Nebraska Newspapers

    DAUGHTER OF SOUTHERN GENERAL
WILL WED HER FATHER’S FRIEND
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Miss Lucy Lee Hill.
Miss Lucy Lee Hill, daughter of
the famous Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill
of Virginia, and herself a loved daugh
ter of the South, after a few years of
standing face to face with the prosaic
business world of Chicago, is about
to come into her own, like the Prin
cess in the fairy tale. Her marriage
to Gen. James E. Magill, a wealthy
planter of Pulaski, Va., will take her
back to her own country, where up in
tne Alteghenniee she will be mistress
of Cleremont, Gen. Magill’s old home.
In Chicago she has been examiner
for the civil service.
Gen. Magill is a division command
er of the Virginia Confederate Vet
erans’ association, and was a well
known officer in the army of Gen.
Lee.
Miss Hill went to Chicago from her
home at Petersburg, Va., during the
World’s Fair in 1893 in the capacity of
lady commissioner to the world’s
Fair. Her mother ar.d her sister, Mrs.
Russell Hill Hale, then went to Chi
cago and Miss Hill took the position
in the city hall.
Shortly after this, and upon tLa
death of Miss Winnie Davis, Jefferson
Davis’ daughter, Miss Hill was offer
ed the title of “Daughter of the Con
federacy,” and although she has been
Gen. James E. Magill.
known by that name throughout the
South ever since, at the time she re
fused the title and wrote the refusal
to Mrs. Davis.
She is still first with the southern
soldiers, however, and has been spon
sor m their various reunions for four
teen years. Two years ago, at Dallas,
Texas, she was sponsor for the entire
Confederacy, and last year at New
Orleans she had sixteen mavis of
honor, selected as the prettiest girls
of Virginia. The Third corps, Army
of Northern Virginia, of which divis
ion her father was lieutenant general,
has presented Miss Hill with four dia
mond medals of great value, and they
have erected a monument to her
father that is a landmark of the
South.
The marriage of the general’s
daughter to the general’s friend will
take place some time in November at
Petersburg, Va., where her father was
killed.
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JVILS THAT FOLLOW DIVORCE.
Truancy and Waywardness of Child
ren as Shown in Chicago.
Divorce is the root of crime and
•truancy among the juvenile delin
luents of Chicago. This conclusion
Has been reached by W. Lester Bo
dine, superintendent of compulsory
education, after investigations ex
tending over a year.
Arrests made by the truant officers
and court records, Supt. Bodine de
clares, shows that a great majority
of the boys and girls who “go wrong’’
are the children of divorced parents.
By testimony taken in his office and
in court, these children have shown,
he says, that they first lose respect
for their quarelsome parents, and
when the parents separate the child
has only the influence of one.
Snpt. Bodine, after collecting sta
tistics from court records and other
sources, declares that there are 18,000
divorced women in Chicago and near
ly as many divorced men. A major
ity of these divorced people had child
ren, he has found. On his estimate of
two children for each couple, the num
ber of children of divorced people in
Chicago would be nearly 40,000.
The superintendent quotes statistics
to show that many of the boys com
mitted to the parental school, the
John Worthy school, the jail, and
other corrective and charity institu
tions, are half orphans through di
vorce decrees. The same holds true,
he says, of the girls committed to the
various industrial schools and Institu
tions for wayward girls.
Other statistics collected by Supt.
Bodine show, he says, that marriages
and births are increasing and divorces
decreasing among the large and grow
ing foreign-born population, while
marriages and births are decreasing
and divorces are increasing among
the American-born population.
Chinaman Has Liberal Ideas.
The 18-year-old daughter of Sir
Cbentung Liang Cheng, Chinese min
ister to the United States, is to make
her social debut in Washington dur
ing the coming winter. She will enjoy
the distinction of being the first high
born Chinese girl who has ever form
ally entered American society. That
she is to be permitted thus to make
ber bow to the smart world of the na
tional capital is due to the broad
views of her father, who was educated
in this country and who is desirous
that his children shall profit by an
intimate knowledge of Yankee man
ners and customs.
Chamberlain Not a College Man.
It is universally conceded that Jo
seph Chamberlain is one of the brainy
men of England, wielding a tremen
4nas influence. Yet he is not a gradu
ate of any university or of any of the
large public schools. At the age of 16
(he was a full-fledged business man. At
38 so rapidly had his fortune grown,
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DUTCH RULE IN JAVA.
Elaborate System of Etiquette In
sisted on by Conquerors.
The government clerks in Java are
probably the best educated civil ser
vants in the world. They are all
Dutch, of course, for Java is owned
and governed by Holland, and every
mother’s son of them is and must by
law be a graduate of the University
at Delft.
Special courses are maintained
there for those who expect to go out
to Java in the government service,
and none can gratify the ambition to
do so unless he has mastered French,
German, English and at least two of
the four languages spoken in Java,
one of which must be Malay. The
higher officials and the judges must
speak three of the native tongues.
It is forbidden to a native to speak
Dutch, or “high” Javanese, to a supe
rior, and no superior would think of
using anything but “low” Javanese to
an inferior. Servants must always
appear before their masters with
covered heads. Javanese, except of
high rank, may not smoke in the pres
ence of any European. The Dutch say
that if they did not insist on native
recognition of their superiority they
would not be able to attain their au
thority at all. The etiquette of rank
as insisted upon among the Javanese
themselves is ever more sevens than
that imposed by the Dutch upon the
natives.
Dreaded English Critic.
Edgar Jepson has the reputation of
being the most barbarously honest
critic among contemporaneous Eng
lish writers. His natural aptitude for
telling what he considers the truth,
no matter what it may cost (the other
fellow), has made Mr. Jepson one of
the mainstays of the terribly frank
Saturday Review. Mr. Jepson is him
self an author.
Coal Dust Cures Tuberculosis.
A doctor in the coal mining districts
of upper Silesia thinks he has discov
ered in coal dust a cure for consump
tion, owing to its drying and disin
fecting effects on the lung tubercles.
He was led to investigation by the
fact that consumptive people coming
from other regions to the neighbor
hood of the mines recovered their
health.
Civilization in Tibet,
A few days after the British expe
dition entered Lhasa, the officers got
up a race meeting outside the city
walls and the Tibetans are reported
to have shown much Interest In the
sport. This appears to bo rushing
civilization with a vengeance—teach
ing the hermits to bet before teaching
them to booze.—Portland Oregonian.
May Demand Equal Rights.
“Asiatics” are excluded by law from
white privileges in South Africa and
Australia. Some interest is being
taken in the question whether the
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PERIL IN EASTERN WAR.
Possible Danger in the Stirring of the
Yellow Races.
Hitherto the white race, from the
remotest historic times to the pres
ent, has been practically alone in its
position, of dominance. So far as con
cerns the evolution of civilized man,
it might almost be said that there has
been but one race in the world.
The most momentous of the devel
opments of the present war is that
for the first time a white nation finds
itself not only checked in its onward
march by a nation of yellow men, but
beaten by that nation on land and sea.
it is too early to say that this situa
tion may not be reserved before the
war is ended, but there are net lack
ing signs that the races of which the
Japanese are the foremost exemplars
have been wakened already to a sense
of their latent power. China and In
dia have been stirred by the deeds of
the Japanese. Not only the peoples
of these great countries but many oth
ers of mixed Mongol, Hindoo and Ma
lay descent are wondering why they,
too, may not adopt the arms and im
plements of occidental civilization and
deal with the white races on an equal
footing.
Some of the ultimate possibilities
oi this vast stirring of the yellow
races may be gathered from the fact
that of the 1,500,000,000 or 1,600,000,
000 people in the world Asia alone has
862.884,000, of whom more than 420,
000,000 are in the Chinese empire, 55,
000,000 are Japanese and Koreans,
294.360.000 are Hindoos, 30,000,000 Ma
laysians, and 18,000,000 Indo-Chinese.
To group all the Asiatic people by re
ligions, there are about 775,000,000
Buddhists, Confucians, Shintoists and
Mohammedans, as against about 12,
500.000 Christians.
That these people, aroused to a
sense of their racial and religious
solidarity and equipped with the tools
of western civilization, may bring new
problems into existence in the world’s
economy is clear. Will the two races
live side by side, vying with each
other in advancement toward higher
civilization and benefiting by the mu
tual rivalry, or will one strive to ex
ploit the other? A century or more
may elapse before the result is known,
so far-reaching may be the conse
quences of the present great struggle.
REAL RULER OF ITALY.
Premier Giolitti Known as a Wise and
Strong Statesman.
The premier of the Italian govern
ment, Signor Giolitti, has dealt firmly
Premier Giolitti.
with the riotous strikers, who were
incited by socialists and anarchists to
a point where they threatened insur
rection against the throne. The im
proved condition of the strike has
enabled the premier to make his post
poned visit to Piedmont for the pur
pose of acting as crown notary to
record the birth of the Italian heir.
, Submarines of the World.
The submarine boat seems to be al
ready well on its way out of the ex
perimental stage and to be now a part
of the regular machinery of destruc
tion. There are at present about two
hundred of these vessels in existence
and attached to the various navies of
the world. The largest number is
owned by France, which possesses 58.
Next comes Russian with 34; the
English navy has 29 submarines, the
Spanish 22, the American 17, the Ital
ian 9, the German 8, the Swedish 6,
the Portuguese 2 and the Turkish 2.
Strange to say, the Japanese navy
has won its recent signal successes
without the aid of this class of ships.
If the submarines live up to their
expectations they will place a new
complexion upon the naval warfare of
the future; but the present Russo
Japanese struggle is hardly likely to
give them the crucial test which is
needed.
Englishman Is Non-Committal.
The interviewers are finding a diffi
cult subject in the Right Hon. James
Bryce, who is a distinguished visitor
to this country. Asked whether he
thought the Filipinos were capable
of self-government, Mr. Bryce replied:
“I don’t know. I’ve never seen one.”
Which recalls the response of the
American young woman to the query
whether she could speak Franch: ‘‘I
don’t know; I’ve never tried.”
First Woman to Manage Airship.
Mme. Lebaudy, wife of M. Lebaudy,
the aeronaut of Paris, owns the honor
of being the first woman to take
charge of an airship and direct the
same on its tour of the circumam
bient atmoshphere. This she did on
a recent Sunday in Paris, remaining
in the air for nearly an hour and mak
ing her descent in a most successful
manner.
Oldest West Point Graduate.
Gen. Herman Haupt, the oldest liv
ing graduate of West Point, was ap
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|PANORAMA
HAS HIGH NAVAL COMMAND.
Philippine Squadron of Asiatic Fleet
in Charge of Admiral Train.
Rear Admiral Charles J. Train,
United States navy, is now on his
way to Manila. Upon his arrival
there he will assume command of the
Philippine squadron of the Asiatic
fleet. The admiral is accompanied bf
Rear Admiral Train.
Lieutenant Commander Roger Welles,
United States navy, who will be his
flag lieutenant in Asiatic waters.
INFERNO AT PORT ARTHUR.
Civilized Methods of Warfare Spurned
by Both Sides.
The Geneva convention tried to
take some of the hell out of war. It
was thought it had succeeded. How
ever, if Prince Radziwill, who has
just come from Port Arthur, is the
bearer of a true story, both the Japa
nese and the Russians are invading
the devil’s domain for old-time war
methods.
The prince, who is an officer of the
czar’s army, declares that the Geneva
cross and the flag of true have lost
their significance and that the wound
ed under the one and the parley seek
er under the other are shot down as
ruthlessly as if they were flaunting
hostile flags in the face of the ene
my. Radziwill is a Russian, but he
tells of Russian disregard of the
Geneva rules of warfare, and he in
timates that the departure from civ*
ilized methods was mado by hot*
sides practically sumultaneously.
Possibly the Port Arthur horrors
will hasten the peace day whose dawn
ing is looked for. One way to stop
war is to make it a horror of horrors,
and if the czar's officer tells the truth
the combatants at Port Arthur are
employing every means to this end.
Men who have thrown down their
arms in surrender are shot in their
tracks; hospitals are made the mark
for artillery, and the dead are left un
buried that their putrefying flesh may
be a means of offense.
The lesson that the situation
teaches is the one taught again and
again, but never learned—the lesson
of how hard a thing it is to subdue by
rules the passions of fighting men.
It may be said that the Russians and
the Japanese have in them streaks of
savagery that do not show in the men
of other civilized peoples. When it
comes to war at close quarters, how
ever, men of all countries are pretty
much alike. This does not lighten
the situation at Port Arthur nor re
lieve the shoulders of commanding
officers of the burden of a responsi
bility for shame. The commanding
officer is supposed to keep a cool head
and a humane heart. Neither qual
ity seems to be in evidence at Port
Arthur. The story of the siege is
another Inferno.—Chicago Tribune.
New York Woman Wears Monocle.
The woman with a monocle has
made her appearance in New York,
creating quite a sensation on Broad
way the other afternoon. She was
dressed in English-made costume, but
evidently was an American. She didn't
seem to care that nine out of every
ten persons she passed turned to get
a second look at her eye gear; in fact,
she appeared to enjoy the attention
she attracted. One woman observer
offered a ray of hope. “It may be
smart,” said she, “but, really, I doubt
if many women in New York will
wear monocles.”
Persia’s Ruler Decorates American.
A. A. Rutis, manager of the foreign
department of the Iron City Trust
Company of Pittsburg, has received
notice from the Persian government
that the shah has bestowed upon him
the Order of the Comradeship of the
Lion and the Sun, said to be one of
Persia’s highest orders. Mr. Rutis has
been instrumental in increasing im
ports of rugs and carpets from Persia.
He has sent many buyers to Persia
with letters to the Persian authorities.
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Teeming Millions of India.
According to the census taken in
India in 1901, the results of which
have just been published, that British
dependency has a population of 294,
361,056. The total area of India is only
about one-half that of the United
States, but the one province of Bengal
contains 78,500,000 inhabitants, which
is equal to the population of thi3
country. One-tenth of the population
live in the towns and in Bengal one
twentieth live in towns of over 5,000
inhabitants. The most thickly settled
part of India is a rural district with
an agricultural population of 1,920
persons to the square mile.
Cats Lady Beresford’s Hobby.
Lady Marcus Beresford, who found
ed England’s cat club, is said to have
the best cattery known. It contains
over 150 felines. She has, of course,
tne choicest breeds, rare Persians,
chinchillas with their bushy tails and
Manx cats without any tails whatever.
She has a cat cottage where every
provision has been made for com
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| NEWS IN NEBRASKA |
NEBRASKA CORN AND OATS.
What Is Shown by Union Pacific Ag
ricultural Bulletins.
Agricultural bulletins just issued by
the Union Pacific show what is be
ing done this year by the farmers
working in conjunction with Mother
Nature in the production of corn,
wheat and oats in Nebraska and Kan
sas. In both corn and oats Nebraska
mkes a splendid showing, both by
taking this year’s crops by themselves
and by comparison with last year.
In wheat there is a falling off in
acreage.
In Nebraska the corn acreage in
creased from 5,964,048 last year to
6,174,040 acres this year. This acre
age produced an average yield of
34.23 bushels, making a total corn
crop of 211,230,303 bushels. The corn
averages of higher quality than last
year. In Kansas there was a de
crease in both acreage and yield on
account of continued wet weather at
planting and cultivating time.
The Nebraska oat crop has a
slightly larger acreage and a better
yield by 7,000,000 bushels than last
year. This year it amounted to 2,
096,011 acres, averaging 3.11 bushels
to the acre, making a total of 69,*
410,312 bushels. Wet weather ac
counts for a decrease in Kansas.
Winter wheat was short in acreage
about 300,000 as compared with last
year and rust struck the eastern por
tion of the state at the wrong time.
But a showing is made of 1.661,110
acres, averaging 13.68 bushels, and
aggregating a yield of 22,954,440
bushels. Kansas has about three
times the acreage and about two and
one-half times the results, as com
pared with Nebraska.
Adding to Nebraska’s winter wheat
output that of the spring wheat an
estimated total wheat crop for the
state of 30,000,000 bushels is made;
ind for Kansas about 60,000,000 bush
els.
BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT
Federal Government Asks Permission
to Tap North Platte River.
LINCOLN—The secretary of the in
:erior has filed an application with
the State Board of Irrigation asking
permission to tap the North Platte
river in order to carry out some of
:he big irrigation projects authorized
by congress. By his application it
ipears that the secretary contem
plates tapping the North Platte just
below its junction with the Sweetwa
ter in Wyoming, where a storage res
ervoir will be constructed covering
23,000 acres. It is proposed to con
struct a dam across the North Platte
which will be 250 feet long at the
top and sixty feet long at the bottom.
It will have a depth of 220 feet and
the water will approach within ten
feet of the top, so that the maximum
depth of water in the reservoir will
be 210 feet. The mean depth is given
at sixty feet, whcih over the area
stated would give a normal storage
capacity of 1,280,000 acre feet. The
proposed dam is to be ten feet thick
at the top and 144 feet thick at the
bottom and to be built of solid mason
ry.
The cost of this plant is given at
$ 1,250,000 or somewhat less than $1
per acre foot of storage capacity.
State Engineer Dobson says that its
opacity will be sufficient to hold the
entire flow of the North Platte in
years wherein the stage of water is
;ow. Its purpose is for the collec
tion of the surplus waters in the sea
sons of moisture and to hold it for
release in quantities sufficient to irri
gate the lands below all along the
oourse of the river.
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Farmers Object to Automobiles.
HUMBOLDT—A number of the
farmers of the county are up in arms
jver the advent of the automobiles
‘nto their vicinity and have signed a
;all for a meeting at Falls City on
October 1. at which time steps will
be taken for “mutual protection”
against the machines, which are be
coming quite numerous all over the
country. The farmers allege that the
machines frighten their driving horse*
thereby endangering the lives of
themselves and families, and that the
chauffeurs violate their rights.
Ranchman Fatally Injured.
OGALALLA—Frank McCaig, a
ranchman fifteen miles southeast of
this place, was thrown from his horse
Tuesday evening. He struck the j
ground head first and was fatally in
Jured. He died without regaining
consciousness.
At a special election held at Wis
ner the proposition for *5,000 more
water bonds for the erection of a new ‘
standpipe and the extension of the
water system carried by 122 for, as
against 16.
For an Odd Fn'Iows’ Home.
LOUISVILLE—Members of Louis
ville lodge No. 184, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, are enthusiastic over
the prospect of locating the Nebraska
Odd Fellows’ Home at Louisville.
They have secured an option on the
large stone building east of town on
the ranch formerly owned by General
Manager Holdrege. The building is
handsomely located and is built of
white lime stone costing $40,000, and
the option also covers eighty acres
of land. The proposition will be pre
seated to the grand lodge.
Cannot Pay Warrant*.
LINCOLN—For the first time since
he has been in office State Treasurer
Mcrtensen is compelled to register
warrants because of a lack of funds
to pay . them. The warrants were is
sued on the temporary university
fund, but the fund had already been
exhausted and from now until Janu
ary 1 all warrants on this fund will
have to be registered. Expenses late
ly have been unusually heavy, owing
to the numerous warrants being pre
no m0Eey coming
THE STATE AT LARGE.
Papillion has decided not to extend
its corporate limits.
The Journal at Columbus has com
menced publication of a daily paper.
The Union Pacific is rapidly push
ing work on its freight depot in Fre
mont.
Andrew Nordine of Cass county
has been pronounced a fit subject for
te insane asylum.
Mrs. A. A. King of Edgar died at
Delphi. Indiana, while on a visit to
her daughter in that place.
The Nebraska State Institute for
the Blind at Nebraska City opened
with fifty pupils enrolled for the com
ing term. A number of pupils are
still expected and the total attendance
i will reach about seventy-five.
On# dollar a bushel has been poid
for wheat to the farmers at York
for the first time since the Leiter
wheat deal in Chicago. At Henderson,
York county. 30,000 bushels were con
tracted at $1 per bushel in one day.
Oliver Emmert., a farmer living
west of Falls City, was compelled to
kill five of his horses on account of
glanders. The state veterinarian was
called and ordered that the animals
should be killed to prevent contagion.
The contractors at the new govern
ment building at Lincoln have begun
the erection of the steel work of the
lower floor of the structure. It is
contemplated that the building will
be finished and ready for occupancy
by next fall.
The citizens of Lincoln again have
began to agitate the project for a new
union depot. Articles of incorporation
of the Lincoln Union Passenger sta
tion and Terminal company have
been drafted and are being signed by
the business men.
Brent K. Neal, alias Olney D. Smith
the young man lodged in jail at
Beatrice a month ago on the charge
of obtaining money under false pre
tenses, pleaded guilty in the district
court and wras sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary.
The Seymour camp team of Omaha,
won the first prizes of $300 each in
the two classes open to competittion
in the W. O. W. contests at the
world’s fair, and Alpha camp team of
the same city won second prize in the
one class which it entered.
Joseph Scott, the York county
young man who was charged with as
saulting Olgie Cagle of Pierce, Neb.,
I with intent to do great bodily harm,
i had his preliminary hearing at Nor
folk and was bound over to district
term of court under bonds of $S00.
The city authorities of Hum
boldt, Neb., are making an at
tempt to test their new ordinance
against boot-legging, and have placed
under arrest one J. Hoppe, who has
been making his home there for some
time, on a charge of disposing of
liquor contrary to law. He was ar
raigned but plead not guilty.
Rufus E. Geiger, a fireman, has
sued the Burlington for $50,000. He
was injured while acting as fireman
on August 28. 1900. In his petition
he claims that the engine was in bad
repair and that owing to this condi
tion he was thrown from his seat to
the tracks near Germantown. His
skull was fractured and he sustained
internal injuries and other injuries
which are described as of a perman
ent character.
One of the most dastardly crimes,
and one which has caused as great an
amount of indignation as any ever
perpetrated in the community, was
committed at what is known as the
south barn, in Kearney. Some scoun
drel or scoundrels mixed up a quan
tity of paris green in some feed and
placed it in the barn where it was
eaten by a number of horses belong
ing to F. G. Roudabush and Joe Duck
worth. resulting in the death of four
of them.
—rapes are sarj to be more plenti
ful along the Platte river than they
ever have been before. Many people
in Dodge and Saunders counties are
putting up wild grape wine.
Mrs. D. A. Geil, wife of the deputy
treasurer of Howard county was so
terribly burned that she died. The
tragedy was caused by the explosion
of a bottle of spirits of camphor
which she had immersed in a pan of
hot water for the purpose of loosen
ing a glass stopper. The sudden ex
pansion burst the bottle and the high
ly inflammable contents were thrown
over her clothing, catching fire at the
same time from a gasoline stove
which was burning.
John Ross, a German farmer living
about fifteen miles west of St. Paul,
met death in a peculiar manner. His
body was found under the wheels of a
mowing machine to which a team of
horses was attached and from all ap
pearances it had remained there for
several days. The indications were
that he had been kicked in the head
by one of the horses while bending
over the sickle bar. The team then
evidently ran away, dragging him for
a considerable distance.
Rev. F. N. Swan berg, w'ho has been
pastor of the Swedish Lutheran
church in Oakland, for the past
twelve years, has handed his resigna
tion to the board of deacons, to take
effect January 1 next.
C. Harry Hughes, a night switch
man for the Burlington, lost a leg in
a yard accident at Lincoln. His left
leg was so badly crushed by a car
that it was amputated. His right leg
was broken In several places above
the knee and his body painfully la
cerated. He was trying to make a
coupling in the half daylight.
The large barn on the farm of L. F.
Pomeroy, two miles north of German
town, burned. It was nearly new and
contained about 1,700 bushels of oats
and a large amount of hay. The loss
was nearly $1,000, half covered by in
surance.
Following is the mortgage record
for August for Richardson county:
Farm mortgages filed, $17,446; farm
mortgages released, $23,870.60; city
mortgages filed, $8,766.50; city mort
gages released, $13,863.50; chattel
mortgages filed, $29,059.57; chattel
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He Knows Better Now.
She had a dimple In her cheek.
And I was lost in admiration.
The thing, I know, is not unique.
And in some people’s estimation
A mere depression of the skin.
A sort or inverse of a pimple;
But. all the same. I can’t begin
To tell you how I loved that dimple
I -loved to tvatch the ladv smile;
It was supreme, the satisfaction
tVith which I looked upon her while
Her dimpled cheek got Into action;
I never knew what things she wore.
What frock or hat or hood or wimple,
t was contented to adore
Her fascinating little dimple.
Alas! In course of time I learned
That cozy resting place for Cupid
H«d been into the muscle burned
Or cut—which I consider stupid.
It caught me fairly, that I c r.
But now I'm not so young oi dmple,
And dermatologists have shown
Ale how a girl can get a dimple
—Chicago News.
The Prickly Pear's Sting.
There grows in Africa a eat • the
leaves and fruit of which are a terror
to the just and unjust alike. Tt *
plant grows so quickly and is <•
healthy that a single leaf, if thrown c
the ground, will strike root at once.
Farmers at the Cape find it as great
a nuisance as farmers elsewhere ha\ •
found the thistle. Ostriches feed on
it with sad results to themselves.
Their heads and necks b come as fu.i
of prickles as a well-kept cushion of
pins, and the thorns in the fruit stic.-:
in their throats. Sometimes they get
!nto their eyes, too, and the birds
grow blind. In dry weather the stings
are blown about like thistle down an i
cause much annoyance to the unlucky
persons on whom they alight. Tl.>
fruit, if you know how to peel it. ha3
some good qualities. It is cool and re
freshing in summer heat and the
treacle made from it is not bad where
butter is scarce or costly. A coarse
spirit that may be burned in a lamp
when nothing else can be got is dis^
tilled from the fruit, and blacks, and
even Boers, will sometimes drink it.
To peel the pear, stick a fork in It
firmly, then cut open the skin and
take it off, on no account using your
fingers. If you should handle it, and
eat it, you will feel for days pricks
and pangs as if you had been stui,.;
by and fed on a thousand nettles. ^
Mexican Street Customs.
Many street customs of Mexico are
surprising and somewhat confounding
to strangers when they first enter tl.
country. For instance, hand-clapping
is the usual way of attracting atten
tion. If a man wants to stop a street
car or call, a messenger, he simply
brings the palms of his hands together
several times instead of whistling t~
shouting at the top of his v f#.
When the attention of a person ia se
cured, an overhand motion, the opp> •
site of beckoning, signals that he or
she is wanted by the person signaling.
That portion of a pavement farthest
removed from the street is the path
•>f honor, and is invariably surrender
ed to women and by people of the
lower class to their superiors. If you
walk along the street with a Mexican,
he is careful to take the outside posi
tion. Salutations at a distance are ac
complished by passing the right hand
in front of the face, palm inward, the
fingers working during the maneuver.
Oldest Known Piece of Money.
Chairman Losmann. of the Society
of Scientific Research, in Anatolia,
has just acquired a coin which is the
oldest known piece of money in the
world. It v/as obtained during a re
cent journey in Syria. The piece
which is of pure silver, contains a pep
feet Aramean inscription of Panammq
bar Rerub, King of Schamol, wh<^
reigned 800 years B. C. Although the
Lydians have been regarded as the in
ventors of money, this coin now up
sets that belief, as it shows that two
centuries before their time money wa«
used by the Semitic Arameans.
A Very Useful Dog.
A blacksmith in the West had a
forge for the purpose of making nails
for the coarsest sort of shoes. The^
boy who tended thi3 forge made 1.00 ^1
nails a day, with some one’s assist
ance. And who do you suppose was
his helper?
A dog!
This clever animal had been trained
to blow the bellows by means of a
wheel attached to the crank. While
the iron was in the fire the dog would
blow the bellows; when it was tak. n
out he stopped to rest, commencing
again of his own accord when it w
put in again.
Hungarian “New Woman."
Countess Johanna Rhedey. one of
the most remarkable figures in Hun
garian society, has just passed away
at Kronstadt, Russia. She was ^ h
roic advocate of women's ’’em M >Pa*
tion,” appearing always in public with
a cigar in her mouth and a thick stick
in her hand. She also had her hair
cropped short, and wore a man's hat
and coat. All her fortune of |500,e<“i ■
was mostly lost by gambling, to which
she was passionately addicted. She I
played cards daily with men in the |
Vienna coffee houses.
Birds Killed In Flight,
it is reported from Lubec. Me., that j§
while some parties were out driving#
in a buggy at South Lubec the other*
evening a big flock of sandpeeps. or
snipes, suddenly flew across the road, f
and struck the side of the carriage*!;
killing twenty-flve or thirty of them
The occupants of the team brought |§
them home with them, and enjoyed II
a nice lunch off the little birds.
Boy Knocks Out 8ear.
Homer Hill, a 12-year-old boy, wa£
attacked by a large black bear near#
his home at Waterford, Vt., a / wf
days ago. The boy got away froxnVh#
animal and threw a cobblestone
striking the bear in the head witij
such force that the latter fell to thij
ground and the lad escaped.
Youthful Traveler.
One of the youngest travelers 1|
Maine is Harry Marr, aged 9, w jf ^
more than a year has accompanii
father, Warren Marr, a
gtijjgjr. cm his tripe tfcr