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GKEAT SPOET FOR TEUTONS. .Forty Theusand Peonle Throng the Parks at Milwaukee to Witness the Turnfest Performances. AIilw iukec, July 23 —Forty thousand people tin onged Athletic and Shooting Parks dnd the campu connecting them to ij to itnc«s the exercises of the men UKI W omen who aie. participating in tin tuinfest of the North American Tin nt bund The pi ogramine was a long one vnd began at 4 4o o'clock in the morning, wheu 4,000 turners were louted out ol then banacks b\ the notes fiom a li ilt dozen bugles. Before noon the \eteian tuineis had then dumbbell ex lses, and the puze turning begaii. The 1 ittcr consisted of the hop-skip-and-j ump, the md exeicises and woik upon the hon/ontal irs Sc\ eral thoustind people ithcitd in the giand stand to -witness the inking out otthepiogramme. Each cl is is allov\td from ten minutes up ud toi it^ ppiloimai ce, according to tue vi/e of the class It was an ideal morning toi turning with a fiesh breese blow ng noov. the from the Lake ^licln^ foam, and ju&t enough sun to '•1 _h en the 1 IHOM ipe without scorch- 0 it 1 he turning is thite gioups At th lonei end of the held near the nil., st aid wcie the hop skip and amp _,ioiind- It wis tlieie that the e\en INL- \KS m, md tlieie the spectatois iiotn the a ind st md siw dozen figures stu it the woul ind, aft^i a little nin, end with jump Thcj weit speedily followed b\ judges wilh tape lines, who iiieivued the distu ce, and the lesults wcu leeoided on tillv shee«s The identitj of the tuineis duiirg the me tinning was lost, as fai as the judges weie concerned, and each is designated l\ the numbei he woie on the card that hung tiom his button hole Pioneei Tuineis One of the most -enjoyable oce isions of the daj is the on\(iition oi the Pioneei Tuineis of the "Noitli Vnuncan Turneihund, which is held it the lestiuiant in Shooting bftwun 10 ind 12 o'clock Ovei 100 members of the society weie piesent Ihe issorntion is composed of men who i\ loi ve us been enthusiastic follow PIS ot Fithci lalin, and tlieie weie piesent 4»iiybends fiom JVw^ork Boston, Biltimoit, Phil idelphi i, Cincinnati, St Louis, Pittsbuig, Chicago, Madisoi., St Fail, D( n\er and ban Fiancisco. The clei tion of orhceis lesulted in the election ot the old stiff-President, Hcnij Uuhn, seeietai\ Beitsch The time ot the on\ention is passed in leminiscent speeches The dij's piogiamine con cluded with gvmnastic excticises and a grind conceit in the evening No pn/es will 1)( announced until Tuesday night Milw iukec, July 24. The Tuineis idi t,ie it effoits to da\ to catch up with tlu piogramme, and despite the -ulti\ ithei they succeeded in placing \ti\thing in leadincss ioi the grand hn de it the IXposition hall to monow c\cnme 1 he exercises to da\ weie in dnuluil pn/c tinning The contents conciste ot tluee gioups, the hist ha\ nij, 200 cntiiis. The contestants per ioimed on hon/ont il md ir dlel bars md on the hoist also vaulting, high jump, fn jump md putting the shot These txeieises listed until 4 o'clock, »\hen the second ind third gioups ent (i(d the inipiib The exeicises consist ed ot high and bioad jumping, climbing limning, putting weight and hop, skip and jump At 5 o'clock the calisthenic and tactic exeicises began with oiches tial iccompininients ind contmiied un til 7 o'clock The eAcning exeicises consisted of calisthenics bv 500 Milwau kee gals, dumbbell pcitormance by the bo\s, club swinging by ladies wand dull bj 300 tuineis, aciobatie peifoimances 3v ±.00 ithletes, wiestling matches, the concluding peifoimance being pyiamids and gioupingonfouitei ladders, ex etut ed b\ the actnes of Milwaukee turner societies undei the management of Di lecloi Robeifc Reutei, of the Balm Fiei luinveiein The entne park was made bnlliant by electricity ind the pyramid and othei athletic sets were illuminated by calcium lights Dancing was a gieat attraction at the Shooting park. To inoriow is the last day of the exercises. The Dayton (Ohio) turners are regarded as pietty sure winners of the first fMze in turning events. The afternoon contests to-day were particularly interesting. They consisted *f rope climbing, grouping and jumping. The ropes were suspended from yard Arms at the tip ef poles raised -on each ehs^js- side of the stand, and though the "tap «f4 Lew, hot ashamed of myself, air/* JtM. the lopes was not leached by any ot the climbers, some of them were very neai it. Joseph Fished, a long-limbed, hus ky turner from St Paul, pulled himself upward until his feet weie thirty-eight feet six inches above the ground, when his muscles refused to eairy him further and he returned to earth. It was a good climb and encouraged the boys from St. Paul, all of whom did well on the rope. Albert Jahn went up thirty-three feet nine inches, J. Moy'thirty-five feet and Greussing thirty-four feet. Louis F. Schuck of Philadelphia started up the rope like a squirrel, and from the way he climbed for a while it looked as if he would be a sure winner of the contest. After passing the thirty maik, however, he wavered and finished at thirty seven feet six inches. Gamp Notes. They boys at camp are evidently hav ing a good time. Saturday night wit nessed the special dedication and some twenty oi thirty giew good natured as he hours woie ou Music and fiiewoiks on the lake weie special features and took so well that they will be lepeated on next Satuidaj evening Sunday night a hoise belonging to S Peteison anel u«ed by Drs Schoch and Behnke x\as tied to a tree in the ncighboihood of the camp Dunng the e\emng it was cut loose by someone and disappeared A search followed on Monday, but the horse still lemains at hbeity Satuiday night, Alwin, the tii.\eling man fell victim to the schemes of his companions He had rowed six of them out fiom shore to a bathing place and when in water that reached to the should ers they commenced to rock the boat and fill it with water. At a given sigrai the six. who by the way were devoid of all wearing apparel and clad only in nature's garb, jumped into the miriored waters and left Alwin to his fate. There was no hope for him and he was accordingly compelled to jump into the watei to keep fiom getting wet in the boat. Drenched through and thiough hn made a aid on the dry clothes at the camp and the song foi se\ eral days has been Bung back those pants to me Repoitei Eckstein, the ever watchful guaidian of the camp, was sent out Sun day on a foiaging tup About twilight he was seen headed tow aids camp again loaded clown with valuable plundei, which convinced those who saw him that Wen/el knows good plunder when he sees it The singing ot the quartette on Satu»day evening was sweetenough,they iv, to coax tne bull frogs from then biding places and gull the fishes to the an that they might be charmed by the blench haimonv Biei of Sigel occasionally wanders in to camp and enteitains the boys with the he-iit lending sriams of the "dudclsack" Proud of his Cousin. "Oh, I don't deny it, judge, not at all sn I was chunk and have been so for a good many yeais Just simply can't take a dunk without it going light to my stomach Then comes the ieactioni Mj head whnls. I giow dizzy and in a moment I'm drunkei'n a boiled owl Can't do much woik, foi,asyou see, I have only one arm "How do you manage to get along in Chicago without doing any work"' in quned Magistiate Bardwell of the old man, whose mouth, which was set in a stubblefield of short gray, wiiy whiskers t-». itched and contoited from nerv ousness says the Chicago Times. "Board of Tiade, sir," answeied the old fellow "Anyhov, the boys aiouud the boaid nevei see old Ben want for anything. Almost eveiy day they give me a dollar oi so, but I can't lesist the temptation to dunk, and as aconsequence then generosity does me more harm than good.'' "What is your name, old man''' "Benjamin I Wallace, sir, and I am an old soldiei This arm was torn off by a shell at Chickamauga, and I've got two oi three bullets scattered'around my con stitution somewhere which have never been located. I'm of a fighting family as you may know from the record made by my cousin. «%.?£• "Who was your cousin, old manF "Gen. Lew Wallace, sir, the ex-minist er to Turkey and author of *Ben Hur' and the trembling old fellow stepped forward in the doclc and gazed promptly on tiie score or more of prisoners who stoed beside him "I'm proud of Cousin VOLUME XV. KC 33. XEW ULM, J3ROWX COUNTY, MLN^., ^WEDXESDAY, .JULY 26,$ 1893 WHQ]LE^NUMBER 8 DESTEUCTIVE CHINCH BUGS Prof. Lugger Inspects Some Baided Fields and Talks cf the Bemedy. V""'v,. The Mankato Free Press says We re fer led yesterday to the ravages of tiie chinch bug in some portions of the coun ty. The bugs seem to be the most num erous in the neighborhood of Rapidan, but are doing some damage in portions of South Bend and Decoria townships. Unusual as it is, they are in the wooded districts to some extent. Prof. Otto Lugger, of St. Anthony Park, the state entomologist, arrived in the city yesterday to look over the af fected district and afford what relief science and experience teaches. He went out to Minneopa this morning and was met there by Thos. W. Pugh,who drove him out into the section where the bugs are numerous. He will go to St. Paul this afternoon, and expects to return to the city in a few days, and if necessary will make his headquarters here while he carnes on a war of extermiuation. He stated to a FieePress lepoitei this morn ing that there is no money provided bv, the state at piesent foi fighting the pest but that he would see Gov Nelson and present the mattei to him Prof Luggei bi ought in a small tin bo\ quantity of bugs that had died of the contigion which it is calculated to uitioduce among the bugs in this coun ty Theie was also a quantity of spoies wh.ch form the disease The professor showed these to the reportei and explain ed the disease Said he "Thi& scienti fic name of the spores that do the dead ly work is entomophthora of chinch bugs I discovered the disease five years ago. You have noticed in the fall houseflies sticking to a window pane. Their dis ease works in the same way that that of the chinch bug does. The spore a three-celled plant, and it developes best in damp, warm weather, and later in the season "The way I operate is to first catch a quart or two of healthy bugs and make them predisposed to the disease. This is done by putting them in a tin vessel, feeding them and keeping them moist I then put into the vessel a quantity of the spores. In twenty-four hoars the disease will break out I let the bugs and spores out in the infected district and the spores float in the air and infect the healthy bugs. In this weather the spores die very rapidly, as it is a well known fact that sunlight is fatal to germs of all kinds. The spores will now fly around two feet from the diseased bug and all in that radius are pretty sure to be infected. "You may think it? very hard matter to sciapc up a quart or two of bugs, but I assuie you that where they are thick it is a veiy easy mattei, I have seen them covering the ground foin feet thick, and it is often that they are found six or eight inches thick. The insect does not fly now—you cannot make it fly—and thi« makes it an easier matter to catch them. As long as they don't fly a ditch can be dug aiound anjinfected field and coal oil poured in, or othei substance,which"Tnlls them as they attempt to cross the ditch The field can also be burned. It is a good plan to burn a field and plow it under Later in the season the bugs will fly and then the entomophthora »vill woik bet ter. "Five yeais ago, when I fiist discov ered the disease, I took a trip from St. Paul to Ciescent City, thence to Pipe stone, thence to Mankato, then, back to St. Paul The distance is 400 miles and the weather was favorable, and the dis ease created leniarkable havoc among the bugs. I scattered the spores out of the car window as I rode along and they spiead for a distance of 20 to 80 miles wide, forming a band that wide and 400 miles long In two days every cinch bug in that teintory was dead. "The chinch bugs are all over"the southern part of the state, and I found them as far north as Lake Vermillion, M* be next to the great panorama of the Chicago Fise, the most expensive work of the kind in the world. though what they live on there is a mys tery urless it be anticipation. They de vour all cereals and grasses and nothing else.'* vi: S is Kear to Deatii/ Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor, is near death, and a cancerous affection of the neck is the cause of it.x In KewYork the few people who are aware of this fac$ have received strict injanctiona to main tain silence regarding it, and wh^nlfr. Jefferaon had a^udden spell of illneat re cently, it may-^be rememheredthat pmina woreUken thereat© an impreseioft he wai notoriously nnw«ll.^Sbt^tfe actor's condition has been steadily grow ing worse for weeks, and while not as yet incapacitated, it is very certain that his life work is about over. Mr. Jeffer son's physicians have been so far steadily baffled by bis disease, which is attributed partly to an inherited tendency and part ly to carelessness in the treatment of a boil that appeared near his cervical ver tebrae some time ago. However, the general mystery thrown about the mal ady renders an accurate diagnosis almost impossible to obtain. Curiously enough the secret nearly leaked out a week ago and through a misunderstanding the co median's warm friend. President Cleve land.was credited with cancerous trouble instead of Mr. Jefferson. Of course, a skillful physician may stave off the worst for some time to come, but it can be stated positively that radical measures must speedily be resorted to if America's comedian is not soon to go the way of Edwin Booth. Congressional Oddities. In the coming congress the oldest member will be Justin Morrill of Ver mont and the*youngest is Senator Wol cott who nominated Blaine at Minneapo lis The most cu'tured man is said to be Senator Lodge of Massachusetts while the haughtiest is Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania and the handsomest is Charles Gibson of Maryland The ric nest is Senator Jones, the most ele brated, John Sherman, and the most abused, Mat Quay. David B. Hill neith er drinks, smokes, chews,swears,gambles nor eats dainties. Allison of Iowa is the strongest and Cal Brice the most parti cular as to his wearing apparel for it is said that he changes his shirt three times a day. A Georeia Barbeeue. At a recent barbecue in southwest Georgia, says the Atlantic Constitution, seven strange and hungry-looking men were seen huddled together in a corner of the woods remote from the big crowd But now and then, while the "carcass es" were roasting in thefpits, one of the men would come forward, get a whiff of the savory meats and retire to his dis consolate companions. No one seemed to know the men they were strangers to all, and yet they had the appearance of farmers who had raised a big crop of cotton at 6 cents. But everybody knew them after the horn blew for dinner. With a mad rush those hungry-look ing men made for the table and with wild eyes and open mouths they went to work. Shoulder after shoulder of beef disap peared, the men devouring everything in sight. The ciowd stood amazed and forgot that it was hungry, too. Those seven lank men were the attraction, and it was not until they could eat no more, and had crawled off to rest—or die, that the people remembered where they were and that they had appetities. The chief of the barbecue approached the men and in a faint voice asked "Where did you fellers come from and when did you eat before you struck the neighborhood-'" One of them answ ered "We come from this county, but we've been a hiding and hungry. We jes' heaid that the war was over and that Sherman was a-giv in' out rations an' so we thought we'd git some"' The chief of the barl ecue fainted and they carried biin fiom the field, more dead than alive. Great .Religious Exhibition. Tne only purely religious Exhibition in the World's Fair City yi the new and beautiful Cyclorama of Jerusalem upon the occasion of the Crucifixion of the Saviour, on the corner of Wabash Ave. and Hubbard Court. This- is not the same scene that was on exhibition there a few years ago, but a new and very elaborate one, embodying many novel features and effects. Indeed it is claimed I connection with this supurb scene, and without extra«charge, is shown the celebrated painting, ^Christ's Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem valued at$50,000. To those wishing to get a better idea of ancient and surrounding country, the architecture, customs and habta^of the people ot those days, together wilh per haps the finest modem conception offthe scene of tbe Crucifixion, will here find abundant opportonity for profitable en tertainment. The young men attend inff tlK Moody Bihlelnatitote are visit, in* this fcreat as a part BISMARCK MAKES A SPEECH He Does nt Like the Way the Polish Members have Gome .nto the Ministerial Chunpv*^* %"k Berlin, July 22.—fCableJ^-MSrelhan 1,100 excursionists fro\n Brunswick ar rived at Friedrichsruhe yesterday after noon and marched to Prince Bismarck's house. In response to anaddress of their spokesman, Bismarck made along speech His most notable remarks were these "Such opposition as I experienced when I was minister-president of Rus sia has not been attempted recently. Dur ing the old-regime, however, no serious danger was apprehended from opposition because the fullest confidence was felt that neither the empire nor Prussia could be endangered as long as the helm of state was in the firm hands of the old emperor and his ministry. [Enthusiastic cheering.] Today the same belief in the solidity and stability of affairs can hard ly be said to exist. "Although the army bill was assailed at fiist from all sides, many voted for it rather than bear the responsibility for the consequences of a second rejection, and a second dissolution My son tell« me it was known geneially that the gov ernment would encounter the most seri ous complications in case pf the second defeat of the bill. "As regards the commeicial treaties, the ministry nuhfied its influence in par liament by acting in accordance with the principle, divide et inipera. Every fac tion,fearing that it might be outdone by every other faction, voted 'Yes' The weight of parliament being suspended, the consequence was the creation of a vacuum which has been filled, not bv monarchism, but by red tape hierarchy, by bureaucracy—tbe same bureaucracy which cleared the way tor the French triumphal wave in 1806, which collapsed before Berlin barricades in 1848. "I have not advocated particularism among the German states. I have advo ated that patriotism should be cultivat ed in the smallest diets ic the empire. You must not care too much what for eign newspapers say about Geiman af fairs, although the respect enjoyed by the empire in foreign countries ought not to be undervalued. As far as I can per ceive German interests have made pro gress recently in only one direction in which we dared not look formerly, that is in the direction of ouKPolisn compa triots. What in the old days could not have happened in a hundred years, has now come to pass. The Poles have brought their votes into the ministerial camp. What they wish to obtain I do not know,but they remind me of the gift bearing Greeks. I cannot bring myself to the belief that the Polish nobility and clergy will remain long in harmony with the ministry." PEES. CLEVELAND'S POLICY The Policy of the Administration Begard ing the Coming Special Session. New York, July 22 The World to morrow will print the following. The World is enabled today to an nounce authoritatively the immediate policy of President Cleveland and his administration in regard to the approach ing special session of congress. Briefly it will be as follows First—Silver reform by the absolute and unqualified repeal of the Sherman law. Second—Tariff reform to be prosecut ed in accordance with the pledges of the party as soon as but not before the finan ces of the country are again upon^ a stable basis. Mr. Cleveland is annoyed and exasper ated at the unexpected interference with his tariff reform plans, but he is not dis couraged. He proposee to meet the sil ver question in the same open, straight forward manner that has characterized his handling of tariff matters. |?|i President Cleveland's advice to the coming special session is for the repeal at once of the Sherman silver law. He believes that any complication, of this issue with amendment, substitutes or similar propositions will be detrimental to the purposes of the repealing act, which are not so much for the purpose of working any instant change in the financial system Arise country as for the restontkmofbo^neM confidence tbivngir out the landt%r0sa the information af huvcoatmand Mr.Cleveland fca«*o doob* will be adapted by representati««'afterreaKHttbIe It j&in the senate that the trouble will come. What will follow repeal is a matter that will not *-e injected into the present fight if the administration has its way. That further financial Iegisla tion will be needed the president con" sideis probable, but what its nature shall! be is a matter for future determination. The first thing to be done is to clear.the ground. When that is done the question of construction can be considered upon an intelligent basis. HILLEK AND 0UB SCHOOL. The Earnest Ohio Professor Writes the i\1h Review al^etter. High Praise for the Ne* vim Schools and Caution Against Sectarian intermeddling -, Rev. E. Hiller of Toledo writes the^ Review from Minneapolis as follows. Your letter requesting me to commun icate to you my thoughts on the New Ulm school controversy was received by me at Toledo just when I was at the point of starting on a vacation trip for the benefit of my somewhat shattered health. I put it into my "grip" withtue intention of answering it at the eailiest possible moment, but I regiet that the kind of leisuie that is desirable for so important a question did not come to me unti). to-day Visiting and seeing the Wmld's Fair I found to be a serious bus iness and all a semi invalid, like myself, can summon courage to undei take-when the day is over-is to write a postal home to wife ana children. But as the annual school meeting, if I am not mistaken, will not be held until the first week in August, I hope that these lines will not come too late to be put to the use for whicn they may be fitted. In past years New Ulm has had noth ing of which her citizens might so justly be proud as her public schools. When I lived there they could be compared without hazard to the schools of any oth er city in the state. I have had oppor tunities during my professional life to become more or less familiar with the educational equipments of such cities as St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Cloud and Winona in this state and also with those of Galena, Freeport and Chicago in Illi nois and of Toledo, O., my present resi lience, but nowhere did I find a school system that I admired more, from a pure ly educational standpoint, than that of New Ulm. What are the merits of the present contio\ersy I of course do not know,but I cannot believe that the people of New Ulm will consent to have their free school system crippled and weakened I must asaume that they want progres sion in the matter of free education. And if so, let them beware of allowing sect erian intermeddling with their schools, or of allowing religious sectsjto build up their parochial schools at the expense of the public educational system. 1 If the schools have been run in the in terest of any party or class, as seems to be the belief of some, let such abuse of public confidence be corrected by the proper method, but let not such an alle gation be made a pretext for disturbing the grand public school system. ^No doubt many sincere people would like to see religious instruction given in the public schools (and if at least the eth ics of Christianity could be taught the effect would lie beneficent) but let us re member where so many different religi ous beliefs prevail religious instruction can not be thought of, and that even, as it is, the effect of bringing our children together in the same schoolroom under the eyes of impartial teachers with exemplary moral characters is incompar ably more broadfcning,iibetalizing,unify mg and elevating than sending them to sectanan.parochial schools, where exclu siveness and narrow Handedness is the al most invariable result.ll€* If we have teachers who &how no dis respect to the religious beliefs of the ,, children or of their parents and whose%%ipi moral example is such that the cbildren*1^4~ are elevated and ennobled by it, then well?*& ought to thank God for our free schools where the children of the rich and poor alike are rescued from ignorance and are equippedafor the requirements of life^nd ,^ we should be glad to give our childrenf^ the necessary religious training in our homes sad in the Snnday schools. May die people of Hew Ulm net with wisdom asri by their votes serve the best interests of thessselves and their ch&dr. €K B. Hiller. T, S •?/%a fc^J| ^Jtfi "£fcTT*1 *?t 'It "1 "v 4 ./5tf| new ausfter planted 1881