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V e s e ' -' The Harrison Press Journal. C. C. BURKE, Proprietor. HARRISON. - - NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES Linden Tree, General Colby's famous stallion, died at Beatrice. The horse was nearly 30 years old and was pre senled to General Grant by the sultan of Tui'.iey. Mrs. Tetter, wife of a farmer living southwest of Superior, committed sui cide. The rest of the family hod gun:? away, and upon returning to their home found the woman hanging from a tree. - - - - - , Tha 1-year-old son of- Conductor Ho ren of Beatrice had a narrow escape Irom being drowned in Indian cieek. (He was rescued by a farmer, who ex perienced considerable difficulty in pulling him ashore. The Beatrice city council passed an ordlnanc-3 granting a twenty-year franchise to the R. V. Montague In vestment company of Kansas City.Slo., to operate an independent telephone company in the city. The York County Telephone company f York filed articles of incorporation In the secretary of state's office. The company capitalizes for $.'5,0i0. Its in corporators are E. A. Wells, J. W. Straight and C. N. Beaver. E. G. Hobart, of Linwood, a barber, while trying to extract a shell from a 22-caliber revolver, received an ugly wound in the right hand. The cart ridge aceidentlly exploded and the bul let went through the palm. Charles Q. De France, fusion candi date for state auditor, filed a state ment showing that his expenses in con nection with his stand for the nomina tion amounted to $3.63. Of this amount 3.23 was expended for badges and the remaining 40 cents for stamps. A charter has been given to the Lau rel Building and Loan company of Laurel, Cedar county. The company is capitalized for J10Q.0Q0. Its incorpor ators are: J. B. Felker, H. A. Akeny, Cuy Wilson, C. L. Ward, T. Graham, T. P. Voter, Dr. C. S. Sackett and C. E. Kevin. The death of H. C. Russell, postmas ter at Schuyler, leaving vacant the po sition, his bondsmen have appointed Mrs. Russell to occupy the position un til the expiration of the term, July, 1903 or until some one of the now many as pirants seeking the place succeed in securing it. The city of Grand Island has Just made an ordinance effective authoriz ing the city treasurer to pay a one and a half per cent premium for $10,030 of the bonds cf the city and the bonds have been called in. The municipality Is thus beginning to reduce its interest bearing indebtedness. The 8-year-old son of David Her man, who lives near N'kkerson, was Wtten on the thumb by a rattlesnake and the quick work of the boy's moth er, who sucked the poison from the wcurd. saved the lad's life. The boy's father found the snake and killed it. It had four rattles. Charters were Is.sued to these new banks; The Bank of Scotia, capital stork, $3,000; incorporators, Charles B. 3oodcll, G. W. Fitzsirnmons, Charles B. Anderson, Theodore H. Miller. Vincent Kokes, H. D. Coe, Anton Dredla, Clar ence Coe, Samuel P. Graham. The Bank of Murdock, capital stoc k, $i0.OO0; Incorporators, Charles Guthman. F. "Wolf, Henry A. Tool, C. E. Mocken haupt. Adlson Waite of Syracuse has as sumed the position of head bookkee per in the secretary of state's office, suc ceeding Fred Miller, who was "rotnoted two weeks ago to the office of deputy. The cl.ange was occasioned by the resignation of Deputy F. W. McCart ney, who became postmaster at Ne braska City. The Custer County Editorial associa tion held its annual meeting at the Grand Cent.al hotel In Broken Bow last week. The records of the associ ation show that the buflness of the members of the association had more than doubled since the organization of theh association a year ago. The pro prietor of the Grand Central tendered a banquet to the editors and their wives as the compliments of the house. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: D. M. Amsberry, president; Tom Wiight, vice president; H. R. Bar nard, secretary-treasurer; George B. Malr, auditor. Information obtained by the state board of banking in connection with the recently closed German bank of Murdock was released by Secretary Royse because of the reports being cir culated by rome member of the insti tution, presumably its cashier, H. ft. Nltsel. It is being said that the board closed the bank because Nitsel made too large loans. As a matter of fact, one of the irregularities which led to the closing of the institution was the Issuance of a certificate for $3,000 which was never leglstcred on the hooks of the company, nor was any credit made of the deposit. - Information was received at the stats military headquarters from Washington thut the Dick bill, de stined to promote the efficiency of the aaUtita of the various states, had oasrrd both houses t rd would be ifaed by the president. This bill sake provision, among other things, fsf Ike holding of national guard en jajnymcnt at the expense of the gen ital government. The real purpose of f t SMftMra Is to brlr.g the reserve f ""..iMf. force into doner connection :' ' y tit regular MUMTCunnt. ANECDOTES of GEN. LLOYD WHEATON First. Livst and AH 15he Time This Ga.lla.nt Soldier Has Been Fighter. Mild in Times of Peace But Decidedly Tropical in Action. NOT Many days ago a senator of the Unitde States, in n address in the capitol professed ignor ance as to the identity of Major General Lloyd Wheaton. "Probably some man whom the nation's charity fed and educated at West Poiit." be sneered. It is true th.it another Let ter informed member of the same aj- SUSt A'APmllir Tirrmmtl V pnn-ontu Ilia impression. which his colleague's thoughtless create. gibe was calculated to But perhaps there are other people, J? .mea , 0 wa!k,'1 8lonB te track, not senators, to whom General Wheaton ; ne r heads and btxlip3 Protected by the Is equally unknown. boiler iron, but their legs exposed to But auv man who served In the war Ith inclemency of the weather, what with Spain under General Lee will be ev.rt tne Filipinos could make it. able to tell something interesting about Jh Beuen.1 came down the line tuis gallant veteran. There are bronzed h',ot'ng the nlht UlU of six-pounder young men freshly home from the ' hol's n a!1 fiId,s' ar-d flllinK thf world Orient who can supplement the narra-1 .ltn the r?r of hia rBe- Ji Kot to tive with picturesque incidents oti post where the ailegetr attack had Wheaton's career, in the Philippines, i boen ?adf' ?nd landed to see the And now and then a white-haired sur- !ma.n 'bo had br8ht In the report. vivor of the great civil war will recall' 1U,J man as ent ror- Jne instant the name of the genera!, and resurrect,"0 en,t(Hl the room where the general from the past some thrilling Ftorles of ;was' Beaton, who had been sitting in a dauntless coura?e and exbaustless re-, one corner, leaped out of his chair and sources " l half way across the room toward the First.' last, and all the time, Wheaton i iBhtened soldier, exclaiming: is a fighter. He has hart a sood ,leHl nf this kind cf work to do in the Philip- pines. Hi is a tall, spare man, with a long black beard. There Is a general feeling in the army that the beard and its blackness are landing, he made a mistake which it is matters of his ppecial concern. It Is on i certain will never be made again by record that on ono occasion, now twoihim. If there is one thing that he years ago or mare, a captain who had, does waut to do when a fight is on 13 served with biu some years before, but! to be up at the front. He has never had not seer, him for a long time, met shown any inclination to direct the him in Mariia with the remark: jmovementa of his men from the rear. "Why, general, it seems to me the last j But this boat landing business was time I Baw you your whiskers were ; new to him. lie saw the men all stowed Bray." ,in the small boats and the steam Something happened j'tst then that j launches ready to start with their tows Interrupted the flow cf th conversa- j for the beach. It was the landing at tlon. The captatn u.!d afi.ard that San Fabian, on Lingaven gulf, the time he thought 4.he ice luacMre b'olie. jCKls expected to cut off the retreat The most dlotinctlT chanteristic of itorthward of Aguimildo and trap the the tall gcur.-ul is Ms voice. It is very j insurgent chief between the lines of deep of pitch .jd of tremendous cirry- Wheaton, Young, Lawton and MacAr ing qualify. He cn shout an order on jthur. the field that can be heard by a whole) Wheaton did not reflect then when brigade, no matter how hard the battle the launches started for the beach they li raging. Wanted tn wr th on . i i .u i On one ombIod earlr In he infiurrec. tlon Wheaton commanded the first bri- gade ot Lawton s d vision in a cam- paign in Cavite province below Manila Iawton as usual was ridi?tr at the head of the column, with on! his personal guarcr, I Troop, of the r"ourth cavalry, ahead of him. They crossed a small stream and came out on an open level little field At the right, some 250 or 300 yards away, was ;eral lQk hj8 pla(.e , h , and'gaVf. a line of trees, indicating the presence tne Bj?nai KUrt cf another stream Beyond the trees, ,nBtant,y ;he gleam launcne8 shot was a cluster of huts, from whose win- away each wUh four boaU , to Th(. dows white flags were flying. lawton BUHk bues , the . f tuPd .ODe f SUtt&t nd 8aiV a" ley wer rth. but there was no You 11 find no insurgents here. They n of th , k , ,th h never dare to put out the white flags auncie8 while their soldiers are around." j wheaton soon saw that he was being Just then the insurgents, concealed in !difitancea. in 8pite of the trwnendollB ef a trench und-r the troes blazed away iforts of his meI. He gtoo1 u )n the with a pretty substantial volley, fol-:Rtern of tfc , d hjg h t lowed by a briek general fire. Wh on and houted ln a volce that roared was Just at tie a Pft of the hov(. the no, f , t Ninth infantry at the head cf his bri-) ..Wait for mp, WaR for mfie, B,ank a., . , ,, , . jblank, you. wait for me!" He swung a battalion of the Ninth But with bullets flying all around around to face tr.e Kl.-j, and began !tnere waa no waUi foranybody. The fir ng battalion 7o.ys. The 400 guns ; genPraI waved hls fl and h, f? nKK is B rar ais,'lf hoar8e' 11 made bis b'" lauSh B0 ?vlr ' " , . , !lhat the' couId hardly pull, but still . At the same time neaton sent 8ixinot a Doat , k H t , companies of the Colorado volunteers , ,n a h hig wM , across the ford ana out nto the open ',,,, .,,. ,h Toal n. th Hgv It plain, where the cavalrymen, who had! already dismounted were Bettered care)eMi,y that afternoon, but he had Al kJ? Y est they ctjld tO1wnMi a trick about makl boat the Filipino fire. Wheaton sat on his horse watrhing the Colorado men run ning as hard as they could to get into position, and, apparently unmindful of the row the volleys of the Ninth were making behind him. shoutsd to the Col orados In a voice that must have car ried clear Into the insurgent lines: "Fire like h ! Fire like h ! I want to hear the guns go off." A Soldier Not a Mouse. There is no milder-mannered man in the army when "everything is quiet and peaceful." But when there is trouble or work to be done the language of the i "ccem. s t to he as tropical ss the climate where he is serving. If the believes in going ahead until the work regulations were enforced and he were 'is done thoroughly. When the time fined $1 for every word of the large D'slrame for him to make his feint he gent he has used, it would have cost him a - for the colonel of one of the regiments lot some years. They tell a story In Manila of the time an outpost on the railroad north of town was attacked, early in the fight- LUCKY BALDWIN Th famous speculator whos colo rs vers ones known on every race track la tbs country and v-bo was al most a bankrupt a few years ago rncde another Test fortune la the X londiks which he has bssn quietly enjoying lately on bis ranch. Hs b clitvss that h will recover. ing days. The man who was on guard waa nut pleased at being a target of even such poor marksmen as the Fili pinos, and he ran in and reported to the officer in command of the post that he bad been attacked by overwhelming ri limbers Word went up the line to General Wheaton. who started down at once in I the armored car. This was a flat car, u picvea uj. uuner irou sei on enge around It. Slx-pounder guns were i mounted at each end. It was propel ieii ! . ""K ""an u: inow me a soldier. il don't want to see a mouse.' His First Expedition. The first time Wiieaton commanded : an expedition, which involved a boat (would go at top speed. But with the l insurgentfl in their trenches on the I beach shooting at the men huddled in !tlie tnere t , ln ,and, and thft , ffi , TOrnmana of tne iaunchp8, who had ;done the Mme tnj go m t, f lu a.uiy. Knew juki now to ao u me:llnder hIg t.ommand CUplred Aguinal quickest and best, dQ.s mothr and Agulnalll0., babv bov. W heaton elected to go ln a pulling , Th!, napppnpd at Cab:,gllan. colonel, . . , V, e'r ,haitv hllm Ti,l u.u.i ,iu. on or:uL uc, iui unit. ,7JI - - . ',n, vi.,w , 0,1oc, mm landing. Birkhimer Did It. On one of the last campaigns before General Otis was relieved of the chief command in the Philippines, General Wheaton commanded a column that was operating to the southward of Manila in conjunction with another col umn commanded by Genera! Schwan. It was expected that Wheaton ft old make a feint against the Insurgents, and hold them ln their position until Schwan could get across the province behind them and cut off their retreat. But Wheaton is too much of a fighter to do any fainting. TVhen he starts h? in his command and said, as the story goes: "Birkhimer, they tell me the insur gents are digging a trench down there. MAY BE DYING. I want yon to take a battalion down and kill 'em." Colonel Uirkhimer did it, and when Schwan got his column across the province it was just in timi to give the fleeing insurgents another blow as they ran. An expedition whltu Wheaton com manded was moving along a road south cf Manila, when it came to a place where a ditch crossed the way. and made il Impossible to get anything on wheels, guns or ambulance across, it was a case for the ensineprs. The pnneral looked around and failed to see the engineer officer attached to his staff, who had dropped down the road to see something. "Captain Mowland," Baid the general to one of his aids, "wjiere are the en gineers?" "I don't know, sir,' answered the cap tain. "Down the ro;id somewhere. I s.uppo.ie. Ill go d iwn and see." The general gave a snort of displea sure, and turr.ed to another of his aids. "Ciptalu VebMr," lie said, "where are the ? ',crs?" "I don't jw. genera!.' replied the captain. "I'll go down and see." "Hump!" ejac ulp.tel the general as the second aid rode away. "Down the mad somewhere, I suppose, sprinkling col ogne water." No Respect for Filipinos. Wheaton's contempt for the fighting qualities of the enemy was proverbial. He had no respect whatever for the Filipinos as soldiers. A discussion arose at his mess one evening, in which some of the news paper men who were following the campaign took part. It had to do with the g"!ieral character of the Filipinos, and the pen era 1 expressed himself with his customary vigor. At last, one of the correspondents, thinking that the discussion was get ting rather warmer than it should, ven tured a suggestion which he intended to be of a conciliatory nature. "Well, general." he tald. "you'll at least admit that the Filipinos are brave?" The general leaped to his feet, and struck the table a resounding blow with ; his first. " P-ravel" he shouted, "brave!" They're hounds They're hounds! They wont stand up to be shot!" The other Fide of the general's char acter was Illustrated when the forces 'bpn Major. Cronin effected the capture. and the tidings were transmitted to Wheaton by General Hare. Hack from head'iiiarterb in San Fabian came the rncoi;?: "Send the baby to me at cmc." And it was done. No one could have been kinder or more solicitous for its welfare. The general 'personally in terested bmself in caring for the in fant, lie had it properly clothed and fed. and at length sent It to Manila with special directions that every at tention be given the boy on the way, Fi-.nston's Training. It was under General Wheaton that Funston learned to fight the Fllipiuoi. Funston, good man though he was when he came to the Orient, did not understand the business as well as he did subsequently. One day the brigade was in action it. a rice field. It was a broiling hot da, FuriBton's regiment formed the Si v line of battle. The little Kansas colonel deployed his men in the regulation manner, ordered them to lie down, and opened fire. Things went merrily for a few min utes. The enemy was hidden in the grass. So were the Americans. The only clew to the presence of either were the flashes of the guns, and the thin haze of smoke. Also here and there a wounded or a dead man. Then General Wheaton, mounted on one of the stunted native ponies, rode soberly along the American position. He did not pay the slightest heed to the bullets that hummed around his ears. But when he saw dead American sol dier lying in the grass his eyes began to blaze. "Colonel Funnton." he roared, "what's 4hlc' U'lw,i' tut, charge?" "I will in a moment," replied the Karsan. "What the blank dash are you wait ing for, then?" "For the peyiologlcal moment, fcir." Wheaton snorted, swung himself from bis saddle, and cpratig in advance of the entire line. "I'hycological be hung'" he cr'd. "Come on, boys! Weil skin 'em out cow!" And the whole line, Funston and all, plunged headlonz after the general's I thin fig'tre, heedless of rice, mud or bullets. The enemy was destroyed. i It was Wheaton's misfortune not to gpt outside of the fniied States during the war with Spain. Hn bitterly regret ted the Inactivity to which he was doomed In the peit -stricken Florida camps. Once I remember f-!ng the general seated In front of his tnt on the lawn of the Hotel Royal Palm, In Miami. It wa'in the latter part of June, lSn!. "What's new, general?" I asked, stop ping for the usual afternoon (hat. "Well," he answered, with an Inimit able drawl, "I was thinking that this Ib the funnleRt war I was ever engaged In. Here I've been fighting like fury for six ninntba, snd haven't hrard a bullet yet!" He hasn't had to make that complaint of the Philippine campaign. J. 8. K. A canvas recently made In regard to the vacation work of the negro stu dents In Atlanta 1'nlverniiy shows that, of the more than a hundred men and boys questioned, all but one elalmei to have done somn remunnive work during the summer. Four worked upon farms. Several taught country schools. 1 be rest found employment in the cities or at ummer resorts. The total amount earned by these ntu dctiU will aggregate over $4,000. A committee ha been appointed hv the management of the St, UjiiIs ex position, eonrlntlng of lawyers from ev ery stata and territory In this country, to arrange for an International enn press cf lawyers and Jurists during the presets of the fa!r. CALDWELL AND NAME VILLAGE CALLED AFTEB FIGHT ING PARSON. now Bev. Caldwell Gave Hymn Books to Provide Gunwadding for Continental Army. ;pw York Tribune: For years and years the only claim to fame which the New Jersey village of Caldwell boasted v as that it was named in honor of Rev. James Caldwell, than whom no revolu tinuary hero is held in greater esteem by true Jerseymen. Then Grover Cleveland was elected president of the .l,'i!it'J States, and the villagers re membered that he had been born in the o!d parsonage in the western part of the village. That was a fine thing for C ald'.veil, and the villagers boasted. Now It is becoming known to many Yorkers as a most delightful suburb i.i which tii live all the year round. Scores of iittrjet;ve cottages which they have built t'.re show this. ("aldwi 11 is a pictiire-q';e v! II: e". with all the dignity of age in Its heavily-shaded streets and quaint houses, covered with moss ami Ivy. It is built on p. hill overlooking the Passaic riv er valley, and surrounded by other hills, all well wooded. Beautiful drivs lead hwjy through the Orange ra.iini tains in various directions. It is a co n, try with many of the beet traits o' th-; dlroniiarks, and all within n.iPnUs of the New York ferry I .).- TIZi. The ::io;'y of the man for whnin Cai.! well is tamed is known through i-.l! Jersey, iii:l the part of it which Cr' Harto told in 1i!h poem. "Caldwell cf cpi ingheld." is react around the wo: !c It i"i a strange story, with two tragedies and a Nir.iorous bit. in between. H r" ic is, as an old-tinier in Caldwell de lights to tell it: "So ;ni never heard of Caldwell, the 'fighting parson!' Well, I declare! i thought every American knew about him. We named the town after him, smi as It'r as fine a village as there 's in New Jersey it's no small comn'i ment to bis memory. Down in Kiizi heth thev erected a monument to him in the church yard. But. d-o y-o-u K-no-w. if I was dead, I'd rather hae a real live town named after me than a monument? "As I wa3 saying:. It's a wonder yo.i don't know the story, but I'll tel lit. Parson C'dwell wan preaching uo n in i:ii;:uVthtown when he started to ,1gl t ire, ur.uiin. tie ueiieved in works as well lb faith, and volunteered as a chaplain. He was popular among the men from" the day he proposed a least to Amerien on hearing of the declari tion of independence. It went like this: "Harmony, honor and all prosperity to the free and independent Cnlted Suites of Amerien wise legislator -brave and victorious armies to the United Slates of America!" "While bp was fighting with Wash ington's crmy some Hessian sol.lii ri shot tnd killed his wife as she stood In the window of their home, at Connecti cut l iirm.-i. she had a babe in her arms, but the hired fiends did not mind that. The parson heard of it in camp through the conversation of a couple of careless troopers. He came back from liis ruined home a changed man. "He was on the firing line at the bat tle of Springfield, in June, 17S0, and the Hessian troops were opposed to the pa triots. The soldiers ran out. c wad dirg, and vere about to fall back, when Caldwell rushed to the Presbyterian cuirch and returned with his arms f.i!l of hymn books. He rushed up and down the line, throwing the books right and left, pnd crying out as he ran: " Put Watts into 'em! Boys 'em Wi Us!' "And they did 'give 'em Watts' tin iiloody liritisli ran. "The other traced v? Yes. I , give until said there were two. I referred to the death of Caldwell. He was shut the n"xt year by John Morgan, a drunken sol dier of the Jersey militia. They hang ed Morgan, but that did not give back a livlrg Caldwell, so we named the town alter him. and, d-o y-o-u k-n-o-w, I'm glad we did?" Sweden Understood America. New York Tribune: Now that the question as to who was our friend at the time of the war w ith Spain has been thrashed out, one might start a discus sion ns to who really thought that we were going to win. At the Hotel Man hattan recently C. S. Clark, of Chicago, was teilir? of a trio he took through Europe In the summer of IsitS, and of what he found the sentiment on this fju"stion to be. "Outside of England, which we who were abroad that year felt to be really like home. I found but one place where It wes thought we would win. In France we were foolish, in Austria they had us paying an In demnity to Spain, but up in Sweden I found a young officer In a naval Ktation who was confident that we could wipe I the Spanish navy off the water. Some how or other he had manatred to see something of (lie Inside of he Spanish navy, and also of the navy of the Unit ed States, and hence, he Bald, came his confidence. I remember, too, he re marked to me. "If you do whip Spain ton will have to double your navy That's the penaltv of victory." I found many other people In Sweden wW were most friendly to im; they all seemed to have a most genuine regard for the I 'lted Stntes. and admiration for our rv.wer n'd oer methods of doing things." Making Light From Smoke. Science: A Belgian engineer. Toblan sky. ban Invented an apparatus for pro ducing light from Ptnoke. It appear that the origin of th smoke Is a mat ter of indifference. It is simply forced into a receiver, where It Is saturated with hydrocarburet. and can then be burned, giving a brilliant Illumination The Orest Forests of Txn Although usually regarded as a land of plains and prairies, Texas Is an Im portant lumber-producing state, and millions of feet of lumber are rut an nually in the eastern part of the state. Texas poses some 61,000 square miles of woodland, the largest area of the kind in any American common wealth "The Story of Texas." Pear son's Magazine. Mi Mudge works on the sympathi. r of her audience when the curtain gens tip by oprtesrlns dlngulsed as a He', Cross hospital on the field of battle Chicago Tribune. THE VALUE OP C0UETE3T. ITe Vfho Would Cet on Best Jtus Ilavo Good Manners. New York Commercial Advertiser It is far too common a hnhlt ( ith man piiple to depredate courtesJ' a3 a sit perlieial attraction, an unnecessar) hamper on social intimacy. It la nelth i-r the one nor the other. It is ver rarely that courtesy in a man Is not th outward and visible tdgn of other ad mirable qualities within. It la not ne cessarily an indication of kindliness ol heart, but it is very often its outward manifestation, and. at any rate, cour tesy Indicates that a man Is not sc wrapped up in himself ana his ow n per fections r.s to forget what is due to oth er people, especially to women. It oilf the wheels of lite and good umler.-tand-Ing. for every woman will show to bet ter advantage when she feds safe from ill manners and tactlessness. A cour teous man will put a womau on good terms with herself, and cotiKequently on good terms with him, whereby he reaps his reward In many wa' s. Even a bad-tempered shrew Is not Insensible to good manners; and calm courtesy will often avert an attack of "tantrums" or hysterics. Seeing the enormous value of this quality of courtesy In the appreciation of men and women, It is very strangf that day by day the courteous man If becoming more and more rare, until Boon the last specimen will have to be captured for the museum of natural his tory, to be placed next to the dodo among the extinct species. Bad man ners rule the town, and are to be met with where one would least expect them to be found. The older men of the present day still retain some traditions of that courtesy which dlKtlngulshei their fathers, and which they have not known how to hand on to their sons. ; Such courtesy la, alas! now condemned i as "old-fashioned." What would! those forefathers have said to the young man of the present day who lounges In-i to a room full of ladies with both hands plunged In his pockets: who will stand and talk to a lady In the same attitude; who will seat himself at table before she Is seated; who will not rise to open the door for her if she leaves the room; who will remain seated when a lndy stops to talk to him in passing, and a thousand other trivial signs and tokens of lack of manners having 1 li"lr root in indolence, conceit and selfishness? That the women of the present day are con siderably to blame for allowing young men to lxl.ave thus. Instead of turnlii" their backs on them and s'ti-ik 1 Ip mrit'R them. Is tinnuesH.-in ibl : but wo w ores don't make ri rigV." i'or a man's social careor among wo men fi uitesy is a trump rur I. It Is not the only one. Women admire r.r age (another development of the qual ity of strength which Is the strongest magnet of all for women I honesty, good lr-!!.if", generosity, r.i.i .lc-fuln-M I Alien m-i carried to the po' i: of hui' !":, (iexterity in sport of Ml kinds, r.r.d, of course, physical br'ait'y; but a man may have all of these an 1 youth beside to recommend him and yet not find himself "hi the running'' with a gray-haired senior who has realized the occult influence of deferential co.ir tesy toward women. Courtesy, like charity, covers Innumerable sins. A maa may be the greatest rapscallion on earth, but if he has good manners women will like him and fight his bat tles. He may be a paragon of all vir tues; if. however, lie lacks courtesy and is rough and Ill-mannered, his virtues may help his celestial salvation, but will be of no use at all fur his social suc cess on earth. Therefore, let the man who wanta to be liked by women re member that, however much women may differ In their Individual tastes, good manners and good tempera have never yet failed to find favor In the eyes of the daughter of Eve. A Saving in Conversation. Chicago Inter Ocean: If It were pos sible to devise a scheme whereby cer tain obvious and Indisputable remarks could be expressed in characters a gnat saving In conversation and com ;jOHition would be the result. The St. t-ouis Globe-Democrat's HUBucstlon of society for tne suppression of hack neyed observations Is In line with this thought. The Globe-Democrat has taken the trouble to point out a few of the time worn and moss-covered commonpiaceu that would not be missed If eliminated altogether. For example; "It H m,t the actual degree of heat reentered hy the thermometer which makes It so iincomfmiuble; It is tne humidity of the atmosphere." ' I don't mind the money! It's the principle of the thing." "One never understands the name when one Is Introduced to a person." "If the watir were filtered It would ba hint ar good nx the water of any city." "The tiouble about going to summer gardens Is it takes you so long to get l'ome." These, of courw, are obvious observa tions peculiar to St. Ixmls. But we ,1'!i,r R f''w Chicago that are equally trite. GIVEN A DESERVED REBUKE. Thought New Boarder Reflected Up on Character of Her Houae. Philadelphia Times; As a new boarder, h" was given extra attention at his first breakfast, and was aiked by the landlady: "Will, how did you enjoy your rest after a change of quarters?" "I didn't rest much," he replied. "1 was troubled all night with Insomnia." "Sir," was the landlady's Indignant comment, 'you should not say such a thing at table! I've never heard such a complaint before in 22 ye-ars as aiouse keeper, and I'd have you knofn. sir, I've had your betters as my botfldcrs! And," she went on, as ho flusterlngly began to mumble an explanation, "I do not believe you. sir. and am willing to bonrd you free If you find a single one on that lied!" Wages In Spain, In Spain a man who works on a fsrm receives about 25 cents. In the vine yards wages range from 14 cents a day for women end boys at 21 cents for un skilled men, and 42 or 50 cents for those upon whose nklll the whole responsi bility of the rslsln crop rests. A correspondent -eif the New York Times says: "How beautiful thn itatufi of Liberty Is now' Nature hns tnerrlrg Hsl and cannot abide a rrudlty. The soft green mold she lavs jver bronze ham brought the spletmld torch-bearer Into a wonderful tone In aarmony with water and eky colors.' 1 ."4 " v' 2 t ,: