The Omaha Illustrated Bee
NUMBER 289.
Entered Becond Class at Omaha rostofflce Published Weekly by The Bee Publishing Co. Subscription, f 2.50 Per Year.
DECEMHEIl
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Head of Scottish Rite Masonry in Nebraska
Recent Progress
in the
Field of Electricity
Wtf Power.
HE city of Keokuk. Ia., hu an
ambitious scheme on hand. It Is
proposed to create an electric
tytejl Pw'r plant second only to Nla-
gara oy narnesstng the rapids of
the Mississippi and set Its forces to turn
shafting In Keokuk and adjacent towns and
develop 00,000 horse power In electrical cur
en t.
The proposition -oe to congress for ap
proval before work can begin, as the plan
falls for a dam across the river. The dam
s to be twenty-two feet high and approxl-
rirately a mile long It Is to be built at the
foot of the Des Moines rapids, opposite the
enter of the city of Keokuk and the city
r Hamilton, III.
These rapids have a fall of twenty-four
feet In twelve miles, and formerly were an
Impassable obstruction. For years a por
(ege of twelve miles was made by mule
drawn lighters, and twenty years ago the
government spent W.wo.omv for a canal wltn
three locks through which steamboats now
puss. This canal runs along the Iowa
shore.
The head of water behind the dam will
verflow territory shove and the basin will
"over twenty-five square miles: but here
the river runs through a gorire and the
Muffs are close to the hinks. The cost of
'he riparian dimages from oversow will
h. rttle In ratio to the cost of construction
of tne dam Itsi-lf.
Within the radius cf economical power
t'nnsrrlsslon of fortv .ndo ar pore of
cities, seven In Town, th'eo In MIeourl and
ten In Illinois: rind two-scn-e vlllnires. nine
n fnwi. seven In MiMrxM and twenty-four
In Illinois. These twetitv cities had a pop
ulation In 1W of 111.(772. and the villages
d a popu'atlon of 17,51.
OutHde the forty-mile radius but within
the radius of probable power transmission
'n a few yeirs are several c'tles. the largest
t'olng Hannibal. Mo., flfty-flve miles away.
Oen Rlrotrlp Pnirer,
Apart from the street railway and light
ing companies In Ruffnlo. three groups of
custom' are being served with power
from Niagara Falls. One. numbering
thlrtv-rtx. Includes manufacturer who
formerly used steam, but deliberately
abandoned their old power plants In order
to secure the advantages of electricity. A
econd class Includes thirteen compmlea
or firms which were organised to start en
tirely new enterprises. Finally, there were
twenty-four consumers who moved from
other places to Buffalo In order to Improve
the opportunity which was offered to them
there. Altogether, they now use upward
of IR.WK) horsepower annually, and what Is
the most significant fact of all la that
none of them havs gons . back again to
team.
Economy la the chief though not the Bole
consideration In preferlng electricity to
team power. The charge for. current la
a combination of a "flat" rata and a "me
ter" rate. A patron whose, consumption
fluctuates a good deal pays more than one
who uses about the same qusntlty, but
whose demand Is uniform. A man who oc
casionally requires 100 horsepower, but
does not average over 60. would be obliged
to pay 138 a year per horsepower. An
other, whose maximum requirements never
rose above 60 horsepower, but who really
used as much aa the first one In a month,
would get off with 127 a year. There ar
few places where steam power costa less
than 135 or HO a year, and many manu
facturers pay nearly double that amount
for It. Twenty-aeven dollara la cartalnly
bargain. New York Tribune,
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Mysteries of RVeefrtcftr.
A generator Is a producer of electricity
and a motor la a consumer of the seme,
and It Is perhaps one of the most freak
ish traits about the most freakish potential
People Who Draw
T IS estimated that there are fully
a thousand person In this coun
try who draw lrg r sal rles that
th president of the United ? ate.
This doe not Include the Ucorat
of millionaires from Investments or the
earnings of those in business for them
selves, but only those persons who are
working on regular stipulated salaries.
Neither does the list Include the income
of lawyers, although there are a number
like Francis Lynde Stetson, for Instance
who receive regular annual retainers of 60,.
000. Mr. Stetson receives a retainer of $50,
000 a year from J. P. Morgan d Co. simply
for the privilege of calling on him first la
any legal matters in which the firm may
be Interested. This sum doe not, of course,
represent anything Ilk th entire annual
Income of Mr. Stetson.
The Inoome of corporation lawyer varies
a great deal from year to year. Th largest
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single fee ever paid a lawyer for oonduot-
ng a single ease la believed to hare been
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received by William Nelson Cromwell for
hi work la connection with the Panama
canal. Ha 1 aald to have been paid a fee
of $2,000,000 for hi work In that connection.
James B. Dill I said to have received
fee of $1,000,000 for settling the suit between
Andrew Carnegie and IL C. Frick. W. D.
Outhrie is also understood to have received
ft fee of H, 000,000 for breaking the will of
the late Henry Bradley Plant These are
believed to be tbe largest single fee evec
paid lawyer In this country.
The largest salary paid any bank presl-
dent In ,New York Is understood to be $60,
000. The president of several of the largt
Wall street banks and trust companies art
known to receive this salary. There la also
one bank president In Chicago who receives
a salary of $30,000 a year. Aa a rule, how
ever, the president of th large Wall street
banks are wealthy, and their salaries form
only a small part of their annual Income.
Men of sufficient ability .to gain the con
trolling position In prominent Wall street
bank are sought for as directors In trust
companies and other financial Institutions,
to say nothing of the number of reorgan
isation committees on which they are asked
to serve. James Stlllronn, the president of
the National City bank, la a director In
more than forty different corporations. All
of these positions pay well and take up but
Uttle time, being In most Instances of an
advisory nature, and without onerous du
ties. Ia thl way tbe. annual Income of
the president of the prominent Wall street
banks are largely Increased.
The largest salary paid any railroad prest.
dsnt In the United Slates is 176,000. There
are at least three presidents wh are un
derstood to draw this salary A. J. Cassatt
of th Pennsylvania. James J. Hill of th
Or Northers aod L. Y. Lore f th
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agent electricity that the generator and
motor may be duplicate machines. Iden
tical In every detail of construction, and
oan be used for either purpoa?.
An electric car can be stopped at any
point on the road, raised clfar of the track,
and Its wheels turned rapidly by any avail
able method. Its motors then become gen
erators and will throw a powerful electrlo
current back Into the conducting wlrea In
stead of absorbing it.
Although the technicalities surrounding
electrical Industries are spooling to the
average man, the principle of producing
the current and adapting Its energy to the
various requirements of driving machinery
and cars and of creating light Is simple.
Take a small rod of soft Iron, wind around
It a number of turns of fine InsuUted cop
per wire and connect the end of the wire
10 the two plates of any electric battery,
and you have a primitive electrlo plint
The little rod of Iron becomes an electro
magnet and attracts steel or Iron as a
common horseshoe magnnt does. If a sec
ond rod Is prei-ared In the same way and
placed opposite the first the mutual at
traction will be strong, but If the wlrea
connecting to the battery he cha ged
about the direction of the current la
changed at1d the magnets repel Instead of
attracting each other.
Suspend them so that they can move
freely and arrange to change the current
regularly and at the proper times and
these rods will alternately attract and re
pel each other and there Is motion and
power In an Infinitesimal degrc. Techni
cally, It Is a power plant, consisting of a
chemical generator connected to an alter
nating current motor.
lip to this point the greatest scientist
knows no more about the causes of this
motion than any man who Is able to read
these lines. Why the chemical bath pro
duces the electric current, what the cur
rent Is and how It Instantly transforms the
Iron Into a magnet are mysteries which
not even a Farad ly. an Edison or a Thom
son attempt to explain.
For many years efforts were made to ob
tain motion and power In the above man
ner which would be of practical usa. Electro-magnets
of large size we e arranged In
groups, similarly to the spokes of a wheel,
to revolve rapidly past each o her; but the
large consumption of expensive cheml als
In the batteries, with a corresp jndlngly In
significant result In power, gave no en
couragement from a commercial point of
view, and It was not until the discovery
that the' battery could be entirely elimi
nated that the possibilities of electricity
as a factor In the great Industrial world
appeared
Some time In the 60s Prof. Henry gave
his little son, for a plaything, one of these
experimental electro-magnetto machine
which had been discarded aa useless. No
battery or chemicals accompanied the gift,
o the l.ttle chap amused himself by twirl-'
Ing the contrivance by hand. Tiring of
this, ha reached out for other worlds, and
surreptitiously securing a galvanometer,
one of the little Instruments used by the
professor for measuring cut rent, he hooked
on the wires In the way ha had seen his
father attach them and continued his twirl
ing. While he was engaged the profe-sor
arrived and, glancing at the galvanometer,
was aatonlahed to see Indications of an
electrlo current Taking a hand In the
twirling, he found unmistakable evidence
that by rapidly revolving the magnet
In front of each other an electric cur. ant
of considerable energy was produced w.th
out tne agency of any electric ba.tery. 1 he
true generator had been found, and the
dawn of the electrical age, with all Its
marvelous wealth of scientific and commer
cial exploitation and tuccesf, opened.
A an Instance of the scientific phrase
ology which confronts a student It may be
noted that this simple discovery by a play
ful boy 1 diagnosed by Faraday aa the law
Large Salaries
Rock Island, who recently retired. There
are quite a number of other railroad preal.
dents who draw annual aalarles of $50,000.
Three year ago F. D. Underwood waa
the general manager of tbe Baltimore
Ohio, when one day he wa requested by
James J. Hill to make an examination of
the Erie railroad and report on the possi
bilities of the system. After Mr. Under
wood had made the examination ha one
day received ft message from J. P. Morgan
.asking him to call at hi office, Mr. Mor
gan aaked him what he had found as th
result of his Inspection of the Erie.
Mr. Underwod replied that with free away
ha could aav 20 per cent of the eost of op
erating the company, and put It on ft par
with the other trunk Unas. H said that
i) would tak th hardest work of his life,
and that he would stake hi reputation oa
It for $60,000 ft year. Hi term were ao
oepted. In th matter of salaries th larger in
dustrial corporation appear to be more
liberal than the railroads. 8. C T. Dodd,
the general solicitor of th Standard Oil
company, probably receives as large a aal
ary as any other person In this country. Ho
la said to draw a salary of 1250,000 ft year.
When Charles M. Schwab waa president of
th United States Steel corporation he drew
an annual salary of $100,000. When Mr.
Sohwab resigned the salary of the president
of the steel corporation waa reduced to
$75,000 a year. This reduction was made be
cause of that fact that many of the dutle
that Mr. Schwab had performed aa presi
dent were turned over to various commit
tee after his resignation. In addition to his
alary of $76,0u0 William E. Corey make
a communion on the volume of the business
of the company. In this way hia income
probably average over $100,000 a year.
The late 8. R. Callaway, who wa tha
president of th American Locomotive com
pany, waa said to have drawn a salary of
$100,000 a year. To accept that position Mr.
Callaway resigned the position of president
of the New York Central. Henry O. Have
tneyer, president of the American Sugar
Refining company, is understood to draw a
calary of $100,000 ft year. C. A. Colvln of th
General Electric company la understood to
draw a salary of $T,uoo a year.
The head official of the more Important
life Insurance compaale receive large Sal
aries, President MoCaJl of the New York
Life Insurance company I said to draw ft
alary of $lO,0uO . year. There are said
to be at letutt five other officials of the'
company that maks as much a $50,000 ft
year. The other prominent life Inaurano
oompanlea pay equally aa liberal salaries,
th head official of all of th large com
paniu receiving aa much a $I00,0uv ft year.
OUSTAVH AERSON Thirty-Third .DegTse. ...
of electro-magnetlo Induction that "the over the wire to th second macnlne and most complex, and the highest type of
electrical pressure generated In a coll of operated It This wa another surprise, scientific and mathematical knowledge has
wire, by relative motion between It and a That It value waa Instantly appreciated been engaged In determining the most effl-
magnetlc field, la directly proportional to Is shown by the fact that In Cleveland In- dent methods of winding the magnets and
the rate of change of Inter-llnkagea of
turns and lines of force.
"Bo,
ar-re."
as Mr. Dooley says, "there yea
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Crude and clumsy apparatus was quickly
designed and built, and, on being belted to
a steam engine, gave an amount of current
which, no Instrument then In use could
measure.
These early generator were called dyna-
mos and were used exclusively to produce
arc lights. A few years later the discovery magnet passing rapidly before another are They can evoke the giant can direct Its
was made that If a duplicate generator built all electrlo light dynamos, great power energy Into a hundred channels, can con
was carried to any desired distance and generators and motora of every descrlp- trol It with masterpieces of scientific and
connected by wires to the first a corre- tlon, from the tiny fan motor to the great mechanical achievement can destroy It
spondlng rotation waa obtained. The cur- 1,200 horsepower railroad motors. But what It is remains unsolved. It Is still
rent generated In the first machine went ' The details of the larger machine are the great unknown! New Tork Press.
Newly Dedicated German Luthern Church
HP! nw ftalem church nt the fler.
I I man Evangelical association was
A I AmAtfim.tmA with considerable cere
mony Sunday. The new brick
house of worship at Eighteenth
and Cuming streets was filled with the
member of the new congregation and
tbelr friends and several prominent men
from out of town lent their services to the
glad occasion. Among these was President
Klekhoefer of the Northwestern college
of the Evangelical association at Napier
ille, III. He came here for the occasion
and preached the dedicatory sermon In the
morning. During the afternoon he oele
brated the communion service., Rev. Mr.
Scheurer, pastor of the German Evangelical-
church In Council Bluffs, preached the
evening sermon. The local putor. Rev.
Cornelius Jannen, preaided at all the meet
ing. A. Brauchl of Fremont, presiding
eider, waa o 1 attends noo.
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NEW SALEM CHURCH AND P ARSON AO B OF THE GERMAN EVANGEL A-L CONFERENCE. DEDICATED LAST SUN
DA If .Photo by a Staff Artlau
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1884, without waiting to build new machines,
two Brush aro light dynamos which had
done service for several 'years were ob-
talned. One waa connected to an engine In
a convenfent building, the other was at-
tached to the axle of an old horse car. A
wire was strung along the track and the
first electrlo car waa commercially Intro-
duoed, and electrlo traction and electrlo
power were before a wondering world,
Upon this simple principle of one electro-
Th new church also mean ft new con
gregation. It will be th union of th
people of Iromanuel church of the associa
tion located at Twenty-sixth and Marcy
street, and of tbe burned Zlon churoh on
Sprague street. The latter congregation
lost its building about two years ago by
lightning, which caused ft fire that ruined
the church. The north aide church wa an
offshoot of Immanuel church, however,
and the latter wa th original body of
the church In Omaha. K wa founded
about fifteen year ago and now has a
story and ft half frame and brick church.
But th oongregatlon wa not very strong
and th building waa ft long way south
for th member of th burned oburch, su
It waa decided to put up ft new building
about midway between th eld houses of
worship,
Th new congregation, will b at least
Utjf tronc Rev. Mr. Jannen. who baa
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designing the machines to produce the
quality and quantity of current required.
For lighting purposes a current of moderate
flow but very high intensity, or voltage, la
needed; for power purposes a current. of
ample flow but of moderate Intensity is de-
slrable.
Electrical engineer are meeting all these
shades of requirement with marvelous
kill and Ingenuity, but underlying It all la
the mystery of the nature of the current
been pastor of the south side church for
almost two years, will become the head
of the united congregation. He will move
In a few day to the new pasonage built
Just south of th new church.
The church and parsonage together rep
resent an outlay of something more than
$12,000. It ha meant considerable work
to gather this money, but by New Year's
ths building will be debt free. The con
ference helped toward th work and the
Bunday collection was more than $200. The
new church and parsonage are of brick.
The church seats 200 and ha a claas room
at the weat which connsots with It by
rolling partition. It la not quit finished
Inside, but will be shortly so with hard
wood. Th celling will be of plaster and
the walla will be frescoed. The parsonage
la an sight-room house, fitted with modern
ooavenlano. John Harts wa th con
tractor and work waa begun last August.
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Gossip and Stories
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Prominent People
iCDOE OV8TAVE ANDERSON
wa born In Bwed.-n September 29,
1M2. He was educated In the
common schools there and grad
ual uated from the Royal Agricul
tural college of his native country. On
enmlng to America he located at Omaha
and has resided here since. He wn ad
mitted to the practice of law In 1875 and
was appointed United States commissioner
the same year, which position he still holds.
He wsa elected Judge of the city court In
1877 snd held the office for seven years. He
was made a Mason in 18)19 and exalted to
the Royal Arch degree In IS76 and royal and
select master the same year. He was
knighted, in Mount Calvary commandery
No. l In 187 and consecrated to the Order
of High Priesthood in 1890. He has filled
many places of trust and honor In the fra
ternity, having served as masier of his
lodge, high priest of his chapter and emi
nent commander for three terms of his
commandery. He received the Scottish Rite
degree up to and Including the thirty-second
degree from illustrious Potentate Albert
Pike. He was coroneted an lnsiector gen
eral honorary in 1S97 and crowned an active
member of the supreme council In 1K99. He
held for many years the office of treasurer
of the Scottish Rite bodies of Omaha. He
la a member of the Nebraska Masonic Vet
erans' association and grand representative
of several grand JurlsUicitlons near the
grand Masonla bodies of Nebraska, Brother
Anderson procured the charter for and In
stituted Tangier Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.,
and was Its first and second potentate. On
December 14, 19u4, he was elected grand
master of the grand council of Royal Feleot
and Super Excellent mas.ers of Nebraska.
Vanity of a Kin.
Edwin E. A. Abbey has almost finlnhed
his picture of the gorgeous coronation
scene In Westminster abbey. The final
stroke were deferred in a curious way.
King Edward had seen the great canvas
and was much pleased. About that time
a courtier whispered in the royal ear that
the coronation robe hid the royal legs
from view. His majesty, who Is very
human, bit at the bait and Mr. Abbey was
asked to readjust the robe in such a way.
as to reveal one of his majesty' legs. The
leg was painted from a model with hand
some limbs. When the king saw the pic
ture again he wa delighted. The , firm, '
graceful line of the calf, curving so ele
gantly in white silk hose, stirred the royal
imagination. He insisted that - both legs
should be shown. This, of course, neces-'
a'tated a more selus cbtnge In the ar
rangement of the robe, the key of the
whole scheme of color, and therefore a
modification of the' general tone of the
pioture.
The Aator sail Orefoa,
The interesting fact come out that the
managers of the Lewis and Clark exposi
tion at Portland, Ore., have tried in vain
to arouse the Interest of the New York
Astor family In the show. They have re
peatedly written to John. Jacob In New
York and to William Waldorf In London,
but have received no answers. The Astors
are dumb and their pockets are unassail
able. The Oregon people vainly imagined
that the part the original old-time Astor
played in tm fur trade of th northwest
and later in the colonisation of the Co
lumbia river region, would arouse the
family pride in the coming exposition. The
truth is, that the original John Jacob lost
$4,0 O.OuO on his Oregon venture, and all
he got out of it waa to have the town of
Astoria named after lilm. And that does
not arouse the Astor family's enthusiasm.
Reminiscence of Ben Butler.
Bishop McVlcker of Khodo Island told
the members of the Boston Episcopalian
club at their dinner the other night one
m
Some Quaint Features of Current Life
Definition of n Lady.
LONDON cabman had brought
W I suit against ft woman for not
m I oaylnar the legal fare, and his
constant remark waa, "She ain't
a lady." "Do you know a lady
wnen you see one?" asked the Judge. "I
do, yer honor. Last week a lady gave me
a aov'rin instead of a sliUILn', and 1 called
'Beg pardon, madam, I've got ft aov'rin
instead of ft shillin', and aha shouts buck:
'Well, you old fool keep the change and
get drunk with Itr That' wot I calls a
lady!"
- A Osa of Conscience.
Twelve year - ago Lulu Burdett of
Kanaea City, then a llttUe girl, now ft
married woman, lost $ cent while playing
at the village school. The other day ahe
received ft letter from ft woman now of
California, but formerly a Kansa play
mat, which was to this effeat: "You will
find enclosed 26 cents. You lost ( cents
at school on time. I found and kept it
When you told me that some one saw me
find it I denied It Tills waa a long time
a-o, and I had covered it all up, but God
arrested and troubled me on account of the
sin."
Plnek of an Injured Mnn.
Joseph Maurer, a plucky resident of Canal
township, Venango county. Pa,, while driv
ing his horso team hitched to a log of wood
wui struck l)y the log, breaking his leg
in two pi ace a After vainly yelling for help
until he nearly perished with the cold he
crawled to the horses, drove them along
side of a stump, pulled himself with his
broken leg to the top of the stump and
then to th back of one of his horses and
in this way succeeded In getting home and
securing the services of a surgeon.
A Japanes lm,
The following notice wa posted up
recently In an art exhibition in Toklo,
Japan: "No visitor who is mad or In
toxicated is allowed to enter In; U any
person found in shall be claimed to retire.
No visitor Is allowed to carry In with him
self any parcel, umbrella, stick, and the
like kind, except bis purse, and Is strictly
forblddsn to take within himself dog, or
the sam kind of beast. Visitor Is
requeatsd to take care of himself from
thlevely."
Hot ft Scrap Left.
The editor of a flourishing Journal In a
California town recently called at the
"horn of tha bride's parents" the day after
the wedding. He was desirous of telling
hi reader all about th event and wished
to glv th young couple a good "end-oa"
of the best of the Butler stories. , Butler
waa on his way to Boston to try a cas
before Judge Shaw. A young friend met
htm on the trsin and he asked if he might
look at the notes on th case. Butler
acquiesced. The young man, to his astonish
ment, saw written In pencil nt the top
of the first page: "Insult the Judge." "You
see," said Butler, "I first get Judtre Bhaw'i
111 will by Insulting him In some way.
Later In the case he will have decision
to make for or against me. As he Is an
exceedingly Just man and as I have In
sulted him, he will lean to my aide, for
fear of letting his personal feeling against
me sway his decision the opposite way."
Baby of 'the Tribe.
Sir John Richard Robinson In his "Fifty
Years of Fleet Street" tell of an amusing
Incident during the visit of the Sweat
deputation from tha Transvaal to England
at the close of 1894. "The Swasl brave
went to Windsor and had an audience of
her majesty Queen Victoria. They were
very graciously received. One of their
number began to speak, and an Interpreter
followed him phrase by phrase. 'We come.
Oh great mother," he sold, "to bring to
you our babe. Tnke him. Oh mother, to
thy knees; fold him to thy breast" Here
the queen, half frightened, exclglmcd. 'But
where Is the chi d? I don't see him. Where
Is her "Here, Oh mother,' aald the Swasl,
gravely, at the same time bringing forward
a big black about six feet high and welsh
ing well over 200 pounds. 'Ho la here.' "
Last of Famone Jnry.
The Beecher-Tllton trial Is recalled by th
death a day or two ago of William H.
DrvIs. the last of the twelve men who
msde up the Jury which sat In the trial. In
all the time which has elspsed since the
Beecher trial Mr. Davis, according to the
statement of his relatives, has never told
how he voted on the Jury, nor expressed an
opinion In regard to the guilt or Innocence
of Mr. Beecher. After the Jury returned to
the courtroom and reported a disagree
ment it wa discharged. The individual
members were asked for expressions of
opinion In regard to the case. None of the
twelve men would consent to say anything
and It was learned that before the verdict
was brought In all had agreed never to
divulge what had taken place In the Jury
room, even to their own families. It I be
lieved that with the death of Mr. Davis the
last chance that the proceedings of th Jury
would become known has vanished. ,
Snrpnsslngr Knowledge.
When Joseph H. Choafe. present ambss
sador to Great Britain, waa a young man
and during hi early legal experience he
waa engaged a counsel for the defense In
a case where affairs seetpel very one
sided, his being the right side. The Jury
of good men and true at the conclusion of
the testimony took but a few mlnutea to
come to a decision. The evidence had been
ao conclusive and the decision o quickly
reached that Mr. Choate wa perfectly
dumbfounded to hear their verdict which
was against him. "Well," said he, turn
ing to his client, "this proves It. If there
be anything In the world which surpasses
the knowledege of the Almighty U I tie
finding of ft petit Jury."
Tbe Lost Chord.
Blr Arthur Sullivan waa at on time
greatly worried about what appeared to
him to be bad Inconsistency In "The Lost
Chord." Blr John Robinson tells the story!
"The words are: "I struck one chord of
muslo like the sound of a great amen.'
Now amen is a word of two syllables, so
that there must have been two chords.
He did not notice this, he said, until after
the song had been sung In public and he
was terribly afraid he would get laughed
at for It Strange to say, nobody ever
seemed to have found it out"
a welL The bride' mother met him.
"Good morning, Mrs. Jones," said th
editor. "I have called to get some of th
derails of the wedding."
"Goodness!" replied Mrs. Jones, In dis
may. "They're all gone. You ought to
have come last night They ate every
surap."
Swindler Ducked by Girls.
A stranger giving his name a Charles B.
Moyer collected 12 each from about twenty
poor girl at Washington, N. J., by rep
resenting himself a an agent for ft com
pany manufacturing silk flower. II
offered th girls employment by which they
oould make $6 a week, but made them pay
him $2 for an outfit, which would b tent
to them later.
Moyer went from Washington to Oxford
and worked there for several day. Ann '
and Teresa Flanagan, two of hia victims,
met Moyer on the street and demanded ft
return of their money, Moyer laughed.
The girls are robust, and they grasped
lloyer'ojid pulled him to a railroad switch
where stood an empty freight car. They
locked Moyer in and then went for help.
In a Uttle while a dosen girl marched In
ft body to the car, opened It and pulled
Moyer out. He wa helpless from drink. .
and th girls resolved to sober him up.
This they did by plunging him two or three
time Into the icy water of the near by
creek. Ha emurged after the girl left bint
and took the first northbound train for
Boranton. sq
uirt's Kmc Protected. '
The supreme court of Louialna has up
pressed the name of the woman who I
plaintiff in a Blunder suit, end tha general
public will never know who the woman I.
In a decision handed down the Judgment
against Harry Hart of Bhreveport, to pay
a fine of $1,000 and to serve two year of
hard work on the public roads of the state,
has Just been confirmed by the Louisiana
supreme court, liy whom the complaint
Was brought no one knows, with the excep
tion of Hart and the trial court
Fiverywhrre In the record a woman'
name apptars as I-Jus , whoever she- 1,
fcnd it Is generally supposed thut she I ft
tociety girl of Bhreveport, La. She churged
tliat Hart sent an Insulting note to her.
In the law court site appeared heavily
veiled and her Identity has never become
known.
The law of Louisiana glv th presiding
urtge of any court the right to excluoSi the
name of a party who would be Injured tlil
more by the publication of his or her name.
This Is the first Instance In recent years la .
fclkith this right of th lujurod part ha
bees, used, '
