Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 12, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 January 1889 — Page 2
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more formal than we, and say: wish you a prosperous and happy Year and may you see heaven Your death." In all cases even
poorer classes offer refreshments, and it is not considered courteous to refuse to partake. Some of those who cling to old-time politeness still carry their hats under their arms, on their calls, that fill up the day; From) early morning tul late afrnight is given up to festivity and friendliness. Even Santa Clans in Cans da makes- his -rounds on New. Year's Eve. The day, with its slightly lengthening sunshine, is recognised a truly the beginning of the year
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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. GODIiINESS IS PBOPlTABIiE UNTO -ALiLi THINGS. It Softeni the Temper, Protects the Health Induces Industry Fits a Man for Basin ess, , Soothes His Stay on Bart h and Gives Him Promise of Eternal life. Rev-' Dr. Talmaije pieached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: "Does Religion JEay? Text, Timothy iy., 8. Ho said: A happy New-Year to one and sill There is a gloomy and passive way of waiting for the events of the opening year to come upon us, and there is a heroic way of going out to meet them, strong in God &nd fearing nothing. TVhen the body of Catiline was found on the battle-field it was found far in advance of all bis troops, and among the enemy: and the beat way is not for us to Ke ; down and let the events of life trample over us, but to go forth in a Christian spirit determined to. conquer. .Nowt in the first place, I remark that Godtineesis good for a man's physical health. I do not mean to say that it will restore a broken-down constitution or drive rheumatism from the limbs, or neuralgia from the temples, or pleurisy from the side; but I do mean f o say that it gives one such habits and pot one in such condition as is most favorable for physical health." That believe, and that I avow. Everybody knows that buoyancy of spirit; is good physical advantage. GJoom unrest, dejection are at war with every pulsation of the heart and with every respiration of the lungs. It lowers the vitality, .it slackens the circulation, while exhilaration of spirit pours the very balm of Heaven through all the currents of life. The sense of insecurity which sometimes hovers over
an unregenerate man, or pounces
upon him with the blast ot ten thousand trumpets of terror, - is most depleting and most exhausting, while the feeHnsr that all
things are working together for my
good now, and for my everlastine wel
fare, is conducive to physical health.
r on win oDser ve tnat uocuiness in
duces industry, which is the foundation of good health! There is no law of
hygiene that will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab hhn, erysipelas will bum him jaundice will discolor him, gout will crippie him, and the intelli
gent nnysician will not prescribe anti
septic or febrifuge, or anodyne, but saws
and hammers and yardsticks and crowbars and pickaxes. There is no such things as good physical condition without positive work of some kind,although
you snouia sleep on -aown oi swan; or
ride in carnage of softest upholstery, or
nave on your taaxe ail tne luxuries tnat
were poured from the wine vats of Ispa.han and Shira,s Oh, how important in this day, when
so mucn is saia aoout anatomy and physiology and thereaneutics and some new style of medicine is ever and' anon " springing upon the world; that you should understand that the highest school of medici ne is the school of Christ.
which declares that Godliness is profitable
unto autnmgs, navmg tne promise oi the life that now is as well as of that which is to come." So if you tart out two men in the world with equal phyei-. cal health, and then one of them shall jet the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ in his heart, and the ot her shall not get it, the one who becomes a son of flie Lord Almighty will live the longer. Again I remark that Godliness is good for the intellect I know some have supposed that just as soon- as a man enters into the Christian life his intellect goes into a bed warfing process. So far from that, religion will give new brilliancy to the intellect, new strength to the imagination, new force to the will, and wider swing to all the intellectual faculties; .Christianity is the great central fire at which Philosophy has lighted - its brightest torch. The religion of the Lord Jesos Christ is the fountain out of which Learning has dinped its clearest draught. The Helicon poured forth no such inspiring waters as those which flow from order the throne cf God r clear as crystal. " Beligipn has given new energy to Poes y, weeping in Dr. Young's aNizhthouaats,'?teachinein Cowner's
Task,? flaming in Charles Weslev's
hymns, and rushing with archangeiie splendor thrcngh Milton's 'Paradise Lost" The religion of Jesus Christ has
hung in studio and in gallery of art and
m Vatican tne oest pictures. Keligion has made the best music of the world. It is possible that a religion which builds such indestructible monuments.
and which lifts its ensign on the highest
prcmontones or worldly power, can
nave any eneut upon a man's intellect
but elevation and enlargement? Now, ' I commend Godliness as the best mentel discipline better than belleslettres to purify the taste, better than mathematics to harness the mind to all intricacy and elaboration better than logic to marsJial the intellectual forces for onset and victorv.v It will go with Hngh Miller and show him the footprints of the Creator in the red sandstone. It will go with the botanist and show him celestial glories encamped under the curtain of a water-lily. It will go with the astonomer on the great heights wherj God shepherds the great flock of worlds, that wander on the hills of heaven, answering His voice as He calls them all by their names. , Again I remark that Godliness is profitable for our disposition. Lord
Ashley before he went into a great battle, was hear?! to offer this prayer: 6 Lord, I - shall be very busy to-day. If I forget Thee, forget me not." With'such a Christian disposition as that, a man is independent of all circumstances. Our piety will have a tinge of bur natural temperam ent If a man be cross and soar and fretful naturally, after he becomes a Christian he will always have to be armed against the rebellion of those evil inclinations; but religion has tamed" the wildest nature; it has turned f retf illness into gratitude, de-
uncompromising have been made pliable and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not effect the change. It takes a mightier arm and a mightier hand to bend evil habits than
the hand that bent tne bow ot u lyases, and it takes a stronger lasso than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A man can not go forth with any human weapons and contend successfully agai nst these Titans armed with nptorn moin"tains. But you have known then into whose spirit the influence of the Gospel Of Christ came, until their disposition was entirely chan ged. Again I remark that religion is good for a man's worldly business. I know the general theory is, the more business the less religion, the more religion the less business. Not so thought Dr. Hans, in this "Biography of a Christian Merchant," when he says: "He grew in grace the last six years of
his life more than at any time m his life; during those six years he had more business crowd ing his life than at s any other time." In othe words, the more worldly business a man has, the more opportunity to serve God. Does religion exhilarate or retard worldly business? is the practical question for you to discuss. Does it hang like a mortgage over the farm? Is it a bad debt on the ledger? Is it a Ken against the estate. Does it crowd the door through which customers come for broadcloths and silks? Now religion will hinder your business if it be a bad business or if it be a good business wrongly couducted. If you tell lies behind the counter, if you use
false weights and measures, if you put
sand in the sugar and :.bset-mce in your
vinegar, and lard in your butter, and
sell for one thing that which is another
thing, then religion will interfere with
that business; but a lawful business Jaw-
fullv conducted, will - find the religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ its mightest
auxiliary. :
Religion will give an equipoise of
spirit, it will keep you from ebulitions of
temper it will Keep you irom wornment about freauent loss, it will keep
you industrious and prompt, it will keep you back from squandering an d from 3is8ipaticn, it will give you a kindness nf snirit which will be easily distin
guished from that mere store courtesy which shakes hands violently with you, asking about the health of your family when their is no anxiety tp know
whether vour child is well or sick; but
the anxiety is to know how many dozen camoric pocket-handkerchiefs v you will
take and nay cash down, it will, pre-
nare von for the practical duties of
everv dav life. I do not mean to say
that religion will make us financially rich, but I do pay that it will give us, it will asure us of a comfortable sustenance
at the start, a comfortable subsistence
all the way through, and it will help us to direct the hank, to manage the traffic, to conduct all our business matters, and
to makejthe moat insignificant affair of our life a matter of vast importance
glorified bv Christian pnncples.
How can vou get along without this
religion? Is your physical health so good you do not want this divine tonic?
is your mind so clear, so vast, so com prehensive, that you do not want this divine insDiration? Is your worldly
business so thoroughly established that
vou have not use for that religion
which has been the help and deliverance of tens of thousands of
men in. crises of worldly trouble? And, if what I have said this morning is true,
then vou see what a fatal blunder... it is
when a man adjourns to life's expiration
the uses of religion. A man who postpones religion to sixt? years of age gets religion fifty years too late. He may
get into the kingdom ot God by final repentance; but what can compensate him for a whole lifetime' unalienated and uncomforted? You want religion to-day in the training of that child. You
will want Teligion to-morrow in dealing with that Western customer. You wanted religion yesterday to curb your
temper. Is your arm strong enough to beat your way through the floods? Can you, without being encased in the mail
of God's eternal help, go forth amid the assault of all hell's sharp-shooters? Can
you walk alone across these crumbling
graves and amid these gaping earthquakes? Can vou, water-logged and
mast shivered, outlive the gale? Oh,
how many there have been who, postponing the religion of Jesus C brist,nave
plunged into mistakes they never could correct although they lived eighty years after, and like serpents crushed undei cart-wheels, dragging their maimed bodies under the rocks to die. Down at His feet, all churches, all
ages, all earth, ail heaven. Down at
His feet the four-and-twenty eiders on their faces. Down the "great multitude that no man can number." Down Michael
the archangel! Down all worlds at
His feet and . worshi p. "Glory to 1 God in the highest, and on earth peace,goodwill to men!"5
Pf TBY AKD PUNGENT POINTS.
A. Jtsrooxiyn cat got into the store p
an oyster dealer one night last week and
devoured eight quarts of oysters.
The Government pays the Adams Express Company $175,000 annually for
the transportation of bonds and specie
to different sections of the United
States' .: An old dog owned by Hiram Tate o
Tyrone Pa.-, which had lost its teeth and
had to be fed likea baby,is growing nine
new teeth and eats meat almoBt as well
as ever. -
There are 15,000 photographic establishments in the United States, furnish
ing employment to about 50,000 people.
Less than fifty years ago there was.no t
photographic camera in the world.
A London physician has a copy of the
Bible written in shorthand, probably the
only copy in the world. It is a volume
of comparatively small size and the
characters are exquistiveiy written.
The cause of women's rights in Prance
has progressed to the point of the intro
duction of a bill to grant to trades wo-
women paying license the right to vote
at electiomof Judges of the Tribunal of
Commerce. . -
Drawing room cars from the United States have been placed on the Chillian
Bailway between Valparaiso and Santi
ago. It is found to be very difficult to
prevent the passengers from smoking in
them, although a smoking car has been
added. v RegTxIating One's Weight.
A medical journal gives the following
practical advice for lean and fat people:
To increase the weight: Eat, to the
extent of satisfying a natural appetite, of fat meate, butter, cream, milk, cocoa, chocolate, bread, potatoes, peas, pars
nips, carrots, beets, farinaceous foods, as
Indian corn, rice, tapioca, sago, corn starch, pastry, custards, oatmeal, sugar,
sweet wines and ale. Avoid acids. Exercise as little as possible; sleep all you can and don' t worry or fret. To reduce
the weight: Eat to the extent of satisfy
ing a natural'appetite. of lean meat, poultry, game, eggs, milk moderately, green
vegetables, turnips,-succulent fruits; tea,
or coffee. Drink lime juice, lemonade, and acid drinks. Avoid fat, butter, cream, sugar, pastry, rice, sago, tapioca, corn starch, potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips, and sweet wines. Exercise freely. - 'Wants. Opossums. -Maj. D. A. Cook, of Atlanta, sold 202 acres of Georgia land to a neighbor last week for 295 opossums, the opossums to he delivered in installments of fifty
epondency into good cheer, and those
who were hd and ungovernable and annaajly for the next five years.
KING SOLOMON'S MINES. BY H. HIDE It HAGGARD.
CHAPTER III. RUNBOPANTKRS OUR SERVICE. It takes from four to five days, according to the vessel and the state of the
weather, to run up frbm the Cape to
Durban. Sometimes, if the landing is
bad at East London, where they; have
not yet got that wonderful harbor they talk so much ot, and sink such a mint of money in, one is delayed for twentyfour hours before, the cargo boats can get out to take the goods off. But on this occasion we had not to wait at all, for there were no breakers on the Bar to speak of, and the tugs came out at once with their long strings of ugly fiat-bottomed boats, into which the goods were bundled with a crash. It did not matter what they were, over they w ent slap Dang, whether they were china or woolen
goods they met wiuvuiesauiu weamujuu I saw one'case containing four dozen of champagne smashed all to bits, and there was the champagne fizzing and boiling about in the bottom of the dirty cargo boat. It was a wicked waste, and so 'evidently the Kafirs in the boat thought, for they found a couple of unbroken bottles, and knocking the tops off drunk the contents. But they had not allowed for the expansion .caused by the fizz in the wine, and feeling themselves swelling rolled about in the bottom of the boat, calling cut that the good liquor was "tagati" (bewitched). I spoke to them from be vessel, and told them that it was the white man's strongest medicines, and that they were as good as dea men. They went on to the shore in a very great fright., and I do not think that they will touch champagne again. . Well, all the time we were running up to Natal I was thinking., .over.. Sir Henry Curtis's offer. . We did not speak anv more on the subject for a day or two, though 1 told them many hunting yarns, all true. ones. : There is no need to tell lies about hunting, for so many curious things happen within the knowledge of a man whose business it is to hunt; but this is by the way. At last, one beautiful evening in January, which is our hottest month, we steamed along the coast of Natal, expecting to make Durban Point by sunset. It is a lovely coast all along from East Loudon, with its red sandhills and wide sweeps of vivid green, dotted here aud there with Kafir kraals, and bordered by a ribbon of white surf, -which spouts up in pillars of foam where it hits the rocks. But just before yon get to Durban there is a peculiar richness about it. There are the deep kloofs cut in the hills by the rushing rains of centuries, v down which the rivers sparkle; there is the deepest green of the bush, growing as God planted it, and the other greens of the mealie gardens and the sugar patches, while here and thera a white house, smiling out at the placid sea, puts a finish and gives an air of homeliness to the scene.. For to my mind, however beautiful a view may be, in requires the presence of man to make it complete, but perh"aps that is because I have lived so much in-tne wilderness, and therefore know the value of civilisation, though to be sure it drives away the game. The Garden of Eden, no doubt, was fair before man was, but. I always think it must have been fairer when Eve was walking about it. But we had miscalculated a little, and the sun was
well down before we dropped anchor off
the Point, and heard the jun which tola the good folk that the English Mail was in. It was too late to think of getting over the Bar that night, so we went down comfortably to dinner, after seeing the Mails carted off in the life-boat When we came tip again the moon was up, aud shining" so brightly over sea and shore . . that . she almost paled the quick large flashes from the lighthouse. From the shore floated sweet spicy odors that always remind me of hymns aud missionaries, and in the windows of the houses on the Berea sparkled a hundred lights. From a large brig lying near came the music of the sailors as they worked at getting the anchor up" to be ready for the wind. . A ltogether it was a perfect night, such a night as you only get in Southern Africa, and it threw a garment oi peace over everybody as the moon threw a garment of silver over everything. Even the great bulldog, belonging to a sporting passenger, seemed to yield to the gentle influences, and giving'up yearning to come to close quarters with the baboon in a cage on
the foc'sle, snored happily in the. door
of the cabin, dreaming no doubt that he
had finished him, and happy in his
dream. .;- "We allthat is, Sir Henry 'Curtis
Captain Good, and myself went and sat bv the wheel, and- were ouiet for
awhile.
"Well. Mr. Quatermain" said Sir
Henry, presently, "have s you been thinking about my proposals?" .
"A," echoed Captain Good,, "what do you think of them, Mr. Quatermain? I hope you are going to give us the
pleasure of your company as far as Solomon's Mines, or wherever the gentle
man you knew as Neville may have got
to." ... I rose and knocked out my.,' pipe before I answered. I had not" made up my mind, and wanted the additional moment to complete it. Before the burning tabacco had fallen into the sea it was completed; just that little extra second did the trick. It is often the way when you have been bothering a long time over a thing. "Yes, gentlemen," I said, sitting down again, "I will go, and by your leave I will tell you why and on. what terms. First for terms which I ask, "1. You are to pay all expenses, and any ivory or other valuables we may get is to be divided between Captain Good and myself. "2. , That you pay me 500. for my services on the trip before we start, I undertaking to serve you faithfully till you choose to abandon the enterprise, or till we succeed, or disaster overtakes us. t. .., "3. That before wo fitart you execute a deed agreeing, in the event or disablement, to pay my boy Harry, who is studying medicine over there in London at Guy's Hospital, a sum of 200 a year for. five years, by which time he ought to be able to earn a living for himself. That is all, I think, and I dare say you will say say quite enough too." "No," answered Sir Henry, "I accept them gladly. I am Dent upon this project, and would - pay. more, than that
for your help, especially considering the peculiar knowledge you possess." "Very well. And now that I" have
made my terms I will tell you my rea
sons lor making up my mind to go.
First of all, gentlemen, -1 have been ob
serving you both for the last few days,
and if you will, not think me imperti
nent I will say that I like you, arad think that we shall come up wll to the yoke together. That is something, let me
tell you, when one han a long journey
like thi-j before one, 3
"And now as to the journey itself, I
tell you flatty, Sir Henry and Captain
Good, that I do not think it probable that we can como out of it alive, that is
if we attempt to cross the Suliman
Mountains. What was the fate of the
old Don da Silvesta three hundred years ago? What was tha fate of his
lescft ndant twenty Wba years ago
has been your : brother's lale? I tell you
rankly, gentlemen, that as their fate
wa si 1 oeiieve ours win do.
I paused so watch the. effect of my
words. Captain boon looaed a little
uncomfortable, 1 but Sir Henry's face
did not change. "We must take our chance," he said.
"You may perhaps wonder," I went
on, " hy . if I think this, 1, who am, as I told you, a timid man, should under-
ake such a journey. It 13 for two , rea-
pons, rust, 1 am a lataust, ana DO'ieve
that my time is appointed to come
quite iudependenly of. my own movements, and that if lam to go to Suliman 's Mountains to be killed, Lshall go there
and pa killed there. .God Almighty, no
doubt, knows His mind about me; so I. need not trouble on that point. Secondly, I am a poor man. For nearly forty years I have hunted and traded, but I have never made more than a living, Well, gentlemen, 1 don't know that you are aware that tbe average life of an elephant-hunter from tho time he takes to the trade is from four to five years. So you see l have lived through about seven generations of my class, and I should think that my time can not be far off anyway. Now, if anything were to happen to me 111 the ordinary course of business, by the time my debts were paid there would be nothing left to support my son Harry whilst he was getting in the way bi earning a living, whereas now he would be provided for for five years. There is the whole affair in a nutshell." "Mr. Quatermain," said Sir Henr, who had been giving me the most serious attention: "your motives tor undertaking an enterprise which you believe can only end in disaster reflect a great deal of credit on you. Whether or not you are right, time and the event of course alone can show. But whether you are right or wrong, I may as well tell you at once that I am going through with it to the end, sweet or bitter. If we are goin 2 to be knocked on
the head, all I have to say is that I hope
we shall get a httla shooting hrstr eh, Good?" "Yes, yes," put in the captain. "We have all three of usi been accustomed to
face danger, and hold our uvea in our hands in various ways, so it is no good
turning back now."
"And now I vote we go down to the saloon aud take an observation, just for
luck, you know." And we did through the bottem of a tumbler.
Next day we went ashore, and I put
Sir Henry and Captain Good, up at the little shanty I have on the Berea, and which I call mv home. There are only
three rooms and a kitchen in it, and it is built'of green brick with a gaivanized
iron roof, but there is a good garden with the best toqnot trees in it that I
know, and some nice young mangoes, of
which I hope great things. The curator
of the botauical gardens cave them to
me. It is looked after bv an old hunter
of mine, named Jack, whoso thigh was
so bad'y broken by a buffalo cow in Si-
kukums country, that he will never hunt again. But he can potter about
mv garden, being a Griqua by birth.
You can never get your Zulu to take
much interest in gardening, it is a
peaceful art. and peaceful arts are not
in his line. ....
Sir Henry and Good slept in a tent pitched in my little grove of orange trees at the end of the garden (for there
was no room for them in the house),and what with the am ell of the bloom and
the sight of the green and golden fruit
ior 111 uuroan vou win see an tnree on
the tree together 1 ciare say it is a
pleasant place enough (for we have few mosquitoes here unless there happens to come an unusually heavy rain.) Well, to get on for unless I do you will be tired. of my story before we fetch up at Suliman 's Mountains having
once made up my mind to go, I set about
making the necessary preparations.
.First I got the ded from Sir Henry.
providing for my boy in case of accident.
There was some difficulty about, getting this legally executed, as Sir Henry was a
stranger here, and the property to be
charged was over the water, hut it was
ultimately got over with the help of a lawyer, who charged 20 for the job a price that I thought outrageous. Then I got my check for 500. Having paid this tribute to toy bump of caution, I bought a wagon and a span, of. oxen on Sir Henry's behalf, and beauties they were. It was a twenty-two foot wagon with iron axles, very strong, very light, and built throughout of stink wood. It .asnot quite a new one, having been to the Diamond Fields and back, but in my opinion it was all the better for that,
tor one could see that the wood was
well seasoned. If anything is going to give in a wagon, or if there is green wood in it, it will show out on the first trip. It was what we call a "half-tented" wagon, that is to say, it was only covered in over the after twelve feet, leaving all the front part free for the necessaries that we had to carry wish us. In this after part was . a hide "cartie," or bed, on which two people could sieep, also racks for rifles, and many other little conveniences. I gave 125 for it, end think it was cheap at the price. Then 1 bought a beautiful team of twenty salted Zulu oxen, which I had had my eye on for a year or two. Sixteen oxen are the usual number ior a team,
but I had four extra to allow for casual
ties. These Zulu oxen are small and light, not more than half the size of the
Africander oxen, which are generally used for transport purposes; but they will live where the Africanders will
starve, and with a light load will make five miles a day better going, being
quicker and not so liable to get footsore.
What is more, this lot were thoroughly
"salted," that is, ' they had worked a 1
oyer south Airica, and so had oecome proof (comparatively speaking) against red water, which so frequently destroys
whole teams ot oxen when they get on
to strange 'veldt (grass country). As
for "lung sick," which is a dreadful form of pneumonia, very prevalent in
this country, they had ah been inoculat-
ed against it. This is done by cutting a alit m the tail of an ox, and binding in a
piece of the diseased lung of an animal
which has died of the sickness. The
result is that the ox sickens, takes the
disease in a mild form, which causes its
tail to drop off, as a rule about a foot from the root, and becomes proof against future attacks. It seems cruel to rob the
animal of his tail, especially in a country where there are so many flies, but it is betier to sacrifice the tail and keep the ox, for a tail without an ox is not much good except to dust with. ... Still, it does look odd to trek along behind twenty stumps, where there ought to be tails. It seems as though nature had made a trifling mistake, and stuck the stern ornaments of a lot of prize bull dogs on to the rumps of the oxen. & , Next came the question of provision
ing and medicines, one which required
the-most earehil consideration, ior what one had to do was to avoid lumbering
the wagon up, and yet take everything absolutely necessarv. Fortunately, it
turned out that Good was a bit
of a doctor, having at" some
period in his, previous earer managed to pass, through a course of medi--I . 1 i - 1
cai ana surgical instruction, wnicn .ne
had more or iless kept up. He was not, of course, qualified, but he knew more
about it than many a man who could write M. D. alter his name, as we found out afterward., and he had a splendid
travelin g med i cin e chest and set of instruments. Whilst we were at Durban he cut off a Kaffir's big toe in a way which it was a pleasure to see. But lie was quite flabbergasted when the Kaffir, who had sat stolidly watching the opera
tion, asked him to put on another, saying that a "white one" would do at a pinch. ...... There remained, when these questions were satisfactorily settled, two further important points : . for consideration, namely, that of arms and that of ser
vants. As to the arms I could not do better than put down a list of those we finally decided on from among the ample store of Sir Henry had brought with him from England, and those which I had. I copv it from my pocketbook, where I made the entry at tbe time: "Three heavy, breech loading doubleeight elephant .'guns, weighing about fifteen pounds each, with a charge of eleven drachms of black powder." Two of these were by a weitrknown London firm., most excellent makers, but I do not know by whom mine,
which was not so highly finished, was made. I had used it on several trips,
and shot a good, many elephants with it, and it. had always proved a most
superior weapon, tuorougmv to pe relied on. .,
"Three double .500 expresses, constructed to carry a charge of six drachms," sweet weapons, and admirable for meciium-sizwd game, such as eland or sable antelope, or for men,
especially in an open country and whh the semi-hollow bullet. "One double No. 12 central-fire Keeper's shot gun, full choke both barrels." This gun proved of the greatest service to us afterward in shooting game for the pot 'Three Winchester repeating rifles (not carbines), spare guns. "Three single-action Colt's revolvers with the heavier pattern of cartridge.' This was our total armament, and the reader will doubtless observe , that the
weapons of each class were of the same
inaKe and caliber so that the cartridges were interchangeable, a very important point. I make no apology for detailing it nt length, for every experienced hunter will know how vital a
proper supply of guns and ammunition
is to the success of an expedition. Now, as to the men who were to go with us. After much consultation we decided that their number should be limited'to five, namely, a driver, a leader, and three servants.
The driver and leader I get without
much diffiulty, two Zulus, named respectlj Goza and Tom; but the servants
wore a more dimcuit matter, it was
necessary that they should be thoroughly trust worth 5r and brave men, as in a business of this sort our lives might depend upon their conduct. At last I
secured two, one a Hottentot cal cd
Ventvogol (wind-bird), and one a little Znhi named Khiva, who had the merit
of speaking English perfectly. Vont-
vogel I had known before; he was one of
the most perfect "spooners (game
trackers) I ever had to do with, and
tough as whipcord. He never seemed
to tire. But he had one failing, so com
mon with his race, drink, rut him
within reach of a bottle of grog and you could not trust him. But us we were
going beyond the region of grog shops
this little weakness 01 his um not so
much matter. ...
Having got these two men I looked
in vain for a third to suit my purpose
so we determined to start wi thout one, trusting o luck to find a suitable man
on our way up-countrv. But on the
evening before the day we had fixed for
our departure the Zulu Khiva informed
me that, a man was waiting to see me.
Accordingly when we bad done dinner, for we were at table at the time, I told him to bring him in. Presently a very tall, handsome-looking man, somewhere about thirty years of age, and very light-colored ior a Zulu, entered, and, lifting his knot-stick by way of salute, squatted himself down in the corner on his haunches, and sat silent. I did not take any notice of him for a while, for it is a great mistake to do so. If ycu rush into conversation at ouce a Zulu is apt to think you a person of little dignity or consideration. I observed, however, that he was a "Keshla" (ringed man), that is, that he wore on his head the black ring, made of a species ot gum polished with fat and worked in . with the hair, usually assumed by Zulus on attaining a certain age or dignity. Also it struck me that his facewas familiar to me. "Well," I said at last, "what is your name?" "TJmbopa," answered the man in a slow, deep voice. , "I have seen your face before." . "Yes; the Inkoosi" (chief) "saw my face at the place of the Little Hand" (Isandhlwana) "the day before the battle." .... Then I remembered, I had been one of Lord Chelmsford's guides in that unlucky Zulu war, and had the good fortune to leave the camp in charge of some wagons the day before the battle. While I had heen waiting for the cattle to be ins panned I had fallen into conversation with this man, 'jvho held some small command among, the native auxiliaries, and he had expressed to me his doubts of the safety of the camp. At the time I had told him to hold his tongue, and leave such matters to wiser heads; but afterward I thought of his words. "I remember, I said; "what is it you want?" ' "It iB ihi8, Macumazahn (that is my Kafir name, and means the man who gets up in the middle of the night, or in vulgar English, he who keeps his eyes open.) I hear thatyvu go on a great expedition far into the North with the white chiefs from over the water. Is it a true word?" "It is." "I hear.that that you go even tp the Lukanga River, a moons journey beyond the Manica country. Is this so also, Macumazahn?" "Why do you ask whither we go? What is it to thee?" I answered, rather suspiciously, for the object of our journey had been kept a dead secret. . "It is this, O white men! that if indeed you travel so far that I would travel with you." There was a certain assumption of dignity in the man's speech, and especially in his. use of the words "O white men!" instead of "O Inkosis" (chiefs.) which struck me. . "You forget yourself a little," I said, your words come out unawares. That is not the way to speak. What is your name, and where is your kraal? Tell us that we may know with whom we have to deal." : "My name is Urapoba. I am of the Zulu people,yet not of them. The house of my tribe is in the far North; it was left tiehind .when the Zulus came down here a 'thousand years ago,' long before Chaka reigned in Zululand. : I have no kraal .1 have wandered for m anv years. I came from the North as a child to Zululand. I was Cetywayo's man in Nkomabakosi Regiment. I ran away from Zululand and came to Natal because I wanted to see the white man's ways. Then I served against Cety way o in the. war. Since then I have been working in Natal. Now I am tired, and would go North, again. Here is my place. 1 want no money, but I am a brave man, and am worth my place and meat. I have spoken," I was rather puzzled at this man and his way of speech. It was evident to me from his manner that he was in the main telling the truth, but he was somehow different from the ordinary run of Zulue, and I rat her mistrusted his offer to como without pay. Being in a difficulty, I translated his words to Sir Henry and Good, and asked them their opinion. Sir Henry told me to ask him to stand up. Umbopa did 60, at the same time slipping off the long military great-coat he wore, and revealing him
self naked except for the moocha round his center and a neclace of lion's claws. He certainly was a magnificent-looking man; I never saw a finer looking native. Standing about six feet three high and broad in proportion, and very, shapely. In that light, too, his skin looked scarcely more than dark, except here and there where deep black scars marked
assegai wounds. Sir Henry walked up
to him and looked into his proud, hand
some face.
"They make a good pair, don't they"
said Good; "one as big as the other."
"I lute your looks, Mr. Umbopa, and
I will take you as my servant," said Sir
Henry, in English.
umbopa evidently understood him,
for he answered in Zulu, "It is well;"
and then with a glance at the white
man's great statue and breadth, "we are men, you and 1? CHAPTER IV. AN ELEPHANT HUNT. Now I do not propose to narrate at full length all the incidents of our long
journey opto Litanda's Kraal near the junction of the Lnkanga and Kalukwe rivers, a journey of more than a thousand miles from Durban, the last three hundred or so of which, owing to the frequent presence of the terrible "tsetse" fly, whose bite is fatal to all animals except donkeys and men, we had to make on foot. We left Durban at the end of January and it was in the second week in May that we camped near Sitanda's Kraal. Our adventures on the way were many and various, but as they were of the sort which befall every African hunter, I shall notwith one exception, to be presently detailed-set them, down
here, least I should render this history too wearisome. L At Inyati, the outlaying trading station in the Matabele country, of which
Lobengula a great sconndren is King,
we with m anv regrets parted from our
nrfrhihlft wnprons. Onlv twelve oxen
remained to us out of the beautiful span
01 twenty wiucu 1 uuu uuugm i
ban. One we had lost from the bite. 01 a cobra, three had perished from poverty
and the want ot water, one nan ueen lost and the other three had died
from eating the poisonous herb called
" Five more sickened irom this
caUse but wo cured theni with doses of
an infusiofl made by boiling down the tulip leaves. If administered m
Mm a fcliiM is verv cnectivu antidote.
The wagon and oxen wo left in the im-
meaiaie cuargtj vi uu V driver and leader, both of them trustctrrtffUv hnvR. reouesting a worthy
Scotch missionary who lived in this wild place to keep an eye to it. Then, accompanied by Umbopa, Khiva, venfcvogel, and a half dozen bearers whom we hired 011 the spbt, we started off on foot upon our wild quest. I remember wo were all a little silent on the occasion of that departure, and I think that each of us were wondering nf we should Bee that wagon again; for my part I never expected"to. For awliiie we tramped ou in silence, till Umbopa, who was marching in front, broke iuto a ulu chant about huw some brave Z?en tire of life and the tameness of things, started off into the wilderness to find uew, things or die, and how, lo, and behold
when they had got far into the wilderness, they found it was not a wilderness at all, but a beautiful place full of yoUng wives and fat cattle, of game to hunt and enemies to kill. Then we laughed and took it for a good omen. He was a cheerful savage was Umbopa, in a dignified sort of Way, when had not got one , of his fits of brooding, and had a wonderful knack of keeping one's spirits up. We all got very fond of him. And now for the one adventure I am going to treat myself to, for I dearly love a hunting vara. About a fortnight's march from In
yati, we came across a peculiarly beautiful bit of fairly watered wooded country. The kloofs in the hills were covered with dense bush, "idoro" bush as the natives call it, and in some places, with the "wacht-een-beche" (wait-a-lit-tle) thorn, and there were great quantities of the beautiful "maehabell" trees, laden with refreshing yellow fruit with enormous stones. This tree is the elephant's favorite food, and there were not wanting signs that the great brutes were, about ,for not only was their spoor frequent, but in many places the trees were broken down and even uprooted. The elephant is a destructive feeder. One evening after a long day's march, we came to a spot of peculiar loveliness. At the foot of a bush-clad, hill was a dry river bed, in which, however, were to he found pools of crystal water all trodden round with the hooi prints of game. Faci ng this hill was a park-like plain, where grew clumpsi of fiat-topped mimoso, varied with occasional glossy leaved machabells, aud all round was the great sea of pathless, silent bush. As we emerged into this river bed path we suddenly started a troop of tall giraffes, who galloped, or rather sailed off. with their. strange gait, their tails screwed up over their, backs, and their hoofs rattling like castanets. They were about three hundred yards from us, and therefore practically out of shot, but Good, who was. walking ahead, and had an. express ioaded with. solid ball in his hand, and could not resist, but upped the gun and let drive at the last, a young cow. By some extraordinary chance the ball struck it fuH in the back of the neck, shattering the spinal column, and that girafle went rolling head over heels like a rabbit. I never saw a more curious thing. "Curse it" .said Good for I am sorry to say he had a habit of using string language when excited contracted, no doubt, in the course of his nautical career, "curse itJI've killed him." . "Ou, Bougwan," ejaculated the Kafirs 'oulou!" They, called Good "Bougwan" (glasseye) because of his glasseye. "Oh, 'Bougwanl' " reechoed Sir Henry and 1, and from that day Good's reputation as a marvelous shot was established, at any rate among the Kafirs. Really he was a bad one, but whenever he missed we overlooked it for the sake of fiat girafte. - . Having set some of the "boys" to cut off the . best of the giraffe meat we went to work to build a "scherui" near one of the pools about a hundred yards to the right of it. This was done by cutting,; a quantity of thorn bushes aud, laying them in the shape of a circular hedge. Then the space inclosed is smoothed, and dry tombouki grass, if obtainable, is made into a bed in the center, and a fire or fires lighted. By the time the "scherni" was finished the moon was coming up, arid our dinner of giraffe steaks and roasted marrow hones was ready. How we enjoyed those marrow bones, though it was rather a job to crack them! I know no greater luxury than giraffe marrow bones, unlesa it is elephant's heart, and . we had that on the morrow. We eat our simple meal, pausing at times to thank Good for his wonderful shot, by the light of the full moon, and then we began to smoke, and yarn, and a curious picture we must have made squatted there. round the fire. I, with . my short grizzled hair sticking up straignt, and Sir Henry with his yellow locks, which were getting rather long, were rather a contrast, especially as I am thin, and short, and dark, weighing only nine stones and a half, and Sir Henry is tall, and broad and fair, and weighs fifteen. But perbani the most curious looking of the
three, taking all the circumstances of the
case into consideration, was Uaptam John Good. R. N. There he sat uoon a
leather bag, looking just as though he
naa come in irom a uomioriaoie aay s shooting in a civilized country, absolutely clean, tidy, and well dressed. He had ou a shooting sui t of brown tweed, with a hat to match and neat gaiters. He was, as usual, beautifully s saved, his eyeglass and his false teeth appeared to be" in perfect order, and altogether ho wai the neatest roan I ever had to
do with in the wilderness He ; even
had on a collar, of which he.hadasup- , , r . ' a. a - 1-
piy, made or wnue guua percua. "You see, they weigh so little," he said to me, innocently, when I expressed my astonishment at the fact; "I always like to look like a gentleman." Weill there we all sat yarning , away in the beautiful moonlight, and watching the Kaffirs a few yards off sucking their intoxicating "daccha" in a pipe of w hich the mouth piece was made of the horn of an eland, till they one by one rolled themselves up in their blankets and went to sleep by the fire, that is, all except Umbopa, who sat a little apart (I noticed he never mixed much with the other Kaffirs), his chin resting on his hand apparently thinking deeply. Presently, from the depths of the bush behind us, came a loud "woof, woof!" "That's a lion said I, and we alt started up to listen. Hardly had we done so. when from the pool, about a hundred
yards off, came the strident trumpeting
of an elephant, "lneuoui incuou.' (elephant! elephant!) whispered the Kafirs: and a few minutes fl'trward we
saw a succession of vast shadowy forms
moving slowty trom the tureerion 01 tne wa'er toward the bush. Up ;,jumped Good, burning for slaughter, and think
ing, per haps, that it was as easy to Kin an elephant as he had found it to shoot a giraffe, but I caught; him by the arm and pulled him down. 1 "It's no good," I said, "let them go."" "It seems that we are in a paradise of game. I vote we stop here a day or two, and have a go at them," said Sir Henry, presently. I was rather, surprised, for hitherto Sir Henry had always been for pushing on as fast as possible, more especially Bince we hadi ascertained at Inyati that about two . years ago an Englishman of the name of Neville had
tip in-
sold his wagon there, and gbiie oh countrv. but I suppose his hunter-
stincts had got the better of him. Good jumped at the idea, for he was longing to have a go at those elephants; and so, to speak the truth, did I, , for v it went agaiost my conscience to let such a herd as "hat escape without having a pull at them. . "All right, my hearties," said I. "I think we want a little recreation. And now .let's turn in, tor we. ought to be off by dawn, and then perhaps we may catch them feeding before they move on." - . .;- v .-i . . , .:
The others agreed, and we proceeded to n.ake preparations. Good took oft
his clothes, shook them, puthis eyeglass and his false teeth into his trousers
nocket. folding them all up neatly,
placed them out of the dew under a corner of his mackintosk sheet. Sir Henry and I contented ourselves with
ronher -irrangements, and wf re soon curied no in our blankets, and dropping
off into the dreamier sleep that rewar is
the traveler. , Going, going, go What waB that?
SudderTv from the-direction of the
Water came a sound of violent scuffling
aud the next instant there broke;upon
our ears :i succession of the most awful
:roars. mere was no mujuixijug wnai
thev came from: only a hon could make
uch a roar as that. We all jumped up
and looked toward the watr, in the
direction of which we saw a confused
mass, vellow and black in color, stagger
ing and drugging toward us. We seized our rifles, and Slipping on our veldt-
nons (shoes made ot untannea
u.'j ran out oi me Hcuwui w
ZmZh By this time it had fallen, and
Was roilf rito" over and over on fche tP0 and by tbltlA; fm a Jn iA v 'twas quite still.
& i-jiK: it m On the
i uMm: antelope bull
?u z.ut 4 as. the African
i - a a rtt 4 nsnxed by
:a f'. JLa lucent
j .1 aa yfiUt, had
uiiiutt.-uia.ucu uuu, iou ucau u , t happened evidently was this: The sabv
antelope had come down to drinc ,t the pool where the lion no doubt the same we had heard had been lying in wait. While the antelope was drinking; the lion had sprung upon him, but was received upon the sharp curved horns and transfixed. I once saw the same thing happen before. The lion, unable to free himself had torn and bitten at the back ar d neck of the bull, which, maddened vith fear and pain, had rushed on till it dropped dead. ..... As soon as we had suiBciently examined the dead beasts we called the Kafirs, and between us managed to drag their carcasses up to thescherm. Then we went in and laid downi to walte no more till dawn. With the first light we were up and making ready for che fray. v We took with ui i the three eight-bore , rifies, a good supply of ammunition, and our large water-bottles, filled with weak, cold tei, which I have always found the best stuff to shoot on. After swallowing a little breakfast we sirted, Umbopa. Khiva and Ventvogel accompanying ns. The other Kafirs we left with instructions to skin the lion and the sable antelope, and cut up -the latter. ....... H fContimusd next week. . . .WHEN SILENCE j$Ll2 k
A Shark Story. Wbich Tested tfce Pa.
tience of the Construction .mg. Phlladephia Tlmeg. ; . As i3 began to look like rain, the gang knocked off work and the foreman begged a pipeful of tobacco and started in yarning. "I've told you of the trip I made co Borneo as second mate of1 the Lydia Greening," said he. " Well, perhaps I've told you, too, that there-was the lady aboard thut trip the biig was named for -the old man's niece, poor thing. She was a widow and had been advised to go a sea voyage to pick up her health. But deceased was always on her mind. She'd slip up to the taffrail ait eight hells and stand there watching the sunset day gaiter day, thinking of him and twisting her wedding ring ihoa t on her finger. The -old man would nod toward her as I came up to take my trick at the wheel, and kind of chew at his goatee, and every night he said me same thing to me. 'Gideon says he, blum a woman aboard ship; butl'm glad for once't I hrouijht Sal.! Till one evening just as the s-ju'eester began to freshen "we heard Br cry, and there was Mrs. Greening sobbing and wringing her handB about like to die. Of course, she'd dropped the Ting overboard, and the time we had to get her quiet well. She wanted lis t go back and dive for it. . .: .J ! MWell, sir the next three, clays our port rail was under water all the time. When she moderated we were blown clean but of reckoning. Mrs. Greening kind of crawled up on deck and watched us bending on a new fore tops'l-rrold one torn to lint. All at ouce ehe called out 't th'3re was as hark follow ing us. She
jumped up, her face white as the canvas,
and what d'y on suppose .that woman's idea was? That the shark had swallowed her husband's ring and couldn't
rest till it was given back.
"I'he old mm looked over the Tail.
There was a shark, sure enough. He ran and got his harpoon; pretty harpooiier. he was: nailed hiim first shot
and we haulel him- aboard. In three
min ites we had him cut open. and.
boyn, what do you suppose we found?"
urJ?he ringl" shouted the ganjr i'fothing," said the foreman. k A Lucky NumtJer. Boston Traveler. .. ........ .. ..'
On the 4th oft last September French
man and a Spaniard took tickets from
Paris to Bij on, placed their luj-gage in a com partment already occu pi ed by a oflri vof Englishv noted the number -of
the carriage, 20,977, and betock themselves to the refreshment room until the moment for starting should arrive. Oh returning to the compartment they fouii d the English party had b.ribed the guard to remove their goods find chattels iuto another carriage. They were indignant,but there was no time for argument. They jumped into -the carriage assigned them, and escaped unhurt in the Velars disaster, which occurred a few hours later, whil the occuoants of the compartment they -had at firs t chosen were all either killed or horribly injured. Such gesca pes could bei elated with regard to everf railway
accident; it is the sequel which is curi
ous; One of the travelers, superstitious
to gome purpose, proceeded 1o" buy a
Spt tnish lottery ticket bearing the number 2y977, which has just secured him a Sncond prize of $3,2g0. J In a Lawyer'8 Office
Thxio. . . .. ' - .;
l awyer (to married couple.) Sit down
Mr. Smith. Rev, Dr. Smith, be seated.
Thni divorce is granted. Yon, are no
longer man and wife. $ , . Both. Hurrah! ; m Jlrs. Smith (to lawyer) How can I repay you? ' ; v--;v.. l awyer. Madame, I love you; will you marry me? Mrs. Smith. But a minister? I sawyer. Your former husband. Mr. Smith. Certainly. ' j lorries th'5m.) v : ?
Special Correspondence. ' y . , v: ;
urown, uwen aaa uueauiv, jbwuuhh
can Congressmen from Indian m tne. next Goncress. declare that they have
no desire to control the patronageof thai State......'
The Senate i committee oh j udiciary,;
Monday refused to take action on thv
nomination of . Solomon uiayppoi to ,
United States district attorney for Indiana. The status of affairs tn the district attorney's offfce at Indianapolis "
is to remain as at present until a -new; -
nftmiriRhnn r in mfidn jOiUir tne. 4tnv or- v-
March. , . '-, "- v. ":: ".- '
The entire Renubiican Congressional ? ; delegation from Ohio called upon Majors McKinlety, at the Ebbitt House, Monday . evening, and assured him that theyr. .. would cordially and actively support h candidacy for the Speakership. The t feeling was unanimous and enthusiastic.. The delegation express gyeat confidence -' in the Majors election. ;
A few days ago Senator Vest created a ripple of laughter in the Se:iae byl moving to reconsider the vote by whic a bill had been, passed, explaining as he did so that the wrong bill had; beeii adopted. He stated that the bill wbic& the Senate passed was not the one. . reA
ported from committee, and was tnere fore materially different. It not 4x6
frequently happens that such incidents; as this occur in either branch! cl!jQp&pdi greSS. ,: ., .. :'- ' - ,' . '. Z '. .;:v""j!r'y The Senate, on the 7th, adopted iK i a? n. .a a.--.-M.9X.'
joins resolution to. ine euecc waav Government will look with serious oohr ' cern and, disapproval upon any; connection Of any European government with the construction or control - ef any ship
canal across the Isthmus of Darienj &'0.Xacross Central America, and must-.:'v$-''fHM gard any such connection or. control 'aA' injurious to. tbe just rights and ihteresiasf;. of the United States and as a menace pjl r h M their welfare Blackburnt : Hamnton ,2 -' i
and Vance alone voted agaiiist its adop-? M
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on.
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pi President surprised evenfbody iii
Tnott' aimost. on ine at oy tne
Judge Clavpool W.W the special assistant; N
of Mr. Sellers in the y :
Coy-Bemhamer tally sheet S&m as weu . as being assist ant to Mr. Bailey m . j0 examination ofv witnesses before "i;
last Federal Grand Jury. : Mr. Baiktjr nomination to the. same -position hw
not been acted upon by the Senate;
f liot. At. hA or
Win uo wiiuuiawu. ... , A bill was passed through the Housed Wednesday, that will cost the pension attorneys of this city nearly half a milf ; lion dollars a year. It was the Pockerjr " bill, prohibiting any agent or attorney v rece iving a fee for securing an: increase. ,, ; of pension on account of an increase of the disability for which the pension y was originally allowed, and further pro- i . hibiting pension agent . from accepting v: a fee for having passed a pension bilf :- through Congress by speciai legislation in cages where the pension might- bev ' obtained under the general pension K
Unless the President should interpose a veto, it is quite probable that General Harrisun will have , eight instead i& seven men to select for bis Cabinet . am '
liiS members of the House committee of conference upon the -bill creating the ; new Department of , Agriculture ana Commerce are wlhng to recede from -their position ano! accePt demands of the Senate. The principal pointat . issue' has heen th. transfer of signal service from thCt war Departmentto the Agricultural" Dpartoent. which haB been insisted ipn W House but opposed by the Those in charge of the bill in the ouse are of the opinion - that it is betteV
bill entirelyj but they will expect in anf other Congress to amend the law; so that hot only the signal service, but tkeV: Land Orfice, shall ba added to t ae department. It is understood, however,--, g that the President is not entirely satol fied with the bill and is likely.to vetorifc
Nearly all the rivalry in the speaker . g
snip contest seems to oe oecween xno- ; mi
Tt, in KoliAmrl that. HantinTi anil Rnrmwif '
will pool issues and turn them over tb McKinley, and that Beed's Eastern-? : rivals will give way to that gentlemanv leaving McKinley'Beed and Henderson of Iowa, in the field. ; As between Beed : and McKinley. should the field not cen? ter upon Henderson, the latter's follow-: era would go to McKinley, which would elect him. McKinley is, beyond que tion, regarded by nearly everyone in the House as the ideal man in thei eves of the tariff plank of the CJMcSg&C ; platform, which ne framed. Reed, the floor, has shown an ability for lead v 4 eruhip which very few of the present"
Representatives are willmg to dispense fv with. If the fight should narrow iwi'-ffl to a question of .the ; tariff, McKinley -. t1 undoubtedly will win. He has made ne -t r'm antagonisms, and in view ; of the facP M that the next House will pass the 'mdafev?-- M
important tariff measure proposed for many years, and that McKinley will have much to do with its com pi lation,; he will be given unusual prominence ' In attempting to remedy a deficit in one of the cog wheels of the complicated
macninery of rules whicn "regulate tne
house in the transaction of business, the
committee on rules has effectually put a stop to the whole process of jegietlatipn The proposition to amend the rales so as to prevent filibustering on the first and third V. Mondays of each month against motions to pass measures under a suspension of the rals, has thrown' the House into a deadlock which only the rules requiring an ad jou'mment each: day, at 5 o'clock prevents being as memorable as that of last session oyer; the direct tax bill. Mr. Reed (Me.), who has charge of the resolution to change the rules, has announced his in tention to keep the matter before th
House until a nnal decision upon it is
reached and in this intention he has the
hearty support of the friends of the Oklahoma bill, which is how pending under a motion to Suspend the rules. He finds sturdy antagonists; however in Messrs. Baker ( N. ) apd Barnes (Ga ), who are oppesed to the Okla-
noma measure, ana in messrs. Anaer? , m
son ( Kas. ) and Anderson (la.), wo are
fearful that if the change w made, a mo . v
tioh will be offered to pass, the Union-
Pacific funding bill under a suspension.
Owing to ? absentees, these gentlemen
enable them to break a quorum and
bring the House to a standstill. .
The Secretaiy of War hsssent to Gon-v:
gress the estimates of General O. M. Poe, of the army, for proper improv'ements to mark and protect the works, forts and battle fields in Indiana and Ohio where
General Wm. Henry Harrison won ; hiiv victories against the Indians ' in the early settlement of those Territories. In s
General Poe's report this reference ii made to Fort Wayne, now the flQurish
ing capital of ABen county. MA con
siderame portion of tne site of old Fori
Wayne belongs to the city of Fort :
Wavne; the remainder being how occu
nied by the New York, Chicago- 4s Sfei8
Louis railroad as successors to the oldT-" l
Wabash & JiJne canal. Except the
w ell, no trace of the fort now exists and
the part of the site not occupied by the railroad or city streets is reduced
to a small triangle. A patriotic. andv public spirited ci risen ' has -inV-closed the triangle by a neat ir n fence'
and erected a flagstaff within it, - but
. r. i ;jz. ; i.x. : aJsL
o ins juj i uau u;ru, ufuuj qy ODserva--o
tion or inquiry, tne city, as a corpora-:
tion , has done nothing- toward marking or preserving the sitel Any monument .; pieced here should be similar to such as may be selected for " Fort defiance or : Fort Miami. Its cost would aboutii' $5; On." . An appronriatin of $60,500 iaasked for, to include, besides workralw Fort Wayne, improvements , on the following battlefields: ; PuMnvBaf ; Fort Industry. Forts Miami, Fort Migs, the v battlefield of. fallen ISmher &m Defianee ' ' f:. ;;- ? M -v'ti t
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