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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15
shortened Lives.

pearson's Weekly: Almost all persons die of
disappointment personal mental or bodily Toll
or accident. The passions kill men sometimes
even suddenly. The common expression ''choksd
with rage has little exaggeration in 1t, Tor
even though not always suddenly fatal, strong
passions shorten life
Strong bodied men often die young. and weak
men usually live longer than the strong. for
the strong their strength and the weak
have hardly any to use-the latter take care OF
themselves, the former. do. not. -
AS it is with the body, so it Is with the mind
and the temper-the strong are apt to break,
Or like the candle, run; the weak burn out.
Man, Of all animals is one that -eldom comes
up to the average. He ought to I've 100 years
according to the physiological law. but instead
of that he scarcely reaches average of four
times the growing period. The reason is obvious
man is not only the most irregular and most
Incorporate, bu THE most laborious and hard
working Of all animals.
He is always the most irritable, and there IS
reason to believe, though we cannot tell what
an animal secretly feels, that, more than any
other animal, man cherishes wrath to keep 1t
warm, and consumes himself with the IRE OF
his own reflections.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15
A FAMILY OF GAVE JEWELLERS.

they, nudgeu eacn otner ana the DIGEST
brave in the party laughed aloud, while
two or three Indians with mock ferocity
ran. brandishing their arms, at the gro
tesque .'eouter'' for the ''old Maine" res
taurant in his yellow trousers and tow
wig, who was waving a toy gun and fol-
lowed by his educated pig.
The women laughed and the men
laughed They were almost as jovial as
negroes. Then they returned to the candy
stand They are fond of candy and soda
water, and it is rather shock to see
them pulling cigarettes with intense en-
joyment The Indians now encamped at
Omaha, on the Bluff tract, belong to
number Of tribes. They are, or soon will
be, the peaceful Winnebagoes and the
Omahas the warlike Sioux and the
Apaches, the Sacs and Foxes (whose an
cesters owned all Iowa., the Blackfeet
and Cheyennes, the Piutes and Diggers,
Poncas (the peaceful tribe which never
had the blood of a white man charged to
it, get were despoiled of their homes and
farms more ruthlessly and with less prov
| ocation than the Arcadians were driven
out of the North), the Arapahoes, the
Shoshones, the despised Piutes and the
naughty Seminoles, the Zunis and Moquis
| with their own crude industries, the
immortalized by Cooper, Tonkawas, Cher
okees, Chippewas, Osages, ChoctaWs,
Creeks Umatillas> Yawimas, Bannocks,
Nez Percez. representatives of almost
every great tribal division left in the
United States The encampment is by it.
self on the edge Of a cornfield. Each
| tribe has its little village of wigwams,
teepees or wickiups. There the Indians
live, in the same fashion as they would
live on the plains, except that they have
| no farms to cultivate. They stay q short
| time and give place to others. Meanwhile.
they have their own industries; they make
beadwork and baskets; the Chippewas
frame their birch bark canoes; the Naya-
joes will weave their blankets (alas! they
no longer use their own honest, vegetable.
unfading dyes, but the more convenient
and transitory dyes Of the white man;l
the Zunis will shape their pottery; they
will cook and sew and have their own re-
ligious exercises and sports and games
and ceremonials. Capt. Mercer, Of the
United States army, is in charge. The as
sistant superintendent. Mr.. w. G. Lid
dart, took us over the encampment
among the various tribes. He seemed on
!. the best OF TERMS with them all and toked
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15

arfaDIy WIN me interpreters Inc inter.
prefers themselves spoke English f1uently
with tho average plainsman's independ.
ence In grammar and picturesque meta
phoTs. In general. they seemed to be OF
mixed blood. keen; alert men, quick at a
trade. very civil in their manners, but not
disposed to have their charges made a
snow OF more than was profitable. Some
OF them are men Of property. They are
proud OF their education and their "citi-
Een,s Clothes as they call the white
mans dress. -
Later, When we were watching the war
dance, l heard a man call to one of these
men, Say, Jim, why amt YOU in thai
ring, painted up and dancing?" To which
Jim answered gruff1y: Me! I amt
never been painted in my life, or danced
leither!'' $500
>ihere was war dance in the after
noon, some seven tribes participating. A
splendid spectacle it was. purely as a
spectacle. The braves were in full war
paint displaying truly ghaStly inge-
nulty in their bedizenments. Some of the
braves were as smoothly colored as a
terra Gotta image, others had the pig
ments smeared hideously in streaks and
patches. There was 1.-the creature
whose body was painted white but his
race black. He had very little but paint
ana silver bracelets and feathers on him,
and he smoked a cigarette. Another war
rlor was all in yellow, except for green
cheeks. He wore glasses, and the effect
Of his painted face was indescribable, He
was like one of the creatures in Alice in
Wonderland" A magnificent fellow.
painted light red over his splendid shape,
mad a grimy array of white crosses on
ms face He wore heavy. bracelets and
there were eagle plumes in his black
halr. - With his bare torso and his
trtnged leggings of skin, his paint and his
feathers. he might have stepped out Of
one of Cooper's novels. He had a car
rage as untamed and fine as his figure
l called him Uncas- until saw him blow
mis- nose. Yet, really, I suppose Uncas
chiefs certainly did have handkerchief.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15
INDIANS | At
OMAHA SHOW
OCTAVE THANET DESCRIBES THE
ILL., " CONGRESS OF. TRIBES
Now in Progress Mt the Exposition
Fond Of Candy, Soda Water and
Cigarettes-The War Dance and
the Medicine Dance-Datly Life
and Customs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
to-War'' and His Speech Many
Varieties of Dress--.Living as They
Would ON the Plains.

The savage viewing the flower of civili-
cation. That Is What one may see at
omaha; and the more zone considers it
>he more beWildering, the sadder and the
more interesting in the gravest way is
the spectacle. Tumbled masses of clouds
against the blue caught the sunlight and
the colossal statutes on the buildings
shone like white marble. The gondolas
SKINNED the lagoon. A profusion of vines
made bower out of the shallow curves
OF the colonnades and the banks of the la
COON were dazzling mass of altheas and
cannas. Opposite the beautiful art build
ing stood a little groupgof Indians The
men wore coats roughly shaped out of
gay blankets and calicohshir and moe
caslns The women's black hair was UNI
covered. Their babies were slung on their
backs Men and women and children were
all eating candy. A mixed blood in
terpreter piloted them. They stared with
injurious faces; but, as. they passed over
the bridge on to the VIDE space of the
plaza. u wave OF excitement struck them:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15

anu IL was Impressive to see, MIN as ne
wiped his face with some two yards OF
unbleached cotton. The master of cere-
monies was the champion archer of the
world. The different tribes marched In
and took their places in ring on the
grass They sat, their elbows on their
knees, smoking in silence Slowly the
tribes assembled. While they gathered.
two drums were placed on supports OF
wood and six braves sat around them
beating them and wailing wild and
monotonbus war song. These would give
place to others. Mr.. Liddiart turned to
two pretty Indian girls in civilized dress,
who held themselves and walked like any
young girls. possibly a thought more
gracefully. docs that drum sound
natural?' said he. The Indian girl smiled
and nodded. very said she.
Presently a young Indian in smart
light suit with an. umbrella joined the
girls, to whom he lifted his hat and
bowed and smiled. He held the umbrella
over the nearer girls head. He bent his
head and smiled, showing his white teeth,
and she laughed. And not stones
throw from them were painted braves
who sat on their blankets and re-
membered battle and murder and the
pale faces screams. In one band was a
lad who could not have been more than
| twelve, but he was painted and bedecked
| like the warriors. He sat with his little
pipe stems of arms on his knees putting
| a cigarette with precisely the same
stolid demeanor of the big men to the
i right and left of him. 1t was funny to
see, this mites painstaking Imitation Of a
great braves dignity. When the time
came to dance, he danced and shouted dn
his shrill, childish treble) just as they
did Last of all the Sioux, in war bon
nets and wampum, and the Apaches
| wearing beautiful blankets Of brilliant
hue, filed into the place: They walked
with immense dignity; and no one with
SO much dignity as the last man, who
wore a soft hat stuck with feathers and
proudly wrapped about him q new patch
work quilt. No doubt he felt himself
better dressed than White Buffalo just
| before him, who had magnificent blan-
ket fresh from the dyer, red and blue and
yellow in most cunning patterns.
! The dance promptly began; the drums
beating. the singers singing and the
dancers rushing and leaping into the ring.
They jumped about, at first slowly, then
| with wilder gyrations, swinging their
! harmless Mands. which! they bore n u Ii lieu
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15
A Bird Word in Season.

Chicago Tribune: The first frost of the sea.
son nips not only the flowers of the field,
but the city blossoms which nod en- women g
bonnets as we'll. The season has come when
the shop windows change their conservatory
appearance to that Of an aviary Last fall
there were more ribbons and ostrich plumes
displayed for bonnet decoration than there
were the year before and fewer of the native
and imported song and plumagez birds. The
reason for this was the agitation for bird pro-
lection made by. the Audubon society the
spring previous. When the. protective organ
ization was formed it pointed out dis
tinctly and somewhat sharply as we'll by one
of the charter members that If the birds were
to be saved the society must be. nlantained
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15

permanently anu the .worK kept UP ,unceas-
lngly. Thus far the advice has been needed
and the results have been good The Audu-
bon society in this September season makes
an appeal to all women who are on bonnet
selecting bent to pass by all feathered fnery
no matter how tempting and to choose some
thing for whose decoration no bird life was
sacrificed. The inhibition of course, des not
apply to ostrich pluunes. The belief is that
II the demand ceases the dealers will cease
to buy birds and the pot hunters will find
them occupation gone. The Audubon society
has undertaken a humane and needful work:
The Sresult this year will be watched with in
terest -...r ..-. s.....
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15
ssYou should smoke,

Bismarck's Table Talk: When you enter
on a discussion which may lead to vehement
remarks said Bismarck, 'you should smoke.
= With regard Sto the mental condi-
ton. it does not deprive us of our intellectual
incapacity but it produces state Of kindly re-
pose s. The eye is occupied. the hand
Il engaged, the organ Of smell Is gratihed-
enc is happy In this state one is disposed to
make concessions; and our business-that Of
diplomats ontinually consists In the making
OF mutual concessions" s.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15
Canadian Poets.

Boston Transcript: Canada has supplied the
North American continent with number Of
poets during the past few years. Most Of them
place their verse in the United States, but
1t Is not likely that the joint high commission
at Quebec are spending any Of their secret res.
& tons over this state OF thingA 3 5sts s. s.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15

Memorable March to Khartu,n-
Impressions of an English War
Correspondent Who Is in the
Thick of the Fighting-Many Are
the Trials That Confront War
Correspondents in the Pending
Cnmpaisn-No Easy Matter Even
to Get Started.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15
OF
CROWNED HEADS
FROM ASSASSINATION AND OTHER
DISASTERS.

Fewer European Monarchs Would
Have Been Murdered Had 1t Not
Been for Their Pride and Display
-Rnscals Who Guard Royalty for
EXtraVasant Salaries Fifteen
Hundred PrOtectOrs-Bisma rclk's
Faithful DOs-Czar Guarded by
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Care.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01
Appointed Ensign.

Secretary Long has authorized the
appointment of c. w. Tuttle, Mime
apolis, as ensign in the navy. futile
will be assigned to the torpedo boat
Winslow. and will take the place of
the late Ensign Bagley. He is the son
of General Manager futile, of the
North American Telegraph company,
and has had considerable naval expert
ence. He is % years of age and has
lived in the city of Minneapolis since
he was IL years of age. When I6 years
old he began attending naval school
at Oxford, Md, and remained there
about one year. He afterwards Sc
cured berth in the merchant service
and made trip which included Aus
tralia and the Philippines. The APP
pointment, it is said, was secured
through the joint efforts of Senator
Davis and Congressm Fletcher
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01

special dispatch from Madrid Thurs
day. Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria is said to have strongly advised
the queen regent to prepare to fly, and
her mother, who is now at Madrid, is
reported to have given her the same adj
vice; but it is added, the queen regent
is determined to remain.
Continuing, the dispatch says:
''The defeat of the Spanish fleet,
which the best informed people regard
as only a question of few days, is
bound to precipitate an outbreak.
Madrid, May 27.-According to Ell
Epoca, the conservative organ, the cab
met council Thursday, the queen re-
gent presiding, discussed three points
in the proposed note to the powers
the manner of the bombardments by
the American squadron, the alleged use
of the Spanish flag by the Americans at
Guantanamo and the cutting of inter-
national cables by the Americans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01
A LAST LOOK.
Gladstone as They Lie In
State at Westminster.

London, May 27.-Remarkably i'm
pressive scenes were witnessed at
Westminster from two o'clock in the
morning, when the arrivals commenced
of those anxious 10 view the remains of
Mr.. Gladstone. The line formed was
continually augmented by all classes
of people, from peers, cabinet min
listers, members of the house of
commons, military and naval officers,
and clergymen to costermongers, old
and young, until at six o'clock, when
the doors were opened, the procession
commenced to stream past the cata-
falque. The latter had lighted can
dies at each corner and large gilt
cross at its head.
BY ten o'clock it was computed that
100 persons to the minute were passing
the body, and at noon over 10000 peo-
pie had already taken last glance at
the remains of the great statesman.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the
liberal leader in the house of commons,
who arrived at noon, was greatly
moved.
AS the afternoon advanced, the I'M
ending stream heightened. About 1000
policemen were engaged in guiding the
people, and by three o'clock $4,000 peo-
pie had passed the coffin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01
THE STARS AND BARS.
Some Diverting History of the Flag
Adopted by the Con-
federacy.

The flag of the confederacy, or,
rather, the flags of the confederacy, had
some curious bits of history attached to
their brief existence. On March 5, 1861,
the provisional confederate congress
recommended that "the flag of the con-
federate states of America shall consist
of red field, with white space extend
ing horizontally through the center,
and equal in width to one-third the
width of the flag.
"The red spaces above and below to
be of the same width as the white. The
union, blue, extending down through
the white spaces and stopping at the
lower red space; in the center of the
union a circle of white stars CORE
spending in number with the states of
the confederacy." IT was first dis
played in public March 4, 1861, the day
of the Inauguration of Lincoln, and
was unfurled over the state house at
Montgomery, Ala.
On the battlefield the flag bore such
a similarity to the union flag that in
September, 1861, for the army of the
Potomac, Gems. Beauregard and john
ston created what afterward became
known as the battle fag-a red ground
with blue diagonal cross emblazoned
with white stars, one for each state.
This form was adopted by all of the
troops east of the Mississippi river. The
first design bearing the objection of
resemblance to the stars and stripes,
and the battle flag having no reverse,
the confederate senate, in April, 1863,
adopted white flag, with broad blue
bar in its center; amended by inserting
the, battle flag design as the union, with
plain white ground for the field. This
arrangement afterward proved faulty,
as at distance the large white field
resembled flag of truce, also as COM
bined with the union was similar to the
English white ensign.
On February 4, 1865, the confederate
senate adopted third change-"The
width, two-thirds of it's length; with
the union, now used as battle flag, to
be in width three-ffths of the width of
the flag, and so proportional as to leave
the length of the field on the side of the
union twice the width below it; to have
a ground of red, and broad blue saltier
thereon, bordered with white and en-
blazoned with mullets or fve-pointed
stars corresponding in number to that
Of the confederate states. The field to
be white, except the outer half from the
union, which shall be red bar, extend
ing width of the fag."-Ohio Valley
Manufacturer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01
Getting Ready.

Preparatory work for the next Mn
nesota state fair is now being actively
pushed. Premium lists, entry blanks
and other material is being sent out in
large quantities from the secretary's
Office, and carpenters, painters and
laborers are at work upon the grounds
and buildings. When it is remembers
that the grounds comprise 200 acres
and that there is over 800. 600 square
feet of floor space in the various build
ings, the necessity for the beginning
work early and pushing it actively
will be readily understood. This year
no state fair in the country will excel
in exhibition and amusement features
the one in Minnesota.
One of the departments now receiv-
ing special attention and which, as
heretofore, will be made especially
strong, is the cattle departments. The
premiums are liberal and conprehen-
sive. In addition to those offered by
the society, the Hereford CATTLE B eed-
ers association offered $500 in special
premiums; the Shorthorn Cattle Breed
ers association offers to duplicate pre-
miums won by the shorthorns in COM
petition with other breeds, and other
breeders associations are announcing
similar offers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01
OMAHA EXPOSITION.
The Directors Decide to Open the
Gates Sunday Afternoons
and Nights.

Omaha, Neb., May 27.-By vote of
"a to IL the directors of the Transmits
sissippi exposition have decided to keep
open the gates of the exposition on
Sunday from one p. m. to ten p. m. In
Difference to the wishes of some of the
religious people in Omaha and else
where it was decided, after long de-
bate, to close during the forenoon. 1t
was suggested that the midway should
be closed, but this was considered i'm
practicable and the natter was finally
settled by the adoption of the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That the exposition grounds
and buildings be kept open on Sundays
from one p. m. to ten p. m, and conducted
in the same manner as on week days, ex-
cept that the sale of liquors be not per-
mitted; that concerts be given, and that re-
ligious services be held in the auditorium
on Sunday afternoons"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Camp Expenses All Paid.

The state of Minnesota has paid
Camp Ramsey's expenses to the amount
Of $4,000. So. with some bills yet tc
hear from. Vouchers of these dis.
bursements will be made up for REIN.
bursement by the authorities at Wash
ington.
The annual appropriation for the ma
tional guard is $40, 900, but the state is
not limited to that sum in this case.
BY law of 1897, which came very
timely, the entire revenue fund of the
state is available for war purposes in
emergencies. Gen. Muehlberg can
draw on the treasurer for every cent
he can scrape up, and the drafts will
it an emergency. Whether the orig
inal appropriation for the national
guard would be considered untouched
when the money was spent, as in this
case, for ends outside of the guard,
would be another question.
The pay roll is the biggest item. The
companies drew amounts ranging
from $3.50 to $3.50, and the total is $751;
292. 20. There is also 81, 121 for music
and 5000 for the examining physicians,
making a total of $22, 614.36 for wages.
Blankets and bed ticking cost &c.
036.77. For the uniforms that were
supplied at camp the bill was $9s7. 60.
Three thousand men got away with
25,941 one-pound loaves of bread, so
far as the bills show. at a cost of ST.
1905 80. Their meat bill came to ST.
493. 6s, and other provisions footed up
ST., TIC. s3. That is over SIS. 400 for board.
not counting $596.25 for the wood for
bivouac, making almost exactly Sc, 600
for their cuisine.
The bills for feed and so on amount
ed to 1929, but a good deal of that
should be charged to bedding, as the
men and not the horses used it.
The three medicine chests at cost
of about $3.50 for each regiment, amount
to So, 261.15.
There is an item of $472. 10 for 456
tents. Only one bill of transportation
appears, and that is S264.51.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01

Two children, boy aged nine years
and a girl aged eleven years, were
burned to crisp, and two others, aged
four and six, a girl and boy, were
so badly burned that they cannot live.
1t is not known how the fire originated,
but the firemen. suspect that it was
caused by the explosion of lamp in
an incubator. Richter and his wife
and nine small children occupied sleep
ing apartments on the second floor.
The children were first aroused before
an alarm had been given. Seven man
aged to escape, five of them uninjured,
but two were fatally burned. Richter
and wife escaped by jumping through a
window, the former having his arm
so badly cut by glass that he came near
bleeding to death.