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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

THE army OF the United States con-
sists Of 2,167 commissioned officers and
little over 20, COO real private soldiers,
exclusive of those performing civilian
duties. In other terms, one-tenth of
the military force consists of its officers.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

ARTEsIAN wells have developed such
an abundant supply of water in the des-
ert Of Sahara that French engineers are
confident OF being able to extend their
railroad to distance of a weeks jour
ney from Algeria right through the des-
nrt
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

THE Illness of the venerable Judge
Isaac p. Christianey ex-United States
Senator and ex-Minister 10 Peru, was
terminated by death recently at Lans-
ing, Mich. When the judge was first
stricken down with cancer OF the throat
his sufferings were intense, but he was
unconscious during the last forty-eigh
hours and his death was as peaceful as
a ehilds sleep.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18
u,,oin,Ion h swi,1,rI,nd.

BERNE, Sept IA revolution has
broken out in the Canton Of Ticino
owing to a difference of opinion regard
ing the revision OF the Constitution.
Three mem bers Of the Cantonal Govern
met have been imprisoned. one has
been killed with a revolver and the
others have fed. The Federal Govern
ment has sent two battalions TO the
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

THE First comptrollerof the Treasury
has rendered a decision in which he
holds that a commissioner of the Worlds
Columbian Exposition can be ON officer
OF the commission and a commissioner
at the same time.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

THE Providence health department
has secured new germ roasting ma
chine for the baking of bedding, clothes,
carpets, curtains and hangings infected
with scarlet fever or diphtheria.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

Mrs, JAMES X. POLK has completed
her eighty-soventh year with faculties
untmpaired and strength maryelously
preserved, with happy surroundings
and hosts OF loving friends.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

THE friends OF Congressman McKin-
lev have dec ded 20 put forth their best
efforts in his behalf and viii try to give
him a ctory like that secured BY the
Speaker in Ma ne. The leading Repub-
lean speakers in the House will make
one OF more speeches IN his behalf
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

Mrs. WILLIAM A. SLATER, Of Nor
wich, dropped smelling bottle in New
London harbor while being rowed from
her husbands yacht the Sycamore.
She has so many associations with that
smelling bottle, which in cold cash is
said TO be worth only $500, that she per
suaded her husband to engage the serv-
ices Of Captain Thomas Scott. the pro
fessional diver. Thus far. however. the
search has been unsuccessful
IL 1920 a pair Of rubber shoes were
seen for the first time in the United
States. They were about an eighth Of
an inch in thickness. and in shape like
the heavy shoe Of q Chinaman.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18

ONE hundred and fifty thousand school
children have returned TO their books in
New York
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18
roe,.,,,, =, so.,b,mD,,.p.

LONDON. sept l6. Tho lockout insti-
tuted by the dock companies at South
ampton against the laborers in their
employ began this morn ng. Work on
the docks is entirely suspended
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-09-18
CURRENT COMMENT.

PRINCE BISMARCK has decided not to
visit England for the present
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-12-04
COPYRIGHT BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION,

''Say, my boy, what's your game" in
Quired the other after a pause, during
which the men had looked intently a
each other. "Do you want me to pay
yo1 her salary, and you hand her owe
whatever doesn't stick to your fingers
IL that it? He! he! her
you're a coarse minded idiot" SAID
Jocelyn brusquely. "You attend to you
SuAness and let me manage mine. /
mow what want and how to get it.
z SHE'S not all say she is, of course the
bargains off altogether. If she is, you'll
kave to pay for ber-that's all And if
ron don't like those terms you can get
ut Of your scrape yourself-if you cant"
"You ought to be rich man, my boy,
me Of these fine days" remarked the i'm
pcesario meditstively. "Well, if she
zones up to your report I'll agree. But
4 she doesn't"-
eff she doesn't I'll stand the railway
fare there and back!' said Jocelyn, and
with that they laughed and rose from
the table. AS they were passing out of
the room tall young man, with thick
brown beard and severe blue eyes, met
them in the doorway. He had a roll Of
paper in his hand.
you're the man I'm looking for" he
said to lingo.
"Halloo, Dillingham;" said Jocelyn.
"How comes on the Temple of the
Muses.
"AIl right" replied the gentleman SO
addressed, rather CURLY, as his manner
was. He looked at lingo and added,
"There's point about the construction
Of the stage entrance / must consult
ron on"
I'm in devil of a hurry" objected
the impresario reluctantly.
81 want only ten minutes" Belling
ham said.
"You architects are worse than-oh,
by the way, 1 can't decide about it till
tomorrow anyhow" exclaimed the
other, as Bellingham began to unron his
paper. He glanced at Jocelyn and went
on, Come to the Office tomorrow after
noon and We'll fix it."
"The workmen will have to wait,
said Bellingham.
Everybody has to do that" returned
the impresario sententiously, aud with
o nod he and Jocelyn went out.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-12-04

What is more worthy the contempla.
ton of humane mind than the specta-
Gle of pretty young woman? 1t is the
least selfish of all pleasures. By learn
ing we seek to elevate ourselves above
our fellows; by philosophy, to console
ourselves for the past and to fortify our
selves for the future; by religion (as it is
commonly practiced), to make ourselves
respectable in this world and comfort
able in the world to come. But he who
stands rapt in the fascination of a girls
beauty enjoys the possession by another
of what he can never have himself, ad-
mits his inferiority and generously ex-
ults in the existence of goodness for its
own sake. The sole drawback is the
riskhe runs of falling in love-that is, of
wishing to restrict to himself blessing
designed to rejoice mankind at large.
1t might seem pity that such girl
as Beatrix Randolph should be SO stu
sted as not to have it in her power to
confer upon every one the unselfish
qualification whereof we speak But to
be rare and difficult of access are among
the conditions of mortal loneliness. In
mother way, perhaps, could the heavenly
aroma be preserved; and were we to be-
come callous to beauty, as we do to pain,
life would have nothing left to promise
us On the other hand, duIlness is
negative, delight positive, and a single
day Of glorious sunshine compensates
for whole blank week of lifeless land
scape and leaden sky.
But Beatrix, though delightful to look
upon, was not beauty in the abstract;
she was first of all distinct and con-
crete human person. 1t is fitting. there
fore, to considerno so much the loss the
world sustained by her seclusion, as its
effect upon herself. Certainly she was
not OF temperament naturally inclined
to solitude. She was quick to feel
emotions of all kinds, and apt and simple
In the expression of them. Her propor-
tons, both of the soul and the BODY.
were symmetrical and active; as she
moved easily and sweetly, so was she
sweetly and easily moved. Her life. in
spite of its circumscribed conditions,
showed an instructive love of largeness
and variety, and herein she was helped
by generous and lively inagina-
ten. She could not read a story
or watch the sun rise without engender-
ing IN her mind a thousand fresh ideas
OF the possibilities of existence. And
her body was IN such fine harmony with
her spirit that you could see stirring
thought turn to roses in her cheeks, or
conjure diamonds to her lovely eyes.
When she came forth in the morning
from her maiden chamber, having put
on, let US say, fresh, white gown, just
crisp enough to whisper as she stepped,
and pink or blue ribbon (as fancy
might dictate) at her throat and on her
hair, and her figure elastic and alert
with the wholesome Tigor of nineteen
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-12-04
CHAPTER II.

HOW LOVELY AND UNFORTUNATE SHE WAS.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21
Irrigation and Tree-pIantinc

1t is a well-known fact that after land
has become thoroughly cultivated by irri-
CATION less water is required; and it is safe
to assert thousands of acres of so-called
desert land may become adapted for agri-
cultural purposes without the continued
help of irrigation. Immediately following
the establishment Of an irrigation district,
after the canals with their lateral bitches
have been completed and the cultivation
of crops has commenced, the planting of
trees should be encouraged. The eucalyp-
tus variety is mostly planted in California,
and the cottonwood in ArizoHa and New
Mexico. The former has very rapid
growth, and as windbreak and protection
TO crops it is used extensively, although it
Is very exhausting to the soil. Coincident
with irrigation should be tree-planting,
which would in a short time not only
change the appearance of the country, but
supply the wood which is necessary for
fuel. II would hardly be possible to esti.
mate the value of trees in their usefulness
towards retaining arid lands, and too
much cannot be said in urging the protuse
planting of them. In fact, it would be
well for the Government, in selling land
reclaimed by it through the irrigation
works TO be established, to make it COM
pulsory on the purchaser to plant a POI
ton of his acreage in forest trees. They
would only require thorough irrigation dur
ing the first year, less of it the second, very
little the third, and none at all thereafter.
Tree-eulture, especially the planting of
trees indigenous to the country, should BY
all means be encouraged. General Nelson
A. Miles, in North american Rcrier
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21
Horse Lore.

1t is said that "a really good horse, like
a really good servant, seldom passes
through many hands. Employers who are
fortunate enough to get them keep them
If they can. Horses with some latent de-
feet, vice or weakness are Frequently in
the market, and it is wise to avoid horses
that have passed through many hands.
Such horses are often sold for defects that
you may not discover in week, or even
In months trial For instance, some
horses do well in the summer and not in
the winter. Some have weak digestive or
gans, that leave them liable to dangerous
hts and collie or inflammation. A horse
that is ali right in low condition with
regular hard work often develops some
serious vice after rest and indulgence. On
the other hand, he may stand light work
very well and break down with hard
work. He may be sold because he is
known to have come in contact with a
glandered horse, or to inherit blindness,
rlng-bone or other disease not suspected
from his outward appearance, or he may
have recovered from some disease of the
brain to which he will again be liable"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21
THE ENGINEERING COMPRESSION

Mr.. Ohleyer, one of the committee sent
to Washington by the late River Conven-
ton, has returned to California, and con-
firms the statement that the reason why no
appropriation can be secured from Con-
gress for the improvement of the Sacra
mento and Feather rivers, is that the Gov
eminent engineers in local charge, or SUI
perintendence, have not reported to the
proper department that anything is nee
essary to be done, or that the navigability
of the rivers is so menaced as to call for
such action by the Government as the peo-
pie desire. The assumptions upon which
the engineers have been recently criticised
were, therefore, correctly taken. 1t will
be timely for the Executive Committee of
the late Convention, and which committee
is continuing body, to take steps at once
TO insure adoption of the recommendation
of the River and Harbor Committee of the
House, that a special Commission of En-
gineers shall be appointed to examine the
elicdius dhu iSpOib W NOhSiSeS NHat are
their needs, and that it is not allowed to
default in the present session of Congress.
There are | 200 measures on the dockets of
the two houses, and of course the great
majority of them will die on the calendars.
While it is true that the Recommendations
of committees will be taken up, it is by no
means certain that they will all be acted
upon. Such a one as that referred to, and
which is such vital importance to the eo-
pie of California, may require special bill
to carry it out. Our Representatives and
Senators can be trusted, if that is the case
to see to it that such bill is introduced,
but assistance can be given them, unques
tionably, in securing its passage. Nothing
could be devised to give such result GER
taintv. better than a recommendation from
the War or Engineering Departments,
or both, that such a Commission be
appointed. There is every reason to
believe that the Departments are
willing to make such request of
Congress, but they should be petitioned
10 do so. Whatever can be done to insure
the passage of the order for the Commits
sion of Examination saould be done now,
for there is not an hour of time TO be lost.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21
THE PAN-AMER1cAN CONGRESS.

The Pan-American Congress has con-
cluded its labors and adjourned sine die.
That it has had as large measure of sue
cess as was anticipated is probably not the
general Judgment of the casual readers of
the press. But too much was expected of
1t by such people. 1t has accomplished a
great deal. If nothing more than consul
tation had resulted, without any definite
agreements being reached, it would still
have been be decided gain for all
the nations interested. But, in fact, it has
agreed upon six or seven important recon-
mendations, and has discussed dozen
other matters, the debates upon which
Will, when discussed in the several nations
tend to bring the people of the Americas
into closer relations. If nothing more
than the agreement to recommend to the
several States that arbitration should take
the place of war had been resolved upon
II would have compensated for all the
cost and time devoted to the Congress
But the mere fact of the meeting of the
congress was In itself a most significant
and important step toward that union of
interest and sentiment between the States
of the Americas that will prove stimu-
lants for the growth of each of them. The
one supreme office of enlightened states
manshlp is to prevent war and conserve
the arts of peace The late Congress la
bored In that direction; it demonstrated
that the nations of the three Americas are
not nearly SO far apart as they had sup
posed that the interests OF all of them
are more nearly on level than the most
sarguine friends of the conyocation had
believed. In short the Congress that has
just adjourned has served high purpose
by opening the way for later consultations,
through which there is reason to believe
all the difficulties arising between the
nations in the future may be adjusted, and
the common Interests of the people of the
continents of the western hemisphere be
best conserved. OF one thing certainly
the members OF the Congress have reason
to be well satisfed-the consideration
shown them by the State Department and
the people generally of the United States.
They have been treated to excursions,
banquets, exhibitions, examination of
leading industries, tour through large
portion of the country as preface to their
session, and now, at its conclusion, they
are being escorted through the States of
the South, and viii be entertained in the
chief cities of that section and shown every
possible courtesy and attention. Such
social amenities must tend to augment
the close relations that it is the desire of
the people of our country should exist be-
tween the American nations.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21
A VOICE FROM POST ST.
A Lady Relates two Astonishing
Experiences.

To whom it may concern: / have tried
almost every conceivable remedy for bilious
ness during the past five years as / am of a
bilious temperament and suffer much from
stomach and liver troubles. But nothing
ever gave me the relief that obtained from
using Joys Vegetable sarsaparilla In fact l
think 1t cure for those ailments. At the
time was using it had a little girl living
In my family whose neck was seriously al
fected by large open sore, and we tried a
great many kinds of lotions, salves and blood
purifiers to no avail. gave her some of my
medicine Joys Vegetables arsapariIla) think
ing it might benefit her and as it was purely
vegetable, knew it could do her no harm. To
my establishment she began to improve, and
within two weeks 1t was entirely healed and
she Is now as well us ever.
Mrs. R. l. WHEATON,
704 Post St. San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

IT appears from the more recent dis
patches that the supporters of the major
ity of the Ways and Means Committee OF
the House are calling halt in the matter
of the new tariff bill, and giving the
claims of California and the South consid-
Grafton concerning the sugar schedule.
There is, therefore, still some hope that
the protection the beet sugar industry
needs will be continued.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

One of the most remarkable suicides re-
corded in the annals of self-destruction oc-
Cured near Chiquet, n. B., recently. Be-
fore committing the rash act, the self-mur-
derer w. R. I. Jones, dug his grave and
placed rough coffin of his own make at
the bottom. The dirt from the grave was
kept from rolling back into the excavation
by boards held in place by trigger, to
which string was attached. Everything
in readiness, the deliberate Mr.. Jones, as
subsequent developments revealed, got in
the coffin, took dose of poison, and then
pulled the string and was buried beneath
tons of dirt.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

IN the closing of the Russian universe.
ties because there are political extremists
among the students, the Car only added
fuel to the fire of Nihilism. The students
had now nothing to do but to plot and to
seek revenge for the shutting up of the in
situations. They have now been reopened
but without group Of offending students,
who are now en- route to Siberia.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

A marvellous lace wonder is reported as
landed in the United States. 1t is unique
specimen of embroidery and Irish lace,
specially manufactured for the great Inter-
national Exhibition of 1851, at which it
took "a first prize. 1t took twelve girls
twelve months to make this perfect speci
men Of the old hand embroidery and lace
trade of Ireland. The cost was $1,000. No
workIof to-day is so fine and exquisite as
the drawn and embroidered border of this
wonder. The main design is a chaplet of
fern leaves, entwined with the rose, the
shamrock and the thistle.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

The RECORD UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast. outside Of San francisco, that recciuc
~ full Associated Press dispatche; from: all
p<yts Of the srorld. Outside Of San Francisco,
they have no competitors either in influence
home and general circulation throughout tie
State
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

The enthusiasm of New York having
cooled in the matter of the erection of a
statue to General Grant, bill has been
introduced in Congress appropriating
100000 for the erection of memorial to
the memory of the distinguished soldier,
and it is provided that it shall be located
in the city of Washington 1t is to be
hoped that the bill will pass. The capital
of the nation is the proper place for the
monument, and it is eminently proper
also that the nation, from its plethoric
treasury, should foot the bill.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

Now that executions in New York are
to be accomplished by means of electricity,
some of our contemporaries are beating
about for a new word to meet the supposed
need of the new method of disposing OF
murderers. One of the San Francisco pa
pers has adopted "Electricution" 1t will
not do. electro" refers to that pertain.
ing to electricity-as electro-chemical
electromagnetic, or electrotype. But to
execute is to carry out, and is from en-, out,
and sequt, to follow out; hence, it means a
following out, and, therefore, the syllable
er cannot be omitted. Our contemporary
might well enough use the compound
"Electro-execution." Just as we say GER
tain machine is an electro-motor, a thing
the motive power of which is electricity i;
or electro-engraving, electro-gilding, etc.
But it will never do to say one was "elec-
trocuted"-that would be as barbarous as
hanging. 1t is best to stick to the old,
well-understood word execution, since the
means employed must be expressed as
secondary to the thing accomplished.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

THE horses that are to participate in the
stock exhibition and speed contests at Sac
ramento this week have begun to arrive in
the city, and before the close OF the week
we shall see here the finest display of
Young California-bred horses ever made
npop the coast. The event is one Of more
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-21

How ABOUT the prudence of allowing a
cough to run on, rasping the pulmonary
ard bronchial organs. when the approved
and speedy remedy, DR.. D. Jayne's Exoec-
lorant. can be obtained from any apo. he
d, ary,l