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J 1 Inllnm. Em h. lruiriri.tt V I ELECTRICITY AT HOME. tih n; 0fflCe' M New York UP Build ,,K ?re full-, equipped with Costly and elaborate Instruments for Metrical treatments, but to people Who cannot come to our office fur treat ments, we furnish an electrical batt -ry to be used under our directions by the patient at home. It Is not a belt, but scientific Invention of great value Score of patients testify to Ha rura Jlvi i rower. It in pr-K-rlhed with or Without medicine, a each rase de mands. Thla electrical battery Id Invaluable U the treatment of diseases of women Btrvous diseases, weaknesses of men heart diseases, stomach diseases, liver and kidney discuses, rheumatism, deaf naaa, etc. W also furnlnh our patients ur new Oione Atomizer for home use In tha treatment of lung and catarrhal alaeaaea. Free consultation at office or by mall Bend for a symptom blank and litera ture pertaining to your disease. C, M. Headrick, M. D. 08 New York Life Itullding, OMAHA. NKU. fct.'Wet8rJmIorM p u n j, lug viut, olina. la ihipiwd rrwa aawalrt.lt .f i .1.4. . I I uM,. lima mA: Ka.y toatart. anr I'" fuaraniaad. OUmt alaa P k. ,-. m. r. aaiul for et- um Cll. Bo. THE IMPROVED KIMBALL BROS. CO.. Mfgs. Wl tth St. Omaha OtTlce. - - Council Bluffs, la. - - - 1010 11th St. FOR MEN ONLY. Srea Book! We ""' oaraieraaiW I T pan book la jr one who sfflictrd and la nrrd ua reuaeat of inform. Oon. Our Nmk it the flne-at book of the kind fTar pnbiifthed and i of g reat Talue to any one belber in need of medkat treatment or not. We send the book io plain envelope aeaked. Write for It today by poaial card or leiier Assrcti ORS. FELLOWS ft FELLOWS, 21 W. Walnut St, Oaa Moines, la. When writing, mention this paper. A Place To Spend tha Summer. On the lines of the Milwaukee Rail- ?ray in Wisconsin, Minnesotu, and owa are some of the most beautiful places In the world to spend a summer vacation, camping out or at the ele gant summer hotels. Boating, fishing, beautiful lakes and streams and cool weather. Okobojl Is the nearest of these re sorts, but all are easily reached from Omnha. and the round trip rates this summer are lower than ever before. Full information on application. F. A. NASH. On. Western Agt. C. M. & St. P. By., l.",04 Farnam St., Omaha. Tha WEBER " P. GaMlist East fa, miuiifte arladara, ahrad- ,r, euttBrm, taraahara, ete lrM kUlou bim all cum. 1lbr Oaa a aaanllaaVctM Oa..H 11.1 KaaaaaCtn. Country Publisher Co, Omaha, Neb Vol. S, No. 26, 1902 was awu w I rw w a i mm a t. Pile'SaS-Cured Mi mthna iii absolutely reliable. D I do not ACCEPT ONE CENT OF PAY until a care is ef lsetud, and VOU decide whon VOt are cured. Cnnnultatton and examination free at office or by mill. I will tell you Jus: what it will cost you to be cured, and how lorn: it will take to curs you. I For particular.!, or any informatiou, address, OR. B. E. NEAL, Omaha, Neb. Revma 30, 31 and 32 Douglaa Block, S. E.Cor. Ifllh and Dodge St. - The Rosebud Mian Reservation to be Opened WK a Aw , j.Vankton .;. ' Woodciaa 4.-y' rf ViEa:;.Or0v. Lancaior I VM I ... O W A kXiO ( DEj 7 - i aaaa a w tr BBh iar a al l r hiar. j aaaa t, -.- . i i HALF I1LL10H ACRES OF RICH LAKDS TO BE THROWS OPEN. riNiwr grazing and karminu i.anos. JDIBECT JMILBOAD HOW Bl ILDIMJ Tba new extension now being built br tha JVorth-Weetern Lino to Uone tool, & IX, brinira to mind tha treaty noMtty mado with tho cbieft of tho warUko 8toax br which tho unsliottod kadsof UMfmooiioaebud IteMnr- Obtoaa-o Tribune: "t haven't seen a good short story for months. What has kaootne of all the writers of Action r "Don't rou knowT They are all at work writing attractive little pam phlets for the proprietors of summer hotels." OsorgM Leysuea, tha French minis ter of publlci Instruction, having re formed French spelling and syntax by official decree, is going to Iraue an offi cial French grammar, which will be tha only on used In French school. PERONAL NOTES. Senator Lodge la a connoisseur on shirt deslgna. The other day he ap peared in Washington with a shirt and v.-at ol the same material, a delicate purple, which was woven especially for him. The tablet which la to mark the bulnpluce of George Peabody, tho Darker and philanthropist, will be un veiled by the Peabody (Mass.) Histori cal n oely on June 16. The tablet is of brass and has the following Inscription In rair-ed letters: "Birthplace of George Peabody, February IS, 171(5. Placed by the Peabody Historical so ciety, June 16 ,1S02." This tablet will l3 bo'.Ud to a rough BiGne post five feet out of the ground, to be set two feet inside the fence, directly In front cf the old part of the house in which Mr. Peabody was born. It will pay those who are afflicted with piles, fistula or any disease of the tectum to read Dr. Meal's ad. in this paper. He guarantees a cure. Somerville Journal: Chicago Girl How high is the thermometer anyway? Boston Girl The thermometer Is about five feet from the floor. But, perhaps what you wish to know Is the altitude of the mercury. It stands at 87 de grees. The well-posted druggist advices you to use Hamlin's Wizard Oil for puln, for he knows what it has done. The British treasury is cheerful and hopeful. Next year's revenue, it Is es timated, will come within J120,000,0to of meeting expenses, and the rest can be easily borrowed. Philadelphia Preps: "Of course," said the church trustee, "we realize that you are a good preacher, but" "But," Interrupted the minister who was un able to collect his salary, "I appear to be doomed to be good for nothing." Dr. C. M. Headrick, 308 New York Life Building, Omaha, has iin estab lished reputation for successfully treat ing nervous, kidney and liver, stomach and other diseases, including rheuma tism, by electricity. You do not 1 .ve to leave home to get the benefits of his treatment. See his advertisement elsewhere. A thousand miles of the Honolulu cable are ready to be uncurled. At this rate it will take considerably more than forty minutes to finish that gir dle 'round the earth. Read Dr. Neal's ad. in this paper. lie guarantees to cure any case of piles, and does not accept one cent of pay until the patient is well. Queen Wilhelmtna, when in health, insists upon knowing the contents of every document she signs. The late General Charles H. T. Collls mad'? the bequest in his will that his two regimental flags be deposited in the tomb of his old comrade, General ClyBRcs S. Grant. Mothers will find Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Hyrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. Christian Smith, the oldest locomo tive engineer in the country, lives near Harptr's Ferry, Md. He ran the first engine on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at a speed of from six to eight r.!!es an !'.!, which was con sidered rapid In those days. Pain Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Use the last on the first, and you will neither have one or the other. TiffliaWtmc-' ' Under a Poaltiva Cuaranlaa not use KNIFE, LICATUPI or CAUSTIC. tion are to bo turned over to the govern ment and one more of the few choice tracts of ptiblio lands now remaining', be thus opened to settlement. The land in question lies between the Missouri and Niobrara rivers and is well watered and fertile. Farm lands near the Reservation are selling at from 3 to 35 an acre, grazing lands at from W to 815. The country Is level or slightlT roll Intr. constating of black loam with clay subsoil, making the very beat of farm ing land. It seems to suffer exception ally little from drought. Chicago Poat: "Tea, I think the gov ernment should own and operate all transportation lines." "Do you think the alieplng car porters would permit It?" Chicago Tribune: "It's dlff runt with a volcano," reflected Uncle Kph'm. "It kin cough Hs whole blame head off an' still keep on coua;hln'," The Chinese, according to Pearson'! We. l:ly, fear ruin, believing that th rain drops breed vermin. - .rs. v .' ss j y , MONEY IN GRAPES. The writer has recently visited the fruit growing districts of northern Ohio and western New York. In Chautau qua county. New York, on Lake Erie, long known as a dairy region, the most successful farmers had built up their comfcrtable homes and had achieved their prosperous condition by dairy ing. The first efforts made in the growing of the grape in commercial quantities were a partial failure. Grow ers now reason that In their former work the vines were not planted deep ly enough to have the roots withstand the extreme cold of trying winters and frequent failures were met with In Uie first plantations. The varying expe rience of a large number of planters ultimately led to the selection of such soils as were best suited to grape pro duction and to such methods of plant ing, cultivating and training the vine as led to the successful growing of the grape in commercial quantities. Not all of the soil, and really but a small portion of the land In Chau tauqua county Is suited to the proflf able production of grape. The foeel soils are gravel loams. It is a common saying that the grape succeeds as far j ire worth J100 to 150 per acre. Vine from the lake as you can Bee the lake. , yards planted, trained and l.i bearing That. Is, the influence of the lake It. are worth from $200 to $300 per acre, felt from the lake out to and on thi 'During the fall of 1901 the average sides of the Chautauqua hills. From ; price received for the crop was 10 cents the hills to the southward the ameiior-' per basket. ating influence of the lake being cut j In picking and packing the fruit only off, grape growing Is not sufficiently ' tha better class of the grapes are successful to justify large planting. ' . packed In bankets for shipment; the In selecting vines for planting the j second grade Is taken by the wineries, flrst-clasa yearlings are preferred. The i In the fall of 1901 5,035 cars of fruit plant Is cut back to three buds. A j in baskets were shipped from Chautau vlne of thut character has two seta of qua county, addition to this nearly roots; it is planted at such a deptt j 10,000 tons of grapes or nearly 800 car that the upper set of roots should b' ' loads were converted into wine and six inches below the surface when th: grape Juice. The grapes sold for wine vine is properly established. Th( are sold by the ton, the buyer furnish vines are planted below the generainc the crates and paying an average level of the soil. Cultivation the firs', lot 14 pet ton for the first quarter of season earths up toward them, so, ; the season and from that to $25 to $28 that at the end of the first summer! per ton at the close of the season, the upper roots are sufllciently below (About one-fifth of the grape juice ex the surface not to be Injured by winter's ! pressed is for fermented wine. Re cold. Cultivation is such as shall keep cently improved processes, notably the the soil loose and open during the jOleason's, enables the manufacturer to growing season. express the Juice from the grape wlth- TBIMMING. out its coming In contact with the Trimming ia a modification of th' lair. It is stored In sterilized carboys, Fuller and Arm systems. One cane ii ! bottled in sterilized bottles without the trained each way along the lower wire; ! mixing of any salycilic acid as a pre buds growing from these ai ms are .servatlve. This grape Juice is absolute trained and tied to the upper wire. 'y pure and is rapidly gaining its way To a western man the pruning looks or use in hospitals and sick rooms, to be very short, leaving less wood intimately grape juice handled in this than our growers are in the habit of. way must be within the reach of every leaving, yet at the end of the season Line and furnishes a way of working ur the wires are reported as well covered land making useful a large proportion with canes and foliage. The intent ir ! 'f the crop. These methods, wher trimming is to have the largest num more widely known and utilized, will ber of pounds that can be usually ! furnish an unlimited market for the grown on each vine in the Rmalleet grape grower. The use of the surplus number of bunches. ' apea for such purposes gives steadi- The average annual product is frcrijn ss to the market and has helped tc ten to twelve pounds to the vine. V.r- j place the planting and growing ol ceptionally favorable land combined 1 grapes on a solid financial foundation with very careful care sometimes in- Oko aged, wealthy grower, who now creases the average yield of 6.000 li:is a number of farms ail earnec pounds to the acre to as high as 10,000 within the county, declares he car to 12.000 pounds per acre; ibU, however, 1 make money in growing grapes at is extreme and exceptional cawes. cents per eight pound basket. Pirr.fi vr. AMn PACK'lNf! ! Western growers with our more fer- The picking and packing of more than 5,000 car loads of grapes In Chau tauqua county alone requires a great many jnore jwwmle than reside within the county. For a hundred mllis!"' ordinary tarn crops, me .... around many families regard the grape picking season as the one outing of the year; whole families move to the grape growing districts. Many of them are accommodated In tenant;1"'"" V"'"J' "c """ houses, seme In temporary shelters and times and yet find a growing and re others in tents. munerative market. Each Individual grower, whether be I N fc " F- ST KI'HKNH. has five acres or as many as 300 acres, ' mdi.avors to keep In touch througr the year with us much help as he wll require; and long In advance arrange: for their assistance at the proper time In each neighborhood there is llkel. to be dancing floors erected, attract in. the young people. They work in tin vineyards through the ciay and an S. X , A great boom h.ia sprung up in lame nt eel, to which point Tho N'orth-Western Line ia building. Last fall there were fifty settlers there. To-day there is a town of 900. Ninety days fmm now there will probably be 8,000. 1'lve real estate offices have opened, and town lots are selling at from 8300 to f-SOO each. The Reservation will probably be opened by a plan, such as was mode use of in the recent allotment of publle lands in Oklahoma. Fifty thousand people are expected to take part in the drawing for the land. To enter a homestead of Iff) acres Secretary of Agriculture Wilson la In Ht. Louis, Inspecting work that has been In prograaa for three years on th? Investigation of the causes and reme dies for decay In lumber. Carl Fa ber of Munich, son of the 'ammis pncll manufacturer, has given tSfiO.OMi to the Germanic museum st Vunmnerg and to tho Bavarian J,'a ionnl museum at Munich. An Iceberg In the pulpit cannot kin lie fl (lie In the nev.s. drawn by the music and Jollity to the dancing platforms until midnight. It Is not possible fo keep any domestic help during the picking season, In Chautauqua county, since no girl In domestic service can resist the tempta tion of earning larger wages In the picking season and of engaging nightly In the fun and amusement In progress. The average cost of picking and packing the grapes is from one to one and one-half cent per basket. The larger portion of the grapes are picked by the women and girlB. The packing of the baskets Is done by the piece. A skillful packer can pack from 120 to 200 baskets per flay. Green and de fective grapes, that Is, auch as are burst by sap pressure and accident, must be removed. The grapes carry better and keep longer If they can be wilted for twenty-four hours. Wilting lessens the weight, toughens the stems and the fruit stands up better. Each basket to pass inspection must contain eight pounds of fruit; the basket weighs one pound. Until loaded in ihe car the fruit Is kept in cool pack ing houses. From statistics supplied by Captain ;j. H. Pratt of Fredonia, we note: LandB well suited to vineyard work tile soil, needing little aimistance fron fertilizers should find the growing o. the grape for our western market: much more profitable than the raisin , Icare n;id 'ill ivation of the vine is no so dlf'ttvilt as to be beyond the at tainnient of any bright and activi farmer. The vineyards in the Mis Philadelphia Press: Htinjay 1 lov did you like that cigar I gave you It was an "Admiral" you know. Sharp. What n appropriate name for It Th'ie'.i something about that tiga tu;rgpytive of an admiral. Kllnjay Wliat's that? Shiirpe It's lank. for Settlement c o N s V M c J'. ' S- :UV. Ml Jt l L I N O I one must bo the head of a family o; have attained the ape of twt-uty-om yean; a citizen of the United .States or one who has filed his declaration fx become such. To establish a title U the land, residence must be maintained thereon, improving and cultivating the land continuously for five years, With the completion of the North western Line from Verdigra to the denervation boundary at Hones tee L there will, without doubt, be a tremen dous influx of homestead or as soon a the President's proclamation seta a date for the opening. Itfiron Henri de Rothschild, who Is a distinguished physician and a special ist In Infantile diseases, not only drives motor cars, but manufactures them. I'rof. Michael I. Pupln of Columbia university, Inventor of the ocean tele phone, began his career In Amerlc.i as and attendant In a Turkish bath par. lor ir, lirr.oklyn. To put out another's sun will not in rrpniie your own. Mi THE STEAW Bummer days Are coming in; Every fellow With a crin ' Togs lilmtelf In this and that. Proudly dons A new straw hat, I.ast year's clothes May last a while, Last year's shoes Are still In style, Cut a man Would be a flat Who would wear A last year's hat. Every year The fashit-ns change In a wide Fantastic range, Last, year's hat Provokes a smile," It's so badly Out of style. Broad and narrow Braids and mats. Run the fashions Of the hats: But they all Observe the same Style of melting In a rain. A MERE INCIDENT. BY JULIA TRUITT BISHOP. (Copyright, 1901, by Authors' Syndicate.) OFFICER O'FLYNN, whose beat took in the park and many out lying squares, found his soul troubled within him because of the Rtrbmer.ced tenth who came and sat on the park benches when his back was turned, in fuH view of the palaces of the rich. "The town's that full o' dirty hohos," he grumbled in bitterness of spirit, "that they sets down in de park like lords, an' de grass is wore off all 'roun' the benches wid (is bis feet o' them. An' when they see me comln' they take a walk, an' the minute I'm gone there they are back ag'in, setting there like Jay Gould hisself. If I had my way they'd be run out o' town tonight, bad l'ick to 'em an' me gettin' raked over de coalis all de time for not keepin' de tramps out o' de park." And then, going with a reserved and dignified gait along his beat, and glanc inn Lack as he went, he had the mor tification to see the Jay Goulds of the park benches lounging aimlessly in from the adjacent streets as though it had Just occurred to them that here was a park where one might spend a pleasant half-hour away from the noon neat. or no matter what mean3 might be used by the powers that were, the hobos were never run out of town. llitferent parts of the park were un der the tacit control of different groups. Wandering Bill Wiggins held his crew spellbound on and about the bench near the fountain, where he told them stories of the road and of men and wo men, for lie had seen many lands. Fur ther down, toward the end of the park, were Dave and his coterie, who smok ed and talked and watched the gay world riding or driving by, and made safe reflections on life and prosperity, ana the people who had temporarily managed to get on top. "This ain't a good seat, Dave it's too bunny," one of the contingent re marked one day when the sun was at its Lest. "Let's go an' rout Bill's gang away from that fountain. They didn't have no call to rush in there an' git the best place before we foun' out what ve wanted blame pigs!" This place suits me," said Dave, ly ing back on the bench and staring at the network of blue through the leaves oveil.rad. "You don't know when o!T If this ain't good enough for any hobo on earth, he ought to go to the pen. Carpe diem, Roadsy which is Latin for 'take the goods the gods pro vide.' " After that his name was changed to "Iatin." "You don't appreciate your priv ileges," he moralized, gravely, one day, as he trimmed the fringes from his coat sleeve with his knife. "Here we. arc facing a row of houses where live tho truly elegant. Out in the world they wouldn't recognize our existence, Roadsy except perhaps to stare at us haughtily and auk the polseman why he didn't make those people move on. Hpt. we have orchestra seats for every performance. They come to the win dow, and we look at them, and see how they are dressed, and note the easy ele gance of their white hands on the cur tntn. They come oof for a drive, and vvn mentally appraise tho value of their horscr and carriages and estimate about what they pay the coachman. Next to being rich oneself this is perhaps the greatest pleasure life gives. The world, Roadsy, is made up of two classes those who are rich, and those who acquire brain fag computing how much the rich spend on foolishness. And when these people come out for a walk we are the privileged class who sit, here at our ease and see them trip lightly-down the steps, and itemize thel' frocks and shoes and gloves and p.irasols, as though we were a Sunday paper. In the evening they sit on the porch, with all of us in our orchestra chaira looking on; or perhaps they en tertain, and we see the halls the halls of feltal Joy, and fond memory brings the light of other days around us. You are Ignorant, Roadsy. You don't know vhen you are in Paradise." "Is that what you set herp the whole hloomln' day fur?" asked Roadsy In deep disgust "Jest set here to watch b'okes wlri money havin' a good time? You're gittln' awful tony all to onct, I-atln." "The result of association." said Lat lu, with a smile. "When I am on the park bench, opposite Rome, I Instinc tively do as Rome does. And when I am out on the road with you, Roadsy, and with Tike and Sam there, I do as yon all do which Is wby the officer who Is Just coming around that corner regards me as a hobo." They arose with great promptness and strolled away In different direc tions, and Officer O'Flynn swore to himself at the mark of the feet that were wearing off the park grass. When they strolled hack again, a few minutes later, Roadzy had matured a grlevan e; and reclaimed it grum bling. "Talk about wo all makln' hobos o' you," he Raid, "you wa'n't any bloom ing' gentleman when we first seen ye, as 1 known on. It wmn't us that made ye drink like a fish, was It? You'd larned that 'fore ever we seen ye. Well, then? What ye got to say about that?" "Not a word, Roadsy," said Latin, placidly, staring absently at the house across (he way. "Not a word. You are a pkllosophcr, Roadsy bcslde having a pooii memory. Be sure to make that consoling statement when you write my obituary: 'He was bis own worst enemy," is a gentler way of putting it than 'he drank like a filsh" and is more soothing to the survivors." 'Blame!" was the sole remark of Roadsy. "Now, for instance," murmured Lat in, without taking his eyes from the door of the house ocross tie way, "It Is the hour for the afternoon drive. The coa. hitian is at the door with the neat and unpretentious surrey a very mod est ecju ppage. I have noticed and in a little while the lady will come forth and go for her daily drive." Latin was holding a match to the cigarette between his teeth, but as his eyes were still fastened on the op posite bouse, and as his hand trembled with, the nervousness of the road and of that which brought him there,' the matcn was nowhere near the cigarette. "Them folks is real swell nabobs," said Roadsy, appreciatively. "When thein winders is open you can see mar ble Etaioos an things an books to burn. One night I seen that woman cryin' or prayin' or somethin', wtih her f-ice ag'ir- a little marble statoo with wings an' a bow 'n' arrer.'" "Oh, Cupid, Cupid that it should come to this!" said Lain, absently. The match had burned out, and be threw it away. hpre she comes," said Roadsy, idly. "Fust time I ever seen 'er face good. Gee whiz!'" The woman stepped into the surrey, and then remembered something, and; sent the coachman after it. While he was gone she sat holding the reins and looKing away down the BtreeL Even at the distance of the park- bench one culd rote that she did not see the street, nor anything within the line of physical vision. She was looking at something very, very far away. Perhaps it was the look on her face that made Latin take off his hat. With a hurried glance, Roady followed' his example. It was so distinctly foolish that he feigned to be looking for some thing In the crown of it, which he failed to find. And thus it was that for the moment he missed what was coming. Aroiind the curve of the park came an automobile, its bell clanging, and swept close by the side of the surrey. The startled horses made a spring to one siJe in terror, and the reins held so ioosely were snatched from the wo man's hands. The surrey ran on two wheels as the horses turned and fled, but it righted itself and shot within a hair's breadth of a city cart meandering around tha roudway. The woman sat still, holding to the stanchions, but making no out cry, and with no added whiteness in the face that was already white. "This is the end," she whispered to herself, and smiled. Woking neither to the right nor to the left, she could not see the flying figure taking a short-cut across the curve, and Just catching to the back of the surrey. She was sensible, present ly, that some one was climbing over the driver's seat and out on to the pole, with a hand on the horse's back on either side. At the end of the pole be did something she did not know what but the horses were checked. And then she saw him go down. Other people were there then crowds and crowds of tnem, snatching at the bits and Jerking the trembling horses to a standstill, but they had been there soon enough to prevent the last few starts and plunges. Everybody knew beforehand how it must be with man they dragged out from under the horses' feet. "Ring for the ambulance!" shouted Vi , , 1 f i1riart ol r rn .nil 4lima.BiiJ 111111 n V. in. l. i, ai v 1, , ,11. VI 1.3 1J1-1 .).'( hither and thither, sickened and pallid. But the woman in the surrey was down In the crowd, pushing them aside. "Wait!" she cried. "Wait! This man will be taken to my home." And then they paused, while she bent over him and lifted the coat some one had thrown over his face. Those who had heard it will never forget. It was like the hurt cry of a child, except that a woman's heart break had crept into it. She was on her knees, for a moment, down in the d:ist of the road. ' Paul!" she cried. "Paull" That was all. Then she stood up, and looked into the faces around her workmen, boys, millionaires and ho bos unutterable. "tacntlemen," she said, quietly, "will some ol you take my husband home tc my house?" The face she had uncovered had one eye left, and it glittered upon them with ..... ..4An "Strang!" he said, with rattling ut terance, "how getting frightened play people out. Never saw her before, give you my word. Just a tramp, gentle men -nothing but a tramp." And as they lifted him tenderly, even while he waved a Jovial hand at Roadsy, agonizing on the outskirts of the crowd, the tramp went out on the long trail the out trail that trail that Is always new. LIGHTNING AND WATCHES. Timepieces Seriously Affected by, Electrical Manifestations. Washington Star: "An electrical storm seems to have a peculiar effect on some timepieces," remarked the ju nior partner of a big downtown Jew elry firm. "Every time lightning and thunder get acttve in this vicinity one one of the results Is that our watch repalrlng department la overworked for several days thereafter. Tbc dam age wrought chiefly consists of broken mainsprings. "When business gets dull with ua," added the Jeweler, jokingly, "we re quire all our employes to pray for a thunder storm. Failure to comply with this order Is considered sufficient eanae for discharge. 1 am unable to maka clear the whys and wbeWfbrea. bat it Is an established fact that after the lightning has frotlcksd awhile ta somes the watches with mainspriags wrack ed." When Judge W. W. Henderson was elected judge of the probata eourt of 8t- Louis, three years ago, the oompen stlon was changed from the fee systsa to a salary of 13,500 a year. Slaoe tho he has refused to draw hie salary, claiming that the act was unconstlta tlonal. He brought suit against the city for fees amounting to 186,000, and won his case In the supreme court It Is Coming. If a few more KlondTkea shall ha discovered Alaska will be In good shape to put up a fight for statehood. St. Louis -OIobc-Democrat.