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VMCI UST. THE PRESS JOURNAL HARRISON NEBRASKA NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES B.W. Sprigg, a farmer who lives near Wood River, was held up and robbed of $45 by masked men. The Fremont Tribune printing plant Was burned last week. Loss, $60,000. H throw seventy-five people out of em ployment. The store of Walter E. Palling at Oreen wood "waiToBBeoTbf $V woTtbrof clothing;. The annual spring rumor of the erec tion of a union depot at Fremont is going the rounds. H. L. Finn of Falls City in in trouble over selling mortgaged property. The Albion electric light system wan tested last week. Albion now has both gas and electricity. Senator Frank Martin of Falls City, who has been seriously ill during the winter, has recovered sufficiently to make a trip to Florida, Carrie Nation spoka at Auburn and later visited the saloons and gave each keeper a lecture on the evils of his business. The new $18,000 Byern hotel at Au burn was opened last week. Carrie Nation was the first person to register. The complete manuscript of all rul ings of the department of public in struction for twenty years was de stroyed in the Fremont Tribune fire. The state fish car will make its first trip of the year over the Elkhorn this week. Senator Dietrich Is pushing- the bill for a $150,000 public building at Hast ings. The Jury ia the Marshall murder case at Lincoln returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the sentence at life Impris onment. The rains of last week started farm work all over the state. A cyclone on Tuesday night caused 930,000 damage at Omaha. A smooth young man peddled numer ous worthless checks at York last week Otto Hitchcock and John Demming pleaded guilty to hog stealing at Fre mont and were sent to the peniten tiary for eighteen months. ' Nebraska City will have a socialist municipal ticket in the field. 8. B. Cain, a politician of Newman Grove, attempted suicide by, shooting himself three times in the head. The bullets were extracted. A new Odd Fellow hall was dedicated at Table Rock last Thursday. $ Dan Kavanaugh, formerly sheriff of Platte county, has been adjudged in sane and removed to the Lincoln In sane asylum. According to a decision of the su preme court last week the money re ceived from saloon licenses in cities will no longer be turned into the school fund. A shotgun In me nanus ut Harry Johnson of Lincoln exploded, causing a wound in his head which may re sult fatally. The excise board of Lincoln has re jected an application for permission to reinstate slot machines in the city. Thunder storms were quite general over the eastern part of the state the fort part of the past week. A J-year-old son of Oswald Klopatch at Osceola fell Into a kettle of boiling water which his mother had set on the floor, burning his arm so badly that the flesh almost dropped off. The dedicatory service of the fine new Lutheran church at McCool has been indefinitely postponed on account f ail epidemic of scarlet fever. The Parker will case at Beatrice ha occupied the attention of the court for two weeks. The Lincoln city council has disfran chised the Lincoln Street Railway com pany. From present indications Brainard will have a lirst-class building boom this spring. The four rural mail carriers at Te cumseh have had their salaries ad vanced from $MJ to $0. Mr. Jenson, who lives near Exeter, caught Charles Bode breaking Into bis house and commanded Bode to throw up his hands. Instead of doing Bo be made a dash for Jenson and grabbed his gun - barrel with both hands. Jenson pulled the trigger and Bode received the full charge of shot la Ms leg. ManopiLstane, the noted reformed Episcopal divine, who died In Balll- recenttr, was consecrated by Rev. William R. Nicholson of that city and Klght ftev. samuei Fal low of Chk age, hi 117$. i the tops of loaves of bread ar SSFVMW imuh wm waa vn um mm p-sjftlin, when perfectly coM remove tkw bunt past with eoarae grater, tssBBh awav the erambsand caver the a the loaf with a soft stock wrung ,V3w cry frees warns water f Steaf! llll f an IMtattM SaMf i tm mi itiiirto iwb tSXxm tttt rani, lew rNaf rrzr crrt Umctzm m Om Allen French's "The Colonials" be gins in a manner so leisurely that readers will suspect that he Is "In for" a long Indian story of the Fenlmore Cooper type. A young Boetonlan, of the later colonial period, who had run away from home and has been a back woodsman In the Great Lakes region for years is about to return to New England, when his chlvalric spirit compels him to rescue a young white woman iromffie "Ihdtansr and after ward from an evil-minded British offi cer. He is supposed to be killed, but the girl reaches her family In Eng land. Suddenly the Colonists rebel, the scene of the story changes to Boston, and we are Introduced to Samuel Ad ams, John Hancock, Samuel Warren, General Putnam, Washington, Lord Howe, and other great men of the tim see the fighting at Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill, and the British evac uation of Boston. Through the last three-quarters of the story la long as well as spirited, no space Is wasted In explanation; the hero's reappearance is managed so skillfully that the reader does not recognise until long after be coming interested in him, and the last chapter presents a climax that would be creditable to a veteran dramatist (Doubleday, Page & Co.) The story in the Argonaut for Mar. 10th is entitled "The Musical Celeb rity," and is the story of the troubles of a provincial musician at as uncon ventional ball In he Parist Latin quar ter. It is adapted for the Argonaut from the French of Guy de Maupas sant. The world has been treated to the "Love Letters of an English Woman," and now It has those of an American girl, printed in a most attractive book, under the title of "Lauriel." The let ters are like the girl herself, gay, il lusive, Fparkiing, and yet with an un dercurrent of sympathy and tender ness, and above all, a healthiness that is a most delightful relief .from the usual morbid tendency of books of this scrt. It is the story of the girl's life love, as it is slowly revealed to her in all Its sweetness, all its depth. Every woman who remembers her own child hod, and who keeps her sympathy with girl life will delight in this book, and take "Lauriel" herself to her heart of hearts. Boston. L. C. Page & Co. Price $1.50. A story by Mrs. C, L. Antrobus Is sure to be received with acclamation, and the pleasure that "Quality Corner" gave is sure to be repeated In "Wilder snor," which Is a story of English life, and carries an almost breathless in terest from the opening chapter to the close. There Is a murder myBtery con nected with "Wlldersnoor." about which the interest centers, but there are sweet, clear spaces into which neither the murder nor the mystery intrude. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Price IU.0. The great novel that everybody is heading and talking about Just now is "Sir Richard Calmady." by Lucac Malet (Mrs. St. Leger Harrison.) It L a masterly delineation of the feminine soul and of the development of a noble man's character under the most warp ing of-circuiiniit:.ii conditio:!! The hero is of the unusual type, but he is real, and so also are the divers other characters in the book, and bring real they hold the interest throughout. There is a depth of reasoning, a firm ness of grip on the meaning of life that is not usual. This book has placed Mrs. Harrison on tho same plane as a novelist with George Eliot and George Sand. In strength and insight. In the wealth of fancy ' and reflection be stowed upon its execution and in the moving sincerity of Its pathos. "Sir Richard Calmady" must rank as one of the very best books of the year. New York. Dodd, Mead & Co. Price $l.iu. "The Jew as a Patriot," by Madison C. Peters, is the first book which has ever been printed to point out conclu sively the soldeirly qualities of the Jews both In Eurooe and America. The book, written by the author of "Justice of the I-a," a well-known Baptist clergyman, !s ( h nature of a reply to Mark Twain's article in Harper's magasine, where he accused the Jew "with a patriotic dlsinclina" tion to stand by the Hag as a soldier." Dr. Peters drat points out lhat th Jews furnished the money necessary for Columbus' expedition and that the wonderfully well planned expedition or Columbus was due to the .scientific achievements of Spanish and Portugese Jews. He takes up the part which the Jews played in the Colonial cause. Although there were only 150.009 Jews In the United States at the time of the civil war, nearly $.000 Jewish soldiers served In the union and confederate armies'. The first official rail to or ganise the tbolitlon movement In l't was signed by Ave Germans of Chicago four of them Jews. Over 4.00 Jewish soldiers served in the American armies daring the war with Spain. In the armies of Europe the Jew has likewise been oonspicuous. Some of Napoleon's greatest marshals were Jews. ..Some of the greatest soldiers of Germany and Austria wer Jews by birth and inher ited genius. The Jewish population of Barope la about t.m.m. They con tribute $&,M men of the war strength of abiropeaa armies. The Baker ft Taylor company. New York. Ia those day young men and women sre not found lacking la mental activ ity, and their errors cannot be laid ta hrUnartaai Heaviness. But J key are taettned ts their faculties wrongly. The result amir be seea la the lack of the (i4wary to ran to ea rn follow fada, that mast la- evltably characterize undisciplined and random activity. Dr. Nathan Oppen heim In his book on "Mental Growth and Control," takes hold of this eub ject with a aure hand. He alms to ex plain the make-up of the central ner vous system and Its workings in a di rect and unadorned manner, scientific ally but interesting. He defines the differences between Instinct and habit; he tells the reader what memory Is and wuat Ka llmltsare. Dr. Qppeohelm will be remembered as the author of a very suggestive book on 'The Devel opment of the Child." He Is attending to the children's department of the Mt Sinai Hospital dispensary in New York. Mary Stewart Cutting has a charm ing story of domestic life, "Mrs. At wod's Outer Raiment," In the March number McClure's Magazine. Its quiet fun, and the simple, truthful sequence of the incident have a refreshing qual ity like a chapter from Jane Austin. Thomas K. Watson calls his new bok. "Napoleon; A Sketch of His Life. Character, Struggles and Achieve ments." It will be published by the Macmillan company. "The Cat's Paw," a story of India, by Mrs. Bertha M. Croker, is published by the J. B. Lippencoti company, Phil adelphia. A story of a love that runs by no means smoothly is woven into Owen Wlster'a new bok, "The Virginian; A Horseman of The Plains." The hero is a young Virginian in the cowboy life of the West, The Macmillan company will publish the book in April. The love story of Richard Longs word and Mary Kurknas, according to William Stearns Davis, is so integral part of the first Crusade Inaugurated by Peter the Hermit that if you have one you must have the jother. For a beautiful love tale like this one doesn't mind wading through seas of blood and years of adventure and romance. One reads In VGod Wills It" (The Mac millan Co.) as elsewhere, that in those dark days, fanaticism and superstition frequently animated the knightly Cru saders instead of the religious exalta tion tljat was supposed to prompt their actions. Mr. Davis gives a fail exposition of the influence the Moor had in the Europe of the twelfth cen tury. In all the history of those days where will one find a finer character than Musa, the Arab? Brave, strong, a typical soldier, gentle loving, with the strength -of purpose to renounce all that made life worth living, save honor. He is, after all, the hero. Benjamin KJdd's new work, "Prin ciples of Western Civilization," though complete in Itself, is described as the first volume of a system of evolution ary philosophy. The main thesis of the book embodies a fundamental concep tion, namely, the shifting the centre of significance in the modern evolu tionary hypothesis out of the present Into the future. The future is always of more importance than the present. The majority of whose interest natural selection is of ncesslty continually dlt crimlnating is always in the future. It is not as the early Darwinians con ceived, the qualities and causes con tributing to a uirre fire us'"t In th; present, gut those by which the inter ests in the present have been mosi efficiently subordinated to those in the future, that have controlled the larger and deeper meaning of the evolution ary process throughout lite. This is the conception which is applied with re markable results to the historical pro cess in Western civilization. The prin ciples involved are carried down through western history Into the mod ern world process and into the midst of the current phenomena of the eco nomic situation and of the national and international politics with striking ef fect. Hubequent volumes in this ser ies will be awaited with no little in terest. The Macmillan company, Ne Yoi k. "To The End of The Trail," a novel of Colorado raining camps. Is nrw of the new books to comerfronj the press to Hougton, Mifflin Co. Its author is Frank 1. Namin, a Hiiriing f nlr;iTy whose professional life has been mainly ' spent among the scenes which he de-.' scribes. He has presented certain phases of western life which have hith erto been untouched. The lovers told about In "Jaconelta; Her Loves," by M. K. M. Davis, are those of a little girl. It is a very sweet Utile story, and the book Is bound daintily. Published by Houghton, M!!".i Co., New Yotk. Price $I.uu. 'To Girls; A Budget of Letters," by lieloise Kdwina Herley, Is unexpected, ly good. Letters of advice and counsel are commonly rot. These, on the con trary, seem to have been written by a woman of rare culture and taste. Xhe treats education, social relations, and personal conduct with dignity and good sense. The book is to be com mended. Published by Small, May nard Co., Boston. Price, II 00. Any of the above-mentioned books or msgaslnes may be obtained from the Megeath Btatlonrry company, lt$ Farnam street, Omaha, Neb, The loneliest missionary In the world is said to be Rev. J. O. Hpiinger, whoso station Is oa the Herschel Island, near the mouth of the Mackenzie river, well within the Arctic circle. No ship has beta at tbe Island for two winter and the'mkMtonary's white neighbors are at Peel liver, 2M miles swsy. True riches must be measured "by what m given to others Instead of by what st ground from them. . i The Man of The last chapter In the strange life of old Hans Heln of San Francisco, the silent Man of Mystery, has been writ ten. The police found his shrunken form in a corner of his miserable abode ' starved to 'death, one skinny arm stretched pitifully toward his few last scraps or raw bacon, which he had been too weak to reach. He was cled only in a queer thin garment, knitted a dozen years ago by himself out of a grocer's twine. At $ m. each Monday he habitu ally" Vent to tne grocery for a few cents' worth of food. On January 8 he appeared at the store, left an order, written in a scholarly hand, for two pounds each of bacon and potatoes and 15 cents worth of rice. On this he had lived for eighteen days. When be did not appear at the usual time, the grocer, becoming curious, called Sergt. Ennis to the Potrero Ftation, and broke Into the cottage. The recluse had been dead only a few hours. The wasted body, weighing not more than that of a child, was re moved to the morgue. The rooms were bare of furniture, excepting a small stove and a tumble-down bed, which barred the way to the Inner room where his wife died three years ago, and a trunk full of some carefully kept dresses of hers. Portions of the bed ding he had knit of wrapping twine. Strange stories have been told about among the neighbors since this man with' the military carriage and the air of Old World cultivation came , with his wife and four children eighteen years ago. They say that he was a nobleman, a political exile, scourged from the fatherland for a terrible of fence, a "remittance man," with a curse hanging over him and his. It Is remembered how first the eldest son walked out of that house of silence years ago and shot himself to death! how another son stood in the city hall plaza and sent a bullet into his brain, but did not die, and how the remaining son and the only daughter were thrust into the mad house fifteen years ago. For fifteen Vears the sparorws have built their nests undisturbed In the shutters of the house of the silent ex iles, for In all that time they have been locked and barred and cross-barred within; nor has any lamp been lighted there, and no smoke was l-ver seen coming from the chimney. For years Hans Hein had never opened his lips to speak to a human being save one. For years n one saw his wife, and It was whispered that she bad been mur dered, for she was never seen until one day three years ago the door open Monkey in a Lying in state In a beautiful black oak ca.ket bearing an Inscriptiim, en graved on a silver plate. Jennie, a Java monkey of the cercopithecids specie, aged 12 years, for six years the pet of Michael "Meyer, a bird fancier, was seen for the last time in her master's house, in West Thirty-third street, by her throngs of friends recently. Jennie died of pneumonia after' a six weeks' Illness, and after several phy siciaats fought in vain to save her life. Now gloom ha settled over the neign borhood, for Jennie was a great favor ite with everybody who saw her, and especially with the little .children on the block. There a only one person ho expressed no sorrow when Jennie's death was made known, and that wan Angelo Botanno. an Italian fruit dealer, who had a stand near her home. 1 Ever since Jennie carne into the possession of Mayer, Botanno's life has been miserable,' for time and time again the monkey had stolen his fruit when unable to get money with hl n to buy It, and, the Italian's profits dwindled considerably during the last six years. . Jennie was one of the most Intelli gent, refined and beat educated mon keys ever seen outside of a museum, circus or too. In f", her late friends and admirers contend that she had no equal In intelligence and refinement, and hei 'or.'.y fault her !' for spirits beer and al" cf which she partook at many times freely. Jennie was a daily visitor at a nearby saloon, where she would buy beer at the bar when she had money enough. When she was In financial straights she would mHke friends with men In the saloon and throw herself upon their hospitality. Around Jennie's casket was placed a wealth of flowers an J floral wreaths, tbe ma Jot It y from her late friends snd the little children of the neighbor hood. Hhe was drestw d in a white shroud and In her right paw was placed a bouquet of roses. When Jennie carne Into the posses sion of Mayer she was allowed to roam at large, and In a very short time she wss known to everybody In the neigh bor hod. Mhe was a constant visitor at tbe homes of her friend and st the tores where she knew sba could get something to estt In fact, she pre ferred to tske ber me sis outside her own home with her friends, but st sll times she regarded the rules of eti quette. Although t diminutive else, she woujd always alt In a chair at the dinner table and use Ker knife, fork and napkin like a well trained child. Msny stories are told of her Intelli gence. One of these I lhat one even ing; last summer a little girl was nearly ran down snd killed by a Twenty third street cross town electrle csr, n Jennie run Into tbe street and tugged at the little child' skirt, ehat terta all tbe time, and tripping her a Mystery Dead ed and she was carried out to the pot ter's field. Since then the strange exile has re mained shut within, with doors and windows barrisaded, a vow of silence sealing bis lips. Only twice has be spoken in all these years, and then It was to surse two tradesmen who pried into the past His orders for food were written and handed to the dealer. His few bills he paid by handing the money through a small hole In tla; floor into the cellar. i;He is a man of mystery." said Rahlman, the grocer. "He never spoke. There seemed to be a curse hanging over the family a curse which drove them mad. All, the children included, were persons of finished education. Regularly.ln July he received through Emil Stone, a solicitor of Hasum, in the province of Tonning, near Ham burg, Germany, about $400. Last July it did not come. He wrote in Novem ber, but his letter came back. He would not take charity, though I have supplied his needs since July. "He has been slowly starving for months, awaiting the remittance. I gave him a few pounds of food three weeks ago, but he became too ill to eat even that. It seems. I believe he must have come from some great family In Germany. Perhaps It was some great crime perhaps treason who can say? In all his poverty he carried hlmeslf like a prince and always silently gave me the military salute, and wore gloves to the last though his clothing he knit himself out of twine which I gave him. letters would come for him. but he would never accept them. He had cut himself off from the world, and up to the last he remained firm, "He starved, and his secret died with him, but It was pathetic the look In his eyes each Monday when I told him that his money had not come to the bunk yet. Once he walked all the way to the Cro ker bank to ask for it, only to creep back weak and disap pointed and dying.'' Rev. Kobt. Collyer, the noted New York divine, has his study In one of the big Broadway buildings. When a young man he learned the blacksmith trade and the anvil on which he ham mered out his dextlny is at, present set up in the study of "Old Trinity" church in Chicago, where Mr. Collyer was some years ago the pastor. The new marchioness of Dufferin, a daughter of Mrs. Davis of New York, is not only an accomplished pianist, but a thorough connoisseur In china. Fine Casket, that she rolled off il.j car tracks Just in time to be Saved from being run over. , I Jennie's love for gaudy dreties fur j she always wore clothes made her j very conspicuous as she would walk ; through Twenty-third street. She had several costumes, and on ' Sunday j would wear her prettiest frock. i TALK ABOUT WOMEN. Mrs. Isabella Iteecher Hooker, the last surviving "child of Itev. Lyman ISeecher, has Just celebrated her Wth birthday in Hartford, Conn. Though more than 80 years old. Flor ence Nightengale, Is sllll . keenly In terested in benevolent works and has Just issued an appeal for the nurses' home for poor gentlewomen In London. Mrs. Bolton, the Indiana composer of the once popular song, "Paddle Your Own Canoe," received the inspiration to write while sewing snd fitting the first caTpets for the old sale houne cf Indiana. Miss Kdlth F. Ogden, of St. Pau.1, Minn., has designed the tablet of bronze made from a Spanish cannon which will be placed on the steamship 8t. Paul, to record Its service during the Hparilsh-American war. A New Haven woman who built a "nlr fenco" In kep workman in a factory next door from making goo goo eyes at her windows must put ground-glass windows in the fence to aflord light to the factory. So sas the court. Mrs. Mary A. Knody, aged "4, of 123 Fiurd avenue, Bt. lxuis, has just grad uated from the Bay View reading cir cle after a four-year course In hlxtory, literature, astronomy, geometry, po ll! leal astronomy, art and languages and hu nok begun to take piano les sons. Mrs. Hnody has ibImmI a family and is a grandmother. Miss Ella Shepherd Moore Is the last survivor of the famous jubilee singers of Fisk university, Nashville, and still connected with that Institu tion. As a member of the company she traveled Ave years In Kurope and six years In America, and has sung before Queen Victors and msny of the crown ed heads of ICurops. The dowsger duchess of Abercorn Is the most marvelous of all the peeress of the United Kingdom. Mhe now has 14 descendant living, namely, ten children (Ave cons and Ave daughters), fifty-nine grandchildren snd seventy one great-grandchildren. The fifty ninth grandchild the child of Ldy Bvelyn Cavendish, Was born recently, Newman Hall' tract, "Com to Je sus," of which over 2, 000,090 copies have been circulated, was the result of bear' Ing a Primitive Methodist sing to a street crowd the familiar revivalist song, "Come to Jeeus Just Now." ,Tac.Twar aUIUs I , ray ttsaplayee. According to tbe latest official list, there sre 19,446 public functionarlea of VariOUS SIUUB uu ' - ' clusively In the district of Columbia conducting tbe numerous departments and bureaus of the federal government. These are the civilian appointees la the executive departments, and do not in clude senators and representativea and several hundred employes of the houses wbo vibrate between the capiUI and their homes in other parts of the coun try. Nor does this aggregate Include 3G0 or 400 army and navy officers, ac tive and retired, who form a large per manent colony. The monthly compen sation of these 19,446 civilian employes aiiHut-U$U35Jlli-8L .Therefore, tbe aggregate sum In salaries annually paid out In Washington by the govern ment disbursing clerks reaches the enormous total of 19.W ,505.72. Be sides, probably not less than 13.000.000 additional goes to the senator and con gressmen and their subordinates, and perhaps $1,250,000 more to the army and navy offlclali, most of whom are nigh rank, with large pay. thera being constantly bere not less that sixty generals and admirals, active add re tired. These totals form a grand ag gregate of $23,878,050.12 annually paid out in Washington in the tingle item of salaries. It Ii a vast, unvarying, constant stream of cash flowing from the gov ernment coffers Into the bands of the banks, business bouses and professional men of Washington, the official person nel of the United Slates acting merely as middlemen, because this money is largely spent or permanently Invested. In all the departments salaries are paid semi-monthly, and, If desirable, the office-holder can draw sum oftener. If the money is due to him, but this Is de pendent wholly on the courtesy cf the disbursing clerks. It la not singular, then, that there are never any hard times In Washington. The money fjr tbeso vast salary disbursements is not, (squeezed out of Washington itself, ex cept, perhaps, an infinitesimal propor tion of it toward defraying tbe expens s of the local government, but the great bulk of Jt comes from elsewhere, pour ed Into the city's lap by the nation at large from internal revenue taxa'ion, custom duties, etc., mainly levied elsp where. This Is a distinct feature not enjoyed by any other city In the union similar disbursements in the great municipality of New York, for Invanoe. nre made from the money raised by local taxation. In other words, it Is mre!y one hand pnying the other; the community as a whole is no richer from the transaction. In Washington, on the contrary, ev?ry month nearly $2.000 ,000 of additional money, nver previously available, is scattered broadcast, so ia sneak, among its citizens. How can there be such a thing as hard .times in this town in such circumstances Chi cago Chronicle. SKW .R!N mow KIKKI. Spell CroH ii to Some K Irut Tbronglt- ont Tbe Northwest. I In Manitoba they are growing to a ; limited extent a kind of grain new to tals continent. It Is called spelt, and ia a Russian grain. It also grows in asme parts of Germany. The seed was ort lalned from a Russian settlement in Dakota. The peasants fleeing from th I rule of the great white czar had brouilit i IhlB little remembrance of home with hem. As for unnumbered centuries I their ancestors bad been obliged to hoard up tbe seed against the lime cf harvest or to suffer death by atarvation, S ) these peasants qualified thfilr faith in the possibilities of the new world to which they came by cavertly bringing over with them some spelt Tbry hoped and believed and prayed that the new woriu iii!u S5 i !nd h.?yc2j Jordan for them; that its plakis would flow with milk anil honey, but It wan Just a.s well to take along some spelt seed. The spelt geed was sown as a matter of sentiment finally, and when It was reaped there came the Am 'rican. farmer and the representative of the department of agriculture to see what this spelt really was. Some of It was sold In Winnipeg, and Bfveral farmers in Manitoba agreed to try it and find out if "there was any thing In It" The United States com mercial agent in Manitoba thinks that there is. He says that all the fanners speak favorably of spelt, and that, though the season was trying, as much as fifty bushels of grain were prolucej from one bushel of geed. It Is a grain easily grown, stands drought better win., in'iot ' ki nin. litrim rally, ui 14 makes a superior feed for animals. The straw tg also said to lie better feed than tbe straw of other grains grown In Manitoba. Spelt, when sheltered, lo k like a crosg bp'wecn rye and what. Chicago Chronicle. . Tbrrlll- 4 sacki- t The wit is more to be dreaded than your worst enemy. Witty people have a way of slapping a title on you which stick for life. These thing bubble up on their lips an1 woe to the victim. He or she la ruined and made a pub I c laughing stock: even your bet friend will giggle on the ty. One society girf here, a really nice girl, has the habit, however, of Hitting in Judgment on the family standing of other people. 8b will make some disparaging remark and eanclude with: "Oh. wHI, you know and I know they are really not to tbe manner born." Now, this girl doe not come of ar -tocratlf blood on her maternal de. Her ancestors were simple, hoier. tradesmen, who never pretended to style or had any ambition to pose as arlatocrau. They were In the ahoe busi ness. One day the girl was talking as mvr.u mm usual. ne wit, aias, WSS on deck loaded with back-number fact. "Ob." said Miss Critic, with tnat of Iter head, a she mentioned t debunt ante, "of course she la aot to the Ban ner born. I always like to eiprea my self In quotations" "So do I," said the wit. softly and wickedly, "my fvorlte I 'let not the hoemaker go beyond, hi last.' " Tha Lolvlll Times. At the peace jnbllee la Boston, lit. Madam Parepa Rosa' voire was dls- unguisnaPM aoove 1Z,90 slager. aWVaeatra of over l.WM listnawt. sad i in s aaji waem tM audience of 4,00 pwfto.