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Wednesday, July 9:4th 1889
DAKOTA WHEAT CROP.
A G1.00MY i'ROsrECT—A. SHORTAGE
OF 30,000,000 BUSHELS.
Chicago, I11., July 16—A special
to the Infer Ocean from Grafton
Dak,,
says: -The wheat crop of
Dakota is 30,000,000 bushels short.
The total production for the terri-
tory cannot cutler the hest posible
conditions front now until harvest,
which begins in the North by the
-25th, exceed 20,000,000 bushels,
and to put it that high is .a liberal
estimate.
The greatest detriment to a suc-
cesssful crop this year has been the
exceedingly dry season, and only,
along the streams will- there be any
crops at all. Along the main line
of the Northern Pacific, the ouce
Bonanza farm district, the elevators
are closing np. and the, country
tributary lb B'isniarck is a barren
sand hill. The Jim river valley
will barely feed its peraple, and,
in short nowhere" in Dakota will
there be any wheat for export save
along the main 'line 3f Manitoba
from a point thirty miles north of
Fargo. The cry of famine that was
raised last winter in the western
part of Walsh County will find its
echo alt over the territory the
coming winter. Aside from the
impoverishing of the people by the
failure of the wheat there is another
danger which will bo felt almost as
severely, and that is the want' of
fodder for stock. Oat crop is bad
and the meadows away from the
river bottom are as parched as the
prairie. A trip t.hrongh Montana
reveals the same state of affairs.
The range cattle will not find enough
to live On until cold weather, and e
prominent railroad official told a
correspondent that, all the extra
cars. of the Northern Pacific and
Manitoba roads has been ordered to
Mantaua to clear out the steers as
soon as the lack of food necessitates
a reduction in stock.
INDIA AND OTHER WHEAT
CROPS.
The weekly report from Bombay
by cable settles the fact that' the
Indiau wheat crop is going to be no
factor at all in the question of the
world's food supply this year.
English specialists believe the situa-
tion in a few months hence is going
to be fully as bad as it was last
year. One or two say they expect
it to be worse. Of course, the state
of European crops is stilt suscep-
tible of certein fluctuations, and
eaneot be accurately napped out
until the annual Beed fair.at Vienna
winch, owing to the general aux-
iety this year, has been advaticed
in date to August 24, but while'
climatic contingencies may injure
good crops, they will bo able to do
little to improve those already
rlootned, and the condition in
October is mere likely to be worse
than better, T Iry demand for wheat
1p the big. plrlohaeang cot3ptriee 01
Europe ;b'td$ fatlt;to be t; talie>; that;
• N1404'E,ngla} c.'Ott Fra,n*o prom.
ivo `barve!atoousiderably betterban
Aei,tlli lvlds and...etacks
now stasis the, yield of there two
countries la expected to be 40,0001-
'00Q bushele iu excess of last year,
Spain also will be above .she agerage
and Italy only a trifle. under.
ertnauy, erist ot"the tenth parallel,,
is almost. as good—perhaps the
present weather will make her
quite . as good—eats last year, but
there the favorable picture ends,.
'Indeed, this tenth parallel utay be
taken• as fairly dividing the good
from the batt. E'est of that line
wheat crops have gone all to pieces.
Two great expecting countries,
Russia. and Austro-Hungary, will
this, year find it difficult to feed
themselves. Russia, which bad big
harvests the last two years, and
forced the market to get rid of all
its grain in order to float loaus, now
confronts a 'rather serious situation.
Her big granaries, like those at
Odessa, have never before been so
empty. of wheat, and the present crop
in many large districts is a cotnplete
failure. The long drought and
then the cyclonic storms which de-
stroyed the wheat and oats prospects
in Russia have , been. the same for
wheat, rye and barley .in • Austro
Hungary, Roumania and Eastern
Germany. The shortage •over berg
will be so great that the market;
will be more at. the , mercy of the
United States than ever before.
APPEASING THEIR GODS.
IHORRiBLE 4IUMAN SACRIFICES .
IN NEW CALABAR.
.From new Calabarcomes news of
a Most revolting, sacrifice. Q. few'
months ago'the,old King' of Eliot),
died,'and, as is customary in. that
part of the country, the traders
from New Calabar went up to pay
their respects to the new monarch.
The traders were aware that for a
short time after the old king's death
the "Iu Iu", rites are performed,
but they thought that these wore
over. The deceased tuonarch's name
was Imphy, and, to the horror of
the English. traders, "ilio "Iu Iu"
ceremoniee were at the highest when
they entered Eboe Town. The rites
had been in operation for about two
months,:and already about 40 people
had been slain to 'appease. the "In
Iu" gods. The old king was then
lying in a grave. large and deep.
Lying in the same grave were nine
of his youngest wives. Bach of the
poor creatures had both her wrists
and her ankles brokeu so that she
could neither walk nor crawl. In
this state, and suffering the most ex-
eruciating pain, the unfortunate
creatures were placed at the bottom
of the grave, aeven of them lying
si,le by side. The bodyof'the-king
was theu laid on them ilea transetse
directiou. Tho two remaining
women were laid down by the side
of the king, exactly like the mon.-
arch's body. No food or water was
given. to the poor creatures, who
were left in that position to die.
'Death did not, as a rule, take place
for four or five days. Four meu
were stationed round the grave,
armed with clubs, ready to knock
back any of the women who, not-
withstanding their maimed condi
tion; were able to -crawl -to -the side
of the grave.
In other parts of the town further
human sacgrifices were taking place.
Suspende'd from various trees were
the bodies of several mon. These
poor fellows were also enduring
the most agonizing death. In most
instances holds .. had been bored
through their feet by 'the. ankles.
Through the holes ropes were drawn
and the men were then tied to a
high tree, their hands hanging
downwards. The men were then
left to die. The traders, as they
were proceeding along, were un,
willing witnesses of a frightful
sacrificial, execution. They slaw a
native tied to a tree by the foot and
neck. The rope to the neck was
thrown over a tree in one direction,
and the rope attached to the feet
was tied to a tree in the opposite
direction. The ropes were then
drawn tight, and when the body
was distended to its utmost length,
another native with a hatchet struck
the neck and severed the head
from the body. The head was
taken to the grave where the king
was lying, whilst the body was
eaten by the cannibal natives. The
white men could do nothing to stop
the barbarous practices, as to inter-
fere with these 'religious customs"
would not he tolerated by the
natives, and ;he lives of the traders
would have been in peril. They
therefore made asuick a retreat
from the town as they could. For
each of the following ten months
there was to be a sacrifice of seven
men,
FOR DELICATE, SICKLY CIIIL—
DREN.
Scott's Emulsion -is ' unequalled.
See what Dr. C.A. B•laok, of Amherst,
N. S., says : "I have been acquaint.
ed with Scott's' Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil, with Hypophasphites, for
years, and consider it one of the
finest preparations now before the
public, Its pleasant flavor makes it
the great favorite for children, and I
do highly recommend it for all wast-
ing diseases of children and adults.
Sold by Druggists, boo. and 81.00
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Asp.LEAYE$ QWNi
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Leclaire is a river town twel
miles north of Davenport, low
noted. jbr the, number of steamboat
apd raft we who,iive there,. It is
agitated by a sweeping charge made
by'the Rev. Mourne shrew,, t P ea-
bytetian „minister, from the pulpit
last Sunday night to the. effect that
a virtuous woman between the ages
of sixteen and twenty-five years
could not be' found in the place.
The pastor is quite a young man.
He came from Chicago four menthe
ago and has been preaching to gtow-
ing congregations. He was sensa-
tional in his way of puttiug the
Gospel truth, and many were drawn
to his services out of curiosity. Last
Sunday night he was particularly
severe, eayiug that immorality had
captured the town. He stated in
all seriousness that he had boeu
told a woman of honor did not live
in Leclaire. At the end of the
Service the young preacher was sur-
rrounded by his hearers, who made
violent protests against such lan-
guage. The next day he was waited
upon by thirty young women, and
•a public retraction was demanded.
Mr. Drew offered to take back his
words privately and to apologize to,
his callers, but they would have
none of it.. The next step wee the
calling of a mass meeting, which
was .held last night iu the largest
hall in the town. More than four
hundred indignant meu and women
met. They invited the minister to
attend, but it is said he left the
State lull went over to Illinois,
feariug personal iujury. The meet-
ing was •organized by calling a just-
ice .cif the 'peace, A. R. Ed wards,
one of the oldest citizens, .to tete
chair. Resolutions were adopted
expressing indignation at the stato-
ment made from the pulpit, and
asserting confidence in' the charac-
ter of the place. The meeting de-
manded of the trustees of the church
the immediate discharge of the Rev.
Mr.. Drew, and all •Prosbyterian
churches were warned not to have
anything to do with him. 'Mutter -
Urge about tar and feathers were
often heard, and some of the young
women declare they will not let the
matter drop until public retraction
is made, coupled with an abject
apology and a promise not to enter
the pulpit again.
•
FOUND HER IN THE POOR.
HOUSE.
WHERE MR. BLEAKLEY GOT, HIS
BEAUTIFUL YOUNG BRIDE.
In March last a destitute Polish
family, consisting of father, mother
and six children, arrived in Detroit.
They had emigrated from their
native land in means so meagre
that, ou arriving at New York,
they found that it was impossible
for them to got to their destination
—a flourishing Polish settlement in
Dakota.
They bought tickets from New
York and got as far as Buffalo,
where they found theruseives objects
of public charity. The poor com-
misioner, of Buffalo furnished
them wall transportation to.'Detroit.
There they fell into the hands of
the Wayne county poor comntiesion-
ere, who concluded they would . be
taken too much on their hands to
seud theta farther west. Other
assistance was offered, however,
which resulted in the father going
to work and some of his children
going to the county house.
Among them was a bright, pretty
and attractive girl of 17, the glance
of whose liquid black eye told of
an intelligence far above that of the
ordinary immigrant girl, and
especially one of Polish extraction.
If Maggie Kifezyusky was an
unfit inmate for anything, she was
for the poorhouse. When Supt. Mar
tinjaaw her he came to n conclusion.
He remembered that he had several
applications front bachelors who
were in search of life .companions.
One of them was fromC.R. Bleak -
ley, Tilbury, Ont. The letter
stated that the writer had heard
that there were some good girls in
the••poor house who would like of
marry. If the' superintendent had
a pretty German girl who would
like to marry a rich farmer he would
like to hear from him. The writer
was a widower and had three chil-
dren, and would like to find a good
wife.
The latter tuns selected from a
large hatch, and a teply was for-
warded to the writer. Not until
two weeks ago did a reply come.
It stated that Mr. Bleakloy would
arrive in Detroit in a few days and
would investigate the fitness of the
proposed bride. In the meantime
Maggie's father, with the assistance
of the two sons, had accumulated
himself with' sufficient means to
furnish a small house on Illinoie
street, near the railroad track. Just
about the time that Bleakley's letter
came it had been decided to take
Maggie and .her youngest sister from
the county house.
On Monday she was taken from
the inetitutiou and Moakley arrived
on the scene and presented his
meagre claim. He accotnpanied
her to her father's house and made
known his purposes. Her parents
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t
we ` pols:.trlow to. tend rsten baa
u1i eiotlw i;1t0d reel ° th t Afpggv
sh:� old, barn �.� ire, ,': : 4eYr
1\i • cad Inairi ea d
chest i the #?l dill !thus.. g
• ave,
n to understand that if elle flid
already, love him she would,
ay were Married 4 Ste A•Iphonons
'all>th..etitlaal:ie ..ttlt.urab- T.11tireds
n*orning, They heft for, their,f.,uture
icon e ru lbuay Centre Saturday'
R10 t.,
A HOTtSEWOl1IAhI'S . REMARI,C-
fl,Bj,* BSCAPE.
' Miss Emily S; English, eldest
daughter of Capt. J. W. English,
met with a painful a3Cident on
Peachtree street one; morning'. The
young lady; is very foul of horse•
back riding. This morning- she
went: to ride as. usual, The horse
was uu.uswilly frisky, and• showing
a disposition to.ruu away, but Miss
English, feeling no .year rather
enjoyed his antics.
When at the eoruer•• of Peach-
tree and Kimball street the horse be-
came frighthned• at a streetcar com-
ing up behind hire and began to
run. Miss English 'settled herself •
in the saddle'...determined not to
jump. 'The horse's speed increased,
and down the street -car trach toward`
North, Atlanta 'he clattered at break-
neck speeti,:tlteyoung lady•keepitie'
hitt in the roa-:J.
A block below Kimball' street
Peachtree"is'torn up ou accougt of
the chain gang being; at'waik on the
road. A heavy rope had been
stretched across the street Saturday
'night' to want. drivers of vehicles
that the way was obstructed by.
Belgian 'blocks and pilus of sand.
The horse was rushingdircetly upon
the rope, but Misli 'did not
seeeit. ' It was j%st high '•euoueh'
above the street to mise the horse's
beck auout eighteen inches. When
within a few feat of it Miss English
saw it for- the first 'the first' time.
She bowed her bead, hoping to pass
beneath it, but it was' a little too
low, and as the frightened animal
ran under the rope it caught' Miss
English under the chin, swept her
froth the horse's back, and then, as
it rebounded, she wee hurledi high
iu the air, falling about twenty feet
in the direction in which the horse
was going.
The young lady soon recovered
cousciousuess and told how the horse
had run away. No bones were
broken, but the muscles about the
neck were very sore and Miss
English complained of pains in her
head. The doctor thinks she will
soon be all right.
ENGLISH RATHER THAN
FRENCH.
There was a time when French
was tho.only cosmopolitan language;
but that time is long passed. 'To-
day the tongue of Shakespeare and
Bacon, of Milton and Burke, of
Whittier and Lowell is spoken by
not far from 115,000,000 people.
There Is no considerable city of the
civilized world where it is not heard.
It has long been the language of
colonization and of commerce. It
is already to a considerable extent,
it is every day becoming to a greater
extent, it must inevitably and speed-
ily become to a prevailing extent,
the language of diplomacy.: • It -is
plain. to any intelligent student of
history why French has been the
chief vehicle for international
negotiations, and equally plain why
it cannot continuo to be so. In the
Middle Ages the University of Paris
was the intellectual centre of
Europe. Thither flocked aspiring
students from Britain and from
every part_of the Continent. Then
Latin was the language of learning.
It therefore became the means of
communication among learners and
the learned. Whatever men .deem-
ed worth reading was written in
that language, whatever men deem-
ed worth knowing was enshrined in
that language. Hence tate locality
in Paris where students most con-
gregated is called to this day the
"Latin Quarter." When Constanti-
nople fell, and the buried treasures
of Greek literature were exhumed,
and that morning dawn called "the
revival of learning " broke upon
Europe, the University of Paris
lost its pre-eminence, but Paris did
not lose its prestige. Inevitably,
though it might be unintentionally,
those who talked Latin to one an-
other in Paris learned more or less
of the native speech of Parieian
citizens. When the mighty stirring
of the human grind, which was at
0000 cause and effect of the condi.
tions belougiug to the modern era,
took pinee, men needed a language
which was common to at least a few
people in each of -inauy nations.
Latin would not serve the turn, for
no dead speech, howcvei splendid,
could adequately express such liv-
ing thoughts as wore then struggl-
ing for utterance in the heart and
brain of the awakened world. Un-
der these circumstances the French
language became, of necessity, the
language of diplomacy, and, indeed,
during a long period, was also the
language of art, science, letters and
refined social life. It is a law of
human nature that makes ue cling
to customs after their reasons has
ceased to exist. But oven force of
habit must yield at length to fettle
of necessity. English, and not
Fxaucha is and ta:'to be the intents
ti"at441 toech, hoes .diploe ate; .et,
Ijerliu ,,r oontl ; •talking to Quer apt•
o" et' i Tn '�tisit end net: in Z4144h
Yore eft sly-• 'ttcegnisiug the .feet,
that they live in the niueteentkt
ceuturh vergingou tha.. twentieth,
and .stat sit tba eighteenth Qr seven-
tieeuth .,Boston Advertiser. -
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4jUILDIIEN OF HAM..
-.Whft,cQlia�'lic •,to, (te, extent of a
couple' bk'doketi, "printed on blue
pasteboard, were distributed, in
Chicago -where they were expected
to do•the most good.
• ° • • A LECTURE
Will be, bold at 704 West
street.
Lake
TUESDAY EYE., JULY 16, 1889,
At8 o'clock. Subject—"The Origiu
of the Colored Race."
' I will prove that it IS the fallen
race of Isreal, and not of Ham as
generally Supposed, bibliesily and
historically. By, Professor G. W.
Flowers.
' - ADMISSION 10 OENTS.
The lecture wait held—held 'from
7,30 to 9:15 o'cl.ocki' when, in the
absence of an'eudience, it Was allose -
ad to drift awoy in"the btetstpooket
of the would-be lecturer.
The.. '',Professor" was on hand
ood and early. So was • a. small
oy.. After lighting the gas". the
Professor sat down to •wait for his
audience. The small boy sat down
and attempted siie up the Professor.
Alter a'whilo the door opened ,and
an Irishm•ap blow in. Iso' wore a
fout-karat ;beveled glees diamond,
and he had' come in to find ,out
whether there was any possibility of
proving a 1iebrery neighbor of his
kin to cylored,gentlemon of African
descent. Next carne an aged negro
who whitewashed during working
hours. Then there was a long wait,
which the reporter.terminated by
leaving the neighboring beer keg on
which he had been perched and
catering the hull.
"Glad to see you, salt," said the
"Professor," whose other business
is liconsed vending and the cure of
corns. "You see there's n hoedown
to -night; and it's secret meeting
night as well, so the cullud people
can't get around. But I'll talk to
you, sah, just the same.'
Without gathering in
dimes,"
iIE STARTED ON 1115 DISCOURSE.
"Several years ago I prayed for
forty days an nights for light on
this dark subject," said ho with"qut
pronounced dialect peculiarities.`,
"Did yes fast all the toime I" said
the Hibernian.
"Pretty. nearly. I. drank lots of,
'water, becauae I was a-burnin' up:
inside, but I didn't eat much of
anything. Well, on the last day of
ray period of prayer I heard a loud
voice crying. "Cease to mourn,
and wipe youah eyes, brother, foah
your prayer will be answered'
Then I was lifted up to heaven and
told to go and preach."
This last remark impressed the
small boy, who said : "Did yer
make de trip in a red-hot chariot?"
"Olt, no. I was just lifted eh in
spirit. Well, then I commenced to
study, and I read the. Bible, and
borrowed a coupy of Flavius
Josephrie, and read Tris accounts,•and
then the truth struck me. I don't
see how •the historians missed it,
for Josephus tells the whole story,
how the two and one half tribes,
Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, whore
left behind in Africa after the rest
had crossed over."
"Perhaps they thought Josey was
tellin' a fairy tale," said the boy.
"YOU BE QUIET"
and the lecturer continued his ex-
tract from-Josephys, and then turned
to his Bible, giving nutnerous ex-
tracts to prove that a portion of the
chiUren of 'Israel were black, 'of
which the following may bo men-
tioned : Songs of Solomon, v. 6•,
Lamentationa, iv., vii.,andviii.,and
v.; Jeremiah, xiii., 22 to 26; Isaiah,
xx., 4: Psalms, lxxiii., 31, with
numerous otherextracts.
The Irishman listened to the story
and then said : "An' so yez think
the Jews an,' the negroes are all one
race? Well, thin, when Jakey
Isaacstein tells me I'm a brother to
a Corkonian,an' mea good Belfast
man, I'll tell him his color is black,
an' that it ud show in the face of
the whole wurruld if we worn't all
color-blind."
his four
—A most interesting affair, es-
pecialiy to the parties in►nt„ dintely
concerned, occurred in Blenheim ou
Thursday last, ,#t appears that a
Mr. Rosebrook, tinsmith, formerly
of Springfield, bad either made some
disparaging .remarks regarding a
young lady teacher of the village, or
elle has been given to understand
that he had. Borrowing a horse-.
whip 'from Dr. Wilson, the young
lady waited until she saw Rose•
brook 'passing down the street.
Calling to him he crossed to where
she stood, when she threw back her
hand and sent the whip swishing
scroas his .face. Mad with pain,
Rosshrook closed with the girl► and
for a few moments there was a very
lively tussle, in which the combat-
ants gave striking marks of the
esteem in which they held each
other.
wiuPD '+r p• ` 3`S HSS:WtF r
C4.bourg',414ly.l7,7,.Oreprgo E!toaso'
agetl.00, i ho. liv04 on the banlrs Q(
xhe lltutt;tt),,i,%atrOt4,aheet s1 c m408,
from ]3righ:lut.t, d,e'i' s.ud4enly' on
Mar tltp 7th lag. Nu ;moon 'had
hearts ef:-,ll til ,,helitfg..fll„ .a1td every
41.04t.tlk..Allrr1/tt1141u8:, 144 death
indi:c tte'd fent ptax,,, altItoonb *there
wee' 'a iv.): i apreu& entry', Alrat he
commietet,iau,tcldei. ..al plate, fol': rat
poison was f0411.4 14 the bead man's.
room which atrottgthap.ed the sul-
aide thet,ry Breeze was living
with his eecopd:wife, a young woman
only 30 ye.irs old, whosemaiden
name was ,Ellen Dew4, tend who be-
longs to the Murray fatltily, Lena
Breeze, a young daughter of the
dead man, by his tint wife, lived
with the couple.
A corouer's jury met front time to
time, but weld not solve the myster-
ies surrounding• the death, uutil
Lena I3reeze, for the first tinte'ou
Saturday last, give •the terrible
aecret away and told au alulust in-
credible story of a most•unatural
murder. After the death. of her
father. Lena Breeze lett, her step-
mother and went to her grand-
father, James Colter. Leua's story
to the oorutler's jury desetibea how
the step -mother r:erolved-to kill her
husband by puttiug rat poison into
his food. The cold blooded wo-
man began on Friday, May„ ,aid.
A few hours'after.the first dose it
' began to ' work its deadly mission,
and the man went to bed. Vomit-
ing set in and Breeze. called to his
'wife for water. She gn've'"him a
poisoned drink. 'Phistreatment
she euutiuued, and whenever the
sick Biall asked for a drink or any
thing to eat she pave thein to him,
but everpt.hiug ivas .poisoned. He
died 'fheesd.ty morning, ltEay 7th,
atfer euti'ering terribly. While 'in -
terrible agony the woman persistent-
ly refused to do anything to allevi-
ate his tnisery or send for a doctor.
She told her stepdaughter that they
would live happily when Breeze
died.
After hearing some outer testi-
mony from neighbors and the re-
port of the doctors who. made the
post suortent, the ,jury returned a
verdict that George Breeze was tour••
derod by his wife. Ellen Breeze
was immediately arrested and is now
lodged in Cobourg jail.
CANADIAN NEWS NOTES.
—The crops i0 Prinee Edward
are heavier than ever before known.
Fall wheat will average forty bus-
hels to the acre, and barley will
give twice the yield of -last, season:
—A cunforence was held in New
York ou Monday to consider the
advisability of building a link to
connect the Union' Pacific and
Canadian Pacific railway lines.
—Fred Higgs, an employe of the
Cornwall Manufacturing Company
met a terrible death in that institu-
tion yeyt.erday. Higgs was eine
ployed in running a machine called
the extractor, when, unoticed by
any of the employes around hila,
he fell into the basket of the ma-
chine, which was making oue
thousand revolutions per minute.
His right arm was torn out at the
elbow, his' collar -bone broken out
and his face end head were badly"
cut. tie lived for two hours after"
the Occident, but _never regained'
consciousness. ,
—Arthur, son of Mr. H. Meldrum
miller, Peterboro, met with a terri-
ble death. The lad, who was eight
years old, was' in the flour mill.
He attempted to step over a revol-
ving shaft, which was close to the,
floor, and on which there was a loose
belt. In doing so he stopped on
the belt, close to the shaft, and,
tightened it so that it caught his.
foot and drew it under the shaft,
His leg was torn orf at the knee,
and above the knee the flesh and
sinews of the leg were fearfully
mangled. The little follow was
carried home and cared for, but he;
died about niue o'clock.
—A gentleman who reeides near
Norwich came very near being
victimized by two sharks. This is..
the game they work. He was asked'
by two agents who called on him to
give his name as a reference to +
whom could be submitted the
naines.of purchasers of pumps, in
order to find out their financial
standing. He wrote it, number of
lot and all, on a piece of paper
supplied by the agent, who left it
on the table while -he drew Mr. M't
attention to something out doors,
the three men going outside.
Agent No. 2 wait cold and went in,
to warm himself, saw the paper,
picked it up and after reading it
took it and went away with his
companion. After they had departed
Mr. M. looked for the paper, and
was informed by the women in the.
house where it bad . gone.. He
started in pursuit of his late:visitors
and after going five miles caught
up to them. Being a powerful and,
determined man he was not long in
inducing themho give up the paper,.
when he found that he had signed,
a note for $300.
—A IKansas editor states that it
will' take 60,000 cars to take the
wheat crap out of that State. This,
looks like side-tracking the wheat.
corner.
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