American money of ail kinds passes
at pnr in Canada nowadays.
A rich vein of pure iron ore has boon
discovered in the northern part of
Hayti, and already an American com
pany has obtained a concession to
mine it.
The Supreme Court of South Da
kota has decided that the law passed
by the last Legislature requiring all
canvassers for business houses out of
the State to take out a license is un
constitutional because of its interfer
ence with interstate commerce.
A rn'e has been adopted by the
members of the School Management
Committee of the Board of Education,
of Chicago, whereby it is provided
that neither teachers nor principals in
dsy schools shall he employed as
teachers in night schools except in
cases where suitable talent cannot
otherwise be found.
Agriculture is the mainstay of Porto
Eico, it having been the policy of
Spain to discountenance the establish
ment of factories in order to afford a
market for the manufacturers of the
home provinces. The field is, there*
fore, almost virgin in that direction,
being limited by natural conditions
only, suYu as want of coal, freights on
raw material, and the training of
skilled labor, at present entirely lack
ing. _
Austria-Hungary is making an inter
esting experiment to open up new
channels for its trade. A steamer, the
Poseidon, fitted up as a floating exhi
bition of the products of the monarchy,
will soon lcavo Trieste for the chief
ports of the Lovant, the Bed Sea,
Hindostan, the East Indies, Chin*
and Japan. Its arrival will be exten
sively advertised beforehand at each
port, and commercial travelers on
board will try to secure orders for the
exhibitors and to find capable agents
at tho points touched. Tho Govern
ment has granted a subsidy of $25,U00
to assist tho enterprise.
In connection with tho opening of
the puhlio schools in the city of San
tiago, it i 3 interesting to note how
meager school system had hitherto
prevailed there. In the whole prov
ince of Santiago, the latest figures
show that out of a population of 270,-
000, there were hut 0000 public and
1800 private school pupils, while the
total public school expenditure for a
year was only $16,000. Iu the whole
of Cuba there wero but 13,000 chil
dren iu the public schools. This is
about three and one-half per cent, of
the population. Fifty-three out of
every one hundred persons in Havana
lan neither read nor write. A great
work is before the schools in tho island
of Cuba, observes the School Journal.
There is a considerable consumption
of coal in Venezuela, and the supply
comes almost wholly from Wales. It
is pressed into bricks seven Inches
thick and eleven inches long, and, on
this account, is preferred by the rail
ways, whose engines have no tenders.
Their Coal is carried on a small plat
form, and off these ordinary coal would
roll, It sells in Venezuela for sl2 a
ton and enters duty free. Tho Consul
at La Guayra says that .there is aa excel
lent opening in Venezuela for United
States coal, which can be laid dowu
there much more cheaply than the
British coal. It would bo necessary,
however, for our manufacturers to
meet the demands of that market.
Bricks are indispensable, and for this
purpose a grado of soft coal could be
used that is not always marketable m
the United States.
We are rapidly becoming the fore,
most nation in our love of out-of-door
sports, remarks the New York Herald.
The new generation wants plenty of
air, is fast acquiring an impregnable
digestion, and is striking a strong
pace in the direction of longevity.
Wo took to the wheel with insatiable
appetite. All the world and his wifo
wero on the bike. The diseases to
which flesh is heir began to hide their
diminished heads, and the doctors
groaned behind closed doors. It
wanted bnt one [thing more to bring
on the millennium. And that one
thing, which arose from small begin
nings to national prominence, was
golf. It came with stealthy steps at
first, but it soon recognized its own
importance, and now holds gentle
sovereignty over tho civilized earth.
It is a game of grace as well as skill
It touches every muscle with its
waud, trains tho eye, gives steadiness
to tho hand, and makes the mau mora
of a man and tho woman more of a
woman. Perhaps, on the whole, it is
tho most fascinating Bport in exis
tence, for it sweetly allures even tho
tired player to continued exercise,
and then leaves him with the benedic
tion of a stalwart appetite.
I THE CHIPPEWA OUTBREAK. |
|y Causes Which Led the Minnesota Indians to Go &
111 on the Warpath. 11l
r\ n EARLY every ac
j®a) A I count agrees that
{£-< K\ the outbreaiiof the
hJ Iyd Chippewa Indians
*Jl' I \ near Bear Island,
yt"- X , on the east side of
.. /a HI 1 Leech Lake, in
Pi northern Minue-
L l '"Afe-"' * 1 I sota, is the result
Wk I of an accumulation
grievances.
*fr \f The immediate
y 1 I |' vj '' cause of the trou-
' " bio was the arrest
of old Chief Bog-a-Meg-Eshig, or
Bush Ear, head of the Pillagers,
made by a deputy United States mar
shal on a warrant —a proceeding al
ways resented, either openly or secret
ly, by Indians, for they can never ho j
made to understand why white men
should interfere to the extent of de
priving any one of them of his per
sonal liberty. To the Indian, even
under the conditions of to-day, con
finement in prison for even a short
term is equivalent to a sentence of
death, and the records will bear out
the assertion that few ludiau prison
ers survive a term of imprisonment of
more than throe years. They are
peculiarly susceptible to home-sick
ness, which, among Indians, is a real
disease and commonly has a fatal
termination. It is on this account
that an arrest, with the subsequent
imprisonment, is so'obnoxious to an In
dian that he will often fight to the
death rather than submit.
It appears that in the present case
the friends of the man arrested over
powered the marshal and rescued his
prisoner. Troops were then sent out
to assist the marshal in arresting tho
rescuers, and a collision between them
and the Indinns followed, with a loss
to tho troops of six killed, including
Major Wilkinson of tho Third In
fantry, who but recently returned
from Santiago. The loss of tho In
y
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OLD EOG-A-MEG-ESIIIG.
clians "was small, as they fought from
cover.
Tho trouble is all the more remark
because the Chippewa3 were one
of the few tribes in the United States
not affected by tho ghost dance ex
citement of 1890.
The Cbippewas are members of the
great Algonquin family, which ranged
from the Mississippi to east of tho
great lakes, through the norlhern part
of the United States, and are still one
of the most numerous of the Indian
tribes. Tho territory of tho tribe to
tho eastward was bounded by the
country of the Iroquois, with whom
constant war prevailed, and on the
•west and Bouthwest by tbat of tho
Sioux, also inveterate enemies of the
! Cbippewas and their foes in hundreds
A GROUP OF CHIPPEWA SQUAWS AND PAPOO.3E3.
cf battles, extending over five cen
turies.
The fchippewas are first-rate fight
ers, and have been generally victorious
in their battles with other tribes.
Tbcy are remarkable among Indian
tribes, in tbat they have nover been
removed from their old ranges, but
occupy to-day a section of the country
where they were found by the whites.
Their own name for themselves is the
Ojibways, which was applied (o the
whole tribe formerly, but the tribal
Iname is now Chippewas.
) The hand known aa the Leech Lake
Pillagers, which is making, the pres
ent troublo, numbarod 1153 in 1897,
out of the 7651 Indiana on tho reser
vation. In 1890 there wee 1123 of
them at Leech Lake, of whom SCO
were males, and of these 321 were
above eighteen years of age. There
were in addition 389 Pillagers on the
Cass Lake and Winnebegoshish reser
vations, and OS2 Otter Toil Pillagers.
In 1890 the Pillagers owned 111,410
acres of laud in the reservation, of
which five were cultivated by tho Gov
ernment and 350 by the Indians.
'
Each man In this picture has numerous atrocities to his credit, Yla-cho-pl-ness, holding
the "coulo" stick of caul" feathers, is tho most murderous Indian in the Northwest.
LITTLE BOY.
IRON BEAN. YELLOW BIRD, BAIN-FACE.
STANDING ELK. CUTS-HEART. HUNTS-THUNDER.
WOP-SCOJI-CHE-NA-PAH—Half Brood Interpreter.
They raised 600 bushels of corn, 1220
bushels of vegetables and 350 tons of
hay, besides cutting more than 400
cords of wood. From the sale of port
of their products and from linuliug
freight they realized in cash SIOSO.
Of tho 6100 Indians on the reservation
iu 1890, 1000 wore American clothing,
1000 could read and 1200 were church
members,
John B. Bottineau, a Chippewa
Indian who is at present in Washing
ton, says: "Tho ngly spirit and dis
position of tho Pillagers to hold them
selves aloof from both white men and
other bands of their tribe have caused
them to be charged with many viola
tions of law which perhaps should
have been laid at some other door.
That naturally exasperates them, and,
with a good deal of whisky, has oc
casioned the present outbrenk.
"I believe this trouble was caused
by members of the tribe getting hold
of whisky. Tho officers of the law
heard of it, found the culprits and de
tained them. In the meantime de
puties wero sent out io securo wit
nesses, and the more witnesses tho
officials summon the greater the
amount of fees to the Sheriff's office.
Many deputies aro half-breeds who
care for nothing but money-making.
Every witness that is grabbed up is
taken to the Sheriff's office and de
tained for an indefinite time. This
causes suffering in the Indian's family,
because, not being a thrilty tribe,
they do not lay anything by for the
future. I think had Sheriff O'Connor
aoted with more diplomacy the pres
ent trouble would have beeu averted.
I imagine ho went at tho business im
petuously, and to a certain extent rode
rough shod over the Pillagers:
"Another grievance is the failure to
get payment for their lands, Acoord-
iag to tho act of Congress of January
14, 1889, tho consolidated Chippewas
of Minnesota ceded all their reserva
tion to the United States, less their
allotments, and tho Government was
to open up the land by selling it at
SI. 25 an acre for the agricultural por
tion, and the timber land at the rate
of $3 a thousand feet. They don't be
lieve in the allotments and prefer to
have their reservation intact, over
which all of the tribe can swarm at
will."
Secretary Bliss says tho Pillagers
have no cause to complain regarding
their timber. He says timber stealing
on their reservation was stopped
eighteen months ago aud that their
interests are now thoroughly pro
tected. Under the law alluded to by
Mr. Bottineau, the timber of the Pil
lagers has been app>raiscd by compe
tent and honest agents, and much of
it has been sold at auction at a mini
mum price of 83 a thousand, but
the receipts from the sale of what
they call "dead and down timber,"
last year reacheds27o,ooo. The money
thus received has been chiefly ex
pended in buying farms, eattlo,horses,
implements, scotls and other supplies
and in promoting the cultivation of
the ground.
There aro altogether about 8000
Chippowas and other Indians in
Minnesota, including men, women
and children. Of theso more than
one-fourth aro "Christianized" and
are enumerated as communicants
among the several religious denomi
nations. Of the GOOO remaining 3500
are practically civilized.
THE HOME OF A LEECH LAKE CHIPPEWA
FAMILY.
Leaving 2500 men, women and
children in the "half-civilized" cate
gory, these include the Pillagers, who
number about 250 men and 750 women
and children. They do farming in a
small way. Nearly every family has
a little garden between the stumps of
the land that has been cleaved, and
most of them have permanent homes
built of logs, with cows, horses, pigs
and chickens. During the summer
they fish a good deal and putter about
their gardens. In the winter they
work in the logging camps and hunt
for food and turs. Seventy per cent,
of the labor in the logging camps and
sawmills on the Pillager reservation
is performed by the Indians, and they
make good wages, but spend most of
their moiiey for whisky.
The Pillagers have always had a
bad reputation for thievery. It is
said that the name they bear was de
rived from that characteristic. They
have never been famous for fighting,
but for plundering they could hold
their own against all competition.
They have not made the same pro
gress in civilization as the other bands
of Chippewas, and by their exclusive
ness and conservatism have earned o
bad name in their tribe. -,
Their unpopularity among other
branches of their nation will, it is
thought, prevent any sympathy or as
sistance from reaching them. The
missionaries have made 'ittlo pro
gress among them, and Bishop Whip
ple, of Minnesota, said that they had
refused schools and religious privileges
that had been offered, and Archd-.. 1
Gilfillan has been compelled to aban
don missionary work among themi
They have ugly dispositions and preJ
fer to live in their own way and rescul
all interference. I
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1 THE REALM OF FASHION. I
o §9©®3®sss•ss®H !
For Cold Moriiinei,
For cold winter mornings nothing
can exceed in comfort a pretty morn
ing jacket of soft wool eiderdown. As
here represented, pale blue was the
WOMAN'S HOUSE JACKET.
color chosen, the edges being neatly
finished with a bias binding of satin
In the same shade, which is machine
etitched on its inside and upper edges.
The gracefully pointed collar is a
picturesque feature of the garment,
tud is included in tho neck seam with
FOR A 31153 OF FOURTEEN.
a comfortable rolling collar, that com
pletes the neck.
The shaping is very simply accom
plished by side seams, that end just
below the waist line, underarm gores
and shoulder seams, the fronts being
closed invisibly in centre, under
small decorative bows of satin ribbon.
The Bleeves are two-seained, in
regular coat shape, the becoming ful
ness gathered at the top, and the
wrists bound with satin. Although
especially designed for eiderdown,any
woolen fabric may bo chosen to de
velop this neat and trim house jacket,
flannel, camel's hair, ladies' cloth or
cashmere being pretty when trimmed
with ribbon, lace or insertion.
To make this jacket for a woman of
medium size will require tlireo and
one-half yards of material twenty-seven
inches wide.
A Fetching Suit.
Checked novelty wool suiting iu
brown and chamois shades showing
a silk thread of pale blue woven in
with the line of darker brown that
forms the check is the material chosen
for the fetching suit shown in the
large engraving.
Brown ribbon velvet is used for
trimming, the revers of piece velvet to
match being overlaid with creamy
point de Venice lace. Three hand
some steal buttons decorate the front,
a steel buckle being used to clasp the
bolt of velvet at the waist line.
Hat of brown felt faced with shirred
chamois, colored satin and crushed
cream roses under the brim at the left
side. Handsome brown shaded tips,
roll and loop of satin ribbon.
The yoke and oollar are of finely
tucked cream colored taffeta that
comes already tucked for this pur
pose.
The yoke may be at both front and
back or in front only, and the revers
Way extend in Bertha fashion on the
back or be cut off at the shoulders.
The closiug may be in front or at cen
tre-back, and the box plait can be
omitted as shown in outline sketch. A
body lining! fitted by single bust darti,
under-arm gores and eeutre-back seam
gives a trim effect.
The sleeves are two seamed iu lat
est cut, gathered at tho top and com
pleted at the wrists by bauds of vel
vet.
The skirt comprises five gores; the
trimming of narrow and wide ribbon
velvet outlines the front gore to the
lower edge extending all around the
foot. The top is fitted closely and
below the hips it flares fashionably to
the lower edge.
The mode is characterized by a styl
ish air which will hold when fashioned
in any of the season's now fabrics in
plain or mixed weaves.
Velvet, silk or mousseline can be
used for tho yoke and collar, or laco
may be applied over some constrast
ing bright color.
The revers may bo of the dress
goods decorated with braid, gimp,
velvet, passementerie, insertion or
applique trimming and various com
binations may be charmingly de
veloped iu this style.
Ladles' Sleeves.
A sleeve that is exceedingly pretty
for thin fabrics and one that can be
made up in the heaviest material is
here given. Tho sleeve cap may be
used over either sleeve or dispensed
with altogether, as preference dictates.
No. 1 has a full upper and under
portion, gathered iu spaced shirrings
and arranged over smooth linings, the
row of shirring being covered by
bands of insertion or gimp. The
wrists are finished by frills of laee or
chiffon. If a transparent effect is de
sired it is best for the amateur to
make the sleeve over a oheap lining
and cut it away from uuderneath after
the sleeve is finished. This gives
firmness to tho seams and retains the
proper shape aud set of the sleeve.
No. 2 has only slight fulness at the
top and the lining is shaped exactly
like sleeve. It is illustrated in gray
brocade, trimmed with embroidered
chiffon and silk applique. The back
vT r? IT
w
HEAVY MATEEIAL SLEEVES.
seam is opened for two inches at the
wrist to allow the frill of chiffon to fall
gracefully through. Tho pretty
shaped sleeve cap is bordered to
match gathers grouped at tho shoul
der, eausintr the becoming fulness.
To make No. 1 will require one and
one-eighth yards of thirly-six-inclx ma
terial. To make No. 2 will require one
and one-fourth yards of same width
goods.
I.acc Insertion For Decoration.
Lace insertion and tiny silver but
tons Used to decorate, linen gowns arr
I most effective.
KING MATAAFA.
The Kojnl Exile Wlio Mity Aljaln Elile
in Samoa.
Our State Department's assent to
tlie return to Samoa of Mataafaprobably
mean 3 that Samoa's former ruler is
again to be Kiug, after nearly ten years
of exile on the lonely sand island of
paluit, under the equator. The Mataafa
family had ruled Samoa for hundreds
of years previous to 1889, when Great
Britain, Germany, and the United
States decreed Mataafa slioulcl step
down and Malietoa, who died recently,
rule the islands. Malietoa did not
want to be King and asked that Mataafa
be allowed to keep his seat. The
powers would not have it, however,
and Maliotoa became King, with
Mataafa as vice-regent. Then a re
bellion broko out, foreigners having
encouraged discord betwoen King and
former ruler. Mataafa was defeated
and sent into exile. For years there
has been au agitation for Mataafa's re
lease from exile, and the United States
Government is said to be well-disposed
towards him because of the service he
rendered Uncle Sam's eeamen after
the Apia disaster in 1889.
A Misleading Metaphor.
In the Fall Mall Gazette William
Archer discusses the real rather than
tho sentimental relationship existing
between America and England. In
part he writes: "A misleading meta
phor may do a great deal to beget and
perpetrate confusion of thought, and
such a metaphor, I suggest, is that
which describes England as tho
"mother country" of America. Ten
nyson has given it literary sanction in
tho line "Gigantic Daughter of tho
West," and Mr. William Watson, in
his sonnet beginning "0 towering
daughter, Titan of tho West," repeats
the phraso without misgiviug. Both
poets ignore the flight of time aud
mistake a historical for au actual rela
tion. Tho America of to-day is not
the daughter of the England of to
day."
A Queer Ferry lirldge.
Bizerte, the chief French naval
port aud stronghold in Northern
Africa, has a new bridge which is, in
some respects, unique. It crosses a
canal which lends to tho impregnablo
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CBOS3INO A CANAL ON A SUSPENDED CAE.
inuev harbor of Bizerte, aud which
must never be closed to the passage
of war ehips, even by a drawbridge.
Accordingly two skeleton towers were
erected to carry a light superstructure
so far nbove tho water that it eauuot
interfere with navigation! From this
hangs a car at tho level of the ap
proach. Passengers enter the car at
tho ordinary level and it is drawn
aoross the river, its carrier high above,
running easily upon grooved wheels.
This bridge, says the New York
World, requires much less power to
work than tho famous Tower bridge
of London, which is raised bodily
from the water level to the top of its
towers when vessels are to pass uudtr.
Women Street Cleaners of Knvnrin.
The new woman of Munich, Bavaria;
can give bov progressive Western sis
ter a lesson in "advance movements."
She has been appointed to clean the
streets.
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CLEANING THE STP.EETS IN MUNICH.
The authorities Bay that woman is
in her own province when she has s
broom in her hand, and that the
streets are in a much better condi
tion since the new order of things has
existed..
There has been au important whole
sale secession from the ranks of the
vegetarians. The entiro Dominican
Order iu England has received permis
sion from Borne to eat flesh four days
a week instead of perpetually abstain
in®'as heretofore.