A Tale of
Three Lions
BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD
CHAPTER n-fCowiWlft)
“ ‘Lions, my boy,’ 1 said; ‘they are
'hunting down by the river there; but
I don’t think you need make yourself
luneasy. We have been here three
:nlghts now, and it they were going to
pay us a visit I should think that they
would have done so before this. How*
•ever, we will; make up the fire.’
“ ‘Here, Pharaoh, do you and Jim*
.Jim get some more wood before we go
to sleep, else the cats will be purring
round you before morning.’
“Pharaoh, a great brawny Swasl, who
had been working tor me at Pilgrims’
Rest, laughed, rose, and stretched
himself, and then calling to Jim*Jim
to bring the ax and a reim, started off
in the moonlight toward a clump of
sugar-bush where we cut our fuel from
some dead trees. He was a fine fellow
in this way, was Pharaoh because he
naa an Egyptian cast oi countenance
and a royal sort of swagger about him.
But bis way was a somewhat peculiar
way, on account of the uncertainty of
his temper, and very fev» people could
get on with him; also if he could get
It he would drink like a fish, and when
he drank he became shockingly blood
thirsty. These were his bad points;
his good ones were that, like most peo
ple of the Zulu blood, he became ex
ceedingly attached to you if he took to
you at ail; he was a hard-working and
intelligent man, and about as dare
devil and plucky a fellow at a pinch as
I ever had to do with. He was about
five-and-thirty years of age or so, but
not a ‘keshla* or ringed-man. I be
lieve he got into trouble in some wdy
in Swaziland, and the authorities of
his tribe would not allow him to as
sume the ring, and that is why he
came to work at the gold fields. The
other man, or rather lad, Jim-Jlm, was
a. Mapoch Kafir, or Knobnose, and
even in the light of subsequent events
I fear that I 'cannot speak very well of
him. He was an idle and careless
young rascal, and only that very jporn
ing I had to tell Pharaoh to whip him
for letting the oxen strayrwhich he did
with the greatest gusto, although he
was, in his own way, very fond of Jim
Jim, and I saw him consoling him af
terward with a pinch of snuff from his
own ear-box, whilst he explained to
him that the next time it came in the
way of duty to flog him, he meant to
thrash with the other hand, so as to
cross the old cuts and make a 'pretty
pattern’ on his back.
“Well, off they went, though Jlm
Jim did not at all like. leaving the
camp at that hour, even though the
moonlight was so bright, and in due
course returned safely enough with a
great bundle of wood. I laughed at
Jim-Jlm, and asked him if he had seen
anything, and he said yes, he had; he
had seen two large yellow eyes staring
at him from behind a bush, and heard
something snore.
"As, however, on further investiga
tion the yellow eyes and the Bnore ap
peared to have existed only in Jim
Jim’s lively imagination, I was not
greatly disturbed by this alarming re
port; but having seen to making up of
the. fire, got . into the skerm and went
quietly to sleep with Harry by my
side.
“Some hours afterward I woke up
with a start. I don’t know what woke
me. The moon had gone down, or at
least was almost hidden behind the
soft horizon of bush, only her red rim
being visible. Also a wind had sprung
up and was driving long hurrying lines
of cloud across the starry sky, and al
together a great change had came over
the mood of the night. By the look
of. the sky I judged that we must be
about two hours from day-break.
“The oxen, which were as usual tied
to the djsselboom of the Scotch cart,
we’re very restless—they kept snuffing
and blowing, and rising up and lying
down again, and I at once suspected
that they must wind something. Pres
ently I knew what it was that they
winded, for within fifty yards of us a
lion roared not very loud.
“Pharaoh was sleeping on the other
side of the cart, and beneath it I saw
him raise his head and listen.
" ‘Lion, Inkoos,’ he whispered, ’lion.’
"Jim-Jlm also jumped up, and by
the faint light I could see that he was
In a very great fright indeed.
“Thinking' that it was as well to be
prepared lor emergencies, I told
Pharaoh to throw wood upon the fire,
and woke up Harry, who I verily be
.lieve was capable of sleeping through
the crack of doom. He was a little
scared at first, but presently the excite
ment of the position came home to him,
and he became quite anxious to see his
majesty face to face. I got my rifle
handy and gave Harry his—a Westley
Richard falling block, which Is a very
useful gun for a youth, being light and
yet a good killing rifle, and then we
waited. ,. ,
"For a long time nothing happened,
and I began to think that the best
thing that we could do would be to go
to sleep again, when suddenly I heard
.a sound more like a cough than a roar
within about twenty yards of the
skerm. We all looked out, but could
seo nothing; and then followed an
other period of suspense. It was very
trying to the nerves, -this waiting for
an attack that migh* be developed from
any quarter or might not be developed
at all; and though I was a very old
hand at this sort of business I was
anxious about Harry, for it is wonder
ful how the presence of anybody to
whom one is attached unnerves a man
'In moments of danger, and that made
me nervous. I know, although it was
mow chilly enough, I could feel the per
splratlon running down my nose, and
In order to relieve the strain on my
attention employed myself watching a
beetle which appeared to be attracted
by the firelight, and was sitting before
it thoroughly rubbing his antennae
against each other.
“Suddenly the beetle gave such a
jump that he nearly jumped headlong
into the Are, and so did we all—give
jumps, I mean, and no wonder, for
from right under tho skerm fence there
came the most frightful roar—a roar
that literally made the Scotch cart
shake and took the breath out of you.
“Harry ejaculated and turned rather
green, Jim-Jlm howled outright, while
the poor oxen Btood and shivered and
lowed piteously.
“The night was almost entirely dark
now, for the moon had quite set and
the clouds had covered up the stars,
so that the only light we had was from
the Are, which was burning up bright
ly again now; but, as you know, flre
light is absolutely useless to shoot by,
it is so uncertain, and besides it pene
trates but a very little way Into the
darkness, although if one 1b In the
dark outside one can see it from so
far away.
“Presently the oxfn, after standing
still for a moment, suddenly winded
the lion and did what I feared they
would do—began to ‘shrek,’ that is to
try and break loose from the trektow to
which they were tied, and rush off
madly into the wilderness. Lions know
of this habit on the part of oxen, which
are, I do believe, the most foolish ani
mals under the sun, a sheep being a
very Solomon compared to them; and it
is by no means uncommon for a lion
to get in such a position that a herd
or span of oxen may wind him, shrek,
break their r jins, and rush off into
the bush. Of course, once they are
there, they are helpless in the dark;
and then the Hon chooses the one that
he loves best and eats him at his
leisure.
“Well, round and round went our six
poor oxen, nearly trampling us to
death in their mad rush; Indeed, had
we not hastily tumbled out of the
way, we should have been trampled to
death, or at least seriously injured.
As it was, Harry was run over, and
poor Jim-Jim being caught by the trek
tow somewhere beneath his arm, was
hurled right across the skerm, landing
by my side only some paces off.
“Snap went the disselboom of the
cart beneath the transverse strain put
upon It. Had it not broken the cart
would have overset; as it was, in an
other minute, oxen, cart, trektow,
reins, broken disselboom, and every
thing were soon tied in one vast heav
ing, plunging, bellowing, and seeming
ly inextricable knot.
“For a moment or two this state of
affairs took my attention off from the
lion that had caused it, but whilst I
was wondering what on earth was to
be done next, .and what we should do
if the cattle broke loose into the bush
and were lost, for cattle frightened in
this manner will go right away like
mad things, it was very suddenly re
called in a very painful fashion.
“For at that moment I perceived by
the light of the fire, a kind of gleam of
yellow traveling through the air
toward us.
“ ‘The lion! the lion!’ hallooed
Pharaoh, and as he did so, he, or rather
she, for it was a great gaunt lioness,
half wild no doubt with hunger, lit
right in the middle of the skerm, and
stood there in the smoky gloom, and
lashed her tail and roared. I seized
my rifle and fired at her, but what be
tween the confusion, and my agita
tion, and the uncertain light, 1 missed
her and nearly shot Pharaoh. The
flash of the rifle, however, threw the
whole scene into strong relief, and a
wild one it was I can tell you—with the
seething mass of oxen twisted all
around the cart, in such a fashion that
their heads looked as though they were
growing out of their rumps and their
horns seemed to protrude from their
hacks; the smoking are with just a
blaze in the heart of the smoke; Jim
Jim in the foreground, where the oxen
had thrown him in their wild rush,
stretched out there in terror; and then
as a center to the picture the great
gaunt lioness glaring round with
hungry yellow eyes, and roaring and
whining as she made up her mind
what to do.
“It did not take her long, just the
time that it takes a flash to die into
darkness, and then, before I could fire
again or do anything, with a most
fiendish snort she sprang upon poor
Jim-Jim.
"I beard the unfortunate lad shriek,
and then almost Instantly I saw his
legs thrown into the air. The lioness
had seized him by the neck, and with
a sudden jerk thrown his body over
her back so that his legs hung down
upon the further side. Then, without
the slightest hesitation, and apparently
without any difficulty she cleared the
skerm fence at a single bound, and
bearing poor Jim-Jlm with her, van
ished into the darkness beyond, in the
direction of the bathing-place that I
have already described. We jumped
up perfectly mad with horror and fear,
and rushed wildly after her, firing shots
at hap-hazard on the chance that she
would be frightened by them into drop
ping her prey, but nothing could we
see, and nothing could we hear. The
lioness had vanished into the darkness
taking Jim-Jim with her, and to at
tempt to follow her until daylight was
madness. We should only expose our
selves to the risk of a like fate.
“So with scared and heavy hearts we
crept back to the skerm, and sat down
to wait for daylight, which now could
not be much more than an hour off. It
was absolutely useless to try even to
disentangle the oxen till then, so all
that there was left for us to do was to
sit and wonder how it came to pass
that the one should be taken and the
other left, and to hope against hope
that our poor servant might have been
mercifully delivered from the lion’s
jaws. At length the faint light came
stealing like a ghost up the long slope
of bush, and glinted on the tangled
oxen’s horns, and with white and
frightened faces we got up and set to
the task of disentangling the oxen till
such time as ther should be light,
enough to enable us to follow the trail |
of the lioness which had gone oft with;
Jlm-Jim. And here a fresh trouble;
awaited us, for when at last with In
finite difficulty we had got the helpless,
brutes loose, it was only to find
that one of the best of them
was very sick. There was no
mistake about the way he stood
with his legs slightly apart and his
head hanging down. .He had got thej
red water, I was sure of it. Of all thej
difficulties connected with life andj
traveling In South Africa, those con
nected with oxen are perhaps the worst
The ox Is the most exasperating ani
mal in the world. He has absolutely
no constitution, and never neglects an,'
opportunity of falling sick of some
mysterious disease. He will get thin
upon the slightest provocation, and
from mere maliciousness die or pov
ertywhereas It la his chief delight to
turn round and refuse to pull when-,
ever he finds himself well In the cen-\
ter of a river, or the wagon-wheel nice-'
ly fast in a mudhole. There Is always
something wrong with him.
"Well, it was no use crying as 1
should almost have liked to do, because!
if this ox had red-water it was prob
able that the rest of them had it, too,
although they had been sold to me as
‘salted,’ that is, proof against such dls-j
eases as red-water and lung-sick. One)
gets hardened to this sort of thing lnj
South Africa in course of time, for I
suppose in no other country in the
world Is the waste of animal life so
great.
"So, taking my rifle and telling Har
ry to follow me (for we had to leave
Pharaoh to look after the oxen i,
Pharaoh’s lean klne, I called them), ^
started to see if anything could b«j
found of or appertaining to the un
fortunate Jlm-Jlm. The ground round:
our little camp was hard and rocky,
and we could not hit off any spoor
of the lioness, though Just outside the
skerm we saw a drop or two of blood.'
Several hundred yards from the camp,
and a little to the right, was a patch of
sugar bush mixed up with the usua(
mimosa, and for this I made, thinking!
that the lioness would have been sure)
to take her prey there to devour lt^
On we pushed through the long grass
that was bent down beneath the weight;
of the soaking dew. In two minutes
we were wet through up to the thighs,
as wet as though we had waded through
water. In due course, however, we
reached the patch of bush, and In the
gray light of the morning cautiously
and slowly pushed our way Into It.
It was very dark under the trees, for
the sun was not yet up, so we progressed
with the most extreme care, half ex
pecting every minute to come across
the lioness licking the bones of poor
Jim-Jim. But no lioness could we see,
and as for Jim-Jim, there was not the
least trace of him to be found. Evi
dently they had not come there.
"So, pushing through the bush we
proceeded to hunt every other likely
spot about, with the same result.
“ ‘I suppose she must have taken him
right away,’ I said at last, sadly
enough.. ‘At. any rate he will be dead
by now, so CJod have mercy on him, we
can’t help him. What’s to be done
now?’
“ ‘I suppose that we had better wash
ourselves in the pool and then go back
and get something to eat.’
(TO IK COXTINOBD.I
A Glorious Opportunity.
A middle-aged man, with what ap
peared to be a load on his mind, visited
an arctic steamer and seemed Interest
ed in what he saw.
“I say,” he said to the officer on
deck, “I’d like to go on the next ex
pedition.”
“It’s awfully cold up there,” re
marked the officer, dlscouragingly.
■ "I don’t care about that.”
“You’d have very little to eat and
might have to starve.”
"That would’t be pleasant,” said tfie
visitor.
"I should,say not,” returned the of
ficer, ‘ and you might be eaten by your
comrades.”
"Is that so? That would be dis
tinctly bad.”
“And then,” continued the officer,
“you wouldn’t see your wife for three
years and possibly longer. You know
you can’t take her with you.”
“Well,” returned the gentleman, aft
er a long pause, “I think you can put
me down on your books. Your last
argument captured me.”—New York
Dispatch. *
Jews* Telegrams.
“Sending a telegram/' says a Phila
delphia telegraph man, “is serious
business for the ordinary man or wo
man. They think It’s expensive and
only use the wires when they have to.
Therei’s one exception, however, and a
kind of complimentary business that
most people would never suspect.
Whenever there’s a Hebrew wedding,
that is, one of any importance, we
handle scores of congratulations, hun
dreds sometimes, from all parts of the
country. They are sent with directions
to deliver at a certain hour and we
generally send them all to the house
or place where the reception is held
in one bunch. It’s a good thing for
the company, for the senders don’t
count the words, and file their tele
grams without any revision. Some
times they run up to 100 or 150 words/*
—New York Tribune.
Brandied peaches served with ice
cream form a combination for dessert
that frequently replaces the Christmas
mince pie and plum pudding.
ABE HARD AT WORE.
PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
’ PUSHING PROSPERITY.
Thrift and International Bimetallism
the Chief Topic—The Former Receiv
ing Especial Attention la Congress —
Hot Shot for the Democratic Minority.
(Washington Correspondence.)
It there Is any doubt on the part of
any man, woman or child as to the
determination of President McKinley
and the Republicans generally to carry
out the pledges of the party, they
should take a look at the white house
and capltol these busy days. There Is no
lagging at either place. The tariff, the
International Bimetallic conference,
the protection of American citizens are
all getting close attention and with
prospect of good results.
The Farmcm Under Discussion In Con*
grin i
▲ long distance telephone, connect
ing every fanner in the United States
with the capitol of the United States'
would have given to the farmers of tne
country this week some Interesting
information as to the attitudes of the
two great parties. The tariff bill has
been under discussion and no farmer
could have listened to the discussion
without being able to clearly determine
who were his friends and who were
not his friends. The strong, vigorous
arguments of the Republican members
of the ways and means committee In
behalf of those features of the bill
which are especially beneficial to the
farmers on the one hand, and the cov
ert sneers of the democratic and popu
list orators relative to the very fea
tures of the bill on the other, show
that the farmers of the country made
no mistake when in last November
they voted the Republican party in
power and the protective system in
operation. The Republican members of
the committee have shown that the
bill was framed with the interests of
the farmers constantly In mind, while
the attacks upon that measure by the
democrats have been specially leveled
at those features which were beneficial
to the farmers. Chairman Dlngley in
his opening address called especial at
tention to those features and Gen.
Wheeler, of Confederate fame, who led
off the debate for the free trade wing
of the democracy, attacked fiercely
those features of the bill which are
intended to be especially valuable to
the agricultural community. Congress
man Hopkins of Illinois devoted a
large share of his speech to an ex
planation of the reciprocity features,
showing that under the reciprocity
treaties made In pursuance of the Mc
Kinley law, great advantages were
gained in foreign markets for our ag
ricultural products and that even
greater opportunities aro offered by
the new bill; while Populist Bell bf
Colorado, who followed him in oppo
sition to the bill, especially attacked
the wool schedule and denounced the
effort to give the home market to the
American workmen and thus to the
American producers. Mr. Bell’s speech
: was freighted with sneers at the wool
tariff, the sugar tariff, the tariff on
flax and hemp, and Indeed everything
in the bill which is Republican in doc
trine and which is intended to bene
fit the farmer, and these attacks were
i coupled with admissions on his part
| that even his own state had good beet
growing soil, great opportunities for
wool production and other agricultural
possibilities of extreme value. Popu
lists and Democrats seemed to vie with
each other in their denunciation of the
tariff measure and all because it is
the production of the Republican party.
International Bimetallism.
While there has been no official an
nouncement as to the immediate pol
icy of the administration regarding in
ternational bimetallism the develop
ments have been such as to warrant
the conclusion that the negotiations
for an international conference are to
'be undertaken through authorized rep
resentatives of this government at a
Very early date. Whether this will be
by the appointment of special repre
sentatives selected for this specific pur
pose or through the ministers to the
foreign governments is not yet clear
but it is known that negotiations are
being set on foot already and that the
auimuisiruiiuii uuyets iu do auie 10 oring
about a conference in the coming au
tumn which will be participated in by
the great nations of the world. Mean
time the friends of free coinage in the
United States without the co-oporation
of other nations are losing ground and
many of them recognizing the fact that
international action Is the only practi
cable method of restoring the use of
silver. The old theory that silver and
farm products have kept pace in values
and that silver money was therefore
the true measure of value has lost
its hold by reason of the fact that
wheat continues high while silver has
continued to depreciate, reaching al
most the lowest point in its history.
i Tariff Legislation Uelng Fashed.
The Republicans in the house are
showing their desire for prompt action
on the tariff, by the hours which they
are putting upon the Dlngley bill. The
house which is accustomed to meet at
12 o'clock noon, and adjourn at 5 p. in.,
now begins its session at 10 a. m. and
closes the day’s work at 11 p. m., de
voting all of Its time to the one sub
ject of the discussion of the Dingley
bill. It is expected that the discussion
will be completed and the bill passed
by the end of the month. Meantime,
the republicans of the senate finance
committee, recognizing the fact that
the bill will reach them in about its
present form, have begun their exam
ination of it, paragraph by paragraph.!
Their work will occupy necessarily
considerable time as was the case with
the ways and means committee, which
It will be remembered has been months
at work on the bill, but it Is hoped that
the bill; which will pass the house
about March SO will get before the sen*
ate by the end of April, and become a
law by the end of the fiscal year,
June 30.
BaslMM Bartvlng,
One evidence of the business activ
ity which has followed the success of
the Republican party is shown in the
development of new Industries all over
the country and especially in the south,
dicste that a new million dollar cot*
ton mill is to be erected there with
eastern capital, while information
reaching the Wool and Cotton Re*
porter of Boston, indicate that the cot
ton weaving and spinning mills of the
south are running on full and in many
cases on extra time.
O. H. WILLIAMS.
Reciprocity Had* Dlfltaalt by Democratic
Action.
President McKinley, In his inaugu
ral address, advises the renewal of the
reciprocity provisions of the tariff of
1890. The Democrats have made It dif
ficult to establish the old relations with
the American republics. They have
been so unceremoniously and unjustly
treated that they naturally regard with
suspicion a renewal of reciprocity over
tures. This should not influence Con
gress against the adoption of the pol
icy, but it should place the public on
guard against too sanguine expecta
tions of the immediate effect of such
a policy. The Southern republics will
drop in one by one, because it is great
ly to their material advantage to do so;
but they will not seize the opportunity
with so much enthusiasm as In 1891.
The resumption of trade will be grad
ual, but in a short while both sides
will gain confidence In the assurance
that no party will again be so utterly
reckless as to deliberately destroy a
flourishing commerce. — Baltimore
American.
Professor Wilson’s Mistakes.
Ex-Postmaster General Wilson, the
author of the tariff act of 1894, in at
tacking the Dlngley bill, makes several
surprising statements. “With the ac
cumulated moneys In the treasury,”
he says, “we really need no new im
position of taxes on the people to con
duct us to sufficient revenue, or even a
comfortable surplus, if we will only in
vite back prosperity by giving stability
to business and reduce expenditures by
a few obvious'reforms. At the recent
rate of revWitie shortage the deficit In
the fiscal ' jta'ar which ends on June
30 next will be over $70,000,000. Un
questionably something could be done
to reduce the government’s expendi
tures without seriously injuring any
legitimate interest or impeding any
necessary governmental activity, but
does any intelligent, unbiased person
seriously believe that the expenditures
could be cut down sufficiently to close
this broad gap between income and
outgo without detriment to the pub
lic service?”—St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat,
Sugar Trait Hit Between the Eyes.
The sugar trust was hit a blow be
tween the eyes by the republican mem
bers of the ways and means committee
when the sugar schedule of the new
tariff bill was agreed upon.
While there Is a high protective du
ty upon all kinds of sugar, the differen
tial under which the trust makes its
profits Is reduced from about one
third of a cent a pound to one-eighth,
and all duties are made specific in
stead of ad valorem.
It Is the specific duty which will hurt
the trust more than the reduction of Its
differentials. Undervaluations have
permitted the trust to get Its raw su
gars very cheap, while the higher dif
ferential has contributed to its great
profits.
The committee have arranged a bill
which will build up the beet sugar in
terests of this country, and eventually
make sugar much cheaper than it 1b
now. The rise of the beet sugar in
dustry is counted upon to destroy the
sugar monopoly now possessed by the
trust. No bounty is provided for up
on home produced sugar.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
Guardi Not Wanted*
There are two reasons for being
grateful to President McKinley for his
reported decision to abolish the police
guard at the white house. One is sen*
timental and the other practical. It
is doubtful whether under ordinary
circumstances the white house really
needs a guard, and many think that in
case of such need the service can bo
most appropriately rendered by sol
diers of the United States. The police
man, as a rule, is considered as merely
a safeguard against such small offend
ers as pickpockets, pilferer®, drunken
men and roisterers. There has always
been a very general feeling that if the
president desired a force of men
around his official home to insure his
safety a military guard would not be
only more effective but more thorough
ly in keeping with the station of the
president, representative of the govern
ment and significant of greater power
than a mere policeman typefles. But
it has been thought by some to be un
American that the white house should
be surrounded by soldiers. The sight
of untforms and guns would be of
fensive to the democratic prlnciples'of
the people.—Washington Star.
At the - head of Germany’s landed
aristocracy stands Prince Wittgenstein.
He owns 9,000,000 acres. Fourteen
other titled'"landlords own between
them 0,000,000 acres.
NOW FOB THE WOB£
PREPARATIONS FOR THE GREAT
SHOW OF 1808.
Warkltf Forces Belsg Thoroagblj Or*
(solved—Choice af Odttit) Uni
sad OlhsrwlM—All flaatlesa at
the Mata Olaaa Sagiaaaata1
ties—Kotov.
' us
Traaa-Nlaalaalppl Bx polities.
The working forces of the Exposi
tion are thoroughly organized and are '
doing moat effective service. The act
ive management is in the hands of an
executive committee of seven members.
Each manager of the executive com*1,,
mittee is the manager of one of the jf
seven departments into which the work
of the exposition is divided. These
managers were chosen from among the
fifty directors elected by the stock
holders of the exposition. The state
law appropriating 1100,000 provides
for state commissioners, who must be
elected as members of the board of di
rectors in order that the state may
have a voice in the affairs of the expo
sition. The congressional act, as a
matter of course, provides for commie- r
Bioners who will have charge of the
government exhibit and building. The
articles of incorporation of the exposi
tion provide for a vice-president for
each of the twenty-four Trans-Missis
sippi states and territories, to be ap
pointed by the governors of the
respective states. The vice- presidente ^
Arp aa fnllnwit!
Resident vice-president for Nebras
ka, ex-Oor. Alvin Saunders, Omaha;|
Arkansas, Hon.' W. O. Vincenheller,,
Little Rock;. Minnesota, Hon. Frank;
H. Peavey, Minneapolis; Montana, Hon.;
W. H. Sutherlln; North Dakota, CoLI
C. A. Lounsberry, Fargo; Iowa, George
F. Wright, Council Bluffs; South Dart
kota, Thomas H. Wells, Hot Springs;:
Nebraska, William Neville, North
Platte; Missouri, John Doniphan, 8t.
Joseph; Kansas, C. A. Fellows, Tope-j
ka; Arizona, Charles R. Drake, Tucson;
California, George W. Parsons, Lost
Angeles: Texas, Gustav Reymershoffer.j
Galveston;Oklahoma, Eugene Wallace,
Oklahoma City; Idaho, B. P. Shawhan,
Payette; Nevada, Win. J. Westerfleld,
Reno; Utah, Louis W. Shurtllff, Ogden
City; Colorado, Henry P. Steele, Den
ver; New Mexico, L. Bradford Prince,
Santa Fe; Oregon, B. S. Cook, Salem;!
Alaska, Gov. James Sheakley, Sitka.
Following are officers of the exposi
tion: Gurdon W. Wattles, president;
Alvin Saunders, resident vice-presi
dent; Herman Kountze, treasnrei1; John
A. Wakefield, secretary. The execu
tive committee is composed of the fol
lowing: Zachary T. Lindsey, chair
man and manager of the department
of ways and means; Edward Rose
water, manager of the department of
publicity; Gilbert M. Hitchcock, man**
gerof the department4 of promotion;
Fremann P. Kirkendall, manager of
the department of buildings and
grounds; Edward E. Bruce, manager
of the department of exhibits; Abram
L. Reed, manager of the department of
concessions; W. N. Babcock, manager
of the department of transportation.
The plan for a board of managers
for the woman’s department has been
approved by the executive committee..'
It provides for a board of twenty-seven
women, which is to have charge of all
educational matters and of congresses „
on philosophical subjects. The board
is composed of representatives as fol
lows: Omaha 11, Council Bluffs 3.
South Omaha 3, and each congressional
district of Nebraska 3.
April 0 the board of managers met'
and effected permanent organisation.
The meeting was in all respects har
monious, the full membership being
present. Every section of the state /
was given representation in the elecv' ;
tion of officers, as follows:
President, Mrs. A. J. Sawyer, Lin- •
coin; first vice-president, Mrs. Thos. L-1
Kimball, Omaha; second vice-president,
Mrs. F. Johnson, Crete; secretary, Mrs.'
F. M. Ford, Omaha; executive commit
tee, President Sawyer, Vice-President
Kimball, Mrs. W. P. Harford Omaha,
Mrs. W. W. Keysor Omaha, Miss Kate
M'Hugh Omaha, Mrs. ,T. R. Reed
Council Bluffs, and Mrs. D. C. Giffert
of West Point.
The forthcoming jdbilee celebration
promises to be a most important event.
An elaborate program has been ar
ranged. Invitations to speak have been
extended to Gov. llolcomb of Nebraska,
Gov. Drake of Iowa, Hon. W. J. Bryan,
Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Hon. John
Baldwin of Council Bluffs and Mayor
Broatch of Omaha.
After the speaking the crowd will
adjourn to the lower part of the
grounds where the corner stone of one
of the large buildings will be laid with
appropriate ceremonies and the work
of making the exposition will then
have been formally inaugurated.
A Great Ueuiua.
The greatest military engineer of
any age was Sebastion Leprestre Van
ban, born In 1633 and who died In 17#T.
To Vauban is due the credit of almost
all the fortresses which to the present
day protect the frontiers and the sea
coasts of France. During his career
as • military engineer he reconstruct
ed on new lines over 300 old fortresses
and built thirty-three new. He carried
on fifty-three sieges, being successful
in nearly every one, and took part in
140 battles. -Cj
Something New In the Moon.
Lato photographs of tho moon de
veloped by the astronomer-photog
rapher of the l’csth academy exhib
it some unaccountable peculiarities.
Tho p!ate shows hundreds of walls or
embankments seemingly about 23t>
feet high and from 125 to 203 yards
in width on top. They run parallel
to each other und appear to be from
1,000 to 1,330 vards apart.
Surface of the Karth.
Astronomers calculate that the sur
face of the earth contains 31,625,625
square miles, of which 23.814,121 ar»
water and 7,811,504 are land, the water
thus covering about seven-tenths of thm
earth’s surface.
Harmeny.
The great need of the world is a relt- v
glon which can harmonise the interest
of the individual with the interests of
society, which can make the desire of
the individual and the desire of society -
one and the same thing.-—Rev. H. Bl^W- :