Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 May 1887 — Page 9

ARISTOCRATIC COWS.

SOME FAMOUS MILK AND BUTTER PRODUCERS.

Zxhlblts Hi the Way of Statistics Which Tax the Credulity of the Average Dairyman—Pictures of Celebrities—The

Show in Madison Square Garden.

Madison Square garden—what a pleasingly poetic sound it has, and what aristocratic associations does it recall 1 We think at once of Miss Flora McFlimsey and all the silks, satins and dainty stuff she brought home from Paris in the celebrated twelve trunks. It does not seem the place for a cow show, does it? Yet the soasou in the "garden"—so called, being only a square roofed in—began with a circus, which was followed by a dog show, and now there is the finest exhibition of dairy cattle and products ever held in America,-- This display of "Ayrshires, Holsteins, Guernseys and Jerseys has excited the enthusiasm of all line stock fanciers in New York and the eastern states. The visitors have walked among $10,000 calves and cows of such rare breeding and abundant flow of milk that the figures are almost incredible. In this exhibition was the largest bull in the world, the best milker in the world, the most noted cow in America for valuable calves, and dozens of mild eyed kine that stand at the head of their race in the several states whence they came.

MARY ANNE OF ST. LAMBERT. The arrangement was admirable. All the outer court or oval shed, where the animals were kept in circus and menagerie times, was given up to the bulls and baggago wagons inside, in the space between the seats and the sawdust rings, were the milk cows in four divisions, the calves with them, and apart of the arena or sawdust ring was fenced off as a field for the cattle to be judged in. These smooth and silky haired Jerseys, with the sweet, soft light in then- bovine optics, really gives a better idea than do all the commentaries of what Homer meant by calling his goddess "the cow eyed Juno." She must have been as pretty as a Jersey heifer. The whole place was kept almost as nice as a parlor. That part of the arena not given to the cattle was devoted to dairy scenes, two of them extremely pretty. In the center was a rustic shed, made of grtUpe vines and boughs and covered with bark around it were the ferns and mosses^cool and damp from dripping water, and over it clambered Creeping vines. Inside was the good old country spring from the trough the dairy maid retailed pure ice cold Jersey milk. Elsewhere were dozens of different butter making machines, from the little tin "whirler" that will work any amount of cream from a pint to four gallons, to the great revolving barrel which churns at one filling the product of a big herd.

CLOTILDE.

Clotikle is claimed to be the greatest milk producer in the world, the property of the Lakeside stock farm, Syracuse, N. Y. She is a Holstein, imported from Holland, and weighing 1,(300. In the year ending August 17, 188(3, she yielded 26,021 pounds, eleven ounces, of milk, probably the largest yield ever known. Next to her in the milk record, and superior in some other points, is Eurotus, tho, property of A. B. Darling, of Darlington, N. J. She produced 778 pounds and one once of butter in eleven months, and one of her calves sold for $12,500 at the age of two months. She will be sixteen years old the coming August and is still in active service. Another very notable cow present was Mary Anne, of St. Lambert, a Jersey of the Stoke-

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Fogis, Victor-Hugo family, who prodnced 867 pounds fourteen onces of butter in one year. Twenty-seven of her calves and near relatives have sold at an average of $3,296 each. Jolie Second, a Guernsojr,and Duchess of Smithiield, an Ayrshire, were tb.e most noted in those classes, me largest- otni tne won ft is uonswmrvn," Imported Holstein, the property of F. C.

THfc DEGREE OF KEBEKAH.

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Stevens, of Maplewood stock farm, Attica, N. Y. He now weighs 2,750, but has run over 2,800 yet his form is symmetrical and not at all unwieldy. He is indeed a magnificent creature, his light hair like silk and his variegated hide showing as clean and clear as the average human face. Besides many special prizes $10,-

^*~000 was given in preinitkxne. The place was up

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*ith all the latest farm convenienses.

Honor

Women Who Are Odd Fellows Scliuyler Colfax. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellpws of the United States held its session of 1850 in the city of Cincinnati. Schuyler Colfax had been elected in 1849 by the Grand Encampment of Indiana to represent that jurisdiction in that body, and the session of 1850 was the second time he had sat with that body. He was assigned by the grand sire to serve on the legislative committee. During the session a resolution had been offered by Representative Smith, of New York, as to the propriety of adopting a degree in which the wives and daughters of scarlet degree members could participate in th3 work of the order. The resolution was referred to the legislative committee, which consisted of Colfax,' of Indiana, Larue, of Louisiana, and Kennedy, of New York. Colfax was: 27 years old. Wheni the committee re-1 ported on the resolution, Kenned}' THE COLFAX MONUMENT. and Larue were against the adoption of^ a degree, but Colfax favoring it made a minority report in which the advantages to the order by the adoption of such a degree were set forth. During the discussion much ridicule had been indulged in by the opposition, but

Colfax met this by saying, "The subject may be calculated to excito a smile, but I take the liberty of presenting in serious language the reasons for the views I entertain. It would tend to increase the resources of subordinate lodges by advance of members in the degrees of affording protection in times of difficulty to those who by the theory of our order have an eminent right to claim these friendly relations it would lessen and ultiimately destroy the prejudice felt against the order by many of the fair sex." And after mentioning various other benefits to be derived from the association of woman in the work of the order, he asked that a committee of three be appointed to prepare a degree. The majority report was not adopted, and the question being on the adoption of the minority report it was adopted, and a committee of three, consisting of Colfax, of Indiana Martin, of Mississippi, and Steel, of Tennessee, were appointed to prepare the ritual.

The young representative of Indiana was now thoroughly committed, and during the next year wrote the ritual and formulated tho secret work of a degree which he called the Degree of Rebekah. Early in the session of 1851, which was held in the city of Baltimore, the hotbed of opposition, the committee reported the ritual, which was considered in secret session and adopted. It was provided after the adoption of the degree that its acceptance by any jurisdiction was optional, but all but two, Maryland and Pennsylvania, accepted it. Pennsylvania long since fave up opposition, and for many years has been conferring the degree. Maryland, however, still held out, a ad it was not till June, 1886, that she yielded to the inevitable, and now has three regularly constituted lodges of the degree. it was not till 1868, however, that regular lodges of th6 degree were permitted, and since that time legislation favoring the degree has been much easier to obtain than prior to that time. At the present time lodges are multiplying and the membership is increasing rapidly. There are now over 1,500 lodges and between 75,000 and 100,000 members.

is for this work that the women of the order in the United States and Canada, assisted by the subordinate lodges of thirty jurisdictions, manifest their ^"^titude by the erection of this monument to the memory of Schuyler Colfax.

Ieopold of Prussia.

New York city has had a princely visitor, young Leopold, of the house of Hohenzollern, great grand nephew of the aged Euioeror William. The prince arrived on the 9th and sailed for Europe on the 14th instant, which trip will complete his tour around the world. He landed at San Francisco, visited osemita and other wonders of the west andi came east by Chicago and Niagara Falls. As the accompanying pict-

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ure show's, the prince is a smooth faced lad of 22, a ruddy blonde with a downy mustache. He travels incognito, as the phrase is—not "unknown," as the word literally means, but simply as a private gentleman—and accepting no unusual attentions on account of his rank. It means also that German consuls and diplomatic agents are not expected to make any demonstrations in his honor when he reaches the cities of their location. He is accompanied by Baron Nickisch Rosenegg (got that name down fine) and the Count of Kanitz, and has made few acquaintances aside from such German officials as have called on him.

The Now EnglAl* Kleet.

The new English fleet is tc consist of twentyfive vessels built at a cost of over $65,000,000. Four of these ships have been completed, two of them being barbettes, one a turret ship and one a protected cruiser# Four additional vessels are to be finished this year and twelve next year and the remaining five within five years.—New York Tribune*.

Advice to the Obese.

Those who suffer from obesity almost invariably complain of shortness of breath. Such peoplo should make it practice each iay of walking on rising ground or juunbling gentle hills by easy stages. The exercise sho Ai be graduated and rests taken when tb» begins to beat rapidly.

TERRB HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 26,1887.—TWO PARTS —PART SECOND.

ANOTHER MONUMENT.

A SURVIVOR DOES HONOR TO HIS DEAD COMRADES.

Col. John C. Latham, of New York, Commemorates the Memory of 101 Nameless Graves at His Native Kentucky Village.

Among the many pleasing proofs that the animosities of our civil war are fast passing away, not the least pleasing is the monument to the- confederates buriod at Hopkinsville, Ky., which is to be unveiled on the 19th with imposing ceremonies. The place and the circumstances give it unusual interest for Hopkinsville was unwaveringly devoted to the union during the war, and this monument is the gift of one of her own sons, an ex-eon-federate, and is unveiled amid acclamations of all men of all parties. Hopkinsville, capital of Christian county, is a place of some 7,000 inhabitants and in the early part of the war all that region was the scene of a sharp struggle between the sympathizers with different sections. Those of the north triumphed by more than two to one from that town came (Jen. James Shackelford, the captor of John Morgan, and with him from that section camo the famous Seventeenth Kentucky regiment. Now all the hatreds of that time are "in the deep bosom of Hades buried," and the new coiner to Hopkinsville would never suspect the people had once been divided into such fiercely hostile factions.

Among the natives of the town v^io "went south" was John C. Latham, who, at the age of 16, entered the Seventh Georgia cavalry, served through the war and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. Soon after the war he settled in New York, where he has prospered greatly as banker on Wall street, and he now presents this monument to his native' place in memory of his dead comrades. The touching sentiment displayed in this act so won COL. JOHN c. LATHAM. upon the city authorities that they unanimously granted the finest lot in the cemetery for the monument, and the citizens, without distinction of party or record, join in the commemoration. The orators of the day will be Rev. J)r. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, New York, and Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge, member of congress from Kentucky, and pronounced by many critics the most eloquent man in th3 west. It was Mr. Latham's original intention to have the monument a tribute to both Federal and Confederate dead in that cemetery but all the former were removed, under the general order of the government, to the National cemetery at Fort Donelson so Col. Latham has had all the Confederate dead, who were not buried in family plots, removed to one part of the cemetery. There they are laid for their final

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a beautiful little tract, well sodded and fenced with granite curbing. He also had the entire cemetery greatly improved, trees plauted, and the drives well made of conglomerate gravel. The monument cost about $16,000, and .was made of Hur-

THE MONUMENT. ricane granite, at Bangor, Me. The base is eight feet three inches square, supporting a pedestal of two polished stones. Above this is the die with inscriptions, and on that a plain shaft twelve feet high. The die is inscribed thus:

On the west side is the inscription: This monument is erected at the place of his birth by a surviving comrade to commemorate the virtues of the Confederate dead, D. 1887.

On the north panel is the following inscription: Beneath this sod is mingled the sacred dust of 101 unknown soldiers, who were attached to the following commands: First Mississippi regiment, Second Mississippi regiment, Seventh Texas regiment, Eighth Kentucky regiment, Forrest's cavalry. Woodward's Kentucky cavalry. Green's Kentucky artillery. War between the States. 1861-1865.

On the east panel Is engteved the sentiment: While martyrs for conscience's sako are respected, the valor and devotion of the Confederate soldiers will be admired by the good and the brave.

On the panel facing the south is the inscription Round this column is buried all of heroism that could die.

The north and south sides of the die are decorated with bronze cannons, and the east and west sides with laurel wreaths.

On the front of the shaft are two crossed swerds with a laurel wreath. The structure is ornamented with a Corinthian cap stone, bearing on its summit a pyramid of five polished granite cannon balls eighteen inches in diameter. The entire structure is thirtyseven and a half feet in height At the approach to the monument from the south side is an ornamental entrance of granite eight feet wide. On the posts of the entrance are engraved branches of laurel and oak, and underneath an antique dagger encircled by a wreath of laurel. The description and our engraving attest the beauty of the design and give assurance that this monument will ever remain a beautiful proof of generous sentiments in our reunited country an honor to the donor.

A Fine Extempore Sermon. Reporter (to minister)—That was a very fine extempore sermon, sir.

Minister—Ah, glad you liked it I have the manuscript at home if you wish to print it— Xid Bits

A VETERAN JOURNALIST.

How Baltimore Honors the Proprietor of The Sun. The city council of Baltimore has recognized the fact that The Sun, of that city, was 50 years old on the 17th of May by passing a series of resolutions congratulating Mr. A, 8. Abell "that he has been spared to witness the marvelous success of an enterprise to which he devoted his early years, his matured manhood and his venerable age."

The Sun was founded by Mr. Abell, and for fifty years has remained under his ownership and management, making him, it is believed, the oldest age as well as oldest in service of any living journalist. The semicentennial anniversary of the 17th no doubt proved an interesting event to the citizens of

Baltimore, for The Sun is a popular paper in the city. Mr. Abell is also

A ABELL. I xl. considered toe wealthiest newspaper publisher in this country, and a large number of the handsomest buildings in Baltimore have been built and are ovfrned by him, as well as the most magnificent private building in Washington, which he has just completed on street, and has named it "The Sun building."

Mr. Abell was born in Rhode Island, Aug. 10, 1806, served an apprenticeship in the office of The Providence Patriot, worked as a practical printer in Boston and New York city until 183(5, when, with Messrs. Swain and Simmons, they started The Philadelphia Ledger, and the following year The Sun in Baltimore.

Mr. Abell with Mr. Swain was the owner of The Ledger when it was sold to George W. Childs.

The first large iron building in this country was erected Sor The Sun, and is now occupied by it.

The pony express during the Mexican war, a close association with Professor Morse and valuable assistance to him when he perfected the telegraph, tho introduction of the first rotary printing press built by R. M. Hoe, are noted events in the career of Mr. Abell.

Mr. A bell's three sons, Edwin, George and Walter, are actively associated with him in the publication of The Sun and in managing his large property interests. He has several daughters, and has been a widower since 1858. For a man of his age he is remarkably active and. well preserved. In the summer he resides at Guilford, the finest couutry seat near Baltimore.

A CIVILIZED CHIEF.

The Oldest Iroquois Sachem Dies Wear Niagara Falls. One hundred and seventy-five years ago the Iroquois Indians were powerful enough to make it a matter of some importance on which side they stood in a fight between nations. They were very bad patriots, taking sides with the English in the war of the revolution, and making no end of trouble for the faithful fathers who liberated America from British rule with the cannon and the sword.

As students of liistorv know, they are or were a confederacy, called the Six Nations," consisting of the Mohawks,

Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas and Tuscaroras. They occupied the central and western part of New York, and numbered about 15,000. Sometimes they fought the Dutch, French and English, and sometimes were in alliance with them. After the war of

CHIEF MOUNTPLEASANT. ^JJE revolution they became scattered over the countrj' to the north and southwest. Thirty years ago they still numbered about 6,000.

A few days ago—on the 6th inst.—the fifteenth chief or sachem of the Tuscarora nation of the Iroquois confederacy died at his home on the reservation of his people near Niagara Falls. He had a name quite like a maalwrn to the inheritance of white blood— John Mountpleasant—and ho became a chief at the age of 17, and has been in power ever since, a period of sixty years.

He had distinguished ancestors. His grandfather, also named John Mountpleasant, was an English army officer in the revolutionary war. The dead chief was a good looking man, tall, and strong as an ox. His figure, as well as his presence, was commanding. Ho was twice married his second wife* who is well connected and well educated, survives him. He was a trustee of tho Thomas Indian Orphan asylum and a member of the Buffalo Historical society. His people held him in high esteem. He lived on a large farm of his own, and bad a oomfortable, roomy house, ever hospitably open to his friends. His visitors were often people of distinction. The council, which will be held at the Onondaga reservation south of Syracuse, will decide upon a day for the Tuscaroras to elect his successor, who must be a descendant of the maternal line.

Poetry Illustrated.

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"There's a 'smile' on the lips, rirT'ih the heart may be sad.* —Tvi Ritw.

HIE ALGERIANS.

TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN TH& DARK CONTINENT.

(lermany and France Seeking to Open the Former Terra Incognita to the Arts of Civilization—Some Peculiarities of the Natives.

There was a time, and not so very long ago, when the name of Africa awakened within us a certain mysterious feeling. For our fathers the geographical study of the dark continent was still a comparatively easy task, for this dark continent showed on the maps a number of white plains, the designation for the undiscovered country. Those white plains within the last few decades have considerably lessened,"tor into the mighty contiuent tho expeditions of science have penetrated, and since Germany has also gained a footing in Africa the interest in the continent so long neglected lias almost become a matter of fashion. It is apparent that France, during her fifty years of experiment, has made but slight progress in colonizing northern Africa. But then the Turks had devastated the country, and civilization can only return to it slowly.

In the matter of landscape much of Algeria is rich. Rugged mountain chains stretch to the coast from A lgiers. There are wide and rocky plains, rivers that foam over rocks, and valleys that delight the eye.

Modern French culture has.deprived the old Numidian capital of its original interest. Elegant stores, with dazzling show windows, adorn the in pa 1 streets. In no otlfer city do the inhabitants bear the stamp of their degradation as they do in Algiers. Ragged and dirty af they are, it is hard to believe they are of the same tribe as the inhabitants of

Tunis, who wear embroidered tur­

bans and walk the streets with Moorish hauteur. Opulent Arabians are not plenty in Constantine. The Jews are energetically supplanting the Austrian element. The inhabitants of Constantino adhere to old manners and customs. In the west many have already adopted European garments. But the east is faithful to the old. In tho Barbary quarter of Constantino one can still see open stores, with readers, story tellers and gray bearded philosophers, who explain and comment on the Koran. On feast days you can see the Moriscos in their basiliks, beneath which they wear yellow, scarlet and whiuo trdusers, the face covered with a black or yellow veil, their arms and hands ornamented with rings, their finger nails covered with dark brown henna and their eyebrows painted with a blue covering of India ink Jewesses, with peaked velvet caps, naked arms and feet and closely fitting embroidered pantaloons then again, the veilless Kabyle woman, with brown, youthful and handsome face her black

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braids bidden in her hollow cap of jingling ornaments, a wreath of amulets and charms around the bare neclt, while the men are dressed in hikes of amaranth or blue, over which the white burnos is thrown, baggy pantaloons and sandals on their feet

KABTLE WOMAN.

During spring enormous caravans travel from their wintering places northward to spend the summer in the coolor and more fruitful mountain vdlleys of the Aures. Such a wandering caravan, which often extends through the desert a distance of halfifi league, presents ft surprising spectacle. On the backs of the camels gigantic saddles sway to and fro, and on the top of these is usually the wife of some prominent man, with her children, lashed to keep them from falling to the ground. The wives of the elders of the tribe are often placed in a palanquin, the long poles of which are fastened. The older men mostly ride on horses,, while the younger travel on foot. Except at sunset,when the great prayer is performed, the caravans stop only at certain places in the desert. These spots the Arab regards as holy, and every one who wishes a happy return tears off a piece from his garment and hangs it as a sacrificial gift to the shrubbery, the curious ornamentation of which attracts the attention of every traveler. The illustrations here given are a Kabyle woman, showing the excessive ornamentation a Morrsco soldier, and a Tunisian. These are fair types of the better class of Algerians, and are not at all a bad looking lot of people.

A MORISCO SOLD IELL.

Tricks of the Modern Truck DrfvefW "There, now! Git outo' the tracks with that old rotten ark." The street car driver pressed down on the brake and leaned over the dash board as ho uttered these words. "That's one o' the tricks of these fellows who have old carts they want smashed," he continued, with a hot, sulphuric breath. "They get into the tracks and stay there until one of us fellows gets out o' patience and takes a wheel off their carts and then they brmg a bill against the company for damages. It's an old trick and all the boys are on to it"— Chicago Herald.

SCHNAEBELE)

The Ilero of the Bloodless War Between France and Germany. The Judge says: "The wars between France and Germany now are very numerous but very brief, and all the fluid shed comes from the ink bottles of the ensanguined editors and other statesmen of both eountriea This is not so exciting as the genuine article, but it does very well and it costs less."

For some days past France and Germany have h*en almost' on the point of lighting over the comparatively unknown M.

Schnaebele, who is an enthusiastic French in an, though his name does not show it He is a native and citizen of Alsace, one of the two provinces which Fiance took from Germany 200years ago, and Germany took back after the

M. SCHNAEBELE. 1? an o-Prussian war of 1870-'71. Now, although the people of Alsace and Lorraine (Elsass-Lothriiigen in the German list of provinces) were originally Germans in blood, they became the most devoted of French citizens and not long before the war of 1870, celebrated their annexation to France with a great festival. When these provinces were retaken by Bismarck and Emperor William, all the fury of the. Alsatian nature was aroused thousands of the people have abandoned their old homes and moved into Fi ance, and many at home

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flo all they can to embarrass the German government. Among their sympathizers near ttie line, in French territory, was M. Schnaebele he has been active in assisting the discontented and is accused of having acted as a spy in German territory. So the latter police decoyed him over the line and arrested him. He has been released, but the populace of Paris are furious. The French papers are full of illustrations of the subject We present portrait of M. Schnaebele and view of the place on the boundary where he was arrested.

An Editor on Ubel Suits.

"My experience in libel suits has been very small compared with my length of service as an editor and publisher. I have been at it twenty-five years and I don't think I have been sued fbr libel more than a dozen times all told. Only in one instance has a verdict been rendered against me, and that was but $1,000 in a case which was tried in the plaintiff's own town, before a jury of his own friends and neighbors, and that caso has been appealed. have never retracted or apokv gized after a suit has beeh begun. "I don't think much of my own experience as a libelist. I don't think it is in any way remarkable. My general observation teaches that the majority of libel suife are brought in the interest of parties other than the plaintiff, prompted by political spite or personal malice. As a matter of principle and sound judgment, I beljeve every editor when he is sued for libel ought to defend himself. "As an apologist I am a total failur I have never made even the sem.^mce of an apology which did not add to the original offense. Editors of newspapers that are at all independent must expect to be sued for libel. A fearless and honest libelist is necessary in every community to protect the public against official corruption and individual rascality. If, as you say, I have a record as a pugnacious editor, I don't deserve it. If the public only knew what I refrain from saying they would say that I am criminally negligent. I seldom strike the first blow 1. only strike back, and then rarely on my own account"—Interview with J. N. Matthews, of Buffalo Express.

Gen. Sedgwick Honored.

The survivors of the Sixth army eorpS have marked the spot where Gen. Sedgwiok fell at Spottsylvania Court House,

Va, by tLe erection of a beautiful but modest monument. The unveiling ceremonies, which occurred on Thursday, the 12th, were attended by nearly 1,030 survivors of the old corps, among whom were men

from the New England states, Pennsylvania and New York, and was headed by Maj. Gen. Wright, United States army, who succeeded Gen. Sedgwick in command of th& corps Gen. George W. Getty, United States army Gen. Latta, of Philadelphia Gen. Alexander Shaler, of New York Governor E. J. Ormsbee, of Vermont, accompanied by lys entire staff—Adjt Gen. T. S. Peck, Gen. W. L. Greenleaf and Cols. Hall and Maneur ex-Governor Pingree, of Vermont Gen. T. S. Overton, Maj. C. H.. Forbes and a number of others.

Jut as Effective.

A paralytic young woman, who had been unable to walk for years, was conveyed to a revival meeting ono night recently, and during prayer she suddenly arose, gave an ear piercing shout, climbed over three pews, gained the aisle and made a dash for the pulpit. It was another faith cure, as many persons in the congregation supposed. She had simply seen a mouse in her pew near her feet, —Norristomi Herald .......