Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1903)
NOTICE OP BELQiQDEliT TAX SALE (Concluded from Page 6.) Lot. Blk. Amt. IS G 38.75 13 G 8.15 20 G 37.63 21 Gj 22 G 63.73 1 H 33.53 2 H 38.53 3 H 38.63 4 H 33.53 5 H 35.63 6 H 38.53 7 H *8.68 8 H 33.53 9 II 38.63 10 II 38.63 11 H £3.63 12 H 38.53 13 H 38.53 14 II 38.33 15 H 38.53 16 H 38.53 17 H 38.53 IS H 88.53 19 H 38.53 1 I 38.53 2 I 38.53 3 I 38.63 4 I 33.53 6 1 38.53 6 I 38.53 7 I 3S.53 8 I 88.53 9 I 26.40 10 I 26.40 11 I 26.40 12 I 26.40 1 Dl 2 11 3 D| 294.05 4 11 233 42 6 11 615 6 D 6.15 7 D 64.23 8 11 64 23 9 II 54.23 10 D 58.60 11 D 57.35 13 D 57.35 13 71 57.35 14 11 57.35 15 D 14.75 16 11 17 D 18 D 19 111 125.35 1 E 38.75 2 E 5.90 3 E 5.90 4 E 5.90 5 E 6.35 6 E 34.78 7 E 34.73 8 E 34.78 9 E 31.78 10 E 10.35 11 E 10.35 12 E 10.36 13 E 1.60 14 E 1.50 15 E 1.50 16 E 123 89 17 E 14.75 18 E 14.75 19 E 52.40 20 E 52.40 21 E 52.40 22 E 38.75 23 E 33.75 3 F 36.89 4 F 36.89 6 F| 6 FJ 49.27 7 F 6.11 8 F 6.11 9 F 5.11 10 F 29.60 11 F 29.60 12 F 223.40 13 F 37.63 14 F 15.25 15 F 15.25 16 F 54.33 HAGERTY'S AD DITION. Lot. Blk. Amt. 1 A $54.44 5 A 21.94 3 A 21.94 4 A 21.94 5 A 21.94 6 A 21.94 7 A 21.94 18 A 54.44 19 A 84.93 20 A 6.00 1 B 67.44 2 B 57.94 3 B 57.94 4 B 69.90 6 B 30.00 6 B 30.00 7 - B 233.42 8 IS 36.34 9 B 1.92 10 B 2.29 11 B 1.82 12 B 1.82 13 B 1.82 14 B 1.82 16 B 1.82 16 B 47.38 17 B 47.38 18 B 47.38 19 B 23.00 20 B 183.40 21 B 23.46 22 B 23.45 23 B 38.85 24 B 38.65 1 C 43.75 2 C 43.75 3 C 94.36 4 G 53.86 5 G 18.62 6 vj 133.43 7 C 58.62 8 C 68.62 9 C 58.62 10 C 58.62 12 C 65.22 13 C 55.22 14 C 55.22 15 C 65.22 19 Cl 26 C\ 20.13 O’NEILL CITY. Lot. Blk. Amt. 3 33 $71.15 4 33 5 33 6 33 7 33 8 33 302.93 9 33 49.25 19 33 49.25 11 33 56.25 12 33 3.50 13 33 3.56 14 33 3.50 15 33 49.25 16 33 53.25 17 33 53.25 15 33 53.26 20 33 109.29 21 33 120.29 22 33 61.25 24 33 61.25 1 341 2 34j 126.00 3 34 366.00 7 34 185.87 8 34 66.00 9 34 3.50 10 34 3.50 11 34 3.50 12 34 3.50 13 34 3.60 14 34 6.70 15 34 5.70! 10 34 5.70 .1 35 7.45. 4 35 60.43 6 35 60.43' 6 35 .86 7 35 6.60 8 36 105.29 9 35 10 35 11 35 12 35 2.50 13 35 48.75 14 35 20.44 16 35 34.75 16 35 13.50 1 36 15.68 2 36 55.22 8 36 55.22 4 36 55.22 5 86 55.22 C 36 55.22 7 36 55.22 8 36 55.22 Lot. Blk. Amt. 9 36 65.22 10 36 55.22 11 36 55.22 12 86 66.22 13 26 55.22 14 26 65.2. 15 36 65.22 16 36 65.2. 4 20 140.40 5 29 140.40 0 29 8.26 7 ' 29 8.25 8 29 16.25 9 29 60.40 10 29 33.86 11 29 33,86 12 29 3*45 14 29 15 29 16 29 25.58 2 30 3.50 3 301 4 30! 11.49 5 30 .GO 6 80 .60 7 30 6.10 8 30 3.45 9 30 60.40 10 30 60.40 11 30 60.40 12 30 60.40 13 30 60.40 14 30 60.40 15 SO 60.40 16 SO 60.40 1 31 65.43 2 31 721.52 3 31 115.4! 4 31 4.86 11 SI 10.20 9 311 10 311 30.00 12 31 65.73 42% ft 13 31 14 31 15 31 16 31 16 31 261.25 127% ft 13 31 14 31 15 31 16 31 118.79 1 82 78.6! 2 82 15.78 3 32 49.40 4 82 49.40 5 32 145.94 6 32 2.85 7 32 2.89 8 32 2.89 9 32 68.98 10 32 65.78 13 82 60.40 14 321 15 32| 16 32| 63.0S 15 26 68.69 16 26 68.69 1 27 143.6S 2 27 143.58 3 27 47.15 4 27 306.25 5 27 319.14 9 27 213.40 10 27 180.86 11 27 135.76 12 27 135.76 14 27 151.51 15 271 16 27 [ GS8.58 24 ft 1 23 2 23 4 28 232.69 24 ft 1 28 2 23 4 23 204.91 1 28 2 28 24 ft 2 28 4 28 431.50 1 28 24 ft 2 28 8 28 4 28 427.32 1 28 16 ft 2 28 2 28| 4 28! 224.01 6 23 169.03 6 28 258.31 7 . 28! 8 281 66.64 10 ' 23 73.43 11 28 73.43 12 28 73.43 n 28 ft 13 28 14 28 15 28 16 28 158.13 142 ft 13 28 98.16 s 40 ft 14 28 15 28 16 28 309.07 102 ft 14 23 16 28| 16 2S| 211.29 1 29 138.59 2 29 61.43 3 29 61.43 20 22 164.51 21 22 463.29 n 17 ft 22 22 495.84; s 5 Vi ft 22 22! 23 22| 215.31 24 22 23.00 25 22 33.99 1 23 38.67 2 -23 113.22 3 23 181.62 wVi 4 23 237.10 eVi 4 23 40.22 6 23 162.30 « 23 148.14 7 23 148.14 8 23 817.18 12 23 60.00 13 23 227.08 14 23 60.00 1 24 110.63 2 24 104.00 3 24 104.00 4 24 S.64 5 24 198.23 6 24 125.63 7 24 99.38 8 24 119.40 9 24 148.93 10 24 119.36 11 24 5.30 13 24 72.75 13 24 45.58 14 24 45.58 2 25 113.4(1 3 25 3.45 4 25 3.45 5 25 3.46 7 25 250.00 8 25 70.00 11 25 90.40 12 25 298.CP 13 25 63.50 14 26 96.40 15 25 90.40 16 25 96.40 1 26 70.06 2 26 68.86 8 26 47.93 7 26 47.93 g 26 670.81 9 26 50.12 10 26 8.47 11 26 8.47 12 26 8.47 13 26 68.8! 14 26 68.8! 1 19 103.7* 2 19 103.7! 3 19 103.7' 4 19 103.7! 5 19 103.7 6 19 103.7! 7 19 103.7: g 19 103.7 9 19 88 6 10 19 98.6 11 19 88.6. Lot. Blk. Amt. 12 ' 19 98.63 1 20] 2 20 86.23 3 20 237.10 5 20 153.52 6 29 153.52 7 20 163.52 8 20 153.52 15 20 .115.94 16 20 116.94 1 21 66.69 2 21 45.94 3 21 45.94 4 21 45.94 6 21 207.07 6 21 350.64 7 21 386.27 8 21 495.84 11 21 248.08 12 21) 13 2l[ 637.21 14 21 6.89 10 21 6.89 16 21 7.48 17 21 140.09 15 21 125.01 21 21 22.6! 22 21 34.4! 24 21 45.9 29 21 106.4: 20 ft s side 30 21 60.11 2 ft n side 30 21 25.20 31 21 195.8", 3 22 159.8", 4 22 159.87 6 22 $.11 8 22 237.11 9 22 165.0. 11 22 285.41 12 22 221.01 14 22 150.16 16 22 206.74 17 22 164.51 18 22 164.51 19 22 164.51 26 15 9.15 27 15 9.81 28 15 49.00 4 16 24.35 5 16 23.00 6 16 6.35 7 161 8 16] 824.25 10 16 195.05 11 16 187.4.1 12 16 212.48 13 16 279.36 14 16 272.45 15 16 268.88 16 16 193.27 17 16 45.95 IS 16 120.35 19 16] 20 16| 936.26 22 16 918.18 23 16 285.41 24 16 95.90 51 ft 26 16 27 16 28 16 218.43 1 17 2 17 *7.23 3 17 8.76 4 17 76.05 5 17 89.75 6 17 76.05 S 17 106.05 9 17 148.SS 10 148.88 11 17 148.88 12 17 148.88 13 17 148*5 14 17 401.50 15 17 177.88 1 18 93.43 2 18 93.43 * 1* 93.43 4 18 93.48 * 18 93.43 ( 18 93.43 T 18 93.43 t 18 93.43 9 18 4.05 10 18 8.45 11 IS 103.43 12 18 103.43 13 18 103.43 14 18 103.43 15 18 103.43 16 18 318.98 5 12 58.75 6 12 5.54 7 12 5.64 8 12 111.05 9 12 39.14 10 12 22.13 11 12 35.73 12 12 35.73 13 12 35.73 14 13 28.48 15 12 66.31 16 12 56.31 9 13 130.59 w!4 10 13 51.68 e% 10 13 62.59 11 13 130.59 12 13 130.59 13 13 130.59 H 13 130.59 15 13 130.59 16 13 130.59 3 14 180.59 4 14 130.59 6 14 130.59 6 14 130.59 pt T 14| 8 14 130.59 pt 7 14 5 14 130.59 9 14 183.39 10 14 11 14 12 14 355.90 13 14 173.02 Lot. Blk. Amt. 14 14 15 14 16 14 608.03 ' 3 15 108.87 4 16 102.12 5 16 67.66 6 15 67.66 7 16 164.51 13 15| 14 15] 1474.21 15 15 361.91 16 16 389.80 17 15 456.33 1 161 2 15[ 37.38 18 15 25.90 19 15 6.34 20 15 181.03 21 15 6.90 22 15 257.80 24 16 17.25 25 15 8.64 12 6 38.73 13 6 38.73 14 6 38.73 15 6 38.73 16 6 38.73 5 7 6 7 186.91 9 7 10 7 42.20 11 7 34.20 12 7 30.55 13 7 14 7 298.23 15 7 16 7 144.23 1 70.12 2 8 388.92 3 8 63.19 4 8 63.19 5 8 78.74 6 8 68.69 7 8 59.62 8 8 21.56 10 8 68.15 11 8 70.12 12 81 13 8j 467.89 14 8 67.74 15 8 289.39 16 8 67 74 9 9 90.04 10 9 90.04 1 9 3.35 17 9 65.24 IS 9 55.24 19 9 65.24 20 9 55.24 11 10 12 10) 349.87 1 11 56.85 3 11 17.25 3 11 99.38 4 11 72.00 7 11 365.10 9 11 107.85 10 11 107.85 11 11 107.85 12 11 107.85 13 11 107.85 14 11 107.85 15 11 402.20 16 11 17.00 1 12 59.89 2 12 6S.75 3 12 68.75 4 12 68.75 1 1 62.22 2 1 59.89 3 1 69.89 4 1 59.89 5 1 69.89 6 1 59.89 7 1 59.89 8 1 63.35 9 1 181.85 10 1 58.36 11 1 68.35 12 1 68.35 13 1 68.35 14 1 58.35 15 1 58.16 16 1 63.45 1 2 71.46 2 2) 3 2 85.(3 4 1 12.88 I 2 34.75 « 2 133.76 7 2 17.95 8 2 19.45 9 2 67.30 10 2 13.43 14 21 15 21 16 2 23.00 ntt 1 31 nV4 2 8| n% 3 3 85.00 stt 1 * sMi 2 31 S% 3 3| 33.49 1 6 67.85 2 5 62.96 3 5 62.96 4 5 62.93 5 6 54.63 6 6 69.70 13 6 [ 14 51 241.41 15 6 30.70 16 6 49.40 1 6 38.73 2 6 88.73 5 6 38.73 4 6 38.73 6 6 88.78 | 6 38.73 7 6 88.73 | 6 38.73 9 6 38.73 10 6 38.73 U 6 38.73 When in Need • of Job Printing eall and Let Us Figure With You. (jRLfjT fiRlWN RMT} KtyEMEK j lie was late, as usual. Their appoint- | Pent was thirty-five minutes overdue j when from her lookout at the parlor win- . low she espied him turning into the street j from the main road. She looked in vain for the least sign , >f hurry on him. Calmly and leisurely, he sauntered up the street, reading the evening paper, with the air of a man who would as lief his destination were fur- j fcher, and she felt his feet tramping on her j heart. As he neared the door she slipped up to ' her room, leaving the rest of the family, who were taking a rather indignant In terest in him just now, to Rnswer his knock. Twenty minutes after she dried her eyes and came down. He was lounging on the sofa, reading his paper. He looked up casually. She said: "Oh, don’t let me disturb you. I’m sorry to intrude. He looked at his watcli and smiled 3ryly. "Rather a good job I was a little late.” “Were you? How time flies! I was late home from business, and I’ve been busy since.” •‘I’ve been waiting twenty mfnutes and a half, and I was thirty-five minutes be hind,” he said off-handedly. Not by a second would he add to his waiting, or lessen his dalliance. She had lied that he might lie, hut he did not care enough to take the chanre. Her hand trembled as she stood at the mirror pin ning up a stray lock that she had left loose so that she might seem unready. *T could have waited until you finished your toilet,” he said. "I forgot. Of course you want to get on with your reading. Rut perhaps one pa per won’t last you the night.” She wrent out and returned with an armful of news papers. which she slammed down on the table at his elbow. "There!” she said, and vanished. It was amost dark when she came hack. Phe paused for a moment on the thresh hold ©f the room, hoping he would call squeezed it; and the next moment a man’s brown face came into view and kissed her full on the mouth. Walter stared hard, but a mist blotted the scene from his gaze. When it cleared away the man’s head had disappeared, though his hand still remained on Amy’s shoulder, and the lov ing pair were singing the opening bars of “Tom Bowling,’* A blind rage took hold of Walter. Pas sionate jealousy, to which he had long been a stranger, swept over his heart as a flood, reminding him in n flash of the old days before he was sure of her favor, when ho cherished black hate for every man her wayward lips smiled on. He rushed along the passage and Into the parlor, and seizing Amy’s companion I by the collar struck him a sounding blow on the cheekbone. Jack Minton—for the unknown rival was he—jerked his neck free and returned the blow with Interest. With loud breathings and flaming faces the two men closed in combat and went lurching about the room, hitting now at each other, now the un satisfactory air. and all in deadly silence. Amy shrunk trembling into a corner as ■ they stumbled toward her, then indigna tion against her brother got the better of her. She sprang between them. “Jack, for shame! Come away this min ute. llow dare you strike him!” The men fell apart, glaring. “Why shouldn’t 1?” growled Jack. “IIo hit me first.” She looked wonderingly at Waltfer. “You hit him first?” “Yes,” he sukl. “Why?” “He—he kissed you.” “He kissed me! Of course he kissed me.” Then her heart leaped at the blunder; the dear, delightful blunder that had shown her he would fight for her dawned on her. “1 forgot,” she said, smiling on them both, “you have never met: Jack, this Is Wal ter; Walter, this is my brother Jack.” “Your brother!” said Walter slowly, <m Of CWRtf 1 iJL Kl»EP her to him; then she sat down at the piano. Time was when the commonest barrel organ melody played by her could set his heart throbbing. Now he observed that her choice of airs was conventional, her playing mechanical and colorless. Ills In difference choked her. She got up sud denly In the middle of a tune. "You'd better go,” she said. He went. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays were the nights he visited her. The fol lowing Wednesday he did not come. The family made a fuss about It. "It all comes of leaving you girls to yourselves,” said her mother. “In my young days, when parents had a say in their children’s affairs, the man was brought to h'.s senses after a year or two’s courshlp, and the girl was safely married to him before he had time to get tired of her. If my mother hadn't taken your father In hand he’d have hung on till I marrlod some one else out of spite, and left him to die of landladies’ cook ing.” "If that’s what Amy's up to.” said Mag gie, her elder and plainer sister, "she might let us know, and the fellow, too. Save us wasting suppers on him and him useless Journeys." “Don’t you make any error,” said Sam uel Minton, aged 11. "Our Amy hasn’t got any other chap. She’s Just dotty on Walter. You should see the face on her when he’s late getting here. You’d think she was going to be executed." "Him fight!” said Maggie contemptu ously. "All the more fun,” laughed Jack. "Leave this little job to me,” said Mr. Minton, waking up out of a doze. "I’ll reason with the young man. I’ll point out to him the Injudiciousness of his be havior. Reason brought me up to the scratch. Why shouldn't It bring him, too ?" “Because men are different nowadays," answered Maggie, feelingly. "Mag’s right,” said Jack. "It takes the young to deal with the young these times. You can leave him to me, <lad. It Isn’t reasoning he's In need of. He wants wak ing up: he's taking us loo casually. Next time he calls get e-my out of the way and leave me to settle with him. Seems to me I’ve Just come home In time.” "What if he doesn't mean to come againV" suggested Maggie. "Oh, then I’ll begin calling on him." The next night Walter, strolling home ward, found himself In the neighborhood of the Minton's house. In there she sat, her arms ready for hls embrace, her lips pleading for his kisses; and he stayed outside. But ho was not happy. He was turning away when a man’s voice Joined In the song. A heavy bari tone. not without a musical ring, but In Its bounding, unmodulated strength more suited to a rollicking sea song than a pa thetic ballad. The singing ceased, but there was no applause. Listening at the window, Wal ter noticed a gap in the Venetian blind, through which a narrow space of the lamp-lit room was visible. This narrow ' space was occupied by a,part of the key- j board of the piano, a book of music stand ig above, Amy’s prolllo nud a large, brown hand resting on her shoulder. As Walter peered in the brown hand moved forward to turn the leaves of the music book, met Amy’s white one out stretched on the same errand, and, am a thinking it out. He offered his hand to Jack. “Then I apologize.” “I’m dashed if I do!” said Jack. “So you’re Walter, are you? You’re the gen tleman who’s been having a game with my sister?” He advanced threateningly. "We’ve finished too soon. I’ve been sav ing up a licking for you. Better get the job over.” “Yes, we’d better get the job over,” said Walter, putting up his fists. Amy gave Jack a push toward the door. “Go and find room in the kitchen, you great silly," she said, kissing him. “And if ever you lay a finger on Walter again I’ll fall out with you.” Walter followed Jack and held out his hand again. “Shake hands, old chap. You owed me a licking and you’ve given ine one. I owe you—well, never mind what I owe you. Shake hands anyway.” Jack, slower than his sister to grasp thd meaning of Waiter’s “He kissed you!” took his hand dubiously. “Well,” he said, “I don’t mind telling you that this just about gets over me. Here I come home from the other side of the world, find you two at loggerheads, and promise myself I'm going to show you how to appreciate a girl like Amy with the business end of my knuckles. "I do so’’—he inspected Walter’s black eye with critical satisfaction, then felt his own bruised cheek tenderly—“we both do so. And now you’re old chapping me, Amy’s chucking me out, and the pair of you seem to have become as big friends as ever without giving me the wink as to howr you’ve managed it.’’ Walter shook his hand warmly. “Per haps some other time I’ll give you—the wink.” # “Walter,” said Amy, when her brother had gone, “what is it you owe Jack?” He took her in his arms and kissed her in the old sweet way. “I ows him you,” he said. “I was los ing you, my darling, letting you go, wil fully; though I was miserable, and did not want to. I was too sure of you, took you too much for granted. I had forgotten that I loved you. Something had to hap pen to remind me. Jack happened.” “But,” she protested, slyly, “it was only Jack, after all. Are you sure you wont be sorry you put yourself to the incon venience of calling, and—er—got your ey* blacked, for a mere brother?” “Sorry!” he cried. “Dear old Jack has been the salvation of me; but for him I would have driven you to warmer arms. My love for you had gone asleep; he awakened it. When I left you last night I did not intend to come back. Now I have come back forever; I mean, for as long as I am welcome.” “It's all the same,” she said, laying her head on his shoulder. From a Society Man’s Diary. I.lfe: "I narrowly escaped a great hu miliation dining with the Smiths last night. Only the superb tact of Mrs. Smith suved me.” I had drunk my wine. “Fill Mr. Jones' glass," said Smith to his butler. As the man approached me, decanter In hand, I broke Into a cold perspiration. For In that moment I recalled that I had brought no money with me. Doubtless I looked the horror I felt. Any way, Mrs Smith divined my predicament, und quietly lent me a dollar, with which 1 feed the butler. DUKE IN SEARCH OF LOST TREASURE Argyll Apparently Has Good Chance of Recovering Sunken Gold. AN ANCIENT SPANISH SHIP fhere Was Laughter for His Grace When He Set Out in the Search, but His Men Have Traces of the Galleon. London special: Although much was laid ubout the duke of Argyll’s rather antastlc project of seeking for Spanish rold off the Island of Mull when first le determined to undertake it. probably 'ew expected that the somewhat fussy >U1 nobleman actually would carry out he enterprise. However, anyone who jares to mitke a trip to the picturesque Bland off the coast of Scotland can see t little steam lighter pumping away In he bay. and the object of Its attentions s no other than the recovery of the amous treasure wlch went down In the Spanish ship "Florida’' more than 300 'ears ago. Moreover, there are signs hat the quest Isn’t going to be barren >y any means. The "Florida" was of course one of hat great lleet of galleons called the Spanish Armada In Spain's last ut empt to wipe England from the seas, •laving been smote hip und thigh by Orake, the lleet scattered to the near* :st place of refuge nnC the “Florida," luttle-scarred and In anything but sea vorthy condition, sought safety by larting through the narrow entrance 0 the landlocked harbor of Mull, [■hough the Spanish captata thus got lear away from Ills English foes, fate iad decreed that his proud galleon clth Its golden stores should never eave the roc.kbound harbor. The Flor da's captain, Don Fereija, lost no time n scraping acquaintance with the Scotchmen who inhibited Mull, and, n return for supplies of food and drink io seems to have made a compact with he local chief to he'p him fight a but le with a neighboring clan, the allies moving triumphant. Agreement Was Violated. History Is rathe vague as to Just vhat happened then, hut the Spanish loinmander appears to have made some ort of a compact with the Highlander vhich afterward he did not care to ;eep, and when the latter sent one of Ms emissaries—Donald Glas Maclean, 1 brave Scotchman—aboard the Flor da to ask wl*v Don Fereija’s promise tus not kept, the Spaniard clapped ifadean below and prepared to sail at ,nce. As the Scotchmen on shore pos essed neither heavy ordnance nor ihtps, Don might have got free tai sate y had It not been for the canny Don tld, who, discovering the drift of af alrs, contrived to lay a fuse to the naln magazine. Now, Just as the crew was weighing tnchor, It occurred to the Spanish cap ,aln that it would be fitting for Donald Jlaa to have a last look at the father und and, little realizing that his ship vas about to be blown from beneath lim, Fereija summoned the Scotchman io the deck. Donald had his look ac jompanled by grim taunts of the Span ards, but no sooner had the hatch cov rs closed over him than, with the roar >f a hundred thunders, the Florida ipllt in two and sank. Only Three Escaped. Of the elghty-slx souls on board only liree escaped, and of these one died lext day. The Islanders Insist, how iver, that the captain’s dog also sur vived the explosion and died near the ihore, where his ghastly bark may still >e heard on stormy nights. The Flor da was known to have on board an •normous store of treasure when she vas destroyed, and for this the ducal 'amlly of Argyll has been searching off’ tnd on since 1643. Although the pres ent duke’s aneestprs found almost no race of the Spaniard, the search now foing on has brought to light much vklence that the treasure seekers may eally have located the galleon, [livers have sent up parts of ship’s dinbers, old cannon and a few silver joins bearing the stamp of Philip II., tnd the duke Is confident that before nany weeks the men on the little llght jr will get a signal from below to haul ip the long sought gold. , --- Clinging to the Strap. When but a little restless boy. If mother brought the strap, He hung on It with might and main ! To try to stay the rap. I And now he rides upon the car, The same old restless chap, And tho' his Ala is no place near i He still clings to the strap. All for the Best. Washington Star: “Yes," said Mrs. "umrox, "my daughter’s commence ment essay was very tine." “Did you enjoy it?” “t should say so. I wish I could write something like It." "You regret not having applied your self to literary pursuits?” "No. If I had I probably couldn’t tavo afforded to give Ethellndu the education which enabled her to produce his masterpiece.” Concerning Tongues. Although It Is the Chinese language which is spoken by the largest number of people on the face of the earth. It Is In English that more than half of all exlst ;ng newspapers are written, says the Westminster Gazette. Against a popula tion of nearly 400,000,000 which speak Chi nese, English Is spoken by about 100,000, N0. Next comes German, with 85,000,000; ‘.hen Kussian, with 05,000,000. French and Spanish are each the native tongue of. 11,000,000, Italian of 30,000,000, and Portu guese of only 13,000,000. In the United states newspapr.s appear printed In :wcnty-four different languages. The Italian tongue Is, outside of Italy, mainly spoken In Egypt and America. The use of Spanish Is decreasing, but It Is still a /ary Important language la commerce. MEN WHO WORK OVERTIME. ’ Actors, Clergymen, School Teacher* and Newspaper Men. Harper’s Weekly: Recently I hafviv talked with a number of men who wof's-t hard In their various professions. Th»j comedian of a stock company In a well1 known New York theater said: "To bt-1 Kin with, we have a new play every week. I am always at the theater every after-, * noon at about 2 o'clock, and am often Un-| able to leave till 6:30 or even later, espe-f dally on Mondays and Tuesdays, whlen the new play has not begun to Tin* smoothly. Similar long hours prevail, of course, evenings. Aly mornings are talntn up with rehearsals for. the play that b* to bo put on the next week. This, wftfv the time I have to devote to studying Jjov lines, takes about fifteen hours a day. It la pretty heard, but after a ta.k, thn other day, with a friend who had Just come In from playing one-night stands, I congratulated myself on having a com paratively easy lot In life. The ordinary weekly routine of a prom inent out-of-town clergyman with whom 1 talked is as follows: "All day Sunday Is taken up with the regular routine of church work. Kvery night In the week there ts some kind of a meeting tvhlfl* requires my presence. On Saturday I pre pare my sermon. During the month or quarter come tho conferences and other meetings at which I am expected to bo present. The church conducts an em ployment bureau, a free dispensary, » kindergarten and other auxiliaries, all of which I visit once or twice a week. This, by the way. does not Include meet ings of educational, fraternal, political and other organizations for which I often have to prepare addresses; nor the calk* On the eleven hundred members of my congregation Last year some of my tlm« was employe*. In marrying eighty-two couples, attending nearly one hundred fu nerals and making about one thousand calls." 1 have a. friend who Is a school teacher and he says that he earns every cent of his salary: "X average about twleye> hours' work a days," said he, "and dur ing my vacation 1 devote about half my time to special reading in connection wilt* future school work. ’Fho Introduction of supplementary work In the schools, the* taking up of special subjects one or two hours a week, require extra reading an<* studying.” To many i'hc newspaper reporter ap-i pears to lead a life of pleasure. Hut this reporter we see on tbe stage—the "jour nalist’' with the notebook—Is never sew* in real life. Here is what one of the re porters on a big morning paper told me, and-as I have been through the same ex perience. I know it Is substantially cor rect: "X get to the office at 11:30, In or Jer to read the papers half an hour be fore the noon assignments are given out. 1 Soon after 12 I am sent out on a story. If It Is not very Important or la not tar away I may have two or three to look after. Under ordinary circumstances 1 return to the office before 6 and write my copy. As soon as It Ib flntshed and I have' my dinner I start out on evening assign ments, returning as soon as possible, for the earlier one gets his copy In the mote ’space’ ho ts paid for In the paper. Hi) one can tell In advance when or where)* news story will break out, and I alwayu keep a paekpd grip at the office.” Kven the wealthy work overtime, anil most of them pay ■ the penalty, sooner or later, In one way or anouier. tt la saftt that George Gould Is at his desk at j* o’clock every morning when he Is In the city. The only recreation Russell Sage has Ji» when lie steals an hour* for a drive. John D. Rockefeller has already bartered hits stomach for his wealth by working long1 hours. A prominent physician recently said io me: “Up to a generation ago the walfli word was, ’Look out for your stomach.' Now It Is, ‘Look out for your nervous sys tem.’ An eight-hour union for profes sional men and men who work with thebe brains ought certainly to be seriously con sidered.” • A BRIGHT PUPi:.. Brother Jack—Sadie, how could I divide 10 apples among 11 little girls? Sadie— Dlb one a or'en. FIVE INTELLECTUAL FEET. brary Long Enough to Furnish in formation for Needs of Any Man. According to President Charles \V. Eliot, of Harvard University, there Is no good reason why the normal human being should not have an Intellectual training that would meet the requirements not only of our advanced civilization, but be up to the highest standard as fixed by the learned president himself, for recently be said: “A library that will go on a shell live feet long Is enough to give an Intel lectual training to any human being that ever came Into the world," says the blew York Herald, Just think of It! You can hold the five feet of volumes between your extended palms, and all you have to do Is to trans mute their contents Into memory cells that can, at the will, be put Into action for the production of understanding. Only five feet! I have taken the trouble to put the rule on this and apply a little mathematics. As books in the library av erage, five feet means 37 volumes; which is not an array calculated to frighten *a> reader. Again, an average shows that these 37 books contain SO.tJOO pages, made up ol 1,000,000 words. Not so very much ma terial from which to Imbibe Intellectual training. His Exasperating Calmness. Chicago Tribune; “Laura,” said Mn Ferguson, the dinner having progressed thus far without any comment on his part, “where did you get this steak?” “At the usual place," his wife replied. “What’s wrong with It?’’ “Nothing. It’s the best ive have had for a long time. That’s why I Inquired. Did you think I was finding fault with It?” “How was I to know?" said Mrs. Fergu son, slightly Irritated. "You always do your grumbling and your praising la da-, actly the same tone of voice.”