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YnchtltiK hns again taken precedence over
Iiiihu hall iiihI In fact even gulf mid font ball
lis n form of conventional eporl. People
who have never no much as sniffed salt
water ami who couldn't tell n backstay
fiom n deacleye lo save tlielr hoiiIs lurd
their talk with maritime allusions until
Hie stranger from Mars would think us n
men of sailors It Is all on account of the
America's cup, a lilt of nntiiuuicd nrim
in ti tn I sllvcrwnic which was worth less
Ihan ir.O fifty years ago, hut for the pos
session of which It Is estlmalcil that nearly
AMUUIOA'S CUP. THU (IUKAT INTKItNA
TIONAIi YACIITINO TI101MIV, II KM)
FOR FIFTY YKAUS IIV AMUItlCANH.
S 1,000,000 has been spent. This cup simply
represents a sentiment, hut that sentiment
animates two of the greatest nations of the
world. For fifty years, since the day the
American sloop outsailed the entire llrltlsh
licet around the Isle of Couch In 1811, It
has been the desire of the true Urltlsh
ON A ipiestlon as to the admissi
bility of a deposition for want of
notice the court said: "It li
stilled by ono of the earliest writ
ers lo enforce the rule on this
subject t tint even tho Almighty would not
proceed to pronounce sentence against our
great nueestor without giving him notice,
ami. therefore, llrst cnlled to him: 'Where
art thou, Adam 7' "
Tim Ingenious method by which twelvo
dlveigcnt and obstinate minds agree by
taking the iiuotlent of their aggregated
notions divided by twelve was recently
adopted by an experienced juryman while
acting ns one of thre" commlFsloners of ap
praisal. One party claimed that there
was due tt I nt over $3.10. The other eon
tended that the amount was only J250. The
commission awarded JT.'i only. The astute
and veteran Juryman ufleiward explained
Hint the three commissioners reached thU
result by adding together their three esti
mates and dividing the mini by twelve.
Within less than a doen miles of tho
New York city hall In the borough of Man
hattan, a unlet suburban community, has a
Jiis lco of the peace who continues to prac
tice his calling as a hirher and holds court
In a room adjoining his shop. From chair
10 chair he lilt. In one moment plying hU
razor or scissors and chattering like a true
Figaro, In anrther announcing his Judicial
decision with Ih" solemnity of a lord high
chancellor. Th - hirbor magistrate, shaving
soap In one bend and the scales of Justice
In the other, s a truly Imposing ilgure
Pat. having been unduly familiar with a
eorkless bottle, found himself enjoying a
11 ght's lodging nt the expense of the city.
"How long have you been III this coun
try?" naked the Judge, the next morning.
"Faith, an" IIV imlgh on to given months,
yer In nor." replied Pat.
TWO IIOIHS CATCH HI.ACK HASS
sportsman to see that cup brought home
It was III n the (Jiiccn s tup. but has nil. e
been rcchrlslt tied and Is held now as n
perpetual International i hath lime trophy.
Year after onr have the best boat builders
of Knglnud and America turned out th
highest types of their skill as designers
and craftsmen, to be manned by picked
irews In 'he races for this trophy, and the
American has never failed to triumph Two
years ago Sir Thomas Upton came across
with his llrst Shamrock and was beaten by
Columbia He Is here again with Shamrock
II and again Ih Columbia successfully de
fending (he cup. On the front page today
The llec gives a reproduction of an excel
lent picture of this beautiful yacht, taken
Just before the start of one of the races
two years ago. In the far upper right side
of the background Shamrock I Is shown,
the two skippers being then engaged in
one of their pleasant little ducks of sea
manship, each trying to get thu better
of the other at the start. A picture of thu
America's cup Is also given.
One hundred ami forty-live feet above
the sidewalk, supported only by a hand
bold on the top of u slender ll.igpnlc Is not
a berth to Invite. Y. M. Starkey, an
Omaha painter, doesn't consider It tnd
though, anil modestly disclaims to consid'r
IiIh daring climb a feat worth speaking of
One day recently It was found necessarv
to run a new rope through the pulley at
the top of the llagstnlT on The lie:' building.
T'lis llagstalT rles forty-live feet above the
roof, or 1 ITi feet higher than the side
walk Starkey climbed the pole, llxed the
ripe and Mulshed by giving the llagstalT a
coat of paint While he was at work one
of the staff photographers made a . pho'o
graph of hltn.
Two of the pictures published this week
are of catches of black bass one a string
taken in a couple of hours from a Minnesota
lake by Y. A Webster, nnd the other a black
sea bass, taken In the Pacific bv V. II.
l.nederlch. The difference Is easily noted.
Mr Wchstei's largest fish weighing four and
one lint f pounds, while Mr. I.aederlch's
weighed 331 pounds. In order to get credit
fur catching a sea bass the 11 short 1 1 n n must
Mirthful Incidents
"Have you a trade?" asked the Judge.
"Sure an' It's a sailor Ol am," answered
the lilshman
"He carrful what you say," cautioned the
Judge. "I doubt very much If you have
ever been to sea In your life."
"Hegory!" exclaimed the son of Krln,
"an' Is It In n wagon yer honor's afther
Ihltiklu' Ol came over from the ould roun
thry?" A brief tiled In the supreme court of the
United Slates declares that In the court of
llrst Instance the Judge was an ex-minister
of the gospel nnd Hint In the appellnte
court nnother ecclesiastic fresh from tho
circuits got hold of tho case and wrote the
opinion. It ndds: "The honorable gentle
liiaii who wrote had served and grown old
In the circuits, expounding ecclesiastical
Inw. Having fulled nt that, upon the elec
tion of Hon. . mid through the
Influence of tho Hon. . ho wns
appointed Judge on the supreme bench of
, nnd Is now Jurist nnd expounds the
Inws of men. On examination of
Ills opinion on the points here under dis
cussion It will at once be seen that he
never understood the subject nt all."
A young womnti employed as n stenog
rnpher had a beau named Will, to whom
she talked some twenty-live times a dny,
relntes the Huston Post. The lawyer who
labored under the Impression that he was
paying for the stenographer's lime wns not
pleased that Maggie should drop her work
nnd rush frantically to the telephone every
time the bell rang, and stand there for
llflecu minutes debating whether or not
Will ought to have told Clara Hint secret
which he knew well enough was none of
Clara's business. One day the lawyer left
his oillce, am' going to nnother telephom
In the building, called up his own otllce
Of ectirse, Maggie rushed frantically to
(he 'phone nnd answered.
"Hello1" said the lawyer. In n miillled
-CAUtillT IIV W A WHIISTKK
use ordinary tackle. Mr l.nederlch used a
s.tceii-ouui'e pole and a twenty four thread
linen line It was two and three ipiartcrs
I'curs from the time the llsh was hooked
until It was brought to gaff, a snuggle well
calculated to test the nerve and strength
of the fisherman.
Iowa editors have always hnd a high
plarc in the newspaper world The Hawk-
;i:oit(ii: w post of yoiik pkksidiint
OF NF.IIItASKA HANK HHS" ASSOCIA
TION Photo by ltlnehart
eye Htate has turned cut a few Journa Ms
and even a "literary feller" or so, but It
has always managed to retain a linn hold
on a lot of the brightest and most ener
getic hustlers who ever made a paper shlti.
According to late tlgures Iowa stands at
the head of the list as a newspaper reading
state, thete being more papers published
in proportion to thu population there than
anywhere else In the union. As a rule the
papers are clean In tone, neat In appear
ance and have not cnly the moral, but Mi-
limine al support of the people. Much of tho
Which Ripple
voice. "This Is a lineman testing the wire.
Kindly stand one foot In front of the re
ceiver and sny 'hollo.' "
Maggie obeyed.
"Thank you. Now stand two feet to one
side and say 'hello.' "
Maggie compiled.
"Thank you. Now stand two feet on the
other side and say 'hello.'" It was done.
"Thnnk you. Now stand on your head
and say 'hello.' "
Maggie seems to lie somewhat backwnrd
in answering the telephone now.
"A number of years ago," Bald tho well
known attorney to the Detroit Free, Press
mail. 'I wan called up In the northern pait
of the stnto on nn linporiuut lumber suit.
I was anxious to win It for a number of
.1 II CONINC.HAM OF LINCOLN, PUUSI
HUNT OF NI'HHASKA UHTAII. ()lO
CKItS' ASSOCIATION.
III.ACK SUA PASS Wr.HillT 331 POUND? CAUOHT UY V I! I,AKI)i:itICIl
success of the Iowa edlior Is du to the
i dltorlal nsnclatlon, of which 'her' nr"
several In the slate One of these, the
I'ppcr l)is Moines F.dltorlnl nssrclallon
recently held Us twentv-sccoud annual con
viillen at Denlsoii. This ns'oclntlnn w-i
originally deigned to Include onlv th II -ti
en coiinlliM In the upper lies Millies
vnlb y. but has since broadened to admit nu
editor from any part of the state. It had
a most successful session and also had Its
picture taken. The Hco reproduces the
handsome group today.
r.
One of the pictures in The llee this week
will dispel a popular Impression of th'
new president of the United States. So ac
customed have people become to seeing Mr
ltoosevelt depleted with a srft hat that verv
few can think of him In connection with
the conventional silk tile Yet In the group
which welcomed Admiral Dewov on board
the Olympla In New York harbor. The llee
photographer caught a snap shot of Presl
dent ltoosevelt. then governor of New York
with n high hat on. The governor was
making n short talk. Tho poise of his
head nnd the tilt of his hat show that he
has as little regard for the glossy "plug"
as hedoes for the soft felt he crushes In his
hand when talking politics to a crowd of
his western fellow citizens.
lion 0. W Post Just elected president of
the Nebraska Hankers' association, was
born at ."'uniberlaiiil. Guernsey county.
Ohio, Jinuary 20, isr.l. nll( N snn nf
William K. and Sarah S. Post. From
Cumberland his parents moved to Missouri
and shortly after the war was begun, moved
to Hlooinfleld. In. Mr. Post wns educated
In a district school In Iowa nnd nt thu
Troy High school, anil although only II
years of nge. li enlisted at Illoomllelil. la.,
for 100 days' service In the Fifty-fifth In
fnnfry. He studied nw In the office of Hon.
tr rt t' . ... . .
. i inverse or iiioomueiii, la., and wns
ndmltlcd to the bar In 1S71, and shortly
nfterwards moved lo York. At that time
ho wns the only nttomey located In tho
county. In 1ST.' he was elected Judge nf
the Fourth Judicial district and wns re
elected In lS7f. He wns nlsn Internal
revenue collector for the stnte of Nehrnska.
the Current of
reasons, and I stralncu every nerve to get
a verdict In my client's favor. I had every
hope Hint I would succeed till the opposing
counsel put nn old bnckswoodsman nn the
stand whose testimony wns particularly
damaging lo my client's case. I believed
then, and I believe now. that the old man
wns lying, but to prove It was nnother mat
ter, as he told a straight story nnd stuck to
It; so I was rather discouraged when he
was handed over to me to he cross-examined.
" 'You understand, nf course,' said I, 'tho
solemn obligations of the 0nth you gnve
when you took the stand?"
"lie merely grunted In reply.
" 'I suppose.' said I, blandly, 'Hint yon
umlerstnnd the nature nf an oath?'
" 'I guess I do.' ho urmvlo.l
" 'Well, give mo an Illustration of your
Idea of nn oath.' nnlil I.
"I wns totally unprepared for what fol
lowed. The old man shifted his quid of
tobacco, took a firm grip on his chair nnd
ripped nut n string of oaths that threatened
to rnlse tho roof. It wns simply nwful. I
hive heard hnrd swearers In my llfo, hut
unililng to compare to thnt. Tho pro
fanity he UBcd would have kept a slx-mule
'cam on the Jump for a week. Ills exple
tives were highly picturesque, abounding
fertility rf invention nnd unlimited lung
power
"When the Judge enught his breath he
lined the fellow for contempt nf court, and
when I nddr.ss.ed the Jury I mn.le tho point
lint he couldn't be believed under oath and
wo,, my case, I could nfford to he charl
table, so I prevailed upon the Judge t rP.
mil the ntio against the old num."
Judge William Yost cf llrcetivllle Ky
who Is a candidate for the Kentucky court
of nppenls, Ih one of the biggest men In the
stnto physically, at least, for ho stands (1
feet n Inches i his stockings and has n
pair of shoulders like tho-e of a profes-
MKS. IIKI-KN A IIOHHS OF YANKTON,
PHKSIDKNT W It. C OF SOUTH DA
KOTA. Mr. Post has the reputation of being one of
the shrewdest nnd most successful bankers
In Nebraska. In addition to being presi
dent of the First Nntlnnnl bank of York
ho Is nlso president of tho bank nt Heno
dlct, the bank at liradshaw. the bank at
Wnco, the bank at Houston and the lllue
Illver hank of McCool Junction, York
county. On January 1. 1S77, Judge Post
wns married to Miss I.nura McConaughy of
Mount Pleasant, Pa. Ills family consists of
one son nnd four daughters.
Ono of tho most Interesting meetings
tecently held In Nebraska was the North
Nehrnska Methodist conference, which
convened nt Nellgh. It was presided over
by Hlshop MeCabe, and spent four very
busy dnys In nttendlng to tho business of
tho grent district. Tho people of Nollgh
took much pains to entertain tho visitors
and well sustained their reputation for
hospitality.
Law
slonnl prize-fighter. The Judge Is n grent
Jolur and when in this city recently a hoot
black called rut "Shine, sir!" tho Judge
looked nt him vacantly, pretending to be
draf nnd dumb After severnl minutes of
sign Inngunge he understood. He leaned
ngalnst a building and the b y went lo
work. Another bootblack appeared and thu
one nt work said:
"Youso needn't stop; dls Is nil mine."
"Sh-h! He'll henr yer," whispered the
other.
"I'm gcttln' 5 n shoo for desu scows,"
wns tho other's reply In n loud voice, Thu
second boy looked so nstonlfhed nt his
frlend'H boldness thnt the latter laughed
and said;
"Sny, yer chump, he's d -nt nnd dumb.
Soo?"
Tho other boy. win. had hi en looking with
all his eyes at tho giant. 1 lurtcd nut In a
loud tone nf admiration: "Say, he's a big
ugly lookln dlvll, ain't he'"
This was too much for the Judge and he
broke Into a laugh. Tho boys looked for
an Instant at him mid then lied down the
street, caving t, jmK-e with but ono shoe
polished to look for another bootblack to
make equally presentable thu other "scow."
Did His liest
Chicago Tribune: In tho temporary nb
sence of the nnswers-to-correspondents
d tor who was on his vacation, tho sport
n, ulltor had been detnlled to keep tho
department going.
,i..r,vnM,0,l' ,Hl'nt 1,1 11,0 WW "vo tho
Zi "!l VUu wonl Aran. tho sacred
hook of the Mohnminednns."
And this wiint he wrote In reply:
r, .n'8 ,r"1,al,1' irruption of 'also
' "n'1 lmH reference to Its third-rate