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He gave them his name and business and
showed them that, he must see Moses and
the other chiefs. They thereupOn de-
manded the message and declared that
they would bear it for him.
NO" he answered, ait concerns all the
Indians, and 1 must deliver it myself to
the chief"
They forbade his going to camp, but he
declared that he would go, even if he had
to fight for it, But mind me, if [ am
killed 1t viii go hard with every Indian in
this part of the country" At this after a
short parley, they sent him on with two
braves for escort. More Indians still We're
met, but the braves satisfied their objec-
tons, and they kept along the valleys until
they came to the Columbia.
The little party went over in canoe not
/ far above Priests Rapids. At the landing
east of the river, for its course there is
south, some 100 Indians met them. The
/ two braves had become friendly and con-
sented to guard him further still into the
main Indian camp They did not have far
to go when the site of the camp came into
/ full view, and at first startled our brave
scout. He saw company Of perhaps 100
Indians, in some order. mounted on their
| horses, all painted as for war. An Indian,
harder looking, if possible, than the rest.
was riding around among them, and with
gesticulations making a fiery speech. No
women were at that place. All the men
with their bodies tinted. Not far off from
the mounted group was another crowd
who were increasingly beating drums and
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my heart is sick and heavy. Old men anC
old women cry TO Moses! Mothers look
for places to hide the little ones Young
indians have lost their wits; they have
become as wolves; they want to tear with
their teeth the white man s flesh and drink
his blood. Now, help me to talk strong tc
my people that they may take the right
road :"
Here is our messengers prompt reply:
g es, Moses, you have many troubles.
and your grievances are great. But you
must keep the peace! BY war you will
lose everything and gain nothing" Gle
showed them in some detail the results of
every Indian war against the Government
since 1870 you love your wife and
children, and You care for your old men
and women. What in war viii become OF
them? The settlers, some of whom will
be slain, will kill many of your young men,
and the rest VIII at last, like Joseph and
his people, be carried into far-off country.
on ask the Government for a reservation.
BY beginning war you make General
Howard your enemy and he must fight
you. Now, | say before all these Indians
that, If you do not follow my advice. Won
Will not have land enough to stand upon. "
Moses relolned: "The Bostons (the vol
unteers) are coming very soon to attack
Chambreau quickly said eff the set
tiers come here lay down your arms. Do
not fire a gun, even if they make you a
prisoner and take you AWAY"
Moses demuTed: II don't believe nv
people will consent to that
The scout cried; "They must! They
must! | shall stay till they do"
He then pleaded with his savage audi
tors for hours; sometimes out of doors and
sometimes inside. Some agreed; some
were vexed and sulky, but the twa-wa"
went on all night.
About midday following, Moses called
my messenger and said, ''Peace is made. y
There would have been a horrible
slaughter, like that of preceding troubles
of this kind, but for this brave and timely
visit, for there were five hundred or six
hundred warriors against thirty or forty
armed volunteers that first came without
support to Moses vicinity near Priests
Rapids. He, without striking a blow or
firing a shot, let himself be taken prisoner
by the Sheriff, who was at the head of
that small company, lust as the good scout
awfully humiliating to the Indians. Moses.
a prisoner, was taken to Yakima CITY
and confined in jail until Father Wilbur
interposed and was allowed by the Sheriff
or Judge to keep him close prisoner at
the Simcoe agency till | came, examined
into the whole matter and caused him to
be released. Ny conviction was then
strong, and is now, that Moses never broke
his word to me.
Chambreau at once, after shaking hands
with the Indians, began another pheno-
menal ride. BY the route he took on his
return he made TO the Dalles over 900
miles in forty-eight hours. AS soon as he
arrived at that city he telegraphed me,
then at Vancouver, the success of his mis-
sion, and [ FASTENED to confirm the
promises that he had made.
L love to record such heroism displayed
in the interest OF peace and goodwill to
men. O. 0. HOWARD.
Copyright, 1895, by S. s. Mcclure, Limited.
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ing from Ripley, and as they were about
to enter this ravine their attention was at
tracted by loud groans. They paused, sup
posing some one was hurt, but could see
nothing. The resumed their journey in
the direction of Gritfith's home, but had
gone but a few steps when to their right on
d steep hillside the figure of a man drag
glng heavy chain came tearing down the
incline.
Griffith says he had often heard of this
apparltion, but attributed it to the imagi-
nation OF his neighbors. They had reached
the open space again when the baying of
dogs greeted their ears, and down the hill
side and up the other side went pack OF
foXhounds in hot pursuit of game. Pre-
sentIy they also vanished from view and
the party continued their Journey.
In 1878 fox drive was advertised, and a
circuit OF five miles made. AT o'clock in
the afternoon the army was centering, and
IN the circuit were ten or fifteen foxes. Joe
woods, a suriy, revengeful character, came
up With ten large hounds. The dogs made
several attempts to break the ring Seeing
his dogs fail Joe kicked up battle with the
captain, and fight followed. When the
lines broke the dogs rushed through and
gave chase to the foxes, breaking the cir
Gle, and neither foxes nor dogs were ever
seen again. Losing the foxes made the
hunters so angry that they took Woods to
a large stump, secured q big log chain and
fastened him. He was then left to get
agay the best he could. That night Woods
escaped and was never seen again.-ToledC
special TO Chicago Record.
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The Benri Nj Sara .

My caravan contained some half-dozen
wild mountaineer mule-drivers, hand some
fair men of the Benz Msara and surround
ing tribes, bright, amusing fellows, active
as channels and always laughing and gay
Terrible ruffians they are to look at, with
their short brown jelabs reaching to the
knee and just showing the lower edge of
their embroidered drawers, and length
of exquisitely formed leg below
On their shaver heads they wind yard
or two of scarlet cloth, with gold ban |
across it, and literally hang their bodi )
with arms. A fintlock gun with a -. .el
some six feet in length, a sword in rough
~ embossed brass sheath, couple of dag
gers and innumerable embroidered leather
and silk bags for powder. shot. wadding,
ETC., add not little to the ferocity of their
appearance. And ferocious they are when
on the warpath, but at other times easily
led and gentleness itself, speaking in low,
refined voices, with manner that cannot
fail to charm one.-Blackwood's Magazine.
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whole being arranged so Systematically. In
this branch of shore labor the men do
sometimes take share.
Some of the fishing villages along the
north and east seaboard of Scotland are
singularly quaint and picturesque, Neither
landish almost in their details, worthy
studies for Ruysdael or a Van de Velde.
The rows of little split fish skewered on
sticks or triangular lath frames nailed
along the cottage walls are quite distinc-
tive features. So also are the cottages
themselves with their VermlliOn, pan-tlled
roofs and outlying stairways; but these are
fast disappearing and giving place to
modern style of tenement, which makes
one miss the Old World forms and warm
color. Well were it, however, if primitive
dirt and archaic scavengerlng could in
many cases make way for more modern
sanitary arrangements.
The fisher folk of both sexes are very
commonly of a serious, inscrutable cast OF
countenance, generated, l suppose, by the
precarious nature and constant risks of the
seafaring occupation. "It's no fish we're
buying" quoth the musterful Maggie to
Monkbarns, cts mems lives" The men
do, indeed, carry their lives in their hands,
and it were strange if this did not give a
certain solemnity and God-fearing set to
their characters. The Eyemouth people
still speak with bated breath of the terrible
catastrophe which overlook them in the
great storm or cyclone of some years back,
and turned well-nigh every homestead into
house OF mourning. The fisherman has
long memory for such visitations.-The
! Scottish Review
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longed for rest and sleep. He had ridden
that day upward of sixty miles But he
first looked around There were then but
five or six houses and one store. There
were gathered near the store some thirty
men with the Sheriff, Mr.. s., who were
organizing company for the war; There
was great excitement and loud talking In
the morning he, to his establishment, ran
upon some Indians not far from the town.
They were gambling. An old one he no.
ticed kept watching him as we'll as the
game after he came near them. After "a
few words it was plain that the old man
knew the French scout. Together they
stepped aside. An offer of reward brought
this from the Indian:
There will be trouble; Indians have a
bad heart. Councils now going on by the
mouth of the Wenatchee, where it empties
into the Columbia"
Quickly the scout mounted and galloped
toward the Wenatchee Valley. The coun-
try houses en- route were everywhere va
Indians They seemed friendly, but said
those in council were going} down the
Columbia toward Priests Rapids. He then,
to make himself sure, turned more east
ward, and after awhile entered Johnstons
Canyon. In the canyon, dangerous de-
file, he suddenly had to tace two of Moses
Indian scouts. They tried to stop him
and said that he must not 90 that way.
But he, showing who he was, pleasantly
persisted. One of them turned back and
became his companion. Shortly ten war
riors met the two riders. These he could
not bluff. They asked him to dismount.
But he said:
NO, we can talk on our horses
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singing. There seemed to be 400 OF, 500 all

singing. There seemed to be 400 or 500 all
together. 1t was wild spectacle.
With all the frmness our good scout
could muster he told the two braves TO
take him at once to Moses lodge. 1t was
not done too soon; for "a curious crowd of
roughs had already begun to gather annoy
lngly around him. Here, dismounting. he
eSsayed to enter. 1t was a council lodge
and sixty feet or more in length. rough
enough, but spacious. There were fifty or
more principal Indians gathered in circle
ABOUT Moses. They doubtless came from
their own and numerous other tribes that
belonged near the Columbia River
EJaculatiOns from all sides manifesting
astonlshment to see white man step in
course from experience unwilling to inter
rupt an Indian council, crept around as
quietly as he could behind the Indians to
the head OF the group and sat down beside
Moses; He was hardly seated when Moses
turned toward him III anger ana said
~Frenchman, what do you want here ?"
lie told him that when he Moses. had
hnlshed his speech, he would tell him why
he came. Moses then proceeded with his
talk. 1t was little trying to sit there and
look on. In the heart of our scout, Chris
tan though he was, danger seemed too i'm
mlnent to leave him unaffected Great
anxiety and fear and apprehension of out
rage and perhaps death made his heart
beat fast; for he well knew what Indians
had done and could do again. With abund-
ant beads around the neck of some, with
arms in the hand. or near bv, with faces
and necks brilliant from fresh paint, and
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WOMAN AS AN EDUCATOR.
The THEME AT THE NATIONAL
COUNCIL OF WOMEN AT
WASHINGTON.
THEIR WORK ON THE LINES OF
PATRIOTISM AND POLL
TICS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Woman's work in
the field of education and organized works
in patriotism and politics occupied to-
days session of the National Council OF
Women. Many OF the papers embodied
teaching the young and in the various
phases OF female education.
The fraternal greetings of the National
Council of Women of Canada were pre-
sented by Mrs. Willoughby Cummings of
Ontario.
The opening address was made by DR..
Julia Holmes Smith of Illinois, whose
paper was read by Mrs. Clara B. Colby of
Washington. The paper was entitled,
"How can higher art be brought to
bear upon the common people through the
common home and the common school?"
Formal invitations to the council and all
interested in woman's work to participate
in the Atlanta Exposition were presented
by two fraternal delegates from Atlanta
"Women as Directors in Education was
the'theme of Mrs. Louise Il. Parsons Hop
kins of Boston.
Elmira S. Taylor of Utah, president of
the Young Ladies National Mutual I'M
BAo'SliiSii @ASSCSietoiOiii 1odDNl mig VI
South America, patron of the council, and
Mary H. Hunt of Massachusetts opened
the discussion on this subject following
which Caroline Earle White of Pennsyl-
vania, an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., made plea
for humanitarianism in education.
Reviews of the patriotic and political
work by representatives of the Women s
Relief Corps, National Association of
Loyal Women of American Liberty and
Women's Republican Association of the
United States, closed the days session.
The International kindergarten Union
had the first section of the evening pro-
gramme Sarah A. Stewart presided, and
speeches were made by Virginia Egreaff
of Pennsylvania, Jessie Ebers of New
York, Jennie B. Morrill, of New York and
Luch Wheelock of Massachusetts,.
The second part of the programme was
devoted to Government reform. The fol
lowing papers were read: "Our Proper
Attitude Toward immigration by Eliza
beth Cady Stanton of New York, read by
Susan B. Anthony; ''The Perils of Immi-
grafton by Mrs. 1. G. Manchester OF
Rhode Island.
Resolutions upon the death of Frederick
Douglass were adopted.
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with feathers or wings OF birds Tor orna-
mentS as on dress OCCASIONS some with
knives; some with tomahawkS; some with
repeating rifles, muzzles toward the cell
ing; with bright colored blankets every
where on shoulders or around their waists,
or used as cushions-the grouping was
picturesque indeed, enough to impress even
the preoccupied stranger.
At last the grim Moses said: "Now,
Frenchman, speak.
He answered promptly: "You know me
to be your friend. | have before been with
you in times of trouble and of peace, l
have come to see what is wrong with you
and your people, Ny chief Que-t -quin,
has sent me. He loves God and loves you. "
Moses replied: 1.-THE Nez Perces have
always been the friends of the whites AT
the time of the Whitman massacre one
white man ran to them for protection and
got it.
They gloried in never having killed a
white man. General Howard fought the
Nez Perces. | did not take a bad heart
then; | did not go to war when the Ban
hacks and Piutes fought him, but kept out
of it all.
"a long time ago General Palmer told
me and my people that we could always
dwell about White Bluffs, Moses Lake,
Moses Coulee Grand Coulee and We nat
chez. We were then strong and there
were few Bostons (white settlers); they
were poor and afraid of us. Now the Bos-
tons are strong and don't want the Indians
to live. What shall we do? We look upon
this land as upon the sun. 1t is our father
! and mother. | take a bad heart because
they want our land, and my people say.
TO part with my land is like parting with
my flesh. 1t is two months since General
Howard and | spoke together. Has he
talked straight or has he talked crooked to
me?
MY people say, 'Yon are an old woman
you will never get any land. You have
| swallowed bad medicine. General How
| ard and all the Bostons are laugh ing al
/ you The white men all around us have
/ taken bad heart because of the Indians
They are getting ready to come and xii
/ my people. The Indians have no frien6
/ to talk strong to the great father at Wash
/ ington. Does he know how we are to bt
/ pitied? Are not the white mans BLOOD
/ and the Indian S blood both red Do not W,
/ all turn our faces to the sun? Frenchmal
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THE NEW MINISTER
TO MEXICO.
SENATOR RANSOM OF NORTH CARO-
LIMA Is GIVEN THE
APPOINTMENT.
CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE,
SENATOR SHERMAN SPEAKS GLOW
INGLY OF THE NOMINEES
FITNESS.

WASHINGTON Feb. 23.-The President to-
day nominated Hon. Matthew w. Ransom,
Senator from North Carolina, for Minister
to Mexico to succeed the late Hon. Isaac
?. Gray The nomination was received by
the Senate at 1925 o'clock. Few nomina-
tons have been sent to the Senate which
have received greater favor, the entire Sen
ate, with two or three exceptions, and
those because of relations with the execu-
tive, Joining in the recommendation of the
appointment.
Mr.. Ransom has been member of the
Senate continuously for the past twenty
three years, being first chosen in 1872. Dur
ing the war he filled in succession the
grades of lieutenant-colonel, colonel, briga-
dier-general and major-general. Senator
Ransom is 50 years of age. He is man OF
polished manners and of much tact, and
his colleagues unite in the opinion that he
will make an ideal diplomat.
The Senate went into executive session
Immediately after receiving the nomina-
ton and confirmed it by unanimous vote
The confirmation was moved by Senator
| Sherman, who in making the motion ad
dressed the Senate briefly as to the fitness
of the nominee, of whom he spoke as il
every way deserving and appropriate
When the vote was taken there was gen
eral response in the affirmative. The ex
ecutive session lasted only five minutes
but Senator Ransom made his escape tC
his committee-room when the session adj
journed and was not present during the
executive proceedings.
Senator Ransom said after his confirma
ton that he would not qualify until ate
March 4. After that time he would bc
prepared to proceed to Mexico as soon a.
the Secretary of State desired him to go.
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Nachess. Five miles out he met white
man on horseback, riding very fast, who,
as soon as he was near enough to speak,
cried, 'Stopl stop! Don't you know the
Indians are on the waTpath2 | have gone
from settlement TO settlement, warning
the inhabitants"
Where are the Indians?" our scout
asked.
well, sir. you may meet them any
where; most of them are near Priests
Rapids. Turn back, or you'll be killed"
The scout kept on.
At the Nachess River an old man bv the
name of Nelson said that his sons had gone
to the war and that he himself would start
for Yakima City, and he begged Cham breau
TO venture no further, as he was stranger.
A little beyond the Nachess a wagon
with a man and his wife and children was
driving at a great speed. Our messenger
were crying, partly from fright and partly.
no doubt, from the hurts they received by
the severe jolts of the wagon,
There Is no immediate danger" said
he. Drive slowly or you'll kill your
family"
As he passed on through the Wenass
Valley he found all the farmhouses al
ready deserted. Between Wenass and
Ellenburg our swift rider, upon "the
divide" encountered two Indians. They
rode to intercept him. He, instead of try
ing to avoid them, galloped straight to
them. He showed them that he was a
Frenchman from Kit-soth-qua (Van-
couver) and from Que-ta-quin, i. e. farm
cut off General Howard)sent to have a talk
with them and all Priests Rapids. After
little they let him pass without harm.
On reaching Ellensburg, cold hungry
and aching from fatigue, Chambreau
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Scotch Fishermen.

Ashore he is the LATEST of operatives
lolling about the wharves and harbor cor
ners with his hands invariably deep down
in his ''breeks" pockets, his women folk
meanwhile doing most of the work, and
toiling about bent nearly double under
their heavy creel loads of fish. Well does
Jenny, Oldbuck's serving wench, put it,
GAS sumo as the keel O. the coble touches
the sand dell bit MAR will the lazy fish
erloons work; but the wives maun kilt
their coats and wade into the surf to
tax the fish ashore" Their method of
batting the lines with a multitude of
hooks is very neat and pretty to watch, the
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The LapIander's He'll.

The orthodox believers among the Lap
landers insist that hell isa place of perpetual
frost. Their ideal of extreme physical
suffering is to forever freeze. To attempt
to hold up the prospect of eternal fire to
them as a deterrent from further trans
erosion is to make them go and sin some
more. We offer this as a mere preface to
the thought that this particular semi
Southern latitude has been learning some
La - point OF w 1iew."CinciDnati
Times-Star.
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PoOLING ELL ~ THE sENATE.
Its 4rdent 4duocates Fail to Rerire 1t
Upon q Vote.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-It is seldom the
Senate has more busy or eventful day or
one SO disturbed by personal tempests than
that of to-day The pooling bill, which is
regarded as one of the most important
measures before Congress, suffered a sig
nal reverse, if not final defeat, as it will be
difficult to revive it after the failure OF its
friends to command more than twenty-four
votes to get it before the Senate.
Intense feeling was aroused by the effort
to take the bill up and when Butler, in
charge of it, intimated bad faith on the part
of German the latter responded hotly,
criticizing the management of the bill and
declared that Butler was ''piqued''
On the Republican side Chandler and
The morning call., 1895-02-24
GHOsTLY HOUNDS.
They Follow the Track of an Appari-
ton Dragging Log Chain.

ton Dragging a Log Chain.
The neighborhood about West Unity is
greatly excited over remarkable appari-
ton. Ex-Commissioner Alexander Griffith
of Brown County says it is caused by the
appearance in deep ravine on the farm of
T. Martin of a spirit-like form dragging an
immense chain. The figure is followed by a
pack of hounds, baying as if in the pursuit
of game. On Thursday night of last week
he and some visiting friends were return
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el alma, el oemino del psrque de los Ptfncipss
-iQoe horrible aventura!-pensaba, dentro
del coche que la oooducfa.-lMi nombre que no
te' DIE otro r:medio gus dar oonocer, com.
prometido en- IN proceEo vergonzoso. . 1. =. esos
b1illantes5 que me los devolveTdn sabe Dios
cuando, y ademas de e@o, 81 tempo, que trans.
curre con espantosa rspidezi. -. ILlega ell dia
tatal que tengo que comprar mis- cs1tss Csc
miaerable, y me encuentro sin nads' . JADE
mas Cs1lltux guerra que le pague, Tor ~te
l. do Ia desgracia es terriblemente esp Dt1sa! .
mi hermano Raul arru;psdol. .lOb, es para
volverse loca!
Msntras sc entregsba semeiantes re-
Il x ones, una esceps corts, pero extrsfla, sc
desarrollaba en- Ia b. bitacion que acababa de
abandonar de Ia calle de la Ceriaaie
Mrmentos despues de salir Laurencia, Sc
present6 uu nuevo person*je.
Er. Fa k,r.
-JQae talf-pregur to- .. g.
Per feotamente- respordi6 Crochin- el
amigo Prouveaux ha desempehado ell papel de
comisaria las mil msraul1ss
-Bien-dijo Falker spoderandoee de las al
hajas-o da uno tendrd su parte en- ell negooio,
como es ccstun4hre
Caando sc quedaron solos Crochin Prou.
veaux, q ptimero eepuso murmursr
-eQ4e te paaa! pFcguntd 80 o6mnliso