SAYINGS and DOINGS Pope Leo's Private Car. At Oivifa Vecchia. Italy, is stored a gorgeously gilded railway car which is the private property of Pope Leo. It was built nearly fifty years .ago by his predecessor in the papal chair, and is one or the most re marka b 1 e ra i I w a y cars in ex istence. Its roof is sup ported b y the figures of three carved angels, covered with gold and Hilver. Its copper dome bears a series of beautiful paintings by Gerome. The interior of the car is divided into a series of rooms, the outer being for the reception of the papal guard. Be hind it is the throne room, in which the Pontiff sits while he blesses the crowds which throng about the car on its journeys. At least that was the idea when the car was built. As a matter of fact, the Pope has never made but one journey In his private car, going from Rome to Naples many years ago. Since that time the car has never been used, ami thieves have cut from their frames many of the beau tiful paintings which originally orna mented the car. At the rear of the throne room is the oratory, fitted with a beautif -1 altar and surmounted by a magnificent painting by Gerome. Color Line in London. An attempt to draw the color line in London has resulted in failure. When it came to light that some 200 eolored delegates to the ecumenical council in Wesley chapel were to he guests at one of the big west end ho tels a number of wealthy American guests were amazed and entered an In dignant protest. They assured the proprietor that such a thing would not he permitted in the United States, and demanded that the colored delegates be accommodated in a separate part of the hotel. Me declined to interfere, and his aristocratic American guests quit his hostelry. The proprietor is quoted as saying: “I could not think of offering an insult to such men as Bishop Derrick of New York, Bishop Janner of Philadelphia. Bishop Gaines of Atlanta ami Bishop Arnett. I told the Americans that when the Indian princes were here no one objected to meet them, and I do not propose to make any distinction at the expense of the Africans." C. .A. H Delegate Badge. The only official badge w hich w ill be ■worn by delegates to the Grand Army encampment at Cleveland is a medal lion in gold and bronze and a yellow ribbon. Upon it appears the emblem OFFICIAL G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT BADGE. of the Grand Army, the seal of Ohio, figure of a soldier and a sailor and pic tures of the soldiers’ and sailors’ and the Garfield monuments. The badge is Inscribed: “Delegate, Thirty-fifth Na tional G. A. R. Encampment, Septem ber 9-14, 1901. Cleveland.” There are, 1,000 of these badges. They will be distributed by Gen. F. M. Stirrett, ad jutant-general, to the delegates either from headquarters at St. Louis or at the encampment in Cleveland. No body except a delegate will be per mitted to have one. They are fur nished by the Grand Army executive committee. Territorial Tariff Question. The decision of the Treasury depart ment in the Porto Rico coffee case is, of course, the only one that could have been reached under the Foraker law and the recent presidential proclama tion suspending the 15 per cent tariff and extending the Dingley act to the new territory. Porto Rico is now part of the United States and of the free trade union, and she can have no spe cial duties and exemptions. She is naturally pleased with the change, but she desired a 5 per cent duty upon Brazilian coffee and contended that this duty was not affected by the re moval of the Foraker tariff. Having been overruled on this point. It is announced that congress will b" urged to re-enact a special tariff law to protect Porto Rico coffee against Brazilian competition. Hawaii may make common cause with her sister territory, as she too suffers from the Importation of Brazilian coffee. News and Views The Uehuantepec "Railway. Mrs. Alec Tweedie's interesting ar ticle in the Fortnightly Review on the new railway route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec calls attention to the fact that the transcontinental railways of the Fnited States soon will have a formidable rival in certain kinds of freight business. This railway from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean was completed by the Mexican govern ment in 1895. but lack of harbors at both terminals has prevented any ex tensive use of the line for freight trans portation. A new era will begin fif teen months hence, when Weetman Pearson, a British capitalist, will have completed two fine harbors, construct ed at a cost of $15,000,000, and will be gin operating the railway under a mon opoly concession lasting fifty years. With the opening of this road for heavy freight there is likely to be an extensive change in the ocean-to-ocean traffic. The distance across the Isth mus of Tehuantepec is shorter than that across Nicaragua, while the new route is 800 miles nearer to the Fnited States than Nicaragua and 1,300 miles nearer than Panama. The gain over the Panama route will be 1.265 miles between New York and San Francisco, or 2.010 miles between New Orleans and San Francisco. Girl Appeals to President. Friends and brothers in arms of Phineas Fonts, the American soldier who has been condemned to death for the murder of his sweetheart and I? now in prison at Cebu, have espoused NINA FOUTS. his cause and are taking vigorous step to secure pardon or a commutation of sentence for him. Powerful political influences have bean enlisted, but little hope for the success of the movement is entertained. Members of company L, Tenth Ohio volunteer infantry of Zanesville, with whom Fouts served during the Spanlsh-American war. have sent an appeal to President Mc Kinley. General E. C. Brush, one of Senator Foraker's closest personal and political friends in Ohio, has addressed a personal letter to the president, and both the Ohio senators have prom ised their support. Miss Nina Fouts. the condemned man’s pretty young sis ter, recently visited President McKin ley at his home and the chief executive promised to do what he could for the soldier. Fouts' friends base their fight on the plea of temporary insanity. The fore man under whom the young man for merly worked at a Zanesville factory and several officers under whom Fouts served state that he was queer at times, but never violent. In letters re ceived by friends Fouts deals with his crime and probable fate almost indif ferently. The crime for which the young sol dier is under sentence of d«ath is the murder of Sonora Genevieva Torres of Cebu, where Fonts was stationed. The couple, it seems, became mutually in fatuated, but the young woman's par ents objected on account of the sol dier's nationality. Fouts slew his sweetheart with a sword cane, mang ling Inr in a terrible manner. Senora Torres was a member of a prominent Spanish Filipino family and was beau tiful. /Voted French Composer Dies. Edmond Audran, the French com poser who died in Paris last week at the age of 59. was best known in Amer ica for his opera. "I.a Mascotte,” EDMOND A1'DR AN. which he composed in 1881. It was bright and tuneful and had a long run in New York. Chicago and all the oth er large cities of the Cnited States. The most popular air in this opera was called "When I Behold,” but it was I better known as "The Gobble Duet,” i It always received numerous encores and was known to every whistling boy j in the country. Uhe XOeeKiy Panorama. Xtfoman as a Gardner. A now field of usefulness has of late been entered by two or three women who have found It to be so profitable, so healthful and so pleasant that other women will be likely to enter the same Held ere long. Landscape architecture or gardening is something that any woman of tas-te, intelligence and de termination can engage in with a good MRS. E. A M’CREA. chance of success if she has real abil ity for the work. Miss Beatrix Jones of New York and Mrs. A. E. MeCrea, now of Marquette. Mich., have demon strated that, women can attain a very high degree of success in this field of labor. Mrs. MeCrea is now consulting ar chitect of the city of Marquette, and she is doing excellent work in bring ing about reforms along the line of city improvement. The board of edu cation of Marquette has recently ap propriated $1,000 for the decoration of the school grounds of the city, and .the work is being done under the direction of Mrs. MeCrea. CTtvo Sn ak.es May Crotv as One. Occasionally a college professor who is liberated from his books and turned loose in the green fields and byways of nature makes a discovery that is of real permanent value to humanity. While camping on Indian Creek, out in Colorado, Professor Dickson of Yale succeeded in demonstrating after re peated experiments that two snakes could be welded together so that the two bodies will unite and continue to grow as one. He sewed the rear half of an adder to the front half of a rat tlesnake, and after twenty-four hours his scientific soul was enraptured hy the sight of the rattler swishing the tail of the adder about as though it belonged to him. Of course there was a look of surprise and disappointment in the face of the rattler when he found that he must drag the tail of the silent adder through life, but it was noted that his sting was just as deadly as ever and that there was no abate ment of bodily energy. The President's yacht. Former yacht Mayflower, owned by J. Ogden tioelet, now in the American navy, is to be used as the president's private boat. Fall "RixJer Colton Mill-t. The Fall River manufacturers of common print cloths who have given notice of a cut in wages do not take kindly to the suggesting that they cut down their production instead and thus give the market a chance to ab sorb surplus stocks and open the way for a stiffening of prices. These man ufacturers say with some truth that if they were to reduce production while their competitors did not the lat ter alone would be the gainers. Re duced production to be really effective must be general. There are so many cotton mills and they are so widely distributed that unanimity of action Is impossible. At the same time the Tex tile Manufacturers' Journal has its doubts whether the cut in wages. If made, will add materially to the profits of the Fall River mills. It says that a price reduction may come as a con sequence of the wage reduction. Man ufacturers seldom retain any benefit from special advantages. The buyer is usually the beneficiary. The fact of the matter is that there is so much competition in the manufacture of common cottons that while mills which have new and improved machinery and are well managed are able to make money mills with inferior machinery cannot do so unless they can beat down their workmen's wages. The employes at Fall River are not ready to submit to the proposed cut, and if it is Insisted on there will be an ugly labor war in that city. Incorporation for X/nionj. It is stated in a dispatch from Pitts burg that certain officers of the United States Steel Corporation have an nounced a new policy toward the Amalgamated Association. Hence forth there will be no dealings, negoti ations or conferences with that body, w hether for a settlement of the preseut, trouble or other purpose, until it ob | tains a legal status by Incorporation. ONE VICTIM FROM HUMBOLDT. Will Hrnrelen In l.ont In the Wreck of the Steamship Inlander. HUMBOLDT, Neb.. Aug. 27.—Hum boldt people were shocked to learn that Will Bracelon, one of the party of for tune hunters who left here three years ago for the Klondike, had perished in the wreck of the steamer Islander off the Alaskan coast. The information jo far is meager, but authentic, and ?omes from Bracelen's traveling com panion and partner, Ed Dennis, to his brother, John Dennis, who returned several weeks ago from the gold fields. The message was dated Juneau, Alaska, and forwarded from Vancouver August 19 and reads: "John Dennis, Humboldt, Neb.: Been in wreck; injured some; will re main a few days to try and re< over Bracelen's body. ED DENNIS." The case is a particularly sad one, as the young man is the eldest of a fam ily of eight children and for many years was the main support of his wid owed mother. Mrs. Sarah Bracelen, in the rearing and educating of her fam ily. Most of the children are now grown, however, the eldest brother being Prof. Charles M. Bracelen, last year principal of the public schools at Blair, and two sisters being teachers in local schools. One pathetic feature of the case is that each morning since the receipt of the last letter the mother has kept a warm breakfast for the homecoming of her son and each morning when the Portland train has puhed in one might have seen her out attempting to catch a glimpse of the returning traveler. NEBRASKA GETS I S SNARE. Fare* Well I* Distribution of Additional Free Itural Delivery. WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.—Superin tendent Machem of the free delivery service has concluded the work of pass ing upon the number of rural free de livery routes which are to be establish ed in Nebraska up to and including November 1. The service is to be equitably distributed throughout the state, and. according to the figures made public, Nebraska fares well in the allowances made as compared with other western states. Rural free deliv ery will be established October 1 at Kearney with two carriers; at Elk Creek, with one carrier; Geneva, two carriers; Waverly, one carrier; Crete, one carrier, and York, two carriers. The service will go into operation No vember 1 at Grand Island, with three carriers; at Minden and Greenville, with four carriers each; at Mead and Oilier, with two carriers each, and at Beatrice, Colon, Grafton. Peru and Fairbury, with one carrier each. On September 1 there will be 109 rural free delivery routes in operation in Ne braska, with 260 pending applications. Rural free delivery will be establish ed at Yankton. S. I).. October 1, em bracing ninety-six square miles, with a population of 1,533. Simon Price. War ren Osborn and L. W. Godfrey have been appointed carriers. I.and Sale* by (Jnlon Pacific. OMAHA, Aug. 27.—August sales of the Union Pacific land department thus far aggregate 93,440 acres, as against 62,000 acres sold in July. The drouth had a depressing effect upon sales gen erally during the lasiC'ionth, but the clouds of doubt have rolled away since the exact conditions have become known, resulting in a largely increased demand for the lands of the central west. One sale made recently is that of 3,840 acres of grazing land in Colo rado. Preacher Sue* for Hamageii. YORK, Neb., Aug. 27.—One of the last cases on the district court rec ords is from Bradshaw. Rev. Harmon E. Motter, pastor of the Christian church at that place, asks that. C. B. Palmer and his son pay him $1,000 each for alleged defamation of charac ter. Smallpox Near Neltgli. LEIGH, Neb., Aug. 27.—Two cases of smallpox are reported two milese east of town at the home of John Genden gar. The victims are a son and daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Golen Gen dengar. They were exposed to the dis ease at Fremont. Huy Knailnse for Cattle. SUPERIOR. Neb., Aug. 27.—C. E. Adams, president of the Superior Cat tle company, closed a deal with the Longmont Packing company, Ixtng mont, Colo., for 6.000 tons of ensilage. This is the entire output of the com pany this season. Iteii'UIration of I.anil Tltlci. LINCOLN, Aug. 27.—Judge A. W. Crites of Chadron, W. L. Hand of Kearney and F. B. Tipton, the com mission appointed by the supreme court to investigate the Torrens sys tem of registration of land titles, will probably make a trip to Chicago to ex amine workings of the system in Cook count*. Judge Crites has been chosen president of the commission and Mr. Tipton secretary. A report must be prepared before January 1, 1901. GREAT INTEREST IN IRRIGATION. Dry W««*th«r Miown to Farmers Its Gr*at I in portance. LINCOLN, Aug. 24—The dry weather of July and the resultant damage to crops in several sections of the state have caused Nebraska farmers to display renewed interest In the subject of irrigation. State Engineer Dobson has received many applications for water rights along the Platte river during the last two weeks and inquiries are being made daily at the irrigation office relative to methods of using well water for irri gating purposes. Mr. Dobson is en couraging investigations of this sub ject and all applications filed at his office are receiving prompt attention. The state hoard of irrigation has jurisdiction over flowing streams only and it can do nothing more than as sist those who wish to use well water for irrigation. Several successful sys tems depending entirely upon wells for the water supply are now In oper ation and Mr, Dobson believes sim I'ar methods might be adopted else where and with good results. GOLD ALONG THE BLUE RIVER. •experiment* In Saving Flour Cold at ••anting* Proven Fruitful. HASTINGS. Neb., Aug. 24.—The test of flour gold made at Hrickton on the Blue river was a good success and proved a big surprise to the Chicago parties who are here with their mill for extracting gold. It was much richer than they expected. A run was made with 300 pounds and the mill had no trouble in sepa rating the gold from the sand into the quicksilver vats. The workmen are compelled to shut down for a few days on account of some of the quick silver entering into one of the cylin ders. J. F. Hoyt, the inventor of the ma chine, said that yesterday's test was a great surprise to all, as it showed nearly $15 to the ton. This is so much better than they had anticipated that all concerned are very much elated over the test and are quite anx ious to have the mill in good running order. Condition of Nehrmikn Hank«. WASHINGTON. Aug. 24.—The ab stract of the condition of the national banks of Lincoln, exclusive of Omaha and Lincoln, at the close of business on July 15, as reported to the comp troller of the currency, shows the av erage reserve held at 34.40 per cent, against 37.48 per cent on April 24. Loans and discounts increased from $19,683,304 to $19,883,559; gold coin decreased from $745,610 to $733,450; total specie from $1,049,864 to $1,034, 258; lawful money reserve from $L 627,590 to $1,622,625; individual de posits increased from $21,611,245 to $22,255,706. To Feed Cattle In Colorado. Sl’PERIOR, Neb., Aug. 24—C. E. Adams has just returned from a trip to Colorado, w'here he has purchased 6,000 tons of ensilage. This feed was put up by the Longmont Packing com pany, who owns the largest silos in the world. The Superior Cattle com pany will feed cattle there this win ter. For Cattle Stealing. LINCOLN. Aug. 24.—A requisition from the governor of Wyoming for the return of John Turner was honored and an extradition warrant was placed in the hands of the proper authorities. Herman is now under arrest in ('had ron. He was wanted in Converse county, Wyoming, to answer the charge of cattle stealing. Third Cutting of Alfalfa. LEXINGTON, Neb., Aug. 24.—Lex ington and vicinity was visited with a good rain. Plenty of rain has fallen within the last few weeks to make a third cutting of alfalfa a profitable one. Farmers of Dawson county for tunate enough to have grass land or an alfalfa field will be well provided with hay. Lightning Hurn* Wheat. BEEMER, Neb., Aug 24 —The heav iest rain storm of the season fell here, accompanied by much thunder and lightning. During the storm lightning struck some wheat stacks belonging to W. A. Holmes, burning five of them to the ground. Barn and llonm Burned. WYMORE, Neb., Aug. 24.—The large barn belonging to Durvey Ful ton was discovered to he on fire and before the fire department reached the scene the barn was on • mass of flames. A team of fine horses, together with a large quantity of hay were burned. -- Hurt H'liilf Hiding tti* llutiiprrn. FREMONT, Neb., Aug. 24.—Bert Brownell, a Hi-year-old boy at Fre mont, had a couple of bones In his right foot broken while riding on the bumpers at Piiger. He was taken to his home in this city. I.utiger of NchrattkH Wins. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Joseph H. Danger of Nebraska has been se lected for consul at Solllngen, Ger many, and his commission will he Is sued in a few days. THE LIVE SEOCK MARKET. LstHt Quotations From South Omsba and Kansas City. SOUTH OMAHA. Cattle—Receipts #ne rather moderate and as a rule the quality wan nothing extra, only a limited number of beef cat tle, either native or western, being on sale. There was a slightly better demand fo rbeef stock tills morning and buyers acre out early with fair orders to (Ml. The market was active from the start and decent grades sold freely at stronger price*. Short-fed sto^K and thin western# sold at steady prices. The market for cows and heifers was also stronger, with the numlier on sale scarcely up to the demand. Canning grades, bulls, veals, stags and rough stock were picked up at fully steady figures. About a dozen loads of Stockers and feeders were rec reived. The market continues to Im prove and prices today were strong to . Other em ployes were seriously burned.