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April JFcol s “Day in Literature. Comparatively little attention ha* j been paid to April Fool's day in litera ture. It seetns to have escaped the no tice of book-worms and literary ang lers. St Valentine's. All Souls. Mich aelmas. Easter. Christmas have not J been neglected, but All Fool's has not been given the fair show to which it is entitled. To repair this oversight some of the references to the day. its deeds and its patrons that are to be found in literature have been rescued and are herewith set forth. ') And here we have something from the brave, valiant, gallant, scholarly Sir Walter Raleigh, much misunder stood and unjustly persecuted, whose valuable intellectual life was prema turely ended by the headsman as a sac riftre to the politicians of Queen Eliza beth's and .lames I.'s reign: , "For I do remember a merrie jest that was performed when that her ma jestic, our Most Gracious Soveraine, Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, was by his grace the Earl of Leiscester, en tertained at his noble palace of Kenil worth with many days of feasting and wassail. Amongst the tioode al daintie dishes, and the finest arte of the con fectioner and the baker, was a pye fashioned with greate skille, the foun dation stone w'hereof was the lemon brought from Sicilia and squeezed into a rich costarde of milke. and sugar and eggs. This being surfaced o’er with a browne compounding of sugar, spice and the white of the egge, our Virgin Queen was so bewitched with its com piection and flavoure, that she be stowed upon the eraftie confectioner a pension for his life. And she did eat of his pyes all times of the day even after she had betaken her self to her couch for reste at nighte. "But on the last nighte when there was brought unto her one of these pyes, she tasting greedily as before, spat it out vehemently, ami did cry loud and angrilee, ‘By Godde and his saints I will have the heade of that villein ere the ende of this accurst hour.’ “For that which offered itself to her gustation as lemon costarde was hut yellow unbaked flour of the Indian maize brought hither from Virginia. And it lacked salt or sugar or any sea sone whatsoever. This it was that made her wrothe. For whereas the royal palate all on tip-toe for the cos tarde soft, found this base stuffe was powder-drye, with no more savour than you will find in chalke. The pye toppe was white of egge also, without sweetness or spice, of sinarnente or nuttemeg. And the Holy Scriptures themseives have taught us that there is no taste In the white of an egge. “And thus did her Most Christian Highness suffer the pangs of pagan Tantalus, which no Christian ought to suffer. But the scurvy knave who thus betricked her Sacred Majestie was never uncovered. It was not the chief cooke or the eunninge confectioner, for they both were at their revels In the Castel grounds. It was the First of April and the April Foole was at his piay. Some sorry kitchen rascal was it, when the bake was turned, that did poure his jorum of insipiditie out upon one of the pans, whereon the pyes were baked."—Unpublished chapter of Sir Walter Raleigh's Historic of the World. In one of the Arabian Nights we have a short tale of an April Fool's day. which is not to be found in any of the regular editions of that work. It reads thus: “Tho same evening, the good Haroun A1 Raschid disguised himself, accord ing to his wont, and in company with his grand Wizier went forth among his subjects in search of adventures. "In the course of time they came to a shop where the caliph bought figs and cinnamon. Its owner. Albubi, put ting away the money in a bag. began boasting to a neighbor, Biskoonah, of his prosperity for a long time previous, and showed him the bag full of gold in proof thereof. ‘You would be wiser not to be showing it,’ said his neighbor. ‘Only Allah knows who may be watching.' “ Trust me for that,’ answered Al l)ubi, thrusting it into his bosom. ‘None will lay hands upon it until 1 first be dead.’ “Then he closed his shop and went to supper with his neighbor at a con fectioner’s. The next morning when Albubi awoke in his own home Bis koonah sat near watching him. Al bubi did what he always did on first awaking—thrust his hand into his bosom to see if his money were safe. There was a white visage, a cry of pain. “'It’s gone! It's gone! My gold! My money!’ be shrieked. " ‘Why, of course it is,’ said his com panion. You gave it to the black- i eyed daughter of Paradise last nigh* for a kiss and a promise.’ “ ‘Allah be praised! I never was such a fool as that.’ *• ‘O, yes, you were. Only that now, in broad daylight, you are loath to confess it.’ “Albubi wept and raved and cursed his fate until at last his companion said: “ ‘The Giaours call yesterday April Fool, it is our Feast of Pranks. You had forgotten. I rememoered. To teach you prudenc* I look it from you. Here it is!’ “So. putting his hand into Albubi's turban, where he had deposited it, he proceeded to draw it forth. A look of consternation, a cry of astonishment gave he forth. " It's gone. It's gone. Your gold Is gone.’ “His comrade stared at him ineredti ously; then angrily cried: ’Do you waste your foolishness on me! You took my money, you confess. Where is it?' “ 'I know not. T only know that while you slept I took it from your bosom and placed it in your turban. Somebody has stolen it.' “The other scoffed and sneered. 'The Night of Pranks, indeed! You yourself stole it. You are a thief. Where is it? (live it to me or I will take you before the cadi.’ “Biskoonah’s remonstrances were in vain. Albubi himself repaired to the caliph, who on hearing his story sum moned the other man and bade him speak in his own behalf. “ ‘While he looked not,’ said Bis koonah. 'I poured a mild sleeping por tion into his coffee at the confection er's, and when it began to work I softly took his purse and put it into the fold of his turban. Further con cerning it I know nothing; unless it be the two strangers tiiat stopped us, as I took him home, one of them asked him the way; the other might then have taken the money.’ “ 'You shall have it,’ said Haroun. ‘You are right. It was taken from you. My grand vizier has it.' “'I! Your Sacred Highness! I have it. I know nothing whatever about it.' remonstrated that officer. “ 'Yes,’ laughed Haroun. ‘it is in your chest. Go fetch It hither!’ “The officer did as he was bid and returned open-mouthed, but full-hand ed and gave the money to its owner. “ ’Count it,' said Haroun. It was all there. “ 'It was the Feast of Pranks, as Biskoonah hath said,' Haroun re marked. ‘I remembered it when I saw you through the confectioner's shop window, taking your comrade’s purse. We were the strangers who met you afterward, and while my vizier spoke I took the money from the turban to teach you the lesson you were teaching your friend. And let us hereafter abstain from all such tricks until the next year.' ’’—Arabian Nights, I,002d Ni"ht. The cynical and grumbling Carlyle must needs also have his melancholy say concerning this festival of fools: “For what then does the learned Professor Tuefelsdroch have to put forth upon this Philosophy of April Fooling? This and nothing more: That mankind does most profoundly love to be Beguiled. Bamboozled and Bedazzled by the Simulacrum of Real Things—the mere Image—the graven Indian of the Tobacco Shop: the Spec ter and the Shadow of Substance. Therefore it is only in the order of an All Wisn that when thou—Philosopher, Poet or Hard-Handed Toiler—walkest the streets in meditation, thou shalt stoop to the Pocketbook that, alas, thou findest empty: or that when thou art about to lay Predatory Hand upon it, it shall suddenly vanish within the Shadow of the Doorway, or the dark depths of the Area, and be seen by thee no more forever! This is vanity. But it is the Phantasmagoria of the World also. And the Delusion is again invitingly laid in the pathway of the next daylight somnambulist who vvalk etli in a Vain Show of Tilings.—Sartor Resartus, hook 9. Charles Dickins could hardly have omitted to make use of this date in the calendar of comedy. His readers will remember I1I3 references to April V in his Christmas story: “Then there appeared before the ter rified Scrooge the Ghost of Honest Trade and Fair Dealing. ‘You have mocked and insulted me,’ it said in tones that made even the icy blood of Scrooge run colder. •Beguiling yourself with the delusion that for you every day in the year might rightfully be an All Fools’ Day, you laid your heavy hand upon the scales, while you weighed out your moldy flour to the hungry widow. And sanded your sugar for the wretched orphan. You sold your honest wares, your mustard mixed with Hour and tumeric; and your coffee, made half of burned peas and half of kernels of tinted plaster. You gave your hapless customers glucose when they paid for syrup, and syrup when they asked for honey. Your weights were hollow; your scales tipping always in your favor and against your helpless miser able patrons. You mingled cheap meal with your best family flour, and your sweetmeats were colored with deadly poisons. Worms always cud dled at the core of your apples, and even your water was adulterated with chalk and a little milk. Flies and cockroaches not only grew fat on your insect powder, but were poisoned by feeding on your confectionery and candles. You have fooled others,’ con cluded the Ghost, in terrorizing tones, 'but most of all you have fooled your self. You have been a fool not only in April, but in May, June, July and during all the other months of the full round year. But you have never fooled me!"—Christmas Chimes. Shakespeare does not seem to have been impressed with the advantages that the day afforded for some of his comedy characters, like Touchstone ami Dogberry, but if anyone would know what Falstaff lias to say about April Fools, let him find it in "Henry IV.,” act 5, scene 6. All that the Bible has to suy on the subject will be found in I. Samuel, XVl, 24. m PEOPLE and I | EVENTS WINS TRIUMPH OVER MISFORTUNE. Unnlr II»in«wnad l>raf, Dumb, ■nil Ulind, In ITInanrlillJ Iudeprixlent. Llnnie Haguewood, deaf. duniD, and blind, the ‘Helen Keller of the West." is now in a position of financial inde pendence. This information comes from Miss Hagucwood's teacher. Miss Dora Don ald of Gary. S. D., where Llnnie is in school. The pupil’s life work will be in the mechanical department of an in stitution for unfortunate blind. Dur ing the last few months she has be come especially proficient in stereotype making, in proofreading, and in book binding. Ail of her work, of course, has to be done with a print shop es tablishment especially for the blind and where the Braille system alone is used. The young woman has also used a typewriter for several years. She is able to operate a machine at a reason ably high rate of speed. l.innie Haguewood was born at Ida Grove, la., on Oct. 12, 1879. For tht first eighteen months of her life she was a normal child. Then came scar let fever, measles, whooping cough and meningitis. Her life was despaired of, but was saved by skillful treatment, only to find that three of the most ... important faculties of the mind bad been lost forever. A Phenomenal Honeymoon. A newly married couple were on their way from Antwerp to Paris, when one of their fellow passengers cut his throat with a razor in the railway car riage in which they were traveling. Another shock awaited them in Paris. A visitor in the hotel in which they were staying was killed In the lift in their presence. , On Sunday they called on a friend living In Paris, who had invited them to lunch at his house. When extend ing the invitation the friend observed, laughing: "You will not find any corpses with me,” but when they ar rived at the house their host greeted them with a request to have the lunch put off. as his servant had died that morning in a bath, from heart dis ease. This was too much for the bride, who fainted, and then went into hysterics. The couple took the first train back to Antwerp. Big -lamp in Fire Insurance ItatM. Radical measures were taken by fire insurance companies in New York city Tuesday to protect themselves against a continuance of the heavy losses they have sustained during the last few months. At a meeting in their rooms, at No. 32 Nassau street, members of the New York Fire Insurance Ex change advanced the rates for fire in surance in the metropolitan district 25 per cent fiat on factory and manufac turing risks and on all hotels, whether old or modern fire-proof structure. An increase of 15 per cent was placed on apartment houses. HORSEWHIPPED MAYOR OF TOPEKA. Woman Lieutenant of Mr*. Carrie Nation on the Warpath. Miss Mary Boise whipped Mayor Al bert Parker of Topeka, Kas., with a rawhide. Miss Boise is a radical Pro hibitionist and was one of Mrs. Carrie Nation's lieutenants in the Joint smashing crusade in Topeka last win ter. She said that when she started out she intended to horsewhip Mayor Parker, Governor Stanley. District judge Haaen and Prosecuting Attorney Nichols, whom she alleges are not do ing their duty in the enforcement of the prohibitory law. After she whip ped Parker her friends induced her to give up the wholesale rawhiding she had planned. Mayor Parker refused to make a statement about the affair further than to say that Miss Boise had been "wrought up by the cranks who are trying to interfere with the present polic/ of handling the liquor traffic.” STOLE MOTHER'3 MONEY. Skrabal Boys Confess and Dig Up tlie Wealth. BEATRICE, Neb., March 31.—Alter being in the sweathox for several hours, William Skrabal Anally con fessed his guilt in the stealing of his mother's money ami then planting it in his blacksmith shop floor. He in formed the authorities that he had put about $1,000 of money under the sill of his barn. Sherift WadcHngton at once went out to the farm anti found the money as indicated. The amount recovered by the sheriff Is $1,050, which with the $530 unearthed by the detective, making $1,580 in all, still leaves $1,120 unaccounted for. The boys stoutly maintain that they only got a trifle over $1,800, while their mother insists that $2,700 was stolen from her. The bovs claim that they had no intention of robbing their mother, as they only wanted her to come to time about certain matters, when the cash would have been resorted. They say that when their father died last year he left quite a sum of money and that they were entitled to a portion of it, but as the old lady seemed to think oth erwise they resorted to strategy in getting even. AFTER OLEO DEALERS. State Food Commissioner Lodges Nu merous Complaints. LINCOLN. Neb., March 31.—State Food Commissioner Bassett has lodg ed complaints with County rney Shields of Douglas county against thirty-one butchers and grocers and several wholesale dealers of Omaha for failure to take out permits to sell oleomargarine. After permits arc se cured under the state law a dealer is not allowed to sell oleomargarine col ored yellow. The penalty for failure to lake out a license in a fine of from $io to $100 and costs. The food com missioner merely makes complaint to flu county attorney and it is the prov ince of the latter to file suit. Mr. Bassett and County Attorney Caldwell of Lancaster county won a suit in the district court against Delia Bros, for selling colored oleo. This suit is considered by them a test cast^ and the state food commissioner will now proceed to enforce the law throughout the state. CONVICTED UNDER NEW LAW. Writing of Threatening Letter Proves Costly. Rl'SHVILI.E, Neb., March 31.—In the district court hero was an impor tant case where a young man by the name of Fred Reno was charged with sending a threatening letter through the mail to Charles W. Clafflin, threatening to wipe him off the face of the earth if he should remain in the community. The letter was mail ed at Pine Ridge and the postmis tress identified it as the one dropped in the box by the defendant. The de fendant denied having written the letter and evidence was also intro duced to show that no malice existed between the man threatened and him self. This was the first case prose cuted under the new law which was passed by the last legislature as a result of the Cudahy kidnaping case. The jury, aftei* being out eight hours, returned a verdict of guilty. Nebraska Beats New York. GRAND ISLAND. Neb.. Mareh 31. —The finance committee of the A. O. U. W. adjourned a regular session here. The committee has secured the figures of the New Yoik-Nebraska contest and feels elated over the re sult. Last fall the contest was ar ranged between the orders of the two states to ascertain which would, at the end of three months, have secured the largest number of new members. Nebraska has been found to be the winner and by figures which will un doubtedly lead Father Knickerbocker to the conclusion that the A. O. U. \V. jurisdiction of Nebraska has some hustlers in it. In December New York secured 415, Nebraska 4tl8; in January, New York 219. Nebraska 5<1S; in February. New York 47fi. Ne braska 1.216, making totals of New York I;110, Nebraska 2,252. Three Years for His Frolic. GRAND ISLAND. Nob.. March 31. —John Patterson, one of the men who confessed to holding up Dick Nietfeld and of extorting $10 from Henry Sander, was given three years in the penitentiary. Danel Wells, the wealthiest man in Wisconsin, who died last week, erected an office building in Milwau kee of pure white glazed terra cotta, tho only one in the United States. Jury Unable to Agree. TKKAMAH. Neb.. March 31.—Much interest has been manifested here in the trial of John Wedgewood, charg ed with shooting Orpheus Marsh. The trial took place before Judge Dickin son of the district court. County At torney Alex Corbin conducted the prosecution and Speaker Sears was the counsel for the defense. The plea was that Wedgewood did the shoot ing in self-defense. The Jury disa greed. LOSE FREE SCHOOL RIGHTS Twenty Counties in Nebraska Lack High School Districts. LINCOLN, Neb., March 29—State Superintendent Fowler is advocating; til" organization of high school dis tricts and the consolidation of rural schools. He savs there are twenty comities in Nebrr 'ka without a high school district. "While in two or three of these twenty counties" said Mr. Fowler, "Chase, for example, a high school district could now be organized at the county seat in accordance with the provisions of the schjool laws, the other counties are without a district containing the required number of pu pils, or more than 150 children be tween the ages of 5 and 21 years, to organize a high school district. A county without a high school district cannot establish the adjunct district and thus free high school privileges are denied all children residents in said county. "I would urge, therefore, that in every county with a district at the county seat which contains, according to the last school census, more than 150 children between the ages of 5 and 21 years, the people organize un der the school laws with a board of six members. In counties where the county seat district contains less than 150 children between the prescribed ages the districts around the seat should consolidate until the consoli dated district contains more than 150 children of the school age, when it may organize* as a high school dis trict. Under consolidation with this end in view it is not necessary to transport the pupils in vans or wag ons at public expense, provided, of course, a school is maintained for pu pils in the grades below the high school iu the school houses on the sites they occupied before consolida tion. “These schools may be continued vs are the ward schools in city dis tricts,” continued Mr. Fowler, "but all high school work should be done in the central school in the village. This would insure free high school privileges to all pupils in the consol idating district and, upon the estab lishment of the adjunct district, to all pupils in the county. Consolidation is not the organizatior of a new dis trict and may be effected at any time during the year.” LAND BOOM MAKES CHANGES. Causes Removals of Nebraska Fami- j lies to Minnesota. OMAHA.. Neb.. March 29.—There has been loss of population along the line of the St. Paul-Omaha road in Nebraska this spring, and therefrom is deduced the fact that the Nebraska soil and climate are wonderfully pro ductive. Because of the heavily in creased values in land and laises in rent, a large number of German fam ilies left the state for the cheaepr lands of Alberta am! northern Minne sota, the total number of people being fi om 175 to 200. For every family that left, another family arrived from Iowa or Illinois, but still the loss con tinues. All of the outgoing families had lived several years in this ctate. and had children in abundance, so that the families going out ranged from six to twelve persons in size, while the families coming from the east, and having lived in a less productive coun try. numbered but from three to six. Therefore, the net loss in population is nearly a hundred. In the way of household goods, however. Nebraska is the gainer, for the outgoing settlers sold all of their possessions and limited themselves to iheir trunks and their pockets, while every incoming family brought in from one to three carloads of stuff. Killian Ordered to Philippines. BLAIR. Neb., March 29.—Word has been received by the parents of J. N. Killian that he has been ordered to the Philippines. Captain Killian Is now in the commissary department of the United States army. He was formerly adjutant general of Nebraska. Ex-Judge Lowley Dies. SEWARD, Neb., March 29.—George W. Lowley, ex-county judge of Seward county and a prominent attorney of this place, died of pneumonia after a short illness. Judge Lowley was one of the pioneer citizens of Seward county. Slashes Throat with Razor. ELK CREEK. Neb.. March 29.—S. C. Blcknell tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. A doctor was summoned in time to stop the flow of blood. Poor health is as signed as the cause. For Fraud in Mortgage Transfer. FREMONT, Neb., March 29.—Jacob D. Storms, whft was brought back from Baltimore by Sheriff Kroader to answer to the charge of having ob tained $390 from the Bank of North Bend in June by means of a fraudulent chattel mortgage, was arraigned in jus tice court and waived preliminary ex amination. He gave bail with his brother as surety for his appearance before the next term of the district court. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. Latest Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City* Son'll OMAHA. rattle- There wan a pretty fair supply of cattle on, sale for this time of th« week, which makes the receipt* for the week to date about the same as for tha same day* of last week, atul considerably In excess of the corresponding days of last .tear. There were quK« a few heel steers lfi the yards, and the market could safety he quoted strong anil active, A good many sales were undoubtedly made that wen- .lift 10c higher than the an me kinds sold for yesterday, and as com pared with the close of last week prices have Improved all the way from 10c to 25c. The heavy cattle are, perhaps, not more than lOttlie higher, blit the handy weight cattle have Improved MtftIBo. The cow market was In much the same shape that It has been for some little time past. 'I'he demand is active for the better grades, with the tendency of prices up ward, Hulls, veal calves and stags all sold at fully steady prices, where tho qualify was good. The better grades of stock cattle were in good demand at strong prices, but the common grades were neglected, the same as they have been for some time past. Hogs- There was a good average run of hogs, which makes the supply for tho week considerably heavier than for the same days of last year. Tlte market, however, opened active and ,Vft;10c higher. The bettor grades sold mostly a dime higher. At the prices offered the hogs changed hands rapidly and it was not. long before the hulk of the offerings was out of first hands. The heavy hogs sold largely from 96.45 to 96.611. Medium weights went from $6.35 to IK 15 and the lighter weights sold from 96.3.5 down. Sheep—There was a light supply of sheep and lanths. and as the demand con tinued of ||b( ral proportions the market was active and steady to strong. 1st mbit In particular sold at good, strong prices and as high as 96.6.5 was paid. Most of the offerings consisted of wool sheep and lambs, but still a few bunches were clipped. Everything at all desirable was sold In good Ma im, btit it was notice able (hat the heavyweight sheep were not In us good request as the handy weight*. KANSAS CITY. Cal Up- Market strong to a shade high er' choice export and dressed beef steers, $•>.-Kkfi*; 75 fair to good, t5.'M)'a*i.til; Stock ers and feeders. $3.40<fi5.00; western fed stiirs. $f>.00'b8.n i. Texas and Indian steers, tKif»(>*;.30: cows. It.tMMtr».ix>: native cows, W.5ttfr3.fi5; heifers, $f>.oiK//H.iM: canners. ilii ®JT5<I; bulls. |M .VWftfi.SS; calves, $4.00>(|6.00. Hug* Market 10c higher; top, **>.75; bulk of sab s. J;!.30if»fi.?0; heavy. Jfi 6*Vpij.; mixed packers, I8.-KWI6.70; light, *>;.lisa' 6..s>; pigs, t-i .Vl'tl6,I'.”. Sheep and Lambs—Market steady: na tive lambs. S6.4ttfr6.lir>; western lambs. I6.40 '06.76; native wethers. *5.20tfr5.7t>; western wethers. $.i.HWt.'i.tie. yearlings. $3.75$6.00; ewes. $l.xi.tffr,.25; stockers and feeders, ESTATE GOES TO EDUCATION. Cecil Rhodes' Millions Will Promote Scheme of Elevating British Race. LONDON, March 29.~The Daily Mail ays it is in a position to assert that the late Cetil Rhodes left the bulk of his fortune, except some personal and family bequests to the promotion of his vast imperial plan of education. This project embraces every land where the union jack flies. Its pur pose is the intelectual betterment of the British race throughout the worla and the fostering of the imperial sent iment. The Daily Mall adds that this idea of better fitting younger Britain to cope successfully with rival national ities; was long a dominant scheme with Cecil Rhodes, but even his closest friends little imagined the absorbing hold it obtained on him until this was disclosed by the terms of his will.” The details of this plan of education will be made public in a few days. Cecil Rhodes left the Dahlman crate, to his brother, Colonel Francis W. Rhodes. The estate was purchased by Cecil Rhodes last December. PLOT TO MURDER WALLER. Plan Was to Kill Major and Lieuten ant Williams. MANILA, March 29.—At the con tinuation today of the trial by court martial of Major Waller of the marine corps, for the execution without trial of natives on Samar Island, a native scout by the name of Smoke was on the stand. Smoke testified to the existence of a plot among the native leaders of the Waller expedition to murder Ma jor Waller and Lieutenant Williams. He said that when the marines had rations they shared them with the natives. The scout also said that he personally had suffered severely from hunger. Cattle Suffer in Colorado. DENVER, March 29.—Reports from Orchard, Colo., say that many cattle on the plains are in a pitiable condi tion for want of water. Many of the water holes in Morgan county have been fenced in by owners of small herds and other cattlemen, whose stock Is shut off from water, are threatening to take retaliatory meas ures. Much ill feeling has been ex cited among owners of range cattle by impounding of animals that reed water. Notre Dame to Have a Branch. SOUTH BEND. Ind., March 29.—It is announced that Notre Dame will have a branch at Portland, Ore., a large college there now to be taken in charge by the society of the Holy Cross. Mrs. Dewey’s Health Improves. MACON. Os.. March 29.—A letter re ceived from Admiral Dewey at Palm Beach, Fla., says that Mrs. Dewey is much better.