Nebraska Newspapers

    THE PRESS JOURNAL
By CEO. A. PHIPPS.
CAPE NOME GOLD FIELDS.
: THE MODERN COWBOY ON THE TEXAS RANGE. I
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HARRISON NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
The present docket In Polk county
la the lightest ever before the court.
The grand lodge of the Sons of Her
man, a German lodge, was held Uut
weeek In Nebraska City.
John Peaker, a barber. was stabbed
While attending benettt dnye for
the baseball bos at Kearney.
Grand Island is hustling for funds
lor the holding of the firemen's tour
nament this summer.
The Plattsmouth merchant are
closing their prices of business at t.'X
tor the benefit of themselves and their
clerks.
Chicago. (Special) That the precious
Jand strewn so .thickly for scores of
miles along the shore of Cape Nome
111 prove for the next few years to be
the richest placer diggings discovered
ind will surpass the Australian gold
fields or the Californlan even in their
palmiest days, is the opinion of a lithe,
erect young man, with bright blue
eyes and a tannish but boyish face.
Peter Toungers of Geneva will go
Wore the next congressional conven
tion in the fourth district for nomination.
Lieutenant H. J. Peck was elected
captain of company D at Weeping
Water, vice William M. Stoner, realigned.
"Among the Breakers" was present
ed at the opera house at Wymore by
the Eleventh grade of the High school
to a large audience.
The 11-year-oia sun of Samuel A.
lawyer of Gering fell from a horse,
striking his head against a post, and
received fatal injuries.
P. Martin and brother will erect a
line business block 32x6xn feet in
Grand Island on the site occupied by
the old Hurford block.
Samuel Archer, an employe of the
aupply department of the Burlington
bops at Plattsmouth. had his left
toot crushed by a heavy timber.
Sheriff Waddington of Beatrice has
purchased the Seaberry farm of T40
acres, four miles northeast of Filley,
Paying J12.00O U.cash or i0 an acre.
who has taken a run down to Chicago
from Alaska, where he manages sev
eral quarts gold mines and has regis
tered with his wife as Mr. and Mrs
Wythe Denby of Juneau. .But the gold
bearing life of Cape Nome, he thinks,
will be short, though lavish. It is In
the quartz mines that the golden future
of Alaska lies. In his estimation.
"Down here in Chicago, and in fact
11 over the states you have been flood
ed with w ild reports about Cape Nome
discoveries," said Mr. Denby. "Of
course, we get earlier and more accu
rate reports in Alaska of finds in that
?ountry than yau get here and that Is
jnly natural, because we are right on
the ground and ail we have to do Is to
keep our ears open and listen.
"From the best Information we have
been able to obtain In Juneau is seems
probable that the gold-bearing sand
extends along the Cape Nome beach fori
i distance of about luO miles. This will
accommodate about 5,W0 miners. That
number Is probably already there, as
hundreds of miners from Skagway.
Juneau. Dawson and the Klondike re
gion went out to the Cape Nome coun
try last fall and spent the winter there
jr else went in early this spring. The
.-rowd who are starting from Seattle
this month and next should find pretty
poor pickings there, as enough miners
turn of gold-bearing sand on the shore
Is thin.
"None but the miners already on the
spot know the real extent of the Cape
Nome fields. The gold w as first discov
ered In the beach sand a few feet oe
low the surface. Then the beds of the
neighboring creeks were explored and
quickly staked off into claims. It Is
also known that the gold-bearing sand
William Llngenbrtnk of St. Louis Is on one of the great cattle ranch. -9 I day. In the cool of the everting a beef
of Texas, the U 8. Ranch, near Tascosa. He has sent to W. L. 8. Sathtle-
ben of St. Louis letters and photographs descriptive of life on the ranch.
The L. S. Ranch Is one of the largest In Texas. Its pastures are fenced
Into fields twelve miles long and six miles wide. It counts its hundreds of
thousands of hoofs. Twenty cowboys ride In Its roundups. It brands 5,0)
calves at a single fire. Four times a year Its cattle are rounded up once for
vaccination against blackleg; once for shipment to market, and once every
spring and fall for branding the calves. Each of these roundups requires
from two to four weeks. The ropers are out at 3 o'clock In the morning and
stretches out under the ocean, and ncv ' c-mstwnU;, ""ill a j-fi, rnw.n r t-.v nMir ta-fr "hl-h require
eral companies have already been form- i tOT twenty men HO fleet, sound and sure-footed ponies.
ed, mainly by Seattle people, to dredge This Is a new era In Texas cattle
in the comparatively shallow waters j raising. It is possibly less picturesque
close to the shore. The beach sand i than the old e. onHin ,r, rr t
extends only about a couple of hundred
feet back from the water line. Then
begins a stretch of turf, beach grass
and swamp land that runs a mile or so
further to the hills.
'This tundra, as It is called, had not
been explored for gold when the last
news came down to us In the fall. At
that time there was more than enough
of the creek and beach claims to go
around among the miners then at Cape
Nome, and naturally they preferred to
work locations where they knew there
was g'lld and where Ihey were taking
out all the way from J20 to 1100 a day
by hand in the simplest kind of placer
less strenuous, but It is not without
its Interests and charms.
In the olden days the cattle were
turned loose on the plains to shift
for themselves and were rounded up
twice a year. In the spring to brand
and in the fail to ship to triaJ ket. Now
the pastures are Inclosed with wire
fencing; water is provided for the
stock by sinking wells or by building
dams and reservolm to hold the over
flow; fence riders are dally riding
among the herds to see if any animals
need attention; salt, in troughs, is dis
tributed along the water courses; hun
dreds of tons of prairie and lake hay
mining. Of course if the tundia Is as j ar cu tevery summer and fed in win-
full of gold as the beach sand then
Cape Nome will accommodate tens of
thousands more of miners, though the
tundra will be more difficult to dig Into
than the sand on Ihe beach, because
the thick and tangled grass Is frozen
hard as a rock eight months of the
year. But the opinion of the majority
of experts agree that the strata of
gold-bearing sand do not extend under
the tundra,
"If that theory proves to be the true
te rto such animals as require help.
The plains country is admirably adapt
ed for the cultivation of Kaffir corn,
sorghum, millet, maize and Johnson
grass, while thefbot turns will grow
three cuttnigs of alfalfa a year with
but little cultivation or irrigation.
This change in the cattle business
notes the disappearance of the old-
together his men, about twenty In all,
good riders ail.and ropers every one of
th'-m. prepare his "chuck wagon," hire
a cook, and away they go on their
branding trip. Two men are detailed
to wrangle horses, one a day herder
the other a night herder. About seven
horses are required to the man besides
the eight mules for the wagons, thus
thus making quite & respectable bunch
of 150 head.
Camp Is pitched where water is con
venient, tents put up and beds unroll
ed. The following morning the actual
work begins. The boys are roused out
at 3 o'cltx k sharp by the cook's sten
torian call, "come and get it" (break
fast), which consists of black coffee,
hot rolls, ha' on and oatmeal. By this
time the night ranger has brought In
the "remuda" (horses) close by, and
no time is lost In roping and saddling
the required number, a single lariat
rope held around the bunch Is as ef
fective as a high board fence.
The foreman now divides the squad
Into twos and threes, and rushes them
off to the different corners of the pas
tures. As each enclosure is twelve
miles long by six wide, or seventy-two
Is killed, generally a fat. off-color calf
or yearling, which furnishes sufficient
meat for two or three days, when an
other Is sacrificed to afford a constant
supply of fresh meat for the camp.
Riding all day and wrestling with
calves gives a man a wonderful appe
tite. This round-up lasts from two to
three weeks, and ha to be done from
four to five times a year. Twice for
have already gone to take up all the one. the government may have to send
claims that the beach can possibly fur-j ships in the fall to hring thousands of i
time cowboy, and bronco-buster, he
of the wild arid woolly kind, the man ! square miles to be scoured over, some
with the long hair and six-shooter, the hard ridine has to be done. The bovs
chap with an unquenchable thirst and . on reac hing the far end, gather all
a. init lor luro, ana witn me oad hab- cattle and drive them slowly to an
nish. Of course, I am speaking In a
practical sense. As a matter of law,
the beach belongs to the government
and cannot be staked out into mining
Maims that will hold at law. But. as a
matter of fact, the miners have before
;his undoubtedly adopted rules which
the wntiM-he minera n'hn are twinnd to I
meet with nothing but disappointment I
and to become stranded there. Pro
visions and supplies of all sorts were
frightfully high at Car Nome las
year, though they probably will be
much cheaper this summer. Still, they
re likely to be much more costly than
its of shouting tip the town when cc-
Unlon revival meetings are belna-
held day and night in the Methodist i thy wi!! enf,,rce- allowing the first
church at Gibbon. Rev. Nance a not- j -"men to claim specified portions of the , m other parts of Alanka. and people
d revivalist of Atchison, Kan., is In ! Dpa(h- to worked until it is empty who have not the price will have to get
charge. j of gold. By the time the law can get . out or be gotten out of the country
r around to the subject the gold-bearing ' somehow. It looks as if the governmen
Tne snows of last week were quite . sand in these beach claims will long
general over the eastern half of the since have been exhausted and the
tate and a great benefit to the win- claims consequently valueless, for law
ar wheat, which had commenced to i r,w to act in Alaska, and the stra-
uffer for want of moisture.
will have to do the Job."
A little bird In
two that tell tales.
the bush Is worth
Edward Waters, 30 years old. living!
tx miles south of Bassett, committed j
Suicide by cutting his throat with a
rasor and then shooting himself In the '
forehead with a revolver.
Someone threw two large pieces of
late through a window into the bed
room of Lars Nelson, SO year old, w ho
live near Fremont. They passed over
him, however, doing no Injury.
HANS, THE CRIPPLE BOY.
He lived in a little village in Italy,
at the foot of the Alps. His mother
was a widow and he, her only child,
was a poor little cripple. When he
thought of his sad condition that he
could not play like other boys, and
that If he grew up he would not be
The Platte County Medical society
was organised at Columbus last week.
with Dr. H. J. Arnold as president and ; ble ta work like oth,fr men-he felt
Xtr. B. C. Tiesing as secretary. The , veT unhappy.
rst annual meeting will be held Feb
ruary 12.
Mrs. CRourke, living three miles
northwest of Taimage sold her farm
f 1W acres last week for $55 per acre.
More than S14.0U0 has been refused for
some well Improved quarter sections
ear there.
The City Kiectric Light and Cold
Storage company at Grand Island is
wiring several buildings In that city
for electric power, which will be In
stalled for the first time In that city
In the near future.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Veit
of Grand Island surprised them by un
ceremoniously calling at their home
on their silver wedding anniversary.
Mr. Velt Is president of the board
of education and one of the oldest
business men in that city.
One day he was going through the
village Bnd stood to rest under the
I open window of a room. In which some
; ;hildren were playing. One of them
hanced to break a plaything, when
mother tood hold of it, and. throwing
t out of the window, said: "I'll throw
t away; It's no more use than Hans.
:he cripple." Oh I how sad the words
nade poor Hans feel. He crept bar k
some and told his mother, while the
aot tears ran down his pinched little
!ace very hard, Indeed. His mother
Uxtk him upon her knee and sang a lit
tle song to him that she had often sung
jefore. It ended with this little cho
rus: "God has his plan for every man."
And. although Hans felt very happy
Ing and the Italians were aroused to
meet them. The piles, were called bea
cons and the men that watched them
sentinels.
Now one night a festival had been
kept up in Hans' village. All the vil
lagers except Hans and his mother were
there; and, although Hans had gone
to bed. he couid not sleep. So after
wniie ne arose up silently and crept up
the hill to stay a while with the sen
tinel. But no sentinel was there.
Thinking there would be no danger
that night, and being tempted to Join
the people in the village, he had left
his post. Hans now thought he could
be of some use, for he could watch the
beacon on the hill until the sentinel re
turned. He had not watched long before he
saw the dark form of an Austrian sol
dier coming upon his hands and knees
very stealthily; along toward the pile.
Ves, so It was; and now he could hear
distinctly the measured tread of a num
ber of armed men. Quick as a thought
he act fire to the pile. Now the country
While driving at a rapid pace about
Humboldt two yotlng farmers from
Stella, were thrown from thlr buggy
and dragged quite a distance under
the buggy. They were frightfully
bruised but otherwise uninjured.
Mme. Sibyl Sanderson has annnnne- h' dutr io flre to tne
d to a few of her friends her engage- j 1" ,h" man upon the ne,t hilltop
snent to marry Count Henri De James would 11 nl Are to his, and
of Paris, who has been In this country " untl1 " tne vIIev were mde
Tor two weeks and aceomoanied her aware that the enemy was spproacn
recently to Philadelphia. Mme. San
derson says that the marriage will not
while listening to the sweet tune and w warned and the people would be
voice, yet he could not believe that God
tad any plan for him. But he was mis
taken. Just at this time the Austrlans
were at war with the Italians, and try
ing to take their country. In order that
the Italians might know when the Aus
trian soldiers were coming Whey Had
built large piles of dry wood on the
tops of the hills and put men to watch
them night and day. When any o(
these men saw the Austrlans coming It
saved.
But the enraged Austrian soldier saw
and fired his rifle at him. Hans fell
nvrtally wounded. Hours afterward he
was found by some of the villagers and
carried, bleeding and dying, to bj
r,r.,;;,rr. Sf-.s t.-.k hiss -jpon her knees
and wept over him as though her heart
would break. But Hans looked Into her
face with his loving eyes and faintly
whispered: "Dear mother, God has Ills
plan for every man," and expired.
ppolnted place, being careful not to
I ceion afforded. The r ow boy of today liwe the calves from their mamrriiis.
haji different work before him. He not! This done, fresh horses are saddled
only needs to be a rough rider, to be j and the cutting out of cows with their
able to throw a steer or brand a calf, jialves commences. They are then driv
but must be somewhat of a grang-r ! en to the corrals and branded. The
as well.
The average py of a cow-hand Is
$-5 per month with "grub," the man
to furnish his own bedding and saddle.
The foreman's pay runs from I'J to
J100 per month, while a managers' sal
ary runs from 11.500 to ILJOO per year.
hianding itself requires some skill and
a great d! of hard work. A big log
fire Is started and the lions are well
heated. Then two mounted men ride
In amongst the herd, lasso a calf and
drag It to the fire, where two other
men put on the brands and another
In former days the cowboys were al- lips the ear with the owner's partic
lowed to take their pay in cattle In-! uiar murk. Speaking of earmarks, it
stead of cash, if they chose. As till I Is remarkable how many different ear
was in the days when cattle were marks can be made by cropping and
cheap thy were enabled by thrift to 'splitting the ears. Thre are thou
acquire quite a bum-h in a few years, ) sands in use In Texas today. Bach
as cattle Increase rapidly and their j brand must be recorded, and no two
keep was nothing. At the present time
few if any ranchers allow their men
to run cattle, and few of the boys stay
at It long enough to save a thousand
or two thousand dollars to enable
them to buy a bunch of their own.
The "roundup" Is i trout the only
relic that is left of the ol.itime cattle
business. Life on one of the large
ranches In the spring Is Indeed a
strenuous one. The foreman will gt-t
airke.
At 10 o'clock the men are ready for
dinner, and while the horses are be
ing brought up the cook lu.tlily calls
"chuck away"' (dinner). l'.y the time
fresh horses are brought up the m-n
are o!T again to the corrals to finish
branding the morning's gather. Three
o'clock in the afternoon sees the day's
work done, it not behig advisable to
drive cattle dining the heat of the I
branding the calves In the spring anil
fall, once for vaccinating and weaning
and again for shipping to market Vac
cinating Is something new. Thou
sands of cattle die yearly of blackleg.
which Is most fatal to animals from
six months to two years old, after
which they are practically immune. th
loss, If any, being small. The only
practical way of contending the rav
ages of blackleg is to vaccinate every
animal. The government is eiigiei
In making extensive experiments, anil
Is lending valuable aid to the cattle
men In stamping out this disease.
The aim of the ranch owners Is to
dispose of their Increase as calves or
yearlings.M-IUng the steers and replac
ing and Increasing the breeding herd!
with heifers. The Increase of beef pro-.-ductlon
In Texas will be not so much
an Increase In numbers as In th
quality of the beef. The best quality
and consequently highest priced beef
Is made on grain. Northern grams fed
cattle bring good prices, but Texas is
essentially a breeding country. Ther
the ranchman is able to grow cattle at
far less cost than obtains amongst the
farmers. When equally bred the ranch;
cattle are equal to eastern stock, but
It takes the "feed-lots" of the corr
belt to put flesh and fut on them and,
make "good beef."
Just a few figures to show th-r ex
tent of the cattle business. The re
ceipts at Chicago alone average over
three and a half million a year, which
are worth at a low valuation llw.wo,
0o0. The lltjO census shows that T-xa
supports ,XM cattle, valued at 17?,
The cattle business is a staple
one, and Is constantly Improving. But
there is stiil room for more, and arv
actual need for more. The demand to
day fur good beef Is ahead of the-
supply.
A correspondent writing from au
gatuck. Conn., says that in that town
were born, and lived until quite re
cently, three brothers, triplets. wh-
all lived to be about 75 years old. They
were named Frederick, Franklin anil
Framis Sherwood and were known s
the three F's. They looked so niurht
alike that they were often taken the
one for the other. All followed the
sea and were for a long time ni-.ster
of Vessels.
Mrs. William Gregory, widow of
Governor Gregory of Rhode Island, has
become the incorporate head of the
mill business which the governor con
ducted for a great many years In a
most successful manner.
MMMlssM of that compulsory military service
X nr4 T- T T r C i 1 which is such a drawback to tnUj '
x I herilipinos as U, S. Soldiers, jr11'"'""1-
N OUR future wars are we likely
to arm the thousands of Filipinos
at our' disposal and put them in
the field again, t our enemies of th
moment ?
This posfibllity has been dowus!
with intense interest since Great Brit
ain has set the fashion of arming In r
foreign subjects.
One of the most
betrothed, who is middle-aged, Is not
wealthy, but has lately embarked In
mercantile enterprise which he ex
pects to develop by that time. He is
frenchman and descended from' the
English family of Fits-James, which
settled In France more than two cen
turies ago.
A bill has been Introduced by Sen
ator Hawley of Connecticut for the re
lief of Mary McLean Wylly of Fast
Glastonbury. Conn. She Is IT years
I4 and Is the daughter of James Mc.
Lean. soldier of the revolution. Th
' very poor and It is proposed
that she be given a pension of 112 per
Mb.
If party lines (his fait are drawn st
campaign verse and glee songs, the suf
fering public will be properly grateful.
DOCTOR USES HOMING PIGEONS.
Tb order prohibiting Spanish army
flscsrs from marrying unless they are
years old or more and enjoy an In-
at least equal to the pay of a
aptala (about SM a month Is now
ttawgft to bar been promulgated by
Oaaaral Weyler to prevent his son's
to Sonorlta Conauela Lans.
(bough very beautiful and of
taailly. Is not la all other ways
to the aaaoraj.
New York. Dr. F. S. Morris of Mc
Cool, the originator of homing pigeons
In the practice of medicine, has proved
to his own satisfaction that the use of
homing pigeons In country practice of
medicine Is not only practical but very
necessary in the successful practice of
medicine in the country.
His practice is principally In southern
York county, a thickly settled, pros
(daytime to McCool to secure the serv
peroua farming community, and owing '' " doctor. Those who want
. .k. t- drive, h. h.. n,.ke and ! medical services will call at the Blue
where the condition of the patient de-
rackot far
mands it, he leaves carrier pigeons
with Instructions If symptoms of the
case do not show Improvement, they
are to write on a sheet of tissue paper,
Inclosed In an aluminum tube attached
lo the Mrds' leg and turn It loose. By
an electrical arrangement the minute
the bird arrives and opens the door
trf the pigeon house the doctor or office
attendant learn of the arrival and at
ones secures the mesas ge. The doctor
either visit the patient or sends medi
Haea, aad la this war patient ha
nouncements that have been made in
the British parliament for many a
year past was the declaration of Col
onial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain
hat the English government will not
hesitate henceforth to employ In Ku
rope or elsewhere her Indian and
African troops.
It is an announcement of the most
profound Interest lo the I'tiited States,
Russia, France and Germany, which
nave iimii.r.x c. semi Baroaro'j" r-e
subject to their rule.
Uncle Sam alone has some 8.000 Fili
pinos in whom the military instinct is
most strongly developed, the males
preferring war to Industry, and with a j
characteristically original disregard
for death or injury end sirr.st incred
ible powers of endurance would sooner
fight than work.
Indd, the Philippine Islands might
furnish to the Untied Slates s practi
cally Inexhuustible recruiting ground
for Its army, now that the compact
which has hitherto exlmed between
civilised nations against the use of
Oriental or African troops In clvillifid
warfare is to be broks by Grat
Britain.
Curiously enough, the peace confer
ence st The Hague two years ago,
when the rules of war were subjected
to a revision, carefully svoided any
reference to the matter that Is to say,
in the shape of any steps toward a
specific agreement by treaty to refrain
from the employment of Asiatic and
African troops in clvlllrted warfare.and
the only action taken by the delegates
that can be considered sa In any way
bearing upon Ihe question wa the
declaration of their adhesion to Ihe
accepted laws of warfare among civ
ilised nations," which comprise a re
striction "prohibiting the use of bodies
of troops composed of Individuals of
savage or semi-savage races."
Neither England nor Russia, nor yet
Frame, was desirous of binding Itself
to abstain for availing Itself of the
services of Its dusky soldiers in the
event of war in which It national
Borne men are horn with bla.k ''" "' !". and
and some have to flght far than. ". therefore, was by a sort
af agreement kept oat of the discus- i
much better medical treatment.
Owing to the success the doctor has
had In the use of pigeons be has ar
ranged to leave several pigeons at Blue
Vale, country postofflce and store, th
only village in West Blue township,
eight miles distant from McCool. This
Is done to save the farmers of West
Blue township a trip In the night or
Vale store, write on tissue paper a mes
sage. Insert It In sn aluminum tuba
and retesse the bird, which files at a
rapid rate to Its home at McCool. A
two-story pigeon house has been recent,
ly built with modem conveniences for
the raising, breeding and training of
homing pigeons.
Yes, Maudle, lear, parrots generally
talk In pollysyilables.
slons at The Il:igue.
It has until now been generally un
derstood, however, by these three
great powers that If native troops were
employed It would be only in the last
extremity, and this view has b-n
strengthened by the extraordinary
pains which the Knglish government
has taken to prevent the warlike Bu-
important sn- suto tribes, who are under British rule
and numl loyal to the British flag,
from taking part In the war aguinst
the Boers.
In the war of 1K70 the French st one
time brought a few regtments of Tur
kos from Algeria, but so great was
the outcry raised, not onlv (rum Cer- 1
many and elsewhere In Kurope, but
even In France, agiinst their employ
ment that they were hatlly shipped
back to Africa long before the close
of the irar adhoiiuh they were inns'-
nifi-ent figiiietn and, f,Um n,;i,ia,y
potnt of ve, of much greater valae
than the untrained levies of'moblots,"
the majority of whom had never han
dled a gun before In their lives.
It Is to Japjri fn a great measure
mat mwi oc atiriouteu tne ievetit i"r
rnovui of the prejudice. For the ob
jection to scnil-clvlllzed warriors has
been based altogether on the belief
that when their passions have been
aroused by the excitement aud turmoil
of battle it would be impossible to pre
vent them from Indulging in sava-jery
and cruHty which, while natural In
barburous races, should be repulsive
in the extreme to white people.
But during the recent campaign In
China the Japanese distinguished
themselves among ail the other alll.nl
troops by their humane method of
warfare and by thWr indignant refusal
to participate n any of the rapine,
the rrurlty and the altogether Inex
cusable barbarity which disgraced al
most all of the Kuropean contingent
engaged In the military oeratlon In
the Celestial Knurl re.
Fnglanda example, unless checked
by an international conference, will
undoubtedly be followed by other
great powers p.wsed of Asiatic and
African dependencies, and Ihua an al
together new element, of which no ac
count has been taken 'until now, will
be introduced Into modern warfare
against civilised hatlona. In fact. It is
possible that In the course of lime Ihe
white races may eventually coma to
use none but their drk-hud, non-
Christian lieges for fighting purposes,
and that In this way continental great
powers of Kurope, such as Fran. e.Ger-
many, Russia, etc., may be rellev-d
TALI ABOUT WOMEN. -:-
Mrs. Indiana Williams has left her
Virginia home, l.jeW ai res of land and.
an endowment of t7t.000. for the
founding of a school for girls.
An association of women In H'Mies
vllle. Pa., number among their good,
works the building of a retaining w jil
along the river, constructing a river
boulevard, a bridge, a fountain and a.
park, w here one a dumping ground
threatened public health.
A singular library was collected by
Mme. Kalssavow of SL Petersbuig.
who has recently died. It consist of
some U.uou volumes, all of which were-
jiue uik or lerrunine Drains, .no book.
by a masculine author was ever allow
ed In the library.
Mrs. Frances Talliiiadge of Sheboy
gan, Wis., is said to have In her pus-ies-lon
what Is supposed to be a gen
uine pot t! alt of Louis XVI. The pic
ture was presented to her ancestor
by Kle-azar Williams, who claimed to
be the real Louis XVI.
, Mrs. Wilder P. Walker of Kennebec,
Me., has In her possession the punch,
box! thai nan utueiru by the luw fa
of Ualem to be used when I-afayett
visited that city during his (list trip,
to America. The first glass servol
from the bowl was handed to Lafuy
ette. It Is of old Dutch blue China.
Mme. I'attl says the moat prlxed of
all her autographs is the one which)
she received from Queen Victoria,
which reads; "If King Lear spoke
the truth when he said that a sweet
voir was the most pre, lous gift u
woman can posse, you, my dear A J-
ellna. must be the richest woman In
the world."
Miss Albertlne K. Ridley, one of tba
first American girls to go lo the Phil
ippines as an army nurse, has return
ed to California. She says America
rule has Infinitely bettered sanitsrv
and other conditions in u.-u , .....
- ... .-..,(, mv
that the natives In that city are v-ny
courteous and considerate to the
American girls who are administering
W the sick and wounded soldiers.
Lady Charles Hresford Is quite a
rtmatkable a woman as her husband
is distinguished as a man. Dark, ami
handsome, with her own taste ln
dress whir h sometimes verge on that
barbaric which she so much loves In
her favorite Cairo-will, a geen, Inci
sive speech and a ma.ked sen.. ,.r
humor, she Is extremely advanced in.
the general trend of her opinions, but
she detests everything in the ship-, of
new wr.manhood. Hh. verv mu.U
cat.