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Germany ha* a life insurance asso
ciation of hotelkeepers which in seven
years has paid over $300,000 to the
families qf members.
The will of the late Jarvis Ford,
of St. Joseph, Mo., leaves $30,000 for
a free memorial library in that place,
and $10,000 to the municipal hospital.
Charles C. Rumsey, whose equestrian
statue of a North American Indian has
been accepted by the managers of the
Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, is a
member of the junior class of Harvard.
Venice is trying to revive the pic
turesque ceremony of wedding the Ad
riatic, which has been discontinued
since the last Doge was expelled in
1797. Plans have been made for build
ing a Bucentaur on the model of the
last state galley used for the cere
mony.
The new Japanese cruiser Yakumo,
which was built at Stettin and recently
sailed for Japan, has so far given the
greatest satisfaction. The system of
ventilation is so perfect, it is asserted,
that during her passage of the Red sea
the temperature of the engine and boil
er rooms was not much more than half
that in British ships.
Attention is called by the London
Lancet to the fr.ot that canned toma
toes are now being extensively col
ored, in order to make them look at
tractive and as if made from ripe fruit.
Among the colors so employed are
coal-tar colors and cochineal. Tho
subject of artificial coloring and pres
ervation of food is now receiving great
attention In England.
When ex-Queen Liliuokalanl visited
tho island of Maui not long ago for
the first time in ten years the steam
ship which carried her was surround
ed by natives bringing gifts of all
kinds, fruits, vegetables, fowls and
even pigs. There was music, dancing,
a great feast, and the whole steamship
was decorated with their garlands.
An original device for evading the
prohibitory law was recently un
earthed by plumbers in a house in
Rutland, Vt. The liquor, stored in a
secret nook, was conveyed in hidden
pipes to a radiator in one of the prin
cipal rooms of the house/ A small
faucet attached to the radiator was the
means by which the liquid was drawn
off for use.
The Hungarian government is about
to take steps to effectually put an end
to the wandering of gy psles, who are
so frequently to be met in that coun
try. The stalwart Hungarian gypsy,
with his multi-colored cloak, his dark
eyed, fortune-toiling wife, and his
crowd of half-naked children, is one
of the most picturesque figures in this
part of Europe.
The Slecie announces that M. Osiris,
a well-known Paris philanthropist, has
instituted a prize of 100,000 francs to
be awarded by a committee of the Paris
Press Syndicate to the author or au
thors of a work adjudged by the com
mittee to be the most meritorious,
whether from the artistic or industrial
point of view, or on the ground of gen
eral service to humanity.
It bis been remarked In connection
with the late Lord Armstrong as not
a little singular that while lie was the
founder of EJswlek, the arsenal of tho
north, a member of another branch of
tho same family was the founder of
the royal arsenal at Woolwich in 171<5.
This was John, a scion of tho Llddes
dale Armstrongs, who became a very
celebrated military officer and engi
neer, serving with the highest reputa
tion under the duke of Marlborough
and Prince Eugene.
Captain Cotton of tho Norfolk navy
yard has made a report on the damage
sustained by the torpedo-boat Ericsson
on Jan. 2, when she touched bottom in
the Delaware and Chesapeake canal,
while the water was low and the ice
thick. The known damage is a bent
propeller. Orders have been issued for
tho docking of the boat at Norfolk
and it is expected that she will soon
be in readiness to join the torpedo flo
tilla which will accompany the north
Atlantic squadron on its winter cruise.
In Scotland the halfpenny is called
a '•bawbee,” but how it came to receive
that name is not a matter of common
knowledge. It appears that the first
attempt at the portraiture of the un
fortunate Mary, queen of Scots, was
made in her earliest Infancy, and her
“wee” face was engraved upon the
Scottish halfpennies at the time of her
coronation in 1543, when she was but
9 months old. A number of these
small coins are still preserved, and it
will be easily understood that the
name “bawbee,” or baby, was origin
ally given to tho coin bearing the
baby’s effigy.
Miss Jane Schroeder, who has Just
died in Essex, Conn., has left what Is
called in sporting parlance 7,000
“bones” to two dogs which she had
picked up on the streets. During her
65 years of life Miss Schroeder lived
in a tumble down shanty and devoted
her days to visiting the sick of the
town and picking up stray dogs and
cats. During one of these missions she
picked up a child and adopted her as a
daughter, Greatchen Schroeder, as the
child is called, will inherit what re
mains of the $7,000, should the dogs
die before she does.
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State Capital Observations.
Expressions Emulative for the Good of
Republican Supremacy.
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It has been requested that this de
partment enlighten the public on the
character of a "hold up" bill.
It Is a bill introduced in the legisla
ture to frighten somebody into paying
money to secure its defeat. The inter
ests most frequently attacked in this
way are the railroad, telegraph, tele- |
phone, express and insurance compa
nies. A bill will be put in, for exam
ple. reducing the rates charged or im
posing some other hardship upon the
telegraph companies. It appears to be
in the interests of the public and many
members innocently support it. After
a time it gains so much headway that
it seems likely to pass. The tele
graph people became alarmed and send
men to Lincoln to fight it. Some
friendly man who just happens to Ijj
loafing around the lobbies will drop
around and say that he overheard
somebody say that the bill could be
defeated for a certain amount of mon
ey. If the telegraph folks arc well
scared they will invite a conference
and after awhile will pay anywhere
from $500 to $5,000 to have the bill
killed. Then the men pushing the bill
will suddenly lose interest In the meas
ure, or find that it is unconstitutional,
and it will die a more or less myster
ious death.
Of late years the "grafters” cr “hold
ups" have not nad easy picking in Ne
braska. In 1807 a regular hold up syn
dicate was conducted in Lincoln, but
the work was so hold that the interest
attached wfere obliged to take meas
ures for self defense. An open ex
posure such as the “hold ups" suffered
at the hands of Representative Toms
sen is usually enough to cause the
whole industry to languish for sev
eral years.
The lobby has not received such a
shaking up in several years as it is
receiving now' at the hands of the
"hold-up” committee. This committee
is finding Its task quite a little larger
than was at first supposed and the
scope of the Investigation seems to
include much more than the commit
tee thought when the job was under
taken. The lobby has been proceed
ing with caution since the first explo
sion. hut those who are not yet under
the ban are gloating over the discom
fiture of their opponents. There is
competition in the lobby as well as
“lsewhere and the lobbyists left on the
field and unmentioned are thinking
what a feast they will have when the
present trouble blows over. The com
mittee knows this and when it re
ports, it may spring a surprise on some
of these gentlemen, which will cause
them to seek cover in earnest.
There Is another side to the cry o*
‘hold-up" bills which Chairman Fow
ler of the investigating committee will
probably take into consideration. Cor
porations and individuals take advan
tage of the cry to suppress legitimate
legislation. A hill may he to correct
an evil and he one which the people
desire to have passed, but under the
cry of “hold-up” it is killed by the
members who may he controlled by
the corporations or individuals.
A hill may have merit and yet be a
hold up hill. This fact is admitted by
every one. A measure may be merit
orious and yet be introduced with the
intention of extorting money. The ob
ject of the introducer is to secure pro
fit to himself by introducing the bill
and then having it killed, if it is not
killed he loses his profit. It is a le
gend in legislative circles that a cer
tain law now on the statutes was in
troduced many years ago for the pur
pose of being killed with profit to the
persons behind It. The members of
the legislature looked into the meas
ure and thought it was a good bill.
They were begged by the introducer
to vote against it, but a majority abso
lutely declined and the bill became a
law and is by a majority of the citi
zens of the state believed to he a good
measure. Frequent attempts to re
peal the law have been made in vain.
If the legend is true the bill was intro
duced for profit to the persons be
hind it. hut it got away from them
and became a law. One or more mem
bers of the legislature now interested
in the present investigation were mem
bers of the legislature when this par
ticular bill passed and refused to vole
against it when so requested by the.
man who introduced it.
I'p to this time the city of Lincoln
has not been in the normal school
business enough to count, but if the
stato feels like accepting Governor
IMetrich'H suggestion to trade off the
hospital for the insane for a big cen
tral normal the people here will not
be disposed to make a disturbance. A
good school is worth more to a town
than an insane hospital or a peniten
tiary.
Governor Dietrich has greatly dis
turbed the advocates of the new nor
mal schools by speaking out so frankly
against them. Incidentally he has
shown himself more than ever to be a
business man rather than a politician.
A governor who cared more for his
own political future than for the con
dition of the state treasury would
never say a word about a thing like
the normal school bill. It is evident
that the state has made quite a de
parture in putting a business man in
the executive office. It will lie inter
esting to see how far he will let his
hard-headed business sense govern his
actions and how much he will he
swayed by the advice of politicians.
Judge Edgar Howard, now of Co
lumbus, made a discovery in Lincoln
recently that certainly deserves to be
classed among the things that are Im
portant if true. “Before the week Is
over,” he said, ‘‘the senatorial puzzle
will bo solved by the election of one
republican and one fuslonist. The re
publican will be the man who can de
liver enough votes. The fusionist will
he Allen, Hitchcock, Thompson, Har
rington, Sullivan or Holcomb. If you
are able to get at the right sourse of
information, some of the republicans
around the Lindell hotel will be able to
tell you more than I can.
The birth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln was celebrated by the young
men's republican club of Lincoln with
a banquet at the Lindell hotel. It was
the thirteenth annual banquet of the
c:ub, and like the long line of ban
quets past it was a successful affair.
Orators who lent their eloquence to
entertain those present were Lafs
Young of Des Moines, W. F. Gurley
of Omaha, Gus livers of Havelock, W.
L. Anderson of Lincoln and Peter
Jansen of Jansen. Tributes to the
memory of the martyred president
whose worth to the republic hn» never
been overestimated, were eloquently
offered by these speakers. The din
ing room was decorated with flags and
bunting, and the tables were daintily
decorated with palms, ferns and car
nations.
Republican members of the legisla
ture were invited, as well as all the
senatorial candidates. Owing to the
caucus, which had not been anticipat
ed in the arrangement the attendance
at first was not all that was ex
pected, but shortly after midnight the
members began to pour in and they
wero greeted with applause by those
already enjoying the feast. The ban
quet room was not opened until after
11 o'clock. It was the hope of thoso
in charge that the caucus would ad
journ and let the legislators out early
and this delayed proceedings. The
legislators were to be specially enter
tained and all the senatorial candi
dates had given their word to be pres
ent. Many of them came in after the
caucus and while the forepart of the
night was one of suspense and con
siderable agitation on the part of thoc.e
most interested in the success of the
affair the close was serene.
The exciting events of last Tuesday
night in the republican caucus were
foreshadowed in these columns six
weeks ago. The fight has been a little
complicated and hard to follow, but
this paper has been pegging away in
the middle of the highway of truth
all of these weeks, and takes a good
deal of pride in the fact that it ha9
been accurate in its history and rea
sonably correct in its predictions from
the first. It is not fair to ask a news
paper to risk a hard earned reputation
as a prophet by saying what is going
to happen the next month or two, but
it is safe to hazard a guess that the
rumpus in the caucus was the begin
ning of the end and that Nebraska
will be represented at Washington in
the future by two republican United
States senators. It is as impossible to
tell who the men will be, however, as
to say where any other kind of light
ning will strike.
Perhaps the most conspicuous weak
ness in the present administration of
the affairs of the city of Lincoln is the 1
failure to compel property owners to j
do justice to pedestrians in the matter ;
of sidewalks. Hut under present laws |
the mayor and council and street com- j
missioner are virtually powerless. All
they can do is to bluff men into build
ing walks, or tear up old ones and thus
shame the owners of the property into
making the needed improvements.
Theoretically the city has the power
to order walks laid. Practically it lias
no such power for the reason that af
ter tiie walk is laid and a sidewalk cer
tificate is issued, it is impossible to
collect the certificate without spending
more time and money than it is worth.
The only way out of the present un
pleasant situation is to get the charter
amended by the legislature.
Two little hills for the appropriation
of money to pay the expenses of the
legislature, including of course the j
salaries of the members, and an act to
permit Lancaster county to draw jur
ors, is the sum total of the bills that j
have been passed by both houses and
have become laws. At this rate there
ought to have been seven or eleven
United States senators elected, but up
to a late hour none had been chosen.
Representative Mercer's bill provid
ing for a Grant statue to be erected
in Washington, at a cost of not to ex
ceed $250,000 which has passed both
branches of congress, is the first step
ever made by the national lawmaking
body to pay a last tribute to General
Grant. Bills have been introduced
and unavailing efforts put forth at
least ten years, and Mr. Mercer feels
a justifiable pride in the success of the
If the Lincoln creamery was the
largest in the world before, It will he !
doubly safe In that position when the i
business of the Fremont creamery is
brought here, as it will be next month.
By running this plant continuously an
enormous amount of butter can be
turned out, and the saving in the ex
pense of operation will more than pay
the cost of transporting the cream
from Fremont to Lincoln.
The republican Lincoln central com
mittee has decided that the three high
candidates for the school board in the
primaries shall be declared tiie candi
dates of the party for the full terns,
and the fourth high man shall be de
clared the candidate for the vacancy
On the presidential inaugural recep
tion committee, the personnel of which
has just been announced, Nebraska
will be represented by Senators Thurs
ton and Alien, Representative Mer.er,
R. U. Schneider, Secretary O. 1). Mti
klejohn and Col. W. F. Cody.
Bluny Speaking Shakespeare'*
In the time of Charles I. there were
about 5,000,000 people in the world
speaking the language of Shakespeare;
at the time of our first national census
there were about 12,000,000, one-third
of them in the United States; and
there are children now going to school
who will live to see this vast number
trebled.—John Fiske in December At
lantic.
When a marriage engagement la
broken It la another matrimonial
failure.
EUROPE’S THREATS
IN NO WAY DISTURB THE PRO
TECTIONISTS.
European f'onntrlm lu No Foiltlon to
Comhlu* igaliut tlie l'ill ted State* In
a Ketnll>'*tnn Complrury—They Would
Soon He Starved Into Their Senses.
The periodical free trade scare Is
bobbing up again, and we are being
told by our always active, if misguided,
fellow-citizens who don't believe In
laying any burdens on our foreign
competitors, not even to the extent of
making them pay a price for a share of
the American market, that, unless we
lower our tariff to accommodate those
dear friends across the sea, they will
retaliate by enacting prohibitory tar
iffs against us. In the first place this
warning against the danger of retalia
tory tariffs is getting a good deal worn
and threadbare from long and constant
uses. It has been a part of the free
trade stock in trade from the begin
ning, and in all the years during which
it has been in use it has never cmce
Justified its existence. No retaliatory
tariff ever has been called forth by our
protection of American interests. In
the second place, even if the long
prophesied but never fulfilled thing
should come to pass, the retaliatory
tariffs should be imposed by other
countries, while such tariffs would
undoubtedly be a disadvantage to
us, Just as our protective tariff i3 now
a disadvantage to our foreign rivals,
it would he only a disadvantage, while
the loss of the American market,
which would be the result of the adop
tion of a policy of free trade, would
mean ruin and distress to the whole
American people. If we should, by any
chance, be obliged to choose between a
partial loss of certain foreign markets
and the loss of our own home market,
the choice would be an easy one to
make. The American market, as all the
world knows, is worth to the domestic
producer many times as much as all
the markets of tue world now open to
us, and it i„ the market which the
American people intend, under all
circumstances, to keep for them
selves.
Moreover there Is not a single manu
facturing nation in Europe which
could afford to adopt a retaliatory pol
icy. To do so would be to provoke on
our part such a system of counter re
taliation as would absolutely close the
American market against the products
of such nation or nations. For exam
ple, Germany, where the question of a
retaliatory tariff of 60 marks a ton on
American grain is now under discus
sion. According to a cablegram of
Jan. 7, Prince Herbert Bismarck is
quoted as having declared definitely in
favor of a heavy increase of the tariff
on American foodstuffs. Says the ca
blegram:
“Some of the papers cast doubt upon
the authenticity of the interview, but
the 'Berliner Tageblatt’ secs in it a
fresh confirmation of the recent state
ments of Count von Klinckowstrocm,
the Agrarian leader. The ‘Tageblatt’
severely deprecates a tariff war with
the United States, the cost of which, it
contends, would be borne by German
trade, Germany’s flourishing ship
ping and German consumers generally,
the 'National Zeitung’ says: We can
not believe that a diplomatist like
Prince Herbert Bismarck would openly
advocate a policy favoring Russia at
the expense of the United States.
"The semi-official journals, com
menting upon the interview, declare
that nothing has been settled regard
ing the tariff,”
What is true of Germany is true of
every other European country which
buys food of and sells manufactured
products to the United States. All
would suffer seriously in two ways
through tariff retaliation—by the in
creased cost of food to working classes
already too close to the starvation
point, and by the loss of export trade
with the United States.
PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEACUE.
Sixteenth Annual Meeting; Sliown tlie
Organization to He In Splendid
Shape.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
American Protective Tariff League was
held January 19 at the league head
quarters in New York. General offi
cers and standing committees were
elected as follows:
President, Charles A. Moore; first
vice president, Le Grand B. Cannon;
second vice president, Joseph E.
Thropp; treasurer, Chester Griswold.
Executive committee—William Bar
bour of New Jersey, P. C. Cheney of
New Hampshire, James Phillips, Jr.,
of Massachusetts, Franklin Murphy of
New Jersey, and Alfred Ray of New
York.
Board of managers, expiration of
term January, 1905— Calvin Wells of
Pennsylvania, James Phillips, Jr., of
Massachusetts, Francis E. Warren of
Wyoming, F. S. Witherbee of New
York, and Homer Laughlin of Califor
nia; 1903—James F. Hanson of Geor
gia, Charles A. Moore of New York,
William Barbour of New Jersey, and
Charles E. Coffin of Maryland; 1904—
George M. I.anders of Connecticut, E.
A. Hartshorn of New York, A. D. Juil
liard of New York, Theodore H. Ives
of New York, and Joseph E. Thropp of
Pennsylvania.
The operations of the league were
embraced in the report of the general
secretary. Briefly, the report was that
the organization had received, includ
ing the cash balance on hand, $69,
172.02, that it had expended $02,834.70,
leaving a cash balance on hand of
f6,337.24. The new publications of
the Tariff league for the last year in
cluded seven documents. The total
distribution of literature exceeded 135,
000,000 pages. The report also showed
that the Tariff League has 963 mem
bers, an Increase of 40 during the past
year. The number of local or official
correspondents of the League number
ed 2,225.
HOW PANICS MAY BE AVOIDED
An officer of one of the prominent
national banks is reported in the New
York Times as saying:
“Despite the active business demand
for money, there will be plenty to
spare, and we could even send gold
abroad without in the least being em
barrassed.”
Free Trade theorists may not see
any advantage in our having a balance
of trade in our favor, but practical men
of business and men on whom is laid
the burden of keeping the financial
market steady have a different view of
things. Panics, to the man who knows,
are not the products of recurrent, in
explicable “periodic waves,” such as
some of our Free Trade economists
talk about. They find their caus°,
more than in all other causes combin
ed, in definite industrial conditions,
and the industrial condition which
does not allow of a panic Is that in
which business is active, prices good
and sales large, with plenty of money
flowing into the country; such an in
dustrial condition, in fact, as has ex
isted in this country since the Dingley
law restored the American market to
the American people, and such as has
always existed in this country when
ever our policy of giving Protection to
American interests has been in full
force and effect.
FAR FROM DWINDLING.
Some of the free trade papers have
been referring recently to the busi
ness of wool growing as a ‘'dwindling
industry.” This oi*ly means that these
free trade papers are preparing for an
attack on the present protective tariff
on wool. Their characterization of the
wool growing industry has nothing, to
do with the facts of the case. If it had
they could hardly use the word “dwin
dling” in reference to the business, for
the figures given in the United States
Statistical Abstract show that the
number of sheep in the United States
has increased by more than 5,000,000
since 1S07, when President McKinley
succeeded President Cleveland and the
Dingley law supplanted the Wilson law
atrocity; and that the total wool clip
has increased proportionally. If this is
the sort of industry that the free
traders call “dwindling,” it is not so
strange, perhaps, that they claim that
free trade Is a good thing, for it is
evident that they are twisted in their
understanding of the meanings of
words.
DO SOMETHING AND DO IT
quick:
STEWART AND THE YOUNG MAN
Senator Stewart of Nevada was rid
ing to the capitol yesterday on a street
car. A real smart young man, who is
a clerk to a Southern senator, greeted
the senator quite effusively.
“Good morning, senator," said the S.
Y. M.
“Good morning,” replied the senator,
with equal cheeriness, “and how have
you been?”
The smart young man saw his oppor
tunity to show his cleverness. “I have
always been a Democrat,” he replied.
“Well,” remarked Stewart, with em
phasis, "I don’t think that is anything
to be proud of.”
And the S. Y. M. went out on the
platform.—Washington Post.
Can’t Fool Them Akraln.
We are promised fresh propaganda
by the Free Traders. They are going
to rake over the ashes and apply the
bellows. Just what the result will be
cannot be predicted, but they will find
the people pretty busy this time and
with quite a fund of experience and
reminiscence. Still, if the Free-Traders
have anything new to offer now is the
time to unravel it. If there is any way
to increase our prosperity we want to
know it, but still—let us repeat—we
are pretty busy. ,
AH Hut ( enKpil.
1 From the land of the sunflower
comes a mighty wind, the sound of
1 rustliag checks and greenbacks and
silver certificates; and the old hot
blast of Populism and Bryanism has
all but ceased to blow.—New York
Sun.
Object to » Full Dinner Pall.
The wage earner’s’ full dinner pall
is especially objectionable to the aver
age Free Trader. A small dinner pail
only half full may be a poor tonic for
the laboring man, but the usual Free
Trader will tolerate no other.
Only a Fan Wanted.
Professor Kaufmann, of Breslau, la
conferring the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy on Franklein Immer
wahr, the first woman who has ever
passed the examination at that uni
versity, said that fee earnestly hopsd
study among women wotlld ‘’continue
to be the exception with the few ca
pable individuals,” inasmuch as it
was desirable that they should hold
to their primary and noblest calling of
wife and mother, “which,” said the
professor, “a man will never be able
to exercise.”
“DEALING WITH CRIMES IN
CANADA.”
(From the Chicago Tlmes-Herald, on
Jan. 12th, 1901.)
The citizens of the Dominion of Can
ada have Just cause to be proud of
their record as law-a'blding people. The
annual report of the criminal statis
tics of the Dominion, which has a
population of over 6,000,000, shows that
there were only twenty-flvo indict
ments for murder In 1899, of which
only two were left without final action.
Eleven of those Indicted were hanged,
nine acquitted and three oonfluqd as
insane. - *,
Canada Is a country of vast propor
tions. Its people are scattered over a
wide stretch of territory, making po
lice surveillance particularly difficult
and In many districts impossible. Yet
a city like New York or Chicago alone
furnishes a far greater criminal list
every year than the whole vast stretch
of territory from Quebec to Vancou
ver.
'I he Canadians ascribe their Immu
nity from crime to the promptness
with which punishment is meted out
to offenders. When a man is caught
red-handed in the act of robbing an
other he is not released on straw ball
by somo Justice of the peace from the
slums, to go out and repeat the offense.
Sharp and sure Justice is meted out to
criminals of all kinds, the result being
that when the guardians of the publio
peace succeed In bringing a thug to
the bar they are seldom called upon to
hunt him a second time.
Furthermore, there are few court de
lays in Canada when a criminal is
brought to book. They have no Dreyer
cases over there. There are no meth
ods whereby Canadian criminals can
have tho proceedings stayed from
month to month and from year to year
or after being convicted, appeal from
one court to another until witnesses
die of old age or opportunities for cor
ruption can be found.
Nor does this swift method of treat
ing with wrong doers in Canada leave
the Innocent unable to properly defend
themselves. They have all the oppor
tunities and privileges that our own
laws extend to them. The extent to
shield the guilty is lacking—that is all.
The above, taken from the editorial,
column of the Times-Herald, gives
some idea of the immunity from crime
that exists in Canada, and this is one,
of the many inducements held out for
Americans to settle In the district,
known as Western Canada. The sea
son of 1901 will see a few new sections
of the country opened up for settle-,
ment They are attractive in every;
respect. It is understood that one of
the best Indian Reserves in the famous;
Valley of the Saskatchewan will be
opened up this year, and an invita
tion Is extended to those desiring'
homes to make inquiries. The price of,
the land i3 said to be nominal. Be
sides these lands, the several railway
companies have lands to sell; also the
government. For particulars writ# to
the agent of the government, whose
advertisement appears elsewhere.
lianlNlied an I’unUlitnrnt.
Banishment was the unusual sen
tence imposed upon a Syrian by a
New Jersey judge the other day. The
Syrian had been arrested for assault.
The Judge offered to release him if lie
would leave the country. The Syrian
agreed, and in charge of an officer he
was brought to Hoboken and placed
aboard an outbound steamship.
Care of tlie Baby.
To keep the skin clean Is to keep
it healthy, every mother should there
fore geo that her baby is given a daily
bath in warm water with Ivory Soap.
The nursery should also be well aired
and cleaned, and all clothing washed
with Ivory Soap, well rinsed and dried
in the sun. ELJZA R. PARKER.
Het HU Vote Away For Life.
Among the fost curious election bets
on record is one made by John P.
Courtney, Democrat, and Harry Wal
lace, Republican, two plumbers doing
business in Minneapolis. The agree
ment was that the loser must for his
life cast his vote as the winner shall
dictate. Courtney, who was a candi
date for alderman in the recent cam
paign, was the loser and is now en
gaged in earnest but so far unavail
ing efforts to substitute some other
penalty. Wallace Is obdurate and
swears that Courtney must in future
vote the Republican ticket.
A Carnegie Labor Lyceum.
Andrew Carnegie offers to duplicate
whatever sum is raised by the people
of Paterson, N. -J., for the building
of a labor lyceum in that place, orig
inally the plan of the local Knights of
Labor.
Hi* Groat Ilorb Cur*.
The use* of Garfield Ten are manifold;
It regulates the digestive organs; cure*
constipation; puritU* the blood; bring*
good health.
The front parlor is the most popu
lar of all court rooms.
We call our readers’ attention to
the advertisement of the Northwest
ern Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis,
Minn. This is an old reliable firm
with a national reputation for origin
ating and compiling Information valu
able to trappers and farmers on wild
animals and their skins; they publish
the best trapper’s book evor printed.
You can buy of them or ship them
furs, hides, etc., in perfect confidence.
Mention our paper when writing them.