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had left behind him. F"ANN h'"hn' Alas it was all in sain' The very force of Wi-ne-ma's passionate love for him seemed to draw him 10 her. He visited the cabin where she staye and listened while she sang love songs in the Modoc tongue; and in return told her stories of Kentucky life-with never a word of the blue-eyed sweetheart in them.
 lie came again and again, and coming learned what Wi-ne-ma meant when she sang "Ka-mis-no stin to. the most be - guiling of all the Modoc love songs. He no longer remembered his Kentucky sweetheart first and his Wi-ne-ma after wards, but Wi-ne-ma first and the other now and again. In a lit le tme the strug- gle was over. Wi ne-ma. all unconscious of rights she was usurping, won the day and was asked for and married in all due solemnity.
 Not long afier this honor had been con ferreG upon her Wi-ne-ma and her hus band went back to her father Se-cot hal no. been p eased at the marriage, even though the present of half-a-dozen horses had shown hat the white man had valued the bride he was ge ting. but when he saw him as a husband an1 found him . good shot, apt at storytelling and strictly tenn pera,e, he accepted him ani returned to his daughter tEe horses. adding to the band others from his own herd. As the summer wore away Frank won the heart of all the tribe. U-le-'a, the Indian lover, in all these months said no word against his old love, but when Wi ne-1 a one day discovered that whenever her husband went out for he days hunt her lover would then start cut in an opposite direc- ton she knew 1t was time for her to follow. She did so and found. as she suspected, that he soon changed his course. As he crept slyly along the trail of the white hunter Wine ma followed close Crouch ing here. creeping there, crawling en at -ull length. fin time the trail was found,
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and U-le-ta, sure of his game, quickened his steps. A few rods and the white man was in sight He stopped to load his rife. Straight where ladder of sunlight came down through the forest trees and made him e target 1t would be impossible to miss His rife charged he stopped to pick up the game he had flung aside. At that moment a report rang loud and clear through the woods mingled with a wom- ans cry. Riddle sprang unharmed to- ward the spot whence the cry had come. and there found Wi-ne-ma alone. She had come upon him when the poor mad boy had turned his gun upon her husband and had shot. not him, but the tree beside glance how his old swee heart had spared his life and disappeared in the forest
 During the long summer days which followed the poor lad roamed about the places made dear to him by having wan dered there with the girl he loved so sadly. One night without ever having seen her again, U-le-ta took his gay canoe and padded out under the faint stars to the centre of the lake. where Wine ma had forget her good fight for life years before. There, with prayer to the great ka-moo- kum-chux, he plunged into the dark waters. The next day, as the Indian girl and her husband stoSd by the shore of Lower Kalamath the leaping waves brought to their feet the body of the strong young brave, penitent in death.
 After years of happy bravery and proud motherhood for Wi-ne-ma there came the
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A. Ds turning aside their pistols as they aimed, ran WI ne-ma until the white man fell.
 Again-again their bullets struck him without killing him, but one at las bring ing blessed inconsistencies. To him then flew Wine ma, pushing aside tho guns with which they would have made their work doubly sure and crying con temptuously: Save your powder. Him dead!'
 Even with that ruse successful her troubles were not over, for one of the Modocs was determined to have the colo nel's scalp. Wi-ne-ma flung him of ss if he had been boy, until he had done what none other had ever dared to do struck the little woman chief blow upon the head with his pistol, threatening to shoot her if she interfered again. The scalp line was cut, and a moment more would hlve seen the end. when Wi-ne-ma, still half dazed, but determined, looked over shoulder and cried: .Kap-ko BOstee- na-soldier." IS ldiers comingl With that the Indian fled in terror, and to Wi-ne-ma was left at last the man so nearly mur- dered. She lifted his eyelids and thought him dead; she saw Gen. Canby dead al her left Dr. Thomas dead at her right and behind her she caught sight of the Ddl Oncts cDfiiifk to tnt fcStut. The Indian woman knew that her own life was now in the balance, but she bravely stood her ground. Half a dozen muskets were pointed at her and curses fell upon her ears, but she never faltered. Placing her hand on her heart she advanced to meet them, and cried in voice that rang with untamable spirit:
 ''Shoot me If you dare. l am not to blamev'
 And Corpl. Ross of Capt Miler's con- pany, sprang to the front and repeated the woman's challenge, saying:
 And will avenge her death!' This Is the story, and this Is the woman who afterwards nursed the man whose l life she had sa, ed an sent him back to his wife. Malmed, crippled and inval ded for life, Col. Meacham repaid this devo- ton in work that justly m' rited the words of Wendell Phillips. From the time of his release from the army uutil tie time of his final release from suffering, Col. Meacham pleaded and w1rked for the ln- dian. He forgot the wrongs and the cruelty he had suffered at their hands or sought to repay 1t win goedness. He brought Wi-ne-ma and her family east to rouse the slow sympathy of an American people. He established paper which was devoted 10 their cause, and he gave all he could win or spare for their enlightenment and comfort.
 But he is dead and there is none tc take up his work. He lies beneath e the sod without monument to mark the great life and the great deeds ended there. And the woman who risked her life so many times to save her white rehren from torture and death is herself III. liy- ing in wretched want in the La a Feds of Oregon with an old and broken hus- band and a son who is dying of c nsump- tion. Some kind hearts have been touch ed by this story. and some of tie good men among us have said that with the help of others they will see that the wish of the martyred colonel sh Il be carried out, and that Wi-ne-ma. the noble woman chief, shall at least give up her ovn brave life, sheltered from sn N an w'nd by 8 ! roof which white men shall have placed
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Some Reaaons Why.

"Why are wages so much higher in protec ted America than in free-trade Englsndl" ask the men who attribute every blessing of this favored land to high taxes.
 These are some of the reasons why:
 Because the United States have an area of 100000 square miles of territory, while Great Brltan has but l2i, ,570
 Because the United States have a populn- ton Of only IA to the square mile. while Great Britan has 2og people crowded upon the same space.
 Because the United States contain over 4,000 0OO farms that produced, in ls79 Q val ue Of over @ 2l3,000,00) while Great Britan is subect to the curse of entailcd estates and vast unproductive preserves.
 Because the United States have l51,000 miles of railway, while Great Britan has but 1900.
 Because the United States are richer in mines. quaries, forests and other natural pro due,lons, and afford greater diversity of climate, soil and employment to their inhab- itants than any other country in the world.
 Because, in addition to ihis greater field and demand for labor, the intelligence, en- ergy and productive skill of our working peo- pie surpass those of any other nation.
 These are some of the reasons why wages are higher here than in England have always been so under low tariffs and high tariffs alike, and would be so if there were no tariff. -New York World
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., Now. what say you, gentlemen farlnersi
 You will notice that during the low tari fl period after 1851 the average proportion oi agricultural to total exports was not far from 0 per cent Leaving out the war years, when the exportaton Of cotton was arrested
 has the proportion averaged much less sineei Cast your eye over the columns and see. The total exports have more than doubled, and so have the agricultural ex- ports. You are selling twice as much abrosd d.
 and mote, too, as you were under low iariff, and you are even more exposed to the con- petition of the cheapest farm labor in the world, because the Suez canal and railroads have made the ryot of India ,our competitor.
 II 1t were not for our own railroads, to which the high tariff on iron and steel is only bur den, you couldn't to day sell a bushel or your surplus grain or a pound of your animal and dairy products In Europe The tariff bas not given you railroads, but rather hindered you from getting them, and increased transporta- ton charges, at the same time that 1t has ad- ded very largely to the prices of nearly every thing you have to buy -Chicago Times.
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wIsNE-MA's BOY. that took from angry men the cooked rifles and smoking pistols. In armistice hef word was law, and her counsel was ever wise and for peace. Between her love for her race and her knowledge of the whites, she chose, with the nicety of inspiration, what was Tor the best When the officers Of the United states Army broke trust with the Modocs after repeated pledges and com pacts, it was Wi-ne-ma who warned them that at last the Indians were angered against hope of peace, and that they must not venture near them unarmed ana unprepared for war. This warning was disregarded by those who did not under stand the Modoc, either as Trend or enemy, and 1t resulted In that very carni- val of blood wherein Gen. Canby and Dr. Thomas lost their lives and Col Meacham so nearly lost his.
 Wi-ne-ma, brave woman, had done her best to prevent the blo0dshed that seemed so inevitable; but when she found her words no longer availed to win the Modoes from their purpose, that either the trooi should be removed from the Lava Beds or suffer the conse ,uences, she turned then to Col. Meacham to try and prevent nis attendance at the peace council. Her
  1t a sacred duty to protect him. for was It not he, this white colonel, who had en- forced the law that any soldier living with an Indian woman as her husband or any one having wronged an Indian girl should be forced to make amends and, if possible, to marry? Col. Meachem 1t was who did this, and Wine ma, for the women of her ra 6, felt bound 10 serve him as long as her life was hers to give. When he, then, turne to his horse to mount and go to the council, which she was sure was but an ambuscade, she snatched the very halter from his hands, wound 1t around her waist and threw her self on the ground.
 "D0 not go, You will be kill The Mo- docs mad nowl Meacham, you no go"'
 Her en ntreaties moved him and he sought to turn Gen. Canby and Dr. Thomas from their purpose, but in vain. When the white men rode away Winch a parting for what she knew might Dc the last lime from the little son she fairly idolized, rode with them in order to be on hand If she could prevail for peace.
 The country knows the result Of that council fire. Again and again the Modoc Chief. Capt. Jack. begged that the soldiers might be removed iron the Lava Befs, and pr0mis ed peace In re urn. Gen. Can by. having once risen his full soldierly height and pron unced his own death war rant in an invincible 'No" remained mu c. Another Motoc, Schon Chin, sprang to Cap lacks seat as he left and repeated the ulti alum. Wi-ne-ma, at the feet of Dr. Thomas was interpreting Schon- -Chin's speech when Capt Jack cry of ''Kau-Tux" all ready ell on their ears. Gen. Canby was shot first. hen Dr. Tho as; then Schon-c hin drew knife and pistol, shouting 'Chock e-la.' (bloo D and turned upon Col. Mea ;ham.
 Once more the marvellous Indian woman snranp in the frOnt--tOO late to intercept
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The farmer who studies this table will see vino gets the protection and who pays the tariff taxes. He shou d bear In mlnd 100 .h., h. nays vastly more in enhanced prices
 sns to the tariff than he does in tax"s for the snnrort of the government Let h'm run his ..s slony down tbe column cf raies and ask s,mself how he would like 10 Lave his farm and his stock taxed al the lowest Of them. He would think2 per cent a kiiling rate o1 me is s4 ner cent. is the lowest tax ln tEe above lot. ,,, -. ,o -aanca soms of
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The great pine at kens'ngton. N H., which for years has been \ prominent land. mark, especialls to the fishermen of Hamp- ton, fell In the ~ an, "i Aug. C. It wss l2l feet high aud thiffceu fret in eireum'erence. It has twice been sirHes ty llshtEing. and for years it has been dad, skeliou tree.
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The liquor and sIlk schedules are not iu. cluded In the above because the bill does not propose 10 change them The reduction on sundries Is from A. a ou the basis of the im, portatlons Tor 1887. There is an apparent in. crease in the rate on provisions, but this is due 10 the fsct that some very heavily taxed articles are included In the schedule which are not Included under the head of provisions In the first table, the most important Of which ls rice. There is really a reduction from t2 Sg per cent to s2.65 per cent in the schedule as whole. Does lt seem to the farmer that any of the proposed rates look Ike free trsde' 1s he anxious to pay higher ratesf
 The farmer furnishes the bulk of the ex. ports from the country. The war.tsriff ad- vocates have been promising him ( home market They have been telling him all along that if he would submit to be taxed heavily on his purchases for few years they would give him q nome market" co that the prices Of his products would not be de- termined by open competition in the markets Of the world with tho cheapest a9ricultu al labor In existeu ee-the labor of Egypt and India. Have they kept their promlsei The following table will toll the story. it is com. piled from the official reports of the treasury bureau of statistics, and sbows the percent age of agricultural exports 10 total exports from 1850 10 1883. It is instructive because it covers the greater part of the low-tariff period from ls46 to 1887, as well as the whole of the high-tarifY period since 1881:
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cruel times of the Modoc war. Again and again did 1t seem as if Provi- denee had sent this woman
 with the heart of gold and the frame of oak to prevent grievous blood shed. Again and again 1t was the brown hand of this marvellous woman
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gave him tears. Six years ago the spirit of Col. Alfred B. Mea- cham was called upon to quit forever the scared and weakened body that had bravely faced so many dangers land, with as brave
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HWY fh tht& AfNfsN
 weave 1t into a chord with his own love and passion. For mon [ h 8 Frank Riddle, the hon est young miner from Kentucky, strove never to look into the sweet dark eyes of the Indian girl, but to rememter the blue eyes of a fair haired sweetheart he t-fa -tg.I l. f,..
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these rates. The estimate of ihs proposed raies made for the wsys and means commitic, hy schedules ls snbIoined. The class flcatiou " schedules differs from the class hcatiou b Ittcle. az above given, and yet tue reader can judge pretty correctly In regard to the ex tent ot the proposed reductioni
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As any book of eilq leiie w II inform you, il Is quite impossible for gentleman 10 te welded uithout A t,e. band however, I not insisted on.-Asp Harei Nexs
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the first bullet, wh oh did no harm. Before the next shot Wi-ne-ma was between Schon Chin and his victim, beading for his life and cri oping the Indians wrists till he should hear. Another Indian joined him, and
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THE ROMANCE OF WI.NE-MA.

Her Husband . White Man and Hersei
 Almost s Chief
 Six years ago an American hero died, and the nation paid him tribute and men
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son, Monroe. Morgan, owen, and Putnam.
From the Congressional Directory We repro
duce this brief sketch Of Col Matsons life:
CORTLAND c. Matson, OF Greencastle, vas born
uato OF Indiana Asbury University; at the be-
ginning of the war enlisted as private in the
Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers, and after one
Sixth Indiana Cavalry (Seventy- first volun-
teers), and served in that regiment until Octo-
ber 1865, filling different Intern ediate grades
up TO that OF Colonel OF tho latter regiment
after the war he studied law with his father,
Hon. John A. Matson entered the practice at
his present home and has so continued; was
three times elected as Prosecuting Attorney Of
different courts in Indiana; was elected to the
Forty-seventh, Forty-e eighth, and Forty-ninth
Congresses, and was reelected to the Fiftieth
Congress as a Democrat receiving 1864 votes
against 16, lG2 votes for Chase, Republican.
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and Federal Jurisdiction and no man was moro
familiar with those great decisions that are the
peaks and promontones, the headlands ana the
DeacOns OF the law.
He was orator, earnest logical, intense
and picturesque. He laid tho foundation with
care, with accuracy and skill and rose by
cold graduation aud well-balanced form" from
the cornerstone OF statement TO the domed
conclusion. He,hlled the stage. He satisfied
the eve the audience was his. He had that
indetinable thing called presence. Tall, COM
manding erect ample in speech, graceful in
compliment, Titanic in denunciaton rich in
illustration, prodigal of comparison and meta
phor and his sentences. m ensured and rhyth-
mical, fell like music on the enrapturod throng.
Sensitive to the last degree he keenly felt
the blows and stabs OF the envious and obscure
of the smallest. OF the weakest-but tho
greatest could not drive him from his convic-
tions. He would not stoop TO ask or give an ex-
PLANTATION. He left his words and deeds to iust-
~ themselves.
He held in light esteem friend who heard
with half-believing ears the SANDER OF a foe
He walked a highway of his own aud kept the
company of his self respect. He would not
turn aside to avoid foe, TO greet or gain a
friend.
In his nature there was no compromise. To
him there were but two paths-the right and
wrong. He was mal.gned, misrepresented, and
misunderstood. but he would not answer He
knew that character speaks louder far than any
words He was as silent as he il now, and his
silence, better than any form Of speech. refuted
every charge
He was an American, proud of his -un-
try, that was and ever will be proud OF him
He did not find perfection only in other lands
He did not grow small and shrunken. with
cred and apologize In the presence Of those
upon whom greatness had been thrust by
chance. He could not be oyerawed by dukes
or lords nor battered into verte brateless sub
seryience by the patronizing smiles Of kings.
In the midst Of conventonalities he had the
feeling OF suffocaton. He believed in the roy
atty OF man, in the sovereignty of the citizen,
and in the matchless greatness OF this Re-
public
He was of the classic mold-a figure from
the antique worlds. He had the pose OF the
great statues, the ride and bearing OF the in
tellectual Greek, Of the con1uering Roman,
and he stood in the wide. free air as though
within his veins there flowed the blood of a
hundred kings
And as be lived he died. Proudly he entered
the darkness or the dawn, that we call death.
Unshrinking he pass d beyond our horizon, be-
yonl the twilight's purple hills, beyond the ut
most reach Of human harm or help, 20 that vast
realm Of silence or OF Joy whore the innumerablo
dwell and he has LETT with US his wealth OF
1 thought and deed, the memory of brave, i'm
| perious. honest man. who bowed alone TO death.
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Campaign Echoes.

1T will take 412 votes to nominate q candid ate
at the Chicago convention. and the Omaha Bee
(RepD thinks that "a great many dark horses
are figuring whore e. get the odd ALL
TUE Wyoming Territorial Republican Con-
vention, held at Laramie, elected eN-Gov War
rem Of Cheyenne and G. II. Clark az delegat
TO the National Convention. They 20 unin-
struoted, but with preferences for Blaine
FoRTY-Two editors I'm New York New Jersey.
and Connecticut express th emselves for Depew
and Harrison as the best ticket In New York
MIR. Depew 10 the choice of seventy nine papers
for President and Gen. Harrison Of eig hty-
three papers for second place. Next TO Gen.
Harrison, William Walter Phelps 10 the prefer
ence OF eighteen papers
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MINNESOTA PROHIBITIoNIsTs.
Delegates at-Large and District Delegates
to the National Convention.


to the National Convention.
The Minnesota delegates at-large to tho Ma
tional Prohibition Convention have been So
lected by the State Committee. and are as fol-
lows:
James p. Pankham OF Hennepin County. W.
W Satterlee Of Hennepin, James Il. Child Of
Waseca, Mrs. III. A. Hobart Of Goodhue, Prof.
T. S. Reimstadt OF Hennepin. Hugh Harrison
of Hennepin, the Rev. Martin Mahony Of Ram
sey. Alternates: Miss A NJ. Henderson Of
Hennepin &. A. Bierce of Winona, the Rev. A..
Sjolander OF lsant the Rev. 4. o. Holman of
Ramsey, l.. w. Denton OF Hennepin. g. K.
Holt of Hennepin, Il. l.. Curial Of Anoka, J. u.
Barnes OF Douglas
The district delegates are:
i. A. II. Bowker Of Winona, G. N. Mclaughlin
of steele, g. s.. Kneeland of Dodge.
2. George j. Day of Mobiles, j. N. Wishart Of
Blue Earth, Il. p. Grout OF Rock.
3. g. A. Fosness OF Chippewa c. 7. Langerson
of Mcleod, l. G.. Stearns OF Goodhue.
4. q. i. Wells Of Ramsey, w. j. Dean OF Hen
nepin, G. N. Woodward OF Ramsey.
s. T.. A. Richardson of St Louis, Louis Krute
Johnson OF Otter Tail, Peter Abletoft Of Becker.
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Of the farm would permit, in the occupation OF
laying brick as the assistant Of his father, who
was q brickmason by trade.
In 1861 young Filter and his brother. George
H., enlisted in the Thirty third Illinois Infantry.
George H. Fifer the elder brother, rose TO be q
lieutenant and was killed late in the war ut the
battle OF Fort Esperanza Texas. Joseph served
In the ranks rs a private until on July IL,
1863 he was desperatel y wounded in an assault
on the rebel intrenchments at Jackson. Miss.
Late in 1864 the young soldier. having, by yir-
tue OF q strong constitution recovered from his
wound, entered the Illinois Wesleyan Univer-
sity at Bloomington. BY dint OF hard work in
vacation times he kept himself in college, and
graduated In 1858. In 1867, while still in col.
lege, he began the study OF law. and in the year
1869 was admitted 10 the bar and hung out his
shingle in the city OF Bloomington. Two years
later MIR. Fifer was elected corporation coun-
sci OF Bloomington and in 1872 States Attorney.
He held the latter office until 1880, when he was
elected to the State Senate, in which body he
served four years.
Mr.. Fifer is six feet tall, spare OF flesh, OF a
swarthy complexion, keen black eyes, with n
heavy head OF coarse black hair. now beginning
to be tinged with gray.