1 PRESIDENT’S NIECE WEDDED j : TO WEALTHY ITALIAN COUNT J ♦ /Z'5J (CteAr/.-4 &XUZ7ZZT cJjCOIZZZ. ■ The marriage of Miss Cornelia Roosevelt Scovel, daughter of Cheva lier and Mrs. Edward Scovel. and a niece of President Roosevelt, to Count Ricardo Fabbricotta. was solemnized in St. James’ church, Florence, Italy, November 25. Miss Scovel is a niece of Frederick S ove! of New York and a grand daughter of Mrs. Brooks Whitney. Immediately following the wedding ceremony p.n elaborate reception was given at Villa Terrazza. Viale Macchl avelli, the beautiful home of the Seo vels, who have resided in Italy for many years. The marriage makes the second one of the president’s nieces who have married titled foreigners, the first be ing Miss Cornelia Roosevelt, who mar ried Baron Von Zedlitz several years ago at St. Thomas' church, New York. SHE FONDLED A SNAKE. Little Child Played Peacefully With a Deadly Copperhead. Horror-stricken. Mrs. Edwaril Al paugh of Washington. N. J.. fainted when she went into a neighbor's yard and saw her little daughter, Ruth, 5 years old. feeding a copperhead snake three feet long. Mrs. Alr.augh took her little daugh ter with her when she went to make a call on Mr°. Richard Valentine, one of Iter neighbors. Little Ruth went into the yard to play. After a while she was missed and the two women went to look for her. Ruth was finally found seated upon the ground in a patch of sunflowers. In her lap was the snake with its body coiled and its head standing up close to the child's face. She was handling the reptile, unconscious of danger. Mrs. Alpaugh screamed affrightedly anti fainted. Mrs. Valentine, more composed, ran to the woodhouse and got a hatchet. The snake, which had tteen quiet be fore the commotion, started to get away when Mrs. Valentine approached. She plucklly attacked it and chopped off its head. SAVED BY HIS TROUSERS. Painter's Fearful Fall Ends Up In Hysterical Laughter. George Sotelous, a young painter, sat in a swinging chair painting the city water tower at Vineland. N. 135 feet above the earth, while a big crowd watched him. Suddenly the crowd sent up a cry of dismay. One of the hooks which held the painter's flimsy seat broke and let him slide down with sickening rapidity. The spectators turned their heads to shut out the sight, but they were aroused by a loud hysterical laugh from Sofelous. In his descent the seat of his trousers caught in the sharp prongs of an iron railing which ornaments the outside of the tower about half way up, and there he hung. Wriggling about gingerly, the young man managed to pull himself tip to the railing and make his way to the ground. ‘‘I certainly thought 1 was done for that time,” said he as the crowd con gratulated him on his escape. After repairing his chair the young painter resumed his work. RELIC OF EARLY REPUBLIC. Bronze Button Thought To Be Sou venir of Washington's Election. Walter Foss, an employe of the state house at Augusta, Maine, has a most interesting relic of olden times. It is a large button of bronze, about the size of a half dollar and perhaps half as thick. In the center of the button are the initials "U. \V.," and above them, in a scroll, the words "Long Live the President." The button was found near the Tat tle Kennebec river, in Machias. The stream is so-called because settlers from the Kennebec went there and es tablished their home during the war of the revolution. Among them was Ben jamin Foss, grandfather of the owner of the button, who built a log cabin over the spot where the button wa;; found. The button is probably a sou venir of Washington’s election as president, and, as far as is known, is the only one in existence. THE BENEFIT OF WHISTLING. Writer in Medical Journal Advocates Making of Melody. When the throes of indigestion and the qualms of dyspepsia are making your life miserable, just purse the lips and whistle a brisk, merry tune, says Medical Talk. Not a muffled, doleful, half hearted whistle, but a whistle so deep and voluminous that the whole house will | he Ailed with the sound. Don't he afraid somebody will hear you. Let them hear you. It will do them good. It will enliven and cheer them while it cures you. Indigestion and dyspepsia always make one feel gloomy and depressed and morbid and gloomy. Everything seems to go wrong and doubtless you won t feel one bit like whistling. But no matter, whistle anyhow. If possible, go out into the fresh air and do your whistling. If you can't go outdoors, just open the window wide and whistle with all your might. Any old tune will do, so you put life | and vigor into it. Whistle, whistle, whistle. Keep it going. Don t get tired. Go on with all your might. Harder, harder. The first thing you know the stom ach will have righted itself, the liver wil! be working good and strong, the blood will be bounding through your veins, your brain will be clear and vigorous, and you wiii feel twenty years younger. “SECOND" SICHT AT 94. Almost Blind. Aged Mrs. Pratt Sud denly Finds She Can Read. _ Mrs. Sally K. P. Pratt of Derby, Conn., who for twenty five years has been scarcely able to read with the strongest glasses, owing to her ad vanc'd age, has suddenly found her sight restored in ner ninety-fourth year. She had become almost blind of late, being forced to abandon sew ing and all reading but the coarsest Print. She was preparing to end her j years in blindness. A few days ago site picked up a newspaper to read the large headlines. Continuing down the column, she was surprised to notice that the fine print looked large and blurred. She re moved her glasses, and to her joy tound she could readily distinguish the type. After several days’ practice sH.> can now read the newspapers and her tine print Bible with ease, and has dis carded her glasses. She also threads needles with thr- naked eye. Doctors pronounce the case one of the rare instances of what is termed second sight. They say ft occurs only with persons whose age is close to the century mark. Popular Arkansas Baptist. Ex-Gov. James P. Eagle of Arkansas was elected president of the Baptist state convention recently held in Kit tle Rock, a position whic h he has tilled for twenty-one successive years. He was chosen by acclamation. The con vention was the fifty-fifth annual ses sion of the association and there were over 1,000 persons in attendance. One pleasing incident was a reception ten dered to the venerable Dr. It. H. Graves and his wife. Dr. Graves has spent forty-seven years as a mission ary in China. OFFICIAL VOTE OF NEBRASKA. The Vote in Dcsail for Supreme Judges, Regents of the University and Fifteen District Judges. •° 3 I A I » <* | !* I * i * W m m w -yj • ; . • o ' O > O > ® r, , ? “ ^ 2 i ” ! 4 .4 3 I 5’ ■> 67 Banner . 117 05 146 85 119 104 56 4; 7 « *r. "A Blaine . 197 75 91 52 115 112 64 57 5 5 3 " Bootle . 1.244 1.166 1.277 1.107 1333 1287 1079 1055 65 86 1S 15 Box Butte .. 477 472 574 391 509 4S9 425 4.91 22 33 15 14 Boyd . 995 734 671 586 234 8'2 677 <,(6 65 54 45 43 Blown . 392 292 393 363 427 411 247 3f4 9 9 14 15 Buffalo . 1.763 1.599 1.702 1 179 f-.S 1345 1399 134.x 86 78 76 77 Burt . 1.359 760 1.412 764 }||* J232 674 646 37 37 11 11 Butler . 1 314 1.713 1.135 1,744 ‘2S“ 3225 3 3322 1612 99 h4 U 13 Cass . 2.225 1.923 2.219 1 s5l ::2S 1839 38:31 322 105 111 112 Cedar . 1.350 1.344 1,227 1.260 1222 1227 3282 3 242 54 46 S 12 Chase . 286 345 2.7 256 223 -’2# 17 16 2 2 Cherry . 712 4«9 72S 7,03 l23 6.0 434 394 33 26 22 20 Cheyenne .... 593 430 637 4 2 b7b ,®22 ,fs? 223 28 24 12 13 Clav . 1.351 1.6-8 1,79.4 1 432 1'3‘ 36*« 34s> 3478 82 44 24 32 Colfax . 811 1.B.7 SIS 1,15.1 ,'n7 824 394b. J85 2« 22 21 18 Cuming . 1.170 1 401 1.136 1.31.1 -"I3 ,3.'- 3»j* j1® 27 38 23 23 Custer . 1.910 1.856 1.-95 1,779 1 1 !22 3 ,b'’ 1632 113 12s 62 67 Dakota . I..10 692 68! (',92 Jf!* JJJ «28 57 V 25 29 27 28 a z: inns iiS 1.17a ».Im ™ 38 $ i\ 84 8 I! iEtt ,Si ;;2 ,.£• £ * ® Ul 93 73 £ Dodar . 1 89S 1.9*4 . 1.722 2,192 ‘"4" 3 988 18"2 3728 83 73 49 50 Douglas ....8.639 >.691 9.334 7.6 -i 9h2 b94J 31632 228 223 1567 1575 Dundy . : 2 > 2.31 289 259 3-| 20h --<* 215 17 14 9 9 Fillmore . 1.60S 1.473 1.71 1 1.603 3*'23 364« l4"2 1393 49 47 80 31 Franklin 879 955 859 931 8‘6 85,1 853 833 53 51 28 29 Frontier 72 4 CM 683 526 '“•* 3!®» 561 552 36 30 45 40 Furnas . 1.026 1.020 1.132 994 ,a82 llj13 283 933 <'.4 57 11 9 Gage . 3.030 1.716 3,188 1.591 3011 2945 1587 1511 241 228 50 63 Garfield . 256 216 251 212 268 255 197 185 9 6 8 9 Gosper . 409 435 388 442 412 395 413 4 )S 31 31 4 4 Grant . 89 79 80 45 26 #1 65 63 3 3 1 1 Greeley . 519 79s 490 779 “23 506 .92 672 18 16 9 10 Hall . 1.753 1.288 1.638 1.313 1S«« 1S10 1316 1261 73 65 112 111 Hamilton* ... 1.427 1,343 1.323 1.235 1472 1475 1.322 1295 79 68 18 16 Harlan . 819 783 797 7s6 823 783 764 727 81 81 55 67 Haves . 272 231 297 208 285 273 229 204 8 6 19 IS Hitchcock .... 440 424 389 361 342 419 .397 277 1 1 11 9 9 Holt . 1.2 6 l,C?i I,?;; 1,75i 1254 1271 1561 1513 110 Ins 63 6G uookcr . S3 l*i •!') 32 52 42 "9 8} 3 l V 0 Howard . Tie 1,w.a S75 1.094 856 857 10a4 li>72 41 42 2« 27 Jefferson _ 1.497 1,046 1.595 1.174 1198 1473 993 967 60 62 44 42 Johnson . 1.252. 944 1.312 937 1287 124 4 912 882 87 82 6 5 Kearney . 908 934 952 883 952 91 4 847 819 59 49 25 26 Keith . 227 211 225 202 229 215 1S8 184 9 8 4 4 Kevu Paha... 266 291 341 231 309 357 285 268 29 27 21 23 Kimball . 105 59 120 51 108 41 40 4a 12 7 3 8 Knox . 1.477 1.1 0 1.31 7 1.134 3 ’>4 1427 1123 1066 64 64 29 25 Lancaster ... 4.897 2.793 5."55 ",95t r>-"> 5174 2349 2303 346 228 39 44 Lincoln . 1,143 784 1.170 975 1123 1981 702 657 SO 75 78 79 Logan . 82 79 93 85 '8 > * 82 74 8 7 7 5 ISHIP . 168 l-'l 153 123 109 161 122 1 IS 00 00 8 8 McPherson .. 74 .31 56 25 69 b3 27 24 2 4 3 3 Madison . 1.786 1.425 1.640 1.370 1.04 1S74 1276 1314 4.. 40 is 17 Merrick . 8 73 834 990 850 668 957 722 711 86 86 12 14 Nance* . 847 676 912 705 931 905 60S 581 3.6 33 4 4 Nemaha . 1 508 1.167 1.5S6 1.279 3j76 3543 3 325 3«90 75 73 36 38 Nuckolls . 1.231 1.110 1.27.3 1.194 1253 1217 1091 1"T0 40 36 9 9 Otoe . 1.953 1,384 2.133 1.759 2"51 1941 1503 1399 92 82 63 57 Pawnee . 1,240 695 1,391 8.;; 1253 1243 683 657 108 104 14 13 Perkins . 155 184 175 Ml 156 152 169 168 4 4 00 00 I help* . 963 764 1.056 815 993 937 66.3 657 75 61 29 62 pierce . 822 791 753 7*» 832 784 7.31 713 35 S3 13 13 IDt'.e . 934 1.966 1.011 1.963 1209 11 12 1670 15SS 62 48 20 17 leli; . 844 1,"86 992 1.133 87.3 848 1044 1022 86 80 24 25 B»'d W' Jiow. .. 1,010 655 958 677 1054 997 603 567 63 47 41 32 Ri.'hardson •• 2.123 2.009 2.215 1.933 2191 2156 1963 1933 60 61 61 53 Rook . 378 256 435 210 410 402 >'11 224 40 37 3 3 Palin' . 1.789 1.677 1,891 1.603 1628 1758 1470 1418 102 100 44 45 Sarpy . 6S9 788 685 807 723 707 741 704 39 37 28 30 Saunders _ 1,999 2.109 1.925 2.006 2118 2067 1918 1913 129 108 38 29 Scott's Bluff.. 381 209 362 244 388 .267 185 171 26 23 64 68 Seward . 1.635 1,583 1,657 1.561 1701 1657 1545 1517 67 60 7 8 Sheridan .... 602 4 14 640 550 491 464 407 385 45 40 11 11 Sherma-I . 518 630 414 628 5/16 498 600 567 33 13 38 37 Sioux . 147 149 154 165 164 149 144 127 1 1 8 7 7 Stanton . 623 678 637 654 636 600 671 638 19 17 4 4 Thav'r . 1.403 1,163 1,560 1,171 1423 1.398 1098 3070 80 77 14 14 Thomas . 62 75 86 70 69 65 63 59 3 3 00 00 Thurston* ... 562 51*3 703 396 578 547 581 550 JO 9 20 20 Valley . 828 676 730 761 863 820 61 4 5*9 48 47 15 15 Washington .. 1.303 1.087 1.376 1.061 1328 1302 963 925 54 47 110 83 Wayne . 1.011 sot 474 824 1036 9,’7 726 665 13 12 11 13 Webster . 1,170 1.023 1.227 1 102 1187 1131 905 966 66 64 14 13 W heeler . 125 166 122 17 * 136 127 149 143 2 3 20 21 York . 2.011 1.523 2,060 1.565 2085 2067 1465 1437 171 167 9 8 Total .16.091 S7.S64 98.933 86.321101J95 982S2 79811 77361 5197 4762 3823 3850 The Judicial Vote. First District. Coun A. H. <\ 1’. W. 11. R. O. ties Bab- R»s- Kelli- Kivt oool:. \ts. g. r. singer Gage _ 322* 252* 204* Mil Jefferson 1537 1351 1103 1097 Johnson 1212 Hot) 1122 Ml* Nemaha 1 177 1292 1785 1.112 Pawnee 1191 1021 912 *05 Rich'dn 1935 1795 2450 2M4 Totals .. 102* 1 9107 9400 8237 Second District. Counties. Paul Jt ss»n. Pass . 31*1 Otoe. 2944 Total .. 0125 Third District. I., Fryst . 0103 K. P. Holmes . 6043 A. J. Cornish . 0027 Fcurth District. n asn Durt Hong- Sir- ing- Tn las. py. ton tal. Redlclc .1435 9826 761 13:4 133*51 8*ars .1447 *'.174 734 1310 12107 Sutton .1396 9411.1 7*1 1311 12S94 Troup .1397 91"- 727 1331 136:16 Baxter .1766 14756 1257 1*52 19431 Day . 1763 ’4689 1773 1900 19425 K*t( Up .1779 14941 1256 1918 19894 Ferguson . 581 7895 716 931 1012S Fage . 537 7353 691 914 9375 Dickinson . *36 8504 707 1058 1 1105 Read . 650 7796 70S 32S 10036 Duane . 2311 2065 1 16 344 2S55 Wiper . 276 21 10 134 .106 2.836 (inter. 15 1534 45 71 1668 Duller . 1 1 1517 38 76 1642 Jacobson . 12 1571 3s 82 1703 Miller . 11 1557 86 7"i 1682 Moitan . 9 1504 40 79 1831 Nicholson . 10 1483 39 7» 1611 Spencer ....... 9 1 179 37 76 1601 Fifth District. Sorn Countles. Kvanp Smith. Good, bergcr. [hitler _ 1611 1324 1770 1 190 Hamilton .1406 1485 1 142 1152 Folk _ 892 842 11 17 1108 Saunders .1941 1*9:4 2371 2243 Seward" ...1689 1633 1659 1403 York .2122 2"27 1665 1491 Totals ...9069 9164 10072 9387 Sixth District. Conn- lice- Still- Grim- Hollen tiee. der. soil. ieon. book Colfax . *45 705 1243 1 1 75 Hodge .....1779 2155 1741 2157 Merrick ...1067 923 752 842 Name . 961 87* 5H4 655 I’latle . 1507 1034 1512 1734 Totals ...0149 5685 5S52 6565 Seventh District. Counties Hurd. Stubbs (‘Jit y ...1 ti i.» 1484 Fillmore .1450 1605 Nuckolls .He* 1 397 Saline .1*05 1743 Thayer .1413 1270 Tot pi 3 .771S 7601 Eighth District. Counties. Robinson. Graves. Cedar .. • • ■ 1547 1333 Cuming .H91 1502 Dakota . 67* 774 Dixon . 1112 960 St anion . 645 742 Thurston . 383 875 Total# .... 5556 6146 Ninth District. Counties. Boyd Cones. Antelope .. 16.15 88’J Knox .1629 1200 Madison . 1842 1190 Fierce . 828 913 Wayne .1083 *«l Total* .7016 529# Tenth District. Kver Countirs James. Adams, son. Adams .17S1 1714 34 Franklin . 877 1051 32 Harlan . 743 959 70 Kearney . 810 1111 31 Phelps . 938 925 22 Webster .1155 1171 10 Totals .0304 6934 129 eleventh District. Thomp- Arm Counties. Paul llama, son. strong Blaine _ 121 86 109 64 Boone .1367 1295 1179 1134 Garfield ... 292 263 217 161 Grant . 92 84 98 67 Greeley_ 541 845 753 420 Hall .1810 1718 1713 1431 Hooker .... 48 44 69 34 Howard .. 997 841 1153 1030 Loup . 180 157 141 124 Thomas ... 73 66 77 51 Valley . 913 823 695 567 Wheeler .. 15S 147 184 146 Totals ...6592 6389 6377 5229 Twelfth District. Counties Hostetler. Hand. Buffalo .2215 1388 Custer .2019 1913 Dawson .1394 1191 Sherman . 566 622 Totals . 6194 5114 Thirteenth District. Counties. Grimes. Parson. Banner . 156 53 Cheyenne . 545 361 Deuel .463 136 Keith . 284 182 Kimball . 139 57 Lincoln .1311 860 Logan . 110 IT McPherson . 108 25 Perkins . 168 178 Scotts Bluff . 438 243 Totals .3922 2172 Fourteenth District. Coun- R. C. .T. L. tics. Orr. White Chase . 314 235 Dundy . 363 223 Frontier . 755 667 Furnas .1144 1026 Gosper . 426 433 Hayes . 362 206 Hitchcock .f. 61« 406 Red Willow ..1039 740 Totals .....4919 S926 Fifteenth District. Harrlrg- West Counties Fisher. Wills. ton. over. Box But'* - 445 345 6C7 579 Boyd . 742 986 834 8ill Brown . 409 424 287 307 Cherry . 658 fior, 479 636 Dawes . 696 556 505 563 llolt .1239 1200 1778 1668 Keva Paha .. 367 355 311 330 Rock .361 357 SiO 314 Sheridan . 438 338 479 716 Sioux . 142 139 164 242 Totals .5197 6305 5804 6168 Paralyzed by Cigarettes. NOKKOLK—A 10-year-old lad in this city, named Rainey, came very near to death's door during the night because he had smoked too many cig arettes. Contrary to the statutes of the state, he has been able to buy the | things and was practically paralyzed for a while. After the care of a phy sician for several hours he was finally revived and his relatives intend to en force the law of Nebraska hereafter . vorv rigidly. | MORMONS BUY JAIL IN WHICH J JOSEPH SMITH WAS KILLED # 11 An interesting landmark, the scene oi historic tragc !y. has In n sold to ihe Mormons. T1 is is the old jail at Carthage. Illinois, in which the Mor mon prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hiram were killed by a mob in June. 1S44. It is built, of sandstone and is well preserved., it was then the sheriff's residence, it stands on an acre of ground well improved. The* property was sold to iho Mormons for $1,000, $1,000 under its real value. A. IT. Woodruff of Chicago negoti ated the purchase of the building for the Mormons. It is reported that the building will be remove d to Salt Lake City, to be se t up there as a memo rial. CART. CARTER IS RELEASED. Military Peculator Leaves Fort Leav enworth Penitentiary. Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of en gineers, U. S. A., has left the United States penitentiary at. Fort Leaven worth. Three years and seven months ,is the actual time Carter served with in the walls of the penitentiary, lie was sentenced to live years' impris onment by a court-martial for alleged frauds in connection with the Savan nah harbor improvements. According to the federal statutes a government prisoner is allowed two months off each year for good time, ten months in Carter’s case. He was held seven months in confinement at Governor’s Island. X. Y., before he reached the penitentiary. By the military code a prisoner's time commences from the day his sentence is approved, which with Carter was Sept. 28. 1899. He was aide to keep out. of the peniten tiary until the following April 27, sev en months, through applying for new trials, appeals and the like. Carter is in excellent health and weighs twenty pounds more than when he entered prison. He is 47 years old. but during his confinement aged rapidly, his hair now being near ly white. He was first assigned to duty as doorkeeper for the tin, shoe, tailor and repair shop. He did this work quickly and spent most of the day brooding over bis troubles and as a result became extremely nervous and was on the point of breaking down. The prison physician recommended outdoor exercise and lie was put in charge of the flower garden and lawns, where he pushed a law mower. Later on he was placed in the hospital, where ho acted as a nurse and kept the records. He soon became an effi cient nurse and for the last year has been teaching the new convict nurses. Carter has never associated with any prioner aside from Capt. Dent ing. another army officer, who was re leased on habeas corpus. But he has been kind to those injured or sick. By living at the hospital he obtained bet ter food than that furnished to pris oners in the construction gangs. He »» l Capt. Oberlin M. Carter. has been a model prisoner from the first ami has the respect of the prison officials. He lias talked to the officers about his suit for the property in escrow, and most of them believe that he will witi It. Another civil indictment is hanging over Carter in connection with the cases against Gaynor and Green, but he does not fear arrest on his release, as his military trial and imprisonment for this same offense bars any further criminal action against him. It is said, however, that he is willing to assist the government against Gaynor and Green, who, he feels, mistreated him. During the last year Carter has been studying mining engineering, and if he is kuecessful in the trial will spend considerable of his time in Arizona and New Mexico, where he and his iinol<\ 1-. D. Carter of Danville, III., have extensive mining interests. Car ter has been forward lg directions to the employes at. the Arizona mine as to the proper manner of developing it. The winning of the Chicago suit, in which $7f.3 0<><) is involved, is a matter of supreme iniftortance to Carter, a in case of a favorable decision ha will claim a vindication from first to last. He lias held that he was the victim of prejudice on the part of several officers who were members of the court-martial. QUEER CAUSE OF LAMENESS. Result of Living end Working in a Hilly Country. There is a hilly and Indefinite local ity on the boarder!and of Poland and Raymond known as Uiackcat. Tradi ! tion says that this name was bestow j ed on the locality because in prehis | toric times a wandering hunter from the coast settlements came upon a j gigantic black wildcat and had a ter j rifle battle with him somewhere in | these hills. In course of time the \ country became settled, but the recol lection of this battle clung to the hills and so we have the name of Blackcat to this day. A man traveling th's section a year or two since observed that all the in habitants wore lame, or seemed to be and even the cows had "a slouch iu their gait.” This so impressed him j that he asked a native whom he met the cause of it. The native looked at tne stranger and then at the surround ing hills and tiien answered. “Wall, you see. ther folks have ter work on er side hill all ther life. They begin when they’re cliil’un and pick berries an' keep it up ^1011 they grow older an’ plant taters an’ cut hoop-poles on ther hills. Yer see one leg has ter kinder stretch down ter git er footin’, and tother kinder shrinks up ter 'com modate the first 'un', so yer see its r. at’ral ter go one-sided."—Portland Advertiser. Editorial Consolation. I Senator Cullom tells of an amusing ' incident that occurred in the editorial j office of a paper published in Bloom ington. Hi The senator bad d rped in for n friendly chat with his friend, the ed itor, and had hardly seated himself when there appeared a well-known character of the town—a type of in dividual common to every locality, the man who knows “how the paper ought to he run." Without noticing the presence of Mr. Cullom the man launched into a complaint that the paper had not printed certain articles Le had written for it. “Why," said he. "I gave ’em to you months ago! What have you done with ’em?" The editor smiled sadly. “I’m hold ing them,” he replied. “And they serv c a very good purpose, too. Now ai. d then I get to thinking that per haps we are not offering the public as good a paper as wc ought to. At such times I look up your articles and see how much worse the sheet might lie. So I become real cheerful again! Please don't take them from me!”— Boston Post. "Rebel Bishop's” Biography. The family of the late Episcopal Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer of Alabama has selected Rev. W. C. Whittaker, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, Jackson. Miss., to write his biography. Bishop Wilmer was the only southern bishop of his church elected and consecrated during the civil war. He was long known as the “rebel bishop" because lie refused to pray for the president of the United States when Gen. Thomas and his army were occupying Alabama. At the close of the war Bishop Wilmer said that he had no regrets and was making no apologies and the northern church finally agreed to accept him as the bishop of Alabama. Thought Jefferson a Failure. Not long ago Joseph JefTerson took part in a benefit in aid of a New York hospital. He opened the entertain ment with a short talk, other noted players crowding at the wings to hear his remarks. Just then two highly rouged girls of the song and dance persuasion came down the winding staircase from their dressing room. One of them came over to the wings, listened a moment and went back to her companion. The latter said: “Who’s on now?” “Some old guy doin' a monologue,” was the reply, “and. say, he’s doin' fierce. Been on ten minutes and ain't had a laugh yet.”