Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. , , Walt Whiteman, the poet, is living' a J. and is growing feebler daily* , f During a prise fight at Seattle, Ore., Monday, a row occurred and two men were fatally injured. “Prof.” Wm. Glass, of Verndale, Mich. Tuesday, ate five dozen eggs in two minutes on a wager. Abel Lodge, Town Treasurer of New Lisbon, 0.. is found to be ap embezzler to the amount of sß,< 00. , The Rhode Island Legislature stands, fifty-nine Republicans and forty-nine ■ Democrats on joint ballot. A Ex-Governor Porter left Indianapolis Friday morning on his journey tp his new post of duty ip Italy. The jute factory of Buchanan A Lyall, l < of Brooklyn, N, Y., was destroyed by fire •, Thursday. Loes 1400,000. Ex-President Cleveland has been elected an honorary life member of the Manhattan Club of New York. The Supreme Court of Nebraska has decided that notes given to secure margins on grain speculations are void. The Rhode Island Legislature. Wednesday, elected Nathan T. Dixon U. 8. Senator to fill out the term of -Chafe, resigned.; The Lousville (Ky.) Bridge and Iron Oompany machine shops were completely destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss 100,000. The family of W. P. Word, consisting of six persons, living in Robin county, Ga., perished in their burning home, Friday. The lower branch of the Michigan Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or giving away of cigarettes. Mrs. Andrew Dubna, es St. Paul, Minn., a native of Finland, Friday gave birth to six- children; three of them being alive. H. The “aftef-etections” in Rhode Island gave the Republicans a majority of eleven in the Le-dslattire and they will elect the State officers. « Mrs. Kirshner, of Chattanooga, got a divorce, went in on the real estate boom, made $150,000, and Mr. Kirshner now wants the divorce annulled. Near Centerville, Pa., masked robbers tortured a farmer by roasting his feet and face to compel him to give up money he was supposed to haVe. Four children of Sebastian Merdan, a German farmer, near St. Joseph, Minn., were poisoned by eating roots of wild parsnip Friday. Three of them died. At Richmond, Va., a ten-acre lot belonging to the Confederate Soldiers’ I Home property, purchased five years | ago at a cost of $3,300 was sold ThursI day for $41,000. -—< I It is asserted that the case against Allard & Son, of New York, accused of mowing darker, and that important discoveries have been made by the Treasuryltgents. The condition of Mr. Robert Garrett is said to be so much improved tbgthe will soon join his friend, Mr. Winans, in a hunting expedition upon the latter gentieman’s estate in Scotland. William H. Bright, of Danville, 111., deserted his wife and has since been paying attention to a respectable young lady, who committed suicide when she found out what kind of a man he was. A young girl who had been rescued from a life of shame by the Woman’s Christian Union at Chattanooga, Tenn., committed suicide Wednesday after hav-, - ing been induced to return to her old’ haunts. i A storm, which raged in Baltimore r with severity on Saturday, swept over the lower Chesapeake most disastrous y to shipping. Over a dozen seamen lost their lives, and thirty or forty vessels, some small* and others large, were wrecked. t It is estimated that fully 150.000,0C0 feet of logs are in the. streams on the northern peninsula of Michigan waiting for water. Light snows and low water are liable to keep back a large portion of the cut. Heavy rains are all that will move the logs. Mr. T. W. Sanderson, of, Youngstown, 0., is being urged for the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench caused by the death of Justice Stanley Matthews. I President Harrison has announced that I he will not make a selection for this office until next fall. Miss Bertha Tracy, who was in charge of the Woman’s Christian Aid Society ■—-at Chattanooga, shot herself through the heart Wednesday on receipt of an indecent proposal from a drummer named Hodges, her betrothed. A policeman swears to shoct Hodges on sight. The hard fought legal contest instituted by the heirs of tne late Dr. Scott Stewart, of Philadelphia, to break his legacy of about $269,000 for establishing a hospital of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was brought to a close, Mondal. by a decision of the Supreme Court in favor of the trustees of the hospital. Rev. Mr. Dennie, of Dayton, 0., a converted Hebrew, backed by Major Bickham andotfaers for Consul to Jerusalem as a desirable man to convert the Jews, his been discouraged by Mr. Blaine,who ‘ wrote on his papers that the State Department is not an evangelical institution. George Kennan, the famous Siberian traveler, whose articles are now appearing in the Century Magazine, said to an Indianapolis reporter Wednesday that, “if I had lived in Russia I should have s been in the Eastern Siberian.mines as a Nihilist before I was twentv-five years old.” * The new postmaster, Mr. Van Cott, said Monday: “I am going to run the New York postoffice on strictly business, principles. There shall be no removals, in that office except for cause. I be' "lieve thoroughly in honest civil-service reform, and 1 shall carry it out with all my might. This is ho new position with me.” * The town of Tahbury,Tll., has been quarantined on account of the prevaence of scarlet fever. There are more tban twenty cases of the disease in the little town,and six deaths have occurred in the past .few days. No religious services were held Sunday. The Sunday schools were closed.aud the public schools have been adjourned. Two strangers visited Daniel Keller’s place, at Shamokin, Pa.. Tuesday, and after a proposal to purchase bis farm engaged the old farmer in a game of cards. Keller became interested an d procured $4,700, which he put-up as

stakes. The money was seized by the strangers and Keller was covered’with a revolver while they moved off. Both escaped. ° 1 . A few months ago burglars broke into the residence of John Reilly, of Wilkesbarre, the family and stole nearly $1,(00. Tuesday;, Father O’Hearn, pastor of St. Mary’s Korean Catholic Church,Ahanded Mr. Reilly S7OO, which he saidjpad been given him by a prominent man, who had made a confession to him and had told the story of the robbery., . A private car containing J. F. Hart, mayor of Brooklyn, Mas*., hiqwife, son Henry and niece', Miss Winslow; a porter and a cook was demolished by another train tunning into it near Lorenzo station, the Chicago, Santa Fe and California railroad, Wednesday morning. Miss Winslow, Henry Hart, the son, and the porter and cook were ‘killed and Mayor Hart and bis wife were scalded. " Specials from Findlay and Tiffin, in the natural gas belt of Ohio, phenomenal strikes of gas. At Findlay two wells were drilled, Saturday. One has a capacity of 30,(100,C00 and ihe other of 20,000,000 feet per day. At- Tiffin the pressure of an old well: increased suddenly, blowing out the casing of the well and bursting the pipes in a factory which used the gas. This well has an estimated capacity of 28,000,000 feet per day. A man who called on Henry Achtemaite, near Pomona, 111., last Tuesday, and asked permissien to occupy a cabin on the farm for a few days, was found dead in the cabin by Mr. Achtemaite, Tuesday. A bullet wound was found in the calf of his leg, and his pockets contained a bottle of powder, some fuse, a bunch of skeleton keys and some files. There is little doubt that he was a burglar, who, on being shot, did not dare to call on a doctor, but died from the neglected wound.

Eddie Gallery, of Chicago, eleven years old, was killed Saturday by the accidental discharge of a revolver. While overhauling the drawers of a bureau, the lad called out to his mother that he had found his father’s pistol. The mother hurried into the room and grasped the weapon by the handle and, not knowing that it is was double action, caueht hold of the trigger. An exfollowed. The bullet lodged just under Eddie’s right eye and he fell to the floor dying in half an hour. Mr. and Mrs. Gallery are distracted with grief. . . ’ * The trial of the noted Indian Chief Jack Spaniard, for the murder of Depu8' United States Marshal William Irin, was begun at Ft. Smith, Ark., Tuesday. One of the first Government witnesses called was a mongrel dog. Rattler by name. The Government attempted to prove that Rattler was the prisoner’s dog, having been seen in the neighborhood of the spot Where the murder was committed. The defendant denied ever having seen the animal, but the dog’g affectionate greeting to his old master made him a dangerous witness. The animal picked him out of a crowd and wagged bis tail with great vigor. At the closing session of the Mormon Conference at Salt Lake City Tuesday evening, George Q. Cannon read the statistics of the church, which are: Twelve apostles, 7t) patriarchs, 8,719 high priests, 11,805 elders, 2,069 priests, 2,292 teachers, 11,610 deacons, 81,899 families, 115,915 officers and members, and 49,302 children under eight years of age—a total Mormon population of 153,911. The number of marriages forsix months, ending April 6, 1889, was 530; births, 3,754; new members, 488, excommunications, 113. Cannor said that many young men were leaving the Territory to take up land elsewhere. The Saints, he said, had been called together to build up Zion, and this scattering must be stopped.

A dispatch from New York states that Philadelphia parties have secured an option on the controlling interest in the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford. The Company has assets of over $10,500,000, and is controlled by a capital stock of SIOO,000. A. C. Goodman, President of the company, has SIOO more than half of the capital, and the report says that his $50,100 of stock is oflered at $501,000, or $lO for sl. The weuld-be purchasers are said to be endeavoring now to borrow purchase money on pledge of the stock. ‘The highest scale of the stock known in Hartford was below S3OO and last year’s taxes it was valued at $220. The company is in strong financial condition, With over $600,000 in b»nk, and it is reported that policy-holders may resort to the courts or Legislature to prevent the deal, which, it is understood, has been entered into without the knowledge of the other directors of the company.

FOREIGN. "hn. Great distress is reported at Panama. k A liquor shop at Sail, Hungary, was entered last Sunday night by thieves, Who plundered the premises of everything valuable. The proprietor of the store surprised the robbers at their work and was : used and erushed to death in a wine press. The thieves afterward got drunk and were in an almost helpless state of inebriety when, a few hours later,, they were arrested. Desperadoes Captured.,, On March 21 a train on the Atlantic and Pacific railway 'was robbed at Canon Diablo, Ari. Thursday last, the entire gang of four who perpetrated the crime, were captured, the officers pursuing them over 3.0 miles through as wil’d and desolate a country as can ttefound in the west. When thb gang was overtaken a battle ensued in whrteb over fifty shots were fired, butno one was hurt., The-robbers Mfen abandoned their horses and took to the underbrush on foot They were soon overhauled, however, and have confessed their connection with the robbery. The officers suffered many privations in their long pursuit. * ? ■ A ' Bussell Harrison Arrested. Russell Harrison,-the President’s Mod, was arretted in New York Thursday, bn the charge of bating published in his paper the Montana Live Stock Journal, an article taken from a Buffalo paper, accusing t x-Governor Crosby, of Mantana. With having stolen jewels from a Washington lady. Young Harrison gave ss,a 00 bail. The demand is for SIOO,000 horn Mr. Harrison for malicious and criminal libel. Harrison’s defense will be that he had nothing at all to do with he publication in question.

< BOOMINGJDKLAHOMA. Thn Soldier* Not Equal to the Tukof Preventing Boomers from Crossing the Bor-ders-Ten Persons to Every Claim Already on the Scene. x

WioHiTx, Kas., April 13.—Maj. Barker arrived htre last Oklahoma, and reports poldiers are not equal to the task ,of Creeping the boomers out They slinXnto the country and conceal thememves so effectually in the woods that the scouts cannot find them. Every station on the Santa Fe road is guarded, and only those having permits are allowed to get off the trains. The Santa Fe has nearly completed the depot at Guthrie, and workmen are engaged on tfae land office building at Purcell. The border is black with boomers, awaiting the opening of the country. Many of them are in -very destitute circumstances. The Santa be road people . eay anangefeents have been made to transport all who apply, and the Rock Island is preparing to run a line of stages from its southern terntinus into the territory. Two immense rafts are being constructed here for the transportation of Hill’s colony. They expect to float down the Arkansas, as the recent rains have swollen the river, and they can land within seven miles of the Oklahoma border. Others have arranged for relays of fast horses whfeh are expected to transport them to the claims already chosen. Every south-bound train arriving here is crowded, and the wagon caravans are passing in an endless chain.

In a letter from a gentleman who lives twelve miles from the Oklahoma border, the writer says that the President should have declared the territory open the day alter the issuance of the proclamation, and continues: There were at that time in the neighborhood of Oklahoma enough waiting and anxious people to occupy, its every home. Many of tnem were tife followers of the late Capt. David L. Payne, who labored so long and zealously to accomplish the work that the President’s proclamation does. Many of these men will be cut off and ruined now. As it is there are now in the neighborhood of this territory, ready to move at a moment’s notice, five times the number of people necessary to settle it, and every wagon-road conveying toward the point from Missouri, Nebraska Colorado, Texas, and elsewhere is groaning under the burden of wagons. Everyone is goin gin the direction of Oklahoma, crosslots when he can. And this is merely the van of the army that is to come, notwithstanding all reason and warning. The great mass of the waiters have no desire to hang around the frontier a day or two, so they will try to be on hand just as the gate swings open. The result, as it may reasonably be calculated, will be a never-ending series of petty but battles, in comparison to which county seat rackets and race wars are but sham fights. Another element is the western rustler, who has been through the millbeen raised, as it were, on the county seat fights and rocked upon the billows of land contests. He does not care about homesteads, but be will be there. He will be satisfied with a few of the best lots in all the best towns and he won’t be satisfied unless hebas them. He don’t want any thing that involves trouble, but if trouble comes that is just what he has been looking for and he will welcome it as an old friend. In fact, the man who is now selling his farm or other property and picturing to himself a quiet, peaceful home in Oklahoma is the fellow that I am writing these lines so man I want to wake up. I would tell him to come with the idea of staying, but with the means of returning. There is bound to lots of trouble.

In speaking of the great line of immigration now setting toward Oklahoma, Commissioner Stockslager Friday said i hat from newspaper estimates and from information received through official and personal sources, he was of the opinion that fully one hundred thousand persons would enter Oklahoma within a month after the 22d of April. For these 100,000 persons, said the commissioner, there are only about ten thousand homesteads which may be entered under the President’s proclamation. Therefore, for each quarter section open to entry there will be at least five or six applicants. Never before in the history of the country has there been a parallel to it. The inevitable result of this tremendous influx, the commissioner thinks, would be a great many contests and probably some personal conflicts. A further result, he feared, would be the spreading of this immense surplus over the adjoining Indian lands from which it would be' difficult to dislodge them without much trouble and possibly bloodshed. If the commission appointed to treat with the Cherokees’ outlet, could complete their lahars witbin the next few months so that the new tract might be open to settlement before Congress again meets, this might, and probably would, relieve the pressure. Otherwise he feared matters would become complicated and the equilibrium restored with difficulty.

MASKED MARAUDERS.

An Old Man Mak a a Brava Beeiataiice and Wounds Five White Caps. The White Caps, unterrified by recent prosecutions, and rather emboldened by the release and acquittal of a number of the band, have commenced fresh, depredations in Warrick and Dubois counties. John Lansford is a Read Supervisor in Madison township, Dubois county, and one of his duties is to take up stray hogs. Recently he impounded a large number of porkers, which he refused to release without the customary fine. Last Monday he received a notice from the White Caps, id regulation style, that these hogs were the property of poor people, unabld to pay the fine, and if not promptly released he would be visited on Wednesday night and compelled to surrender them. Thursday I o’clock,Mr. Ltnsford was awakened by ajdfdypf twenty masked men, who qem/daded the hogs. He refused, and dismounted and proceeded to go through bis premises. He warned them to desist, and when they disregarded him he opened fire with a double-barreled shotgun, wounding two with the first volley. The White Caps returned the fife through the windows of the bouse,wounding a young son of Lansford, who was descending the interior stairway. The old gentleman 4.00 k down a brace of “seven-shooters,” after-discharging his gun, and continued X. *

to poor ballet after ballet into the ranks of the assailants, who. after discharging their weapons, beat a hasty retreat,bearing three of their wounded comrades oat of the yard. One of them has since been identified by the wounds he received, and through him it is learned that five of the White Caps were wonnded. Lansford’s son only received a flesh wound, which is not serious. Mr. Lausford is satisfied that he knows several of the White Caps, and they will be summoned before the Grand Jury. The White Caps also appeared Thursday night’ near Newburgh, Warrick county, About twelfi miles from Evansville. A band of ten visited the house of W. T. Masterson, who, as alleged, fails to provide for his family. He was given ten lashes and promised forty more if he did not improve his ways. The same night the mob visited a negro named James Crews, who has a white wife, and who had been previously warned. They took him to a woods near by, tied him naked to a tree and administered forty lashes to his bare back. He was left tied to the tree, where some of his friends subsequently found him. The terrors of last year in stituted by this gang>of White Caps are breaking out afresh. The indignation of law-abiding citizens is great, and it is said will result in the organization of vigilance Committees to suppress the White Caps.

AWFUL FAMINE IN CHINA.

Thousands of People Starving to Death and Greater Distress Expected. Detailed reports of the great famine in Shantung and Manchuria, brought by the Chinese steamer Monday night, shows that its horrors have not been exaggerated. It is the worst famine known in China for twelve years, and the saddest feature of it is that i n many parts of these two provinces the overflow of.the Yellow River has ruined the land so that no good crops-ean be expected for several years. Letters from American and English missionaries, who have been distributing food, say that no more than one hundred thousand can be reached by them, although fully five million are starving. Many of the men abandoned their families after the flood and the women and children have nothing to live on. The missionaries report that the spectacle of patient suffering of these people is heart rending. One case is recorded of a blind woman who strangled her little girl rather than sell her or see her starve, while an old man of seventy-seven, maddened by hunger, sold his daughter-in-law for $9. It cdsts only.one cent per day to maintain one person, yet the wealthy have been so reduced they cannot aid their poor neighbors. Near Chefoo, Dr. Laughlin writes that ihe whole plain is dug up by the people in search of roots which serve to fill their stomachs, but draw up their hands as though they had infiamatory rheumatism.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Hon. Milton J. Durham, at present First Controller of the Treasury, is reported to be a candidate for the Demo cratic vacancy on the Civil Service Commission. Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thompson, of South Carolina, was appointed to this office by President Cleveland, but the Senate failed to confirm him. He is, however, making a fight for re-appointment by President Harrison. Ex-Representative Truman A. Merriman, of New York, backed by Hon. Samuel J. Randall, is also making a struggle for the place. Commissioner of Pensions Tanner Thursday, issued an order holding that “whenever a pensioner is disabled in band or foot in a degree entitling him to $24 per month, under the act of March 3,1883, such pensioner shall, by reason of that fact, be entitled to the rate of S3O per month, under the act of Aug. 4,1886.” This order will favorably affect the pensions of some six or eight hundred pensioners, disabled veterans of the late war. ' Secretary Blaine says it is not true, as reported, that this administration would retuse to appoint any one as minister or consul to a foreign country in which he was born. This will let in a number of German-born American citizens who are applying for consulates in Germany. Secretary Halford** says that the President has made no arrangements to. leave Washington before the 29th of this month, when he goes to New York to attend the centennial celebration. The President has declined a number of invitations to visit various cities The number of letters received daily at the White House rangesfiom 500 to 700. Three time the number exceeded 990 daily. Each of these letters was answered or acknowledged. Dan. M. Ransdall, of Indianapolis, it of conceded, will be appointed Marshal is the District of Columbia. Judge Allen G. Thurman, the “Old Roman,” called on the President, Thursday. MINISTERS TURN MURDERERS Two ministers of the Gospel in Vavasota,’Tex., were actively concerned in tragedies on Sunday. Rev. R. K. Lawson, a minister, shot and killed a negro named Daniel McLeod, who had stolen several articles from him. The second tragedy occurred neaiftYarborough Station. Rev. Hall Miller was conducting Sunday-school, and white praying, an intoxicated man named Purchard entered the school and disturbed the meeting. There was an altercation between the preacher and the disturber, and Rev. Mr. Miller went home. He returned with a shotgun and fired its contents into Purchard’s side, killing him instantly. The dead nfen was pqesessed of great bodily strength and was brutal.

ji The Poor Old Cxar. A rumor was circulated in European cities Friday that an attempt was on the .life pf the Czar on the Sunday previous, £nd that be was injured by the explosion of a shell. It is alleged that strenuous efforts are being made to suppress the facts, but the rumor ia Very generally credited and great excitement prevail#. The general features upon which all reports agree, are that on Sunday last a dynamite bomb exploded within the imperial palace at Gatechina, whether by fuse or concussion is not stated, and that the explosion must have been produced in tl e room in which the Czar was present, for it is circumstantially reported that the Czar was injured and that an officer of the guards was wounded at the same time.

AN AWFUL DISASTER.

Hevea Hundred Lives Probably Lost by the Sinking of a Steamer. .-*■ The following dispatch from London was received at the Maritime Exchange, New York, Friday/ morning*. “The steamer Danmark, from Christiansand, was seen April 8 abandoned in midocean.” The Danmark belongs to the Tfaingvalla Line of steamers plying* between New Y6rk and Copenhagen. She was formerly the Jane Rydel, of the WhiferCross tine: She is said to have had 650 passengers on board, mostly Scandinavians. Fanch, Edye & Co., the agents of the company, say that they place no reliance in the dispatch, but have cabled to agents in London and Copenhagen for further information.

The greatest excitement prevails in shipping circles over the loss of the Danmark. The Thingvalla Line is probably the largest carrying immigrant line that plies between New York and Europe. The Danmark had on board, when she left Christiansand for New York, on the 26th of March, 650 passengers, presumably all immigrants. Including the vessel’s Captain, R. M. Kunasen, the crew numbered forty men. The New York agent of the Thingvalla line Friday said: “We|have here a cable dispatch to the effect that the Danmark left Christiansand on March 26, on her first voyage under her new flag and name. The had been completely overhauled, and it was thought by all that she was the best of our fleet. There were on board of her at the time of her departure at least 710 people. Of these 650 were passengers. To manage and to look after the comfort of this large number of passengers there must have been at least 60 in the crew and probably the number may have reached 100 or perhaps 125. There are, therefore, to be accounted for the lives of from 710 to 775 people. The Danmark is commanded by Captain Kundsen, an old seaman, well known for his courage and presence of mind, and he is not the man to abandon a ship to the mercies of the sea when there is one chance in evena thousand of getting heir into port And we do not believe that he has abandoned href. She may have been disabled, but we are very nearly certain that she has not been abandoned. We have taken steps to discover if there is truth in the story. At JC.3J o’clock Friday morning we sent off two Cables. One was to the Lloyds, in London, asking for further particulars of the abandonment, if such were to be had, and also for the name of the ship that says she sighted the Danmark in such a condition. The second of the two cables was to the home office in Copenhagen, also asking for particulars and for advice, and for the names of those 650 people who sailed on the Danmark. < “The position in which the Danmark is said to have been sighted abandoned is one in which she might very easily have been at the time, 2*pril 8. She had at that time been out from Christiansand thirteen days. I do not think it at all improbable that some fearful calamity might have befallen her, but please allow us to state to the number of friends of Danmark’s passengers that we don’t believe she has been abandoned. No incoming steamship to this port reporfe any life boats or rafts that might have belonged to the Danmark. Even if the Danmark had been abandoned she had sufficient means to accommodate all the passengers on board if not all the crew. There were a great number of life boats—enough for the great passenger list—and several new life rafts of the latest pattern and improvements, which could have accommodated the crew and officers and some of the passengers if there was not enough room in the life boats for them.” THE REPORT CONFIRMED. The Inman line steamer, Ci ( y of Chester, Capt. Bond, from New York, April 2 for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown, Friday. She reports that on April 8 in latitude 46° north, longitude 37° west, she passed the Danish steamer Denmark from Christiansand, Copenhagen, etc., for New York. The Danmark had oeen abandoned by her crew. Her stern was level With the sea and her bow stood* high out of the water. She was apparently sinking. The Danmark was a vessel of ’2,260 tons; bark rigged, and was 340 feet lotg, forty feet in breadth and twenty-six feet deep. She was built at New -Castle, Eng., in 1880. It is believed the passengers were rescued.

ANTS AS PICKLES.

Big Black Insects Eaten as a Relish by Maine Lumbermen. ■KB ’ ' Pittsburg Dispatch. Should a Maiqe lumberman find a stump or rotton log with thousands of big black ante in it he scoops the toirid insects from their winter domicile anc fills his dinner pail with them. When he gets back to his cabin at night he sets the pail in a cool place until his supper is ready, then brings it forth, anc while helping himself to pork and beans, helps himself also to ants. There is no accounting for tastes, and he esteems a handful of ants a very choice morsel. Ants are eaid by those who have tasted them to have a peculiarly agreeable, strongly acid flavor. The woodsmen, whose food consists largely of salted meat, baked beans and similar hearty victuals, naturally have a craving for something sour. *5. “Ants are the very best of pickles,” said an old “logged,” who confessed to having devoured thousands of them. “They are cleanly insects, and there is no reason why they should not be eaten if one can get over a little sqaeamishnees caused by the thought of taking sack crawling things into bis stomach. There is nothing repulsive about them, and when ainan has once learned to eat the creatures as pickles he prefers them to any other kind.” Sneezed His Shoulder Oat of Joint The Boston Journal reports that Samuel Cummings. ofthatcity, while leaning against a rail in his grain mill,, ’began sneezing, and sneezed so hard that he dislocated his shoulder.” !

THE WOMAN QUESTION.

Woman Suffrage ana Prohibition Separate Issues. [Contributed.] Woman suffrage and prohibition Are in no sense synonymous terms. It seems necessary to say this emphatically, because of an erroneous impression which has become widespread, and which h4O been brought about by the action of the third party in endorsing woman suffrage. Bat no suffrage association has endorsed prohibition, or the third party. So far from |his, a very recent convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association declared itself in the strongest terms strictly nonpartisan. Therefore, while prohibitionists are compelled by their party platform to be suffragists, suffragists are in no way pledged to be prohibitionists. . The third party, as every one knows, gains its support largely from women, and it would be worse than folly to deny their claim to a power which would be an added strength to the party. Again, the W. C. T. U. is a large and powerful organization; its support is well worth any concession there may be in the simple acknowledgment of woman’s

right to enfranchisement. But this concession has not been made by the third party without a struggle. All prohibitionists are not Willing to be suffragists. One very obvious reason for this is that suffrage is the dominant issue, and all efforts to make it appear otherwise are vain. To a genuine suffragist there is nothing more annoying than an attempt to subordinate the cause to any thing else, be it temperance reform, or what not. No genuine suffragist wishes the cause to be used simply to help fly a party kite. Earnest workers for suffrage would be, as a matter of course, glad of the support of every political party. But there can be nothing more illogical and absurd than to suppose it possible for so wide a question as suffrage to be swollowed up in any one political fiarty. All members of the W. C. T- V. are not third party prohibitionists. And all women who are suffragists are by no means members of the W. C. T. U. And while it is certainly a compliment to women to tase it for granted that they would use their influence if enfranchisedj to put down intemperance, it is wholly unfair and unwarranted to suppose that they would be of one mind as to the best methods. Prohibition and suffrage are moreover essentially different in their compositions. Prohibition is simply a question of moral reform, and deals directly with those who use and sell liqaor and with the immediate x sufferers from th» vice. In its general connection with society it becomes a social and not a personal question. Suffrage, on the other hand, is moral progress. It is a personal qaestibn with at least half the members of society. It can not be treated justly in any other way than as a personal question. Suffrage is as much the right of the wife of a saloon keeper as of the W. C. T. U.' It is as much the right of a woman with Democratic or Republican sympathies as of one who gives her support to the third party. ~ <.. Suffrage as an abstract question of right has nothing whatever to c|o with results. There will be time enough to discuss what use women will make of the ballot, when their right to it is granted on the same terms that it is given to men. All that suffragists ask for is, that there shall be no question of s&y in the privilege of franchise. • * Mary E. Cardwilu New A ibany, Ind.

They Had to Be Rescued. Lord Longdale and party, who started onward of a year ago on an expedition North-poll wards, have been rescuedin a famished and exhausted condition Lonsdale himself met with an accident that, rendered him almost helpless. While in the lead of his party he slipped into a crevice. His left shoulder was so bruised that the arm was rendered useless and his hip was all but dislocated, incapacitating him from travel on fopt. He was placed on a sled and in that condition transported to Kooiack. The party was in the last stages of fatigue when they reached Kodisck, and had not food and shelter been there Lord Lonsdale would have died. He stated that he., might remain at Kodiack a week or a month and perhaps lunger, as suited his fancy. He stated positively, however, that he had had, enough of Arctic exploration and would return to England soon.

THE MARKETS.

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