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Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
rLAsTs FROM RAM's HORN.

There are no churches dying from the ex-
haustion OF lberality.
To build society without God is making
bricks without mortar.
Get your heart right ana It will be easy
to manage your tongue
Drinking to drown ones misery is put
ting out fire with oil.
Pride and Fashion are the task masters
who make bread-wnning slavery.
The faults Of good man are more dan
gerous than the vices of a thoroughly bad
one.
The bible is no more confined to the
theologian than the stars are to the as
tronomer. .....
The man who talks most about the diff
cultes of faith, takes the absurdties Of So
called science at a swallow.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

This fatty contradicts the assertion
that there are not so many travelling
men to be seen now as during the Nc
Kinley campaign.
In its blind rage against prosperity
the local organ of calamity makes this
broader statement:
thousands Of bookkeepers, accountants
clerks and foremen, who shouted for Nc
kinley in 1896, are now realizing that the
prosperity which they predicted for all has
skipped them.
That this also is Il fiction wrought in
the fertile imagination of our con-
temporary is shown by the following
table giving the number of employees
other than travelling statesmen in the
same establishments at the same
periods:
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

One by one the countries of Central
and South America are breaking away
from the silver standard, Costa Rica
being the latest. During the recent
trip of the president of that country
to the United States and Europe he Sc
cured gold sufficient to provide for the
redemption of the present deprecated
currency and the single gold standard
will be firmly established in Costa Rica
at no distant day.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

A convention of the referees in bank
ruptcy for the district of Nebraska has
been called to meet in Omaha the com
ing week. A convention of the patrons
of the bankruptcy referees would make
II more numerous gathering, although
hardly likely to prove profitable guests.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Every new order issued by the Ameri-
can authorities in Cuba acts on the
people there like throwing a cake of
Is n violent eruption which the unni-
tiated might think was going to turn
the world inside out, but when the
world refuses to turn the geyser settles
down until the next test Is made.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Rev. DEAFNESS of Cincinnati will find
himself sadly out of tune with the SEN
timent of this nation in declaring that
uniformed men are disgrace to the
country. Men honestly differ in their
views as to the policy of territorial eX-
pansion, but the man who fails to do
honor to the sacrifices and bravery of
the American soldier, both volunteer
and regular, is unworthy the protection
the laws of the land, backed up by
men in uniform, afford him.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

ating cable. If the United States
should build cable to Hawaii the
problem might he reduced, so far as the
Australian governments are concerned,
to building simply connection from
Australia to Hawaii. The Pacific cable
question is one fast assuming intcrna-
tional Importance, and its solution will
require the united action of all inter
estcd partics
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

The First Nebraska regiment has at
last secured the rest it has so well
earned. In the neighborhood of 400
men, all that remain of an effective
force belonging to the organization, have
taken the cars for Manila. AS they
will be one of the first regiments TO
be sent to the United States, ii is alto
gether likely that the men have seen
the last of their fighting and no more
will fall victims to Filipino bullets.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

conference are coming in for very COM
plimcntary notices in the foreign press
and they unquestionably rank with the
ablest members of the conference. This
is another tribute to the prudence of
President Mckinley, who has shown re-
markably good Judgment in selecting
American diplomatic representatives
ever since he entered the White House.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

The trouble with the Cuban troops
is explained on the theory that the
Cuban soldier looks upon the exchange
of his gun for $40 in American coin as
an ignominious transaction. He should
be reminded that if he tries to hook it
in any ordinary place for advancing
money he would not realize one-fourth
TINT 1ipnrn
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Whenever a partyof explorers goes into
the Arctic regions the rest of the world
searching for them or endeavoring to
find their remains. 1t will take several
years more before we shall stop search
ing after Prof Andres balloon.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

The Baxter committee, which is in
vcstigating the wickedness of Chicago,
claims to have made the discovery that
n number of Chicago saloons have been
running wide-open all night. This in
formation will surprise most Chica-
goans, who labored under the impres-
sion that all Chicago saloons were ac-
cessible at all hours of the night or day.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

The proposed wholesale drug trust
Is the most modest of any yet pro-
Jected. The combined capital Of the
concerns to be taken in Is $17,0OO,OOO,
and the trust proposes to issue only
$45,000,000 worth of stock. This leaves
only $2S,000,000 of bottled water in the
stock, which is much less than the pro-
portion of aqua in ordinary prescrip-
tions
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

With $226,0OG,OOO of gold coin in the
United States treasury nobody at this
time is propoundng the conundrum
whether there is gold enough to keep
up the single gold standard.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Members of the old Nicaragua canal
commission expect to be reappointed to
the new interoceanic commission which
is to make careful inspection of the
Panama route. Inasmuch as these
commissioners have already reported
against the Panama route without in
spection there would be little likelihood
of them reporting in its favor after in
spection
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

New YORK PRESS.
He loved flowers, but he hated botany"
is bit of eulogy of a dead Massachusetts
millionaire that will awake responsive
echo in many a pulsating heart these beau
tiful spring days. Academic courses are not
necessarily essential to an overwhelming ap-
probation of the glories of nature.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

JOHN Boyle Kelly.
"What is the real good?"
] asked in musing mood.
"Order," said the law court:
knowledge" said the school;
Truth" said the wise man;
pleasure, said the fool;
Love" said the maiden;
Beauty" said the page:
Freedom, said the dreamer;
Home" said the sage:
Fame" said the soldier;
Equity" the seer.
Snake my heart full sadly:
The answer is not here"
Then within my bosom
Softly this ] heard:
Each heart holds the secret;
Kindness Is the word"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Having enjoyed the experience of
learning how few people were willing to
help him get rich, Andrew Carnegie is
now finding out how many there are
who are willing and anxious to help
him get poor.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
Coming Bursts of Bloom.


Only short time now and the roses. the
strawberries, the June bride and the sweet
girl graduate will come in one lovely burst
of bloom upon a world which deserves
prompt determination if it can then think of
anything but its accumulated blessings
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

The new union railway station pro-
jected for Buffalo, n. V, has been
planned at an estimated cost of $6,OO0,-
600. And Buffalo, by the way, has
fewer railroads to accommodate than
has omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

If Secretary Alger proposes to deny
each and every fake set ahoat concern
ing his alleged differences with army
officers he will find little time for busi-
ness and the newspapers will find little
space for anything else than the secre-
tary's corrections.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

UhlcaSO Post.
Dom Paul certainly has not lost the knack
of making things decidedly interesting in
South Africa.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

And now the Navy department pro-
poses to solicit recruits from the great
central west. Until the breaking out
of the late war practically all of the
men in the naval service came from
the seaboard, but when men were
wanted in hurry they were taken
from any place they could be secured
1t also required such an event to
awaken interest in the navy among
western people, many of whom never
saw a war ship. While the man from
the prairies and the mountains did not
know much about sea navigation he
was apt and willing and showed the
stuff to make as fine sailor as the
one born and reared in the odor of salt
water. The great inland states are
proud of the navy and will doubtless
be quick to accept the opportunity to
furnish some of the Drawn needed to
man 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
Hard Work, Little Glory.

T IITIiUVTIIIIItI INVVUTU.
Private and uncensored letters from the
soldiers in the Philippines tell sickening
stories of the hardships endured in fighting
the insurgents. That war involves an i'm
mense amount of hard fighting and very
little glory.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

The great powers are still hard at
work trying to agree upon receiver
ship for China with the usual emolu-
ments for receivers and the spoliation
of the bankrupt
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

The Turks characterize the bicycle
as the devils chariot" In that event
the sultan is clearly entitled to the front
seat on the tandem.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
Troubles of m Reformer.

PhlIadeIDhla Ledger.
Gomez must be a genuine reformer. He
seems to be disliked by one party and dis
trusted by the other.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Dewey has started on his homeward
trip. 1t will be advisable for him TO
lay in n good supply of nerve tonic en-
route, for he will need it.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

A Boston paper says the flag is a
mere fabric combining three colors.
Very true, but they are fast colors that
do not run.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
STATEMENT or CIRCULATION.

State of Nebraska, Douglas County, S.:
@ aorge b. Tz5chuck secretary of The Bee
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number Of full ana complete
copies Of The Daily Morning, Evening and
Sunday Bee. printed during the month OF
Aprll. 1899, was as follOMs.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
DOMESTIC IDyLS.

Judge: Jaggles-Marriage is the one union
where a man should never go on a strike.
Waggles-Thats So If he does he'll find
himself locked out by his wife.
indianapolis Journal; Robbers wedding
was the elimination of romance. He met
'Iie did? why doesn't he sue the COM
pany?"
Chicago Post: "I propose" he began; but
she promptly interrupted him.
Am l to regard this as a proposal or a
proposition she asked,
Harlem Life: She-Indeed, it's not an
easy thing for a girl to get a husband.
He-Why, pretty girl can make her
choice of four out of every five men she
meets.
she-But it's the fifth that she wants.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: George, you'n
have to try to catch a cold"
"Why, my love?"
Because I'm just dying for some raw
onions"
Chicago Record: 81 rather like this house.
cleaning time o. year"
You don't mean it,
Yes; when l get home at night my wife
ia so tired that she lets me have my own
way about everything"
Somerville Journal: Lover (bravely)-Sir,
want to marry your daughter.
Father [coldly)-Well, I'm not surprised
at that If | Were in your place, I think
should want to marry her myself.
Detroit. Journa!: 81 have asked you to be
my wife," he exclaimed, desperately. Say
yes no."
The Boston girl shivered.
She hated the man from the bottom of her
heart, yet the fact remained that yes was
half again a longer word than no!
In that moment she wished she had never
thing, that she had been born in some other
city.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Chicago Post: "I propose" he began; but
she promptly interrupted him.
Am | to regard this as a proposal or
propos ition?" she asked
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Harlem Life: She-Indeed. it's not an
easy thing for girl to get a husband.
He-Why. a pretty girl can make her
choice of four out of every five men she
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Indianapolis Journal "Bobb'er's wedding
was the elimination of romance. He met
his wife on train"
many 2n
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Judge Jaggles-MarriaEe is the one union
where a man should never go on strike.
Waggles-Thats So If he does he'll find
himself locked out by his wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21
she-But it's the fifth that she wants.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: George, you'll
have to try to catch a cold"
"Why, my lover
onions
Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-21

Somerville Journal: Lover (bravely)-
| want to marry your daughter.
Father (coldly)-Well, I'm not surprised
at that If | Were in your place, l think I
should want to marry her myself.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18

ance of blood, may be quite innocent in
their character, and it is beyond doubt
that in less scientific days many a man
has been sent to the gallows on the
evidence of stains which have been any
thing but those of the stain of human
blood
If, for instance, the juice of a lemon
is allowed to dry on a knife blade, it
is impossible for any but a chemist to
say that the resultant stain Is not
blood, and the difficulty becomes much
greater when 1t is a question whether
a blood stain is human or animal in its
origin.
There are many conclusive ways of
proving that a stain is blood, and not
vegetable or other coloring matter. The
most reliable test is to pour little of
the tissue fluid on a sheet of plotting
paper and add to it tincture of guai-
acum. If few drops of peroxide of
hydrogen be then added, the fluid turns
to a dark, sapphire blue
Similarly If ammonia be added to
the fluid its color will be unchanged If
blood be present in it; but if the color
sng is of any other origin, the fluid as
sumes a new color-blue, green, violet,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18

away. Towns are being deserted. Yester-
day ] was told that not a creature was
left in many of the towns beyond the
hills, most having died. Those left have
come here or elsewhere in state of star
walton.
Last night / went to Kiumba and saw
q dead. An overseer from Kiumba who
came down to get help. on returning found
the river had risen. He and his compan-
ions tried to cross and carry relief to the
people on the other side, but he was swept
down stream before the eyes of all and
dashed against the rocks The body had
not been found. Two men were found
lying dead as we came out of church.
They had dragged themselves there and
died. am beginning to wonder how many
will be left soon.''
Another member of the mission staff
writing from Zanzibar, says:
such things have never been witnessed
here before. People are dying everywhere.
Some are so weak that they cannot es-
cape from the wild beasts, but are pulled
down and eaten. My husband helped to
bury a man who had been carried off.
There remained only half of him. Chill
dren are deserted by their parents be-
cause of the hunger. They come into the
market places to pick up the peel of man
goes and remnants of sugar cane which
arc lying about. These are days Of terri
BILE trouble"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18
WHERE THE CHEYENNES LIVE
AND THE THINGS THEY WANT

Tongue River Agency, Mont, July Is
among the Northern Cheyenne Indians
here four or five weeks ago there
was no outbreak, although a little more
friction might possibly have precipi-
tated one.
The chief men among the Northern
Cheyenne Indians and those who seem
70 have the say here, so far as the ac-
tons Of the red men ar concerned, are
Bear Bird, Two Moons, American
Horse, Round Stone, Medicine Bear
Little Old Man, Red Bird, Hairy Hand
White Elk, Little Chief George Stand
ing Elk, Bobtail Horse, White Bull,
White Frog, Two Feathers, Wolf Ear,
Elk Shows His Horns and Bear Comes
out. 1t seems that the recent friction
was not limited to the delay of the
government in giving the Cheyennes
this reservation, but there We're other
trivial things which the Indians want,
but are not likely to get. For example
several of the big chiefs are trying to
work the government to give them a
free trip to Washington. They claim
that in order to get things satisfactor-
lily settled it will be necessary for them
to go to Washington and see the Great
Rather. They also think that the res
ervation should be larger than lis pro-
posed, They want irrigation bitches so
they can raise oats. They want per-
mission to give the thunder dance once
more, which dance has been tabooed
by the Indian agent They want the
Indian police fired and they want the
Northern Cheyennes, now at the Pine
- III l.
want the eastern line of the reserva-
ton extended to the divide beyond the
Tongue river, and they want an in
crease of ration. They have asked for
more moving machines and that a, big
boarding school be built on the reser-
walton. A sawmill, plows and all kinds
of farming implements are demanded.
They also object to the plan of building
five-wire fence all around the reser-
Walton las it seems to them to be i'm
prisoning them. None of these minor
demands are, however, likely to be
complied with, and 1T is altogether
probable that they will be sa tisfied If
they get the reservation proposed
The tract where the Northern Chey-
ennes now are, and which it is pro-
posed to make their permanent reser-
walton, is bounded on the north by the
southern 40-mile limit of the Northern
Pacific Railroad company's grant, on
the west by the Crow reservation on
the south by the line dividing town
ships and s, and on the east by the
Tongue river. The reservation aver
ages 22ia miles wide from north to
south, about "a miles in length on the
southern boundary and about So miles
in length along the northern boundary,
approximating about AGO, 900 acres.
There are at present 1,349 Indians be-
longing to the agency, and even if the
Gov
Pine Ridge agency are transferred to
this place there will still be about 800
acres for each man, woman and child
1t is not an agricultural country and is
only adapted for stock raising, but
after allowing for the barren clay
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18
HOW L|VER-EAT|N' JOHNSON
. GOT HIS UNCOUTH NAME

dared to live with his own people af
terward, for they thought he had
'throwed the fight At any rate, we
licked EN- good We killed 36 of them
and wounded 60. We lost one killed
and one wounded. 1t was toward the
close of that fight that / got my name
| was just aettin' my blood up and
feelin' like fightin'. We was short of
ammunition and as I saw an Injun
running toward the cover l threw my
gun to Bill Martin and took Bills
knife. / wasn't going to waste no good
cartridges on him, for / could lick any
Injun l could lay my paws on. I was
considered the best shot with rifle in
Montana at that time, but l wanted
to save my cartridges. We had a 300
yard run to the burshes and l caught
the Injun by the hair of the head and
threw him down just at the edge of the
brush. l danced and sang on the In
jun's body, for that's what they done
to party of whites few days before
Then l scalped him and then l danced
and sang some more Then l ran my
knife into him and killed him and part
of his liver came out with the knife.
fellow named Ross came runnin' up.
! waved the knife with the liver on 1t
in the air and cried out:
Come on, and have a piece! It'll
stay yer stomach till you get home to
dinner!'
" Don't want none SEE he.
Come one SEE I, dancing around
I've EFT some and its just as good as
antelope's liver Have a bite! and I
kind of made believe take a bite.
Then Ross he threw up his CUTS.
And he always swore after that that
he seen me tear liver out of a dying
1njun and eat it. But that amt so.
] was all owes blood and I had the
liver on my knife, but didn't eat none
of it. The liver coming out was unin-
territorial on my part. But Ross he
vowed twas so and l never got rid of
the name"
What is your real name, Mr.. John
son?'
My krect name is John Johnston
not Johnson but Johnston. l was born
in July, 1924, in New Jersey. three
miles from Little York l come out to
Montana first in 1862. when / was at
Alder gulch. The diggings there were
discovered in August of that year.
arrived in the fall. but only stayed two
or three months. Then ] went to Colo
RADIO and enlisted. Fought in the civil
war against Price in Missouri. l was
IN several battles, but was wounded at
NeWtonia and discharged. Then l came
BACK to Montana and have been here
ever SINCE
have any more Indian fights?"
Millions of them have always want
ed to write book about my life. but
you are the FIRST man | eve. struck who
was worth a d-m to take any,Aiy q
down. How long are you going to stay
here?"
"A day or two. How many indians
do you suppose you have killed alto
gether?" pursued the reporter
I'm going to have you write nv
book" declared Johnson, ignoring the
reporters question. You just stay here
few days. It's a good place, but the
water don't smell as it used to-"
When were you first here?" asked
the reporter.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-18
HOW OLIVER CROMWELL
LOOKED IN REAL LIFE

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
London, July 1.-The bringing to
light of an original bust of Oliver
Cromwell, executed by the most promi-
nent sculptor of his time, promises to
be one of the most notable events of
the year. The discovery of the bust has
set at rest a controversy of centuries
as indexed in his face. The bust, which
is from the hands of the noted Floren-
tine sculptor, Bernini Q59s-16S0), who
was employed by Charles l. for port
rats of himself, is held on all sides
to give distinctly more refined and
genial expression to features which
have hitherto been known only through
painters who seem largely to have fol-
lowed one another and to have sketch
ed only one and probably the prevail
ing mood and expression of divers
strong but mobile face.
Fortunately the history of Bernini's
bust. which is an exquisite work of
art, is sufficiently we'll known and au-
thenticated. 1t has been in late years
in the historic collection owned by
Lord Revelstoke, when but for rhe
newer value given to every relic of
Cromwell by the remarkable revulsion
of feeling in his favor which the last
so years have witnessed, 1t might easily
have passed into obscurity.
Fortunately 1t occurred to Charles
Wertheimer of London that it would
be timely present to the British ma
ton to purchase the bust and hand it
over to the keeping of the house of
commons. There it now stands on a
temporary pedestal, one of the most re-
markable human documents to be
found in the precincts of the British
parliament house.
Hitherto Cromwell's personal appear
ance has only been known through the
portraits of the painters. Up TO the
present year the abundant Cromweil
literature contained no mention OF
marble bust, although. of course, the
conventionalized portrait on the Dun
bar medal, by Simon, has often been
engraved. The painted portraits by
Cooper, Walker, Faithorn and Lely
have all a singular resemblance.
All seem to agree in portraying the
big, massive head, the solid face and
strong and prominent nose, the his
toric wart over the right brow, the sad
eyes set in large orbits beneath promi-
nent brow ridges ("the bar of Michael
AASNip j. tilS ilSAAN pAp"il lialIb IdIliiiE
in locks over the shoulders the slight,
scanty moustache and the tuft on the
under lip. Bernini's bust is in re-
markable contrast to the sadness and
suggestion of eoarseness which marks
most of the painters portraits. The
main features of the lion face are there
but the added look of refinement and
alertness which Bernini has seized is
nothing less than startling. Instead of
the heavy eyelids and the. look of de-
preston, the eyes are large, open and
inquiring, with a singularly modern
usefulness and humanity. The whole
aspect of the countenance Is keen,
bright and genial. The swollen look
which has been the feature of so many