> . THE SOUTH LAND OF POOR 10 Plottms of Imllftn Territory Along tlio Texas Border. TRIBAL EDUCATION AND HOME HULE A Fertile , Cnltlvntrfl Region , charming In Contournnd respective , I'rovocntlvo oT .Joroiin Acclnlm * nnd Irnn oloi Truly Poetic. HOUSTON , Tox. , May 23. [ Correspondence of TiiBHr.K. ] On the 1st lust. I boarded tlio caw ot the Santo Fo , nt Gutlirlo , Okl. , nnd rosamcd my southward Journey till I came to Purcell , si town near the northern houndary line of that part of the Indian Territory lying south of Okla homa. It Is situated on the line of the Santo Vu railroad , In 1'ontotack county , a short distance west of the Canadian rlvor. It stands upon a high bluff from which uii excellent vlow of the country north , east nnd south Is presented. It Is a lively , hustling THtlo city of 2,000 Inhabitants - habitants , where business of every kind In brisk. Its streets are wtdo and well pfanncd. In commerce , newspapers , churches and schools It will compare favorably with other towns of similar size. It may , however , justly boast at least one private school of considerables note. It Is an Institution origi nally designed for the education of Indian children exclusively. All such children as can bo induced to attend are educated there without cost to tholr parents or to the pub lic But as such pupils now availing them selves of Its benefits are not equal to Its ca pacity , white children are also admitted to Its privileges. The Indian youths now en rolled tlicrO came from all parts of Indian Territory , with the exception of a few from Kansas. The school has accommodations for about UOO pupils. About 150 are now in at tendance. Of these , llfty board and make their homo there. Ucsldcs teach ing the ordinary branches of n good English education , instruction Is given In domestic economy , music painting and fancy nccdlo work. It has a corps of ilvo teachers , devoted to tholr work nnd putting forth all their energies to make \f \ It a success in all its departments. The school buildings , together with the church fI. I. and p.irsonago connected therewith , have . been erected upon elevated around , em bracing an area of tun acres. The grounds * . were secured , the buildings constructed and the Institution established so mo alx years go by Miss Catherine Drexel , daughter of the wealthy Philadelphia baukorana most of Its expenses are being paid by her. It Is in charge of the Franciscan sisters ana Is known us St. Elizabeth's. Located as it Is in a pioneer country and employed lir giving instruction to children of a savaco or soml- savage race , It has been and still is a strong educational and civilizing force among the people who either directly or in directly have fallen within the range of its influence. IP Iiullnn Territory. * While at Put-cell I availed myself of such opportunities as I found at hand for gather ing Homo information as to the political status of Indian Territory. The result of my efforts in that direction I shall hero sot forth in a general way with as much brevity as possible. As a whole it has no organized governmental standing. As a whole it has uot been erected into a territory In the sense that Now Mexico and Arizona are territo ries. As a whole ic has no established terri torial form of government. It is divided into several parts , each having a clearly flxed and delinitely ascertained boundary. Each of thcso parts is occupied by a tnbo of Indians nnd such other persons as are pea- tnlttcd to remain there. Each part , together with the trlbo inhabiting It , Is called a na tion. To Illustrate : That part allotted to nnd occupied by the Choctaws is called the Chactaw nation ; that part occupied by the Chlckasaws Is called the Chlckasaw nation , nnd so on with respect to other parts. Each nation has a regularly established govern ment of its own. The authority for tl 0 formation of such govern ments Is founded , In part , upon cer tain treaties entered into between them aim the United States government , Mid also in part upon certain acts of con- press passed from time to time in pursuance Of such treaties. I glanced cursorily over seven of such treaties , entered into with the Chlckasaws. The latestbearing date in ISM , among other things provides'thus they ( the Chickasaws ) shall have and enjoy the sights of local self-government subject to the limitation thait hey shall pass no law in conflict with the constitution ot the United States or In contravention of the enact ments of congress Exorcising- the right thus rested In them the Chlckasaws mot in convention n 1807 , falmcdand adopted an Instrument entitled ' -The Corstitullon of the Chickasaws Nation. " In a general way this document is similar to the constitutions of the Boveral states. Us frame work con sists of articles , each of which is divided Into sections. The first article contains a bill of rights , the second rotates to the several departments of government ; the third , to the legislative department nnd pro scribes Its nowors ; the fourth to the ox- ccuctiro department ; the llfth to tliojudicial department ; the sixth , to the matter of educations and the seventh to a lot of mis- ccllanlc. Each section is In substance similar to sections relating to the same subject matter as found in most any of our state constitu tions. In accordance with the form of local government thus set ui > thcro Is a legisla ture which enacts laws , a governor who has charge of their execution , a system of courts where such laws are construed and admin istered and where suits are brought , tried and disposed of in tliu usual way. The Chickasaws have passed qulto a number of statutes upon a considerable variety of sub jects. Their constitution and statutes as printed In English and published in com piled form , I looked over including the BOYOII treaties above named. The book makes a volume 01 900 pages. I was told they were also printed in the Cnickasaw language but whether this bo , true I am un- abio to atato. The salaries allowed some of their public officers are as fol lows ; The governor , $100 per annum ; district court judges , $000 ; attorney general , f-VX ) ; clerk district court , fSOOj judges supreme court $200 , and clerk supreme court 1100. These salaries evi dently don't allow much of a margin for "treating the boys" during the pendency of elections. J\lilenco : of Prosperity. Leaving Purcell I renewed my roamings for ' 'sun-kissed " - Innds. Aly course was ilmost directly bouthward through In- dlan territory. To my surprise 1 found the country had evidently been lottled for several years. A considerable ncroago was broken nnd some of it gave ovi- deuce of having yielded no small number of lucct'sslvo cropa. Fields , cleared where Umber had been dense in the somewhat dis tant past , were In cultivation , Shade trees ud fruit trees waived their branches in the turomcr brcozo. Dwelling houses , gardens , barns , stables and the like wcro numerous. Fences of various descriptions were obsorv- jblo. There wore the old-fashioned fence running zigzag , the stake-and-rldered worm fence , the post-aud-rall fence , the plank fence , the plank-aud-wiro fence , the wire fence and the hedge fence. Corn was ver a foot high. Oats nnd wheat were nearly ready for the harvester. Dig farms and immense pasturaees lay adjoining each other. Everything looked prosperous and gaVe fair promise for the future. The landscape was less monotonous nd more picturesque than any stretch of pralrlo over before presented to my view. It was varied and charming. Perhaps moro so at this season pf the year than at others , Deep ravines mnd high embankments , depressions and mounds , canons and hills , gulches and di vides , lowland and lofty plateaus , long val leys and continuous elevations , shady dolls and smooth , grass-covered knolls , rugged bluffs and stony cliffs followed each other In rapid succession. Cleared fields , where stumps one , two and throi feet high wore still In the ground , and where many of the Urger trees , with rings hacked around them , stood leafless , dead and barklcss , caught my attention. Extensive forests la full leaf , making u thick , heavy follago , contrasted strikingly with other sections of country on which not n shrub , bush or tree could bo seen. Llttlo rivulets nnd larger brooks of clear , sparkling water , rippling over beds of whlto , clean-washed pebbles resent- bliil streams of liquid silver glittering in llio sunshine , n * they llowod onward toward the sea. Creektof greater volume moving with iiolso and turbulence , poured through rocky gorges. Muddy rivers recently swollen by generous rains , rolled slowly through their channels. The whole face of the country , where not In cultivation or made up of wood lands , was clothed in a luxuriant growth of grass , wearing n deep emerald green nnd n soft vo.lvety appearance. So bewitching arc these boundless lawns of nature to a stran ger , when behold about the hour of sunset , that ho feels Invited nnd beckoned to go out among them nnd there , amid the last , linger ing rays of the glowing orb of day , "wrap his cloak nltout him and Ho down to pleasant dreams. " The landscape , however , was not without further decoration , The hand of nature had been otherwise lavish In Its adornments Wild , native ( lowers wcro scattered all along my line of travel. Not surprisingly plentiful , it Is true , but appearing with suftlclcnt frequency to tninglo at short intervals , sensations of ex- qulslto delight with the steadier and mora ceaseless flow of modcrato pleasure. They wcro the genii , so to speak , bespangling the crown of beauty covering the whole surface of the country. They wcro unlike In size nnd different In color. Some were largo , some ! were small and some onjoycd n happy me dium. Some grow upon tall stems , some upon short and some uixm n stem midway between the two extremes. Some were n golden yellow , some a siwtlcss white , some a dcllcato blue and some a deep , rich red. Some were of n different hue Irom any of these already described , while others wcro robed In a harmonious blending of several colors. Some seemed to bow in gentle cour tesy. Some scorned to swcotlv smile. Some swayed tremblingly to and fro as If In thrills of merry laughter. Some seemed to shrink from the gaze of lookers-on , as If moved thereto by ccnutno modesty. And all , no doubt , gave forth loving exhalations to cheer the evening brcc/o which seemed to woo and fan nnd kiss them. While still transported with thcso enchant ing scones , I < crossed the Hed river , consti tuting the boundary line between Indian Territory nnd the state of Tesas. It was just before the hour of twilight. The sun seemed to sink slowly below the western horizon , as if unwilling to bid adieu to the beauties of a landscape containing so much to please , to cheer ami to charm. But soon the great curtain of the night fell , as it-were , between mo and the scenes by which I had for hours been spellbound and entranced. Unable to recover at once from the all-absorbing sen sations in which I had bccomo Immersed , I sat for some time In n dreamy sort of rev erie , revolving in my mind the many things nnd thoughts which had ' 'jeweled the fleet ing moments with n joy , " and made mo sigh that they should over cease. Never before - fore did I say farewell , with moro reluc tance , to the receding light of day , or meet with less cordial welcome the gloomy shades of approaching darkness. J. T. MOUIUITT. A /'ninnus ' Ito in oily. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has become famous for its cures of throat and lung dis eases. It is intended especially for coughs , colds , crout ) and whooping coughs , and is the most effectual remedy known for these diseases. Mr. C. D. Main of Union City , Pa. , says : "I have a great sale on Cnnmber- lain's Cough Ucmedy. I warrant every hot- tin and have never heard of one failing to give entire satisfaction. " CHEAP JAG. Man Accumulates Uno nt Very l.lttlo Kx- poruo to Hlnmcir. While the reporter wna poking along the street , wishing- that a largo and juicy item would rear up and paw him in the face with both foot , ho bumped into the proprietor of a wholesale liquor house coining out of his place road , says the Detroit Free Press. "Hello ! " ho " exclaimed , "oxcuho mo , what's wrong. Don't I see blood in your eye ? " "It's thoi'o , whether you see it or not , " was the curt reply. "Toll mo about it. " "Go in thcro nnd ait down ; I'll bo back presently. " The reporter went in and the proprie tor came back on time. "I don't want to got Into the newspa pers' , " ho said , "but L do want to down n , scoundrel , and I'll toll you what the matter ia. This morning u man cumo in hero and wanted .to buy ten barrels of whisky. Ho gave mo his tmmo and the town ho lived in. Said ho wns W. H. Atalio of Saginaw and had just opened a pluco there. Ho looked seedy , but I've got bovoral custoraera that are careless in dress , and I didn't count much on that. Mr. Atalio wanted three or four different kinds of whisky , and us wo usually do 1 let him santnlo it. Ho didn't touch the cheaper grades , but of the finer grades ho took three or four drinks that were enough to paralyze a brick steam boat. Then ho loft the order for the goods and toll mo he would be back at 4 o'clock with u , check in full. " "Well , " interrupted the reporter , "it isn't 4 o'clock yet and he may bo back , as ho said. " "Will ho ? " bhouted the proprietor , in fine irony. "Will he , indeed ? Suppose you go and look in the alloy and see if you think the man on that stru\v pile out there will bo any place except where ho is at 4 o'clock. No , tlr. 1'vo been mak ing inquiries and that Atalio isn't any thing but a confounded tramp that had gall enough to work a sucker like mo for the drinks and ho succeeded. I wouldn't have shipped the whisky , of counso , on u chance like that , but in my caution on the big thing blamed if I didn't slip up smooth on a plot on the little one. Come out and let mo show you my friend from Suginnw , " and the proprietor escorted the reporter through the store to the alloy at the roar. They found Mr. A sleeping there peacefully , with a baby Hinilo on hia face , and tlio reporter didn't do.ro to laugh until ho could got to a safe place. _ Are You Thinking ; Of what you ought to tnko with you when you go to the World's fair ? Your outfit will not bo complete without a bottle of Cham cerium's Colic , Cholera and Dlarrhuu Komedy. The change of water and dlot , fa tigue and irregular habiis during your trip are almost certain to produce diarrhoea , nnd a dose or two of this remedy may save you serious sickness and perhaps much expense. Procure It before leaving homo. Soothe celebrated Sohmor piano at Ford & GharltonMuHio Co. , 15W Dodge. Dninoitlc Tragedy * Detroit Free Press ; They were sisters - tors , those two , at the moment in awful i > oril | ami they were alone in the liotiso in tholr extremity. "lloro , " said the older one , handing her sister a deadly looking dirk , " is a knife. Bethink you you can use it ? " "I bethink mo I can , " replied the younger girl with chattering teeth , "but , oh , Cclcbto , is there no way but J " this ? She had read Virginlus. "None ; methinks I hoar him move. " "S1 do I. Ho is struggling to escape. " Open the collar door cautiously. I have oiled the hinges , I will stand here and hold the light. Courage , bravo girl I Hist ! I can hour him stir. " "Now may the fates defend us , " whis pered the girl with the knife , " and save mo from u death ignoble. What vital part shall I strike , Colosto1 "Givnitto him lu the nock , alstor. But soft , ia yonder light the jocund orb of day , and has the night /adod into morrow ? " fc "Nay , that is the oleotrlo light on the corner which has just showed its hand. I go now to kill him. Yes , I have said it , to k-k-klll him ! " The bravo , heroic , beautiful girl plu u god down the stairs Into the opaque Boml-durknesa , and in a moment u tor- ritlo ahriok Colestq at once recognized the brand told that all was over. "Aro you bringing him up ? " asked the girl nt llio hond of the collar stairs in ft voice nllko on both sides. "Yos , by hand , " pamo the ghostly whlspor. The next moment ho wns dropped on the floor and the sisters throw thorn- pelvcH Into onclt other's arms , while shriek nftor nhrlek clove the purple dis tance of the night. They had murdered a mouse. Piles of people have piles , but Do Witt's Witch Hazel Salvo will cure them. BAIiAKLAVA SURVIVOR. Uro In ( 'nlifnrnln nnd Jr crlbos llio Cliarc" of tl'o Six Hundred. With right hand crippled by a saber cut , flido pierced by a Cossack Innce , forehead seamed by a Husslnn musket ball nnd throat scarred by a bayonet thrust , a hero of the Light Brigade which charged nt Balaklavn Is dragging out his days In Potalumn. neglected nnd em bittered by England's Ingratitude , says the San Francisco Examiner. The man is William P. HumphryH ana his home n little tenement on Sixth street In the town mentioned , where ho lives for gotten by the world which will not soon cease to speak of what ho did in. his youth at Balaklava. Ilumphrys Is an Irishman of Dublin anil , although nearly 80 years old , ho Hhows what must have been a wiry nnd powerful frame before wounds and dis ease bowed the shoulders , whitened the hair and made the etop halting. Never having known his parents , tlio father being killed in the East Indies and the mother dying when ho was . ' 1 days old , the baby was cared for by a grandmother and had every educational advantage until ho was 18. At that ago a love of adventure In clined him to the army and a commission as a lieutenant in tlio cavalry service was purchased for him by his grand mother. It was In 18-1 ! ) that ho began to learn tactics , and within a few months his advance In the art of war was so marked that ho v-as scut from the train ing school at Chatham' up to Aldershot to join his regiment. Until the muttcrings that preceded the wur of the Crimea were heard young Humphrys lived the graceful llfo of the English ofllcer ; just enough discipline and drill to maintain olllclency , while all besides was pleasure. Tlio Crimean war progressed with varying fortunes until October , in 1854. Toward the end of that month , on the 24th , when the allied forces were about Sobastppul , the Turks had lost a battery of Hold guns. On the next day the cain- ninndor-in-chief of the allies decided to retake the guns. During the campaign what was called "Tho Light Brigade" had been formed bv accepting such squadrons from the various regiments of light cavalry as chose to volunteer for the bcrvieo. It wns presumed to contain the choicest of the mounted soldiery of England , and was commanded bv Lord Cardigan , a young peer who had in sorvicu justified the favoritism which originally gave him position in the English army. The Light Brigade numbered 040 men , despite Lord Tennyson's intimation that forty less participated in the famous charge. There were in the brigade two squadrons of fifty men each from the Fourth Light Dragoons , Eighth Hus- snrs , Eleventh Hussars , Thirteenth Light Dragoons and Seventeenth Lancers. The commanding ofllcors of the squadrons , in order named , were : Lord Paget , Colonel Thewcll , Colonel Douglas , Captain Oldham and Captain Morris. Twenty-three ollicors , twenty- three sergeants and eight trumpeters were killed on the Hold , and 451 horses were shot down. The brigade was camped in a grove of pines in a little valley before the forti fied hill of Balaklava on October 25 , 1854 , when about Jl o'clock in the morn ing-Captain Nolan , aido-do-campi Gen eral Kaplan , the commandcr-in-chief , rode up to the quarters of the carl of Lucan , commander of the English cav alry forces , and delivered an order to send the Light Brigade to retake the guns lost by the Turks on the day before. Lord Cardigan of the Light Brigade and the carl of Lucan wore relatives , but not on speaking terms. Captain Nolan was a hot headed olllcor , notable as the "best drilled man in Eurono. " When the order was delivered Earl Lucan asked : "Whoro are the guns ? " because from his position among the pine trees ho could see nothing of the movements on the fiold. "Thoro they aro. and it is your duty to take them , " was Captain Nolan's impul sive but impudent reply. The Light Brigade was ordered into action and at , 11 o'clock rode out from the pines into the open and narrow valley , at one end pf which two full Russian batteries wcro in position. It was easy enough to bee "tho guno" then , and Humiihry.s , in tolling the story says : "They looked big enough to ride into , but wo were ordered to tuKo thorn and thcro was nothing elbe to do. Lord Cardigan rode alone ahead of us , and Captain Nolan , instead of go ing buck to Lord Kng Ian , as ho should , was also riding before us , but on a line diagonally to the right. Nolan kept waving his sword to us , but we paid no attention. When wo had advanced at a trot for a few hundred yards a chain- shot struck Nolan in the chest. His hor.so wheeled and galloped toward us , and I could boo that Nolan had received a mortal wound ; but ho still sat erect , his sword arm wunin the air , though the sword had dropped and when wo came near ho shouted in a shrieking tone and tumbled from his horse. "Lord Cardigan kept increasing his pace and wo kept up. After the first cannon shot , which killed Nolan , wo were in a hell of smoke , thunder , chain- shot , canister , solid balls , grape and everything else that could bo thrown from u cannon. "Out of the 040 ofllcora and men who formed the Light Brigade when wo rode out from our camp , only 102 lived after the charge , and of tlio survivors not ono was im wounded , most of thorn hav ing bovoral injuries. "As wo got up near the battery the smoke wns bo thick wo could bee noth ing , but wo galloped on and into the earthworks. "It wns only fifteen minutes from our leaving camp until 4 18 of the brigade had boon killed. Wo had made the charge and were forming again in the valley below. "I rode u Jlttlo black mnro , nearly thoroughbred. I just let her go and at tended to the use of my saber. Just as I got within the battery line a gunner jabbed his bayonet into my throat , the point piercing to the roof of my mouth. Then u ballot hit mo in the forehead and I nearly foil from my mure. Aly hands drooped , and a saber cut nearly took my right thumb olT. There were Consucks in plenty and ono of thorn jabbed his lance into my loft side , but wo beat the Russians elf and did what wo were told to do. "The 102 survivors of the Light Bri gade were sout back to England to get well and the brigade was reformed. I expected promotion , of course , at least to u captaincy , but u young nobleman from Eton college was made captain of my trooj ) , and I was so disappointed that I sold out my commission for 2,000 , and came to America , and here I am poor and crippled , just waiting for the inovit- ublo day. " u , . , " "Y.l l"08' btu Do Witt's Witch Hazel Salve willcuro them GREAT PANICS OF THE PAST * * t Oanscs and Oonsoqnoncoi , of tbo Country's Principal Pinanoinl Ponvnlsions. 1 i y HISTORY OF FIVE NOTABLE UPHEAVALS How Monetary CrUcxVpf llroHRhl About nnrt tlio tlcMtrnctlnn They \Vroiifiht In rormrr Yenr Tlio , Uront Oad ! lluliblo of Illnok 1'rldiij- . The recent flurry In Wall street , coupled with the collapse of several speculative banks In various parts of the country , Is Insignificant compared with financial upheavals which form epochs In the history of the country. There were five of thorn these of 181 ! ) , 18)7 : ) , 1857 , 187IJ and the "gold bubble'1 of 18GO. Thcso wore the most extensive and disastrous industrial nnd commer cial convulsions which th'o country hnJ known , the 111 effects In each case bolng felt for several years. In the popular mind , says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat , the eight years (1817-25) ( ) of Monroe in the presidency are memorable merely for the "era of good feeling , " the passage of the Mis souri compromise and the promulgation of the so-called Monroodoctrine. It ivas notnblo also for another event , the oc currence of the most extended and serious business disturbance which the country had known along to that time. As the Missouri compromise of 1820 was the first of the series of great slavery dick ers nnd deals , which ended with the con cessions of 18.iO , so the panic of 1819 may be considered the first of the sorlcs of extended financial convulsions , tlio latest of which began In 187J. ! Wild and ex tended speculation was ono of the im mediate causes of the business disaster which set in In 181 ! ) , and another was the heavy morchaiuliEC importations from Europe , and especially from Eng land , which the close of the war of 1812- 15 precipitated on the country. The speculation started with the reorgani zation of the United States bank in 1817 , which materially improved the facilities for business credits. Mismanagement on the part of some of the high officials of this second United States bank , and the favors which it granted to unscrupulous borrowers gave an impetus to specula tion such as never had boon known before - fore , brought the bank into trouble early in its career nnd obliged it to cur tail its credits and call in many of its loans. The speculators who had been "working" the institution in their own interest were thua brought up with a "short turn , " and a g9noral collapse in the fictitious valueB 'which tholr wild operations had causvnUwas precipitated. The bank in this wayllsaved itself , and ultimately put the business of the coun try on a solid basis again , but for two or three years the trade prostration was serious and widespVfjad and great dis tress was occasioned . , The tariff's connec , ipn with the panic of 1819 came about this way : Around the time of the outbreak' of tno war with England in 1812 congress , as a war meas ure , doubled the rates of all existing duties. This law remained in operation about four years. Jnjporta practically censed under this jaw and the risks which the war caussdito commerce , and the capital of the coiintry turned at once to manufacturing , as/ / its best avenue for profit. The shipping interest was crip pled by war and the legislation" hamper ing foreign commerce , and a largo part of the inoney invested in this interest was diverted to other channels , but chiefly to manufacturihg. The close of the war and the expiration a little later of the war tariff , found the country with a larger numlwr of factories than it could have gainnd in three or four times that period in any other condition , and tlio factories wcro able to go a long way toward fully supplying the country with commodities in their lino. When the restraints against foreign commerce wore removed the country was Hooded with cheaper , and , doubtless , better goods from England , and the domestic manufacturer found a competition ho could not cope with on existing terms. Factories beiran to close at once , nnd eventually this produced the condition of uncertainty nnd depression which the collapse of speculation before mentioned intensified into panic and transformed into prolonged financial and industrial prostration. Business men of all kinds adjusted themselves to the now conditions , how ever , us well as they could , and the wise action of the United States bank already alluded to at length restored confidence , while the tariff of 1821 afforded the man ufacturers reasonable protection in the directions in which they needed it. "I leave this great country prosperous nnd happy , " said Jackson In a farewell address about the time ho left the presi dency in the early part of 18U7. Appear ances were dolusu'e , however. Scarcely had Jaekbon's successor , Van Buron , en tered the white liouso when one of the most widespread and dikujtrous financial convulsions which the United States has over known sot in. The panic of 18117 was moro extensive and serious than that of 1810. The coun try was considerably moro populous and its business interests were far moro di verse and important. About 0,000,000 inhabitants were in the country when the crash of 1810 sot in , and 10,000,000 were here when the convulsion of 1837 took place. The dilloronco In the volume - umo of business between the two dates cannot bo BO readily figured out , but it was enormous. About the tlmo that Van Buren entered upon hlo duties a largo business house In Now Orleans failed. This waa the beginning of the panic of 1837. The financial storm whloh'had ' been gather ing during the wholo'of the Jackson ad ministration now bnpJt forth with terrible - blo fury. Loans wfcro , ' called In by the bank' , bank circulation wan contracted and business men of thq highest stand ing in the community , being denied ac commodation by the- financial institu tions , were unablo'tohieot ' their debts. Banks , too , wont dfiwii in the tempest. Business houses whlph had successfully weathered many 'financial gales were wrecked. All sorts jof property imme diately and imnienselydeclined in values. Suddenly ovorybodyi seemed to bo in solvent. Confidence vanished. Nobody would trust anybody. Unreasoning ter ror Bolzod almost the entire community. Business came to u standstill. In New York City alouo in Maroh and April , 1837 , the failures reached the enormous sum of 9100,000,000. In New Orleans in the staino time they aggregated - gated $50,000,000. , Other business cen ters suffered severely also. All tlio banks in Now York suspended specie payments , nnd the legislature of that state authorized the suspension to con tinue for ono year. Banks in other cities followed the example of these in Now York and specie virtually disap peared from circulation. Even the United States government had the greatest dlllloulty to obtain gold or sil ver , and it was compelled to pay the army and navy in paper money , which , though worth its face at the tlmoof pay ment , might bo immensely reduced in value tomorrow. Factories and busi ness enterprises of most aorta stopped altogether or were run only ou quarter or half tlmo , nnd great number of om pi0309 wore thrown out of work. A doimttUlon ot merchant * and banker * from Now York called on I'rcsl- dent Van Huron In May , 1S , ' 7 , two months after ho gained olllce , nnd ap pealed to him to summon an extra ses sion of congress to provide means of re lief from the prevailing distress. Con gress was called to assemble on Septem ber 8 , but boyoud the pnssngo of a bill authorizing the Issue of $10,000,000 In treasury notes It did very little of what the people demanded or Van Buren de sired. In tlio regular session , hovvovor , congrcsa passed an independent treasury bill , which Van Buron recommended , providing a special reeoptaelo for the money of the government , which had previously been deposited In a few banks called , by the government's foes , "pot banks. " Out of this law developed the trcasuri * nnd subtreiisuries , the latter of which are situated In the chief cities. In Tyler's presidency the independent treasury scheme was repealed , but under Polk It was re-enacted. In 1857 the third of the great finan cial crises occurred. This wns a stormy nerlod. The passage of the Kansas-No- braska bill three years earlier had re pealed the Missouri compromise , and thrown the territories open to slavery ; the sections were beginning to prepare themselves for the desperate political struggle which was to occur at the polls three years later , and the shadow of the greater and fiercer struggle lying beyond - yond wns already looming up. But -tho financial situation drew men's thoughts away fron coining political combats and concentrated them on the Inunediato danger. Tlio panic of 1857 was ushered in by the failure of the Ohio Llfo and Trust company of Cincinnati , which occurred on August 21 of that year. This was in the first year of the Buchanan adminis tration , as the beginning of the panic of 1837 had been in the first year of the ad- mlnlatvatlon of Van Buren. The liabil ities of the Ohio Lifoand Trust company were over $7,000,000. It wns nn Institu tion whoso credit and prostlgo stood especially high. When It foil It brought bunks and business houses in different parts of the countrv down with it. Sev eral banks In Philadelphia succumbed soon to the Htorm , runs were made on banks in the principal cities in the vari ous states , and suspensions of specie payments became general , though not quite universal. Factories and other business enterprises stopped work and immense numbers of people were thrown out of employment. A widespread pros tration in business sot in. For a year or thereabouts the scones of 1837 were repeated. The rally occurred quicker , however , than It did from the panic of 1837 , for most of tno strong banks re sumed specie payments within six months after the crash sot in. but it was 1800 before all the traces of the financial wreck were removed , The principal causes of the financial convulsion of 1857 were : (1) ( ) Wild spec ulation in lands. (2) ( ) Excessive build ing of railroads. (3) ( ) Overproduction in most lines of manufactured goods. (4) ( ) Inflated prices on the general articles of necessity and on many articles of luxury. Thcso were the immediate causes. Tlio ultimate cause was the discovery of gold in California. The finding of the California gold fields was ono of the great events of the first half of the nineteenth coutury. It stimulated trade not only in the United States , but in every civilized .land , and exerted an influence on the commerce , industry and social lifo of the world which is fplt to this day. Its first eflect , however , in this country was far from beneficent. It started an insane specu lation and led to the general trade ex cesses pointed out in the preceding para graph , which in the reaction that was inevitable resulted in dis aster in 1857 and 1858. . Everybody supposed ho was going to get rich in a hurry , and consequently ho put highly exaggerated prices on everything ho had to sell , and the same hopeful feeling led him to pay without a murmur exces sive prices for the things ho had to buy. Lands wore bought with the expectation of being sold next day at a large in crease. Railroads wore constructed on the assumption that the tremendous nx- imnsion in population and wealth hoped for would enable them to pay'immenso dividends at once , while in reality many of these roads were beyond the needs of the country for the next dozen years. The same buoyant spirit led to the over production of all kinds of goods. Everj'- body was going to bo wealthy anyhow , and therefore everything which waa made would find ready purchasers at high prices. The awakening from this dream was rude , but it was salutary , and business as well as men's plans and expectations eventually adjusted it golf to the normal conditions. "Black Friday , " which came in 180 ! ) , is the next on the list of monetary dis turbances. This affair , however , was amore moro Hurry , and though immense muns of money were made and lost by It , and Wall street was demoralized for several days , yeti Us effects on general businobs wore only transient compared with those , of the convulsions of 1810 , 1877 , 1857 and 1873. " ,11m Fisk , " who was killed two or three years later by Edward S. Stokes , and Jay Gould were the big figures which organized the "BlackFriday" deal. Their object was to corner the gold market and force gold up to 180. Gold WUH then a commodity and was bought and sold like ordinary morchan- dlbo'or like stocks. It was at a premium in our currency , and remained so until January 1 , 187 ! ) , when specie payments were resumed by tlio government. Tlio conspirators controlled , or imagined they controlled , nearly all the gold held in private hands , and got it at about 131. By manipulation they at once eont it up to 150. This is the price at which it stood on the morning of that fateful Friday , September 24 , 1800-"Black Fri day. " Everybody felt that the corner could not bo broken unless the government sold gold , while the clique boasted that the government was on its sldo. The prices , which started at 150 on this memorable Friday , were slowly but steadily forced up to 102 , while bulletins posted in every city fn the country showed the advance. Such excitement was never scon in the country at any other time as was shown on that day. But the culminating point was reached when the quotation touched 102. Un known to the conspirators , the treas ury had come to the rescue. At the 102 bid $1,000,000 was Bold to the clique , and the price wont down to 101. At this rate nnd at 160 other Bums were sold , and all by the bumo individual. Con sternation dolzcd the clique , and they , as well as the onlookers , began to real ize that this individual , who stood calm in the mldbt of this confustonmust have moasurelobS resources lit his back. Suddenly his identity was di vined. Like lightning word went through the oxclmngo , "Tho treasury is eelling ! " Scores of operators rushed to sell , and In a few minutes the quota tion had dropped to 135. The gold bub- bio had burst , and "Black Friday" passed into history. Next on the list of the country's finan cial convulsions , and the lutobt of all of them thus fur , was that of 1873. Early in that year a general feeling of insecur ity began to be felt in business circles. Bnnkb curtailed tholr loans and exor cised greater discrimination in bestow * Ing their favors. Shrewd business men , too , shortened tboir periods of credit. The knowlnrr oiios on nil sides began to proimro for the financial tornado which 11103- felt to bo Impending. And yot. when the storm did coino , It may bo salt ! to have taken the country by su'rprlflo. In September the crash camo. On the 8th day of that month the New York Se curity and Wim-houto company mink under Hi load ot Missouri , Kan as " jd Toxa ! on the 13th , Daniel Drow's firm wont down with C'nnnda Southern , and on the 17th , the fateful 17th of Soptciiv Iwr , the great banking IIOUHO of .lay Cooke < fcOo , was burled under the weight of Northern Pacific and the panto of 1873 was "on. " Then banking and bu 1 loss concerns on all sides colfnpscd and tlio Now York Stock exchange put up Its shutters for the thuo bolng. In the remainder of 1873 the scenes of calamity witnessed In 18.T ? and 1857 wcro repeated. Banks suspended payments temporarily throughout the greater part of the country and many of them were wrecked pormnnontly. Factories suspended or reduced the hours ot labor , largo numbers of employes were thrown out of work and the distress was wide spread nnd serious. The effects of the panic lasted until about the mlddlo of 1877 , or about a year and a half before fie resumption oy the government of tlio specie payments , which had boon suspended In the early part of the civil war. war.Tho principal causes for the panto ot 1873 imiy bo broadly summarized thus ; (1) ( ) The inflated and fluctuating our- roncv. (2) ( ) Largo exports of gold. (3) ( ) Excessive railway building. (4 ( Heavy speculation in real estate and In other directions. In 1873. nnd along to the beginning of 1870 , gold was merchandise , and was bought anil sold like other merchandise or property dealt In on the commercial exchanges , nnd was subject to rapid fluctuations In valuo. For many years , too , the exports of gold largely exceeded the Imports , in response to an adverse balance of trade and other causes. Rail way building In the west during that era had gene beyond the demands of business for half n dozen or half n score of years to coino. Over $1,000,000,000 \vns sunk in 1871 , 1872 and the first half of 1873 hi railway building which , for the tlmo being , was almost a dead loss , this immense sum of money bolng with drawn for years from the channel of commerce , to the great injury of all branches of business. The chief railroad projected at this time was the Northern Pacific , which wrecked Jay Cooko. The speculation in houses nnd Innds was not ns extensive ns was that In railway building , but it helped to expand the bubble of fictitious values whoso collapse spread demoralization and ruin on all sides. Several financial flurries have oc curred since 1873 these of 1881,1884 , 1890 and 1893 being the severest. Prac tically speaking , however , they have been confined to Wall street , and their effects , except In the case of the flurry of 1881 , did not last beyond a few months. NOSE BLEED. J'ronchnmn'g Plan tar Stopping It Salil to Ho Successful. Nose bleed , which is quito unusual in old ago , is frequently observed during the years of puborty. It may bo brought on by a variety of causes , and appear af ter a sunstroke or a sudden change in the temperature or atmospheric pres sure , or by a blow in the region of the nose. It can also appear at the begin ning of typhoid fever or measles or during an attack of articular rheuma tism. Diseases characterized by an al teration of the blood render the patients particularly liable to nose blood : this is the case with diseases of the liver , spleen and kidneys. The preventive - ventivo treatment of blooding at the nose consists in the medication of the com plaint under the dependence of which it appears : but to check the hemorrhage itbolf when it has once nppcnrcd , the simplest means are the application of cold cloths to the face or injections of hot water in the nasal fossa ; . In more tenacious cases it is well to resort to direct pressure by introducing the fin ger an far as possible into the nostril , or elbe to plug the nasal fossiu as accurately as can be done. It may happenhowovorthat these dif ferent methods fail , and that the abund ance and persistency of the bleeding constitute an actual danger. Under these circumstances it will bo advisable to UEO antipyrino , which , according to a writer in the New York Herald , haa succeeded in the hands of M. Guonot of Lnroche-on-Brouil In the most unexpected manner. This method , which ho has used for over two years now. lias never failed. It consists in MiHIlng up or Injecting into the nose n solution ot untipyrine , one in fivo. With grown persons it is easy enough , but with young and fractious children it Is necessary to have the head hold tightly and bent forward while the solution is injected into the nose , the mouth being kept open. When this is done the nos trils should bo closed with the fingers to prevent the liquid coming back at once This method is extremely Hltnplu and if It turns out to be as ellicacloiih as Mr. Gucnut claims it to bo it will soon bo the regular treatment of noses. SAVED BY A SPIRIT VOICE. Imlliiim llnuhH'ur'H Hliiryof lilt Narrow Es cape from Doatli. C. W. Moses erf Garrett , Ind. , who , by the way. IB the sou of u Methodist min ister and himself a member of the Meth odist church and not u spiritualist , way in Fort Wayne the other day and nar rated ton News reporter the following remarkable incident : "It was in 1855 , " Bald Mr. MOSCB , "and I was running from Garrctt , Ind. , to Chicago on the night run and pulling the 'limited. ' I left Garrett at 1 a. in. for Chicago on the night in question. Wo left Gurrett in good condition , but a few minutes late , and I endeavored to 'mako up' lost time on what is known us 'Simian's grade , ' which is borne twenty miles long and ter minated at Suit creek. The lust three miles is perfectly straight to the Salt creek bridge. When my train reached this straight track I noticed a white pil lar or cloud occupying the pluco of the bridge and reaching qulto high. I took it to be fog , but neither above nor below the bridge was the BUIIIO visible. I asked my fireman if ho uavv it , and ho wild 'Yen ' but , thought It was a fog. About this time I felt as if homo ono were in the sent behind mo , but on turning around no ono was visible. I then felt a hand upon my right shoulder and then heard my mother hay : 'Charlie , that bridge is burned. ' I felt the fingers very plainly upon my shoulder. I know my mother's voice. Can any ono forgot the voice of a mother ? At once I applied the air ; or , at least , us soon as I recov ered my astonishment. The train cumo to a standstill about twenty foot from the cast approach of the bridge. I told my fireman that I would take my torch and walk across the bridge and that he should not move the train until I sig naled. I walked about fifteen feet when I came to the end of the bridge found that thirty-seven feet had burned and dropped into the water and put the fire out. What I saw mudo mo so weak that I did not have any utrength to move and sat down on the end of the romnunt of the bridge. The conductor soon came to where I was and I related to him what I have now told to you. " Plica of people liavo pilui , out Do W itt1 Witch liazel Salve will euro them. "Tired In the Morning. " This fcollnff , even nttor titfood nlarh' sloop , urines trout n disordered stoinnc A little Konulno CnrUbml Hprudol Sr will tone the stonmoh untl rtrlvo nw , this flon&oof weariness. Ho suronnd tj euro only the t-ntiluo. Prof , The colobrnloil Now York nnd i LoulB cyo export , HY Hl'F.CIAL IV QUEST will rotimlu lu OMA1I. NKU. , UNTIL MAY 27 ONLY. i Do They Ache. Burn , Itch , W or Tire Upon Continual Us * f they do they nro dafcctlvo n ! should tie c.irolttlly fitted with glnsaX Are you subject to nhronlo hoadnuhc vlio kind that begins in the region bu' : ' of mm around the oyon , making U oy01 fool heavy nnd dull'If si ) t } eyes nro nt fault and a pair of glasses n. needed. ! When you can call nnd consult 3 , eminent oculist. Komombor the dates , ; MAY 23 TO 27 \ At the store o ( r MAX MEYER & BRO. G ( Solo Agents for Omnha , Nob. TESTIMONIALS. ! C'ntrAno , Mir.wAUKKK A ST. I'Airi. UAII.WAJ CK.NKUAI , AuKXT'S OrKlCB. OMAHA. ICO. 8 , IB1W Dr. lIlrschbcrK : Dour Blr Your opthalmlo OIBI : Inntlon inailuof my eyes looms to mo molt tlic ouitli nml palnntnklnKniKl Icon earncatlf rocoi mend you to all In neoil of Klassca. Yours r < pi < i , fullr. K. A. NAH1 ! UMA1IA , Mnrch : i , IRW.-lr. II Illrtclibor Dour SirI have trlvil the Rlnmoi nnd upocucl whtoli you mnilo for mu.aiul into ploituro In rucoi ; niemllnic thora m bolnc tlio most ony upon mv cr , of nny 1 Imvo over worn , nml In lulnit them 1 i' ' tinnblo to iinr whether I nm lookliiK tlirouKliulnii' , nt nil. 1 wlili you treat siicci'M In yourtruvuln u > ' , . this ntnto. Tlio < ii Kl 90i urenuoli an Imiirovenif , to mj ajaa tlmt 1 can na n well us 1 could In tr ) bojrliood. 1 take xroat plwunro In rocommeniix to nny ono who Is nllllclcxtllka nivnolf nnd has' wear Klassos , n , j cn , , lee iiOttcr nlth tlmui tlinic have boon nblo to do In tlio ( nut ttiolvo vaav Vour rc | iuctfullr. T. K. HumtolloiTim. v ; ( ion. Mupt , Tacltlc KiproM , Oiukhn , Nob.1 OMAHA , Anrll 8.16113.-I'rof. H.HIrxchliorit : lof Sir 1 linvo boon woarlnKtliOKlai > i you proacrllil for mo over alnco I rccolvoil thorn , ntul I nni vcj much ploasod. Thor are ao cany on the oycn , tv strain In entirely rellovnt , nnU at the aamo tlmu ; can nco much bettor than before Itoipocttu ! yonm. CilAiiLRI CONOVKII. j CrrrTimAHi'itKU'sOFi'iCB , OMAHA , Neb. , Ma > i 18 l , I'rof. H lllrihberK. St. Louis , lo. ! : UA Sir The tno yalriof xlnaien you proncrtbod for O > aftorvou bail ray eyes oxauilncil , I Imvo rocolri. " , nnd mint say that they nra to my ontlro fatlifCj tlon. I have used itla > aeo for the last twelve yoa.l bntnovor liad any which uavo tuyoyoi u niimr relief a * llioso Mo. Wishing you auccvis , 1 am arX Vour very trulv. HENHV BOLtv. ? ( Notice. * Heal < I projiosali will bo received by tli ; State 1'rlntltis Hoard nt tlio olllcoof the seci rotary of stiUo at any tlmo buftiro Momlu : Muy'29 , 1H'J3. at 4 o'clock I ) , til. , for prlntltt ; : ind binding C.OUO copies of the suasion Inws Oj 1803. Including SOO , .sopurutoly printed nut. bound Inpaporproof sheutcouluiof tliu "Now.1 " ' berry Hill. Session laws to bo printed on two-pouiw book paper , tmmll pica typo , jmnos to bo .siuml tilzo and form us I ho Inns of 188 ! > , with iiuir nnl notes mid Index , bound In full slieup. f Proposals will also bo rocalvod at Uiottfkmr Hmo and pluco for printing tlio cuiiromo conrj reporlH and court calendars and for furnish' Ing all blanks , blank books nnd circulars , Ini eluding rovomiu lilankH , required by tin ; ofllcers of thn oxecuttvo department of tin * .stato for a period ot two years from dulo o' , contract. i Samples and i-.sllmatoi of kinds and quantity of Huppllos to bo furnished can bo seen at tin olllco of secretary of stalu. ' . Proposals must btuti ) for what nrlco tlio bl : ' dor will furnish all bunks In tlil.s class pi ) ; page , nnd for all blanks nnd circulars \y \ ) hundred. Each proposal must bo accompanied by < bond In the sum of $3,000. with two or mo sureties , conditional that the bidder will , case of award , within five day.s after notl outer Into contract to do the work. Kids to bo marked "Proposals for 1'ubl/i / 1'rlntlng , " care of Ht-crotary of sliitu , Cialluy and page proof for laws must bo fur niched to thn proper ofllcer , and all work to I delivered In good order free of cost nt tl orUco of tlio M'cretary of .stato within ulxl days from the date of contract , UlKht to re lee t any or all bids reserved. J. H. HAim-BV. 1 State Treasurer. I Of Btato EljnUNK MOOUEPrinting / Iloni , Auditor Public Accounts , J ' , M20dlX < ' JloiuU for hide. Scaled bids for 810,000.00 of school build bonds will bu lecelvcd by the president i. KPoretarv of llio HChoul district of llio Ulty llrokcn ( low , Neb. , up to 1 o'clock p. in. June 1 , 1H93 , Maid lionds to bn Ixsuod by t Hoard of Kducallon of tin ) above ntuned < 1 trlut ; will bear II pur cent Inleioxt , payalv soml-anniially , and both Interest and prln * ' pal inndn payable at tint llscal agency forti state of Nebraska In the city of New Vork , V , JD.000.00 of wald bonus will run for t- vein H from July 1 , ll)3 ) ! , and JD.000.00 will n for lit teen years from July 1,1H03. Tliu rig to reject any and all bids IN ronorvod. ll.aTAI.IIOT , President * ! J.U. I.KMINU.Hocrotary Dated llrukcn How , Nub. , May 1H. 1U0.S. , May'21d 11 STRENGTH , VITALITY , MANHOOD , W. II. l'AItKKllM.I > . , No.4IliiinncrJi UiJHTOs , iSitn. , tileconiulllna pht/itclan of li l'KAnonYAIKIII/AI.lNttTITOTKlonli' Ivan owarilf J the 1101.11 IIKIIAI. by tlio NATION ' fo , IhuI'KliCRKfiHAy . nil jilita.4 unil ll'rulncit of JA. re , fillnrO ll' ' ° y < > u ffi the mliltlle-agtJ and o , ' lillnr'A Conmliktlon in ptrwn or by IctU ' UUIIfuU iifoapecliiK with tc tluionlol , FKK ( jirge hook , 801KNUK OF I.II'J ! , OK SKI I'UKSKKVATION. COO pp. . I''i Ilivuluublo V icrlptlom. full ialU ouly 31.1"a null , sailed DON'T ' FRET ! . .out your mirves ; don't be pule , wank , nerv. 'ui. fretful , nloeplosii don't Imvo pain In bar "rildo ; don't , bo without ambition for world 'Ijeasuro. 1'ut u keened goon lift ) . Use Non Boqns , n now veireluulo discovery of r inarlc4U e power over all nervoui troubles Doth sexes II a box , enough for two week At druiteltts , or by mall , Nerro lluun Uc Uuffalo , N , Y , 'RTTJ'NTTi'V'C CaUrrli Cure cures c t n J > llvi > JZj 1 O All druviclsts. We cuts. OUR EMPLOYMENT DEP1 ] tvlillocoitlnz tha employer mil omptoya nothlnif , lus en-iUlud us to advance the Intoi evt * of both , and ulna our own , bmourlo better results with tha miohluo. Wyckoff , Siaman & Benidic TKLKl'HOMK mi 17U f AUNAU 31 * .