Dakota farmers' leader., September 19, 1890, Image 2

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FARMERS' PUBLISHING CO.. PPBLISHEES
THE famous Physick Garden in Chel
sea, England, whose preservation is now
a matter of discussion, has 20,000 dif
'-ferfent herbs and plants.
JAPAN is a remarkably productive
'country. Its area is less than Califor
nia, while its cultivated land is only
one-tenth of its acreage yet its prod
ucts support a population of eighty
eight million.
THE newspapers are now trying to
find the man who spent the most days
in rebel prisons during the late war. So
far as heaid from yet, E. W. Ware of
Bangor, is ahead, he having suffered
600 days in Charleston, Columbia,
Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsboro and
Greensboro prisons.
INSTEAD of increasing the weight of
locomotives to seoure better traction,
efforts are being made to use the elec
tric current, and experiment has de
monstrated that the passage of a cur
rent through the driving-wheels in
creases the traction far beyond what
additional weight accomplishes
IF a teaspoon is placed in an empty
glass, boiling hot water can be poured
into it without breaking. A fork will
not serve the purpose at all, as it is
something in the shape of the spoon
that concentrates the heat of the boil
ing water in itself. This is worth know
ing by hot water drinkers, as the water
is far more palatable in a glass than in
a cup.
THE little English sparrows have
learned a new dodge since electric
lights replaced gas in New York City
parks. When the current is turned off
at dawn the bottoms of the globes are
filled with hundreds of insects which
have been attracted by the light and
killed. The sparrows come around
after the globe has cooled off, slide
down the carbons and devour the in
sects.
PROF. J. H. LEWIS, of IST.Faul,- a
noted archaeologist, has 'recently been
making explorations around James
town, N. D. He has surveyed hun
dreds of earthworks and embankments
which show an advanced knowledge of
architecture, while the precision with
which they are constructed shows
great intelligence and care. Most of
these mounds are filled with bones of
people who lived ages ago and con
cerning whom history gives no clue.
A WILL made by Frederick the Great
in 1741, during the first Silesian war,
is printed in the first volume of "The
Wars of Frederick the Great," just
published in Germany. It reads as fol
lows: "I am only King so long as I am
free. If they kill me I wish my body to
be burned in Itoman fashion and my
ashes to be inclosed in an urn at Bheins
burg. In this case Knobelsdorf [his
architect] shall construct a monument
for me like that of Horace of Tuscu
lum."
THE wife of Senator Davis, of Minne
sota, is able to make this extraordinary
statement: "When ten years of age
my aunt bought me a pattern, some
navy-blue cloth and some black velvet,
and told me I must make myself a
gown, which I did. greatly to her satis
faction and my own and the envy of my
little playmates. From that time to
the present day I have never paid one
cent to a dress-maker or milliner, nor
has any one else done so for me. Every
dress, liat and bonnet I wear is made
and trimmed by my own hands."
IT is not generally known that Prince
Bismarck has an adopted son, now
twenty years of age, and a Frenchman.
One evening during the Franco-Prus
sian war when the Chancellor entered'
his sleeping apartments, outside of
Paris, he found a baby boy asleep on
his pillow. The mother had left a note
saying that her husband had been
killed at Sedan, and that despair and
want had forced her to give up her
child. Bismarck sent the child by
special nurse to Berlin, and subse
quently had him educated, and he is
now a model young man and devotedly
attached to his benefactor.
AN Episcopal clergyman of Indiana
tells this as a true story: Recently one
of the prominent members of his parish
died. After the funeral the widow
found great eomfort in telling her
neighbors about the many virtues of
her late husband, even mentioning that
he took greatest delight in playing
cards as an innocent pastime. She
must have been thinking of him as he
appeared in his "customary attitude,"
for she said: "Jacob looked so well
when they opened the coffin at the
church. He had not changed one par
ticle. There was, O, such a heavenly
expression on his face. He looked just
as if he held four kings."
WHEN standing within a few yards of
the gun's muzzle at the time of dis
charge, a person would be amazingly
astonished were he only able to see the
shots as they go whizzing by. Experi
ments in instantaneous photography
ha^e proved to us that the shots
not only spread out, oomet-like, as
they fly, but they string out to a much
greater distance than they spread.
Thus, with a cylinder gun, when the
first shot of a charge reaches a target
that is forty yards away, the last shot
is lagging along ten yards behind.
Even with the chokebore guu some of
the shot arill lag behind eight yards iu
forty.
THEY are having a hard time out is
Washington Kan., over a meteor. It
fell on Miss Kelsey's farm, ami a hivo
map named January, who saw it tall,
dug it out. He thought meteors a
profitable crop, bought it from Mis.*
Kelsey's agent for $25 and sold it to
the State university for $800. Mi-?s
Kelsey was away from home when the
thing was sold, and now comes back
and claims that her agent had no right
to dispose of it. She proposes if nec
essary _to bring suit for it on the
ground that in Kansas meteors coine
properly under the general head of
farm products, claiming it as her just
and due meteor right, so to peak.
WHY SO many bald-headed men are
bachelors is thus explained by a recent
writer: "There, is a great deal of cap
illary attraction in love. Girls adore
a handsome suit of glossy hair it is
lovely. And when a lover comes to
woo her with the top of his head shin
ing like a greased pumpkin he is at a
disadvantage. Just as the words that
glow and thoughts that burn begin to
awaken, in her bosom a sympathetic
thrill she may happen to notice two or
three flies promenading over his phre
nological organs, and all is over. Girls
are so frivolous. She immediately be
comes more interested in those flies
than in all his lovely language. While
he is pouring out his love and passion
she is wondering how the flies manage
to hold on to such a slippery surface.
PEOPLE who are afraid of lightning
may be consoled by the knowledge that
there is a thousand times the danger in
the. sewer pipes that there is in the
thunder clouds. The deaths by light
ning are few indeed. Who of the read
ers of this paragraph ever lost a friend
that "way Who of them hasn't lost a
score Of friends by the less brilliant and
less noisy destruction that comes up
out of the drains The trouble with the
lightning, or the trouble that it gives
the people, is in its indescribable sud
denness and its absolute uncertainty.
You know, neither when it is coming nor
where, it-is-going all you feel certain
about is that some storms leave a num
ber of catastrqphes to mark their course.
The caprice pf the lightning defies the
explanations of science, and there is no
predicting beyond a few generalities.
This much it does seem safe to repeat,.
even in the lively lightning season, that
the increased use of electricity, with.
the multiplicity1of wire3. has tended to
fiewer fatal strokes of lightning in
cities.
A BROOKLYN manufacturer paid a
bill without a murmur the other day
simply on account of the way it was
worded. His engineer found that the
hot water pump would not work and
sent'.for a machinist. The latter b)th
ered with it half a day and said it must
come apart. This meant a stoppage of
the factory for a long time. It was
suggested that a neighboring engineer
be sent for, as he was a sort of genius
in the matter of machinery. He came.
and after studying the pump a while
he took a hammer and gave three sharp
raps over the valve. "I reckon she'll go
now," he quietly said, and, putting on
the steam she did go. "The next day.
says the manufacturer, "I received a
bill from him for $25.50. The price
amazed me, but when I had examined
the items I drew a check at once. The
bill read this way: 'Messrs. Blank &
Co., Dr. to John Smith. For fixing
pump, 50 cents for knowing how, $25.'
Had he charged me $25.50 for fixing
the pump I should have considered it
exorbitant. But 59 cents was reason
able, and I recognize the value of
knowledge, so I paid and said nothing."
The Two Litt'o Mittens.
He had snubbed his wife and scolded
his children, and had gone off down to
business in a frame of mind tliat made
some friends, and all the dogs, go a
block out of their way to avoid him,
all because some trifling thing had
gone wrong, and there was no one who
had the courage to tell him he was
acting lilce a brute.
And then right in his way, spread
out on the sidewalk, the two little
thumbs ctirled up, lay a little wee pair
of black mittens—baby mittens, with
dimples and curves left in them. He
looked quickly up the crowded walk
and saw a slender woman hurrying
along with a toddling girl baby by the
hand, and he tried to overtake them
and shouted, but they were lost in the
crowd, and he took the two little mit
tens with him and laid them on his
desk. They were so tiny that they
looked almost as if they were made for
a doll, but no doll's hands had left
those creases, and it didn't take an ex
pert either to tell that it was the hand
of a future woman that had made
those little curves in the wrist and
palm.
"What have you there?" asked his
business partner.
He answered briefly, "treasure
trove,'" and finally tucked one ia each
rocket of his vest. But not before lie
had noticed, however, that the btll of
each dear little thumb was neatly
darned, and that the line of life on the
tiny wrist had worn through and had
been covered with a network of patient
mending. Half a dozen times a day,
when he was alone, that man looked at
the little mittens, then put them away
and went on with his invoices and cal
culations. And when he went home at
night he met his wife with a kiss, and
romped with tl^e'boys. and at the sup
per table he took out the little fugitive
things and they went the rounds. The
boys laughed. His wife looked at him
with shining eye3.
"Yes, dear," he said gently, "Nellie
would have been large enough to wear
them if she had lived."
This was the secret. The little mit
tens had performed a mission, and will
be kept as mascots.
I
IN Egypt lovers pledge their troth by
touching thnmjbs. When, however, the
girl touches hei* thumb to her nose and
wiggles her finggv, the young fellow
I probably takes thvjiint and scoot*.
THE NATION'S^.•CROPS.
FULL TEXT OF STATISTICIAN
DODGE'S REPORT.
ft Shows a Condition Even Worse Tlmn
tho Published Synopsis a Few Days Ago
All Grains Bound to Be High on Account
of the Bariy Frosts.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept 15 A few days
ago a summary of the government crop re
ports for September was published. It was
received with great interest, and made a
sensation in all the grain markets in the
ooutitry. Statistician Dodge now furnishes
the full text of the reports. The showing is
even worse, if anything, than was repre
sented in the comparatively brief synopsis
given on Thursday. Tho following is the
statement complete:
The Statement.
The season has not been favorable to ce
reals, potatoes or fruit, while hay, cotton
and sugar have been favored with condi
tions conducive to medium or large de
velopment. Where drainage is defective,
cultivation limited and a maximum of care
and labor is applied, the meteorological
mishaps will be numerous and injurious.
It is satisfactory to know that a considera
ble percentage of the losses now sustained
is avoidable, yet it will be long, while
lands remain cheap, before the possible
remedy shall be applied. The losses are
now so,ser!ous in the great rain belt that
arid-land farmers do not fail to claim an
advantage in "the control of moisture in its
application to growing crops. The rainfall
of the season has been fitful and irregular
aver much of the cultivated area. A late
and cold spring was followed in large areas
in the south and central west by drouth ot
several weeks' duration, and in some places
of nearly two months, which was broken by
heavy storms, often attended by high winds.
The signal service summarizes 4he precipi
tation of the summer up to the first week ia
September as follows:
'The rainfall for the season continues in
Bxcess in the lake region and New England,
In the northern portions of the Middle At
lantic states, in the Ohio valley, Southern
Missouri, Arkansas, Central Mississippi and
Eastern Texas. A slight seasonal excess is
also reported from the Northern Pacific
coast. The seasonal deficiency in the Soutli
Atlantic states is from 6 to 10 inches, and
from 13 to 15 Inches in the extreme southern
portions of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi
ana. The seasonal deficiency is about 1
inches in Kansas, 4 inches in Western Ne
braska, to 9 inches in Eastern Nebraska,
Iowa and Northern Missouri. About the
same deficiency is reported from Massa
chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. In
the lake region the seasonal excess varies
from 2 to 6 inches."
Our returns everywhere emphasize the re
sults of irregularities in rain fall and tem
perature. The amount of rain is of far less
practical importance than its timely distri
bution and absorption by the soil. Tho
value of moisture in crop development can
not be determined by the sum of preciplta*
tion, nor the maturity of plants by the ag
gregate of the season's heat. A few days of
excessive moisture, accompanied or fol
lowed by extreme heat, when grain is in the
milk and fruit is maturing, may destroy or
seriously injure the crop, causing blights of
grain and rotting of fruit. The effects of
drouth have been severest in Kansas and
Nebraska,Northern Missouri, Southern Iown
and the region contiguous to the. Ohio river
on both sides. It has been quite Injurious
to cotton and other crops on the Gulf coast
and portions of the Southern Atlantic coast.
The Injury to Come.
Corn—The returns for September show
that the injury to the corn crop reported
last month was intensified by continuance
of drouth in August until the rains came to
its rslief, but too late for full rocovery. On
tho coast, from New jersey to Maryland
and in North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Arkansas and Missouri, as also iu
northern New England and Florida, there is
improvement since Aug. 1. In Michigan,
Wisconsin and Indiana and in Georgia, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, the condition is
unchanged. A decline has occurred in New
York. Ohio, Illinois and in all the north
western states and In some others of less
importance. The average is 70.1, against
73.1-2 last month. It is the lowest average
since 1881. The crop is late inthe eastern
states, requiring maturing weather through
out September. It is also late and variable
in development in New York and Pennsyl
vania. The Atlantic coast states return
relatively high condition, compared locally
by the effects of midsummer drouth and
later by storm. In Tennessee, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Texas, drouth, more or less
severe, from the 10th of June to the middle
of August, reduced the condition too low for
subsequent recovery, as the crop was ma
turing or ripe before rains came. The Ohio
Falley an'd the Missouri valley report pro
tracted drouth and low condition. While
the rains of the last two weeks of August
have been beneficial nearly everywhere,
they have not always restored the losses of
the first half of the month. In the bottom
lands, where growth was maintained, the
recent rainfall will make a good crop, while'
the dry uplands were beyond recovery. The
lowest condition is in Kansas, though some
of tho eastern counties make good returns.
The Dakotas and Nebraska are little higher.
The crop is late, and will require as much
time to mature on the latitude of 40 degrees
as for the earlier varieties grown on the line
of 42 degrees. The following i» a statement
of monthly condition:
Yield
per
Year. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. acre.
18Sf 9-1.0 J0.0 95.0 05.0 20.3
1«86 9".a 80.7 76.0 80.0 22.0
188
7 .17.7 80.5 72.3 72.8 20.1
188
8 93.0 P5.5 94.2 92.0 20.3
1S89 90.3 94.8 90.9 91.7 28.8
1890 93.1 73.3 70.1
Spring and Winter Wheat.
Wheat—The returns of tho condition of
winter wheat at the time of harvesting are
less favorable than those of the firstof July.
far as threshing lias progressed the re
sults are gonerally disappointing. The July
ivorage was 70.2 the present average, 73.5.
fhe general average of spring wheat has
also been reduced from 83.2 to 70.8. The
average of wheat of both kinds is 75.5. In
1888 the September average for wheat wa9
77.3. It was 73 in 1881. The yield of spring
wheat is usually variable in the Dakotas.
ranging from high yields to five bushels and
less per acre. The progress of threshing
will develop the extent of these differ
ences.
Oats and Bye.
Oats—The condition of oats is the lowest
ever reported at the date of harvesting.
The decline since the last report has been
almost six points, from 70.1 in August to
64.4. The rate of yield will bq, the smallest
in twenty years, and the*rice must inevi
tably be higher.
—Bye yields less than was expected,
as generally the condition at harvesting
averages only 85.4, a decline of over six
points since the report in July. It suffers
less, as usual, than wheat in unfavorable
seasons.
Hardie Richardson leads the Players as a
i»e»e-mn utter, hlj record being 17.
I THE BRULES WILL STAY THERE.
The Department Beflises Their Bequest to
Move South of tho White River—Brook
ings Schools Presented with a Flag-
Notes with Interest.
The Lower Brule Indians, after sev
eral years of unsuccessful effort, liavo
at last been notified by the Indian bureau
through ,their agent, Maj. Dixon, that
they cannot move south of the White
river to the Rosebud reservation. The
reason for the desired removal is, as they
claim, that the land south of the White
river is much better than that embraced
in their own reservation. When the
Sioux commission was at the agency last
summer obtaining their assent to the re
linquishment of 11,000,000 acres of their
reservation to the government, these In
dians, at a council held with the com
missioners, implored Gen. Crook to
promise that they might move, but the
general informed them that he could
do nothing further than to request
the department to allow them to do
so, as his instructions from tho "great
father" did not give him the power to
make promises other than were provided
by the Sioux bill. The general's prom
ise to intercede in their behalf was re
ceived satisfactorily by the Indians, as
they had gre£t faith in his influence and
firmly believed that the matter would
eventually be settled in their favor. A
short time ago, however, the Rosebud
band of Sioux entered a vigorous protest
against the proposed removal, claiming
that they did not have any land to spare.
This apparently settled the matter, as
the Indian bureau has refused to grant
the request of the Lower Brules. Of
course the Indians were deeply disap
pointed at the failure of their efforts, as
a great many had set their hearts upon
going below White river.
Presented With a Flag.
The Brookings public schools opened
with a very full house. All the teachers
are new with the exception of Superin
tendent Robinson and Mattie L. Darrow.
The principal feature of the occasion was
the presentation of a flag by the G. A.
R. post and its reception. These serv
ices were held in the opera hall, which
was filled. Speeches were made by
Auditor Cornell, Wm. Anderson. Prof.
M. A. Robinson and Dr. McLoath, pres
ident of the agricultural college. After
,the ceremony at the hall the procession
formed and marched to the school
grounds, where the flag was raised. The
exercises here were enlivened by a speech
from Hon. G. A. Mathews, fitting tho
occasion. Music was furnished by the
Brookings band and the college glee
club, which added materially to the
pleasure of the occasion.
Told in a Few Linen,
THE Pierro band has increased its
membership to twenty-two.
LIGHTNING started a fire on Cheyenne
island recently, and it was only by hard
work that it was kept from burning over
the whole island. Jefl Sage lost about
twenty-five tons of hay.
THE harvest in Brookings county ts
abundant, even the farmers themselves
being surprised at the yield. With this
result, and. with prices so favorable, they
are correspondingly happy.
JOHN BBUCKEB, of Garden City, com
mitted suicide by blowing off the upper
portion of his skull with a shotgun.
Family troubles are said to have been
the cause. He leaves a wife and several
children.
C. LAESON, the man who drives the
Pierre milk wagon, met with a painful
accident. His cart collided with a hy
drant on the hill, upsetting him and
breaking the two bones of his left fore
arm, besides badly bruising him.
A SETTLER named Hotoff, living sixty
miles west of Pierre, while en route home
from Pierre, drove off a steep embank
ment ten miles out on the Bad river,
falling twenty-fivo feet. Hotoff's skull
was fractured and several bones broken.
He cannot recover.
THE Brookings agricultural college
opened its fall term with a very full at
tendance, every room at the college be
ing occupied, and accommodations in the
city are being secured. Though the de
mand for rooms is beyond expectation
all students will bo cared for.
WHILE driving to Montrose one day
last week, the two small children of'John
Stevens met with quite an experience.
In some manner the horses became
frightened and ran away. The little
fellow stuck to the lines manfully and
kept them from running into the river
over the bank, getting them turned just
in time. The, little girl was thrown out
however and received several severe
scratches and bruises. They had a .nar
row escape.
IT is reported that an artesian well
has been struck at the depth of twenty
two feet in Grand Meadow township,
Minnehaha county. The circumstances
of the discovery were that a farmer had
dug a common well to the depth of
twenty feet when he took a small auger
and sank it down on a sort of prospect
ing tour. He had just got his auger
down two feet when it sank quickly and
on pulling it out a flow of water fol
lowed. This was piped and the stream
crept to the surface and is now flowing
without a stop.
MRS. A. E. DICKSON, of, Milbanlc, is
lying in a critical condition at her home,
because of the explosion of a gasoline
stove. She undertook to fill the stove
tank with the burner lighted when the
explosion occurred. Rushing to the
door she called f«r help and then ran
back into the kitchen to save her child.
Then her clothing took fire and she was
horribly burned about the body and
arms. When her clothing was removed
patches of charred flesh were torn away,
and during that awful ordeal she said:
"I saved the baby anyway."
THE lakes and ponds in Stutsman
county, N. D., and vicinity, are nearly
all dried up. Last year was bad enough
in this respect, but this season is worse.
Lt is said that Arrowwood lake has only
a small stream running through it. Last
year it was an extensive sheet of water.
There is very little water in Jim lake,
mid none' in the river above the dam at
Jamestown.
DN. "HULL'S little son, of Gettysburg. 2
years and 0 months old, while being
tossed on a blanket in play by some other
little folks, with a slight choking he'
swallowed an iron staple, 2 inches long
by Ja inch wide, which luckily went
down rounded end foremo'st and seems
to have kept that position to the end of
the voyage.
THE soldiers' home at Hot Springs was
to have been opened on the 9th, but the
board has found it impossible to have the
building completed and ready for occu
pancy before Sept. 20.
YANKTON is petitioning for the free
delivery of mails.
DINED ON KINGrSHEAD.
STORY OF A WEST AFRICAN
HOODOO MAHD1.
He Sits Down to His First Royal Dinner
With the Head of a Monarch Before Him
—Pork Packing Statistics Show a Falling
Off .Over the Preceding Week-Crop Be
ports, Etc.
LONDON', Sept. 11.—Much Indignation is
expressed in France over the fact that
Bamudoo, the so-called "West African Mahdi,
who recently made a treaty of friendship
with the English, followed up the treaty by
purchasing from the British a largo quantity
of guns and cartridges, and thereupon pro
ceeded to attack the French. Notwith
standing his guns, he got the worst of the
fight, his favorite commander, Savos Pasha,
being killed in a hand to hand encounter
with a French lieutenant of Senegales
troops. Samudoo is nowteneaged in raising
the people of western Soudan for attack on
the French. He is said to be as peculiar
an individual as the original Mahdi who
caused so much troubre to the Brit
ish in Egypt. Born in the king
dom of Bornu, his mother was the
Nubian slave of an Arab trader. His
father took good care of him, and as he
grew up he became imbued with the idea
that it was his mission to restore supremacy
of the prophet in Western Africa. The
King of Bornu, noticing that the young
man was ambitious, ordered him to be de
capitated, as a lesson to other ambitious
youths. Samudoo was warned by a friend,
said to have been one of the sultanas, and
Bed to Senegal. There he curbed his fanat
icism under Christian protection until dis
turbances in Bornu tempted him to return.
The dissatisfied element accepted him as
ai leader and he made himself master of the
country, displaying no little military abil
ity. The king of Bornu was one of his pris
oners and Samudoo sat down to his first
dinner in the royal palace with tho mon
arch's head on a plate before him. He is
now the master of a considerable share of
West Africa, and the British have been glad
to purchase his friendship.
CROP CONDITIONS.
Government Beport for Septem ber—Corn
and Wheat Both Show.Less Favorable
Besults.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The national
rrop report for September shows that the
Injury to the corn crop reported last month
was intensified by the continuance of the
Arouth in August until rains came to its re
lief, but were too late for full recovery.
The average is 70.1, against 73.3 last month.
It is the lowest average since 1881. The de
cline occurred in New York, Ohio and Il
linois and in the northwestern states, and in
some others of less importance. The crop is
late in the eastern states, requiring matur
ing weather throughout September. The
Ohio valley. and Missouri valley report
protracted drouth and poor condition.
While the rains of the last two weeks of
August have been beneficial nearly
everywhere they have not always re
stored the losses of the first half of the
month. The best condition is in Kansas,
though some of the western counties make
good returns. The Dakotas and Nebraska
are a little higher.
Returns of the condition of winter wheat
at the time of harvesting are less favorable
than those of the 1st of July. So far as
thrashing has progressed results are gen
erally disappointing. The July average
was T0.2, and the present average is 73.5.
The general average of spring wheat is also
reduced from 83.3 to 79.8. The average for
wheat of both kinds is 78.5. In 1S8S the
September average for wheat was 77, and
was 73 In 1881. The yield ot spring wheat ia
unusually variable In the Dakotas, ranging
from high yields to 5 bushels and less per
acre. The progress of thrashing will de
velop the extent of these differences.
Bye yields less than was expected. The
condition as reported is reduced to 85.4.
The September condition of oats is the
lowest ever reported, having fallen from
70.1 in August to 64.4. The rate of yield
will be the smallest in twenty years.
The condition of barley is not very seri
ously lower—from 82.8 to 78.6.
Buckwheat is fully maintained, its Au
gust condition average being 00.5 against
90.1.
Figures for potatoes have fallen since
Aug. 1 from 77.4 to 65.7, the lowest average
yield ever reported, that of 1887 being 67.3.
The reported percentage for fattening
swine is 97 per cent., and their condition
93.9.
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
Attorney-General Langley, of Halifax,
Gives IiiBide History.
HALIFAX, N. S., Sept. 11 Attorney-Gen
eral Langley has arrived at his home. He
describes his important trip to the United
States. In an interview he says:
"I had no more thought of visiting Wash
ington than of going to Australia, but while
I was in New York Sir. Winian suggested
the importance of making some special ef
fort to induce the American congress to In
clude Canada in the scheme of reciprocity.
Mr. Blaine has already declared in favor of
reciprocity with the states of South
America, and his idea has been embodied
in proposed amendments to the McKinley
bill in the senate.
"Recognizing the Importance of the mat
ter, I consented to accompany Mr. Wiman
to Washington, although I confess I had no
very great confidence that anything could
be accomplished in this late stage
of the session. I found leading men in the
senate and house, of both political
partie most friendly and predisposed
rather than otherwise to extend the prin
ciple of reciprocity to Canada. There are
some senators from the New England states
who seem to be opposed to it in deference
to the predjudice of some portion of their
constituents.
"Among prominent men with whom I had
he pleasure of discusssing this question
was Senator Sher.nian, of Ohio. To my de
light. at the next sitting of the senate, I
heard Senator Sherman propose tho resolu
tion which has now become so well known
throughout Canada, and which, if adopted,
will certainly revolutionize the policy of
this country. Prominent men on both sides
of the house assured mo that it was ex
tremely likely that Senator Sherman's reo
lution would be adopted by the senate,
though meeting with considerable opposi
tion. If it gets through the senate it will
be adopted by the house, and iu that case
it becomes incorporated as part of the Mc
Kiley bill and wll always be available as a
standing offer to Canada."
THE National Swedish Mission union, in
session at Galesburg, 111., has postponed
action for two years on a resolution lopking
to closer relations with Congregationallsts.
The next annual meeting will be held at
Phelps Center, Neb.
AT Scottdale, Pa., fire is raging in the
Charlotte mines, and work has been sus
pended. If the flames are not soon extin
guished great loss will be incurred.
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IOWA'S SCHOOL BOOKFLAW.
Hojw It Is Expected to Relieve Parents—!
Too Much Tape in the Matter of County
Uniformity.
MASON OITV, Ia., Sept. 16.—Tho school'.^
book law, enacted by the last general as
sembly, providing for a uniformity among
the schools in text books, has also put In1.'
the hands of the school boards the power in^j
controlling the exorbitant prices heretofore,
charged, and which has proved such a bur
den to patrons of the schools. For instance,,
the school population of Iowa is to-day up--/
wards of 500,000, and careful statisticians
place the average price of school books'per
capita at $1.40, which includes students of/,
high schools. This would make tljle annual'
expenditure for school books $70(J'#,00. Un
der the new contract law scho^A^^yyEire
to-day retailing at a price 40
than a year ago, making a si^mifctM,aeC
state on the price paid for sclool Wtokijj
of $280,000 per year. Tho Ameri-'
can Publishing company are getting-
as many
schools of the state as possible to
adopt their books on a five year contract,
hoping to settle the School book controversyi
for that period. It is simply a scheme to1
checkmate state publication, aud it, will,
doubtless be successf^V But very few
counties in the state will adopt county uni
formity. In order to do this it Is necessary.
that a petition asking for the same be:
signed
by one-half of-the directors in the
county, and filed at the county superin­
tendent's
office thirty days before the an­
nual election in March. Within fifteen days
after filing the petition, the county board of
education, consisting of the county superin
tendent as chairman, the county auditor as
secretary, and the board of supejWiOrs, will
meet and provide for submisJHfe&t the
question to the vote of the peopqH^ Should
1
a majority of the electors voting/favorable
for a uniform series of text books for use in,
the county the board will meet and adopt
the books to be used In tho county. They
will then also make arrangements for the
purchase of the books and furnished to the
district at cost and the money will be turned'
back to the contingent fund.
REVERSED THE USUAL ORDER.
Romantic Marriage ot a Titled Lady to
Millionaire Cowboy.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—George W. Camp-V
bell, of Chicago, son of the millionaire cat
tleman, James H. Campbell, was married:
Saturday night to Miss Helen Dodd, daugh-,
iter of Sir Thomas Dodd, of West Derby.
England, at Association hall, by Rev. Dr.
Dixon. This was the outcome of a pretty
little romance. Young Campbell was sent*::
to England three years ago by his father to
attend to a lot of cattle. Being at Liver
pool and having nothing to do but wait, ho
went to Mexican Joe's wild west show
one night and found some old cow
boy friends with whom he had herded ci/tTtlc
'in Texas. To amuse himself he toa^CfcMJtef'
the exhibition. One night, jus^^HKrad
picked up a silver dollar fdSrn^JHr^
riding at full speed, tho wina wrwa^|i
cate lace handkerchief from aAjjeautiful
lady's hand into the arena. He saw it, and"
still under full speed, picked it up and re
turned it to the owner. A mutual friend'
subsequently introduced them. .They fell
in love and an engagement was sanctioned.
Iby Sir Thomas, provided that after a lapse
of time their love should not cool. As Mr
Campbell's business prevented his return to
England, Miss Helen decided to come to
him, and she arrived here Saturday oo
Bome.
A PROFITABLE CROP.
A Farmer Near Pierre Meets With Splendid1
Success in the Cultivation of Sugar
Beets.
PIERRE, S. D., Sept. 16.—There Is noV
longer any doubt but-that sugar beets will
prove one of the most productive and profit
able crops for South Dakota. A farmer'!
near here this year raised twenty acres of
sugar beets that yielded twenty tons to the'
acre, which are worth, where manufactured
into sugar, $4 per ton, or S80 an acre. These
.beets were raised without irrigation. The
soil of the great Sioux reservation west of
the river is particularly well adapted to
beet culture, and next year
Willi
see many
thousands of acres there pla,fttFMjtarbeets,.
which wil-l find a ready markoJ^HBpr the
sugar plant will be ready to^^Kmacture
beet sugar by another season.
The Pine, Coal, Mining & Transportation
company, organized some time ago for tho
purpose of mining and barging the lignite
coal of North Dakota down to Pierre, on the
Missouri river, lias built, barges, opened up
a mine in McLean county, aud i:i three
weeks the first consignment of coal will ar
rive. It will be sold to consumers in Pierre
at $2 per ton, the price of Iowa anil Illinois
soft coal being $8. The coal will no doubt
soon come into use in all the lower river
towns and near inland points.
Yellow Pine Higher.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16.—The yellow pine con
vention has completed its work and ad
journed to meet in New Orleans Dec. 1.
The committee on prices reported in favor
of an advance from 75 cents to SI per 1,000
feet. The committee on weights reported
three different schedules for the different
characters of lumber in three different
districts. Schedule A, the lightest weight,
was to apply to Missouri, Arkansas and tho
short-leaved pine district of Texas sched ule
B, the next heaviest weight, was to apply to
Louisiana and the long-leaved district of
Texas schedule C, the heaviest weight, was
to apply to the states east of the Mississippi
river. It was further agreed that In mak
ing price lists for lumber delivered at points
within or beyond the 22-cent rate, points on
which the formal schedule of prices is based,
schedule B, which was formerly tbe uni
form schedule of the association,j
used.
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Omaha Indians in Beared of]
KAXSAS Ciir, Mo., Sept. 16.-^A sj
the Timea from Tahlequah. I. T., says:
"Four delegates from the Omaha tribe of
Indians arrived in this city last night. The
delegation, upon hearing of the chief's ab
sence, departed immediately for his home
on Grand river, forty miles distant. A
reporter called on the delegation to find out
the object of their visit to the capital.
Their interpreter, a full blood by
the name of Daniel Webster,,
stated that they were sent to confer with
the chief of this nation and learn what the
prospects would be for purchasing a homo
with the Cherokees in case they sell their
present home in Nebraska to the Union Pa
cific, 100,000 acres at S10 per acre, and if
they are successful would come sonth. The
delegates will go from here to the agency,.
to remain there for some days. They refuse
to state their business, but it is said they
were here looking for a home, and that
they would visit the different tribes before
they returned.
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Election in Brazil.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Charles B. Flint'
has received the following cable fsom Bio,
Janeiro: "The election passeS off in perfect1
order. The results show the co®
whelmingly in favor of the nfelV of
things. No monarchists and h»? ijr
clericalists were elected."
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