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The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
Friday. February

In the house yesterday the members
seemed to be troubled with a lethargy
hard to shake off. The session opened
with a long list of reports OF standing
committees which were disposed OF
quickly to permit the members 10 re-
solve themselves into the committee of
the whole to consider a bill permitting
the use of voting machines. The mem
bers did not fully understand the
and were inclined to be Curl
Gus about a great many OF it's pro-
visions. so IL was recommittcd to the
committee on privileges and elections
to have some of its Objectionable feat
ures removed.
The afternoon session was devoted
entirely to the discussion of Pollard's
revenue bill. When the order vas
reached, having been set on a previous
day, the members one by one drifted
away TO committee work till on Sew
eral occasions there was scarcely a
quorum i'm attendance. The voting was
spiritless and several members de-
clared that the lack OF interest was
merely an expression of what would
be done to the bill further on in the
session.
Before the hodse adjourned, Burns
of Lancaster moved hat the governor
be empowered to cable to Manila or to
the Third regiment at Havana when
ever he deemed 1t necessary to do so.
The house agreed. Mr.. Burns explain.
ed that it was the desire that the
graves of the Nebraska dead be KEEP,
| marked &c permit their remains being
brought home at some later time and
the governor would cable such instruc'
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
The Legislative Committee.

The Legislative committee began
work Saturday in Auditor Cornell's
private Office.
The mn in which the members
Of the committee put the questions to
the witnesses was striking in its
searching directness. They showed
no desire to spare Cornell's feelings by
not making their questions as plain as
possible. On the other hand, Mr.. Cor
nell goes over every reply fully and
with an evident desire to facilitate tho
work of the committee. The short
session held Saturday morning was a
surprise to everyone in the real pro-
gress made. Tn, committee is al
ready in possession of almost all tho
papers and documents required, and
those still lacking have been called for
and will be produced as soon as they
can be. Mr.. Cornell willingly turned
over everything In his office, even to
private letter books and private let
ters. The committee put in the after
noon looking over these and other doc
uments, but declined TO make public
the result of that part Of the iuvesti-
cation. The taking of oral testimony
was conducted openly by the commit
tee.
Mr.. Cornell appeared and was sworn
by Chairman. Prout. Questions were
put to him by Representative Fisher.
lie first gave from memory n list Of
the employees of his Office. both those
employed at present and those ut any
time working in the Office. lie was re-
quested by the committee TO furnish
rs soon as possible a list of all persons
ever employed in the Office and the
amount OF money they were paid for
their services, and promised to do SO.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
SATURDAY., February Is.

The house listened first to a petition
from Norfolk, asking for the passage
of Jansen's pure food bill. Reports of
standing committees followed and a
number of bills were reported. House
roll AL, n joint resolution favoring
withdrawing the army from the Phil
ippines was recommended for post
popement. The recommendation
brought about an animated discussion,
but the report was adopted, the vote
being so yeas, 80 nays.
A rather remarkable occurrence was
the refusal of Charles Smith Of North
Bend TO accept the assistance of the
house in n financial way for medical
attendance upon his son who was in
jured on charter day while the legis-
lature was present at the university
gymnasium. Thompson of Merrick
introduced n resolution commencing
Mr.. Smith for the stand taken.
At the afternoon session the house
went into committee of the whole to
consider house roll SO, amendatory of
the present ballot law, to do away
with blanket provisions and emblems.
Republicans believed n change was
needed. Fusionists considered the
present law good enough. A motion
TO postpone the bill was lost, and IL
was recommended for passage. The
committee rose and the house adopted
its report.
The house adjourned to Saturday
morning.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
Monday, February 10.

The senate met Saturday with n
bare quorum present. Ii resolved
itself into committee of the whole and
considered curative measures only,
and a number were passed upon.
A motion to adjourn to Monday was
opposed by Talbot, who wanted a
joint session even IL the house were
not In session. Van Dusen said the
legislature was not in session and no
3oipt convention could be held. Be-
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
To SEQ Shooting stsrs.

Sir Robert Ball. the eminent astron-
omer. told an audience the other night
that any n who took the trouble to
lie on his back On the ground and gaze
at a clear night sky would. as his
eyes became accustomed to the heav-
ems. o perceive NUMBERS Of shoot.
Ing stars.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24

read very rapidly add only on one or
two propositions was there discussion.
The manner OF printing the delinquent
tax list was not changed from the
present law.
Mr.. Pollard moved that the bill be
recommended for passage. Mr.. Mann
moved that IL be indefinitely post
poned, Halter OF Washington second
ing the motion. Debate was had.
The motion TO postpone was lost, n
the bill was recommended TO pass.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
In CouatantinopIe.

The Grand Vizier-"There Is talk OF
unseating Congressman-elect Roberts,
Of Utah, because he is a polygamist."
the Sultan-"This is an indirect reiec-
ton on me. BY the Beard OF the
Prophet! I feel like sending them an
Puck.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
Author and Critic,

Stubs. your new novel is splendid.
It Is written In a crisp style and is
lnterlarded with flashes Of wit" "Grea,
Scott! That sounds as II you had been
brought up In a bakery and were de.
scrtbing piecrust."-Chicaso Record.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24

The Odd Fellows Of Tecumseh have
decided to erect for use a brick block
saxl0o and two stories high.
York and Dakota City are two Me-
braska towns that are enjoying build.
ing booms.
In the supervisor contest in Judge
Skipton's court at Geneva, a recount
OF the ballots in Glengary precinct re-
vealed the fact that the election board
had counted correctly and that Rhola
republican, was actually elected by a
majority OF three rs certified by the
canvassing board. This ends the FIJI
more county contests.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
Great Britaia's ssaooast Line.

Great Britain has a longer seacoast
line than any other country In Europe.
II measures 2.775 miles. with Italy seq
ond. ?.472 miles, Russia ranks third and
France fourth
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24

fore putting tho motion TO adjourn,
Northumberland Gilbert said he
rather favored Mr.. Talbots idea that
IL was the ~scnate's duty 10 go over to
tho house, but the motion to adjourn
carried.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24

Patience is all right in its place.
Out II ID better to back tenacity to win.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-02-24
Monday, February go.
Tneadnx. Eehrunrx 81.

The house was not in session Satur-
day.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27
Charms OF Christmas Island,

Christmas Island, in the Indian
Ocean, is curious place, according to
the description of Mr.. Charles W. An
drews, an Englishman, who recently
visited it. The island is entirely COW
cred with forests, except on the verti-
cal faces of the cliffs, and ferns and
creepers beautify it's scenery. The eli
mate is delightful all the year round,
but some of the inhabitants are not so
pleasing. Among these are swarms of
rats and many varieties of land crabs.
The robber crab abounds, and when
Mr.. Andrews sat down for a short
time anywhere in the forest numbers
of~these crabs could be seen approach
ing. They readily climb trees in
search of food. About 40 people now
live on Christmas Island, which has
been found to be well suited for coffee.
growing.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27
A Chinese Silt Dance.

Stilt-dancing appears to be popular
i'm the town of Newchang, in China,
The stilters walk, or rather hop or
dance, along the streets, with gay BAN
ners flying and innumerable drums
and tom-toms beating. The stilters
dance the most fantastic steps, whirl-
ing and waving their arms in the
wierdest manner Imaginable The
French and British officials RECENTLY
appointed to decide the east frontier
line Of Dahomey on coming to Meko
met with a very enthusiastic reception.
On the day of their arrival they saw
an immense crowd advance dancing.
singing and turning in groups around
individuals, perched upon stills. It
was fetish dance on stills, and the
dancers, with yelled faces and dressed
in costumes made OF coarse fabric and
straw, like that used for making the
mats Of the country. rushed to one side
and the other, and made believe to
charge upon the crowd. which at eyery
step gave way, singing, gesticulatine
and continually provoking the fetish
stiltsmen.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27
IrvfnEs's Health and wealtb.

!. may mention on authority, writes
Arnold White from London to Har-
per's Weekly, that the rumors in cir
cIsntion about Sir Henry Irving's
financial position and ill-health are
destitute of foundation. The sale of
the Lyceum theater and of Sir Henry's
acting rights in certain plays to a linn
tied company has been accomplishe led,
He is now hard at work at Margate
studying the book Of Sardou's new
play, which is to be produced at Easter.
Sir Henry Irving is the only living
actor who has received honorary de-
grees at the university Of Cambridge
and Dublin. He is about to have con-
ferred upon him the doctors degree
of Glasgow university.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27
CuTTA-PERC SCARCE.
Difficult to Get Enough for Pacific
Cable.

In connection with the Pacific cable
a very interesting question arises, says
the Engineering Magazine. From
where is the guttapercha for this gil
gantic cable to come? Every whisper
of the construction of a transpacifo
line sends the gutta-percha market at
Singapore up by leaps and bounds. The
ruling price of the gum is the highest
that has ever obtained. 1t is stated,
on what authority it is hard to say,
that the visible supply of gutta-percha
is insufficient for the task, and that ii
this cable is laid it will be the last-the
last with gutta-percha insulation at
least.
While this pessimism on the part OF
the gutta-percha producers savors
somewhat of a desire to stiffen the
market, there is yet sufficiently rea-
sonable foundation for it in the wanton
destruction of the gutta-percha forests.
1t will be interesting to see the out
come of the situation. If the United
States acquires an island in the Caro-
lines the building of the cable line
seems possible. though expensive. II
they do not find a landing place the
operation of the cable seems to require
a prohibitively costly plant And
meanwhile there is the question of the
disappearing gutta- percha tree. -
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They Are Rapidly Developing Intelligence and
Learn to Pick Cotton ii the Southland

1t was surprising how fast the mon
keys learned to pick cotton. Baskets
ito hold the cotton were placed at each
end Of the rows, and one man besides
the. trainer was necessary to take the
cotton out Of the sacks and put it in
the baskets provided. eEzs. ~
The female monkeys. proved much
better pickers than the. males. For
they not only picked cleaner cotton,
but they also picked more of it in a
day than did the males. In less than
a month after the. twenty monkeys
were started they could pick 300
pounds Of seed cotton a day. They
picked in z weather. when negroes
would not have picked, and always a
cleaner grade of cotton. The cost of
picking was, of course, infinitely less.
ST This first experiment proved to Mr..
Mangum that monkeys could, be, used
with great success as cotton pickers.
So, in June, 1898, he gave an order for
500 monkeys Of the same breed to an
exporter Of monkeys from Africa, with
the understanding that the greater
part of them we're to be- females.
About the first Of September of this
year the new batch Of monkeys ar
rived, and the services of the old train
ser were again engaged to train the
new lot. But this was not such an
easy task as was at first imagined, for
many Of the monkeys were wild and
untamable at first. Finally, with the
aid of the twenty. old monkeys, who
were of great assistance, and great
deal of harsh punishment and of re-
ward, the new gang of monkeys was
trained by the middle of last October.
Cotton planters throughout the
South have watched the experiment
with great deal of interest. Many
have visited the plantation near
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27

monkeys are sent into the field, their
vociferous chattering may consist Of
the most picturesque swear words, and
nobody is the wiser. 1t cannot be
pleasant to feel that your farm hands
may be swearing at you, while you in
your ignorance calmly listen to them.
There should be large sale for "Sim-
ian Language Without a Master
throughout the cotton belt.
Whether they will continue indus
trious and hardworking, as at pres
ent, after they are able to voice their
complaints into an understanding ear,
and whether they will form unions of
cotton pickers which all must join or
be boycotted, are problems for the fu-
ture to solve. They now are decidedly
useful workers, and when they have
further developed they may shine in
society. 49, - ~
Scores Of them have been working
on the plantation of W. w. Mangum
in Mississippi since the fall Of 1897.
Mangum attended the Vicksburg fair
in 1896 with Professor S. M. Tracey,
anu WdCCACuTIAO& dAtACoc Vi d uU1uUSl
of trained monkeys who were per-
forming various tricks under the STU
pervision of their trainer. y !
LAS sure as you're alive, Mangum, .
said Professor Tracey, "those mon
keys can be taught to pick cotton bet
ter and far more zche4ply than our ne
groes do, and perpetual fame will bs
the part of the man who tries the ex-
pertinent and finds it ia success
Mangum laughed at the suggestion,
but the more his friend talked to hin,
about the matter the more inclined he
was to try the experiment. In Sen
TENDER, 1897, he hunted up the owner
and trainer Of twenty trained mon
keys in New York city and made ar
rangements both to buy the morkeys
and to get the services of their train
err, who assured him that it would he
the simplest thing Imaginable to teach
the monkeys to pick cotton. .=
3 COL CUT S=.=2
! The training was at once tegnn
The males weigh about 10 uunfls
and the females average 80 1Ihunfls
each in weight. Bags were male for
each monkey that would hold t3entv-
five pounds Of cotton, and bal. was
placed over each monkeys shdll a..
-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27
Explorations in Iceland.

T.. Thoroddsen has completed the ex-
ploration Of Iceland, to which he has
given up his vacations for the past Is
years. He will now write a full &C.
count of the results of his labors,
which will be published with his map
of Iceland. For years his articles on
iceland have been in great demand,
and he is regarded as an authority on
the inner parts of Iceland. In the Is
years which he has spent exploring
Iceland he has visited every nook and
corner, found hundreds of lava fields
and glaciers and traced all thee in.
dentations OF the coast line, and in
| valleys scooped out Of tough basalt
has discovered deep lakes, one of the
lakes being 100 feet above the sea lev
ell and it's bottom is 275 feet below the
level of the ocean. In the Is years he
has travelled over 5000 miles among
| the sandy level wastes. It is not sur
| prising that the exploration of inner
Iceland has been left so long, as the
field was so small and far away that
| explorers thought they might win
greater laurels in other parts of the
| world in which the public was more
deeply interested. Travel in Iceland is
particularly difficult, owing to the fact
that large areas of lava-strewn land
are destitute of verdure, and Mr.. Tho
roddsen has often been compelled to
carry fodder for his horses for many
| days at time. There are no roads
and the summer season, which is the
only time when travel is possible, is
short. He has discovered scores of
crater lakes scattered all through the
interior. Many eraters that help to
cover the surface of Iceland with lava
have become the receptacles for the
drainage from the mountains. We are
all familiar with photographs of the
moon showing the parched expanse of
| rock pitted deeply with great numbers
| of craters. The iceland explorer thinks
that the country around Vatna Jokull
would be terrestrial counterpart of
the surface of the moon were it not
for the atmosphere and the water of
| greenish tinge that fills two-thirds of
/ the yawning cavities.
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Monkeys are developing intelligence
rapidly along some lines of human
endeavor and soon may become such
factor that labor unions will have to
recognize in them a formidable ele-
ment in the sphere Of manual labor.
The tangled forests of Darkest At
RIGA, which, is the early. days of the
nation, supplied the Southern planter
with slaves to cultivate his cotton
fields and to gather his crops, have
again been drawn upon by the farmer,
whose ingenuity lis equally great,
whether he devotes his energies to the
manufacture Of wooden nutmegs in
Northern states or OF liquid moonshine
in the South This time the demand
is for monkeys-good able-bodied
monkeys, who shall be equal to- a
heavy4day's work in the cotton fields.
For that is the scheme which the willy
Southerner has planned, >and which he
has found to be practicable. He will
set monkeys at work picking his cot
ton crop, according to; our veracious
correspondent in Vicksburg And why
n~e' E!SAoEAhoyo lave ueeHE uStustA SOAne3
parts ofsSAsia to fetch and carry and
they. learn rapidly all that is required
OF them. S> zs<e + =: @ -.
It is difficult to say just how the in
PRODUCTION Of monkey labor will affect
the poor negroes who hitherto have
done the work. Perhaps they will say
We, are ruined by cheap monkey labor
And they'll go for that heather mon=
key. @>s.Y,7>' ,e ~ r. S
That is, if the negroes dignity will per-
nit him to recognize a competitor in
our lowly simian relative. II
The value of Professor Gamers dis
:overy is now demonstrated. Every
planter will wish to learn the mon
Keys language. At present, when the
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~.
thoroughly brushed inside D and out.
and all untidy braid or lining removed
from the bottom When ready spread
j It on the table, and carefully sponge it
over with the ivy water.
It must then be wrung out dry, when
sit will be found TO have recovered its
former color and to look quite like
new. t5s z5 4, .5
Black silk may be cleansed in the
same manner, but needs more care.
{ II the silk is in breadths it must be
lightly sponged and then tightly rolled
over q cloth wound roller and then
left to dry. IS. e NJ ass
Black. lace may also be renovated
when ssoiled or Drowned with age by
sponging it with ivy water and then
rolling it over cloth wound round a
. roller. It should not be ironed. IS >
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27
MONKEY SlA YES FROM AFRICAN FORESTS.
port q thousand more monkeys from
Africa, and he desires other planters
t.. join with him in importing a lot
of them. f.
HORSE FLESH AS FOOD.
Highly-valued Article OF Dict in the
u ~ NJ Argentine Pampas. 55s. %

HighIy-valued Article OF Dict in the
T.. ~ N Argentine Pampas. s
sss< Long before starving Paris opened
horsemeat shops, during the German
siege, it#was known. that the .barbaric
ancestors of the Teutons, who were
laundering att the gates Of the French
capital, regarded horsefesh as dain-
ty not, to be despised. They did not
change their opinion until long after
they had been. converted to Roman
Catholicism and really gave UP horse
meat only upon compulsion, after one
Of the Bonifaces had declared that
Catholics should not eat horse flesh,
and exerted every energy to stamp out
practice which he characterized as a
misuse of the horse A century
later, however, it is said that the
monks of St. Gallen still relished the
flesh Of the wild horse and partook of
it whenever the opportunity offered.
The horse has never been pronounced,
like the hog, an unclean animal, but it's
use for food is prohibited both to the
Jews and Moslems, and the ground for
this prohibition has never been made
clear. Still, Burckhardt wrote in 1881
that an Arab sheik who had no food
to place before his white guest killed
his. only horse to provide his table.
The Tartars of Russia used the horse
as one of their common articles of
food at least as late as the early part
of the last century, and it affords to-
day the chief and most highly priced
article of diet to the Indians of the
Argentine pampas. The horse as an
article of food is therefore nothing
new. There is no doubt also that horse
flesh has been a boon among laborers
in some parts of Europe, who need
concentrated and highly nourishing
food, but can seldom afford to buy beef.
Whether, however, there is the slight
est ground for the prejudice against
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27
The Ideal Female Arm.

ct find great difficulty in getting a
model with good arms said a we'll
known sculptor. recently. 1t is as
tonishing how few women there are
with arms that conform to the stand
ard. A perfect arm, measured from
the wrist joint to the armpit, should
be twice the length of the head. The
upper part OF the arm should be large,
full and well rounded. There should
be a dimple at the elbow The fore
arm must not be too fiat, not nearly
so fiat as a mans, for instance. Prom
a well-molded shoulder the whole arm
should taper in long, graceful curves
to well-rounded wrist"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-27

Smedes, to see the monkeys at their
work. On the big plantation the rows
were filled with monkeys, each with
her little cotton sack about her neck,
picking away quietly and orderly and
| without any rush or confusion.
| AS fast as the monkeys got their
sacks full they would run to the end
of the row, where man was stationed
to empty the contents Of the sacks
into baskets. Then the monkeys would
scamper back along the row and would
Immediately resume their work. The
monkeys seemed actually to enjoy
picking. Each monkey was protected
from the rays of the sun while picking
by cotton cap, which was tied under
it's chin with a piece of string. :
Mr.. Magnum is enthusiastic over
the success of his experiment. "The
Introduction Of monkeys as cotton
pickers means more to the South"
said he, not long ago, than a cotton
picking machine; for the monkeys are
success as pickers. while the ma
chimes, SO far, have been failures. The
monkeys are in every way superior
to negroes as pickers. In the first
place, the cost of picking is about one
third. Then they are far more care
ful than negroes and pick a finer grade
Of cotton. Even during the rainy fall,
when all other cotton was Of low
grade, that picked by the monkeys Of
my plantation was all middling And
that cotton sold for more than one
half a cent more than that which was
picked by the negroes. In fact, be-
lieve that the discovery that monkeys
can be taught to pick cotton is the
greatest that has been made for the
cotton planter since Whitney discoy-
cred the cotton gin.
People around here laughed at me
! when first tried 10 teach monkeys
to pick cotton, as they always do when
a man tries anything new. But now
that my experiment has proved to be
a success, my neighbors are wild
about it. The negroes around the
/ plantation have sworn that they
would kill the monkeys. They haven't
done SO vet, however, and 81 appre-
bend no great danger in that direc-
tion.''
This fall Mr. Mangum intends to im-