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    THE OMAHA DAILY ffffE ; MONDAY , JULY 15 , 1889.
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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.
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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
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n-bornlngjn't ils country.
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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
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"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 ,