Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1900)
Ttoy ct I«jt Opez Pr>’.» fer Ctapu^t PwpiM **U MUVS tllUH3\ m us. tolmiiM ■( I ur*» *t>4 fr«ri,n, l •• •* ta»jr» •< i«v i Mpt»> * —*-*« Mm tUv) C wil %•« (W> « tmrt «a»> • »ru N. u.t. li. '—4—A (*• t—*■»■■« to Ik* Ik* (.ml faruru TLft’t *iu» m» fuatoir bifH aa«i b« IrtH that tto *Mdu*’aortallata.** at • * rta:« * i iwVthtlto Una I tto»»el% e». *'i «al t auppart firyaa fur tto pr**. «*» a* ♦ arc It* to ItktMMteinl t»raa* to Htar jm%* out a *ta« m**at a (•« toy*. m« t* «fc*« h to aaid “1 to M*i |<r*»'iar • » jrt to forr«rr tto I—to Of tto Itoiaro Tar alt#f Mill* of rintlti Mr Hi vat. t» iwt. ta toy jtoftrtK. tm Or ru»t<‘«pUtH tor a Hi—rat Ml» «4r* * UB tarali . if to ato hi* |ian> caa to»r tfcnr may. tto tottatua mi our uemaH yw* t—rtf y toa*-r • a*r* a **aatwf rtxipw»> - *»*■»« fur «r . . :jrt tto totoatac kf a«r ctat-Car4 «*t valor. la< tU^bin* to fa.? h t > ' - t I <>' • .tot. tto array m « to acaiart «taa*. toUMK tat« ruatrayt tto authority a! tto aapnmaai <mmn aad oatoratiar tto ♦writy «rf yruyirt ? aad raktoa. No* atoto «f «ar fnrtto* aa> that H i* tottrr tto* all tto** tfctac* ttotlf happ* .1 •fcaa ttot tto |*u4k» of .taorrsali-tn »hwri< to |prvabH'*4 ta Hat that I* au* tto t—atiaa. ' It 1* sot tto question abettor Hry - tmiam w ssprruiMB to tto •ww tor tto Asnrteas Tto qw»* Isa l* a tod tor uytiiifec that Mr. Hn - *» hr trsatod u j po* 'nm to imperialism i» aortu SU.uitc at tto prtnv of all tbr*r tutor a*r-r*toe» Fur am 1 < as out »ee any th SC to r||ei is tto aay of a return i * tto mm* ie»«. prim ipto# of tto •n’ptit* tona party t»y tto etoi.«#n of itryan We roaid hate stopped tto whole thins bf defeating tto treaty *«f Pari* a hi* ft tot-aid hate ««mprUed it tu to 4U*mi «£ hr task ng tto sam*- pro* i» ion .as t» tike Philippine* that ae thought it right, to stain la regard to ('aha... That linTpuse aa» todtod hjr Mr. to yah. Tto. totoaf of tto treat*, or rather its ..at* m 1 ha*e indiemted. »i a*ewad a to a Mr Bryan < 40i< to 'A a*t ngu.*s and by L.* i»~r*4.nal in Harare induced enough of hi* fulbsu. r* to tote for tto treaty to insure its pannage ui*h bet a single vole to •pare It would have toea defeated, a It a a* if Justin Morril had 11* ed. I La»e so doaM that Mr Bryan dll thn fur tto sole par pose of keeping the tpuamius opes as as iasst tor tto «am * Xoa a tat ran to do if to is *M ad* Cutgroi aiil settle tto question no far as tto establishment uf a cor *fMWt for the Philippi ae archipelago Is roareraed. before the present au asisistratios shall go out <t1 power, and tg ail (Tuiaklitf before tto present •enema shall to over. Whatever may to tto fate of the presidential eto-tion, the Kepu Utraa asreadaa* y in tto Sen ate fur at W-ast four year* longer u «s*«r*d If ft were not so there are many toss* Tatar senators sty infor mation .» that there rre at least nine -•ho agree aith that large number «f reputowaas urho are ia favor of f olding those island* fore* er or at any rate fur a long and tadeftaite period I aupfee tto »«m» thing is true as to many Uegaerat* ia tto house.."' m 1*0 runts. •*»- <k« 1-011 t >«cro. !h* IHb*r tW fmrtf m4 Wild U|^wmiim. tine the Party of CngTH*. the Other the Party at bind OypattuiG At a banquet <*a the UMiiKii of the I birthday ceiebmiion at Chi cago item. J. K Cubfalsua of Rato-a*. ia responding fa* a toast. said: "The fan*rate party ha* but on* fnttlie idea and that b opposition to the republican party, it* platform i* toften front age and defective from use. Only one new plank ha* been law! a its plat form during the put terty years, and that plank was saned U. Arkansa* transported to Chicago hy Coneys army" ns the Kansas • pop" says, "because the bulwark* of the Chicago convention, * “free and uni.anted coinage of *U«e» is the only new sung the famstitir party has learned Mare the rtrtl war. and that H-tf like the song of a dy ing man be came the melody of it* dying hour TW di' nstillf party is a national mourner. Kwry four years it burled fas treasures la 1M6 it buried “state an**mgnty." In iui it buried "op position to the war." in !**>* it bur.c-d - opposition to reconstruction " In !»:: it buried a renegade republican " In ti?( it a»ked the republican party to furaisk the cadaver We refused, sad with great grief and lamentation M Wally buried “Tildea and reform." la Ufa It burled “Hancock and local tariff issue." in UM it missed the laaeral prareasum. but continued to wear mourning In lifa it buried • tariff reform " In !*1C under the leader step of drum the Second th dsuaorrailr party obtained absolute power in ati bran he* uf the govern ment. It almost immediately com psmrad divorce proceeding!- again** (inner, and tnndr preparation* for a first~c urn funeral whic h followed in itpg, when IW democratic party wiiu t*nr* in it* eye* laid away forever th free and unlimited coinage of ml re al tW rstto of Id to I. In thr coming -rt1-— the democratic patty will enjoy another carnage nfa to the cemetery, and this time it will bury three thing* - Hryan .kgmnalcio and all hope of fu sssslag tp lb* fcsslc. TW democrnt.hr Pa.-tllior Times has telling some more truths about tW aWm reform state official*. If •ay*: “Owe mnnot rend the published ac count* uf the proceeding* of yester day * ttrelin* *>! thr Stale ik-ard of Transportation without reacting the tW eourluskm that Most*, lieservf. Wolfe and Comet! acted more tike •errant* «f the railroad* than servants to the public. Mearrve offers I a reso lution to remind the afaion of the board in l«>7 requiring the road* to grant carload rate* to shippers of live stack, and hi* rewoiutiao wn* adopted not a if had and: tig n vigorous protest by Attorney General nmyth. who wn* sup ported by fforretary Porter. Tc a man ap a tree or in Nebraska if w ould some time* appear that Wolfe. ICeuerve and [‘•nfal were representative* of th s ullrrradr and not servants of the peo ple. ljangunge too strong cannot be employed m rondemtng them men • ho nr* selling tW people and their party to the rtllronda. This latest ar ise* eo theti fart show* clearly wbej* I ' ' ' • the blame belong* for failure of secre taries to “do something” during the past two years. The Lincoln Post, the able , hatupion ot the corporation fac tion in the fusion forces, will proba Ujr a*k to have the l imes arraigned on n chare* of treason, because we dare i«cittt out the real traitors to fusion princ iples and to the fusion cause. But tio fmatter. We cannot afford to have fasioa hopes in this state blighted by th** un undent ned conduct of any of cs.r party leaders, even though those baders may be filling state offices. Vaular slMarl'a t i»»‘. That v*nerable silver leader. Senator Stewart of Nevada, has not changed H* mind cn the expansion question. On the l.th of January. jx7l. in speak ing on the San Domingo re.-ulution. bt said: **I believe that it is a part of the destiny of this country, whether for good or not. to annex more territory. 1 do not believe in the power of any * man or set of men. or of any party, tc prevent the accomplishment of this tb.tiny While this republic grows it mu-t expumi, it must increase; as »t grow* it must extend its territory as it wealth and |*ower increase. That i c !.-n the iii.-tory of ever/ country while it was attaining it* destiny. !(:*• >ry doe* not furni.-k us an example i-: any nation that nas risen to power .. J prominence which ha> not during g owth expanded, it is one of the ele ii tits of growth for a nation to ex pand. as much as it is an element of grow in in the oak. which, as it grows. ist have room to extend its trunk and multiply its branches.” (Cong. Globe H71. page 4117. i In a sleet-- h on the floor of the Sen 1 at*- a week ago Senator Stewart made tin* quotation from his former speech, : and then ft d with g argu ment in favor of retaining the Philip l<mo. He said that the president had ted widely and properly in the niat *~r. and lhat the administration had no* departed from the teachings ot th? lather* of the republic. It i* high time that the Aunties read S» nator Stewart out of the popocratic party. Krai urine Ihe |)rt>t«. Tfce farmers of Seward county made , :edu« tion of I40.3H4 during the month of January, r arming pays in that county. Gage county is also pros u». The farmers 'here reduced | ijelr indebtedness during the month. !tiring the year 1*99 there was a • t:oii "f the real estate m*n gages in the state amounting to $i\ ' s! 4 Since the election of McKin le> the total reduction has amounted to tIS* 9**7 «.33. or about $19 per capita lor the entire population. luullirr liirrraar in \% a*«•*. ! me years ago the Baltimore & < bio road was practically bankrupt, ;.i- were many other lines, the result < 1 stagnation of business under dem o< ratic time*-. Now ail this has nanged A few days ago the B. & 0. announced an increase in the wages of its engineers, affecting over 3,000 men. Other road?- have taken similar :»<tion sin«e the election of McKinley. nu hundreds of thousands of employ es uave been uirectly benefited. Kedanag tb National Debt. Prosperity make.- its showing in the Tnited States trea-ury as usual. For the flr*-t half of February the receipts i*f the government exceeded the ex penditures by I3.lis.kl9.79. For the past eight months the net gain has been at the rate of f4.500.000 per month. Fnder a democratic adminis tration in a time of peace, the govern ment was running behind and increas ing the public debt. Note the differ ence. 1m«el« l.ikr* Plutocrat. K'i»ion papers are announcing that ; I t>au has traveled 93.720 miles since r > nomination in 1*9*». Had he not tra\«*led on pa--»*« and levied on local << mimtlec* for his Incidental expenses, the straight coast of such a trip would ’ • o\er $3,000. provided he rode in otdinary coaches the same as th* * t*e*r t on mon people" patronize. Kate of Increase. The decided increase in prosperity may he traced by the figures showing the sales c*f American manufactured goods to foreign countries during De ' * ember, in 1897. $23,000,000; In 1898, $2* 000.000; in 1S1»9. $30,000,000. Farm I->odu*ts show a corresponding in i (lease. “tin liar's** (ireat tarmi m a Play. One of the most pronounced dra matic successes of the season in New V rV is William Young's dramatiza tion of * Ben Hur, now for aliout three months holding the stage of the Broadway theater. with crowded housaa. The dramatization of "Ben Hur waa done wiib assistance in sug ge-tion from Cen. Wallace, author of the novel. 1 aent)-Pour Hour Svatein Works Well 1 The American Society of Civil En gine- rs has been di-.cussing the advis ability of the general adoption of the twen'y-four-hour clock, and a promi nent memlier of the society, who is a manufacturer in Maine, said in a re < ent speech that he had been using the tweu*y-four hour system for time and all his workmen like it and underslajid | lh .%ll "Kooaevelt** SIh>)m. Nearly every liartier shop in Albany has on one of its shelves a shaving mug labeled "Theodore KoosevelL” It is a hood advertisement for the barber, but ks a matter of fact that governor do* s not pi tronize any of the shops. He e< t* shaved in the private room ! th- executive chamber. < ountry Yer»u« City Uirl*. A New* York expert has been giving lib views on saleswomen. He says that a country girl is better than her « ity bied sister In this line of work. He gives as his reasons for this that the country girl is not so likely to have her head full of social amuse ments. that she is. as a rule, more attentive to her business, and that she studies ih« wants of her customers more than the city maiden. M ouMu'l Play I ntll Cane «.«» Found* Paderewski kept an audience in Co 'umbus. O.. waiting forty minutes last Saturday night because he could not .<nd his csne. and would not leave the note! without it. Indeed, he sent word that there would be no performance, hut when he was notified by telephone from the theater that his walking stick was there he put in a belated appear ance. >•« York's Oldest Inhabitant. Abraham E. Elmer, of Utica, said to be the oldest inhabitant of New York state, has just celebrated his 113th birthday. He was born in Warren, Herkimer county, and lost his eyesight fourteen years ago, but otherwise is well preserved. He has used tobacco ( race be was 10 years old. t WHEN HE LAUGHED. When Igirkins laughed all Digger City laughed with him. Never was a laugh more merry, more contagious. The men of Digger City were a sober lot. and to them the bright side of life was generally reflected in and meas ure'1. by (he gold they dug, but b3 luck good or bad. not one of the rough men that made up the mining camp ever had the temerity to dispute Larkins’ right to laugh and make others laugh with him. And yet there wrs a suspicion that Larkins laughed liecause he was sad. Larkins arrived in Digger City one stormy winter night, no one knew from where. With him was a ciiiid, a chubby, goiden-haired boy of 4 years. Scum* one ashed how long the journey j had bet'll, and Digger City then heard the Saugh it was to know so well. *"lhe kid and 1,” said Larkins, with a w.-ve of his baud toward tlie east. ***oine from there. We didn't leave much Ik hind. ;.nd ir.ebbe we haven’t got much in store ahead. But we ll ; sti*k together, won’t we. old boy? Dad and liis kid will stick together, eh?” Then Larkins smoothed the baby's ; hail jnd laughed until the crowd ban caught the infection. Months passed and still Digger City learned little of Larkins or his boy. \ In mining camps a man is judged for I what lie is. The man with a past can bury- it. Digger City learned to know and to love Larkins lor himself and , for his buy. The man lived for the child, and when other miners were at j the Screech Eagle bar trading tueir | dust for drinks Larkins might be j found at his cat.in humming some lul laby to the baby. Often Iatrkins and the boy would j visit the Screech Eagle. "It’s just to J give the hoy a time,” Larkins would j explain. ”Hi« dad’s too old to care on j his own account.” Yet the man could not have been over 30 at the most. Then Larkins and the boy would proceed to have the "time,” and while It lasted the onlookers would declare that the frowzly-headed baby was quite as old as the big. bearded miner who would toss him in the air and gallop about the room as a horse for the little driver. To the baby this play was a serious matter, as it clutched its fa ther's suspenders and lisped commands for which he labored all day. and the room would ring with merriment. One day while Larkins was at work the child wandered from the cabin and was drowned in Otter creek. That day every pick in the camp was laid down. No man could work when Larkins' "kid” was dead. The miners went at once to Larkins' shanty and found him there, sitting on a barrel, his head buried In his hands. He did not look up when they ap proached. and "Bill” Wheeler, gambler, who was with the party, touched him on the shoulder aud said: l "Larkins, we've come to do what we can. It ain’t much, but we can search the creek for the boy. Cheer up—” lurking raised his head, glanced about him, and smiled. No one but Wheeler, perhaps, who was accus tomed to reading the faces of men, no ticed the gleam in his eye. "Thank you. boys," said Larkins, simply. "You’re good, but you don’t— you can’t—understand. The kid is | gone, and it’s a father's place to find find him. I’ll start out after a time, when I feel better. I’ll find the kid, boys, never worry. You don’t think his dad would desert him now? Good by.” Larkins spoke earnestly, and the ' miners left him by himself, still sitting i there on the barrel. They knew that nothing they could do could *often his grief. That night practically -every man in Digger City assembled at the Screech Eagle, but there was little drinking and no stories. They were there to wait and could not tell for what. Some one had suggested that Wheeler and another go to Larkins’ cabin to find Low he was coming on. when a laugh —it was l^arkins’—was heard just 9utside the door. Then the man. with a dripping burden held tenderly in his arms, stalked into the room. "Late, ain’t I. boys?" said Larkins, cheerily. ‘Couldn’t help it, though, for the kid and I have been having a romp that pretty near played his dad out. Pretty soon now he’ll be too old to play, and his dad won t be much use then. But we had a great time, didn't we. my boy? Now. baby, let’s play 1 horse. Ccme on! Ha! ha! ha!” But Larkins laughed alone, for they knew that he was mad.—Chicago Tri bune. Type M Ammunition. At the time of the Maori war in New Zealand a newspaper correspondent had a strange experience. The pub lishing office of a newspaper was close to the scene of some of the hottest fighting. During the struggle the Maoris ran out of ammunition for their guns, and, raiding the newspaper of fices. charged their guns with type and stereo blocks. This novel ammunition proved very effective. One of the white invaders was severely wounded with a patent medicine advertisement, and another was crippled for life by a church bazar announcement, and the editor, who had taken refuge with the British troops, had a narrow’ escape from being hit wdth one of his own poems. Baalneos Principle. Mr. Gotrox—So you want my daugh :er, eh? Do you drink? Bob Bluffer— Not while I'm doing busings! Let that go till later!—Puck, THE NEW CENTURY. Friendly Islanders Will Be the First to Greet It. The first people to breathe the breath of the twentieth century will be the inhabitants of the Friendly islands. Though they are not by any means the most progressive people on the face of the globe they will be living in the twentieth century while all other peo ple will still be living in the nineteenth century. . It will be Tuesday. Jan. (1, 1901, to the Friendly islanders at a time when the rest of the world will be at the fag end of the nineteenth cen tury; will be eating, or working, or playing, or sleeping.during some phase of Monday. Dec. 31, 1900. The firs: dawn of the n-aw century will break upon a point in the Pacific ocean just to the oat< of the Friendly islands, along a line conforming in general to the meridian c? ISO degrees east and west longitude fiom Greenwich. On this meridian is what is known as the date line. The date line in theory follows the meridian, but -In reality it varies from the theoretical line in a number of places. At the date line corals the charge of day which navi gators i:i the Pacific ocean experience. A vessel sailing eastward skips a day when reaching this line, but a vessel ■ sailing westward repeats a day. The j Friendly islanders will, for a brief pe riod. be in advance of the century, so j far as we or any other nati'n are con- j cerned. In New York people will be at breakfast on Monday morning. Dec. 31. when the Friendly islands will be celebrating the advent of the new year. At that time San Francisco will be sleeping the sleep of the just after a well-spent Sunday. At London it will be lunch time on Monday, while at Melbourne it will be about 10 o’clock in the evening. At Calcutta it will be about 6 o’clock in the evening. So over this whole globe there will be .a time when the Friendly islanders alone among the people of the earth will be long to the twentieth century. Of course, it may be that some ship may be crossing the meridian at the point in the Pacific where the twentieth cen tury will begin. Then those on board the ship will get ahead even of th° Friendly islanders. Indeed, just at the moment of crossing the date line the people in the forepart of the ship would be in the twentieth century, while those in the rear would be still In the nineteenth. An east bound ves sel approaching the meridian at night might have the unique opportunity of celebrating two New Year's day. LAMP BULBS HIS WEAPONS. llurglar Put to Flight by a Bombard ment Fr<jm the Householder. “Of all the outlandish weapons ev<*r employed in a fight,” said a business man of the south side. “I think I brought the most fantastic on record into play one night last week. My fam ily are away on a visit at present and I am keeping bachelor hall out at the house. On the night to which 1 refer I was aroused at about 3 a. m. by a noise somewhere in the region of the dining room and, thinking I had shut up the dog there, I jumped up very foolishly and came down stairs In my night clothes, without so much as a pocketknife. When I opened the din ing room door I was startled to see a big. rough looking fellow bending over the sideboard at the far end of the room, and after we had stood there en tableau for a moment the fellow made a rush at me. I leaped back into the hall and glared around for a weapon. On a table near by were a dozen incan descent light bulbs, which I had brought home to replace some that ha.l burned out, and purely by instinct ! grabbed one of them and threw it at the burglar. Jt hit the door casing close to his head, and, to my amaze ment. exploded with a noise like a young lyddite shell. 1 suppose it was a still greater surprise to the other fel low, for he let out a yell and broke for the rear, followed by a rapid-fire bom bardme-nt of 16-candle power incandes cents, which I continued to chuck at him as long as he remained in range., They smashed against the furniture with a series of crashes that alarmed the whole neighborhood, and I have been gathering up fragments of broken glass ever since. The burglar must have thought 1 was chasing him with hand grenades. It was the first time 1 ever knew' incandescents made such a row when they broke. An electrician tells me it is caused by the air rushing into the vacuum."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Why the Needle of the Compose Potato to the North Pole. Over three hundred years ago a scientist studied out the theory of the compass and why the needle pointed to the north. It is not, however, a fact that the needle points exactly to the north. Sometimes it veers to the east and sometimes to the west, de pending on the locality, and. as s curi ous phenomenon, it does not always point the same way in the same place. The entire earth is a magnet and nat urally controls all the lesser magnets. The pole In the northern hemisphere is consequently called the northern mag net and the opposite the southern mag net. but says an authority on this sub ject, “Since poles of contrary names attract each other, while those of the same name repel each other, it follows that the pole of the magnetic needle which turns to the north is really the southern pole of the needle; while the pole turned toward the south is the north pole. As the vertical plane pass ing through its poles does not coincide with the meridian plane of the place, it follows that the needle does not al ways turn to the true north.- The de clination. as the angle of the two planes is called, is not the same in ev ery part of the world, which accounts for the variation.” The study of mag netic influences is most interesting, but as a rule the subject is quite imper fectly understood. How to TonRhoo Paper. A plan for rendering paper as tough as wood or leather. It is said, has been recently introduced on the continent. It consists in mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in the course of manu facture. It has been found that the greater the degree of concentration of the zinc solution the greater will be the tougbresi of the paper. IS LIKE NAPOLEON. "OOM” PAUL TO BE CONFINED ON ST. HELENA If the Tide of Battle Goe* Wrong with Him In Sooth Africa—Komor Predict* Tht* Fate for the Grand Old Farmer President. The statement that has been going the rounds of the English press to the “fleet that if Oom Paul Kruger is cap tured he will be imprisoned on the island of St. Helena, draws attention 10 this island retreat, which has been immortalized as the home of the first Napoleon. The island, which lies ovei 1,000 miles west of Africa, was dis covered by the Portuguese in 1501. At that time the discovery was of con siderable importance, for the island lay on the route of ships going around the world, or part way around it, to India, and it was looked upon as a safe and convenient stopping place for vessels. The island was accordingly well stock ed with “goats, asses, hogs and other cattle” for the benefit of passing ships. The first human inhabitant arrived in 1518, and the event came about in this w-ay: The Portuguese had won a vic tory in India, and had taken captive a number of Portuguese deserters. The victorious general ordered that the deserters should have their ears, noses. ! right hands and left thumbs cut off. and that they should be sent in that condition back to Portugal. But in re turning they were mercifully landed at St. Helena, where they were given poultry, fowls of different kinds and partridges, and other wild fowls were set free on the island for them. Vege tables and fruits were also left that they might have subsistence. The few , inhabitants grew in numbers and pros- i pered. planting fruit trees and veg etables. which grew abundantiy. In June, 1588, Thomas Cavendish, the English explorer, sighted the island, and the first account of it was given to the English public. In 1600 the British West Indies com- . pany was organized, and the island j was more frequently visited by the English as well as by the Portuguese. But the latter people had made numer ous settlements along the coast of Af- j rica, and they no longer needed the j Island for the benefit of they* ships on the way to India, so they abandoned it. Thereupon the Dutch seized it with alacrity. But in the middle of the seventeenth century also abandoned it, leaving it for the more promising col ony of the Cape of Good Hope. It is interesting to remember that it was at that time that the Dutch took their hold on South Africa, leaving a way for the English to occupy St. Helena. Gut of the Dutch occupation of Cape Colony, followed in the beginning of the century by the English occupation thereof, has arisen the present trouble in the Transvaal. It would be passing strange if that trouble should result in President Kruger’s occupation of the island. When the Dutch left for the Cape of Good Hope the English took possession of the island of St. Helena; that is. the East India com pany took it. for a stopping place for their ships. The first governor of the island under English supremacy erect ed in 1658 a fortification. In 1672 the Dutch recovered the island by strate gem. but the next year the English re gained possession. From that time until 1834 the island remained in pos session of the East India company. It then became a possession of the Brit ish crown. The event, however, which made St. Helena famous for all time was the banishment of Napoleon Bonaparte to its rocky shores, and his death there after the battle of Waterloo. Napo leon landed on St. Helena in Novem ber. 1815. The population of the island was then but a hundred or so more than 4,000. The former emperor occu pied a residence and grounds known as “Longwood.” This was situated on a plane at the summit of a mountain about 2.000 feet above the sea. The grounds embraced 1.500 acres, and were three and a quarter miles inland from the little town of Jamestown. Here it was that the great soldier spent his last days, and it was here that he finally passed away May 5. 1821. Dublin'* Death Kate. The death rate of Dublin. Ireland, al ways abnormally high, has become quite appalling. The city is plenti fully supplied with hospitals and doc tors—more plentifully, perhaps, than any other city of its size in the world —but the mortality, especially among the poorer classes, seems to be daily increasing at an alarming rate. The main drainage and the house drainage, both of which are as bad as bad can be, are generally regarded as the chief cause of the mischief, combined, of course, with the unsanitary conditions under which the bulk of the citizens are obliged to live. Houses that were originally intended for one family will be found occupied by five, six, seven, and even a dozen families. There are 20.000 families, or 100.000 of the popu lation. living in filthy tenements, and there are only 4.694 families living in self-contained bouses in the city. The public health authorities appear to be utterly powerless to cope with the evil and grave complaints are heard as to remissness of duty on their part. But, pending the completion of the main j drainage scheme, no radical improve- I ment need be expected. — Proved His Theory. The late Hall McAllister some years ago entertained a visiting scientist at the Union club, before its amalgama tion with the Pacific, and during the evening, a particularly foggy one.made some whimsical remark conveying the idea that fog was an excellent conduc tor of sound. The scientist took ex ception to this novel theory and asked Mr. McAllister on what it was based. “On phenomena which we have all ob served,” returned the ready jurist. "On an evening like this we hear the fog horn quite distinctly, but when there is no fog we cannot hear it at all.’—San Francisco Argonaut. Scarlet Fever Shane the Tropic*. A medical paper directs attention to the curious fact that scarlet fever has «ver been observed in an epidemic form in the tropical or sub tropical re gions of Asia or Afri; u RUSSIAN LACEMAKERS. Praiant Women Who Employ the Win ter Hears at TbU Caltinff. The Russian peasant women are imoug the finest lacemakers in the world. The lace made by them is strong and practicably indestructible. The women make their lace in winter, for during the summer time they are much occupied with agricultural dut ies. Laremaking is entirely a home in dustry. for the peasants even produce their own materials. If.they have seed they grow the flax, spin the thread and weave the lace; or. if they have sheep to yield them wool they spin and final ly convert it into the celebrated and beautiful Orenburg shawls. Sometimes a woman makes her lace from the very beginning—that is. from the sowing of : the flax seeds that she may even sell | the lace for herself, but that is not ! always the case. It often happens that some women raise the flax and spin | ; the thread and then exchange with the lacemakers, but the whole thing is done by the peasants among them selves. and it is entire!}’ peasant labor, | the men even making the spinning f wheels and the looms for weaving. The ; women get up early in the morning, it j | may be at 4 or 5 o’clock, and they work on until 11 or 12 at night. But | for all that they are a gay people, and in the evening a great many will as semble at one house and will sing as they work. Occasionally they will stop for a little while and will dance, and then start working again. They are happy, and as they ail work for them selves and have no masters they are at liberty to use the design they like working best and to labor or rest ac cording to their own convenience. Many of the lace designs are old. while others are made by the workers from things they see around them, the frost on the windows being a frequent source of inspiration. Every thread in a piece of lace has to have a pair of bobbins. The children begin with a piece of narrow lace with about ten pairs of bobbins, and experienced workers use more or fewer bobbins, ac 1 cording to the width of the lace. Lace j makers generally live in one place, and the women who do other kinds of work are together in other towns. Near Moscow there is a town which is filled with lacemakers. and on ap proaching it one can hear the sound of the bobbins. I WHOLESALE DEALER IN FAKES Newspaper Man XTlio Gulled Both the Public and HI* l'tnployenu "The most incorrigible faker that ever spilled ink on a daily paper is at present a director in a big trust in the northeast.” said an old reporter last evening. ”The way he got out of the newspaper business was rather peculiar and as the story is now pretty general ly forgotten it may be worth telling. He had persuaded one of the big north ern dailies to send him on a trip to Hawaii to write up the sugar industry, but after he arrived at 'Frisco he con cluded it would be foolish to make a long ocean voyage when there were so many good cyclopedias at hand, and proceeded to grind out his letters from a room in the Palace hotel. The cor respondence attracted a good deal of attention, and his description of island life were generally regarded as the most truthful and graphic that had ever been penned. Just how he ar ranged about getting his remittances I don't remember, but he fixed it some how and kept the thing up for several months. Then he was supposed to re turn. and at last really took the train for the east. En route he got broke in a Pullman car poker game. It was then he executed his great coup. He got off at a little town in Arizona and telegraphed his office: 'Just held up by train robbers. Got all I had. Wire me $250.’ The office answered: ‘Money sent. Rush in full account hold-up.' In response he promptly wired a lurid story of a train robbery on the great American desert.which his paper print ed under glaring headlines next morn ing. and when a few western corre spondents denied it later on they were n’t believed. The superintendent of the road, however, was very sore, and took the trouble to send a bunch of affi davits to the merry romancer’s editor. When the young man was confronted with the proofs he said calmly that a chap on the Pullman had held a se quence flush against his four aces, and if that didn't constitute train robbery he would like to know what did. The argument was ingenious, but it didn't save him. He was ignominiously fired, and now. as I said before, he is a bloat ed trust magnate, rolling in riches. I always thought he would come to some bad end.”—New Orleans Times-Demu crat. '•loe of Small Change. “It isn't safe to start out without a pocketful of pennies any more,” re marked a member of the House the other day. "Yet I can remember when I came down into this section of the country, in army blue about thirty eight years ago. a five cent piece was very small potatoes. We were camped awhile out here in Virginia, and my ! headquarters were in the big planta tion home. A son of the house and ! myself became good friends, although j he was five aud I nearly thirty-five. One day, in lieu of the candy, which I i had forgotten to bring him from the I near-by town. I gave him a silver half I dime. I had forgotten all about the incident, when some two weeks later he came into my room. and. opening his hand, held out to me on his little pink palm the silver piece I had given him. ‘Heah. Mr. Captain, you can have it back,' he said plaintively. ‘It won’t buy miffin'. ’ ”—Washington Star. Emperor WlllUm'* Frlvutf PnotolDre. For the handling of the immense amount of mail which comes to him daily Emperor William of Germany, has established a private postofflee, with a complete staff of clerks and sec retaries. The incoming mall is divid ed into three classes, the private mail, which goes directly to the Emperor, and that which is sent to the chiefs of the civil and military cabinets. The answer to each letter Is read and sign ed by the emperor. They are then put into the hands of trusty messengers for delivery, as a letter from the emperor Is considered too important to be in trusted to the ordinary channels of the mails. ENTERPRISING YANKEE WIDOW Sb« Knew the Value of a I.lfe P»*« and Made tie of It. One of the islands in Panama bay used to belong to an enterprising old woman from Connecticut, the widow of a sea capra:n. and she lived all alone there In a little cabin for several years after her husband died. In the course of time—that is, about ten years ago —the Pacific Steam Navigation com pany desired that particular island for warehouses and repair shops, and when It came to make the purchase t'ne an cient Yankee dame drove a very hard bargain. She made it a condition cf the sale that the company should give her a life pass upon its steamers be tween Panama and Valparaiso for her self and a maid.to be used at her pleas ure. This was done without misgiv ings. The manager of the company thought it was only right to give tl. old woman a sea voyage now and then, but experience caused him to think dif ferently, for as soon as she had con veyed the title to the property, and ha received a card signed by the presi dent and general manager granting her passage at all times on their line, she calmly moved aboard their best steamer, selected a stateroom and cruised up and down the coast for sev eral months. At Guayaquil. Callao. Valparaiso and other of the large por;s she would go ashore while the ship was loading and unloading, but she always left most of her traps in the stateroom and came aboard again before the sail ing date. When she got tired of on<* steamer she would try another,and was not contented with getting her living free of cost, but actually attempted to make a profit out of the arrangement. The old woman had never enjoyed the luxury of a maid in her life before she entered into this contract with the steamship company, but on several ei - casions brought a woman aboard whom she introduced as such, and she de« manded that she be allowed free pas sage. The company's officers diseov ered that she was collecting fare from these women—that is.scalping her pass —and declined to carry any more «■* them. The old woman made a terr: ble fuss about it, and threatened to sn# the company for violating its agree ment, but a lawyer she consulted ad vised her not to prosecute the case and she reluctantly abandoned it. She continued to live aboard the Pacifir steamers until her death a few yea^ egc.—Chicago Record. FEASTED UPON FOE’S CARCASS Mrrrjmaklnc of • Frisco Neiebborhond 0«r Death of a 6ho»t. Two hundred residents and property owners of the Sunset district partici pated in a novel entertainment the other evening. For some time past a voracious goat belonging to Philip Die^ has been a constant source of annoy ance to its owner’s neighbors on ac- 'l count of Its depredations in their yards and its beligerency when disturbed on these occasions. All sorts of schemes were devised and executed for the pur pose of circumventing this unwelcome visitor, but with persistence worthy of a better cause the goat overcame ail obstacles, overruled all objections ami continued to show an extremely bold front to all who sought to discourage his raids. Finally, in desperation, a committee of his victims called upon the goat’s owner and demanded satis faction. Recognizing that his goat was incorrigible and anxious to conciliate his angry neighbors. Diez consented to sacrifice the animal to the public good and suggested that his visitors help him to eat the carcass of the brute. This idea was accepted with avidity and the committeemen left.highly elat ed over the success of their mission. On talking the matter over with their friends, however, other victims of the goat’s idiosyncrasies expressed a desire to attend the obsequies and the idea suggested by Diez was finally adopted as the keynote for a public demonstra tion. A committee of arrangements was accordingly appointed, a formal program drawn up and some 200 invi tations were Issued. The affair took the form of a banquet at Park View hotel, followed by an entertainment. The goat's meat had the distinction of being served on a separate table. P. J. Diez was given the place of honor as toastmaster in recognition of his generosity in sacrificing his pet.—San Francisco Chronicle. -—_ .1 * ' * Predictions Were Wron*. In 1186 astrologers said the world would be destroyed by the conjunction ofiethe planets. A few years later an other alarm was raised, and in 1532 Simon Goulari claimed a mountain had opened in Assyria and a scroll had been shown him on which was written the prediction the world was coming to an end. He frightened everybody. Again, in 1354, the end was foretold; a famous astrologer was the prophet, and people were so terrified they sough: refuge in churches, but the dreaded day passed. In the sixteenth century a famous prophecy was made by Jean Stoffler. a German mathematician. He said in 1524 there would be a universal deluge in February. People in Eu rope, Asia and Africa thought their end had come, and in Germany people sold their property to those who had less credulity. Thousands fled to the mountains, some took to boats, and one man built an ark. Not a drop of rain fell during February. In the eighteenth century there were many prophecies and, as usual, the common people were vastly frightened. In 1832 It was claimed Biela’s comet would hit the earth, and turmoil resulted. Mother Shipton sung that the world to an end would came in 1881, but the earth stayed on. and the inhabitants were properly thankful. A Mr. Baxter created a sensation in England by say ing 1887 would see the end of things temporal, and thousands believed. They were much surprised to find ^ themselves still living when 1888 dawned. Who Ho Wu \ isitor— And who are you, my lit tle man?” Cuthbert (with conscious pride—‘Tm the baby’s brother.”—Pittsburg Bulle tin. A searchlight isn’t necessary to en able a man to find fault