Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905, October 17, 1901, Image 5

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    People and
f Extent
Bo ItiprMnt tLing Occur.
The RC-Rct. Knete HennUig Gesel
us ton 8cheele, Bishop of Gotland and
somber of the lower boase of the
Riksdag of Sweden, has arrived In the
Onltcd States. He cornea here a the
wrsoaal representative f King Oscar
ind alao aa the official delegate of the
established Church -of Sweden. The
turpose of his visit, as expressed in
:he king's letter, of which he ia the
Dearer, "is to strengthen the tiea that
unite the Swedish Lutheran church of
America to the Swedish mother
church." Bishop von Bcbeele is ac
companied by Mrs. tod Scheete and
Dr. L. G. Abrahamson, president of
the Illinois conference of the August
ana Synod, who Is returning from the
recently conclnded . international Lu-
BISHOP VON SCHEELE. ,
theran congress at Lund, Sweden, to
which he was a delegate.
McK inlay on Anarchy.
In the light of the tracedv at rtnf.
falo. a peculiar interest attaches tn an
address delivered by Mr. MeKlnley at
me dedication of a soldiers and sail
ors' home in Cleveland on Julv 4. 18S4
Just before he spoke the assembli.d
school children of Cleveland had sung
a patriotic song, beating time to their
music with nags which they held in
their hands. Mr. MeKlnley began by
referring to this pleasing sight, add
ing: "With patrloUsm in our hearts
and with the flag of our country in our
nanas mere is no danger of anarchy.
. . . Anarchy flees before patriot
ism. Peace and order and security and
liberty arc safe so long as love of coun
try ourns in the hearts of the Deoole
. . . Liberty to make our own
laws does not give us license to break
them. Liberty to make our own laws
commands a duty to observe the
selves and enforce obedience among
an otners within - their jurisdiction.
Liberty, my fellow-citUena, is respon
sibility, and responsibility is duty, and
that duty is to preserve the excentinnai
liberty we enjoy within the law, and
ior me law, and by the law." His
statement that anarchy and Datrlotium
are deadly foes could have had no
more striking illustration than his own
death. By personal conviction as well
as by official position Mr. MeKlnley
was the embodiment of the idea of lib
erty under law. He was struck down
because of that fact. His death teaches
the same lesson as his Cleveland
speech that the enforcement of Just
laws and the inculcation of true pa
triotism are the safest and surest
means of suppressing-anarchy.
May Wed Sir Chomat.
Undeterred by failure to capture the
America's cup, Sir Thomas Upton is
said to be trying to win an American
bride. The lady Is Mrs. Ronald Stuart
' of .New York, a handsome widow.
Odor 4 firm tat Foodslufjt.
A fish dealer in one of the most styl
ish parts of New York was deeply hurt
and badly worried recently by the
complaint of one of bis big customers
that a fine salmon which he bad sent
to the house for a big dinner had
1 Viroved to be entirely uneatable when
Served, owing to a most penetrating
tante of creosote that pervaded It. The
fish dealer realized, although the
charge was not made directly, that be
was more than suspected of having
sold a stale fish that had been washed
or brushed with an antiseptic prepara
tion to bide Its condition. He knew
that the salmon had been perfectly
fresh when he sold It and for days he
puszled In Tain over the problem. But
suddenly be remembered that on the
day the fish was sent out a tank wagon
full of creosote had stopped before his
place, and that hla cart, Into which
the flsb bad been placed, was directly
alongside of the powerful stuff. That
appear to have been enough to per
meate the delicate flesh of the fish. The
experience should be a lesson against
exposing any foodstuffs to Influences
In the streets of this city. New York
Press,
Uhe WeeKJy
Panorama.
Fmmou Financitr Vying.
Jay Cooke, the famous financier, who
Is now critically ill at his summer
horn on Put-In-Bay,
Lake Brie,
was born in San
dusky, O., eighty
years ago, when
Sandusky waa an'
Indian village. He
Is a lineal descend
ant of Francis
Cooke, who came
over In the May
flower and who
built the first house
in Plymouth, Mass.
Jay Cooke's father built the first sub
stantial house In Sandusky and be
came one of Ohio's greatest lawyers.
In bis boyhood the future master of
finance began his commercial career
as a clerk and bookkeeper In a village
store, and later entered the employ of
a large house at St Louis. In 1838 he
removed to Philadelphia and at 21 he
was a partner in a great banking con
cern. In 1858 he began his really large
operations, which have since that time
embraced the building of railroads, the
organization of banks, national loans
and the handling of great masses of
railway stock. In 1873 the panic swept
his fortune away. After that crash he
slowly recovered his importance in the
world of business and he is now a
fairly rich man. He has four children.
TitpeUt's 'Bridt-to-'B.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew has an
nounced that his marriage to Miss May
Palmer will take place In Paris at a
date not yet set. Miss Palmer is the
daughter of Mrs. Henry Palmer, who
was one of the three Hermann sisters
of New Orleans, famous for their
beauty. Her family Is an old one in
New York, but owing to her having
lived much abroad she ia little known
at home. She was educated abroad,
MISS MAY PALMER,
speaks French, German and Italian flu
ently, and is a cultured musician. She
has inherited all the beauty of her
mother. The portrait is from a photo
graph taken in London and reproduced
In the New York Herald.
ArxcnaV JiaUt4t Industry.
Phoenix, Ariz . reports that at the
rate at which the Angora goat Is now
securing a foothold In the West and
Southwest, the time is not far distant
when the goat industry will take pre
cedence 07er the business of cattle and
sheep culture. Since 1849,, when the
first Angora goats were brought to this
country by Dr. James B. DavU of South
Carolina, who received them as a pres
ent from the Sultan of Turkey, the
goat has slowly but surely gained a
standing among the great industries of
the West, until there are now many
more than a million goats In Arizona,
New Mexico, California, Idaho, Utah
and Oregon.
Stockmen ara awakening to the great
possibilities in the Angora, and this
at a time when the profits of raising
sheep and cattle are on the decline.
Almost every region of the West pos
sesses the peculiar requisites for at
taining the best results in raising An
gora goats, end experts declare that
the conditions In the mountainous re
gions of Arizona are almost Identi
cal with those of the Province of An
gora, Turkey. The summers are warm
and d-y, and the winters cold and wet,
condition: which are conducive to the
highest development of the goat.
Statu of an Cmr44.
The statue of the late Empress of
Austria, by Edmund Hellmer, recently
placed In the Salz-burger-A
n 1 a g e n,
represents her in
the simple gown
she wore as she
left Austrian
ground the last
time. It was from
Salzburg that she
aet out on the jour
ney that had so
fatal an ending,
and her prst visit
to the town was
soon after her be
trothal to the emperor., In her youth
Her Majesty was regarded as one of
the most beautiful women In the royal
families of Europe.
This Is an era of experiments In
food. Scientific Investigator in Eu
rope, after thorough tests of a horse
flesh diet, say that this Rort of meat,
when the use of It Is continued for a
time, tends to lesen the weight of the
consumer, whether mnn or beast.
As the World
Re)olVes
For Mayor of fftbv yorK,
Edward Morse Shepard, who has
been nominated by the Democrats for
mayor of New York Is a lawyer. He
was born in New York city in 1860 and
graduated from the College of the City
of New York in 1869. He is a direc
tor in numerous railroad and other
corporations, and has been active in
politics during the last ten years.- In
1894 he opposed the nomination of
David B. Hill for governor, and organ
ized an independent Democracy. In
1895 he was the candidate of the in
dependent Democracy for mayor of
Brooklyn and was defeated by Freder
ick W. Wurster by nearly 67,000 votes.
In 1896 he opposed the nomination of
Bryan for President and was made a
delegate to the gold Democratic con
vention at Indianapolis. In 1897 he
supported Seth Low for mayor of
E. M. SHEPARD.
Greater New York, and the year fol
lowing supported Augustus Van Wyck
for governor. He joined the Bryan
faction in 1899 and made peace with
Hugh McLaughlin, Democratic boss of
Brooklyn. During the last Presiden
tial campaign he made several
speeches for Bryan and presided at the
Bryan mass-meeting held In Madison
Square Garden. He recently declared
that Brooklyn favored Controller Coler
for mayor. He lives at 172 Congress
street. Brooklyn, and has an ofllce at
111 Broadway, New York.
Shutting Out ISramp-t. '
"Weary Willie," "Dusty Rhodes," and
other similar gentlemen of leisure who
have been arranging to spend the win
ter in Chicago may as well make an
immediate change in their plans.
Mayor Harrison has had a change of
heart. Several years' experience with
the gentlemen of the road have con
vinced him that their room is to be
preferred to their company during ihe
cold months. The mayor has not only
ordered that no tramps shall be lodged
in the police stations this year but has
also stated that the condition of the
city treasury makes it impossible to
open a municipal lodging-houso for
their accommodation. Tramps and va
grants who are found in Chicago here
after will be promptly arrested and
sent to the bridewell, where the terror
of compulsory baths and hard work
stares them in the face. Chicago' Trib
une. Lord Salisbury.
Lord Salisbury is said by those who
know him Intimately to be at once a
younger and an older man since he left
the foreign office. He is younger in
that release from the absorbing cares
and daily labors of that post has re
stored to him a certain gayety of spir
it He is older in that he seems unable
and unwilling to occupy himself seri
ously with that general control and
suncrvlslon of affairs for which he now
has leisure. As one of his friends put
it recently he was not too old for for
eign minister, but at his time of life he
Is not young enough to become prime
minister.
William Lotb. Jr,
former secretary of President Roose
velt, who will be assistant secretary
to Mr. Cortelyou.
CoUtoi'4 Methods.
Notwithstanding his recent serious
Illness, a French visitor to Yasnala
Pollana affirms that Count Tolstoi is
as active In mind and body as ever.
A short time ago he was up at 7 In the
morning, making a tour of his park,
end with a largo white linen hat on his
head walked briskly along. Return
ing to the house, he set steadily to
work at bis desk for some hours and,
although slnca his last Illness he
dines alone, he Joins the family at the
midday repot. His manuscripts are
badly written and marked all over by
additions and erasures, so that each
sheet hno to be copied. He has many
willing seen tarlet, Including Nicholas
Oay, the son of the painter, who un
dertake th'n work in the aftnrno',, and
carefully tra.iBclbo the writing of
the mo nlnti
m
State Superintendent Secures Letter
From Mizsttpolit Man.
fit ALLEGES A RASCALLY SCHEME
Olvts Detail of What Ha Assarts Is
Oaaaa Warkad Epea Ceafldiag Iaterlor
DUtrieta Vortaae for a Nebraska Maa
Mlaoollaaeees Stat News.
LINCOLN, Oct. 9. State Superin
tendent W. K. Fowler is in receipt of
a letter from Minneapolis warning
him that agents are at work In Ne
braska selling charts to rural districts
for ten times their real value. The
letter is upon blank paper without a
letter head and Superintendent Fow
ler does not know the author, but be
is willing to give the letter to the pub
lic for what it Is worth. It is ag fol
lows :
"MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 4.
1901. State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir:
In your state today there is a clever
scheme being worked by experts in
selling charts to rural districts. The
chart costs less than $3 to manufac
ture. Including stand. Notwithstand
ing they are highly polished and con
tain much color, they are not worth
$10 to any school.
"The plan Is to visit rural districts
only and sell for $30 to $50. The sell
ing price depends on the cost of brib
ing the majority of the board. The
agents have to qualify before they
operate and they are 'past masters' in
finding out susceptible members of the
board. The bribe Is anywhere from $5
to $10 per member. As soon as the
county Is worked all time paper is
sold to local banks at 10 to 25 per cent
discount. An expert agent is worth to
Ms firm $5,000 a yeai. In soma cases
county superintendents r?commend
the price, but If they condemn the
thing, the agents ostensibly lea re the
county; then their leader calls his
men from other parts of the state and
they rush the county to a finish, oft
entimes before the superintendent is
aware of it.
"The agents do not call themselves
'chart agents,' but mask as general
school supply men. The only thing
they dread Is notice In local papers,
such as the country people read, keep
ing It before the public now and then.
Yours truly,
"M. F. BURDETTE."
As long ago as last April Superin
tendent Fowler published the follow
ing in the Nebraska Teacher:
"A chart agent has been roaming
the counties west of Lincoln during
the past month, not only seeking
whom he might devour, but devouring
all, or nearly all, of those ha saw. The
gentleman claims to have a recom
mendation from the state superintend
ent, but the records and letter copy
books of this office show nothing of
the sort. We think he Is mistaken,
and his conduct Impels us to the fol
lowing decision for self-protection.
Henceforth, we will refuse to write,'
dictate, grant or sign any testimonial
or recommendation whatsoever of any
school charts, without regard to their
merit, color or prospect of servitude
that Is, usefulness."
Plan to Batala Moiatura.
OMAHA, Oct. 9. H. W. Campbell
of Holdrege, an expert in the treat
ment of soil for the storage of mois
ture, has been here consulting with
Senator Millard. The railways of Ne
braska are Interested In Mr. Camp
bell's investigations and are assisting1
him In bis efforts to have the govern
ment establish a station in Nebraska,
where his plan for retaining moisture
can be thoroughly tested.
Sheridan Fair Make Money.
GORDON, Neb., Oct. 9. The six
teenth annual fair of Sheridan county
closed with the best attendance, finest
exhibits and largest gate receipts for
years. The society will pay all ex
penses and have a surplus for Im
provements. Charged With Poisoning.
HEBRON, Neb., Oct. 9. Thursday
night Sheriff A. J. Snyder returned
home from Sallna, Kan., with O. N.
Thompson, who is charged with poi
soning W. W. Flowers of Alexandria.
He was lately in the Junk business in
and around Falrbury.
Chantauqoa at Tfoonithi
TECUMSEH, Neb., Oct 9. Enthus
iasm is being stirred up among the
TecuRiseh business men to bold ' a
Chautaqua assembly next summer.
Hon. John Dundaa, editor of the Au
burn Granger, is behind the move
ment Dropped to Bis Daath.
HILDRETH, Neb., Oct. 9. Fred
Carter? employed In putting up a
windmill, dropped from the top of the
tower to the ground here. He died
within a few minutes after the fall.
Carter was at work on the farm of
George Wtlmot. He was on the top
of a forty-foot tower when he lost bis
footing and dropped. The fall result
ed In bad fractures to bis collar bone,
ribs, a severe Injury to bis breast and
the dislocation of hlB back.
NEBRASKA WOMAN'S CUBS.
State federation Baa a Frograsa af Ca
aaaal Interest.
WAYNE, Neb., Oct. 14. The pro
gram presented at the meeting of the
State Federation of Woman's clubs
wag of unusual interest. The address
of State Superintendent W. K. Fowler
on "Women at the School Meeting and
in the School Room" has aroused more
interest than any talk yet given at the
convention.
. Reports were received from forty
one clubs. Mrs. H. H. Heller of Omaha
made a plea for the assistance of the
federation in the establishment of
kindergartens for the colored children
of the south. The delegation promised
to interest their clubs in the project
and if possible to provide for the
training of a young colored woman
for the work. The daughter of Rev.
William Vanderzee of Lincoln will
probably be chosen If the money can
be raised.
. Mrs. F. M. Hall gave an excellent
art program. She was assisted by
Mrs. Bushnell of Lincoln and Mrs.
Heller of Omaha. Several women also
spoke of ceramics.
An amendment was carried which
constitutes the presidents of all the
clubs as a nominating committee.
After prolonged discussion the
amendment to increase the annual
dues was carried, but will not take
effect until next year.
The reception at the home of Mrs.
J. T. Bressler, president of the Wayne
City federation, was unusually bril
liant. The rooms wtre exquisitely
decorated with roses and ferns. Mrs.
Elia Peattie of Chicago and Miss Ev
ans assisted Mrs. Bressler, the state
officers and the president of the Wayne
clubs in receiving.
State Deputy Veterinarians.
LINCOLN, Oct. 14. In accordance
with an act passed by the last legisla
ture, Governor Savage appointed fif
teen deputy veterinary surgeons, who
are to be subject to call at all times
for service under direction of Chief
Surgeon Thomas. Each deputy will be
paid $5 and actual expenses for each
day's service. The deputies appointed
by the governor are: J. S. Anderson,
Seward; M. T. Bernard, Schuyler; A.
Bostrom, MInden; M. V. Byers, Os
ceola; Fred Evans, Grand Island; M.
D. Hammond,' Wayne; H. Johnson,
Weeping Water; C. F. Leslie, Wahoo;
C. A. McKim, Norfolk; G. Robertson,
Beatrice; V. Schaefer, Tekaham; J.
D. Sprague, David City; M. H. Tay
lor, York; G. R. Young, Omaha; D. R.
Colby, Beatrice.
Disposal of Intaranee Fees.
LINCOLN, Oct. 14. Auditor Charles
Weston and the Providence Washing
ton Insurance company of Rhode
Island have joined issues In a peti
tion In district court, in which they
ask for guidance In settling the prob
lem of the disposition of the $9,000
license fees of insurance companies,
turned into the office by former Audi
tor Eugene Moore. This money was
all that Moore returned of the $32,
116.70 he collected from the insurance
companies during 1895 and 1896.
Auditor Weston would prefer to pro
rate this amount among the various
companies, but the Providence com
pany strenuously objects to the plan.
State Dairymen to Meet.
LINCOLN, Oct. 14. The State Dairy
men's association will meet In Lin
coln, January 22 to 24. Sessions will
be held in one of the lecture rooms of
the State university and exhibits will
be In the Soldiers' Memorial hall.
Among the officers of the association
who held a preliminary meeting in
this city were: President Rustin, Mr.
Clark of Ravenna, Mr. Rector of Crete,
Mr. Haskell of Lincoln, J. K. Honey
well of Lincoln, and Food Commis
sioner S. C. Bassett.
Official Dm of Awards.
LINCOLN, Oct. 14. The following
telegram was received by Governor
Savage from E. L. Vance, Nebraska
commissioner at the Pan-American ex
position: "Exposition officials have awarded
Nebraska gold medal for collective exhibit-of
agriculture and silver medal
for collective exhibit of cereals."
Coal at Cooper.
COOPER, Oct. 12. Coal has been
in very paying quantities one-half
mile east of this place. Two veins, one
seven feet from the surface, is two
and one-half feet thick; the second it
170 feet deep and five feet thick, each
having a good roof over it and nc
water to contend with.
Meeomes Insane Prom Pear.
HARRISON, Neb., Oct. 14. An In
sane man who gives his name as Joe
Kramer was brought up to this place
by F. P. Lelthoff, who lives ten miles
east of here. Kramer prays almost
Incessantly for deliverance from
Imnglnary detectives. Years ago bis
father's house was burned in Germany
and Kramer and his brother were ac
cused of setting the Arc, but both pro
tested their Innocence. Kramer thinks
the authorities are after him.
Hawkes Vow &jt Ji& tZmfyl
for Use of Hams.
CEASING LAST UNTIL K3VCIC:.
Ad joaraateat Taken la etotaaol ti.
ttgattee to Await Jacks Bad X-
oa Major Qoesttoa Trath a fit.
Bonjr Dissected .Darlae; the Day.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. WheS
senate committee here resumed
bearing of the charges against Lir
Helstand, Major Hawkes, the prosacvl J .
ing witness, was called to submit sot , '
evidence in rebuttal which he defJc
to present. Mr. Hawkes said tk - '
upon his return from the Phillpptn . ' s
he called upon the secretary of Wi "fj- Z-i
and demanded to know the cause A
his removal. , i .J" 'J
Judge Mackay, Hawkes' attorney,
tered on a line of questioning lntasv
ed to draw the secretary of war lot
the controversy, when stopped fe.
fionatnr rVtilrrall urtii annnn ntA tlin
no such questions would be permitted
as the secretary was not under invsati
gat ion.
W. S. Coursey, who was form!.
secretary to General Corbin, testified
that when the reply to Colonel Hia
tand's dispatch to General Otis wat
received he could not connect It wfttj s
any message that had been n&jf i'w
Finally he went to the mlsceUsnsoasa :?
division,. which was In charge of CoM?
onel Helstand, and the latter informed I
him it was the reply to a private)
message he had sent, - &
Major. Hawkes, in correcting his?
testimony, had added a statement thatlt
Judge Boyd was not to subscribe forS
hemp Btock, but was to receive It tor,;v
the use of his name. This called out ? -
several questions as to the division S ' '
of stock and Hawkes said it was on-
derstood that the names of the otb
parties were not to appear on the stock
books. To avoid this it waa agreed
between himself and Helstand that
$150,000 of stock was to be carried la
Hawkes' name.
Senator Cockrell asked why he had i'
not testified to this before, as U was f
a very important matter. Mr. Hawkes S
said he had never said anything to jf
any of the parties about the matter, ft.
Under close Questioning. Maj. Hawkes- X
admitted he had said to Judge Boyd
that be was not to pay for the' stock,
"or words to that effect." He was
asked what reply Judge Boyd made
and said he answered that it was all
right, "or words to that effect."
Replying to questions by Senator
Cockrell, Hawkes said he had been om
very friendly terms with Judge Boyd
and would have spared him if possible
He added that he was much disap
pointed In the evidence given by the
several witnesses before the commit
tee. Senator Cockrell asked him how
he could be disappointed when he was
Informed by all of them that they had
no connection with the hemp company.
Hawkes replied that he expected they
would testify differently. v
"Don't you think they have sworn
to the truth?" inquired Senator Cock
rell. "I do not," retorted Hawkes, hotly.
M'KINLEY ON POSTAL CARDS.
Hla Likeness and Name Will Be Cied la
Designing the Xcw Issue.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The post
master general has decided to place
President McKlnley's head on the new
issue of postal cards, which will ap
pear soon after December 1. The de
sign, as exhibited by Acting Postmas
ter Madden includes the year of birth
and year of death immediately at toe
left and right, respectively, of the
name "MeKlnley," which will be di
rectly under the head. Above the head
will be the words "Series of 1901" and
above that "One Cent." The inscrip
uon "United States of America," now
appearing on the postal cards, will be
abandoned and replaced at a point:
lower down, so as to leave the spec
at the upper part of the card, about
one-third of the width of the cardk
clear for postmarks.
Reinforcements for Samar.
MANILA, Oct. 10. General Smith
sailed from here for the relief of the
Island of Samar. He will take com
mand of Samar and Leyte, so aa to
enable General Hughes to devote htm'
self to the Island of Cebu, when
trouble Is possible unless strong meas
ures are adopted. General Smith will
be accompanied by a uattahon of the)
Seventh Infantry, who are anxious Ut
avenge the disaster of Company C, of
the Ninth Infantry.
Irftob Over Mission PteM,
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct 10. Rer.
Lyman Abbott, D. D of New York,
conducted the devotional cisrolsss
which preceded yesterday momlfig'i
meeting of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
The time was given up to addreses by
officers of the board and miaalonaJrev
the speech of the missionary and the
sermon by Henry Hopkins, D. 1)., ei
Kansas City, being th most ftotat!) '
features of the session. . -1
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