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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-07-30

- UTHRIE Lodge No. 2 X. OF p, meets
N every Wednesday at 1880 In their hall
IN the Victor block, corner First and Harri-
son Visiting knights are always welcome,
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-07-30

Hattie mentioned a rather disreputa-
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-07-30

Barnes Chapel, NJ. Il Mansur and 9th.
ID. w Ross, pastor Residence first door
north. Sunday school at 10 a. M. Ep-
worth league, p. m, prayer meeting
Thursday eNeninn. s o.clOck
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-07-30

tOR NJ Meets every Tuesday night In X.
I X OF p. hall. Visiting chiefs always well
come. w. IL. n. SEARCEH, Jr.
BfB. CHERRY. Chief Of Records
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number 100000. and even more, year, the population never gets above 10000. The greater part of this population consists of whites, but many are darker than our octoroons, and many could not truthfully say that they are pure blooded Caucasians. These are called Afrikanders, and through some mis- taken notion are proud to be known as such. They are physically a fine race, but mentally they are below par. Their brain is undeveloped, and they are still in the intermediate cabin of evolution. They are conceited, never theless to an asinine degree, are bull lies because of their size, are anything but virtuous. and are altogether an un- pleasant race.
 Next in point of numbers come the Malays. The men are undersized. bill ious-lool1ing and insignificant. The women are superb. Their skin is of velvety yellow. and their hair as black as night and of texture fine as un- spun flax. Their features are of a Cau- casian cast, their figures supple, grace ful and well-developed. They would endanger the sanctity of even Saint Anthony.
 The men wear European clothes with turbans on their heads. The women wear loose-fowing gowns, consisting of bright-colored silks wound tightly around their bodies and reaching to the ankles. Their shoes, if they can be termed such, consist of wooden boards, with pegs, which fit between the big and second toe. by which the shoes are held in place. At the front and rear end of this board are little blocks which raise it about two inches from the ground, and which make 1t impos- sible to wear for anybody but native or man used to stilts.
 The Malays are picturesque race. They are magnificent liars, and are free from the smallest taint of morality or modesty. As far as Cape Town is con cerned, they appear to best advantage cn Saturday evenings, when they turn out in full force in all their gaudy trap pings and walk up and down the vari- GUS streets. It is a sight really worth seeing. and takes one at bound from Africa into the Arabian Nights. One can almost imagine Haroun al Raschid come to life again. with his grand vizier and his slaves.
 Next to the Malays come the native tribes. There are some 200 of them, and they are known by the generic name of Kaf1ir. Strictly speaking, the Kaffir is not a negro, though his skin is black; he is the aristocrat of the
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three miles and ends in salt marshes toward the west. The eastern end is lost somewhere in the direction of the Indian ocean, but no one with any so- cial aspirations lives there. In one cor ner is the bay, which affords good anz choragc and is splendidly protected by breakwater, built by convict labor At a distance Cape Town resembles nothing so much as Swiss town, with it's many cottages built on the slope of Table mountain. The whole effect gives rise to feelings of pleasant antici- patton; the realization is doubly bitter.
 The closer one gets to Cape Town the more completely is the illusion dis pelled. Intimacy with Cape Town is only conducive to disgust, for great part of the town is so filthy and vile as to be fit only for Malays and Kaffirs. There is one street in Cape Town, Adder ley street. which is consideredi it's Broad way, but this is is an unpardonable in- suit to Broadway. Adderley street con- sists in dry weather of the finest grade of red dust. In wet weather it's name is mud. On ordinary occasions the sand is a foot deep, but when necessary water is supplied the result ant mud attains three times thatdepth. By reason of this dust 8 collar that has been worn an hour looks like a sunset painted by an impressionista artist. Af ter that history is silent, for no one has yet been found who wore a collar for more than an hour in Cape Town.
 Cape Town is subject to wind storms which blow in all directions at once, and have a pleasant habit of gath ering up dust and depositing half a street full in your ears and nostrils. These wind. storms are often accom- panied by tremendous falls of rain, and give the place a very unpleasant eli climates day in Cape Town.
 Leading in all directions from Ad- derley street are other streets, some big, some small, but all unpleasant. The houses resemble barns; but this is not the fault of the inhabitants, who de- serve encouragement, for they are real ly trying hard to approach level where civilization begins and the sav- age ceases to wear a nose ring.
 You can find any nationality in Cape Town, for it is the Mecca to which all sorts of adyenturers and the scum of the earth generally are drifting from everywhere. You can find every walk of life represented; but no matter where you go you will find the one pre- dominating trait-the greed for gold.
 Human beings would not go to Cape Town unless there were a strong mag net to attract them. Gold is that mag net; and as the gold is not to be ob- tained in Cape Town itself. there is 8 constant migration through the town northward-so that while the arrivals
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an upper and lower house, antagon. istic to each other and to everythino else. Their purpose in life appears to be to fight the advance of civilization: their main desire to antagonize what they call the ''verdammte Uitlandern (the d-d foreigner1. They have, how ever, found master of late in the per son of Cecil Rhodes. The houses of par lament where he rules are situated in the Botanical gardens in the upper part of the city, and are the finest buildings in Cape Town. They are three-story red brick, and are still large enough to contain Mir. Rhodes.
 The one interesting thing about Cape Town is Table mountain. It rises ab- ruptly and perpendicularly behind the town, towering up into the clouds 1,5G0 feet above the level of the sea. From it's summit, which can be reached by an easy incline through the Lions l1loof (guieh1, or by a perilous ascent up it's almost perpendicular front fac ing the sea. A magnificent view re- wards the climber. To the south and west stretches the Southern Atlantic, green and forbidding in aspect; to the east lies the Indian ocean. with it's le- gends of the Flying Dutehman and it's pirates; to the north are seen the un- dulating hills that lead to the land of diamonds and of gold-that bourne to which every traveller is drawn, upon which ali hopes are centered, where marvellous fortunes have been made and lost, where the strangest com edies and tragedies have been played the region upon which the entire fu- ture of brightest Africa depends.
 EDGAR MEIs.
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TIE SHERMAN NOTES.
Silver still Being Coined for Their Re
 demption.

Silver Still Being Coined for Their Re-
 demption.
 A matter to which no great degree of attention has been paid is the re- demption of the Sherman notes in standard silver dollars. Recently this has been going on at the rate of $500.- 900 week. This is attributed to the demand for money in the west to facilitate the movement of the crops, and it is not expected to last after tltat demand has been supplied,
 The redemption of the Sherman notes in silver dollars has been going on for two years. Under the Sherman silver purchase act, which is still unrepealed, |, except so much of it as provides fer the purchase of silver bullion with le- gal tender notes, the secretary of the treasury has the option of redeeming the notes in either gold or silver, sub ject to the obligation of keeping all our currency at a parity. Whenever, there fore, the holder of a note desires silver he can get it. The secretary is also required to coin as many silver dollars from the bullion in the treasury as may be necessary 10 provide for the redemp- ton of these notes under the direction given him by the law. Hence the secretary has been eoining silver dol lars from time to time. the coinage last year having been nearly half as much as the total coinage from the estab- lishment of the government up to 1873. Yet in many quarters the assertion that silver has been stricken down" is re- ceived without question.
 An unrepealed portion of the Sherman act provides that mo greater or less amount of such notes shall be outstand- ing at any time than the cost of the silver and the standard silver doRars coined therefrom, then held in the treasury purchased by such notes" so that it becomes necessary in order to comply with the law to cancel the notes so redeemed. The original volume of these notes was $155, 931002 The re- denptions in silver up to the close of last month had amounted to SIP 504, ,722, so that the amount now outstanding has been reduced to s143, ,426, ,2so
 It is worthy of notice that while the silver dollars in existence have been in creased by the coinage of the past four years the number in circulation re- mains limited, because of their ten~ dency to flow back to the treasury. At the close of the year 1892 there were in circulation silver dollars to the amoant of nearly $63,ooo,ooo On July 31, 1894, the number had fallen to about $51,- 100000, and on July 31 of this year it was less than $52, 2,oo0,ooo On the first of this month it was S55, ,146, ,527. This will probably fall off again as the need for currency to move the crops be- ieomfs less.--Louisville Courier-Jour- nal.
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Cardinal Bonaparte.

Twenty-six years ago all Europe was familiar with the portraits of the young Cardinal Bonaparte. His elevation to the Sacred college in 1868, at the request of his cousin Napoleon III., had been accepted everywhere as a visible sign of the vatiean's close dependence upon the second empire. When the ecumen- ical council assembled in the winter preceding the Franeo-German war, this prineely French ecclesiastie was the most observed of all the thousand pre- lGtes gathered from the ends of the earth. He was doubly a Bonaparte in
 blood, for his father was a son of Lucien, and his mother daughter of Joseph. His face, as the photographs presented him in his 40th year, was an idealization of the Neapoleonic type, faultlessly beautiful in modelling. He was pointed out at Rome that winter as the coming pope, for France was deemed all-powerful, and no one doubted that the emperor's wish would be law to the next conelave, wheneverit it might be held A twelvemonth later the Germans were at the gates of Paris; the empire was a memory, and poor Lucien, Cardinal Bonaparte, had ceased to be even that. His name has hardly been mentioned from that day to this, which chronicles his death. Of the 63 cardinals who assem- bled to choose a successor to Plus K. only seven now survive.-London Saturday Review.
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IN BRIGHTEST AFRICA.
A Description of Region of Ex-
 traordinary Interest.
Edgar Meis. Formerly Editor of the Transvaal Mining Argus, Tells of the City Which Is the Gate of
 the Land of Gold.
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Whilst famous explorers, Livingston, Stanley, De Brazza and others, have plunged into the heart of Darkest Afri- ca, and have returned with wondrous tales of endless forest, nations of pig mics, and other strange things, as yet no explorer has given an adequate re- port of what may justly be termed Brightest Africa. We have heard much of cannibals and the fearful rites in dulged in by savages; but strange to say, writers have been comparatively silent upon the country stretching from Cape Town north to the Zan. besi river. It is true that trade papers and even magazines have published statis- ties concerning this land, but little or nothing has been said of it's character istics, it's inhabitants and their idio- syncracies.
 Yet that same Brightest Africa is richer in legend and far richer in the gifts of nature than many country better known to fame and history. It has diamonds, gold, sheep and cattle, iron, silver, coal, asbestos, magnificent seaports, great wheat-growing dis tricts. vineyards that groan under the weight Of their fruit-everything, al most, that can be desired except civ ili2ation: and for that it has little use until it's resources are further devel- oped.
 Just why the discoverer of the point of land lying between Cape Town and Simonstown christened it the Cape of Good Hope is somewhat of a mystery, unless it be hope for the ultimate ref. ormation of that part of the world As for Cape Town itself, it looks truly beautiful at distance. but a closer ae- quaintanee dispels the illusion. It is rather picturesquely situated at the foot of Table mountain-so called, per- haps, because it does not resemble table-and at distance looks like self-respectingt town containing proper, church-going people, with civilized in stincts. The dominating feature in a long-distance view is the green effect, due to a number of trees. The town stretches over distance of about
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BIG BUSINESS IN RAcoooNs.
Hundreds of Them Trapped Weekly for
 the Sake of Their Skins.

Hundreds of Them Trapped Weekly for
 the Sake of Their Skins.
 The redemption of the alluvial lands along the Mississippi from overflow by the construction of leyees, which has been going on so actively for the last few years, is having the effect of filling up the swamp lands and marshes along the gulf with immense quantities of game, driven out from above. A few years ago the woods or swamps back of the plantations on the Mississippi, which seldom extend more than two miles from the river, were filled with raccoons, possums and other game to such an extent as to prove a serious nuisance, the animals playing havoc with corn and other food crops. These raccoons have been growing fewer in that section for the last eight or ten years, but wholly by emigration. They seem to have pushed further south to- ward the Gulf of Mexico, and the hunt CTS in the interior settlements or brules, in Lafodrche, Terrebonne, and other parishes containing large amount of sea marsh, declare that their country is overrun with raccoens. There have always been some there, but the num- bers have increased there in manner impossible to account for in any nat ural way.
 While the coons have proved rather troublesome in the matter of clearing out cornfelds, they are just at present yielding the hunters and trappers rich harvest. and have made up for the rain of the alligator business. The bayous of southern Louisiana were alive with alligators 20 years ago, but the demand for their ski1N was so great and so large price was paid for them that the alliga8ers have been well-nigh exterminated. The eoons now take their place and are proving even more profitable.
 The business of trapping and killing coons has reached phenomenal propor- tions this season, and several hundreds of these animals are brought into ThibodeauX and other towns weekly from each of the surrounding brules or bayous. The skins sell for from IS to 50 cents apiece in proportion to the size and quality of their fur, and are readily sold to northern dealers engaged in the fur trade. while the negroes pur- chase the skinned bodies at from five 10 ten cents. The trappers make very handsome living out of the busi- ness, which lasts only during the win ter-enough to support them through out the year.
 The eoons are said to support them selves principally upon the corn trey steal from the fields and the erayfsh. choupique and other fishes with which the streams of southern Louisiana abound, the coon being an expert fish CT. The coon trapping has almost doubled the receipts of pelts at New Orleans this year since the hunting season began.-N. Y. Sun.
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courageous, self-respecting, obedient when necessity arises, faithful unto death, and always knows his place.
 How different is the Hottentot. The Hottentot is to the Zulu what the Turk is to the Amercan-the acme of all that civilization loathes and despises. His nature is low and his morals lower. if that is possible-thieving lying. treacherous and unclean. While the Zulu woman bathes herself twice day, the Hottentot woman does not do so twice a century. The latter is not q beauty; one who called her attractive would be subject to suit for criminal libel. They rarely exceed four feet six inches in height, are bow-legged, and have deformities that make them nat urally disgusting.
 The smallest part of the population of Cape Town is made up of foreigners. many of whom have come there for the good of their respective countries. They usually engage in the stock brokerage business, seeking for lambs to fleece. Some few, and they are the decent ones, are in the employ of the government CT of the larger mercantile houses. Much of the retail business is in the hands of the Malays, who are veritable shylocks. The Kaffirs are the servants
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and their masters treat them little k. ter than slaves, paying them abas', sy three dollars month, and furnisb;sa food and piece of bare board for ,.'s bed.
 Cape Town is the seat of the gove,z
 ment of the Cape Colony, and conta;a Q :; :. tine houses of parliament and the gar es.s ernor's residence. The governor is =. =. pointed by the foreign office in Londotp' and the less he knows about South Air; cans affairs the more likely he is to aa. {. the appointment. The present incnn, bent, however, Sir Hercules Robinsau IS an exception to the rule; for he baa done well. The parliament consists T
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LONDON POLICE STATISTICS.
Only Thirteen Murders Were Reported
 in 1894.


 in 1894.
 Police statistics, comparatively con sidered, are generally interesting I.ondon's big town. Items from her police commissioners latest report are worthy attention. The London force numbers 13,497, all told; it has to look after more than 6,000, ,000 of people. patrol 68S square miles, and guard 3S,000,000 of ratable property alone The actual property under their care alone is beyond the powers of computa- tion. 1t says much for their increased efficiency that the averages of offenses against property should have sunk during the last ten years from nearly per 1000 of the population to very little more than 8. Criminal offenses of all kinds show a like elimination: while cases of murder have reached the unprecedentedly low number of 13, of which were due to insanity. The introduction of the anthropomet- rical system has greatly facilitated the Identification of criminals. The London authorities were a long time in discovering the merits of M Bertil- Ions system, but now that they have adopted it one may reasonably expect fewer blunders with respect to identi- ty. One branch of the policeman's duty shows d regrettable activity the lost property office. The public is, if anything, more prone to forget and lose it's property than ever, and in the course Of one year succeeded in leaving no fewer than 5000 umbrellas in the public carriages. Possibly this may be accounted for by an excep- tionally dry season.-C Chicago Inter Ocean
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FREE SILVER FATurTY.
A Deadly Menace to the Credit of the
 Nation.


 Nation.
 William Vincent Allen, a popuiist senator from Nebraska (born an Ohioan, worse luclx!) introduced a reso- lution in the United States senate the other day which illustrates clearly the fallacy of the free silver at sixteen to one theory. It's preamble recites that the contingency of war between Great Britain and the United States on the Venezuela question may suddenly arise; that money is "the first essen- tial in times of war, and in such an event the government uses gold, silver and paper money indiscriminately un- til the two former disappear, and there after relies solely on paper money;" and thereupon his proposition is a resolution that the senate committee on finance shall determine and report by bill, whether the hints should not be opened to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one; issue treasury notes (greenbacks) in "ade- quate volume;" withdraw the issue power from all national banks and re- tire all bank currency.
 Mr. Aliens preamble states the cold facts. Money is certainly the main- stay of nation engaged in war; and coin eireulates until the paper issues become so redundant as to drive it out, when coin goes to a premium-or, to state the same thing in other words, the buying power of the paper money depreciates, in proportion to it's volume and to the probability of it's speedy re- demption in full-Weight coin.
 Senator Aliens resolution would be all right if it provided for an increase in the volume of full-weight coin; bat unfortunately it does net.
 What is dollar? As defined by the coinage law of the United States, it is 25.8 grains of standard" gold Sena- tor Allen proposes to coin an unlimited number of pieces, called dollars" :" at the ratio of sixteen to one. At that ratio, these silver dollars would be worth about half as much as a gold dollar
 Therefore, if his resolution were en- acted into law, it would intensity, in stead of mitigate, the financial situ- ation. It would at once drive all our gold out Of circulation, and reduce all our paper currency = greenbaeks, treasury notes of 1890, silver eertifi- cates and national bank notes to one half the actual value they have to-day.
 Has the country forgotten the costly lesson of the greenbacl1s in the civil war? The actual cost of that war was hundreds of millions more than it would otherwise have been, had we been able to get along without green backs.
 Every dollar of indebtedness now owing in the United States was con traeted on gold basis. Senator Aliens measure would strike a most deadly blow at the national credit. It would prevent a marketing of our bonds abroad, and we should suffer all the evils of depreeiated currency. The war-if one comes-would cost us double what it otherwise would. It is a shame that any American should cffer a resolution aimed at the very foundation of our financial honor, in an emergency like the present.-To.edo Blade
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ck race. Place an American negro

black race. Place an American negro side by side with full-blooded Zulu, and you will at once see the difference. The Zulu is a gentleman by birth; his skin is brown, but beneath it can be seen coursing the red blood of pure and noble race. In his eyes shines the intelligence of the child of nature he is child in more ways than one. The Zulu is one of the noblest animals that nature created. He is honest, yirtuous