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LEGISLATURE Of NEBRASKA (A Synopsis of Proceedings of the Twenty ✓Ninth Gen^ era! Session. SENATE—After a very strenuous though humorous fight, the senate, on the 20th, in the committee of the whole, voted to recommend for pas sage H. R. 75, by Foster of Douglas, compelling dealers to paint gasoline cans red. S. F. 88. allowing school districts to retire their bonds at the end of five years, was passed. The senate resolved into a committee of the whole, with Wall of Sherman in the chair. H. R. 60. the Foster dental bill, was recommended for passage. The following new bills were intro duced: S. F. 207. by Bresee of Sheri dan, that patent medicines containing 30 per cent of alcohol shall be deem ed an intoxicating drink and dealers shall be required to taken out a liquor license. _ HOUSE—The house went into com mittee of the whole on the 20th. with Bartoo cf Valley in the chair. These bills among others were recommend ed for passage: H. R. 139. by Jack son of Antelope—Authorizing appeals to the district .court on tax levies and giving courts jurisdiction. H. R. 191, by McCIay of Lancaster—To consoli date biennial reports of state officers and department. These bills were passed: H. R. 163. by Bacon of Daw son—Providing for sale of peniten tiary lands, control and disposition of funds and to create penitentiary lands fund. H. R. 175, by Howe of Nemaha —Making it mandatory instead of op tional for county boards to appro priate 3 cents per capita per annum for the benefit of agricultural so cieties. S. F. 3. by Good of Nemaha— Fixing the date of convening the State Board of Equalization on the third Monday in July, making it after the county hoards’ equalization in stead of before. H. R. 70. by Burns of Lancaster—One of the Lincoln char ter bills. SENATE—The senate on the 21st in the committee of the whole, inde finitely postponed the blacksmith lien law bill, and recommended for passage the South Omaha sewer bill by Gibson. The blacksmith lien bill provided that for work cn any kind of vehicle or for shoeing a horse or other animal the workman should have a lien on the animal or vehicle should his lien be filed within four months. Cady of Howard introduced the bill by request and spoke for its passage. H. R. 60 and H. R. 82 were passed. The former regulates the practice of dentistry and the latter provides for the construction of a live stock pavilion and fish building at the state fair grounds. H. R. 67 was indefinitely postponed. This bill pro vide- for the printing of the report of the State Board of Irrigation. These bills were introduced and read a first time: S. F. 208. by Meserve, providing for the appointment of three commissioners to revise the in surance laws of the state for which each is to receive SS a day. the work to be completed by January l, 1907. S. F. 209. by Jones of Otoe, providing that where a community gives a bonus of land for an industry the town or village shall have a lien on the property for twenty years. S. F. 75 was passed HOUSE—The house, on the 21st, passed these bills: Transferring $20, 000 from the clothing fund at the Hastings insane asylum to the repair and improvement fund; emergency clause. To enable the State university regents to condemn lands needed for university purposes. The emergency clause failed to pass. Empowering cities of the second class to grant franchises and make contracts with power plants. To prevent printers from publishing more copies of hooks, pamphlets, etc., than ordered. Emer gency. Regulating the amount of bonds which school districts may is sue. Authorizing county boards to appropriate $100 a year for farmers' institutes. To allow surety companies to oe surety ior a puonc orncer ior more than two successive term?. To exart a peral bond of from an replicant for a saloon license before such license is issued. Permitting state and county treasurers to re quire guaranty bonds from depository banks, whereas now they may only require personal bonds, and it legal izes such guaranty bonds. Requiring a uniform examination under direc tion of th» State Board of Education for all applicants for state teachers’ certificates. Approprating $ld.000 for an agricultural pavilion at the state fa'r grounds. Requiring school dis tricts to estimate the money needed during the coming year instead of making a levy. Emergency clause. To allow mutual insurance societies to amend their charters after twenty yeirs so as to issue five-year policies. To provide for payment of outstand ing road district, warrants and - to liquidate all indebtedness against road districts. Emergency clause. Providing that any person injured in a mutual company, except in ca<=e of notes acquired by this act to be de posited at the time of its organization, may at anv time return the policy for cancellation and cn pav'.ne amount due on his nrem’um note and be dis charged from further liability. Emer gency clause. SENATE—In the committee of the whole, with Giffin in the chair, the following bills were Considered on the 22nd- Senate file No. 2(5, by Shel don. to provide fo*. open depots in small towns, recommended for pas sage. Senate file No. 142. by Brrsee. providing for a year’s residence for divorce applicants, for passage. Sen ate file No. 133. by Wall, permitting appeals in tax litigation, for pa=«age. Senate file No. 148. by Rresee. to amend road tax collection statutes, for passage. House roll No. 131, by Smith, to pay county commissioners $3 a day, indefinitely postponed. Sen ate file No. 76. by Bresee. dividing the Fourteenth judicial district, for pas sage. The following new bills were introduced: Senate file No. 214, by ■ .. .■ Thomas—To provide for notice in tax sale foreclosures. Senate file No. 215. by Thomas—To provide for the pay ment of tax claims any time before foreclosure and fixing the rate of in terest at 15 per cent. House roll No. 3, by Windham, to appoint three su preme court commissioners and form a commission of six. was passed. Sen ate file No. Ill, by Meserve, to make adultery a felony, was read for the third time and passed. This measure is designed to regulate the conduct of the Indians in Northeast Nebraska. HOUSE—There was no suspension of business on the 22d. Washington's birthday: Hunker of Cuming offered a resolution commending Kansas for its fight upon the Standard Oil trust, pledging sentimental co-operation and taking a shot at John D. Rockefeller as the magnate of the most treacher ous monopoly in existence. The re solution went over. H. R. 219, by Clarke of Douglas, was recommended for passage. It is the bill which im poses a one-year penitentiary sentence or a fine of $500 for the game of policy. The bill to precipitate an un usual contest was H. R. 239. by Parker of Otoe. It provided for the prohibi tion of saloons within 400 feet of any schoolhouse. Jackson of Antelope of fered an amendment making it apply only to retail places of selling liquor. The amendment was lost and the bill recommended for passage. H. R. 2. by McMullen of Gage, to amend the revenue bill so as to elect instead of appoint district assessors, brought out much discussion. The measure was finally indefinitely postponed. H. R. 87, by Hoare of Platte, prohibiting the granting of liquor licenses to any but the actual parties interested, was recommended for passage. Among bills introduced were the following: • Concurrent resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution: for a state railway commission of three to serve three years, whose duty it shall be to enforce laws of the legislature. H. R. 323, by Perrv of Furnas—To de fine the rights of creditors of dece dents and to prescribe a manner for applying for an order of descent. To repeal section 11.412 of Cobbey’s Statutes that provides for a clerk of the State Printing board. Creating a commission of three to revise the in surance laws of this state. To provide for placing questions relating to amendments ot the constitution, con stitutional conventions and all other questions and propositions submitted to the vote of the people on a separ ate ballot, which shall be of pink color, to be deposited in a separate ballot box. also of pink color. H. R. 337, by Pospisil of Saunders, to amend sec tion 13 of an act approved April 4. 1903, entitled “Ant act to provide a system of public revenue, and repeal articles 1. ii, iii. iv and v. and sections 4. 5, 6. 7. 8. 9. 19, ii and 12 of article vii of chanter 77. Compiled Statutes of Nebraska for the year 1901.” and to repeal said section 13 and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent here with. SENATE—In the senate on the 23rd in the committee of the whole with Mockett in the chair some important measures were disposed of. One of these was by Epperson to repeal the law which creates the office of the state architect. Epperson quoted statistics showing that the state would have been at less expense had it employed outside architects in stead of having a state architect. The bill was recommended for passage. H. R. 132, appropriating money for »he building of a fish pond at South Bend, was recommended for passage, as were these other measures: S. F. 18. fixing penalty for jury bribing. S. F. 15, fixing penalty for one who bribes a juror. S. F. 125. fixing punishment of parent who contributes to child de linquency as defined by the statutes. 5. F. 39, permitting all fraternal com panies to ’ncotporate, was amended so as to include Scottish Rite Ma sons. S. F. 159, allows money now held by comity treasurer of Douglas county to be paid into school dis tricts. the same having been collected for tuition of high school pupils from outside districts, the law later having beer, declared void by the supreme court. S. F. 148, to allow the Omaha school board to elect a secretary for a term of three years instead of one year, as at present. Bills introduced were: P. F. 218, by Gibson of Doug las. increases ihe salary of members of South Omaha police board from J100 to $300 a jear. S. F. 219. by Gib son of Douglas, to allow the mayor and city council of South Omaha to refund the f; *cial paving tax to prop erty owners along Twenty-fourth street between A and Q. HOUSE—In the house on the 2,8rd H. It. 4ft, to elect no county assessors in count es of less than 10.000 popula tion was indefinitely postponed. The Hunker resolution pledging Nebraska’s sympathy to Kansas in its fight against the Standard Oil trust came up. was amended and passed. Among bills in troduced were the following: A bill ' for an act to compel railroad compa [ tties in Nebraska to afford equal fa cilities without favoritism or dis crimination, to all persons and asso ciations erecting or operating grain elevators and handling or shipping [grain or other produce, and to compel 'railroad companies to afford equal fa cilities as between individuals ship | ping their own grain and freight, and | said persons and associations erect ing or operating grain elevators and handling or shipping other produce, and to equally supply cars to indi viduals and associations and persons i engaged in the business of buying and shipping of grain and other freight and to provide equitable dis tributions of cars between shipping ! points and between shippers at such j pointB, when the demand for cars is greater than the supply, and to fix penalties. An act to provide for the jmaking of test borings or explorations for the discovery of oil, coal, gas or artesian water, and other minerals in the state of Nebraska, and to appro priate money to aid in such borings or explorations. Appropriates 525 000. ; An act making appropriations for tho I current expenses of the state govern ment for the years ending March 21, | 1006. and March 21. 1907, and miscel laneous items. Appropriates 51-828, 000. An act creating and making the county treasurer in any county in cluding within its boundaries a city of the metropolitan class treasurer ex l officio of such city, anil also treasurer ■ ex-officio of the school district in said city. An act to allow insurance ; companies to invest their capital and surplus in stocks of incorporated Ne ; braska companies. A bill for an act i authorizing county clerks and record ] ers to accept printed books from wa j ter users’ associations organized un ; der the national reclamation act and j to use the same for recording stock ! subscriptions of such association. _ SENATE—Another bill to facilitate j the movements of live stock shippers was slashed and cut by the senate railroad committee on the 24th. Sen ate file No. 152, by Senator Gould, was dissected and the dismembered skele ton reported for the general file. The original bill required a uniform mo ; tion of live stock of twenty miles an hour. This was cut to twelve railed and the chances are.that the bill wil) be indefinitely postponed for the same committee recommended a bill tor a speed of seven miles not long ago. Senate file No. 112. by Good, repulat ing the salaries of the bank examin ers, was reported for the general file as onginaii) drawn, senate me .no. 1ST, by Epperson, regulating the privi leges of eminent domain exercised by corporations, was placed on the gener al file. Senate file No. ST. by Sheldon, regulating the cost in appeal cases, was recommended for the general file. Senate file No. 152, by Gould, regulat ing the rate of speed of live stock trains was amended by the railroad committee and reported for the gen eral file. In the committee of the whole house roll No. 8, the Omaha water bill, was recommended for passage. House roll No. 117, by Hill, a- pre printing $5.01*0 for irrigation investi gation. was recommended for passage Senate file No. 27, by Beghtol. provid ing for teaching principles of kindness to animals, was recommended for in deflnite postponement by the standing committee. In the committee of the ! whole senate fi.’e No. 1S1 was rccom | mended for passage. The bill, by Gould of Greeley, provides for a road tax of 25 mills when townships want it. Genera! Appropriation Bit!. The finance, ways and means cnm nr'ttoe cn the 22d completed the gen eral appronriaCon hill and Caairman Wilson will introduce it in the house at once. The total appropriation for the hiennium is $1,720,000. a= com pared with $1,828,000 for the last ses sion. a decrease of $108,000. One of the heavy increases this year is the item for the National Guard, $45.7fK>. The increase of nearly $20,000 is to meet the demands of the militia, many companies of which had been compelled to depend upon their own resources for such expenses as arm ory rent. Following are the various items: Governor’s deportment .$ 5.400 Board of Public Lands and Puildings . 42,000 Board of Educational I,ands and Funds . 40 coo Board of Purchase and Bunplies 150 Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings . 2 100 State Library Commission. 5 000 Benretary of State. 3.000 Auditor . 7.300 Attorney General . 7.000 Treasurer . 5 500 State Board of Irrigation. 3 000 Commissioner of Labor. 2.800 State Superintendent . in 000 State Banking Board. 5.300 Supreme Court . 3.500 ‘■’fate Library . 10 000 'hate Board of Charities. 4 000 State Fi=h Commission. 10 550 I State Historical Society. 10.000 Wood Commissioner . 4 400 State Board of Health. 1O O0O Nebraska National Guard. 45.700 Fniversity of Nebraska. 280 470 State Normal school, Perni. 25 500 S'ate Normal school. Ke*rnev_. 28.700 Institute for the Blind. Ne braska City . 29,200 Institute fo- the Deaf and Dumb. Omaha . 48.300 Bovs’ Industrial school. Kear ney . 7S one Girls' Industrial school. Geneva 24.290 Institute r0r Feeble Minded Youths. Beatrice . *5.500 hospital for the Insane. Lincoln 170.500 Hospital for Incurable Insane. Hastings . 3S1.250 Hospital for the Insane. Norfolk 84.900 Home for the Friendless, Lin coln . 10.400 Industrial Hor-p. Milford. 11.400 penitenMarv . 112.1*0 So’diers’ and Sailors’ Honan. G^a-td Island . 142.735 Soldiers' and Sailors’ Home, Mllforfl . 44.*-=, Miscellaneous items . 96.50C Growth of Beard and Nails. In every seventy year*; the average man grows a beard 2"> feet long, hair almost &0 feet long and nails 23 feet long. Average Married Life. One Way to Cure Warts. The cure warts Lancashire people rub them with a piece of bacon stolen from a shop. But it is essential that Civil Cabmen. Before obtaining a license, St. Pe tersburg drosky drivers have to take an oath to be civil and not to over charge. Size of British Empire. It has been figured out that the British empire is sixteen times larger than all the French dominions and forty times greater than the German empire. Size of 3ritish Dominions. It has been figured out that the British empire is sixteen times larger than all the French dominions and forty times greater than the German empire. Cookery for Danes. A course of cooking lessons for men only ha3 been begun in Copenhagen under the auspices of an influential committee. Cut Off Brandy Supply. The French government has abol ished the cantinleres. who were a fea ture of every regiment. They wen women who supplied the soldiers witi brandy. If love is blind, marriage must be an eye-opener. | LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT IN KANSAS > TO INVESTIGATE METHODS OF THE “TRUSTS” j MOVES AGAINST MONOPOLY. California. ^ Railroads were in iucvd by Standard to rai~e freight rate-; on oil, and in ; dependent pipe line to seal»oard is projected. Illinois. House passed resolution indorsing 1 Kansas' action and providing for com mittee to investigate Standard Oil j company's work in Illinois. Kansas. Both branches of legislature called cn president, secretary of the interior, and congress to annul leases made to Standard Oil company eight years ago by Osage Indians. Fraud is charged. Independent investigation oi ! trust likely. Missouri. ! Bill to subject Standard Oil com pany pipe lines to restrictions prepar ed. Indiana. Anti-trust bill, introduced in behalf of oilmen, will give damages to per- j sons injured by Standard Oil company and require forfeit of charter. Nebraska. Bill recommended for passage to protect independent dealers. Ohio. Frank S. Monnet, former attorney genera! of state, employed by inde pendent oil men of Kansas to fight the j trust there. Oklahoma. Lower house passed resolution ask ing president to investigate oil leases covering Indian lands and declared to be owned by trust. Pennsylvania. Government officials investigating at Pittsburg in belief old "rebate sys I tem." which killed independent refin ers' business, still is in operation be tween railroads and Standard Oil company; contracts for oiling cars the scheme. Independent pipe line com pany to fight Standard in Scranton. T exas. Every independent oil producer in 1 state signed petition asking for fed eral inquiry into Standard Oil oper ations against them. Legislature is taking steps to make all pipe lines common carriers and give state power to fix rates. Wisconsin. Wholesale grocers who suffered fiom trust discrimination will move for more stringent legislation; anti trust bill now in legislature. Washington. Indians protested to renewal of leases on oil lands in Oklahoma; charged that trust controls property ; and pays too little royalty. ___ HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL. Many attempts have been made to bring the Standard Oil company to account. So far, these have met with indifferent success. Some years ago the concern was. in the strict sense of the term, a trust. It was a pool whose members owned a great num ber of oil properties in various parts of the country. The law had this much terror for it, it forced it to aban don this somewhat loose form of or ganization and become an incorpor ated company. But the change was in name rather than in fact. The public are no wiser regarding the affairs of the combine than before; and it is rot easy to see how they have bene fited in any direction. The Standard Oil company has be come a tremendous factor in Amer ican finance. Up to say fifteen years ago not much was said about it apart from the oil industry; but it used to occasion very lively talk in connection with that industry. Tradition painted its methods in black colors. It had determined to acquire a monopoly in the oil business, and had practically succeeded. Competition went down before it like a card house at the touch of a finger. If a man with a fewr hundreds of capital bought one or two teams and attempted to peddle ! any other oil than that made by the I Standard Oil company, he speedily j J ^T^ZOP^WT/Y ( * ,4 a ^^^duiiUMMKaQMatmzrSm. ^ET^TOP /77Z&ZPJOr The rf-al work in the “trust-busting mov-ment that has brought Kansas so prominently before the nation has been tloni by four men. representing all_ the • *-men is aft* ■!» d by »_ it. Senator W. S. Fitzpatrick, leader of the upper hr use. cornes from the oil regions, and repre sents the producers in the chatting of remedial legislation. S> nator F. Dumont represents the consumers, into which class nearly every citizen of the common wealth faiis. The other two are Piesi dent H. fci. \V- -1 anri Secretary J. M. Parker of the Kansas Oil Producers As s • ration. Senator Porter is a former em ploye of the Standard Oil Company, yet he drafted ana introduced the *tate re finery bill, which has become a law. found it advisable to retire from busi ness. The same was the case with the man who had his thousands locked up in extensive plants. In either instance he was offered a price, often a generous one. If he conclud ed to accept it. well and good for him. The few who decided to fight it out found their pocketbooks much thin ner. The profits of the concern were so enormous that it eventually became hard to find employment for them. The owners of the Standard Oil com pany bought into one railroad after another. They were, for example, re puted a powerful factor in the Chi cago. Milwaukee & St. Paul road back in the '80s. Somewhere around 1890 their names began gradually to re place those of the old leaders in Wail street. They kept branching out. first bringing one great stock market en terprise and then another under their control. In retrospect. Jay Gould seems a small man beside them. Eventually they caught up with the Vanderbilts as railroad magnates. In 1901 they were believed to be back of Harriman in the Northern Pacific fight. To-day they are reputed to have the dominant voice in the great est railroad combine in the world. To-morrow, it is feared, the w’hole rail road situation of the United States may be at their dictation. But oil and railroads have not alone absorbed their energies. They have been active in many other directions. In 1897 the Third National bank of New York was consolidated with the City bank, making an institution far transcending in size anything of the kind in the country. In 1S99 it had de ‘V s William Rockefeller. posits of something like $150,000,000, and to-day they are well up to $200, 000.000. The City bank has from the start been kpown as the “Standafu Oil bank.” It has been a tremendous S. IT. fiA&KFJ? I power in Wall street speculation. Its methods have been sharply criticised, the panic of May 9. 1901. was openly aid at its door. The Northern Pa cific deal, out of which that panic grew, was a titanic affair. It was a contest between the mightiest finan cial interests in the United States. A more recent episode in the career of the City bank was the Munroe & Mtin roe affair. The failure of this concern brought to light the fact that the largest bank in the United States was as willing to aid in floating Montreal & Boston mining stock on a credulous | public as to engage in great railroad j deals involving hundreds of millions I of capital. Nor is this all. It was Standard Oil money that started the Amalga mated Copper company. Boston peo ple have not forgotten that enterprise. 1 They recall the methods employed to buy control of the great Boston A: Montana company for a song. They rt member, too. how the price of Amal gamated copper stock was boomed to about 130, just prior to a dividend re- j riuction, in order that the insiders j might unload on the public. And the ! part played by the City bank in pro moting the Amalgamated company is also fresh in mind. The profit to the | Standard Oil coterie from promoting and manipulating this enterprise will j never be known; but it is almost in calculable. Meanwhile, the oil mcnonqjy ha? i been growing more and more com- j plete. As it has progressed in other i directions, the Standard Oil clique ha? ! increased its means of stifling compe j tition in the manufacture and distri - button of oil. It was l,v railroad re | - t bates that it got its first real start; and now it is itself a mighty power in the management of the railroads of the United States. But last week the mandate went j forth for it to be investigated. A res ! elution to this end was rushed i through the national House, and the ! President has been prompt to act upon | it. Commissioner Garfield of the De partment of Commerce and Labor has been told to institute proceedings, and to see that they are thorough. The specific task, in compliance with the congressional resolution, is that of in vestigating the cause of the low price of crude oil, and of the unusually large margins between the crude and lefined products. The aim is to find cut how much the present situation is the result of combination or conspir acy in restraint of trade. In short, an effort is to be made to find out everything possible regarding the Standard Oil company specifical ly. If the Commissioner of Corpora tions is as successful in this instance as he was in the case of the beef trust, he is likely to produce results that will siartle the country. He is also, it is said, going to look into the I doings of the "Standard Oil crowd." An adequate report on the Standard CTl company may enable us to obtain cheaper oil. But a real knowledge of the "Standard Oil crowd” will be of immense value in conserving the en tire financial interests of the people of the United States now and here after.—Bostcn Post. — STATEMENT BY GOV. HOCH. The fight Kansas is making is a fight for fair play—a fight to restore competition and to relieve a great and growing industry from the grasp cf an industrial despotism. We hope to prove by actual demon stration that the Standard Oil com pany has robbed the oil producer on one hand and the customer on the other. By engaging in this battle as a state we hope, first, to encourage the loca tion of independent refineries with the assurance that they will have the pro tection of the state; and. second, to enlist other states and the general government in a battle against mon opolistic tyranny. The proposed state refinery is sim ply a means to an end—not the end itself.—E. M. Hoch. Small Boy's Definition of Duty. A small boy went to Sunday school. When he went home his mother asked him what the lesson was about. “Faith.” says the boy. “What’s that?” his mother asked. “Believin’ what you've got every reason to suppose ain’t so,” the boy replies. And then,” he afterward remarks, “there was some talk alguit duty too.” “What’s duty?” his mother asked him. “Oh, duty,” he replied, “is to any old thing that you have got to do when you want to play baseball.” Boom in Horse Market. There is to be a boom of the horse market if reports are true that the contracts are to be awarded at Seattle for supplying 1,000 horses for the American army in the Philippines. When the British government was seeking horses for its welfare in South Africa palmy days existed for those with desirable stock. The previously despised cayuse then found a meas ure of popularity, as any adaptable horse must be for ..rmy use.—Yakima (Ore.) Republic. Defends Alaskan Indian. Gov. Brady of Alaska protests against talk of the “vile, dirty Eski mo,” saying those who make such remarks are in ignorance. “I don’t know what he may be like in other divisions of the frigid zone, but I do know that the Alaskan Indian is as fine a type of his class as can be found anywhere. Take them as a whole, they are sober and industrious, make homes and adopt civilization readily. They are truthful, honest, hospitable, gentle and kind-hearted.” Stones Affected by Weather. The fact that many natural stones swell slightly when passing from a dry to a wet condition at the same temper ature, and shrink correspondingly when the process is reserved, has been recognized in numerous tests at the Watertown arsenal. In the report for 1890 it is stated that a very decided swelling of the stones was observed in most cases after soaking them for a time in water, and that this effect seemed to increase as the temperature rose. Early New England Library. It appears .that there was a public library in Peru. Vermont, as early as 1811. The editor of the Manchester Journal has a book, on the flyleaf of which is written. “Peru library No. 27. October 8, 1813, cost fifty cents. Li brary meetings, the first Tuesday of January, April. July and October. This book is presented to the Christian people of Peru by the Hampshire mis sionary society and committed to the j care of the standing committee of | their social library.” Fish Killed by Storm. It is a pretty rough storm which j kills fish in the sea by the wholesale, j After one of the recent storms there j were bushels and bushels of dead cun- i ners on the beach at Peak s Island. The fishermen explain it by saving the force of the gale and incoming tide drove the cunners from deep into shal low water near the shore where they became thoroughly chilled and finally helpless, after which the waves cashed them up on the beach.—Ken nebec Journal. BISON BEEF'’ SOLD IN ENGLAND. Result cf Experiments in Crossing Buffalo and Cattle. The latest delicacy to tempt the ap petites of British epicures is a com promise between buffalo meat and beef. A couple of 2-year-old bullocks, the result of cross-breeding between a North American bison and h -hiand cattle were sold a' the X* w a- ie mar ket yesterday. They had been bred by Mr Lyland of Hagger-e u astle. Northumberland, says the New York World, who has been enzaced for sev eral years in experimenting in this direction. The animals were exactly like their North American cousins in appear ance. except that they w- re stronger and thic ker in the hindquarters. They had been reared and fed as wdd at tle, so great difficulty was experienced in conveying them to market. Although they were a<-conin'. 'dated in special boxes, their f;,y wa- so great that one broke it- neck or the* journey, and the other had to b< shot in the market. The beef, it is said, will ! 1 found of a richer quality than that ub'ained from a buffalo, and if kept for a month or so more palatable than that of an ordinary bullock. MADE HIS CASE PLAIN. No Doubt About Opmon Une'e He'd of Nerh-w. The young man had been to * a. and on his return wa> narrating * uncle, an old fanner, an adventure which he had met with os hoard .'hip "I was one nisrot leaning over he taffrail, looking down into the o< an he said, "when my gold watch fe’T from my fob and immediately ank out of sight. The ship wa- irg u .1 knots an hour, but. nothing oa rr * \ 1 sprang over the rail, down dov * and after a long search found rhe watch, came up, and chased the -run and climbed back to the deck wit. out any on knowing 1 hi ! b n . n "William," said his uncle. "I t • ve thee; but there’s many a thou-an I that would not." "What!" exclaimed William. ‘Y i are politely insinuating that I’m a liar.” "William." said the old mar. grave ly. "thee knows that 1 never cab. any body names; but if the mayor were to come and say, Josiah. I want thee •«» find the biggest liar in ail Montgem eryshire,’ I would come to th e and put my hand upon thy shoulder and say to thee, ‘William, the mayor wants to see thee.”’—London Tit Bits. Net an Odious Comparison. The head clerk had been inivted to an afternoon wedding, and in order to save time appeared at. the offi<e in the morning fully ‘ tr~onmed” for the ceremony. As he threw asMe his overcoat he was disclosed, in all the majesty of a swagger freck coat rf the latest cut, gray trousers fash < n ably creased, patent leather shot' and white puff tie. His position in the office made him immune from comments by the ;:t. * r lings, who. however, regarded, him with serio-comic admiration and longed to say what they felt. But the barrier wa* broken a few minutes after the day’s busino** had begun, and by a friend who dr. ; el in for a moment's chat. He was somewhat lacking in dignity, lor which the clerks blessed him. * f j "Good morning. George," he said cheerily to the head clerk. Then a** he took a second glance at the sar torial “dream" he added: “Great Scott! What's up? You look like a certified check.” And even the head clerk joined io the general burst of laughter. French Courtesy Anglicized. A few days ago the New York representatives of a kid glove main facturing concern, the headquarters of which are in an interior town in France, sent a cablegram announcing the death of the manager in charge of the American branch of the busi ness. The foreign house pn mr K ! forwarded acknowledgment, the wire j reading: “Please accept our profound con ! gratulations. Our account prosper* 1 j in the hands of Mr.-. He wa< a J grand fellow in all respects. We m i terpret his demise as a personal ivii. This was signed by the directors of ! the company. The Manhattan estab * lishment is of the opinion that a little | knowledge—of English—is a sad af j fair also. Charge as He Remembered It. ! Judge Brady had a colored man i>• j fore him in police court and he asked j him when he had been arrest d I fore. The fellow scratched his hcac, j thought a moment and then said “Ah think it was about a year ago. Jedge. "What was the charge?” asked the Court.. After thinking a while the pri? n* - looked up and said: “Ah'm not qi; *.» shuah. but Ah t'ink it was tree dol lahs, yer Honor.” He was discharged.—Albany Jour nal. Passing of Old Vermont Stock. “There were three marriages six birth and twenty-two deaths in town last year. A gloomy look, certainly ’ So says the newspaper correspond ence of one of our Vermont towns Jt is. indeed, a “gloomy look.” Not only is the old stock dying out. hut there is no infusion of new. Th nk of the proportion of births to deaths Where one child is born in this Ver mont community there are four deaths. Little wonder that the State's population is practically at a stand still—Barre Times. The Millionaire's Plaint. If you were me and I were von. I would care naught for who is who; For you. a r*»et. need but sing While I—well, that's another thin*. 1 have a hundred ships at sra— The wind and wave care naught for me; I have a hundred ventures set In this big world—itself a bet! And you may with an idle rhyme . Kill that that kills so man—Time; Ere my to-morrow is to-day I break its back with yesterday! —New York Herald Paderewski’s Many Photographs. When leaving Sydney for America, the London Mail says, Paderewski or dered 10,000 large panel photograph* of himself for sale during his Ameri can tonr, the largest order of the kind -»v«r known jn Sydney.