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For Minnesota: Local thunder storms; slightly wanner In eastern portion, cooler in western portion : variable winds. For Dakota: Local rains; cooler in southern: stationary tem perature in northern portion :variable winds. For Iowa: Threatening and showers; warmer in northeast, stationary tempera ture in southwest portion; southerly winds. GENERAL OBSEBVATIOKB. ■ a S a jj? a ax' 2. .3 riace of 3 2 S g Place of 5 - g 8 &bs'vatiou. S2. |c- Obs'vation. 2 & s° |. ■ **►? : 2. %a si? ■ j? : ? fft Paul.... 681 ITelenn. 29.8G 73 Xuluth... 29.88 < ; 0i Ft. Totten .... Lfi Crosse. 29.98 64 Ft. Sully. . 2!>.74 88 Huron 29.78 84 Jlinnedosa 29.04 08 2Uoorhead. -!>.7* 78 Calgary.... 129.86 (Hi M.Vincent 29.82 7-J Edmonton. Bismarck. 29.82 80 (J'Appelle. 29.08 72 Ft. Buford. 29.84 74 Medic'e 11 Ft. Ciister.. 29.88 78 Winnipeg.. 29.74 72 Yesterday was a irood day for a waterways convention. *m ■ OThe gasoline stove still manages to keep itself before the public. i^ It is noted in the East that there was much better weather when the service was in Democratic hands. ; «> As Edison lias gone to Paris, better reports may be expected from the American part of the exposition. If three is anybody who wants a street railway franchise and has forgot ten to mention it, now is the time to 6peak. ■ Oh, TnosK chiming bells! Do you hear them four times every hour? When you eet used to them you will enjoy the racket— but getting used to them is the l thing. A facetious party who has largely developed, but unmusical ears, sug gests that the striking part of the new city clock is an etfort io kill time by constant pounding. There is a general demand that New York shall use its mouth less and hands more if it is to have the world's fair. It should show that it can put up SlO, --000,000 or $12,000,000 without calling upon people very far away. _aa» The running statement that mosqui toes can be kept out of the house by burniuer a little gum camphor occasion ally prompts the suggestion from a lady who has tried it that she has little choice between the mosquitoes and the smell of the camphor. Neither mosqui toes nor flies like it. . — "^T A cablegram of congratulation to that London jury in the Maybrick case would be appropriate. A Jury that is proof against sentimental bash de serves to live in history. Because a criminal happens to be a woman is no excuse for evading the penalties of the law. o If the editor of a certain Minneap olis morning paper would devote less time to directory figures and give more attention to local news he would not ex perience the mortification of seeing his paper scooped on the most sensational occurrences in his city for the last five jears. This advice is gratuitous. «O. This Is a hard world to please, at best. The heart of the farmer whose grass was withering overflowed with gratitude for yesterday's rain, while the heart of the farmer whose wheat stood in the shock was black with impreco tion at his ill-starred luck. Still, the rain came down in jl business-like way that showed its good intention. • «• It is insisted that the watermelon /nay yet have a larger place among the trusts, as it produces a syrup that will crowd the sugar cane oc beet. A more doubtful story comes from Kansas, that a farmer with twenty acres of water melons made 1,000 barrels of vinegar that he holds at $10 a barrel. In that state vinegar and cider cover a number ■of things that flow in violation of state law. "•■ While the investigation of the possi bilities of electricity as a substitute for the rope is going on, it is suggested that carbonic acid gas could be effectively applied with no danger of recovery. A glass case of the gas poured over the criminal would give him quiet and pain less translation. Common gas would be effective, but less rapid. The bungling work in some recent rope events prompts the use of better methods of some sort. ■ >•• If it is a fact that among the great bosses of the Seattle fire was a petition with 25,0C0 names in behalf of woman suffrage, as stated in the convention at Olympia, that body should be able to picture its value in the mind and let the 25,000 speak from the ashes, as it were. There seems a more favorable disposition towards the voting ladies there than in the other territories, per haps from the experience had, and the desire to secure female immigration. -•■ The president has had under recent consideration the question how to gain for the party the Louisiana seat in con gress made vacant by the death of the Democrat elected to the coming con gress. It indicates very great eager ness to add to the majority of the party, as the district is so strongly Democratic that the Republicans do not always make nominations. But there is a large colored vote, and the presumption has always been easy with the Republicans that in all such districts the Republican vote is suppressed. The number of Kepublican candidates there now shows - expectation that congress will make the azure presumption the rule in contests in the South. .V '■'■'■'■ The recent legislature of Connecticut enacted a somewhat peculiar law to promote hone3ty among a class of tax payers that, even in that land of steady haDits, is inconveniently large. Prob ably no other state has a greater pro portion of personal property, and the efforts to make the holders of it bear their share of the public burdens have not been encouraging. The new law provides that the holders of stocks, bonds or any other kind of securities may register them with the state treas urer and secure exemption from all taxation upon the payment of one-fifth of one per cent a year. The small sum of $2 per $1,000 secures immunity and saves the wear of conscience in evading the tax men. But it looks like pretty safe business escaping taxation, when tbe state is forced to offer such a pre mium for square dealing. It will prob ably be found that the Wooden Nutmeg conscience has been pretty badly seared by long practice, and the dodging will goon. THE CATTLE MARKET. The meat inspection law has now been in operation lor.g enough for those who are interested in it to form some thing like an intelligent idea of what effect the law will have on the cattle industry in this state. Those of our readers who have followed our local market reports closely will have ob served that there has been a continu ously increasing demand for beef cat tle at both the St. Paul and Minneap olis stock yards, until now the local supply is not equal to the demand, and the slaughterers are being compelled to ship in cattle from St. Joseph and other points in the Southwest. This is readily explained by the fact that the local in spection system is new, and the Minne sota farmers have not had the opportu nity to supply themselves with all the cattle that they can handle. By an other year they will be better off in this respect. Then, again, the Montana cattle are not yet coming into market, and thus our stock yards have been compelled to depend largely on Minne sota, Dakota and Northern lowa for the beef supply. The fact that the demand is greater than the supply is not only encouraging to the farmers of this state to go more largely into the cattle-raising business, but it is an argument to sustain the wisdom of the passage of the meat inspection law. It is true that the prices for a certain grade of beef cattle— cows that have been fattened on grass, for in stance — are not as high as the producers might have a right to expect. Yet there are two things to be borne in mind; first, the prices on this quality of cattle have ranged lower than usual in Chi cago, Kansas City and other cattlo marts this season because of the unusual num ber of second grade stock that have been forced on the market by reason of the dry season ; and, secondly, even cattle of this grade are selling readily at some price. There is one thine we have to say, however, by way of cau tion to the managers of the stock yards. Do not let the scarcity of the local cat tle supply be a temptation for shipping in Texas cattle in competition with our own stock, for the very moment that is done opponents of the meat inspection law will be supplied with an argument | in favor of its repeal. The law was in tended to be a direct benefit to our Minnesota farmers, and whenever it fails in that object the people of this state will have no use for the law. QUAY'S AMBITION. It is given out on good authority that Senator Quay has actually made up his mind to be the next Republican candidate for president, and that he is now maturing his plans for controlling the next national convention of his party in his own interest. On the first blush this announcement appears to have a tinge of the ludicrous; and yet, when one stops to ponder over the mat ter, it readily assumes a serious aspect. Upon reflection we discover that there is really no reason why Mr. Quay should not become his party's candi date in the next presidential contest. It is natural that he should have am bition, and if he is ambitious there is no reason why he should not, obtain for himself what he can so readily obtain for others. He is in supreme control of the machine, and it is just as easy to grind out a nomination for him self as it is to grind out one for Harrison, for Blame, or for any other ambitious party leader. His candidacy is ridiculed because he possesses none of the elements of states manship, but is only known to the coun try as the organizer of the greatest boodle campaign ever known iv the history of the country. It should be remembered, however, that these ap parent elements of weakness are in re alitj*elements of strength in a man who aspires to leadership in his party. Statesmanship cuts a very sorry figure in these degenerate times. Capacity to raise and handle boodle is regarded as the most superb accomplishment in modern American politics; in fact, it is essentially the fine art of politics, and in this respect the charge of amateur ishness cannot be laid at Mr. Quay's door. Senator Quay can get the nomination if he wants it. His friends are not mod est iv their assertions that he does covot it. So that, unless Mr. Quay dies or loses his ambition within the next three years, the Republican nomination for 18'J2 is practically settled. It is not a matter of surprise, therefore, that the Harrison administration is jogging along in such a listless sort of way. To a man of intense piety and deep moral convictions like Gen. HAKRISON, it must be a raspi ng reflection that the best re sults of his administration will be to i'eave his party at the absolute mercy of the boss boodler of American politics. Still, Quay's elevation to the presidency would be the logical result of the Hab uisox campaign. HATTOX HUMPED HIMSELF. That was an unnatural quarrel be tween Fkaxk llattox and Teddy Roosevelt, and it was as childish as it was unseemly. They calied each other names, made faces at one another, wig gled their thumbs on their noses, and after all it was simply because they hap pened to be in pursuit of the same ob ject, but were getting at it from differ ent directions. The only real difference between them is that Mr. Roosevfxt is a college-bred spoilsman while Mr. llatton is a spoilsman of the back woods stamp. During his college course the former read a good deal about the theoretical beauties of civil service re form, and with the characteristic fresh ness of a new college graduate was de sirous of airing his knowledge. Still, down . at heart he is a spoils man, who believes, as Mr. Hattox does, that when the Republican party wins a victory it is entitled to all the fruits of the victory. The only differ ence between them is that Mr. Hatton wants to go straight at the offices, and grab them up as fast as they can be reached. Mr. Roosevelt's plan. is to cloak his movements under the guise of a civil service policy, and approach the offices by stealth. His movements say be a little slower than Mr. Hattox's, yet they are none the less sure. By pursuing either the Hattox or the Roosevelt policy the object attained is the same, that of kicking the Demo crats out, and putting none but Repub licans on guard. However unnatural or illogical the quarrel between these gentlemen may have been, it has been exceedingly interesting. One would have supposed • that Mr. Roose- ' THE SAINT PAUL DALLY GLOBE: THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8, 1889. velt's cowboy experience ; would have reconciled him to Mr. Hat ton's ungramruatical style of throw ing out solid chunks of truth and' wisdom. But on the coDtrary, Mr. Kosoevelt retires from the combat on the ground that he will not soil his scholarly reputation by longer measur ing words witb/an lowa cracker who is ignorant of the rules of syntax. . It his educated ears are to be offended by bad grammar, he prefers it shall be done by the non-officeholding pioneers of Mon tana; so he has hied himself away to his ranch on the plains, and left the authorities at Washington to dish out the federal patronage according to the principles of the old regime, of which Mr. Hatton is so distinguished a rep resentative. «^ UNTIMELY SUGGESTION. Chicaco feels so good over the success of her pooling plan whereby the popu lation of all the surrounding country has been massed in preparation for next year's census, she wants "somebody to follow her example. Consequently we find in the Chicago Times the sugges tion that "St. Paul and Minneapolis should prepare for 1390 by pooling their populations, combining in one great city and becoming the commercial metropolis of the farther Northwest." Tne suggestion is received in the same kindly spirit that it was tendered, but we beg leave to assure our Chicago friends that we are not afflicted with the pooling craze such as they have down there. Botli St. Paul and Minneapolis are willing to abide by an honest count. Each city can show a gain over the census of 1880 that will make Chicago sick, and they can do it without any of the pooling business. The people of the two cities are satisfied with the growth of their respective municipalities, nor are they jealous of each other's prog ress. Outside of two or three news paper men who keep up a quarrel over directory figures from force of habit, there is no one in either city who has a moment's concern about which city is making the most rapid growth in popu lation. The fact is that iv this rustling community everybody is too busy to waste time in engendering local jealous ies, and they have no patience with those who fritter away time in such a foolish occupation. We do not pretend to foretell what is in the womb of time; but we do know that for present pur poses there is a place on earth for each of the Twin Cities, and that both are ful filling a grand destiny. When their separate destinies are completed it will be time enough to talk about municipal union. In the meantime their business interests will be closely enough identi fied, and the social bond between them will be strong enough to make Chicago weary, even with all of its annexed suburbs. *» IT WAS PIKE-PROOF. A gas well in Ontario not long since caught fire, and all attempts to put it out we're ineffective. The burning gas was estimated at eleven million cubic feet a day, and it caused such intense heat as to baffle all attempts to approach it. The best engineers c mid devise no way to affect it. The company offered §1,000 to any one who would stop the leak. A young man finally struck upon the idea of incasing himself in a suit of asbes and walking into the fanes. After several attempts he finally suc ceeded, and turned off the eas. He went through heat as intense, perhaps, as that of the furnace of the three He brews, and suffered no serious harm, lie was slightly scorched and nearly stifled for want of air, but the protec tion was a success. The incident sug gests that this remarkable material that will not burn or conduct heat would be useful for firemen. Lives might be saved by its use. USEFUL. LiESSON. The Minneapolis forgery case would indicate rhat there is no limit to human folly. The foolishness of the young man who imagined that crime on so gigantic a scale could go undiscovered is fully equaled by the conduct of the bank officials who practice the loose business methods that make such crimes possible. It is true that our banks cannot adopt the strict rules that are enforced by banks in some of the older communities. In many localities it is the rule with banks to require all the signers of a note, including the maker and indorsers, to personally ap pear before the bank officers and ac knowledge the genuineness of the sig natures. As we say, it is next to im possible to enforce so strict a rule in a growing and prosperous community like ours, yet it does seem that more pre caution should be used than is adopted by some of our banking institutions in protecting themselves. The Minneap olis incident may prove a useful lesson in this particular, for it surely demon strates the necessity for the practice of a stricter system. i NOTES ABOUT OL.D FOLKS. Mrs. Hannah Smith died recently at Wes'.ford, Conn., at the age of niiiety nine years four months and nine days. Cornelius Nicholson, one of the pio neers of railroad building in England, has just died in the Isle of Wigiit at the age of sixty-seven years. "Aunt" Eunice Billings, over ninety years old, and the daughter of the first settled minister of Greenfield, Mass., bad a fall a few days ago and is now seriously ill. J. T. Jefferson Coats, of Hopewell, N. V., is dead in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He had been a great sufferer for about twelve years. He was one of the pioneers of Genesee county. His wife, eighty-four years of age, survives him. When Andrew Clark entered London hospital as an assistant he was in poor health. "Poor Scotch beggar," said one of the faculty, "let him have a place; he cannot possibly live more than six months." He is now. after these many years of eminent service, Sir Andrew Clark, perhaps the most : famous physician in Englaud. Peter Laing, 104 years of age, has just been admitted to church membership in Elgin, Scotland. Apropos to this incident the Hartford Courant says: "Bishop Asbury, in his journals, speaks of exhorting a man over 100 years old to give his heart to God on the ground that he had very little time left. The man answered: 'But my father lived to be 109.' " Mrs. Mary McConnell died a few days ago at Baltimore. Md., aged ninety-two years. She had been an invalid for fif teen months. Prior to this, says the Sun. she enjoyed unusually good health, and all her faculties were perfect. Six children survive, as well as twenty-two grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren. She had been a mem ber of St. Martin's church since its founding. Her husband Patrick, who was about her own age, died Feb. 20, 1887. She was born in Ireland. Sarah Bates passed away recently at Philadelphia, Pa., aged ninety-five years and three months. She was born at Mullica Hill. N. J., says the Leader,' but lived in Philadelphia from the time she wasfour years old. She was mar ried twice, her cecond husband, being Isaiah Bates, who died in 1576. ' Mrs. Bates posessed a strong constitution, and maintained excellent health up to about four years ago, when increasing feebleness, incident to her _ { age, con fined her to her bed for the remainder of her life. Her hearing was good, and about two years " ago she received her second sight. She had three children by each husband, two of whom are liv ing, as are also three grand grand : chil dren and five ereat-grand children. She joined the Baptist church in 1812, and always afterward remained a consistent member. TIMELY TOPICS. The order of the King's Daughters now numbers 97,000 active members. W. B. Tate, the philanthropic bach elor of Tennessee, has divided a fifth of his fortune of $100,000 between forty needy Confederate veterans of that state. Miss Carrie Shaw, a Long Branch belle, while talking to a Mew York dude the other day, yawned so prodigiously that her jaw became dislocated, and it was necessary to administer ether be fore it could be set. Herr yon Horig Kruger, the Berlin editor who obtained and published the diary of Emperor Frederick and had to flee the country after the confiscation of his property, has settled in New Haven, Conn., with his family. The judge and chief of the Puyallup Indians is dead. He was known as Tommy Thompson, was forty-four years old, very intelligent and respected by all the Indians. He died at the reserva tion, near Tac< Bia. W. T. A large darning needle was found in the liver of a deer recently killed in the presence of a nobleman near Vienna. A Viennese micioscopist, who examined the liver, found it to be sound save in the immediate proximity of the needie. Princess Sophia of PruOsia, who is to wed the Duke of Sparta, will have 6500,000 from the private lortune of her father, the late Emperor Frederick, and $75,000 from her mother, beside &iO,OOO a yeai from the Hoiienzcllern family funds. An artesian well in North City, a suburb of St. Augustine, Fla., is said to have the largest flow of any artesian well in the. world. It is an eight-inch well, and its flow exceeds the highest expectation. The flow exceeds 8,000 gallons per minute, or over 11,000,000 gallons even twenty-four hours. Mrs. Mary E. Hanchett, who died re cently at iChittenaugo, N. V.. was the second woman graduate of an American medical college. She received the de gree of doctor of medicine from the Albany Medical college in 1848. She was a woman of great intelligence and force of character. If any persons have been frightened by recent rumors of a coming deficiency in the beef supply of the country, they can find reassurance in this year's re port of the agricultural department on farm animals. To put the statement in round numbers, there were 25,000.000 in the United States in 1860, 33,000,090 in 1880 and 50,000,000 in 1888, the year cov ered by the last report. (hie of the easiest ways to reduce weight is to wear a short flannel sweater and ride on a brisk trot. If the horse trots roughly, aud the rider bounces up and down in the saddle, so much the better. Ten pounds a week can be lost by this process. The best kind of sweater is made by taking four, six or eight thicknesses of flannel and wrap ping them around the loins and lower part of the chest. The upper chest should be left free. CAUGHT BY THE GILLS. The largest catch of pickerel from the St. Lawrence river on record was made here to-day, says a Thousand Island let ter of July 29, by Philip Luther, of New York. lie brought in thirty, with a total weight of 149 pounds. Ex-President Cleveland is peculiar as a fisherman. Not only does he possess both patience and luck, but he has gi.i led remarkable skill in manipulat ing a rod and line. But the strnnge feature of his piscatorial pursuits lies in the fact that he is superstitious. He never permits his left hand to rest in front of his right on the rod. Further more, he never expects to catch fish if he has seen the new moon over his. left shoulder the night before. He was equally superstitious regarding his political luck, and never bogan an im portant message or speech on Friday.— New York Sun. Schools of porpoises are constantly appearing and disappearing so close to. shore lately that they are within easy' range of a rifle, and hence the latest thing is porj o se shooting, which is all the rage. Parlies of young men and women with rifle 3 are frequently seen on the beach and at various points of vantage bent on hunting down this aquatic game. Although tiie porpoises furnish an easy target to the marksmen as they tumble al out in the water, swim along on the surface for a few moments, and then roll below, comparatively few of them are known to have been hit.— Cape May Special. If you want a real good argument any day touch up the black-bass issue among the local fishermen. Some of them say that he is au enemy of all sport, a mean, low-lived, vicious specimen of the tribe of fish, who sleep in the mud all winter and is worm-eaten all summer. Fish Commissioner Stanley says that the black bass is a splendid-niannered.high bred fish— a fighter, it is true, but an honest fighter— and one of the best food fishes that swim the streams of North ern America, He says that the stocking of ponds with the fish was wise, and that in years to come more sport will be real z>d with this fish than the sporting men of lod and line have yet dreamed of. — Lewiston Journal. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE. Commissioner Tanner says he will at tend the G. A. R. union at Milwaukee. Secretary Proctor will make an ad dress at the Fletcher family reunion in Tremont temple on Aug. 28. Prof. Sunnier, who is not yet fifty«= years old, has held the chair of political economy in Yale for the past seventeen years, and is the author of half a dozen books on that subject. A grand reunion of students, teach ers and friends of Antioch college, Yel low Springs, 0.. is called for June 18, 1890, at which an oration will be made by Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale." If reports be true, Emma Abbott has had made the costliest dress known to the modern dressmaker. It cost 84,000. This is more than three times as much as Sarah Bernhardt'sbest gown, which cost $1,200, and nearly seven times as much as Mine. Doche paid, ?b'oo, for all the costumes she used in creating the "Dame aux Camelias." Elaborate preparations are being made in Hartford, Conn., for a repeti tion of the historical pageant of na tional victories which was lately dis played in Boston. It is to be presented in honor of Mrs. Harriet BeecherStowe some time late in September. It is also announced that a similar demonstration will be made at Newport on Aug. 13 in honor of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. WOMEN OF THE AVORLD. A California letter tells of a widow in Southern California who has just sold her orange crop for 816,000. Mrs. E. S. Kitchie, near Hatboro, Pa., has a rosebush of the "Seven Sisters," containing l.ttOO buds and roses. A small town near Morgantown, W. Va., has nn eccentric woman who wears a different colored wig each day in the week. Princess Louise found a thimble ! among her wedding presents— a hint that she will hear something about shirt buttons now. Mrs. Josephine Pollard has offered her parlors for the use of Key. George Francis Train's new Church of the Psychos. There is a cheerful outlook ahead for the housekeeper. Fourteen thousand girls in London are cooking schools. Rt. Key. Lord Arthur Charles Her vey gave the Princess Louise a thimble as a wedding present. Her ducal hus band's shirt buttons may meet with wifely care. The empress of Germany is to.have a special bodyguard composed of twenty four of the largest men in the Prussian army aud commanded by an officer and two sergeants. Susie Feney and Jennie Martin, of Oroyiile, Butte county. Col., accom panied v>y a mastiff, went into the woody in search o£ ferns last Sunday. In a;, isolated part oi the forest they we* a ap proached by a cinnamon bear. Th> young ladies started/to run towards home, followed by the bear. The mas tiff caught the bear by the neck, and a desperate struggle ensued until Miss Feney's brothers arrived and shot the bear. Miss Laura Smith and Miss Ger trude Hutchins, two bright and plucky young ladies, whose homes are in Penn sylvania, have rented an old log cabin on the shores of one of the Rangeley lakes and they are living alone in that wilderness, far from any other human beings. They do their own fishing and gunning, aud are having a glorious time. They propose to stay two months. FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES. " A prize fighter buys his victory by the pound.— Boston Gazette. Grammar teaches us that relatives usually refer to antecedents. So does the cannibal. He eats his relatives, and so did his antecedentSt— Philadelphia Press. . ";;;-. '.". I Though ever busy ben ye bee, Exceeding Drisk and sprye, He ne'er excels iv industry Ye early mornynge five. —Washington Capital. Yeast — Don't you think Crimsoubeak has a taking way about him? r Bacon— Most decidedly I do. 1 never knew any one to ask him when he didn't take something.— Yonkers States man. ■-•38880 "If they abolish the nobility in Eng land," remarked Mrs. Phunnyman, "the London bridge will have to go." Mrs. Phunnyman— How do you make that out? Mrs. P.— Because it is sustained by piers.— Philadelphia Press. - : Sure preventive of mosquito bites: Take the cover off your cistern, crawl into the cistern, replace the cover, and duck under the water. As long as you remain there entirely submerged in water, we will stake our reputation for veracity that you'll not be bitten by a mosquito. Dansville Breeze. Brooks— l hear that you and the boys were out hooking watermelons. Did you get a good load? Crooks — You just bet we did, Brooks; and every bit of it was buckshot, too.— Charleston Sunday News. The Kind She Preferred. Home Sentinel. They were sitting on the piazza that faced the sea watching the white-sailed yachts as they crossed the moon's tracks, when he suddenly said:— "1 think it must be delightful sailing on such a lovely nisht." "Oh! lovely, I should think." "I wish 1 owned a yacht for your sake. I would take you sailing overy night." "That would be just lovely!" "What kind of a yacht would you prefer— a steam yacht or a sailing one?" I "I think," she murmured, as she glanced around, "I think 1 would like a little smack." "She got it.— . Bound to Get Them. Lawrecce American Solomon Ipstein (pawnbroker) — Half you a moitgage on Choli Villiams' broberdy Ikey? Isaac Ipstein (broker)— l haf. Soloman— Den, for Cheemity's sake, foreglose. . Isaac— for? He bays inderest. Soloman — j knows it. But Rechel vants to go to Long Pranch next week, and Villiams has tree huntred dollars vprt' of timonds mit me dat she vants to vstre. If you voregloes I vill ged Con steinen Clodertoshkin Villiams and den he von't be aple, in de face of all de dis asder, to redeem de shtoues ain't id! ; ; ' — -^- I "Waste vs. Waist. Terre Haute Express. ("Laura," said the young lady's mother, not unkindly, "it seem 3 to me that you had the gas turned rather low last evening." : "It was solely for economy, mamma," answered the maiden. , "There is no use trying to beat the gas company, my daughter. I have noticed that shutting off of the eras is always followed by a corresponding in-: crease of pressure." ' ' r ' "Well, that lessens the waist, doesn't it, mamma dear?" replied the artless girl. And her fond parent could find no more to say. Not Taking Any Risks. Lawrence American. Newmarried— Say Dufferby, come; home to supper with me to-night, will you? . Dufferby— Certainly, old fellow; noth ing would give me greater pleasure. "My cook is away, you "know, and ■ my wife will have such a nice little supper of her own waiting for us." "Ah! come to think of it, eld man, I've got a very pressing engagement out of town this evening. I'll come some other time." ;■ .0^ • -^ Last Year's Trouble. Omaha World. Stranger — town seems awful dead. Had scourge of any kind? Citizen— No. Stranger— small-pox or yellow fever? * Citizen— Stranger— No floods nor famine? Citizen— No. Stranger — Well, what ails yonr town this year? Citizen — Nothing ails it this year, but a boom struck it last year. Organ-Handle Music. Chicago HearW. Mrs. Blinks (who is up on the com posers)—Go and drive that hand organ grinder away, Bridget. "Yes, ma'am." "1 can stand most music, but I can't stand Handel's." ■«• Her Sister Is Sick. New York, Aug. 7.— Mrs. Harrison arrived in this city at noon and left on the steamer for Boston, whither she said she was hastily summoned from Deer Park to go to the bedside of her sister, Mrs. Scott Lord, who is very ill at Nantucket. ■ ' Organ of the G. O. P. Little Rock, Ark., Aug. — The Arkansas State Register made its initial appearance in this city to-day. It is a Republican daily, owned and operated by.M. A. Htil!, of lowa, a brother of Lieut. Gov. Hull of that state. The paper lakes full Associated Press, and will lead the Republican party in the state of Arkansas. Nipped at Midnight. William W. Carrington was arrested by Officer Grueber about midnight at tempting to break into a grocery at Seven corners. ♦ MAKINK MATTERS. Washbubs — Arrived : Louisiana, Morris, G rover and Thomas Quale. Loraine, coal; City of Fremont, Portage, JapaD, Buffalo, India, Duluth. Cleared: Morris. G rover, Fremont and Japan for Dnluth; India, Buf falo. City of Duluth, Wilhelm and Mears for Chicago with lumber. WrNOjfA— up: Silver Wave, Juniata, Lafayette Lamb, Percy Swain,' Moline. Le claire. Belle, C. W. Cowles, Robert Harris. Boats doyn : LaiSyette Lamb, Juniata, Le claire. Keile, Natrona, Moline, R. Harris, Sid ney, Silver Wave, Helen Mar, C. W. Cowles. Water 1 foot 11 inches. Sault Ste. Marie— Down p. m: Eck Peck, 8: Fay Rhodes. 9:50 a. m. ; Iron Duke Iron Cliff, d. m. ; New Orleans, 12:40; Athabasca, 1:50; Green. Bell Sansmitb, 5:20; Che nango, Mabel Wilson. 6:3". Up p. m.: Schoolcraft, Xester. 7:30; Sophia Moravia, Robert Wallace, David Wallace, 10:40; King. " Teutonia. Thomas Gawn. . Stevens; 11 :50; a. m. Tuttle. Queen City. 12:30: Glad Tidings. 5:30; F. L. Vance, 9; Yosemite, Ryan, 10:15; Christie, Sheldon. 11:10; p. m. Superior, Sandusky, 12:15; Idaho, Fryer, - 1:20; Morley, I Ewen. 2:20; Potts, Keweenaw, 4. -, HOVEMENTS OF OCEA>" ■ STE JISHIPS. New York— Arrived— Queen, from Liverpool; State of Georgia, from Glasgow: Easigate. from Progress : Obdain, from Rotterdam; Niagara, from Havana. Southampton— Lahn, New York, for Bremen. . . .'. ■ Philadelphia— Arrived— Hans . and Kuet, from Hamburg. - "VICTORYJS OURS." Calico Charley Foster's Char acteristic Telegram to Secretary Noble. The Garden Spot of the West to Be Opened to Set tlement. Stockslager's Old Shoes May Be Filled by a Nebraska Jurist. Experts Discuss Hog Cholera and the Means of Pre venting- It. "Washington, Aug. 7. — Secretary Noble this morning received the follow ing telegram announcing the successful completion of the work of the Sioux commission: Four Yates. Aug. 6.— Hon. John W. Noble, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. : We have won the fight. We will leave here to-morrow morning for Chicago. Will write you fully from Chicago. Chabi.es Poster, Chairman. Secretary Noble was very much erati fied at the receipt of this information. He said that the settlement of this mat ter affected the welfare of a laree num ber of people, and was a great thing for the Indians as well as for the people in that section of the country. He imme diately sent the following telegram to the commissioners: My congratulations and sincere thanks for your able efforts and great success. You have done a great work for humanity, the Indians included. Have sent your telegram to the president, who is at Boston to-day. John W. Noble, Secretary. According to thft act of congress un der which the agreement was made, the unrelinquished portions of the Sioux reservation is divided into six reserva tion, as follows: Standing Rotk, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule. Crow Creek, Pin 3 Ridge, and Rosebud, so separated that a large portion of the relinquished part of the reservation divides them into sets of two; one set being on the northern end of the reser vation, another on the eastern, and the third on the southern. The land thrown open to settlement will aggregate about 11,000,000 acres, and is to be disposed of by the United States TO ACTUAL SETTLERS ONLY at the following rates, $1.23 per acre for all lands taken within the hrst three years after the act takes etfect: 75 cents per acre for all lands disposed of within the succeeding two years, and 50 cents per acre for the residue of the lauds then undisposed of. All lands still open to settlement under the agreement at the end of ten years from the taking effect of the act shall be accepted by the United States at 50 cents per acre, which amount shall be added to and credited to the Indians as part of their permanent fund. The act pro vides for furnishing the necessary seed to the Indians for two years, for which adequate appropria tion is made. In addition thereto there is to be set apart the sum of £5.000,000, which is to be deposited in the "United States treasury to the credit of the Sioux nation of Indians as a permanent fund, the interest of which at 5 percent per annum, is to be appropriated under the direction of the secretary of the in terior to the use of the Indians. After the government has been reimbursed for the money expended for the Indians under the provisions of the act. the sec retary of the interior may in his discre tion expend in addition to the interest of the permanent fund, not to exceed 10 per cent per annum of the principal of the fund in the employment of farmers and in the purchase of agri cultural implements, grains, etc.. nec essary to assist the Indians in agri cultural pursuits. At the end of fifty years the fund is to be expended for the purpose of promoting education, civilization and self-support among the Indians or otherwise distributed among them as congress may determine. All THE NEW KESKKVATIONS include the land in the vicinity of the agencies where the Indians are now living. The land to be thrown open to settlement is not occupied at present by the Indians. The number of In dians on the reservation is 22,567. The act provides that the agreement as now entered into must be submitted to con gress at its next session for ratification. In the event that the agreement is approved and any further legislation is enacted the secretary of the interior will proceed to carry into effect the provi sions of the law. A. T. Lea, an agent of the interior department, is now in Dakota and has been ordered to proceed to take a census of the Indians with a view to ascertaining how many of them are able to support themselves, and in their physi< ft! capacity to work inland owned or occupied by them, either indi vidually or collectively, the value of the land, its nearness to market, its general productiveness, and such other facts and circumstances as will assist con gress in determining how many of the Indians are capable of self-support. GKOFF MAY BE NAMED. A New Candidate for the Land Office Commissionership. Washington, Aug. 7.— A new candi date for the coinmissionership of the general land offics has appeared in Washington this week. He is Judge Groff, of Nebraska, and his name has been mentioned recently in connection with a possible appointment on the In ter-state Commerce commission. Judge Groff came here at the request of Senator Paddock and had an interview with the President before his departure for Bar Harbor. Since that time he has had a long interview with Secretary Noble, who is much pleased with his appearance. Secretary Noble and the president had a long discussion on Friday last of the claims of Acting Commissioner Stone and ex-Represent ative John Thomas, of Illinois, who are candidates for the office of commis sioner, but they came to no understand ing. Secretary Noble is very anxious to fall the vacancy iv the land office, and it is possible Judge GrofFs appointment will be agreed upon as a compromise. SOME FACTS ABOUT SWINE. Experts Discuss Hog Cholera and Other Ailments of Porkers. Washington. Aug. 7.— ln December, 1888, Commissioner Cof Agriculture Coleman appointed a special commis sion for the investigation of epidemic, or rather epizootic diseasas of swine. The commission has just completed its report to Secretary Rusk. After re citing the plan of investigation pursued by the commission, they presented as the sum of their labors the following conclusions: First— lt is of the opinion of the com mis sion that there are at least two widespread epidemic diseases of hogs in this country whien are caused by different micro-organ isms, but which have a cliuioal history and pathological lesson more or less similar and very difficult to distinguish without the aid of the microscope, and resort to bacteriologi cal methods. One of these epidemic diseases: One that is called by the bureau of animal industry '-swine plague" appears to be far less prevalent than ihe other, which has been named "hog cholera." The commission are further of the opinion that "hog cholera" is caused by the specific action of a certain dis tinct microbe named by them the ''hog chol era," different from other microbes described as present in swine diseases. The commis sion are also of opinion, although to a less positive degree, that the epidemic disease called by the bureau authorities "'swine plague" haß as its specific cause a certain microbe possessing characteristics which dis tinguish it from the 'gebm op hog cholera." The discovery of the diseases and of the microbes to which they are due must be con sidered original on the papt of the bureau of auimal industry, at least as far as work in the I nited States is concerned. In the opinion of the commission, the epidemic disease of swine investigated .by Dra. Billings and others, in Nebraska, however seemingly different in the published descriptions, is identical in its . clinical features, patho logical lessons aud specific cause, with • this "hog cholera," and, fur thermore, that the pathogenic mi crobe which 'is the specific cause of this disease is identical in both instances. It is the opinion of the commission that the mi crobe which Dr. Detmers at present regards as the specific cause of "hog cholera" is probably the same microbe which is consid ered by the bureau authorities as the specific cause of hog cholera. From their observa tion of the methods of bacteriological re search pursued by Dr. Billings in Nebraska, the commission are of the opinion that it was difficult, if not impossible, for . that distinguished investigator, by his usual methods, to discover and iFolate a germ associated with "the hog cholera germ," in the tissue of the body of the pig, therefore the failnre of Dr. Billings in his researches to find the so-called "swine plague- 1 germ in the tissues of the spleen (the organ from which he most invari ably made his cultures) cannot be regarded as incontestable proof that the "swine plaprue" germ had no existence in the afflicted hogs which have fallen under his observation, and affords no evidence that this last-named disease does not occur in Nebraska. The commission regards its ex periments concerning immunity as inconclu sive and MORE OR LESS INTJEFIN'ITE. yet it seems to be evident that there i 9 a cer tain degree of protectiou against artificial ac quisition of hop: cholera possessed by the Ne braska pigs which had been inoculated and which had recovered from the natural dis ease, the latter appearing to be slightly less protected than the former. It is a well known fact brought to light by recent investigations concerning the nature of infectious diseases, that immunity or protection from a second attack, whether artificial or natural. is not absolute, but only relative in degree. It is the opinion or the commission that disinfection as a general practical means of preventing the enormous annual losses frou diseases of swine in this country cannot be made effective under the conditions which exist in the West and other regions where ho? raising is extensive. As far as our present knowledge extends, treatment of existiug cases is futile. There remain, therefore, to be con sidered but two alternative menus of prevention, quarantine and extermination of infected hogs with theii surroundings, or, on the otner hand, some form of preventive inoculation. Some of the tests in Nebraska, under the direction of Dr. Billings, certainly give promise of great possibilities in this di rection. It is the opinion of the commission, however, that an attempt to produce im munity from hog cholera artificially by living germs of the disease, either through the stomach or through hypodermic in oculation, is very objectionable and In volves a serious risk of more widely extend ing the disease . and increasing rather than diminishing the enormous losses therefrom. For every hog thus treated becomes for a time, at" least, a center of infection from which an epidemic may directly or indirectly spread widely. Furthermore, the use of the living germ seems, at least in many instances, to permanently stunt the growth of the pig. SHE WAS NOT PAROLED. Report of the Black Diamond Seizure Received at the Capital. "Washington, Aug. 7.— The report of Capt. Shepard, commanding the revenue steamer Rush, in regard to the seizure of the British sealer Black Diamond, which was mailed at San Francisco, has been received at the treasury depart ment. Acting Secretary Batchellor re fused positively to give it to the press, but admits that it confirms substantial ly the newspaper reports concerning the seizure. It contains no reference what ever to the escape of the vessel for the reason that that had not occurred when it was written. Neither does it give any explanation with regard to the smallness of the crew placed in charge of the prize, but the report is said to in dicate that the vessel was not paroled, but was subject only to the control of ; the prize crew. Acting Secretary Bachellor said that as the question seems to have assumed political im portance he preferred to do nothing whatever in the matter until consulta tion with Secretary Winaom on his re turn to the city. THE OWNEK IN HIGH FEATHER. Victoria, B. C, Aue. Albert Frank, the owner of the Black Diamond, arrive! from San Francisco yesterday. He was not much surprised to find his schooner riding at anchor in trie harbor. He and all other sealing owners had given their captains orders to resist seizure to the utmost. In case of seiz ure and a prize crew being put aboard, the captains were, if possible, to brine their vessels, prize crew and all, to Vic toria. Collector of Customs Hawley has Lieut. Hawley letter of instruction to then marine, John Hawkins, who was put in charge of the Black Diamond, and this, with full in formation, he nas forwarded to the min ister of customs at Ottawa. He and Vice Consul Marvin both say they know of no action being taken by either government. Hawkins, the prize crew, sails for Sitka on the mail steamer An con on Friday to rejoin the Rush. He has enjoyed his visit, though he was the subject of considerable chaff. It was proposed by some to arrest and prose cute him for piracy, but this foolish idea was scouted by cooler heads. Other schooners of the Victoria fleet are expected to arrive any moment and they will bring important news. CRAWFORD MADE A CORNER. He Did Not Receive the Creeks' Cash Which Was Paid to Hia Agents. Washington., Aug. Special In dian Agent Gardner, who had been delegated to examine into the matter of the Creek-Oklahoma cession of 1889, has made his report to the Indian office. He finds that the delegates who made the agreement or negotiation were ap pointed by the principal chief and con firmed by the Creek national coun cil. These delegates, Pleasant Pot ter, D. M. Ilod^e and Espar-He- Cher, made a contract with one Samuel J. Crawford, an attorney at law, to assist them professionally in making the agreement and looking after the best interests of the Creek nation gen erally. The compensation to be paid Crawford was 10 per cent of the net proceeds of moneys received from the agreement. This contract was ap proved by the Creek national council, but. was not approved by the commis sioner of Indian aH'airs and the secre tary of the interior. The report says that it will appear that Crawford, in con versation witli the thret' delegates, said to them: "There is no use of pres enting this contract to the secretary of the interior (Vilas), for he will not ap prove it." However, the report says in accordance with the provisions of sec tion 3 ol the- agreement, ratified by con gress, these three delegates drew on requisition from the "United States treasurer $42,198 and paid it to Logan H. Roots, president of a bank at Little Rock, Ark., the same being in full pay ment for a certain note of $84,396. The delegates also drew on a requisition from the treasurer $228,085, said to be the 10 ocr cent net proceeds of the Creek-Oklahoma cession of 18S9, and paid it to Samuel J. Crawford. The re port continues . Attention is respectfully and particularly invited to the affidavit of Pleasant Porter, Exhibit No. 21, wherein he states that he paid out this sum of $228,085, the same money he received from the United States treasury, not to Samuel J. Crawford in per son, but to other persons whom Samuel J. Crawford verbally instructed him to pay. as had . been mutually understood and agreed upon by the said Samuel J. Crawford ana Porter, the names of the parties to whom a portion or portions of this money, 8228,085 was paid, was not furnished me, as he (P. Porter) declined to furnish them." Mr. Gardner says that this contract not having been approved by the proper officers of the interior depart ment, as required by law, and coupled with the fact that the money was not paid to S. J. Crawford, but by his ver bal order or request was paid to others, appears to be such an infraction of the law as to justify and warrant the de partment in turning the matter over to the department of justice for such ac tion as the facts seem to warrant. -^ ; -..•; Against ctrocution. Niagaka Faixs, N. V., Aug. 7.— The national electric light convention to-day adopted a memorial to Gov. Hill, asking him to use his influence for the repeal of the law for execution by electricity. A number of speeches were made against electrical execution. He is Not Dick 'late. Scottboho, AJa., Aug. 7.— The pris oner here in jail is not ex-treasurer Tate, of Kentucky. IT SUITS JHE PEOPLE, Success of the Plan for tha Location of State Insti tutions. Bismarck Is Good Enough for the Capital of North Dakota. Montanans Filibuster Ovei the Capital Question and Make No Headway. Safeguards Thrown Around Washington's Constitution by the Convention. Bismarck, Dak., Aug. 7.— At lasl evening's session the convention did noi consider the report of the committee on public institutions as was expected. The question of railroad tax ition waa discussed, the section providing that railroads shall be taxed at not less than three thousand, nor ' more than seven thousand dollars per mile, being: the chief point of debate. The advocates of the gross eaialQga system made a he roic effort to strike out the entire sec tion and to substitute therefor a pro vision for the continuance of the gross earnings tax, but they were de feated in committee of the whole, and the plan of taxing per mile was adopted. At this after noon's session the only business consid ered was the report of the committee on public institutions, locating the capital permanently at Bismarck, the stato uni versity and the school of mines at Grand Forks, the agricultural college at Fargo, the normal schools at Valley City and Mayville. the deaf and dumb asylum at Devil's Lake, reform school at Mandan, hospital for insane and in stitution for feeble minded at Pembina, soldiers' home at Lisbon, industrial school at Ellendale, school of forestry in Ward, McJlenry, Bottineau or Po lette county and scientific school at Wahpeton. There was an effort mado by a few in the convention to defeat the motion to adopt the majority report, iiartlett, of Grigsrs, offering as an amendment that the question be sul> nutted to a VOTE OF THE PEOPLE as a separate proposition. This amend ment was supported in speeches by Purcell, of Rich land. Bell, of Walsh. Turner, of Bottineau, Johnson, of La»« kota. and several, but was defeated and the article locating the institutions per manently was adop ted by a vote of forty-four to thirty. Johnson, of Lako ta. moved as an amendment that the capital be located at Jamestown, in the hope that the Jamestown delegates would have the majority, but this was no sur prise as it was known the motion would be made in the hope of breaking the majority and thus defeat the plan with the hope of ultimately giving the capital to the Red River Valley. The Jamestown delegates could not be caught and exposing the insecurity of the motion they stood by the report of the committee. Now that this inquisi tition has been disposed of, the business of the convention will proceed, and it is predicted that the convention wilt adjourn within a week. Congratulatory telegrams over the success of the plan for the permanent location of the insti tutions are pouring in from all sections of North Dakota, and everybody 19 pleased. LOCATION OF THE CAPITAL. Tbe Question That Is Bothering Montana Constitution - Prani ers. Helena, Mont., Aug.- The con vention to-day took up the question of the temporary location of the capital under special orders. The galleries and lobbies were filled to suffocation. Mo tions were made to strike out the clause locating the capital, which failed com pletely. Speeehmaking then began in ea rnest. The forenoon was devoted to antagonizing Helena.The afternoon was occupied with voting for various cities in committee of the whole. Butte was defeated by a vote of 28 to 37. Ana conda was also defeated. Bozeman re ceived a vote of 36 yeas and 27 nays. The section was then amended to read "at Bozemau," and the committee rose and recommentled its adoption. Amend ments were made naraiug every town in Montana, and a recess was Had until 8 o'clock. TO PREVENT TINKERING. Washingtonians Throw Safe guards Around tbe Constitu* tion. Olympia, W. T,, Aug. The con vention this morning passed the article providing that all amendments to tin: constitution must be adopted by two-thirds of the legislature and a majority of the people of the state to become a law. An all day debate took place over the clause exempting church property from taxa tion, and the matter was finally left to the legislature. The commit tee on education reported that the entire revenue of the school fund shall be applied to the support of the schools. Those funds to consist of appropriations and donations by the state or private individuals: of the proceeds of estates reverting to the state by escheat or forfeiture. The proceeds of all property granted for no specified purnose; of funds accumulated in the state treasury not otherwise IT appropria ted, or for the disbursement of which no provision has been made; of money received from the sale of school lands, and of 5 per cent of the proceeds of the sale of public lands lying within the state which shall be sold as provided in section thirteen of the enabling act,aftor the state is admitted. Sectarianism of any kind, or sectarian appropriations are absolutely forbidden. All loses to the school fund by defalcation of any public official are to constitute a debt against the state, drawing 6 per cent in terest, and not to be included in the limit to the state debt. ■♦> ; - ONLY GOOI> MEN WANTED. Indian Traders Must Be Men of Integrity. Washington, Aug. 7.— To correct any abuse that may have crept into the operations of Indian traders the com misioner of Indian affairs has issued the following instructions to special agents for their direction while inspecting In dian agencies: Sir: Hereafter when inspecting Indian agencies, you ill please give special atten tiou to the subject of Indian tradershipa. You will carefully ascertain and report aa to the general reputation of such trader for honesty, fair dealing with tbe Indians and good influence among them. You will also report t-pecifically as to the quality and suf ficiency of the stock of goods kept by the trader, whether he deals in arti cles whose sale is irjiurious to the Indians; whether the prices charged are reasonable: whether the schedule of prlees are displayed so that the Indians can be well intormed thereof ; whether the trader Bella Intoxicating liquors under any disguise or arms or fixed ammunition, or trades with the Indians for goods furnished them by the government or any way violates the letter or spirit of the law; 'whether his store is kept open ou Sunday ; whether it is nsed as a re sort for loafers; whether gambling, demoral izing dances or any other practice or amuse ments hurtful to the Indians are allowed upon the premises; and in general, whether the trader and his employes are sober, respectable people, whose conduct and exam pie among the Indian 3 will tend to elevate the Indians morally instead of the reverse. Enclosed please find copy of the laws and regulations relating to trade with Indian tribes published by this office, from which you will see what the office expects from an Indian trader, and be able to ludea aud report to what extent, if any, a trader fails to meet the requirements. Respectfully T. J. aioBOAX, commissioner.