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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. APRIL IS. 100.'.
OVER THE FAILS TO DEATH
Queer Ttnciee of Weary Mortals Who Seek
Belief in Niagara's Flood.
DRAMATIC SCENES ON THE BRINK
fatal Fasrlnatlnn of rinnftla Wafers
Lore Many to Death Different
Methods of Rraln-Fasaied
reople.
Every year person end their lives in he
rapid rtinnlnir. waters of Niagara. The
record iroes far bark, and Includes many
Ktrana-e rases. Ann Hall, 34 years old, com
mitted suicide fifty years ago by going over
the waterfall. She was a bride of but a
week.
Each suicide appears to have a different
plan. A party of visitor" were enjoying
the srene from the Third Sister island on
August 10, 1SS4, when they were startled
by a man emerging from the bushes. He
was clad only In light underwear. Tossing
articles of Jewelry to them he leaped into
the boiling waters close by. He was Her
man Wuttke of Buffalo, and his act was
due to despondency.
A young man on the afternoon of Febru
ary 25, IMS, descended the Incline railway,
walked out to a mound of whiteness to
ward the upper suspension bridge which
then spanned the gorge, and, after stamp
ing down a level place on the Icy hillock,
shot himself.
He was Charles Yi'eiibaeher, second son
of raul Weflbacher of Wellbacher & Toewi,
hop merchants, of New York. He was 2."
years old and his father's bookkeeper. De
spondency and Insomnia were the causes.
There have been .suicides at night as well
as by day. C. V. Sweet of Jersey t'lty. on
August 31. 186, strolled out from his hotel
to enjoy Niagara by moonlight. At I'ros
pect Point he found a man's coat, and
papers In the pocket Indicated It belonged
to Chauncey Hough of Batavia. A week
later Mr. Hough's body was taken from
the whirlpool.
Because of the number of suicides at
Niagara, persons have attempted to mis
lead tho world by pretending to have com
milted suicide. No case of this kind Is
more notable than that of Bryan B. C'ran
dal!. Crandall's Bogus Soiclri.
It was on April 1. 18i, that an officer of
the state reservation found a hat under
an overturned seat back of the Cataract
. house. On the lining of the hat was the
name, "B. B. Crandall, No. 1174 West ave
nue, Buffalo, N. Y."
A body was found and Identified as that
of Crandall. His life was Insured In vari
ous companies for $10,(00. Some paid, but
Nelson O. Tiffany, secretary of the Masonic
Life association of western New York,
clung to the opinion that Crandall was
alive, and resisted payment.
One hundred thousand circulars bearing
Crandall's picture were sent broadcast and
$2,000 was offered for knowledge of his
whereabouts.
Mr. Tiffany In the spring of 1S92 received
a telegram from Ios Angeles, signed by
Mrs. M. Roland, asking If Crandall was
till wanted and If the reward held good.
Clues were given by Mrs. Roland that led
to Crandall's arrest near Is Angeles, and
he was brought east to Buffalo. He was
never convicted. Relatives paid his way
back to California, where he entered an
old soldiers' home.
Showed How Far He Conld Go.
Edwin Miles and R. H. Trebor, min
strels, strolled to Trospect Point on No
vember 1, 1888, to view the falls.
"I wonder." said Mr. Trebor, "how far
a boat could come down thoae rapids and
not go over the fall."
"Say," called a stranger standing by as
they passed, "I don't know how far a bout
could go, but I will show you how far 1
can o."
With that the man buttoned up his coat,
pulled his hat down on his head, threw
away a cigar, and, leaping upon the para
. pet wall, dived headlong Into tho current,
a few feet back from the brink of the
American fall, over which he was quickly
swept. He was Charles Campion of Buf
falo, 24 years old, who had hud no trouble,
so far as his friends knew.
A suicide was'announced in the afternoon
of July 13, ItSl. There were hundreds of
witnesses. A woman fell fainting In the
park and was carried Into the superintend
ent's office, convinced her hupband haa
been swept over the fulls. He had dis
appeared In tho bushes and had not re
turned. Then a door opened. In walked a man
who marched up to the weeping woman.
He laid his hand on her shoulder. She
raised her head. Their eyes met. She
leaped to her feet.
"Oh, papa, Is It you?" she cried.
"What are you making such a fool of
yourself for?" he asked.
Everybody laughed. Then the question
was, Had there been a suicide?
Parties visited the falls the next day
looking for a Mr Sherman of Clifton
Springs. A body was seen In the whirl
pool. Time after time It wns carried
about the river pocket until the watchers
could stand it no longer.
A friend of the missing man volunteered
to swim out and capture the human form.
He seized It and after a struggle succeeded
in landing ii.
The body was not that of the man they
sought, but of Frederick Vdell of Niagara
Falls, who had been missing since July 4.
while the date of the rescue was July 15.
Udell was thought to be In Maryland. His
poi kets were Inside out and It was sus
pected tluit he had been thrown from the
upper suspension lr!dge. Sherman's body
was found In the whirlpool July 20.
Niagara was startled September 10, MM,
hy a double suicide, but the Incidents had
no relation to each other. Walter Hay
wood of Buffalo leaped Into the river from
Luna Island, while Mrs. Bessie Luders of
New York entered the river from Prospect
park. Haywood was financially unfortu
nate. He left this verse:
Here poor, unfortunate Haywood lies;
Nobody laughs, nobody cries;
Where he s gone and how he fares
Nobody knows and nobody cares.
In her trip to eternity Mrs. Bessie Lu
ders had a helping hand outstretched to
her at the brink of the falls, the incident
being or.e of the most tragic ever known
ut Niagara.
R. I. Heim of Philadelphia saw the
woman come down the river. Without
thought of the danger he climbed over the
wall and waded out six feet to a point
only ten feet from the brink of the Amer
ican fall.
Three times he grabbed her clothing, but
as many times did she pull away. She
was swept over the brink. It was with
difficulty that Helm regained the shore.
Clerks In the postofflce and express offices
occasionally have strange experiences with
persons bent on suicide. In 1S91 a man
called at the American express office and
sent his watch and money to Louisville.
Tho agent suspected the man and the
police arrested him. He admitted he was
bent on going over ihe falls.
The body of a woman found floating In
the lower river May 18. 1892. was Identified
as Miss Emma C. Aupperle of Philadelphia.
Her friends said that once while chatting
she said:
"If I ever commit suicide I will go to
Niagara. I selected tho spot two years
ago when I was there."
"It Is all for that woman," wYote Noble
Kenny of Buffalo before he went to death
from Prospect Point.
"It Is home trouble," called 15-year-old
Ethel Lynman to Policeman Burch, as she
was wading out In the river at Luna
Island. The officer caught her.
Jennie Newell threw herself Into the
river May 28, 1893, but was rescued.
"Don't pull me out, boys; let me go," she
cried.
Few Niagara suicides created such a sen
sation as that of Peter Schemm, a Phila
delphia brewer, September 13, 1P98. He had
driven about the reservation and on the
return from Goat Island deliberately leaped
from the bridge Into the rapids.
A reward of Jl.ono was offered for th
recovery of his body. The lower river was
watched as never before. It was surprising
the number of bodies found, but none was
Identified as that of Schemm.
Hlppolyte Schneider, a Frenchman, added
novelty to the manner of dying at Niagara.
He walked out on a reef above the Ooat
Island bridge March 30. 1900, and fired his
revolver In tho air. Twice the report rang
out, as If to attract attention, and then
he was seen to place the pistol In his
mouth. There was a report and the man
tumbled Into tho water and was swept
away over the falls. He was Infatuated
with Lillian Russell and for her had died.
New York Sun.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Ignorant people are born critics.
After the storm look for the rainbow of
policemen.
He who loves without reason Is apt to
reason without love.
Wise Is the orator who knows when to
cut a long story short.
Ships deteriorate with age with the ex.
ception of hardships.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady unless
the fair lady happened to be a widow.
Now the summer girl will soon begin
to freeze on to the reckless youth who has
a mania for squandering his coin for Ice
cream. Chicago News.
Philosophy Plant Growth.
Photography, which has caught the Em
pire state express in full motion by the
cinematograph, has also been brought Into
use to depict, with equal fidelity, action
so slow as the growth of a flower, accord
ing to the Indianapolis News. By exposing
a plant every quarter of an hour for six
teen days to a camera it Is now possible
to watch a bud open gradually ; to see the
blossoms close nt night and reopen In the
morning; to see the leaves increase In size
aud the stamens peep out. And all in the
space of a minute or two
2.000 gallons of best cottage paints at $1
per gallon. Kennard Glass and Paint
Company, 1424 Dodge street.
Wanted to Get Even.
A correspondent sends us the following
extract from the pious petition of a good
old colored brother In a Georgia settle
ment:
"Lawd, we wants a blessln' fer ever' one,
'cept one; en dut one Is a yaller nigger,
what boarded de railroad train, en runned
off wld de whole collection what wui took
up ter pny my salary wld. Lawd, please
make de train Jump de track don't hurt
de yuther passengers, but take off one lalg
fum dat nigger." Atlanta Constitution.
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NEW YORK'S WATER SUPPLY
Progress of Work on the Great Croton
Eiter Dam.
DrZING DIMENSIONS OF THE JOB
Coastraettnn of Hnare Artificial
Lake, Capable ot Holding Bil
lions of Gallons of Water
for the Metropolis.
The monster wall of the great Croton
dam, which will form the storage reser
voir of New York City's water supply, is
sufficiently advanced to warrant the stor
age of water which the spring thaw and
rains will abundantly supply. It will be
some months yet before the wall is com
pleted. In Its incomplete state It repre
sents an outlay of 7.nc.r00 and e:ghte-n
years' work. Three thousand men have
been nt work since 1892, and they have
nothing more tc do except to complete
the great spillway at the west end of the
dam.
This looks like a giant's stairway, and
will carry down the surplus water when
tho reservoir can hold no more. A series
of steps Is used so that the force of the
waterfall will be broken. An unchecked
overflow would wear away the ground at
the base of the dam, for the drop Is al
most as great as that of Niagara falls,
and, aa everyone knows, the cataract Is
eating back Into the stone every day.
The most wonderful thing about this
dam Is that you can t see half of It. The
base Is 131 feet below the bed of the river
and Is 20C feet thick. At the surface the
thickness Is le5 than 100 feet, and from
that point up the dam tapers to a thickness
of only twenty feet at the top.
The dam Is practically of triangular
form. When It is considered that nearly
a million tons of stone has been used In
its making, It is not surprising that the
cost Is $3,030,000 more than the original
estimate.
Hoice Storage Itenervolr.
The dam holds In check the contributions
of a watershed whose area Is SflO square
miles. V'hen filled, the new reservoir will
be nineteen miles long, with a width of
from 200 feet to two miles and a depth of
130 feet.
The new territory of the reservoir, from
the old dam to the new. Is three and a
half miles long, with a capacity of 32,000,
000,000 gallons. The old reservoir held 43,
000,000.000 gallons, and the united capacity
will be 75.000,000.000 gallons.
The outlet of this great tank la not at the
now dam, as one would naturally suppose,
but at the old dam. The present aqueduct,
seven feet in diameter. Is to be superseded
by one fourteen feet In diameter and ca
pable of carrying 1.300,000.000 gallons a day
to the city, whose residents demand 125
gallons a day apiece.
Tho fact that they waste from forty to
sixty gallons of this Is not for the engineers
of the dam to ponder over.
Manhattan and the Bronx use about 300,
000,000 gallons a day. If the Croton supply
would hold out Indefinitely there need be
no worry about New York's water for the
next century, but the evident fact that It
will not is what Is causing the mayor to
call fcr great preparations for the future
In the way of getting fresh sources of sup
ply. The Croton valley does not supply enough
water to tax the new aqueduct continu
ously. If It did, the city reservoirs could j
not hold the supply. The tube was made
extra large for emergencies.
Through the fourteen-foot aqueduct the
water travels thirty-two miles to the reser
voirs In Central park, gravity doing the
Job nicely. New York gets tho water at a
cost of $22 for every 1,000,000 gallons, and
that Includes the Interest on the water
bonds.
Beauty of Construction.
Beauty has not been lost sight of In the
construction of this giant dam. The sim
plicity of the architecture and the wonder
ful proportions of the structure combine to
give It magnificence.
The dam proper Is 1.1G8 feet long, and the
spillway adds a stretch of 1,000 feet. There
you have nearly half a mile of rugged gray
masonry, whoso obliteration by time does
not appeal to the Imagination. Rising 1G6
feet from river bed to crown, with a grace
ful, concave curve, the suggestion of Im
pregnability Is perfect.
Standing In the dry bed of the Croton
river, the spectator gets the best Idea of
the dam's vastness. He does not, however,
realize the mass of stone that lies buried,
nor the fact that to reach the other side of
the wall he would have to bore through 100
feet of rock.
The top of the dam is a public roadway,
twenty feet wide. As the spillway Is not
so high as the dam, it will be crossed by
a. bridge 200 feet long.
From the roadway the view Is One. The
snowclad hills stretch for miles to the north
and hide the old dam. There has been a
lot of engineering work In this valley, with
the building of the new acqueduct and the
clearing away of tho farmhouses and burns.
When the Tibetan explorers of coming cen
turies excavate the Croton valley In their
researches Into the doings of the ancient
Americans they will have a lot to guess at.
The top of the dam Is now reached by a
series of stairs, -ome Inside and some out,
which runs from he bed south of the dam
to the top. It is a climb which puts you
out of breath unless you are In fine fettle,
but the scenery Is full reward for the work.
New York Sun.
Iermanent retirement from public office
though Van Buren was an active politician
as long as he had hope of renomlnatlon at
the hands of any party.
Johnson was the only retired president to
enter the United States senate, and the
younger Adams was the rnty one to serve
In the house of representatives.
Cleveland and Harrison have been the
only retired presidents to be conspicuously
successful In private buslriess. It Is not
generally known that Mr. Cleveland still
serves as consulting counsel In law cases,
In which his experience in the office of
president may be supposed to have given
him special qualifications as an adviser.
His fees In such cases are large, as were
those of Mr. Harrison as a legal adviser
and a lecturer on constitutional law. New
York Sun.
PRESIDENTS IN RETIREMENT
Only Ten Have Lived Longer Than
Mr. Cleveland After leav
ing Olllce.
Only ten men who have held the office
of president reached or surpassed Mr.
Cleveland's present age of 68; only six ex
ceeded It by so much as ten years, and
none exceeded It by, quite twenty years.
Only ten presidents have survived their
retirement from office longer than Mr.
Cleveland, and four of these lived to a
great age.
Washington, who survived his retirement
less than three years, thought himself an
old man when he was first made president
at the age of 67. John Adams survived his
retirement a quarter of a century, nnd his
son. John Quincy, who outlived his retire
ment nearly twenty years, was the only
president who had nearly as conspicuous a
public career after occupying the presidency
as before.
Monroe's six years after his retirement
from office were passed In comparative ob
scurity as a resident of New York City,
and his dying hours were embittered by
scandalous accusations In connection with
Jackson's seizure of Spanish forts In Flor
ida during the first Seminole war.
Polk outlived his retirement less than a
year, and there Is every reason to suppose
that had Arthur compassed his ambition
of an election to the presidency in 1S84 he
would have died early In his term, for he
outlived his retirement less than two years.
Tyler, who outlived his retirement twenty
years, emerged from obscurity near the end
of hlB life to preside- over the vain peace
convention on the eve of the civil war. Ho
afterward served In the congress cf the
confederate states.
Buchanan lived more than seven years
after his retirement and took the oppor
tunity to write what was in effect a de
fence of his administration.
Jefferson and Jackson were the only pres
idents who exercised a reully powerful
in flue uce over party council aXur their
POST FLAYS GOVERNMENT EXPERT
lie Polishes Off Dr. Wiley, the Gov
ernment Chemist, with Iteferenre
to llerfstenk and Milk.
"It would be pitiful If it were not ridic
ulous, the spectacle of some professional
men when they let out great chunks of
wisdom about food," said C. W. Post, the
well known food maker, now In Los An
geles. "For Instance, Dr. Wiley, chief of the
bureau of chemistry of the United States
Department of Agriculture, In a lecture
says: "When you buy beefsteak or milk
you are paying for water; milk Is 80 per
cent water, beefsteak 80 per cent." Ergo
don't eat beefsteak or drink milk! He ap
parently forgot to state that the human
body Is also about 80 per cent water and
needs quite a little of that peculiar liquid
each day to keep It Intact, and nature pro
vides food wisely blended.
"Then he proceeds to say that Ameri
cans eat too much meat. That Is one of
the few practical things he does sny. But
observe his peculiar process of Induction
when ho cites tho Japanese as a reason
for not eating meat, saying: 'Their diet
of rice makes them shorter and harder to
hit In the war, and they don't have so
much to carry around with them.' Re
markable conclusion! Don't eat any meat.
You may have to go to war sometime and
It will not be so easy to hit you If you
are simply a rice eater. ' That hope should
compensate a man for going through life a
dwarf!
"Then follows another glorious tribute
to science: 'Hay fever Is no more nor less
than the result of over eating." He does
not explain whether he means over eating
of meat or hay Huh!
"The good doctor says some sensible
things, fortunately. He advises the people
to eat less meat and not quite so much
food altogether.
"It Is a well established fact that Amer
icans, as a rule, are Inclined to overeat
rather than undereat.
"He advises against the tire of nitrog
enous foods, and then contradicts himself
hy giving his own diet, his breakfast being
made largely of eggs, heavy with nitrogen,
and he Includes a lass of milk, which he
had previously warned people against be
cause It Js SO per cent water.
"Then he says in reply to a question
about modern breakfast foods, that 'the
old-fashioned mush Is Just as good and
costs less.'
"It seems humiliating for a man In his
position to make so many conflicting state
ments and expose himself to tho criticism
of even an office boy connected with some
of the practical food concerns of the coun
try. Inasmuch as any or.e of our office
boys could tell him things he has yet to
learn about food, particularly this 'old
fashioned mush," made from corn meal or
wheat or oats, which consists of a heavy
percentage of raw starch, and the way It
Is ordinarily prepared requires somewhat
unusual strength of digestive or
gans to transform that starch Into
a kind of sugar, that It absolutely
must be turned Into by tho body before
It can be assimilated, and If the body Is
deficient In power, a part of that starch
remains undigested, passing .down through
the intestines, where. In the moisture and
warmth of the body. It rots, creating
gfrse.T and causing various forms of In
testinal disease; very certainly the cause.
In many cases, of peritonitis or appendi
citis; therefore it is entirely plain, even
to the layman, that If the eater does not
perfectly digest all of this raw starchy
food, he cannot extract from the food the
necessary calories and the strength and
nourishment that the food really contains;
whereas, when wheat and barley are pre
pared by skillful cooking, so that the
starches are transformed into sugar, and
thus presented to the stomach In a pre
dlgested condition, practically all of the
nourishment of the food Is made use of
by the body, greatly to Its benefit.
"I would be very glad Indeed to deposit
$10,000, or twice that amount, against a
like sum put up by Dr. Wiley or any of
his associates, and we will proceed to feed
Individuals 'on the raw starch food, the
'old-fashioned ruush.' . which he . so glibly
announces as the equal of modern break
fast foods, and if we do not obtain better
results by my method than he does by
his, the total sum will be paid over to
him or to any charity that he may desig
nate. ,
"The good doctor's opportunities for ex
periments and resultant conclusions have
been narrow and confined to a few per
sons. We have been supplying food for
literally millions of people, all over the
world, for a good many years past, and we
receive each month reports from people,
reaching up to thousands In number, giv
ing the details of condition nnd the result
of various foods. Including coffee, which Is
not a food. It is entirely safe to say that
for every one case that Dr. Wiley has ex
perimented upon, and therefore drawn his
conclusions from, our experience hos been
with from 1,000 to 5,000.
"It is an old story, this tangle of theor
ists, as compared with the hard, practical
experience and certain conclusions of ab
solute practice.
"As a cereal food maker. It might seem
that my interests would oppose meat; but
common, every day experience teaches
most plainly to any real food expert thai
some meat once a day Is of great Import-
WOMEN'S DEP'T
Raincoats
Shirt Waist Suits
Silk Waists
Silk Skirts
Walking Skirts
Millinery
Fine Shoes
Umbrellas
MEN'S DEP'T
Spring Suits
Raincoats
Topcoats
Hats
Shoes
For Men and Boys
Smart Easter Clothing
New Styles for Men and Women
Easter is almost here you want new Stylish Clothing everyone
does and everyone can get it right here now by paying a small
sum down and the balance in little weekly or monthly payments.
And let us say right here that No Credit Store in this City can
match our Styles, our Quality, our Prices, or our Most Liberal
Terms. We are the Largest Credit Clothiers in the World. We own
47 Stores in 47 Cities and sell direct from factory to you on Credit
at Cash Store Prices.
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'jjfWhea you buy Cook.
ff Imperial Extra Dry yot pay ' 1
I what you get Pur Champagne. I
I When you buy foreign make, you I
I pay for Champagne, duty and aMp I
I frdftt thafi why Cook's Imperial I
1 Extra Dry tt one-half the price of 1
1 foreign Champagne. I
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ance, then let the starchy food be skill
fully prepared and the combination of
easily digested food elements will put the
user In good, vigorous physical condition,
strongly In contrast with some of the
semi-skeletons among these stnte and gov
ernment theoretical experimenters.
"Just one other Illustration: It Is com
monly heard. In the circles of these
theorists, that 'rice is digested In one
hour.' This conclusion Is reached from
experiments where It was shown that the
human stomach delivered rice on down
into the duodenum In about sixty minutes;
therefore the conclusion that It was di
gested. The truth Is, that the stomach
does not digest rice, but simply throws It
out to bo digested on down below the
stomach.
"Rice frequently requires ten to fifteen
hours for digestion, nnd then It Is not
perfectly digested In thousands of cases,
but partially decays and causes all sorts ot
Intestinal troubles.
"A little less theory by the theorists and
a good deal more common sense as de
veloped by practical, every day experience
will add to the longevity of our people."
Los Angeles Times.
STUPENDOUS COST OF WAR
Computations of the Money Spent in
Wars and In Military nnd N'nval
establishments.
In 16'9 the debt of England was about
$1,000,000. By 1713 tno wars of the Palntinate
and the Spanish succession had raised It to
$215,O:0,000. The seven years' war raised It
to $693,000,000 and the downfall of Napoleon
brought It to $4,380,000,000.
The Interest on war dobt alone then cost
sixteen times as much as the whole na
tional expenses In the time of William and
Mary. Everything was taxed.
Necker's budget Just before the revolu
tion In France called for an annual ex
penditure of nearly $100,000 0)0. Of every
dollar raised 80 cents went for war costs,
12 cents for pensions and the riyal family,
4 cents for courts and administration and 4
cents more for public works, education and
religion.
Thirty yenrs of armed peace In Europe
show these figures, in millions of dolla-s.
as the three greatest war budgets:
Year. GreU Britain. Germany. France.
1873 120.0 83 4 111.7
1RR3 133.0 101.7 160 0
1H6.3 106.7 173 0
1903 344.7 217.5 200.2
The whole of Great Britain's vast debt,
and 80 per cent of France's and Germany's,
are due to war costs.
The annual expenditure of these three
nations on the Interest on war debt alone
Is over $3O0,W0.OCO.
Great Britain, to be sure. Is now spend
ing $344,003,000 for the support of military
armaments, while Germany expends $217,
000.C00 and France $2J0,C00,t00. But our own
outlay for soldiers and fleets has risen to
$195,000,000 and Is more likely to Increase
than decrease for some time to come.
We are going the same road. The cost of
our government at different periods is
shown In this table, the two columns of
expenditures In millions:
Ordinary Interest
Year. Expen. Charges.
wants to be Flossie . Edwards' husband,
says that he Is as much opposed to the
match as the parents of the girl. "I don't
believe In a mixture of races," he said to
a reporter. "Miss Edwards Is a white girl
and I do not think my son should marry
her. I have counseled him not to make this
marriage, but he Is persistent and will
have his own way."
1793
1800
1X10
1820
1830
1X40
150
1860
1S70
1K80
1886
1M1
19 0 447 6
1904 557.3
5.9
7.4
53
13.1
13.2
24.1
37 1
AO.l
i64 4
169 1
191.9
161.6
Total PerCap
Expen ita Ex.
8 3
2 04
1 17
19)
1.18
1.42
1.70
2.01
7 Gl
5.2K
4 r2
4.7.-
39
7.12
4
3 4 10.3
3.2 8.5
5.2 . 18.3
1.0 15.1
0.2 24.3
3.8 40.9
3.1 63.2
129 2 291.6
95.7 261 8
6).6 212.5
36.1 297.7
4!t.2 4S7.7
24.6 582.4
In modern Europe, Ruskin said, a civil
ized nation "consists ea."entlally of (a) a
mass of half-taught, discontented and
mostly penniless populace calling Itself the
people; of (b) a thing which calls Itself a
government meaning an apparatus for
collecting and spending money; (c) a small
number of capitalists.
"Now, when this civilized mob wants to
spend money for nny profitless or mis
chievous purposes fireworks, illuminations,
battle, driving about from place to place,
or what not being Itself pennllem, it rets
its money-collecting machine to borrow the
sum needful for these amusements from
the civilized capitalist. The civilized cap
italist lends the money on the condition
that through the money-collecting midline
he may tax the civilized mob thencefor
ward forever. That Is the nature
of a national debt." C. J. Bullcck, in At
lantic Monthly.
Python Twenty-Keven leet I.onK.
Leo V. Feaster, a wheelwright at Camp
Stotsenbcrg, Luzon, accompanied by two
natives, while out hunting between the post
and Bambang river, approached Within ten
yards of a monster python twenty-seven
feet long.
Feaster emptied the contents of his car
bine Into It and killed It. After cutting It
open there was found Inside a deer about
2 years old with horns about four Inches
long, and only dead a few hours. The na
tives later carried the deer home for food.
Feaster skinned the snake and with the
assistance of the natives brought the skin
Into the post. It Is now in the hands ot
B troop's farrier, who Is tanning It. Phil
ippine American.
Bound to Med a Colored Man.
Flossie Edwards of Taunton, Mass., said
to have been kidnaped by her college ath
lete brother to prevent her marrying Lewis
Morris, a colored man, lias appeared at
the Morris home. She arrived with a dress
suit cuve and wus apparently in a joyous
mood because she hud succeeded in escap
ing esplunuge.
All legal obstacles have been removed to
her murriuge with the colored man. Plead
ings of the parents of both have resulted In
failure. Each Is persistent that the mr
riage shall take place,
Ueviltf Morris, father of Uie man who
Front My I npnhllshed Autobiography.
By Mark Twain.
Some days ago, in sorting over the papers
of a great business house, a typewritten
sheet, thirty years old, was discovered,
faded by age, containing the following In
teresting letter over the signature of Sam
uel I Clemens (Mark Twal:n)
"Hartford, March 19, 1875.
E. Remington & Sons, Illon, N. Y. :
Gentlemen Plwtse do not use my name
In any way. Please do not even divulge the
fact that I own a machine. I have entirely
stopped using the typewriter for the reason
that I never could write a letter with It to
anybody without receiving a request by re
turn mail that I would not only describe
the machine, but state what progress I had
made In the use of it, etc., etc. I don't like
to -vrlte letters and so I don't want people
to kJow that I own this curiosity-breeding
little Joker. Yours very truly,
"SAM'L. L. CLEMENS."
Mr. Clemens' publishers, Messrs. Harper
Brothers, were consulted about this matter,
and a note was sent by them to Mr. Cle
mens himself, asking If the letter was gen
uine, and asking if he really had a type
writer as long ago as that. He replied that
his best answer would be found In an ex
tract from his Unpublished Autobiography,
which he had written months ago while in
Italy. This extract he sent to Harper's
Weekly, where It was published In the
issue of March 18, Just thirty years after
the date of the letter quoted above. By
courtesy of Messrs. Harper & Brothers we
are permitted to quote it:
"1904. Villa Quarto, Florence, January.
"Dictating autobiography to a typewriter
Is a new experience for me, but It goes very
well, and Is going to save time and 'lan
guage' the kind of language that soothes
vexation.
"I have dictated to a typewriter before
but not autobiography. Between that ex
perience and the present one there lies a
mighty gap more than thirty years! It is
a sort of lifetime. In that wide interval
much has happened to the type-machine,
as well as to tho rest of us. At the be
ginning of the interval a type-machine was
a curiosity. The person wio owned one
was a curiosity, too. But now It is the
other way about; the person who doesn't
own one is a curiosity. I saw a type-machine
for tho first time in what year? I
suppose It was 1873 because Nasby was
with me at tho time, and it was In Boston.
We must have been lecturing or we could
r.ot have been In Boston, I take It. I
quitted the platform that season.
"But never mind about that; It Is no mat
ter. Nasby and I saw the machine
through a window and went In to look at
It. The salesman explained It to us,
showed us samples of Its work, and said It
could do fifty-seven words a minute a
statement which we frankly confessed that
we did not believe. So he put his type-gili
to work, and we timed her by the watch.
She actually did the fifty-seen In sixty
seconds. We were partly convinced, but
said It probably couldn't happen again. But
It did. We timed the girl over and over
again with the same result always; she
won out. She did her work on narrow
slips of paper, and we pocketed them as
fast as she turned them out, to show as
curiosities. The prlco of the machluo was
$126. I bought one, nnd we went away
very much excited.
"At the hotel we got out our slips and
were a little disappointed to find that they
ail contained the same words. The girl
had economized time nnd lnbnr by using a
formula which she knew by heart. How
ever, we argued safely enough that the
first typo-girl must naturally take rank
with the first billiard player; neither of
them could be expected to get out of tho
game any more than a third or a half of
what was In It. If the machine survived
if It survived experts would come to the
front, by and by, who would double this
girl's output without a doubt. They would
do 100 words a minute my ta.king speed
on the platform. That score has long been
beaten.
At home I played with the toy, repeating
and repeating and repeating 'The Boy Stood
on the Burning Deck." until I could turn
that boy's adventure out at the rate of
twelve words a minute; then I resumed tho
pen, for business, and only worked the
machine to astonish Inquiring visitors. They
carried off many reams of the boy and his
burning deck. .
"By and by I hired a young woman, and
did my first dictating (letters, merely), and
BABY'S AWFUL ECZEMA
fics Lik3 Raw Beef. Thought Shs
Would Lose Her Ear. Healed
Without a Blimiah.
MOTHER THANKS CUT1CURA
My little fjirl had eczema very bad
when she was ten months old. I
thought she would lose her right ear.
It had turned black, and her lace was
like a piece of raw meat, and very sore.
It would bleed when I washed her, and
I bad to keep cloths on it day and
night. There was not a clear spot on
her lace when I begau using Cuticura
feoap and Ointment, and now it is com
pletely healed, without scar or blem
ish , which is more than I had hoped
for. (signed) Mrs. Rose Kther, 391
Iickiord St., Brooklyn, N. Y."
my last until now. The machine did rot
do both capitals and lower case (as now),
but only capitals. Gothic capitals tiny
were, and sufficiently ugly. I remember
the first letter I dictated. It was to Ed
ward Itok, who was a boy then. I Wiis
not acquainted with him nt that time. His
present enterprising spirit Is not now he
had it in that early day. Ho was accumu
lating autographs and was not content
with mere signatures, he wanted n wholo
nutograph letter. I furnished It In type
machine capitals, signature and all. It
was long; It was a sermon; It contained
advice; also reproaches. I said writing
was my trade, my bread and butter; I
said It was not fair to ask a man to give
away samples of his trade: would he ask
a uiacKsmitn tor a norsesnoe: would tie
ask the doctor for a corpse?
ivow 1 come 10 an imporiani maiter 11s
1 reiraro 11. in up vcar ,4 me vnu e
woman copied a considerable part of a book
of mine on the machine. In a previous
chapter of this autobiography I have
claimed that I was the first person in the
world that ever had a telephone In his
house for practical purposes; I will now
claim until dispossessed thai t was the
fleet nAVcann In thn wnrM t rt mtnlv ilin Iriir.
machine to literature. That book must,
have been 'The Adventures of Tom Saw
yer.' I wrote the flm half of It In '72,
the rest of It In '74. My machinist typu
copicd a book for me In '74, so 1 concludu
It was that one.
"The early machine was full of caprices,
full of defects devilish ones. It had as
many Immoralities as the machine of tod:iy
has virtues. After a year or two I found
that it was degrading my character, so I
thought I would give It to Ilowells. Ho
was reluctant, for he was suspicious of
novelties and unfriendly toward them, ami
he remains so to this day. But I persuaded
him. He had great confidence In me, and
I got him to believe things about the ma
chine that I did not believe myself. He
took It home to Boston, and my morals
began to improve, but his have never re
covered. "He kept It six months and then returned
It to me. I gave It nway twice after that,
but it wouldn't stay; It came back. Then
I gave It to our coachman, Patrick Mc
Aloer, who was very grateful, because he
did not know the animal and thought I
was trying to make him wiser and better.
As soon as he got wiser and better lie
traded It to a heretic for a side saddle
which he could not use, and there my
knowledge of Its history ends."
(Copyright, 1906, by Harper & Brothers.)
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