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THE OMAHA DAILY ffffE ; MONDAY , JULY 15 , 1889. DAILY BEE. rimusuun K PIOUNINO. TRllMB OF SUliSCIlllTlON. D ally ( Morning lidltlon ) Including Sunday lce ! , Ono Year tlO 00 ForSIx Months BOO ForThree Months . . . . . 2 CO U1io Omaha Sunday Ileo , mailed to any address , Ono Year . , . . . . . . , . . , . . , . . . 300 Weekly Jioe. One Year 2 K > Omann onico , llee Imlldlnff. N.V. . Corner Seventeenth and 1'arnam Btrvnta. Cnlcasq Offlw , M7 ItooKorr Ilnllillne. New York onico , Itooms II and 16 Trlbnne Ituiiciinir. WMhinctoii omcc. No. en your * tecntu titreot. . COIUIKSl'ONDBNCR. All communications rolntlnff to news and edi torial mnttor should be addressed to the Uditor or the Ilco. Ilco.11US1NKS3 IKTTKIt3. All IniMnets Icttein anil rcmlttnncos should lo ncldressea to Tlio Hoe PnbllslUnn Cpmpnny. Omnlm Drnftn. checks nn < l postofflce onlorn to bo made payable to the order ot the company. The Bee PnlshlDg Coinpany , Pron'ricto , K. IIOH13WATI3H. Editor. X11L3 UAHiY UH12. Rworn Stntomont of Oirbutatton. BtMoof Nebrftrta , I. . County ot Douglns , I " " Gcorpoll. TzBrhuck , secretary.of The lies Pnb- HthlnECoinnany , does solomnfr swear that tha nctualclrculatlon or THE IMH.r JJK for the ei-lc endlnc July 13th. 1889.rMwi follow i furdar. July 7. . 18.971 llonclav. Julys l-J. ' Tursrtnv , July 0. . W.OH ci. . Thursday. Julyll J .WJ JTlday.Julyli ! . { BHturdny. July 13 W > 7 ' Average . .18.O2 UKOltGB D. TZSCHUOC. Enorn to before me nnd subscribed to In my presence this 13tli dar of July , A. D. > 8S ! > . Seal. N. P. FK1U Notary I'ubllo. Etnte ot Nebraska , I . County of Douglas , f " * Reorgo 11. TzschucE , being duly sworn. A * * poses nmlsaya. that ho Is secretary or The Dee I'uVltihlng rompauy , that the actual average dully circulation of Tlio Dally Uoo for the month of Juno , 1F88 , 1U.212 copies ; for July , If PS. 1H(1S3 ( copies ; forAURiist , 1H35.1S.1K1 copies ; for September. IBS' , 1H.IS4 copies ; for October , ItW. Jf.lH copies ; for November-1683 , lx , 8il roplos ; tor Ucromlier , 18HS , 1,23J copies ; for January. lfK > . 18.M4 copies ; for peuruniT. ISifl. JF.WO copies ; for Marcn , 18PO , lf > , Fol copies ; for April , IbMi , IB.GM ) copies ; for May , l&B. 18,099 copies. . UEO. U. T/SCIIUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed In my IScnl.I presence this d day ot Juno. A. U. , ° " N. P. FEtL. Notary Public. 2 fat stock show is coming. IT is expected that Paris will annex Buffalo Bill. THE negotiations for the opening of the Sioux reservation have gene already too far to end in smoke. NBWS comes that the GranJ. Old Man has lost his grip in England. Even the radicals have shunted him. JOHN" BAIILKYCOHN is now having a set-to with John L. Sullivan and it looks as if tlio champion will be Knocked out before the seventy-fifth round. MUUOHANTS' week gives promise of nn unqualified success. There Is a move all along the line of the committees in charge of the celebration. THE proposed operation of the motor line from Council Bluffs through Omaha to South Omaha will prove a shrewd and profitable investment for its projectors. IV f- OMAHA'S chaitf".ctoi7y is about com pleted , ji.iid loyalty to homo industries demands that every man , woman and child Hhall hereafter sit upon an Omaha-mado chair. AN English syndicate promises to furnish Chicago with cheap gas. If it succeeds in breaking the powerful gas trust of that city it will bo welcomed by Chicago with open arms. TUB bankers who are the backers of largo railroad systems have taken a hand in their complications with a view to whipping the railroads into terms , It remains to bo soon what influence they possess in ending the rate wars and demoralization in railroad circles. IDAHO wants the country to know r that if admitted to statehood , a funda mental plank in her constitution will bo inserted prohibiting polygamy within her fcoi'dors. This is a great sacrifice to thousands of people in Idaho , but for all , that the territory can't enter the union just now. . ONE of the absurd rumors afloat at Washington js that Senator Manderson is to bo appojntcd to the supreme bench vacancy , and that Congressman Dorsoy has everything arranged to stop into Mandorson's senatorial brogans. This will bo very interesting news both to President Harrison and Governor Thayor. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NKIIKASKA has n particular interest in the admission of South Dakota to statehood and in the speedy opening of the Sioux lands , inasmuch as a largo slice of the reservation bordering on the Niobrara rlvor will bo added to the territory of this state. The strip is Bald to bo a fine farming country , and there is every reason to believe , If all goes well , that it will soon bo 11 lied by a largo farming population. publication of the gigantic cap italization which the load and sugar trusts created has finally caused wido- uproad alarm nnd the wild speculation in thcso forms of certificates has boon checked. It must now impress Itself upon those blind pool trusts that they have overreached themselves in water ing their stock. Possibly , however , they have played their confidence gamete to a finish and are now letting in the dear public on the ground floor. THE1 press of the country is at pres ent unusually oxoroisod over the true authorship of the "Arthur lllohmond" lottora which scored tlio liiat adminis tration so unmercifully ttirough the Nprtk vlriiericaii Ilev'.t > o , The death of Allen Thorndiko Rice , who , aU editor of the Jieviac , suggested the lottora , re moves the loading witness who could liavo answered the question. However , speculation is rlfo nnd thorp sooma to bo as many claimants to the honor as there tire to the poem , "Beautiful Snow. " The fact is that the unknown Junlus was not ono but many writers , But whether it was Rico himself , William Henry Ilurlbut , Gull Hamilton , Donn Platt , Julian Hawthorne , A. R. Caz- uuuiii , some unknown "Richmond" era a combination of them all is something which time Mono may.toll. COXQItESS OP TUB AXEHICAS. The commercial bodies of the country have been asked by the state depart ment to assist in insuring the success of the congress of American nations which is to assemble in Washington in Octo ber. These bodies are requested to supply facts regarding commercial con ditions in their localities , suggest topics for tha consideration of the congress , nnd to give expression to opinions re garding a policy for bringing the Ameri can nations into closer relations com mercially. There should bo a general ana intelligent response to this Invlta"- lion. The representatives of the United Btatcs in tlio congress should bo made as fully as possible conversant with the sentiments of the commercial organizations in every portion tion of the country respecting what they doom to bo necessary for promot ing the object hoped to bo accomplished through the congress. The fuller and clearer the information imparted the bolter able will our , delegates bo to pre sent and advocate a polloy which the majority of the merchants and manu facturers of the country can approve. The congress is called with n business end in view solely , and it should have consideration for nothing else. Itlms no concern with politicsor with the in terests or welfare of any political party. It should have regard only for the views nnd opinions of the men of trade nnd commerce , ignoring wholly what poli ticians may think or wish. The occa sion calls for a full und intelligent ex pression of views on the part of the merchants and manufacturers of the country. The outlook for the success of the congress is raoro favorable than it was a few months ago'or before the incom ing of the present udministration. The interest taken in the matter by the last administration was purely perfunctory , and this was so obvious to the countries invitoa to the congress that the oltect was to produccD among most of thorn a feeling of indifference. In' this respect there has unquestionably boon an improvement , and while it is very likely still true that the countries which will participate in the congress do not , expect very important immediate practical results , there is reason to bc- liovo that some of them nt least have como to look upon the conference as a valuable first stop loward an ultimate commercial arrangement moro satisfac tory than now exists. At any rate the congress cannot fail to enable all the countries concerned to got a hotter un derstanding of the resources and re quirements of each , and to learn what may be practicable and possibln for brln g- ing them into moro iiitimato relations. The United States having proposed the congress , national pride , if no ether motive , should cause a general doslro for such degree of success as may bo possible , and to this the commercial bodies of the country may largely con tribute by manifesting a proper inter est in the congress. 31QHCM..V. The ellort that has boon made to qreato n public prejudice against Indian Commissiojior Morgan , and to cast reproach preach upon the administration for his appointment , will have little weight with right-thinking men. The obvious motive is not fai r nor honorable. The rec ords do certainly show that during the war General Morgan was convicted by a court-martial of sundry offenses , but it is also shown that this conviction which , owing to some informal ity , resulted in nothing further did not shako his standing as an officer or his character as a gen tleman. On the contrary , the testimo nials of his brother pllicors and the thorough and hearty indorsements of such distinguished soldiers as Generals O. O. Howard , Stonoman and Craft are an ample vindication which must sat isfy every fair-minded man that it was morally impossible he could have re ceived the approval and guarantee of such men if his often BUS had boon of the gravity charged. . It is not questioned that General Mor gan was a bravo and usof ul soldier. Ho entered the army'ns a private and came out with the brevet title of brigadier. general. Only faithful and valuable service could have won such an atdvanco. Upon his subsequent record there is no blemish. For nearly a quarter of a century ho has devoted his unquestioned ability to labors for the betterment of humanity , and the testimony is that ho has ren dered valuable sorvico. Ho has given much attention to the subject of Indian civilization , and is probably as familiar with the character and needs of the Indians as any ether man in the coun try , certainly as much so as his predecessor , for the reten tion of whom the element assail ing Commissioner Morgan made a vigorous and porslbtont effort. Commis sioner Morgan did not seek the position. Ho was among those who asked that Mr. Oborly bo retained , rfut when the president hud fully decided to appoint a republican commissioner of Indian alfairs , and. tendered the position to General Morgan , of whoso capacity and fitness ho had personal knowledge , it was accepted. No one doubts that the duties of the onico will bo faithfully nnd judiciously discharged. Twonty- Hvo years of honorable nnd useful work as a citizen give Commissioner Morgan a claim to public coiilidunco , nnd the force of that claim will not bo diminished with falr-mlndod men by reason of como previous de- linquanoy the gravity of which .was not so serious M to preclude subsequent advancement in military rank'and the vnroHorvcd indorsement 'of soldlors whoso high character forbids the thought that it was not fully tnoritod and entirely sincere. The disappointed friends of Mr. Oberly'who are assailing Commissioner Morgan will harm neither him nor the administration with mon who respect justice and fair play , _ . LIQUOR CONSUMPTION. Tlio report just completed Ipy tlUI bureau of statistics , showing the con sumption of liquor in the United Slates , possesses an interest for two quite an tagonistic classes of people the pro ducers of wines and liquors nnd the pro hibitionists. The report , of couroo , sayu nothing of the moral nnd political aspect of the subject , but the figures will fur nish the prohibition workers with prac tical information , some of it not altogether encouraging to thorn , The most striking fact in the report is the growing consump tion in this country Dot malt liquors. The statistics go back to 1840 , and they show that there has boon an almost steady increase in the per capita consumption of malt liquors from loss than two per cent in 1840 to nearly thirteen per cent in 1888 , the decline in the UBO of distilled spirits being less marked , though material. An oven hotter idea of the change that has taken place in the popular appetite for liquor is obtained from the fact that while tha production of distilled liquors Inst year was not quite double the amount produced in 1810 , the manufacture of malt liquor had .in creased ever thirty fold , or from twenty-three million gallons in 1840 , to seven hundred and sixty-seven million gallons in 1888. The increase in the production of wines was also largo , but without a proportionate growth in coin- sumption. Obviously the American people have not yet acquired n taste for domestic wines , nnd the showing IB far from encouraging to these engaged in the wine industry. As compared with ether countries from which statistics were obtainable , the consumption of all liquors in the United States is loss per capita than in Great Britain , Franco nnd Germany , and as to distilled spirits loss than in Denmark and Sweden. Franco , it need hardly bo said , largely loads nil ether countries In the consumption of wine. The number of persons who paid a spe cial liquor tax lost year was loss by ever twenty thousand than the previous year , a fact partly to bo explained by the operation of high license in reducing the number of liquor sellers. The army of thcso was , however , still largo , num bering over ono hundred and oighty- seven thousand. The report would have possessed an additional feature of in terest by giving the number of licenses in each state , thus , affording official information as to the extent to which the national government author izes the sale of liquors in states having prohibition laws. The growth of the consumption of malt liquors in the United States , with the decrease in the use of distilled liquors , are facts which distinctly count on the side of tomper- auco , und arc therefore against the as sumption of the prohibitionists that in temperance is on the increase. The simple truth is that there is relatively loss intemperance in the country now than there was forty or fifty years aero. CONSIDERABLE mistrust nnd ill-feel ing has been stirred up between the state commissioners appointed by Gov ernor BoUvor and the local relief com mittees of Johnstown ever the distribu tion of the funds collected for the sufferers of the Conomaugh flood. II is oven darkly hinted that vast sums have been misappropriated or squandered in a reckless manner. This is certainly an unfortunate state of affairs and de mands investigation. There can belittle little doubt but that money has been spontinjudiciously , owing to the press ing necessity of the occasion and the lack of proper management. But , on the ether hand , there has boon considerable jealousy on the part of the local relief committees ever the disbursements , duo to the fact that the governor has prac tically taken the distribution of funds out of their hands. It is a. question in which not alone the people of Johns town but of the whole country are In terested , whether the money collected for relief can best bo disbursed by the local committees or under the direction of Governor Beavor. THE opening of the Cherokee strip is likely to bo complicated , now that the cattle barons have come forward as a competitor to the government. The Cherokee Catllo association has made the proposition to the Indians to pay them the sum of five and one-half mill ions for the extension of its lonso on the strip until the year 1005. This woula indicate how absolutely necessary these grazing lands are to this company , und in all probability it would raise its olTor if brought to a pinch. However , ns tlio amount is almost ns much as the gov ernment is willincr to pay the Indians for an outright sale of the strip , it would occasion no surprise if the Cherokees - okoos bo inclined to negotiate with the cattle barons in preference to the United States commission. Till ! supreme court of Minnesota will in all likelihood bo called upon to decide - cido the constitutionality of the moat inspection law passed by the last logls- laluro. A lost case has already boon forced and the outcome of it will bo watched with interest. Although the law has boon in operation only a few months , it Is evident that the people of the stale are disappointed with the measure and would bo well satisfied to have it declared null nnd void for interfering - torforing with the freedom of trade between the states , The recent decis ion of the Indiana bench is an import ant precedent and it is difficult to see how the Minnesota judges will bo able to arrive at a different conclusion. IK THE veto power of the governor of Washington bo taken awny , as proposed in the constitutional convention of the now stale , ho can nevertheless console himself for the loss'by the thought that his term of olllco is to run four yoara. Moro Ijlko an Octopus. C/iiM0 / < j Tribune , Viowad as to Its salient points , to call a railway trust a triangle Is putting it mildly. It is really an octopus. An Idon anil nn Incubus. Kew Yorlt Hun. The party was strengthened by defeat. Defeat fid the party of Its two chief sources of wca'gnoss , a curtain man and an uncertain Idea. The democratic party Is preparing for victory , hko a stroile follow who wakes and finds lilmsolf free from an Incubus. Unwept , Unlionorml anil Unsung notion llerahl , It Is said that sixty-tlireu of the seventy- five delegates to the South Dakota constitu tional convention are in favor of prohibition , but It is not t bought probable that they will Incorporate tbulr. convictions on this subject in the cfftlSTltutlon they are framing. Con stitutional prohibition npponrs to have dlotl ' n-bornlngjn't ils country. < * No Cnsa.of the Kind on Itooord. . - jaHmor { * American. Durlntr { i [ < rlp to Norway the emperor of Germany } ya\ ( knocked down nnd slightly hurt by a mas.i of ice from n glacier. It It had been m tlils country ho would not hnvo , escaped so'titaUy ' , as hero the more shock of seeing a fall In Ice Is enough to kill the fttrongcst aii. Moro , Oijnnmontnl Than Onoful. . tJiiffUttburo Dtepafch. The anttcsftml childish ill-tcrapor of the Persian ambassador have at least had the gooil effect of calling the attention of the public to the usclossncsa of the American mission to Persia. All the necessary ofllclul communication between tno United States nnd the shah ot Persia could bo transacted through the malla In the ordinary way , thereby effecting n saving to Undo Sam of several thousand dollars. NoPInoo i'or Vlalonnrjr Experiments. Vllctt Herald. The now states are Inviting immigration and Investment. In proportion as they ab stain from visionary experiments will men nnd money bo attracted to them. Utopian schemes may bo well enough m tholr place , but that place la not In a state constitution , nnd the delegates now assembled will act wisely If they select from the multitude of propositions only these which glvo unmis takable ovlaonco of genuine utility. GUISAT MEN. The portrait' recently placed on the walls of the Boston Medical library represents Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes , scatod m an easy arm-chair , writing at a desk. Robert Louis Stevenson's mother , who was with her son In the South seas , reports him as In greatly improved health nnd about starting on another year's cruise. Oscar Fny Adams , the poet , is writing a lifo of Jane Austen. At present ho Is In England visiting her old homo and haunts to gather additional material for tbo biography. Edwin Booth is a prominent figure nt Nar- ragansott Pier this season. Ho Is stopping for the summer ut his daughter's cottage , and spends a great dca1 of his tlino In long walks. The latest gossip In Washington diplomatic circles is that John Hay , nnd not Colonel Elliott F. Shepard , is to have the Uusslan mission. Mr. liay Is a man of wealth and the personal choice of Mr. Blaino. While Millet's most famous picture brought § 110,000 , at public auution at Paris , Millet's widow is so poor that she has been , unable to retain possession of'the little cottage nt 13ar- blzon , whore the artist lived and worked. A man with nc Income of $10,000,000 a year is Colonel John Thomas North , who lias great nit rate mines nnd factories in the far south , in Chili. Colonel North is at present scattering abmq of his superfluous wealth in New Yorlc cityi The Yale stroke , Cladwell , has officiated for ten college crows , and has never suffered a defeat. Ho has decided not to return to the theological school , but will go Into busi ness for hims'clf. Ho thlnlcs ho could "prac tice" better ttian ho could preach. Terriss , rfonrpr Irving's right-hand assist ant formerly , is now plavlng Captain Molyneux in a.rovlvnl of "The Shaugnraun , " which is a great success. Tyndall accepts as sound Pasteur's method of inoculation1 for hydrcinhobia. W. T. Walters , the Baltimore millionaire. is the possessor of a painting by Millet which' ' , is soinojiwes rnnkpd before tlio famous ' ' "Angglus" of 'that pain' tfr. It Is a moonliglit' scene called "The Sheepfold , " In which a shepherd , who has thrown his heavy cloak about him , opens the gate of the fold for his flock. The atmospheric- qualities of the painting tire remarkable. Ono of the very beat examples of Millet is that In the gallery of Henry C. Gibson. Quo of the most Interesting of recent events in Paris was the meeting between President Carnet and Marshal MacMahon. They met in the hall of the Society of Help to the Wounded , of whlcn the marshal is president , and accosted f.ich other with a friendliness highly satisfactory to French republicans. MacMahou is still as ngilo and active as a young follow of forty. Ho goes to the exposition nearly every day with his wife and takes a turn on horseback , ' Tbo Bismarck-loving inhabitants of a vil lage in Poson 'have ' just celebrated the com pletion of their monument to the chancel lor , and the following pompous inscription graces the front of the stone : "To the glorious first chancellor of the powerful German empire , His Highness Prince Otto von Uismarck , this monument is dedicated in gratitude and reverence by the parish of Winitze , 1SS9. " On ono side the words are engraved , "Forged with iron , cemented with blood , unity prow. It weathered the storms of the time ; " and on the ether , "Wo Germans fear God , and nothing else hi the whole world. " STATE AND TI3IUUTORY. Nebraska .lottin s. The West Point electric light plant will bo in operation August 1. Natural gas has been struck In Lincoln county at a depth of 400 feet. Broken Bow Is to have another grain ele vator and work on the structure has already begun. Tramps fired the residence of Caller James at Hastings and tha building * was entirely consumed. Last year 140,000 shnop were fed for mar ket at Fremont and 10,000 ( ! head have already been contracted for this year. Lightning struck two residences at Hast ings Friday , and a little girl was severely though not fatally shocked. The young son 'of Dr. I. W. Snowdon , nn old resident of Nebraska City , died of lock jaw , recently , at San Jo o , Cnl. Mayor Wright , of Schuyler , has Instructed the police to sco that the saloons are closed on Sunday , bbthfroat and back doors. Ample proyBlofi has been made for the on * tortalnmont dq ail ilrcmen who may attend the tounuimu4 ; } at Rod Cloud thin week. Lightning struck the house of G. W. Mo- ICeo , near Syracuse , nnd the building was burned , but mflJpf the furniture was saved. Broken Bofcjbaasts of four strong hanking firms , the latest-addition being the Bun K of Commerce , wjKlct began business last week. The board of supervisors of Holt county has ordered the submission of the proposi tion to erect twvnew counties out of that county. KM An oxtonsIvb' uUIno of work has been prepared - pared f or tlio ftlfjijliiii : of the Madison county teachers' lnsty $ to which is to bo held at Nor folk August 5 to 17 , The board QrinolGrvIsorB of Buffalo county arotllscus'sinffpjiiidvlsiihlllty of building a poor house on the 100 aero farm which the county already owns. Mrs. S. C. Warner , of Syracuse , ased eighty-lour , fell and fractured her loft tun the ether day ; On account of her ago it Is feared the will never recover. The receipts of the Kearney postofflco for the past quarter amounted to 3,813 , an in. crease of (1,183 over tbo corresponding period last year , und the people hope to soon secure free postal delivery. Mrs. James , the Broken How woman who eloped ana was reported , to have died In Colorado , iias written a letter to the Hcpubll- can of that place sayingslio has never been in Colorado and that she is now on her way cast jn the best of health. "Bony" ' Harrison , a Seward youth , path- ercd In considerable coin on tbo Fourth by putting his head through n hole in a sheet and charging nickel to nil comers who de sired the privilege of throwing cg s at tha living target. The personal property of Thurston county U nssossod nt $03,409 nnd the ro&l estate nt 101,853. The Omalia agency received nn assessment on personal property ot $7,297 nnd the Winnobngo of M.S03 , with n 0 per cent reduction , Considerable difficulty will likely bo experienced In collecting Uuos from the Indians. Says the Lyons Mirror : Dr. A. T. Hill , of this plnco , physician for the Omnhn Indians under Cleveland , \vm removed the llrst of this month bocnuso hla politics were not right ; nnd Dr. Susan Lafloscho , an Omaha Indian girl , a medical graduate , wa * appoint ed to tlio position. She is a resident of the reservation , nnd Is ready to urtmlnlstcr nd- vlco and physic. Four tramps stealing n rldo in near loaded with lumber , on the Union Paclllc , were badly Injured near Grand Island. A break In the air brake caused the train to stop suddenly ana the lumber slipped ever onto the ' -tourists , " breaking , their limbs and badly bruising their bodies , The end of the car was cut nway nnd the Imprisoned man released , They nro now under the care of the company's surgeon nt Wood Hlver. linva Items. Uurllngton wants n 530,000 and n MO.OOO church nt onco. James Cattcrn , ot Aibla , la about to pub lish n volume of poems. The convention of the fowa jobbers will DO hold nt Spirit Lake , August 7. Work Is to bo commenced nt once on a $7,000 waterworks plant at Emmotsburg. The sheriff of Huena Vista county has made nnothcr beer seizure nt Storm Lake. Despite the hot wo.ithor the Uurllngton dancing club continues to hold weekly iimtl- ncos. ncos.A A four-days paso bnll tournament Is to beheld hold nt Mason City July 80 to August 2 , nnd prizes amounting to $350 have been oflorcd. A colored man eonllnccl m jail nt Kcokutt for drunkenness almost succeeded In butting out his bruins against the stone wall of his cell. cell.Miss Miss Paul , the daughter of a Ocrmau min ister nt Pnrkorsburg , Is wasting nway from the insane idea that her father Is dead , al though alio sous him every day. The Fort Dodge council has withdrawn the city patronngo from the Messenger be cause Hint paper mudo the fight to hnvo the cows restrained nnd criticised the council for not restraining them. At the annual meeting of the K. of P. grand lodge at Oskaloosa next month the question of selecting n city in which all future meetings of that order shall bo hrld will bo considered. There Is talk of erecting n fJO.003 building. Fifty-nine years ngo Wednesday n Sioux Indian shot a buhl-headed eagle from the lop of the htirh bluff Just beyond the northern limit of Dubuquo. A silver clasp two and one-half inches wide was riveted round ono of its legs. The bluff from which the gro.it bird was shot has over since baon known as Eagle Point. The Eastern Iowa Dental association met in Waterloo last week with thirty member * present and elected the following onleers : President , L. K. Fullerton , Waterloo ; vice president , C. A. Hillings , Marsballtown ; Secretary , E. L. Urooks , Vinton ; treasurer , W. G. Clark , Cedar Rapids. The next moot ing will be held ut MnrstmUtown. A school land question from Fremont county has been submitted to the trovernor. About three hundred acres of school lands wcro sold some years ago , the county assum ing the responsibility and paving interest 'on tbo same to the school funa. The Missouri river afterwards changed its' course nnd washed out tbbso lands. Ono of the pur chasers ia unable to pay for his share , while the other refuses to Day until the lands are delivered to him. The county asks to be re lieved from paying- interest on tno debts. Tlio Two Dukotnu. Jamestown saloonkeepers refuse to pay a license. An artesian well is to bo sunk at once at Elk Point. Ilcv. J. V. Willis has resigned the pastor ate of the Plankmton Congregational church. Tlio old-time stage coaches still run be- Sturgls nnd the interior of the Uluck Hills. There are prospects that a woolen mill will bo erected at Rapid City this year by ICnox- ville , In. , capitalists. Luwronce Larson , n Townor county far mer , has mysteriously disappeared , and it Is feared that ho has been murdered. The total wool shipments from the Black Hills during the past week amounted to 32,045 pounds , valued at $7,005.50. Juuics CavnnauRh , a Sioux Falls policeman , resigned because ho was unwilling to arrest saloonists wbo kept open after midnight. A loaded stick of wood placed in Mrs. Wil liam Morris' stove at Lead City by some scoundrel , resulted in the complete destruc tion of the steve , but no other injuries. The machinery for the Sioux Falls Canning works has arrived and will be ready to run in twenty days. The company has contract ed for 400 acres of corn , nud will put up 500- , 000 cans of it this season. Mon are at work in the Garden City mine in the Black Hills nnd n fine six-foot voln of ore is exposed for almost the entire length of a sevonty-flve-foot tunnel. They have about 100 tons of ore on the dump , which assays from $18 to $61 per ton. Says the Canton News : W. J. Wimorlast Tuesday brought to this onico u regular mon strosity In the shape of u double pig. It con sisted of two bodies and one head , four oars , eight logs and two tongues united with a Siamese twins arrangement , and was cer tainly n cnrioslry. Mr. Wimor hart the freak put up in alcohol. Joseph Bolack , of Now Rockford , for throe voars treasurer of Tomlinson school district , is u defaulter to the amount of $2TOO. Ho started for th'o Canadian line with the sheriff midIns bonusmon hot on hi ? trail. Bolack was to have settled with his successor , and , being Bhort , drew from the bank what money there was to the credit of the school district nnd skipped. A TRIFLE OVERDRAWN. KmVo Do numl of Animal Yarns Almost nn RRiuurlcnulR. A family live in Ilarlom who never have any clocks in the house , because a canary which they have always warbles tbo hours , saysljuck. At 12 o'clock the bird turns throe springs backward and sings "Annio Laurie. " Tlio people are awakened at 7 o'clock each morning' by of "Hid Mo " the strains Good-byo. ' There is a' horse in Cavuga county who likes to climb up.the ladder of the stable into the loft , and from thence to the roof of the building and slide down lo Iho ground. His repealed perform ances have made the roof BO slippery that when lightening struck the place last summer it glanced oil'at once and fell to the ground , leaving the stable uninjured. A Wisconsin 'farmer owns a yellow dog , the exact color of a pumkin , which is called "Captain Jin Its. " The dog is very lleet nnd will overtake anything in the country. His favorite - ito amusement is to run in and out between the wheels of a fast-moving express train. The farmer IB greatly attached to him , and last week refusal ! an otfor of &I which a Irnuolllug show man made. A fitt In Mississippi recently gave up its lilt ; to nave- the community. The river was very high , and the dike which had been built to keep out the walors gave way in ono place , and the water was pouring in unnoticed when the cat passed by , und , realizing the condition ot ugairs , crawled into tlio hole nnd stopped the Hood. It is estimated that $80,000 and a number of lives were saved oy the horoie feline , and the vil lagers hnvo built a beautiful tomb of rod granite , wllh mice carved in relief , ever the bones of the animal. r t A cow ia the property of a poor widow in the Ohio valley who supports herself by taking in washing. Every night in the winter when the cow comes homo to bo milked she brings enough wood and brush on her horns to keep her mis tress in fuel for the next day. , If her pasture ground is needed for blohohing purposes the cow goes inton neighoring cornlield to eat. She always rests under a tree during the noon hour , and starts lo again at 1 o'clock precisely. The cow is of'a slcy-bluo color , dappled with yollow. If in every homo a little of Plait's chlorides were- frequently Ubcd much sickness would bo prevented , SfflN BONES WERE DAINTIES , And the Cannibals Crnokod Thorn For the Marrow , THE IZIMU CAUGHT THE BRIDE. A Wlorcl Story or African Adventure Wliluli Blionhl Oaiiqo Iltilor Iln - Knrcl to llitto Ills Dlialn- Ishcd llond , The Old Kaffir's Tal . Early in this century , about 1820 , says the Capo Times , the Bnsuto clnof- tain , Moshcsh , being worried and har ried by a host of enemies , intrenched himself on a high , rocky fortress now , as then , known as Thnba Bosigo , whence much to the dismay of his assailants , ho would hurl down high plloa of stones , packed up by night , on tholr woolly heads. The Banutos were a Dravo people , but reduced by their enemies to very hard straitg , so that they worn driven by ab solute starvation to resort to the horri ble work of cunibalism. This liondish practice was certainly not to bo debited to the account of tho. native races ot South Africa ng a rule. In the early dnys"lt was not found among the Ilot- tciHots , nor oven among Iho lowest of South African races , the bushmen ; and it is just as certain that it has not been among the Zulus , but , as'an exception , as with the Basutos. it occurred in Natal about the same period , 1820-23. Sir Theonhllus Shepstono , in a paper contributed some yoarsago to thoKoyal Colonial Institute , says : % 'I have heard many a stirring story of escapes from the cannibals from the lips of these who were captured , and who had themselves listened to discussions as to whether they would cat tough or tender whou they we've killed. I have myself con versed with several me1 ! ! who escaped after having been captured by 'Am- azimu,1 or 'Mnn-12aters. ' and after hav ing boon told off to furnish the next feast for tholr captors , and with one a chief still living in this colony who was compelled by the cannibals to carry the pot in which ho svaa told ho Xvould himself bo cooked. The scene of his escape is not live miles from the spot ( Mnritzburg ) on which this paper is written , nnJ at present forms part of the episcopal property hold by Dr. Coloneo. " There is no reason to bollovo that the Bnsutos brought tno custom with them , though there is ample evidence that they practiced it during the time of their wars with Umziliganzi and with the Korannas , and it may reasonably bo supposed that it has been car ried on in a hidden , shamefaced way in spite of the opposition of their chiefs , down to a very modern date. Cassilis tolls the stories of can nibalism which ho hoard from the natives on his llrst arrival in Basuto- land , and , giving 1820 as a date , says that Moshosh put an end to those her rors. Ho says there were "thirty or forty villages the entire population ot which is composed of these who were formerly cannibals and who tnako no socrotof their pasclife. " I have soon , when quite a boy , the Natal .Kaiirs listen with eager and breathless interest to the wild , wiord and horrible tales that the elder Knllrs used to toll of their experiences in the gloomy fastness of the maluti the high and tumbled "Double Mountains" ot Bnsutohuid. I well remember a fine old Kafir , who , as seems to bo usual with really good authorities , was rather taciturn regarding the imparting of information concerning these and other early remarkable events , being at length persuaded to relate some of his adventures in the Malutis In the days gone by. Of course the Zulus and the rest of the "human" tribes had the liveliest horror and the most awful dread of the "Amazimu" a name that mothers instantly silenced naughty children with. However , the old Kafir ( ho was ono of Mntiwane's tribe , hailing from the Drakonsburg , where the iato Mati- wano's son , called "Zikali , " was gov erning the tribe the Amangwano Zikali had been placed there to guard the mountain passes against the mis- chovious and sometimes deadly Inroads of the Bushmen ) ; well , "tho old Kallr look a drink of native boor and cleared his throat , throwing , with a graceful jerk of his arm , his robe of ! his shoul der , to give freedom to the impressive and expressive gesticulations em ployed much as the Gorman 'orator of days gene by would ease his shoulder ot the toga before ho extended his hand and addressed the " -Romans , friends countrymen , " and all the rest. Those remarkable people , the Zulus , in tolling a story are most minute in matters of detail. I may say I speak the Zulu like a native. Old Marweni then , the story-teller in question , said that ho and two compan ions had boon deputed by Matiwano to take n girl to a chieftain beyond Basu- toland , to whom she was to bo given in marriage. "Well , people of my father , " said ho , "I told the 'mothers' ' to inako some broad of boiled nnd then hard- baited inai/.o , and the next morning wo each stuck ono of our stickd. through a loaf o ( this bread , and taking our bnob- kerrios and our assegaisand rolling our blankets up and slinging them over our shouldorstook , the poor weoplng maiden from her mother and started. Through two rivers wo had to swim and get through as bast wo could with the girl , who couldn't swim. But wo cut down a largo bundle o { dry roods , and binding thorn logelhcr so us lo make a sharp point of their ends , placed the brldo- clocl on it , and piloted it , jioint forward , over the river. The lions about this time were very numerous , and it was a common matter for these who wore too olD to catuh game to oat people every day until they got qulto UBOI ! lo It , and nroforrod human to game tlosh. Oti ! ( will never forgot that lirst night. Wo had to sleep in a bleak , miserable . . spot . , and had I chopped down a few bushes with Maku/a's ( one of my companion * ) ) axe , , and made a screen for the girland " ' then made a flro to windward"of 'tho soroou ; and having sot an ant honp alight on either side , wo all lay down to sloop. "It was pitch dark. * * * I foil nalcop , * * * I nwoko with fearful fooling. The water was ( lowing all around us , a dark bank of Ihluk clouds which , ns tlio sun sot , wo had seen to northwebtward had rolled down upon us und burst ever our lioads. The lightning was blazing and blinding broad and quivering ribbon-liUo streams of it danced blnoly on every aide , and the bellowing thunder crashed n if it were going to kill the earth. Wo were too frightened to speak , or oven" to getup up out of the water , when , suddenly , the dog that was with us howled and yelped and tore as hard as ha could right ever us , and the next instantwith a torrlble roar , almost , like the thunder itself , a hugo lion sprang upon us and bit Makuza. "Frionds , I shall never , never forgot Iho dull , scrunching quash that the bruto's tooth made on poor Makuza's bones.Vo htruck wildly at him with sticks ot the dead Ilro , and saw by Iho blnzo ot Iho lightning that ho was a unilo lion of tbo largo blaok-inuued npoclos. Hut , my people , It was nil eve in n moment , and the yrcnt boast lonpod off with our friend in bin huge jaws , while another vivid flash ot lightning blinded us again , and another cracking clap of thunder seemed to doiifon , stun and deprive us of all notion. "At last the miserable day dawned , and wo had to go on. as the girl wouldn't bo loft alone , and wo were afraid to take her with us lo look for what was loft of poor Mnkuzn'a body , bocnuso the lion might take her also , and then our chief would kill us. IIow- ever , it was no use looking for onr lost companion , ospoclnly as after the lion had done with him the hvoims. jackals , wild dogs , etc. , would fall upon all that was left. After wo got some distance from the spot , and the sun was up and hot , wo looked back nmlcould sco the vultures circling overhead about the plnco whore wo had slept , and ever and anon drooping their long logs and claw * anil swooping down to the ground , and wo only know too well what that meant. Alnsl it was a miserable time that those two awful days in Baautoland ; and I the only ono that was to return 1 As the old kafir was reciting this story , with all the ovor-glowing eloquence - quonco and strong graphic powers of oratory possessed by those people , I say , to an eminent and singular degree , it was most interesting to watch the faces of his mute and immovable audi tors as in the kallr hut the flickering tlrelight danced upon their swarthy and onmpt features , Not n sound could bo-hoard , except every now nml then a deep. chest-Intoned "Ought" which which spoke eloquently of the concen trated attention pajd to the tale of the narrator. "Yes , people of my father. " resumed old Mimvom , "tho next dayl The second end day in Busutoland was oven moro terrible , if possible. Wo had not gene far when tlio girl , pointing to some thing running down the stoop side of n great mountain wo were walking past , said.What's that ? " . Wo looked up , and I immediately recognized from the wild look , the headlong speed and the long , upritrht , uncut hair , the fearful "I'/imu' or 'human body oator. ' I quickly told.tho girl it was all right , and not lo bo afraid , and told my com panion , Sondoda , to stand by and we'd kill him , as he was only ono. But alas , Sondoda was young , and the shocking stories ho had heard about the Ama zimu had now , when ho was actually looking at ono of the demons of his nursery tales , utterly paralyzed him , so that ho was almost powerless , while tlio strange being ran shouting down the hill. hill."However "However , I engaged him myself. But it was nil to no uurpose. I must out the story short. It sickens mo. With a wild yell , seven or oirht more cannibals burst ever a little rise to our left and wore on us like lightning just as I struck my opponent down with my battle-axe. I now received a stunning blow on the head , and Instinctivolyran. The cannibals loft me and busied thoiu- selves binding the girl and Soudodn , who had , however , so far regained him self as to strilco n few blows to wound ono fiend with his assogai. Just as I got to an ant-boar hole in the long grass I looked back , and seeing the Amnzimus still securing what they doubtless thought their birds in the hand , I popped down into the hole and drew down alter mo onto my head the earth , grass and twigs that the ant bear had cast.out. The cannibals came after mo and looked for mo \vlue ] , but not see ing me , seemed to think * that they had enough for their larder , and returned to their victims. "Aftor some time , as I hoard them busily engaged , I ventured to pop my hcad'carofully out of the holo. I could see nothing at first , but gently dividing the grass with my hands , saw the brutes making a fire , while a ghostly-looking old hag anpoarpd on tko scene with a roughly-made o'arthoaware pot. I newfound found I was badly wounded by ono of their broad-cutting assegais , and hod my head nearly split open. Why say anything moro ? I saw thorn stab the girl and Sondoda , and scorn still to hoar the dull thud of the assegais on their bodies , and their thriUingly mournful shrieks , but what could I do ? half stunned and badly wounded and one to eight. I saw them cut my dear friends up , roast the shin bones first eat the moat off them , and crack the bones for the marrow. I sat entranced , quito forgetting I was showing my head * * * They boiled the rest. * * * I can't toll any moro. * * * The night npw falling , I crept out of the hole and ran steadily toward Natal for my lifo. The good spirit of my dead father , I suppose , kept the lions off ma. I never saw the dog after the lion had killed Makuza. I got homo the next night half in a dream sick nt heart , miserable and melancholy. I told my sad tala to the chief andinduuas assem bled. The dog was at homo. " Southern ISouro Sii | > orfllltionfl. Women in the north have trouble enough over the servant girl question ) but their ways are paths of picas" antnoss compared with these of south ern women except that the southern woman is loss disturbed ever the moro serious situation , says the Milwaukee Sentinel. When a Virginia woman wants to chnngo girls she is compelled to go at least throe days without any _ girl at all. The kitchen help is black , "of course , and superstitious. No col ored girl will go into a houaf. until three days after the ra1 tiring help has vanished , for fear of being "tricuod' ' ' in ether words , hoodooed , plncpd under a spoil by the dismissed holp. Whatever the colored person doesn't ' understand ho fears. Ho is full of superstitions , believes ia good luck from the rabbit foot when in his own posbossion and in bud luolt when it is "put on him. " Not long ago n largo number of negroes were on a Virginia railroad platform waiting for a trui to take thorn to a picnic ground. A Boston drummer , with a face as seri ous as n parson's , took n piece of chalk and a rabbit foot and in the most buai- noss-liko way began to nmko crosses on the backs of the nogro3 and touch them with the rabbit foot. The crowd broke for the woods in a panic and there was no picnic that day. OHulii of "Wo Wont. Go Homo. " An interesting history of an old and woll-known comic tune was given by Prof. Etisol , a muKlo teacher , in a speech In the Music Teachers' ' associa tion yjstorday , says the Louisvilllo Post. Ho said that when the army of the llrat Napoleon wes in Kgypt , in 1701) ) , tlio camp for a while was near the pyra mids. Ono afternoon about minuet the band was playing. The Inhabitants of the desert hod collected near and were listening to the music. Nothing'unusual happened until the band struck up a luno which wo now hear under the [ "Wo Won't Go name o , Homo Till Morning.1' Instantly'thoro were tha wildest demonstrations of joy among the Bedouins. They embraced each ether and shouted and danced in the delirium of their pleasure. The reason was that they wcro listening to the favorite and oldest tune of their people. Prof. Ensol then stated that the tun had boon taken to Europe from Africa in the eleventh century by the Crusad ers , and had lived separately in both countries for ever seven hundred years. This is certainly enough to make "Wo Won't Go Homo Till Mornlng"aclu68lo. Its origin is moro of a mystery than the source of the Nile ,