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THE TOPEE A DAILY CAPITAL: SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1891. ID tts Tog nouses with clirt THE JOLLY CLOYER CLUB. FUTURE OF THE BED MAN enoctgh to entrance all tat tine unlock speaker. As for him, it has always Lap- peoed, with one notable exception, that he floors, and are generally orderly and well behaved. The women are more industrious OLD FASHIONED DANCES.

TullisJied through The American Press Association. LA resumed his aeaL. IT .3 ONE OF THE CELEBRATED OS- taadethe excepUooT EVc AN INTERVIEW WITH fNDlAN COMMISSIONER MORGAN. GAN12AT10NS OF THE COUNTRY. than the men.

"Education is the hope of the American Indian, if he is ever to become the Indian American. Our Indian school system is slowly growing. The attendance last year was larger than ever before. Out of a total school population of 36,000 about 16,000 are enrolled, with an average attendance of 12,000. This is in all schools, training, contract and industrial.

The attendance would be larger if we had better accommodations. On some of the reser 1. CONNEMARA-Jig. By LENA FOSSROOKE. Ttmpo di Gigus.

Sa That the Aborigine Hare H.d Fair Show, bat They Are Ie-e loping th Arts of Feme With Som Dtm of Sucre. Special Correspondence. "WASlTCsGTOX, Jan. 12. "Is there hope for the American Indian?" This was the does not often get a chance to ehtrvy a real live president of the United Siatea, and delighted with this chance, they treat ed him with exactly the same couadera-tion that they accord to every ooe.

For once they were beaten. The president took their chaff good catoredly, replying i to it in kind, and when they began aing-'; ing the dab sons he stood smiling' until the first interval of silence came, and taea said, "I came here to speak, and I an gr icg to talk ten minutes, so you will tare ycur own time as well as mine by letting me get through." As a matter of coarse ahsostany printed, account of such, proceeding will make it appear as if they were mere exhibition of rudeness, and as if no qualication of wit could redeem them, bes the truth is thai Ita AbxhuU Dinner rtnn Jm. IS This Tear, and Hr Xs a Letter That Tell of Its GMtroaomk, goeiai and Oratorical Gloriea. Special Correspondence. Pthlaeelphia, Jan.

12. Of the Clo-rer club it ia very commonly said that it is not a club. This may be harsh and ungracious, though there is a color of truth in the assertion. As the derived word "clubbable" is refiaed and enlarged by usage until it expresses many sweet and desirable qualities in a man, so the word "club" has grown to mean more today than it did in YitJ (if fIXS. l'-- i Tf vations the Indians have been demanding school buildings for years, and have been promised tbem time and again, but they are not yet built.

With few exceptions every reservation school is crowded. Oae great diSculty we have to contend against is the ftr ts ti -L vzxz D.C. TrrS- I g-: r5- zf -w- I' 4 "i7 all is done with such perfect good nature and in such a pure spirit of good fellowship and playfulness that it is almost Impossible for even a sensitive man to take offense. The whole spirit of the thins seems to be to burlesque the common place formalities of after dinner speaking, and the turmoil resembles a battle with caow balls. No ill natared joke has ever been thrown across the table, uor has there ever been a coarse or an off colored witticism uttered at a Clover club dinner.

It is the perfect good nature and good breeding of the frolicsome members that keep the festivities from degenerating. Sarcasm goes, bat it is of a kind that does not bite, nor even sting too sharply. Thru, when CoL J. Annoy Knox said, Tm going to tell yon a story, and when you've heard it you will feel" Megargee Interrupted with a single word, "relieved." The laugh was on the colonel, but no one enjoyed ie more than he One notable man got angry once. John A.

Logan was a guest, and CoL Alexander a. 2. TRIP IT MERRILY. Country Dance. iocoso.

By KARL HERMANN. MOSEs P. HX5DT. S. McClnre, a prominent member, guyed ft- 2 2 "i 4 -m i 8 mjf4f.

IImIIbJI'm a -g- a- 18 I a g-i TPs- tw-r-g-r" tH-e- i- -m-mr rr- 9 him about a slip in grammar which the fighting statesman had made in a publia speech. "Black Jack" was furious, and as he began a reply it looked for a moment or two as if the festivity of the occasion would be ended, but as he went on speaking he gained command of hie tempag, and 5 i. i i i 1 ia. i-ta 1 Ym hi ii 11 4 poor health so common among the Indian children. Disease is prevalent to an ex-traoniinary extent, and last year the ravages of 'u'a grippe" were distressing.

There were thousands of cases of it, and it was necessary to close many of the schools on account of it. The Indiana as a whole suffer much from pulmonary troubles, sore eyes, scrofula and diseases of the skin. I have so much faith in the value of school training that I favor putting Indian boys and girls in tha public schools wherever possible. A few are already enjoying this advantage, with good results, and, when more and more of the Indians accept lands In severalty and become citizens, I think it will be found that the public school, influencing the children and the parents through them, will be a great agency of civilization. "There have been many sneers in the press at the Indian training schools, notably the one at Carlisle, and frontier writers seem to be fond of pointing out that the graduates of these schools almost invariably, on returning to the reservations, relapse into their former condition.

It is true that many who return to the reservations make little show for the care and instruction that have been expended upon them, but what else could be expected? They find themselves isolated by dress acd habits, out of sympathy with their surroundings, ostracized by their companions, and too frequently practically helpless. That they should relapse ia not at ail surprising, and consequently we are endeavoring, with good success, to help as many of them as possible to go out in the world and make their own way. Several are now teaching, or fitting themselves to teach, others are practicing medicine, some are preaching, and still others are preparing for the practice of the law and other professions. It should be remembered, too, that the oldest of our training schools, the one at Carlisle, has been ia existence but eleven years, and that there has been little time ia which to estimate from practical experience the influence which has been exerted upon the iapils. "The progress which has been made by the civilized triles of the Indian Territory is encouragement for all who believe there is ultimate hope for the Indian race in this country.

The Cherokees, Choctaws, Semi-noles, Otoes and others in the Indian Territory are industrious, prosperous, and their children ara enjoying as good facilities as the children of settlers in neighboring states. These nations support schools and academies, asylums and churches. They have their own newspapers, good frame houses, often with carpets on the floor, pictures on the walls and organs or pianos. They have republican government, and the laws are wisely and effectively administered. It is not generally known, even among well informed people, that Christianity has made marked progress among the Indians of the territory.

At the last Indian conference of the Methodist church south reports were presented which show 150 local preachers, 5,000 3. ERIN. Irisli Reel. By CECIL RAY. Jib.

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The Clover dab has no palatial club house no club house at all, in fact but holds its meetings in a tavern after the fashion of the club men of Queen Elizabeth's day. To be sure, it is the Tavern Bellerue in Philadelphia where they meet, and the elegance of that establishment puts the Elizabethan tavern in the shade completely, but it is a tavern none the less. Then the Clover club has no constitu-j tion. It is fortunate that It has not, for I its high living would have ruined any eon-'stitution long ago. Ita bylaws are un-j written, and it corporate proceedings seem to be limited to the occasional elec-j tion of a new member, So far as the Clover club has a purpose 1 In existing, that purpose seems to be frequently to enjoy a dinner, with all (and more than) the word implies.

These dinners are the only meetings that are held, and if there be any prosaic ir atters connected with membership in the club, such as tile payment of dues, committee work and the like, the world knows nothing of them. They are attended to in corner and byways, and to outward seeming the Clover club as a club has an existence of pure and unalloyed hilarity. The Clover ciub dinners have attained a fame beyond those of any other feasts known since the days of Lucullns, and this not because of extravagance or luxury in a gastronomic sense, for the dinners, though artistic and satisfying to the best educated palate, are by no means remarkable so far as the viands or the potables are concerned. It is because of the cere-. monies, and the defi ace of ceremony, that the fame of the reunions has gone abroad.

The big dinner of the present year will oo-cur Jan. 15. The uninitiated stranger who is so far favored by the gods as to receive an invitation to one of these dinners is unworthy of his good fortune if he do not at once put aside all other engagements of whatever nature, and after carefully investing him-, self in his store clothes, hie him to the Bellevue at the appointed hour. He will find the spacious banquet hall nearly filled 4. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DANCE.

By LENA FOSBROOKE. question which I put to Indian Commis- sioner Morgan. Yes, there is," was his reply. 'I am glad you have asked me this question. Readers of the reports of Indian i troubles in the daily paper have no doubt concluded that the Indian is without ex- ception a wretched, lazy, malicious creat- I Tire, supported entirely by the government and making no progress whatever in civilization.

But the facta axe that we are gaining ground every year. Elevating the Indian is cf necessity a alow process, and we must have patience. You can not change the character and customs of a people in a single generation. The Indian id without much adaptability. Evolution works at a snail's pace with him.

The- work of civilizing him, of teaching him to be self sustaining and moral, is attended with a thousand difficulties. Our Indian population, which is estimated at alxmt 2.jO,OGO, and almost stationary in point of numbers, is widely scattered. The Indian reservations comprise 181,000 square miles, an expanse of territory almost as great as that in the German empire. A great obstacle is found in the strange languages still used by most I of the tubes. "Our system of dealing with them, while perhAps the b-t that could be devised for present purposes, is vicious.

We set up over them agents to whom are given semi-despotic power, and pay the agents such small salaries that it is almost Impossible to get good men. Thousands of Indians are kept on their reservations practically prisoners. The issue of rations and annuities tends to produw pauperism, i We disburse each year millions of doliara worth of supplies by coiatract, and many frauds exist, notwithstanding all vigilance, the Indian invariably getting the worst of it. The most serious difficulty of all is found, not in the Indians and their conditions, but in the white people with whom they are thrown in contact. On the frontiers the Indian is generally hated and deqpised.

He is looked upon as a fair prey by every trader, adventurer, scalawag. The white people who hang on the borders of the reservations, those who have allied themselves by marriage with the tribes, and even those who have been from time to time in government employ, have in many cases presented to the Indians a type of character and a practical philosophy of life on a par with, if not inferior to, their own. Added to all this is the natural couservatism of the Indian. Like all semi-barbaric peoples, he clings tenaciously to old customs and notions, and it is very hard indeed to make him see new lights. "Notwithstanding all these difficulties we are making headway.

The outlook is encouraging. There is some hope for the American Indian. The best thing in the present situation is the sottled policy of the government to break up trihal relations, and to induce the Indians to settle upon their own homesteads, to incorporate them into the national life, and to deal with them as individuals and not as tribes or bands. At almost all the agencies where the lands have been divided for this purpose, the Indians are taking their allotments and making for themselves crude homes and farms. Some people appear to imagine that the Indian does no farming at all, and such will be surprised to learn the truth.

No one should expect rapid progress ia this direction. Indians who have lived to be 40 year3 old, say, without performing any manual labor, do not offer promising material for the making of energetic, thrifty farmers. Oa the other hand, many are too young to realize the necessity of working for themselves, and their inherited tendency is toward the hunt. "Last summer we had about 40,000 Indians under instruction in farming ao the various agencies. Forty-six thousand acres were plowed, and at nearly all the agencies the need of a greater supply of lumber, seed and agricultural implements indicates that farming is on the increase.

Here and there the Indians try to make the soil productive under circumstances which would discourage even a white man. For instance, on the Colorado river, where the country is arid and agriculture without irrigation almost impassible, the Indians select patches for themselves on the low lands, ami dig holes in the ground from ten to twenty inches apart and from eight to fifteen inches deep, and therein plant the wheat or corn. Then they irrigate the growing crop by carrying water in vessels from the river and pouring it into the holes. In this way they actually cultivate three or four hundred acres, and raise quite a crop every year. "At Cheyenne river tire Indians have tried very hard to raise good crops, but the drought has been against them.

They cultivated about 2,500 acres, but did not get much to show for their labor. These Indians have almost without exception built themselves log houses, and the majority of them have stables. A3 a rale the Indians are easily discouraged. It is new business for them, and they quickly lose heart if bad luck attends their efforts. To show that even an Indian will sometimes persiit in well doing I cite the case of the Mandans and Gros Ventres of Dakota, right up there in the region where the troubles now exist.

These Indians tried farming for three years with poor success ou account of brought, but each year they broka new land with the plow, and the following spring tried it again. Finally they made a very fair crop, raising 4,000 bushels of corn, 5,000 bushels of potatoes, 500 bushels of beans, etc Their wheat crop did not turn out well. About 3,000 acre9 are under cultiva mf -g- jS: -ft -g- 4 -rZ iCTrrrr 3z im rm- -2 frSrv jSct-n j- 1 -f, 1 -j IS (, -v Dolce. T. f-.

-v :1 i-1 ra FISH. mp DS- rf3fcfrM iaagpS Lr 1-i 1 1 i -t tti HE MAY bi A SENATOR. IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS. with a table of unusual shape, and looking closely will perceive that it is formed thus, in honor of the emblem of the club, the clover leaf: Hon. M.

TVed the Possible Successor to Hon. YUUiam M. Evart. The Democrats of New York state expect, at the present session of the legislature, to choose a successor to Hon. William M.

Evarts in the United States senate. So far the person most prominently mentioned ps liable to secure this great political prize is Hon. Smith Weed, of Piatts-burg. Mr. Weed has reached his iifty- 6 GRioneos ajtd novm cvjp.

gave the famous editor of The PhiladeS phia Times "Handsome Aleck" such roasting as he has seldom had. MI must plead guilty," said Logan, "to incorrect grammar at times when I am carried away by the excitement of publie speak lag. But do we not all feel that grammar is a trivial thing in comparison with the thought that is expressed? Do you not all, gentlemen, whatever your profession may be, bor-ever long a life yoa may hate pent In perfecting yourself in it, turn to the editorial columns of The Times, knowing that there you will find your crudities corrected and your highest achievements criticised in the most atrocious grammarf The editor will tell yon physicians how to treat disease, yoa authors how to write books, you actors how to play, a he nsed to tell us in the army now to fight oar battles. And we pardon him for his ignorance of his own trade because of the fact that he knows the business of every other living man better than that man will be able to learn it if be Uvea through untold ages. CoL McClare said afterward that he fait as If he were being grilled and "deviled on the great dab gridiron, bat the dab enjoyed it.

The gridiron, by the way, must not be forgotten. It is a hogs ooe, of solid silver, engraved with emblems and mottos, such as the "A voire easts, and the "While we live we live in clover, that the club ha appropriated for by-words, and also with an inscription setting forth the fact that the gridiron itself was pre-sented to the club by the two ciers Widener and Eikins. Mnch has been doue by the members oi the club to keep alive that spirit of ltUee est which in turn ha kept the dub Horn ishing for eight years long life for an organization of the kind. The menus that are devised for the annual dinnars are, some of tuem, very costly and ail ehoios. They are heautil by artists and uric bed by the dainty thoughts of poets and Journalists who belong to the clab.

A volume of "Clover Leaves" has been published for private circulation, in which are evwym, poems and squib of the quaintest and most delicate character, written alxxat the club by the clab men, bit perhaps the real cause of the vitality of the organization is its very difference from other dinner clubs, which I have tried to describe. Spare fails to give a lUt of metnbnrs ae It will do to say that among the members are nearly all the well known wits and hon vivaatu of Philadelphia and many kindrel spirits of New York, wbU a guests the club ha entertained hoo dreds of the most famous men of the day. Cleveland, Harrison mod Iiy among presidents: Sherman, Logan and Ilaneoeit among generals; Evart, ilandall. Palmer and Hawley among senators; and Foraker, Fitzhuxh Lee, Wwc, Gordon, Depew, Harlan, Luce (of the navy), Coqulin, Irrinjc, Booth, Barrett, Wyndhtm, Weir-Mitchell and Agnew among other, are perhaps enough to ci'-e. And there are few who caa say "I have ty there?" who do not also add, "and fain would go." Da via A.

CrsTta. Indian members, 3,500 white members, 120 Sunday schools, with a membership of more than 4,000, and 00 churches, valued at nearly $40,000. In the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations the Baptists have 85 churches, with a Membership of more than 3,000. The Baptists have organized many churches anion other tribes also. The Presbyterians have about 60 churches, with a membership of more than 2,000, and the Roman Catholics, with their customary vigor, have many churches, and asylums in various parts of the territory.

"Where the Indian has a fair chance, and happens to fall into the hands of an intelligent ageut," continued Commissioner Morgan, "ho is abie to make a very good showing, all the circumstances considered. Let me cite to you an instance of this. At the Santee agency, ia Nebraska, the Indians have pretty good land, and have had an intelligent and painstaking agent to help them. They have 4,000 acres of land under cultivation in wheat, corn, oats, flax and vegetables. They raise as good crops as their white neighbors.

In good years they have a surplus to sell beyond their needs. Twenty-live frame houses and tweuty barns ard granaries were built here last year, all the work being done by Indian mechanics, even to the apportioning oat of the material, no white men being They eveu laid a larga stone wall under the big stable at the agency, and were property proud of their achievement. At this agency a specialty Jome IvitresUje Iafortnatian Abot the Py of Variou Story Writers. Special Corresporleoce. New Yoek, Jan.

12. It has been recently announced in public prints that Mr. Frank R. Stockton is the only American writer of fiction who is able to live entirely upon the income from his This statement is not quite true. For some years Edward Eggleston has earned from his stories a sufficient income, to support him, and enable him to devote his lens ore to histcrical studies.

Mrs. Burnett would be able to live handsomely on what she receives for her stories, although she has added largely to her income by some journalistic work and by her dramatic ventures. Gen. Lew Wallace could have supported himself niceiy on the income he has received from the sale of "Ben-IIur." But as a rule nearly all cf the writers of fiction would make a scant living if they were dependent upon their receipts from magazines or royalties on the sale of their books. cV 7 2 o7v r) i WW a a a ooooo 1 0: yr If i4 'ir simultaneously in many journals in this country and in Great Britain.

Mis3 Mur-free, Miss Sarah (Jrne and Mrs. Barr receive fair sums every year for their work, but it does not coat them so much to live as it does some of the men named above, and Miss Murfree is independent of any literary income. The largest sums earned by female writers of fiction in this country were by Mrs. Stowe, and a later period Mrs. Burnett.

Mrs. Stowe'a fortune would have been enormous had she entrusted her income from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to some competent business man. For had she insisted upon a fair royalty for oil dramatic productions of this ft-ory her receipts would have been very great. Fortunes have been made in the play of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but Mrs. Stowe has never received a penny from the stage re preset-, tation.

On the other hand, Mrs. lrnett's great prosperity is due almost entirely to the play of "Little Lord Fauntleroy." She was quite famous as an author before this delightful story appeared, but her story of "That Lass of Lowrie's," which brought her her first fame, was of mereiy momentary profit Nor did she receive a great deal for "Little Lord Fauntleroy" when it appeared as a serial. But her profits on the sale of the book were though small ia comparison with tlie- fortune which came to her from the dramatic representation. When she began to draw i something like a thousand dollars a week royalties from the play, she then told her friends that for the first tim3 in her life she appreciated and enjoyed wealth. It was said at a public dinner recently that one famous writer of fiction, whose name was not mentioned, would heraciter abandon magazine and book publication, and would furnish his stories to the newspapers through the medium of syndicates.

The reason asserted was that this author found that he could realize at least tea times the money from such disposition that he could get from magazine and book publications. It was thought this might refer to Mr. Howells, for he is announced to be a coming contributor to the newspapers, but a sort of half denial has come from those who are authorized to speak for him. Yet the statement should occasion no surprise, for it is evident that a revolution is at hand in the manner of publishing romances and works of fiction. Ten years ago a daily newspaper would have thought is absurd to publish a serial story, and perhaps tne most tLstinguiahed editor in the United States declared some ten years ago that the puLiiahiag of fiction was not journalism.

Yet his own paper is now running two seriaL. and every newspaper of conseqaenca in the land is an eager bidder for the works of the greatest authors. Therefore it seems likely that the newspapers will in a short time usurp the place held by the magazines for so many years as the medium through which stories of famous authors are put bef ore the public E. J. EawxRDe.

has been made of developing the mechanical skill of tne Indians, with good results. Indians aro superintendents and employes. The biacksautu, carpenter, miller, harnes3 maker, wagon maker, overseer and issue clerk are ail full blood Indians. The physician is a half breed. The mechanics at this agency earned last year nearly $3,000.

Countered with each cf the schools at this agency Is a training department, ia which the boys aud girls are taught trades, fancy work, housekeeping, farm work and cars of stock. It is not surprising that the Indians here are making rapid progress in civilization and self dependence. "The Indians themselves, at least the most progressive and influential ones, are coming to understand the present policy PLas or cloveh cjra tabte. Around th'Is tahie he will find a ron-pany of the maddest wasrs that ever bedeviled one another in company. Men of standing and ponition every one, but every one gifted with something more than mony or procuir.enc, for no dull brain is admitted undir any pretence.

At the head of the table sits Maj. Moes P. Handy, the presil(nt since the foundation of the club, of whc.m it is said that he is the veritable lord cf misrule, and that he can guide confusion nearer to the brink of chaos without faliingover than any other director of festivities ia America. It was suggested once that the club, Laving already a coat of arms, should adopt a banner of it own, aad Handy's flamboyant t.nrd was select ed by acclamation as the oriilamrse. At the beginning of the feast decorum rigns, and save for some cornscant witticism that may be uxxpectediy hurled across the table by the irrepressible Governor Buna, commonly call Billy, there is likely to be little indication of the coming revelry until the loving cup Li pa-wed aroua.L This mighty tankard cf beautifully graven solid fiiver is ld with a punch tht none but Lonis N.

Megargee or Lew, to giva Lim hi fall came knowe how to breir. It is aimct as deltusive, though d-structive, thaa bis bibrated cj clone punch tbat devaB.tatii tLe Quaker City in a singla caoa, ami it Lmbers the tongue aui kindles t-e wits cf the company to the pitc of expulsion. Thereafter the evening is o-; of fireworks. Amog the are always men of note. They may le cleTgymea.

actors, senators, cabinet ministers or even a casual president cf the United States, but whatever divinity may Ladgs them about is of no manner of importance to the merry ciub men. However serious the speech that the griet may undertake to make when eailad upon in orthodox 'a iioa by the? chairman, some phrase is sure to be caught op by acme cue as the text for a repartee that A rirfewrlal (Jf HlmUrry. A re-dknt ct New "tork city has reeor4 of personal progrm tau may fairly be termed unique. He ia tf years old, aad every twelvemonth ace his picture ha been tktn. Ocdy alight chanrm appear from year to year, bnt very marked differences are to be noted la comparing the portraits marking the bt-innrag ctf each decade.

HCy. SMITH M. WEFIX eighth year, and from his youth up has been identified with the interts cf northern New York and cf he Democratic party. He was graduated from the Harvard law school Tit the age of 2:5. and immediately becan the practice of profession.

Ten years other demands on his time became so grpat that he retirsd. Mr. Weed's active political career datei from 1Sc4, when he was eiectl to the legislature. Ke has served severil terms as a member of that body, always being sr.t from a district solidly Republican as to all nominees ave only M. Weed.

Hi was a close friend of Mr. Tilden, and too'c an active pnrt ia the lat ter's nomination for the presidency. Prominent ia various Democratic national conventions and as a valued adviser ia the councils of the parry, the fact that for a quarter cf a century has had the hacking of otherwise Republicans in his political contests to say the least, rather remarkable. Perhaps a reason for this may be Duad in the fact that he has always Mtood by'' northern New York, and controls large basine interests that section. Mr.

Weed's personal appearance acd characteristics are those of a raaa ia superb rr.ent3l and physical heaita. Kj speech is animated, rapid and to the point. While conversing, his clear bine eye gleam with earnestness and hi. ruddy cheeks take on an added tinga to the hua of health. Because of his facial moid aa i beard he has some resemblance ia look to the late President Grant.

or tne government, ana are showing an increasing readiness to adapt theniscives to it. During the past year I have had personal interviews with prominent chiefs and representative Indians from Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and I have been much gratified with their intelligaiit apprehension of the situation, and with the willingness exhibited, as a general thing, to accept lands in severalty with individual citizenship. Almost without exception they have pleaded for more and better schools. These are some of the reasons for the faith that is ia me ia the ature of the Indian." RobjlUT Grates. tion at this agency.

At Pine Ridge agency, the seat of the war. the Indians raided in 1689 nearly 33,000 bushels of wheat, corn, potatoes and other crops. At Rosebud fairly good progress has been made, notwithstanding the scarcity of proper tools And implements for farming operations. For 1,300 farmers, scattered over an area cf 60 by 135 miles, the government supplied twenty-five cultivators and forty plows, and expected the farmers to support themselves. "You have doubtless read a great deal about Standing Bock Indian agency in the newspapers during the past two months.

One would naturally suppose Standing Rock tha center of a wild region, in which FRANK a STOCKTOK. Mr. Stockton for many years derived the largest part of his support as a reader for publishing houses, and it was not until he was well on in the prime of life that he caught the public fancy with the story cf "Rudder Grange," acd the shorter tale entitled "The Lady or the Tiger?" Mr. Howells, whose repute is perhaps greater than his popularity with the masses, would be unable to live upon the receipts from any of his books if he was not able to dispose of them to Harper's, to be first printed serially ia the magazine of that house. Even then his income would be small for a man of his tastes and social necessit ies.

So he was very giad to accept a proposition for journalistic work as one of the sub-editors of Harper's, and for this service he receives a larger annual sum than any of his books has ever brought him. Edgar Saltus, in the height of his popularity, was able to earn something like a year, although it is doubtful whether these figures can be maintained unless he devises some new sensation. But he is not dependent upon his literary income, and in this respect is like bis bosom friend, Edgar Fawcett. Of course the foundation for Mark Twain's wealth was laid when he wrote "The Innocents Abroad," and it has been increased by some of his other publications. But by far the larger portion of his wealth has come from his dramatic ventures, from his business investments and from his profits as partner in the house which pu biiaaed Gen.

Grant's memoirs. Bret Harte lives entirely upon the income from his writings. lie receives annually about but this ia due entirely to the fact that bis stories are sold to an PngKuhyri if He 9tke Few Soofj. Peanut soap is a zywdiah to wbach favor 1 shown by certain circk. Take a qpsart of freshly rxmtnt bum, dasiuded of their sheiis and skins, and pound them la a mortar until the whoii vrm a cake.

Boll la two quarts of water, using a ham boos forstoc. Sk'm of? the oil and seree-ho. PeeU Wbo Canaot CtmnU The Chiquito lar.gixage of Bvjlivia has bo numerals. The people can not ea count. Their mind cannot grasp the idea of cumber.

The Papuans of Terns strait have names only for one and two. The Bushmen of Australia ccunt only to three. A recent traveler on the plains of Gran Chaea, ia South America, met aihf wbo eoeii not couat hi finger. Thi represent pretty well the condition of the hataas mind ia man' lews state. yuth'Ca panioa.

It Wm PotMibl. A traveler who was known fc er5 gyrate once rfelatl at aa ina how fcs, along wirh two others, cade IZd tJ tLf enemy rat Of course believed him. bJ one of the company remarked after pause: "The thing is natural enough. thre gentlemen ran. and the IZ0 1 raa aikdr theja.J'aleriyjsegiA Mr.

Slimpnrse (after a decided refusal) I know what the matter is. It'3 because I am poor. You would many me a few brave white men took their lives in their hands in an effort to protect the country from the incursions of bands of savages. Perhaps not one reader ia a thou- aand knows that this agency is surrounded by Indian farms and grazing fields. Five thousand acres are under cultivation, and each year sees new la ad broken by the plow, though the climate is not favorable far tia crowing of small grains.

Not far way live the Yauktcna, who have been longer under instruction, and who have advanced farther in the arts of civilization. The Yanktons have their firms divided, and show a good deal of skill in their cultivation. Last year they raised 9,000 bushels of wheat, 3,000 of oais, 65,000 of corn, 7,000 of potatoes, 2.000 of turnips, besides cutting 5,500 tons of hay. They have 4.200 acres under cultivation, two-thirds of which is fenced. Thev cut A Graveyard for Three Races.

The strange phenomenon of one spot having served as the burial place for people of three races in three distinct ages cf the world's history is met with on a bluff cf the Iowa river, some forty miles from its mouth. This thrice sacred bluff is known as "Graveyard Point." It is situated ia the norrheast ern eorner of Washington eounty, and is the southern terminus of aline of bluffs for several miles along the west bank of the Iowa, the summits cf which are covered with thousands of curious forms of earthworks, mounds, etc, relics of a race of which the Indians have no distinct knowledge. After serving for ages as a cemetery for tha mound builders the Indians took possession of "Graveyard Point." also using it as a burial place. Back ia the forties, when white men drove the Indians out, they, too, began burying their dead on the bluJ, the same laad thus serving as "God's Acre" for three different and distinct races in three stagts of the world's development. St.

Louis Republic. if I were rich. Miss Gailie (thoughtfully) Perhaps so, but you would have to be very, very rich. New York Weekly. will mcAJ.

Ukeiy disconcert the speaker. It is this iicea tuat triaie the clab dia-' ners so famous. aa instsxtce of it ft is remembered that wLen a venerable senator robe to srftk lie aiid, rWben I wsi here I erpcsd to becailed on to rpenk, and having heard about yror crrv Uta I was prf-pired for tee worst. Whtrecpoa Dr. Ledlce, now United States consul to Amoy, China, interrupted him wih "S3 were we." Someumes the a-akee may be Lnprri oua to the tefecest ahaf ts of wit, or so accustomed to the ways of the dab that Le wiii istuet upon talking after he is really throcgii a custom not unknown to aT-er-dianer speakers generally and the elab saves him trouble and itaelf aaaoyance by 'zskUCim the isgood A Stitch in Time.

Jim Sniveiy has ist returned to Arts-tin from a plcaotir trip through Kentucky, his native atite. tells a cI story about what tiie g-side told him ia the Mammoth Cave. aaied the cnile if hn cotiLI not break c5 a small pi-ce cf stalactite and take along with him to Teiaa. "No, you don't," the custodian cf the cave. "If we to a'low every darned ol to carry off chunks of rock, it would hare away with the "Whole cave." Texas iftiss.

A Creat Trwblem Solved. He Why do you women persist in picking up these beggared foreign princes instead cf marrying true hearted, self made American She I suppose it is because the princes are so onsen more easy to Had. Indiaa-apciis Jazzes) last year of wood. These Yank-teos jvrciUzen.V.cloUi&. lime ia teler-.