There lire fewwr farm mortgages re latively in Utah .than in nojr .other 'n'" ' A mountain ell im recently Shot at Bneyrns, Kan., although there are no mountains in the state, and elk were never plenty there. The 44 United Htntes owe, eolWc lively, 224,O00,OH(J, and they pay to ihe holders of staAo securities 810, 000,000 n year ns interest. Wrecks in Southern' waters are less fatal than others, heeimie, explains the New York Telegram, owing to their temperature nearly all who can wim or hold on 11 naJJy reach the Lore. In order to prevent "rear-end" col lisions n Western railroad has issued an order that every nwieiiger train must have a flagman on the rear plat form constantly, and this flagman must not leave his post to eat or sleep nntil he is relieved by some one capa ble gf standing watch. A Texas jury struck for fees which amounted to fifty cents apieeo. Tho Court ordered the fees paid and then fined tho jurors j.A0 each for con tempt. The jurors really seemed to come out losers, Imt possibly, suggests the San Francisco Examiner, the satis faction they acquired was cheap at 82. According to tho senate committees on immigration the Itulians in the United States send home $20,000,000 every year. And yet Italy complains of a scarcity of money 1 King Hum ltert ought to encourage emigration. Ho gets more out of the immigrants than he does out of the stay-at-homes, taking man for man. The latest statistics show that there are 821,400 men engaged in theopera tion of railroads in tho United States. This implies a force three-fourths as large as the army of France, almost as large as that of Germany, six times as largo as that of flreat Britain, ond more tlxin thirty times as large as that of our own conntry. "It isundiably the most intelligent and effective labor clement in tho world," avers the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, "and it is al, as it deserves to bo, the best paid, its an nual wages being twice as great as those of tho samo class of workmen, or in fact any other class of workmen anywhere else under the snn. The Czar of all tho Russia understands how to propitiate popular favor when he travels nbroud, oliseves Frank Leslie's Weekly. On his recent visit to Denmark his baggage, which filled about fourteen cars, consisted of three hundred large trunks, one of which contained nothing but imperial pres ents, which were distributed with lav ish hand. Danish functionaries of all sorts and grade's wero decorated with orosses and ribbons j tho assiduous at tentions of tho police were rewarded by diamond rings ; gold wutches and chains wero bestowed on the tele graphers and station-masters, and a special largess of ten thousand frnnci was distributed among tho servants oi the palace in which tho Czar tempora rily resided. Tho poor, too, wero re membered in gifts in' largo sums oi money. All this is delightful for the recipients of the imperial bounty, but possibly these extraordinary display! of generosity would not be necessary to overcome a popular dislike if the Czar wore a little more liberal in hi methods of government and in hie conceptions of individual rights. Australia has a Chinese question which seems to be giving considerable trouble at present. The uortherrj part of the vast island which lies with in the tropics is settling up very slow ly, and there is a disposition to foret muttors by encouraging Chinese to enter upon the lauds, which are suiO to be very productive. There are now three Asiatics to one European in tho section mentioued, and the Sydney Herald says there is nothing in the existing state of things to prom ise an' alteration in the ratio with the growth of population. Nuturally these facts cause apprehonsion, foi there is a belief that if the Asintio gctt a good foothold in the north he will inevitably overrnn the sourthern pari of the island. Tho remedy proposed to overcome tho diflioulty is federation, but, strange to say, the spirit of ex periment, which is so rife in Australia, makes such a inovemeut almost im possible Each colony is working out problems of government, and most ol them have for their object the ameliora tion of the condition of tho laborer. But while they are experimenting John is crowding in, and the first thing the experimenter know he will have crowded all the aveunoa of labor and make a reform without revolution iw iiossible. AMONG THE MOORS. 8CLTAN MI'LEY IIAMAN'S BAR. nKIC KMPIBB. Morocco Steadily Retrograding, tho Rifts Tlelns; the Terror of .the Land Komnnoe of the Present Whereof. TIE throne of the Emperors of Mor occo is their horse, and their pavilion is the sky." So boasted Sidi Mo hammed, the father of Mnley Hassan, tho present Sultan. The Hnltan, indeed, is nominal lord of all, but iiirminal, not actual, aays a writer in the Sew York Tribune. He ets Governor over tho provinces and wrings from hem such taxes as ho will and thero the functions of his ad ministration end. So long as they pay lip-service to tho Governor and render the tribute of gold that is required of them the tribesmen may do as they please. These RifT.ins, or Riff's, who have been making trouble at Melilla, form such a tribe J and they are perhaps of all the most independent, as well as decidedly the most savage. Their home is in El Rif, the rango of hills that runs parallel with and near to the Mediterranean coast, from the Mnluya River to (Jape Spartel. They are the Ishmaelites of that Ishmaelitish land, their hands against every maa and every man's hand against them. Woo to tho stray traveler who foils into their hands. IIo would fare better in a camp of hostlo Comanches, or as the Apaches' prisoner of war. Every stud ied horror of torture will be his ; every revolting outrage that savago passions can conceive. Even the other Berber and Moorish tribes have a dread and a loathing of them and use the name of Riffan instead of "wolf" to frighten children into obedience. In appear ance the Riffan men aoo fierce and un couth, with tattooed faces often, and long, unkempt hair and beard. Their strength and endurance are marvelous. They are tine horsemen and good good shots, and in battle display the WAZAV, THE nOT.Y ntmost disregard of danger. The wo men, unlike those of other Mohamme dan tribes, go about freely unveiled, their faces and arms tattooed with out landish designs in many colors. Tho women visit the towns and pnrchaso such thingB as they and tho men need, tho men never venturing to put them selves so nearly within tho grasp of what littlo law thero is in Moghreb-nl-Aksa. As for law among the Rif fons there is none, save to steal, to torture, and to kill and never to die in bed I One is startled to find on landing in Morooco, so closo to the centers of European light and learning, a laud so utterly barbaric Hero is an empire of mora than eight million people, with vast cities and a land of incom parable fertility, with not a whoelcd vohiolo save the ono coach which tho Snltnn own 3 but never uses. Nor is there any progress made toward better things. On tho contrary the whole Nation seoms steadily sinking deeper and more hopelessly into the miro. Nothing of Morocco oxin be hoped for in tho way of great social progress in thia country till the minds of the men have bean raised and their estimation of women vastly changed. In Morocco rOH SH35KEEFA OP WAZAN, the position of woman remains un speakably deplorable. Morocoo is so deeply sunk in the degradation of sin that it is impossible to lay bare its deplorable conditiou. In this country the only vice whioh pnblio opinion seriously condemns is drunkenness, and it is only before foreigners that any sense of Bhunie or desire for secrecy about other vices is observable. The taste for strong drink, though still indulged compara tively in secret, is steadily increasing, the practice spreading from force of example among the Moors themselves, and as a result of the streuuous efforts of foreigners to inculcate this vioe. As yet it ia chiefly among the higher and lower classes that the victims are found, the former indnlging ia the Srivaoy of their own homes and the ttter at the low drinking deus opened by the soum of the foreign settlers at all the open porta. One woman has, however, risen to a commanding rank in Morocco and still exercises a sway rivaling that of the Junperor himself. This is the TOTS TOrjUO SfnCREEF OT WA A. Shcreefn of Wazan, an English woman by birth. The shoreefs of Wazon have ever been at least the equals, perhaps the superiors, of the sultans of Fez, to whom they are nominally subject. azan is the holy city of Morocco, and one. of the holiest in all the Mo hammedan world, and its shereefs are descended directly from Fatimo, the Prophet's favorite daughter, while tho Emperor himself is descended merely from some collateral branch of Mo hammed's family. So the Shereef is reckoned the holiest man in all Islam and his spiritual authority is recognized by the faithful everywhere, in Egypt, Tnrke , Persia, India. The latest generations of these potentates hove" been invested with not a little romance. It is told tnat tne grand father of the present shereef lived to be more than 100 years old. At the last, when he lay dving, the elders asked him to name Lis successor ; for there is no law of primogeniture in Y azan. The old man answered in the oracular manner in which his inspired utterances had alwavs been made: 'The child that playeth with my staff, he shall sway the sceptre." Now it happened that one of his slaves, an Afri can woman, waa standing jnst outside CTTY OP MOROCCO. the door and heard this, Sho, hearing the old Shereefs words, instantly seized, nnnoticed, his gold-headed staff and placed it in her bright little son's hands, and when, a few moments later, tho aged Shereef died, tho Toi bian elder came out to search lor his hoir. And the first they saw was the littlo mulatto ph-.ying with the staff Wherefore they obeyed the saint's command and bowed down before him as tho now Shereef. The Shereef grow up with rather ad vanced notions. Ho took to traveling in foroigu parts and thon paid long visits to Eugland, Franco and Italy. When he discarded sandles and began wearing boots of French manufacture the faithful opened their sleepy eyes in holy horror. Then ho threw anide the turban and was presently dressed throughout in modern European stylo. Worse than this he took to smoking cigarettos and drinking champaign. For a descendant of Mo hamet to drink intoxicating liqnor was an unprecedented apostacy. But Mnley Sidi defended himself. "It is true," he said, "that the wine in the bottle is intoxicating. But when I pour it into my gloss it becomes as harmless as water 1" And this explan ation was generally believod. These eccentricities, however, were only the beginning of the trouble Down at Tangier tho holy man made the acquaintance of a comely young English women named Emily Keene, who was a governess in the family of the British Minister, and began mak ing love to her. Well, he was a mu latto, but a prinoo and very rich, and she was ambitions. So she accepted him and, after he had divorced all his other wives, waa married to him in good English fashion. And she made him sign a solemn bond to take no qther wife, but to conduct his domes tic affairs on tho English plan ; and if he broke this bond he was to give her her ohildren and (25,000 cash down and $5000 a year for life. And finally she was able to sign herself "Prinoess of Wazon. " To all this tho love-siok Shereef eagerly agreed, and for a number of years he kept his pledges faithfully. Two sons were born to them and their homo at Tangier was an ideally happy one. After uiuDy years, however, he broke the bond. Ho married a Moorish girl at Wazau, and tried to divorce the English woman. But the English woman had a mind of her own, and it was a more clever mind than his. She defeated his attempt to divorce her, retained her title of "Prinoess of Wa zan," kept her two sons, made him set tle the succession npou one of them, and foroed him to pay her the full in demnity and annuity. Then, of course, she refused to share his house hold with the new wife, and so went away and lived in a house of her own, where she maintained prinoe.lv court She did sot actually quarrel with him, however, but let him visit her occa sionally for a friendly chat, and her two boys kept on the best of terms with rT. C him. A year or two ago Mnley Hid! died. But, trne to his word he named as his successor the eldest son of hil English wife, Mnley Ali, who thus be came Grand Shereef of Wazam. Thit is a clever and promising youth, whe inherits mnch of his mother's English spirit, and, indeed, is still much under her influence, for, as dowager shereefo, sho is now a most important person age. She educated him in European style so far as sciences were concerned, but in Oriental style so far as religion and customs went. He was, even be fore his father's death, greatly beloved and reverenced and often consulted as a prophet or miracle-worker. Winter Millinery. Importations of winter millinery are made np of round hats with tho Napoleon brims turned straight np in front, introduced in the spring; cocked hats, three-cornered and four cornered, with the brim rolled book' against the crown, and those with! cleft brims ; nnd of bonnets in small,' close shapes that add little to the size of the head. Velvet is well employed in millinery, both for hats and bonnets, nnd satin, satin antique and felt form the fouu- ONV OF THB LATEST MODES IN HATS. dation upou whioh is heaped the brill iant trimmings and upon which is set the startling price. Mercury trim mings, Valkyrie garniture of marvel ous wings, spangled stuffs, jet and steel are employed in the decoration, together with velvet roses and mink or sable bands and tails. iho newest veils are black, with dots or a border of white. Matabele Women. Tho women in Matabele Land who are thought to bo handsomest are those who are fattest. The wives of King Lo Bengnla and chief men are fed and cared for with a particnlar view to rapid increase in avoirdupois. In their own conntry the Matabele men will not work because of their military training nnd the dread of los ing prestige in the eyes of their Mas hona slaves and "dogs," but in the South African diamond mines far re- MATARF.LB WOMAN. moved from the influences which pre vail at home, they have made the very best workmen. " Men Were Chenper Than Quinine. J. G. Acclos, tho inventor of the rapid-firing gun called by his name, was born in Australia, but was brought to this country when a small boy.. It is said that at one time he had a con tract to bnild a fort for the Chinese Government in an unhealthy locality. He consented on condition that his house should be built on stilts above the malaria, which was done. He then told the anthorities that unless they would furnish the workmen with qui nine they would die like sheep. They refused to do so and instructed him to go ahead, which he did with the China' men dying all around. Men wero cheaper than quinine, and a large per' oentage of. them succumbed to the fever. Chicago Herald. Oh, 31 j Prophetic Baal I African Traveler "Hal Here is a sign of civilization at last I My Undo evidently does business on this street" -Hallo. VLB M W- WLW GO DOWN WITH THE BRIDGE. MOHE THAN 20 MEN MEET'DEATH ythe Collapse of Steel Btruoture In Course of Construction at Louisville. The middle span of iron snd timber falsework of lbs bridge now under con struction between East Louisville and Jeff, nonvllle, Ind , collapsed Haturdny morn ing, crushing to death or drowning between 20 and 80 men. snd ln)urlng ahont 20 mors, soma ofwbom will die. Only six bodies have been recovered. Those known to b dead are: Lester Oarlock, Frank Miller, Frederick Miller, Frank Hums, Charles Murphy, Chicago, C. V. Cook, Mantau, O., J. 1'. lisrnt, Franklin, l's. The mining .are: Henry I'laiss, New Albsny; Frank (Simmons. Jetlersonville; Russell Dertiinger. W. A. Hhsrp, A. Hoden, J, Kregan. M. Hoden, 0. II. llenkle. U Pierce. J K Wilson, J. Scott, 1'. bherldsn, George'Lllly. The injured are: Albert Moore, bolb arms broken; U, W. brown, lrvmgton, arms broken; I. E. Rheehsn, Greenup, Ky-; t. K: Hall. Bristol, Tenn.; Harry l'ngli, Mercer, l'a., both arms broken, back hurt and In ternally iniured: Harry Lee. JefTersnnvllle. cut about bead snd Injured by shock; Kl ward Haben, Clikugo, slightly Injured; T. K. tlnllawvy, I.ouiaille; ankle broken; John Meyer. Lexington, Ky., leg amputated Edwurd Ccheers, I'ittsbnrg, l'a,. will die; Edward Hildebrnnd. Northampton, Fa . spinal injury; U. Thorpe, injured , about kneel and side; E. V. l'ard. For weeks past a large lores of men hare been at work on the big SOO foot span over tbe middle of the river. The iron work was all upand was resting ou a heavy frame work of piling driven Into the bed of the river and securely bolted and braced. That afternoon tbe lust bolts were to bar bee 1 put In place in the iron superstructure and the gigantic span would have supported i.l own weight. The foreman In beginning work thai morning, noticed that during the night the "traveler," a huge derrick used for placing Iron In position, bad been worked loose by tbe wind and be ordered it drawn back intc place. The wind was high and the gentle swaying of the fulse work gradually forced tbe traveler oil tbe piles on which It wai resting. When the end slipped tin whole work trembled and the men. realis ing their danger, started for the pier Tbe central bent was tbe llrst to give wa) and tbe men on this went down to be cov ered by the mass of iron and timber of tin other bents. Which fell almost immediately carrying with tbem the workmen who fail rd to reach places of safety on the piers Tbe north bent, the one attached to thi Indiana pier, fell 14 minutes after the flrsi and tbe partial span five minutes later. There were M men on the bridge. A few succeeded in climbing to pi aces of safety and were quickly rescued. Others struggled hopelessly and were carried off by the cur rent to sink almost as rescue was at band Th ferryboats City of Jeffersonville and C. W. Hitt rnd the life saving crews were toon st the wreck, which completely block ed one channel of the river. Men with broken arm and legs were found clingini to pieces of timber. They were pulled Intc boats and hurried to hospitals. After thecrasb the steamer Hotspur ran up lo the wreckage and the crew saved nint men, who were to badly hurt that they could not have kept afloat live minutes. Tbe lives of the workmen were insured foi (1,500 each. To whom must be laid the responsibility for the disaster will probably never be known. Jt is probable that it Is but one oi thoss unforeseen accidents that occur In spite of all precautionary measures. General opinion ascribes the cause to the still' wind that has been sweeping tbe river all day. It bore with great force on tbe ponderous frame work, which necessarily became loos ened from the constant strain and swaying of the timbers. Karl Manchester, a civil engineer employed on the bridge, snid: " i lie accident was caused by the wind. Tbe piling was strong enough to bear double the weight. 1 he bridge fell like a pnek of cards. It became loosened on the Indiana side first snd swayed gradually acioss to the opposite side. lliere were many narrow escapes. Eighteen men were saved by being on the great stone pier. To feet liigh.wbeu tliecrniti came. A rope ladder was thrown up and the men rescued. The building of the bridge has been mark ed by a series of disasters No less than oi lnen'hava been killed and Injured in Itt construction before the present accidents. Three years ago the Masonic Havings Hank, one of Ihe largest financial concern In the city was wrecked by holding too much ol tliehridge'a paper and tbe president of both bridge and Lank, Jacob K Kreiger. was ruined. Ho soon died and worn was stopiietl, Pevernl months ago arrangements wero made wl b the liig hour and other railroads to furnish he money to complete the bridge and the work was commenced by the l'hoenii Bridge Company of I'hoenlxville, l'u.,liii'b contracted to have thi bridge up by January 1 next. The accident will cost the contractors 7.000. The loss of life hereto fore has generally been in. the caissons. SENSATION Ali WORDS. The New Master Workman Clacuasea tbe Conditions Between Labor and Capital. . A reception was tendered the . General Master Workmen James H. Sovereign and Thomas B. Magnii of New York, C. K. French of Marlboro and Henry 11. Martin, of Minnesota, the newly elected memberof the general executive board of the Kulghts of Labor in Faneuil hall, Uoaton, by tbe members of the order in the city. General Master Woikman Sovereign was the first speaker. Speaking of the hard times, he said: "There lis wheel loose somewhere in our social machinery and the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer and there is rank discrimination In the law against the poor in favor of the rich. .During tbe past twenty live years we have raised two diktinct clasaea of society, the tramp and vagrant and the dude and dudelet. The tramp is across between crime and poverty and the dude ia a trots between no one and nothing. Society is now beii g shaken from stem to stern by the labor troublea of the present day. The Knights of Labor are wording for the amelioration of the working clasies. The workingmau with his wife and children provided with the necessaries; of life ia s very harmless fellow, but when his wife and children are starving then is the time to natch that muu, for be u liable to do wrong, it is the Uuty ol the government to make It easy lor tbe peopla to do right and bard for them to do wrong. Henry II. Martin; of Minneapolis spoke next, and earneatly udviaed organi zation and membership In the Knlghta of Labor. Thomas U. Maguire of New York spoks on the land question and hunioroualy discussed the silver and tariff quemion. This Lover Wasn't Fired. Curing a quarrel at Chicago Charles Kroun waa stabbed to death by Frank Jlilaki. biltkl was calling upon Kronn'a dsugbter, snd, being drunk, conducted himself in such a manner tnat Kroun attempted to put blm rut. llilskl drew a knife and stabbed Kroun twice through tbe heart. When placed nnder arrest by officer Casey be made S slash si biro, causing s slight wound in Caaey'e arm and In lb patrol wagon ha drew s second knifs snd slightly wounded Officer Pclanty, The Lasso. The cowboy's lasso ; made by cuk ting a rawh de into thin strips and half tann ng w.th the hair on. These strips are then stretched over a block and braided Into a rope, the strands be ri pulled verytght. The lasso Is then bur ed In sand for a week or two, nnd absorbs mo sttiro from the pround, which makes It soft and pli able. When tuken out of the ground It Is stretched out, nnd tho hair is innd-i apercd o?. It :s then grensed w th mutton tnllow and properly noosed, when It Is ready for use. ' Tar;3 a I Ta xatlon. Tariff ilutlea and Internal revenus tnTM'ni m lr.soais and corporations an rxdtiDir pnMlc Internet, bat of ipiltn as mtHi Interest arptuojj things which tix thn systmn and require at oue an nxtrn il remedy. On this '.lbjtsft. wltlt spetlsl r.).'-mmn l.itlon, Mr. PlerenD. 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