Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. @uana Ovrien No. 914 awp 918 Fanwax By, Mww Youx Orman, Roou 65 Tarsvsa Bomo- e, wvery morning, 'lm Sunday. The m"u.:fl.:l morning hll.y'rl\ 0d {n the siate. ¥he Weekly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesday aRus, POSTPAIR o Tear, with premiam. . Yoar, without premium Btz Months, without premium . ®ae Month, on brial CORRRAPONDRNOR | All Communieations relsting to News and Editerial matters should be addressed Vo the Eviron or run B USRS LaTTERA. All Bustness Letters and Remittances should be dressed b0 THn Ban PURLIRING OOMPANY, OMANA. , Oheoks and Post offios orders 4o be made pay- whle 40 the order of the sompany. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Props, B ROSEWATER, Eprron A. B, Fitoh, Manager Daily Oirculation, P, O, Box, 488 Omaha, Neb. Oxana s now slaughtering beof as well as dry goods. e——— Accorn to Bradsirzet there were only 184 failures in the United States lastweek. This Is a big improvement over the week previons, — We sgaln assert that the Omaha police force needs a thorough reorganization on a civil service reform basts, and the sooner it {s done the better it will be for the city. Mg. Canver, one of the proprletors of the Dabuque Herald, has been rewarded with the postoflice at Dubuque, and now Mr. Ham, his partnez, wants to be In- ternal revenua collector. There is noth- ing small about tho members of that political firm, They are after the whole hog. SecrETERY WHITNEY I8 not only trylog the Dolphin but the patlence of Mr. John Roach.3 Mr. Whitney, who is a holiday member of a New York yacht club, proposss to impress upon John Roach, the American mariner, and the public generally. that he knows some- thing about talt water himself. Tue city conncil of Kansas City re- minds us s>mowhat of the old-time Oma- ha councils. The other night the mayor of Kaneas City sant in the name of a successor to the present city engineer, and a lively row ensued. The president of the council caned a reporter for report- tiog hls speech of a few nmights ago, and the reporter retaliated by knocking the president clear out of his chair. Peace was not rastored until the pollce put in anasppearance. Dox Caveroy has sold h's house in Washingten for $96,000. It cost him $50,000. The profit was too large for him to decline, and he will try hls luck building another. The purchaser is D. P. Morgan, one of tho syndicate of brokers who spend every winter in Wash- ington when congress Is in sesslon, and there conduct their speculations in stocks that are especially affacted by congres- rional action which they are enabled to galn a knowledge of in advance. Tuk recent fire in a Clnclnnatl factory destroyed flftoen lives becausa there were no fire-escapes on the bullding. The sad lesson tanght by this criminal negligence should be heeded by the authorities of every city. Every building over three stories high, in which working men and women are employed, should be supplied with fire-czcapes. There is an ordinanco in Omaha requirlng ell hotels over two ntorles, and certain other buildings, to have fire-escapes. We believe that this ordinance has been cheerfully comp'ied with, and that quite a number of fourand five story buildings have been protected in this way. The Chiricahua Apaches have broken away from their reservation again and ara now out on an expedition of murder and robbery. Already they have lkilled quite a number of settlers. Theso aro the same Indiaus who were brought into the reservation two years ago after having been on the war pathand killed a large number of persons, among whom wera the McComas family., General Crook interposed in thelr behalf, and no pun- iabment whatever was given them. His curse at that timo was regarded as alto- gether too lenient, and it was predicted as a consequence that these Indlans would coneider the government as of but slight importance. Had they been even lightly punished, they would probably not now have gone on the war path, The San Francisco Call thinks that the omission to make an example of their leaders was bad enough,but to feed them at the public expense in forglvenees of their outrages was still worse, E———— R, M, T, HoNtER, who has been ap- pointed collector of customs at the little Virginls town of Tappahannock, with an insigoificant salary attachment of less than $1,000 & year, was once & very prominent man, Of late years he has passad almost entlrely from public no- tlce, but when the democracy came into power sgaln he wasameng the moss- backs that were returrected and given new life by appointment to office. His name when It appeared among the lot of appolntments eeemed rather famlliar, and inquiry establishes the fact that hels the ssme R. M, T. Hunter who forty years ago was epeaker of the house of representativer, and was afterwards a Unlted States senste. He ssrved In the senate until Juoly, 1861, when he was expelled on the charge of participating In the rebellion. He was secretary of state for the confederacy and & member of the confederate sepate. After the war he was elected treaturer of the state of Virglola, and retired from that cftice In 1880, My, Hunter is 70 years old, and 18 sald to be very thankful for the small office that has been given him. GOVERNOR V8. AUDITOR. Auditor Brown, of lowa, although conalderably disfigured, I8 still in the ring and fall of fight. On Tharaday last he ;submitted to Governor Sherman long affidavit, In which he seeks to com- ply with everything the governor is sup posed to desire pertsining to his office. Brown rarcastically quotes the opinion of the attorney general to show that the things he is charged with were freely committed by his predecessors, Audlitors Lucas and Sherman, the present gover. nor, and he also reminds the governor that everything contalned in the affi- davit could have been obtalned from the records in the auditor’s office at the time; of the ejection, Brown declares that he has fully com- plled with the law In every rerpect; that he haa not withheld fees belonging to the state, and deposited $1,400 in the bank to be subject to any judgment the gov- ernor may obtaln from him for such fees withheld, Brown evidently is very deslrous of being restored to his of- fice, and his frlends malntain that the governor, under the circumstances, can do little else than reinstate him. It would seom, however, that the fight has been a little too bitter for the governor to favor Mr. Brown in any way at this juncture, even though it would bs a matter of eim- ple justice, and would tend to heal tho breach that has occurred in the republt- can ranks in and around the Iowa capl- tal on occount of the quarrel. The Des Moines Register refuses to publish Mr. Brown’s aflidavit, probably on account of the good showing made by Mr. Brown, The ZLeader, a demccratic paper, eaye: Mr, Brown has scored a signal victory. He has prepared n statement which sete out the governor's usurpation in a manner so strong and forcible that the Register is afraid to lay it before its readers, Governor Sher- man has probably got his orders, and will ignore it aleo. In the light of this conduct it is scarcely probabls that the eupreme court, if called upon to pass upon the governor’s act in ousting Brown, would feel that they ought not to presume that the executivo moved more by prejudice than a desire to fulfill his official duty. The prejudice has all the time been apparent to everybody occupying a less elevated place than the supreme bench. If the judges will only come down tc the earth onca in a while and read the newspapers they will bo enabled to give judicial opinions that seem to be fitted for the government of an en- lightened people, GRADED LICENSE A MISTAKE. The city councll ¢f Denver has been struggling with the liquor liconse ques- tlon for some time, and at last an ordi- nance bas been adopted providing fora graded llcense system. There are three grades of licenses, The firat is for saloons thatare kept open at all hours; the second 1s for saloons for 6 o’clock in the morning until 2 o’clock In the morn- Ing; and the third is for saloons open from b o'clock in the morning until mid- night, The first grade licenso requires a fee of $800, the second a fee of §500, and the third a fee of $300. The people of Denver will find that this graded system will prove a failure, We venture to ssy that there will not be a single saloonkeaper who wil! take out the $800 license, and very fow, if any, will take the $500 license. The probability s that every saloon-keeper will apply for the cheapest licenee, at $300, which permits the sa- looas to run from b a. m. until midnight. They will tske their chances on keeplng open longer than the law allows. We have seen how the midnight limit works in this city, where the liquor business is handled in protty tair shape. Hardly a saloon shuts up at mideight if there Is any trade in sight, sud maoy of them run all night, So it will be in Denver. Theeo matters aro easily arranged with tho authorities. Denver will find that her standard license will be the lowest one provlded for in the ordinance, and under that license the siloon-keepers will do a8 much business and keep open just a8 long a8 they would under the $800 licente, The city council of Denver has made a mis. tske, and it will find it out to its cost in a very short time, Wo presume that there are over 160 saloons in Denver, and the revenue derived from them will amount to only about £45,000, whereas, it there had been but one license, and the cost fixed at $800, the clty’s income from the liquor bus'ness would have been $120,000. The liquor license in Omaha is $1,000, and Omahs now gets §134,- 000 annual Income from the retail and wholesale houses, which money goes to the support of our achools, We mention this well.-known fact as a gentle hint to the Denverites. It sirlkes us that saloons can afford to pay $1,000 license in Denver If they can in Omaha. There can be only one successful liconse system, and that is the one which provides a uni- form llcense fee covering the sale of all kinds of liquors, This puts everybody on an equal footing, and gives much bet- ter satisfaction than any other plan. —— Tag present clty charter of 8t. Louis contalns a very senaible provision In re- gard to the grantlog of atreet rallway franchises, The council or assembly has the right to sell franchises to the highest bldder, oras a consideration thereof, to impose a per capita tax on the passengers transported, or an annual tax on gross recelpte. Every right so granted to con- stract street rallway shall cease unless the work of the construction shall be be- gun within one year from the granting of the right, and be contioued to completion with reasonable speed. The adoption of theso provisions was caused by the fact that valuable franchises were frequently obtained not only for speculative pur- poses, but without any genuine organiza- tion or intention in connectlon with the enterprise, and that once granted it was very difficult to get rld of the legel rights set up by the par- THE DAILY BEE---TUESDAY MAY 26, 1885. tles holding them, The princlple that a franchise fs & valuable thing cannot be dlepnted, and henoe the grantor certalnly ought to recelve a valuable consideration therefor. Itstrikes us that a franchise for any purpose that will be profitable to the holders should be paid for just the same as any other valuable privilege. The franchise granted to a waterworks company, & gas company, an electrlc light company, and other enterprises, should be made to produce something for the city revenue just as much s a stroet railway franchiee, The time is coming when no franchise will be granted by any clty without some yalaable consideration and binding condltions. Davip Duprey Fienp, after practloing law for a lifetime, has just come to the concluslon that there is altogether too much verbosity and repetition in legal documents, It is rather Iate in the day for him to make this diecovery, but even at his advanced age a full confesslon may be good for the soul, Tn his recent ad- dross at the University of Dalhousie, Hallfax, he certainly almed a telling blow at legal tantology, and it is to be hoped that other members ¢f the profes- slon will endoree his views and advocate an ocarly reform in this matter. The re- form, aa outlined by Mr. Field, can easlly be accomplished by condensation, sim- plicity and uniformity. The law retains certain requirements long after the orig- Inal cause for them has disappeared, nnd 1t is full of grotesquoe relics of antiquity, which are cumbersome and dilatory in thelr effects. By way of illustration Mr. Field points out the fact tnat the ‘“‘seal” placed after a signature to any legal docu- ment was nothing in the first place but a | 188 substitute for the slgnature itself. It was brought into use when few men could write, and was the principal Instrument of verification, Now the need for it has wholly disappeared. It would be just as reasonable to require a man to make a crcss and write “‘his mark” after slgning his name a3 it is to demand the presence of the seal. But the distinction is still kept up, and a piece of paper which s worthless In ftself becomes a valid conveyance in some states simply by the additlon of this meaningless scrawl, There are hundreds of similar instances where the law has been fossil- ized, and the clumsy devices of the fathers retalned to plague the children through many generatione. It ls true that law reforms, where s> much is at stake, should proceed slowly and care— fully. But it is just as important that they should make rational and measor- able progress. The subject Is well worthy of careful conelderation at the hands of the American bar aesociation, —— e THE war on the wells in St. Louis has resulted adveraely to the property- owners, who protested vigorously against having them closed up. The clty authorities demonstrated, by careful analysis, that the water from the wells was polsonous, and liable at any time not only to caute fevers and other dis- enses, but to encourage and promote cholera. The city councll accordingly passed an ordinance ordering all the wells closed up, which would compel everybody to take water from the city waterworke, The well-owners Insisted that inasmuch as they had been drinking well water for twenty five years, they could stand it for twenty-five more. They formed an asso- clation to fight the matter to the bitter end. An injonction was sued out, which{has just been decided in favor of the city. As this waa a tost case the filling of the wells will now proceed with at least the sanc- tion of the clrcuit court. The declsion upholds the validity of the ordinance under which the clty authorities assumed to act. We presume the declsion of the court {s to the effact that the wells, owing to the condition of the water, are a nuis- ance, and can therefore be lawfully abat- ed just as any othor nuisance, The well- owners will probably apuveal to the sopreme court. ordinance Tue building inspection should be amended 8o as to Include the entire city. It was originally drawn with that object in view, but in order to favor some inflnential parties It was concluded to confine it to the fire ltmits. The fact is that thece have been as many large bulldings erected outside of the fira limits as within, and which certalnly need as much Inspectlon as any other structures. But aside from Inspection, there ought to be a permit issued for every bullding erected within the city limits, so that we could have a complete record as to the number, cost, location, character, and ownershlp of every struc- ure built during the year, This would prove a most valuable statistical racord, Other cities keep suchla record, and at the end of a year it isno trouble to a certain the number of bulldings com- pleted during the season and the amount investedin-the rame, It is hoped”'that our city oouncil will give this mat. ter proper eonsideration, and if the or- dinance 1s amended, ' as we have. sug- geated, then let it be strlctly enforced so that the record will be made reliable, — SreAMERS and other vessels that have crossed the Atlantic along the usoal northern route during the last two weeks have encountered immense lcebergs, and have had some very narrow escapes. The Clty of Berlin collided with an lce- off the banks of Newfoundland, and stove in her entire bowsprit and twenty feet of her bow. It was a close call for her, and had she not bsen an extraordinary veaeel, sirongly bullt, and with water- tight compaitments, she would have been sunk, One or two sailing veesels have been sunk by icebergs lately, but their crews have been rescued, The lcebergs sezm to have found thelr way much far- ther south and In greater numbers than usual this season. They are certalnly a dangerous obstruction to navigation, and while they last the steamers will probab- ly take a more routherly course. ] Tue New York World evidently alms ablow at Boss Manning when it # “‘When a public officlal, whetherthe chief oxecutlve or a subordinate officer, disre- gards the sentiments of the people and wants to be ‘boss,’ the master of the peo- ple, instead of thelr servant—he makes a mistake and lays up for himeelf fature trouble, 1t would be well if in every department and office of & democratic~ republican government it should always be borne in mind that the sovereign people are the masters, and that public officials, high and low, ara their ser vants,” ] POLITICAL, The politician is a timid soul, The politician is anxious nowadays, Bayard is coming to Missouri to eee if there are auy colonels lett. Gen, Sam Oary predicts that Ohio will cast 50,000 prohibition votes next fall. John Kelly has almost recovered his health, sut Tammany continues feverish. The supreme court of Indiana has decided that the 11 o'clock liquor law is constitutional, Tha offensive partisan begins to look hag gard about the eyes and to give other indica- tions of euffering from insomnin, Captain George N, Stone, the ‘‘retired Cin- cinnati gambler,” has been elected president of the Cincinnati board of aldermen. The Boston newspapers say that Mr, Prince, secretary of the democratic national committee, is to have a foreign mission. The democratic congressmen who is not loaded up to the muzz'e with influence is pro- nounced *no good”’ by his constituents, A Boston paper says_that they reckon ill who leave out Dawes when counting in Rob- inson and Long for the senatorial contest in 7. W are advised that every time John O, S, Blackburn mentions Mr. Cleveland’s name he has to eat a clove to takethe bad tasts out of his mouth, The republicans of Illinois have re-clected Logan to the senate. This may be taken 1n the nature of a_hint to the republicans of Maine touching Blaire, The c:untry will ba glad to kuow that the datmisossts of Tows ikve Hopes of cArryini (hat stats next fall, The Iowa democrat without hope would be a forlorn creature. The two chief competitora for the demo cratic nomination for United States senator from Indiana to succeed Sevator Harrison, areGovy. Gray and ex-Senator McDonald. “At any rate, says o republican exchange, “the country is safe.” Thisis true. The democratic party is far superior to a liver pad as & genuine health restorer.—[Atlanta Constitution, The den.ocratic legislature of South Caro Jina failed to make an appropriation for tak- ing the state census_as required by the con stitation, and the democratic papers advise the governor not to call an extra session. ‘When Congressman Scott, of Frie, was told by Secretary of State Bayard to fils the pa- pers of one of his constituents who was an applicant for a consulzhip, he replied that he had filed a check for $25,000 last fall to help elect the administration, and that was all the papers he intended to file, Republican state politics in Pennsylvania continue to interest the people. It is nowead that Chris. Msgee will oppose Quay’s ambi- tion to_be state troasurer by backing Col. James P, Speer, of Pittsburg, cashier of ths Freehold bank, for the nomination, The vet- eran_politician has discovered that his man McDevitt is too light weight. It is understood that one Col. Cauliflower is a candidate for governor of Dakota. He sends a marked paper containing the informa- tion that he is “making excallent headway,” from which we conclude that he has reached one of the important whistling-stationa or water-tanks on the Milwaukes & St. Paul road, But whether he is afoot or horseback we are unable to state, “Experience,” says a modern philoropher, “is & echool where n man learns what a big fool ho has been,” The democratic party was kept in this hard school for twenty-four years, but a good many of its members have proved themselve to be unteachable. They are now laboring to turn the administration of Presi- dent Clevelaud back to the stupid old ways of the Pierce and Buchanan type of democracy. There are no bourhons so_hopelees as those who won't lea [Boston Herald, e —— Stories of Commodore Garrison, New York Tribune, The end of a few years saw him cap- tnin of a Mississlppi steamboat called the Convoy. One day whilo selling tickets in the cffice of the boat ho became in- volved in a quarrel with s peculiarly cholerfc individual, who finally enforced his remarks by prezenting a platol through the window fall at the captain’s head. It was one of the old-fashioned affairs, looking liko a Gatling gun in minfature, containing sfx barrels in one, all of which turned round in cocking like the chambers of a modern revolver, It was before the days of cartridges and the barrels terminated at the breach in nipples, the charge being exploded by a percussion cap. The captsia had not time to move befire the man with amur- derous mind enapped his pistol. The cap missed fire. He trled sgain, and again there was no discharge. Capt. Harrison’s pistol lay near at hand, snd he might have shot his assailant dead, but he made no movement in that direc- tlon. Keeping an urflinching eye upon the dlscomfited marksman, he coolly opened a arawer and takiog out of it & box of percusaion pushed 1t through the window, eayiog: ‘‘Try sowe new caps; yours don’t seem to be good.” The audacity of the performance completely unnerved the irate pissenger, Instead of accep'ing the caps he begged pardon for his folly, was forglven with a hearty hand-shake, and for years afterward was one of the fearless captaln’s warmest friends and admlrers, After remaining & w!dower for many years, Commodore Garrlson on October 10, 1878, astonished his frlends by takiog a young woman to wife, She was Miss Letitia Willet Randell, hardly more than 20 years of sge, and the daughter of an old felend of the commodore's, John M, Randell, a retired merchant of St, Louls. The commodore had seen her grow up from cbildhood, and had met her at Sara- togs, where she had been a belle the sea- son before the wedding, They were marrled at the Windsor hotel, and the young wife at once was i stalled as the m'stress of the commedore's house, No 40 Park avonue. It was sald at the time that he ed & marrlage portion of $300,000 on her. Naturally the marriage caused s great deal of comment, and among the storles told at the tlme was one to the effect that shortly afterward an old friend met the aged husband on the porch of the United States hotel at Sara- toga. He bantered him for awhile, ex pressed s lse that Le should have mar- ried at his age when he had but little thue at best to live, and concluded by representing marr/age as a costly luxary, “Gentlemen,” the old commodore {s re- ported as eaylog, ‘‘have you ever heard of the man who offered $100,0(0 fora glass of water just before he was going to be havged ! 1 thiok that maun wasan ex- tremely sensible pereon.” For a short time Commodore Garrison was president of the Wabash railway. He was Inducad to go into the enterprise 'levuml yoars ago, purchasing 10,000 shares of stock at 17. Soon sfter he be- came worried lest his colleagues should not falfil their part of the agreement by which he made hls investment. He fixed a date on which he shounld decide whether to hold on or not, and instructed his broker on that day to sell his stock In case he recelved ‘““no orders.” On that : |day ho had a Boonference with his col- leagues which was so unsatisfactory that hesent for his broker,thelatter came Into the effice. *‘No order,” sald the com- odore, and while the capitalists were in seasion the brokor rold all the comodore's stock at about 25, it belng taken on stop orders lefc by one cf the leaders In the enterprise. The commodore got §80,000 out of Wabash, and afterward, when & friend chlded him on the amount of *‘rat- tle-traps’ ho had In his aseets, the old man replied: *‘‘Yes, that is so, but you don't find any Wabash among them.” e— THE YUMAS, Oharacteristics of the ©Ohildren fof the Oolorado Desert—A Dying Race, At the time of the Americin occupa: tion of California the Yumas were to bo found scatterde over all the desert bot- toms of the Colorado and its tributaries. Neating In the warm sand of the river flats, and perched on the gravelly ridges adjacent, the children of the dosert then reared thelr villages, throughout all the sandy barrens traverted by the great Red river and lts feeders; and now located in what 1s known es Arfz.nas, Mexico and Callforcia. Bat all that remains of the Colorado Bedouins are to be found to-dsy on the California side of the river above Fort Yuma aund below and about the mouth of the Gila, Though eicknees rarely visits the Yumas, and epldemic never, though they never knew the watte of serlous and pro- tracted war, and they have enjoyed a full measure of peace and plenty, yet the tribo has s:eadily decreased In numbers; and, if the decrease {s not checked, the native denizens of the desert must shortly mingle with its sands to disap- pear forever. In 1849 50, the Yumas are suppozed to have numbered some 6,000 touls. Fif- teen years ago they numbered—by actual count—something over 3,000, They now number In the neighborhood of 1,600 all told. The cause of this fright- ful decimation should be ascertained. In the judgment of your corraspsndent it can be ascertained and remedied. Pasqual, a grand old man of his kind, the present chief fof the Yumes, Is sup. pozed to have long since passed hla cen- tennial year, and, though bearing all the marks of great age, he is still erect and healthy. ‘Whatever there 1s of government among the Yumas assumes the patriarchisl form, but there 18 so little to govern, and that little so wantlng In aggressive- ness of any kind, good or ill, that goy- ernment is & myth so far as observation may determine, There is a gigantic fel- low who holds the office of constable by appointment of the territorial aleade, or magistrate, of Yuma, and wno acts among the Indlans on both sides of the river, This fellow, acting under the guidanceand by permission of his chief, Pascal, with the chlef himself, are the only limbs of the law or government no- ticeable. Many changes have come over the land and many generatlons have bloomed and froited and passed away during the chief- taincy of Paequal, The only man has nearly outlived hls nation; and whatever the totem of chief may have been when it came to Fkim in the Infancy of the prasent century, it is now the meres’ clpher, having no eemblance of power, dignity or profit. All that romains of Parqual’s dying tribo may be found, as before stated, grouped in little cantonments alung the river bottums above Fort Yama. No group conteins above a dozen familiee, and many of them contain only three or four, Save the dog, they possets no do- mestic animals, except here and there a sorawny mustang pony. They build neither hut, tent nor wigwam; but live, or rather huddle together, in frail shel- tors composed of stlcks and dried branches, supplemented by bits of old stovepipe and battered out ccal-ofl cans found from time to time among the refase of the fort and the nelghboring settlement, Though sometimes these shelters are roofed with dried boughs, they are more often open and clear to the eky. Thus housed tho children of the desert dwell; and men, women and babies—romping boys and growling doge, sprouting malds ana granddads and gran- nies—nestle together in the warm eand, sens bed, sans blankets, sans everything Yot they possess and displsy the main at- tributes of happiness; they are fat, cheer- ful, good-tempered, and contented, While the higher marriage relation would seem to be but feebly underatood, the family bond is complete and fillal affcction may be found upon the desert as tender and as strong as elsewhera, They are a passive people, and, as with all such people, the passions burn slowly, and the criminal finstinct 15 dormant or nil. No discoverable moral code ap- pears among the Yumas. Measured by the moral barometer, their stock rates low—almost #s low as that of the Cau- casian savages by whom they have been debased. Polygamy, however, ls inter— dicted and never practiced; which fact, together with the observance of the family tle, would seem to indicate the and dogged, and eapable of wonderfal enduranoce. These children of the desort are wholly self sapportiog. They ralse corn, wheat, melons, pumkins, yams and vegetablos, They cut and sell firewood and poles for corral building. They do all the odd chores of the town ¢f Yams, and work on the river boats and as steve- dores at the several landings. They are Joss addicted to the fiery cap than any other branch cf the red race on the con- tinent, In one respect tho Yumas are not wards f the government—i, o , they re- celve no government ald, nor are they under apy resident government super- vlsor. Too poor to be robbed, they are left to thelr own resoutces: and, strange a8 it may soem, they are better off and happier than those tribes better provided for by nature and cheperoned by tho government, e t— Horses for Warfare, The only two great nations which con- fragmentary exlatence of some definite motal vrinciple, planted long anterlor to the coming of the white man. The Yumas are conservative in matters of dress; tonsorial art s aleo eonservated, The men bave nothing to ehave, and both sexes permit the scalp covering to grow ad libitum, That of the woman showers down about them In a hairy cir- cle, broken only where the halr Is usually removed stralght across the eyes. The men throw their long locks back from the forehead and streaming in straight black lines down the back shd shoulders, or falling in long thin plalts, after the fashlon of the anclent Egyptl Head geer ls now known, but will never be popular, The feet are always bare, ex- cept in the case of very old and lngrm squaws, when a strlp of fibrous bark, tastened through the toes, aver the in- step and around the ankles, with soft- ened sinew or green withs, formerly ed as sandals, Now, however, sand- a' e usually formed of pleces of cast- away boot-lage, or saddle-skirts, fastened by stray bits of bale-rope, cordsge, string or strlps of rags obtained from patsing boats or about the eettlement over the river. The men are above the average of any white race In stature; In fact, & short man 1s not to ba found. Magnificently should~ ered, broad-chested and swong-limbed, with a springy galt and a swinging stride, and straight and tall es a larch, pbysl: celly considered, the Yuma I8 no ordinary man, Like the camel, the Yumss seem to have sprang feom the sands, or to have been made for the barren waste, They are great, strong, muscular men; floet tain enough horses within their borders to meet all the exigoncles of war or of peace, are unquestionably, Russia and the United States. In hls *‘Summer tour in Ruseia,” published in 1882, Mr. Antoolo Gallenga tells us that tho un- wieldly emplre nnderthe dominlon of the Great White Czar, ‘‘covers one-sixth of the habitable globe, while its population hardly exceeds that of Austria and Ger- many, its two mnearest neighbors, com- bined.” Mr. Gallenga adds that the Rev. Henry Lansdell, in a journey of five months frcm the Thames to the mouth of the Amoor, went over 2,600 miles by rail, 5,700 miles by steamboat and 3,000 miles by the ald cf horsee-—or about 11,300 milcs altogether almost In a straight lice, This amazing empire, spersely occupled by human beings ,when its prodigious bulk is borne in mind, boasts postetsion of more horses than any other natisn upon the face of the globe Gen. Sir Robert Wilson, who was Britlsh commissioner at the headquarters of the Rurslan army during the Moecow campaign in 1812, tells us that no troops in the world are better mounted or can defend ground better than the British regulars, ‘‘Thelr artillery,” he adds, ‘18 #o well horeed and so nimbly and handlly worked that it bowls over all ir- rogularities of surface with an ease, light- nees and velocity which give it a great superiority. The vivaclty and alertness of their cavalry and the unqualling stead- iness of thelr infantry make it a pleasure to command them in extremest, dlfficul- tles; for, es in the cate with the British soldier, the moet unbounded confidence may be reposed—to use a eailor’s ex- pression—in their answer to the helm, in every strezs of situation and under the greatest trials,” Krom the same source we learn that the First Napoleon had wit- nessed with admiraticn the unylelding valor of the Russlan soldlery und:r ofr- cumstances the most unpropitious for its display, and had recognized qualitles and propeneilies which would render Russian armies, when properly organized, pre- emlnent in the field. ‘“He had become acquainted with the no less resolute character of tho Russlan pessintry, and' had found nothing wanting which art and discipline might not sup- ply for the construction of a military force on the moet extensive, cfliclent, and _economical basis.” At that time the Russlan soldler’s pay was not more than twelve shillings per annum, and his only ration in time of peace was water and rye bread baked like biscult. Bohind the army stande an enormous territory, with a reserve of horses—a considerable proportion of who, It Is true, not more than ponfes—numbering from thirteen to fourteen million head. There Is no more fatal error than that which arises from underrating an enemy's strength— anerror which the history of the past showa that, of all others, this country is the most apt to commit. Turning to the United States, we find that not less than eleven million of excellent horses is contained at this moment within the brcad limits of the Union—a stock apon which, 11 combinatlon with the equine resources of the Domivion of Canada, it 18 probablo that the war department of this country will have to draw largely In the event of a protracted war with such a power as that wielded by Russia. e eme— THE NOSES OF LADIEY, Their Effect on the Hair and on Bonnets—Combining Nature and Art, Boston Budget, Befors dectdlng as to tho arrangement of the hair, the nose should be carefully interrogated. 1f that featurs be Roman, or what 8 learned author deectibles as “cogitative”—i. ¢., lovg and carved in- ward toward the point—the hair should bo somewhat pronounced in its arrange- ment. It should be rather massive, or elss the large nose will by forco of con- trast, make the head look mcager, If the nose be Greek, an approach, care- fully guarded from being too realistle, to the classic knot may be veatured upon. The varieties of the Angly-Saxon nose, somo of them quite childish in their want of decislon and firmnees of outline, are too numerous to be specially commented upon, but ehould be treated varlously, according as they approach tha aquiline, the Greek or the snub varfeties, This last requires a rather coquettish srrange- ment of the halr, Madonna bauds sort badly with a snub noee. So does the Venetlan coiffure, which has been such a favorite among our withetic phal- “*A little head ran- best suits the snub, “tip-tilted like & flower;” and sensible women who, porforce, wear turned up noses, will carefully abstaln from follow- ing the helght and depth of fashionable coiffures, but remain faithful to the quasl slmpliolty that goes so well with the In- fantile formation of their noses, The silly goung women who have of late gone about the world with thelr heads cropped as close as those of the boys will now regret the rashness that 8 robled th¢m of their locks, for the cato- g:nbcomlnuln sgaln, The hair s to worn curled In front, then slmply brushed back to the nspe of the neck, where it s to be tled with a ribbon matching 'the trimmiog on the dress, hanglog down the back in short curls for evening wear, but arranged ina thick plait for the work-a day hours, Itis a etyle that has its advantages, wore es- peclally as displayivg to good effect & plait ¢f burnished chestnut halr, which the present mode, with its tight little basket plaite, rather envlously conceale, But the catogan needs a very speclal neatness to commend it, and 1f agaln adopted here, as iv is now in Parls, it will be well for its patrons to bear in mind that when rofiled or disarranged the queue will lcss all resemblance to the ex- quisitely neat little appendage of ths name a8 worn by our anceetors, It will have its effect upon the shape cf the fashionable boanet if it becomes gen- eral, and will necessitate a lowering of the crown at the back, portion of the popular headgear has become of late years smaller and smaller; while in hate, on the contrary, there is sometimes aa; enormous preponderance of crown over brim. In the shape known as Tom O'Shanter this is notably the case, and there was never, perbaps, in the whole history of headgear aform thst more readlly lends Itself to the ridiculous than this when seen upon any save the young- est and froshest of faces, A middle sged woman, with a hardeet color In her face, who should be 8o utterly blind to the fit- ness of things (and there have been such instance) as to don a Tom O'Shanter, is one of thoss phenomena which make one desire the rival of sumptuary laws, If the style of hair dressing ought to be dependent In a great degres upon the shaps of the nose, that of the bonnet or hat should, to be consist- ent, be 8o too, There is a very thin va- rlety of the natal organ, inclined to red ness along the ridge, which looks eharp enough to earve with, that requires ex- {romely delicate treatment in the matter of coiffare. The effect cf the nose itself ia patn(ully meagro, and this must be counteractod by a sort of smplitude in the arrangement of tho locks and In the trimmigs of tho bonnet. But then, on the other hand, these must not be too ample, or they will produce & con- trast so evident as to ba pratically a re proach to the nose for its thinnees, The other extrome of & very flashy noso de- manda a certsin severity In the bonnot; but the outlines of the latter must not be too rigld, elss they will throw Into disagreeablo prominence the fnclination of thie nose toward spread- Iog and width. So far as regards form, With respest to color, it is another mat- ter. 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