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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1892)
s; The frontier. rum.isTn-rt kviaiY Tin:i:sn.\v iiy II IK KHOXTIKH rinXTIXtl t’l).._ 6rX R fin; - “ N RI I RTS K ,\. Tlie total revenue of the charitable Institutions having tliolr headquarters In London amounted last year to over 6.000. 000 sterling—or, to be precise, 16.000. 703. It is said that goats in the Kalahari frequently pnss months without water, and, r.c o iling to Mr. Mackenzie, thero are ci rtiin antelopes which are never seen to visit the drinking places. The voyage to Liberia tnlces thirty five days by sailing vessel. In seventy years, during whlchr there have been near y 300 immigrations, there has not been a case of loss or disaster. There is a wine cask in Toledo Which holds 60,000 gallons and thereby greatly outdoes the famous Holdel-j berger Fnss, celebrated in German1 prose and poetry. j Gustave Jovanovitch, the greatest cattle brooder in Uussia, and called the “King of the Steppes,” owns 000,000 acres of land and possesses more than 1.000. 000 sheep and 34,000 shepherod dogs. i A bar of iron worth $3 worked into horseshoes is worth 810, made into needles is worth 8350, made into pen knife blades is worth 83,285, made into balance-springs of watches is worth 8250.000. Concerning tho self-purification of rivers Dr, Von l'etlanko states that un treated sewage may with safety bo discharged into a stream if its volume Is not more than one-flfteenih of the river water, This has been a terrible winter for •took ou the Idaho ranches. Thous ands of animals are dead and the Stockmen say that owing to recent heavy snows there is no possible hope for tho remainder. It is by the thumb the aiillor tests the eharaeter and qualities of the grain he grinds; spreading the samples over the fingers by a peculiar move ment of the thumb, he gauges its value by the thun: b itself, ussier may come as early as March IS or as late as April 25. The rule was adopted 1,500 years ago, making Easier the Ural Sunday following the new moon after the sun crosses the equatorial line in the spring. The nebula in Orion Is a fine tele scopic object now. The great black space in this nebula Is known among unpoetio star gizers as the "coal hole." No star has ever been de tected in this "hole in the universe." The oldest piece of cloth in any American collection is that possosse d by the llrooklyn institute. It is a piece of coarse Egyptian linen, not un like the rnoinie cloth of the present day, and Is supposed to be some 6,000 years old. It is entertaining to learn that in 1800 Philadelphia hail 10,000 more population thua New York. But that Was long ago, when Chicago, which is now ahead of the City of Brotherly Love in population, was a howling wilderness. The United Kingdom has neither pe-' troleum nor natural gas. Our product of each iu 1888 was nearly (25,000,000 on the spot—the aggregate, as given by the latest report of the United States geological survey, being over •17,000,000b Five experienced miners from the Comstock mines will leave Virginia City, Nev., very shortly lor Peru to Kelp develop the mines of that country. All their expenses to Peru are to be paid and they are to receive #135 a month each. me Kauri pine la undisputed sorer* •ign of the Australian forest No other tree cau approach it in grandeur of proportion or in impressiveness, when, as one of a clan, it holds as its own stretches of country hundreds of mites in extent A most extraordinary instance of human longevity may be found in Smellie's “Philosophy of Natural His tory,” where an acoount is given of Peter Torten, a native of Hungary, who died January 5, 1734, at the ad vanoed age of 185. A prophet in Athens, Ga., predicts that the crop yield this year through out this country will be the largest ever known, but that beginning with 1893, and for two years thereafter, there will be the greatest famine the world has ever known. Since the high license law went into effect in Georgia the six saloonkeepers of the little lumberport Darien have consolidated their six bars into one, which they have fitted up in first-class style.- The town revenue has been re duced by the arrangement. • A story is told by Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen, the author of “Hock Me ', to Sleep, Mother. ” “The words had .been set to music long before 1 evei heard them sung," she says “One day on the street- i wa electrified bs hearing a. small gamin warbling most •musically the words of my poem. I stoppod short and looked at him. He was i.a the midst of ‘no other worship Abides and endures,’ but he broke his tuneful notes off short as he saw me ■and growled: ‘What in-are you -a-starin’ at?’ ” UNNECESSARY MIDDLEMEN Ar* Often the ('musm of High. Prices— Home Production Dora Awmy With For eign Men 11 rue) urer«, Transportation t'oui pnntea and American Importers, anal Tlila Tends to Decrease Prices— WJiai Are the Iteal 'Mloiiotiollataf" That judicious protective duties have svcr resulted in the ultimate cheapen ing of the articles on which they were levied is now udmitted by every one ex cept the Cobdenite, whose preconceived llieory blinds him to the plain evidence' of facts. This fall in price, as we have often shown, is due in great measure to the stimulation of home competition, and the introduction of improved meth ods and machinery made possible by the application of American genius and Skill. Hut besides competition among our own manufacturers, the beneficent effecLof which has been proved again and again, tiiere is another and no less Important cause of the cheapening of commodities produced at home—the elimination of the middleman. The ex istence of many intermediate agents, tlirough whose hands an article must pass before reaching the ultimate con sumer, can not but result In an un necessary and burdensome tax which lie must pay, for as each middleman naturally wants to make a profit on the goods as they puss through his hands, the moro middlemen there are the more profits will be made, and the higher, therefore, the price, which will ultimately be asked. The necessary middleman, he who really assists in the more rapid distribution of products, is just as important an indus trial factor us the producer. Hut all others who only tax productive industry for their own profits ought to be done away with, and this is just what pro tection has effected. For by establish ing industries in our country which we could otherwise not have acquired, it has eliminated from the elements which go to make up the price of an article the profits of unnecessary agents. This can be more clearly shown, as follows: NI7M1IKR OF ^Article Imported. Foreign manufacturer. Kullcud company (to seaport). Steamship company (across the ocean). American importer. American Jobber. American retailer. MIDDLEMEN. Article Produced at Home. American manufac turer. American Jobber. American retailer. A glance at this table must convince any one that by producing an article in our own country we not only decrease prices by reducing the number of mid dlemen, but we also keep among our own people the money which would otherwise «ro abroad to nav the nrnfbs of foreign manufacturers, railroad com panies and steamship corporations. “But," some Cobdenlte may say, “how about the American importer? Does not the tariff injure him?" And it is true, the tariff does tend to decrease the profits of importers, but this is not a cause for regret The importers in New York are wealthier in proportion to the capital invested in their business than any other class, and all this wealth is gained by stimulating foreign indus try and giving employment to foreign labor at the expense of our own. They are the real “robber barons,” taxing the American consumer by making him pay their extortionate profits. We do not question the legitimacy of their business, but they should confine them selves to importing articles which we cannot produce, and which, therefore, do not deprive our own workingmen of .employment. While, then, the free trader may stig matize the tariff as a “tax," and the “reformer” wail over the “tariff mo nopolist,” the protectionist may rejoice in the knowledge of a work well done, in that he has eliminated two of the most voracious free trade monopolists —the foreign manufacturer and the 'American importer. A Mournful Wall. Listen to this moan from the Iron and Steel Trades Journal of London: “Though the course of British trade In the coming year Is still shrouded with uncertainty, we cun, without fear of fallacy, predict a period of great prosperity In the great transatlantic republic. The good things In store for the Amer icans In 18#i wo do not begrudge them, although we can not expect to participate to the full as we did In by-gone days In the prosperity of the states.” We would be glad to have our British brethren share our prosDerity if it could be done without Injury to ourselves. We were prospering in 1833 and ad mitted them to share our prosperity “to the full." In a very few years our prosperity was no more till we put up tne urm ana Kept tnem out or our mar* keta We became good natured again in 1840 and once more lowered the pro tecting barriers. We had plenty of leisure to repent our folly when we saw the national treasury bankrupt, the country dotted with soup houses, sheriffs’ notices as frequent as show bills, and government paper hawked in the money centers of Europe at dis graceful discounts in order to raise money to pay the ordinary expenses oi government Now that the bars are securely up again, is it any wonder that we turn a deaf ear to John Bull’s com plaints? _ . What Englishmen Think of Da Now. The United States of America, under the influence of the McKinley tariff and increased home production, can no longer be considered as important buyers of steel and iron from this coun try, with the exception of tin plates, and even this article is now .taken ic reduced proportions. It was formerly an acknowledged axiom that a bad harvest in Great Britain or on the continent, which in volved the purchase of large supplier from the U nited States, caused a great demand from there for our manufactures of steel and iron—this rule has now, however, entirely ceased to hold good. The development of the mineral prop erties in the southern states of the Union has during the last few years been so phenomenal that they are now fully able to make up any shortcomings which formerly rendered it necessary for the United States to order from this country.—From Circular of Bolling & Lowe, London. American free traders attribute the downward tendency of wool prices in this country!® the McKinley bill. En» glish free tradfe^* attribute the fall in Australian wool nf the same cause. ' ;v If, I THE DUTY ON WOOL. ! It lint Not Been a Failure—Importations l of Wool Have lucreaiied Hecauu Our Own Production W an Not Great Enough to tuppljr the Material for the Larger Amount of Woolen Goods Which the McKinley Dill Enabled Us to Manufac ture at Home. In the North American Review for February, the Hon. Wm. M. Springer, chairman of the ways and means com mittee, in his article on “Howto Attack the Tariff,” makes the following state ments: “The imports of wool for tho ton months end ing October 30, 1890 (tho McKinley bill took ef fect October 6, 1890), amounted to 88,000,0110 pounds, while the Imports for tho ten months ending October 30, 1801— tho ten mouths next after the passage of that bill—were over 119, 0X1.000 pounds, an increase of over 30 per cen tum. * * » "For the ten months ending October 30, 1880, the imports of woolen goods were valued at over 849,(XX),000, while those for tho ten months end ing October 30,1891, were valued at only 839,000, (XX), a decrease of over 41 per centum. It also appears that the price of wool has averaged from two to throe cents a pound le,ss since the passage of tho McKinley bill than It was when the bill passed." The conditions described by Mr, Springer for October remained practical ly unchanged till December. In consid ering his figures we shall extend the comparison over the whole year, ending December 81, instead of over the ten months ending October 30. We will thus have the advantage of later figures and a whole calendar year, while the plie tfomena he mentions will appear with out material change. It is true that during the last calendar year our imports of raw wools of all kinds were greater than in 1800 by 30, 030.899 pounds, about the rate of in crease given by Mr. Springer. This is tho fact that seems to puzzle our corre spondent. It ought not to. The United States consumes an nually about 000.000,003 pounds of raw wool. We grow about one-half of this quantity, or 300,000,000 pounds, and im port all the rest Some of it, about 100,000,000 pounds, we have been in tho habit of importing in an unmanufac tured form, and importing tho rest in a manufactured form as woolen goods. The framers of the McKinley law saw that tho great evil they had to remedy was the importation of woolens, which not only displace American wool just as really'as do importation of raw wool, but also the labor which should receive employment making the imported ar ticle here. “If we do not grow wool enough for our own use,” they said, **thcn let us import the raw wool in stead of the finished product and so give work to our own people instead of w luicigusin Xilejr aiuieu at Uie MUU, 000,030 pounds imported as woolen goods rather than at the 100,000,000 pounds of imported raw wool. As a matter of fact the increase in the tariff on wools was immaterial. A uniform rate of 11 cents a pound was substi tuted for the two rates of 10 and 12 cents on unwashed clothing wool (class I.); a uniform rate of 13 cents in stead of two rates of 10 and 13 on combing wools (class II.) The slight decline in American wool prices during the last year or two has been due to a downward movement throughout the world, caused by an im mense expansion in production in near ly all wool-growing countries. The good effect of the tariff in shielding our farmers from this world-wide fall in 5rices appears in the fact that from anuary 4, 1890, to February 6, 1892, wool fell in the London market 19 per cent, on an average, and only per cent in this country between the same dates It would be equivalent to a fall of 5% cents a pound on a pound of wool worth 23 cents, as against 1 cent on wool of the same price in this country —not 2 to 8 cents, as Mr. Springer says. Short Tariff Sormon. OUR HOME MARKET. American wages enable us to live not only comfortably, but even luxuriantly, according to the standard of other coun tries for the luxuries of foreigners have become necessaries to the people of the United States It is this ability of our masses to buy that makes our splended home market. It is of several times greater value to us than all the accessible world's mar kets combined We consume over 99 per cent, of our agricultural products, and this is also true of manufactures Every worker at manufacturing in this country consume? over $90 worth of our agricultural produce per year, the English laborer • consuming only $4.42 worth. ■mw, nun. «• avwl a. are brought together the more the profit to the produoer, the less the cost to the consumer and the less the profit to the middleman. The nearer the farm and factory are to each other the greater the home mar ket, and the greater the home market the greater the value of the farm. Protection, by establishing and main taining diversified industries, has built up a home market in this country that is the envy of the world in general and of England in particular. No wonder, then, that she is trying to break down the tariff that protects ua To repeal or lower present duties would be to diminish our purchasing power and destroy our home market. Home production and home consump tion go together. If we lose one we must lose the other. Andrew Jackson well said: Draw from agriculture the superabundant labor, employ it in mechanism and manufac tures. thereby creating a home market for your breadstuffs, and distributing labor to a most profitable account, and benefit to the country Will result. Take from agriculture, in the United States, six hundred thousand men, women and children, and you at once give a home market for more breadstuffs than all Europe furnishes us.—American Economist. The Canadian Manufacturer defines Canadian mugwumpery as follows: “Mugwumpery may be described as that mental condition disappointed poli ticians arrive at when, for reasons best known to themselves, they .find that ths political grindstone is inoperative, as far as sharpening their little axes goes. With some politicians when this condi tion is reached, they either try some other ax or some other grindstone; but they keep up trying all the same.” Add, "and they always become enthusiastic over the achievements of other coun tries and generally sneer at the tri umphs of their own,” and the description 'i the American mugwump is complete. . ■ I - - — - NEBRASKA. The Page Eye last week had a write-up of that town. Hayes Center boasts of a uniformed drum corps. Beemer has voted . bonds for a $3,000 school house. Sioux county cattle are said to be af« flicted with blackleg. Dodge school boys have organized a mil itary company. The Wallace Star has been eued tot $5,100 on a charge of libel. Edward Hegermann of Columbns hat started on a trip to Germany. Blair is preparing to have a ball team that will be a credit to the city. One hundred and fiftv students are at* tending Gate’s college at Neligh. The Beatrice drunkard reformatory hai already turned out four graduate*. One hundred acres of sugar beets will b« put in by farmers near Broken Bow. Bert Phelps, a Wahoo lumber dealer fell from a car the other day and broke hli arm. A democratic rally is to be held at Blaii March 24 and Governor Boyd will be pres ent. One hundred and fifty-five cars of grain were shipped from Gresham during Feb ruary. The German Singing society at Blu« Hill will build an opera house this coming season. Some Norfolk citizens have inaugurated i a movement that will result in beautifying j that city. The Central hotel at Blue Hill, which was recently partly destroyed by fire, is to be rebuilt. The camp of Sons of Veterans at Lyons is the largest in the state. It has sixty* six members. Oakdale guarantees good patronage ta a barber who is a first-class cornet oi clarionet player. A chapter of the Eastern Star has beer organized at Juniata with twenty-five charter members. Fairmont, the home of the eyeless calf, now has a pig with two bodies, eight legs and only one head. Holdredge Knights Templar indulged in a banquet at which a number of visitiug sir knights were royally entertained. Several tramps robbed the shoe store oi George Marburger at Humboldt, but were arrested and are now in jail at Falls City. Albert Lemp, living twelve miles from Columbus, is nursing two fingers on his right hand which were crushed in a •heller. Republican county central committees all over Nebraska have issued call? foi meetings to fix the date for holding the Sneak thieves made a wholesale raid ol robes and horse blankets from car* riages and other vehicles in front of sev eral churches In Beatrice. The prospects are that Pierce county will receive a considerable addition to iti population this spring and that a large amount of new land will be put under cul tivation. Willis Wudspeth, who once upon a time made the Newport Advocate a little the spiciest weekly paper in the state, has be come one of the editors of the Omaha Tocsin. While Ida Jackson, daughter of Thoi Jackson, at Dunbar, was burning trash in the yard her clothes caught fire and burned off to the waist. She was terribly burned. John Porter, of Weeping Water, went to Pennsylvania on a visit and on returning brought with him twenty young men. Si* settled in Cass county and the rest scat tered over the state. Several miles of sewerage will be put in at Fremont this spring. The amount of money to bo expended for this purpose and for the extension of the water works will aggregate $S9,530. The editor of the Wayne Herald an* nounces that he lost a subscriber last week becauso he said in his paper that the town needed a new hotel. The man who stopped the Herald was the present hotel owner. Every local paper in Nebraska is chron icling the arrival of new settlers, and with one accord declare that Nebraska will grow in population more rapidly this year than in any year of its history. Editor Marvin, of the Beatrice Demo crat, has blushingly declined to accept the office of mayor, thus removing, as hq himself naively remarks, “the most con* spicuous figure in the mayoralty contest." The state bicycle tournament will be held at Hastings July 4 and 6, and the cyclers at the Adams capital will give a ball March 24 to raise funds to help pay the expenses of entertaining the visitors. Wftrron Pollap *\9 an#) 1.U little brother were fooling with a knife when Mclientelljr the knife wee run through the palm of Warren’s hand, silting a dee; gash the entire length of the second finger, A creamery haring the capacity of 704 pounds of butter dally is now under pro* cess of ereotion at Falrbury. The price paid for cream will average 15 to 18 cents for cream enough to make a pound ol butter. Dawes county farmers are organizing a stock compsny for the purpose of building a large flouring mill at Chadron. Good headway is being made and it is expected by the farmers that they will have the mill ready for this year's crop. The residence of David Condon at Bray ton was entirely destroyed by fire with all its contents, and Mrs Condon barely es caped from the building with her life. During the month of January and Feb ruary this year, there were shipped from Diller via the Burlington and Missouri railroad, twenty-six car loads of stock and thirty-nine of grain. There were eighteen car loads of mershaudise received during the same time. It is reported that during the month of January, 1892, the shipments from the Ponca depot about sdoubled in tonnage those of January, 1891. It is also said that the receipts of that office, in that month, were nearly double those of the same month one year ago. Wahoo is figuring bn securing the loca tion there of a private insane asylum, which is to be established by Dr. Knapp, lata superintendent of the state institu tion at Lincoln. The proposed asylum will accommodate eighty patients and the buildings will coat about 8100,009. The following dates were made at the meeting of the southern Nebraska circuit for the year's meetings: Geneva, Septem ber 13 to 18; Hebron, September 90 to 84; Ne^on, September 97 to 80; Bed Cloud, October 4 to 8; Edgar, October 11 to 14, The circuit comprises Fillmore, Thayer, Nuckolls and Webster oountlen PROF. TOTTEN MISQUOTED He Has Never Predicted the End of the World. The Imminence of the Second Coniine of Chrlet and (he Nearness of the Close of the Times of the Gentiles His Prophecy. N*w Tons, March 31.—C. A. I* Tot ten, United States army, professor of military science and tactics, of Shef field Scientific school, said to a re porter who visited him at his home: “X have never predicted the end of the world; rather, thank God, its grand beginning. The world endureth for ever. I do predict the imminence of his return who is the desire of all na tions The chronology that I outline must be right. I cannot be wrong, liy that I mean that, whethor it strikes the absolute end of gentile time or not, it moves constantly to its hither bourne. It may be the beginning of that zone of judgment year, though rather do I fear for them on which I can make no impression that is in the final seven.” “Do you know, Professor Totten, that there are many people who regard you as a man who is crazy on this sub ject?” asked the reporter. The pro fessor's face relaxed. He swung back in his chair and laughed. “Of course I do. Of course 1 do," he said. “That Is becaue I have been misquoted. They say I predict the end of the world. That is not so. As you know, there are numerous chronological lines by which calculations fetch us down to the year 18993^ as the year of over throw of Antichrist and the beginning of the millennium on the earth. It is needless to republish even an epitome of the chronological lines. They have all been followed down with the utmost care. They all come to the same point.” His recent action in spiking a copy of his latest book to a telegraph pole in the main street of New Haven was mentioned in the course of the inter view. “I spiked it to the pole,” he said, “with deliberate intent. The book was written to combat the works of Hux ley and Ingersoll. I see nothing odd in such an act, done on the spur of the moment With deliberate intent as soon as the idea was suggested. Had I the means I would go over the cities of Israel and snike a conv of that vnlnmn I on every town post.” The professor told something of what he thought the millennium would be like, beginning with the catching up from the earth of the 144,000 Chris tians, as described in the book of Rev elations. Of hell the professor said: “It is not a lake of fire and brim stone. I think that death to the wicked is an annihilation. To the Christian it is merely a sleep The good will be called up to enjoy the fruits of their obedience. The bad will be nevermore. I will not be here much longer,” he said. “I was sent here for three years. My time is up on July 4, and I will rejoin my regi ment at Atlanta. I don't know whether I will be appointed to fill a place in some other college than Yale, but, whether I put the facts I have discovered before the world as a pro fessor of Yale or as plain citizen C. A. L. Totten, they are facts all the same, and I will give them to the world, as it is my duty and my privilege. ” Looking over some of the books ly ing on the desk by which Professor Totten sat, the reporter noticed that they were copyrighted. “If you desire this information you have gained to be freely disseminated over the world,” lie was asked, “why do you protect your right to publish them with a copyright?” "Your question is a natural one, but easily answered,” said the professor. “It was the part of wisdom to copy right. I am personally responsible for this whole sytem of interpretation; it can not be understood by the public unless it is correctly set forth. This requires ‘the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.’ I could not even contemplate without anxiety the granting of a general privilege to excerpt, edit, garble, or even reprint these volumes. They are studies They must come out under my own supervision. The laborer is worthy of his hire, and as all my wages go back into me worn, i am Tully prepared to anticipate any possible growth in the demand. For many years I journeyed in rain from publisher to publisher with my manuscript. They not only de clined to publish my addresses, but did not even volunteer to publish the works at my own expense. It was not until I put myself single handed at the plow that the work began to realize the success which has crowned it. The effect is now incorporated, entered according to the act of congress, and upon as sound and legal a business basis as that of jrour own paper. I hare been at this work during sixteen years. It was a hidden treasure of great price. Year by year I hare spent all that I had in order to purchase the field, and now that I own it I intend to sell its treas ures myself and in God's name, and to control the proceeds to spread and Further the cause as I shall be further* cnlighted. Finally I copyright this work, because it keeps its object, al u and results united, and I can thus con trol the whole. ” The college men say that Professor Totten’s departure from Yale will be a matter for rejoicing among the frienas of the college. They predict the early fall of his doctrine, when he no longer has the right to say he is a teacher in the great university. THE RAIN HILL MURDERS Police Again Searching the Villa—Expect to Find More Vlotlma. London, March 21.—The police hare received some information which led them today to recommence digging at Rain Hill, on the theory that other victims of the murderer, Williams, alias Deeming, may be buried there. It is suggested that Williams should be brought back to England for trial for the Rain Hill murders, for the reason that these murders antedated the Mel bourne tragedy. It is not probable, however, that the Australians will be satisfied short of his trial and execution there If Ton Want to »le . Ur tlflo Way. "• *«!»»• London, March 21.— Professor T1 . of Zorich university, has { Ile'm. years past been investigating .1, ‘°me 5ect of death by falling Z rived at the surprising conclusi0n ®r' It ts probably the most pleasant » quitting life. YVheneve^ this curie * inquisitive professor has heard of body having tumbled off a ro^f fallen Down a precipice and snrviij be promptly set off to interview sufferer, or engaged some other learnt man on tlie spot to do so iwl? 4 Heim lias elaborate records of a7o^Z cases and upon these he lias bated ' lecture just delivered which, M enJ! for ting to people about to cnga-TZ mountaineering or steeple climbing " other eognate pursuits, may encou.™ suicide and set a new fashion in Zu murder. In all the cases investigated bv professor the feelings were the same or rather they differed only in decree The victim, he says, suffers no pah* in paralyzing terror. He is perfect" aware of what is going on. F y The time seems long to him, as in a few seconds he is able to think so much that he can repeat for an entire hour on it. His thinking powers are immensely increased. In almost all cases the past seems suddenly lighted up as if by a flash of lightning. All phases of importance pass before the mind’s eye. nothing petty or unimport ant disturbing the retrospect. Then gentle, soft tones sound in one's ears and die away. At last, when uncon sciousness comes, one hears the fall of the bolt, but one does not feel it Per sons who have had several limbs bro ken by a fall do not know which limb is affected till they try to rise. "How can we explain this singular phenomenon?’’ says the professor. “Doubtless in such cases the extreme mental excitement plays a great Dart, and we may reasonably assume'that the pain is, as it were, hypnotized thereby. At the moment of the fall the whole intellectual action is in creased to an extraordinary degree. There is not a trace of anxiety. One considers quickly what will happen, or may happen. This is by no means a consequence of presence of mind. It is rather a product of absolute neces sity. A solemn composure takes possession of the mind. Death by a fall is a beautiful one; one falls painlessly into a blue sky. This death is terrible only to thoso who remain behind.” SHE DIDN’T SUIT HIM. And Now She Brings Suit for Flft» Thousand Damages. [ New York, March 21.—Ferman Fer rer, vice president of the Victoria Tun nel company, of 43 Wall street, stock holder in the Atlantic Iron and Steel company, of Alabama, promoter of Mexican silver mines and general financier, is being sued by Miss Car mine A. Emmett, of Brooklyn, for breach of promise of marriage. The lady wants 550,000. Mr. Ferrer is 50 years old and has been married three timea Last August Mr. Ferrer adver tised that “an American gentleman, occupying a position of the highest public trust, desired to meet with a lady having the entry to the highest American society. Object marriage” Mr. Ferrer received half a hundred replies, but among them all the mod est little note signed “Carmine” caught his fancy most. They finally met at the New York end of the Brook lyn bridge. Miss Emmett herself tells the story of the meeting: “He told me of his preceding mar riages, his children, his business, his name and his loneliness. Finally he proposed marriage point blank. I de clined to give him an answer then, but promised to do so at our next meeting. When this took place I accepted him." Afterward Mr. Ferrer grew cold and Miss Emmett sued. A “GRAND OLD TRUMPETER” It Grieves Gladstone That He Hasn't Time for Mr*. Ward'd New llook. London, March 21.—Gladstone was applied to by Mrs. Humphry Ward to write a review of her novel, “David Grieve. ” It was Mr. Gladstone's notice of “Robert Elsmere” that gave that novel its vogue and enabled its authoress to net about 990,000 from its sale. In the “David Grieve” ease the g. o. m. replied on post card regretting that political exigencies prevented mm iroin coinp*j»»*n with the request. He signed tbe post card “Your Grand Old Trump eter.” It was a decided set down for Mrs. Ward, as it showed that the "old parliamentary hand” quietly appreci ated the motive in asking him to ex ploit her new book. As a matter of fact, “David Grieve” is not going with anything like the sucoesa of its prede cessor. Mr. Gladstone has been chaffed so much abont his puffs of mediocre novels that he la more careful now in recommending anything. FOSTER SURPRISED. Customs Emplojci With She ' J Reputa tions Hold Fast Their Jobs. New Yobk, March 21.—Secretary of the Treasury Foster has begun an. in vestigation to ascertain why certain customs employes have been reinstated at the instance of some of the special agents after having been once removed for good and sufficient reasons Col lector Hendricks started an investiga tion on his own book aa to why J- “• Wiawall, an examiner in the silk de partment at the public stores, and Iv • ward C. Leseur, employed in the glove department at the same place, wore re tained after many complaints of am er valuation had been made against tlioi by merchants of this city and, after thorough investigation, they had bee recommended by Appraiser Cooper removal. The collector found that men were retained at the personal * iicitation of Assistant Secretary of _ Treasury Spaulding. When Foster returned from his trip abr • he was surprised .by what Collector Hendricks told him. and at once jo the collector in his investigation. Resolved sc Dissolve. New York, Mss.ju 21.—At the »*’ ■ ing of the Standard Oil fer,J, holders thU morning at 26 Uroa resolutions were adopted by ov®. thirds majority declaring the tion of the Standard Oil trust.