UP THE NILE.
jJwmtey of the Canadian Voyagenra to Wady
[ Haifa Unfortunate Trouble With the Na-
i tlvcB The First Canoe on the Ulle.
f A Montreal Star correspondent , who
jjfi with , the Canadian voyagcurs , writ
ing from Korosko , Nubia , under dale
, ! Oct. 24 , saya : A good many of our
mends at homo may have heard un-
jfavorable reports concerning the effi
ciency as boatmen of a largo proportion
tion of our number. Individuals un
friendly to us and our expedition have ,
for reasons best known to themselves ,
endeavored to diffuse these injurious
vnd false impressions among the people
ple with regard to us. None of us arc
angels , but on this occasion the large
majority of us wish to do well , to gam
credit and honor for ourselves , and
satisfy our employers. Some of the
more turbulent and thoughtless may
compromise the honor of the whole , it
s true , but the sins of the few should
aot be saddled on the many , who
frown on misconduct. As to the effi
ciency , of our men as boatmen I have
po. more doubts whatever ; personal
conversation with nearly every indi-
.vidual , man in the corps , whom I had
.reason to suspect of incapacity , have
convinced me of that. It must be re
membered that the force was recruit-
jed , equipped , partially organized , and.
sailed within eleven days from the
itimo the first enlistment was made.
jUndcr these circumstances if a few in-
liriduals of limited experience as voy-
ngcurs have slipped in , this will generally -
orally be admitted to have been next
; to .unavoidable. . Of this class Ife'el
fpositivo that there are not more than
Pper cent of the whole.
_ _ It took the Bearah and tow twenty-
six hours to traverse the distance from
Edfou to Sohag , the lirst point of im-
Iportance reached above Siout. It
jmust be remembered that the muddy
current of the Nile , is veiy swift , run-
bing in many places at the rate of over
jtivo miles an hour. The average daily
xun was , I thiKk , about three and a
Ihalf miles. Sohag has the reputation
of being the dirtiest town upon the
[ Nile. Sohag can boast of a mudir , or
governor , wao speaks French , and re-
Reived , some of our men with much
"aolitcness and treated them to coflee.
if here is also an1 infantry branch with
} a company or two of Egyptian soldiers ,
jwearing a neat , white , twill uniform
knd crimson fez. Our stay in Sohag
Kvas short Just as we were about
leaving , a small launch , coming from
below , steamed up smartly to our side.
( A young Englishman of fair appear-
tmce but slight proportions came on
jboard to see our officers. We learned
afterward that he was a Mr. Ingram ,
one of the proprietors of The Illustrated
\London \ News. Some of your readers
hiay remember that his father , the
sounder , of the paper , and a member
of the house of commons of England ,
joerished at the time of the visit of the
prince of Wales , on Lake Michigan ,
. 'Vhile crossing from Grand Haven to
{ Milwaukee. Mr. Ingram , Jr. , hopes
to reach the Soudan in his very tiny
launch , and iniends joining there his
artist , Melon Pryor.
i Beyond Sohag , we tarried for the
night opposite Beiges , a place of no
considerable note. There happened
"here a rather serious accidenC which
caused , we subsequently heard , the
death of an unfortunate native , and
znay 'yet ' get some of our party in se
rious trouble before their visit to
Egypt is over. It was still daylight.
Seyeral men started for the neighbor
ing hills. Among them were two
young fellows named respectively Da-
. .vis and Mathieson. One of them car-
-ied a small revolver in his 'pocket. '
iWhile passing near cultivated fields
they noticed a curious stone figure
near by , put up perhaps as a fetish or
scarecrow. They thought it would be
good fun to try a few pot shots at this
image , which they did accordingly ,
and then continued on their way.
Later onthey returned to the barges ,
quite unconscious of having done any
harm. In the meantime another party
composed of soldiers and yoyageurs
started in an opposite direction. They
were' not long before they stumbled
on a melon patch. Natives , however ,
were watching it , as they did not wish
lo be'plundered without remonstrance.
An altercation ensued , in whicpghe
natives were worsted , and one of'lhem
was then supposed to have been se
verely handled. In consequence of
this our officers caused an order to be
issued that on no pretext whatever
would the men be again allowed to
land without official leave. Three or
four days after that a special came
.from the commandant at Assouan to
Col. Denison to the effect that the
mudir of Girgeh had reported that a
native had been killed while watching
ais fields , by men who .were firing at
an image , and that considerable ex
citement existed in that locality over
the outrage , and requesting that steps
DC taken to bring the guilty parties to
iccount. This accusation created
rreat surprise and indignation among
is all. A board of officers was assem
bled to inquire into the matter , and
: he facts as related above came to
light. Both occurrences were very
infortunate and much to be reg ted.
The killing of the man appears to have
seen puerly accidental. The other af-
iair has not been brought officially to
; he notice of the authorities , but was
jeverely condemned. The apparently
ruilty parties have not been placed
Inder arrest , but are under surveil
lance , and the case will doubtless be
farther investigated when wo arrive
* t Wady Haifa.
' Keneh was reached Oct. 16. We
iad to stop here three hours to coal ,
fhe town is an important center on
! he eastern bank of the Nile. 1 saw
acre for the first time Bedouins of a
: ribe from the vicinity of Fouakim ,
{ all , sinewy , fierce , and proud-looking
fellows , far different from the Nile
Egyptians. They stalked about the
public places , wrapped in their togas ,
in a very dignified way ; They wore
their very thick , black hair in a bushy
furze on top , while that of the sides
tnd back of the head was curled in in-
aumerable short ringlets all of the
iame length , exactly as represented in
Helton Fryer's celebrated drawings of
jhe redoubtable Arab warriors from
ibout Sanahum , vvfoo fousrht so brave-
iv there last spring. Before leaving
jeneh.-Maj. Collins , of the 49th rcgi-
sent. arrived by the desert route
from Cairo with two * hundred cameh
en route for Dongola , for the use ol
the camel corps. Ho was the only
white man of the , caravan. He had
been three weeks on the road from
Cairo , and expected to reach Dongola
in about five more. He said that his
animals were a rather inferior lot , and
did not appear to think that they
wo nld all reach their destination.
Col. Denison's hark canoe was for
the first time put in the water since
we left Canada , and for the first time
since the world exists did an American
boat of this description , propelled
by red men of the west , cleave the
bosom of the venerable Nile. The as
tonished natives ran from their
" "hadoufs" and raealie fielrts to see
the graceful craft move swiftly over
the muddy tide. The canoe was sent
to carry a , telegraphic message to the
office on the. other side of the river.
As soon as it returned we resumed our
upward journey. I was remarking
not Ipngufter , to some of o.ur Ottawa
districtFrench Canadian Iriends , that
I had just seen two hundred govern
ment camels en route to Wady Haifa ,
and among other things told them of
their remarkable powers of endurance ,
which was said to be such that a camel
could work for seven , or even eight ,
consecutive days , without eating or
drinking. Baptiste Terreau then said :
"Joe Laroque can drink for eight con
secutive days and do no work ; and
he'll repeat the job as often as you
like , I'll bet. " Materials were want
ing to put the willing Baptiste to the
test , so the wager was adjourned sine
die.
die.The
The next night we tied up at the fa
mous Luxor. The officers had prom
ised , if we arrived in day-time , to
march us in a body to see the wonder
ful ruins of Karnak if time permitted.
But even darkness did not deter quite
a" large number of our antiquarians
from accepting the kind offer of Rev.
Mr. March , the resident American
missionary , to take them to see the
ruins. They provided themseves with
a few lanterns , and returned a cou-
of hours after astonished , de-
Sle
ghted , and most grateful to their
kind guide for the marvels they had
seen. The portions of the ruins exca
vated cover , it appears , at least twenty
acres of ground. Luxor is the great
center of attraction to adventurous
tourist of upper Egypt. The remains
of ancient Thebes cover a vast extent
of ground on the opposite side of the
river. We arrived at Esneh on the 18th ,
and coaled again. The town is noted
for its cotton-dyeing industry , and
yards upon yards of this material ,
dyed indigo-oltie , are to be seen spread
out to dry from the tops of houses ,
and flapping lo the * breeze across
streets and squares. There is here
also a mosque with a handsomely-de
corated minaret , and a Coptic church
and monastery. Some of the paintings
in the church"are unique , one repre
senting St. George spearing the tradi
tional grass-green dragon ; another
the Virgin and Child , while a third
represented the decapitation of St.
John the Baptist , with Herodiade
gloating over a head placed in a plat
ter. There is also an ancient temple
of the Ptolemaic times , still in a good
state of preservation , and which had
been unearthed from a mass of accu
mulated debris within the last few
years only. Many of the Indians and
French-Canadians procured wet clay
and took impressions of the curious
figures which had been unearthed.
Above Esneh the fertile banks of the
Nile are more and more encroached
upon by the rocks and sand-hills. Of
ten there is but enough room left for a
few yards only of vegetation , but even
these narrow spaces are irrigated and
cultivated with the greatest care. A
little higher the sand stone and calcare
ous hills dip their very feet in the riv
er. In these hills are deep caves at
frequent intervals , some natural , oth
ers artificial and cut for quarrying pur
poses , a few with ornamental porti
coes and handsome interior columns ,
quite visible from the river. These
latter may have been used in ancient
times as repositories for the mummi
fied dead. Speaking of mummies , we
were told at Luxor that the market
was very flat just now , and that the
oldest description of mummy , which
commanded between $100 and $200 a
few years ago , can now be 'purchased
for $25. Nothing further worth not
ing occurred until the 21st , when we
reached Assouan. This is the end of
the first portion of our steamboat jour
ney up the > Nile. We are now about
850 miles from the Mediterranean , and
it has taken us exactly a fortnight to
come this distance. This afternoon we
shall have a short railway journey of
seven miles to Shilal , above the first
cataract , and immediately take the
steamer for Wady Haifa. There are
here at. present three English regi
ments and a large staff. They will fol
low us shortly , and will be replacednjy
others coming up.
A Fast Bide.
"I suppose you have some fast rides
occasionally ? " inquired the reporter.
"Well , I should say we did. One in
particular , a short time ago , is fresh
in my mind. We waited some time
for a party of officials , and then re
ceived an order to make it up. I had
'Old George Van Camp. ' as the boys
call him , with ' 162 , ' and told him to
let her out. Now , George is always
willing for a chance to run , and you
bet he humped himself. We went
through two stations at once , and
dust why , the little children who were
sitting in the same seat with their
mother , were crying , for their ma
' them for dust.
couldn't see Every
thing went lovely until we dashed
around a curve , and directly ahead
were two big bulls on a bridge. Did
the engineer stop ? Well , I should re
mark he didn't ! He just reached down
in his box for a piece of waste to wipe
the blood off the window , and had to
use it too. The fireman picked pieces
of sirloin out of the machinery of that
engine two weeks afterward. That
was the time we painted her red , sure !
The only damage done was the loss of
the engineer's pipe , and we had to run
a little slow afterward. Onejladywith
a sealskin sacque viewed the remains
and innocently inquired 'if they were
the only cows the poor man had ? ' We
told her we guessed they wouldn't af
fect the price of milk in that locality
anyhow. " Denver.Republic.in.
Tho-Skye Crofters.
Those who only know the Western
islands from "A Princess of Thule"
and "Madcap Violet" will be surprised !
to learn that thpro'is.mile for milemorer
genuine distress among the poor there
than can be found in Conomara or on-
the bleak Kerry coast , writes a corre
spondent of The New York Times. The
huts are poorer , the food even more
scanty , and the law of evictions far
more merciless. The parallel with
Ireland is not an exact one , however ,
for both the past and present condi
tions of the two countries differ wide
ly. In Ireland , the poor tenants have
been ground under the heel of land
lords , alien to them in race and relig-
ioa , for centuries. In the highlands ,
the oppressors are the heads of ancient
Scottish families , and it is only within
recent years , within the last century at
any rate , that they have turned in hos
tility upon their own clansmen. It is
true that the clan system , in the old
sense , come to an end soon after the
collapse of the last pretender uprising
in 1745. But the more admirable
phases of the old system , with fealty to
the chief from one side and protecting
loyalty from the other , lasted gen
erally throughout the north until after
Waterloo , Long before this time
British law had transformed the High
land chief , who held suzerainty over
the lands of his clan in trust for the
whole tribe , into a landlord in his. own
right , but it was not until the age of
the steamboat , telegraph , and locomo
tive that the chiefs began to take ad
vantage of this change. Within the
past forty years these landlords of
newer generations have entirely lost
sight of the historic claims which the
native population of these islands have
in common with themselves. The duke
of Argyll , for example , writes over his
own signature in The Times that it is
ridiculous to charge him with mean
ness in evicting his clansmen crofters
from theif ancient holdings and driv
ing them off his islands when he can
add to the rent value of the islands by-
so doing. It is purely a matter of bu
siness , he says , and he is to be no more
attacked for doing what he likes with
his own than is a man in commercial
life. He does not see , his class do not
see , that when he thus coolly repudi
ates all responsibilities in pay for his
position and possession , every word
he utters raises up a score of angry
liberals eager to call into question Ms-
right to either. These poor crofters
1 have , year by year , been forced off the
good land , and on to the barren lands
. of the coast. As the more progressive
1 south learned improved methods of
agriculture .the landlords have
made big farms by disposscss-
ng small holders , and let these
to English or lowland capitalists.
Even the common grazing ground ,
which in the old days belonged to the
. whole clan for pasturage , has been
swept away now by the landlords and
fenced in along with the farms.This
stealing of commons is not a rare
thing in England. Many thousands of
acres which a century or two centuries
ago belonged to the whole village are
safely classified now with the inalien
able property of the wealthy English
nobles , and by no better right than
that of powerful greed. But in the
Highlands , where property in common
had been a legal fact witfiin the mem
ory of the fathers of men now living ,
this is a far greater hardship than in
England , where it has been hardly
! more than a tradition since the fall of
the monasteries. In this Island of
Skye , where at last the crofters have
been goaded even beyond their great
patience , between the years 1840 and
1883 there were issued decrees of evic
tion to 6,960 heads of families , em
bracing nearly or quite 40,000 persons.
This te twice the total inhabitants of
the island , so that it amounts to every
man , woman , and child having been
twice ordered to move within the past
forty-four years. In few cases
scarcely worth mentioning in proportion
tion was the excuse one of failure to
pay rent. The crofters are an indus
trious , thrifty class , and they now pay
rents equivalent to the highest farm
rents in England for the miserable
privilege of living on the barren seacoast -
coast rents even higher in proportion
than the great factors pay for the big
farms which monopolize the good land
of the island. The great lords do not
want them to stay , no matter what
they pay. On the Island of Tiree ,
which is wholly the property of the
duke of Argyll , there were in1855 ,
when he succeeded to the titles and
estates , about 5,000 inhabitants.
There are now 2,700 , and of these 400
are landless in four townships alone.
The difference between the figures
represents the number who have been
improved off , driven to America or
Australia , or death , to enable his
grace to add 30 or 40 a year to his
income of scores of thousands. Tet
he is a philanthropist , as his order
goes , and a reformer ! 1
The crofters , who will not be im
proved off , and who cling -to the idea
that the clans whose devotion made
these Campbells and Douglasses , and
Gordons nobles , and gave them the
use of land which they have now seized
as their own have as much right to live
near the graves of theirfathers as have
the dukes and marquises and carls ,
have no standing now in law. Relief
has been promised to them by Mr.
Gladstone , but so it has beqn to Gor
don , and he will die before it reaches
him , if he is not dead now. But at the
next general election more than one
member chosen distinctly upon the
issue of crofters' rights will come down
to the commons from the Highlands to
make common cause with the home-
rulers-of Ireland against land monop
olies. As it is only by agitation , per
sistent and ugly , that any cause gets
any hearing or favor in the house of
commons , the success of the crofters
will be measured by the amount of
trouble their representatives can make
for the government.
A blind beggar , who died recently
at Pittsburgh , left $5,000 in the Dollar
Savings bank , of that city. He had
been heard to say that he had a daugh
ter living at Montevidio , Cal. , and the
bank officials will make an effort to
find her , as no one else has any claim
to the money.
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THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The Highest Work of Man In the World by
Forty-three Feet.
To-day the aluminium cap was
placed on the top of the Washington
monument and its exterior is complet
ed , writes a correspondent of The
Cleveland Leader. Five hundred and
fifty-five feet high , it has an area at
the base large enough for two big city
houses , but its top as it kisses the
clouds , is no larger than the point of a
pin. At five hundred feet above the
ground it has four sides each of which
is thirty-five feet wide. Its area at
this point is that of a comfortable six-
roqm house , each room of which might
be twelve by sixteen. It wouldtake ,
more than 125 yards of carpet to cover
its lloor , and a man with a good eleva-
vatpr might make a pleasant summer
residence of a house built up here.
This square forms the base of the pyr
amidal-top which runs from it fifty-
five feet until it terminates in its me-
talic point. This point is constructed
of the largest piece of aluminium ever
jnat'c. It is a pyramid nine inches
high , which shines like a speck of light
away up there under the rays of the
sun. It weighs just one "hundred
ounces and is one-third as lisht as it
would be if ic was made of copper.
Aluminium does not corrode , and it
makes one of the best conductors of
lightning. A wire will be fastened to
the lower side of this little pyramid
and run down into the earth. This
will make the longest lightning rod
ever constructed.
Standing by the monument one is
greatly impressed with the mechanical
skill required to build it. Its stones
are grout blocks , in some cases nine
feet long , two feet thick , and three and
four feet wide. There sre' more than
18,000 of them. They are of white mar
ble , and weigh several tons each. The
ingenuity which can raise such stones
several hundred feet above the ground
seems the triumph of mechanical skill ,
and one is inclined to pat himself on
the back in that he belongs to an age
so far advanced in the march of pro
gress. He is inclined to sneer at the
works of the past , and to think that the
massive structure before him will out-
ast the ages. A second thought bids
him pause. He remembers the saying
in regard to the Roman Coliseum.
While stands the Coliseum , Rome shall stand ,
When falls the Coliseum , Rome shall fall ,
And when Rome falls , with it shall fall the
world !
Still the Coliseum , when it was built
at the beginning of the Christian era ,
had a better chance of lasting than the
Washington monument. It was a far
more wonderful structure , and the
mechanical skill required in building
it was quite asv great. The largest
theater to-day in the world will not
seat .7,000 spectators. The Coliseum
has seats for 87,000 and standing room
for 20,000 more. Its walls were made
of heavier blocks than those in the
Washington monument , and they ran
157 feet high. Its interior was so
large that ; the Washington monument
could have been laid inside of it witli-
out disturbing its masonry , and of the
one-third of the gigantic structure
which remains after Rome has been
building from it and ravaging it for
centuries , the materials alone are said
to 1/e / worth $2,500,000. This is twice
as uch as the cost of the Washington
monument , and $500,000 to spare.
It was a greater work than this to
erect the Colossus of Rhodes , that im
mense brazen statue , 140 feet high ,
which stood at the entrance of the
harbor so that tall-masted boats could
sail between its huge legs without in
jury. This statue weighed nearly
800000 ; pounds , and "after an earth
quake overthrew it , as one indeed may
sometime do the monument , its ruins
lay for nine centuries , and at the end
of that time it took a caravan of 900
camels to carry the metal away.
Look at Pompey's column which
still stands overlooking the Mediter
ranean on the outside of Alexandria ,
in Egypt. A small shaft , 67 feet high
and 9 feet in diameter , of the heaviest
of red granite , raised upon a pedestal
104 feet high. The mechanical skill
required to elevate that immense shaft
and to bring it a thousand miles down
the Nile , is quite equal to anything of
the present. And then the pyramids !
The top of the great pyramid has a
platform 32 feet square , only three
feet less than this Washington monument
ment where its pyramidal top begins.
The blocks of which the pyramids are
constructed * are much larger than
those in the Washington monument ,
and it is said it took ten years to make
the road over which to carry these
heavy stones. It took whole cities of
men to build the pyramid of Cheeps ,
and according to Herodotus the rad
ishes and onions which the workmen
ate cost once and one-half the price of
the Washington monument. This pyr
amid has an area of thirteen acres at
its base , and its height is 483 feet. It
must have cost billions to buiH it , and
resting in the dry atmosphere of the
desert one would think that here at
least would be a morsel too hard and
dry for the tooth of time. But the
wind and the weather have eaten even
into the pyramids , and their beauty
and splendor show the effect of decay.
The Washington monument in the
humid atmosphere of America , as it
breathes year by year the exhalations
of the swampy Potomac , will have a
far shorter career. The seeds of nat
ure , invisible to the eve , will creep
into the crevices , and time will crum
ble its now solid marble.
Still the monument will , while it
lasts , be considered one of the won
ders of the world. It is now the high
est thing in the world forty-three feet
higher than the spires of the Cologne
cathedral , and so tall that the Sphinx
could pe put on the top of St. Paul's
and still be more than a hundred feet
below it. It will attract travelers from
far and near. I do not agree with
those who say it is nothing but a great
chimney. It is a work of massive ,
symmetrical , and wonderful immen
sity ; and no man can view it without
being filled with great thoughts ot man
and nature in their infinite possibili
ties. To see it best yon must approach
it with the sun at your back. Other
wise the blinding rays of the southern
sun striking its white surface re-bound
with a dazzling glare.
I went half a mile in its rear to-day
and let it grow upon me as I approach-
od it. At first it appeared a great
white shaft rising above sheds and
buildings , and looking to be a solid
monument of perhaps three feet square.-
The massive scaffolding which still
hangs about its head looked like a net
work of straw , and with the naked eve
the men working upon it could not bo
seen. Asl went nearer the monument
grdw with every step , and when
I came within a quarter of a mile of it ,
its immensity began to bo appreciable.
I sat down on the steps of the bureau
of printing and engraving and looked
at its massive shaft'rising out of a big
square mound of earth over the vel
vety lawn about five blocks away. At
chat point each side of its base looked
to be about fifteen feet long , and whore
the pyramidal point begun they had
shrunken to four. The scaffolding
there looked like the whittling of a
boy's play-house , and the men on top.
appeared so many dolls at play. The
frame of the net was visible , but its
meshes I could not see. The first
third of the monument , which was
built away back in the fifties , was of a
'
different 'color from the new work/
The weather has so varied it that it
looks like a mosaic of yellow fossilized' '
rock. I could here see that the monument
ment was made up of a thousand of
"
little "squares , and they seemed like ,
myriads of marble paper weights piled
one upon another.
I moved two blocks nearer and sat
down to write on the railroad which
was used to carry the great marble
blocks from the depot to the. masons ,
It was not over five hundred feet from
the base of the monument , and had it
fallen in my direction its pyramidal
cap would have crushed me"to pow
der. The monument has now jumped
to many times its former size. The
symmetry of its sides as it stands away
up there running into the blue sky , i.s
beauty and symmetry combined ,
and this sublimity increases as one
goes nearer and nearer. At the base
of the mound it overpowers you , and
if you will , as I did , climb up close to '
one of those big walls and putting'
your chin against the marble , gaze
up for five hundred feet , it will take
your breath away. Here it seems the'
Chinese wall running up into heaven ,
the tower of Babel approaching com
pletion , or Jacob's ladder molded into
marble. Look at the marble in front
of you , now ! It is beautiful stone , as
polished as Michael Angelo's statue of
David , and speckled with scales or
spots of frosted silver. A close ob
server will note that these old stones
are all cracking at the corners where
they are joined together , and that the
thousands of tons which press down
upon them have cracked the weaker
stones so that long , ugly marks appear
here and there to blot the symmetry
of the whole.
Step around to the front and there
is a door eight feet wide and sixteen
feet high leading into the interior.
This door faces the capitol , and there
is one opposite it looking out upon the
Potomac. Go inside. The walls are
fifteen- feet thick , and the interior
makes a room at the bottom of twenty-
five feet square. In this an immense
iron frame-work , with steel wire ropes
two inches thisk , supports the machin
ery of the elevator , and at one side
begin the stairs which , by easy flights ,
run round and round for nearly nine
hundred steps until they reach the
top. There are fifty flights , and
eighteen steps to each flight. At the
end of every flight there is a platform ,
and in the wall opposite this the me
morial stones are to be placed and
lighted with electric lights. Go to the
center of the interior at the base ,
throw your head back and look up
ward. For five hundred feet there is
nothing but darkness , and at the top
you see a few rays of light creeping in
at the windows. There is a noise made
by one of the workmen. It comes
down through the monument like the
booming of a cannon , and I jumped
quickly aside , looking at the big hole
in the boards at my feet. The hole
was made by a crowbar which slipped
from a man's hands at the top , the
other day , and fell clear to the bottom
tom , going through these boards like
a shot. So far no one has been killed
in connection with this monument , and
it is probable that it will be completed
without loss of life. When done it
will make a splendid place for suicides ,
and if the windows are not grated it
may become as famous as the Column
Vcndome.
Poor Relations.
It is often wondered what women who
dress a great deal do with their resplen
dent robes when they have exhibited
them a few times. What becomes of
dresses that have figured at Newport
ana Saratoga for a season ? Do they
fall a prey to Mrs. Levy , or do they
hang up in a closet , or are they "given
away" to poor relations in the country
who" think Maria might bo more care
ful of her clothes as long as she meant
the girls'to have them ! Surly any
posessor of an elaborate wardrobe
must weed out to make place for the
fresher triumphs of her dressmaker.
It is only a hoarding spirit that saves
ephemeral fashions and does not con
fer them on persons able to make good
use of the materials , to say the least.
In some instances rich women in
society have an economical strain in
their blood. Economy under certain
conditions is an admirable virtue , but
the woman who can afibrd to dress
handsomely can aflbrd to banish dress
es that have once played a part in the
social drama. A Philadelphia lady
noted for the variety of her wardrobe ,
solves the question by sending all her
last season's dresses to the children of
limited means belonging to a Sunday-
School in which she takes an interest.
There are very , very few wealthy fam
ilies in the world who are not afflicted
with "poor relations , " therefore no
one need organize a Sunday School
just for the satisfaction of disposing of
M. Worth's creations after they have
been worn once or twice.
Drunkenness and theft have become very
common in the interior of Africa. Before the
advent of white men they were almost un
known.
Sixty per cent of the inhabitants of Massa
chusetts live in the chief cities and towns.
Quinine IB down to 80 cents an ounce. Dur
ing the war it went up to § 27 an ounce.
STOCK DIKEOTOKY
DENNIS M'KILLIP.
Ranch on Red Willow , Thornburjr , Hayes
County. Neb. Cattle branded "J. SI. " on
left side. Young cattle branded same w
above , also "J. " on left Jaw. Under-slop *
right ear. Horses branded "E" on left
boulder.
Tie to GSCat.le Ranclie CoLimit6ci
Stock brand circle on left shoulder ; also
dewlup and a crop and under half crop on
left ear , and a crop and under bit in the
right. Ranch on the Republican. Pobt-
ofllcc , Max , Dnndy county , Nebraska.
HENRY T. CHURCH.
Oborn , Neb. Range : Red Willow creek ,
in southwest corner of Frontier county , cat
tle branded " 0 L O" on right side. Also ,
an over crop on right ear and under crop on
left. Horses branded " 8" on riirht. shoulder.
SPRING CREEK CATTLE CO.
Indianola , Neb. Range : RepublicanVal-
iey , east of Dry Creek , and near head of
Spring Creek , in Chase county ,
J. D. fVELBORN ,
Vice President and Superintendent.
THE TURNIP BRAND.
Ranch 2 miles north of McCook. Stock
branded on left hip , and a fewdoublecross
es oa leftside. C.O _ ERCAXBKACK.
STOKES & TROTH.
P. O. Address , Carrico , Hayes county ,
Nebraska. Range" , Red Willow , above Car
rico. Stock branded as above. Also run the
lazv ci brand.
GEORGE j. FREDERICK.
Ranch 4 miles southwest of McCook , on the
Driftwood. Stock branded "AJ" onth
left hip. P. O. nddrrss. 3I < : Cook , Neb.
J. B. MESERVE.
, Spring Canyon on the Frenchman
River , in Chase county , Xrb. Stock branded
as above ; also " 717" on left side ; ' 47 on
ritrht hip and "L. " on- right shoulder ;
'L."on left shoulder and "X. " on left
jaw. Half under-crop left ear , and square-
crop right ear.
DO YOU KNOW
THA.T
LORILLARD'S CLIMAX
PLUG TOBACCO
with Rnd Tin Tae- ; Rose Leal Fine Cut
Chewing ; Navy Clippings , and Black ,
Brown and YHiow SNUFFS & -e the best
and cbe.pest , quality considered ? ]
JOSEPH ALLEN.
Ranch on Red Willow Creek , half milo
ab ve 0 born postotSce. Catlle branded on
right side ana hip above. 3-4
FOR SALE nnprovtfd Deeded j-'arm
and Hay Land. Timber and v/ater. Two
farm houses , with other 'mprovementa.
Convenient to No. 1 school privileges. Sit-
u-itcd "n Republican river , near ji-uith of
Red Willow creek. Call on J. F. Black ,
rm premises , or address him at Indianola ,
Nebraska.