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I The Harrison Press Journal. C. C. BURKE, Proprietor. HARRISON. - - NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES B. H. Begale. one of the leadin? merchants of Beatrice, will begin the erection of a new brick block In a few days. The building will be SixliK), two stories high and will cost about is.ooo. " " C. L. Stillman, chairman of the com mittee on violations of the pharmacy law of the state board of pharmacy, jhaa begun the prosecution of several Columbus druggists for unlawfully op erating their stores. t A requisition was issued by the act ling governor for the return of Leo Jor dan, who is wanted in Omaha for trial on a complaint signed by Florence 'Smith, charging assault. He is under arrest in Creston, la. Later reports to Department of Pub lic Instruction show that five counties voted to organize adjunct high school districts in accordance with the free high school attendance law. They are .'Antelope, Jefferson, Madison, Douglas and Cass. Acting In accordance with a section 'of the Nebraska banking act, the State 'Board of Banking has approved the .bond of the stockholders of the defunct German bank of Murdock, under which the stockholders agree to pay all claims against the Institution within jttae next six months. t The building on the site of the Car negie library at Fremont Is being re moved and as soon as the ground is cleared work will be commenced on the Bew structure. The plans provide for a modern one-story building of stone and compressed brick, fronting on Mil itary avenue. It is to be completed by November 1. Alnsworth will have a grand carnival and street fair this fall, to continue tour days, commencing September 36 and ending the 19th. At a large and enthusastic meeting of the citizens the ball was set In motion by electing R. 8. Rising president, Charles A. Howe ,vice president, William M. Ely secre tary, and John Sullivan treasurer. At an enthusiastic meeting of the local Llederkranz at West Point that body formed itself into a corporation under the name of the West Point Lle derkranz. This action was taken in view of the growing strength and im portance of this body and its increased sphere of activity In the approaching entertainment of the state saenger bund, which will convene here in Au gust. An addition 40xl and three stories In height is to be built to the main building of the orphans' home at Fre mont. The school building will be moved some distance to the north. The board of directors decided to petition the city council to extend the water works system to their buildings. The financial condition of the orphanage is tar better than ever before, and there is enough money in the treasury to erect the new addition. William H. Thompson of Grand Isl and, fusion candidate for governor, lias filed a statement to the effect that he expended no money in securing the nomination. Because of his residence In the town where the conventions were held Mr. Thompson had an advantage over the other nominees on the fusion ticket, for as they were nonresidents, all had to pay for hotel accommoda tions. Acting Governor Steele has issued a proclamation offering a reward of $200 for the apprehension of William J. Al exander, murderer of Charles Hall. The murder was committed In Madison on July 4. Alexander had been gam bling and claimed that lie lost heavily. He undertook to hold up the estab lishment In which he had been playing and in the process shot and killed Hull. The Identity of the murderer is not disputed. Hall was formerly a barber in Omaha. The impression haB become general that Harry Tracy, the Oregon outlaw and escaped criminal,' l thp Trncy who erved four terms in the Nebraska pen itentiary and has a state-wide reputa tion for lawlessness. The Oregon des perado is described as a half-breed Mexican. The Nebraska Tracy Is known as a half-breed Indian. In color and height the descriptions of the two men agree perfectly. The records at the penitentiary, however, disclose In formation which disproves , the sup posed Identification. Harry Tracy, the murderer, was arrested in Oregon In Wl, and so far as can be learned here ir as in custody until he broke out of the penitentiary at Halem a short time ago. - The Tracy known here was at liberty during the year J899, but served time subsequently In the, Nebraska penitentiary. This fact makes it cer tain that the Nebraska convict is not (be man who has been murdering, stealing and Invading home arid prop erty In Oregon and Washington. " :'; V, I ", H -' t'. Judge Sernborffer bas tendered the Mowing decision In the OoaM habeas isra ssmitlruss at Wshoo: "it foV w .raore, thai the petitioner ts tajajrftttlr ras trailed C his iraerry Mid MCSM.ta isiiairgaa. and Judgment etrjr ceordlngjy.'' iftm ease has Can ""m.slssa, wisMdarsW attends), CtT.Ml dlMMrge t one , $ 'Z2zmmr tm '.r .:;. l. r z4 tnH Oomi ' O f . aeaoMfitce to his ' i . . f? yeeasjr the BeU- ' j 1 1 3 t3 trntag, a teres WHO WEARS THE PANTS t Who wears the pants? A younjf man usked, Of a friend past middle life Who wears the' pants? old friend, Tou, or your darling wife? Ahem! aham! replied the friend. To end all earthly strife. I've made an assignment of my eftects To my good and trustful wife. Who wears the pants? The fanner was asked. As ha plowed the growing corn, I "do. he repllnd. in the early mora But later on in the day. The wife puts them on Without making much fu.es. In her own peculiar way, " She wears the pants. Who wears the pants? A youne niece asked Of a matron old and srray. Who wears the pants? dear aunt. You, or your old spouse pray? Oh, ho. te ,he, the aunt replied As Bhe blushed with loving glance. I think it best through life my dear, Fyr the wife to wear the pants. Edgar Baker. HANS. BY FRANK H. SWEET. (Copyright, 1901, by Authors' Syndicate.) T AMES were only a means of tern- IM porary identification at Dead Level Bar, and when a man so far forgot the place as to orna ment himself with two and perhaps even three, merely because they hap ened to have been given or bequeathed, he was sternly thrust back to the re proach of "Soap" or "B'ar's Grease" or "Comb an' Brush," or something else equally appropriate and distaste ful. As among the Indians, there was a custom of using anything convenient until a man had earned a right to some thing distinctive and honorable. That was how tenderfoot "Cub" of six months before, was veteran Pistol Bill of today, and why pink-faced, swearing Bobby had become Blue Blazes. Dead Level Bar was attractive to strangers. Paydirt had been struck by the first comers, and paydirt had been the rule ever since. Two ounces a day was a fair average for a river-bottom man. but three ounces was better. And naturally it was the river-bottom min ing that set labor rates for the ponder ous crushers on the hillside. It was high preposterous of course, but the mine owners did not complain, for every jar of their machinery turn ed three figures into their pockets. A day meant a competence, a week a for tune, and a month was something that made even the wildest visionary gasp for breath. So the unskilled days, and the China man, and the shirk from Alabama, and the red-headed man from Cork, alike received their two ounces a day; while a moderately-skilled laborer was in de mand at twice and even thrice that sum. Occasionally a man came who was thoroughly conversant with min ing machinery, or with analyzing or prospecting, and he was a Croesus who could command his own rules and his own time and his own reward. And yet the mines on the hillside were al ways short of help. New comers pre ferred the possibility of three ounces a day to the certainty of two. and the skillfulwere generally vMonary enough to dream of the vast wealth which ev ery turn of their spade might disclose. Among the arrivals one day was a blue-eyed, flaxen-haired German, who towered head and shoulders above bis companions, and whose first act on alighting was to snatch a pail from the driver's seat and go in search of water lor the horses. "Dey vass t'irsty," he remarked, sen tentiously, as he went from one to an other, watching them carefully and giv ing water only as he thought Judicious, and not as the panting animals craved. "In de German army we our horses vass look after." Then he stood back and gazed about curiously, his shoulders square and his right arm bent slightly at the elbow, as though the hand were resting upon the hilt of a sword. One of the mine owners paused on the opposite sidewalk and regarded him attentively. He, too, had a habit of carrying his arm in that position; and, besides, there were other things about the upright, soldierly fig ure which carried him back to certain years of bis own in the German army. An hour later the stranger was in stalled as the chief engineer of the Gold Bug, with a salary of $50 a day, and with the understanding that he was to have the oversight of other mines, with a corresponding Increase of com pensation. The blue eyes of the Ger man had grown big with wonder at the munificence of the salary, but the mine owner's had only narrowed and bright ened. He knew that another man with this scientific giant's acquirements would have asked a hundred, and been given it without a question. In the books he was entered as Hans, because of the clerk's inability to un derstand the long, unpronounceable name he gave: but down in the camp he was simply Cause, while the burly teamster h one 4ay tossed 20 feet Into ihe river for beating a horse, become Effect. Malls were of uncertain arrival at Dead Level Bar. Sometimes they came twice a month, sometimes only once In two months and sometimes the ap pearance of road agents prevented them from coming at all. Hans had been there six weeks before a mail came in, and then it was another week before the clerk connected the letter whose address) he could not decipher with the engineer whose name he could not pro nounee. When the letter was brought to him Haas U sitting on a bowlder outside the StU. hi Mae eyes axed upon a distant point of the horlzoa with an expression of wistful neas and regret Fir minute later he was In the super intendent's oce. "t glf my notice," be cried, hla (ace glowing sad kin blue eye radiant "I take stage la to minute " "T-what ta 20 slnoteaf Ok, yon wnnt mom salary.' The soasrta tendest threw hi feet into aaother chair tad Mud at him expecto!. Wei, bo Mueh? Will- SO per eSX Hero or -fin i I d te." Kane n Meratcl 1 mr notice." Hte crfiJ w tno avid rl he r' -ri ot mm 1 tt I. a.U ttf of It. ' Wetl pay yon snore than anybody else." "It in not d pay," eagerly; "yon no Ton ban good to nm, nan I stay mit you longer as anybody. But now I vass go home to Katrina. - You see," as a slight smile appeared on the youthful face of the superintendent; "it is lik4 dis. Dere vasa t'lngs tell about me, and Katrina hear tiem, and she say to me: 'Go! Den I hear anod der man vass seek her, and I come to America to forget. But no, dere vass no place to forget When I come to de mountains I see Katrina everywhere, 8nd I hear her voice mit de trees and when I dream. Now dis." holding the letter up and regarding it wistfully, "tells me dat Katrina is waiting, and it say de lies mit me are all discover and dat de odder man is punish." "I am glad to hear it, Hans," said the superintendent, bearily; "but still I think you ought to remain with us. Why. Just think of It, man! six months of this work, and you can go back and build a castle for Katrina." But Hans raised himself to his full height and looked down compas sionately. "You is young man," he said, "and do not understand dese t'lngs. Gold is everywhere, all over de world; but dere is only one Katrina. I gif my notice now and go to de stage. And I ay goot-by." The superintendent watched him down the hillside, and then turned to his desk with a sigh. "I am a young man," he thought, bit terly; "but I do understand, I have al ready lotit my Katrina." BOY AND MERCHANT. Testing System of Employment Which Didn't Work in Practice. Philadelphia Record:: A merchant prince of this city, needing additional help, inserted the following advertise ment in a morning paper: "Hoy Wanted a week; $6 to the right one." A group of two or three dozen appli cants awaited the merchant the next day in his office. One at a time they were admitted, and to each In turn the merchant said: "Take this book and read on with out pause or break until 1 tell you to stop." The boy would take the volume and begin to read. The merchant, after a moment, would rise with a sharp ex clamation and drop a heavy paper weight on the floor. This, usually, would excite the curiosity of the read er, who would pause and raise his eyes from the text to Bee what was going on. But if he refrained from doing this, if he kept up a continuous flow of read ing, the merchant would put him toan otner test by taking a puppy dog from a closet and beginning to romp with It All the boys but one fell before the test of the puppy dog. They stopped read ing, they looked on at the romp with smiles, and some of them even went bo far as to say: "What's the dog's name, mister?" Those who failed like this were bid den to depart. But the one boy who did not fail the merchant took by the hand. "I want you," he said, "for it is plain that you are master of yourself. I told you to keep on reading, and you kept on, though to test you I dropped an iron paper-weight and played with a puppy dog. I'll take you, therefore, into my employ at $4 a week, and if you do as well as I think you will your salary will be raised to $6 a week with in nine months." The boy, 'who had an honest, open countenance, said: "I thank you, sir. Mother will be glad to hear of this. I will report for duty at 8 o'clock tomor row morning." And. bowing politely, the, lad. with drew, holding his cap in his" hand. The merchant gave him, the next morning, $25 in greenbacks to deposit in bank. "You are master of yourself." he said, "and without fear I give you a position of trust at once." The boy set out for the bank, but never reached it. Neither did he ever return to his employer again. He dis appeared completely. He was a scoun drel and a thief. Thereafter, in engaging help, the merchant was guided by references rather than by teBts. VICTIMS OF LIGHTNING. Electrician Says They Can Be Re stored by Proper Treatment "In most of the cases in which per sons are struck by lightning death would rarely ensue if the proper treat ment were administered." said an old time electrician. "Take, for instance, the persons who died In Chicago last week as the result of being hit by light ning during a severe storm. I am firm ly convinced that, had some one who knew what to do been on hand, the victims' lives might have saved. "If a person has been tsruck by lightning the first thing to do Is to go to work to restore consciousness, as lightning oftener brings about sus pended animation than somatic death, The condition of a pennn struck by lightning Is much the same as that of a person rescued from drowning. Try to stimulate respiration and circulation. Do not cease In the effort to restore an imation In less than an hour, as you value the life of the sufferer. "The method used to restore rer.plra tion is Immaterial. A good way Is to Imitate the motions of respiration by alternately compressing and expanding the lower ribs. Do this gently but per fclst.ently at the rate of 20 times per minute. Keep the body warm by the application of hot flannels, bottles of hot water, hot bricks, or, In case of an emergency, warm clothing from by standers. Rub the limbs upward so as to force the blood to the heart and brain. "Two or three persons can do this, remembering all the time to make but one stroke, and that toward the body, so as to force blood toward the heart. Rub firmly, but energetically. Three things are to be borne In mind: Do not give up: keep up the effort to restore respiration, and keep the body warm by rubbing and hot applications. When wallowing 1 established, a reospoon fnl of warm water, wine, diluted whis ky, or brandy, or warm coffee should he given. When consciousness Is re stored encourage alecp. Do not give np, keep at work, and send for n phy! sfan. "Of the visible efforts of lightning troke upon the human body, little .lore can be aald than that sometimes burn have been noticed, and fre quently red or marking, which are lo calised aongastionn of the small blood vessels of the sWn." BRITISH AMBASSADOR MUST BE SOMETHING HOEE THAW A MEEE DIPLOMAT. Miraculous Obtusenes of Britishers in Eegard to Social Bank of Americans. Washington letter: The most prom fnent topic of discusp'on here at the present moment Is the appointment of the new - British -.-ambassador. .Both Americans and English feel that very much In connection with the question of friendly relations between the two countries depends upon the man ap pointed to the office. It is understood that the relations between an English ambassador and the American people or between an American ambassador to England and the British people differ from those betwvtvn representatives of other coun tries and these respective peoples, a fact due to blood kinship, a certain homegeniety, and to the use of a com mon language. Even more reasons than these might be cited, but they are enough. One of the cleverest things that have oevn voiced in regard to the appoint ment was by a writer in the London Spectator, who said: "The Americans early learned to discriminate In the matter of the men who should be sent to represent themselves at St James. They most successfully discovered the right type of man to send as ambassa dor. The moment an American envoy lands at Southampton he becomes a great figure in English public life. We 111 11st reciprocate and send an English man capable, not merely of doing the regular work of an ambassador, but of standing out in American public life as a great personage and a typical rep resentative of his country." It has been well suggested that the late Iord Pauncefote's successor should like himself be, among other things, an able Jurist, and in this connection the name of Hon. Alfred Lyttleton was once suggested. Next In line for choice an ex-vlceroy or a colonial ex-gover nor. even a distinguished general or admiral might have been sent. For in stance, Ixird Slinto, governor general of Cunada, might have proved, in more ways than one, an excellent choice. In many respects the appointment of Mr. Herbert seems to be a clever piece of diplomacy and personally he is most eligible. If the election of Mr. Her bert does not result through his wife's family ties in factional social fights there is no reason to quarrel over the appointment. Everybody knows, how ever, what the differences in the Van derbilt family are and how extremely they affect the leaders la New York and indictly in Washington. It 6eema that something more than diplomacy will be needed to make the social cogs work smoihly. There is a strong probability that the present meager salary attached to the offlce at present $32.f.OO, $15,000 less than that of the British ambassador to Paris, will he Increased. Sir Julian Pauncefote was the first British ambassador at Washington, his predecessors having only been min isters, which fact may account for the discrepancy in the salary attached to this embassy. When the legations of the great pow ers at Washington were raised to the rank of embassies, Sir Julian and M. Patenotre, the then French representa tive, ran a ncck-and-neck race for the honor of being the first ambassador. M. Patenotre was the winner by 18 hours, his credentials arriving that much ahead of Sir Julian's. Of course, the Frenchman hastened off to the state department as fas as etiquette would permit and presented his credentials, thus becoming the first ambassador ac credited to the Vnlted States. Somehow or other the British em bassy has always been regarded as the most important at Washington as a so cial center. Intermarriages and other ties have served to give the British rep resentative an Influence possessed by the members of no other embassies. There is naturally a good deal of similarity In the tastes of Americans and Uritlsners. especially In th? im portant matter of home life. French men, Germans and the Latins gener ally, having no home life, but prefer ring to spend their lives lu a constant round of visiting. The cousinshU) between the better class of Americans of Washington and the incumbents of the British embassy has In the past led to some serious so cial mistakes. The English, like oth er foreigners, have an Idea that Amer icans all occupy the same social level, and that we have no classes among ourselves, a pleasing Illusion which writers for the press and other persons have kept alive to preserve the idea that Americans are really democratic. fnder this mlxapprrheiiRion the oc cupants of the British embassy have frequently admitted Into the cliarmed circle of Washington Americans who are considered acceptable In select circl'3 In their own home cities. Some of thi-se contretempts have proved ex ceedingly amusing. The newly rich have often climbed to social heights undreamed through other channels sim ply by having had the entree to the fine balls and excellent dinners of the British embassy, Just as jiervctiu Amer icans are ridiculously taken up by Eng lish people of quality on the other side and exploited, much to the disgust and mortification of Americans of. social standing. These things, however, have been perhaps avoidable during our inchoate period, althoimb there Is no excuse whatever for their occurrence now. The new diplomatist may, therefor-, beware. Shrewd and canny as the late Lord Pauncefote was, Mrs. Pauncefote and the daughters of the ambassador make many faux pas of this kind, much to the annoyance of some of the older Washington farallU-s, who are quite as closely wedded to the notions of blue blood as the modern British aristocracy. It mil l be remembered that the British .vernment was the first to buy or I "A a home for Us representa tive at A . shlngton, and a great aquare, red brick house on Pennsylvania ave nue har been that borne for over a quarter (t a century. While the out ward appearance of the house Is any thing hut beautiful the interior Is ex tremely so, There la an air of roomi ness and solid comfort about the drawing-room and library reminding one of sosn of the old manorial balls of Ens- Unit Amnn? tht clotures Is a splen did full Wngth portrait of Queen Vic toria in her coronation roues. Of the predecessors of the last holdr of the offlce Ixird Sackville West will perhaps be longest remembered, whose volubility cost him an envied position and a diplomatic reputation at one fell blow. Outside of this unlucky Incident the British representatives have gen erally acuultted themselves satisfactori ly. When Mr. Stratford Canning, a cous in of the famous English prime min Iter, was British representative at Washington, in the 20's, a little episode occurred, the incidents of which are stiii related at some of the old-fashion-, ed dinners given at the embassy. It is as follows: "On a raging, pouring January night the Britisn minister was about stepping into hU carriagu for a state dinner at the white house when the axle-tree snapped like a match. "There was no time to lose, and away trotted the coachman with the horses to the nearest livery stable with orders to return at once with any kind of a vehicle. The stableman had sent out everything he had on wheels car riages being in demand that night ex cpt the hears'. "It did not take long for the coach man to make up his mind, so the horses were clapped to the hearse, and in five minutes it dashed up to the minister's door. There he stood, watch in hand, waiting in agony for a vehicle, and when the hearse rattled up he stepped in with a sigh of relief, and lying down flat on his back, was bowled along at a slashing gait to the white house. "When the hoarse rolled up to the door, naturally It made a sensation, which was increased when a live man crawled out of it. "The climax came after the dinner was over, when the departing gm-cu were assembled In the white house lob bv. The carriages were called in a stentorian voice: "The secretary pf state's carriage! The secretary of war's carriage! The attorney general's carriage! The British minister's hearse!" And up rumbled the hearse, and in climbed the minister, and off. fared the equippage, the minister lying on his back with British calmness. FREDERICK WATSON. FISH OF WEST INDIES. Some Brilliant-Colored Specimens of the Finny Tribe. Professor C. L. Bristol In St Nicho las: The clear, limpid waters that sur round Bermuda and the West Indies lie above coral reefs covered with plants and animals, many of which are brilliant in color as a rainbow. They look like glimpses of fairyland, and as your eye wanders from one wonder to another you catch yourself striving to peek Just around some corner into a Btrange nook, half hoping to see a bevy of mermen and mermaids sporting and playing within the crannies. Here is a patch of pale-green sea-lettuce; there a group of great purple sea fans; yon der some golden corals standing out like a shelf or branching like a tree; while among them all swim flashes that take the place of the fairies that should dwell in this magic land, and fascinate you by their gorgeous color and their graceful, wavy motions. There is a gre.it green "parrot fish." as brilliant in color as his namesake, the bird, showing himself boldly, and swimming along slowly, secure from any assault. His scales are grpen as the fresh grass of sprlngtlrtie, and each one is bordered by a pale.brown line. His fins are pink, and the end of the tall is banded with nearly every color of the rainbow. He Is showy, but this showiness serveB him a good purpose. His flpsh Is bitter and poisonous to man, and probably so to other fishes as well, and they let aim well alone, for they can recognize him afar off, thanks to his gaudy dress. I'ndorneath the parrot, lying on the bottom, Is a "pink hind." You notice him, and as the parrot passes over him he suddenly changes to bright scarlet, and as quickly resumes his former faint color. Had the parrot been looking for his dinner, and thought the hind would make a good first course, this sudden change of color might have scared him off. just as the sudden bristling of a cat makes a dog rlumge his mind. When the hind fs disturbed at night he gives out flashes of light to startle the intruder, and Bend him away in a fright. FOREIGNERS IN TEE CITIES. Largest Proportion , in Fall River, Emallett in Montgomery, Ala. The larger part of the foreign-born population of the t't.lted Slates is found, of course, in the large cities. Hut there are few cities having more than one-third of their population for-ergn-horn, and there Is no city in whic h one-half of the population is foreign born. The nearest approach to the latter condition is found in Fall River, where 4S per cent, of the population, including many French-Canadians, Is forrlgn born; Lawrence, .Mass.. 4.1 per rent.; t-owoll. Mass., 43; Passaic. N. .1., 40; Woonsockct. R. I., 41; Manchestr, Mass., 42; New York. 37; Paterson, ?,8; Boston, 35; and In the West Chicago, 24; Detroit 33; Milwaukee, 31: Cleve land, 32; San -Francisco, 34, and Duluth, 29. These fire the cities havln.T the larg est proportionate foreign-born popula tion. 'The number of cities In which native-born Americans not only pre dominate, but predominate so largely as to constitute fully or nearly nlnc tenlhs of tho population, Is more num erous. lit 'ghamton has &0 per cent of lis population native-born and Elmlra hag 82. Allentown, Pa., one of the strong holds of the I'ensylvanla Germans, has 91 per cent, of Its population native born; llarlsliurg, the Pennsylvania capital, has 95 per rent; Washington, the national capital, has 02; Richmond and Norfolk. Va., have 86; York, Pa., lias 06; Chattanooga and Nashville, Tenn., have 96; Topeka, Kan., has 90; Indianapolis has 69, Terra Haute has 92, Charleston has n, and lexlngton Ky., W. But the American city which come nearer to having an exclusively native population than any other Is, perhaps, Montgomery, Ala., with 98 per cent., though Montgomery does not usually rank among the Important cities of the United States. Little Hock, Ark., has 94 per cent, of American population and Los Angeles tn-New York Sua. TO EXTEND SUBWAY NEW BAPID TRANSIT STSTEM TO COVER GREATER CITT. From Hackensack Meadows to Long Island Swamps by Electrio Power. New York letter: Having awaken ed to the necessity of a rapid translB system adequate to the needs of the community. New York Is now on the way toward getting. syst'-m which will at an early date eclipse those of either Paris or Berlin, and come within measurable distance of that of London. August Belmont, who has been a con spicuous promoter of the scheme iu Manhattan, has come forward and of fered to build with private capital and credit whatever extensions to the pres ent subway system may be deemed ad visable by the present commission. In the meantime. Mr. Parsons, the chief engineer of the commission, has been instructed to prepare plans for a comprehensive Interborough nubway system for the entire city of New York, which it is estimated will lead to a fur ther investment of 30,000,000 at the lowest figure. There is no doubt that the new tun nels which are being built under the North river for the steam and electric railways will also be made part and parcel of the whole Interurban system, and that within a year or two the con dition of the weather will cease to be taken into consideration in making a trip between places like Yonkers and Jersey City, Flatbush and Harlem or Hoboken and Astoria. Jusl what routes along which it will be thought best to extend It would be difficult to surmise at the moment, al though they can be approximately se lected from the main lines of the pres ent surface traffic. The princlpel point that will be achieved by this change, It would seem, should be an equalization of real estate values for property located within the zone of the proposed subway roads, and the relief It will give to the more con-gi-sted districts of New York City, now fubt approaching their maximum of ca pacity. The New Yorker of the yar 1900 should be found dodging about on his trips almost as nonchalantly as the Londoner of today accomplishes his Journeys from Pecklam to Southwark, or from the West India docks to Hol loway without either seilng th sur face or being bothered with any of the details of life above ground. He will b-i able, If necessary, to have his private compartment, or to take his stenographer along, possibly to get himself shaved or his boots polished In transit, and to telephone from certain points along the route. The system will finally be the largest, moat com prehensive and complete in the world. It will bet the apotheo.sia of railway traveling and comfort, the embodiment of convenience and speed. The new dis covery of Edison In relation to storage batteries assures lis that the motive power will be electricity. The sanitary arrangmenta will be such that none of the evils existing in the London un derground system will be tolerated. The successful manufacture of oxygen for commercial purposes has solved the question of fresh air, which will lx pumped through tubes Into the sub ways, while the high grade light mip plied will turn the underground thor oughfares practically Into "all day light" routes. What the advantages of such travel ing facilities will lie I11 both extremes of weather can bo easily sagaciated. There will be no outdoor discomforts, but the mean temperature will be en Joyed both winter and summer. There will be no standing on exposed plat forms or street corners waiting for trains. Restaurants, and all kinds of faclll'de?, even to luxurious baths, will be provided at the great Junction sta tions, which will also connect with the two great trunk lines then running in to the heart of the city, the Pennsyl vania and New York Central. With the half-hour train from Flatbush to Ho boken and the 15-hour train to Chi cago, which by that time will have ar rived, traveling will have set itself a new pace and we shall be getting ready for the time when we actually shall fly through space by the aid of wings Instead of wheels. BERTRAM LL'HHAR. THE SHORT STEP BETWEEN. Relieving the Nervous Feeling of Im periled Passengers. Philadelphia Record: "I was on the Paris when she ran on the roc ks off the English coast, a couple of years ago," said a Philadelphia traveling man, "and In the panic that, ensued there is an Incident that stands out In my mem ory. Illustrating tno slender thread be tween the, trnglc and the rhiiculous. We had a fellow 011 board who had managed to keep pretty well loaded all the way across, and when we struck the rocks he was In his usual condi tion. When everybody thought for sure we were going down to the bot tom, he sat down at the piano In the saloon, and what do you suppose ho began playing? 'Home, hweet Home.' Somebody went to him and begged him to stop. Immediately he switched off from tho doleful Hiralns of the old song to the rollicking melody of 'Down went McGlnty.' The absurdity of the thing seemed to strike everybody once, and a general laugh followed. The tension was relieved, and there was good order after that" Pf-rm'pplon has at last aen given by the C-erman authorities fi women to attend rolltlcal meetings. They mus-. sit In special places, however, and make no speeches. The other day. Just as a train was about to leave Kutas, In Hungary, for Palfalva, an official appeared and put seals on the wheels of the engine. Tho passengers had to get off and walk. The company was 2fifi crowns In ar rears In payment of taxes. Next day the taxes were paid and thP train pro ceeded. A native born Bt. Lotilsan has been thrice appointed governor of New Mex ico, Miguel Antonio Otero, the man who rules over the destinies of that commonwealth, first say the light of day In the Mound city and received his education in the old 8t Louis university.