Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — Page 2

DRIVING TOTE-TEAM.

. Month's Companion. My uncle, with whom I lived when I was a boy, had a large family of his awn. He was one of the first sett) ers In Western Wisconsin, and. besides carrying on a large farm on the banks of one of the principal lumbering streams, he took a large logging crew into the woods every winter. The logging camp was sixty miles up the river, and all the supplies for the men and the teams were hauled from home.. The team which did this hauling—the “tote team” as it was called—made one trip each week from the time the men went into the woods in the fall until they came out in the spring. The winter I was 14, my cousin Ted 15, and his brother George 13, man were very scarce; and, although wo were rather young for such work, my uncle thought it safe to "allow two ot us to take charge of the toteteam. I was always one of the two who went with the team; Ted and George took “turn about"—one going with me every other trip, while the other stayed at home to do the chores. We were tough, hardy beys, well used to handling horses;and,although ‘‘toting” was anything but play, we enjoyed it greatly. We thought it mr.de men of us to do men’s work. We had a great deal of sport, but some of the incidents of these toting trips were far from funny, At one place the road ran through a Targe swamp of cranberry marsh, upon the edge of which along the banks of a small river a band of Winnebago Indians encamped every winter. In this place game abounded, including the fur-bearing animals which the Indians trapped. The site afforded them besides good opportunities to “swap” with the numerous tote-teams which traveled the roa<l. . - We sometimes bartered with the Indians such articles as flour, sugar, coffee, bacon, and tobacco for buckskin moccasins and ax helves. Nearly dll the men at the logging camps wore moccasins, and of course there was need of many ax-helves. Many of these Indians were industrious and could make the best of axhelves. They were sharp traders, too; but some of them had the reputation of stealing everything thev could get in their hands. We were ai'wayscareful to treat them well and gave them full value for all that we traded for. There were so many of those Win nebago's—or “Bagos" as we called them—scattered about that the whites were slow to do anything that was-likely to provoke their iii will. We always arranged the front end of our sleigh before we reached the Indians’ camp, so that we could trade with them as expeditiously as possi- , ble. We gave them a quart cup full i of coffee for a good ax-helve and twice as much for a pair of moccasins. Of sugar we gave them twica= the amount we did of coffee, and of flour five times. Qne time when we reached my uncle s lumber camp we found our load short a ham or two or several - pieces of bacon, the loss of which; we ; could account for only on the suppo- ; sition that the Bagos had stolen the , meat while crowding around the sleigh to do their trading. My uncle scolded us a little for allowing the Indians to steal things “right from under our noses.” as he Eut it. We made up dUr minds to ?ep a sharp lookout whenever we ' stopped at the camp again. On our next trip the jingle of our sleigh bells brought the whole camp out to the road, and when westopped the Indians all crowded around, as usual. ' ' It was a sharp, cold morning, and all had their long blankets wrapped, about them. Ted and I were soon busy dealing out “tobac” “coppt'e" and “soog” to this one and that one, wnen Tea noticed a sudden opening a'nd.closing of the blanket of a tall ypung Indian who stood leaning up against the back of the sleigh. Keeping his eye on the fellow he so.m saw hin move away from the sleigh, turn his back to us and walk slowly t nvard the camp. Tea scrambled quickly to the rear of the load and found that one of the largest hams, worth >2 or $3. was missing. “Here, you thieving rascal!” he shouted at the retreating Indian, ■“bring that ham back here and be quick about it.” The young Bago simply quickened his pace without turning around or seeming to notice Ted’s shouts/-I ■was desperately afraid of getting into trouble with go many of these strapping red men. but Ted was not. In fact I never knew that boy to meet anything in the shape of man or beast that he was afraid of. He was large and very strong for his age and almost as dark skinned as an Indian. Before I knew what he was about Ted sprang to the ground and chased the Bago as fast as he could run. The young Indian ran toward his wigwam, which stood with the rest of th? village about 200 yards back from the road. But Ted overtook him in little more than half the distance. When the Indian saw that hispur--surer was about to spring upon aim he turned around and faced Ted. The Indian had a great advantage „in size and strength, but he was r heavily handicapped for a struggle by the necessity of his keeping his blanket folded tightly about him in order to conceal the stolen ham. This kept both his hands occupied, and all he could do in defense was to kick

out vigorously with his moccasined feet. He proved no mean antagonist as it was, for he was quick as a flash and his legs were long and sturdy, I expected to see the other ’Bagos run to the support of their comrade, but they seemed to think the young brave would ’have little trouble in handling the white boy, and laughed heartily as he wheeled first one way and then another, keeping his pursurer at a distance by his furious kicks. *• Ted dodged his heels, and watching for an opening, suddenly leaped straight at the rascal and caught him bv the throat with both hands.

Quick as thought the Indian let go of the blanket, ham and all, and seized Ted around the body. He had clung to the ham a little too long, however, for Ted had seoured a hold Which even the Indian’s superior strength could not shake off. Ted knew that he would be no match for the strapping fellow in an even handed contest, and held his throat with a grip of iron. The struggle was short and fierce. Ted managed to keep on his feet, and tightening his grasp on the Indian’s windpipe as he felt him begin to weaken, soon had the thief at his mercy. — — His long arms suddenly relaxed their held around Ted s waist and dropped to his sides, his tongue hung out, and his eyes began to roll upward.

Then, just as he was about to fall, Ted gave him a tremendous push, which sent him headlong into the deep snow, and, snatching up the ham, hurried back to the sled with it upon his shoulder. Now, an Indian’s sense of right and justice is often as keen as that of his white brother, and he can appreciate a plucky act as well. Perhaps these Winnebagos would have been just as well pleased if the young man had been able to escape with flie! stolen ham; but, as it was. they could not help admiring the white boy’s daring, and yelled with delight at the discomfiture of the young brave as he picked himself up out of thesnow and skulked off to his wigwam. “ White papoose heap brave! ’— they shouted as Ted camo back to the sled. “Ketchum bad Injun stealum ham!” We thought that would put a stop to the stealing from our load, but my uncle told us to be on our guard, for the young brave whom Ted had so disgraced in the eyes of his brothers would be sure to take revenge upon us in some way if he could. On the next trip up we traded with the Winnebagos, as usual, and I was certain that nothing was stolen® while we stopped at their village, for I had George keep strict watch of everything on the load while I did the trading. But, when we unloaded that night in campa fifty pound sack of flour was missing. What hadmecome of it was more than we could tell.

„I studied the matter over for several days, and I came to the conclusion thpt some thieving ’Bago had been hidden behind a tree close to the road, just beyond the Indian village, and that after we had finished trading and had seated ourselves on the front end of the load and started on he had sprung out, snatched the sack of fiour from the rear of our sleigh, and dodged back behind the tree until we were out of sight. I told Ted about it when we reached home. the way it was done,” said he; “but just let them try that game again! We’ll be ready for them next trip.” And so we were. It was George’s turn to stay at home: and after Ted and I had arranged our load we took four heavy,double spring otter traps and set them around the rear end of our sleigh among the sacks of flour, baeou., hams, and other supplies, fasteningfhe chain of each securely to the sleigh box, while over the top of everything we spread, as usual. a piece of limp canvas. George and I, on the trip we had just made, noticed that the young fellow who had tried to steal the ham was not in the crowd which surrounded our sled the week before. Neither was he to be seen when Ted and I stopped at the viHagg this time. This was very much what we had expected. My customers kept me dishing out cups of sugar and coffee and Ted was trying to cut a plug of tobacco in two with his jackknife for an Indian who wanted half a ulug, when he slyly nudged me and pointed up the road with his thumb. Without stopping my work I glanced in the direction Ted indicated, and saw about half a black head peering out from behind a big pine which stood within three feet of the sled track and about forty rods up the road. We traded as long as the Indians had anything to barter, and then straightened up the load, mounted our seat in front, and drove leisurely on, looking neither to the right nor the left. We had barely passed the big pine when we heard a swift movement behind us; and then, in an instant, we heard one of our traps close with a “click” and a kind of a thumping noise. » Knowing that we must have the thief in tow, Ted carelessly cracked his whip at the team, and away we went at a brisk trot. The road for several miles ahead ran along the stream and. was so level, awl smooth that the horftg scarcely felt the load behind them, while we chatted and laughed as though nothing had happened, though of course we were really much ex-

cited and Mt an Intense curiosity to look around. We could hear the regular pat, pat, pat of the captive’s moccasined feet upon the well-packed snow as he kept pace with the team, but were careful not to turn our heads in his direction. 'We must have driven on this way nearly a mile when the fatigue and pain, together with the hopelessness of trying to get his hand out of the trap, made it impossible for the thief to control his rage longer. He uttered a yell that seemed almost to lift the caps from our heads, and when we turned around he shouted:

“White boy, stop ’um horse! White boy, stop ’um horse!” But Ted only cracked his whip and made the team go faster. Then the ’Bago’s black eyes sparkled with, rage and fury as he yelled at the top of his voice, at the same time making a leap as if to jump on the sled. “White boy, stop’um horse! Let Injun go! Injun killum white boy!” “Oh, you will, will you?” said Ted. as he grasped one of the newlypurchased ax-helves and sprang to the rear of the load.

“Drive faster, Ben,” he shouted to me, “and we’ll make him sing a different tune before he gets his hand out of that trap.” I touched up the team, while Ted stood ready to strike the man if he attempted to board the sleigh. I have heard it said that an Indian never sheds tears; but before we had gone half a mile farther this young brave stopped his raving and threatening and began to blubber like a little child. I suppose he thought we meant to take him clear to camp with us, but when Ted thought he had punished him enough he called to me to bring the team down to a slower pace. “Now,” said he, “you bad Injun, you stealum white man’s meat, stealum flour, stealum everything. You go stealum any more from white man?” “No! no!” blubbered the Indian. “White man let Injun go, Injun stealum no more. Injun be white man’s friend. No killum —no stealum!” “AH right,” said Ted, “then I’ll let you go. ” The trap had caught the fellow around the wrist, and would not have hurt him much but for his frantic efforts to escape, which bruised the flesh quite badly. Ted made him hold the trap on top of a sack of oats while he pressed down the heavy springs and released the ’Bago s swollen hand. He started for home at a run the moment he was liberated. My uncle was afraid this affair might causems more trouble, but it did not. That was the last time the ’Bagos ever tried to steal anything from us. . . I

Progress in Science.

The theory'of the light of the aurora borealis was evolved from the analysis of its light by the spectroscope, which shewed that it is caused by electrical discharges among the particles of meteoric dust in the atmosphere. The broad, red line of the spectrum of iron is shown in all these cases, and thus upholds the theory, as it is well known that the principal part of meteors is metallic iron. A German engineer has invented an instrument by means of which the profile of the river bed can be taken when traveling at from three to six miles an hour. The readings of the instrument are recorded automatically.—A recent experiment, on tho Elbe showed rhat with it soundings’ could be taken at the rate of thirty miles a day. Meteors of various sizes reach the earth in many places. A recent calculation shows that the increase of the earth’s weight annually from meteoric sources is about 90,000 tons. A novel portable electric lamp has been invented which finds a great demand in mines and for the use of firemen and workers in gas works, gunpowder and chemical factories. It burns several hours, can be readily charged, is light, handy and corm. paratively inexpensive. The study of the passage of Wolf's comet through the Pleiades has been interesting. Stars lying beyond the comet were quiet plainly visible through the tail of the comet; showing the absence of solid matter in the comet. A disinfectant which combines cheapness with general worth is found in permaganate of potash. One ounce will make a bucketful of disinfectant. It is a crystal and can ' be kept in this state until ready for use. Prof. Foote, of Philadelphia, recently read a paper in Washington, giving a graphic description of the meteoric ore containing diamonds which was lately discovered in Arizona. - Recent calculations upon the pace of the sun place it at about forty miles a second.

Vain Appeal.

Scene: Double-bedded room at a hotel; couple of friends have retired for the night. Pierre —“Jean, are you asleep?” ‘ Jean —“No.” Pierre —“Then will you lend me 5 francs?” •Jean—(A deep snore.) — Recueil Anecdotique.

A Tiny Locomotive.

Probably the smallest ' locomotive ever constructed has just been made by William Jacobs, a mechinist of Mecklenberg township, Pennsylvania It weighs but one and one-quarter pounds and is a portion of. an eightday clock. Around the dial is a miniature railway track, and on this the tiny locomotive moves every five minutes.

YOUTH’S DEPARTMENT.

Ike’* New Visitor*. Ike Carlton was such a cruel boy! He would pull off the wings of flies, pin live butterflies to boards, break in the backs of turtles and amputate the legs of frogs. When any one remonstrated with him about his cruelty he would cry, “O pshaw! they can’t feel much,” and then go in quest of another victim. The long summer days* he devoted almost entirely to this wicked sport, and in time all the neighbors spoke of him as “Hard-hearted Ike Carlton.” To be sure the boy had no kind parents to teach him better, and the aunt who was bringing him up cared very little what he was about as long as he was not troubling her. One night Ike had not been in bed very long when a brilliant light suddenly filled his room and he sprang up to see What caused the illumination. There, seated in his best chair, he beheld an immense cat. The animal was actually larger than Ike himself, and by the time Ike had recovered from his- astonishment atseeing this visitor he discovered on another chair a turtle almost as big as the cat. Near by he saw a butterfly of extraordinary size, and when his eyes opened wider •he found that all the seats in his room were occupied by just such strange visitors. In fact there were more than the chairs could accommodate and these were seated on the floor. Presently they all began to talk at once, and they made such a hubbub that the cat rapped on a little stand that hq had drawn up in front of him and said in a very serious manner, “The jneetino’ will please come to order.” Instantly all voices were hushed, and then a frog who Was present stood up on his hind legs and looked so funny that Ike would have laughed outright had not the creature's words struck teror to his heart;•“Mr. President,” began the frog, “as the chairman of the committee for preventing cruelty to insects and animals of all descriptions, I arise to state what the committee has decided to do. We intend to make the last and greatest offender feel what our brothers and sisters have suffered. The culprit is the boy Ike Cari»ton. Mr. Housfe Flv is to pull out his eye lashes and a large bunch of hair. ” “O! but that will hurt!” yelled Ike from the seat which he had taken on his bed. ■ “That is no consideration,” said Mr. President. “You had no thought for the feelings of Mr. Fly’s brothers .when you cruelly pulled off their wings and legs and left them to suffer. That hurt, too. - “Mr. bullfrog,” continued the chairman of the committee, “you are to cut off one of his legs.” . “You wicked thing!” screamed Ike. “You don’t know what a painful operation that is. Besides, I can’t walk without my leg.” “'Neither could Mr. Bullfrog's brother,” answered the cat, “but you cut off his leg and left him wounded and bleeding. It hurt him just as much as it will you.” Ike groaned and wished he had not interfered with frogs. He remembered that he had -thus cruelly treated a poor helpless one that very morning.

“You, Mr. President, are to step on him and kick him all. around the room.” “But I won’t it,” cried Ike. “But you will be compelled to stand it,” calmly replied the president?“ You m ade my poor mother endure your kicks and abuses.” “I'll run out of the room’” thought Ike, and he slipped quietly to the door, only to find it locked and the key gone. Then he sat down in despair, and waited for further developments. “And last, but not least,” said the chairman of the committee, “Mr. Yellow*Butterfly is to pin him to.aboard so fast that he yrill have to Stick there and Suffer till he dies.” Ike was in agony. Could it be possible that these creatures would be -crueTenough to kill him? “Oh, please Mr. Cat, don’t let them murder me!” he cried, dropping on his knees before the president. “I am my aunt’s only nephew, and she would grive very much if I met such a violent death. And then, think how it would hurt to have a pin runthrough my body.” “But you didn’t consider the pain when you stuck pins through the bodies of many of Mr. Butterfly’s relations. Neither did you think of the sorrow of the mourners. We must make an example of some boy, jor these abuses will go on to the end of time. You are the worst offender, and at the last meeting we decided to make an example of you. Our relations are just as as sensive to pain as ■you are, Mr. Ike Carleton, and we have as much right to enjoy the good things of this world as you have." “But I didn’t think how it all hurt,” pleaded the frightened boy, “and I’ll promise never, never, never to do it again." « After that speech the committee had a consultation, and returned to say that they thought it better to show no mercy. If once let loose the boy would be as bad as before, and cruel boys had become the terror of the entire animal and insect world. Still Ike continued his pleadings, but the president turned down his furry ears and said to the members, “Form in line!" First came Mr. House Fly, who was all ready to tear out Ike's hair and eyebrows; next came Mr. Bullfrog with his big knife, prepared to amputate the boy’s leg; then Mr. President, ready to do; his part of .the abusing, and lastly, Mr. "Butterfly, carrying a prodigious -pin

with which he was to fasten the unhappy boy to a board. ‘•Oh. mercy! mercy!” screamed Ike, and with those words his horrible visitors vanished, and he awoke to the fact thsit he had been dreaming. “At any rate,” he said to himself, with a shiver, “I have been taught a lesson, and I’ll keep that promise I made to Mr. President. It will be easy enough, too, for I never again could hurt a living thing without feeling what 1 felt in my dream'. ’ The neighbors wondered thereafter what had caused such a - wonderful change to come over Ike Carlten, for he grew to be so gentle with insects and animals that his companions forgot his old nature, and gave him the name of “Ike Carlton, the tenderhearted.”- -

RECKLESS RAILROADING.

Western Examples of “Get There” Experiences. “Americans,” said an old traveler to a Philadelphia Press reporter, “are inclined to smile at Jules Verne’s story in “Around the World in Eighty Days’ of the transcontinental train that was run across the shaking bridge at lightning spe?d out West, and, as the story goes, the bridge fell in the chasm with a crash just as the train cleared it. These people declare that it is a fling at American carelessness. As a matter of fact there are just as foolhardy things done frequently on western railroads and nothing is evepthought of jfc ‘ 1 had an experience several years ago that I think parallels that of Phileas Fogg and of Passepartout. There are two lines of railroad running between Denver and Leadville. They are the Denver & Rio Grande and the Denver & South Park. They are both gingle tracked and narrow gauge. They follow different routes fio a point about "twelve miles below Leadville, in the Arkansas valley, from which point they use a singly track into Leadville. I don’t know how it is now, but in those days each company run one train each way daily. The train that left Denver in the evening over the South Park was due in Leadville early the next morning; but before it reached the mining city it was obliged to wait on a siding in the valley until the down train on the Rio Grande passed. The city of Leadville is perched on a plateau several hundred feet above the valley and the railroad winds down this slope. .A person standing out in the 1 valley can see the train winding down the hill, and it comes down with a reckless rush, but the siding is placed under the brow of a small hill that shuts off a view of the winding road to the city. “It was a frosty morning in summer when we reached this siding. Every one’s appetite was whetted to razor sharpness by the crisp mountain air, and every one was impatient to get on. But the Rio Grande was delayed. The men got put and stumped up and down and swore.. Some one suggested that they walk up to the point where they could see the hill and ascertain whether the train* was coming, but the Conductor warned them to stay by the train, as they would pull out th_e instant the Rio Grande passed. The point from which the hill would be visible was about 200 yards ahead of our engine. After waiting several minutes longer the conductor yelled to the engineer: “Jim, pull up and see if the blanked thing is coming.” Every one scrambled on board. I was no tenderfoot, and probably for that reason I stood on the lower steps of the platform ready to jump. We pulled up to the point from which the winding track was visible, and just as we reached it there was a cry of horror and a shout i 6lT ff My God! comes!* r Sure enough the down train was almost on tonjofus and coming at lightning Speed. Our engineer reversedhis lever quicker than he ever did before,, and in an instant we were shooting back to our siding. We reached it and the switch was barely closed as the Rio Grande went thundering down. “All right, Jim!” ■yelled the conductor, and as a whitefaced tenderfoot who had jumped clear over my head when a collision seemed inevitable climbed on board he turned to him and sneered: “Folks with white livers ought to stay east of the Missouri. ” The laws of China recognize seven causes for divoree. They are: Lasciviousness, jealousy, barreness, theft, disobedience, leprosy and talkativeness. The laws are for the protection of men; the women do not seem to be considered worth legal protection; a man is liable to punishment if he retains a wife who has been guilty of adultery. An eloping wife may be sold by the husband, and if she marries while absent from his house, she must suffer death by strangling. The legal power granted to men over their wives is pften tyr-. anically used and many instances are on record of the lowest kind of brutality being practiced. Polygamy is everywhere, and when A rich man has chosen his first wife with feet small enough to please him, he takes from two to five more whose feet may be of more useful size, but they must all be subject to the command and Control of the small footed one, the reason appearing to be that superior birth and breeding are thus marked. It is hard to believe but it is nom, the less true that men are asked'to work by millionaire dry goods men for $6 a week from 7:30 in the morning until 6in the evening. Yet such is the fact, and many so circumstanced and with families endure a constant struggle to keep the wdlf from the door on this miserablejpit tance.

WAITING FOR A CHANGE.

Reciprocity with Canada Not Possible with Tories in PowerSeveral Liberal* visit Washington to Lear* the CauM<of Delay in Negotiation*. Several of Canada’s public men art quietly dropping into Washington with a view to ascertaining why it was that th* reciprocity conference set for Oct. 12, was so suddenly dropped. The prevailing Opinion among them is that our authorities believe there is no real desire to have any conference with the present Tory government of Canada, and that we are waiting a change of party power in Canada This is the second conference which has been declared off, and the Canadian visitors want to find out if there is not som« underlying cause for these repeated fail* ures. Thomas P. Gorman, editor of ths Ottawa Free Press, is among the visitors* He called at the White House Friday and had a ten minutes’ talk with. the Preaiv dent concerning the cause of delay and the attitude of the government toward Canada. The President assured Mr. Gorman that there was nothing in the post.* ponement further than that it was no convenient to discuss the question at the present time. He had only good things to say of our northern neighbors, and in a general way expressed the hope that mors cordial relations would be established between the two countries. Nothwithstanding this assurance. Mr, Gorman and his associates believe tha* the anti-character of the Tory party now in power in Canada is the real cause of the failure to secure a conference. The ministers who have succeeded Sir *John McDonaldentertain the bigoted animostity hgainst the United States which has long characterized thfi’ Tory party of Canada and the mother country, It is the remnant of the royal stock which antedates Mie revolution. Public-opinion in Canada has forced the Tory ministers to adopt a pretense of reciprocity, but it offends their loyalist views and is merely a surface effort toward kindly relations with this country. The President and Mr. Blaine appreciate this and are waiting for the Tories to be turned out, as is confidently expected by public men here. With a Liberal government in power pledged to cordial relations with the United States, there will be little difficulty in having the President and Mr. Blaine arrange a conference with the Canadians. Mr. Gorman and his associates who are here, are among the most conspicuous Liberals of Canada. They have not only talked with the President, but with Senator Morgan, Roger Q. Mills and other Democratic leaders. On all hands the ex-: pression is general that the fall of the old Tory bigots in Canada will remove the last obstacle in the vyay of extended trade relations between the tiVo countries.

LET THEM WAVE.

Monster World’s Fair Tower 1130 Feet High to be Built at Chicago. The Stars and Stripes are to wave 1120 feet above ,the ground—higher: than ever the flag has Waved before. It is to be done (luring the World’s FairJrom an American, tower that will dit-Eiffel Paris. The builder is to be Andrew.. Carnegie, of Pittsburg. Over twenty-five thousand people will be accommodated in the tower at one time, and two of the many elevators are to start from the grouild and run more than one thousand feet up, without change or stop, directly to the lookout landing. The width of the tower at the foundation level is 440 feet in each direction. After long continued negotiations the Keystone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg, one of Andrew Carnegie’s concerns, ha made offers in writins-that are satisfactory to the promoters. A conference was hcfd' at the Union League Club on the 15th with Mr. A. L. Giiffin, of this company, and Mr. Edward F. Cragin, representing the promoters and several capitalists. As a result, the Keystone company has agreed In writing to construct the metal portion of the tower and have it completed February 1,1893The company will have to pay heavy forfeits per day for any delay beyond that time. President .Griffin expects that the tower, however, will be built by October 12,1892, less than one year from date. In that case a bonus is exacted for the time saved. Options have been secured on the ground immediately adjoining the world’s fair site and arrangements made with the world’s fair officials, if desired, so that the tower grounds cshall be Included within their jurisdiction. After long and careful study the designs have been completed by engineer George Morrison, of the city. He estimates that the earning capacity will 1 be nearly four times that of the Eiffel tower. The cost will be about (1,500,000. The cost of the Eiffel tower was a little less than (1,700,000. The difference Is in the greater simplicity of design Of the American tower and the use of standard and merchantable sizes of steel. Tne Secretary of Agriculture is being greatly annoyed by some person in Washington, who is sending postal cards to new members of Congress, offering for sale 800 copies of the Agricultural Report and 216 copies of the special report on diseases of the horse, The number advertised of each of these reports is exactly the allotment of a member of the Fifty-first Congress, and the conclusion is irresistible that some member of that body is converting into money documents which Congress voted for the use and benefit of his constituents. Secretary Rusk, when asked about the matter, gave it as his opinion that the constituency of a member who would thus dispose of government publications should be made aware of the in order that they might elect a member who would ; faithfully carry out the intent' of the law governing these publications. He says,, however, that there is probably no way ini which the party eould be detected and exposed. ... Commodore N. D. Ingraham, the last of the.suyvivors of the war of 1812, died at Charleston, S. C., on thelTth. '? • k