1 . ' ( mi LEEON CUBA HOLDS AMERICA MADE MISTAKE IN LETTING ISLAND GO NEVER WAS BETTER GOVERNED Lee Praises MeKlnley for Acting Where Cleveland Temporized and Places Blame for Maine Disaster on Weyler's Young Officers. NEW YORK General Fllzhugh I.ee addressed members of the Fatria club Friday on "The United States and Cuba." lie said la part: "Cuba was never so well governed by Spain as It Is today. Congress wearied of the wars In Cuba and pars ed resolution recognizing the. right of belligerency of the revolutionists. Then came the war. I want to say that I reported to President Clevelanl the e.ai t condition of affairs that ex isted there. I reported the ietellion. wlt'i all its brutalities; and horrorK, and told hlni It would continue fo several generations if not brought to a speedy end. -Mr. Cleveland gave no attention to ray report and it was not until that great man now sleeping his U.st bleep la Canton. .. -took charge of affair la Washington that these atrocious condition. i won brought to an end. "Cuba Is well worthy of the atten tion of the American people. It is the richest spot on Cod's green earth. No country ever rivaled Cuba in Its products. It has been wailing for half a century for American energy and en terprise. If we had not sacrificed wis dom for sentiment we would own Cu ba today. When we did have Cuba we should have held on to It, but some t the people wanted to show the world that they were acting for hu manity's Fake and not for the posses bion of territory. ' Trior to the war with Spain, when 1 was consul general in Cuba, there were repeated attempts to assassinate me. Wherever I went I had to sit with my back to the wall and a hand on my six-shooter. I r?celved tweuty and thirty letters a day In which 1 was threatened with all manner of deaths. Some threatenel to waylay and strangle me, others to string me up to the nearest lamp post, and still others to tie me to a horse's tail and drag me around the streets in Havana. Five Spanish women called at my ofhee one afternoon and handed me letters from some Spanish officers In which they threatened to come to my oClce. tie me hand and foot, put me aboard the Maine and drive me out of the harbor. I received reports that evea the Cubans wanted to kill me because war with the United States would thus surely result. "While hese reports were current, a man rime into my office with the purpose, a I thought, of killing me. He moved toward me Inch by Inch, aud ji:vt as he came within reach i had him covered with m: revolver. I asked hitn what he wanted and to my surprise ne said in English: "I have just come from General Go mez's camp, suffering from a wtuind in the thigh. 1 want to leave Cuba. I want to go back to the United States.' "I asked him where he came from and he said, in the drawllest kind of a way: 'From Kansas.' That man was General Frederick R. Funston. So you Bee I had much to do with the later capture of Aguinallo." BLOW AIMED AT AMERICA. New German Tariff Especially De- signed to Affect Trade. BERLIN During the debate on the third reading of the tariff bill in the reicbstag Monday it was evident from many speeches delivered members of the majority that the bill is aimed chiefly at the United States. This was clear even when the United States was not named, for it was un derstood that the term "abroad" re ferred to America. Dr. Pasche, na tional liberal, made a pointed refer ence to the United States which most of the newspapers failed to print. These remarks were: "We expect that the government will undertake a thorough going revi sion of all treaties containing the most favored national advantages. We have absolutely no occasion to con cede any such thing to such nations as are glad to take what we give oth er countries without making us any concession in return. The United States having introduced the limitation of the most favored nation clause, we have every reason to act In precisely the same manner." BEEF TRUST CASE REVIVED. Arguments Are Renewed Before Judge Grosscup in U. S. Court CHICAGO The noted "beef trust" case was again revived Tuesday in ar guments before Judge Grosscup in the United States circuit court. In the demurrer which was filed in August the packers asserted that the bill for an injunction was "multifar ious" and did not refer to any offense constituting a violation of the United States statutes with sufficient particu larity. John S. Miller representing the packers, declared that the bill did not allege any restraint of Interstate or foreign commerce and that the ship ment of commodities by the packers to their agents In any state did not constitute Interstate commerce. The acts of the packers, he said, were in furtherance of trade rather than In testralnL CASH FOR CATTLK. It Is Voted by the Lower Hun 49 Congress. WASHINGTON. Tb bouse on Monday parsed the senate bill for A union rallw.iy station In this city, to cost 94,000,000. The station Is to be situated north of the present site of the Iialtlmore & Ohio depot at Dela ware and Massachusetts avenues, and in front of it Is to be a large plaza park. The Pennsylvania is to remove Its tracks from the .Mall and reach the site of the proposed station through a tunnel to run bteween the eapftol and library buildings. The govern ment Is to pay the Pennsylvania rail road J I,500.oo0, and the Baltimore tc Ohio 1300,000, In addition to provid ing for the plaza park. The hous-j also pated an urgency dellctency bill, which carried among other Items in appropriation of $.100, 100 for eradicating the loot and mouth disease in New Kngland. A bill was passed to provide for the allotment In severalty of the lands of the New York Indians. The bill provides that jrior to allotment the claims of the Ogden Land company should be de cided in the courts, and if found good thould be uurcbased for the benefit of the Indians for a sum not exceed ing 1200,000. The senate on Monday discussed the militia bill and also the omnibus state hood bill. After agreeing to the house resolu tion for an adjournment from Decem ber 20 to January .1. Mr. Proctor (Vt.) called up the militia bill. An amend ment by Mr. Pettus (Ala.), striking rr-n the bill section 24, naving par ticular reference to the reserve force of trained nien, provoked some dis cussion, Mr. Pettus raising the point if enacted would be an infringement of the constitutional authority of the states, and put the custody of the militia into the hands cf the general government. The bill was iam asioe ior me unnu- i hu statehood bill. Senator Dillingham I (Vt.), who 's opposed to the bill, oc cupying the remainder of the session in rehearing the testimony tak-n by the subcommittee on its tour of in vestigation. Mr. Bate (Tenn.) submitted a report of the minority on the omnibus state hood bill, which was read. It favor f d the omnibus bill. A message from the president was laid before the senate, recommending the payment of indemnity to the heirs of certain Italians killed In the south ern states. Consideration of the statehood bill was resumed. Mr. Quay (Pa.) said that as the senator from Minnesota (Mr. Nelson) had "suddenly and tu multously" withdrawn the substi tute It was his desire to know it Mr. Nelson intended to re-report the same. Replying. Mr. Nelson said that it was his purpose to re-report, but could not say at this time when he would do so. DIRECTORS TO TAKE UP STRIKE. Burt and Harriman Confer and Meet ing of the Board is Called. NEW YORK President Horace G. Burt of the Union Pacific railway, whe last Saturday had a three hours con ference with Union Pacific strike lead ers in Omaha, reached this city Mon day and had a long talk with E. H. Harriman. who is the real head of that railroad as well as the actual beati of the Southern Pacific. Mr. Burt brought with him the ultimatum of the Union Pacific strikers as given by. John Mc Neil, president of the Boiler Makers' union, and other strike leaders. It was stated at Mr. Harriman s office that the whole matter of the Union Pacific strike would be thoroughly dis cussed by the directors of the Union Pacific before an answer would be given to the demands of tbe strikers A special meeting of the directors ha been called for this purpose. SONS OF PATRIOTIC SIRES. Plan is Proposed for Americanizing Foreigners NEW YORK The second fall meet ing of the general board of managers and executive committee of the Na tional Society. Sons of the American Revolution, was held here Tuesday. Edwin Warfleld of Baltimore, presi dent general, occupied the chair, and beside him sat Governor Franklin Murphy of New Jersey, former presi dent general. Herman Knapp of Iowa was among the state presidents in at tendance. A plan of campaign was marked out for the use -of the educational com mittee. to which the National Society at its recent congress entrusted the direction of a movement looking tc the Americanizing of the forelgnert being landed here. It was reported that the bill, urged by the society favoring the erection of a memorial at the tomb of the martyrs on Long Island, had become a law. Choctaw Indians Moving. ARDMORE, I. T. The emigration of hundreds of Choctaw Indians resid ing in Mississippi to Indian Territory has commenced. Many families reached this city Friday to appear be fore the Dawes commission for en- roll men t- . Under the law these In dians must reside In the Indian coun try for a certain period and prove they are Choctaw Indians before they are entitled to allotment, . ' The protocol of the commercial treaty between the United States aad Cuba bas been signed. NEBRASKA ttt999'4444fr9 I8TTER TEACHERS NEEDED The) Forthcoming Report of Superin tendent Fowler, la his forthcoming report Superin tendent of Instruction Fowler has much to say in regard to the quallfl cations of teachers and teachers' sal aries. He states that the time has com when boards of education In cities and Tillages should require of teachers employed that they be either normal school, university or college graduates or holders of professional state certificates. Teachers with these qualifications, the report will say, can be secured if they are paid salaries- commensurate with such training. As an example of this, Mr. Fowler refers to the large number of teachers who responded to the call for teachers In the Philippines. Only 1,000 were needed, but 5,000 applied. The report will say further that all teachers in the grades should possess at least three years' high school educa tion and one year's normal school training. The state superintendent recom mends that after September, 1907, no person be allowed to teach in the rural schools who does not possess as the minimum qualification a thorough knowledge of the common branches, such as would admit to the average school, and also one year's drill in a teachers' training class. Judgment to Be Enforced BEATRICE James Walling, a dep uty United States marshal of Omaha Was here and served papers upon the mayor and city council to compel them to make a levy for the payment of the Flashburg judgment. This is one of the judgments secured against the city upon paving bonds where the districts defaulted in their payment and the city was sued. This partic ular judgment is for $4,408, together with interest and costs, which amount to about $5,000 at this time. The coun cil having refused payment, a writ of mandamus was asked, and the federal court now serves the officers with a peremptory writ, commanding them to make a levy to provide for the payment of judgment, interest and costs. VALUE OF SCHOOL LANDS. What Commissioner Follmer's Report Will Show. The report of Land Commissioner Follmer will show that the schools of the state will ultimately have more than $11,000,000 of interest bearing values contributing to their support. At present the total interest bearing values belonging to the fund is $9,- 746,451.25. More than half of this amount, $5,439,228.25, is In securities of the state, counties and the recently purchased bonds of Massachusetts The remainder is made up of the sale contracts and lease contracts, bearing interest. Besides this income the fund witl have the rental of school lands, which under the present law cannot be alienated. The table giv lng these statistics is the first of the kind ever compiled. It is as follows: Permanent common school se curities .53,072.223.79 Cash on hand 131.30 Total $3,072,355.09 Permanent enlverslty securities! 101,(M).'7 Cash on hand 643.03 Total I 101.694.02 Agricultural college securities.! 224.692.14 Cash balance 674.51 Tfttal S 225.366.63 Normal endowment securities. S 59.000.00 Cash balance - 812.49- Total 59.812.49 Total orfiiofltinnnl iipeuritles in permanent school fund $5,459,228.25 Vnlno of Hale contracts Z.2o7,2o.ll Value of lease contracts 2,029.948.39 Total Interest bearing values. $9,746,451.73 THE SOLDIERS' HOME. Commandant Cole of Grand Island Makes Report. Commandant Cole of the soldiers' home in Grand Island has completed his biennial report and recommends quite number of necessary improve ments owing largely to the increased number of members cared for at the institution. The report shows an increase in membership in the biennium of twenty-one per cent over that of two years previous. On November 30, 1900, thers were, according to the records of the institution, 342 members. There were on November 30, 1902, 415 mem bers, of whom 313 were men and 102 women. Among the recommendations are $4,000 for a new brick building for the quartermaster and commis sary's supplies. This would give room in the basement of the main building for another ward for members. An appropriation of $7,500 is also recom mended for better fire protection in and about the home grounds, includ ing a better piping of the building and a pipe leading to the cottages and barns, resetting the boilers, the erection of a small building for laun dry purposes and enlarging the en gine rooms and improvements) on the sewerage system. Horse is Recovered SEWARD L. C. Johnston, whose horse and buggy were stolen the night the Elkhorn safe was dismantled, has recovered the same. They were found a few miles west of Crete. The horse had been unhitched from the buggy and the harness thrown In the rig, which had been turned over on its side inhe road. The bridle, whip and robe were missing. The faster a man Is the slower he is about paying his debts. IN GENERAL i MIMMmHniMMMM BRIEFLY TOLD. Y . aad Mrs. Jobman of Gage roun ty last week celebrated their golden wedding. Nebraska. City has of late bee a sby on water and private wells have beea resorted to. Train Dispatcher Lv E, Caaa of Mc Cook died suddenly Id Salt Lake, whither he had gone for his health, K - Hook, a farmer living; near Glenci , had his arm caught in tbe cogs- of a corn shelter and. sustained serious Injuries-. Carl Sonderegger of the German nurseries in Beatrice will ship one million black locust trees to be used for forest purposes in Texas. John Mawr, living near Elmwood. was badly injured by becoming caught In the tumbling rod of a corn shelling outfit. He may lose his life. Tbe Fremont and Blair high schools will debate the question, "Resolved, That labor unions are an injury to the public." Fremont will have the choice of sides. Miss Gertrude Enlow, a teacher in ths public schools of Beatrice, had her face and hands badly burned during school hours by the explosion of a coal tsove. Fourteen head of cattle, the proper ty of N. Ong of Edgar, were run down and killed by a B. & M. freight train The los3 was adjusted, the appraised value of the cattle being $470.70. John Thompson, who lived two miles southwest of Blair, was run over bv a train and killed. He was on his way home from Blair. Thomp ton wa.- about 45 years old and single. Orders were received in Nebraska City to get things ready in the starch works so as to start that monster plant as soon as possible. This fac tory belongs to the trust and has been closeu: since early last spring. Nebraska turkeys are evidently in great demand in Chicago, a promi nent newspaper of that city havin instructed its representatives in Om aha to get bids to supply 1,000 of the birds for that paper's Christmas work The jury in the district court at Grand Tsland in the case of Jamieson against the Burlington railroad re turned a verdict in favor of the plain tiff of $1,220. Jamieson was a brake man and received injuries on the road. Thomas Barr, aged 85 years, and Mrs. William Cooper, aged 82 years, brother and sister, died at their homes within an hour of each other. Mr, Barr lived near Dunreath, Mrs. Cooper at Resoner. The double funeral took place at Dunreath. Plaintiffs in libel suits against news papers have not been prospering late ly. Half a dozen such suits for dam ages, ranging from $10,000 to $25,000, have been decided adversely, and the plaintiffs have been assessed heavily for costs. Mayor Barfing of Nebraska City has taken action to prevent minors from frequenting the billiard halls and slot machines of the city. He issued or ders to the police to notify the pro prietors of these establishments that they must not admit minors. Unearned , wages may be legally as signed according to a decision of the appellate court of Cook county, Illi nois, handed down by Judge Adams This holding is contrary to the deci sions that have heretofore been given by the circuit and superior courts. The Greeley County Sunday school convention was held at Greeley De cember 6 and 7.. Alt sessions of the conventions were- very well attended. Prof. H. M. Stiedley, field secretary of the State Sunday School association, took a very active part in: all ses sions. The sugar beet season just closed has been very satisfactory in that part of Nebraska about McCook. Over 600 carloads have been shipped to Grand Island from MeCook alone The yield per- aere under fair circum stances has been from fifteen to twen ty ton.,, and as high as $5.25 per ton has been received by farmers- There is yet a great deal of corn in the fields in Johnson county. The conditions of tbe weather have re tarded the gathering of the grain. The farmers are paying 3 cents per bushel and board for bands and the average man this year can gather from eighty to one hundred bushels per day when the fields are dry. A. M. Hargis, proprietor of the Grand Island Business college, has purchased the Security bank building for $14,000 and will in 'the future oc cupy the greater part of the building for the college. I is a stone front, erected in 1899, at a cost of about $50,000. It was recently owned by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance company. .Willard Williams of Ashland, who was at the Mead hotel for a few days, was surprised the other evening, while seated at the desk, by his sons, Her bert and , Albert, whom he had not seen or heard from for fifteen and twenty years respectively. The boys, or rather men, are located in Cuba, N. Y., and are prosperous and well-to-do residents of -that town. Washington dispatch: The follow ing pensions have been granted: Ne braska James Phillips Cook, Ponca, $10; Lewis A. Ganson. Lodgepole, $17; George W. Babcock, Ericson, $10; John Shay, Hastings, $8; Robert D. Robinson, Omaha, $14; John M. Car; ter, Waterloo, $8; Carrie B. Slothow- er, PapilHon, $8; Elizabeth S. Trussler, Phrttsmouth. $12; Margaret A. Brass, Juniata, $3. . TARIFF WILL STANU REPUBLICANS HAVE NO IDEA OF REVISING IT. Appointment of a Commission, If This la Doe. Will Result in Noth ing Scheme of the Party in Power Is to Fool ths People. The statement which comes from Washington that tbe President Is op posed - to any attempt to revise the tariff before the next presidential election Is strongly supported by the known fact that he is in favor of the creation of a commission to recom mend chances in tbe tariff from time to time. Everyone who is familiar with the history of such commissions knows that they never have accomplished the ostensible purpose of their crea tion. That fact is well known to the President and to all other politicians of respectable intelligence. They know, therefore, that the only effect of creating a commission would be to provide congress with an excuse for omitting to take up the tariff ques tlon. Not improbably Mr. Roosevelt Is in favor of smothering the tariff question iu congress because it would mar bis own and his party's political pros pects to take up the subject and fail to do anything through disagreement between the two houses or otherwise But he has never given the country any reason to believe that he is in favor of any downward revision of the tariff. He never has uttered an unequivocal approval of the views ex pressed by Mr. McKinley in his last speech. So far from that, he has manifested a disposition to join the Grosvenors and Dalzells in construing all the meaning out of that last speech in advocacy of a more liberal commer cial policy. There is reason also to doubt whether Mr. Roosevelt means much by bis advocacy of additional anti tiust legislation. If he really meant much he would be at least as strenu ously in favor of depriving the trusts of their tariff shelter as he Is in favor of tariff concessions to Cuba. But he is opposed to disturbing the tariff even to that extent. It Is now intimated that the house will promptly pass a bill amending the Sherman anti-trust law on the lines indicated by Mr. Knox in hfs Pittsburg speech, but that the senate will put it to sleep in a committee which will take good care not to wake VP- This seems to be the program. The public is to be fooled, if possible, by the creation of a tariff commission, and congress will do nothing out of pretended deference to that powerless body. Then the public is to be entertained by a lot of meaningless bluster about amending the anti-trust law. In this way the party of the tmsts will go into tbe next presidential cam paign without offending the monopo lies, while the people will be made to believe that it is opposed to trusts of the bad sort and in favor of the tariff revision when the commission gets ready to report. Will the people be made to believe those things? Possibly not. There are evidences that there will be mucn kicking over the party traces in the middle West if this program is car ried out. Regulation of the Trusts. Mr. Roosevelt's idea is to put the screws upon the trusts by proceedings under existing laws, and to strengthen the law where it may be found necessary by additional legis lation. But this, while eminently de sirable, is a slow and long prooess. There is a shorter way to secure pro tection for the public against present extortion in the matter of prices, and this is to remove at once the tariff duties on articles controlled by trusts. This would put a stop to the robbery of the people, and meanwhile the President could go ahead with his plan of regulation and publicity. Doing Better Without Subsidy. John Dalzell asserted with no little daring at the Union League banquet last Saturday night that the merchant marine of foreign nations has been built up by "subsidization." One of the nations that has made the- great est progress in ocean transportation In this age is Norway, without a dol lar of government subsidy or support of any kind. Among the maritime nations, on the other hand, that have made the least progress are France and Italy, with the most subsidy. Three-fourths of an the ocean trans portation is done by tramp ships, to whose owners government subsidy is unknown. Philadelphia. Record. The Inquiry Should Be Searching. The probability is that there is a skeleton in every closet into which the coal combine is likely to look. This being so, it cannot open too many doors or inquire too curiouy as to what may be behind them. The public Interest will be served in the fullest sense by bringing them to light, to the end that wrongs may be corrected, abuses reformed, the laws enforced, new laws enacted If neces sary and the consumer given such protection as he is entitled to claim against everything in tbe shape of conspiracy in restraint of trade. The Farmer "Pays the Freight Grain exports for ten months are $81,000,000 smaller than last year; provisions and live stock have fallen off $33,000,000. But manufactured goods were sold abroad in quantities greater than last year. The sorry joke is that the farmer gets the same prices for home aid foreign sales. while the manufacturer "extends his market" by charging American farm ers and other consumers 50 per cent more than the export price with the aid of the beneficent tariff. Tariff! tea Welcome a Commission. The fact that the tariff Is a "local issue" with those enjoying Its favors Is again being demonstrated, together with the fact that co Republican is willing to sacrifice one cent of protec tion to the Interests of his own see- tlon for the ' oeflt of the country at large; Every tariff thief In' fb com try and every juggler' In protection false pretense welcomes the commis sion Idea. It will at once appease the Republican protectants against Ding lcylsm and extend the- time of the protected buccaneers who are piling up loot by hundreds of millions- at the expense of the great public. Looking for Greater Profits. Our esteemed friends of Massachu setts are making a- not f ght for free hides. We wish them all success, for the duty on bides Is absurd. But we wonder whether our friends would consent to free boots aad shoes, free woolen and cotton goods, or to the serious reduction Id the duties on any of the products wbk-h they manufac ture. To leave these other duties as they stand now and to remove the duty ou hides would be to give .so much more protect lou to the Indus trie's using hides as raw materials. The" President's Position. According to an administration Journal the president' "will not lend himself to tbe scheme for attacking fbe trusts through the tariff." As that was perclsely the "scheme" which ho hinted at during the1 recent campaign, we must conclude that Senator Aid rich and the other protectionist doc tors have succeeded in driving the virus of free trade out of his excel lency's system. It remains to be seen however, whether congress has been similarly cleansed of the infection. Will Not Avail Much Longer. Mr. (Irosvenor and ho represents a large Republican element in congress says that when revision comes it must come by the Republican party, But repeating this familiar statement and putting off (he fulfillment of the. promise is going to result very soon ir passing the work of revision over to the Democratic party. The idea that the work must be done by Repub licans but that Republicans must not do the work has bad its run and will not serve much longer. Before and After Election. A month before election tno little great men of Congress were clinging frantically to the President's ant! trust policy as the life preserver, was saving the Republican party. Now seme of them are going back to Wash iugton with all manner of objections to the President's plans. A states man who refuses to take the same view of public opinion after election that he recognized while a candidate In not worth listening to. Mr. Babcock's Cowardly Tactics. Mr. Babcock is again to the front with his declaration for tariff revls ion. But Mr. Babcock Is no longer taken seriously. In the last session. when he could have forced his free list remedy for trusts, he abjectly passed under the party yoke. He has the habit of subsiding when tbe bat tle surrounds and of coming forth to howl when all Is peace. Reform a Vital Necessity. Tariff reform must be made a part of the Republican program. If It is not, then the faith upon which recent Republican success was founded will vanish and the Republican party will transfer the opportunity to its politi cal enemies. Tariff reform is a vital issue with tbe people and it must be made so with any party which hopes for permanent success. Allison's Attitude Changed. Uncle William Allison states that the tariff is, as Gen. Hancock once said, something of a local Issue." This is interesting as Indicating uncle William's change of attitude as he waxes in years. If recollection be not at fault he was one of those whose deep haw-haw resounded tbe loudest when Gen. Hancock advanced that theory some twenty years ago. Judge Jackson Outdone. We fear for the health of tbat ven erable injunctionist, Judge Jackson of West Virginia, when he learns that a brother jurist in New Jersey has is sued an injunction against a corpora tion at the petition of a labor union. Ai bis time of life shocks such as this are likely to prove serious to the venerable Jackson. Phrases Mean Nothing. When the Republican leaders dis cuss tariff revision they elaborate fine phrases which on analysis are found to mean nothing. Mr. Roose velt sets the pace in no such public question, but conforms to the opinions of those he thinks can do him the most good in the next Republican con vention. May. Be Needed Agaim. Secretary Shaw will do well to sleep in his clothes with a gripsack full of currency beside the bed. The Napoleons of finance are 'hitting 'er up" again in Wall street and there is likely to be another loud and peremp tory howl for the secretary's aid at any hour of the day or night. Never Ready to Let Ga. The beneficiaries of bouvty are never willing to give up their advan tage. They may be depended on to find a plea against any proposed re form that would modify their opor tunltfes to plunder the masses of their countrymen. Marked Fish to Assist Science. Scarcity of fish in the North sea is causing alarm In Europe. Several va rieties of fish are said to be leaving the overfished zone near the land, and fishermen are obliged to look for them elsewhere. So serious a phase has the matter assumed that government in vestigation has already been started, and the Royal Biological Institute -in Helgoland has set itself to discover where the fish have gone. A number of fish have been caught and marked with the sign "H.02" on small alumin ium disks, which are fastened to a ring passed through the back, above the tall fin. The fish have been re turned to the sea and the institute has asked all fishing stations of the North sea to let it know when and where fish so marked have been caught. A reward will be given for Information. Plaice and sole are the two species of fish most seriously threatened with cemmereb ' extinction. NOT A SERIOUS' DRAWBACK Terence's Love Stlll strong) Desplta Loee of Toothy Bridget was engaged : to -be- marrlel to a young plumber, Terence Dolai by name, and when, two weeks be fore the day set for the "wedding, shl fell down tho cellar stairs; she wai in the depths of woe. "I've broke out one &' mjs front teeth," ahe walled 1 to- her mistress "and my teeth has been my best beau ty, ma'am! Manny's th? time" Tlr ence has had me show 'era to bit friends, and remarked how fine they were! Oh, whatH : I do?-' Whafll : do?" "Tell Terence aM about 16'when he comes to night, and I'm fciire hoTl saj he's only glad you were not' more se verely Injured." said her' mistress; but Bridget shook her-bead and re fused to b comforted.' " 'Twould bo better for' me If I'd broke some o' my bones," she said, r.loomlly, "and maybo all of 'em." That evening, after Terence had eomo aud gone, Bridget appeared be fore her inUttrcHK, tho gloom gone, and her face set in a broad ninlle "I towld lilm nil about it." sho said, gaily, "and lie nays to ine. 'What's a tooth more or N-mi wheu It comes tc eookln'?' be says, careless like, and paused on to CuMHldy'M wake as II 'twas no matter ut all!" Youth'! Companion. MR. CANNON'S QUICK - COUNT Illinois Statesman 8aw No Reason for Tedious Delay. Last winter Speaker Henderson called Mr. Cannon to the ehalr on one occasion when a vote was to be taken on an amendment, the rejection of which was a foregone conclusion. It was one of those amendments to an appropriation bill which was made merely as a record, as the member who moved It had no idea that It would be pasHed. About six votes were in its favor and the balance of those to be cast were ugalnxt It. Mr. Cannon began count lng. tho long fore finger of his right band shaking over the House as bo waB telling them off. "One two three four live " bo counted, when the tedlousness of the process seerr.'-d to Hash over him as ho looked over the House and saw nearly every one on his feet. "Oh, b , a hundred." be ex claimed to the clerk, who was watch ing him In order to take down the number. Every one who witnessed the qujck method of arriving at the vote en joyed It hugely. It answered every purpose and no one offered the least objection to It. Washington Star. Six-Tenths Drunk. "Tbe testimony of a policeman In the police court the other day caused quite a bit of laughter," a member of the bar said to a couple of friends yesterday afternoon. "A man was on trial for violating the temperance clause of the vagran cy law, which means tnai ne was charged with being an Imbltual drunkard. "'How drunk was this man when you arrested him?' the prosecuting attorney asked the officer when ho was called on to testify against the man with the appetite for firewater. "'About six-tenths drunk, 1 guess,' the bluecoat replied. "'How did you arrive at that con clusion?' be was asked. "'Well, I heard the judge say the other day that ten drinks would make a man drunk, and this roan had taken about six drinks before I arrested him,' the guaralan of the peace an swered in all seriousness." Wash ington Star. The Lord's Intermediary. Along with the snug little fortune that Deacon Jones bad accumulated as the leading grocer of . Goosevllle Cove, him bump of self-esteem, which was originally fairly large, had in creased proportionately, until, as the richest man in tbe Cove,- he felt him self entitled to considerable deference its patron saint, in fact. When one day good old Parson A b beck went to , him for a subscription .to home mis sions which he-got he- remarked: Deacon, I r cannot help -noticing that your fellow -citizens seem to hold you In high esteem." "Wa-al, yls," replied, the Deacon,. complacently; "guess that's 'bout so. Tbe Covers do look up to me, Parson, that's a fact; and I well, I look, us to God!" Wouldn't! Work. In bis lecture, "Love, Courtship and1 Marriage," dellvored. In tbe Lebanon Valley College chapel a few years ago. Rev. John Dewjtt, Miller of Philadel phia said that men should kiss- their wives as they, dirt when they wear a year or two married. When the lec ture was over an old man went home, put bis arm around bis wife's neck and kissed bar. Meeting the-lecturer some time after he said, "It's n go." "What isn't?" said the lecturer. "Vel," said: the. man, "ven I kissed my vif she said. 'Vat's gone wrong mit you, ye oult fool, ye?"' Topeka. Herald. Antiseptic Shaving. The antiseptic shaving saloon Is the latest achievement In hygienic scl-. ence. me- victim is seated in an, enameled1 tren chair, with his neck and shoulders enveloped in a rubber pad that has been dipped in an antN septic solution. Previously tbe razors soap-dish, and brush have been ster 11 1 zed by half an hour's hard boiling Nothing is allowed to touch the face that ban not. been either sterilized) or disinfected antlseptically. Even tbe finger-tips of the operator are dipped la a solution. Taps are turned by tbe. foot, and the drawers where towels are kept are microbe-proof. To Market on St i its. An Interesting and picturesque ous lorn in Southwestern France is that A going to market on stilts. Groups l young men and women mounted oa ligh stilts may be seen daily erczzlzz e marshy plains know as 7ta (Andes." "The Landes" are est tc? into sssU ditches, reels cad t?- cscs, tsd ttUi are, la epzzZvxtzz. alnccl necexrxry t-vr-a who d: mm wm m . - - , t 'A.