Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Even if Harry Lehr does have brain
fag it may not bother him very much.
Sir Thomas Lipton is seriously
thinking of becoming a good loser
once more*.
A celluloid collar saved a man’s life.
Most men would prefer death to tho
wearing of one.
Much credit Is due to Mr. Fitzsim
mons for the “remarkable footwork”
displayed by Mr. O’Brien.
While Mr. Chamberlain is framing a
retaliatory tariff he should not forget
to extend It over American athletes.
Von Plehve’s predecessor was as
sassinated a little over two years ago.
They have rotation in that office all
right.
If Mrs. Maybrick has read tho
American newspapers all these years
she must be used to being released by
this time.
The gatherings of the believers in
universal peace are the finest things
in the world, splendid optimism under
difficulties.
William C. Whitney left only >21,
000,000, This upsets the theory that
only rich men can live in style in
New York.
Both England and France seem to
dread the idea of touching toes, so to
speak, through a tunnel under the
English channel.
The cry has gone up throughout
the country to save Niagara Falls.
They are certainly unsurpassed for
6cenery and suicide.
WTiile the automobilist is liable to
locomotor ataxia, the man who ven
tures to crocs the street is liable to
sudden attack of rigor mortis.
Some people will complain of the
Panama canal commission's extensive
purchase of mosquito netting while
New Jersey remains unfortified.
Pugilists shake hands before and
after the fight. Oh that some way
could be devised for injecting some of
the chivalry of the ring into politics!
Such are the resources of modern
science that the failure of the Span
ish olive crop will have no effect what
ever upon the supply of pure olive
oil.
An immense quantity of castor oil
has been destroyed by fire in Boston.
What a squeal of delight should ema
nate from the nurseries all over the
land?
Wilson Barrett died from the effects
of a surgical operation which was
“thoroughly successful.” What would
have happened if the operation had
been a failure?
A San Francisco girl has begun suit
for divorce on the ground that she
was tricked into marrying. But, hon
estly, that is what happens to most
girls who marry.
Probably more girls would take the
advice of Gov. Warfield of Maryland
and delay marriage until they are 26
if they only felt absolutely sure they
could get married then.
It is claimed that a new kind of
bread has been discovered which is
an excellent substitute for beef.
There’s no use shouting about it,
though. If it’s as good as they say it
is some trust will get it.
A Pittsburg man has been fined $80
in Canada for catching fourteen-more
black bass than the law allowed. Still,
he will probably find it hard to get
people to believe his fish stories.
A millionaire prohibitionist in his
will cuts off any child who indulges in
liquor. This may be an incentive to
* temperance and then again it may be
an incentive to a family blind pig.
A New' York man, aged 103, boasts
that he has never used soap during
.iis lifetime, but that he drinks lager
beer. It seems he prefers his “suds" to
be applied internally instead of exter
nally.
The young queen of Holland, the
queen of Italy and the crown princess
of Luxemberg are all awaiting the
expected news from the palace at
Peterhof with a special sympathetic
interest.
Young Mr. Tiffany complains that
he cannot live on the $18,000 a year
he draws from his father’s estate. For
$1,000 of It he could hire some good
man to show him how to save money
on $17,000 a year.
The landlord of an Illinois hotel
fasted twenty days to cure stomach
trouble. He has taken no patent or
copyright on his method, and it is
understood that guests at his hostelry
will be allowed to use the cure with
out extra charge.
As King Peter of Servia puts on his
chilled steel nightshirt and then looks
under the bed for bombs, prior to re
tiring for the bight, he reflects that
there are, after all, some disadvan
tages in holding a job as the bene
ficiary of assassination.
Well, if men will sit in automobiles
day and night for ninety-six hours or
so, torturing themselves into the be
lief that they are doing something
worth while, we suppose it is their
own affair. But to the average citizen
It seems the height of idiocy.
A London physician advances the
theory that a great deal of the preva
lent baldness is caused by smoking.
We are skeptical about this. The in
dignant wife of a smoking husband
may be tempted to jerk him bald
treaded, but she seldom does it.
MRS. KRAUSS HELD FOR THE MURDER OF
STEPDAUGHTER AT HARTFORD CITY. INDIANA
Aug. 5, Coroner William A. Hollis
rendered his verdict in the inquest
held at Hartford City, Ind., to deter
mine the cause of the death of Miss
Crystal Krauss, who died suddenly.
The verdict was that Crystal Krauss
came to her death by strychnine
poison administered by Rae M.
Krauss, her stepmother.
Mystery in the Case.
The poisoning of the girl, with its
mysterious and remarkable features,
has stirred intense local feeling.
The stepmother, accused of the
murder of the girl by poison, sat in
her jail cel! cool and collected, talking
freely of the tragedy, without a tear
or a quaver. Tbough the chief figure
in the absorbing tragedy, and accused
of murder, she was utterly compla
cent. She denied everything and de
clared herself without fear.
In striking contrast, the father of
the dead girl, though not accused or
under suspicion, was in a state of
utter collapse, nervous and physical.
PRINCIPALS IN CASE.
At the top is a photograph of Crys
tal Krauss, the dead girl. At left is a
picture of the Krauss home in Hart
ford City, Ind. Below is a reproduc
tion of the note sent to Druggist Lo
gan and the bottle of strychnine al
leged to have been found In the girl’s
bed. Below at right is a photograph
of Mrs. W. R. Krauss. the girl’s step
mother, who is charged with her
death.
He had to be carried bodily from bis
room to the carriage that bore him to
the funeral.
Both the stepmother and father of
Crystal made extended statements
concerning the tragedy. Neither wife
nor husband offered anything to clear
up the mysterious features of the
girl’s death, or reconcile the conflict
ing statements previously made by
the woman. In their story for pub
lication both said they did not believe
the girl committed suicide, though
they gave the coroner a note "lleged
to have been found beside her body
which bids the father farewell and
says she “cannot live without Jim.”
Also both declare their disbelief that
she was murdered.
But the most sensational develop
ment was the declaration of a niece
of Krauss that the husband told her
privately that he believed his wife
guilty.
Crystal Krauss was taken sick on
the morning of Aug. 2nd died in
convulsions without speaking. Mrs.
Krauss insisted upon the physicians,
who were called just before the girl
expired, making out a death certifi
cate giving as the cause acute indi
gestion and heart trouble. The physi
cians refused, and analysis by Coro
ner W. A. Hollis showed death was
due to strychnine poisoning.
The coroner searched the death
chamber and found nothing. Later
Mr3. Krauss produced a bottle partly
filled with strychnine and a note,
which she said were found beneath
the covers of Crystal’s bed after the
coroner’s party had gone.
“Papa, I cannot live without Jim;
good-by,” was all that was scrawled
on the note.
“Jim” was supposed to be James
Cronin, a young suitor whom the fath
er had forbidden to pay attentions to
Crystal.
Then appeared a Lloyd Sommer
ville, a boy who carried milk to the
Krauss home, who declared that Mrs.
Krauss had sent him for strychnine
to Logan’s drug store, giving him a
note reading:
“Give bearer 15 cents’ worth of
strychnine. I want to clean out some
mice. (Signed). Mrs. Showalter.”
The boy Sommerville knew Mrs.
Krauss welt. Mrs. Krauss denied hav
ing sent him for strychnine. Mrs.
Showalter, who lives across the
street, denied having written the
note. Krauss, the woman's husband,
is a druggist, his store being much
closer than Logan’s. But Sommer
ville says Mrs. Krauss very explicitly
told him to go to Logan’s.
The police declare the farewell
note attributed to Crystal and the
message to Druggist Logan were writ
ten by the same hand.
Mrs. Krauss stoutly denied writing
the notes or sending for strychnine.
“I do not see how they can prove
me guilty on the word of a mere boy,”
she said.
Lloyd Sommerville sticks stoutly to
his first story, and has rehearsed it
several times to the police.
Mrs.'Krauss is a remarkable woman
—a remarkably strong woman—in
mind, nerve and body.
“It is mere spite work,” the woman
declared, pursing her lips and raising
her eyes with an angry gleam. "I
know the prejudice against stepmoth
ers. I hesitated a long time before
assuming the responsibility. I see
now that I should have waited longer.
There is no evidence against me.”
“They say that the farewell note
you claimed was left by Crystal and
the note asking Druggist Logan for
strychnine were in the same hand
writing—and that it resembled yours.”
Mrs. Krauss showed neither anger
nor surprise at the pointed observa
tion. She paused a moment, raised
her head, looked her questioner
straight in the eyes and said with
positiveness:
“I did not write those notes. I did
not send for strychnine. I deny it
all.”
“Well, what about the boy, Som
merville, who says positively that you
gave him the note to Druggist Lo
gan?”
“I did not know him, and I doubt
if I could tell him if I saw him,”
came the repiy, rather uncertainly,
with the quick addition: “I do not
see how they can prove me guilty
on the testimony of a mere boy. I
am innocent and am not afraid but
that I can prove myself so,” she add
ed, rather defiantly.
“We had a happy home,” she re
sumed. “Everything ran along
Guatemala Owes Him Much.
Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who has
been re-elected for a term of six years
as president of Guatemala, has come
to be known as “the Diaz of his coun
try.” From 1862 to 1898, when Ca
brera was first elected president,
Guatemala was in a continual turmoil
of revolutions. But for six year
there has been remarkable peace un
der Cabrera. The republic has more
than 1,300 schools, has coffee for its
chief agricultural staple, and has min
eral wealth, besides many itossibili
ties not yet developed. Before his
election President Cabera had been
a lawyer by profession and was a man
of education and culture. Every pres
ident before that for sixty years had
been a military officer.
American Architect Honored.
Prof. William H. Goodyear has been
made an honorary member of tfie
Architects’ society of Rome by unan
imous vote. This action may be tak
en as an indication that his observa
tions on mediaeval architecture have
been viewed with favor by a very im
portant body of Italian experts.
Humorist 60 Years Old.
Robert J. Burdette received a few i
friends at Sunny Crest, Pasadena, on
the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.
He’Tiad spent the day chasing butter
flies and mowing down weeds, and in
posing for a picture declared he was
the original man with the hoe. When :
asked how it feels to be 60 years old
the humorist said: Well, my boy, it
seems rather crowded. There are s*>
many more people in the world than
there were when I took up my home
stead claim. When I landed on this
planet there wasn’t a soul in Los
Angeles that I would go across the
street to shake hands with. No man
can be as young at 60 as at 20. When
I enter a room now I instinctively
select the chair I want to sit in. I
pick out the one that is easiest to
get out of.”
Croker Selling New York Property.
Richard Croker is gradually closing
ou~ his real estate investments in New
York City. A plot of nine lots in
Harlem which he owned has just been
disposed of and other sales will be
made soon.
smoothly. Crystal and I never had
a word. I did for her all a mother
could. I sewed for her and helped i
her all I could. Mr. Krauss will tell
you that is the truth.”
Krauss, the husband, who conducts
a drug store, was seen and talked ot
his daughter’s death and the accusa
tion of murder against his wife.
He declared there was no truth in
the report that the removal of the
stepdaughter. Crystal, would give Mrs
Krauss $2,000 additional of his estate
He said he and his wife had entered
into a contract for the disposal ol
their property, and that he had made
a will, neither of which could be af
fected by the daughter's death.
The $2,000 addition to her possible
inneritance was forwarded as a mo
tive for the alleged poisoning of the
girl by her stepmother. The police
declare Krauss’ explanation unsatis
factory, and say that the death can
be proved to make a difference in the
property interests.
‘‘I don’t know why Crystal should
have committed suicide, and there
was certainly no reason for my wife i
to poison her,” said Krauss.
‘‘It was I who found the bottle and
note in Crystal’s bed. I have forgot
ten whether I gave it to my wife or
to the coroner.”
Rich Man Shy of Matrimony.
James Henry Smith—“Silent” 8mith
—is regarded as the most eligible
bachelor in New York. He is worth
about $40,000,000. and, although he is
just 50 years old, he looks to be about
40—the right age. Mr. Smith re
cently bought the Whitney mansion
and his social activities have been no
ticeably increased. This gives rise
to the old report that he is about to
marry. Society and the newspapers
have had him engaged about twenty
times in the last year, but the silent
man of millions—the richest bachelor
in tfie world—has always emerged
unscathed and unmarried.
Bishops as Mountain Climbers.
The bishop of Bristol, England, who
has just been elected president of the
Alpine club, is the first bishop to en
joy that'honor, but not by any means
the first prelate to be distinguished
as a mountaineer. It was the bishop
of Gurk who made the first ascent of
Gross Glockner, in Tirol, in 1800, and
it was the bishop of Aire, in Gasconyj
who made the first attempt to climb
the JPic du Midi, in the Pyrenees, id
the sixteenth century.
Harvard’s Crack Athlete.
C. W. Randall, ’05, first basemar
and captain of the Harvard varsitj
nine, is a versatile athlete, being i
crack basketball and football player
a good oar and a fleet runner. Mr
Randall, who hails from St. Louis
makes part of his expenses as a news
paper correspondent, and at present it
coaching some backward students
down in Maine.
Woman’s Brave Deed Recognized.
President Loubet has given the
Breton woman Rora Here a decora'
tion for her bravery in rescuing four
teen sailors whose ship went down in
a storm on the coast of Brittany last
November. Wading into the break
ers, chest deep, she threw the ex
hausted men a rope and dragged their
lifeboat to the shore.
Gen. Miles’ Profitable Investments.
Gen. Miles has been inspecting gas
fields in Indian Territory and else
where in the southwest with a view
to investing. The general is under
stood to have done well with some
ventures in the Texas oil country.
WITH THE WORLD’S I
^BEST WBITEftS
LET NOISE BE ABOLISHED.
The next advance in comfortable
livelihood which science has in store
for humanity is the abolishment of
noise. We expect to see In the near
future the ingenuity and skill of man
displayed in an attempt to still the
rear and crash of city life.
What a beneficence it would be if
noise could be dispelled, or even miti
gated, in city and town! The rum
ble of wagons of every description,
the grind and jostle of street cars,
the screech and toot of horn and whis
tle, all this din that makes it neces
sary for venders of all sorts to shriek
in order to attract attention.
The noise of the city is driving
thousands of people mad and shorten
ing the lives of a multitude of others.
It is the noise of the city that gives
the country its chief attraction. The
stillness of the country, what a bene
diction it is after months of city ex
perience! To sleep in a country
house where all is still, where silence
is unbroken save by the baying of
a dog or the cry of some night bird!
Stillness is a marvelous luxury to
the denizens of the city. There must
be some way to put a quietus to this
intolerable pandemonium. — Medical
Talk.
VALUE OF A SUNNY SOUL.
The world is too full of sadness and
sorrow, misery and sickness; it needs
more sunshine; it needs cheerful lives
which radiate gladness; it needs en
couragers who will lift and not bear
down, who will encourage, not dis
courage.
Who can estimate the value of a
sunny soul who scatters gladness and
good cheer wherever he goes, instead
of gloom and sadness? Everybody is
attracted to these cheerful faces end
sunny lives, and repelled by the
gloomy, the morose and the sad. We
envy people who radiate cheer wher
ever they go and fling out gladness
from every pore. Money, houses and
lands look contemptible beside such
a disposition. The ability to radiate
sunshine is a greater power than
beauty, or than mere mental accom
plishments.—Success.
MACAULAY ON SUNDAY REST.
Speaking on "The ten hours bill.”
Lord Macaulay said: "We are not
poorer, but richer, because we have,
through many ages, rested from cur
labor one day in seven. That day is
not lost. While industry is suspended,
while the plow lies in the furrow,
while the exchange is silent, while no
smoke ascends from the factory, a
process is going on quite as important
to the wealth of nations as any proc
ess which is performed on more busy
days. Man, the machine of ma
chines—the machine, compared with
which all the contrivances of the
Watts and Arkwrights are worthless
—is repairing and winding up, so that
he returns to hio labors on the Mon
day with clearer intellect, with .live
lier spirits, with renewed corpora!
vigor.”
ORATORY IN THE CAMPAIGN.
Oratory as a compelling force in
a political campaign is duly appre
ciated by the party managers, who
are on the lookout for every resource
that will add to their vote-getting
power. The “spellbinder” who is
clever enough to size up the temper
of his audience and who knows just
what to say to the ones about him on
any and all occasions is supposed to
be worth all his services cost the
campaign committee. As a student
of the subject has put it, the most
convincing address is one that has
“profundity without obscurity, per
spicuity without prolixity, ornament
without glare, terseness without bar
renness. comprehension without di
gression. and a great number of other
things without a great number of
other things.” But a speaker with
and without all these things is a rare
specimen. There is never near
enough of him to go around.—Boston
Herald.
CHARACTER TO THE FRONT.
The keynote of all the addresses
that have been made lately at college
commencements and at meetings of
business men’s associations has been
the development of character. It is
remarkable how this word "charac
ter” runs through all the recent
speeches and papers. It is as if, by
common impulse, our intellectual lead
ers had stopped talking about this or
that economic problem, this or that
political issue, and this or that means
of attaining success in life, and had
returne'd to the development of char
acter as the one solution of all na
tional problems.—Wall Street Journal.
LEARNED ITALIAN ORPHANS.
I
There are in Rome nine orphan asy
lums which accommodate about 1,800
children, ranging from three to six
years. Those of three or four years
must learn the alphabet and to read
the simplest books, they must know
Arabic numbers and to count up to
100, besides which they must learn
poetry and prose by heart, and imbibe
religious precepts. Those from four
to five years must read and write well,
count unlimited thousands and do
sums, besides knowing their cate
chism and Bible, the division of time,
the parts of the body, the senses,
some geography and astronomy, to
say nothing of many other details too
numerous to mention. Then come
those between five and six—if they
arrive at that age. They must read
and write fluently, and learn by heart
the greater part of the New and Old
Testaments, write dictation and have
some idea of geometry and Roman
history. At six years of age! The
brain reels at the idea. What must
the poor mites grow to be?—Rome
Correspondent Pall Mall Gazette.
WOMEN AND WORK.
The census returns of the United
States show very clearly that womer
are pressing forward more and more
into professions and positions former
ly held by men, and this in our opin
ion is an excellent sign, although In
some branches of labor there is ar
outcry against this usurpation of what
is termed man’s prerogative. What
women more particularly require is a
training from an early age which will
enable them to take their own part in
the battle of life when through the
death of those on whom they were de
pendent, or through misfortune, it be
comes incumbent on them to provide
for themselves. This early training ie
a matter which does not appear tc
receive the attention and considera
tion that it ought, for how many worn
en are there who can. for example
compute interest intelligently and ac
curately; how many are there who art
capable of managing their own at
fairs, or their own property, if the*
have any, with anything like business
capacity? The education of woman
is not complete unless she has as part
of her equipment a knowledge of at
least the rudiments of business. Worn
en who are blessed with a fair share
of worldly goods need thin knowledge
hardly less than those who have tc
make their own way in the world, and
who have not the protection and
guardianship of husband and father,
for such women can never be sure
that they may not at any moment be
celled upon to earn their own liveli
hood.—How to Live.
GIVE VEGETARIANISM A TRIAL.
If you were in a cannibal country,
how would you like to be the canni
balee? To be fed and fatted and slain
and spitted to decorate the interior
of your big brother? Well, Mr. Ed
win Markham has told us in a poem
that he reads to everybody and every
body reads, that man is Brother to
the Ox. Shall we carve our brother?
No. not by the ox-eyes or cow’-eyes
of Juno! As for the sheep, how can
anybody see one without thinking of
a lord chancellor? Now, we shouldn't
care to eat a lord chancellor, especial
ly a particularly tough one like Eldon
or Brougham.
The pig hath a devil. The pig is
unclean. He is too bad to eat. Yet
there are pigs that do great service
and are too good to eat; those sa
gacious, epicurean noses that hunt the
truffles. Of course, nobody but a prod
igal Son eats veal.
Is there anything in the vegetarian
philosophy? Let’s find out. Is it meat
that makes you snap and bite at the
breakfast table? Is it meat that
manes you an affliction unto the wife
of your bosom? Feed upon salads
’ike Nebuchadnezzar. Eat berries
with the birds. If worst comes tc
worst, buckle your belt tighter. For
tunately, everybody has a belt to
buckle these days. Let us be mild
eyed, but not melancholy, Lotus-eat
ers, and no longer ferocious carni
vores.—New York Sun.
DESTINY IN WAISTCOAT.
The easy-going Harvard undergrad
uate, left to himself on questions of
dress, will not understand the misery
of his counterpart at Oxford. When
the exam, period approached a week
or so ago, those in power issued an
edict prescribing the dress to be worn
in the examination-room to include a
black coat and a black waistcoat, in
addition to the white tie and the
gown. The British public itself was
appalled at such puritan severity. It
was the black waistcoat, a thing that
all civilization is allowed to doff in
summer, that incited rebellion. Why,
a man's chances in life might be im
paired because the warmth of a waist
coat, gratuitously imposed upon him,
prevented him from doing full justice
to his views or. the synthetic unity oi
appreciation! It might ruin a state.—
Boston Transcript.
THE “THIRTEEN'7 SUPERSTITION.
Col. John McEIroy, an adept in war
statistics, contributes figures to show
that the “silly supersitition” attach
ing to the number thirteen finds no
justification in the records of the civil
wa^. “It is in evidence just now in
the tiresome clatter about the repub
Mean convention being the thirteenth
in the history of tne organization."
The war records show, according to
Col. McEIroy's curious deductions,
that the total loss of the thirty-one
regiments and batteries bearing the
designation thirteen was 5,504. that
of the same number of regiments and
batteries numbered twelve was 0,775,
while that of those numbered fourteen
was 7,075. Not a regiment or bat
tery bearing the number thirteen had
any special ill luck, while most of
them escaped with small loss.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
DANGER OF CONSOLIDATION.
That is the most serious danger oi
the consolidation movement. It means
putting a community's eggs all in one
basket. A strike in the coal mines oi
the packinghouses stops the whole
coal or meat supply. If this is here
after to be the normal organization
of business, if every industry is to op
erate as a single machine, and the
individual desire for profit from con
tinuing business when others stop
and for wages from work which oth
ers will not do ceases to be a force
regulating and steadying production,
then the community must devise new
methods for safeguarding its own in
terests. It cannot let itself be sacri
ficed between warring hosts, like the
women and old men who in mediaeval
sieges were driven from the city walls
and driven back against them to
starve by the attacking army.—New
York Times.
Let us have faith that right makes
might, and in this faith let us to the
end dare to do our duty as we under
stand it.—Lincoln.
IN A PHILIPPINE JUNGLE.
Of 8uch Stuff Is Made the A*- «
American Soldier.
The column was toiling *v*nz >i»
the sun up a hillside. Th ?•■;-. ■ <
ovf:r the bead of a man rxn h or;* - *
and It was very hot down n> * ■ *
ground, where no bree*« con ' r r
The men were plodding a . z '
out light In their faces, dose*;
lowing the others in front. H -e < j
there a sick man was hanging
under his load.
It was the sort of a trail w
you are quite worn out. and r. i
nake bets with yourself as t ,
whether you will keep on going v»
the top of the hill, knowing very .r*v.
that you cannot help it.
Suddenly the boom of a mount a .
,'un ahead came down ti.r *v<
stifling air. The crash of a r :> w.
ley followed, and then i , r = j
swiftly, steadily.
A shiver of life ran down it*
umn.
“Hit ’em," said an old ser. at *
Heads lifted. The column
The walk changed to a in:' tp *
There was only one thought—to .
forward to get at ’em.
“Don’t you think you'd better **
a while longer?” a hospi’al a • n<. *
asked a private who had just fa: i
out under the sun and wa- resting in
the shade of a bush.
“Hell! don’t you hear them runs?’
was the unanswerable an a t. “G*;ii
me my rifle.”—New York Sun.
The Microbe of Clc Age.
Ia a lecture on "Oi l A *, d' !’?•
cred In Paris recently by Ur. Mench
nikoff. the speaker exj.r -»! the
opinion that sensility wa- ; r'»nu - :
Dy certain physiological states which
cause the beneficent species of mi
crobes called “macrophage ’ to in
crease too rapidly. Then in th* ir t;irn
they become injurious.
These parasites flourish in the
targe intestine, which mammals po?
sess, whereas in birds It is almost
entirely lacking. The result was
shown in the person of the doctor's
awn dog, which was decrepit at
eighteen, while the doctor's parrot,
aged seventy, appeared to the audi
ence hale and lively.
“It stands proved,” says the doctor,
"that senility is an infectious disease,
and it should be possible to treat it
like other maladies—to cure it or pre
vent it.”
The hope was expressed by Dr.
Menchnikoff that a serum would
should be discovered to counteract
the "macrophages,” and prolong hu
man life; meantime, he recommend
ed the consumption of curdled milk
Story From ’Way Back.
‘Private” John Allen tells the fol
lowing as illustrative cf the partial
ity of the southern darky for long
words of whose meaning he is a
lutely ignorant:
"A negro named Elijah Thomas,
living in Tupelo, Miss., recently
chanced to meet a friend who com
plained of feeling miserable. In fact,
Thomas’ friend feared for his life,
so ‘tuckered out’ was he.
“ ‘What's de matter wif yo’?’ in
quired Elijah.
“ TJJe,’ moaned the second darky,
indicating the region where the pain
lay, Tse got sech awful pain3 in mab
back heah!’
“ 'In dat case,’ responded Elijah,
solemnly, T knows what you ought**!
do! You oughter go over ter Jack
son. Dey says dat here's de finest
backteriologist over dere in de whole
Souf!”
"Touch” Was Queer.
‘ Last week,” said Job Hedges, “1
had the queerest ‘touch’ to which )
have even been subjected. A man
evidently in the last stages of con
sumption, came into m.v office and
said:
“ ‘You know’ -,’ mentioning a cli
ent of mine who is in the undertaking
business.
”I told him I did.
“ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘he is holding an
insurance policy on my life for $50.
It’s a cinch that that policy will be
payable in a week or ten days at the
most. Meantime I need $10. If you
will advance me $10 I will give you
a due bill against the policy. If you
can't collect in ten days you can
charge interest.’ ”—New York Times
The Useful Bumble Bee.
The bumble bee is one of the most
valuable of the farmer's assistants. 1.
it were not for his seemingly blunder
ing way of carrying pollen from one
flower to another, many plants would
not produce live seeds. Here the boys
chase the black and yellow bee and
kill him if they can; in Germany it is
against the law to kill him and the
law is enforced.
Recent experiments have shown
how valuable the beo really is.
At an agricultural experiment sta
tion patches of clover heaas were
covered with mosquito netting, and
other similar sized areas were left un
covered. The former product only
two seedling plants, while there were
612 in the uncovered patches, which
the bumble bees had been able to
reach and so pollenize.
Compensation.
There was never a day so mi.*ry and
gray
That the blue was not somewhere
above it;
There is never a mountain top ever so
bleak.
That some
little flower docs not love it
There was never a night so dreary and
dark
That the stare were not somewhere
shining;
There is never a cloud so heavy and
black „ <1 ...
That it has not a silvery lining-.
There Is never a waiting time, weary and
long. . ...
That will not some time have an end
ing;
The most beautiful part of the landscape
is where
The sunshine and shadows are blend
ing.
—Cassell's Saturday Journal.
* _ _ .
More Girls Than Boys.
‘Superfluous women” are increasing
m number. The births in England and
Wales last year numbered 947,919—
482.191 males and 465,758 females—
and the deaths 514,450—266,338 males
and 248,112 females. Thus, though
there were more boys than girls born,
the higher mortality among men more
than restored the balance, the ranks of
“superfluous women” being thus
itrenthened by 1,793 recruits.