Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1890, Page 9

wT THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, THE SIOUX CHIEFS. Sitting Bull and Gall Said to be Over- estimated Characters. CRAZY HORSE'S FOLLOWERS. ‘The Pretended Messiah and the Dancing Da- kotas—Great Chiefs Raise Their Voices for Peace—What Indians Have Cost the Gov- ernment in the Past. “ to Shakespeare wrote those words ago and in a general way they may be truthfully applied to social conditions which now exist in the most populous portions of the United States. Anarchists rave and storm: bloody-banded mem- bers of La Mafia plot and do murder; Chinese highbinders mutilate and kill those whom they are hired to atiack and many other forms of malignantly active evil are at liberty in many places to chirp without anything like interfer- ence on the part of the American eagle. But there are exceptions to this rule and one of the most noteworthy of these exceptions is now be- ing discussed in every corner of the Union. The Indian must not dance. He may sit in summer time in the shade of an agency building and gamble awry every rag of clothing in the possession of his family; he may throw arrows for horses; he is even Permitted to play poker with agency employes and can be a polygamist every dey in the week, bat be must refrain from dancing. The ukase has gone forth that from now until the last of the red-skinned race has gone to be with his progenitors saltatory exercise will not be per- mitted on any government reservation. In- dians who happen to be outside the reservation lines may “shake a foot” if they want to, but the performance will be at their own risk and inay easily be attended with danger to life and liberty. ‘THE INDIAN MESSIAH. The vast majority of mankind believes that at some future date the Messiah will appear on earth for the second time. It is a great and in many instances a fundamental truth — the groundwork of doctrine on which more than one church is founded. The Indians of the northwest have been informed by their “medicine men” that their Messiah is com- ing. He is to redeem them from their low estate and when he gets through with the work of the Anglo-Saxon annihilation be will exalt the red man until there is nothing left for the untutored mind to conceive nor the aborig- iuel greediness to grasp; the copper-colored millenium ‘bas bees amsounced. "The effect of this revelazion up@ the Indian intellect is beyond the comprehension of most white people, and yet any ordinarily intelligent per- son might easily understand how much excite- ment there would be in this city if the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage were to make his appearance on Pennsylvania avenue and proclaim to all that he had seen the Messiah down at Leonard- town, or some other corner of creation, and ie long-awaited one would be here’ in a Kor two. "Maj. Moore and his whole police force, to say nothing of the National Guard, could net stop the dancing that would ensue, even if they felt in to. Thousands of Shakers gyrate clumsily just as often as they think necessary and no one ever thinks of charging their ungraceful antics to anything but honest religious fervor. Members of various and numerous evangelical churches in- dulge in what to the unconveried sometimes seems to be frenzied enthusiasm, but which civilization recognizes as not only legitimate, but eminently natu SITTING BULL. ‘This pre-millennial announcement, which has caused so much excitement among northwest- ern tribes, and especially among the Sioux. has again made prominent a number of Indians who had, by peacefal circumstances, been forced temporary seclusion. Most fre- quently mentioned of these resurrected ones is Sitting Bull, one of the eraftiest yet most <owardly in all that great Sioux nation. Those who know him find it difficult to understand why he should rank all other Indians in the modern mind and ask in vain for proof of his leadership. Another claimant for fame asa scalp- Litter is Chief Gall, but the testimony as to his pretended greatness is of the most meager character and wouldn't stand for two minutes in any court of law. great man—he upon whose grave these men have trampled in en- deavors to uplift themselves—was Crazy Horse. Were that great chieftain and warrior on t of the earth instead of beneath it both Sitting Ball and Gall would be drawing agency rations with mechanical regularity and their now over- active vocal organs be taking a much needed rest. But Crazy Horse is dead, so the two noisy ones mentioned are trying to steal his laurels. ‘There was nothing vociferous in the make-up of Crazy Horse. His countenance was always peculiarly sad, and the physiogno- mist who krew him ‘not would certainly have declared him to be a deeply pious gentle- man with advanced tendencies toward philan- thropy. As a matter of fact Crazy Horse was most liberal to the poor, and as there was al- ways an unlimited quantity of poverty all around him the opportunities for exercising his charitable motives were never absent. "There was, however. a total absence of every- thing thathad an appearance of charity when he went into the fighting business. He was brave to the verge of recklessness. No matter what thecircumstances undcr which he was engaged in strife he never permitted one of his warrivrs to get between him and the enemy; he was always the lead. THE GHOST DANCE. It Is a Combination of the Circling Crow and Sun Dance. ‘BRIEF TALK WITH MB. PAUL RECKWITH—TEE TWO DANCES GRAPHILALLY DESCRIBED BY HI “se ghost dance of the Sioux in Dakota,” said Mr. Paul Beckwith of the Smith- ‘tonian Institution to # Stam reporter, “I be- lieve to be the Wa-kan-wa-ci-pi—holy or medi- cine dance. Wakan is translated as meaning spirit or holy. The Holy Ghost in Sioux ‘Wa-kan-wa-ci-pi, as they have in this dance regu- lar ceremonies of initiation which they have in no other dance. The Sioux have added some of the few features of the sun dance. As their language is superlatively a figurative one, their ceremonies are symbolical. I would therefore conelude those features of the sun dance sym- bolical or illustrating. Courage, fortitude, in- WotsePecctot which is mply - Ww their religion, and as the question of the nd- vent of their Mesaiah isa purely religions re- joicing, so the extermination of the whites a purelt revengeful rejoicing. It seems to me two dances illustrating the two feat- ures would naturally be combined. Also from the meager accounts we have had of the ghost dance I recognize the spirit as well as the ac- tion portrayed in the two dances.” A good description of the circling crow and the sun dances was given by Mr. Beckwith in his “Notes on Customs of the Dak a YELLOW HORSE AND SQUAW. ae tion he said: Gall has been a persistent candidate for such public honors a8 might be showered on him who led the Sioux on that fearful day which saw the Custer massacre, but his allegations have never had the support of testimony other than his own. He isa much more intelligent man than Sitting Bull, but the glamour which his own fictions have thrown sround him has done much to spoil an otherwise tolerably decent Indian. He was undoubtedly in the Custer fight, as was also Sitting Bull, but neither of them did any leading. Sitting Bull's influence has always been that of the “medicine man,” not of the warrior. He never was chief of anything but that band of cutthroats which accompanied him across the report of 1888. In this publica- THE CIRCLING CROW DANCE. Pegi-mi-hi-na-ka Wa-ci-pi—The circling crow dance, also called the straw or grass dance, is controlled by three men, the most influential tunic of crow and eagle feathers attached to a belt ornamented with beads and quills; over the small of the back project two sticks several inches long; at the ends are jingling bells, every motion of the wearer cat the sticks to,vibrate and the bells to jingle. ‘These tunics are held sacred, and no profane hand allowed to touch them.’ The next officers of the order international boundary line and lived as exiles | are the four drummers, each provided with a near Woody mountain, in the British north- | baton or office, a stick wrapped with porcupine west. While there he showed himself an arrant | quills and strings of ‘beads the far stoke coward on half-a-dozen occasions and it isa eafe | Being used to suspend the drum, and ala thing to bet that chills chase each other up and | wash tub or chcese box, covered with kin, {I down the old redskin's spine when his memory | sides draped with fine cloth, ornamented ‘with reverts to the occasion which Major Walsh of | feathers, beads and quills. "The the northwest mounted police accentuated with | drummers are to strike the drum with full No Indian could | foree and to keep up an incessant singing. he be- [ere beets to collect provisions, ly refused. When sufticient is collected to last several da: i men are notified, who, arrangements for the dance. e Goce through the camp announcing when and where the dance will be held. The three chiefs appear in their feathered tunics and the members in their most brilliant paint. Seating themselves upon the ground, wrapped in their blankets up to the eyes, the drummers open the ball, the dancers throw their blankets aside and, springing to their feet, brandish their tomahawks or knives with Violent gestures and an occasional whoop, chant and dance for a few moments, resume their blankets and eats, leaving one in the ring, who, fiercely gesturing and wildly waving tomahawk or knife, will brag unmercifully over some exploit in war or chase; again all jump up, dance and yell. A repetition of the same lormances is gone through with again and in for several days or until the pro- ions are consumed. They will imitate animals, taking raw meat or a fish, snarl, growl and snap over it, tearing it with their teeth like the wild beast they are so well imitating. All questions are first discussed by the head men in council, pro and con, and are then put to vote, the votes in the affirmative represented by a stone, those in the negative by a piece of wood. No decision is arrived at until after many pow-wows; even then another lodge will be called in to participate. A ques- tion of importance once decided, the head chief of the band will be called in,’ whether a member of the lodge or not, and he must per- form the mission they have intrusted him with, and as their influence is largely kept up through these orders the chiefs are glad of these commissions. There are no signs or pass a very businestlike revolve live in Major Walsh's territory ved well. ‘MAD BEAR. The influence of the medicine men, however, must not be despised, for it is often greater than that of the chieftains. Some of the Sioux charlatans have persuaded many of the more susceptible that their incantations, combined with the miraculous power of the Messiah, wil be able to overcome ‘all things. A notable in- ce of their persuasive ability occurred when h invaded Mexico and endeavored to the throne. The French | words, and with the exception of of artillery, and the Yaqui | the skunk skin garter, elaborately orna- ho were anti-Gallic in their tenden-| mented with beads,’ there is noth- 1 the solid shot mortally. Then men—prompted by the Mexican the warriors that if they would ge the enemy and at the same time hold in front of themselves wet blankets they would be absolutely safe. ‘This advice was taken in the fight at Guayias, and asa result there were more punctured blankets than Indian history records elsewhere, while the number of dis integrated and desiccated Yaquis left on the battle field eclipses the figures of all other red- letter days in Yaqui mortuary statistics. RED CLOUD. Another illustrious member of the noble army of kickers is Red Cloud. His case has repeatedly been ding- noved by competent persons, and there seems to be no break ing to designate the members from the outside world. Though this order is of late date it is the most powerfal among the Indians. Dur- ing this dance, if a member wirhes a divorce from one or more of his wives (they generally add one or two just before the dance for this purpose), he proclaims that he (naming bim- self) throws away (naming her), and she is no longer his wife. deputize a member to act for him. ber will act as spokesman. f member unless paid a retainer’s fee, gun ora horse; the more influential gain 50 to 100 horses during the year, but have to give away as many to retain their influenc ere are no ceremonies of initiation: they generally give a horse, starting him off with cut ofthe whip, for anyone who chooses to catch him. The order is a charitable one. An be no break | old woman called on the order, stated her pov- in the unanimity which | erty; immediately the erier was sent around dec'ares him to have | the camp, and in a few hours the members were long outlived what-| all present, as they will drop any work or ever usefulness he may | pleasure when called. The leader stated the grer have possessed. | cause of the meeting; the result was flour and ‘Today he is the cham- | pork, thirteen blankets, calico, fine cloth and pion American beggar, | skins. Another instance: An ‘Indian, wishing Feady tobe placated at | to build a house, invited the order to a feast: >» any time with «larger | as he was not a member one stated his wants. portion of rations and | After the feast the building was soon com- & greater of | pleted. ‘Though a charitable and social society consideration. When | it iy one very much feared; and there exist he dies there will be | lodges among all the different tribes and bands no sorrow, save per- | throughout the great northwest. haps in the pockets of pepo lelabor a eulators and claim agents who have been aching Man fee Hi-wau-gag Wa-ci-pi—the sun dance.—The Sioux are superstitious and firm believers in several years. Such a thing as a general Sioux war is no | dreams, signs and omens. This dance is given longer considered possible. Of | infinitely | to avoid sickness or any misfortune thet may have been foretold by @ dream, sign or omen. greater influence than Sitting Bull and Red It in a self-inflicted punishment the Indian un- Clond and Gall are such chiefs as Young-man- afraid - of - his- horses, Old-man-afraid-of-bis- te . dergoes to propitinte the Great Spirit. A circle is formed of green branches stuck horses, Little Big Man, American Horse and into the ground. In center forming a Blue Horse. Some of Buffalo Bill's Indi Rocky Bear and Red Shirt for example—cannot | int 1 i triangle aro planted three poles or saplings, one much longer than the other two, the trun! fail to have a pacifying influence on their hot- cleared of branches excepting a tuft at the headed brethren. “Then, again, a great many Sioux are communicants in the Episcopal, Pres- 5 es exe tops, a piece of white calico is fastened on one and a piece of red cloth on the other, both byterian, Methodist Roman Catholic burnt after the dance, as they are then con- t and churches; these laugh at the mere idea of an sidered sacred. Toeach of the poles is fustoned astout thong as high as a man’s head from outbreak, and so do the young bucks and girls the ground. ‘The dancer takes his place in the who have been educated at Hampton and Car- lisle. “To these latter the power of the white center of the triangle and making, inciasions the hon shoulders and An outsider, by payment, can | No mem- man has been made very plain, and they, more than any others, realize what the result of a conflict must imevitably be. breast ties the ends of the thongs WHAT THE INDIAN Costs. m through the incissions and places be- Did anxboxi: ever try to figure out the cost | tween his lips a small quill whistle: through ofa: ': ae tk? Perhaps the attempt | which he breathes, at each respiration, giving a has i « , but the War Department knows | shrill whistle. He is clothed only in a shaw! ne tied around his waist, falling to ‘his knees, his body painted black, hair Tove and hanging upon his shoulders ‘and with rings of white rabbit skins tied in his flesh on shoulders and legs. As the sun xinks below the horizon this dance of torture is commenced by a slow side- wise motion of as each foot is raised and their eyes fol- lowing the course of the sun as it revolves around the earth, and as it rises above vat it. ‘The greater proportion of connot be assemed, for more injury is 1. mn.torial welfare of the region in ists than can be ascertained or expressed in dollars. Some of the figures—in- definite at best—ean, however, be given, and they are decidedly interesting.” Since 1956 it has cost the United States just €190,321,902.16 to feed and clothe the American Indian, and during the same period this great ' and CBIEF GALL. Sitt og Bull bas always claimed for himself the be sor of having met the attack Maj.Reno’s force sade on the Sioux village in the Custer | 2, t, but as a matter of fact the Bull “was not in it,” and when cross-examined about his con- nection with that struggle had to admit that was away from the camp making “big medicine” with which to protect his fellow Indians while Crazy Horse was decimating Reno's command with a repeating war club. ‘The death of Crazy Horse showed ve ature of Indian character whic! Wwe > « 2 prett; fm the threatened trou! $ ago. is a free agent, and #0 long as he is insists on having his full share . It is not difficult matter fora F f ‘troop of cavalry to kill an Indian, but it would be s labor worthy of Hercules’ attention to make Sioux; he isn’t built that way. jorse found that he was to De treated asa common prisoner and confined in the at Fort Robinson he drew ‘a stiletto and attempted to stab the sentinel—a the horizon their eyes aré kept fastened upon it, This is kept up until sunset if the dancer has not succumbed through weakness before ‘this: he tugs and strains in his efforts to n the thongs through the flesh, and finally falling with his whole weight tears the thongs through, generally rendering himself insensible. ‘The dance, as its name indicatos, is in honor of the sun (typical of the Great Spirit), and the great object is ir gaze upon e their adoration, or ceaso 40 follow its rich government paid out the enormous him on the sum Of 3630,209,136.91 to kee) ions and, when he the expenditure of $5,000 in provisions would have prevented a tribe from going on the war- path, but the. government generally preferred tole the Indians go sealp-hanting’ sod sen t $50,000 in dragging home ihm behave himself. yall of the tribe, who wear » peculiar insignia, a| duties of the | P! a, = NEW YORK NOTES. Some of the Subjects Occupying the Atten- tion of Gotham. FABULOUS SUMS INVESTED IX ORCHID¢—sOME ‘MAMMOTH IMPROVEMENTS—BRIDGING AND TUN- NELING THE HUDSON—THE STORM CENTER ‘LEAVING WALL STREET. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New York, Nov. 27. O* TUESDAY a tall, spare man might have been observed at Delmonico’s down-town restaurant at thé busy lunch hour fluttering nervously from group to group like butterfly sampling the costliest flowers. The gentleman attracted attention and comment even in this famous hostelry, where great men are common, ‘and he was eagerly pointed out as a man who was that day giving the city a real sensation in the way of s novelty in amusements. This friend of » public that is quite Grecian in ite fondness for some new thing daily was Mr. Pitcher, the noted gardener, who, first as an amateur and now a8 professional, has de- veloped the cultivation of orchids and of chrysanthemums in this country until his firm are able to fill the Madison Square Garden with an exhibition of these plants that is simply unique in the history of floricnlture. New York squares are not quite as large as those at Washington, but if you could imagine one whole block 'roofed over and the floor filled by the rarest and loveliest flowers that the antip- ‘odes und the tropics can furnish, you would SCIENCE AIDS HOUSEWIVES. Good Work Done by Food Commissions. WHAT THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SATS. Ina recent issue of the Scientific American is a valuable article giving the results of exami- nations on baking powders by the various food commissions as shown by official reports. The article states what the ingredients of a pure and wholesome baking powder should be, and then points out as the most common adulter- ants, alum and ammonia. . After summing up the evidence against the ff of lum and ammonia in articles of food, Scientific American says: “In the face of such testimony, quant ammonia are used, one company, it is esti- mated, using every year in the manufacture of their baking powder two hundred thousand (250,000) pounds. Tight of the people to know what food com- junds contain. There is, however, no law to iat effect at present, and for the protection of the public wehhave compiled Het of baking Powders containing ammonia and alum, from ve official reports, viz: United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 13, Inland Revenue Department, Canada, Bulletin No. 10, Ohio Dairy and Food’ Commission, New Jersey Dairy Commission and the Massachusetts State Board of Health. It is a list worth proserving. AMMONIA AND ALUM BAKING POWDERS. Compiled from Official Reports. Powders marked with astar seem to havea general rale, as they are mentioned in at least two of the official reporta. realize somewhat the magnificence of the spec- | American Gilt Edge *Kenton tacle which New York inno faating _ at foie Pacific pace eyes Uw) . Of course we have orc] an " chrysakthemam shows before, but nothing hes | Rroeeenecoeme®, ason's ever been attempted on the scale of the present } B ve Het exhibition and the spectators are divided be- | 2 oe, tween admiration for the prodigality of the ex- n Wave hibit and the nerve of those who have risked so | Cariton Oia Colony" much on popular favor. The attendance and Ges sec patronage, however, are immense and probably | Gook Oriole the plucky firm will'find a profit in their enter- Gur Best rise. gz° ‘TYING AN ISLAND TO A CONTINENT. rons. Public works onan imperial scale are on the | Gore’ rn docket, the most majestic perhaps being the | (70 Bride of ottawa proposed suspension bridge across the Hudson Princess river. This project is in charge of the strong- Fart, est men, like Andrew H.Greon, and may be Beioto counted upon as reasonable sure of success. If Sliver Cream 80 a distinct epoch will be. marked in bridge Silver Queen building. Imagine a span of 2,400 feet, or more | ‘Silver tar than half a mile, 150 feet above tide water and | E Silver Thiiuble bearing eight railroad tracks on which heavy | fysur' area ger and freight trains are rolling. Isnot Springtiela Bhis sclence outdoing magic? Aladditrand. his Star lamp are rapidly sinking into the common- | & — e. Sterling But this bridge is only one item. Side by | Gol Sun lower side with it, or to speak more literally, under Ped neath it, is, the tunnel, now making steady | Gr Vienna “iteni progress and already an assured triumph. Here, hen, is another wonder, though not such & how piece as the y. great iron highroad in the ‘uken together the two will give the me- | Int “4 & a tropolis the outlet to the west that it requires. At least two other great bridges, however, are seriously considered, and_finall project of tunneling’ the Narrot nect Brooklyn with New Jersey and the conti- nent without the mediation of New York city. Of course the capitalists in charge of the North river bridge do not tell the details of their locations. If they did it would have a painfully stimulating effect on the parcels of real estate which they expect to acquire. But it is understood tht the plan contemplates a terminus on Broadway somewhere between 33d and 42d streets or in the very heart of the city. Tleave to all travelers to iinagine for them- selves the delight of walking out of a splendid tation on to the Broadway sidewalk and being | 2°) at once in the midst of its shops and hotels and brilliant metropolitan life. THE OPERA BACK TO TOWN. Wednesday night the opera season at the Metropolitan began with rather an uncertain sound. Black care sat in more than one of the boxes, for the flurry in Wall street is by no means over yet, though the worst violence of the squall seems to have passed. The opera chosen for the opening night was a novelty and an experiment, and it puzzled more than it pleased the audience. This year Manager Stanton has tried the policy of reserve and silence, with what success can be told later on. ‘The company is largely a_ new one, with few t reputations in it to give it prestige, and ‘ednesday's performance did not make any fresh fame. After the season gains headway we are promised another “cycle” of Wagner, and no doubt the series will_be on the high level of excellence which Mr. Stanton has taught us to expect. But it must be admitted that the sea- son waked with a yawn. THE NEW PARK COMMISSIONER. { The good old-fashioned democratic motto, “To the victor belong the spoils,” would amply justify from the Tammany standpoint the selec- tion of Paul Dana to be one of the park com- misioners. During the recent campaign the ‘Sun was the only paper that really did battle for Tammany with whole-hearted loyalty. But on higher grounds than mere political quid pro uo Mr. Dana's appointment is satisfactory. lost, people know the passionate fondness which Mr. Charles A. Dana has for landscape gardening and his profound knowledge of the abits and possibilities of plants, This taste is inherited by his son, who has, we might say, grown up ina park and who is practically ac quainted with various problems of landscape gardening. The Danas arc intimate with Fred- erick Law Olmstead, the designer of Central Park and still one of its firmest friends, and we may assume that the new commissioner will carry out Mr. Olmstead’s purposes. As a public character young Mr. Dana has yet to make hi mark. Thus far he is known as a young gentle- man of culture and wealth with Yather a pen- chant than a passion for journalism. THE STORM CENTER LEAVING WALL STREET. The money changers are breathing freer as each day passes without fresh disaster. But we are beginning to hear of anxictics in the outer circles. ‘Thus far the mercantile community has stood the racket remarkably well, but some think that their turn will come next. A thriv- ing Christmastide trade may, however, float all hands over the bar. Certainly the streets of New York do not suggest a financial stringency. ‘The Christmas rush has already begun, for the prudent shopper buys his stock of gifts about as far ahead aa if he were engaging « seat on a train into New England for the day before Thanksgiving. It iv said, by the way, that the Thanksgiving hegira this year was ‘unprece- dented—so much so that the New York and New Haven railroad on Wednesday wouldn't sell even standing-room 80 made it impossible for many New Englanders to go home toeat the ancestral turkey by the paternal fireside. A THANKSGIVING-TIDE TRAGEDY. Amid the general festivity of the Thankagiv- ing-tide one humble and almost unnoticed tragedy calls for passing tear for poor mor- tality. In'an uptown lot where contractors were blasting out the rock forlorn looking stranger accosted the boss on Wednesday morning and asked for a job. It so happened that more men were wanted, and so the laborer was hived for the day and set at work. Presently the preparations were finished for a blast, and the men dispersed as usual to gaina The stranger, however, loitcred group cither through ignorance or indifference. he minc was discharged and one large Voulder, forced through the cover by the ex- plosion, tlew at the unfortunate wreteh and in- stantly killed him. Nobody knew who he was, there was nothing about him to give the least clue, and he was taken to the morgue, where thus far he has not been identitied. But who knows whether on this happy Thanksgiving day some poor little home group is not waiting and wondering with fear and trembling and in utter want why the breadwinner does not come? ny R. Euwior. A Great Inventor. ‘He made a new invention nearly every other ‘THE s10Ux. ‘The Sioux affected by the present condition of affairs number, al} told, about 20,000 souls, and are theoretically located at Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Crow Creek and Lower Brule agencies. To these people have been and will be issued an immense quantity of provisions during the current fiscal year. ‘of beef the regular contract calls for |, 200,000 pounds. There were 23,000,000 pounds of flour ordered, 209,000 of coffee, 399,-} tort whether beneath or above them, in whose honor they are sufferi The drummers and a regular keep up a chant of ‘The Great 8) In dancing, the arms to the el Broseed to their sides, and from elbows straight 000 pounds of ands of bacon, | hair st z ¥ nds of 63,000 pours of “aed. inck, 36,000, pounds And yet there is trouble in the northwest. ween TY before an able judge and impartial jury. Just Politics. argue, and argue, rs From the Atlants Journal. “And never finish . “Lam the boss fool,” said man at the Kim-} «Never. A verdict would put anend to m ball. idea of happiness, in the intel. “How 50?" lectual struggle.’ No, sir, a verdict would bé “Well, I got drunk, half bellowed myself hoarse, have spent all my money, got my bat crushed in and have no to sleep—and all ee oe ee ae ve never seen and know nothing about. @ stranger in the city.” wi But something always alled it, and it always seemed to abirk; Its functional activity was somehow very weak, Its whole vitality was low; the blamed thing wouldn't work. He made perpetual motion things, but they would nd then. he ua & big machine for fying through the sky, a But there was a slight obstruction in the piston rod And the only trouble with if was he couldn't And he made marine toboggans for sliding on the sea, Ave of bicycle and ana fhe! tocoud tral tp me sald" wan'nis | 5 ‘The thing would slide tremendously {f he could it float. he made that reer ae or Ho took the médicine himself, a large, grecn-look- ‘And twenty ininutes iter he Iaid him down and —Yankee Blade, 8. W. Foss. A Question in Mathematics. rom the New York Tribune. ‘The other day in a well-known private school in this city the teacher of mathematics asked ‘one of the pupils: “What is the square root of question a boy whispered. @ loud aside, “Ward ” Wheeler’ White Star Windsor Zipp’s Grape Crystal. Jersey “In the U. 8. report, the results of the analyses by Prof. H. A. Weber, made for the Ohio Dairy and Food Commission, and_ by Prof. H. Bedinger Cornwall of Princeton College, N.J., for the Dairy Commission of New Jersey, are cited, as well as those by Dr. H. W. Wiley, Chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture. This gives peculiar value to the report, which, of course, contains a great dea! which cannot be summarized here. “One prominent powder is reported by all au- thorities as free from anything that could be considered an adulterant. Cleveland's Baking Powder is reported asa pure cream of tartar wder, containing about 10 per cent of fill- ing, and yielding a large amount of carbonic acid gas. On this latter factor depends its strength or leavening power. According to the four authorities mentioned Cleveland's powder gives the following percentage of carbonic acid gas: Ohio, 12.80 per cent; New Jersey, 13.57 per cent; United States, 12.58 per cent; Can- ada, 12.57 per cent; which is an average of 12.87 percent, a high average, equaled by no other cream of tartar powder examined. “Ita constancy of composition is also strongly testified to by the Canadian report. All things considered, it may fairly be said that Cleve- land's baking powder makes the best showing in the reports of these four authorities. Its abso- lute freedom from anything in the adultera: tbe too strongly It coniains, according to the official reports which we have quoted, no adulterant whatever, and by the different chemists is shown to onaess a remnarknbly uniform leavening power. “This quality of uniformity is of importance. In adding a given proportion of baking powder to flour it is essential to know that « definite amount of gas will be produced. Otherwise many spoiled products will result. The show- ing Cleveland's makes, compared with all the principal brands, is such as to put it emphati- cally at the head of the list.” —— SAYS IT IS A FAKE, Prof. Gatchell Outdoes the So-Called Mind Reader. Prof. Chas. E. Gatchell of the homeopathic department of Michigan University pronounces mind reading a “fake.” He was in Chicago last fall when P. Alexander Johnstone, the great mind reader, did his wonderful feats. Prof. Gatchell studied the matter thoroughly and finally concluded that he could do the same rick,” as he calls it, and all the other tricks which Johnstone did. He then posted £500 with a Chicago paper, to be forfeited to charity same, but the latter gentleman did not sco fit to accept the offer. Mr. Johnstone gave an ex- hibition at Ann Arbor Thursday afternoon and Prof. Gatchell has not changed his opinion of his work, and has made an offer of 8300 to the gymnasitua tund under the sume conditions as before made at Chicago. ‘The first thing done was to decide on a word, to be taken from Webster's dictionary, and the committee decided on “mucilage.”” A team had been procured, was driven over # route thirteen blocks long, turning first one way and then the other, and complicating the route es much jas, poasible, ending where they had started. The committee then blindfolded Prof. Gatchell with a heavy bandage, and then drawing a thick hood over his head and tying it close around the neck. Everything being ready the professor and Ggimmittec Jamped into the carriage. Prof. Gatchell took the lines and drove the horses on adead run, first turning one way and then the other, following the exact route taken by the committce. One of the committee asked if he could not drive a little slower and he said: “Us mind readers all drive this way,” and lashed the horses into a faster run. ‘On arriving back at the office he went to the dictionary, turned, efter a little hesitation, to the righi ‘page, and, calling for a paper and Pencil, wrote the word “‘mucllage” without hes- ‘tating. An overcoat was thrown over his head ‘during the latter part of the test as an extra precaution. The committee then made another examination of the paraphernalia used and the test ended, the professor enjoying the discomfiture of the committee, who ex- pected a failure. B. K. JAMISON & CO. FAIL, Inability to Realize on Their Investments Causes an Assignment, B. K. Jamison & Co., the Philadelphia bank- ers, made an assignment yesterday to Samuel Gustine Thompson. The failuro Zeaused little surprise and had scarcely any effect on the stock market. The firm begun to suffer last obligations, as ite money was tied up in all kinds of outside operations, especially timber and coal lands, upon which it is hard to realize, The firm issued a statement yesterday after- noon to the effect that the failure was due to the stringency in the moncy market and the fi xi ing loans called by the fact that ““we have beon if he failed, if Mr. Johnstone would do the | August and had great difficulty in meeting its | the: WHY THEY LAUGH. ne thruage Boctewnet Adventure of a Capl- The coming session of Congress may be thoroughly eventless and entirely devoid of humor, but the Capitol police force will always have something to laugh about. There is something supernaturally quiet ubout the in- terior of the great Capitol at night time after the legislators and alleged legislators have gone home or to some equally congenial resort. Every sound echoes and re-echoes to such an extent that a nervous man might easily imagine himeelf surrounded by spirits of the non-drink- able and invisible variety. Not long ago a gentleman from a particularly wild section of the extremely woolly west secured a position on the force which preserves order in all por- tions of the big building except the halls of the House and Senate. He was unacquainted with many of the ways of effete eastern civilization, but that excusable ignorance epuld hardly be regarded as sufficient excuse for the scare he gare his brethren one night not s0 a le was dry—to use a phrase of Tom Ochiltree's “he had a large on”—and he repaired to one of water coolers which are in niches at various points of the Capitol. A turn of the wheel and the water wag running into a glass. The thirst was temporarily quenched, but how was the rush of water from the spigot to be stopped. The wheel was turned and turned, but as it was always turned in one direction the liquid only flowed with increased force. The idea of turning the wheel backward does not seem to have entered the officer's mind, but he did feel it to be his duty to stop the stream be- fore it overflowed the narrow boundsof a drip trayTand became uncontrollable. Something had tobe done and just then there flashed across his mind the story of the little boy who saved Holland by stopping a leak in a dyke with his infant arm. “Quick ae thought be placed thumb tightly against the mouth of ‘the gla nozzle and in instantaneous response a stream of compressed ive water struck him all over face, to say nothing of his shirt front and th rest of his attire. It was a chilly experience, but he con!d not back down. ‘Then | an inspiration came to him. Why not whistle for aid? Shaking the surplus water off his features and ont of his mouth he blew wild notes of alarm through his police whistle. Again and again did the shrill tones disturb the atmosphere, while the water gurgled and hissed and soaked the hfal man whose strained muscles were almost worn out in his endeavor to stem the tide. Visions of a swelling and turbulent flood tearing through the corridors, ruining furniture and spoiling the frescoes, chased each other across the somewhat aqueous mentality of the persistent one. In fancy he saw the waves rise around him, now up to his waist, about his chest, at his throat, bubbling around his ears. He sinks, rises again, sinks once more, gets another and a farewell breath of air, and is going down for the last time when ho is seized by a strong hand und dragged to a place of safety. “Why in the devil didn’t you turn the water off?” asked an indignant and an amused fellow officer, who had beaten all amateur records over a marble floor in answering the distress calls, The drenched victim made no reply and then a heartless laugh went up from the crowd, for every policeman within sound of the whistle ‘was there, And they still laugh. THE stoux. The Veteran Missionary Writes East That the Messiah Craze is Waning. Secretary Herbert Welsh of the Indian Rights Association in Philadelphia recently wrote to Bishop Hare of South Dakota, who has been engaged in missionary work among the Sioux Indians for a great many years, asking infor- n as to the threatened uprising due tc the Messiah craze, of which so much has appeared in print. In reply, says the Philadelphia Press today, Mr. Welsh received the following clip- ping from a Sioux Falls newspaper, taken from Thursday's issue: Bishop Hare returned yesterday from a pro- tracted stay on the Sioux reservation. While there he had an excellent opportunity to view the condition of the Indians and to examine into what is termed the Messiah craze. He has visited nearly all the agencies during the year, and about October 1 was at Standing Itoc He has been in constant correspondence wi Indian missionaries of the opal church, and is probably able to orrect an opinion upon the situation as any one living. fe furnished the following for the press: “The spread of civilization has alarmed the heathen party. Pressed onthe one hand by the advance of the whites and on the other by the civilized and progressive party among the Indians the wilder Indians find themselves cor- nered and are like wild animals at bay, a state which is apt to give rise to delusions perste measures. Hence has arisen, I think, | the present delusion, which, promising as it does the confusion of all civilized people and the survival of the advocates of the old Indian life, comes to the wild Indians very oppor- nd has to an al:rming degtee taken possession of their minds. They guther to- gether at points removed as much as possible from observation and interference, and there, by harangues and songs and dances, work’ themselves into a frenzy of excitement. destroying the implements and symbcls of civilization and supplanting them by relics of barbarism. ‘The excitement is, however, con- fined to particuiar locations, and in many ‘parts of the Indian country one hears less of it than he does in Sioux Falls. Any attack of the In- dians upon our forts and settlements seems to me utterly improbable. The Almighty is about to dispose of the whites quite cficctiually, wo- cording to the preaching of their prophets. “So far as Lam able to judge, the movement is not gaining, but rather ‘the reverse. I should foar the resulta of farcible interference with them in their present excitement. Time. will reveal the deception practiced by the ringlead- ers, for the promised crisis will not come, and, meanwhile, the Indians will have danced them- selves out.’ Their prophets have enid that the quaking of the earth and the coming of the Mese siah would oceur at the next new moon, and when their predictions are not fulfilled ‘their excitement will be allayed. “All have doubtless read more or less in the newspapers of the delusion which has taken possession of the minds of the wilder clement among the Indians. The leaders in the move- ment have invigorated old heathen denn with snatches of Christian trath, and have taanaged to excite an amourit of enthusicsm which is amazing. They teach that the Son of God will presently appear as the avenger of the canse of BISHOP HARE ON the wild’ Indian; the earth will shiver; a great wave of new earth will oversproad the present fuce of the world and bury all the whites and all Indians who imitate their ways, whi while the 3 real Indians will find themselves on the surface of the newearth, basking in the light. The old. ways will all be restored in primitive vigor and glory, and the buffalo, antelope and deer will return. “The devotees of these ideas are di in their exercises, in a special garb (a shirt made of calico and worn like a blouse, called by them ‘the hole’ bal “my ae —, bei = inet feature), and, ami: rangues from their - ersand songy}in which they ery, “The baffalo arg coming! the people form ‘rings by hands and whirl themselves roud in wild dances yntil they fall to the gonscious. They are then maid to be dead. ‘Their leaders promise that while in this state they will be transported to the spirit world and ft Son of ‘accordingly, wl 1 FeOgYEE of the strange visions consciousness, they'tell have enjoyed. es look upon the iy en eB of thenism grawn vigor and reitatate ttsell. Dany of rer itt sionaries have been expecting such o struggle. Of course this strange craze revives many dear memories and appeals the pan feeling even in the Sivilized Tee In these old ideas the being of many of them moves with the ease it, like ma- D.C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE POTATO’S SUCCESSOR. A New Vegetable That Northwestern Farm- ers are Going to Cultivate. From the St. Paul Globe. Albert Meyer, the chemist of Stillwater, was in St. Paul yesterday, and in the course of a conversation on the potato crop and the good price to farmers gave an interesting talk of a new tuberiferous plant that he thought would be introduced in Minnesota and become as much of a staple as the potato. “Will it fourish in this soil and climate?” “Undoubtedly. I will tell you about it, A few years ago a scientist discovered in Japan a plant resembling the potato and sent samples of itto Berlin and Paris to be experimented on. These experiments have been favorable successes, and the new potato has been exten- sively introduced in Berlin and Paris, espe- cially in hotels and restaurants. A number of farmers in our vicinity, with whom I conversed on the subject, are willing to experiment on the plant next season. The Koval Prussian Society of Berlin has taken pains to make ex- periments with the plant. The scientiiie name | of this plant is ‘Stachys tubcrifers,” but as to their form they might be called pine cones. ‘Stuchys afinis’ is another name, and lately | they have given it the name ‘Stachys Sieboldii.’ | The cultivation is the same as the ok! potato, j and there have been found over 100 knolls in one hill; some say as many as 300, but this is probabiy exaggerated. They are, of course, not as large as oar common potato. According to the Garden Flora, the organ of the society, the analysis of the fruit is: Water aflinis of tuberifera is an agreeable t ple when boiled in sult water a with butter rnd parsley sauce. So | like them scethed in oil, but that is me matter of taste. Prepared like ‘pommes de | terre frites’ (potatoes cut in small slices and fried in butter), they are claimed to be a deli- cious dish. ‘The taste is at first like that of a sweet potato, but one will soon feel a very piquant taste. They do not need to be peeled, mut are only washed clean in water, which ix another blessing to the housekeeper. "They are kept in the ground as late as possible, and pre served packed in sand in the cellar during the winter months. ‘Exposed to the air they will shrink and lose their ‘nice white inother-of-peari like color. The plant is winter-hardy and thri r soil. Frost does not hurt them and to have them always fresh left in the ground and dag as wanted. In our climate itis best keep them in a ditch sand in the § 3, inspector of the Royal Bo lin, informs me that the pi farmers » 1 have ab number of orders for seed. ——--—-+00- — —_ CONFIDENT OF THE FUTURE. Jay Gould Discusses Union Pacific and the Financial Outlook. The New York Tribune yesterday printed an interview with Jay Gould, in which he expressed the utmost confidence in the future of the country and its railroad interests and declared | that sound railroads would issue from the re- | cent financial troubles with brighter prospects than ever. In answer to a question whether ready quite a further changes are contemplate will devote himself to the building up of the property and his practical knowledge and thorough honesty will soon have their effect.” In regard to the address of Charles Francis Adams in resigning the presidency Mr. Gould | Fas somerrhat reluctant to apeak. “We did | not eee it,” he said, “until we were cain on our return. 1 was surpris | it, for when Mr. Adams | week he thanked me for my efforts to strength | the company. His statement abont th mony in the board durin administra not whe stand, sally about whut the president dQ has been run on principles that hyve into practice. The two presidents is very simple, but Mr. Dillon is a practi- cal railroad mai, while Mr. Adams is « theorist. “The in the management of ti Union Pac sures harmony among weste railways and t strong associa- tion on the basis suggested by Chairman Walker. It will be the purpose of the new association not so much to ad- } vance 3 28 to enable the railroads to get those now supposed to be in force. | Such an agreement will preserve competition, | for it will send to give the little roads a chance | to live.while the present method is driving them into the control of the lager systems. I thir every the Union ought to pass ls | com} he observance of an agreement that basis. A meeting of the western railro: ! officers will be h | f the Burlington and Quin | the co-operation of the Burlington and Qui ist the Rock Ink 5 om ay | Mi probably next y serious objec proposed to make. It will be merely a ques tion whether a road will be worth more in or outside of the association.” ‘l to the money market and the gen- ial situation Mr. Gould was confident that the most serious troubles had been passed. ————_ee— A Triple Executian in Uhio. Henry Popp, the Stark county murderer, and IsancSmith, the Pikecounty murderer, who were to have been executed at the Ohio penitentiary | annex Thursday night between 12 and 1 o'clock, were granted arespite by Gov. Campbell to De- cember 19. Elmer Sharkey, the Preble county matricide, has been soxtenced to hang the sawe night, which will make three executions at that time walets there should be further | interference on the part of the governor. The usual Gbankegiving dinner was served at the penitentiary yesterday, after. which the 1,690 convicts were given the freedom of the yard. ‘The gloom incident to the approaching execu: | tious was relieved by the governor calling from the number Cornelius Hethertan, s lt man, convicted in Clark founty in 1843 who was made the beneficiary of the Thank.giv pardon. Hethorton had a record. an: Tolliny will tho prinostee bien ata 7mee the iy Prisgners, ich Was granted. Robbed of a Winn. John B. Baker, jr., the miging Philadelphia stock operator, is short $1,000,000 in his ac- counts as attorney to the trustees of the estute of his grandfather, Charles H. Baker. The missing ugouritios consisted of coupsn bonds nd seeisored. tock "and bonte fone Upon powers, which, so far as can be ascer- tained, were f 2. % ‘out the entire stock of an tmporter. A very attractive and handsome line of goods, ought to retail af Sland 61.50 per yard. 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