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A NATION'S WARDS
UNCLE SAWS SUCCESSFULGUAR
DIANSHII OF THE INDIANS.
The Once Hostile Tribes Have Aban
doned the War Path and Taken
to the Arts of Peace—
The Custer Massacre.
T is a fact worthy of note that
since June 25, 1876, the date
upon which General George A.
Custer and his entire command
were massacred by the Cheyernes, no
Berious outbreak upon the part of the
Nation’s ward, the American Indians,
has occurred in the United States.
Yet, despite the fact that the Custer
massacre practically dates an entirely
new epoch in the history of the In
dian races of this great country, its
twentieth anniversary, which occurred
recently, passed unnoticed and un
bonored, save by a few individuals
with whom the memory of the little
band of heroes who perished on the
plains is yet green.
v Prior to that time Indian uprisings
were of frequent occurrence, for of
the 200 or more tribes now in the
United States there are not ten but
what have been in revolt at some time
or another.
' There are many residents of San
Francisco, says the Chronicle of that
city, to-day who can recall the Modoc
troubles of 1873 and the Bannock war,
in which King Joseph asserted him
gelf so persistently, while the Apache
outrages under the leadership of Ger
onimo are still fresh in the memory of
many who can by no means be called
old timers.
% During the past twenty years, how
ever, the Government has been en
gaged in trying to civilize and control
the remnants of these once powerful
tribes on reservations, and with re
markable success. In fact, the Indian
of to-day can only cast a longing eye
over the old hunting grounds of his
forefathers, for, although centuries of
living by rosming, war and the con
sumption of the wild products of na
ture have not especially fitted him for
readily accepting civilization, he has
been compelled to accept restraint,
** The Atlantic coast Indians, the
Cherokees in North Carolina, mest of
the tribes on the northern lakes, and
the remnant of the Six Nationsin New
York and Pennsylvania have long
since ceased to be troublesome, while
disease and other canses have helped
to destroy the great mass of the In
diane from the Atlantic coast to the
Mississippi River. y
The Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws,
Chickasaws and Seminoles, in the In
_dian Territory, once so warlike and
fierce, having intermarried with
. whites and the colored people and
adopted others into their tribes, have
tl:o-t entirely lost their identity, and
now a progressive psople.
| The Sioux, Comanches, Apaches,
Navajos, Kiowas, Bannocks and oth
are on reservations, and, even if
lisposed to belligerency, are so sur
rounded by white settlements that a
“war would be of short duraticn.
* The Pacific coast fish eaters and
root diggers are peaceable, progres
‘sive and almost entirely self-support
ing.
I The reservation Indians, 133,417 in
number, according to the census of
1890, are located in twenty Etates and
Merritories and fora about 147 tribes
“or parts of tribes, occupying about
978,500,000 acres of allotted Jand, but
aauch of the area of these reservations
is desert.
The present policy of the Govern
ment, the eighth which has been tried
apon the Indian since 1789, is known
as an educational and allotment cne;
and to the eduecation of all Indian
children at the expense of the Nation
is chiefly due the existing condition
o! aflairs,
The best tests of Indian advance
toward civilization are the adoption of
the white man’s dress and habits, their
engaging in agriculture or the me
chanical arts and in consenting to the
education of their children. Judged
by these three standards the Indians
are slowly but surely progressing
toward Anglo-Saxon ecivilization.
Whereas in former days the Indian
children were allowed to grow up in
indolence and hatred of the white
man and his methods, they sre now
educated at National institutions,
and, being essentially quick and im
itative, scon learn the white man's
ways.
1o addition to those on the various
reservations there are at least 110,000
indians who are self-reliant and inde
n’ent. These Laving already
: Ernd that it is to their interest to
like other men are already on an
equality with other races in the
United States, and furnish a striking
illustration of the result which may be
attained fllen the ignorance, inabil
ity and {{(n of, tke Indians exe sub
dued. - R & '
‘The Jedien wars under the Govern
ment of the United States bave been
more than forty in number. They
have cost the lives of about 19,000
white men, women and children, and
some 30,000 Indians. 2
From 1789, the date of the adoption
of the Federal Constitution, to 1846
there were seven serious wars, as fol
lows: War with the Northwest Indi
ans, 1790-1795; William Henry Har-
rison’s expedition to the Northwest,
1811; Seminole War, 1818; Black
Hawk War, 1832 ; Creek War in 1813,
1814 and 1837, and the Florida War of
1839.
Between 1846 and 18686, a period of
twenty years, the United States was
MANDAN,NORTH DAKOTA. TONTA APACHE.
engaged in two wars, tiat with Mexico
and the Civil War, in both of which
the Indians figured extensively. Dur
ing this period also there were some
fifteen to twenty Indian affairs ia Cal
ifornia.
The Indian wars of 1857, 1862, 1864,
1865 and 1866 in Minnesota and ad
jacent States were bloody and costly,
being conducted by the Indians with
frightful barbarity. Three military
expeditions were required to stop the
Sioux magsacres of 1863-66, at a cost
of 810,000,000, " ®ismee, gSITN s
From 1865 to 1879 there were fre
quent engagements. The most im
portant were the war in Southern Ore
8011_ and Idaho and northeru parts of
Jalifornia _gnd Nevada, 1865-68; the
war against the Übeyenncs, ATapanoes,
Kiowas and Comanches in K:nsas,
Colorado and the Indian Territury,
1868-69 ; the Modoc War in 1872-73;
the war against the Apaches of Ari
zona, 1873; the war against the
NAVAJO CHIET.
Kiowas, Comanches and Cheyennes in
Kanses, Colorado, Texas, Indian Ter
ritory and New Mexico, 1874-75; the
war against the Northern Cheyennes
and Sioux in 1876-77; the Nez Percez
War, 1877; the Bannock War, 1878,
and that against the Northern Chey
ennes in 1878-79. Thess include the
Fetterman massacre of December 21,
1866, and the Custer massacre of June
25, 1876.
The Utes in Colorado and invading
Indians from outside that State caused
three wars prior to 1890, and the
Apaches in Arizous and New Mexico
SIOUX WOMEN IN CANP.
were frequently murderous and de
structive. The removal of Geronimo's
band of 384 Apaches as prisoners of
war from {keir former homes to
Mount Vervon barracks, near Mobile,
Ala., effectually stopped their depre
dations, however. 18 :
The number of anctions between reg
ular troops and Indians from 1866 to
1891 was 1065, keeping an average of
16,000 officers and men actively em
ployed. 2
The total cost to the United States
for pensions to thesarvivors or widows
of these Indian wars to June 1, 1890,
was estimated at $28,201,632. .
The following table shows the num
ber of {lndians in every State of the
Union, both on and off reservations,
from which it will be seen thst more
than half of the Indiaa population of
the United States is dependent upon
the Nation. The first column of fig
ures comprises the reservation Indians
not taxed; the second column iacludes
CHIPPEWA INDIANS IN CAMP.
fan
A UTE CHIEF.
all the Indians off re
supporting and taxed:
Aum‘....1........tb"" m
AriZoDa.....ccoivucueeeee- 28,469 1,512
Ca1if0rnia................. 5,107 11,517
Delaware .....c......cccc.. === 4
District of Columbia..... . —— 23
Florida.
IR vocoorecsocsoessnes . g e 68
2 cianas S nsaineass. N 159
Boi o s ARSke - N 98
Bo=i o s s nbede - S 343
Indian Territ0ry........... 1,224 £0,0:5
10wa...
Kansas.
BT <o io conits oo apess ) Mg 71
s 25 n s a i 623
B e S G 559
Maryland........
Massachusetls.
!‘ch1g&n.................. g
Minnesota ........
Mississippd ........ccccocoo
Missourl........cccocooneo o
Montan® ccco..cccvvveee... 30,246
s savdaiasaner T =
Nebraska.
. e shatndvminns -SRI 3,599
New Hamp5hire........... —— i 6
NewJersey.....coovvveuen. —— 84
BR o 0 ovneses oo S 8,554
BDA ve s ovpasstones . INEND 726
North Car01ina............ 1,516
North Dak0ta............. 7,989 194
IR T 6. AN & Sttt THPPNP 276
G- .- -. . csvnesssses TR 10
SIS« o 2 s ¢ s Spaie ¥ sl 1,258
Penn5y1vania.............. 98 083
Rh0de151and.............. —— 180
South Car01ina............ -173
South Daknta.............. 19,072 782
S . & 6 4.4 M 6 S 146
B s A b -~ S, 708
Bt s soiin-Shliin siasss D 68
Ws ¢ 05 o o aoat o S 34
G s-0 600 a 0 I 349
Washington ........ceeooee 7,526 3,655
West Virgipia............. 4
Wisconsin.... t B . 3,835
Wyonming .....%......c.... 1,801 413
SRR »055 s snistive st oI 107,920
Since the Indians have taken to the
arts of "peace and abandoned the wer
path, life on the frontier for the
American soldier has become almost
burdensome. It is now a question as
to whether the garrison posts which
were necessary along the frontier
'yvh_c_ax_l tie Jlndian tribes roamed at
large at will, and at which trained
troops were held in readiness to take
to the field at a moment’s notice in
response to the smoke of the signal
fireg gf kostile Indiens, are now
ntecec, and somg of de_xe:g have al
ready beca ebandoned. Others are
being cenverted into military schools,
where the army, such as it is, may
be ¢rilled in the art of war. Life at
the army posts Las thus become
monotonous and desultory.—Zan
I'rancisco Exumirer.
Li Hung Cihang,
No living putlic man of Asia has
been so much the subject of discus
sion and criticism as Li Hung Chang.
Much of the criticism has been unfav
orable, and his critics are often unfair.
It is hardly just to him to estimafe his
character and attaionments according
to the standard of Western Natione.
His educeation is exclusively Oriental,
and his entire life hes been spent in
China. His knowledge of our civili
zation is such as could be acquired in
the motley society of a treaiy port. As
a statesmnan he has had to deal with a
very conservative and bigoted coustit
uency, and with associates prejudiced
against and ilgnorant of foreign Na
tions. Judged in the light of his edu
cation, his esperience and his sur
roundings, he must be regarded as the
first of living statesmen of Asia, and
one of the most distinguished of the
public men of the world. —Century.
The German War Dogs.
A special feature in this year’s Ger
man grand mancuvres will be sup
plied by war dogs, which have been
most admirably trained for seeking
the wounded and carrying despatches.
At the command “‘seek,”” accompanied
by a gesture indicating the directicn
in which the dogs are to search, they
will start off without allowing them
selves to be disturbed by any saur
rounding circumstances. They will
find the men who figure as wounded
with nunfailing certainty, take a
piece of their clothing—cap, helmet,
or a piece of cloth torn off—and bring
this back to the ambulance mer,
whom they then conduct to the spot.
In the despatch service the dogs ful
fil their duty with admirable speed
and certainty. They carry the des
patches in a small box affixed to their
collar.,—La France Militaire.
All Faper.
Enthusiastic paper makers say that
the new womean and the new man will
soon dine off paper dishes. Paper
dress material masquerading as silk
seriousliy threawens the silkworm.
Spruce sawdust, cotton or jute waste
and alcohol are put into the machine
and come out at the other end shining,
delicately colored, rustling silk, suit
able for a dainty lady’s gown. To be
sure, this paper silk does not wear as
well as the produect of the silkworm ;
but think of the cost, how much
cheaper it will be! In Paris nearly
any milliner will be able to show yoa
stylish bonnets and hats made entirely
of paper—frame, trimmings, ornaments
and all. The paper trunk is coming
n‘:fi use, It is said that it is unbreak
a
The Cow and tae Bleycler.
171
s oith 60
e 786
8.208 1,888
2,036
128
260
EMPIRE OF DRESS,
FADS AND FANCIES IN THE
REALM OF FASHION.
Stylish Walst of White and Violet
Striped Organdie—Jewels Set
in Gloves is the Latest
Parisian Fad. 2
OLET and white striped or
gandie is chosen for thisstylish
waist, valenciennes insertion
and lace edging trimming it
very daintily. The stock collar and
crush belt is made of violet satin rib
bon. A glove fitted lining closed in
centre front is the foundation over
which this dressy waist is arranged.
" LADIES’ WAIST.
The full fronts and back have tucks
taken up and shirred on each shoulder
giving a pretty and new effect. Gath
ers adjust the fullness at the neck and
the closing in front is' invisible, the
gathers at the waist line'being drawn
well to the centre of front and back.
Full puffs gathered in tuck sherrings
at the lower edge are arraoged over
fitted linings of three-quarter length,
a deep lace trimmed frill falling to the
wrists. Epaulettes or sleeve capg are
made of the material mitered to form
three graceful pointsthat fall over the
puff, insertion and lace decorating the
edges daintily. The model is especi
ally adapted to sheer materials that
are now so hapdsomely constructed
over gilk and other colored linings.
LADIES' SHIRT WAIST WITH SAILOR COLLAR.
Plain and dotted Swiss, linen, batiste,
mull, sprigged organdie with linings
tinted to match the floral design, chif
fon, mull and soft silk are all suitable
materials to develop the mode.
The quantity of material thirty-six
inches wide required to make this waist
for a lady in the mediam siz2 is four
vards.—May Manton.
BRIDAL WARDROBES,
Shower bouquets of roses, sweet
peas, orchids and carnations are lin
vogue, and lately a Southern belle
started the fashion for jasmine flow
ers. -
One of the most important eventsin
a woman's life is decidedly her wed
ding day, and as most women n.ean to
marry but once, that one wedding
dress must make a bright spot in the
memory of a lifetime.
A very handsome reticule to be used
with a bridal traveling gown is made
of violet tinted leather, decorated in
a framework ol Japanese tortoise-shell
work and lined with a pale battercap
siik. This is made after the heart de
sigu and is carried on the arm.
The stunning wedding gown is al
ways white. This year it 1s white
satin. It is made with a full skirt,
wreathed in Irish pcint lace, with a
nice long train. The bodice is usually
made with a fall of lace and wide
revers. The sleeves are moderately
large and trimmad in lace. The neck
is high and massed in lace, and the
veil is draped in Russian style from
a wreath of orange blossoms at the
crown of the head.
A handsome going-away gown can
be fashioned of pear]l taffeta silk and
pearl jeweied net. The tight-fitting
Louis XV. coat is very pretty for this
combination with the fullness arranged
1n the stylish godet folds below the
waist line. The large revers msade of
the silk can be covered with the net
and turned back from a petal front
made of the silk. Leg-o’-mutton
sleeves add grace to the costume, of
which the skirt is made full and plain.
NEW BELTS AXND COLLARS.
Some girls have as many as ten sets
of collars und belts for their gowns,
and as each set requires two yards and
three-quarters of ribbon from four to
six inches wide, costing from thirty to
seventy-five cents a yard, it is an easy
matter to put $lO in these becoming
trifies as light as air, but stylish and
becoming withal.
Points or square tabs of lace, in
twos or fours, hang over the tops of
collars; then a plaited ruch of lace,
tulle, etc., finishes the inside edge of
many collars, and al! of thisis climaxed
with a folded band of ribbon tied in
two loops and ends at the back, so a
fashionably dressed neck nowadays is,
indeed, wonderfully and fearfully
constructed. With a flowered dress
like organdie the beit and collar rib
bons do not of necessity matech. A tan
organdy figured with pink and green
bas a pink taffeta ribbon collar and a
green belt. A new belt becoming to
large and small figures is of six-inch
ribbon laid in four folds over a pointed
girdle of white crinoline lined and
well boned.
S=EOES IN SRASON.
‘White canvas shoes are to be worn
only with white outing frocks. Even
then only the Cinderellas of society
ghould wear them.
White kid and satin slippers should
be wrapped in blue tissue paper, not
in white. The acid which is used to
render paper white acts upon the
fabrics wrapped in it and yellows
them.
Slippers are imtended for indoor
and piazza wear only. The only per
son who ocan be excused for walking in
them is a love-stricken yonng woman
who wandersabout beachesand gardens
in romantic meditation and inappro
priate attire.
Tan shoes are suited to all sorts of
outing and to ordinary business wear
in suzmer. They are not appropriate
for dress affairs, and the young woman
who dons russet-leather boots for cere
monious calls or semiceremonious
drives writes herself down as lacking
in a fine sense of the fitness of things.
MALTESE LACE IN FAVOR.
A little impetus tas just been given
to the wearing of Maltese lace by the
exquisite white parasol cover presented
by Maltese ladies to the Duchess of
York. It bids fair to rival imitation.
Valenciennes for the tuckers and
rufles we are all beginning to wear,
but it is naturally more expense.
Very good Maltese patterns are re
produced in white cotton by the lace
makers of Bedford and Buckingham
shire, and though less expensive and
not so fine as the genuine imported
article, it answers very well, and can
be washed like any other pillow lace.
The great thing to remember is that
starch is an abomination, and it must
not be rubbed, only well soaked and
‘‘swished” in soapy water, dried under
a heavy weight azd pulled out with
the fingers.
AN ENGLISH BRIDE’S GOWN.
A London fashion letter in speaking
of a notable wedding to occur there
this month says: ‘‘The bride's gown
will be of white satin, with a diapha-_
nous train, embroidered in clusters of
lily-of-the-valley and silver true
lovers’ knots, and a silver-edged veil
and a pearl necklace will be worn.
The train will be held by two pages in
Louis XVI. costumes and there will be
twelve bridesmaids. They will be
picturesquely dressed in yellow satin
Louis XVL gowns, with white muslin
and lace fichus tied at the back and
large picture hats to mateh, with
drooping white ostrich plumes.”
JEWELS SET IN GLOVES,
Th e latest fad in the way of eccen-
tric dress is the wearing of jewels up
on various articles of clothing. This
extravagance originated in gay Paris,
where the jewelers are falling over one
another in their attempts to find some
cew use to which to put gems.
There are now on the market as a
uaique result of this attempt to find
or devise something new, gloves in the
backs of which are set precious stones,
diamonds, rubies, pearls and emer
alds, and in fact any gem whose nat
ural color harmonizes or makes a
pleasing contrast to the color of the
glove. Diamonds seem to be the fa
vorite gems usedfor this purpose.
The jewels are set in the back of the
glove along the seam and are held in
place by means of a small nut attach
wment. Thus far only a few of the
more advanced women of the ultra
fashionable set have taken to wearing
tne diamond ornamented gloves, but
the fad is slowly but surelyspreading,
aud no man can tell to what extent it
may be carried.
The wearing of gems according to
jewelers has never been so widespread
and extensive as at the present time.
While a year or two ago it was con
eidered bad form to wear any but the
plainest jewels, the other extreme will
goon be reached, and jewels will be
worn in ways never before thought of.
Like every other fashion which
THE JEWELED GLOVES.
originates in Paris, the fad of wearing
digmond-backed gloves has crossed the
Engzlish Channel, and « few of the
more daring English leaders of fashion
have promptly had jewels set in the
backs of their gloves. Following the
invariable order of such things, the
fad will reach this country during the
present season. - s
RIBBON SASH.
The deep sash of ribbon is much
worn by fashionable women. It is
slightly pointed in front, and is fully
a quarter of & yard high. Itis, in
fact, one of the recent borrowings
from the Marie Antoinette period.
Skilfully adjusted, it is pretty and be
coming; but put on by ome who
doesn’t know how, it is stif and ngly
to the last degree. Itshouli have the
look of easily swathing and suggesting
the lines of the figure.
Russia’s Goid.
Russia is a gold-producing country,
fo it is not remarkable that the circu
lating medium comprises $422,000,000
of gold, to only 841,000,000 of silver.
The deficiency in subsidiary money is
made up by an enormous mass of out
standing paper roubles, the total
amounting in our moreey to £550,100,-
000.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Twentieth Century says that
there are only six countries in the
world in which the telegraph is priv
atély owned.
BOSTON LETTER.
[sPECIAL CO
Railroad
In a short time each of Boston's
four big railway stations will have a
little pcstoffice in it. This arrange
ment will be the first fruits of the
recent order of the postoffice depart
ment forbidding employes from carry
ing letters or packages that properiy
should be transported by mail. Saper
intendent Ryan of the Boston division
of the railway mail service has just
returned from Washington, where he
has been in consultation with second
assistant postmaster general Neilson,
and as a result Mr. Ryan will lose no
time in putting the plan into execu
tion in Boston.
At each of the Boston terminals the
railway mail service has a tranfer
clerk, who, under the new arrange
ment, will be authorized to receive
letters and news packages in a pouch
made up along the line and to dis
tribute them at the station to those
who may call for them within a reas
onable time. The letters may be ad
dressed simply, ‘“Care Transfer Clerk”
with the name of the station. On
trains that do not carry a postal car
as the Bar Harbor express for instance,
a messenger will be put, who will be
authorized to make up the mail of
this kind received along the line, and
cancel the stamps. This new move
will therefore call for the employment
of a number of extra men in the New
England railway mail service.
News packages containing manu
script for publication, without any
notes to the editor or other personal
communications enclosed,are expected
not to be included as liable to postage
under the new ruling, and railway
men can propably continue to carry
them as before. It is expected, how
ever, that as soon as the new service
gets into working shape the newspa
pers and news associations will be so
well served that there will be no time
saved by bhaving news packages car
ried by porters or others and delivered
by them. It will be necessary to
simply have a boy at the station, and
when the through trains come in he
can get all the packages sent from the
various stations along the line in a
buuch. This will effect a great sav
ing as it has been the custom to pay
25 cents to 59 cents for the transpor
tation of a single news letter,
Life-Saving Station.
After more than five years of agita
tion on the part of the citizens and,
particularly the yachtmen of South
Boston and Dorchester, a floating
life-saving station has been established
in Dorchester bay in the hope of de
creasing the number of lives lost by
drowning in that harbor, as there
have been more than 50 since 1890.
The floating life-saving stationarrived
off City Point a few days ago and
is now at the former shipyard of Har
risor, Loring & Sons, and there will
be fitted out by the government’ with
boats, launches, stoves, bedding, fur
niture, chains, anchors and the like.
Severai weeks ago bids were called for
the building of the station, and the
contract was finally awarded to a firm
in Noank, Conn., and the finishing
touches were put on last week, It
was then towed to this eity.
The station was built under specifi
cations furnished by superintendent
Kimball of the U, 8. 8. life saving
service, aud the boat is now in charge
of licutenant F. H. Newcomb, inspec
tor of life-saving stations for Maine,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
and under his direction the captain of
the station will be appointed. The
choice of a captain will be similar to
that always followed for life-saving
stations. The vachtsmen and others
of the territory where the station is
to be located ean pick out a man or
men as candidates for the position,
and after a thorough examination of
the several applicauts a choice will be
mede by the board.
The fortunate man then will have
the appointing of his erew of eight.
This seems to be the proper way of
choosing the crew. The government
feels that as the captain of the station
will be responsible for everything that
takes place he should have something
to say as to the appointment of his
crew. The life-saving station is quite
a novelty in the Ilife-saving service,
for there is only one other structure
like it in use anywhere, and that is on
the Missouri river. Itis a boat 100
feet long, 33 fecet broad and about 12
fect from the upper deck to the keel,
but has no propelling power and will
be simply anchored at the most ad.
vantazeous point. There is an open
ing abont 19 feet in width, extending
abont one-third the length of the hull
and through the center from the stern,
and from this opening the life-boats
will be lannched when required.
Much Good Should Result.
The formal organization of the ad
visory board on public institutions,
and the appointment by mayor Quincy
of the various sub-committees out of
the board’'s work, mean only one
thing—added efficiency in manage
ment all along the line. It is con
ceded on all hands that mayor
Qaincy’s idea of culisting the support
of influential and practical organiza
tions in the important cause of caring
for the city’s wards is thoroughly ex
cellent. »
It mneans the adoption and carrying
out of a business-like as well asa thor
oughly humane poliey. It isa fuar
ther evidence of the mayor’s purpose
to bring the people of Boston—phil
antliropists as well as merchants and
business men—in tonch with the ad
ministration of the city’s affuirs. There
is excellent reason to believe that the
“new rezime’’ in the management of
onr public institntions will bring
abont excellent resuits alike for econ
owy and good.
West Indian Servants.
Every steamship from the West
Indies brings to Boston a group of
negroes who have left the islands to
seek service here. The colony of
West India negroes in this city now
numbers not far from 10,000, and the
extent of the emigration is beginning
to be felt by the white residents of
the West Indies, who fear that ‘‘help”
will soon be getting scarce. = House
hold servants in the West Indies are
individnally cheap, but it takes a
large staff of servants to keep up an
establishment there. Wages is small
but the work apportioned among many
is light. The tales of to them fabu
lous wages, and of the delights of the
great city, sent to the Wgest Indian
negroes by their friends in Boston are
the talk of the house servants of every
plantation, and unrest and the desire
to share the good fortunes of their
friends follow.
The West Indian emigrants find lit
tle difficulty in getting good places
here, ‘‘Every West India negro,man
or woman, can cook,” any one who
has lived in or visited the islands will
declare, and, as a rule, they make
more desirable servants than the aver
age of colored household helpers.
Those who are here are always ready
to help a new arrival to a place, and
their mistresses are vsuaily able to
boast to other women of their help.
Household service on the islands,
where the family gets a good deal
more of waiting - upon than in *‘the
States,”” makes the West Indian who
is engaged as waitress and ‘“‘up
stairs girl” a revelatijon to a Boston
family, and, as for the cooks, ho?%
they can cook! The cook’s hand is
likely to be ‘‘a little too heavy” with
the pepper box, but the Ameri
can palate soon takes kindly to the’
nighiy seasoned dishes that she sends
to the table. Their soups and *‘made
dishes” of meats and their ways of
cooking rice and other vegetables are
worthy of imitation. One of the
soups, in which pigeon peas, a West
Indian variety, are used, is black and
unappetizing in appearance, but a trial
of it explains why it holds a high
place of honor on the islands, The
West Indian cook is, moreover, eco
nomical.,
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ENCE, |
The New England Autivivisection
society of Boston is very devoted to
its chosen field of reform. There is
no lack of definitenessor vigor in their
doings. It declares that enormous
numbers of animals, thousands every
day, are subjected to tortures rivaling
those of the inquisition ; thatnot only
rabbits and guinea pige are used, bat
dogs and horses; that anesthetics are
almost never used; and that valuable
discoveries are not made or sought.
““‘Science’” wishes to see every portion
of the body in life, wishes to dis
cover how long the vital fune
tions can be continued under
the most abnormal conditions,
and the like. Those defending vivi
section are charged with suppressing
the facts, and individual cases are pre
sented with an awkward amouunt of
evidence. It is alleged that the same
spirit of reckless experiment is pene
trating our hospitals, and that the de
sire for living men to operate upon is
a natural and inevitable result of the
principles of vivisection. The one
remedy is publicity. The best hos
pitals conduet no operations in secret.
Let the light be turned on everywhere;
let the facts be known, and all the
facts. Such horrors as are described
in certain publications would quickly
be made impossible by an aroused pub
lic sentiment.,
Beacon Hill and Boston's Rights.
It is good news that Boston is to
gain an additional representative to
the legislature, as a result of her
growth as shown by the recent state
census. In recent years too many re
publican legislators from the country
towns have come to Beacon Hill pos
sessed by one fixed idea. That
ides has been that they are the
predestined and foreordained rulers
of the chief city of the common
wealth, whose people ought by no
manuer of means to be entrusted with
the privilege of governing themselves.
One may well hope this tendency tow
ard rural domination over Boston is
on the wane. Nevertheless, every
accession to the ranks of Boston legis
lators is to be rejoiced over. Our
city’s rights cannot possibly have too
many defenders at the state house
next winter.
Professor Edward S. Morse, in an
interesting lecture upon ancient gla
ciers, at Framingham, told his per
spiring hearers that once upon a time
on that very spot, and all over New
Eangland as far south as cape Cod,
‘there rested a sheet of ilce 3,000 to
4,000 feet thick. The information
was received with delight, for it ma
terially cooled the Leated air for the
moment, and enabled the audience to
enjoy the remainder of the discourse
without gasping for breath. It has
been suspected that Boston in former
times must have cut a good deal of
ice, but to know there was 4,000 feet
of it, accouuts for many salient char
acteristics of its present inhabitants,
Pcople cannot get over such things
too easily.
General Miles, having receutly
made an exhaustive inspection of the
posts of the New Englaud states and
New York, has written a letter to the
war department urging that quarters
be built at a number of points for the
accommodation of batteries of artil
lery. General DMiles tells me
that he expects a namber of guus
to be mounted on this coast Dby
December, and for their care and
preservation meu should be stationed
nearby.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 13—The
Porismouth shoe company discharged 50 em=
pleyes from its cutling department. This is
the first move towarl reducing the force of
1,000 operatives to 200 or less, the tightness
of the {inancial market and the the uneer
tainty regarding trade making this step
necessary. The company is the prizeipal in
dusiry of the ecity. .
DBANGOR, Me., Aug. 12—-DPr. Wilmer L.
I'ressey of this eity was ipnstantiy killed by
lightping while in the summecr eottage oc
cupied by his family at Islesboro. The
house was wreekcd bLul no other person was
seriously injured.
LYNN, Mass., August 14—All the uniog
employes at the Thomas G. Plact shoe fac
tory left with their kits, not to return until
a settlement is effected. Whenthey reached
the street a great cheer went up from the
large crowd assembl=d. Several non-union
men who were at the Plant factory have de
cided to leave.
WESTPORT, L. 1., Aug, 14—Miss Marian
Burnham, the 17-year-old daughter of Wm.
A. Burnham cf Boston, was drowned while
bathing in the bay. Maggie Moulder a
murse in the family of William B. Thompson
>t Boston, attempted to rescue Miss Burn
ham, and lost her iife.
LONDON, England, Aug. 14—The Daily
News oorrespondent at Athens telegraphs
that a bodg of Mussulmans butchered thirty
unarmed Christians within the precincts of
the monastery at Anopolis, near Candia.
One priest was burned alive. The corre
spondent adds that colonel Abdullah,a Kurd,
who is now in Macedonia, will supersede
Hassan Pasha, governor of Candia.
LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 14—Newspapers
here declare that Great Britain has recog
nizel Brazil a 3 the owner of the island of
'.l‘rtnidal;:._l off the coast of Brazil, which
Great Britain recently took possession of as
a landing station for a telegraph cable.
BENNINGTON, Vt., Auz. 13—Sheriff Wil
son arrived hef: with James Levin, who
gives his residence as Needham, Mass.,
charged with stealing two bieyeles, one from
Eugene Hargood of Arlington on July 14,
and one from Bondville, a few days later.
In default of §5OO he was committed to jail
Lere to await the action of the grand jury.
Escaped Prisoners Recaptured.
MANCHESTER, N. H., Aug. 13—Sixteen
of the 24 boys who escaped from the indus.
trial school have been recaptured. Bert
Howe, the ring leader, was taken to the
state prison in Concord, where he will serve
the remair der of a two years’ sentence.
Antivivisection Society.
Coldness Accounted For.
Pex Marcarto.
Discharges in Portsmonuth.
Kiiled By Lizhtninge.
General Strike On.
Marian Burnham Drowned.
Unarmed Christians Slain.
Brazil Owns It.
Claims Home In Needham.
WASHINGTON LETTER
[sPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. |
Berixg Sea Deciston—A case of the
greatest importancs to sealing men,
an action for prospeclive damages in
the snit of the crown vs, the schooner
Beatrice, has been decided in the ex
chequer court of Canada by chief jus
tice Davie, sitting as local judge in
admiralitv, The Beatrice, of which
Charles Doerillg was owner and mas
ter, was seized by the Amican cutter
Richard Rush on August 20
last, just as it had commenced
work in Bering sea. It was
sent back to Victoria under arrest,
and was tried on a formal motion to
coufiseate, the court deciding the seiz
ure uujustifiable and restoring the
schooner, stores and 203 skius to cap
tain Doering, the skins subsequently
being sold at $10.25 each. The skip
per of the Beatrice brought a claim
against the British government for
the value of the catch that might rea
sonably have been secured had the
schooner been allowed to complete its
season. Other vessels, notably the E.
B. Marvin, similarly situated, let the
Beatrice'’s appeal stand as a test case.
The judge decided at th& outset
that the justice of the claim could
not be disputed, and the evie
dence was almost entirely as to
the extent and value of the catch thi}
the schooner might have made. It
was decided to allow the Beatrice the
value of 518 additional skins at the
price realized for those given back to
captain Doering. From this total
the court deducted the value of the
stores saved by the schooner’'s early
return, and an order was made for a
judgment against the crown for a net
balance of $£3,163.50. The Muvig
and several other vessels will now go
through the formality of proving their
consequential damage claims, while
Great Britain insists that the United
States, by whose vessels the irregular
seizures were made, must ultimately
foot the bills, -
Swarrow Eryax—lt is hardly to be
woundered at that Hoke Smith finally,
concludes to swallow Bryan. Hoke
always was a silver man, you know, up
to the time that Grover partly con
verted him with a cabinet job, and he
has never fully changed his mind, in
spite of his assiduity in trying to change
the minds of the Georgia’s democrats
and bring them to Grover's way
of thinking. The public hasn’t known
but Hoke’s coundition has never been
exactly satisfactory to the great “I
am,” He was not in sympathy with
the repeal of the Sherman law, al
though he was too young in the cabi
net then to say very much about it}
and a little later, when Grover was
getting ready to veto the seigniorage
bill, Hoke begged him not to do it
He said silver would have to
have some recognition, and he
assured the president that the
continuance of a policy of proserip
tion would split the democratic party
in the South rightup the back. That
is not all, When Grover finally did
veto the bill, Hoke handed in his res
ignation. This is the first time that
it has ever been published, but it is a
faet, nevertheless. He was mad clear
through, and declared that he would
bhave nothing further to do with such
a policy as the administration had
committed itself to. Grover worked
on him, and finally got him to take it
all back. Since then Hoke ha sstumped
Georgia for the gold standard and
given rise to considerable scandal, but
about three-quarters of that was due
to loyalty to his chief, and the other
quarter fo a rather vague idea that his
convictions were undergoing a change,
Whether Hoke will resigu now re
mains to be seen. If he should it
would ouly be earrying out his earlier
program.
CaruisLe AT Sea—Carlisle is an
other fellow who is a good deal at sea.
He has given up everythingz for
Grover, and has received nothing in
return, and now he is pondering the
important question whether his self
respect will be compromized more by,
coming out for Bryan and reassuming
Lis former financial ideas, or by cling~
ing to the administration. Carlisle, I
suppose, is the worst disappointed
man in America. Up to within a
fortnight or so of the Chicago con
vention he fully expected to be noms
inated. He aud the entire Curlisle
family believed that he was fated to
b 2 president—especially the family.'
They pointed to the fact that, up to
date, he Lad always managed to get
everything he wanted—that he started
about as low as & man could, and had
climbed abont as high. Most people
will wonder how the infatuation could
have taken hold; for there has really,
never been a minute when Carlisle
was in it, Bat the presidential mi
crobe is an inexplicable thing, |
Purery DeMocratic—Ey the way,l
see the administration orgavs and
some of the administration people per
sist in tryving to ereate the impres
sion that the Chicago conveution was
not a representative democratic affuir,
and that it was comnosed of cranks
and popnlists and yaps, As a matter
of fact there has never been a more
truly representative convention in the
Listory of the party, aud Its character
was just as high as,if not Ligher than,
that of the mob-like gathering in
1892, which renominated Cleve
land for a second term. I was a
looker-on at both couveuntions, and
they size up about even.
There were over thirty Enited States
senators and ex-Uunited States senators
in the convention that nominated,
Biyan, and over a dozen governors
and ex-governors of etates, 1o say
nothing of congressmen aund uasuec
c=xsful democratic candidates for
governorships and emall fry of that
kind. 2 -
Japan's Aftermath of Death.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 14— United
States Sanitary Inspeetor Eldridge at Yoko
bama reports Lo the Marine hospital serviee
that the terrible condition of the northeast
coast distriets inundated by tidal wave June
15 is likely to give rise to the development
of epidemic disease. Upwards of 30,000
lives were lost, with the accompanying anni
bilation of erops and supplies.
Delay on Torpedo Boats.
PROVIDENCE,RR.I. ,Aug. 14 —Sec. Herbert
of the navy and a number of officers of the
department have just finished an inspection
of work at the Herreshoffs on the u+w tor
pedo boats. rutn extension of time has been
granted, certsin work requiring much more
time than anticipated. ‘The launching of
the first boat will not be delayed very long,
however.
Prize MMedical Essay.
HANOVER, N. H., Aug 14—A premium of
8100 is offered by the New Hamp=hire med
ical soclot{ for *“The best original essay on
some medical topie,” to contzin not less
than Aiooo nor more than 10,000 words, and
?g&n e hands of the trustees by April 1,
Senator Burns In It.
AYER Mass., Aug. 14—Senator George J.
Burns has announced that be will be a can
didate for the republican congressional
nomination from this district, to succeed
Hon. L. D. Aialey of Hudson, whose inten
tion to retire has just been mad= publie.