Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1886, Page 4

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Chis racy writer is a regulur contributor of the Sunday tain reminiscences Mun wsy's Picture of Christ Before Pilat Lictier from Omar James Intere 7 r from Boston by I"'r Sepel The Greek: Com in New York, by 1l General Badeau Letter. rians' yof “The Are ry Adams. regular New Fork A Paris 1y odore Tilton, who tells aboul the Cafe dele Regence and the eminent chess player: Desides all quantity of sarcfully s this there will be neral and local cted maseellany. the usual news and The Sunday Becis always an inlcresting paper. Sce that you gel it. “Brack diamonds” will soon be the fashion in Omaha. scuttles and furnac They will be set in T In every county in th for fishing for I at its height Prixcerox and Yale had a football aateh on Thanksgiving which ended in a general fight, three hundred intoxicated students, @ broken leg and a called game, Aliberal education nowadays appears to oe intimately connccted with a liberal use of accomhlished ruflianism mingled with the flavor of the pool room and the aloon. ickers 18 now JOnN SANLER is now busy tramping Face the Problem. Yor more than a year Omaha has been gputtering and trifling with the raitroad question. Bushels of editorials have en written and fully a dozen of me ngs held. With what result ¢ We are as far removed to from the needed rail facilities as were a year we | Local eapital will not take hold of t projected entorprises. It finds ample yment eclsewhere in proj hich it considers less risky. Weare now brought face to face with empl ots 1 inty that we must induce ex i (e to give us what we need or that we must go without. These are the only alternatives. We may cry ourselves hoarse ubout Omah roads, built with Omaha capital and operated by Omaha men, but there is no answering response in dollars and conts. Money, not wind, is needed to build raitroads But we must have the road: \ direct connection with the ley which will obviate the d We nec Slkhorn val- ye by way of Blair and Fremont and shorten the time by several hours. We want a straightline to Yankton which will tap the rieh territory of twelve counties in the nortl ern part of the stute. We must have an air line conneetion with Central Kansus and the Great Bend, which will bring Texasand Central and Western Kan \8 to Omaha as it is to Kansas (ity hese are three roads that we need and we need them badly. We need them to us to hold what imercial territory we have. Menaced by rivals with more dircet routes to Ne- braska towns and villages, Omaha can not keep her hands in her pockets any us a spectator only of events with- uage to her interests. She aceess 1o her existing close enable longer out serious wust have better trade territor nd she must grasp new fiolds by extending her railrond facilities What would a donation of half u million or even a million dollars amount to on the part of Douglas county if such a sub- 1y would quadraple our population in ten years and add fifty millions to the value of Douglas county real estate in half that time. Let us face the problem in asensible wa, The Cotored Vote South. Ex-Congressman Young, of Tennessee, said in n recent interview that the most notable political condition in that state is the gradual change that is coming over the black population. When the present iministration eame in, according to Mr. Young, the negroes south very generally boelieved, as the result of republican ching, that they would be returned to ry. Haying learned that democratic success meant no such result for them they are no longer haunted by the fear of re-enslavement, while the action of the president in appointing Matthews, the Albany colored man, to sue Ired Doug inspired them with confidence 1l induced them to regard the demo- ts as their friends. Hence in Tennes- they rushed to the democeracy, and as ult of this radical change in the negroes Mr. Young prediots o the southern that in 1888 the south will be more solid than eve The “unreasoning and unreasonable impulsiveness” winch Mr, Young attri- butes to the negroes may account in a measure for their defection in the south from the republicans to the democrats, but a better reason is found in the con- viction of the more discriminating among. them that only in this way can they hope to have any safety as an element in south- ern society, enjoy any of the rights of 1<hip, or escape complete disfran- chisement politieally. The colored voters of tne south have learned from a very bitter experience that adherence to the republican party involves a loss of the means of subsistence, and of every right and privilege which as citi i- zens and men they are cntitled to. It would be too much to expeet that the whole body of Yhis people would go on perpetually makiog this sacrifi and in portions of the south, Tennessee most sver the state and interviewing lemsla tors-elect about their preferences on the senatorial issue. John says that the hiof question in regard to a member is vho controls hima?! Saller will dis- sover that there are a few men who con- 'rol their own vote so fully that no cor- poration go-botweens will be permitted w interfe ONE of the most sensible of Genera Bheridan’s rccommendations in his last report, much more so thun his sugges- tion that descrters be marked with indei- Able ink, like shirts on a wash list, is that with reference to breakmg up the 1 indinn reservations, giving each family or tribe as much lund as it 1 actually scoupy and selling the remmnder for sheir benefit. It must be done sooner or later, and the sooner the better, o gemersms of RepueTioN dwmies is not so much vhat is ne to dimmish the treas- ary surplus an ancrease of the free tist. Reducing duties would doubtl reduce prices in many cases, but there § no assurance that it would reduce rev enue. Abolition of duties on such arti- eles as are used in manufacturing—m other w , on raw materials—would both decrease revenue and lower prices to consumers, while it woull stimulate wanufactur Here is « line on which revenue and tarift’ reform combined can Ve put into successful operation ‘I'urre still some newspaper talk about the nayment by the New York Sun of the bill of Holmes & Co. for embalp Ing the body of General Grant, and opi lons du as to the propriety of Mr. Paul Danx’s course in the matter, The sttor wney of Colonol Grant, speaking of course by authority of his principal, charges it to malice. We would not presume to suy what the motiye might have been, but we have no hesitation in saying that Colonel Grant, assuming that he is the person who shiould have attended to the account, mude « great mistake in allow- ing any one the opportunity to do us Mr. Dana did, and he bad ample time to wvoid it r the public aunouncement of the Sua that if the bill wus not paid within a certain time, and in order to prevent its being sued, it would send the elaimant a check for the amount. The attorney characterizes this as a gross in vasion of privacy and grief, but the fam- ily, or at st Colouel Grant, scemed not averse to what would have invalved a more embarrassing infliction upon priv- acy and grief had the matter gone into the courts. ‘The impression at the time cer. tainly was that the Sun's course was generous and commendable, and we doubt if this Las generally chaaged. conspicuously, a part of the negro vote has been given to the democracy in local contests. But to assume that this indi- entirely satisfied with democratie policy, and- there is excoedingly favorable promise that they will be sufficiently numerous in two or three states, m the noxt national eampaign, to break the dangerous po'itical solidity of that section ex-governor of s absurd the GENERAL SHELDON, New Mexico, characterizes talk of a filibustoring expedition into Moxico. Inthe first place the Umted s wouid not atlow it, and if it did the general’s opinion is that the Mexicans would whip any party that is likely to be organized for such a vurpose. He states that he heard a good deal of such talk in Dallas and Kl Paso, which is the best authority y ven forthe existence of the filibustering spirit in that region, but the talk apvears not to e come from uny tesponsible source. The men who are at the bottom of the agitation, according to the general, are fol- lows who are too lazy to work and want to find some excuse for plunder. Cutting is the chief pro moter of the movement, which is quite enough to condemn it and insure its fail ure were it seriously undertaken, Mexico ig abundantly able to take care of herself in this partienlar. With an army of 300 and her border well guarded she need have no ansioty about filibustering expeditions, But there is danger that her government may feel ealled upon to ask proteetion, in the interest of oflicial and social respectability, against the humilia ting and demoralizing mvasion of ine from the United ambassadors The Coal Di 3 The news the wide seam of fine coal has been struck on the river bottoms in Omaha, is the sensation of the hour ‘The capitalists, who tor weeks p: have been patiently drilling through clays and rocks, m search of ural gas, have rded by o discovery which, in all probability, means a fortune for them- sel and a lasting vrosperity for this y. 1t promises to be the solution of the question of cheap fuel, the most per- plexing problem with which the people of this section have been wrestling for thirty years past. A seven foot vein of a fine quality of bituminous coal, at a depth of Jess than 60 feet, is n bonanza, which will do more to push forward Omalia's permanent prosperity than a dozen assumed booms. T ems to be no reasonable doubt of the size of the vein or of the quality of the coal. Competent judges have de- clared that 1t is not lignite, and have pro- nounced the specimens brought to the surface to be - superior quality of fuel. The mine, for so it may now U led, isin hands of men with ample capital and its deyelopment will be promptly pushed. Cheap conl any great commercial center mean prompt development of all classes of manufacturing industries, cheav fuel and cheaper living ing people, and cheap living for at for wor mechanics means the ability of manu- facturers here to compete with other manu where the cost of living islow. Aside from the large number of Iaborers employi ed in mining, coal mines at Omaha promise to this city an imme- diate industrial growth which will mak all other booms face into insignificance. OwvAnA is outgrowing her water works system, and some vital changes must be made before long if the supply is to keep up with the demand in this In- creased powers are needed by the com- pany to enable it to e: d its works. It would be well if some provision should be made in the new charter granting the city the right of eminent domam for water purposes within a certain distance from the city. This would enable us to secure right of way for water muins to a more distant point, where pumps and settling basins could be located, and the company tself, by lease and contract with the city, could turnish the funds and use the property so appropriated for pub- lic use. Ovg valued army correspondent, Gen- cates any general increase of confidence among the southern negroes in the dem- ocratic party, at least for the reasons cited by Mr. Young, is to put a very nar- row estimate upon their intelligence and diserimination, While it is not true tha they were taught to believe by republ cans that demoeratic suceess meant their reenslavement, we venture to say thut there have mnot been i the last twenty years a hundred thousand negroes in the entire south who did not know quite as well as Mr. Young that no such a thing was po. sible. In whatever other respect the ne- groes of the south may be ignorant, they do not lack the knowledge that their emancipation was complete and for all time. Furthermore, if these people are 50 astute as to have found in the ap- pointment of Matthcws to succeed one of their own ra in o pubiic office~a man who, by the way, was opposed chicfly by thecolored men—a reason for giving their conlidence to the democeratic party, will they not be likely to put in the bal- ance against this circumstance the treat- ment accorded to a colored man in Rich- mond, who was there in a representative capacity ns n member of the Knights of Labort If they have the shrewdness of discernment they are credited with 1o conuection with the Matthews appoiut ment, which a number of demoeratic sen- ators did not favor, they wili hardly fail to note the conspicuous example of dem- ocratie feeling toward the negro exhib ited at the eapital of Virginia and of the “late eonfederacy.” It is not true that the negroes of the uth have any rea! symputhy with or contidence in democracy. They conld not do so withoutrejecting all the lessons of a d and oppressive experience and the plainest promptings of common sense. Those of them who vote with the democeratic party do so from compulsion and not from choice—the compulsion of their necessitics, of the demand for the means to live, and of the desire to enjoy a little part of the rights and privileges that are nccorded to white men. To what extent they will support democracy two years nence it i8 1mpossible to predict, but if it is necessary to muintain the solidity of the south that they shall vote with the democratic party or abstain from voting, it is not doubted that the party will fiud a way to direct them at its pleasure. But we are not prepared to accept as conoclusive the opinion of Mr. Young that in 1858 the south will be more solid than ever. The evidence is that thereis a very large body ¢ yoters in the south who ave not cral Brisbin, has been transferred from Fort Niobrara to Fort Robinson, 120 miles westward. General Brisbin has hugged the frontier for mmany years, and his wide acquaintans with the topics of western life has been gained amid just such surroundings. His transfer to Fort Rob- inson will doubtless afford the general new material for another series of attrs ive aud instructive letters upon the Ne- braska frontier and its early history in the days of '76, when that portion of the state was the scene of stirring events, ashington dispatches the postal outlook is encouraging. The most encouraging thing about the postal outlook in Omaha is the addition of cnough clerks to our local office to muke the force capable of hanaling, with dis- patch, a portion of the immense mails which have been swamping the postof- fico for tho past six months. (N the eyes of the ralrogue editors, enator Van Wyck's independence is his greatest and most dangerous fault But that 18 just the source of his strength among the republicans of Nebraska, A senator who 15 independent of corporate influences is just the man they w ut. Sixer; Sedgwick’s spree and Manning’s drunk, it is becoming apparent that a smperance pledge should accompany every democratic application for o for- cign mission Messns. [ILEr and associates seem to have struck it rich. But Omaha has ruck it still richer if a seven-foot vein of cou! has been actually discovered. Grisn people decline to enthuse over | grandchild. Royal babies are expensive luxuries for taxpayers Other Lunds Than Ours, Bulgaria declines to accept Nicolas of Mi y as her ruler and the czar is baiked once again in his ambition to control the little principality through one of his ereatures on her throne, The latest advices from Vienna report that the Russian embassador reported that Prince Federick of Oldenburg would be accepiable to his master. This would indicate that the czar has given up all idea of forcing the Mingrelian candi upon the Bulgarian sabranje. Kaulbars' retirement from the country has not eased the minds of the Bulgarians. ‘There is a general teeling of apprehen- sion that Russia is preparing to seize by arms what she bas not achieved by diplomacy and that winter will be HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, cam the Anstria used in yigorous preparations for 4 paign which will open as soon snow goes off from the Balkans 18 evidently preparing for th in <pi the pacifio assurances of her , which are belied by the bold ches * It is significant that one of the first pro i the army. The emperor urged as the reason foo this measure the inereasec mies of the powers around Germany, but held ick what was probably the real cause, the general fears of conti complications over the castern spring. Russia is rap belligerent tone in ner question in the idly adopting a mor her utterances, and Austria, whether or not she has received encourage- ment from Germany, 18 also becoming bolder in her declarations. With a mad man on the throne of the czars no one need be surprised at the sudden mobili zation of an army which would sweep down on the Danube and kindle & win- tor's five the blaze from which wouid be seen over all of secret Now that the time for the reassombling of parlimment is drawing neaver, both parties preparations for the struggle that must again be taken up on the question of the better government of Ircland. Salisbury has apparently left the conservative policy in this matter to are makir his licutenant, and that vigorous and ens retic young statesman is tking advan tage of the opportunity. Assisted by Sir Micl el Hicks-Bench, the scerctary for and, Mr. William Henry Smith, the L stary for war, and Lord Ashbourne, the author of the tenant's purchase bill, now m operation m_freland, Churehill is preparing o land bill, whieh is virtually a mere extension of the privileges granted by the Ashbourne act. And now it comes to puss t the tory statesman who gave it as his opinion that the Grand Old Man had an ace up his sloeve proves to have been gifted with foresight, The dispatches inform us that Mr. wdistone has intimated to Sir William Vernon-Harcourt and My. John Morley that he wls early in the com ing session of parliament to move the dis- establishment of the Weleh church. The signiticance of this movement s that the discussion ot the subject must inevitably reconstruct present party hmes and ob tain for Mr. Gladstone the support of all the uon-conformists of Great Britain, Once in power ngain, with the advantage of the further enlightenment of the Eng lish people upon the rish question, M Gludstone's measures for the establish- ment of a parliament in Dublin and the purchase of land would be earried to vie- tory. . wte The French senate and assembly have completed the assnmption of the burden of popular education by the republic by recent legislation of quite wdieal turn Within five years, all monks and teaching in public schools are to g o sceular teache There is com- plete liberty to found private prim schools, but this legislation has deepl offended the eler! arty. The polit power of the church to nuns bo thoroughly broken,although the elericals seems indulge in violent denuncintion and almost threaten rebellion, dward ites that the supremacy of the government is unquestioned and that the clerical opposition will not venture be- yond a certain pomt. Irance has m- creased her public school houses since 1870 from 40,000 to 70,000, and the gov- ernment inspection is strict. nee suffers from one danger which we have not, Its government is purely national, instead of federal. Hence there is danger that the schoolmaster will simply ome part of a vast cf service which may be Ided with crushing effect from Paris in future political contests. In the Unitea States we haveno such obstacle or peril. If the nation nids the common school, it must do so through the states and thus not centralize power " Prince Ferdinand, of Hoh the elder and Catholic lin, ollern, of has been chosen by his brother, King Charles, of Rouman as nis heir, tor Charlesis childless. This was arranged a year or two ago, and the prince, who is twenty- one years old, will soon huye his Prussian licutenancy and becore an oflicer of the Roumanian army. It is said that wren he took his leave of Kaiser Wilhelm the old mansaid: *1 think thon hast had more pleasure in Potsdam than ever thou wilt find later down in Roumania.” * e Tne flag of England now floats over the island of Socotra, in the Indian ocean. Of itself the 1sland is worth little, but its geographical position, aimost direetly in the line of communication between India and the Red sea, makes 1ts possession a matter of great importance, It is signifi- cant, too, that England should have ter- minated its nominal indenendenc t the time when Russia is supposed to have agyressive designs in the cast. PRC Some Yorkers want Julian Hawthorne ex- pelled from the Authors’ elub for *insulting” Mr. Lowell, Miss Rose Elizabethi Cleveland will begin astory In the January number of Godey's Lady’s Book, : ieneral Logan’s hair has not yet a symptom of the ominous gray color. It is as black as a raven’s wing. Senator Logan won a new hat by betting that Morrison would be- defeated. He put it on in New York a week ago. Mr. Gladstone nas a rent-roll and land- Income of $70,000 a year, and is reported to hold several wmillion wmr; worth of rail- road shares. i W. F. Proctor, the se LK machine million- aire, who married one of Mr. Sin daughters, says that in his youth he worked in New York for a $1 a day, “I'he engagements of Sam Small and Sam Jones extend to October 1, 1857, In that time the two revivalists expect to traverse the con- tinent from Boston to San Franeisco, return- ing by the way of Minuneapotis to Ohio, Can- ada and New York state. Charles Dudley Warner, who is mak extensive tour of the south, says that all classes are at work there; that there 15 a growing love for literature and science, and that the brightest future scems to open be- fore the old confederaie states, s Miller and the Aunstrian Mission. Chicago News, Dr, George L. Miller, the talented Omala editor, would make an excellent winister to Austria, and we are glad o see that he is being urged for that distinguished appoint- ment. If he accepted the wission he would {nevitablo | three summers ago, s made by the government to the German reichstag, which opened on | Wodnesday, was one for a large increase NOVEMBER 27, 1886, probably re-encage the services of Sig. Man uel Pietro del Pobasco, the versatile Italian courier who piloted him all over Furone and whom the genial doctor so highly commended to other Omaha people who contemplate European journeys, Not Likely. Cleveland Leader tions are soon to be held in they will enatorial neral el Grecee it is doubtrul whether AIf as slippery as a democratic contest in this olly state, — - Made Mouths at His Sister, Dallas News Cleveland cannot be expeeted to be in love with the press of the conntry, True, it has always tren bim well, but jnst remember how it made mouths at his sister, - Away With Red Tape. Atlanta Constitution. Isn't there some bold democ ington who is willing to take murder the purveyors of red tape? have a little reform in the departoients? He Should Have Gone to Law. Taitimore American, Pity the poor, down-trodden Indiant at in Wash n meat-ax and Choctaw Nation has just got a verdict of $2,458,708 against the United States, Geron- imo made a mistake when he went o war Ile should have gone to law. - Something Hot. The fountains no longer tizz, Where we erst saw the soda flows The s hooner isdoc on the bar roow shelf, And the lager is running slow. No more they take lemonade, No more tiey take soda phid For the Tom and Jerry and whisky punch Are popular drinks again The Orimes of Corporations, St. Lomis Republican, the on 1t is pretty American business itled 10 Itas aret ion—and r: fuve, with all the antagonism, ment, malevolen 1d conquest or sub- mussion that warfare involves. Boyeot ting may be pernussible as an agent of war, and in eases where the party resort- ing to 1t has no other lawful weapon it can use effectively—as in that of the Irish poople against their pitiless landlords -1t cannot be condemmned. But no such ex- treme and desperate emergency exists in this country—and the public vicw with emphatic disapproval the application of s0 harsh an ageney to a mere quarrel b tween disagreemng employers and em- ployes. But, is boyeotting the only evil, or the worst one that exacerbates the dispute between employe ind employc ul widens the ¢ ngement between elasses in this country? The boyeott is labor's weapon—and’ it cuts right and left and left and leaves cruel wounds sometimes upon unoffending vietims. But - ital no weapon equally merciless crucl? s organized w offenses it ehiarges upon orgamzed labory , are not 1ts offenses and oppressions too frequently the provocation to the oftenses of the other side? 1f the mem- bers of a lubor union combine or con- spire to rum the business of an obnox ious person, the laws ecall that a crime and socicty indignantly demands the punishwent of it, But when a fow pow- eriul stockholders in a corporation con- spire to “freeze out” all the others; or, when they conspire to wreek ank, or Insurance company, or \ilroad or manutacturing company for their own protit; or when the Pennsylva- nin anthracite coal-mine owners con- spire with the Pennsylyania railroads to “put up the price of coal fifty cents a ton’'at a net profit to themselves of §700,- 000; or when several great railroad cor- porations conspire m a *pool’’ to boy- cott and ruir feeble, independent road that refuses to join with them 1 extort- higher rates on the traflic of the the owner or owners of a railroad running through a state which granted its ¢ id assisted to build ally that agreed by boyeotting encouragement lintion is war ostrang public and alth free from the it, deliberate sometimes mali- ciously, adopts a poliey to divert trafli trom that state and rumn ats ind all these are treated as allowable and legitimate, or, at least, as unavoidable things which we must submit to and make the best of. But are those erushing agencies, which exceute their work through sheer weight any less exceerable for being irresistible? Does the tremendous force behmd them make them nght? Is a conspiracy be- tween several corporations represent- ing $300,000,000 to rob the public or ruin arivala benigh and permissible pro- proceeding, when a conspiracy between a lot of individuals to do a ss cruel work is a felony? Itis said thatthe conspiracies of power- ful corporations controlling such su- preme necessitics of the country as trans- portion, conl, food and indust in which hundreds of thousands of men arc engaged, cannot be helped. But this is a dangerous thing to say. It leaves no remedy but outbursts of violence—per- ps revolution. Nothing is more his torically preposterous than to say an ac- cumulating grievance which —presses upon the masses of a free people must be permanently submitted to. It never 1s submitted to beyond a certain point When that point reached, lot the authors of the grievance tuke care of themselvee as they best can. Artbur's Life a Uailure, New York Mereury, The decease of ex-President Arthar 1s regretted by both political parties, With the single exception of his unfortunate afliliation with Mahone, his ofticiat life was beyond repronch. Certainiy a morc polished gentleman has not occupicd the white house sinecante-bellum d. e had his political use, but the question oc cur Was Mr. Arthur's life a failure He is reported to b 1id a short ume preceding his death: ‘- all life is not worth the living, and I might as give up the struggle now as at any time nd submit to the inev 3 'he last part of the sentence is a phrase of My, Jeflerson's reply toa friend who asked him while still in‘health if he was not afraid to die. The sage an- swered: 1 useless to shrink from that which we cannot avoid.” Ex-Presi dent James Monroe did not think his lite was in vain when resiing trom his poli tical labors at Oak hill. He desired to be of use to his neighbors and accepted the post of justice of the peace in his old ag On the contrary, a distinguished foderal senator thought his political and perhups personal 1i worthless, One nigit Arthur P, Bagby strolled mto a little Baptist church. At the conclusion of the humble services ho arose and said: My friends. you know somcthing of me. have filled yarious minor positionsin Ala- bama in my young day. | srnor of the state, s orof the U esand Zov Mited minister to Russia, I have seen thus bigh pbases of public life, and it isall not worth the old cotton umbrella which I have in my band!"’ to be taken into the fold of the littie ehurch, There w: ‘hester A. Arthur, who had been vice president and presi dent and president of the United States, and as such, feted, honored and known And then he asked to the civilized world. ~ Was life to him not worth the living? [If so, his life was a failure, and the humble and unknown worshipper who kneels in secret with simple, yet humble faith, and who holds no official trust nor desires it, but only wighes to be like Abou Ben Adhim, usefu to his kind, and who is thankful for life as the immorial gift of the Creator, is o splendid success in this proliminary ex- istence. THE MONARCH OF THE SI The Wonderful White Man Who Subin® gated Indians Single Handed. BRUGINER, THE “HAIRY FACE." How the Great Spivit Defended Thim ~War Eagle's Successor, in were Many Cowen the Chic more numeron of the u go—writes Bd News—when they than the vernal willows yor Missouri river vall marvelous white man lived awong the warlike Sioux. History has slighted him, Iis fame is aimost legondary now; his renown then extended from the land of the Pottowattamies to far boyond the do- main of the Pawnees and Ar hoes. He was alternately loved and hated, until at length dismayed at the failure of all their plots 1o nssussinate him, the Indians sue cumbed to superstitious fear and were afterward his minions. The ay of king was nover more absolute, though no regal splendor marked hisveign. The most voyal blooded of all the Sioux be d submission to his will. Tho one who dared to disobey his mandate or of- fer contempt was punished by the mon- arch's hand in the presence of the tribe He was to the Indians a wonder sccond only to the Great Spirit. In endurance, athleties and fight- ing he was invineible Lhe crafty, thiey ing Yanktons knew and dreaded finm as “The Bear,” The Santees and his own tribe, no less impressed by his hirsute oddities, ehristened and revered him as “Hauiry Face Though other intruders equally brave were killed, he aived on with a charmed life, resigned to the prebab e fate of an unmarked grave n the wilderness, For thirty yoars this intropid Frenchiman looked ~from his barbarie environments on approaching civilization with a cynic eye. ‘I'he habits of the houseless Sioux beeame his habits ‘T'he other day Lsaw him rise laboriously trom his chair and scout the room for i cuspidor into which he desired to shuke the ashes of a burning cigar, He was excitedly retating youthiul adventures, yet the cleanliness of the earpet beneath his foet was now aomatter of far dee concern than the romances and t of his t. The finger-marks of n ve finod woman were visible in every littie feature of his surroundings. “By gar,” oxclaimed, proudly, upon veturnin, zoes scey'li-zashione ecz sec swhich \ once he ruled is only traceable thy small band of mongrel breeds. Suehr is the pathetie story of human progress Four miles north of Siou x City the high truncated cones wh most topple over the Missouri along its big tangent to the cast turn abruptly to the north, At the extreme point of stands a lonesome knob, imperions of height, Every cloudless it frowns impotently on the muddy river whien is this ungle of hils sapping its strength below. lis crest, bare and peaked, is an historie svot. War Eagle’s beacon fires once blazed here at night, and in the beautiful yalley round the Sioux rendezvoused by thou ands. Only three miles away the blue waters of thie Big Sioux reluctantly min gle with divty saflron of the Missouri, Lo the Dblack promontory a league west the Omabas and wnees occassionally came to battle. The whole circumference of view not long ago comprised the inherited home of the Sious, and on this towering dome where they could forever keep vigil ove their race and progeny. War Eagle with his dying breath, implored that himself and three danghters be buried. rhe Frenchman suecessively married the danghters. Now the countless descend- its of the great Sioux chief are seattered over the western borders, while the hones of himself and cbildren are rotting on this m: ic height. No gravenepiiaph, no tombstone p: tribute to memory, but through the dead prairie g around every yagabond wind sings a rc quiem of infinite sadness. 1f, taithful to the Sioux tradition, sentinel souls hover about this lofty tomb, they can cherish little regard for civilization, thongh they must agree with th ‘o great thing.” It1s just fifly-one years sinee Theophi- lus Bruginer, then a'lusty young man of 2, left his home near Montreal to explore the fur belt of the upper Missouri. His path lay by way of St. Louis up the tor- tuous river, whose tide he stemmed for more than & thousand miles in a canoe. consumed u year and u half, ichuan that it is cut of trinkets to the a pony. The Sioux humorously super- stitious lot abhout that period. Before sunrise one of them had s white man’s pony. aughtered the A mysterious swell- g, to allay witich the - medicine men wers powerless, appeared on the Inilian's thigh, and at the following duybreak he died y great significance s attached to this fatality. ‘i'wo weeks later Bragine hought another pony, and the next day it had disappeared. One of the b 5 WiLs S00n after-ward stricken with small-pox. He sent for “Lhe Bear,” told Lim where the conld be found ina hole up the and died, Then the Indians began ect, ‘The good ones decided that their white visitor was nuder ti pecinl proteetion of the ( Spirit; the bad ones assented, but de o at expedient to remove him. Not less than a score of thnes he was shot at from ambush-—-none was brave enongh o face him in single combat—but he remained unharmed, while his assailant in every in met a speedy and violent death, Eventunlly he eame to be regarded as an indistructi- ble being sent to” direet the destinies of the Sioux nation, and bis person und Property were ae oted ns sacred trusts, Naturally of ungovernable passion and unconquerable prowess, the fndian who g wus il dared infringe his #ig sly punished It is told t old Braginer ha id ont more Sionx for the buzzirds' feast than fell in the Custer fight, but he maintains not, “By gar, [ am luckce,” was sinister rejonn Lo aque n touching this report on gee, | leek them; some I hurt bad, but zey nev-air die’ From reprehending offeniders against him he got to pumshing wll th the tribe, until at last bhe becnme both judge and excoutioner in adjusting every wrotg and grievance. Yot there wero fanatie ind who believed that to kill him wns 1o be glorifi Hae knew th and was on the alert. One day w stunding in front of his tepee he heard warning yell and turnced guick enough t avoid being shot i the baek. The bu cut a red line aeross his bosom. He fol his the long, burning sting. I shake me 50,"" said he, with a b h os on of the shoulders, “and zen | am right v 1. *Ab, hat you shoot me in ze back, eh? Well,we see.” " Pu his knife from itsscahbard he Lol Ss1n The lutter took in dod g priner was bury ¢ Drother dealt tie of his brother. As I ing the knite in hiw Frenchman a territic b the head skull w on the back of awk * he in he clewving the fed, and plac ing a finger where he indicated L moved itup and'down a deep groove nearly twa inches long. The Indign recovered from the knife wound, but one duy accident ally shot himserf in the bowels with an The man old pistol and died in great agoay. | husbunds of Withiu two werks the brother was killed | became by & scouting band of Pawnces. Not long after Bruginer had regained nis feet | - A ma he rushed between half a dozen quarrel- g bucks to s« their dispute with the | *Jawes G kuife. One of them biazed away with o | thew, pistol, the bull striking nim syuure iu the § them breast bone, defleetin lung u nd shatterin weeks, to the boundless astonishment of the tribe, hemor about, ruling with the same indomit will rhages a The Todian horrible retribution an ol 1 musket one Llowing off his head I'n were never though predatory bands from ne Frenchman i Ak a tib. In a fow which had seen in his prolonged certain death w who shot him met o While hunting witn day it exploded s acts and aut rain resisted or questioned oring tribes continued to plunder him until his memorable ex nee with the Sant Te had o blooded pony stolen one night and trailed the thieves up to the hoad of the St, Peters river and onto the Sa J reservation. There the pony was sa beyond his olaim. The agent refusing demand the surrender of the animal Broginer sauntered over to the amp of the marauders and walked deliberately around the pony to satisfy himsclf beyond any doubt of the iden tity the moved thy “H mysic to his promp Var el dition Frencl iry Face' 2100 10 the pony when h srfully There wore twenty-five v I'he farther 1-pos the mian's could aw dostr had 1 cirelo aroun merey the tly returned Saglo was convine follow ful netive ot im d it stol I'h Lndias day in among t wtency of charm Santees deseribe ns in they north, and fmmediately broke out o of them died, leavin hem 1o Siouy the that rted the con d the ndas an appoal o anmal assumed ¢ ere must Wil the rightful chicf, but abided by t torship of the white ficta hove been a strong bond of friendship between these two men, for the Frenchman speaks of the d ing ter and me Kknew tho th dren is 1 wa ms, oul st intell Irom | ror on none but endear- tizing him s the bray t Indian that he ever iner's marriage with e daughters a long line of chil sued One by one the boys as they appronched manhood set out in the wake of the setting sun the bullet or knife their nomat; went whil by ways of tl neate' t wnherited 5, many ar of front © un hem we Four have died from I'he others, true (o instincts, them re b Deing ng. Onee rder govern- jers on the most cheerl All eflorts to « » the father sent two of the boys to an Ohio afterward while colloge riding one of them rose up him, pointed for home Th walk of 10 be ¢ horse. the Mis Soveral w into Nioux ( f 1 thousand T The ceks fre miles, Wi W m - the vy the road b like a st ad was blistered and worn fr S prostrate red and an in one afternoon three weeks later Old Sioux to Harn Bruginer t noody warf: incursions tees thoe or re against the whites on n the Plat 't he refus s i on the back of his fatl brothe ssippi, but v ey, cfore n his 1 s bl on ihled of the e n 1854, and'the killing by the Indians of 1 worthless cc left by emigrants on the ove nd trail to die Several hundred lodges of the Drale were in the exeite ment of the sun dance when adetail from_Fort Laramie appeared and de manded the instant handing over of the guilty Indian. The chief, who { of loyaity to the whites, previously hawked seven thwving bucks, refusol wherenpon the soldicrs opened i Many Brules were kilied, but ! meut o attack f soldiers Wit T wag aunihil: nted by the risi of the entire Sioux nation, Bruginer 150 definitely locates Ine mur een i thy il f his hief, I eause of the Spirit Lake minssucr picdu-tah (Red End), the renagad dever, had heen his protege for years. He was the head of one o five remaining royal famlies of Santees In the purchase of the tribal land royal offspring were cach entitled to the plebi Agent Murphy Ine-pa-du tah cach member o y the latter sum, and the 'to one of the most peaceablc of angrily east the money ot the feet. Bruginer was present and ined the ervor, but Murphy was un compromisi Lhat night Inepa-du-tah mustered the maleontents of the tibe and led them into the most bru tragedy of the northwestern frontic e es- caped to northern Dakota, anc ord- g to reports received by Bruginer, was alive tv It is twenty-five VO v TS § ince Broginer cut away from his aboriginal mooriy and marriea his present wife, an seendznt of St onts ploneers eventtul life in a modern home (‘l)nP-Iiihml woman and the d¢ Now he is ending his His i3 woted among the best-cquipped aud most sroductive of Missouri valley farms 's. Bruginer is very much younger than aind, whatever his ki prerogatiyes among 'the Sioux may have becn she is sertainly now the ruler. Like most fron tiersmen, Bruginer is famonsly extravi- gant. Three or four fortunes hiad shp, out of his hands iua misty way when Mrs, Bruginer took the reins, and to her eco- nomic skill and management is due his financial regeneration. They are rich again, and it 15 almost pathetie to b this old man talk abont going to around the world some day of his yenrs and hardships, the spirit of adventure is as strong in him as ever. Ho 18 wonderfully preserved in health and strength. His voice is still as sonorous ns A grizzly's, His unflinching gruy eyes, deep set beneath shaggy, frowning brows, are the undimmed mirrors of what was onece n “Ze Siou And, this § relitic em-p'rr-o At tho there was gz him defe re he le 1, added tally snid she. Hghe ly Phi $16,000 COmMpPANY in conr 1, befor sents iff"s hin an expre: tra 8 1 ) s go.” stless, unyic " he exclanned at the ontset of the conversation, seemingly nfliciently emph ot quite ling will, n Ki o nge." that zed his supreme “By gur, 1uam 7o v cily wt Mrs. Bruginer “I dan't let him go there any - 1 for a Hushanda, fteen Thousan adelphia Smith on L ¥ A yzainst th Ju Hison or st od 1 Ponnsylyanin Railre of common pl Tha sum for the loss of the piaint He me Mrs. A voi r he was asked if bility of soon me glanced t- e, “No," he supplemented, apologetical- rusto lict of pre shand, a baker, who was killed b hile driving across the tIrenton avenne and Keystone It was alloged neninst the com ny that the train was running a rate of forty miles un hour, that no w ing w o pl of the ¢ had b of the At th places t col given, that no flagin the wrn Les ol the erossing he detense company was that the deceased rn warned not to drive across and that he must have seen the he locemotive. 1t wus alio s bell of the engine was ilding a Rabroard in Asta ntral Asian ralroud is only live from Sarakhs. During its « m through t fesort and neutral he oflicers and men st work ha v eurions movable camp, we they speet to tind no s oo pro except what they themselves pro ey have a regular se consisting of two storied r; (mo tanncls or erossie k! il ouilt H and thoroughly war and communicating w meuns of covered pa is poshed on as the rals day. Permanent station founded now and then, T'urcoman hut, which contains tel mstruments and a small arned maranders, b evmulating a lagge stock of b W protect b ho du i her f er of badg Bluing and alreaqy trems te und o i th 1 other by The train are la'd cach s have been Consist tatfof sen wel elves human of Green he graves for three s in New York is ac figds inseribe o demund s with | i | | |