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John Jacob Each the Wisconsin con
gressman who is one of the presidents
field marshals In the matter of railway
rate legislation had the good fortune
to participate in drawing the bill on
this subject which
passed the house
of representatives
last winter He
was not particular
ly well known un
til the railway rate
problem came to
the front but his
knowledge of that
subject constituted
his opportunity He
hails fiom a state
where the question
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JOHN J ESCH
of regulating the railroads has been an
issue for a number of years and a very
live issue at that
Representative Esch is smooth shav
en and has a very strong pleasing
face He was born of German parent
age in Monroe county Wis in 1SG1
graduated from the high school of his
native place and also from the state
university He engaged for three years
in teaching and while showing the
young Idea how to shoot began the
study of law graduated from the law
department of the state university iu
1882 and was city treaturer of Sparta
in 18S3 He has been active in the
national guard of the state and has
served as judge advocate general with
the rank of colonel This is his fourth
term in the house of representatives
Ralph Peters the new president and
general manager of the Long Island
railroad has a new joke which he de
clares was -cabled to him from Paris
says the New York Times It has to
do with the attempt to assassinate
King Alfonso of Spain when he was
riding through Paris In a carriage with
President Loubet of France
Whom are they after Mr Peters
declares the king asked the president
After you my dear Alfonse re
plied the French chief executive with
out a smile
When Norway separated from Swe
den there was talk at once of giving
some prominent office in the new gov
ernment to the famous explorer scien
tist and patriot Fridtjof Nansen
There was even a Nansen presidential
boom to use an American phrase when
Jt was supposed that the government
to be formed might be a republic rather
than a monarchy He was also men
tioned for the post of minister of Nor
way to the United States However
he has been chosen as minister to Great
Britain It seems that in connection
with the agitation for the independence
of Norway Dr Nansen went to Eng
land and carried on a campaign of en
lightenment there for the benefit of the
British public The sentiment thus cre
ated proved of ad
vantage to the Nor
wegian cause when
the separation from
Sweden came
Although known
to the world at
large chiefly as an
explorer Nansens
ii activity In his own
land in behalf of
the Interests of his
countrymen has
been such as to en
dear him to them in
an unusual degree
and the courage he once displayed in
penetrating the ice fields of the arctic
le evinced again in leading the way
along the adventurous pathway of Nor
wegian independence
Some years ago when Nansen was in
I Dr Herbert LPraifl
Eehstebed Graduate
Dentist
Office over McConnells Drug Store
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A Gertie laxative
And petizer
America he told a story of one of his
countrywomen who journeyed to the
United States In search of employment
She was taken Into a household as a
cook but failed to give satisfaction
Nearly everything she undertook ended
In failure and finally the lady of the
house asked desperately
Ililga Is there anything you can
do
Yees responded nilga with a grin
Ay can milk reindeer
Frederick A Buruham president of
the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
company who has figured in the in
vestigation of insurance matters which
the Armstrong legislative committee Is
making has occupied his present post
since 1895 no was born In Rhode Is
land in 1851 and educated at institu
tions in Chester and MIddletown
Conn and at the Albany Law school
He made a special
ty of insurance and
commercial law and
the late Edward B
Harper when pres
ident of the Mutual
Reserve made him
head of the legal de
partment of that
concern On the
death of Mr Har
per ho succeeded
him in office In the Frederick a
course of the burnham
ance inquiry it was brought out that
Mr Harpers will contained a clause
which practically made it incumbent
upon the company to select Mr Burn
ham as his successor An investigation
of the affairs of the Mutual Reserve
was made last year by the Canadian
parliament James D Wells formerly
second vice president of the society
testified in the course of this inquiry
that a former superintendent of insur
ance of New York state had offered for
100000 to let the Mutual Reserve
write its own report of an investiga
tion his department had made of the
I society He further said that Mr
j Burnham told him he had paid 40000
to secure the manuscript copy of the
same state superintendents report
Mr Burnham has denied that he ever
made such a statement
John Kendrick Bangs who for some
years has been in New York is to be
come a countryman again I have
blue penciled city life he said recent
ly My eye is on a farm In New
England where I hope before long to
be able to provide an appreciative pub
lic with limited editions of squab-chickens
large paper turkeys and deckle
edged eggs And he added slyly no
item In either class will go out without
my signature
The arrival in this country of John
Oliver Hobbes for a lecture tour has
caused some persons of neglected edu
cation to make remarks based upon
the supposition that the author belongs
to the sterner sex but in private life
John is Mrs Pearl Mary Teresa
Craigie and she is a woman who pos
sesses a most attractive personality as
well as exceptional literary talents
She was born in
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JOHN OLIVER
HOBBES
Boston in 1SG7 and
at nineteen married
a n Englishman
Reginald Walpole
Craigie from whom
she afterward ob
tained a divorce
She sometimes
laughingly calls
herself a citizen of
the world for she
began her travels at
the age of three
when she was taken
on the usual Amer
ican tour through Europe by her par
ents and she has traveled extensively
ever since She studied in Rome and
Paris and also in London where she
attended Greek and Latin lectures at
University college She is an accom
plished musician and received much of
her training at the Royal Academy of
Music
It is said that Mrs Craigie took the
name John Oliver Hobbes as a literary
signature because she thought no pub
lisher would tako her Some Emotions
and a Moral if they knew it was writ
ten by a girl of twenty two
Professor John W Burgess who has
been appointed first incumbent of the
Theodore Roosevelt professorship at
Berlin university has been dean of the
faculty of political science at Columbia
university New York since the crea
tion of the office in 1S90 The chair he
will fill represents a sort of internation
al comity in the field of learning and
was established at the instance of the
German emperor who talked the mat
ter over with President Nicholas Mur
ray Butler of Columbia when the lat
ter visited him last summer James
Speyer gave 50000
for the endowment
of the chair and at
his suggestion it
was named In hon
or of President
Roosevelt Tlio Ger
man government
will do its part in
the scheme by es
tablishing a chair
at Columbia to be
filled by a German
scholar
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PKOFES iOR JOHN
W BURGESS
Professor Burgess
was born in Giles county Tenn in
1S44 and in 1SG0 entered Cumberland
university at Lebanon Tenn but grad
uted from Amherst college as the
Tennessee institution was closed for a
time during the civil war He studied
law but decided to devote himself to
the teaching of International law con
stitutional history and political science
and has held professorships at Knox
college in Illinois and at Amherst as
well as at Columbia He will receive
a leave of absence from Columbia while
in residence abroad
3a Par Counticn
Whea the shower came up the artist
who was walking through Nevj Hamp
shire on a sketching tour sought shel
ter under a tree where he was soon
Joined by another wayfarer a man of
middle age who looked a sort ot better
class tramp and Indeed was one
The two entered Into conversation
and it came out that the wayfarer waa
a harness maker by vocation but a
rover by predilection
Yes he said Im a rolling stone
Im never happy In one place Im hero
today and gone tomorrow Theje aint
any fossil about me Im on the move
all the time The world is made to
see I say and Im bound to seo all I
can of It
The artist began to think that he had
fallen in with a modern Marco Polo
and by way of leading up to some in
teresting anecdotes of the antipodes ho
remarked
You must have been quite a trav
eler
Well thats about so the mau
modestly replied I reckon I could
find my way over New Hampshiro
with my eyes shut and I was once two
months In Vermont
Cold That KHIh and Cold That Cured
In England severe cold generally
kills a good many people In certain
parts of North America cold still moro
severe puts new life iiuo them It re
quires no argumentation to show that
there must be a definite reason for this
The chief reason is that English cold
Is mostly damp while In North Amer
ica it is mostly dry There is the great
est difference in the world between dry
air and damp air The former Is usu
ally air pure and simple possessing a
full quantity of oxygon and often
charged highly with ozone The latter
consists of air mixed with the vapor of
water When the former air fully
oxygenated Is breathed it stimulates
more powerfully than chamnagne Tho
latter less oxygenated and charged
with vapor of water not only does not
stimulate but depresses Public Opin
ion
FastaH Wondcrfnl Voice
Mmo Pastas voice extended from
low A to D in altissimo and was ono
of the most remarkable illustrations
ever furnished of the value of musical
culture In overcoming natural blem
ishes Her voice was stubborn and un
manageable but by dint of study and
Indefatigable perseverance she brought
it to a state of perfection that was tho
admiration of her contemporaries Her
delight was the bravura style of orna
ment and where the composer had not
been sufficiently liberal in bestowing
ornamentation on her part she invented
cavatinas of her own and used them
with such effect that they were gener
ally regarded as the best part of her
singing She made her first appear
ance on the stage in 1S15 her last In
1S50
The SZeaningr of Sympathy
It was a clever Frenchwoman who
said Those who have suffered much
are like those who know many lan
guages They have learned to under
stand and to be understood by many
It is an impossibility to fully sympa
thize with anothers experience unless
It has been at some time ones own
In trouble or grief we turn instinctive
ly to some one whom we know has
been through the same experience It
Is the old human longing for compan
ionship that shows itself The feeling
Is strong within us that she will feel
and know with me Therein lies the
meaning of sympathy
The Minister Response
A well known minister of a kirk in
Glasgow was one day passing along
tho High street when he was accosted
by a crowd of street gamins one of
whom said mischievously but with be
coming gravity Dye ken minister
the deIl is deed The minister made
no imiedlato response but on the
whole crew reiterating the cry The
deila deed Tho deIls deedl he
turned and raising his outstretched
hands as if to pronounce a blessing
reported Ach yo puir leetle faithless
bairns
Englands Cnrlosity Shops
Many of tho curiosity shops planted
in the back streets of most country
towns in England are simply kept up
by large London firms who from a
prolonged study of human nature have
discovered that people who are shy of
buying old furniture or old silver In
Bond street or Piccadilly are ready
and eager purchasers of precisely the
same objects at a rather higher price
when they come upon them in the back
streets of a country town
When the Stove Preaclied
De preacher wuznt feeliu good last
meetin day an he made de stove
preach de sermon
Made de stove preach
Yes made It redhot fura top ter
bottom an den tol he sinners ter take
a good look at it an go ter thlnkin
Atlanta Constitution
The Unratefnl Ones
Do you think it pays to be gener
ous said the man of doubtful mind
Well that depends replied the phi
lanthropist To tell the truth it isnt
the money Ive given away that I re
gret its what Ive lent Detroit Free
Press
Marine Graveyard
First Fish You ned not feel so
proud you old graveyard Second
Fish This is an insult Why do you
call me an old graveyard First
Fish Because you are fu I of bones
Her Hope
Josie I was taken for twenty five to
day and I am only eighteen Julia
What will you bo taken for when you
are twenty five Josie For better or
worse I hope
A QUEEN IN EXILE
Pathetic Story of Ranavolo of Mada
Kncar Her French Iennlnn
There Is a pathetic side to the story
of Ranavolo Manjaka III the deposed
queen of Madagascar who Is now on
a visit to Paris She was once ruler
over 3000000 people and a territory
measuring 250000 square miles She
came to the throne of Madagascar in
1882 when a war was in progress and
it was her duty on several occasions
to appear before the assembled thou
sandsof her warriors and stimulate
them by a few stirring words to en
thusiasm for a brave defense of their
fatherland On one such occasion she
said I am a woman but I have the
heart of a man and I myself will
stand up and lead yu to fight with
those who would take away our land
God forbid that we should become
slaves of the foreigner
But the tide of war and of fortune
was with the foreigner In 1S85 the
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BANAVOIiO lTAXJAKA III
war was terminated by a treaty in
which the French acquired protectorate
rights over Madagascar and Ranavolo
became a vassal queen instead of an
independent sovereign Ten years lat
er hostility toward the French again
led to war with the result that Rana
volo was deposed while Madagascar
became a French colony She was ex
iled first to the Island of Reunion and
thence in 1899 to Algiers where she
has to live except when she obtains
special permission from the French
government to pay a visit to some oth
er place She has received a regular
pension for years and in deference to
public sympathy for the exiled queen
it was recently raised from 30000 to
50000 francs
SIR FREDERICK TREVES
Faaious Snrgreon Who Sayn Disease
Is Not a Bad Thine
Americans heard a good deal about the
famous English surgeon Sir Frederick
Treves when he operated so success
fully upon King Edward and brought
that monarch through an illness which
threatened to put a premature end to
his reign He stands at the head of
his profession in England and holds
the title of sergeant surgeon in ordina
ry to the king and surgeon in ordinary
to the Prince of Wales He is a fore
most authority on the subject of ap
pendicitis and peritonitis and was the
first surgeon to introduce removal of
the vermiform appendix as a cure for
appendicitis which by the way he
calls perityphlitis It is said that he
has operated upon more than a thou
sand cases of this nature and that only
two persons of all this number died
Recently Sir Frederick has been at
tracting attention by his utterances to
the effect that disease is not altogeth
er a bad thing Disease he says may
be beneficent and he declares that if it
SIB FREDERICK TREVES
were not for disease the human race
would soon be extinct In illustration
of his idea he instances the malady
known as a cold and says that sneez
ing drives bacteria from the nasal pas
sages while coughing removes them
from the windpipe
Sir Frederick was born in 1S53 edu
cated in London and won his reputa
tion In London hospitals At the out
break of the South African war he
threw up his London practice and vol
unteered for service Ho was appointed
consulting surgeon was present at ev
ery engagement from Colenso to Lady
smith and on his return was knight
ed It is related that when be got
back in London he met one day an offi
cer who had been wounded and the
greater part of whose brain tho sur
geon had removed On the surgeon ask
ing him how he was getting along
with half a brain the officer answered
Oh its all right you know They
hwe given me a good berth in the war
office
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A Thackeray Story
Mrs TBayard Taylor tells an interest
Ing story of Thackeray in her memoirs
On Two Continents The Taylors
met Thackeray in London soon after
their marriage Mrs Taylor writes
that she found confirmed iu his person
the characteristics which I had guessed
at from his works a warm heart under
the mask of scathing satire On the
occasion of a small dlnuer which he
gave us he said to my husband after
the gentlemen had rejoined the ladies
in the drawing room By the bye I
must give you a wedding present
What shall it be Then going to an
etagere he took down a silver Inkstand
and gave it to his friend In spite of the
evident displeasure of his youngest
daughter usually so amiable who ex
claimed with all the naivete of her fif
teen years Oh not that one papa
But papa gave no heed and a few days
later sent us the gift with the Inscrip
tion engraved upon it W M Thack
eray to Bayard Taylor Oct 27 1S57
Freak Statue
One of the most interesting freak
statues in England Is to the memory of
Sir R Holmes It is to be seen in the
church at Yarmouth Isle of Wight
The funny thing about it is that it
was not originally intended to repre
sent that naval celebrity It was sculp
tured for and represents Loins XIV
of France and was being couveyed to
Unit country when the vessel contain
ing it and also the sculptor was cap
tured by an English ship commanded
by Sir R Holmes Tue body was fin
ished the head being left for comple
tion on its arrival In France On learn
ing who it was for the English com
mander compelled the sculptor to fin
ish it by chiseling his Holmes head
on the kings body Sir It Holmes was
afterward made governor of the Isle
of Wight and held this office from 1G07
till 1G92 and after his death the statue
was erected to his memory
Snow Iuiicrn
In the Sierra Nevada mountains
when conditions are favorable for tho
display there occurs a beautiful and
startling phenomenon cf nature At
times when the wind drive up the
mountain sides in a certain direction
and with sufficient velocity there
stream out upon the air snow banners
from a hundred mountain peaks Thej
are formed by the circling wind acting
upon the light snow and are thick and
dark at the top of the mountain like a
flagstaff then they float away broad
ly for a mile in length in waves of
iridescent light This magnificent dis
play is rarely seen by other eyes than
those of savages but sometimes it has
been the good fortune of a naturalist
to witness It when among the wild
beauties of the mountain fastnesses
Ancient Theatrical Programme
Theater programmes were known
even in ancient times though they
were then of a very peculiar construc
tion In Greece and Romo they con
sisted of small tablets which were
handed out to the audience at the en
trance Those occupying the best seats
obtained programmes beautifully work
ed in ivory while those occupying the
cheaper seats were given tablets In
bronze
The bronze tablets were distinguish
ed by a dove worked in the metal and
the term piccionerio used in Italy
today as designating the lower priced
seats in the theaters dates from this
antique custom
Another Phase
No person can say with absolute au
thority just where the line between de
cision of character and undesirable ob 1
stinacy should be drawn but many
persons attempt to do it
I like my wifes prompt decisions
as to what shed better do said the
husband of Mrs Orlando Jones and
I admire the firmness with which she
settles all disputed matters for the
children but the surprising obstinacy
which she displays concerning my af
fairs is a constant surprise to me It
seems so out of character
Margaret of Anstrla
Bearded women have been very nu
merous The most noted of the num
ber was the famous Margaret of Aus
tria appointed by Charles V to be
governor of the Netherlands She had
a long stiff black beard and conceiv
ing the Idea that it added to the majes
ty of her appearance was very careful
of it and so combed juid trained it as
to make It seem much greater than it
was
His Inexperience
Judge Have you anything to say
prisoner at the bar before sentence is
passed upon you
Prisoner I hope that your honor will
take into consideration the youth and
Inexperience
Judge interrupting You
have been convicted seventeen times
Prisoner Oh no your honor I was
alluding to my counsel
A Scmlnblisciiisr Friend
I am so giad I have met you as I
have two favors to ask of you
Yvhat are they
I want you to lend me 10 and not
to say a word about it to any one
Two favors at once man Thats
too much of a good thing One of
them yes I wont breathe a word of
this to a living soul
One of the Fallacies
Clerk As I am about to get married
I came to ask if you would not give
me an increase of salary Employer
My dear sir that Is not necessary
You know a young man always saves
money by marrying
The Definition of tho Defeated
She And so you think Im a coquette
Why I dont believe you know what a
coquette Is He bitterly A coquete
Is a woman who syndicates her affec
tions Life
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Royal
Baking
Pow
RAI iSJP
is made of Grape
Cream of Tartar
Absolutely Pure
Makes the food
more Wholesome
and Delicious
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A HORNED PEOPLE
Queer Race TItat Lives Xear the Chi
nese Prefecture of Chlenchunfr
Adjoining the Chinese prefecture of
Chienchang is a deep gully barred by
u river which no Chinaman is permit
ted to pass until he finds bail for his
good conduct in Ioiodom
The Lolos are a slim well made
muscular race with oval reddish brown
faces high cheek bones and pointed
chins from which the beard has been
carefully plucked They are far taller
than the Chlncnc and indeed than any
European race but their marked pe
culiarity Is the horn Every male
adult gathers his hair in a knot over
his forehead and then twists it up in a
cotton cloth so that It resembles the
horn of a unicorn
This horn is considered sacred and
even if a Lolo settles In Chinese terri
tory and grows a pigtail he still pre
serves his horn The Lolo mans prin
cipal garment is a wide sleeveless man
tle of red or black felt tied about the
neck and descending almost to the
heels The trousers are of Chinese
cotton with felt bandages No shoes
are worn but a conical hat of woven
bamboo covered with felt furnishes a
head covering as well as an umbrella
The Chinese divide the Lolos into
two classes which they call respective
ly Black Bones and White Bones
the first being the nobles and the latter
their vassals and retainers There is
also a third class of captive Chinese
and their descendants called Watzu
practically slaves uho are tattooed on
the forehead with the mark of their
tribe
The Lolos never marry except in
their own tribes captive Chinese wom
en being given to their bondsmen The
marriage of a Black Bone is a time of
great festivities and many banquets
The betrothal Is celebrated and ratified
by the present of the husband to the
brides family of a pig and three ves
sels of wine
On the wedding morn the bride is
richly dressed with many ornaments
She is expected to weep profusely
whether she feels so Inclined or not
In the midst of her tears the grooms
relatives and friends dash In seize the
bride the best man carries her out of
doors on his shoulders she is clapped
on a horse and hurried off to her new
home Here she finds horses cattle
and sheep provided by the grooms
family while her own people send
clothes ornaments and corn Women
occupy a high position among tho Lo
los and a woman chief Is not unknown
among the tribes New York Herald
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
When you die you will die as dead
as anybody
We all have enough to be cross about
Still it isnt a good idea to show It
People like to be called enthusiastic
but how they hate to be called gush
ing
The only difference between the mod
ern family row and that of the older
days 13 that tho modern one isnt as
big a family
The good fellow you slap on the
back and tell your troubles to may
seem good natured but he complains
of you to his wife
There is nothing so disappointing as
to have one take you aside to tell you
a great secret and then discover that
you already know it Atchison Globe
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Losing ycur hair Coming
out by the combFul And
doinfj nothing No sense in
that Why dont you use
Avers Hair Vigor and
m a
ir Vigor
promptly stop the falling
Your hair will begin to grow
too and all dandruff will dis
appear Could you reason
ably expect anything better
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the Hvr inor stopped it and nott my hair is
all right W C Iogsiox Lindsay Cul
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