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BY H. RIDER HAGGARD

A MORNING'S 8PORT.

Mo-vinsr some five or six

imoviu- bwiiio »v« vi miles: eight-bore and getting on to my round th" base of the great peak of knee prepared to shoot him through which I have spoken, we came the the neck, taking my chance of cutcame day to one of the fairest bits ting his spine. I had already cov©f African country that I have seen ered him as well as the aloe leaves outside of Kukuanaland. At this would allow when he gave a kind of spot the mountain spur that runs sigh and lay down. out at right angles to the great range I looked round in dismay. What which stretches its mighty cloud-clad was to be done now? I could not see length north and south far as the to shoot him lying down, even if my eye can reach, sweeps inward with a bullet would have pierced the intervast and splendid curve. The curve vening aloes, which was doubtful, measures some five-and-thirty miles and if I stood up he would either run from point to point, and cross its away or charge me. I reflected and

carved by man, and not tombstones eet by nature over the grave of ages gone. On the west this beautiful plain is bordered by the lonely mounitain from the edge of which it rolls hour, till at last down toward the feverish coast,

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•how far it runs not say—eight days' journeys, according to the natives, when it is tost in a measureless swamp

the hither side of the river the scenery is different. Along the edge of of its banks, where the land is flat, are green patches of swamp. Then comes a wide belt of beatiful grass

about a thousand feet above the level of the plain, clothes the mountainside almost to its crest. In this forest grow, great trees, moat of them of the yellow-wood species. Some of

the other side of the aloes, not fifteen paces from us, I made out the horns, neck and the ridge of the back of a tremendous old bull. I took my

segment the river flashed, came to the conclusion that the only a silver line of light. On the further thing to do was to lie down also, for side of the river is a measureless sea I did not fancy wandering after other of swelling ground, a mighty natural buffalo in that dense bush. If a part covered with great patches of

buffalo

bush, some of them being many must get up again sometime^ so it square miles in extent, which are was only a game of patience— fight-

cf grass land, broken here and there! Zulus say. with clumps of timber trees and

some instances by curious isolated

Koppies, and even by single crags of.

pearance of one of these mighty denly from about forty yards away trees festooned from top to bottom there came tremendous snorting with trailing wreaths of this sad-

-should crack and warn the game. Behind me, in single file, came my three retainers, and I don't know which of them looked the most frightened. Presently Gobo touched my leg. I looked round and saw him pointing slantwise toward the left. I Lifted my head a little and peered over a mass of creepers Beyond 'the creepers was a dense bush of sharp-pointed aloes,/bf that kind of whict

lies down it is clear that he

from another by glades ling the fight of sit down,' as the

in Accordingly

might

bf granite, that start up into the air him get up. But the wind was the as though they were monuments

SOund,

hued moss, in which the wind whisp- gjne getting a heavy train under ers gently as it stirs them. Ata|Waythan anything else than in the distance it looks like the gray locks

wo'rld.

crowned with bright green "By Jove!" I thought, turning leaves, and here and there starred

round

the rich bloom of orchids. the grinding sound had come, "'that The night of that day when I had must be a rhinoceros, and he has got ray little difference of opinion with lour wind." For, as you fellows '(Jobo we camped upon the edge of know, there is no mistaking the this great forest, and on the follow- sound made by a rhinoceros when he ing morning at daylight I started gets wind of you out shoo tin sr. As we were short of meat I determined to kill a buffalo, of -winch there were plenty about, before looking for traces of elephants.

Not more than half a mile from camp behind me seemed to burst asunder, V/e came across a trail like a cart-1 and there appeared, not eight yards {road, evidently made by a great herd from us, the great horn and wicked of buffalo which had passed up at tw nkling eye of a huge charging dawn from the feeding ground in the rhinoceros. He had winded us or my inarshes to spend the day in the cool pipe, I'do not know which, and, after air of the uplands. This trail I fol- the fashion of these brutes, had lowed boldly, for such wind as there charged up the scent. I could not Was blew straight down the mountain rise, I could

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be close to my game. Another two bulk towering above me like a inounfeundred yards and the bush was so tain, and, upon my word, I could thick that had it not been for the not get his smell out of my nostrils trail we could scarcely have got for a week. Circumstances impressed through it. As it was, Gobo, who it on my memory—at least I suppose carried my eight-bore rifle (for I had so. His hot breath blew upon my the .570 express in my hand), and face, one of his

I sat down and lighted

pipej thinking that the smell of it

reach the buffalo and make

wrcmg

way and it did not, so when it

was done I lighted another. After ward I had cause to

regret

was ab'out

my 0id

land, covered thick with game, and have slept the sleep of the just, for sloping up very gently to the borders he never even stirred. Just as I was of the forest, which, beginning at

making

Vi MIC j/wmw-wwu opviM. y- cua, OUT Wi« UlMlgeu no ctuauuuii these trees are so lofty that a bird in idea because the noise was too loud, their top branches would be out of shifted myself round and stared range of an ordinary shot gun. An-1 through the cracks in the bush in other peculiar thing about them is! the direction whence the sound apthat they are, for the most part, cov- peared to come, and once I thought ered with a dence growth of the that I saw something gray moving ochella moss. Out of this moss the about fifty yards off, but could not natives manufacture a most excell-

make

ent deep purple dye, with which they jng noise still continued I could see »tain ^tanned hides, and also cloth nothing more, so I gave up thinking when they happen to get any of the about Tt and once again turned my latter. I do not think I ever saw any attention to the buffalo. Presently, jtliing more remarkable than the ap-

that pipe.

Well, we.squatted like this for between a half and three quarters of an hour, till at last I began to grow

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feverish coast, but heartily sick of the performance. It to the north I can

as dull a business as the

last hour of a comic opera. I could hear buffalo snorting and moving all On round and see the red-beaked tic bird flying up off their backs with a kind of hiss something like that of an

English missel-thrush, but I could not see a single buffala. As for

bull, I think he must

up my mind that something

must be done to save the situation, my attention was attracted by a, curious grinding noise. At first I thought that it must be a buffalo chewing the cud, but was obliged to abandon the

certain. Although the grind-

(however,

something happened. Sud-

more like that made by an en-

in the direction from which

Another second and there was a most tremendous crashing noise. Before I could think what to do, before I could even get up, the bush

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side—that is, from the direction in up—I had no time. All that I which the buffalo had gone—to me. was able to do was to roll over About a mile further on the forest as far out of the 'monster's path began to get dense, and the nature as the bush would allow. Another of the trail showed me that I must

even get the gun

and he was over me, his great

front

the other two men whom I had taken my head, and his hind one actually with me showed the very strongest trod upon the loose part of my trousdisllke to going any further, pointing ers and pinched a little bit of my out that there was ''no room to run skin. I saw him pass over me, lying away." I told them that they need as I was upon my back, and nextseo uot come unless they liked, but I was ond I savf something else, My men certainly going on, and then, grow- were a li Ale behind'me, and thereiug ashamed, they came. Another fore straight in the path of the rhifh'ty yards aud the trail opened into noceros. One of them flung himlittle glade. I knelt down and self backward i^o the bush, and peeped and peered, but no buffalo thus avoided him. The second, with •could I see. Evidently the herd had a wild veil, sprang to his feet and "brooken up here—I knew it from bounded like an india rubber "ball 1 he spoor—and penetrated the oppo- right into the aloe bush, landing well Kite bush in little troops. I crossed among the spikes. But the third— the glade, and choosing one line of it was my friend Gobo—could not by spoor followed it for some sixty yards any means getaway. He managed when it became clear to me that I to gain his feet, and that was all. was surrounded by buffalo, and yet The rhinoceros was charging with so dense was the cover that I could his head low. His great horn passed not see one. A few yards to my left between Gobo's legs, and feeling I could hear one rubbing its horns something on his nose he jerked it against a tree, while from my right up. Away went Gobo high into the cane an occasional low, throaty air. He turned a complete somergrunt which told me that was un- sault at the apex of the curve, and comfortably near an old bull. I crept as he did so I caught sight of his on toward him with my heart in ray I face. It was gray with terror, and mouth as ge itly as though I were, his mouth was wide open. Down he walking on eggs for a bet, lifting every little bit of wood in my path and placing it behind me, lest it

feet just missed

le open

came, right on to the great beast's hump, and that broke his fall. But, luckily for him, the great beast never turned. He crashed straight turough the aloe bush, only missing the man who had jumped into it by about a yard. Then followed a complication. The sleeping buffalo on the further aide of the bush, hearing the noise, sprung to his feet and for a second, not knowing what to do, stood stiU. At that instant the huge rhinoceros blundered right onto him, and get-

,,v,mn.uu v. ting his horn beneath his atomach. the leaves proieot laterally on gave him such a fearful dig that the

buffalo was turned over on his back, while his assaU^t, went a most, am zing cropper over bis carcass.. In another moment, however, he was up, and wheeling round to the left, crashed through the bush downhill toward the open country.

Instantly the whole place became alive with alrming sounds.. In every direction troops of snorting buffalo charged through the forest, wild with fright, while the injured bull on the further side of the bush began to bellow like a mad thing. I lay quite still for a moment devoutly praying that none of the flying buffalo would come my way. Then, when the danger lessennd, I got on to my feet, shook myself, and looked around. One of my boys, he who had thrown himself backward into the bush, was already half-way up the tree if heaven had been at the top of it he could not have climbed quicker. Gobo was lying close to me groaning vigorously, but, as I suspected, quite unhurt while from the aloe bush into which Number Three had bounded like a tennis-ball came a succession of the most piercing yells. I looked, and saw that the unfortunate fellow was in a very tight place. A great spike of aloe had run through the back of his skin waistbelt, though without piercing his flesh, in such a fashion that it was impossible for him to move, while within six feet of him the injured buffalo bull, thinking, no doubt, that he was the aggressor, bellowed and ramped to get at him, tearing at the thick aloes with his great horns. That no time was to be lost if I wished to save the man's life was very clear. So seizing my eight-bore, which was fortunately uninjured, I took a pace to the left, for the rhinocerous had enlarged the hole in

th3

bush, and

aimed at the point of the buffalo's shoulder, for on account of the position I could not get a fair shot for the heart. As I did so I saw that the rhinocoros had given the bull a tremendous wound in the stomach, and that the shock of the encounter had put his left hind-leg out of joint at the hip. I fired, and the bullet striking the shoulder, broke it and, knocked the buffalo down. I knew that he could not get up any more, be cause he was now injured fore and aft, so, notwithstanding his terrific bellow, I scrambled round to whe^c he was. There he lay glaring furiously and tearing up the soil with his horns. Stepping up to within two yards of him, I aimed at. the v^tebrae of his neck and fared.

The bullet struck true, and with a thud lie dropped his great head on the ground, groaned, and died.

This little matter having been attended to, I, with the assistance of Gobo, who had now found his feet, went on to extricate our unfortunate companion from the aloe bush. This we found a thorny task, but at last he was draged forth uninjured,though in a very pious and prayfui frame of mind. Ilis "spirit had certainly looked that way," he said, .or he would have been dead. As I never never like to interfere with true piety, I did not venture to suggest that his spirit had deigned to make use of my eight-bore in his interest.

Having dispatched this boy back to the camp to tell the bearers to come and cut the buffalo up, I bethought me that I owed that rhinoceros a grudge which I should love to repay.

:So,

of what was in my mind to Gobo, who was now more than ever convinced that Fate walked about loose in Wambe's country, I just followed on his spoor. He had crashed through the bush till he reached the little glade. Then moderating his pace somewhat, he had followed the glade down its entire length, and once more turned to the right, through the forest, shaping his course for the open land that lies between the edge of the bush and the river. Having followed him for a mile or so further, I found myself quite on the open. I took out my glass and searched the plain. About a mile ahead was something brown—as I thought the rhinoceros I advanced another quarter of a mile and looked once more—it was not the rhinoceros, but a big antheap. This was puzzling, but I did not like to give it up, because I knew from his spoor that he must be somewhere ahead. But as the wind was blowing straight from me toward the line that he had followed, and as a rhinoceros can smell you for about a mile, it would not, I felt, be safe to follow his spoor any further. So I made a detour of a mile and more, till I was nearly opposite the ant-heap, and then once more searched the plain. It was no good I could see nothing of him, and was about to give it up and start after some oryx 1 saw in the distance, when suddenly, at a distance of about three hundred yards from the ant-heap, and on its further side, I saw my rhino stand up in a patch of grass. "Heavens!" I thought to myself, he's off again." But no after standing staring for a minute or two, he once more lav down.

Now I found myself in a quandary. As vou know, a rhinoceros is a very short-sighted brute indeed, his sight is as bad as his scent is good. Of this fact he is perfectly aware, but he always makes the most of his natural gifts. For instance, when he lies down he invariably does so with his head down wind. Thus if any enemy crosses his wind, he will still be able to escape or attack him, and if, on the other hand, the danger approaches up wind, he will, at least have a chance of seeing it. Otherwise one might, by walking delicately. actually kick him up like a partridge if only the advance was made up wind.

Well, the point was how on earth should I get within ihotpf this rhi

noceros. After mush deliberation determined to try a side advance, thinking that I might so get a shoulder shot. Accordingly we started in a crouching attitude, I first. Gobo holding on to my coat tails, and thq other boy on to Gobo's moocha. I always adopt this plan when stalking big game, for if you follow any other system the bearers will get out) of line. We got to within three hun^ dred yards right enough, and then the real difficulties began. The grass had been so closely eaten off by game that there was scarcely any cover. Consequently it was necessary to go on our hands and knees, which in my case involved laying down the eightbore at every step and then lifting it up again. However, I wriggled alony somehow, and if it had not been for Gobo and his friend, no doubt everything would have gone well. But as you have, I dare say, observed, a native out stalking is always of that mind which is supposed to actuate an ostrich. So long as his head is hidden he seems to think that nothing else can be seen. So it was in this instance: Gobo and the other boy crept along on their hands and toes, with their heads well down, but. though unfortunately I did not notice it till too late, bearing the fundamental portious of their frames high in the air. Now all animals are quiteas suspicious of this end of mankin". as they are of his face, and of this fact I soon had a proof. Just when we had got within about two hundred yards,and I was congratulating myself that I had not had thi.j long crawl, with the sun beating on the back of my neck like a furnace, all for nothing, I heard th hissing notes of the rhinoceros birds, and up flew four or five of them from the brute's back, where they hud been comfortably employed in catching tics. Now this performance on the part of the birds is to a rhinoceros what the word "cave" is to a school boy it puts him on the qui vive at once. Before the birds were well in the air I saw the grass stir.

[TO BE CONTISITKI).

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INGERSOLLVS

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StoricH with AVhich He Introduced an After-dinner Spweh.

Helena Independent It is said that contentment is the greatest possible wealth, and 1 suppose that next to absolute contentment, and nearly exactly the same thing, is perfect self-satisfaction. [Laughter.] I think I have found it here. [Laughter aud applause.] It is said that'an old minister in Ken tucky, .endeavoring to impress upon his hearers the beauty of the heaven they were about to go to, provided they joined hit» church [laughter], after exhausting all the superlatives of which he was master wound up by saying: ''Brethren and sisters, in short, it's a regular old Kentucky place." [Laughter.] I suppose you are expecting in another world simply another Montana.

A few years ago a fellow from Massachusetts was down in South Carolina, and as he walked along 1 ho street, after he had been there some time, there was an old fellow nailing^ a sign upon his house. "For Sail," and this Massachusetts fellow looked at the old man and said: "That isu't the

way

without saying a word

to spell sale." And the old

fellow, with a great deal of contempt, turned to him and said: "How long have you lived in Char leston?" "Well," he says, "I have been hero about a year." "Well, young man," said theCburies toniau. "I was born here I guess I know how to spell sale." [Louu laughter and applause.] There is nothing so beautiful as confidence in the place where vou reside. [Laughter.]

They tell a story of Mrs. Jones of Chicago, who visited Rome and while there was shown some of the grea marble masterpieces of the world, among others the Apollo Belvidere. They pointed it out to her as being the most perfect form of man than had ever been conceived by the brain of an artist and the old woman walked all around it. looked at it from every point of view, and she says: "That's the Apollo Belvidere, is it?" "Yes." "Well, give me Jones.'!,»v4Loud laughter and applause.]

In Public Positions.

New York World.

All the world knows that the city fathers of Oskaloosa are women. The mayor, Mrs. Lowman, is a very pretty and exceedingly womanly woman/iind the mother of a strapping 22-year old son, who escorts her to and from the city hall. Mrs. Salter, the mayor of Argonia, is administering the affairs ot office for the second term. She is described as a nervous little woman, who, during the first year of office, attended t.i her public and social duties, did tin washing, ironing and cooking of her household, and increased her family from five to six. Mrs. M. E. Leasy, who stumped the State of Kansas in the interest of the Farmers' Alii ance, is a sort of female Chauncey Depew, and has a strong hold on the affections of her party. She has a good law practice and is perfectly in dependent. Although one editor was ungallant enough to refer to her as a lantern-jawed, goggle-eyed night mare." she is rather prepossessing but slight, pale and delicate looking However ill she may look, her elo quence is robust, and when she gets up to talk men listen to her.

Nine hundred and firty submarin telegraph cables are now in open tion, most of them in Europe thci. total length is over &9,0UU miles. .t\

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Laporte has thirty-four saloons." Andrews is overrun with burglars. "J Albion sighs to be in the circus belt. Buchanan reports a good blackberry crop.

A military company is being talked of at Goshen.

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Evansville is suffering from an epidemic of fire6. Lawrenceburg suffered 130,000 by the recent flood. V'

A black female ghost is troubling Memphis, lad. Anderson is negotiating for a gatlinggun factory.

Wheat harvesting in Harrison county began on the 15th. Watermelon crop is enormous in Gibson and Pike counties.

The contract has been closed for a tin plate factory at El wood. A violent storm greatly damaged wheat and com in Putnam county.

Three hundred Rochester citizens have signed the temperance pledge. Southern Indiana's peach crop will soon be ready for the market. Yum, yum.

A yellow catfish weighing fifty pounds was caught at Martinsville on a trot line. Thirty-six coaches car-ied 2,400 picnickers from

Fort

Wayne to Warsaw Saturday

Michigan City claims to bo the most prosperous community in northern Indiana,

Goshen confidently expects direct railway connection with Toledo in the near future.

Tobacco culture is being given considerable attention in Johnson and Shelby counties.

Robert McCutcheon, of New Albany, fell from a cherry tree and was paralyzed by spinal injuries.

A pole 1C0 feet in height has been raised at the prison north, from which will float the colors on national holidays.

Mrs. Jesse Caldwell, of Evansville, accidentally administered a fatal dose of opium to her four-year-old daughter.

Afire in the casting hall and funnel room of the Diamond Plate Glass Works at Elwood, on the 26th, did &%0,000 damage.

The Wells company, at Greenfield,began the manufacture of stoves Tuesday afternoon, and satisfactory work was turned out.

John Torbett, of Patoka, township, Orange county, has been whipped by white caps for mistreatment and non-support of family.

William Maguire and his step-daughter, living in the outskirts of Leavenworth, were whipped by white caps for alleged cohabitation.

Uriah Landman was placed under restraint at Vevay during an attack of delirium tPMnens. He butted his brains out against the wall.

The residence of Wm. Gunter, near Warsaw, was almost totally destroyed by lightning on the 24th. Loss, $3,000. An invalid daughter was killed.

Stokes Brown, a blind organ grinder, of Madison, h»3 been committed for grand jury action, charged with whipping his five-year-old step-son to death.

The Elkhart county assessment is below the average, and the State tax commission has given warning that if other counties are advanced Elkhart will also be set forward.

The Ohio Falls iron works shut down for repairs Saturday. In the meantime the wage scale formulated at Pittsburg will be submitted to the Western iron masters.

There are sixty thousand acres of wheat being cut in Montgomery county, which, ou an average of twenty-five bushels to to the acre, will bring the yield up to l,f.0 ),000 bushels.

Miss Grace Forney, of Wabash, who was persuaded to elope with Prof. Walter Koenig, and was made the victim of a pretended marriage, was recovered by her friends at Russiaville.

A miscreant poisoned a spring of water in Washington township, Gibson countys and Mrs. John Rabb drank of the water and died. Her little girl was dangerously poisoned, but recovered.

Three tame deer make their home in the court house and grounds at Scottsburg They are so tame that they wander all over the building, and are often found sleeping on the stairways.

The main building of the Creamery Package Manufacturing Co., at Portland, Ind., was destroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss, $10,000. This is the largest creamery package company in the world.

The nine-year-old son of William Lesli, of Mentonc, wa3 caught by a belt in his father's saw-mill and one arm was torn from his body and thrown some distance away. The lad lived but a few hours.

Cora Belle Fellows, the young lady who left a good home in Washington to marry Chasta, the Indian, feeling that it was her mission in life to elevate the aborigines, is seeking a divorce from her husband. One child has been born to the couple.

An owl entered the bedroom of R. Leonard, at Rieeville, through an open window, and pounced upon the family cat, Her feline majesty made a desperate fight, and her caterwauling awakened Mr. Leonard. Between the two the owl wacaptured.

William Summerville, cf Rush county, has a cherry tree thirty-six years old, one branch of which persists ill ripening its fruit six weeks after the remainder of the crop has been gathered. The tree has never been budded nor grafted with a different kind of cherry.

Thomas Kelly, a farmer near Pilot Knob, owns a ewe but four years old which ts the mother of twelve lambs, having dropped four lambs each spring since 1889. The ewe is of the Cottswold Southdown breed.

Annual Shroud, of Crawford county, caged three largo copperhead snaks and undertook to show his prowess as a snake charmer. While exhibiting the reptiles one of them sank its fangs into his hand and hung on until it dropped pff dead. Shroud was unharmed.

William Nash, Edward Bowles, Thomas Groves and Thomas Pahn, young boys, near Birdseye, found an old coat in the roadway, and while pounding one another with It, the old garment fell to piecos. (Several bills dropped out, and altogether

$1,711 dollars was found in the serertl pockets. The 160,000 stock to secure a natural-gas pipe line to Crawfordsvllle has been speared, and the company furnishing th« balance of the necessary funds will commence work at once. The line will star) from the Sheridan gas fields and will thirty-five miles in length.

Three more bags of brass stolen from the repair shops and freight cars of tht Vandalia and Monon l.'n.s were recovered at Grt encastle. Two of the thieves, Davidson and Kelly, arraigned for trial, entered a. plea of guilty and waived examination.

Morristown Utterly complains of tl~€ character of the picnickers infesting Blut River Park every Sunday, charging thai r' they are "the worst trash of Indianapolii and-Cincinnati." It is also charged that beer is shipped thereby the carload and that the day is spent in drunken carousal

Twenty-eight thousand copies of tlu Detroit Commercial Advertiser and Hom Journal, issued June 26, were held in th» postoflice at that place as unmailableun* der the lottery law. The president, vicepresident, secretary and treasurer of tht. company were arrested and fined 8500 and costs.

In the suit brought by the First National Bank, of Evansville, against Charlef II. Ritter, the defaulting paying teller,anc his bondsmen, judgment has been entered for $70,000, of which $54,752.55 is againsf the bondsmen. The defense entered a general denial, claiming Ritter had simp!} *. borrowed §50,000.

During a storin which swept over DcarJ born county lightning struck the farmhouse of Alexander Conley, near Lawrenceburg, instantly killing Mrs. Conlej and dangerously shocking two other members of the family. The electricity war attracted by the lightning rod. which ex., tended but a few feet above the cap-stoiw of the high chimney.

J. F. Darnell, president of the Munciftfef nail-works, who has given the subjects# close attention, claims that natural gas i% being constantly generated in the interioi^? of the earth, and that its pcrmancy is®, strictly dependent upon the manner iii-^ which it is handled and taken care of. He believes that the State should regulate all drilling, and heasserts that the chief cause of the failure of welis is due to defective packing.

PEOPLE'S PARTY CONSTITUTION.

The Constitution and By-Laws, as revised and changed by Secretary Schilling of the new People's party,have been made public. The articles call for the organization and regulation of local clubs, to bt conducted under the auspices of the national body. Stated meetings shall be held by every club. The President shall be elected at each meeting. Any citizen ol the town or county may become a member by signing the declaration of principles, and the platform of the national body and pledging himself to unqualifiedly support the principles as enunciated. Any member who makes a motion to indorse a candidate of or to enter into a fusion with any other political party shall immediately cease to be a member of the club ana ol the new party.

',"."There's Millions in It."" The zeal with which pensiou agent in Washington have worked in be half of pension legislation, using al their efforts and resources to stir up veterans and Grand Army men to demand it, is explained by the enormous amount of money which they make by pushing claims in the Pension Bureau, where meritorious claims ought to need no pushing. Since 1862 $37,000,000 of the money appropriated by the Government for pensions to soldiers has been pocketed by the attorneys. Of late they have been making about two and a half millions a year. Under the Disability act of the last session a fee of $10 is allowed for each application, and the expectation is that at least 850.000 claims will be presented. Here is about $8,500,000 in prospect for the "sharks" from that source alone. No wonder that they maintain an organ and send out circulara to work up sentiment in fa*ror of pension legislation. It is a regular gold mine for them. The wonder is that Congress should give them such opportunities for getting rich out ol the pensioners of the Government.

III

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis.

2 r'd 93 1 w03 3 r'd 'Jt lycii0 »r'd 93 5S

Chicago

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IXDIAKAPOL19, July 1, 1891.

CHAIN.

Wheat Corn. Oats. Rye.

1 w44

Cincinnati— 2 r'd 138 5S-4 42'A St Louis 2 r'd 103 57

New York— 2 r'd I 03 95

Philadelphia.

Baltimore 103 01

2 r'd 103 103

Toledo

92 .S

Clover'' Seed.

Detroit 1 0 3 61 43 Minneapolis.. 1 01 CATTLE. Export steers GooU to choice shippers Fair to medium shippers Common shippers Stockers Good to choice butcher hellers. Fair to medium heifers Light, thin heifers..' Good to choice cows Fair to medium cows Common old cows Veals, commcn to choice. Bulls, common to choice. Milkers, good to choice

*r 75 4 70 5 14 4 (KJ.«J4 31 3 :i5^3 75 2 7i"j@i 3 75^4 35-V 3 00($3 2 50(a)3 00 3 50m4 00 2 50(g3 25 1 25^2 3V 3 0!X#5 0fl 5 50@4 Off 15 00@35

UOGfe.

Heavy packing and snipping Mixeu pucii.njf Light Heavy roughs..

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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