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HE LOSES $25,000
IN NIGHT AT FARO
Manager of Club in Tenderloin
Di*trict at Window Early
in the Morning.
New York, March t.—Memories
of the days when Canfield’s and "Hon
est John” Kelly’s were running wide
open, have been revived In the Ten
derloin district by the story of a faro
play in a club house not far from
Broadway and Thirty-eighth street,
which ended with the house $25,000
richer and a man staying at the Wal
dorf-Astoria that amount poorer.
The man, who is said to be a coal
operator from. West Virginia, went to
the house to play roulette. He was
not a stranger in the place, having
won and lost small sums there at var
ious times. At the wheel he made a
•email winning and then turned his at
tention to faro.
The limit of the game was $100 on
case cards. At this he won at first,
find after midnight was a few hundred
dollars ahead. Then his luck changed
and he was soon as many hundreds
out. Toward dawn, tiring of losing and
determined to “make a killing,” he
asked that the limit be raised to $500.
This only hastened the end, and when
he left the house had all his ready
** money and a check sufficiently large
to make the total winnings $25,000.
It is the first time in a considerable
period that Broadway has heard of
lifgh play at faro, though the loser in
the game a short while ago ended a
night at roulette $3,500 poorer than
when he started. He is well known
to race track followers, and, while his
checks have always been found good,
no chances were taken on those given,
for when the bank opened the man
ager of the club was waiting to pre
sent them. He got his money without
q uestion.
BOY HUNTER FINDS
BODY OF MAN
Kingsley, In., March 1—While hunting
along the river bank this morning
James Boleon, a young boy, found the
body of a man in a pasture about three
milt s northeast of here. It is believed
to be that of Otto Klingbrle, who has
been missing from home for about two
weeks.
From the condition of the body it is
believed that the man, while op his
way home from Pierson at night, fell
•into the rh er, after which he laid down
on tho bank and went to sleep, freezing
to death. His face was badly discol
ored. Klingbrle went to Pierson two
weeks ago and purchased a jug of
whisky and it is the supposition that
on the way home he became drunk.
A coroner’s Inquest is being held this
afternoon in Kingsley. Klingbrle was
a bachelor and about 45 years old.
MURDERS WOMAN WHO
TH..EW ACID IN FACE
Lov< Angeles, Meh. i.—Mrs. Charlotte
I,. Noyes, a wealthy widow, was shot
and instantly killed last night at her
p home by W. P. McComas, a mining en
gineer, who had been friendly with her
for several months. McComas alleged
the. woman dashed a cupful of sulphur
ic acid in his face, and the shooting
followed.
ARRESTED FOR JURY
BRIBING, RELEASED
Harrisburg, March l.—The arrest of
E. C. Humphreys on a technical charge
of attempted embracery may be foi
w lowed by additional arrests on a similar
^ charge during today. Humphreys is
alleged to have attempt d to influence
Albert A. Foist, one of the jurors in
the state Capitol conspiracy suit now on
trial here.
A detective who has been watching
Foist saw a messenger boy call at the
juror's home yesterday and leave a
note When the boy left the house the
detectives stopped him and asked from
whom lie had received it. He reluc
tantly designated Humphreys.
After court had adjourned the de
tectives saw Foist and Humphreys en
ter a saloon in the vicinity of the court
house and engage In earnest, conversa
tion at a table. The detectives allege
they heard one of the men use this ex
pression ;
I tnink $150 is a fair price.” :
This remark led to the arrest of
Humphreys several hours later. He
says he and Poist were discussing a
business transaction involving an as
signment of a patent in which the
Juror Is alleged to have bought one
fourlti interest from Humphreys for
the. nominal sum of $1.
The district attorney this afternoon
ordered the release of Humphreys,
having satisfied himself that Humph
reys Imd made no attempt to influence
Juror Poist.
BLOW SAFE AND
ESCAPE WITH $400
1 finooln, Neb.. March 1—The postofflee
at Hickman, 15 miles south of here,
p*was burglarized last night. The rob
bers boldly smashed in the front win
dows, blew the safe, and escaped on a
Burlington handcar with $400 in stamps
and money. No clew.
MISSOURI PACIFIC
SHOPSARE CLOSED
Kedulia, Mo., March 1.—The following
notice was posted at the Missouri Pa
cific railroad shops today:
"Owing to continued depression In
business these shops will not be opened
till further notice.”
FUNERAL OF NOTED EDITOR.
Washington, March 1.—Market >.• .-,o
assemblage which included many of the
most distinguished men in public life,
the funeral of Crosby S. Noyes, late
editor of the Washington Star was held
today at St. Thomas' Protestant Epis
copal church.
MOTHER AND THREE
CHILDREN BURN IN FIRE
Pittsburg, March 1.—A mother and
her three children were burned to
death und several persons were injured
In a lire which started from an over
turned lamp early today in the Rrere
ton avenue foreign district. A large
number of excited foreigners had nar
row escapes from death and Injury.
A scientist looking for microbes says
there is absolutely none on the Swiss
mountains at an altitude of 11,000 feet.
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! MINISTER WU IS
BACK WITH RETINUE
R\n Francisco, March 3.—Wu Ting
fan, for the second time ap
pointed Chinese minister to this
country, has arrived on the Pa
cific Mail liner Siberia with a large re
tinue of secretaries, and legation and
consulate attaches, numbering 70 per
sons. He brought with him new i ou
suls for Mexico, Havana, New York
and San Francisco, beside three neph
ews ahd three secretaries and seven
other attaches for the Chinese legation
at Washington, and twenty-four young
students who will enter various schools
and colleges in this country. Minister
Wu denied the report that he was the
bearer of an appeal to Washington ask
ing this country to assist in preserving
the interests of China in Manchuria
and protesting against the alleged ag
grandizement of Japan in that prov
ince, but admitted "there was some lo
cal friction.”
Touching upon the reorganization of
the Chinese army Wu Ting-fang said;
"Yes, China is organizing an army—
a good army—yes, a modern army.”
"How large?"
"Really. I cannot say," answered he
with a smile, “that's too long a story at
this time."
Discussing conditions in China Wu
said:
“China is now in a state of transi
tion—between the conservatism of the
old and ihe progress of the new era J
—and that condition may continue for ■
some time to come; yes, It may even |
become marked and acute.
"China lias made wonderful progress
in the last few years. In its army,
its schools, in railroad developments,
manufacture and other industries, ev
erywhere it is not only noticeable, but
marked. China will become a mod
ern nation, but it must go slow.
"First tlie people must be educated
and modern Ideas of improvements can
not be adopted any faster than the peo
ple are taught and can assimilate them
and adapt themselves to the new con
ditions utterly strange to them and to
their inode of life and thought.
"This is being done as rapidly as pos
sible. For this reason I am encourag
ing the coming of more students to
this country that they may hear and
acquire modern knowledge and ideas,
which they can impart to their people
at home when they return as teachers."
Asked if he thought that Japan was
preparing for war. Wu Ting-fang de
clared most emphatically that it was
not.
Minister Wu and his party will re
main at San Francisco until next
Wednesday morning when he will leave
for Washington.
BOMB THROWN AT
ARGENTINE RULER
Buenos Ayree, March 3.—A dynamite
bomb was thrown against a carriage in
which President Alecorta was driving, but
failed to explode.
Four persons we're arrested, charged
with complicity in the plot.
Recently there has been political unrest
in Argentina owing to the Issuance Jan
uary 26 of an executive decree closing the
extraodinary sessions of congress and
putting into effect for the current fiscal
year the budget of 1907. This extreme
measure was made necessary by the ob
structive tactics of a majority in the sen
ate which made impossible the passage
of the budget or other legislation leaving
the government powerless to meet ordi
nary expenses. President Alcorta an
nounced at the time that the government
was prepared promptly to suppress any
subversive or violent movement on the
part of the opposition, and on January 27
large forces of police prevented the sena
tors and deputies from attempting to take
possession of the parliamentary halls. It
was stated at the time that the decree
of President Alecorta was approved by a
majority of the people.
JAPAN DEMANDS
CHINA S APOLOGY
Toklo, March 3.—The Japanese gov
ernment is maintaining a determined
attitude concerning the seizure of the
steamer Tatsu Maru, and will demand
both apology and indemnity from
China.
The Chinese foreign office wants to
submit the entire question to a mixed
court. This is refused by the Japanese
government unless the vessel first has
been released and an apology made for
the insult to the flag.
It is said by the foreign office that no
ultimatum has been issued; that the
sailing of the Japanese cruiser Idzurni
for Hong Kong is not intended as a
threat. It is quite evident, however,
that the Japanese will resort to force
unless their demands are conceded
within a reasonable time.
MILLIONAIRE BREAKS
UP SON S MATCH
Chicago, March 3.—Paul Bernard
Eekhart, the 20-year-old son of John W.
Eekhart. a millionaire miller, left last
night. It is supposed, for Oklahoma.
There remained behind him in Chicago
a tearful young woman who expected
to be married to him in a few minutes
before he departed.
The parents of Mr. Eekhart opposed
the match on account of the youth of
the parties, for both are under age. By
threats of disinheritance, and by a
series of plots and counterplots, they
were separated. The marriage license
had been procured the day before and
all the elopement wedding arrange
ments had been effected.
WOMEN WANT FLAG
RAISED IN NEW STATE
Washington, March 3.—The war de
partment has received a petition from
citizens of Oklahoma appealing for fed
eral Interference with the governor in
rather an unusual case.
The women of the Grand Army of the
Republic auxiliaries presented a United
States tiag to Governor Huskel! with
the request that it be placed In the leg
islative ball of the state. This, the
governor declined to do unless the ex
confederate organization joined In the
presentation.
It is stated at the department there
is no law authorizing any branch of the
federal government to act in matters
of this character.
COUNCIL BLUFFS ,
WOfflAN LI3APPEARS
Council Fluffs, la., March 3.—Mts.
Myra Hadden, aged 35, who lives with
lier brotherinlaw, John U. Price, on
Houth Fourth street, has been missing
since early Thursday morning. Mrs.
Hadden is an epileptic and has not
been out of the sight of some member
i,f the family la years until eluding
them Thursday. The family nor the
police can And no clue upou which tu
' »rork.
WESTERN ROADS !
ARE PETITIONERS
Only One Eastern Line Applies
for Delay in Execution of
"Nine-Hour Law.”
Washington, March 2.—Operating of
ficials of railways from all parts of the
country are in attendance upon the
hearing before the Interstate Commerce
commission of applications for an ex- ,
tension of the time of the going into
effect of the "nine-hour law." In all
37 applications were received. Two ot
them already have been denied, those
ot the Georgia Southern & Florida rail
way and llie St. Joseph & Grand Island
railway, because, in the opinion of the
commission, the petitions did not show
what, in tile terms of tile act, would
constitute "good cause” for granting
the relief requests.
The applications of the other 35 lines
are being heard as one case because
the petitions are substantially identical.
All of them assert that they have found
it impossible to procure the services
of competent, efficient and dependable
telegraph operators in such numbers
as will enable them to comply with
'the provisions of the law; and that,
even if they could obtain the necessary
operators, the enforced employment oi
so many additional men would be a
financial hardship which the carriers
ought not to be subjected to.
Nearly all of the petitions also Indi
cate that, in the circumstances, if the
law is enforced the companies will be
obliged to close many small stations
on their lines, thus Interfering with the
service, causing Inconvenience and pos
sible loss to the traveling and shipping
public and preventing the prompt
movement of trains.
Follow ing are the names of the roads
which have filed applications for exten
sion of the law:
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; South
ern railway; St. Louis & San Fran
cisco; Seaboard Air Line; Chicago,
Hoik Island Sr Pacific; Yazoo & Mis
sissippi Valley; Illinois Central; Indian
apolis Southern; Baltimore & Ohio;
Central of Georgia; Oregon Railroad
ft Navigation company; Oregon Short
Line; Wabash railroad; Norfolk &
Western; Wheeling & Lake Erie;
3rand Trunk Western; Chicago, Indian
apolis & Louisville; Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe; Clnclnati, Hamilton &
Dayton; Chicago. Cincinnati & Louis
ville; Southern Indiana; New York
Central Lines (five roads); Missouri,
Kansas Sr. Texas, of Texas; El Paso &
Northeastern; Louisi: na Western; Mor
gan, Louisiana & Texas; Southern Pa
cific; Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis: Evansville & Terre Haute;
Georgia railroad: Chicago & Eastern
Illinois; Chicago. Milwaukee & St.
Paul; Union Pacific; Hocking Valley,
and Louisville & Nashville.
It Is regarded as significant that,
with the exception of the New York
Central lines, none of the great East
ern roads have made apoltcation for ex
tension.
ASSASSIN NOW SAYS
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT
Denver. March 2.—The first step in
the legal procedings which it Is be
lieved will speedily send Gulseppe Alio
to the gallows was taken In the West
Side court when Alio was formally ar
raigned on the charge of murder.
Through an interpreter Alio was
asked if he expected to secure a law
year to defend him and replied that he
expected that the Italian consul would
attend to that. He was told that this
was improbable and was asked if lie
did not want the court to appoint coun
sel.
"If that is the law, yes," he replied.
Alio will plead to the charge of mur
der Saturday and at that time a date
will be set for his trial.
While incarcerated in jail at Colorado
Springs and prior to his removal from
Denver to that city Alio ^ade several
conflicting statements as to hts rea
sons for killing Father Leo. When told
by the Interpreter, who was with him
almost constantly, that he would have
to sign his statement he retracted
much of his former confession and
claimed that the killing of Fdther Leo
was an accident.
"I did not kill the priest, he fell
dead,” Alio declared last night. “I am
a Catholic and had gone to the church
to pray. I did not go there to receive
the sacrament. While I was kneeling
the priest came along and put the sac
rament in my mouth. It is against the
rules of the Catholic church to take
host without first having been to con
fession, so I spat It out. The priest fell
back. I heard everybody jump up. It
being a strange place to me, I was
afraid and ran out.”
Alio Is In poor physical condition.
His story of living on a single meal a
day at a free soup house would seem
to be borne out by his drawn face and
weak frame.
CORSET GIFTsT
FOR THE CABINET
Washington, March 2.—An enterpris
ing corset saleswoman has descended
upon Washington to introduce corsets
to President Roosevelt and members of
the cabinet, army and navy.
A joke? Not a bit of it, for madame
herself told all about it to a reporter
in her apartments today. Madame
doesn’t like the shape of our officials.
“Ugh. so inartistic, so—yes—so de
formed, if you will,” she says.
But they are all to beApollos. Madame
has arranged to present to President
Roosevelt and each member of the cab
inet a dainty, pink ribboned corset.
Many trunks in the madame’s room
are filled with corsets, ranging from
one that would fit the ample waist of
Secretary of War Taft down to those
.suitable to the "piebe at West Point
and Annapolis.”
“Men, you know, are like women in
many respects," said madame. “Some
prefer red. others pink and so on. I
have arranged to humor their tastes.
President Roosevelt is such a darling,
he will love blue. When he has worn
a corset a few weeks he won’t have
* to be so strenuous. He can lie back in
ills easy chair and let Secretary Loeb
do all the work.
“When I get through with Secretary
Taft he will he able to dance the Vir
ginia reel, walk a light rope or balance
himself on ids hands.”
HOT AIR LINE AGENT
UNDER INDICTMENT
St. Paul, Minn., March 2.—A jury in the
Ramsey county district court found S. A.
Phillips, northwest manager and agent
for the Hancock company, which had
charge of the flotation of the capita! stock
of the Chicago-New York Electric Air
(Line company, guilty of grand larceny in
the first degree. The specific charge was
,that Phillips had embezzled $2,600 of the
funds of the Hancock company while act
ing as its representative In Minnesota,
North Dakota and South Dakota.
BANKRUPTCY LAW
IS AMBIGUOUS
Construed in So Many Con
flicting Ways Its Interpreta
tion Is Difficult.
Washington, Mch. 2.—The bank
ruptcy law has been construed In so
many conflicting ways that It is de
clared nowadavs to be almost impos
sible to tell what It means. Only a
limited classification of corporations
can be proceeded against by creditors
and thrown Into bankruptcy; while no
corporation can become a voluntary
bankrupt under the act. This distinc
tion Is objected to on principle by the
critics of the law; but the strange de
cisions which have been made under
It have so complicated the question that
new legislation Is declared necessary If
the law Is to have anything like uni
form application.
In New York a corporation construct
ing bridges is liable to bankruptcy, but
It Is not in Virginia. A hotel company
which also runs a bar Is amenable to
bankruptcy, but a restaurant corpora
tion which also runs a bar Is not. A
laundry company which launders now
shirts, collars and cuffs for the manu
facturers, Is liable to be made a bank
rupt; but a company doing a general
laundry business is not. A company
which gathers and distributes water to
Its customers Is not to be adjudged a
bankrupt, but a company which gath
ers and purveys ice can be. Such con
cerns as a city water company, a the
atrical company, a hotel company, and
corporations running laundries, water
transportation lines, advertising busi
ness. fire Insurance, investments In se
curities, warehouses, common carriers,
Irrigation, etc., have been held not to
be trading corporations, and therefore
not amenable to adjudication; hut on
the other hand companies running liv
ery stables, sanatorloms, mercantile
agencies, ice companies, grain and stock
brokerage, have been held trading cor
porations, and liable to bankruptcy.
It is proposed, in the pending revision
of the bankruptcy acts, to make all ex
cept municipal, railroad, insurance of
banking corporations subject to the
law to the extent of allowing them to
become voluntary bankrupts; and to
permit all "moneyed, business or com
mercial corporations except those men
tioned, to be petitioned against." The
tendency of persons owing small
amounts to "go through bankruptcy"
In order to repudiate debts, has caused
so much trouble that It Is proposed to
provide that bankruptcy's privileges
shall be denied to a person owing less
than 2300.
Hearings will be held in tile House
committee this week, at which the
American Bar association and numbers
of commercial organisations, chambers
of commerce and Individuals will be
heard for and against the proposed
changes. The measure Is largely the
result of the work of the American Bar
association committees.
START PETITION
FOR GEN. STOESSEL
Spokane, Wash., Moll. 2.—Represent
ative business and professional men In
various parts of the Inland empire of
the Pacific northwest, formerly resi
dents of Russia are making canvasses
for signatures in eastern Washington,
northern Idaho, western Montana and
northeastern Oregon for presentation
to the trustees of the Spokane chamber
of commerce, urging that organization
to use Its good offices In an effort to
ward the revocation by the czar of the !
sentence Imposed by the government 1
upon General Stoessel as punishment
for the surrender of Port Arthur dur
ing the Russo-Japan war.
The petition will probably be pre
sented to the board at a meeting early
in March, when it purposed to begin a
campaign to enlist the Influence of ev
ery commercial club and business men's
organization In the United States and
Canada. George B. Dresher, acting sec
retary of the Spokane chamber of com
merce, says that several of the mem
bers of the deputation, which called
upon him a few days ago, are person
ally acquainted with General Stoessel
and will raise a defense fund If It is
necessary.
NO FREE TELEPHONES
FOR CHARITY’S SAKE
Chicago, Mch. 2.—The Chicago Tele
phone company which recently ob
tained a new franchise from the city
under which a division of profits was
arranged, and the city given the power
of auditing Its expenses, was today de
prived of power to contribute to char
itable institutions.
It was found the company has been
In the habit of furnishing free tele
phone service to a number of hospituls
and kindred Institutions, the gross
value of which was about $26,000 per
annum. City Comptroller Wilson de
cided that under the law the city could
not class these Items as expenses and
directed the company should discon
tinue the practice and likewise refrain
from making cash contributions for
charitable institutions.
BOTTLE MESSAGE
FROM LOST MAN
(Jalveston, Tex., March 2.—An engraved
card of William Charlesworth, a civil en
gineer of San Francisco, who has been
missing for four months, with a message
to his father, was picked up on the beach
here today in a sealed bottle. He was
the son of Benjamin Charlesworth, iron
manufacturer of San Francisco. He left
home on October 7, last year, and was
last heard from In New York. It 19 be
lieved he committed suicide while bound
from New York to South America. The
penciled message on the back of the card
reads:
“Off Florida coast, Nov. 16, 1907. The
finder of this message w'lll confer a favor
by notifying my father, Benjamin S.
Charles worth, 788 State st., San Francisco,
Cal. This will throw some light on my
disappearance from home. William
Charlesworth."
EXTRA DIVIDEND ON
UNION PACIFIC LINE
Newr York. March 2.—An extra dividend
of $75 per share on its preferred stock
calling for the disbursement rtf $8,250,000
has been declared by the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation company, it is learned to
day. Of the company’s $11,000,000 preferred
stock the Union Pacific Railroad company
and its auxiliaries own $10,592,990. The
Union Pacific and its auxiliaries also own
practically all of the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation company’s ?24,0C0,000 common
stock. The road is operated as part of
the Union Pacific system.
RAILWAYS FILLING UP
OPEN LANDS IN WEST
St. Paul Road's Pacific Coast Exten
sion Gives Entrance to Rich
New Country.
WHERE THINGS MOVE QUICKLY.
Claims Being Rapidly Taken and
Towns Are Building Along Route
- Big Railroad Bridge.
Not so iinim- years ago the western
borderland of Missouri, Iowa, Minne
sota and Nebraska presented a ragged
fringe of newly made farms, thrust
into what then seemed a boundless, in
exhaustible expanse of unoccupied,
black soil—prairie lands. Sons of the
farmers of that time, needing land, sim
ply moved out ten or twenty miles upon
the newly surveyed areas, choosing and
occupying homestead claims, almost un
disturlied by competing land hunters.
During the '80's, though, something
happened. A tierce “lanil-hunger" re
placed this creeping of settlement, this
normal expansion. The Dakotas in
little more than half a dozen years saw
more than 350,000 entry men settle with
in their borders, and 100,000 pioneers
feat In engineering throughout, la near*
lng completion, according to informa
tion received from Mobridge, S. D.,
where the structure spang the Missouri
river. The bridge Is one of the prin
cipal connecting links between the main
line of the St. Paul Hoad and the near
coast division. The town of Mobridge
Is expected to be one of the most Im
portant on the road. Its name is made
of the abbreviation “Mo," meaning Mis
souri, and “bridge.”
TIioujmiimIm of HomeateadM Open.
Nowhere In the United States under
like conditions, upon a like solid area
of plownble, black loam, in a like space
of time, will so vast a number of home
seekers be accommodated, yet a corre
spondent, having finished a drive of
300 miles or more along the extension
between Marmartb, N. I)., on the Little
Missouri, and the Musselshell River,
in the heart of northern Montana, says
that there remain within five to twenty
miles of this new line to the Pacific
Const thousands of homesteads well
worth while to look at, and which will
be occupied within the coining twelve
month.
As a result of successful dry farming
during the past eighteen months, on
the Bench flats just north of the exten
sion along the Montona-Dakotn line,
there Is a bright town—a side track a
year ago. To-day it boasls of Improve
ments of $300,000 for the past year;
among these, a 75-bnrrel roller mill,
four elevators, with a capacity of 100,
000 bushels, Kthree hardware and imple
ment stores. The last named sold with
in the year 150 wagons. GO self-binders
and 100 mowers. Everywhere now men
are awakening to the fact that where
sage brush two to three feet In height
BIG RAILROAD BRIDGE AT MOBItIDGE, S. D.
added to the population of their newly
christened towns nnd villages.
To the extension of the Chicago. Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railway’s numer
ous feeders in these States, perhaps
more than to any other factor, did this
movement owe Its existence. It drew
to this prairie country not only farmers
hul thousands of men and women from
every known occupation, drew them
and made possible their successful oc
cupation and upbuilding of these vast
commonwealths as we see them to-day.
The record of the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul Railway, In building
Its Pacific Const extension, lias never
been equaled lti the matter of time by
any similar undertaking. Track has
been laid at the rate of five miles per
day, nnd trains over the new trans
continental line will soon be operated
from Chicago to Butte, Mont., Hnd to
Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., In about
a year.
The big bridge of this Pacific Coast
extension, the construction of which
has attracted attention as a remarkable
Happiness from Troubles.
Being human, happily or unhappily,
we cannot deny the comfort to be
found in the reflection that misery
never lucks the company it loves. We
all have our troubles, and some of us
derive much satisfaction from the con
templation of them. Indeed, there are
those who are happy only when
wretched, but these we believe to be as
few In number as they are disagreeable
In association. The vast majority of
humans are normal and disposed, there
fore, in conformity with natural law,
to smile when the skies are clear and
to grieve under the portent of clouds;
hence the ease with which worry takes
possession of the mind, colors the dis
position and makes a cripple of effort.
That causes abound we know and
must admit, as we do almost uncon
sciously the certainty of death, but
too little cognizance is taken of the
fact that the effect of mere apprehen
sion, which Is all that worry really Is.
may be subjected to simple mental
treatment nnd be overcome.—George
Ilnrvey, in North American Review.
Two t itle*.
The most northern town on the globe
Is probably Ilammerfest, latitude 7!)
degrees 31) minutes 14 seconds, off the
norttiwest coast of Norway, a place of
some 4.000 Inhabitants. In Ilamnier
fost the sun stays for two months
above the horizon. The southernmost
town in the world is Punta Arenas, on
the Strait of Magellan. Punta Arenas
is a place of some 10,000 population.
The itrihy** Fault.
Nursemaid—I’m going to leave, mum.
Mistress—Why. wliat’s tlie matter?
Don’t you like the baby? Nursemaid—
Ves’iii, but lie is that afraid of a po
liceman that I can’t get near one.—
London Tatler.
A ('bailee to (let lllch.
A fortune awaits the tailor who can
Invent a secret pocket in a coat where
a man may carry his cigars without
exposing them to the many friends who
help themselves.—Detroit Free Press.
grows, densely luxuriant, unlrrigated,
rye, speltz, and particularly wheat, will
grow, If the simple methods of cultiva
tion, now no longer experimental but
proven, are employed. These gray
green sage brush uplands are to be the
grain fields of the near future.
Montana has an abundance of coal,
from lignite to the best steam fuel
known. It Is doubtful whether any
other section of the United States is
more plentifully supplied with coal
which can tie so easily developed and
utilized by the settler, ns eastern Mon
tana. At the first crossing of the Yel
lowstone, there Is, In plain view of the
approach, a black band along the bluff
to the north two or three miles In
length, ten to twenty feet thick, of
solid lignite coal of the finest quality.
Never again will Uncle Sam offer such
princely domains for the entryman's
choice. Throughout this entire coun
try the government surveys will soon
be practically complete, and before the
end of the year the claim shanty will
be everywhere In evidence.
University of Paris.
The doctor's degree in the University
of Paris Is so entitled as to designate
the faculty under which the work wan
done, as those who do literary work
would receive the degree doctor of let
ters. etc. To obtain the doctor's de
gree the candidate must possess the
lower degree of tin* corresponding di
vision of work, submit two theses on
different questions, reply to questions
or objections concerning them, pay a fee
of 140 francs and present 100 priuted
copies of one of ids theses to the uni
versity. The candidate for the degree
doctor of letters must write one thesis
in Latin, the other in Freuch. If in
the scientific department, the thesis
must be on some original Investiga
tion; If In theology, the examinations
are both oral and written.—School llul
letin.
Suffe,ntliinii In a Name.
A Scotchman in search of work was
recently given employment ns a labor
er at Cramp's shipyard, Philadelphia.
His first job was to carry several
heavy planks. After he had been at it
for about two hours he went to the
foreman and said:
"Did ah tell you uia name when I
started to work?”
■‘Yes,” replied the foreman, "you
said it was Toinsoii.”
"Oh. then it's a’ right,” said the
Scot, as he looked toward the pile of
Planks he had yet to carry. “All was
jist a-wunnerin’ if you tliocht ah said
it was Samson.”
Worth Heading.
France has more than 300 daily
newspapers. •
Generally the right ear is larger than
the left.
ltnts are uu alarming nuisance in
Knglaml.
For every ton of gold in circulation
there are fifteen tons of silver.
Germany sends V3.fi00.000 feathers
per year to Fuglant! for millinery pu_
post &.