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The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15
Monkexs a. crab cato,,.rs.

The way in which monkeys catch land
crabs is described by sportsman who
made an expedition to the jungles around
Singapore, and there enjoyed sport which
makes the contemporaneous records Of
Indian experiences pale into insignifi-
cance. The monkey lies down fiat on its
stomach, feigning death. From the
countless passages piercing the mud in
every direction thousands of little red
and yellow crabs soon make their ap-
pearance, and after suspiciously eying
for few minutes the brown fur of the
monkey, they slowly and cautiously slide
up to him, in great glee at the prospect
of a big feed off the bones of Jocko. The
latter peeps through his half closed eye
lids, and fixes upon the biggest of the as
sembled multitude. When the crab comes
within reach, out dashes the monkeys
arm, and off he scampers into the jungle
with cry of delight to discuss at leisure
his cleverly earned dinner.
'Rarely did the monkeys seem to miss
their prey" adds the describer of this
scene. II saw, however, one old fellow
do so, and it was ludicrous in the extreme
to see the rage it put him in. Jumping
for fully minute up and down on all
fours at the mouth of the hole into which
the crab had escaped, he positively
howled with vexation. Then he set to
work poking the mud about with his fin
gers at the entrance to the passage, fruit
lessly trying every now and again to peep
into it." These same monkeys, the so
called pig tailed variety, are taught by the
Malays to pick fruit for them in the for
ests. The monkeys select the ripest fruit,
and their masters, by following their
movements, catch them in a cloth before
they reach the ground. The monkey is
too well trained to attempt to eat any
fruit while at work, but when sufficient
are gathered he is duly rewarded for his
self denial.-London Globe.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15
The Boon of Long Descent.

Miss Plympton-After all, Mr.. Brough-
ton, what is the advantage of having an
cestors in the Seventeenth century?
Mr.. Broughton-Oh, a great deal.
They can't hang around and mar your
social aspirations today.-Harper's Ba-
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15
Atlantic Cattle shin.,

The boats each carry from 300 to 900
cattle per trip. The largest cargo ever
taken over consisted of 1900 head. The
greatest number ever slowed on an upper
deck for single passage was 1926 head.
The voyage consumes from eight to six
teen days.
Cattle are hardly ever sick at sea.
They readily catch the motion of the
boat and after couple of days find their
sea legs as readily as the most hardened,
weather beaten old salt of the brine. If
they show any signs of "paleness about
the gills' they are doctored with salts.
The system of shipping cattle is encum-
bered with far less difficulties than that
of carrying horses. The horse is very
troublesome animal to pilot across, and
one of the rules applied is never to let
him lie down.-New York Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15

Professor E. Ray Lancaster. having
recently expressed some doubts upon the
alleged powers of boy "water finder, I"
who has been in the employ of the Grim
ton Mining company, in the north Of
England, the chairman of the company,
DR.. Mcclure. has replied to them, deny
ing emphatically that the boy, whose
name is Rodwell, is an impostor. He
says that the lad when tested never
failed to either find water or mineral
veins. the lodcs having always been
found exactly at the places indicated.
The divining rod which he holds only
moves in obedience to the muscular con-
fractions Of his hands, and rod of any
kind of wood or even OF any material
substance whatever can be used, pro-
vided it be conductor Of electricity.
Rodwell usually walks with his hands
tightly clasped before him, and as soon
as he steps upon a mineral vein of water
he is powerless to unclasp them until he
moves away from the region of the lode
or conduit. The lad is about IA years Of
age.-London Times.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15
By ORDER OF zoRoAsrER.

They first arose 5000 years ago BY
command of Zoroaster, as you doubtless
know, thus: The elements, said Zoroas-
ter, are sacred as symbols of the deity,
therefore should never be contaminated
or defled. Neither earth nor fire nor
water should serve Parsee after death
had made him a acorrupt thing. His body
should be placed on tower, high above
all human habitations, that living men
should not be polluted by it, and no foot
enter there but those of its bearers, who
should leave it and come away. And
the towers of Zoroasters thought, 5000
years ago, were the towers with the
latest sanitary Improvements, that stood
before us in the year of grace 1889, which
gives one an idea of the real meaning of
conservatism.
We saw. a model of the structures
shown in the garden, and understood it
with the help of the hotel hand book.
They are built of solid black granite, and
covered with white cheenam. Inside is
circular platform divided into three
shallow receptacles with footpaths be-
tween, the outer row for males, the next
for females and the inner for children.
Three is the notable number of the fol-
lowers of Zoroaster, reminding them al
ways of the cardinal precepts of their re-
ligion-''good thoughts" "good words"
''good deeds" Every Parsee wears a
white woolen girdle of triple coil for its
daily suggestion and he carries out the
idea to the last. The corpse bearers are
a separate class, prepared by certain re-
ligious ceremonies, and forced to live
apart from the rest of the Parsee COM
munity because of the impurity which
their Office is supposed to contract for
them.
In compensation the work is highly
paid. They carry the body, swathed in
sheet, to its receptacle, and lay it there
without any clothing whatever. s'Naked
we come into the world" said Zoroaster,
'sand naked we ought to leave it." Then
the corpse bearers go away, and the vul.
lures come. and in ten minutes there is
clean picked skeleton where they left
xliat had been a man or woman the day
before. In IL fortnight or SO the same
bearers return, and gather up the bones
with iron tongs, and throw them into a
well in the middle of the Tower of ST.
lence, which is their final resting place.
Conduits lead from this place to under
ground wells, provided with double fill
ters of sand and charcoal and sandstone,
for the publication of the rain water fall
ing upon the bones. before it re-enters
the earth. That is the entire system; its
simplicity is ghastly.-Sara j. Duncan
in Montreal Star.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15
THE BAB00 OF BENGAL.
THE CHASTITY TOWERS OF SILENCE
WHERE THE DEAD ARE PLACED.

Tho Parseo in HIS Home-A Study Of the
zeFoastria" Theory Of ReliEion-A Long
survival-Towersw Which Have Stood Two
Hundred Years
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15
THE IDOL.

lhave known It young, have known It old
Ihave found an idol Of purest gold,
And yet there hos always come day
When saw that tho idols feet were clay.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-15


room, where the "first lady of Barba-
does" and Sir Charles Lees, the governor,
babe me welcome.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
The lawn of Government house
stretches away from the open doors and
windows to the shade of graceful trees.
When arrived tennis was well under
way. Ruddy, well built men and grace
full women, all in comfortable fannels,
were struggling for success with vigor
not readily associated with the tropics.
Officers from the squadron as well as
from the local garrison We'd with one
another in entertaining all such as wore
petticoats, while groups of very impor-
tant looking men chatted together here
and there-made up, it was plain to see,
of local officials. The governor and
Lady Lees lost no opportunity of adding
to the pleasure of their guests either by
saying few words of welcome to new
arrival or introducing those who ap-
peared tortured by the know nobody
feeling. The black chief justice of the
island was away on official duties, much
to my regret. Officially he holds most
exalted post and receives the highest
honors; socially he cannot enter the
dining room of the meanea white trader.
Consequently we have the comical pict-
ure OF negro ostracized by the poorest
white clerk, yet frequent guest of the
first lady of tho island-not merely on
her lawn, but at her table. The attorney
general, by the way, told me many
things about the negro that confirmed
my suspicion that in spite of centuries
of Christian rule devil worship was a
fact in most of the islands, and even
here under the eyes of an American
bishop.-Barbadoes Letter in New York
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
is THE TARIFF A TAX?

The Topeka Capital comes to the relief
of the Emporia Republican in its little
bout with the EAGLE oyer the sugar
question. and in answer to the EAGLES
proposition, as deduced from the Repub-
licans position touching the sugar tariff,
i. e. that the tariff is tax and must be
paid by the consumer, which position is
antagonistic to the doctrine of the party
and presents discrepancy that we can
not explain away and which, it seems
the Republican cannot, either (at least it
has not, the Capital presents the case of
steel railroad iron to prove that the tariff
s not tax at all. 1t seems to US a
sufficient answer to the Capital to say
that when the tariff on sugar shall have
produced a condition in that industry in
this country, or even an approximation
to it, that it has in the production and
price Of steel rails-that is, when it has
stimulated competition in the sugar in
dustry up to the point that the price is
reduced below the cost Of foreign pro-
duction, as is the case in the steel rail
industry-we say that when such con-
ditions shall accrue to the Kansas in
dustry we, too, will agree that the tariff
on sugar is no longer needed and should
be reDealed
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

At the hon given in Edmond Saturday
night the floor of the new building became
irnited in some way and fire was barely
avoided. 1t was luckily avoided
Gutbrie has more dogs 10 the square
foot than any other town in the territory
and il Is proposed TO tax them aud make
the CANNES help bear the city expenses
Oklahoma City Journal: Beautiful
moonlight nights. Ii Is almost lmpossloie
to conceive OF a more pleasing sight th"n
the prairies of Oklahoma viewed on one OF
these nights-when the weather Is favor-
able.
In Kansas last year corn paid the farmer
an average of 81. % per acre; castor Deans
Sl4. 40; hemp S3j; Irish potatoes so'' ~ ~s"ee1
potatoes $50 30; tobacco 500 These hgures
are of interest to the farmers OF Oklahoma
as they show the relative value OF the sew
eral crops raised.
J. W. Payne evidently went after the
wrong man when be telegrapned Presldenb
Harrison to get him out OF the Guthrie
cooler. The president, by Ignoring the
telegram, singnified the belief tndt our
defacto government is all right ana knows
its business says the Capital
The Guthrie Capital thinks that 'Sena-
tor ingalls, offset his bad Cherokee strip
$l0-an-acre talk 10y getting home RUE
I
Oklahoma praises him. rhe senator gives
il out that he Will stick to the last Tor TINS
clause This will win Senator lngalis Il
big lot Of friends III Oklahoma
From the east, west, north and south,
they come to Oklahoma. The Denver
Times saws: About twenty OF the famii-
lar emigrant wagons passed through irtn-
idau the other day. They were the odtiitS
of the original settlers on the Maxwell
land grant. who had sold their improve
ments 10 the company and Started Tor
Oklahoma"
The Pottawatomie reserve is thirty miles
square, and contains nearly loo.Wp acres.
From this there are about 800 Potta-
watomes and $50 Snawnees entitled to al
Iolnents. Eight hundred OF the Potia-
,yatomies and 800 OF the Shawnees have
already taken their aisotmenIs. ne sur
yey will be completed 10y the first OF April,
I,ut the land can now be allotted rs fast as
they come IL. The Pottawatomies are
coming in very fast, but TIE Shawnees are
opposed To al!otreuts. They are allowed
one year yet, until February = le9l' 10
take allotments The land J. allotted IN
this way: Each head of family receiv yes
100 acres Of first class laud; every member
of the tribe over j years OF age elGbty
acres: and every member under Is forty
acres If the Iand Is rated below urst
class double the amount Is allotted. Most
of the best land has been taken, buJ plenty
of good land, which has been rated as sec
oad class and is really first class, IS leIJ
IL will take more than than half bat not
ouite two-thlrds of the reserve 10 give al
lotinents 10 members OF both tribes. The
balance of the laud will be thrown open
10 settlement within the next two years,
on conditions not yet made public says
the Oklahoma City Times
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE.

A good deal has been said during the
past few years about the annexation Of
Canada to the United States, but while
the matter has been discussed in a pat
rOnlZing sort of way on this side there
has never been anything like Unani-
nous, or even very strong, de
sire on the part of any for such con-
summation. From the other side Of the
line, however, have come reports that
there was such a sentiment and that it
was growing. 1t is now stated that there
is change OF sentiment in the Dominion,
and that instead of hoping and planning
for annexation they are seriously con-
sIdering the question of seeding from
the mother country and setting up a re-
public after the fashion Of the govern
ments Of the other divisions and portions
of the American continent. In this move
ment the Canadians will receive the
moral support and cordial encourage
ment Of the people of the States, and of
the government at the proper time.
There are many reasons why 1t would
not be desirable to have the Dominion
attached to and become a part of the
United States. but there is no reason
why that country should not establish
and maintain an independent govern
ment. 1t has ample territory and re-
sources to make it a strong country, and
the people have abundant capacity for
self-government, and from their long
contact with our country they are more
familiar with and could with greater
ease and less friction, make the COM
parativeiv slight changes necessary to
constitute republic instead of mon
archial dependency. Such a transforma-
ton Will complete the chain of Ameri-
can republics. and with the exception of
few contiguous islands that are still
held by foreign powers will establish
home rule throughout the western
hemisphere. And such will soon be the
case.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

prices did not result from a per capita
supply of money reaching anywhere
near fifty dollars. Glittering generalities
are very good in their place, but well
supported facts are better In many cases.
According to tabular statement made
by the actuary of the national treasury
department it appears that the average
amount Of money in circulation in 1862
was $f6. %; in 1868 SIS. .6s: ir S1S6i $31. %:
in 1S6 S33. 81, and in 1856 $30. II, falling
gradually to S19S9 in 1877, and since
rising as gradually to S21.53.
This table shows that from 1862 to 1869.
which may be called the period of war
prices, the average amount of money per
capita then in circulation was $3.50.
or about 8 per cent less than now, and
that during the last two five-year periods
the quota of money per capita has been
from to 10 per cent greater than in
what is here designated as the war
period.
During such war period all the prod
ucts of the farm brought high prices and
and now the only staple that brings
satisfactory price is that one Of which
we have practically world monopoly
and ordinarily produce just enough to go
question whether it is the ratio of supply
10 demand which fixes prices should
pause a moment and ask himself why
cotton advanced SO sharply this season
when it was found that small part of
the crop had been injured by frost. or
why wheat advanced sharply last week
upon the report that the coming crop
had been injured by freezing: Most as
sUredIy the frostng of the cotton bolls
and freezing of the wheat roots has
added not one cent to the per capita
quota Of money in circulation unless it
be by requiring the foreigner to send
over more gold to pay for a given num-
Der of bushels and bales of these prod
ucts.
But this is somewhat of depression
and we will now enquire into the per
capita production and price per bushel
of corn, which is d typical American
product, of which the export is SO small
that the price may truly be said to de-
pend upon home requirements and the
extent of the available supply. This
Will be best shown by calling the eight
years inclusive from 1862 to 1863
the war period-and then dividing
the succeeding twenty years into four
fve-year periods and afterwards con-
trasting 1872 and 1878 with 1874 and
1880 and 1881 with 1889. THIS will afford
q Succinct view of the situation and
show the relation of the per capita sup
ply to the price per bushei and what eff
feet, if any. the quota Of money in circu-
lation has on prices. These things can
best be shown in tabular form as below:
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

South Oklahoma has an agricultural So
ciety.
The farm implement business IS said 10
be fiolIrisning in Okiahoma cities.
Oklahoma City lodge Of the knights OF
Pythias gave its initial ball last night.
= Democratic club was organized Friday
at Cimarroa City with h membership OF
I50
some formers in saltwater are planting
corn In Kansas this would be too soon,
but il IS different in Oklahoma
The Republicans will have time TO-DAY,
II the Oklahoma prOduct does not dliies
from the Republicans OF otaef states.
saltwater Gazette: The Union City
CI5nrser cries fusfily for a cemetery. TX
p~cting '.3rush" with the Apacbes, BIO
Shaw
Next Thursday all those 10 Oklahoma
who 90 nos plant trees will dig tie ho!es
70 plant them 10. wEich l. the next hsst
thin nE-
SAYS a sponGeut from Perkins. We
have a cougtry sarrgu1dinE cur clty tI1t,
II she had nothing eiss, would make 3 ciLy
OF ner-
Elm creek. near. Guthrie, has ferry
with = nira cable This j. q little Old
fashioned for Oklahoma. but = viii not
last lclE-
The prevailing voice ct congress. TIE
New fo-k Tribune declares. Is oratorg.
Tae Tr4ban= viii 6Ed nanY hearty fO.los-
KS n OEiaholna-
4 bridge 3 beng constructed acg5ss
Br1ss7f creek. east of Saltwater. fUe cltT
and the farmers combining tEs.s forces y
Jhe enterpClse.
{. : said that nearly al the Co1tssss
around Edn.o21 Asvz fseeu c9II promised
tlse s0ouers generally sellIa. CGt % ;hgae
who legally catered the territory
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
Cnmir TrarrdY.

From joseph JeiferSon's autobiography in
The Century we quote the following anoc-
dote of Forrest: Zone Of tho characters, be-
ing overcome with Nervousness reversed has
questions To Metamora, giving the wrong
lines, and of course receiving sn absurd an
swer. The audience, recognizing the eonfu
sion Of the dialogue. began TO laugh, and OF
course this made matters worse. The act
terminates with the Indians great speech
From thc cast to .he west, from the north
% the south, the loud cry o. vengeance shall
ne heard. and here he hsris mis- knife into
the center Of the stage, where II qgtV~Ts "a
defiance IN tho curtaIn falls ln his anger
and excitou.ent the blade failed 10 stsrk In
the stage and bouBeisd into Ihe orchestra,
the handle hitting the Gc1Ible bass player on
the top of his head, which was as iuDocens
Of hair as billiard ball, 30 as the curtain
csme down the oil feIloS WAS stamping
about and rubbing ms bald pste TO the d.
light OF the audience"
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

The Socialists cast million and half
votes at the recent election in Germany.
No wonder the young superior insists
with apparent sincerity upon the reform
methods proposed by him for the ailevia
ton of the laboring classes. He no
doubt appreciates the fact that not
withstanding the great love the people
have for the Fatherland and filial vener-
Rtion they have for his sire and grand
sire. their personal interests and family
ties and obligations are of the first i'm
portance. and these are sacrificed to
a great extent under the present order of
things in the empire.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
EXCHANGE SHOTS.

Their Share in the Refunding Bill
From the CloDe-DeUocTat.
Missouri would gain SG41 900, Illinois
$4,000. Iowa $3.50. 900 and Kansas $52.-
600 by the enactment Of the bill refund
inr, 10 the Ioval states the direct taxes
which they paid to the government at
the beginning OF the civil war.
That Little Peach Sequel
Is . Local poet IN x. G..
said johnny Jones his SIS unto:
i fear its more than ! can do,
Bat .et that peach ] must for you
For you
He though: the way 70 climb he knew
HIS foot got caught. of came ms shoes
His Jacket toru, his trousers. too,
kLght thrOuxA.I
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

Buffalo Bill had $1,000 Rochester
lamp made as a present to President
Carnot, of the French republic, and he
felt very much put out" when the
French executive refused the gift on the
ground that he never accepted presents
from any one. 1t should be said in JUS
tice TO Bill, however, that the refusal of
such costly gift did not work his dis
comfiture so much as the Indifference
manifested by the French president
towards the enmity, likely to be incur
red. of as powerful and popular man
Us Buffalo Bill.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

Deacon-Younr man, I thsAk ] vii EiTt
you an crder, bnt much fear thSt you have
not told The exact truth regarding y0ur
goods
Drurr..e~- Wei, si~, The tact 4 have rot.
Why sir ts,nHng MS voscs n a ~np<p~r.,
were J u tel AZ the tr-s-a about tbo.s goosi'
ii b. murdered Tor aT ssn1piez before
reached INC next town Pail@eisipala In
qui-er.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

Ponsby-I sag. Gazso. heard the rev
scbe.ne u &FaEaznalers ~ O. do1n ~ the
costolfics bet gve,-a y ard o'cl1ck 10 TnorrOs
sad you car est tsirts-.za tpso csHf Esazups fCs
a cent ani quartz
Csus.o-T y "a son r ssy so- ! EIust lay 10 e
stock. = cent and quarter. yo1 sayi
Ronssby-Tes, q esGl ard quarter. On.
cent aud tr-e1tya~e eeE;s. Ob-~rv., ns
BOY, IA. Tat-CE4tseT.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

81 have . coloners commission, picked
up Oh a battlefield. Il is a commission
TO james J. Foster. appointing bim colonel
OF the 125tia regiment, New YORK state
Volunteers II he, or auy Of his family,
are living and would ike IT, they can get
Il by writing 20 me The above j. an
extract from letter written ~ a south
ern lady-Airs. 3lolile MerrivVeth~r,
MtchelIs station, Ala II IS PUBLISHED
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

The president of the Western Union
Telegraph company-Dr. Green does
not agree with the postmaster general.
This surely could not have been the
cause of Johns changing the color OF the
old green two cent stamp.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

The Illinois Central Railroad company,
Chicago's greatest single benefactor.
again comes to the fore with PROPOSE
ton which, if accepted, will relieve the
city of the embarrassment that is upon
it of providing a suitable location for the
worlds fair. The company proposes to
relinouish their lake front right of way,
that comprises tract of made land of
considerable extent, sufficient it is esti-
mated to accommodate the great coming
event. In consideration of this reln-
quishment the railroad company ask
the privilege of making a corresponding
further encroachment upon the boundary
of the lake after the manner of the
former reclamation. No doubt the city
will be GLAD to make the deal, but before
it can be consummated it viii be neces-
sary to procure an enabling act from
congress to that end. The government
has expended large sums of money on
the harbor there and much OF the inn
provements would be lost if the proposed
encroachment is made.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
Onlittin~ the Sentimental.

The following teiefratn - handed in at .
station in Paris:
.'nonsieux x, R.ogne-Ovsr.h heim~d With
rrief; Gncledead; come at once; division nert
THURSDAY"
OperatoF-makes two frenszs and forty.
Stranger tafter furrlhIiBg IN MS pockstl-
SapTistol Ihars only tyofranes.
Operator Ioaf can omit n .ew words
Stranser-Vcry w>ll: omit ''ovsr~helrnef
with gTicf lie Figaro.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04

Congress has been asked to contribute
e60. coo toward railroad survey from
the Rio Grande to Buencs Ayres. 1t Is
items like this that 60 far toward abet-
ting profanity in Oklahoma, which has
been languishing for territorial govern
ment the three months past.