Nebraska Newspapers

    Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA.
Harry Lehr is to retire from soci
ety. Must be going into impolite
vaudeville.
John J. Dowd, a scissors grinder,
died, leaving a fortune of $30,000.
John was a sharp business man.
A man was arrested down East the
other day for marrying his mother-in
law. It was probably on an insane
warrant
King Peter of Servia is bosy de
stroying the freedom of the press in
that country. It will probably not
take him long.
A Philadelphia judge has delivered
a profound opinion regarding kissing,
that institution having at last reach
ed Philadelphia.
The increase of suicide among rich
people is exciting some people. Have
we not always said happiness could
not bo bought with cash?
Although the king of bunco men is
dead, there are many of his loyal sub
jects still alive. And they aren’t all
In the big cities, either.
The laziness microbe is known also
by the name of the hook worm. It Is
not surprising that fishermen are
among its favorite victims.
A man In Maryland boasts of hav
ing voted seventy-five times in his
life. If he got his money every time,
he must be pretty well fixed.
Homer Davenport, cartoonist, has
joined young Mr. Rockefeller’s Bible
class. It is to be hoped that devout
scriptural study is his only object.
That new, wonderful telegraphic ap
paratus, that is said to be capable of
transmitting 800 words a minute, could
almost keep up with a sewing circle.
A New Jersey clergyman advises
girls not to marry a man till they
know all about his past. He must
be a member of the Race Suicide
club.
King Alfonso of Spain narrowly es
caped being hurt in an automobile ac
cident the other day. The boy should
stick to his hobby horse a few years
longer.
It is said that large hats are "again
In favor.” Are they rot always in fa
vor? Where is the woman who is con
tent with less than an acre and a half
of new hat?
Prof. A. J. Crooks of Northwestern,
who gained fame when he told the
students he had never kissed a wom
an, has married. Well, it’s never too
late to learn.
A girl in New Jersey eats coal,
waste paper, toothpicks, bits of string,
etc. She seems to have what might
be called the regular New Jersey oc
topus appetite.
The Congregationalist remarks that
ministers would sometimes preach bet
ter if they read the Wall Street Jour
nal oftener. But mightn’t they be
induced to speculate?
Twenty women testified that Bar
bara Long of Mahony City, Pa., is a
common scold who has a tongue like
a whipsaw. If she has a husband he
deserves to go to heaven.
The dean of the university of Chi
cago has troubled the girls there by
disclosing the fact that the average
age of the graduating "co-ed ’ is 26.
This explains many things.
There is something essentially hum
orous ip the dispatch which says that
M. Delcasse is moving cautiously In
demanding redress from Morocco, lest
the sultan proclaim a "holy war.”
That Philadelphia judge may regret
his learned decision on the kissing
question if his wife institutes manda
mus proceedings to make him tell
how he happens to know so much
about it.
Riveter Summerfield fell 140 feet
from the WJHiamsburg bridge into the
water, swam around until picked up
by a tug, came ashore and called for
a “ball.” There’s the simple American
life for you.
A letter to Santa Claus was opened
In Oklahoma the other day. It read:
“Dear Santa: I am a little Indian
boy, 8 years old. Please bring me a
typewriter.” We guess poor Lo is
coming on all right.
The Atlanta Constitution has been
trying to tell its readers what the
“zemstvo” is, and from the result of
Its labors we are forced to the con
clusion that it would be considerably
easier to tell what it isn’t.
A scientific sharp has just declared
that “every drop of water taken into
the body means additional work for
the heart.” The young man who finds
that his heart is running away with
him should step up to the faucet and
take a long, cooling drink.
Somebody calls attention to the fact
that a strike among farmers never
has been known. Of course not. The
cows have to be milked and the
weeds have to be pulled out of the
onion bed whether the farmer is sat
isfied with what he gets or not.
A St. Louis woman in her divorce
allegations says she let her husband
have $500 “to keep his atmosphere
from being strained through prison
bars.” Perhaps if he had to live in
such an atmosphere of strained poet
ical expression, he 'vould have pre
ferred jail.
A woman narrowly escaped being
burned to death In St. Louis the other
day because she was so fat that the
fireman couldn’t get her through a
window Here Is another strong argu
ment in javor of the sylph-like form.
The Maid of Sparta.
O come to me when the Persian blood
Is red on thy father’s sword—
And if thy scars be upon thy breast,
I will give my wedding word.
O come to me when the battle shout
Has anointed the lips of thy vow—
And I will bind thy wounds w ith oil,
And bathe thy matted brow.
O come to me when the heart of the foe
Has dulled the barb of thy spear—
And If thy shield he upon thy arm,
l will hear thee—I will hear.
Come when thy bpne and sinew ache
From the marches many and long—
And I will rest thee in my arms.
With a love both true and strong.
Come to me when thy eyes are dim
With the brine of the galley tight—
And I will unbind my silken hair.
And wash them clear and bright.
Or come to me. undaunted dead.
Borne back from the front of the field—
And I will pledge eternal love
With the garlands on thy shield.
—Aloysius Coll, in Lippincott’s Magazine.
Southern Woman’s Reminiscences.
Writing in the Raleigh (N. C.)
News and Courier a Southern woman
tells of her experiences during the
war. Here is one of them:
As w’e hurried on our way, two of
the girls bareheaded, we heard the
guns of the battle of Bakers’ creek.
We beard them for hours; our men
were falling back on Vicksburg, the
sound veering in that direction. We
saw something of the grimness of
war when the wounded from the
North Georgia battle fields were
brought to Macon. Our father took
us down to meet the trains. We took
along rolls of bandages and lint, and
all the shirts that he could spare, and
food and pots of hot tea. Other wom
en were there with baskets of fruit
and food. The wounded were laid in
long rows on each side of the railroad
track in the station house. They had
lain on the battle field two days and
during that time had had neither food
nor drink. The surgeons had dressed
their wounds on the field, but they
were now stiff and sore. They were
shot in every part of their bodies.
Under our father’s directions we
dressed many wounds. Two poor fel
lows were stone blind, both eyes shot
out.
“One man had been wounded in the
nose. It was swollen as big as his
fist. He said he had been shot in the
nose three times. Two lads, both
handsome, and looking like gentle
men’s sons, had been shot through the
head, and were crying out in delirium,
both dying
One said, “Kiss me, mother.”
I touched the woman next him and
said:
“Why don’t you kiss him?”
She answered, “I passed my hand
over his lips, and that seemed to sat
isfy him.”
I wonder ir she has ever forgiven
herself for not kissing that boy. I am
sure that I have never forgiven my
self for not pushing myself to his side
and kissing him. Not a groan or a
cry escaped one of those wounded ex
cept those who were delirious. But
they bitterly resented that Gen. John
ston had been removed from the chief
command. "We would have followed
Gen. Johnston anywhere," they said.
Years after the war I spoke of this
to Gen. Johnston, and tears rushed to
the old warrior’s eyes.
We nursed the sick and wounded in
the hospitals, and were met with
tears and blessings. When they died
my little sisters went trom house to
house begging flowers. We tried to
let no soldier go to his grave without
a flower, for we knew that he was
somebody’s darling.
A dinner to Gen. Breckinridge and
a visit from Gen. Johnston were two
of our proud war memories. Another
proud memory to me is that I walked
the deck of the Merrimac before she
went down to her magnificent fight in
Hampton roads, a victory that in four
short hours sunk the Cumberland and
burned the Congress, and drove the
armored Monitor for refuge under the
guns of Fortress Monroe, a fight that
revolutionized forever the construc
tion of the navies of the world.
The most astounding and unlooked
for news of my entire life was that
Gen. Lee had laid down his sword. I
simply did not believe one word of it.
I believed to the last, along with all
the other Southern women, that the
South was bound to succeed, to be
lieve anything else was traitorous.
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The “Abolition” Regiment.
The Twenty-first Massachusetts
which was known as the Abolition
regiment from the fact that some of
the men in its ranks were firm adher
ents of Garrison, Phillips and Parker,
served in Leasure’s brigade, Steven
son’s division, Ninth corps, was in
twenty-three general engagements, had
a total enrolment of 1,178, while its
percentage of loss in action was 13.4.
The commanders of the Twenty-first
were Col. Augustus Morse, Col. W. S.
Clarke and Col. G. P. Hawkes. Six
men died in rebel prisons. The sur
geon of the Twenty-first. Dr. C. E.
Cutter of Warren, had been an. active
sympathizer with John Brown and an
ardent supporter, and worked with
him in his operations in Kansas. Ser
geant C. P. Tidd, w-ho died at Roanoke
Island, was one of the men who was
with Brown at Harper's Ferry. at the
time of the famous raid, which has
been described as “the skirmish line”
of the civil war. The Twenty-first left
the state August 23, 1861, was brigad
ed with Reno’s command, and became
a part of the Burnside expedition to
North Carolina. At Roanoke Island
five men were Allied and thirty-nine
wounded. In the following month,
under Col. Clarke, the regiment fought
gallantly at New Berne, Adjutant
Stearns being among the killed in that
engagement. At Chantilly, in Ferre
ro’s brigade, Reno’s division, the
Twenty-first, had the hardest fighting
of its experience. Lieut.-Col. J. P.
Rice was killed and out of less than
400 men who went into the action,
twenty-two were killed, ninety-eight
were wounded and twenty-six were
captured. At Fredericksburg, while
in Ferrero's Second brigade, Sturgis’
(Second division), the Twenty-first
rendered most efficient service, by the
skill and markmanship by which itj
kept down the enemy’s fire. The reg*
i ment went to the front with a corps
of sharpshooters or scouts, organized
by Sergeant Tidd. Two color bearers
were killed in the terrible charge at
Marye’s Hill, and others were wound
ed. Sergeant Plunkett being among
the latter. Plunkett lost both arms.
Leasure's brigade distinguished itself
at the Wilderness, where it swept
down the line across, and in front of
Hancock's position, making one of the
most daring charges of the war.
“War Is Hell.”
Much has been written of Gen.
Sherman’s famous saying, “War is
hell.” To-day it is said many of the
confederates are still bitter because
of Sherman’s historic raid and march
through Georgia; yet, of all the gen
erals none have expressed deeper re
get for the fearful necessities of war.
In his letter to James E. Yeatman of
the United States sanitary commis
sion, May 21, 1865, Gen. Sherman
said:
“I confess without shame that I am
sick and tired of fighting—its glory
is all moonshine. Even success, the
most brilliant, is over the dead and
mangled bodies, with the anguish and
lamentations of distant families ap
pealing to me for sons, husbands and
fathers. It is only those who have
never heard a shot, never heard the
shrieks and groans of the wounded
and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry
aloud for more blood, more vengeance,
more desolation.”
The Badge Money Cannot Buy.
PENNSYLVANIA.
To Establish a Soldier's Death.
“It’s a grewsome case he’s on,” said
Assistant Manager Owens at the Pied
mont as he indicated a short, dumpy,
smooth faced man. "He’s one of the
number who make a living by unearth
ing secrets.
“Up in Vermont there is a lawsuit
on now in which a fortune or two is
involved. Before the civil war a far
mer near Montpelier had two sons, as
the story comes to me from Mr. Tan
ner, that’s his name,” Mr. Owens con
tinued. as he glanced at the register,
“and both were in the Union anny.
Both had families when they dropped
civilian apparel for uniform. The
end of the war brought one of the
sons home. The other lost his life
while pushing Johnson’s army back
into Atlanta, and was, when the Union
dead were gathered in after the war,
given a resting place in the national
cemetery at Marietta. The old man
died a dozen years ago, and within a
short time the son who followed
Thomas, Sherman and others into At
lanta went to his last rest.
"When the surviving son died the
discussion became bitter and eventu
ated in a lawsuit, the heirs of the sol
dier who came home disputing the
rights of the soldier who was resting
under the shadows of the Kennesaw.
In the course of the litigation it be
came necessary for the defendants to
show that the soldier who gave his
life to help Sherman into Atlanta is
really dead. It must be shown be
yond all doubt that the form resting in
the grave at Marietta is the remains
of the man who once lived in Ver
mont, and to do that there is a possi
bility that the grave made forty years
ago may have to be opened. As I
understand, the soldier resting in the 1
cemetery at Marietta was slightly de
formed in one hand, and it is that
deformation which, if the grave must
be opened, will establish to the satis
faction of the court of the Green
Mountain State the rights of his direct
descendants to their part of the es
tate.”—Atlanta Constitution.
A Constitutional Coward.
Gen. Joseph Hooker was a fierce
fighter during the civil war, and was
known as “Fighting Joe." the com
mander of the Army of the Potomac.
But, beneath those brass buttons and
back of that blue uniform there was
a heart as tender as a woman’s. He
never permitted severe punishments
for his soldiers, if they could be avoid
ed.
On one occasion a private soldier
bad been sentenced to death for de
sertion. It v.as his third offense, and
there were no mitigating circum
stances. Gen. Hooker went to the
tent of his judge advocate general
and said: “I want you to recommend
pardon on some grounds. This man’s
dear old mother is in my tent pray
ing for his life, and you must help me
out seme way.”
“But, General, I can’t do it. The
fellow is worthless, always drunk or
quarreling: three times a deserter,
and this time in the presence of the
enemy. He is a constitutional cow
ard, and-”
“That’s it, that’s it,” interrupted
Gen. Hooker. “You forwa.-d the case
to me recommending clemency be
cause he is a constitutional coward,
and I’ll pardon him.”
And it was done, inside of five
minutes the gray-haired old lady went
from the tent of Ger Hooker cling
ing to the arm of her worthless son;
but, he was her boy Just the same,
and she loved him.—*I.og Angeles
Times,
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Britt’s Next Opponent.
There is an air of general satisfac
tion in San Francisco over the result
of the battle between Jimmy Britt and
Battling Nelson. With the fight now
over, the topic of conversation is
“Who will be Britt’s next opponent?”
A number of challenges were read at
the riigside, but as yet none of them
has been given any consideration.
Of all the defis hurled at the win
ner the one that will receive the most
attention is that challenge sent by
Charlie Mitchell, the former English
heavy-weight pugilist, on behalf of hia
protege, Jabez White. If matched the
battle would have an international as
pect. »
White will sail for America within
a few days, and it is not improbable
that Britt will agree to give the Eng
lish boxer a chance. Britt will, how
ever, ask for a few weeks’ rest before
entering the ring again.
Expects to Ride 50,000 Miles.
E. H. Corson of Boston, one of the
pioneer cyclists of New England, has
Just started on a motor cycle trip
through the South in order to com
plete his total mileage of over 50,000
miles before returning.
Although 56 years old, Corson in
tends to tour Georgia, Alabama. North
and South Carolina, Florida, Tennes
see, Mississippi, part of Louisiana,
Texas and Kentucky before returning
to Boston.
Since the first, of May last he has
been constantly on • the move. He
has covered over 45,000 miles since
he bought his motor cycle, and before
that pedaled over 100,000 miles on bi
cycles.
Jiu Jitsu Downs Sharkey.
Tossed like a child by a man not
half his size, Tom. Sharkey, the pugi
list, found more than his match in
Higashi, a Japanese. The little man
pitted the science of jiu jitsu against
the sailor's great strength. Sharkey
tried straight boxing. He was tossed
into the air, his big body describing
circles. Then he was permitted to se
cure a desperate hold on the Japanese.
The next moment he was on his back.
Sharkey, when he met his opponent,
have no intention of moving to Baltl*
more, even if the chance offered. The
affairs of the Washington club have
shaped up nicely, and we are satisfied
to stay there.”
Trotter Worth Owning.
Alta Axworthy has put A1 Thomas,
the westerner who owned, bred, train
ed', raced and sold her, on easy street.
In two seasons she won him hard on
to $20,000, and he sold her for $13,000
cash. On a safe estimate it would
seem that he must have cleared at
least $25,000 on her. As the service
fee that produced her was free, and
he also bred and raised her dam, her
expense to him was limited to her
feed bills, entrance fees and shipping
expenses during her campaigns.
American Cyclists to Race Abroad.
Next spring will see many bicycle
riders leave this country for a sea
son’s racing on the tracks of France
and Germany. While in New York
during the six day race Fobert Co
quelle, one of the managers of the
Parc des Princes track, signed a num
ber of American riders, including
Frank Kramer, the American sprint
champion; Willie Fenn, and Major
Taylor. Others who will go across
are Tom Butler, M. T. Dove and possi
bly Frank Caldwell.
Luke Blackburn Is Dead.
Luke Blackburn, noted sire and in
his day one of the most brilliant per
formers the American turf has known,
died of old age at the farm of W. H
McAllister, near Bellevue. Tenn. He
was 27 years of age. Luke Black
burn was one of the greatest, if not
the greatest, horse of his day. It was
Luke that made Phil Dwyer famous
and Dwyer says to this day that he
was the best thoroughbred he ever
owned, not excepting Kingston.
Hogan Now a Yachtsman.
Capt. James J. Hogan, Yale’s famous
football leader, who closed his career
on the gridiron with this season, is
to become a jolly jack tar. He has
purchased a knockabout thirty-two
feet in length and is now burning
midnight oil over volumes of yachting
GREAT FIGHTERS WHO BATTLED ON COAST RECENTLY.
JIMMY BRITT.
Perhaps two stronger exponents of
the Queensberry art could not be
found than the pair of ring masters
that mixed matters in the arena at
Mechanics’ pavilion in San Francisco
Dec. 20. Nelson had a strong follow
ing at all times, while Britt, the nat
BATTLINO NELSON. P
ural favorite, was backed heavily by
the general public in all parts of the
country. Nelson is the fair type of
the rough-and-ready fellow, while Britt
is the true exponent of the clever,
artistic boxer, who is always ready
for the rugged chap.
regarded him with a pitying smile.
Later he took off his bat and smiled
as pleasantly as his bruises would per
mit.
Titus to Scull on Coast.
Constance S. Titus, ex-champion am
ateur sculler of America, stated posi
tively that he would go to the Pacific
:oast to race Pape and Glass. He also
stated that he had not abandoned the
idea of going to Australia. He said:
“I have made all arrangements for a
trip to Australia in February, but I
certainly would go to the Pacific coast
to row A1 Pape on Lake Merritt, near
San Francisco, and would stop on
my way at Portland, Ore., to meet Eld
Glass.”
Titus said that when he goes to
Australia he will not return until
May.
Matter Left to Lush.
Outfielder Billy Lush of the Cleve
land American league team has been
told by the management of the club
to use his own judgment whether he
shall accept the terms conditional up
on his coaching the Yale baseball
team for the coming season.
The Yale contract calls for Lush’s
services until the 1st of July, the mid
dle of the American league season.
Lush had written for permission from
the Cleveland club, and in view of the
fact that the club has four other out
fielders, the question of accepting tne
Yale contract is left to Lush’s judg
ment.
Yoat Telia Why He Signed.
Coach Yost has told how it hap
pened that he signed for a long time
contract with Michigan. “Outside of
the money consideration,” said Yost,
“I am quite enamored with Michigan
spirit. There is none better in the
country. In fact, I feel now almost
as if I was a Michigan man myself,
and as it is about time for me to quit
rambling and stick to one college, I
have decided to remain here five years
anyway. Knowing that I will be here
from year to year, I can do more ef
fective work with the team and may
be hurry up a little more.”
No Chance for Baltimore.
President B. B. Johnson of the
American league denies that there is
a deal on looking to the transfer of
the American league Washington
franchise to Baltimore.
"I have had no communication
whatever with Mr. Hanlon or any of
his representatives on the subject of
transferring the Washington franchise
to Baltimore," said Mr. Johnson. "We
lore in an attempt to become nautical
enough to gain admission to the Yale
Corinthian Yacht club. Hogan is anx
ious to enter his boat in the next
Yale-Harvard yacht race.
Parr Beats Gotch.
At Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 21, Frank
Gotch, the American, lost a handicap
match to Jim Parr, the English wrest
ler. Gotch undertook to throw Parr
three times in an hour. He won one
fall in thirty-six minutes thirty sec
onds. and the second in seventeen
minutes and ten seconds. This left
only six minutes and twenty seconds
for Gotch to win the final. Parr was
in no danger when time was called.
Duffy Off for Australia.
Arthur F. Duffy of Washington, who
holds the world’s 100 yard sprinting
record, has gone to Australia to com
pete with athletes there. This is the
longest trip undertaken in the history
of amateur athletics. Duffy during the
past four years has won the champion
ships of the United States. England,
Scotland, Ireland and France. He has
a record of 100 yards in :09 3-5. He
will meet all comers in Australia.
Ruhlin and Hart to Fight.
Billy Madden, manager for Gus
Ruhlin, is endeavoring to arrange a
fight between his man and Marvin
Hart, and has issued a challenge
Hart will doubtless accept, and the
winner will then be matched against
Champion Jim Jeffries. Madden tried
to get on a bout between Ruhlin and
Jeffries, when the champion suggested
that Hart meet Ruhlin first, and prom
ised to fight the winner.
Demand Paid Football Coach.
The Harvard Bulletin recently pub
lished a communication signed by
fifty-four prominent Harvard gradu
ates petitioning for a paid football
coach instead of the graduate coach
who for so many years has handled
the Harvard teams.
The communication laments Har
vard’s failure to defeat Yale and at
tributes it to the graduate coach sys
tern.
More Records for Barney.
Barney Oldfield lowered all automo
bile records from two to nine miles at
Agricultural park track, Los Angeles,
Dec. 21. The new records are as fol
lows: Two miles, 1:46 2-5; three
miles, 2:39 4-5; four miles, 3:35; five
miles, 4:29; six miles, 5:222-5; seven
miles, 6:15 4-5; eight miles, 7:09 3-$,j
and nine miles, 8:04.
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PARIS RESUMES OLD GLORY.
Session of North Sea Tribunal Re
vives Its Diplomatic Prestige.
The tribunal which is dealing with
the controversy relating to Russia’s
sinking of English fishing craft in the
North sea has just opened at the
French capital. Paris is resuming its
old glory as the world's political cen
ter. It was at Paris that the repre
sentatives of the United States and
Spain met to settle the issues grow
ing out of the war of 1898. It seemed
just as appropriate a place for the
United States and Spain to meet in
that juncture as it did in 1856 for
England, Russia, Prussia, Austria,
Turkey and the rest of the European
powers to deal with the issues grow
ing out of the Crimean war. It was
at a congress at Paris in 1783 that
England recognized United States in
dependence. Twenty years earlier a
treaty of Paris brought the seven
years’ war to an end. Between 1763
and 1904 more important internation
al gatherings have been held at Paris
than in all the rest of the world’s cap
itals.—St. Louis Globe Democrat.
TO THE LAND OF THE FREE.
Table of Immigration Shows Arrival
of Millions.
A recently published table shows
that from 1821 to 1903 (both inclusive)
the total number of immigrants was
21,265,723, of whom Europe furnished
93 per cent. Of the total immigra
tion into the United States during
eighty-five years Germany and the
United Kingdom furnished 56 per cent,
as follows: Germany, 24 per cent;
Ireland, 19 per cent, and England, Scot
land and Wales, 13 per cent. During
the same period Austria-Hungary, Italy
and Russia and Poland furnished 21
per cent, as follows: Austria-Hun
gary, 7 per cent; Italy, 8 per cent,
and Rusisa and Poland, 6 per cent.
Of the total immigration in 1903, Ger
many and the United Kingdom fur
nished only 12 per cent, while Austria
Hungary, Italy and Russia and Poland
furnished 68 per cent.
NEW COMMISSIONER OF LABOR.
Charles P. Neill Soon to Succeed Car
roll 0. Wright.
On Feb. 1 Charles P. Neill will suc
ceed Carroll D. Wright as commis
sioner of labor. Mr. Neill has ac
quired a reputation as a statistician
OM5.PJVZ7ZZ.
and has the confidence of laboring
men as well as the administration.
Mr. Neill’s home is at the capital. He
Is thoroughly familiar with the work
of the bureau.
Tuberculosis Infection.
Tuberculosis is a house infection.
We don’t pick it up on the streets as
we may pneumonia or smallpox; we
never inherit it; seldom Is it contract
ed from diseased milk or meat. Occa
sional contact with a consumptive en
dangers no one; the disease is not
contagious in that tense. But every
house in which an ignorant or care
ess consumptive has lived and
coughed up. the deadly bacilli; every
close and foul-aired workroom in
which he has labored becomes a peril
a» those who live or work with him or
follow after him.—McClure’s.
Railroader to Take High Office.
Isaac Thomas Parker, who will scon
be inducted into office as lieutenant
governor of Delaware, is conductor of
a passenger train running between
Philadelphia and Delmar, Del. He is
already quartermaster general on the
staff of the present governor, but this
is the first elective office of import
ance to which he has been chosen.
Mr. Parker has no idea of resigning
his position on the Pennsylvania rail
road, but declares that as soon as
the legislature adjourns he will be
found on his old run as usual.
Czar Has Verestchagin’* Pictures.
It is said that the czar has bovght
all the paintings of Verestchagin, the
great artist who perished in the sink
ing of the Petropavlovsk. These
paintings are mainly devoted to the
horrors of war. Verestchagin entered
upon the exposition of war as it ac
tually Is in the Russo-Turkish conflict
of 1877-8. He had the definite pur
pose of making the representation so
horribly truthful that It should clear
from the minds of the people every
where the glamor of heroic achieve
1 ment
COOLIES IN SOUTH AFRICA.
World Waiting to See How Experi
ment Turn* Out.
Not much has been published of late
concerning the employment of coolies
in the South African mines. Presum
ably it did not prove a telling cause
in English parliamentary elections,
and there seetos to be a general feel
ing that, now' that the coolies have
been imported, people should wait and
see how the experiment turns out be
fore making further attacks on it. Up
to the 1st of December more than 19.
300 Chinese had been landed in South
Africa for work in the mines. The
last shipment was of 2,243, 2,238 being
landed, the remaining eleven having
died on the voyage. That would ap
pear to be a very large percentage of
loss for coolies who are all carefully
inspected before their shipment, and
who are all men in the prime of life.
Some of the tramp steamers that have
been engaged in this work, while
controlled by certain government reg
ulations concerning the carrying of
the coolies, must have, in bad weath
er, presented a scene below deck? that
was somewhat reminiscent of the old
days of the middle passage.—Boston
Herald.
IN AND OUT OF CABINET.
Sensations of Members Well Described
by Senator Foster.
Postmaster General Wynne, who
used to be a newspaper man in Wash
ington, bears his honors with becom
ing dignity, but does not in any way
feel uppish over his advancement.
The president one day asked him:
“How does it feel to attend a cabinet
meeting after having spent so much
time on the outside trying to find out
what occurred at similar gatherings?"
“Oh, it is not so much how' he feels,"
said Secretary Wilson, “as how the
rest of us feel.” Wynne has Irish
blood in his veins and ready wit at
the tip of his tongue. He came back
in this fashion: “That reminds me
of what Secretary Foster said when
he took charge of the treasury de
partment. I was his private secre
tary. One day he remarked to me:
‘Wynne, when I first came to Wash
ington as a member of the cabinet I
gazed in awe at the distinguished men
who were my colleagues and won
dered how I got there. After I had
been in the cabniet three months I
wondered how my colleagues got
there.’ ”
GET FOOD TO PORT ARTHUR.
How Chinese Junks Successfully
Elude Blockaders. ,
The medium-sized northern Chinese
junks make first-class blockade run
ners. They are built very low in the
water, with the docks almost awash
when loaded, so that only the bow
and stem rise noticeably above the
water line. They are strong, flat-bot
tomed and of unpainted, dirty wood,
with no bright colors about them. Pro
pelled by from ten to twenty oarsmen,
if the sails fail, they glide through the
water with no noise or smoke, and
are very difficult of detection. Dodging
along the shore and among the nu
merous islets, which extend from the
Shan-Tung peninsula across the
mouth of Pe-Chee Lee gulf, they close
ly resemble the low, brown rocks and
during the past months hundreds of
them have evaded the Japanese
watchers and carried tons of fresh
provisions and vegetables to the be
leaguered Port Arthur garrison.
Simple Home of Rockefellers.
In Mr. Rockefeller’s home in New
York little effort is made at preten
tiousness. There are no elevators, no
elaborate system of electric bells, no
frills about anything. Mrs. Rocke
feller laboriously climbs the stairs
rather than have an elevator put In.
Simplicity and economy sound the
keynote. Mrs. Rockefeller’s kitchen
in her New York house would be con
sidered extremely old-fashioned by
the standard of her rich neighbors.
She does not care much for the pleas
ures of the table. Plain cooking suits
her best. Her husband, of course, is
most careful of his diet. The list of
dishes he is obliged to pass unnoticed
would make a very large bill of fare.
Mean Fling at Senator Depew.
Senator Depew says that the mean
est remark he ever heard about him
self came from a passenger on a sight
seeing automobile in Washington.
The automobile was going past the
senator’s house in H street. “That
tree in the yard, ladies and gentle
men,” said the megaphone man. “was
planted by Senator Depew himself al
most six years ago.” “Say,” piped up
a passenger on the back seat, loud
enough to be heard by the senator and
his wife, who were standing in front
of the house, *TJ bet it’s a chestnut.”
Tamagno Declines Honor.
Tamagno, the tenor, has followed the
example of Ma icagni, the composer,
and refused to 1 e nominated as candi
date for the Italian parliament. Ta
magno has thews and sinews which
might have been useful In those per
sonal encounters which sometime en
liven the tedium of debate in the leg
islature of the Latin peoples. In hia
early days he was a butcher boy, with
solid muscles and a taste for gore.
But as an operatic hero he Is the mild
est mannered man who ever handled
a “pronertr” sword.