or free flowing streams. In some
places in the valley -of the Platte so
copious is the underflow that when it is
tapped at the distance of several miles
from the channel it responds to power
ful pumps as freely as if the supply
were drawn from asnbsteraneanlake.”
Xtelegates paid a visit to the South
Omaha stock yards and in the evening
held a farewell session at the Commer
cial club.
Mr. Carnahan of Colorado, backed by
the delegation from Wyoming, insisted
on the following being incorporated in
the resolutions to be adopted by the
convention:
Resolved, That the government
should determine by actual tests
whether or not artesian water can be
obtained upon the great plains, and if
so, to what extent.
After considerable discussion the men
from the west triumphed and the con
vention ratified their request It was
decided to have county and state or
ganizations act as committees to punch
up the various congressional delega
tions and agitate irrigation legislation
now pending iD congress. A copy of
the resolution was ordered sent to the
secretary of the interior and congres
sional delegations of the states inter
ested. „
HARRISON'S ASSASSIN.
Attorney! Mnklnc a Desperate Effort to
Save HI* Ufa.
Chicago, March 23.—Prendergast's
attorneys are leaving no legal stone
unturned in their effort to save him
from the gallows to-morrow and as a
last resort have asked examination as !
to his sanity.
Late last evening the attorneys ap
pealed to the United States judges in
this city for a writ of habeas corpus.
Their principal point was that the
state court refused Prendergast per
mission to appear as his own attorney.
Judges Bonn, Seaman and Jenkins
met with Judge Woods. From 5:30
until midnight they considered the
constitutional points.
This morning the federal judges de
nied their aid to Prendergast, leaving
the only chance of escape from death
to-morrow in the hands of Acting
Governor Gill. The federal judges
held that the application disclosed
only the same grounds for relief that
had been presented to the Illinois
supreme court
An exception was taken by the de
fendant's attorneys whereby they re
serve the right to take an‘appeal to
the United States supreme court, but
unless a reprieve be received from
the executive of the state this will be
unavailing.
To the surprise of the community at
large a new loophole was discovered
by Prendergast’s attorneys, and an
attempt to utilize it was made imme
diately after the decision of the fed
eral judges was announced. The at
torneys decided to raise the question
of Prendergast’s sanity under a special
statute of the state.* Attorney S. S.
Gregory proceeded immediately to
make a last effort to at least postpone
the execution until the mental con
dition of the condemned man could be
passed npon' by a jury of his peers.
Judge Baker of the state circuit court,
to whom application was made, con
sented to hear the case this afternoon.
Prendergast's attorney, it is said,
would try to show that the assassin
is now insane. This proceeding was
tried in the case of Lingg, the An
archist, but failed.and all the arrange
ments were completed this afternoon
for a double hanging to-morrow,
Prendergast and "Buff'’ Higging to be
the victims.
A TARIFF BOARD PROPOSED.
Senator Morgan trill Pre*a HI* Commis
sion Solution
TTashisgtox. March 23. — Senator
Morgan to-day expressed an intention
to press at the proper time his pro
posed amendment to the tariff bill,
providing for the appointment of a
tariff commission. He said: "The
purpose of the amendment is to pro
vide for changes in the tariff upon an
equitable basis without the disturb
ance in business which is al
ways the result of an effort to
make a complete revision. If the
matter should be placed in hands of
a commission, as is proposed by the
amendment, changes could be made
to suit the condition of the treasury
or of any especial industry, and they
would be so gradual, if made in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
amendment, as to not create the least
disturbance.”
The senator cited authorities to
show that the amendment would be
constitutional and instanced the fact
that Senator Cullom had also pre
sented a proposed amendment of sim
ilar purport as an indication that it
would find support in the senate.
The proposed commission is to con
, sist of four members besides the sec
retary of the treasury, two of whom
are to live east of and two west of the
Mississippi and no more than three to
be members of any one party. It is
made the duty of the board to make
inquiry as to the rates . of
duty imposed upon any article im
ported into the United States and to
ascertain and determine whether rates
are greater or less than is just, neces
sary or proper for the raising of the
revenue and their decision is to be re
ported to the president, who, if he ap
proves it, is required to issue a proc
lamation stating the decision of the
board, giving the increase or decrease
and requiring customs officers to as
sess and collect duties upon the arti
cles mentioned in accordance with the
decision of the board.
Mbs Pollard to Write a Book.
Lexingtox, Ky., March 2 .—Miss
Pollard’s friends deny she will kill
Breckinridge if she loses the suit for
breach of promise, but in any event
they say she will write a book, giving
all the unfortunate infatuation and
relations for ten years with Breckin
ridge.
ONE MAN’S EXPERIENCE.
ATrae Story at a VanMi** MWai
limUptM the tand.
■•Iptai far Taut With IduiMtwf
Bkaiaittaat—Magical frlaara CaaM
happly Xa Ballaf—Maw Ha
Waa land.
From the Lincoln. Neb-, Journal.
If, as it is universally believed, the
acre of miraeles in the history of reli
gion has past, it is equally certain that
this is but the beginning of the age of
marvels in the evolution of medical sci
ence. No stronger proof of this could
be offered than the following case, the
truth of which is vouched for by the
Journal;
About five miles from David City, in
Duller county, Nebraska, resides Mr.
W. H. Kinnison, a farmer, who, for
several years, has been a great sufferer
from that dread source of pain and
agony. inflammatory rheumatism.
Within the last few months a great
change has come over him. From be
ing a bed-ridden rheumatic victim he
has become a strong, vigorous man,
able in every instance to labor beside
bis fellows The fact of his wonderful
restoration to health came to the
knowledge of the Journal, and in con
sequence a reporter visited the resi
dence of Mr. Kinnison. The man in
question was found seated upon a cul
tivator in the middle of a sixty-acre
corn field, and to the question, “How
are you this morning?” replied, “I
never felt better in my life.” When
asked to tell the story of his sickness
and recovery, Mr. Kinnison said: “!
always had good health until about
four years ago, when I was taken with
rhenraatc pains in my legs, arms and
hands, and it was not long before I was
perfectly helpless. I think the rheuma
tism was the result of a case of grip I
had the winter before. I did not do a
day's work for nearly three years until
this spring. 1 spent hundreds of dol
lars on different doctors and medicines
I went to Hot Springs, South Dakota,
bought electric belts and electric bat
teries. but to no use. I couldn't And
anything that would even relieve. I
was all swollen up, my muscles at their
utmost tension, and tne pain was abso
lutely unbearable. I could not get in
or out of bed alone, and for ail those
weary months I lav and suffered with
out any hope of recovery.
"At last, after nearly three years of
that kind of a life, 1 saw an account in
the Nebraska State Journal of some one
who it seemed was nearly in my own
condition, and who had been cured by
a medicine called Dr. Williams’ Fink
Fills for Pale People. I got Mr. J. J.
Frater, of David City, to get me two
boxes. Assoon as I began to take them
1 began to get better. It was but a lit
tle while before I could dress myself,
and only a short time after that that I
was able to do all my work, and I have
not lost a day since. I think that Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills are the best remedy
on earth, it is certain they cured me
of muscular inflammatory rheumatism
in its worst form.”
Mrs. Kinnison corroborated her hus
band’s story in every particular, and
his father also verified the main facts
in the case. The Journal representa
tive drove back to David City and called
upon Mr. J. J. Frater. the druggist.
Here again he heard Mr. Kinnison's
story verified.
Mr. Frater further said: "I have
several customers who buy very freely
of Pink Pills, notably Mr. D. C. Jordan,
who is also a rheumatic, and who lives
in the seuthwest part of town.”
The Journal reporter stumbling thus
upon another case hunted up Mr. Jor
dan. whom he found to be a manufac
turer. I’pon inquiry as to his opinion
of Pink Pills, Mr. Jordan was enthusi
astic as to their merits, and said: “Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills are the best rem
edy for rheumatism I have ever come
across. I began recently to use them
after years of suffering. They have
given tne a wonderful amount of relief,
1 used them in my family, too, every
one of whom have received very appre
ciable benefit from them. ”
The above is a plain statement of the
facts ascertained by the Jonrnal •repre
sentative. and can be substantiated by
any one wishing to write to the parties
named.
These Pills are manufactured by the
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company.
Schenectady, N. Y., and Brockville,
Ont., and are sold only in boxes bear
ing the firm's trade mark and wrapper,
at 50 cents a box or six boxes for St’.SO.
Bear in mind that Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills are never sold in bulk or by the
dozen or hundred, and any dealer who
offers substitutes in this form is trying
to defraud you and should be avoided.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills may be had of
all druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company from
either address.
NOTES AND ITEMS.
The archbishop of York once gave a
banquet which cost 8150,000.
The world's standing armies and
navies employ 9,000,000 men.
Up to 1865 Charleston, S. C., had a
larger commerce than New Y'ork
The blood rose is found only in
Florida in an area of five miles in di
ameter.
A new form of bicycle is being ex
perimented with for lire department
purposes.
There is a band of Cherokee Indians
in North Carolina who still use bows
and arrows.
A map of America by Columbus has
been discovered. It represents this
continent as a part of Asia.
The great oaks in Waver!y. Mass.,
are survivals of an oak forest that
must have existed in the tenth cen
tury. |
One Marler, under sentence of death
at Pineville, Ky., last week professed
religion and the chaplain baptized him
in the bathtub at the prison.
Two walnut chairs, that were
brought to this country from Switzer
land 240 years ago, it is Claimed, are in
possession of I.andon Thomas of Au
gusta, (Ja.
Statistics prepared in Paris show
that the proportion of novels to serious
works read in the public libraries of
the municipality, is less than fifty-two
per hundred.
7
REPUBLICAN MATTERS.
PROGRESS BLOCKED.
«*• XafOim rrlwIplM at Pww
laor MM oa It* Caaatry.
The bill for the repeal of the fed
eral election laws waa the Bret par
tisan measure the Democrats were
able to get through both branches of
the present congress. It was in fact
the first partisan Democratic meas
ure adopted since the war. That
this party should signal its return to
power after many years of opposition j
by restoring as far as may be tho '
conditions existing prior to the war !
is characteristic of its reactionary j
tendencies The Democrat program. !
or rather, the program of certain |
bourbon elements of the. Democrat !
party, was to wipe off the statute J
books erery vestige of the legisla
tion framed by the Republican party j
which reflected the results of the
war. This program, ignoring the
rapid march of events since 18jl
seemed to the bourbons to embody
the highest form of statesmanship,
says the Detroit Tribune. To livo j
and never to learn was their creed. {
A portion of this program has been !
carried out It remains to be seen !
what becomes of tho rest of it |
No careful student of our history j
and national developement can re- |
gard the repeal of the federal elec- j
tion laws in any other light than as )
a retrogressive movement The pas- !
sage of these laws was coincident!
with the rise of national sentiment
at the conclusion of the war; their
repeal is coincident with the return
to power of a party whose dominant
members are infused with the,'dying
doctrine of state rights. This doc
trine, in its extreme form, #111 never
again be popular in this country, for
while the proper balance between
the state and federal governments
will always bo preserved, the federal
government vearly gains an accretion
of power and function tnat is at once
demanded and approved by the peo
ple. National developement requires
this steady strengthening of the
federal government, and the republic i
is not to be preserved by breaking
down federal power, as a certain
class of statesmen think, but by
building up federal power in harmony
with our general scheme of federal
government. The democratic party
has never fully caught tne national
spirit It is not yet freed from the
influences of ante-bellum political
philosophy. In this view the repeal
of the federal election laws is a
triumph of worn-out political ,
theories.
From the standpoint of practical
politics, however, repeal of tho elec
tion laws is a merely partisan scheme
to plabe the control of federal elec
tions more completely in the hands
of local authorities It is frightful
to contemplate the possibilities of ;
fraud which repeal opens up in the I
South and in the populous Democrat
strongholds of the North, in most j
of the Southern states the election
machinery is not in the control of
the people, but is manipulated by
external authorities, so that the
dominant party has full control
throughout tho entire state In
Northern Democratic cities, notably
in New York, it seems practically im
possible to prevent the commission
of the most glaring frauds upon the
electorate. The repeal of the fed
eral election laws carries with it the
repeal of the federal statutes for the
prevention of bribery and corruption
in presidential and congressional
elections, and the only protection of
the purity of the ballot must be
found in local legislation. Nowhere
in this country are the election laws
too severe or two well enforced.
The repeal of the federal laws has
removed a great safeguard of honest
elections, and there can be no ques
tion that this fact in itself was one
of the most powerful arguments for
repeal
A Year of Fail ores.
In a purely political point of view
Mr. Cleveland has made a miserable
failure. His cabinet is commonplace,
and many of his appointments—that
of Mr. Van Alen. for instance—have
been made on private and personal
instead of public considerations and
fitness for the offices sought to be
filled. HU autocratic methods have,
alienated former supporters and di
vided his party in every state in the
Union. In tho effort to cat-ry out
his imperious will he has been guilty
of as grave an offense as lies at the
door of any president, namely—the
attempt to jjoerce a co-ordinate
branch of the government and bend
it to his purposes by unscrupulous
use of the federal patronage. He
can count himself fortunate that it
was not made the basis of articles of
impeachment. The first year of Mr.
Cleveland’s second term closed in
dishonor abroad and disaster at
home. In the interests of the coun
try and of all the people, we wish he
might have the wisdom to avoid in
the year before him the dangerous
and destructive policies be has been
pursuing.
tfeasoa* loo Aum-rou* to Jlentiou.
Tho New York World has made up
its mind that the Democrats of Penn
sylvania were defeated for two rea
sons: “First because they knew they
had no chance, and second because
of disgust with their party’s quarrel
ing at home, shilly-shallying in the
senate and fillibustoriug in the
house.” The same causes which op
erate to defeat the Democrates in
the house this year will operate to
defeat them in tho nation in 1886;
but the World does not enlarge upon
this aspect of the situation.
Where Marching Amounts to Something.
Talk of Western men “marching to
Washington'’ to lay their complaints
and demands before congress is bal
derdash. The place for Western
men is to march to the polls, when
[ opportunity offer*, and east a mors
intelligent rote U>an many of them
[ cast when the present congross and
I administration were elected. West
ern people, and Eastern people, too,
| must learn that they cannot gather
figs when they hare grown nothing
but thistles.
FOUR-FIFTHS QONB.
How |k* Ptwofnllk No I Iowa I Majority
Is Fast DUapp*»rln(.
In the national election of 1892
Mr. Cleveland carried the country by
some 379,0<X> plurality. It may give
•ome faint idea of the Republican
tidal wave which ha* set in since in
auguration to say that that largo
plurality has already been four-fifths
wiped out by tho subsequent elec
tions in eight states. Here are the
figures of the Republican gains or
Democratic losses in the state elec
tions of 1893 and 1894. as compared
with the previous federal election:
lows, ism Republican gain. 9.391
MsrjrliuxL IWo, Democratic loss . I.KM
M tsaachuaeit*. l>oi. Republican sain .. 9.SM
Nebraska. 1*0. Republican gain . 1.9 w
ODIo. 1*0. Republican rain.19.9S3
Pennsylvania, lest. Republican gain.It5,»3
Virginia lS9i, Democratic loss . 4.1*0
New York, l.*9t Republican gain. 7J,u0i
Total.!.SDO.nou
Cleveland's plurality.1....,7V Oil
Yet reinstall! t. 7S.W5
Rhode Island. Oregon. Maine and
Vermont all hold state elections be
tween now and October. They will
doubtless show Republican gains,
while Louisiana. Alabama. Arkansas
and Georgia will almost as surely
show Democratic losses. It is high
ly probable that Mr. Cleveland’s 879.
000 plurality will be entirely wiped
out by these eight state contests, and
that the country will go into the
autumn congressional elections with
a clean slate. It is no wonder the
prophets of **tarilf reform'’ grow des
perately nervous as they grasp the !
significance of those statistics.
National Convent Ion Representation.
The probability of the Republican
National committee changing tho
basis of representation in the next
national convention has been some
what discounted since the Minne
apolis convention. The Republicans
of the states which contributed the
votes that gave the party strength
and success have long been uneasy
over a system of representation that
arbitrarily gave each congressional
district two delegates irrespective of
its Republican vote. A change which
would make votes and not arbitrary
boundary lines tho hosts of repre
sentation. has been demanded. It is
now reported that the national com
mittee will determine upon a sched
ule which will provide that each
congiessional district, instead of
having two delegates, will be ac
corded one delegate and an additional
one one for every 7.0)0 Republican
votes cast in 1892. This basis would
greatly reduce the strength of the
Southern states in the convention
and increase the representation of
Republican states. The change
would increase the strength of Re
publican districts in national Repub
lican conventions, and give these
who arc expected to furnish votes to
elect Republican candidates a more
potent voice in tho selection of can
didates; but would, if carried out on
the plan of the New York Uepullran
papers, increase the influence of the
Eastern states.
A Narrow Pollrjr.
When the Republican party un
dertook to frame the McKinley pro-'
tective law. what would have been
said if the argument in favor of pro*
tection had been based solely on par*
tisan considerations? What would
haye been said if Mr. McKinley had
insisted upon a tariff for the protec
tion of the industries of Ohio, if Mr.
I Reed had advocated the protection
I merely of the lumber interests of
; Maine, or if Mr. Iliscock had insisted
| solely on protection to tho collar and
I cuff and other manufactures of his
| state? On the narrowest, most self
! ish and partisan grounds the fight
• over the tariff is being made by the
' Democratic senators. Considers
; tion of patriotism, the welfare of tho
| oeople. tne prosperity of tho nation.
| are not considered. The question
t with each senator is: “What kind
| of a bill will help the Democratic
party to carry my state? Let tho
rest of the Union take care of itself.”
Work for KepnblIrani.
The decrease in tho public debt
during the last' year of Harrison's
administration was $6.192, 117. The
increase in the debt during tho first
year of Cleveland has been $52. 145,
'823. At this rate tho Democrats can
pile up as much debt in one year as
the Republicans can pay off in eight
years and a half. Should Cleveland
keep up his present pace of a million
I a week for tho three remaining
! years ol his term, it will take about
■ thirty-six years of uninterrupted Re
i publican management to reduce the
I public debt to what it was when Har
| rison retired one year ago.
DUhareled and Dlst muted.
Between the majority report, which
in vindicating Harrison condemns
Cleveland by cutting away all reason
for his a»,tion. the supplementary re
port which affirmatively damns him
without reference to Harrison’s ac
tion. and the frank declaration by
one-half of his defenders in favor of
the annexation he has sought to de
feat. Mr. Cleveland is left in a very
much disheveled and distressed con
dition.
Tammany Has No I'm for Boosters.
If over-zealous retainers and heel
ers carry their lovhlty and devotion
to the point of getting caught stuff
ing bullot boxes and falsofying re
turns it is their own lookout. Turn
many has no use lor ballot box
stuffers who do their work so bun*
glingly as to get caught.
TIM* M K*—*if.
It to i rrwt mistake for people *k*
(u it ill afford to spend liberally to
practise economy In bard time*. On '
one occasion daring the second empire,
when there was n great financial do*
presslon. Louis Napoleon ootnmanded
his ministers to open their houses nod
entertain profusely, and the court cir
cles, taking the hint, began each, a
round of gayety that trade revised,
while the manufacturers, pinching up
courage, opened their mills, and a crisis
was averted. Spending to as much s
doty with the rich as saving is with
the poor, and it takes both attributes
to makes prosperous community.
Wild Bags la Pint;.
In many places in tha title lands- in
the Ticinity of Snisan, Cal., wild bon,
aa ferocious and tenacious of life as too
boar of the Herman forests, mar be ea*
countered by the sportsman who likes
a spice of danger in his hunting, says
the New York Evening Post. One of
these beasts, shot recently, measured
from the tip of the snout to the root of
the tail more than six feel and had
tusks fourteen inches in length. Its
weight, although It had no superfluous
flesh, was ISO pounds The skin at the
shoulders was three inches thick and
tough as leather. It was reported that
hogs had been running will in the
marshes for a long time and that
they were savage enough to furnish ,
better sport than some other animals
that are supposed to be dangerous
A party was formed to kill a particu
lar boar that had been roaming the
tales land for several years in spite of
the efforts of local hunters to bring
him to bar. The tracks of the boar
was found, and he was tracked to a
patch of dense reed grass The hunters
invaded it from different points, and
one of them suddenly came upon the
animal. Ilia companions heard the re
port of his gun, and the next instant
saw the man's body thrown in the air
fully ten feet. Going to his rescue a
second hunter was charged by the boar.
One shot brought him to hU knees, but
even then he rose and rushed on his
assailant again. A second ball pene
trated the brain and he rolled over
dead. The man who was thrown into
the air was not seriously injured, but
received bruises which laid him up fog
a considerable time.
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The Whale Story Exploded.
Baltimore American: A southern
man says that the Rev. Mr. Jasper, of
Richmond, who believes that "the tun
do move," is the author of an original
and unique explanation of the story of
Jouah and the whale. It is as follows:
“Dot country war a seashore, an’ de
hotels dey was named after de tings of
de sea. Dab was de Sailors’ Rest, de
Mariners’ Retreat, de Seafaring Man’s
Home an' a lot of sich placet, jest aa
yo' kin flu’ ’em at Norfolk now. Among
dese places was one called de Whale’s
Belly. Jonah come along, an' he
didn't hab no scrip in his purse. He
stayed dar tree days an' when de land
lady found he didn’t hab any money
she spewed him out. It is gib to us to
show how when we don't treat a man
right ’kai-e he’s pore we may be kickin'
an angel unaware. ”
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A Philadelphia Incident.
The easy and comfortable attitudes
assumed by most men riding in street
cars have frequently been a source of
irritation to women, and one feminine
passenger bad the courage to publicly
condemn the practice. A Sixteenth
street car was scuddliug up town with
many masculine passengers and one
woman, who sat in an upper corner
and whose physiognomy stamped her
as a school ma’am.
Another woman entered the car at
: 1’oplar street, and finding no vacant
| seat was proceeding to grasp a strap
| when the voice of the schoolma’am
i piped out, "It these men wonld put
| their legs together, there would be
plenty of room!" A dead silence was fol*
[ lowed by a stealthy shifting of nether
| limbs until sufficient red cushion was
i visible to accommodate the standing
! passenger.—Philadelphia Record.
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