Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1889, Page 21

- e Largest Manufacturers and Retailers of Fine Glothing in the World Southwest Corner Fifteenth and Douglas Streets, Omaha. 4 : It Pays o Buy of the Manufacturer ; i : : : i | i z : i rx 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2L g L L. L L L L2 2.3 L0 B L 22 BB E-E . E -t ) Mai! Orders wi Browning,King AT BUDDHA'S GOLDEN SHRINE The Magnificent Rangoon Temple and Bow It was Bullt. ITS JEWELS BLAZE IN THE SUN How Indo-China is Changing—Queer Features of the Tattooing Art— American Missfons and a Yan- keo Printing Establishment. Burmah and the Burmese, (Copyrighted 1859 by Frank G. Carpenter.) RANGOON, Burmah, March 23.—[Special Corresnondence of Tue Beg.|—The great southeastern peninsuia of Asia, known as Jndo-China or farther India, is fast making udstory. The French are developing the eastern provinces of Tonquin, Annam and Cambodia, which line the Pacific. The Eng- lish have now a fast grip on Burmah, and Siam, lying between, awaits only & great European war to fall into the hands of oneor ~ibe other. The day will soon come when this great territory, equal in sizo to ono-third of the whole United States, will be governed from Europe. Its interior will be penctrated by railroads, and its immense resources will be thrown open to the world. As I write this letter a corps of engineers are at work sur- veying a railroad from Bangkok, the capital of Siam, to Mandalay,the great city of upper Burmah, and before this letter is published the English railroad, which now runs from this city of Rangoon, 165 miles. to the city of Prome m the interior, will have been ex- tonded to Mandalay, und will be open to traffic. This will give Burmah between four and five hundred miles of railway, and the Aoy will come when the line will be extended to Chnton in China, These roads will open up one of the RICHEST COUNTRIES OF THE EAST. Indo-China is practically undeveloped and uncultivated, Its people are lazy, easy-go- ing, half-savage races, from the Burmese to the Siamese and the Malays, and they have fu the pust lived from hana to mouth. They are uot accumulators nor investors and their rich soil, forests and minerals are waiting the advent of the immigrant. Tho immi- graut is already upon the ground in the per- son of the Europeans and the Chinese, and within a generation or s0 a new race will in- habit it. This race will be the Chinese crossed with the natives. Everywhere I go I find that the Chinamen are doing the busi- ness of the peninsula. They are marrying with the natives, and old English residents fell me they are producing a race that is bet- ter than cither, At Singapore and in the southern part of the Malay peniusula they wre crowding the Evghsh merchants out of business, and they own grand residences and work with large capital. Here at Rangoon mone of the Chinese do coolie labor and in Siam they form already nearly oue-half of the population. The English employ them largely, aud they engage in all wades and in all kinds of business. They are, so Euro- peans think, & nocessity to the development of & wopical country, and the prospect is shat they will eventually own the iarger part of farthor India, They will not do laundry work Lere as th 0 with us, and the low- est grado of work ut which you fud them employed s carpentering. Indo-China is still largely a ost, but its soll is as well fit to support a it pobulation as is that of India. It is watered by groat rivers, and since the Bnt- {3 took possession of lower Burmah, Rau- n has become one of the greatest rice ports in the world. One million tous of rice sre exported from Burmar yoarly, aud the yice mills of Raugoon compare in size with the great FLOUKING MILLS OF MINNEAPOLIS, It takes as wuch wachinery sud work to ungle of for- propare the unhusked grains of rico for the market as it does to make roller patent pro- cess flour, and millions of dollars worth of capital are engaged here in this business. The forests of Indo-China are another great resource. In the south you fina cocoanut trees by the millions, and I noted of the car- ;003 thut were put on the ships in the har- fors of the south that they were owned by the Chinese. Then there is also the tenk wood trees. This wood is as hard as ebony, and it takes & polish and has a grain like that of mahogany. It is used for ship tim- ber as well as for furniture, and it is now exported from Burmah and Siam to all parts of the world. In precious stones Indo-China 18 not lacking, and the ru- bies of Burmah and the sapphires of Siam are noted the world over. There is gold n some parts of the country and the southern peninsula is one bed of tin, which is pow ex- orted largely. Petroleum of several kinds Kml been found here in Burmah and the evi- dences may result in the development of a aew oil field. Of the whole peninsula, however, the em- pire of Burmah is perhaps the best part, and it is, I am told, one of the best paying of England’s lately acquired possessions. At the beginning of the present century it was by far the strongest empire in farther India and it js now equul to six states as big as Ohio. Mandalay, which until about three years ago was the capital, is a city of several hundred thousand people, and Rangoon, where [ write this letter has 140,000, 1t is the capital of lower Burmah which has be- longed to England since the days of Presi dent Pierce. Geveral Grant, when he stopped here on his wuy around the world, predicted that it would be as big as Calcutta in ten years. It1s growing fast and it will, without doubt, be the great city of Indo- China. It is about twenty-nine wmiles from the sea on one of the many rivers which form the delta of the great Iriwaddy river. ‘The river is navigable for tbe largest ocean steamers to Rangoon and boats of five feet draft can sail up it for 900 miles, Mandalay is situated on it about five hundred miles from the sea and 1t forms the great means of in terfor communication for Burmah, It is one of the greatest rivers in the world m its volume of water and it discolors the sea at points out of sight of land for a distance of 150 miles along its delta. The rainfall of some parts of the interior of Burmah ranges from three hundred to six hundred inches of water year, and in July this river brings down to the sea the inconceivable amount of ninety-four billion tons of water a day. Sup- in the Rosiug there to be a billion ?u:uph: world aud that these billion of men, and children have an ayerage W ninety-four pounds each, all of the 3 world’s aggregate humanity would be outweighed by one day’s flow of this river's. water, T Washington monument weighs, if [ remem ber correctly, 80,000 tons. It would take eloven hundred and sevemty-five thousand such monuments to weigh as much as the Aaily discharge of this rivor in July, It is the fourth river in volume in the world, and its SOURCE 18 YRT TO BE DISCOVERED. 1t rises somewhere in the Himalayas or Thibet and has a wide and fertile valley. ‘I'he branch on which Kangoon is situated is noarly a mile wide at this point sud its waters are almost liquid mud. Burmah has altogether a about five millions. The majority of these are Burmese, and they are a different people than any I have yet seen. The women are beautiful and the men are straight, proud sud fine looking. They have olive-brown complexions, straight eyes of dark brown, fat noses, and lips a little thicker than those of the average Caucasian. They have no beards, but in some cases have downy mous taches of black. Their hair is jet black and they wear it long, rolling it up in a bright red or yellow handkerchief and wrapping this around the bead so that it stands up for all the world like the bandana of the black ntie of slavery days. They wear a white linen or cotton jacket which reaches a little below the waist, and below this shines out the bright silk or cotton cloth which is wound tightly about the loins and is twisted there into 4 knot at the front so that its folds hang down between the legs. The women dress in much the same way-—their skirt being the American pullback reversed— binding the bare limbs tightly and falling to the ground about their feet. The women wear nothing on their heads and both sexes go barc-footed. 1oth wen nd women jerce their ears und the wmen tattoo their Kodiu from the waist to below the knees. Burmah is the land of the tattooed man, aad even the artises of Puck could learn les- jopulation of OO TOPTOODNDIDDIIDIIOND + Specialties in Children's Suits { SEE THE SUITS. ; We are selling for $4 and $5, thelat- est novelties in Kilts and Knee Pant Suits, from 0 to the Very Best Made rex 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 L 4 o 2 0 2B 2 2 2 L1 Bt | | | 9 ! 9 [ ¢ é b $8 and SI0. windows. S>> OO DIDEIDODIIOOD s0ns in the art of tattooing here. In my to the great prison here, which contains more than turee thousand men, I saw six thousand tattooed legs. These pen and ink sketches on human canvas peep out at you in every crowd you enter. The origin of the custom I have not been able to find out. It is here the Burmese sign of manhood, and there is as much ceremony about it as there is abont the ear-piorcing of the girls, which chronicles their entrance upon womanhood. Thero are professional tattooers, who go about with books of desizns, and who will pick a flower or beast upon your leg or arm for a slight consideration. The instrument used is a pricker about two fect long with a heavy brass head. 'The point is split_into four prongs, and in these the ink is held. The tattooer first outlines his sketch aud then taking the skin up in his hand_pinches it while he puts in the punctures which are to discolor it forever. _The coloring matter used is lamp black, which turns & purple with age, and which, when fluished, makes the man look a8 though he was dressed in kid-fitting tights of dark blue. The tattooing is not all done at once, but figare by figure as the boy or man can stand it. When fin- ished there is a complete mass of figures from the waist on n line with the navel to the kneo cap, and you often see in addition 1o this specimens of tattooing on other parts of the body. The people are superstitious about it and certain kinds of tattooing are SUPPOSED TO WARD OFF DISEASE, One kind wards off the snake bite and an- other prevents a man from drowning. In 1851 a man so_tattooed tested the efficacy of his talt2oing by allowing his hands and feet 10 be nd himself to be thrown into tic river. It is needless to say thht the current carried him away, and neither tattoo nor man was ever again seen. The only tattoo- ing effected by women is that which produces love in the heart of the desired one of the other sex. ‘Ihis is a triangle of peculiar color, which is puton betws the eyes, upon the lip, or upon the tongue as the tattooer prescribes, Its color 1s made of a mixture called by the Burmese “‘the drug of tender- ness,’” and itis a compound not much differ- ent from the hell broth brewed by the witches in Macbeth. Anothor kind of tat tooing is effected by school boys. It pr vents, it is said, the boy feeling the whip when he is punished at school, and it is uni versally effected by the bold bad boys of every Burmese town. The Burmese are Buddhist ana ever: Burmese man is supposed at some time in his life to be a priest. The education of the cbildren is by the priests, and the bulk of the population get their education i the monastic schools. You find Buddhist mon asteries and Buddhist temples everywhere, and there is here at Rangoon the finest Buddhist monuwment in the world, It ranks with the Taj Mahal as one of the greatest curiosities of India, and it is the oldest aud finest place of worship in Indo China, It is the Shway Dagohn pagoda or “the golden pagoda.”’ Imagine & mountain of gold rising terrace after terrace from a mighuy platform and growing smaller as it goes upward until it at last pierces the skies in a golden spire, the top of which i feet from the ground. Make the baso so large that it is a quarter of a wile around its outer golden rim and lot the slope of the terraces go upward in bell- like stories to the distance of 100 feet fron the ground. There is not block in your city as large as the base of this monument, and its top is higher than any building in Amer- ica, saye the monument at Washington. Its spiro is taller than that of St. Paul's cathedral st London and the whole glistens under the blazing sunlight as though it were solid gold. At its top there is now a scaffolding for the great golden umbrella, which the last king of Burmah bofore Trebaw gave to it, is being restored to its place, and the jewelors areworking upou this in the sheds at jts base. This umbrells is s great circular piece of gold which is studded with jewels, any one of which would be a fit wedding present for a princess. 1t cost more than TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND GOLD DOLLARS when it was made eighteen years ago. But its long since the winds shook it from its mocrings, and jewels and gold came down to the ground. This mignty pagoda has cost miltlons of dollars. It Is of brick and stucco cvoered with gold leaf as fine as that ever put into an American tooth, and as costly as that which covers the new gold frame which surrounds Mrs. Hayes' picture in ono of the white house parlors. 1t has been regilded again and again, and it its tons of material could be put through oue of the great quarts [l Receive Prompt &Co., 5: Others ask you $15 and $18 for same ¢ quality. You will see samples of these 8 bargains displayed in our 15th street mills of Denver, it would yield as much good ore as a California mine. The base of this pagodn is on a hill over- looking the city of Ruugoon. It cousists o two terraces and the other is paved with of stone. Thisis 16} fect above the el of the ground and it covers about four- ad a half acres. The great pyramid 0 has & base of thirteen acres, but the base of this monument is bigger. Tt i3 wide, and this fourteen acres is covered with little temples with hundreds of Buddhas of all_shapes and sizes, some of which are of gold and others of \which have been gilacd again and agam until the layers of gold upon them are in places as thick as wedding rings It is impossible to estimate the wealth that stands upon this platform. The shrinc has been a noted ong as far back as 500 years be- fore Christ was born, and during twenty- three centuries the Buddhists have been lay ing their offerings upon it. Thoy have added to it all these yearsuntil it has risea from twenty-seven foot to 1ts present height, Dur- ing the last century one of the kings of Bur- mah vowed he would give his own weight in gold to this monument. Ho hopped upon the imperial scales and pullea the beam at 170 pounds. The vow cost him $45,000 worth of wold leaf,and it all went into this monument “I'he monument was regilded in 1571, and 1t is now beinz agwin polished. It is, all told, a mass of brick and wortar mixed with goid, and its outside plated with gold. It has no inte ampers, and it is us solid us Its surroundings are those of v day see dozens of may v ddy aco, dorcns of y d bowing before it. They bring offerings of rice and tiowers to it, and the air is filled with the perfume of the roses which lie at its base. 'his basg is surrounded by stone figures of knceling clbphants, ench of which is the size of the baby elenhant in o circus, ‘These have flat places upon their ks, and it is upon these that the offerings often laid. Here and there are little dove cote like shriues, before which incenso always burns, and the rooiswof which been turned by its aromatic smoko intosool. No matter how hot the day, these women and men here kneel, and under the blaziug sun prostrate_themsolves before this g lden mountain, and before what they imagine co stitutes its elements of sancti These are airs from the head of the great Buddha are many relics of Buddha in the ous Buddist shrincs us there are piec of the cross of Christ in the relic chamb of the churches of HKurope. The story that 7 ve stone. BUDDUA GAVE THESE HAIRS to two pious brothers with dircctions that thoey should deposit them on this boly hill, This. monument was,huilt over them, and it is ane of th ends ¢pncerning it that there is in the interior a shaft running from the top_down to the bastment and filled with gold, and silver, “:and procious stoncs. Whether this be true or not the antiquarian of the future must decide. Speaking about Buddhism, 1t 15 among the Buddhists that the christians found their hardest missionary work, One of the oldest missions of the United:States is here in Bur- mah, and it was duriag the adinistration of President Madison, aad while the war of 15 was in progross, that a Baptist missionary and his wife first ladded in Rangoon. This was in 1513, and the q#w of the missionary Adoniram Judsoh, Now the Baptists all_told, about’ thirty thousand coo- verts in Burmah, THdF mission schools are found in every part of'the country, and hers at Rangoon is one of ‘the most enterprising mission colonies in Asia, Iasked, upen my arrival, where 1 could get the best guide book to Hurmah, and I was referred to the Mission Pross. 1 found here book store that would do credit to an American town and a printing establishment which would be considered large in any city of Amer 1t had over eighty employes and it was turning out_publications in eight different languages. 1t hasa pay roll of over a thousand dollars a month and this in a country where money brings ton times as much as it does at home. It was doing its work by steam and all its machinery came from the United States, Mr, F. D, Phinney, the supcrintendent, snoke of this as he showed me over the establishwment. “We got all of our presses from tho United States,” said he. “They cost twice as much as those of English make, but they last more than four times as long." ‘This establishment does missionary mis celisneous prioting and binding. It bas s wonopoly of the school book trade of Burmak, veroacular aud foreigu, aud I has )0 feet long by about seven hundred feet | have” ‘Attention S SCeCeT eCrPs T TOEGODCDDDDD MEN’S SUITS, Which We are Selling for ‘»D-ODD‘O..““ S>> DBDDBDOID ¢ tor $1.50. Ll o its agen s in every large center. books and stationery of all linds malkes lots of moncy. All this the missionary business and it ie a live insti- tion run on American business principles for of God. Tam not a Baptist,but1 like the way the Baptist missionaries do their business in Burmah. They are bright, cuiti- v awake follows and they are & much in the work of civilization. Many of them have spenta lifotime in tho worl and two of the pleasantest old ladies I have ever met were the widows of two mis One had spent fifty-one and the other sixtv years in_Burmah, and 1 found them both ‘up to the times, guod talkers, bright-cyed and cultivated, working away i their eighties, translating und directing the people, umong whom their best years have been spent. FRANK G. CARPENTER, The Romance of a Brass Button. New York Meroury. She told him that men were false, ‘That love was a dreadful bore, As they danced to the Nanon waltz On the slippery ballroom floor. He said that her woman's face, The crown of her shinwg hair, Hor subtle feminine grac Were haunting him cverywhere, He told her his ord To march with the dawn of day; A sold must ‘‘follow the drum’— No choice but to mount and away. It sells and it es into had come A sudden tremor of fear Her rallying laughter sinote, As he gave her a souvenir— A button from oif his coat. Ho wont to the distant war, And fought as man should do; But she forgot him afar In the passion for something new. His trinket amongst the rest, She wore at her dainty throat; But a bullet had piers his breast Where the button was off his coat, he Health of Raflroaders, The life of railway men does not seem to be very healthy nor yet a very enjoyable one, if any reliance is to be placed on the observations of medical men who have given some atteution to the subject. According to M. Duchesne, ilway men improve in health during four yeurs, but at the end of are tired out, in fifteen ual suffers, and very fow can remain in the service after twenty. These general conclusions have been supplemented by Dr. Lichtenbag, of Buda-Pesth, who found from examina- tion that out of 250 railway employes, ninety-two, or more than a° third, suf- ed from ear disease. Engine drivers re especially liable to rheumatism and neumonia, and after some years' serv- ice a certain proportion of them become dull of sight and hearing. Others suf fer from & mild form of spinal concus- sion, muscular fecbleness and continu- ous pains in the limbs. They ave also apt to develop a peculiar mental statg— a sort of cerebral irritation—with ex- cessive nervousness and morbid scnsa- tions of fear B Didn't Hurt the Man A man at Somerset, Pa., was walking with a sack of flour on his shoulder and alarge dog behind him. Both were unaware that o train was approaching from the rear, and were crossing a creek upon the railroad track, when the man was suddenly hit by the dog's body hurled at him by the engine, and man, dog and flour were knocked iuto the water, The dog and flour perished, The man isall nght. - The Small st Church in the Wowrld, The smallest church in the world is eaid to be the Catholic church at Tad- ousac, at the mouth of the Saginaw river. lts extreme eapacity isnot more than twenty people. This church is supposed to have been founded by Jacques Cortier. Money Cheerfully Refunded if Goods do not Suit. e TP TSP VDVPOOODSOOOD UUR HAT DEPARTMENT Is replete with the newest and most desirable shapes in Silk and Stiff Hats. All of which are fresh, new goods. We call your attention to 4 Our Light Derbys, which we areselling Other stores ask $2 and $2.50 for the same They are beauties. hat. L g g o g o o Z g L 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 0 1 J .Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts B 21 > How Cut-Off Island is Reached and Bounded. THE SANDS OF THE SAHARA. The Inhabitants of the Island, Houses in Which They Dwell, and the Dust They Swallow, Etc., Ete. the Cut-Off Jsland. “Well, this is a terrible place to walk a mile to get to!” growled a young man as he pausea midway on the wooden bridge that connects Cut-Off island with the mainland, at the foot of Locust street. He leaned against the wooden rail and watched thiree boys who were out on the sandbar making futile attemts to kill one of those noisy and deceptive birds known to the male juvenile as kill-a-de They were armed” with an old-fashioned, muzzle-loading shot gun, for which the bird scemed to have no respect whatever, persisting 1w remain- ing within casy range. The young man leaned aganst the wooden rail all right cnough, but he didn't, as they suy in story bouks, gaze ucross the broad c panse of waters, brincipally because there was no broad expanse of that element to gaze across—nothing but mud—green, slimy, odoriferons mud. Cut Off island. The nau nious; the place is unattractiv 50 called, i8 now really a peninsula, the wauter having receded in the lake so far northward as to_le broad strip of mud as a counecting link between the former is- land and the city. Cut Off island is a big sand-bar, that is all, destitute of ur unless by a stretch of imugination the scrubby young willows that grow in nearly impassabie density and cover the island, ¢xcept where they have been clea away by the iuhabitunts, can be & such. 18 1ot oupho- The island, Cut Off island has had sometlhing of a building boom recently—that is since the Sunday closing order went into effect in bourd edifices dot the island sand-bar bere und there near the western and northern shores. Discontinuing his cogitations the reporter, for it wus a reporter, continued his way across the bride onto the island. It was hot and the heat from the burning sand into which the feet sank hall way to the ops could be felt through the” leather. s & manner of st UL running from bridge a few hund yards cast ward, and then terminating in willows, Willows scom to be the begiuning and end of everything on Cut-Off island. Taking the leli-hand side of the straggling street, the wanderer strolled along s few yards unul he camo toa large two-story, hotel-looking, unpainted, pine board build ing, unnounced by a small black and white signboard to be the “Cut-Off Lake house.” “The house is yet in an unfinished condition, and only three or four rooms are in use. Ono of these, o large apartment on the ground floor, is fitted up s » bar-room, and adjoin ing it is anotler large apartmont, evidently intended for eating, and possibly dancing, purposes. I'wo men were chatting upon the porch extending along the front of the edi- fice, but as the reporter drew near, one got up ‘and strolied up the road, Tle news- gatherer turned into the bar-room and was followed by whe other lounger, o one-legged, pleasant-faced individual, who hopped across the floor on his one leg without crutches and Omauha, and uupainte took his position behind the bar. A cigar was purchased and an attempt made to en- gage the man in conversation concerning the island, its inbabilsnis and so om, he Wias DOL very communicative except on one subject, that being the excellence of the fish to Le caught in the lake and their freedom from the affliction of worms, newspaper reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Upon the sielf behind the bar lay wo substantiul vavy revolvers, sud thie ng o empty enambers noticeable in he cylinders, the young man before the bar took Iu for granted that they were there for tusincss, and cousidered it unnecessary to bsk any questions coucerning the necessity afor huviug thew withis such handy reach. ing the place and proceeding along (h¢ dusty road, the reporter passed a small oug story shuck, where, according to the sig above the door, the best ke!tlo whisky is dis pensed. Several men and one womin, tha latter evidently connceted with the place, were gathered about the bar. 1t was'a noisy and unprepossessing crowd, and not having y purticular desire to becomo more inti- mately acquainted with any of them, tha writer strolled on. Two hundred yards further west he found the “Island House," run by a young German. The proprietor was alone; and seeing an_ovportunivy to gather some information, the rnow travel-stained scribe stepped through the open aoor and sat down at one of the two tables in the room and called for a glass of soda. The young German bustled about and soon had the drink ready, “‘Tell me,” said the visitor, *'is this island in Town or Nebraska? “Iv's in Towa. You bet it is in Tows, if it wasn't, you know, we could’nt keep open Sundays,” said the voluble young fellow. “Yeu see, they try to make out we aro in Nebraska and send cops out here Sunduys to make us shut up, but we don't doit. We give ‘em the laugh because we are in Jowa. Government license, that's all the license we have to pay here, because, you know, we are in low “1 8uppos ness on Sund *'Oh, yes. the week s li 1t jou do the bulk of your busi- don’t you? Wo don't do anything during ly. But on Sundays ite Oh, we have faro, rou- '8 running, veople {row you, hazard and all those gan island is crowded with All men? “No, there's lots of womon, I'm going to make a fourtean room house out of this, so that gentlomen and their iady friends can be private, be young fellow strolled back to the bar, drew off a glass of stale beer, drauk it at & gulp and then returned to his guest. ““Tnis island,” said he, “is going to be & ty sowe day. ' We are going Lo have a town laid out and a bridge built to Council Blufrs.” “Did you have to pay anything for the ground upon which your fiumung stands " “Yos, thirty or forty dol b *What's that! What's that!" came in & rasping female voice from above. “Forty dollars! "This lot cost §230, I'd have you know. his lov's & corner lot and aint none of your cheap property,” and the voice was followed down stairs by a tacky-lookiog fe- malo, who looked as though she was resdy to carry the argument further, but the re- porter didn’t care to discuss th | estate question, and having paid for the vile stuff he had calied for, took his departu The wind had risen while ho was iuside, and when he sallied out into the open air, he found the dust rising in clouds. But not to be deterred by this, he struck out through the willows towards the northern siore of the island. Within a few huudrod yurds he passed two other saloons. Iu front of each of these places from six to twelve cmply beer kezs were piled, relios of the pust Sun- day’s debauch, The tramp of & half mile or more through tho sand and 1n the disagreeable wind, was in no wi lculated to lessen the unfavor- able opinion formed of the islund, Thore was but_little to please the eye along the way. The grass was wilted looking, aud there was nothing attractive abrut the monotonous willows, eHe passed a dairy, and a house where a laundry sign swung in 4, but outside of the saloons, these werc the only places where there were any evidence of business Over on the northern shore three more saloons were found, the most pretentious of which is conduet-a by Kent, who also owns aud opcrates & 1se, Where ono 80 disposed cian so- s fairly good craft. The wiud had rough, and all the boats cure made the lake very were drawn well up on the shore. No sop was made here, the reporter con- tinuiug Lis way along the shore. It would tako o vivid imagination to find anything of interest in that toilsome tramp throngh the willows. People at the salons said that there were a fow houses scattered through therc, but if this (s true they are weil hiddsn by the willows. That walk around the shore t0 the eastorn edge seemed ton miles long but in reality only about one-third of that distance was covered. The river 18 narrow at this poigt, and the muddy water of the Missour, swirls along in swift eddics—growling us it goes. IUA @ loncly spot, any wWay, OVer on tho eastorn edee of the island. No oue lives about thera, and as far s cosolation is concerned, ous wmight as well be in the center of Subars,