Nebraska Newspapers

    WIDOW OR WIFE.
It wu all over. We bad loved this
young man, the rising author of tha
time, we had wept over his books, we
wept over his untimely death, In the
orthodox biff railway accident Just out
side Southampton, "at the early age of
H;" and we talked of "deathless fame"
and aaid, "whom the g-ods love die
you nr." and then changed the subject.
80 we went on with the world and
left Martin Arthur behind. Mlse Rou
pell stood before the mirror in her
bedroom, leaning her hands on the toi
let table, with Its adorning of crystal
and ivory, and looked at her face in
the glass.
"Isn't it written there?" she said
aloud. And then she laughed, the aw
ful laugh of a woman who is bur
lesquing her own real emotion, which
has Its source In the very foundations
of a deep nature, and which will die
when It dies, or kill it; there is no
other way.
Three people had asked her that day
why she was in mourning. The friends
and acquaintances had gradually real
ised that the touches of color which
had of late begun to lighten the wid
ow's weeds, had again faded Into black
ma before, and that the strange heart
wearing, heart-slckenlng time of
mourning seemed to have gone back a
step, and resumed Its old haggard un
certainty. For Maria Koupell was a widow, and
no widow. Her husband was dead so
Mid ordinary surmise, so said humble
probability, so said the newspapers,
which gave an account of the sinking
of the Atlantic liner Ramadan, with
all hands but two. In the bay three
years before. There was only one
thing lacking positive, Incontrovertl
hl. nrnof- and that thing tarried.
Bhe had been passionately In love
with Martin Arthur. In the old days
it racking uncertainty as to her nus
band's fate, she had met the rising
author whose name was then appearing
above fame's horizon, as the edge of
the sun's disc looks over into tne
world. He became deeply Interested in
her. She was a handsome woman of
the night-dark Spanish type, a crea
ture of the strong emotions, distracted
with suspense, torn this way and that
by hopes and fears.
When a woman Is suffering through
her love for one man, another may
wrap himself inextricably in the flying
threads of her life and become more
near, more clear to her than she has
any knowledge of, by standing silent
but ever in readiness at her right
hand. She will turn to him for help.
And when a woman goes to a man
for help, those feeble hands so plte
ously outstretched hold In their open
palms the link of a chain which binds
lives together loosely. It may be, but
there is a bond nevertheless, and "the
bands of love are salr to loose."
Martin Arthur and Maria Roupel!
found their lines laid side by side, felt
the fetters that stretched lightly from
wrist to wrist were necessary to each
other, and knew that it was so.
Three yeara passed and George Rou
pell did not return, and out of the life
nf hi widow his memory was slowly,
softly, Irresistibly shouldered by the
filmy, insidious gnosi 01 me pci mol
ality of another man. One day the ghost
put on Immortality, and the likeness of
God s own Image and Maria Roupell
found the cold. Intangible shape en
dowed with flesh and blood eyes that
looked Into her very soul, strong arms
that held her against a broad breast,
llpe that spoke words of passion like a
flame of lire, that took their answer
from her and would not be denied, and
behold! she awoke and there was no
friend any more, but a lover In deed
and truth.
"Martin, Martin," she said, looking
up at him with a great love and a des
perate fear struggling for the suprem
acy In her beautiful dark face, "If I
knew! oh. God! If I knew! But I do
not. I may not be a widow at all I may
be his wife still, and In that case "
"In that case I love you Just the
same, and nothing can alter It," he
answered.
"You have no proofs? Then proofs
shall be obtained, If we have to search
every Inch of the Atlantic. Do you
think I moan to let you go to let a
shadow separate us? Dearest woman
in the world, the thing has got to be
done, and I will do It.' '
"Dorlnda, you are looking very 111,
my child."
"I'm realy quite well, only but per
haps It's a mercy to be thought ill
when one Is merely miserable. . . .
Girls are fools, Mrs. Roupell! And do
they always leave oft folly when they
become women? Oh, forgive me! 1
am talking nonsense I've got Into the
habit of It because It Is easier than
saying nothing and feeling a great
black curtain coming slowly, slowly
down down down, directly one stops
to thing. . . . Your mourning 1
envy you! What am I saying? Rut
1 wish I had an excuse for wearing It."
"For whom?"
Maria Roupell was not the sort of
person to ask a tactless question as a
rule, and with such blank directness,
but there was something In the girl's
face that reminded her of her own a
she had seen It in the mirror that
morning. .
Dorlnda Carson moved nervously In
. ho.itntiwl and then spoke
ner i Mu , ... ... -
quickly, and In a low voice, with her
face avertea irum nei m"" -
m,.rr,t IlhC I Ifflf'W WhO
yj : 1 "i " - -----
has died lately some one I had no
right to De ronu 01. mwv..,
Maria I must speah-may I? You
will understand, and nobody elst
would"
And the girl was on her knees by Ma
ria's chair, clasping the hands which
lay on her lap, and bowing the golden
head till It almost touched them.
Into such a ghastly knot! I've nobody
to blame but myself; I've taken m
happiness In both hands and thrown It
The listener Involuntarily wondered
what It felt like to have happiness def
lnltely within one's grasp for a little
Dorlnda Carson paused, panted for
1reath, and went on, with an effort:
"I have been engaged to the best man
In the world for over a year, and we
are to be we are to be marrlec In
March The best man in the world!"
with a bitter little laugh "the dearest
to me. and the hardest. And there are
others more superficially fasclnatlng
ometlmes. When Egbert was In th
State this autumn I aw a good deal
of-of that other. I only looked on
him as a friend, of course. . . But
one night t a dance he waa charming
He turned my head. He made love to
me. He tried to make me unfaithful to
my lover. O, I wanted to bet I was
not- but I wrote to him once or twice,
and after hi death my letttr were
found In a packet directed to Kgtoert
Tooi, fool, wor than fool; I. Was to
have written them, and to such a man
Martin Arthur." And ah clang to
the kind hand and sobbed plteously.
Ood or the devil helped Mail Rou
pell through the next three minute.
Then h bent over the mlerable
child and ll oftlri "ank,.yo.u '
telling me all this. I will write a let
tj "5 Fiber t, and I think he will II-
ten to what I say. It will all com
right, my Dorlnda. Now leave me and
go home. I will send the letter this
evening. Don't thank me It Is I who
should thank you," which remark will
never be explained In this life to Dor
lnda Carson.
Mrs. Roupell kept her promise. She
wrote to Egbert Trevanlon, simply
and quietly she asked tier forgiveness
for "an old woman's Interference."
That Mr. Trevanlon paused, thought
It over, relented (being a sensible fel
low), and married Dorlnda Carson In
March, has nothing to do with this
story. The gods are good to fools.
Mrs. Roupell put the letter into Its
envelope and rang the bell. "I want
this to go at once," she paid to the
houemaid who answered it. "But
where is Thompson?"
"I believe he is at the front door,
ma'am," was the reply. "There's a
gentleman calling, " and the girl left
the room. '
A minute later the handle turned,
and a single footstep sounded on the
soft carpet, while silence followed the
opening of the door. "Is that you,
Thompson?" Inquired his mistress,
vaguely, without turning her head. ''1
am not at home this afternoon."
There was no answer. George Rou
pell stood on the threshold, drinking
in with starved senses the sight before
him, every detail of the well-loved,
well-remembered figure of his beautiful
wife, with all his soul in his eyes as
she raised her bowed head and looked
toward the door to see who stood
there.
"Maria!" he said. The Voice.
Tha Inky Squid Fish.
The squid belongs to a class called
Teuthldae, the members of which are
distinguished by the horny shell or
"pen" found Inside of them. This "pen"
contains "ink." and Ink It Is of a very
fine quality.
Incredible though It may seem, this
Ink endures for thousands of years.
There was a prehistoric species of squid
fish, hundreds of times larger than the
fish we see today. One of them waa
dug up by members of the great fossil,
hunting expedition led Into the fossil
beds of Wyoming last July by Prof.
Wilber C. Knight, president of the Uni
versity of Wyoming. The ink was etlll
preserved, and members of the expedi
tion wrote their names with it.
Concerning the strange fish Rev. John
G. Wood, the great naturalist, says in
his Popular Natural History:
"Our present example of this family
is the little squid, or sepiola, of which
genus six species are known, Inhabiting
most parts of the world, and living on
our own shores.
"The celebrated 'Ink' of the creatures,
from which the valuable color called
sepia' was formerly obtained, deserves
a brief notice.
"This substance is liquid, and Is se
creted In a sac popularly termed, from
its office, the 'ink-bag.' The sac is filled
with a spongy kind of matter, in which
the In klies. and from which it can
be forcibly expelled at the will of the
animal. The Ink-bag is not alwayB In
the same position, but some species
have It In the liver, others near the si
phon and others among the viscera.
There is a communication between the
Ink-bag and the siphon, so that when
the Ink is ejected it Is forcibly drawn
out, together with the water. Thus the
very effort for escape serves the double
purpose of urging the creature away
from danger and discoloring the water
In which it swims.
"The animal can eject the Ink with
such force that It has been known to
dedecorate a naval officer's white duck
trousers with Its liquid missile, the ag
grieved Individual always asserting
that It took a deliberate aim for that
purpose.
"Generally the animal throws out Its
Ink on the least alarm, a circumstance
of some importance In geology. It was
discovered by Dr. Buckland that In
many specimens of fossil cephalopods,
called scientifically Geoteuthls, I. e.,
earth squid, the Ink-bag remained in
the animal untouched by Its long so
journ within the earth, and even re
tained Its quality of rapid mixture
with water. A drawing was actually
made by Sir F. Chantrey, with a por
tlon of 'sepia' taken from a fossil spe
cies, and the substance proved to be
of such excellent quality tnat an artist,
to whom the sketch was shown, was
desirous of learning the name of tho
colorman who prepared the tint.
Had a Hunch.
A middle-aged Maryland farmer, who
picked the right bnes to the tune of
nearly $800 at the Rockvllle Fair races
last week, got Into Washington on the
night following the wind-up of the fair.
He was hunting for Joyance, and three
cheerful workers got hold of him and
nudged him Into a four-handed poker
game. The farmer dldn t know mucn
about the game, but he won Bteadlly
for the first hour. Then the cheerful
workers went at him In a bunch, and
they took his winnings and his own
bundle off him so fast that It made
him sneeze. One of them got a "squee
Jlb," which he explained as a hand that
couldn't be shown, and raked down
JI35 of the Maryland Man's money. An
other got a lallapaloosa, consisting of
three clubs and a pair of spades, and
toog $5 oSf the farmer's money. The
Maryland man only had three queens.
Another of the merry grafters caught
four diamonds and the ace of clubs on
top .which, being a "klfty-nlteh," beat
any hand In the deck, as was explained
to the man who had won out on the
'air, and the "kifty-nltch" topped his
king full and cost him $S0 more. The
Maryland farmer began to look pretty
olemn when he was more than $300 In
(he hole. Then It came to a Jackpot.
Al lhands stayed until the pressure be
:ame too great, and when two of the
grafters dropped r4ut there was more
than $350 In the center of the table.
The farmer stood pat and he came
back at the grafter, who plugged at
him every time with $2! raises. When
there was more than $00 In the middle
of the table the farmer pasted the
nmount of the grafter's last raise Into
the center of the table and called. The
grafter laid down four Jacks.
"No good," said the farmer, throwing
his hand face down In the middle of the
table and raking In the pot.
"Hold on there," exclaimed the graft,
er. "What are you trying to do, any
how? I've got four Jacks. What have
you got."
"I've got a hunch," said the farmer,
sweeping the stakes, which consisted of
bills, and not chips. Into his pocket;
and he backed out of the room. He
happened to be about six foot three,
and built proportionately, and th
cheerful worker didn't attempt to de
tain him.
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may be added to It Having washed
the oilcloth and allowed It to dry thor
oughly, proceed thu: Dip a linen rag
In the glue water and rub the oilcloth.
Let It dry. This will preserve the oil
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this application only dusting will b
required' for Mm tin
THE FAIRY POD.
Tha LeMon Katla Learned White
Listening to tha Pea.
Katie got very tired after picking a
basketful of peas In the hot summer
un, so she thought for a change she
would begin to shell a few while she
sat down In the shade of the coool
green rows of peas, almost twice a tall
as herself.
She burst two or three pods, and ran
her thumb down the row of little shin
ing green balls so tightly tucked away
In their cosy little bed. "Just like
mother tucks us up, all snug and com
fy," thought Katie, as she threw away
the empty pod.
Then somehow the next shell seemed
a very long time In being stripped of
its little inmates, and Katie fancied
she heard some silvery little sounds,
Just as If some wee fairy bells were
chiming. They seemed a little out of
tune, and not at all one after the other,
as Katie had heard the bells at the
big gray church, where she went every
Sunday afternoon with mother to hear
father talk to the other children who
came there.
Presently the bells stopped, and Ka
tie heard a tiny voice say, in rather a
grumpy tone, though it was so small:
"I wish you wouldn't push me so; I
have hardly room to breathe!"
Then came an answer in a little deep
er voice:
"If we all thought of each other and
not so much of ourselves whether we
are comfortable or not, no one would
know whether they were pushing or
being pushed."
Somehow Katie thought she had
heard that remark somewhere else.
"Well," cried the first voice, rather
rudely, "I'm not pushing. It Isn't me,
It's"
Katie listened very hard and tried to
catch the name, but she couldn't.
All wondered where all the voices
came from, but she could not make out.
At last a little rustling on a spray of
green leaves caught her eye and to
her surprise she saw a vary fat, big
pod bumping about most Indignantly
on its tiny twig.
"It will break off In a minute."
thought Katie, "and I'm sure it will
burst and the peas will roll out!"
While watching it she could distinctly
hear some little voices Inside, and thei.
she knew it was the little green pea:
she had heard quarreling together.
"Now," she thought to herself, "I'll
keep very quiet, and perhaps they'l
say some more."
Pretty soon they did.
"I never get a turn at being it,' am"
you know 1 like that part of the gam
best. I hate always being caught."
Again she thought she had hear;1
those words somewhere else. When
was It?
Soon there was a good deal of bust
ling In the fat pod, and, to Katie t
astonishment, one end came open, and
out dropped a little, wrinkled, gray
dried-up-looklng pea.
"That's the one," thought Katie
"that's being so cross. I wonder wheth
er there's a maggot In It."
She took the pea up, and there sun
enough was a white speck Inside which
she knew was the cause of its being s.
ugly. Just at that moment the whole
pod fell down close to Katie's feet, and
bursting open, showed a row of nlct
little green balls.
The noise was so great that Katie sat
up and rubbed her eyes. There In hei
lap was the pod she had half shelled,
but nowhere could she see the fat ont
with the quarrelsome peas. She looker
all around, but she could not find It.
"Why, Katie!" exclaimed a sweet
voice, and a loving face looked through
the green leaves down at her. Running
to her mother, she caught hold of her
dress and said:
"Mother, do come here! I've had such
a funny dream 1"
Then she told her of all the we
voices she had heard ,and ended up by
saying, "and the funny part Is that J
have heard all that somewhere else be
fore. Where was It, mother?"
Mother's gentle face grew a llttlt
grave. She stroked Katie's hair very
gently as she said:
"I think my little Katie is very often
like that little gray pea. Instead of be
ing happy and cheerful, whatever she
has to do, she grumbles, and when
little friends come In to play with her
she always wants to be first, and she
is cross If she Is not. Her temper Is
something like the maggot that so up
set the little pea that It looked ugly
and cross, and at last fell out of the
comfy little home it had, upsetting all
Its brothers and sisters."
Katie's face began to get very pink,
and two bright tears fell down on mam
ma's hand.
Now she knew where she had heard
the discontented little voice and she
felt ashamed.
So with a sob she said, "I'll try to
remember, mother."
Mother smiled and gave her a very
loving kiss, and she did try so hard
that every one wondered at her sweet
ness. Only she and her mother knew the
tittle lesson she had had, and now she
Is a very old lady, who Just tells all
her grandchildren this story to show
them how each little soul in a homt
must try to do his or her part to make
It happy.
Chinese Chess.
Chinese chess Is called wei-chi. It Is
played on a board containing 324
squares, formed by 19 lines crossing 19
others at right angles, thus making 361
points of intersection; 300 "men" are
used, moving along the points of In
tersection 150 black andi 150 white.
One move at a time Is made by placing
a piece on a point. The winner is the
one who surrounds the greater number
of points with his own men, surrounds
an empty point, or a point occupied by
the enemy, who Is then removed. At
the corners and along the sides a point
can be secured Anally; but In the center
of the board there Is always the dan
ger of a besieging army being besieged
by a greater one. An adaptation of
the game has been Imported In Europe;
but for some reason or other It Is
child's play.
Wel-ch'l Is not child's play. At chess
twenty minutes to half an hour Is some
times allowed for a single move; at
wel-ch'l one move an hour Is playing
recklessly, like a novice. Toward the
end of the game players will sit and
look at the board for a whole day, at
the end of which "white" puts down
a checker. Then he suffers a night ot
remorse and arony, knowing he has
made a mistake. The Anglo-Saxon race
probably does not produce more than
one Intellect In a generation capable of
entertaining all the possible combina
tion dependent on a single move: tne
Mongolian race produces about 100 In
one generation.
Dr. Harry Taylor of Chester, Pa., was
attacked by a vicious parrot, which
caught him by the eyelid and refused
to let go, notwithstanding the doctor's
vigorous effort to shake him off. The
bird was Anally beaten so that he re.
leased the doctor. It was at first
thought that the sight was Injured, but
it l believed that the Injury will be
confined to tha lid, which severely
lacerated.
KANSAS NEWS.
The mining district near Galena is
scene of activity, notwithstanding the
shutdown of most all the plants oper
ated by members of the Missouri and
Kansas Zinc buyers' association.- How
ever, many are doing dead work, re
pairing and enlarging their capacity of
the bins, whereby they may store large
quantities of ore to be held until sched
ule prices are paid. Practically the as
sociation has won the battle, as many
of the buyers so far this week have
paid schedule prices.
Glanders has broken out among tht
government stock at Fort Riley. Sev
enteen horses have been killed. Twenty-five
cords of wood have been hauled
out to use in burning the carcasses.
Five veterinarians are busy examining
the stock and vaccinating all not con
demned. The disease Is Buposed to
have been brought by mules shipped In
from the south last summer to pasture
on the reservation.
E. B. Crissey of Jamestown, N. Y., a
creditor of the defunct Interstate Loan
and Trust company of Leavenworth,
recently sued John J. Ingalls, In the
district court of Atchison county, for
$5,000. He alleged that Mr. Ingalls was
a stockholder in the Leavenworth com
pany to the extent of $2,500, and wat
liable under the law for double that
amount. Mr. Ingalls denied that he
had ever had any stock In the Leaven
worth concern or was ever interested In,
any way. The Jury returned a verdict
In favor of Ingalls.
In the district court at Atchison
Judge Bland decided that John Flynn,
democrat, was entitled to the office of
marshal of the city court, apd ousted
Jake Starr, republican. The Atchison
city court was created last spring about
a month before election, and Starr was
given a temporary appointment as mar
shal by Governor Stanley. Starr be
came the regular republican nominee
for "the position and Flynn the demo
cratic nominee. Flynn received a ma
jority of 208 at the election, but Stan
refused to surrender the office, claim
ing that his appointment by Governor
Stanley held good for two years. Judge
Casey of the court sided with Starr and
refused to recognize Flynn, who went
into the courts to establish his claim
to the office. In the meantime he had
reported at the office of the city court
for duty every day, and attorneys are
of the opinion that while Starr did all
the work, Flynn will be entitled to the
pay.
HAVE AN EYE TO BUSINESS.
Topeka, Kan. (Special.) Governor
Stanley and his party left here In a
special Pullman car over the Santa Fe
for San Francisco to welcome the
Twentieth Kansas volunteers. The par
ty waa made up of: Governor and Mrs.
Stanley, State Treasurer F. E. Grimes,
Adjutant General S. M. Fox. Mr. ana
Mrs. Frank Montgomery of Topeka,
Mayor and Mrs. Sellg of Lawrence,
Captain J. D. Barker of Girard, Editor
E. F. Heisler of Kansas City, Kan., Mrs.
Henry Allen of Ottawa, Mrs. R. S. Par
ker, wife of Lieutenant Parker; W. H.
Sheldon of Paola.
Newton Ury of Fort Scott and Mr.
T. Little, father of Lieutenant Colonel
EL C. Little, left Thursday for San
Francisco to Join the party.
Adjutant General Fox took along with
htm several army commissions signed
in blank for use at the coast in case of
promotions before the regiment is final,
ly mustered out.
The people of Fort Scott sent along
with the party a box of chest protec
tors for the members of the Fort Scott
company. One of the great troubles
of volunteers returning from the hot
climate of the Philippines Is pneumo
nia. The Fort Scott people want to
guard their boy against this If pos
sible. The local committee is making rapid
progress In arranging for the reception
to be held here. Subcommittees havt
been selected to take up different parts
of the work, and everything will be In
readiness for the reception long before
the boys arirve home.
A TRAP SET FOR THE BOYS.
A scheme has been devised whereby
Topeka hopes to get the bulk of the
money of the returning Kansas volun
teers. It was feared by many here that
the boys would spend all their money
in San Francisco before starting home,
and that all they would have left t
spend when they arrived home would
be their time. The plan devised to en
able Topeka to get the first whack a;
their cash Is to induce, the war depart
ment not to have the soldiers paid of.
until after they leave 'Frisco. It Is ar
gued that a paymaster can pay thi
troops on the train Just as well as ht
can in camp, and that they will all b
flush when they get back here.
Topeka, Kan., special to Kansas Clt"
Times: Wm. Trlmbel, an omnibus driv
er, Is walking around today with thret
Inches of a hat pin in the region of his
heart. The steel has been in his body
for three days, entering Just under the
shoulder, and when he awoke thl;
morning he found It had worked its waj
to a location at the side of his heart
Trlmbel threw himself on a lounge at
his home a few nights ago, and In do
ing so he struck the hat pin. He sup
posed he was only severely gouged un
til the wound commenced to pain, am.
later he found the pin with about three
Inches of Its length broken off. Tin
steel will probably be located by means
of X-rays and cut out, as there is dan
ger of it intering the heart.
COOKING IN SWEDEN.
A lady who has just returned to thip
country from the Land of the Midnight
Sun, said a Philadelphia Press reporter:
"After we had seen our fill of rocky
headlands and enchanted lakes and
fjords, we went to a seaside resort,
where we had rooms overlooking the
water, and went to a matsal or 'meat
room' for our meals, as every one does
in Lysekll. We had a special table and
were waited upon by the never-falling
imiablllty of a special waitress, and we
mid for one party of four $10.60 a week
for our meals. What did we get? I as
ure you, no canned peas or skimmed
lllk or tough chickens. For breakfast
,e had meat, eggs, tea, coffee, delicious
sh and fancy breads. For dinner, soup,
sh, meat and a dessert, the whole pre
eded by a Swedish smorgasbord, which
s a sort of side table where all sorts
f relishes are laid out. Rarebits, eggs,
andwlshes, raw or pickled herrings,
vlth chopped onions, sliced sausages,
avlar, anchovies, cheese, sardlnes.plck
e and salted and savory meats are
lerved In endless variety, and, though
tourist usually fight shy of the smor
gasbord, we became perfect Swede at
far as It waa concerned. We had such
a good time at Lysekll and saved so
much of our precious pelf that we were
able at the and of our stay to take a
trip to Part for a few day' shopping,
a dinner at the Ambaseadeur's, and a
peep at the budding involution."
A young hopeful sat In the window a
long time the other night during
thunder storm and contemplated the
scene with a wis look on hi face. Then
he turned to his mother and said: "Oh,
Mamma, the angel are scratching
match on th sky."
MISSOURI NOTES.
Th Judge of the Jackson eounty
court have recognized the boycott in
augurated by the business men of Kan
sis City against the Burlington railroad.
The Judge instructed the sheriff that
so long as the boycott Is in force he
must not travel over that road in tak
ing insane people to the state asylum
at St. Joseph. The fight on the Burling
ton, which was begun as a result of
the Omaha differential, is being pushed
by local merchants.
GIGANTIC PLANS.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special.) George
B. Loving, the well known cattleman,
left Kansas City a few days ago after
spending some time at the Stock YardB
exchange Ln the interest of his gigantic
cattle pool. Mr. Loving has spent the
past year In promoting his scheme and
he stopped In Kansas City on his way
to his home In Texas from New York,
where he has been Interesting capita)
In his enterprise.
The plan, if Mr. Loving succeeds in
carrying it out, will give to the west
one of the biggest companies in the
world. It will own over 12,000,000 acres
of land divided up into ranches with
overseers and managers, while the gen
sral affairs of the company will be man
aged by a central board.
When Mr. Loving visited the stock
yards he was cordially welcomed by
many commission men and others who
firmly believe he will succeed in bring
ing his scheme to a successful Issue.
There were also many who boldly an
nounced that he could never succeed
and was wasting his time In attempting
an impossibility.
Mr. Loving had about forty options
on ranches owned by Kansas City
stockmen. These options expired last
January, but with the exception of a
few ranches that had been sold, all the
options have been renewed.
Opinion seems about equally divided
as to Mr. Loving's chances for success.
Major Andrew Drumm, of the Drumm
Flato commission company, whose cat
tle interests in Texas are perhaps as
great as any other Kansas Cityan, be
longs to the skeptical ones.
"It can't be done," said the major
emphatically, referring to Mr. Lov
ing's scheme. "He will never succeed
in the world. No man can secure the
capital necessary to swing such a deal
for the simple reason that too many
men have gone broke on the same sort
of proposition. Capitalists are a timid
lot, and they are not going to put their
money into something they can't see
their way out of. They used to do it,
but not now."
Mr. Flato of the same company, be
lieves differently from Major Drumm, at
least he thinks there is some chance
for the scheme to be successful.
"Mr. Loving is not attempting to form
a trust," said Mr. Flato, "and his is a
perfectly legitimate business enterprise.
I am not specially Interested one way
or the other, except I think we should
all be fair and give Mr. Loving the
benefit of the truth. As I understand
him he Is simply forming a big com
pany, the same as any other company,
only with a vast cash capital, and that
this company will do business along
the same lines as some companies are
doing now."
The opinion of Mr. Flato Is shared
by many others.
INDIANS WHO RESEMBLE JAPS.
The Kwakiutis are a tribe of light
colored Indians of British Columbia,
whose faces and expression readily re
call those of the lower classes of Japan
ese and Koreans across the Pacific.
They differ from other coast Indians by
having very high-bridged, often hooked,
noses, and very long faces. The shape
of their heads 1 artificial, Like our
own Flatheads and some tribes In Mex
ico and South America, they deform the
head In Infancy, so that the upper fore
head, which we consider a sign of In
tellect, Is depressed perhaps In order to
obtain an approach to the skull of a
beast or bird. What the object of this
Intentional malformation is forms one
of those problems which appeal to the
imagination of the archaeologist. A
collector of antiquities in Mexico has
made a specialty of these deformed
skulls, and Is said to argue that they
are attempts to produce a head like
some four-footed beast, the coyote or
raccoon, for which the ancestors ot
the tribe in question bad a special rev
erence, perhaps in the nature of totem
worship. Dr. Franz Boats has not found
any record among the Kwakiutis of
British Columbia which points to any
specific worship of this kind, but the
pronounced reverence for animals which
is shown in the beast, fish and btrd
masks used In ceremonial rites and the
dances of their secret societies might
encourage such a view. The habit of
malformation has persisted very much
as the bandaging of the feet of Chinese
women has persisted, and Is only now
giving way before the changes intro
duced by the whites.
The heads of a man and a woman of
this tribe, given front face and in pro
file, exhibit the results of this early
training of the bones of the head.
Whether it occasions pain to the child
or not .there Is a general agreement
that It has no effect upon the intelli
gence of the people to whom it Is ap
plied. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Every housekeeper should know how
to put up a dainty luncheon for the fall
meeting parties or other autumn pic
nics. A crowd of Clnclnnatlans were
assembled on the banks of the Miami
the other day. The first lunch box
opened was large enough to hold Its
contents without any crowding. It
was wrapped neatly In white paper and
tied with a bit of narrow white ribbon,
through which a single twig of apple
blossoms was thrust. On taking off
the cover the recipient found first a
Japanese napkin, whose loose white
ground was decorated In one cornet
with a bunch of apple blossoms. This
bit of thoughtfulness In the way of a
napkin, It was noticed, was the excep
tion rather than the rule among the
boxes In the Immediate vicinity. On
removing the napkin a bunch of water
cress was the next thing discovered. It
was placed on a piece of waxed paper
that covered the rest of the luncheon.
There were four dainty sandwiches,
each a small double triangle of perfect
sandwich bread, prepared without the
crust, the filling a delicious compound
of lmnced chicken, cream cheese and
chopped almonds. The cress eaten with
them gave a finishing touch to their ap
petizing quality. A slice of delicious
home-made white cake, cut from loaf
that had been baked In two deep lay
ers, with an Ice filling and top, was
part of the dessert, and several sec
tions of a choice orange, each section
peeled. All were neatly folded In waxed
paper.
Oxford, Maine, ha a Custard Pie as-'
soclatlon, which meet annually In a
hemlock grove on th margin of Swan
pond and gorge Itself with custard pi.
It grew out of a custard-ple-eatlng
contest between two resident of th
two M year ago.
IOWA NEWS.
The most serious strike In th history
of Webster county has begun at tha
coal mines. Every mine In the district
is closed down, with 400 workers idle.
One serious result of the labor trouble
is the coal famine which it ha caused.
The local school are closed and all
factories are running short of fuel and
may have to suspend operation.
At a meeting of the city council a
special election was ordered to be held
October 27 for the purpose of voting on
the extension of the franchise of the
Marengo Electric Light and Powei
company for a period of ten years. A
twenty-five-year extension was beaten
by a majority of ten votes on the 25th
ult., but it is conceded by the citizens
generally that the ten-year proposition
will carry by a large majority.
Malignant diphtheria has broken out
in Oskaloosa. Two deaths and eleven
new cases have taken place within a
week. The board of health met and
decided unanimously to issue an order
closing the schools. One case was taken
from Penn college. All the cases are
under strict quarantine.
The early frost this fall entailed a
total loss to Farwell & Westgate of
Iowa Falls in the destruction of their
entire crop of celery. The crop last
year was so successful that an acre
and a quarter was planted this season
and was of the finest quality and ready
for market. About an acre, consisting
of nearly 20,000 plants, was left and the
freeze destroyed all. The loss to these
gentlemen is estimated at $500.
Former United States Senator James
Harlan, who resides at Mount Pleasant,
the only survivor of Abraham Lincoln's
cabinet, seems stronger and brighter,
but at the very best is weak and in a
critical condition. Personally he thinks
that he will recover and be up In a few
days. He has been failing very rapidly
the last month and his sudden collapse
caused no surprise.
The Norwegian Pioneer association
of America held its second trlennnial
meeting in Decorah on Luther college
campus. Hon. Rasmus B. Anderson
of Madison was the principal speaker,
but there were a number of short ad
dresses. The delegates and their friends
participated in a banquet. A number
of well known Norwegians were pres
ent from various points In the north
west. While Horace Beans was moving fur
niture from the third story of the old
foundry building In Sheldon the chain
which controls the elevator, upon which
were Beans and the furniture, broke
and the elevator fell to the bottom. The
chain struck Beans a terrific blow on
the head, stunning him for a few sec
onds. This was the only injury he re
ceived. Governor Shaw has received a great
many refusals from the banks to hi
proposition for the banks of the state
to advance money to pay for the trans
portation of the Fifty-first Iowa regi
ment from San Francisco to Iowa. His
plan is to have the banks of each coun
ty advance about $300. The legislative
nominees, who were to give the govern
or a written guarantee that they would
Indorse his action in advancing the
money from the state treasury, making
an appropriation next winter to cover
it, have failed to do so. Not more than
one-third have been heard from. Un
less the banks come forward propmtly
the legislative nominees will be asked
outright by Governor Shaw what they
favor doing about It, and he will abide
by their decision. There is little doubt,
however, that the state will pay the
transportation, :
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The good roads convention waa held
In Burlington, with an attendance of
leveral hundred delegates from all over
the First Iowa district. Each county in
the district held separate meetings and
organized by electing officers. In the
afternoon a large assemblage gathered
at a grand stand erected on Summer
street and viewed the practical demon
stration of good road construction, un
der the supervision of E. G. Harrison,
the government expert. Mr. Harrison,
Colonel Moore of St. Louis, president
of the Interstate association, and Con
gressman Thomas Hedge made ad
dresses. The result of the meetings
and demonstrations was a decided boom
for good roads. It was decided to send
a full delegation, headed by Mayor
Naumann of Burlington, to the state
good r6ads convention in Des Moines.
James McKenna, a brakeman working
on a gravel train on the Chicago &
Northwestern railway, fell between the
cars and received Injuries which re
sulted In his death four hours later.
The accident occurred about two miles
from Council Bluffs, where gravel was
being laid as ballast on the second
track now in course of construction.
McKenna was standing on the end of
the rear cars attending to the brake,
when In some manner he lost his posi
tion and fell between the cars, the
wheels of the last one passing over his
stomach. He was brought to Council
Blurts as soon as possible, but when he
aanhaH tha Honnt it WHH RPPT1 that he
could live but a short time and Dr. La-
cey, the company s pnysician, oraerea
him placed In the baggage room. Every
thing possible was done to alleviate his
sufferings, but after lingering for about
Faiip hnura rioath name to his release.
McKenna was conscious most of the
time and begged Dr. Lacey to give him
sufficient morphine to kill him. Rev.
Father Smyth of St. Francis Xavier's
no. with th unfortunate man and gave
him the last rites of the church.
The unknown driver of a milk wagon
In Des Moines ran down and drove over
Gertrude Foregrave, fourteen year of
age, while she waa returning from
school. She was crossing Eighth and
Walnut streets at the time, and hav
ing her attention drawn east on Wal
nut toward the scene of the Harris
Emery fire, did not see the team bear
ing down upon her at a swinging gait.
The driver gave the team free rein, and
rounding Into Walnut from Eighth he
struck the child before she was aware
of the danger. She was knocked to the
pavement and run over by the wheel
of the wagon. The driver, without halt
Ing to ascertain the extent of the In
juries of the child, applied hi whip to
the horses and disappeared, going west
on Walnut street. Gertrude was ren
dered senseless for a moment, but re
covered upon being taken to the home
of her parents at 213 Walnut street. Hei
right leg was terribly lacerated by the
shoe of one of the horses, and her head
severely bruised by the wheels of UM
wagon. An effort Is being mad to dis
cover the name of the driver, but a lu
disappeared so quickly, no on observed
the name of the dairy painted on tlM
wagon, and slight hope art entertain!
of apprehending hint.
At th last meeting of th board of
trustee of th North Carolina College
of Agriculture it was decided to admit
women for textile Instruction and aa
special atudenta in Industrial arts, bor.
Monitors, dairy work, both better a4
cheese-making, boo-koaptaf, ato.
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