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1 ' St ale Historical Society f OTA COUNTY MOTTO All Tbe News When It Is News. VOLUME 19 DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1910. NUMBER 11 OS 5 BELIEVED MANY MINERS ARE DEAD IN DELAGUA (COL.) MINE SHAFT. FIFTY MAY HAVE ESCAPED Force of Blast Felt Four Mile Away Rescue Parties Are Rushed to Scene Mouth of Main Slops Bad ly Caved. Trinidad, ool. Sixty or more miners were entombed and may be dead as a result of an explosion Tuesday In Mine No. 3 of the Victor American Fuel company at Pclayia, 20 miles northeast of Trinidad. Three men were killed at the mine's mouth. Fifty of the men In the wrecked mine are reported to have escaped through entry No. 2. Two of the men who were in the inlno at the time of the accident have been taken out. They were unable to tell anything that would lead to the belief that their comrades are still alive. The force of the explosion was felt at Hastings, four miles down the can yon, and the news of the disaster spread rapidly. Rescue car of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company was manned with a force of 73 trained res cuers and taken by Bpeciai engine to the scene. W. S. Getchel, general manager of the Colorado division, was at Gray Creek when notified of the disaster and left at once In an automobile and - Is in personal charge of the rescue work. The mouth of the main slope Is badly caved and recuers are di recting their efforts to reaching the entombed men through the rear of No. 2 "mine. Two of the men injured at the Bouth of the mine were brought to the local hospital In a serious condition. Officials seem to be unable to state how many men were In the mine. BRANDS DR. COOK A SWINDLER Ratmussert Sends Report From Far North Eskimos Say Traveler Did Not Reach Pole. Copenhagen, Denmark. Knud Ras mufisen, the Danish explorer, brands Dr. Frederick A. Cook as a swindler in a communication sent to his wife in this city. RaemuEsen incloses a narrative given by the two Eskimos who accom panied Doctor Cook and Commander Robert E. Peary on th'elr recent arc tic expeditions in which they declare that Doctor Cook Journeyed in a circle and did not reach the .north pole. The explorer writes in part as fol lows : "Already in the fall of 1939, when I was on an expedition to Greenland there existed grave doubts as to whether Doctor Cook had been near the north pole and I made up my mind to secure through thoroughly disinterested people a bona-flde re port of his Eskimo fellow travelers. It sukusuk and Apilak. "These young men belong to a tribe near Smith sound, the members of which still live the life of savages. They possess no written language and therefore I had to get somebody to write down the young men's report. Rev. Gufitav Olsen and Kateket Sech mann Rosebach, both born in Green land and newly-arrived missionaries to this tribe, did the writing. Fur ther, I received from the manager of a copper mine in Greenland, a man "named Nyboe, assistance in getting the report. In the fall I forwarded a letter from South Greenland by sledge Jo the missionary station and '.he let ter reached its destination in the winter. "On my arrival at North Star bay this summer I found the report - In the Eskimo language awaiting me containing the narrative given by Doctor Cook's companions to Rev. Mr. uisen. i myseir cave not seen tne force can be terminated on thirty young men since they returned with A&ya- notIco. The brotherhood con- Doctor Cook, but I knovr them from earlier times. They are clever and trustworthy men and I consider their report, obtained ty wnony disinter- ested persons, on the question of the reaching of the north pole by Doctoi Cook, more valuable than any I my mviL LUU1U linvc uuiai 1 CIVIL WAR IN HONDURAS President Davlla Wlll Probably Ap peal to U. S. to Take Charge I - of Affairs. San Salvador. A general rebelllot has broken out ln Honduras and In surgenta aro gathering ln the interior according to reliable dispatches re ceived here. It Is likely that President Davlla will appeal to the United States or tho Cartago court to take charge of his administration, as his government is In no condition to meet a crisis at this time. Marks Birthday by $50,000 Gift. Poughkeepsle. N. Y. John Blgelow, the veteran diplomat and author, who wlll celebrate his nlnoty-third birth day this month, Monday presented to his native village o'. Maiden on the Hudson, In lonor of the occasion, a 5G,000 recreation ball, and li brary. Japs to Seek South Pole. New York. The explorers' club was notified Monday that a Japanese expedition to the south pole will leave Tokyo November 15. EVERMORE jil Mr ,m Pw fi l!feJli IlPfPi ENGINEERS TO VOTE RAILWAY EMPLOYES WILL BAL LOT WHETHER TO 8TRIKE OR NOT. SIXTY-ONE ROADS INVOLVED Negotiations Tl-.rt Have Been in Progress Since September 26 Are Broken Off Men Demand 15 Per Cent. Raise In Pay. Chicago. According to the grant officers of the Brotherhood of Lo -motive Engineers, for whom Grand Chief Warren S. Stone of Cleveland, O., was the spokesman, a strike of all railroad engineers upon the sixty one roads running ncrth, sou'-h and west of Chicago may be called In January next. According to Mr. Stone, and ad mitted by railroad representatives, conferences were begun between a committee from the engineers and the Western Managers' association Sep tember 26, and nearly twenty-five ses sions have been held since, and Moiv day all negotiations were broken off as the last amicable arrangement of differences was declared to be unac ceptable. The union committee was compoaed of. fifty-two general chairman from all over the country, with six grand 3f flcers, and the railroads, sixty-one in number, were represented by a con ference committee of ten, being Gen eral Manager F. E. Ward, Burlington road; F. C. Bachelder. first vice-president B. & O. C. T.; F. Durham of the M K. & T.; G. H. Emerson, assistant general manager G. N.; T. J. Foley, assistant general manager I. C; F. C. Fox, general superintendent mo tive power C. P. R.; H. J. Simmons, general manager E. P. I S. W., and A. W Trenholm, general manager C, M. & St. P. W. B. Scott, assistant Jlrector of maintenance .ind opera tion, was chairman of the com- mittee. The engineers presented a demand ror an increase of 15 per cent, in Balaries, together with a number of arrangements improving conditions. The railroad men offered compromises which were refused, and the word was i taken back to the local unions to vote I whether or not to strike. The reply j wlll be brought back by December 15. , The present working agreement in talxiR 60,000 members in the United ' states. Canada and Mexico, and 33.- 780 engineers will be affected on the tlneg ln dlBpute. MjR. CRIPPEN GAINS DELAY Convicted Slayer of Belle Elmore Given Lease of Life While Attor ney Prays for Reprieve. London, England. It was announced officially Monday that Dr. Mawley II Crjppen, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, would not be executed Tuesday as originally arranged, as the law pro vides that two weeks must elapse be tween the dismissal of an appeal and the carrying out of the sentence. November 23 has been fixed upon as the date of the execution. So licitor Newton. Crippen'a counsel, Is drafting a petition for a reprieve. Blast Bank; Steal $2,000. Toledo, O. After blowing a portion of the vault through the celling with nitroglycerin, cracksmen secured $2,- D00 from the Southern bank, a private Institution of Jerry City, O., 83 miles from Toledo, Tuesday. The robbers scaped ln an automobile. Illinois Bank la Robbed. Champaign. The vault of the bank pt Penfleld, Champaign county, was entered Tuesday and 1900 in stamps deposited by the postmaster for safe keeping vers taken. TIDAL WAVES SWEEPS ME VOLCANO ON BOGOSLOV ISLAND BELIEVED THE CAUSE. No Wind Blowing When Sea Rushes In, Wreckln Houses and Flooding Streets. Nome, Alaska. Seventeen Iioubcb were destroyed, a number of vessels were washed away and the streets of the city filled with water when an un precedented and mysterious surf swept ln from the ocean. It la believed by many here that the high sea, which wua not accom panied by any wind, la due to volcanic activity, and it is thought that Bogos- lov iBland, the "new island in Behring sea, is to blame for the tidal wave. Bogoslov is iyi "intermittent iBland;" sometimes it is twins and sometimes it is sluglj. Again it is large, and then the next ship that passes, may report that It has dwin dled to a mere volcanic speck In the sea. Bogoslov, it is thought, muy have doubled again or may have blown it self to nothing, sending the tidal waves which all but inundated Nome. For several years the water here has been remarkably low, and this resulted in the bul.dlng of houses close to the shore. It was these that were swept away by the sea. No lives were lost, but many per sons had narrow escapes. The water swept far up the streets, those near the shore being completed inundated. BLIZZARD TIES UP THE EAST Towns Are Isolated and Railroadt Blocked by Storm From the At lantic Snow 3 Feet Deep. New York. A storm of midwinter intensity rode up the Atlantic coast on a gale Friday that left 21 inches of snow ln places in Pennsylvania, wrecked telephone and telegraph wires everywhere and tied up hun dreds of miles of electric car lines. Sleet and snow caused much wire trouble between Ntw York, Washing ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Scran ton and Harrlsbuig. Washington was almost entirely out off from New York during a greater part of the day, the conditions be!ng storm of March 4. 1909. A 50-mile galo sweeping Mlneola aviation field brought damage to six aeroplaues and wrecked six of nine tents ere: tod for the air men. Terrific gales, driving snow and sleet across the Hudson tnd turning the Palisades Into a typical winter land scape, marked the progress of the storm for many miles north of New burg, while down the bay and outside Sandy Hook the storm was so severe as to cauEG ocean liners to be delayed and serlcus damage to the steamship Honduras of the Compagnie Generate Trans-Atlantlque. The snow ln eastern Pennsylvania was reported at from eighteen Inches to three feet deep. Five of the seven collieries of the Sutquebanna Coal company in the Shamokln district had to suspend operations on account of the storm. The snowstorm extended to Harris burg on the west, but In damaging proportions did not come further east than New Brunswick, N. J. In Philadelphia u high north we it wind sweeping through the streets at from 30 to 40 miles an hour came as a climax to the storm of rain, sleet and snow that swept the city for 35 hours. Twelve Injured in an Explosion, New York. Twelve men are under the care of Brooklyn physicians as the result of a boiler explosion Tuesday. The men wore working on a "dead" boiler In an electric lighting plant near the water front, when another boiler ten feet away exploded. . Killed Over a Pool Game. Evansvllle, Ind. Edward Singleton and Joseph Fltchlngor quarreled over a game of pool Tuesday and Single ton was killed by Fltchinger. who iHsed brass knuckles. PEACE PLANS ARE REFUSED STRIKING GARMENT WORKERS REPUDIATE AGREEMENT. Citizens' Committee Declares Tailors' 8trlke Is Justified After Inves tigation of Trouble. Chicago. Just when everybody thought peace was in sight the 40,000 striking nurment workers turned down almost unanimously an arbitration agreement ligued 'jy Thomas A. Kickeft. president of their national union, and officers of ono of the largest firms concerned ln the walkout. The rejection of the agreement puts the strike back where it was before the jieace negotiations were started. Simultaneous wit.i the rejection of peace terms the committee of cltlec. a interested ia the strike several of them social settlement workers Is sued n report covering a week's In vestigation of the fctriko troubles. The report declared the walkout Justified on the ground of numerous grleVancei existing In the various es tablishment s. The investigators found the strike wus spontaneous In origin and not tl;o result of dissen sion spread by union agitators. The report closed by recommending a union or shop organization of the employes for the purpose of dealing collectively with the employers ln the adjustment of posuibl future disturb ances. The effect of the report undoubted ly will be to encourage the strikers to hold out for recognition of the union and for the closod shop as a condi tion for the termination of the strike. DEITZ GIVES $40,000 BAIL He Is Released But Rearrested op Char'e of Attempting to Shoot Man In 19C4. Hayward. Wis. Attorneys Zabei and Schultz, head of the Deltz defense committee, arrived here Monday from Eau Claire, where they received Judge WIckham's approval of the bonds of $40,000. The bond was approved and record ed after which procedure Deltz was notified that for a time at least be was again a free man. His wife and Clarence were overjoyed and quick ly bringing his overcoat, Clarence as sisted his father to put it on and stepped out on the porch of the Jail. However, his period of freedom was very short. Barely had the overcoat been placed on hlni, when Sheriff Madden read a warrant to him for the alleged attempted shooting of Pat rick McCin on May 8. 1004, and once more the famous Cameron Dam de fender was placed behind the bars. IOWA LOSES IN POPULATION Decrease of ',,082 Shown by Census Returns Result Is No Surprise .' to Officials. Washington. The population oi Iowa Is 2,224,771. according to the enumeration in the thirteenth cen sus. This is a si ;reano of 7,082, or 0.8 per cent, un3tr 2.231.853 in 1900. The increase from 1890 to 1900 wa3 819.572, or 16.7 per cent. The decrease Urn not surprise cen sus burea ' officials, as It was in line with what was expected in the agri cultural regions of the middle west. Unless the present basis of appor tionment is retained It is probablo that Iowa will lose one of her 11 members of congress. Director Durand attributes the fall ing off to the fact that the land al ready Is fully occupied and a gen eral tendency toward larger farms. He says a growth cannot be expected unless there Is a change to more In tensive cultivation. 65 MILES IN 66 MINUTES Aeronaut Flies Across Country with Cargo of Silk in Fastest Time a Biplane Ever Made. ColumbuB, O. Phil O. Parmelee, one of the Wright brothers' aeroplane op erators, made the fastest cross-country flight ever maile in a biplane. He flew from Dayton to Columbus, passing over South Charleston and London. The air lino distance as given by the Wrights Is sixty-five miles. The flight was made at a height of 3,000 feet in sixty -six minutes. Panualec curried $1,000 worth of silk for n dry goods firm. It is said this is the HrFt time the biplane hat been put to such commercial use. Fate Is Decided by Carda. St. IxhiIs. After a game of sol. italr1. had decided, his fate, Cbarlei W. loggers, twenty nine years old, end ed hl Hie by bv allowing a mixture nt carbolic acid and wood alcohol. Kggers took the fatal mixture when the ace and nine of spades, which be considered the worst carda In the deck, came out whllo he was playing a ganin of cards to which he had de termined to leave the question of life or death, ami blocked further play. Cautlht Printing Pay Ci.acka. "alt 1-iUo City While ln the act of print lug forged Chicago, Burlington st tjulncy pay checks at an engraving plant, F. H. lteckmeyer, a printer, and Elmer Peterbon, a boy of seventeen, were arrested lu re Tuesday. Coronation Band Leader Dead. Seattle, Wab Thomas Cannell, leader of a baud at tho coronation of Queen Victoria, died here Tuesday In his ninety-sixth year, leaving 89 de ceudants. Including seven graat- great-gr&ndchUdren. STATE'S CROP VALUE LABOR BUREAU FIGURES IT AT $220,000,000. CORN INCREASE IS OVER 1909 The Value of This Crop In Nebraska for 1910 Placed at Nearly $C0,OO0,CC0. "Despite the blue outlook In the spring, and especially during the mid dle of the summer te!:on, Nebraska again comes to tho front with big crops this year," said Deputy Labor Commissioner Maupln. "We have Just finished compiling the crop statistics, and we liud that the nine principal agricultural crops this year total approximately $220, 000,000 in value. "The corn crop of 1910 amounted to 178.823,128 bushels, an Increape of 9, 743,1,91 bushels over 1909. The value of this years com crop Is f S7.877.346. "Tho winter wheat yield this year was 80,617,535 bushels, a .decreane trom 1909 of 5,827.200 bushels. The Value of this year's wneat crop is $3G, 555,751. "The spring wheat y?eld this year was 4,533,517 bushels, an increase of 604,652 bushels over 1909. The value ct the spring wheat crop this year is 44,079,968. "The 1910 yield of wild and tame rmy, not Including alfalfa, -was 2,111,- 194 tons, a decrease of J, 141, 946 tons from 1909, which Is eanlly explained by the unfavorable weather condl tlons during the season when hay saould be muklng Its bent growth. The increased price, however, more than ncmpensates for the shorter crop, the valuo this year being $37,336,728, or nearly $8,000,000 more than laBt year. Alfalfa Crop. "The alfalfa crop amounted to 1,863,681 tons, a decrease of 8,889 tons from last year. This year's alfalfa crop Is worth $28,255,215. "This was Nebraska's banner oats year, the total yield being 71,502,877 bushels, worth $17,989,696. last year's oats crop amounted to 59,653,479 bush els. "The rye crop amounted to 823,648 bushels, worth $493,559. "The barley crop amounted to 2,333, 199 bushels, worth fl.073,271. ' "The potato crop' this year Is shbrt, amounting to 3,330,198 bushels, worth $1 a bushel now and bound to go up. "Tho sugar beet crop shows an in crease of 120 par cent over 1909, the production this year amounting to 105,369 tons, worth $526,854. "There were 1,149,028 bushels of speltz, 154.018 tons or millet, 174,154 tons of sorghum cane and 18,042 tons of kaffir corn. "The department did not take the manufacturing statistics this year, having co-operated with the govern ment census bureau and thus avoid ing the duplication of the work. There are plenty of evidences at hand to show a healthy Increase of production over the previous year, and it is safe to say that Nebraska's total manufac tured output during the last year Is upwards of $250,000,000. Live Stock Gratifying. "The live stock figures for 1910 are gratifying. The total valuation for the year is $174,983,050. "During the period covered by the report Just completed the grand total nf Nebraska's output grain, hay, live stock, buttter, eggs, poultry, miscel laous crops and manufactured pro ducts wlll approximate $680,000,000. I do not believe the btate has ever had a better year ,taklng everything as whole." Deep Waterways Convention, One request from a Lincoln citizen to be appointed as a delegate to the lakcs-to-tlie gulf deep waterways con vention, to be held in St. Louis on No vember 25 and 26, has been received by Mayor Love. The mayor Is author ized to appoint ten delegates to attend the convention. This being the Lum ber to be sent from cities of between 20,000 and 50,000 population. C. II. Tedd of Elm Creek, Neb., has written the mayor that he would like to be ap pointed a delegate, but from the In structions received Mr. Love is of the opinion that he must appoint tha del egates from Lincoln. , Tha Kidnaping of Mits Wood. In an effort to arouse the United States state department to an investi gation of the kidnaping of Miss Grace Wood, a former Nebraska girl, who oaa been a resident ln Mexico for the past year, Senator Burkett wired Secretary Knox. The Nebraska sen ator urged that the department look Into the matter with all possible ex pediency. Convict Attempts Escape. Elliott, a convict front Douglas county, who lacks four years of hav ing served out a fifteen-year term for burglary, made an attempt to escape. Elliott bad been working as a nurse In tha hospital which Sunday night contained only one patient, an epilep tic. He sawed the bara In the door of the hospital, making the opening ln tbe door through which food is passed large enough to get through. While he was doing this' tbe convict-patient threatened to give alurm, but h quieted blm with threats. GREAT CORN STATES. Nebraska Stands Fourth the Production. Four states are In a class by them selves ln producing corn this year, ac cording to an analysis of the govern ment's crop report for October, which has been subjected by tho liartlett Fraiier comyany to keen study. These four states nio Illinois. Iowa. Mis souri and Nebraska, which rank In total production of corn ln the or der given. All of them have over 200.000.000 bushels of corn in tho fields this year. Kansas, which Is 18.- 000,000 below tl'e 200.000.non mark this year, Is sixth in corn. Indiana is fifth with 193,000,000 burhels. Indiana averages 37.98 icr acre and I'nol8 has a flat 37. Iowa is 34.C, Missouri is 31 and Nebraska is 25.3. KanRas is only 20.5. Increased Production, (rain dealers say that the report Is rlRht when It declares that Increased production, the whole country consid ered, and ('iccreased consumption, ln cattle feeding usrn menus that a low price level is Inevitable! . On this subject the llartlett-Frazler report pays: "In foiir years out of the five pre ceding this consumption was prac tically the same, the fluctuations In supply brlns equalized by correspond ing increases or decreases ln final stocks carried over. The exception was ln the year 1900-07. when some thing Hko 250,000,000 bushels more was used than during the other years under review. The records show that this increase in distribution was stimulated by the low range of corn prices. May corn In Chicago ranging between 42 and 50 cents during prac. tically the life of the delivery, the greater part of the time under 45 cents. During tne last three years actual consumption was less by about 250,000,000 buahols each year, and co incident with this shortened consump tion it may bo noted that similar range of the May option was around 60 cents or more." Woman's Club Meeting. The delegates to the state meeting of woman's clubs returned from Te- cuniBeh, bringing enthusiastic, reports of the hospitality received. Two Lin coin women were re-elected to places on the executive board. Mrs. H. M, Bushncll was chosen to serve another term as general federation secretary and Mra. II. C. Lindsay, of Lincoln was re-elected a vice president for the First district. Tho complete new board follows: President, Mrs. T. J. Gist, Falls Civ; vice president, Mra Margaret Stewart, Tecumseh; corrc spondlng secretary, Mrs. J. IL Canl, Stella; recording secretary, Mrs May- belle Corbett, Atkinson. Information Is Wanted. City Clerk Ozman, secretary of the league of Nebraska municipalities, has written the members of the league to find out their attitude on certain questions, among them being a pro posed law which would exempt mun icipal bonds from taxation. Also whether or not it is believed that there should be modifications ln the laws regulating the expenditures of the county commissioners of moneys received in the road fund, so that a part of such money may be used on the streets of the cities within the the streets of the cities. Declined the Position. W. J. Furse, socretary to Governor Shallenberger, declined the appoint ment of railway commissioner to fill the vacancy occasioned by tbe death of W. H. Oowglll. Governor Shallen berger offered tho place to Mr. Furse and It was declined because the sec retary has made other arrangements which wlll keep him busy until after the first of the year. Mr. Thompson's Successor. Arthur Mullen, state oil inspector, has been appointed attorney generr.1, to take the place made vacant by the resignation of W. T. Thompson Treasurer's Monthly Report. The monthly report of Stat Treas urer L. G. Brian shows that he had on hand October 1, in all funds, $556, 440.86; receipts during the month, $455,719; payments, $258,017.97; bal ance at this time, $754,141.89. The cash and cash items on hand amoun to $22,271.59; cash on deposit, $731, 870.30. Must Show Cause. The Missouri Pacific has been or dered by the state railway com mis., slon to appear November 10 and show causa why tbo old schedule for train service between Omaha and Falls City should not be resumed. Numer ous complaints have been filed with the commission. Roas Is Indicted. James A. Ross was the second man to appear in federal court as the re sult of the recent session of the grand Jury and furnish bond for bis appear ance in the United States district court to answer the charge of selling liquor without having paid the gov ernment tax. Order to the Railroads. The state railroad commission Is sued an order, written by Chairman Clarke, insisting that the railroads comply with the order compelling them to absorb the increased switch ing charges which the Union Stock Yards company is authorized to make. The railroads pleaded that the commission had not obtained Jurisdic tion and that consequently the com mission bad no right to force pay ment of tbe lncreaso on tho railroads. The commission assorts that it did ac- 1 quire Jurisdiction. KQX 0ME TOWN HELPS 00C PARIS TO SPEND VAST SUM All Sorts of Civic Improvements Are Contemplated by the French Metropolis. The authorities of Paris have de cided upon the most gigantic and com prehensive project of municipal im provement ever undertaken in tha world. Involving n cost of no less than $IS0,0D0,O00. The second largest sin gle expenditure one-tenth of the whok' amount will be devoted to the stabllrlnuf nt of new schools and lin iiroviMv.) uis In thoso already existing, lurifciug froi.i the record of Franca in the Industrial education, which baa ro largfly contributed to the prosperi ty, it Is probable" that a large pro portion cf these millions will be ap r li d to the extension of the trad and art ?rhco!s. Th'.- n-liMv.e for the advancement of educational facilities will be ex cecil -d in cost by only one other sin gle Jt.-ia, il'.at for now water, works and the purification of the supply, for" which $2...0(i0.000 is to be. appro-,s priattd. '. . Nearly ore-half of the entire e pendlfiire contemplated will be "used in various methods for the reconstruc tion of tho planning of the city in volving c hanges not only ln the ave- . nues, parks, etc., within tho city limits, but including similar altera tlons in the suburbs.; The dread whitfe plague -tuberculosis will be combated as never be fore ln any city, the sum already set apart for this purpose being $6,000, 000. The sum of $7,000,000 will also ' ho applied to tho contsruction, im provement and repair of public hos pitals, nml 5S,000,000 more to the re. eonstni.'tlon of abattoir, while a still greater amount will.be required for the improvement of streets and pave ments nud for public lighting and street cloaning. ' POPULARIZING CIVIC PRIDE One Achievement of Reform Move. Love ef City Less Easily Aroused Than Love of Country. ; Another fruit of pi'eaching and prob ' ing was the development of what may fairly be called a new sentiment It blgaito UVu Aipoh all of us hatwo ought to love our cities, as We leva home or fatherland, with the love that expresses Itself ln sacrifice anif lnv1itj? desire to adorn and perfect the object loved. This love of one's city is less easily aroused than the love of coun try. For one thing, the city lacks the obvious poetry of tho countryside, that mystery and glamour of all-epveloping naturo which hallows the meanest hamlet Tho city at first view seems as prounic and practical as a mill. Only a deeper insight discloses the full wonder of this great living structure, which man baa reared for his abode. To have popularized that special form of loyalty, which has been named civio pride, is the second achievement of the reform movement, Probably every great community has inspired this een tlment among its inhabitants. Athens, Rome, Venice and Paris could scarcely; have become what they were without' some reflection in the living units of which they wero composed of tha might and majesty of the whole. Our American cities cannot hope to ba equally great, in any but a material sense, until thejr citizens look upon them with a like passion and loyalty;! until the New Yorker, for example, ia able to translate "Clvls Romanua sum" into its modern and local equiv alentJohn J. Fitzgerald in Norman E. Mack's National Monthly. I H Well Governed German Cities. German cities are the best gov erned in the world. How far apart are the Ideas of Germans and Amerin cans on tbe subject of city govern-. , ment may be seen from reading an,' advertisement which lately appeared' ln a number of German papers: "Th place of mayor of Magdeburg is , cant. Tho salary is 21.000 markB.' ($5 250) a year, Including tho rental of a dwelling In the city ball. Be-,; Bides his salary tho incumbent will re ceive 4.000 marks - ($1,000) , for bis official expenses. Candidates should apply before September l." Can any one imaglno an American city adver tising for a mayor? Can anyone give a good reason why u city should not adverllno for a jnayor when it needa one? The German Idea is that a mu nicipality 13 a builnecs. to "jo conduct; ed on business linca. Tbo office of, mayor 1b ono requiring knowledge and eVill of n technical, professional ( character. A rr.r.n who has proved' h'mpelf a rjond nayor ln one German tovn Is 'er.ii-r.'.ly Invited to ai e'.'.cr. No Ure for Pythagoraa. Fuddy I understand there ia som tal'; cf r-rnovtng the nam of Pythag oras from the front of the Boetoii. pUl l'hrrry. Uuddy Why bo P(!()y Some ono bus discovered tha he wrrte: "Havo nothing to wlti1 bcar.s." ' A Nrturnl Inquiry. This pci.lv.s states that ho attain threi'gh using tbe ideaa cf 'bHgMer r:cn." rd nv" ''bat fcuowju colas lid ha provide?" "is 1