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if X TKE SIOUX UUOTY JOURNAL. I. t. UKMOH8, Proprietor HARBISON, NEBRASKA Arretted for Mfcrder. Saji Francisco, Cal.. March 10 Richard Heath, sou of the lat Genera Heath, baa been arrested for the murd er of Louis B. McWhirter in Fresno last Aufuat. Fred W". I'olly is in jail it Fresno for vagrancy, charged with ine tame crime. McWhirter took a prominent part in Fresno politics and made many enemies. His life was threatened and he ooU ft0,000 life insurance. Un the night of August 29 McWhirter was aroused by a ioise in bis back yard, lie went, part- illy dressed, revolver in hand to investigate. A succr-ssiou of pistol kiots followed and McWhirter was lound in the yard with a bullet in his acart. Two heavy clubs indicated that ibcre were two assassins. The insur ance companies believed he committed micide and refused to pay the policies, lhe tragedy created a sensation :brougout the state. When taken into custody Heath in .iinated that be expected it, but declar ed he could prove an alibi that be went to bed at the Grand Central hotel ia Fresno at 11 o'clock on the night of (be murder, and was asleep at the time it ccurred. He declares iie was Mc V .drter's friend and holds tbe theory that McWhirter was killed by mistake. During the campaign McWhirter brought Joseph E. liaker, a well known newspaper writer, to Fresno to conduct it newspaper in the interests of tbe Mc Whirter faction of the democratic party. Baker, by bis writings, incurred Heath's enmity and Heath went around with a revolver to kill him. McWbiiter :tnd bis family wei.t to the mountains, e.iving Baker in h s house, re: u nir.g a few days b-'fure ti e murder. The tl.eory is that Heath.not knowing of the return went to McAhirter's house to kill liaker, but instead killed McWhirter. '1 he fact that Heath bad been arrest ed here was not generally known until Tuesday morning, as Heath was taken immediately over to Oakland and put up a train tor Fresno, where he arrived last night. Heath ..ad just come to the city from Los Gales, where be has been taking tha Keeley cure. He is well known in San Francisco, where he has friends and relatives of high stand ing. Fresno, Cal., March 16. The city is greatly excited over tbe news of the ar ieit of McWhirter's murderers. Tbe arrest of Heath in San Francisco was a ?reat surprise, though he has long been suspected. The grand jury is now in session here and It is understood will return indictments against HeatU and l'olley. It Is believed Heath will plead insanity as a defense. The name of a third man to be arrested is not known, but it is stated he will be caught before morning. Opening- the Strip. Washington, March 16. Secretary Smith received a telegram from Ar ts auas City, Kas., signed by a delegation representing the- houseseekers on tbe border of the Cherokee strip, strongly urging that the strip be opened to settlement at the earliest possible moment, and stating that great destitu tion existed among tbe people. The secretary replied that it was impossible at this time to say when the strip would be opened, because certain prelim inaries required by the act providing for the opening of tbe strip must first be complied with; that the president appreciated the situation and synpa Ibized with the people, but that they must wait in patience until executive action opening the strip could be had. HoMlmMobi. Constantinople, March 16.-Moselm mobs bare possession of Cacarea, They have robbed hundreds and killed many, sacked churches and burst into private bouses and shops. AU places of busi ness are closed and trade is utterly stagnant Violence and theft continue day and night Christian caravans aie b ling robbed and merchants murdered. The prisons are crowded with Armen ian prisoners. The most conspicuous Armenians in Ciesrea and Marsovan are Imprisoned. A few escaped uy paying a high ransom. ' Bight KaTcread at the White Bonn. WASBiNOTON,March 16. -A very dig nified delegation was introduced to the president yesterday by Bancroft Davis, recorder of tbe supreme court. It was composed of four bishops of the Episco pal church, Right Reverends Taret of Maryland, Potter of New York, Whit taker of Pennsylvania and Hare of South Dakota. Tbe object ot the visit was to discuss with Cleveland the Chinese exclusion act with relation to Its bearing on American interests in China. They said a strict enforcement ot tha law would be apt to endanger tha property and lives of Americans. Tbey told tbe president they came to him not as representatives of the jnnrch, bat as citizens, and tbey bad no ifgestions to make, but had simply sjmm to confer with him, and Cleveland MtM ia reply that te had to enforce this at waQ as the other laws of the country. Cat kfehops dmttad this, bat suggest tl the It Might be posaiMs to mitigate i twaw degree tbe severities of the fcrt onMtoaa. Tbe president told KWws3 what he cmikl and C turrit teraaated, v ,- - rf?C3wM aacfcsd by . J-Yxa-.m M two AN 4 - Horrible Xew. San Feakcisco, Cal., March 17. The steamship City of Rio tie Janeiro arrived from Yokohama and Hong Kong. A Yokohama paper prints an account of the extermination of a band of pirates in a Chinese village. On the 15th of January last two piratical traft wtre run into one of the numer ous inlets in the vicinity of tho city of Fau-Tu for shelter from a blinding snow storm, and having made all snug alongside the beach, some of the pirates landed. It so happened that some of Uiem were rcoguized by inhabitants of the village who had suffered from the depredations of pirates. Xo sooner had tha men returned to their junks than the alarm w:is silently given and the principal men of the village determined to wreak summary vengeance on the unwelcome and frequent visitors. Ac cordingly three hundred well armed villagers surprise I the pirates, burst open the hatches and doors of tbe cabins and pcured a stream of bullets upon the Dfty or sixty pirates, who were huddied together f jr warmeth on the lower decks of the junks. Hardly any resistance was made, all the pirates but two being a' most hacked into mincemeat by the exasperated villagers. MKT A RKVOLT.NO KATE. These two piiates, escorted by the whole comma ity. were lea to the grave of a young man who was murdered in a previous raid by pirates, and, after be ing secured to a couple of stakers, the two nearest relatives of the dead man plunged a knife in the breasts of the pirates, and ripping open their bodies extricated their hearts, which were then put on a plate and placed on a table, upon which were already lighted can dles, and in cen 3e was burned. While all l his was going on : he female relatives of the deceased, dressed in mourning colors of white, gathered by the side of the grave, crying and calling ont to t lie spirit of the dead to receive the sacrifice that whs being offered. The offerings were left at the grave at the end of tho ghastly ceremonies, and the villagers proceeded to ransack the piratical junks, alter having first thown i he bodies overboard into the sea. The Plunder from the junks, gold, silver. cash, silk?, satin and rice, was then equally divided among the familes who had ever surterea at tn lianas ot pirates. and as the linal net of I he tragedy the junks were towed in the stream and set on (ire and burned to the water's edge. The hearts or the victims sacrificed were afterwards cooked and eaten by the dead man's relatives, or those who desired to do so. Thirty-four 1 ves were lost by an av- lanche of snow at llida, Japan, Feb ruary 10. A fire destroyed 220 houses, injuring hree liremen.at Yawatachom, Japan, February 14. Smallpox continues to spread in the raits settlements. The Japan Gazette has been informed that there are no less than 300 cases of the pest in the English nd American settlements alone. Another steamer has left Yokohama with over 7iO emigrants for Hawaii. The Nova Scotia thip Cheshire was destroyed by lire at Samarang, China, february 20. lhe sailors, who bad de serted the ship, were brought back by the police, it is supposed that tdey set the vt ssel on lire. A Gxstly Find. Louisville, Ky., March 17. Eight human bodies, packed in four barrels was the gastly discovery made by a f. eight handler of the Newport News & Missippi Valley freight depot yester day afternoon. Five of them were the remains of men and the other three of women. Whether there is any crim inality attached to the matter or whether the bodies were intended for dissection by medical students is not known. Yesterday a young man appeared at the depot and stated that he desired to ship a quantity of house hold goods to Big Clifty, Ky. He gave his name as W. T. Gweens and from his appearance the clerk took him to bo a professional man. He returned two hours later with an express wagon containing the household goods be had mentioned during his previous visit. Among other tilings were four ordinary barrels. That was the last seen of the man, though LOthing more was thought of the matter until the horrible con tents of the barrels was discovered by one of the clerks. The freight handlers began moving the barrels and had moved two of them when they discovered what tbey were dandling. The third barrel was placed upon a truck and while it was being rolled acrosj the floor one of tbe the pieces of the head of the barrel broke out. 'J his loosened the entire head and when the men attempted to upend the barrel it broke and tbe head, shoulders and arms of a human body rolled half way out of the barrel On tbe arrival of officers an examina tion of the other barrels was made and all of them were found to contain human bodies. Some of the bodies were found to be cut to pieces. This led the officers to believe that the barrels had been packed in the dead room of some meulcal college for the purpose of dissection. It has been suggested that tbe stranger is a dealer in that kind of ghoulish goods and being nimble to dispose of tbe bodies here, " 1- tended to ship them where he could hod them without fear of discovery. Big Clifty is sixty two miles from Louisville. ' . ". Two Xew Directors. St. Louis, March 17 At the au oaal meeting f the Missouri Paciflo road tha old list of directors was chosen, with the addition of Howard Gould and Louis Fitzgerald of New York. . Tbe annual report of tba Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain A Southern hows gross earnings of St7,OiLC37; Operating expenses, etc. f 137,771; arplas, (802i& Oprelng the Cherokee Strip. Washington, March 18. Active preparations are about to be begun by Secretary Hoke Smith for opening tbe Cherokee strip under the provisions of the Indian appropriation act ratifying the agreement with the Cherokees. The ceded trac, contains 8,145,02:2 acres, for which the government agrees to pay S8 51)5.733 of which amount the sum of $295,736 is to be paid at once, the remainder, $8,300 00 in five equal annual installments, beginning March 4, 1895, ihe deferred payments to bear 1 per ceut annual interest. If however the Indians so desire, tbey may realize at once on tbe sale of their lands, as authoriry is given them to issue a loan for the full amount, pledging the principal and interest due from tbe government The preliminaries to be observed prior to opening the outlet to settlement by proclamation of the president will consume considerable time. Seventy allotments are to be made to Indians who were bona fide residents of the strip prior to Novem ber, 18'.)1, aud engaged in farming, and the strip is to be opened to settlement under the provisions of the act to organize Oklahoma territory. These allotments are to beconflrmend by tbe secretary of the interior before the strip can be opened, and a list of them pub ished for the protection of the settlers. Rules and orders regulating the occupation and settlement must be prescribed and published iweity days before the issuance of the president's proclamation. Settlers are required to pay 82.50 iter acre for land eas; of parailill 97, and $1.50 per acre for land taken between parallels 97K and 98) with 4 per cent interest from date of entry to date of final payment. The act provides for special reservations of s actions sixteen and thirty-3ix aud also such other sections as tbe president may determine. An Excited People. Washington, March 18. From the district jail it was reported that Schoeider slept a time in the early part of last evening. He retired for the night shortly after midnight without being told of the president's adverse cession on his appeal ior a respite. His brother William, anl Lawyei Wiltshire, of Indianapolis, a relative ol the family, who has been active in his efforts to obtain ft respite for the con demned man, are at the jail. The usual indifference to attempts at kind ness that have characterized the con duct of Schneider of late have had no variation. Sympathy for his family is widespread in this city, but it can be asserted very positively that the tiuiti move in tbe case was registered in me president's absolute denial to lighten in the slightest degree the punishment All the judicafproceedings meet vvitu very thorough acquiescence. Lawyer Mattiugly, who has beet, counsel and defendant of Schneider nad published yesterday afternoo i u long statement addressed to Schueid-'i -tnd in the nature of an appeal to tin public against the hanging of a man , illeged to be insane, and in addition r. fleeting in no small degree upon th cemtitutency of the jury, also critic z ing tbe ruling of the judge who pr -sided at the trial. No case in more than a score o years, outside of that of Guiteau, ha excited this community as has that Sclmeieer. His violent assaults on t or three occasions upon court oflieia -land as late as yesterday upon the j i .officials, lead to the impression tha r, morrow's tragedy will be prolilic i 'more than an ordinary sensation. De Leei Trial. Paris, March 18. liarboux, conn for Charles de Lessep3, sutumed ini I his client in the Panama trial, i spoke at great length, always earnea' and often eloquently. At tho U sinning of the trial be said bis cm was so strong that he was willi g try it before a jury of stockholders, an he again expressed the conviction Uu he could secure de Lesseps acquittal l he court room was well filled when It began to speak and became crowde.i before he closed. Why had Charles d Lesseps been selected to bear the bruit of the charges of bribery, he demande. when others, known to be guilty, ha been untouched? Charges fully a serious as those agaiust De Lesseps were made against a dozen other men but they were ignored or permitted t escape. The prosecution was bound t produce in court testimony connected with the so-called bribe givers am bribetakers. 'Ibis it utterly failed U do. Clemenceau might have givn some conclusive testimony in the tria: but he was restrained from doing so Tbe minister might have given lh most vital information but tbey saw !i o withhold it. Why had they not pro duced copies of the menacing telegrsm -sent by Herz. The advocate general satd: "The) re at your disposal." Judge De Jarding: "Let them Le produced In conrt tomorrow." Continuing, M. Karboux asked whj Cornelius Herz hwl been itermitted to floe tha country. Why had be no: been seated among the prisoners, or at least named among the accused Merely for ten y ars lie had been the broker of the radical party. Alabama lllaie. MONTOOXEttY, . Ala., M irch 18. .t Newton. Dale co mty Are destroyed Jtba hotel, town pi Uou, postoffice and atona; low WflQ A aalelda. Walker. Mo,, Maroii 18. Dr. J. N. & Dixon, a wealthy ' physlclw and proaalasnt democrat politics, sulnMed raatarda morning with a revolver, lie was rtstotec of lands In m. LORAIERWYNS I? IL IH AIT tit XI.V. REWARD. The banker's daughter looked tip with a vfvld shock, as her name, spoken sud denly unexpectedly in the accents of the man to whom she owed all her sorrow and bereavement, fell upon her hearing Erect, trembling, she fared him, and the heart of the plotter, expectiiiK re proaches, shrinking timidity, accusation, took couraae. SSuo was neither tho frightened child of the past, nor the hit ter, crushed woman of tne lust hour he bad seen her. Her face, growing steadily paler, took an icy hauteur to its expressive depths, her eves never leaving Arnold Dacre's face, she stood like a queen ai bay, a being turned to stone. "Floral" he repeated.' I have sought you everywhere. You did not expect mo, but speak, girl! why do you slaio at me so stonily?" He quailed before tho never-wavering glanco. This unexpected iciness and silence puzzled him. "What have you to say to me?" was forced slowly from her reluctant lip. "What have I to say!" cried liacre, misconstruing tho hidden centempl, re pugnancy and resentment that pure soul harbored against him, supposing that her troubles would make her a crushed despairing woman, reckless of all save a craving for peace anil safety. "Much that can Interest you, Flora!" I hold your destiny, your future In my bands." She did not reply, sho might have been marble for all she moved. Steeled to the heart, suggested by the circum stances of the case, she stood curbing every emotion. "We will not waste words," con tin nod Dacrc, "for I see you are in a frame of mind to listen to me, and probably act upon my advice. You are a refugee, ac counted an accomplice in the robbery of the bank. You can never return to ltidgoficld. You are a bogger, I can en rich you. I can restore to you your former, your father's name." j Only tho eyelids quivered at this. Go on," she said, sternly, chillingly. "1 offer you wealth, luxury, peace. If vou will marry me, I will take you to some far spot where li.'e shall bo a per fect holiday, I can giva you a stately home, love, devotion. You can forget the past, it Is your only hope, or else you are an outcast, a pauper. Choose riches or the almshouse, love or desolu tion." "And if I refuse?" Tho accents were ominous, but tho eager scoundrel ran on gibly. "Then 1 leave you to your fate a bit ter one. I leave your father's honored name In the mire of disgrace, where it gravels, iour lover! Oh', you start, now! He escaped, but ho Is now a pris oner at my will in the town .iail at Deep tord. Wed mo, and I agree to clear your father's name of the last vestige of crime, I agree to freo your lover. I agree to restore to you tho fortune now in my possession. Speak! will you con sent?" Sho fairly took his breath away with the sharpness, tho suddenness of her reply. "Yes," she said simply. A cry of joy parted the schemer's Hps. -"What! you agree? You will wed mo?" "On one condition, I will undertake the marriago ceremony, yes." "And that is?" "Word for word, truth for truth, from beginning to end, you are to toll the story of the trouble at tho bank all your part in that fraud, all the details as they oc curred." "It is a bargain! Y'ou will wed mo first?" "It tho story will be forthcoming." "I vow It. Wait, I have brought tho magistrate with me. The ceremony can be performed now, at or.co. I will re turn within two minutes time." Uo sped back through the open door way. His whole soul was aflame with hope and triumph. Sbr wd plotter that ho was, ho never discerned the latent warning that the girl's Immobilo faco ex pressed. "Sho Is too crushed to resist," ho gloated, as ho dashed through the wood In quest of the landlord, "hbo demands the story of the crlmo at the bank. Good! I will tell it. She suspects It now. Anything, anything to gain her as my bride." lilind schemer! Had he lingered a single moment, be would have seen Flora Mcrwyn speed to tho adjoining apart ment. Hurried tones Issued tbence in excited consultation. Then she camo back to tbe outer room, and, steeling her face to utter coldness, sho awaited the return ot the man she was leading to his doom. "Farce for farce!" sho murmured. "Oh! the torture of oven glancing at tho foul-hearted monster, but, for my poor murdered father's sake, for Kay Web ster's sako, I will go through with tho ordeal." The silence was broken a minute later by tho reappearance of Arnold Dacro. llchlnd the eager plotter followed his hired emissary, the landlord. "Here Is a magistrate," spoke tho cashier. - "Ho Is prepared to officiate at the ceremony." " Vou agree to confess all to release Ksy Webster, to vindicate my father's name later?" demanded Flora. "Yes, only by explaining all to you can I make you understand the truth, and how it may be told to the public with safety to me witless John Whar ton shall bear tho blame. They cannot punish htm." "All ready!" spoke the coarse-grained Isndlord. They joined hands. A sickening shudder traversed the girl's frame at tbe contact, but she steeled her heart to the ordeal. Tbe ceremony was completed. "My wife mlno at last!" breathed the plotter, joyfully. "Flora lot the past die out A life of devotion" "Send that man away." . He chilled st her shrlnklns face and at her Icy tones, but be whispered to the landlord to return to the horses. "Now, the story the confession," spoke Flora Mcrwyn, strange slow in tier Impenetrable oyo. Without apology, the villain began his narrative. In legal possession of tho Sri and fortune alike, what had be to arf la a reckless ant deprecatory sort of a way, he revealed all the dark plots that had led up to 'he pre-ent hour. He stepped towards her as he con cluded. , "For your sako 1 did it all." lie spoKO ardently. "The speculating was wrong, but I was led to hope 1 could double the money. Kay Webiter a my rival, and I removed him from my paih all fnir in love and war. Your faiher's death It, nf mine. Fiord, my wife, let it all drift into forgetfnlness In some foreign clime, a o oi I'VOllCIl will claim its reward iu your love.' llo paused. Over the lace of the girl had come a sudden chaiwe. Ti.e long repressed emotion she had U 1 , in flu burst forth. Horror, repugnSn-'e, vengeance blazing eyes, she regarded him v look that inadi) ti is very soul her i a sh within iii in. "Your reward!" she cried. 'Mnnt-r self-confessed thief, former, and as-as:n your reward is tliere'." She flitted aside to make room fir an other form, suddenly appearing over tin threshold of tho door of tha next apart ment. It was the Sheriff of Iiidgelield, a::-, ho held In his extended bauds The villain's reward, indeed! a paii of glittering steel handcuffs. CIIAl'TKlt XV. CONCI.fSIO.N. Arnold Hacre paled to the lips at the sensational denouement of the moment As to Flora Mcrwyn, utterly exhausted at tho dillicult role she had assumed and carried to successful execution, she sunk to a chair, half-faluting, overcome. "Take that man awa !" she ua-prd "The sight of him i.-- horror to my soul.' "What does ibis ineai.V" panied tie petrified schemer. "I'm sorry," spoke the Sheriff, ".Mr. Dacre, Lut " "You need express no regret at hand ling such a scoundrel uumasLcu ami in his true colors at last," interrupted a stern voice. ".Mercy!" gasped the petrified Darce. "llav Webster! I thuustht " "That I was In jail at Deepford? Scarcely," retorted the convict. "Kuse. for ruse, Arnold Dacrc, you played with edscd tools, (Sheriff, arrest thalm.iu!" A spasm of dread convulsed ilm plot ter. In a flash, lie discerned the truth, He had been led into a tiap. ilis ap pearance had been unexpected, but Flora Mcrwyn had undertaken the task, ot winning a confession from his lips, and had emmeslied him in tho toils of a sun tie subterfuge. As to Pay. Webster, there could l e but, one explanation of his appearance here some innocent person bid teen arrested for him. or ho had hircu a man to im personate him. Awareoft.be landlord's .schema to arrest him,.. he had bijied some willing subsirrute-tit-dou-iis disguise and take. Ins place, for he stood denuded of blue spectacles and false at tire now. Click! Like the stroke ol doom, that ouinlnus sound rang out as tho Sheriff snapped tho handcuffs over tho wrists of his pris oner. "Arrest me'.1" raved Dacre. : "Sheriff, that man is your prisoner an escaped convict and embezzler Kay Webster!" "lie isnoembezzler," replied the officer calmly. "Your own confession proves it." His own confession! Arnold Dacre gritted his teeth with Impotent rage. These people were witnesses to his act of Impetuous fol y. They had overheard his conversation with Flora Mervvyn from his own lips he hud condemned him self, and pronounced sentence ou his many Iniquities. "Your career is run," spoke Ray Web ster. "Flora, my darling! do not trenndu so. Oh! my brave one, the task 1 es sayed of unmasking this heartless scoundrel, your woman's wit, executed readily. blierilf, this man must Lo lodged in jail. I will accompany you aud deliver myself up to the authoiities. flora, courage, only a brief time, and my innocenco shall bo proven:" "You iorget!" hissed tho malignant Dacre. "This woman Is my wife thai victory, at last, is mino." 'Your wife!" utterod Kay Webster, scornfully." No, I deprecate the farce that desperate circumstances made nec essary, but Flora Mcrwyn was already a wire. Sho wedded secretly this morn Ing. " Arnold Dacre gnashed his teeth I tallied, Impotent rage. Verily, tho end naa come, and vengeance full and com plete had been executed. Ono last resource was left him. His wicked eyes gleamed as he thought ot it He had directed the landlord to re turn to Deepford. In the saddlo hags of tbo steed he had driven he had stowed tho precious package, it would not to discovered or removed. Ho could bank on that, get word secretly to tho land lord, and employ It to purchaso his lib erty. "Tako your pauper bride," ho raved, pale rind malignant at the calm and dig it I hod Kay Webster. "Th fortune at least shall never be yours." "Her fortune?" replied Webster; "that she already possesses. I handed it to her this morning." "You?" "Yes." "It is falso, 1 have tho packago " "No, you have a dummy stuffed with old newspapers. I reached tho cavo bo fore you did. The real contents of that packago aro now In tho possession of their real owner, my jwifo," concluded llay Webster, with a loving caress of tho woman whose deep devotion was only sadttoned, by the memory of her beloved father's cruel demise. t ... Ono month later, a series of rapidly occurring events startlod lildgeflold. The first was a public explanation of all tho details of the crime at tho bank. It. rehabilitated Hay. Webster and his wife In the estimation of their friends, It removed every stain ot evil from tho fair Morwyn name. The depositors were paid In full out of Flora's fortune, and as the last dollar of debt was liquidated, , Arnold Dacre was msrehod to tho State Penitentiary on a fifteen years ssntenco. As he entered that living tomb, an other man left It Bay Wobiter, bear- t m a roil paraon riom tne Uoveroor. John Wharton recovered his reason. His story was an atonement for the past, and only went to enforce lhe vil lainy of Arnold Dacre, aud thelnnocenre of Kay Webster. The latter foun.: a trace of his missing family, and, with the Injunction to "go and in uo moid," tha . ontrite tool of a wicked scoundrel, with tho recovered Tom Cupple left Eiogofield ever to return. ! Tie tanker. Abel Merwyn. has wo monuments tu his integrity one a r.ilirent mauselem Iu the Kil;. i-emeterv. the oilier tho staunch .g ld nd massive IJank. For Flora Insisted that !!ay should continue the enterprise. Its existence indicated her i! ad father's memory. They are worthy of one another, these lri.-d souls, and only tho saddening thought of A re I Merwyn's fate, darkens the entire union of two noble hearts in lhe trust and devotion of perfect lova (thi: end. A PreJsiitoi ic Jlon.tcr. If I were to speak after the common fashion of the c!e;.liaut ts "a mam moth," of i!io rhinoceros its a Titan, mid the hippijio anins as Hehcmcth, vou wi;4lit feh'ly charge mc v.ith having 'forgotten that these iu.imuls, big as we think them, aro ir-iliy, titer all, only the pigmies of other species, lint I Ikvm- not forgotten i:., for before mo lies n piiiagrnrili anuonr.fiug the discovery i:i Siberia of one of Hi est oolos.nl nni rntls which nature is very fond of drop pin;? in. in a 8tacc:i!a way, just to keep our pride down, inil to rctiiiuil us, v.-o creiituri s of a degenerate growlh, what "win'er"' meant in the yo.us pone by, and v. lint kind of a person mi Inhabitant of Hie eutli then win. Uo loul to lie very Ijig, indeed, very I'lvnn anil very warmly clid, to lie i:Jlo! Uin fittest in the glacial period, mid to Mirw- j tli. lie.vo asiailt:i of lhe pal;t!o!ilhic ct M. Tho rhinoceros, therefore exeoeu liy some euli;s tlio ylalnic of the mod. rn beast, ami ia also by Koine torn heavier. It upper. thiit an ..iIMucnt of the Tana river was niiiliin i-,!tei';il:0!is in it' course, aud in so iloinrr cut away its banks, reveiiliir.' the iiubcuili d presence of n truly Tit. ..iie pachyderm, U.ich, for want of a litter l.anm, li.-is been toni poiari y called "a lliiiioceros." li.'t it is su.-li a creature liir-t if it were loshow itself now in the swamps of Asrnm or ou ilia plains of l.'ciitrnl Afiic.i. it v.rmM terrify ell' ils p.,! li i;!l (lie s;ieio.'i oi tho present day, weedier orz-lioriicd or ( no liorne.l, end n.iike no more of nil obstinate elephant 'than an avalnnclie doc of ,i jo.it-hciil' lint that happens 1 stand in the line of irs advance. At one time the- whole .skeleton of the f rcat dead thing sldod revealed to human eyes, such an npoci p-o of mummy (is suoulil have hail miiii.i i'v:ii)f;r-list like Prof. Owen close lit, h ;:si In translate it to the world ; a ision of dry bones fit for the prophet f South Kensington liini-elf. Unl'oi-' ..ninety, however, there is no large choii of professors in Si beria. They are wise beyond meas ure, in Arctic suffering, nml pradn titos in the m series of cold, but (hey know very little about fossils. So i li n stream unit was enitin:; '"'nY ITT banks t ooTv--&uii"11TnrrTi Wo's in its day's work, and cut the monster of the ; pnst away, fro. Iti lie.nl was oventn i ully rescind, an. I so was one foot, said ' to be atli knls! F.x )ifilc Jhmtlem. I This foot, if set i. urn upon, ono of tho rhinoceroses, of modern times, would have flatten. 1 it as smooth as tho phi T losopher's tub rolled out t'.oso naughty ! boys of Corinth who had ventured to tickle the cynic through tho bmig-holo with a stiaw. lleside its sizo, the Ijuro monster in question asserts jts su j peiiorily over existing species by being clothed in long hair, a iiueco to guard it j against the clinmte in which it lived, and from which even the tremendous panoply of the nineteenth century ihi ! noceros could not suliicii ntly protect the wearer. Thus, clad in a woolly hide ai colossal in pbysipio, the Si ' berian in,.mma! not only livod. but lived happily, rnnicl snowy ghi-'inrs that would have frozen the pol.u- hear and made icicles of urolic foxe. -Hurper'$ IlfCWv. , ! Evidence Enough, j A Sew Yorl; broke- who left the ' street three or lour vea'rs a'o. ouo dav i received a r-n'l f,-,., " ,?. At . UHJ who announced unit on i jjiank was Yes, I remember; so he dead. "Old Blank is dead?" "Yes, and his heirs are t,-vja the will." o break "They arc?" "Yes, and they are going to provo he n , was crazy. They want yon as n wit ness. "Want mo? Why. I know nothingof i, o o T'V t'X0l;t,t U'al 1 " ""vested $I(,U(H) for mm. "Well that's all they eu.ect to provo by you." 1 "What, ciii" "Why, if you'll come into court anil 10,000 to invest for him tho case is made out. When enn vou coiac?" He never went. Wall Street 2ieivs. A Great Inducement. A New York nabob, who recently made a trip to Southern Missouri oi business, fell in with one community which apprcciat. d l.iin 100 cents on the dollar lho village tavern-keeper bribed three or four roughs to qnit quarreling an hour earlier than usual: tho undertaker offered 40 per cent, off in case his services were needed; the I ostmastor was awful orry there was no mail ft,r Jiiin, and, as the millionaire bras, band took him by the hand and , 8ay- Mter, wo like your style, we do, and if you want to settle down here with us you can be elected a Justice of WnH0 (!T-W'n Juck Hobinsonl"- M'aff street News. tlKSC ,S',i"'""1 K"es wrns par ticulars of iho nrmy of Japan. 'fol- lows: Uenorsl ofHcors. 30: 253; Captains, Lieutenants, 'etc., a,8B9t ulf nffliun onin. . " caoeia, yh: non 121.905. o"nion, etc., 709; total, ,h?2u.Kr0Cn.,cucuniD0' niV the dltui modical graduate are event, uated about the same time. 4 Y'.V J 1 ". '.', do..