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j——— ■ _ _ _ _ I MYSTERY IN SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. STANFORD AT HONOLULU—HER GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY 1(1) View of Facade, Main Group of Buildings. (2) North Tower and Inner Triangle. (3) President David Starr * Jordan. (4) Mrs. Leland Stanford. (5) The Chapel. S1ANFCRD UNIVERSITY, ITS PRESIDENT AND MRS. LELAND STANFORD, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED AT HONOLULU. I Mrs. Jane Stanford, widow of Sena- 1 tor Leland Stanford, died in Honolulu February tlS. On Feb. IS it was reported that an attempt had been made some time be lt re to murder- Mrs. Stanford by means of poison placed in a bottle of mineral water at her home on Cali fornia street, in San Francisco. It was stated that she had taken three drinks o the deadly mixture, but the poison had been used in such large quantities that it served as its own emetic. Mrs. Stanford was taken violently ill and medical aid was summoned. The contents of her stomach and the water remaining in the bottle were analyzed and sufficient strych nine to have killed three persons was found. Mrs. Stanford first drank of the water on Jan. 14, and from that Lme her health declined. Although the story of the attempt to poison her was positively denied, persistent tumors regarding the matter were revived. GIFTS MORE THAN $33,000,000. • Make Other People Happy” Motto of Dead Philanthropist. Mrs. Leland Stanford was left, an ^ (state estimated at from $30,000,000 P r.. $40,000,000. Under her husband's " ill she was in sole management of Ik the great property. rWith her husband she spent more than $37,000,000 in building and sup porting the Leland Stanford Jr. uni v( rs'ty at Palo Alto. Cal., as a memo rial to her son. Her life was insured . :m more than $1 .'*00,000 for the bene | fi* cf the university. This was her belief: •Ten greatest blessing that millions ran bring is the power to make other people happy.” Mrs. Stanford's maiden name was Jane I.athrop. She was born in Al bany, X. Y.. eighty years ago. While she was yet a girl she met Leland Stanford, who was then a struggling young lawyer at Port Washington. Wis,. and after their marriage she went there with him to live. Their residence in Wisconsin was of brief duration. All they possessed v as destroyed by fire, and when the ’ ottr.g lawyer looked about him on the mins he determined to go to the Pa cific coast ar.d start a new life. The wife (lid not join him for three years. When she arrived at Sacramento she found her husband awaiting her in the simple wooden house he had pre pared for her. In si *e of disappointments and re verses Mr. Stanford rose rapidly, and by 1S61 he was not only rich, but he had won political distinction as well, lor he was governor of the state. It was not until after they had been married eighteen years that a son v as born to Mr. and Mrs. Stanford. This was the Leland Jr. for whom the great university was named. To edu cate this son and make of him a noble citizen father and mother gave Themselves up without reserve. He promised to become a great scholar. As a lad he was intensely interested i t mathematics and in the science of archaeology, and to help him along the family went abroad. At Florence, in Italy, young Leland was stricken with fever and after a brief illness dies at the age of 17. in 1885. Almost immediately after the parents began plans for the memorial university. “It will cost $10,000,000,” said Presi dent Dwight of Yale when they con sulted him. “We had expected to spend $25,000, OC0,” they replied, and the building be pan at their country place. Palo Alto. During the years which precede:! Sen ator Stanford's death they lavished $30,000,000 on their son's memorial, and a great jcy came to the old man in his latest days when he sat in a carriage and saw the opening of the school. It was the happiest achieve ment in all his stirring, successful ca reer. But when the will was opened a new and* heavy burden fell upon the de voted widow and mother. Site was named sole executrix, with instruc tions to pay $1’,500.000 more to the uni versity, but the panic of 1893 had set in. Banks were breaking, stocks were tumbling, loans were impossible. The Stanford fortune was in jeopar dy. The university itself trembled on the verge of ruin, and to make, matters worse the government of the United ^States began suit for $15,000,0on against the estate, declaring it was lia able for the government bonds which the Pacific Railroad company had failed to pay. Mrs. Stanford, throwing herself’into the whirl of affairs, became familiar with every detail. The professors at the university were without their sal aries. Even the servants were unpaid. The closing of that vast institution, was imminent, but Mrs. Stanford strained every nerve to avert the cat astrophe. Mer town uouse wim us enormous expense was closed. Horses and car riages were sold. Houses and land were mortgaged or placed upon the market. The immense wheat farms at Gridley were reduced to a paying basis. She opened the wineries at Vina, and sent thousands of gallons of wine and brandy to foreign lands. Palo Alto was robbed of its choicest racing stock. Her jewels, a noted and priceless cc'llection. were sent to the markets of Europe, and at last a day came when Mrs. Stanford sat in her drawing room without a cent in the world, and with only two wageless servants to wait upon her. Every effort was made to hurry a decision. The case was fought from court to court. The months rolled into the years, and at last victory was ob tained. On March 9. 189«. the courts . decided in favor of Mrs. Stanford, and May 3 she handed $2,500,000 over to the university trustees. Meanwhile Mrs. Stanford had be come a financier and the times were mending. In one year she studied, schemed and manipulated so that she made $1,000,000 clear profit upon her stocks. Her whole soul was bound up in the university. All other consider ations seemed trivial. On Dec. 9, 1S98, she obtained the court’s permission to distribute the es tate. To her previous gifts of $20,000, 000 she added $11,000,000. Afterward she deeded over her San Francisco n ansion to be an academy of history, economics and social science. She also gave $100,000 for an orphan asy lum in Albany, a memorial to her fa ther and mother. Every rug. chair, vase, table and picture in her estate now belongs to the university. She had an allowance of $12,000 a year: but owned nothing. “Life Work of Noble Woman.” By the death of Mrs. l.eland Stan ford the world loses one of its great est and gentlest figures. This lonely woman, bereft first of the sop who w as her idol, and then of her husband, whose sharing of her anguish made it easier to bear, refused to give herself over to selfish grief and devoted her self to carrying out the great iTust that devolved upon her. She knew nothing of business when she took tip her life's task, but she applied herself to the mastery of the management of a great fortune, not for any selfish purpose, but in order that the univer sity founded in her son's memory might not sutler. She was ready to hear poverty herself if need be. but the cause to which she devoted her life should not want. The thousands of young men and women who have gained an education because of her sympathy, humanity and self-sacrifice, and unnumber-d thousands yet to come, will bless the memory of the woman who made Po land Stanford University possible Chicago American. PRUSSIA TO OWN COAL MINES Plans to Buy Them Because of Labor T roubles. The movement in Prussia to nation alize the business of coal mining in Rhenish Westphalia and Silesia is in teresting as the first step in this direction, says the New York Times. 'Ine government has been assured that to capitalize the mines on which Prussia depends and make them go\ ernment property would present in financial difficulties and that the $250, 0"t ,000, more or less, which may b< needed for this purpose can be had at once at very low interest, since" the security underlying bonds of this character would be. the best known. it seems that the people of Prussia, and by reflex influence, the govern nient, are tired of the inability of the mine owners and the miners to adjust tl eir differences as to wages without protracted strikes ar.d that the con viction is gaining ground that the public interest, in an uninterrupted supply of fuel is paramount to the in it rests of those whose contentions make the coal supply uncertain and unduly costly. Whether the govern n ent has any serious purpose of tak ing over the coal mines or is merely putting itself in a position to show the rrine owners and the miners what it could do if the necessity for action in the ‘public interest shall arise, we shall probably not know until it acts. SECRET OF LONG LIFE. Substance Discovered That Is Death to Inimical Bacteria. Curdled milk of a special kind, pre pared only on a Bulgarian recipe, is row supposed to be a remedy against growing old. M. Xavier Dybovski has made a communication on the subject to the Academy of Medicine. The sub stance is called yaghurt. and can now be obtained in tins in Paris. It is sup posed to be death to all the inimical bacteria in the intestines, while those friendly microbes to which Prof. Metchnikoff pins his faith positively adore it. Hence the property of yag hurt to prolong life to what is its nor mal span—a century or so. The sub stance looks like ordinary cream cheese gone bad. and tastes similarly The solid portion is mixed with a white, thin liquid, which is exeeedng ly sour. People who wish to live to a hundred breakfast off yaghurt exelu sively. Japanese Baron Starts Reform. Baron Miyoji Ito has set a most sen sibie example. The 26th, being the anniversary of his mother’s death, would have been, under ordinary cir cumstances. the occasion of various costly rites and ceremonies. With these the baron has dispensed, and has contributed instead a sum of 500 yen to the poor of his district in con sideration of che exceptional times. English Lad a Maori Chieftain. When the earl of Onslow was gov ernor general of New Zealand his wife gave birth to a boy. The child was gnen the Maori name of Heria out of aborigines. Later the baby was form a'ly chosen a chieftain, and recently, w hen he accompanied his parents on a visit to the colony, the three were given a notable reception by a great crowd of "natives. The boy. now a sturdy lad of nearly 15, addressed the . assembled Maoris, several of whom Jf delivered poetic orations in his honor. Lucky Find of Glasses. Harvey J. Gallinger "had his gold bowed spectacles blown off into the snow while driving to his home in South Charlton, Mass., after dark. Knowing it would be useless in that gale of drifting snow to look for them, Mr. Gallinger simply stuck a stick in the ground in the direction of where he supposed the glasses had blown and went home. Returning the next morning to the place, he saw the glasses dangling by one of the gold .bows from a busV Giant Has Hearty Appetite. Manchow, a Russian 9 feet 8% itches tall, now on exhibition in Lon don. has an appetite fitting his size. This is his average menu tor a day:. Eieakfast—Two quarts of milk, twelve eggs and two loaves. Lunch— Three pounds of meat, vegetables, five pounds of potatoes, a quart of beer. Dinner—Soap, three to five pounds of beef, vegetables, three pounds of bread, two quarts of beer. Supper— Ten to fifteen eggs, bread and butter and a quart of tea. Automobile Stayed “Stuck.” A stranded automobile belonging to a New York man caused John Moran of Wales (Mass.) to lose some of his sleep and much of his temper late Sunday night. He was routed out of bed to comply with a request for some water for the boiler and a shovel for the bothersome snow. Neither per suasion nor bribery could induce him to furnish either and the stranded party were unable to find a less prej udiced citizen until 5 o’clock the next -corning Korean Idea of Respect. According to the Korean idiom it is dishonoring to use “thou” or "he” of God. In speech. Korean Christians are often heard to use “Ken yang ban (that gentleman), in order to avoid the objectionable terms. In stead of saying “He (God) says,” they say “That gentleman says.” Then the Korean language does not possess the article, and has no idiom to repre sent terms like “faith.” "love,” “grace,” “holiness,” “justiflcation,” truth” and "eternal life.” Mules’ Fear of Bearskin. Two farmers were making pur chases in a store. One had a team of mules hitched outside. He was nego tiating for a pair of gloves both mules stood on their hind legs and started a boxing match with their owner. It took four men to hold them until the gloves were put out of sight. A mule has yet to be found that will stand for anything with fur, especially bear fur, on it. The owner of the mules did not get the gloves.—Lawrence Ga I OLD PORTAGE RAILROAD LINE I For some time prior to 1800 travel across Pennsylvania had been in canoes and in river barges propelled by poles or along the shores of riv ers by horse and foot and by inter vening portages on Indian trails, con necting points oil the different rivers. The Philadelphia Pitt-i nrg national pike was built upon such a substantial basis that wherever undisturbed one still finds the gracefully modeled atches of solid masonry almost intact, after more than a century has passed. The completion of the Old Portage railroad by the state of Pennsylvania in 1824 put an end to the time-hon ored “coach and six,-’ with the many picturesque a?id commodious inns and taverns along the line of this broad macadamized toll road, which with its substantial construction was, in point of endurance, secord only to the Roman military ro ds ef Great Britain. This Old Portage road was con structed from material brought from England. The British government sent over experienced engineers to in struct the Americans- in d-,e running of the stationary steam ergines used upon the inclined planes of the road in the Allegheny mountains. The rail road's highest point was about 2,700 WW -# V - *&T§ feet above s^a level: being only 200 feet lower than the neighboring hill, which is the highest point of the Alle gheny mountains in Pennsylvania, i The road consisted of ten planes, five of which were on either side of the i mountain, anti intervening levels. In ls’."> the canalbr.ats were so construct i ed that they could be taken in sections and hauled over the mountain on flat cars, without disturbing their cargoes. The rails were secured to stone sleep er.-. twenty inches square, which were sunk in the ground. On the Old Portage road the best time for the forty miles between Hoi lidaysburg and Johnstown was twelve hours. Express trains on the Penn sylvania railroad now run a closely parallel distance over the Allegheny mountains in a trifle over one hour. The passenger traffic on the road in those days was usually limited to one car each way a day. with a capacity of thirty j assongers. In 1S54 the Pennsylvania Railroad company bought, the Portage road from the state of Pennsylvania. Com mon rumor says that at this time the state legislature was “greased" and that mot a cent of the 547,000,000 which was to have been paid for the read was ever received into the treas ury of Penns; lvania. Reoort Real Sea-Serpent Rudyard Kipling has seen Pis sec- i ond sea serpent, according to a story • which conies with some seriousness from Cape Town. People who read Kipling's first sea-serpent story thought i> was merely a brilliant piece of fiction. This second sea serpent ! story is not told by Kipling, but by the skipper of the steamship Arma dale Cast It*. The sett serpent was j seen—in fact, it was struck bv the ! ship and probably killed—while the A'rmaciale Castle was on her last voy age to Cape Town, in latitude 3 de grees south. Mr. Kipling was aboard i the ship. Commander Robinson is not sure whether the creature struck was a real sea serpent, a queer whale or « greatly overgrown shark. Whatever it was, the thing was hit by the bow of the ship where, in all properly regulated fishes, the pectoral fin ex ists. The bead was doubled across the port bow and the tail trailed away along the starboard side. The vio lent struggles of the creature to free itself from its painful and embarrass ing position led to its striking the soft brown paint of the “boot-topping” on , the ship's side with the powerful fluke of its tail. This was observed by the boatswain and some of the men who were watch ing the affair through the side ports immediately over the tail of the fish. The marks enabled the commander af ttr\»urd to make fairly accurate meas urements. From mark to stem it was forty-five feet. In girth it was appar ently about the volume of one of the ship’s lifeboats at the broadest part, say eight feet in diameter, very grace fully tapering away toward the tail. The body appeared to he of a green ish-brown color with large dark spots all over the back and sides, the lower parts being of a dull white. !t was first observed by one of the stamen, who heard a knocking against the ship's side. When the news was passed along the decks all the pas sengers. young and old, performed a mad stampede into the forecastle to look at the unhappy prisoner. The engines were stopped as soon as pos sible and reversed, but fully a quar ter of an hour elapsed between the first, discovery and the final clearance, by which time the creature was either dead or completely exhausted, for it sank slowly, tail first. Telephone in the Woods ■' ' ■" ■ —- ■ n I —...i - ■ — "I've been reading,” remarked a citizen who spends five months of every year in the woods, “that the tel ephone is a great convenience in the wilderness. The Electrical Review says that throughout the forests, from St. .John to Vancouver, the telephone brings the lumber camps into touch with one another, letters are read to lumbermen snowed in .">() or 1<m) miles from civilization and the human side of life is made warmer and more vivid by this means of .communication. "A telephone does heat up consid erably anywhere, especially when it won't work; but i'm inclined to think a telephone in the wilderness is a great nuisance instead of a great con venience. What an angler, hunter or l>otanist wants of one of the things is more than I can understand. They've got the Adirondack;* fixed so that there's a push button in every other tiee, and if you stub your toe a waiter'll pop out of the br.ahes with a champagne cocktail or a telegram. That’s all right, perhaps, but why not stay in the Waldorf? “A telephone in the woods is a good thing for game, though. We had our cabin wired to a village down at the end of the railroad one summer. Never again for me. I'd be dangling for trout. John. John.’ would come ir.y wife's voice, resounding through the aisles of pine and hemlock. •What?' I'd say, mad clean through 'Your Boston brokers want to talk with you a minute.’ Or I'd be almost within range of a deer and that same ‘John- would come floating cn the air from the shanty. ‘What?’ I'd have to call back, and the deer'd be in the r.ext county. ‘New York's waiting; long distance.' the servant would hoi ler. Line's held open for you.' The only trout I got that season was a tame one I bought of a man who fat tens 'em for market, and the only thing I shot was the are of spades. I tacked if tip the last day and blazed at it for spite. And now.” he con cluded. "when I go into the woods | the central office can't find me with a guide and a brass band.”—Provi dence Jviurnal. Forcing Fort Arthur Gate One hour before midnight you could see once more the same men who had applied the explosives in the day making for their victim. The founda tion of the caponiere was made of concrete, sand and steel plates. It could turn the largest and most pow erful shells ever manufactured by men into a loud and foolish joke. The men carried this time a large quantity of gunpowder. This they applied to the cracks made by the former explosion. The white heat fuse was applied. The report certainly handled the serene silence of the midnight with out mercy, tore it into pieces. This time there was a large rent made in the wall. Night, once more, rocked the confusion back to peace and there came into the rent a number of Rus sian heads. Some of us laughed. Quick as a flash the rifles of our men greeted them. Wide as the rent was, it was not quite sufficient for men in haste to pass, and for the third time we made the preparation of explosives. At 14 minutes past 4. in the still dark , hours of the 28th, the earth about us shuddered as it had never shuddered before, and we saw a hole in the wall that was over one meter in width and considerably over one meter in height. Through this hole our engi necr threw in over twelve sacks ol explosives. The caponiere was choked with fume and smoke. The ash gray of the breaking day and the most sinister gray of the smoke from the explosives creeking like cowardly ghosts from the hole in the wall was broken by silvery flashes here and there. They were the icy blades ol our men rushing into the caponiere through the confusion of the ex plosion. A crash of arms, groans, sounds of fakirs bodies, of broken steel, shrieks with which the life flew away from the clay, all mingled and melted in a confusion far beyond pen and brush. A few moments later the sun-round flag waved from out of a torn hole over file covered caponiere a welcome to the new-born day.—Les lie's Monthly. Truth and the Freeman He Is the freeman whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him. but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He Iooks abroad into the varied field Of nature; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter In his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own. llis are the mountains, and the valley his. And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a prtpriety that none can feel.. But who, with filial confidence inspired. Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous And smiling, say: "My father made them all!" Are they not by a peculiar right. And by an emphasis of interest his. Whose eyes they fill with tears of holy joy. Whose heart with praise, and whose ex alted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That planned and built, and still upholds, a world S« clothed with beauty for rebellious man? Yes. y» may till your garners, ve that i • a P The ioudfil soil; and yo may waste much good In senseless rot; but yet will not find In f<*ast. or In the chase, in song or dance. A liberty like his. who, nnimpeached Of usurpation, and to no man's wtong. Appropriates nature as his Father’s work. And has a richer use of yours than you, He is indeed a freeman. Free by birth Of no mean city, planned or e er the hills Were built, the fountains opened, or the sea With aifc his roaring multitude of waves. His freedom is the same in every state; Anti no condition of this changeful life. So manifold in cates, whose every day Brings its own evil with it. makes it less For he has wings that neither sickness, pain. Nor penury can cripple or confine; No nook so narrow but he spreads them there With ease, and is at large. The oppres sor holds His body bound: but knows not what a range His snlrit takes, unconscious of a chain; And that to bind him is a vain attempt, Whom Got! delights In. and in whom He dwells. —William Cowpar. i| LEGISLATURE Of NEBRASKA !A Synopsis of Proceedings of the Twenty "Ninth Gen^ era! Session. SENATE—The foil lwing bills were I passed in the senate on the 8th: Sen- t ! ate file 22(5, a bill limiting the number of proxies of building and loan stock to the actual number of shares held by the member who wished to vote them. Senate file No. I'1'. erea*'ng a state railway commission. Senate file No. 1 NT. a drainage hill House r II No. 172. transf•*rrirg S2>\0°b from the Norfolk to th ■ Ha."fugs asylum. Sen ate file No. 23, by Senator Grkfin, a , bill to provide for a prose iiting at-1 \ torney system in the state, was killed in the committee of the whole of the senate by a decisive majority. Sen ate file No. 1 ; a companion bill was also slaughtered. The state prison committee reported that the peniten- ! tiary was in excellent condition, the damage done by the fire having been , repaired and the administration of Warden \. I>. Beemer was most ex cellent. The warden was compliment- j ed on his manner of conducting the j institution. Senate file No. 17. by Sen ator Gibson, was indefinitely post I poned on the report of the standing j committee. It provided for the.care j of dependent children. HOUSE—In the house on the 8th j i the following bills were read for the j ! third time and passed. House roll No. j ] 188. by Douglas, eliminating the coun ty clerk and county assessors as members of the county board of eouali- j nation. House roll No. 21 i. by Ar.der 1 son. to protect lab- Is and tradcmmks | of union labor organizations. House roll No. 229. by Parker, to prohibit j the granting by county boards of licenses to sell liquors within 4"o f et of country school houses. The railroad | committee reported to the general file, with a favorable recommenda tion. house roll No. 2S2. by Hill, re quiring the running of at least one train daily on every line of railroad • and fixing a minimum speed of twenty ! miles an hour for passenger trains, i ten miles for fr iglb trains and twelve miles for mixed trains. At 2 o'clock j Dodge moved that the house go into ; committee of the whole to consider : house roll No. 297 and other hills on | the general file. House roll No. 297 | provides for the submission of a con | stiiutional amendment for the crea’ion of an electric railway commission of three members, which commission shall have the power to establish, modify and enforce reasonable freight rates and prevent discriminations and j abuses. Mr. Dodge spoke forcibly in | support of his motion, calling attention ! to the importance of He bill and the j | lateness of the session and arguing | that unless the bill be considered at | once it would have but little chance of j | passage. Porter objected to the ad- j 1 vancement of the bill over the rate bill, and Peabody of Nemaha moved j that the bill be not considered at this time, which motion prevailed by a ris ing vote of 34 to 10. SENATE—Upon the personal re quest of Governor Mickey the senate on the f>rh allowed (he introduction of the county engineer hill, which the governor vetoed because of defects in the bill recently passed which invalid ated it. The salary bill introduced by Good of Nemaha to make the pay of all deputy sfate officers $1,800 a year was killed, the vote being 15 to 13. not a constitutional number having voted in the affirmative. S. F. S7. pro ! viding for the payment of costs in | misdemeanor eases, was passed. S. F. I 170 and S. F. 184 were recommended ! for passage. The former fixes the length of a school term according to the number of pupils, making the shortest term five months. S. F. 184 provides that when a district fails to levy a tax for sehocl purposes the same may be done by the county clerk upon the recommendation of the coun ty superintendent. The morning was spent by the senate in the committee of the whole, with Shreck in the chair, in a discussion of S. F. 112, which was finally recommended for passage. The bill reduces the salary cf hank examiners from $1,800 to $1,500. An amendment by Gilllgan was adopted to cause the discharge of examiners when a bank fails within six months after having been reported solvent by the examiner. These bills were rccom i mended for passage: S. F. 174. allow ing cities of the second class to make a levy for the purpose of improving the roads leading into the towns, upon the petition of a majority of the free holders along the road, and to make the poll tax $2 when paid in cash. S. F. 152. to compel railroads to carry stock at a rate of eighteen miles an hour on the main line and fifteen miles an hour on branch lines and to allow the roads to designate three days in the week as stock shipping days for the branch lines; the law not to apply on branch roads other than on these three days. This designation of «hip ping days was an amendment put on by Gould, the introducer of the meas ure. HOUSE—On the 9th the committee on revenue and taxation reported for indefinite postponement house roll No. cities and towns locally to assess, for municipal purposes only, railroad ter minal property within their limits. McElhinnev of Burt moved that the report of the committee indefinitely postponing the bill be adopted and Mc Leod seconded the motion. Clarke vig- ' orouslv protested against any such summary action on a bill which means $250,000 to $300,000 more railroad taxes a year to the cities and towns of Nebraska. The vote for indefinite postponement resulted, yeas 65, nays 34. Wilson of Pawnee, chairman of the finance, ways and means commit tee, moved that the two big appronria tion bills yet pending—house rolls Nos. 342 and 302—be made a special order for Friday, at 10:30 a. m., and continue such until completed. The motion prevailed. The following bills were read for the third time and pass ed: House roll No. 12, by Horton, to aliow counties of less than 5,000 to assess property at 33 1-3 per cent for purposes of local taxation only. House roll No. 250, by Wilson of Pawnee, cairying the salary appropriations for ail the state departments and institu ti >ns for the ensuing biennium; total. S' 094,280. House roll No. 217, by Rouse, requiring liverymen to post price schedules in a consp: nous place and to punish by fine and imprison ment failure to pay livery bills. House roll No. 231. by Marks of Fillmore, establishing the pay of demit' countv assessors at $3 per day for time act ually employed. House roll No. 215. by Dodge of Douglas, to transfer free High school funds now in county treasuries to school districts main taining such free schools. House roll No. 233, bv Hoare of Platte, invalid ating salary loans unless made with the written consent of the emj lover and reqiring the assent of the wife, if the borrower lie married. House rob No. 261, by Perry of Furnas, to out law mortgages in ten years after ma turity and in fifteen ye. rg when - on t lining an indorsement. House roll No 267 by Hill of Hitchcock, establishing a fee system for the ccmpensa:ion of the secretary of the state heard of ir rigation. House roll No. 189. by At wood of F'ovard, fix s the salary of road overs.ers at $2 per day for tim* actually employe 1. not to exceed $"d a year. House ’oil No. 262, l.v no frefe. a curative insurance act to al low foreign mutual coir.pa.iie ■ with assets of loss than ?'*; oco to do busi ness ii Nebraska. House roll No 268 by H;!l of Hitchcock, giving the state board cf irrigation an ofifRial seal Hou'e roll No. 2*71, by McAllister of Deuel, limiting the amount of var iants to be issued by irrigation dis t riots. SDN A TFT—These bills were passed in the senate on the Pith: F. F. 184. by Gilligan—Which provides ;hnt when a school board at its annual meeting makes no provision for a form of school the levy can he made by the county clerk after the county superintendent has estimated the cost. S. F. 5" and 52—Two of the Cadv de cedence bills. S. F. 164. by Mocker t— Making the statutes conform to the federal statutes in matters pertaining to the filing of transcript of judgment. S. F. 197. by Meserve—Fixing the boundary line of Dakota county to conform to the agreement between ihe Nebraska and South Dakota com missioners. S. F. 176. by Epperson— Prescribing the length of a term r.f school under which a district < an se cure a par' of the state school ap portionment. S. F. 174. by Gould— Providing that citie* of the fir.-t «! -s can make a levy to improve roads leading into the city an i providing that the poll tax when raid in cash shall be $2 instead of $3. F. F. 206 by Dimerv—Giving the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings power to rent buildings owned by the state. S. F. 112. by Good—Cutting down the salary of bank examiners to $1,500 a year and making it a cause for dis missal should a bank fail within six month? affer it is reported solvent by tl»e examiner. The vote was 17 to 10, just barely enough to carry. Fix were absent. The senate went on record as absolutely opnosed to any increase in salaries of state employes, but rather a reduction, and expressed ir? disap proval of the liberality of the house* in the matter of allowing claims in discriminately, by indefinitely post porting, with only one voice opposing, that of Mockett of Lancaster, the claim of Tom Kennard for $10,000. It refused by a vote cf 10 to 15 to re consider its action in turning down the Good bill providing that all de pntv stare officers be paid $1,800. A resolution of sympathy to Senator Gif fin because of the death of his brother was adooted and the* senate adjourn ed out of respect to the bereaved sen ator. HOUSE—Committee reports w< re read on the 10th. showing these Hills indefinitely postponed: S. F. 76. by Bresee of Sheridan—A judicial r^ap portionment bill. H. R. 417. by Bur gess of Lancaster—Providing for a weather signal service through the state superintendent to warn teachers and pupils of approaching storms. On motion of Lee of Douglas S. F. 44. by Gibson, the South Omaha sewer bill, was ordered for third reading. With Jackson of Antelope in *he chair the house went into committee of the whole and took up H. R. 3-57 and H R. 302. the deficiency and general ap propriations hills, on special order. Clarke of Douglas made a fight for an amendment providing for a salaried deputy game warden at Omaha, but failed. McMullen of Gage submitted an amendment adding $4.00 for al lowances to the National Guard. It was adopted. McLeod's amendment to strike out the $.30,000 item was Ioi*t by a vote of 21 to 42. The appropria tion for junior normals was raised from $12,000 to $15,000. The statutes appropriation goes to Cobbey instead of Wheeler. The house cut out Wheel er and put. in Cobbey. The general ap propriations, a total of $1,800,000. ap proximately. was not vitally altered. The deficiency bill had an original total of $40,166 and the committee brought this up to $55,560, which the house did not change. Both bills were then recommended for rassage. the house having concluded consideration of them at 4 p. m. H. R. 235. by Perry of Furnas, the biennial election bill, making the term of all county and state officers two years, was recom mended for passage. _ The (oor stood open as I passed and therein I beheld silent groups of women sitting around tables, their hands before their faces, their eyes rivited upon a sheaf of cards which they seemed about to devour. "What is this?" I asked. “Why this appalling silence'and intense demeanor?” “Oh, that is a bridge w&ist club,” was the response. “It’s a matter of life or death with all the players.”—Ex change