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I'e walked a tfreut le:il. Tdi fcxitsoro unil weury. I won't be a bother much longer. I'll soon throw in my checks." He had the pallor of Uwith. . "1 nevwr tiike in anj' one at 3 in the morning," kindly replied Sergeant Ilor-lH.-lt, "but I'll make an exception in you! at. a use. I'oor i?iiow, yon iook piaycu out. Vestnlay niorning Policeniiin Crou;li ' an toik the old man, who K''ve the nai.it of John Irving, to the Tombs pt;lic conrt. Ho wanted to be committed tr the workliouwj. "The top o th' morning, yer honor, he said to Justice Duffy. "This'll bo th last time 111 bother ye. Give me u good long rsenteiice." Tlie justice, however, did not fix am t-ix't ili' d time. Under the commitni ;.t the old man could get bis liberty whe n he wanttMl it. "Take your time," Baid the policebiau eh he jahrii.stel Irving down the winuir.;. flight of ritairs leading into the prison. "My wife!" gasped the old man dowu stairs. ly this time they had reached the warden's office, where the jiedigrees ot the prisoners are taken anew. "Well, what's the matter with youi wife?" asked a keejier. "She's in Heaven!" replied the tramp. The next instant he fell back dead into the iKiliceman's arms. New York World. Came from Cuba to Vote. The last vote dejionited in Rhode Is land at the recent election was the vote of Eugene McAuliffe, of Providence. The gentleman was in Cuba when he re ceived a cablegram telling him of the urgent necessity for every vote. Con sulting the shipping register, he found that by taking a steamer which sailed that night he might with good weather reach Boston the day before election. Two hours later found him aboard the ship. Adverse weather delayed the ves sel, and at the dawn of election day the steamer was still out in the Atlantic. Port was reached late in the afternoon. and McAuliffe was just in time to take a train to Providence due just ten minutes before the time for closing the polls. The train was four minutes late. Hurling himself into a hack he brilied the driver to get to the wardroom in six minutes or kill the horses. The clock was about to strike the hour as Mr. McAuliffe bounded into the booth. His cross marks were made with lightning rapidity, and he got in his ballot right on the last stroke. He will return to Cuba to complete the business he dropped to come back to vote. And j et there were some thousands of people in Providence who, 1 have no doubt, forgot to go to the polls or were "too busy" iu give the time required for walking to the wardroom. Cor. Boston Globe. Canoeing in Scotland. Lord and Lady Mount Stephen, who have spent very many years in Canada, have introduced canoeing in Scotland. They have taken the beautiful estate of Faskally, Perthshire, belonging to Mrs, Butler, which comprises a stretch of the picturesque river, Tummel, which runs through the Pass of Killiecrankie to Athole and all that district, and, in order to explore more fully, Lord Mount otephen has brought home a Canadian canoe and two real Canadian boatmen. They have already shot some of the dangerous rapids of the Scotch river, and been investigating the salmon pools among ti e bowlders in otherwise unseen spots. Lord Mount Stephen intend:; to use his canoe later on for salmon fishing. The novelty has created a great deal of interest in the neighborhood, extending to the ducal party at Elair Athol cattle. London Queen. Utah's rrt Pavements. After a long fight in the Ogden city council over the relative merits of sand stone, brick and asphaltuni for street paving purposes, it has been decided to use native sandstone from the quarries a few miles distant from Ogden, and that only home labor shall be employed by contract. The district to be paved includes a number of blocks in the busi ness part of town, for which paving bonds are now being negotiated. It will be the first paving done by this city or in this territory. Utah Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Priceless Diamond Found. A remarkable diamond has been re cently fourd on the Koffeyfontein Dia mond Mining company's ground in Aus tralia, which appears to be of such value that even competent judges hesitate to name a price commensurate with its worth. It is said to be of a beautiful shade of pink, entirely devoid of spot or blemish, and to weigh 13 carats. Natural Gas in Utah. A flow of natural gas has been struck at Salt Lake City at a depth of 600 feet, the pressure being 160 pounds to the square inch. Several companies are en gaged in sinking wells in that locality, with favorable indications of finding the gas in considerable quantities. New York Journal. Pig Iron in March. In the first week in March x the iron furnaces in this country are said to have produced more pigs 193,900 tons than in any previous week iu histcry. One curious ch-cumstance is that there were fewer furnaces in blast than in the pre ceding month. New York Times. The largest shipment of apples ever made from the United States left Port land recently in the steamship Labrador, which carried more than 13,000 barrel.- of fine fruit to England. A fine coll?ction of Seventeenth cen tury tobacco pipes has just been found under an old London cellar and deposited in the Guildhall museum. The states west of the 3Iis.'ouri alono will cast one-fourth of the popular vote in the United States tiiis fall. IE REAL LOBBYIST. TH E WOMEN ARE NUtSANCES JUST j HE SAME AS THE MEN ARE. There II Ms llrrn a Great Deal of Romance CirruLitt-d About the lbbjlata. and It Is Time Tina the Truth Was Known. The Real Thing Is Very Diaolntiiig. "Show me a lobbyist" was the request of a friend who was walking through the Capitol with the writer.' This visitor was a reader of the iiewspaiM-rs. a man of intelligence, and a lieliever in most of the interesting stories lie had read alxut the number, ingenuity, boldness, skill and usefulness of the body of lobbyists that is supjiosed to bo almost a necessary part of the legislative machinery. I fhowed my visitor a lobbyist. lie was one of the best known of the W. about the Capitol. He was leaning back against the corridor wall, opposa'.e tin J entrance of the house of representatives, with his hands thrust into the jtockets of a pair of trousers tliat were so raveled about the heels that they might be sail", to wear whiskers without provoking the remonstrances of the most thorough de tester of 6lang. If this man had an overcoat it was hung up somewhere, but the dusty con dition of his rather thin frock coat, which carried the polish on its hack that ought to have been on his very disrepu table looking skoes, justified the conclu sion that he was not finding an overcoat necessary this winter. He was a spare man, with a gaunt face, crossed by a white mustache stained at the ends with tobacco juice. His shirt was not clean, and he showed a good deal of it, bnt he wore a white tie, which only added em phasis to his otherwise forbidding lack of neatness. When he moved away from his place against the wall to meet a member of congress who had come out of the chamber urion the call of one of the doorkeepers to see him, his gait was a slouching one, and he might have been mistaken for any other loafer about the hall if he had not been so much more re pulsive than the others. My friend was disappointed. He could not understand when 1 told him that this man was one of the best of the lot of lobbyists about the Capitol, that he had been a member of congress, that he was, therefore, entitled to the privi lege of the floor, and that the house of representatives has never yet had the sense to makes its rules so strong as to keep out this man and several others J'ust like him who are well known to bo tothing more than strikers and lobbyists who linger here to pick up odd jobs to help them hang on to a miserable exist ence. They do not, one ought to be thankful, thrive as they are popularly supposed to do. If the public knew what a mistake the professional lobbyist is they would be driven to sawing wood or working on the railroads, or into doing some other useful and laborious busi ness. Then 1 showed my friend another lob byist. This was a thin, sliding fellow, with a gray close beard, who toed in as he walked quickly along the passage, and who glanced furtively about as he went, as if watching to pounce down upon some one. This man was not an ex-member of congress; but he had been an employee of the house many years ago, and had been caught taking money to enable a corporation to reach, through the door of which he had charge, the men who were to be pur chased to get through a subsidy bill. He was dismissed, and he at once went into the service of the corporation that had led to his disgrace. He is in that employment still, and he associates with a great many senators and representatives who do not know, or have forgotten that others know, his odious history. He is an errand runner and a sneaking watcher of members who are to be encouraged to vote thi3 way or the other on bills to be reported or killed, lie would buy a member without kesiration if it were safe to buy him, but he is cautious. lie finds out his venal man before taking any risks. He is not ingenious, nor is he bold. He follows the instructions of the corpora tions that keep him here, and he gets off in the course of the year very well in deed if he does not get kicked out of a gentleman's house more than half a dozen times. The female lobbj-ist is, generallj' speaking, a myth. The women who come to the Capitol as promoters of the bills for pensions or f or claims, come on their own account, and the only skill they exhibit is that which consists in eo persistently bothering the members who have introduced their bills for them that they undertake to have them passed in order to get rid of terrible affiictions. The marvelous woman of charming manners that cannot be resisted is to he found only in the syndicate stories. The women who undertake to promote legis lation are, almost without exception, bunglers and failures. Few women know enough about the ways of legisla tion or the ways of the legislators to qualify them to undertake lobby work or to approach members to direct their actions, except by the most vulgar spe cies of blackmail made possible by con tributory immorality. Generally speaking, the lobbyist is a fraud and au unnecessary nuisance. He exists mainly because most people do not know anything about the methods ef legislation, and because nearly every body interested in a bill not public be lieves that the lobbyist is a creature who can tide over difficulties and remove them. As a rule the employment of one of the throng of disreputable lobbyists, and most of them are disreputable on their faces, is lire judicial to the legisla tion they are employed to promote. They thrive on account of the general ignorance about the legislative methods of procedure. Washingson Cor. Provi dence Journal. Breakers Ahead. "Yes, 1 shall embark on the sea of matrimony myself lufore long." '.Then j-on il soon be a-nianyin her, ron't you' Kate Field's Washington. In the Country Store. Some of the nnowbound itaftnenger at one of the depot near Utica were tell ing stories the other day, and a travel- j ing man was relating his exjieneuce In a country store in a small town in Jef ferson county. He said he was there neurly the entire forenoon, and had oc casion to note tho H'culiarities of the storekeeper, who carried a general stock, bnt a pretty small one. Every little while a customer would come into the utore and inquire for some article that the merchant did not happen to have in stock. For instance: "Have you any dried beef, Mr. Cash drawer?" "No, we have no dried leef today, but we have some nice codfish. John, show this lady the codfish." "Do you keep any such thing as wft-ks for those big. round lamp burners?" j "We generally do, but happen to In I out just now. W e have some nne cot ton clotheslines, though. John, show the gentleman the clotheslines." "My gals wanted me to bring them home some confectioner's 6ugar. Have you got any of it, Cahdrawer?" "Sold the last ounce about an hour ago, Henry. We've got an excellent quality of toilet soap, though. John, show Mr. Adams tho soap." "Do you keep ready made flannel skirts?" "Have had them all winter, and sold three to a lady yesterday, which cleaned the stock out. But we have a large sup ply of overalls. John, show this lady the overalls." Utica Observer. Civilization and Wilderness. Upon the 1 ,500 miles of the shore of Lake Superior there are living now less than 150,000 persons, and thete are mainly in bustling cities like Duluth. Superior and Marquette, in industrial colonies like Calumet and Red Jacket, or in struggling little ports like Fort William and Port Arthur. Even there the wilderness and primeval conditions are face to face with the robust civiliza tion w-hich is shouldering its way as cap ital is accustomed to do rather than aa natural growth usually asserts itself. Not that it is not a wholly natural growth which we find at all points on tho lake shore, for it is all in response to the inex orable laws of supply and demand. Yet the communities there have sprung into being far apart from well settled regiens in answer to these laws. Thus it happens that today one may ride iu an electric street car to the start jug jioint for a short walk to a trout stream, or one may take the steam rail road and in an hour alight at a forest station, breakfasting there, but enjoy ing for luncheon a cut of the deer or a dish of the trout or the partridge which he has killed for the purpose. It is, so to say, a region wherein the wholesale fisherman with his steamboat disturbs the red man who is spearing a fish for aipper, where the wolf blinks in the glare of the electric lamp, and where the patent stump puller and the beaver work side by 6ide. Julian Ralph in Harper's The Moqul Indians. A hundred miles north of the Petrified forest and well into the edge of the Ari zona desert are the seven strange and seldom visited Pueblo cities of Moqui. They all hr. re wildly unpronounceable names, like lyaalpi, A-hua-tu and Mish-ongop-avi, and all are built on the sum mits of almost inaccessible mesas islands of solid rock, whose generally perpendicular cliff walls rise high from the surrounding plain. They are very remarkable towns in appearance, set u on dizzy sites, with quaint terraced houses of adobe, and queer little corrals for the animals in nooks and angles of the cliiT, and giving far outlook across the browns and yellows and the spectral peaks of that weird plain. But they look not half 60 remarkable as they are. The most remote from civilization of all the Pueblos, the least affected by the Spanish influence which so wonderf ully ruled over the enormous area of the southwest, and practically untouched by the later Saxon influence, the Indians of the Moqui towns retain almost entirely their wonderful customs of before the conquest. Their languages are different from those of any other of the Pueblos; and their mode of life though to a hasty glance the same is in many ways un like that of tiieir brethren in New Mex ico. Charles F. Lummis in St. Nicholas A Detroit Man's Cane. A Detroit man has a novel walking cane that represents the work of odd hours every day for six weeks. It is made of old postage stamps of various denominations and six nationalities L'nited States, Canadian, English, French, German and Italian. It took 5,014 stamps to make a cane. The face value of the stamps was $100. The sur face of the cane, when the stamps were all on, was filed smooth and finished un til it glazed. A heavy gold knob com pletes one ot the handsomest and most unique canes ever seen in Detroit. Philadelphia Lodger. Tellintr the lives. The curious custom of "telling the bees" is observed in some parts of nearly every country in the world. Those who observe the custom always go to the bee hives and tap gently on each one, then stoop and whisper under the cap or lid that Mary, Jane, Thomas or William is dead. This is done to keep the little honej-makers from forsaking their place of abode should they have to wait and find out the news of the calamity them selves. The custom is alluded to in Whittier's poem, "Telling the Bees." St. Louis Republic. East and West. The failure of the people of the Atlan tic states to understand the area, condi tions, products and needs of the west is not infrequently illustrated in national legislation. The late Editor Bandy, of the New York Mail and Express, sail a short time before his death: "The people of the east know little about the west, but 1 have always found that the people of the west were well in formed about the east." San Franci.-;co Examiner. TIMOTHY CLARK. PEALKK IN CO A. WOOD o TERMS CAS Ho rl Hii.l OtTi. f 4fM South Third Ntie t. J'-flVftt 11. I'LATISNOL'III, .l Ilk'ASK K. REYNOLDS, ICeglHtt-red 'lit l;ni tin, I I liaiiiiarl-t Special attention iv.-n to Office Practice. Rock Hli:fkh Niin. t'KALMt IN- STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES GLASS AND QUEENSWARE. Patronage of the Public Solicited. North Sixth Street, PlattSHiouth JCJR. A, SALISBURY : D-E-N-T-I-S-T : GOLD ANI PORCELAIN CROWNS. r. Kleinwitys asa-titaietic for tho painless Ji traction of teeth. Fine Gold Work a Specialty. Kockwood Block l'latt.taiouth, Neb. iOKIJSTS 1 OXSIS. -- 217, 219, 231, AND 223 yfl,IN 8T PLATTSMOUTH, NKH. F. R. GUTEMANN. 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