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Mexican Hospitality.
The Century,


Tepitongo, with its mansion and
castillo. or fortress, for refuge and
defense in unsettled times, its cor.
rales, outbuildiDgs, and dependencies,
great and small, forms in itself a viii
I lago Ct |; the pastoral plan which sur
The administrator took us the
rounds Of the out-buildings before
supper, which is served very late in
the Mexican household. We we're
shown the threshing floor, a stone.
paved amphitheater over one hundred
feet in diameter, very slightly cOncave,
sinking toward large circular, fiat
stone in the center. 1t was sur
rounded by a circle of low stone
buildings, tile rooted aud supported
on stone pillars. \
AT supper we sat dowd to a me-
di@yal beard like that Of Quierendero
with vassals of serfs" around us. We
were invited to consider the house and
everything in it as our own. Our
mozos had the freedom of the kitchen
and the stables, our host gave up his
place at the head Of the table, and, in
effect, the entire establishment was
placed at our disposal, with courtesy
as graceful as it was irresistible.
After supper we walked into the
clustered court-a lovely, secluded
precinct, with formal trees planted in
open spaces left in the pavement. We
were very grateful for this our last
moon of Mexico. We left it, wher
we returned to our winter evenings
and fire, and lamp light, hanging large
and low over the Gulf.
From patio we entered the sala-s
long, tile-paved room, with sofa al
one end, the place Of honor for the
lady guest, the members Of the family
occupying the arm-chairs which arc
arranged on either side, at right angles
with the sofa. tits considered dis
courtesy for a guest to sit down in any
Of the chairs, instead of watkins
through the room to the sofa. Al
there were no ladies at Tepitongo,
was obliged to sit alone on the Ions
sofa. The engineers, the Colonel, oul
host, and another unbidden guest like
ourselves, who had found shelter fol
the night, occupied the arm chairs.
After awhile | ventured to ask the
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The Indian Went West.

Peok's Sun.
A few years ago Tom Croft was
yardmaster or something at Omaha.
He was full of business, but always
had time to work in a joke here and
there. The railroad men were trou-
bled more by begging Indians, lazy
loafers that hung around to beg and
steal, than they were by their money.
Nobody wanted to inaugurate a war
against the lazy creatures, so they
were given whenever they called for
it. Each Indian was armed with a
paper that somebody had written for
them, asking for charity, and they
would present the paper and rake in
the shekels. There was one mean,
drunken red man who begged only to
get drunk, and he was dirty, impu-
dent whelp that everybody disliked.
One night while drunk he lost his
paper, his recommend" and he ap-
peared at Toms Office and by signs
showed that he wanted Tom to write
him another paper. Tom said he
would do anything to accommodate an
Indian, SO he took a pen and paper,
and with a solemn face he wrote as fol
lows:
ITO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The
bearer Of this is the dirtiesS, lyingest,
thievingest whelp Of buck Cherokee
that ever soalped a white man. He is
a drunken coward, vile, shameless
cuss, and if he presents this paper "a
any person l hope they will kick his
spine clear into the top Of his hat
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WIN. DEAN & CO., 1889 POPLAR ST.

break his nose, black his eyes, and
maui the everlasting Stufing out Of
him.
"Signed, Tom CROFT"
The Indian took the paper, said
How" to Tom and marched off to-
ward the car shops. He went in as
the boys we're sitting around eating
lunch, and handed il to big Irish
man, who had a monkey wrench in his
hand. The Irishman read it out
loud to the boys, and the crowd went
for the Indian. The Irishman .vcalped
him with the monkey wren oh, a
blacksmith tore his blanket off, and
as the Indian started to run the whole
crowd broke after him. He was
kicked by about FORK different sized
boots, hit by as maHy tin pals in ;Ns
many different places, doused with
dirty water, and as he passed Tom e
office be was the worst looking and
the most frightened Indian that was
ever seen in Omaha. He shook his
fist at Tom, and went over the hill
out Of sight, and for two days people
who came into Omaha from the West
told about seeing red streak pointed
toward the Pacific slope, and
the air was filed with yells, war
whoops and language that could IN
derstand. 1t is said from that time
to this no Indian has ever begged
with a paper west of the Missoul i
river. If they want anything they GO
and steal it, as it is less dangerous.
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Wall Street.

NEW YORK, April II, II a.m.-The
stock market opened generally weak and
%aM per cent lower the Colorado Cen
trail, however, opened l per cent higher.
In the early dealings, after the decline,
prices were advanced Ha1H per cent, the
Denver d Rio Grande, New Jersey Cen
trail and Wabash preferred being most
conspicuous. This was followed by re-
action of from e to per cent, in which
the Alton & Terre Haute preferred, Den
yer & Rio Grande and Reading were
prominent.
The earnings of the Union Pacific in
creased S2Sl,OO during the first twelve
days in this month.
Wheat opened 2alHc higher, but sub
sequently grew weaker, and lost most Of
the advance, with trade less active.
Money, per cent prime mercantile
paper, 585k per cent bar silver, 1l4K.
Exchange steady, at S0A for long and s9ll
foresight. Governments unchanged, except
extended 5s, which are 1SO lower. States
inactive Railroads dull but higher. The
stock market, after II O'clock, was active.
and sold up AalH per cent Louisville &
Nashville, Missouri Pacific, Wabash pre-
ferred, Michigan Central, Western Union,
New Jersey Central and Denver s. Rio
Grande being prominent. At noon there
there was II fractional reaction in some
cases.
Bands-Sixes extended, lOl; 5s, 1917;
AIS, ZIG; A., 1901; Pacific 6s of '9j, 1872.
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Fires.

New YORK, April 14-At ll;SO o'clock
this morning flames were discovered in
Boomer & BOschert Press Company's
office, YCsey street. The flames spread
rapidly. At u o'clock the fire was still
burning fercely.
SOUTH SAGINAW, Mich, April a.
Phinney, Fisher & Cos. saw mill, oar
factory, salt block and drill house burned
yesterday. Loss $1,000; insurance
$4,000.
KAssoN, MINI, April lathe school
building was destroyed by FIRE yesterday
Loss $1,000 insurance $4,000. Supposed
to be the work Of incendiaries.
CHASE, MICH, April 14.-Mr. Albert
Thomas saw mill has been burned. Losi
$4,000, partially insured. Wright, the
Waterman, claims that three masked mer
held him while two more fired the mill.
HARRISON, Mich, April l4.-The losi
in the fire here yesterday will reach from
fifty to sixty-fve thousand dollars. In
surance light.
ST.. LOUIS, April l4.-A fire about
o'clock this morning destroyed tenement
house on the corner of Twenty-fourth and
Morgan streets and occupied by colored
people. One girl thirteen years old wa,
burned to death and her mother fatally
injured. Several other of the tenants
were more or less burned in efFecting ar
escape from the building.
Providence, R. l., April l4-The los
by the burning of the Greenville Wooler
Companys mill and adjoining tenements
$4,000 insurance, 100000.
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Horace GreeIey's Daughter.

New YORK, April 1.-THE death
of Horace Greeley's daughter Ida was
much deplored here to day. She was
the eldest daughter of the, famous ed
itor, and the wife of Colonel Nicholas
Smith, of Kentucky. She left three
children, the youngest a girl only four
weeks old. Her first child was son,
who is the only male descendant of
Horace Greeley. In honor of his
grand parent he has been named Hor-
ace Greeley, with the Smith left out.
Ida Greeley was born in this city about
thirty years ago. She was sent to the
convent of the Sacred Heart to be
educated. She became converted to
the Catholic religion, to which she
ever afterward chung. lda's younger
sister, Gabrielle, was educated
at the Protestant sisterhood of st.
Mary's, and she. too, till this day, is
deVOut church woman. The wife of
Horace Greeley was an invalid, and
Ida distinguished herself by the I'm
firing care and attention which she
devoted to her mother. She grew up
to be the mistress of the house, a pO-
sition which, in 1872, when her father
was candidate for the Presidency,
came to be a difficult one. The house
at Chappaqua was constantly visited
by all sorts Of people, from the first
public men of the country down to
the most eccentric of oranks. Butthe
young lady seemed to know how to en- .
terrain each conner. Colonel Smith
and his wife we're intending to sail for
Europe on May l, which would be the
seventh anniversary OF their marriage |
His wife became affected with sore |
throat on Wednesday last, and on the |
Sunday following her physician dis |
covered that she had diphtheria.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley has been living
with her sister three years, and was
present when she died
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

LONDON, April 14-Moody and Sankey
decline for the present to give twelve
months to London.
The CircasSian officers arrested at Cairo
are being tried by courtmartial. They
say they would infinitely prefer to serve
under a Christian or any other govern
ment.
Salisbury, in speaking at meeting of
six thousand workmen in Liverpool last
night, defended the action the House Of
Lords in inquiring into the workings of
the land act
In Dublin the ban which was placed
upon the publication of the UNITED Ire
land" has evidently been removed, as the
paper is sold openly on the streets It's
moderation in tone continues
ST.. PETERSBURG, April 14.-The Gov
ernor of Vodolia reports that he has sup
pressed fresh attacks upon the Jews by
the aid Of the military.
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administrator to take the seat beside
me, 1t may have been an enormity
on my part, but at all events our host
was too well bred to exhibit any horror
at the situation. The little four-year-
old boy whom we had seen on his pony
came shyly into the room and stood by
his fathers knee. He was a charming
little man, dressed in suit ofleatheF,
with tiny pair Of spurs attached to
his baby shoes; hut in spite of his
spurs and his horsemanship, he was
not unwilling to sit in my lap and be
eoaxed into friendliness. The lisping
Spanish vowels ofthis little motherless
child we're exquisite. But there was
other music of the country" in store
for us. At the lower end Of the room
a company of musicians gathered by
the light of candles clustered on a
table-a striking group, with violins,
a violoncello, guitars, harp-I can
not recall all the instruments, but the
music and the scene it would not be
easy to forget.
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JUDGE LYNCH.
Two Negroes Gone to Jesus.

CHICAGO, April l4-A special from
Selma, Ala, says 1t is learned that forty
masked men, largely whites, took two
negroes, Henry Ivy and Sim Acoff from
the guard at Browns Station yesterday
morning and rode off with them. Tie
lifeloss body Of Ivy was subsequently
found hanging from the limb ola tree in
the vicinity, but AcofF's body has not yet
been found. The men were concerned in
the brutal murder of an old man named
Messenger and Ivy made voluntary
written confession of his guilt. This makes
five men hanged for that murder.
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EngIlsh aad FOreIgn SONG RLrda

EHSiAsu auu FOre1Rn song Birds.
John Burroughs in the Century,
The English birds are more domes.
tic and familiar than ours; more di.
rectly and intimately associated with
man; not, as a class, so withdrawn and
lost in the great void of the wide and
unreclaimed. England is like a con-
tinent concentrated-all the waste
land, the barren stretches, the wilder
nesses left out. The birds are brought
bear together and near to man. Wood
birds here are house and garden birds
there. They find good pasturago and
protection everywhere. A land of
parks, and gardens, and. hedge rows,
and game preserves, and climate free
from violent extremes-what a
stage For the birds, and
tor enhancing the effect of their
songsl How prolific they are, how
abundant If our songsters were
hunted and trapped, by bird fanciers
and others, as the lark and gold-fnch
and mavis, etc., are in England, the
race would soon become extinct
Then, as q rule, it is probably true
that the British birds, as class, have
more voice than ours have, or certain
qualities that make their songs more
striking and conspicuous, such as
greater yivacity and strength. They
are less bright in plumage, but more
animated in voice. They are not SO
recently out Of the woods, and their
strains have not that elusiveness and
plaintiveness that ours have. They
sing with more confidence and copious
ness, aud ss if they, too, had been
touched by civilization.
Then they sing more hours in the
day, and more days in the year. This
is owing to the milder and more
equable climate. | heard the sky-lark
singing above the South Downs in
October, apparently with full spring
fervor and delight. The wren, the
robin and the wood lark sing through
out the winter, and in midsummer
there are perhaps three times as many
vocal throats as here. The heat and
blaze Of our midsummer sun silence
most of our birds. 4
On the other hand, there are GER
tain aspects in which our songsters
appear to advantage. That they
surpass the European species in
sweetness, tenderness and mel
ody / have no doubt, and
that our mOckingbird, in his native
haunts in the South, SURPRISES any
bird in the world, in compass, variety
and execution is highly probable. That
the total effect Of his strain may be
less winning and persuasive than the
nOcturne of the nightingale is the only
question in my mind about the rela-
tive merits of two songsters. Bring
our birds together as they are brought
together in England, and our shy wood
birds-like the hermit thrush, the
yeery, the winter wren, the water
wagtail, the many warblers, the green
let, the solitary vireo, etc.-beeeme
birds Of the groves and orchards, and
there would be a burst of song in
deed.
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BUFFALO, April 14.-The First Nation
al Bank has closed its doors. A larg,
number of drafts issued to live stock deal
ers were drawn on the Fourth Nationa
Bank of New York on the 4th inst, ant
since that date were yesterday dishon
ored in New York. The extent of the
drafts unpaid cannot be ascertained now
but it is thought that the failure will Sc
riously affect large number of cattl,
dealers who sent these drafts in pay
ment for stock sold by them. 1t is be
lieved the depositors will be paid in full
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PARSONS, Ks, April l4-Indians in the
Territory have been very much dissatis-
fed because Jay Gould has secured the
st. Louis & San Francisco line, running
through that country, and have heretofore
vowed vengeance. On Monday, March
"a, brakeman, who was on top Of a car,
was shot with several bullets while the
train was under way near Muscogeo. A few
days after another brakeman shared the
same fate Sheriff Williams, who went
to hunt the offenders, has not been heard
ofsince the 9th inst, and he il believed to
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ADDITIONAL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, April IA, 1910 p.m.-Cot-
ton frmer. Uplands, l1-i6d. Or
leans, ed Sales to-day, l4000 bales. Re-
ceipts, 1920 bales: American, 18,40O
bales. Futures are lower.
The Liverpool cotton statement for
the week ending April 14th, as cabled to
the Memphis Cotton Exchange: Weeks
receipts, $1,000 bales; American, 48,5OO
bales. Total since Sept. LIST, 2495,1OC
bales American, l,7l5,9O0 bales. Total
stock, $4,000 bales; American, 57l.OOO
bales, Stock aaoat 46l, $50 bales; Ameri-
can, 22l 600 bales.
NEW YORK, April IL, 1898 p.m.-Cot-
ton quiet and &c higher. Ordinary, 8 O. Ice;
good ordinary, 10 l6-l6c; low middling,
II 1896 middling, l214c; good middling,
l2>sc; middling fair, 1870; fair, l4Hc.
Futures are steady, at very little change
from last evenings closing prices.
NEW ORLEANS, April IA. ll:90 am.
Cotton firm. Middling, I2c. Sales
to-day, 5000 bales. Receipts, 8s9 bales.
Sales yesterday, 5000 bales.
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Crittenden's Hired Murderers

Crittenden's Hired Murderers.
New York Mail and Express.l
1t ought not to be possible for the
Ford brothers to escape the punish
ment they so richly deserve, under
the pretense that they are detectives
who have long been on the track Of
James. 1t is believed that they were
members of his gang when the famous
Blue Cut train robbery was effected.
1t will not be possible for them to
explain their participation in that and
other crimes by the pretense that they
were acting the part of detectives.
Their treachery to the leader of their
gang may have served the public by
Kidding the world of one of its worst
bandits, but it is so reprehensible that
adherence Of them will increase the
popular desire to have them expiate
the horrible crimes of which they have
been guilty.
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100000 Ver,Iic,

New York, April FIN the suit fol
libel brought by the Rev. Samual d. New.
man, against Bishop William H. Hare
the jury rendered a verdict for $4,000
for plaintiff.
The Tribune this morning has com.
plimentary allusion to Ex-Governor Sher-
man, Of Illinois, in connection with the
United States Senatorship.
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FaiIurea Dor one WeeIl.

New York, April lathe busines:
failures throughout the country for seven
days as reported to the r. G. Dun s. Co
Mercantile Agency number 1922, as fol-
lows; Southern States, SS; Western States,
"a; Middle States, 10; Eastern States, ~
Pacific States and Territories, s. New
York City, 0. The Poughkeepsie Iron
and Steel Company has suspended, as also
the New York & Boston Manufacturing
Company. Other failures in this city are
unimportant.
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have been murdered. Yesterday the en-
gineer on train coming from Muscogee,
reports the attempt to wreck his train and
firing several shots into the engine. The
ruftians escaped. Such experiences are
reported almost weekly from hatsection.
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Early wheat.
ENFAy WHeuts
Nashville American, 12.l

Nashville American, 12.l
H. Q. Moore, of Brentwood, has sent
to the American Office a sample OF
wheat of the amber variety, which is
unusually early in heading out. Mr.
Moore has sixty acres sown, all OF
which has developed fully as much as
the sample shown.
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River TeIesrams.

CAIRO, April l4.-Arrived City of New
Orleans, New Orleans, 8 pm; Sharp Nc
Donald, Louisville, pm. Departed
John B. Maude, Memphis, 9pm.
CINCINNATI, April l4-The river is IL
feet inches and rising. Cloudy and
cool
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THE COMPANY have mad.
the line road
veryio
%
viii weighed and 10 barrels
load calling
will tickets which specially
| a thatli
transportation
believe minimum
Otherc
named wholesale CONTRACTS call UNDERSIGNED depot NV
Il. I.LEE COaIA Agent d n II r.
ersuchC
5 other MRs
II. l. EE.C ORI Agent an Mr.
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PatroniEe Home manuIaetuTIpe.

PatrOniEe HOme manufactures.
T AM prepared to build ice boxes Of every
i size and any make lower than they can be
imported, for Hotels, Saloons, Butchers,
BOardingh0uses and Private Families, and 8 j
same up with Segeler's Patent. Building and
iobbing attended to.
HENRY SEGELER, Agent,
IS Third corner Commerce.
Warereoms, rs second street. 1855
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II. @. WHITE.

no COTTON PLANTERSl-I have for sale
Il or, my plantation az Usceola, Arkansaw,
several varieties Of C0TT0N-SEED, preserved
With especial reference for seed. including
Java Prolific Boyd Prolific. Madagorda Silk,
etc. These seed were grown the past year on
the alluYial river bottom lands in Mississippi
count .. Arkansaw, and are the product Of
seed shipped thence last spring, grown the
previous year on Tennessee hieh lands.
Address JW JEFFERSON q co,
Nb2 No, 90 Front street, Memphis.
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DeSOtO Oil Co., Memphis, Tenn.

Ihave no hesitation in saying that this Ia
an exceptionally excellent fertilizer. In nv
Judgment nothing better could be desired for
general application to almost any crop. The
mixing appears TO have been carefully and
thoroughly done, mechanical condition good.
have NO doubt that the intrinsic yaiue Of
your article will make for itself & g reputa-
ton IL short while. Your article is certain
y safe, 1t cannot possibly iuiure any crop un
der any circumstances. II is comparatively
70 slightly smmoniated and with such mate
rails that no possible danger can attend It's
use. hope that you may be able in time 10
md ready sale for your goods, and that your
enterprise may be successful. Indeed your
goods would certainly sell elsewhere, if not in
your Immediate section.
lSignedl II. O. WHITE,
State Chemist.
Referring to the above report of Prot. ri @.
W hfte, the highest authority in the United
States on commercial fertilizers, we pledge 10
the farmers Of this section that nothing but
the best materials shall be used in oomnonpdt
ing DeSOtO AmmOniated Dissolved
Bone.
All the lands, almost without any excep-
tiop, In the Memphis district, are in need of
Plant Food; none 80 rich but that pro luc-
ton will be increased.
, On tired lands production will be largely
increased, thus paying large profit on the
For sale at our Works, corner Tennessee
and Huling. streets, where directions for use
can be obtained.
81 DeSOTO OIL co.
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WASHINGTON, Aprill4-TheSecretary
of War has ordered 100000 additional free
rations to be issued at New Orleans.
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Supreme Court.

Special to tho LEDGER
JACKSON, April 14.-Seligman We.
Postcn, Whitmore VS.. Ball, were heard
to-day.
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At His Post.
Free Rafi0ns.

WASHINGTON, April 14.-The President
and party returned this morning.
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NOTICE.

DETER LAwLEss has removed his Boiler,
Copper and Sheet Iron Works from Adam,
street to No. lss Front street, between Mar.
ket and Exchange, whore he IL prepared 10
execute ali orders that cOmo in his line at
very low rates. IaO a