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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18
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Hem China play is six months
long
She-Dear me. what lot of good
shoe leather you save in not being there
to go out between actsl-EXchange
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forfeit sum not exceeding five dol lars" The. second section provides that "if the offender be a minor and the fine is not paid by himself, parent, guardian or master, he shall be forth with committed to the penitentiary for time not exceeding five days, or if he be a slave he shall be publicly whipped, not exceeding 30 stripes"
 At the West Washington station house the police have an old law book, printed in 1891, which furnishes them the text of the old laws covering cer- tain offenses. There are but few of these books in existence, so far as is known, and when a case other than as- sault and battery or disorderly con duct is made the officer making the ar rest usually has to take this book to court to show his ground for action. The police doing duty west of Rock creek have not only to be able-bodied men, strong and plucky enough to handle ruffians and smart enough to capture thieves. but they have to be versed in all the ancient laws of George town. Most of them can stand for hours and discuss the legal status of their section.
 Reported in the book is a law passed August 4, 1795, which is intended to pre- vent accidents arising from galloping horses through streets. The act pro- vides That any person, within the Jur- isdiction of this corporation, who shall by galloping or otherwise force at an improper speed any horse, mare or gelding through any of the streets, lanes or alleys, shall, if a free man, for felt and pay for every such offense the sum of 15 shillings, current money, to the use of this corporation, to be re- covered either before any one aldermen or by indictment or confession in the mayors cou.t; and if an apprentice, in- dentured servant or slave, the mistress or master of such apprentice, servant or slave shall forfeit and pay the sum of seven shillings and six pence, current money, to be recovered as aforesaid.
 An act of October 10, 1796, sets forth that "the respectable inhabitants have suffered great inconvenience from the vast concourse of idle white and black persons who frequently assemble and engage in cock fights, at which times they drink to excess, became rlotous. apd prevent the quiet and repose or good citizens" The first section of the act. and the second section, related to slaves, who were subject to 39 stripes on the bare back in public place. Tho
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One of the strange races of the great forests of the mid-Congo basin is the Batwas. Before the carly traveller and pioneer had become familiar with the Batwas he had heard them described as cannibals, though better acquaintance proved this to be incorrect. The Eatwa averages only four feet three inches in height, but is well built, active and much stronger than his height would lead one to expect. dwarf woman was bought by Dr. T. H. Parke, who paid her former owner, an Arab, for her "a handful of beans, 12 cups of rice and six cups of Indian corn" He tells us that he was obliged to be very kind to her at first to prevent her running away, but when she had ceased to have any dread of cruelty, her devotion was tn- bounded. 'sTo her constant attention and care," he said. "I owe the enjoy ment of good health and good foods : as far as forest weeds can be foods dur ing months of what would, without her, have been absolute starvation.''
 The first of the forest dwarfs that was measured was found to be ex- actly four feet in height. It is sup posed by scientists that the pig1nies represent the earliest type of African humanity, and that through the cen- turies they have remained unaffected by the partial civilization that has co1ue to their larger-limbed fellows of other tribes. It has been found that these dwarf races are not deficient in mental ability, that is, as compared with the other races of the Congo.
 Among the 5o,Oo0,00o or 60,Oo0,o0O of natives, divided into many different nations, there is a wonderful diversity of tongues. Not few of these races use sounds made by clicking" or "ehirping' the sounds we make with the tongue against the palate when we call dog or a. horse.
 To the hunter the valley of the Con- go presents extraordinary attractions. From it's mouth to it's source it is grand hunting field where such mighty game as the rhinoceros. the hippopota- mus and those great felines, the leop- ard lion, etc, can be found, and in the Lower Congo the African elephant is at home, though he has never been do-
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LEGAL OLLA-PODKlDA.
Funny State Of Afairs in tho Dis-
 trict Of | oluln oia-
What is oYense on One side Of Rock Creek Is Perfectly Legiii- mate on the Other
 Side.
Special Washington Letter. l

The laws which are enforced in the District of Columbia are peculiar. Many of the old laws of Maryland, which were made before this land was ceded to the federal government. are still in force. Then there are federallaws which were enacted before the creation of the territorial form of government: laws en- acted by the territorial legislature and laws enacted by congress since the present form of government was ere ated in 1872.
 The ancient city of Georgetown was an Independent corporation until re- gently, but it is now West Washington. 1t is separated from the national cap ital by Rock creek, and the laws there are in many instances different from the laws on the east side Of Rock creek.
 Many acts punishable as offenses in that section do not constitute offenses under the laws governing the rest of the district. Many of these old laws, though they may never have been repealed. are seldom enforced, and then only when many complaints are made about a certain thing, and the old law books are overhauled. Now and then one of these old law books is resurrected, and for awhile persons have to obey it, but it soon becomes dead letter again and the law is violated with impunity for another score or more of years l Every few years the question of observ 1 ing the Sabbath is agitated. Some o1 the old laws are found to meet the case 1 1t is violation of one of the old George town corporation laws to sell on Sun day any article except medicines, fresl fish, milk and other perishable good! which cannot be kept over night witl safety, but this law is seldom enforced and then only when complaint is made or after general order has been is sued notifying storekeepers to clos, their places on Sunday. This law, lilst many others, has been contested ir the courts and fonnd to be valid.
 Then there is another law which pro. hibits any manual labor on the Sab bath. This law, like the preceding one, has been contested and held to be still in force. It provides:
 That more cffectually to prevent ir- regular practices so common on Sun day, every person working or com handing, or suffering thei1. children or slaves 10 work. except in cases of neces- sity, or otherwise profane the Sabbath by gaming, hunting, fishing or other unlawful pastimes, shall, on conviction,
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ON THE CONGO RIY ER.
A Beautiful Country Rich in Nat
 ural Resources.
Euronean Emigration to Tropical Africa Is Increasing from Day to Day-Deplorable Condition of the
 Women of the Native Tribes.
Special London Eetter.l

The newest new world'' is the vast region watered by the Congo river and it's numerous tributaries. It is over been discovered and mapped, and some parts settled, annexed, and even par tially civilized within the past quarter of a century. It is a strangely beau tiful new world of which Henry M Stanley was the Columbus, whose wealth and fertility and scenery are gradually becoming better known Where
 Tar away through forests old
 The Congo rolls OCT sands of goid.'
 Unlike some other great rivers o! the old world, the Congo empties into the Atlantic ocean in a single stream, seven miles wide and of enormous depth, and although cataracts and rap ids interfere with it's continuous nay igation, there are between these imped- iments, in the Congo and the Aruwimi it's chief tributary, over 1000 miles o1 navigable waters.
 The Congo valley, that is the country of the Upper and Lower Congo, is 8 wonderfully fertile land. At present the chief commercial products are palm oil, rubber, spices, gums for med icinal use, and ivory. Gumcopal, wild coffee, eamwood powder and fruit in great abundance are produced. These yield revenue of about $25 100000 an- nually. In what is termed the lake re. zion of the Congo there are valuable iron and copper mines and gold and silver deposits.
 The Upper Congo region, between the Congo and the lakes, is said to be g fine field for colonization. The climate is salubrious and temperate, the alti tude ranging from 2,000 to 5000 feet
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above the sea. The rick river valleys andold lake bottoms yield immense crops of rice and grain and there, as well as on the uplands, is found some of the most valuable timber in the world, the logs making the most costly transporta- tion profitable.
 Speaking of the Congo valley as New World is only figuratively true, for those lazy old pioneers, the Portuguese, have been settled at the mouth of the great river, and many a grand family in Portugal has been kept fourishing for the past 200 years on the profits of the Congo slave trade. Thanks to the inter- vention of the British, principally, this iniquity is being broken up, the only transgressors nowadays being the Arabs, next to the "unspeakable Turk the most despicable member of the human family. Wherever the influence of the believers in the false prophet ex- tends the traveller expects to find that the natives are treated with cruelty, and that neither age nor sex is spared when those demons are aroused. What
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the Mohammedan is doing in Armenia he has done in Equatorial and West Af- rlca, and occasionally cities and culti- Vated regions are destroyed for miles by the Arabs so as to capture slaves.
 Among the many natives which peo- pie the Congo region there may be iound as many varying types as in Flu rope, and some of them are as strange In their appearance as they are in their manners and customs.
 A favorite facial adornment with the Ba Yansi, Usindi and Mabinga is the curled barb of the beard which is s1lffened with gum and grease so as to give 1t the most elegant curve. Dr. Baumann, who was one of the first trav- eiers to follow Stanley's footsteps in the Congo valley, had a pleasant experience among the Usindi. They believed that ne was reinbodiment of their last King and had come back from the moonl The Urundi, or Unsindi, claim that their former kings were lineal de- scendants of the moon, and in this re- spect exhibit an extraordinary parallel \ with the belief of the Incas of Peru.
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firing of guns or other firearms waA made punishable under an act of Octo- Der 24, 1891. The penalty prescribed was five dollars, one-half of which went to the informer. If the person violating the law was slave or in- dentured servant the penalty was ten flashes, unless two dollars WAS paid by his or her master or mistress.
 An act to prevent goatsfrom running at large was passed in 1790. giving per. sons power to kill all goats found runs ming at large, and to sell the same at the market-house to the best advantage, the person doing so to retain one-half the money received and the corporation to receive the other ha1f September <, 1901, an act was passed to keep dogs out of the market-house, where it appeared they went to get meat and other vege-
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mesticated like his Asiatic brother, and is hunted for hls tusks only.
 The condition of womankind among the sayages of the Congo and adjoining territory is shocking in the extreme. Generally she is classed as a domestic animal merely, and to murder his wife is not considered a crime by B. Mu- l1umbi. A chief of that tribe, in conver- sation with a missionary, casually re- marked: T killed five of my wives dur ing the night" A Mabunga sent his wife to collect firewood. She sank up to her shoulders in a marsh, and, her screams attracting shis attention, he threw her stick with which to defend herself against the hyenas and other wild beasts, and left her till morning, when no trace of the tched woman was to be seeni
 Writing from the court of King Mtesa, Capt. Spoke, the famous Eng fish traveller, said: ''No day has passed without my witnessing the execution of at least one, and sometimes two or three, of the unhappy women who com pose the kings harem. A cord round their wrists, they are dragged to the slaughter, their eyes streaming with tears, and venting their misery in heart rending cries of 'Hai Minange! Kbak- ka Hai nyavio!' (Oh, my lord, my king! Oh, my mother. my mother!) Not a hand is lifted to save them, al- though here and there remark upon the beauty of some young victim passes current in allow voice among the crowd" :"
 Fr. Hautecoeur, missionary, report ed that recently child was born to one of the slave women in the village where his mission is located. Regularly every day, in defiance of any consideration she might have claimed for her child's sake, the wretched woman was cruelty beaten, so that she would spend the greater part of her time proving emong the bushes round the village for fear of the ill-treatment which she knew awaited her reappearance. "One day." he says, q heard the baby was dead, and 1 learned a little later from the other natives that the poor little things death was entirely caused by the brutality of it's own father, who would beat his wife without any re- gard for the child which she carried on her back. according to the custom of the country
 And if this is the fate of African women in their own homes under fa- vorable circumstances the reader can imagine that it must be unspeakably worse when capture and exile are added to their sufferings. The conqueror, generally some Mohammedan monster in human form, profting by the ire cuent battles between rival tribes, se- cures a hundred or more of the prison CTS. These miserable wretches, bound together, weighed down beneath heavy burdens of ivory, or precious gums, are driven for weeks and months across the desert to an unknown land, there to be again sold into abject slavery.
 The conquest and annexation of western and equatorial Africa by Flu ropean nations will be the dawn of day for the women at least.
 IAMFs IRVING CRARRM
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cseeL pone Most sensitive.

It is mistake to suppose that the tlps of the tongue is the most sensitive part of the body. Those engaged in polish ing billiard balls or any other suos stance that requires high degree q s1noothness. invariably use the ehesa<55 bone as their tombstone for detecting any roughness.
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socinl Euulty.

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
BRlvF BITS OF NEWS.

The soda fountain trust is in a bad
predicted.
Ex-County Clerk George Hobson of
Cincinnati has been convicted of en-
bezzlement.
The receivers of the bank of Mime
sofa at St. Paul, suspended, have been
ordered to sue its stockholders.
A dispatch from Paris announces the
marriage of Puvis de Chavannes, the
famous painter, and Princess Cantacu.
ZGne.
The senate passed bills for public
buildings at Cleveland, o., to cost 81.
rOO,eOO, and at McKecspOrt, Pa, to cost
100000.
The Winnipeg oarsmen who will
compete at the Henley regatta on July
IA and the following days have arrived
at Henley.
Ed kilgoIe, a contractor and builder,
met his death at the hands of Miss
Fanny jackson at Paris, Tex. She &C
cuSed him of Islander.
Over $4,000 old soldiers are expected
to attend the encampment Of the United
Confederate Veterans to be held al
Nashville beginning June %.
A saddle horse, the finest that could
be bought there, has been sent to Gen
eral Weyler from Kansas City. The
price paid is said to have been $500.
A dispatch from Madrid y Pre-
mier Canovas is willing to pay .ne
widow Of DR.. Ruiz $40, 900 if the I'd: Cd
States government will not press an Of
fetal claim.
Hon. John NJ. Francis, senior proprie
tor and editor-in-chief of the Troy IN
~ Times and ex-minister Of the United
States to Austria, Greece and Portugal
is dead.
An official notice in the City of Mex
leo Gazette denounces the report pub
ished in the United States that the gov
eminent has granted a charter for gam
bling houses at Tia Juana, Lower Cali
tor,>a.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19

The grand lodge of Coca Templars
which met at Sioux Falls closed Thurs
day, the following officers being elected
Tor the ensulug year: Grand Chief
Templar, Rev. &. .. Walker, Big Stone
City; Vice Templar Miss Gertrude
Wing, Madison; Grand Counsellor, Chae,
Barrett. Sioux Falls; Supt. of Juvinile
Instruction, Mrs. X. b. McCleuon, Madi-
sou; secretary, Miss Edna Scott, Madi.
SOB treasurer, DR.. Martin, Sioux Falls
The selection Of the place OF meeting OF
the next grand lodge was left to the
executive committee. BY the pruning
out OF detunct lodges the apparent
membership OF 800 in the state a yeal
ago has been reduced to 434. Finance
ally the order is in better shape than
year ago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
on SERIOUS CHARGES.
principal state, Institutions of Wisconsin
tn BE Investigated.

Principal state, Institutions of Wisconsin
Ia be Investigated.
MILWAUKEE, June ia movement
is being formulated to investigate the
management of nine of the principal
state institutions of Wisconsin on seri-
u charges. Proceedings are already
pending against Superintendent }. u.
Hart Of the industrial school for boys at
Waukesha on charges of drunkenness
and cruelty, and Richard Potherick OF
the state board of control has been
placed i'll temporary charge CT the insti-
tuition. Since these proceedings began,
Lynn 5. Pease, one of the attorneys for
the prosecution, has received letters de-
handing an inquiry into other state i'll
situations, and it is expected that formal
charges will soon be placed in the hands
Of the board of control.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
HANNA AND FORAKER.

Bitter Fight for Control Fac
tions at the Cleveland Primaries.
CLEVELAND. June 1.-THE Repub-
lican primary election for the endorse
ment of NJ. \. Hanna for senator was
one of the most bitterly contested prima-
ries in the history of the city. A fac
tional fight between the Foraker forces.
represented by Mayor Mckisson. and
the Hanna forces has been precipitated
In order t o concentrate their strength
the Hanna forces had placed a legisla-
tive ticket III the field. The slate was
broken by the Foraker men, but the
Legislative delegation nominated will.
however, vote for Mr.. Hanna for United
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
DIR. king'- New Discovery For
COnSump tiOn.

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Free trial bottles at c.. H. Woods drug
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19

Eckels has given nut an abstract OF re-
ports of the condition of the 80 national
banks i'll Minnesota exclusive of Mime.
apolis and ST. Paul. 1t shows total re-
sources Of so, 49>. $40, loans and dis
count a~g-rcGatlng Sl3,244,94l, and re
serve on hand and deposited with re
serve agents II, 19S, l6l. The deposit:
amounted to Sl4,314,3U".
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
CHARGES WERE UNTRUE.
Texas University Investigation Develops
No Objectionable Instruction.

AUSTIN, Tex, June l9.-Several days
ago the Texas Legislature appointed ii
committee to investigate the charge that
Northern professors were engaged ut
the state university and were teaching
the pupils to look with contempt on
Southern traditions. The committee
has made its report after a careful OK
animation, stating that they had found
the report to be wholly untrue, and that
no such teachings We're being introduced
and nothing at all objectionable to
Southern principles was being taught
in the university.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19

BY special request which has been
granted by the sheriff, Col. l.. p. Stone OF
Deadwood, will adjust the moose and
spring the trap which launches into
eternity July IA, the colored man Brown
who murdered his wife. Mr.. Stone has
been especially DESTROYS to see justice
done to the murderer and it was
through his lntercesslon that the negro's
life was saved from lynching.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
SOLDIERS MADE A PROTEST.
Objection to Cleaning House, 1t u Alleged,
Gave Them Thirty Days.

OMAHA, June 49, ". Il. Patrick has
been called to Furg rock to obtain, if
possible, 10y LEGAL process the rclca>" of
five enlisted men who had been SEN
tcuCrG 10 30 days III the guard house for
mutiuV. A~cCurdingtu the story told by
the soldiers who anne up and engaged
the services Of the attorney, the privates
were detailed Il few days ago 70 proceed
to the house Of the company commander
and clean it from top to bottom. The
work was performed under protest, and
when completed the men requested the
privilege Of laying their alleged griev'
anccs before the commanding officer OF
the post. This request, it is claimed,
was refused by the commander. who
sent all the men t. the guard house,
They Were tried by the post court and
sentenced to 80 days III the guard house
and t. forfeit so pay. The men are
all of Company d, Twcnty-Second i'll.
tantry.
1t is the intention Of the attorney tC
commence habeas corpus proceedings IL
the federal court il order to obtain the
release Of his clients. The privatcs at
Fort Crook are-nuch excited over the af
fair
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
Maher Gets a Marriage License.

, I PHILADELPHIA, June -. - Peter
Maher, the pugilist, has made applica-
ton for a license to marry Miss Agnes
Torphey of this city. After the usual
formalities had been disposed of Maher
was handed the license.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-19
THIS Is AN EXCEPTION.
Secretary Sherman sets Himself Right
Regarding Annexation.

WASHINGTON, June l9.-In view of
the fact that false and misleading state
ments have been sent ont from Wash
ington as to Secretary Sherman's posi-
ton on the question of annexation, the
secretary said that as a rule he was OPP
posed to the United States acquiring
outlying territory, but he regarded the
condition of the Hawaiian islands as eX-
ceptional on account of the claim of
japan to these islands. He therefore
approved the treaty making Hawaii a
part of the United States, but not en-
titled to admission as Il state.