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LEGISLATURE Of NEBRASKA A Synopsis of Proceedings of the Twenty/Ninth Gen/ era! Session. SENATE—The following bills were passed on the 14th: Senate file No. 186. by Thomas—Providing for the ex ercise of the right of eminent domain by the Omaha school board in ac quiring desirable school sites; 21 ayes and no nays. Senate file No. 127, by Epperson—Requiring the taxing of costs in police court against the state or prosecution when the latter loses; 2'.) ayes, no nays. Senate tile No. 152. by Gould—Requiring shipment of live stock at eighteen miles an hour on main lines and at twelve miles an hour on branch lines and on three days in the week known as stock shipping days: 30 ayes, no nays. Sen ate file No. 177. by Good—Allowing party who pays for notice by publica tion to select paper in which it shall be published; 29 ayes, no nays. Sen- | ate file No. 213. by Meserve—Author- > i/.ing probate courts to dispense with the administration of certain estates j against which there are no debts and to establish the heirs at law; 26 ayes. 2 nays. Senate file No. 51. by Cady, was slaughtered. Meserve leading the fight. The bill, which was designed to remodel the inheritance laws and give widows half the estate of intestate husbands, received 14 votes, white 15 were oast against it. In the commit- ; tee of the whole, with Mockett in the ! chair, senate file No. 210 was recom mended for passage. This lull, by Giffin, is for the relief of Lincoln : county. It is alleged that taxes were assessed unjustly against the county. Sena’e file No. 187. by Gilligan. a bill to allow the Boyd county settlers to purchase the lands upon which they settled, was recommended for pas sage. Senate file No. 140. by Epperson, and senate file No. 132. by Jennings, two bills to prevent capital punish ment, were taken up under special order at 3 o’clock. The bill of Epper son was amended after the Kansas law. and allows the convict to be im- j prisoned under death sentence during the pleasure of the governor. Both bills were killed. HOUSE—The house on the 1 Ith | adopted a resolution by Foster of ! Douglas fixing 0 a. m. as the hour for convening for the remainder of the session. The following bills were read \ for the third timn and passed: Fixing ! the rrtandai i required to be reached by osteopathic practitioners before , being licensed to practice. For the transfer of $S00 from the board and clothing fund of the girls’ industrial school at Geneva to the furniture and repair fund. To allow constables $1 j for each days’ attendance on justice i courts. To amend the law relating to j mill dam rights. To provide for the i sale of state lands within irrigation districts. Extending for one year the terms of county registers of deeds now in office, in conformity with the biennial elections bill. To provide for the inspection of horses about to be shipped or driven out of the state. Re lating to procedure in practice before the supreme court. Extending for one year the terms of county assessors now in office, in conformity with the biennial elections bill. To prohibit the operation and maintenance of bucket shops. To give a purchaser the right, to recover money paid on contracts of conditional sale of personal prop erty. after wavier of forfeiture vendor. To give the district court jurisdiction in oases of malfeasance bv county j officers. Appropriating $80,000 for the 1 maintenance of the experimental sub-! station at North Platte, and for other j special state university purposes. To extend for one year the terms of j county supervisors now in office, in conformity with the biennial elections bill. To extend for one year the terms of county commissioners now in office, in conformity with the biennial elec tions bill. To authorize South Omaha to vote and issue $250,000 of sewer bonds. To provide that township lioards shall certify the amount of taxes required to be raised for town ship purposes, the levy to be made by the county board, failed of passage by just two votes, there being 4‘a ayec to 40 nays. REX ATE—These bills wprp passed on the 15th: S. F. 13S, by Tucker—To quiet the title to land which has been platted and laid out in town lotV The bill refers to towns of less than 5.000. S. F. 141, by Meserve—To provide for the issue of water bonds and erection of water plants in towns of 5.000. S. F. 191—Providing bonds for state and county officers and reducing the bonds of the deputy attorney general and deputy state superintendent. S. F 211. by Cady—Cities not liable for dam ages by reason of defective sidewalks miles.’ the town officials have been notified that the walks are defective. Applies to small towns. H. R. 157. the game law. was amended so that quail can be killed only between November 15 and 30. and recommended for pas sage. S. F. 171, the trading stamp bill, to prohibit the use of trading stamps, was recommended for passage with out the emergency clause. R. F. 110. by Sheldon, providing the state levy shall be limited to 5 mills, was dis cussel but no action taken. S. F. 193. by Giffin. providing that poll taxes be $3. to be paid in cash, was indefinitely postponed, but was resurrected and placed on general file by the senate, with an amendment making the tax f2 or two days* work. HOUSE—A lively debate ensued on the 15th on H. R. 330. by Voter of Cedar, and the bill finally was recom mended for indefinite postponement in committee of the whole. This bill pro vided for a codification of the insur ance laws, appropriating $3,000 for the work. Casebeer of Gage led the op position. H. R. 346, by the insurance committee, the compromise fraternal insurance bill, vesting authority in 80 per cent of the membership, came up next. Kyd of Gage offered an amend ment substituting 95 per cent for 80. Kyd was the introducer of the origin al bill, which provided for a T5 per cent government. McMullen of Gage then offered an amendment to make the per cent of government 100. A long discussion followed, culminating in the amendment being lost. Burgess offered an amendment taking orders ' of less than 15.000 members from un- i der the operation of the act and it carried. Dodge offered an amendment j to strike out the provision exempting : fraternal insurance orders from tax- 1 aiion. Carried. Oil motion the bill was ordered engrossed for third reading. SENATE—These bills were passed in the senate on the Kith: S. F. 187—■ For the relief of the Boyd county set tlors. S. F. 210—Authorizing the tteas urer to return to Lincoln county money paid to the state in excess of what the county owed. The following were acted upon in the maimer indi cated: S. F. 27—Allowing the gover nor to fill a vacancy in the legisla ture during the session, without a special election; recommended for passage. S. F. 211—The Omaha salary bill; recommended for passage. S. F. 255. by Hughes—Providing that it is necessary when a proposition is sub mitted to the voters to move the coun ty seat to first secure a petition of three fourths of the voters, and if the county seat ims been in the same town for ten years or more it will require a petition of three-fourths of the voters, ordered engrossed. S. F. 25fi—Allow ing agricultural associations to sell their grounds when it is desirable to remove the location, instead of allow ing the land to revert to the county: ordered engrossed. S. F. 194—Does away with road overseers and makes the county commissioners assume the duties: was indefinitely postponed. S. F. 235—Providing how administrators may renew mortgages on real estate when it will be to the interest of the estate: was recommended for passage. S. F. 2GS—Provides for the abolish ment ment of township organization; ordered engrossed. S. F. 27S—Provid ing for the levy of a road tax and how the money shall be expended ;ordered engrossed. Just before adjournment Sheldon moved to reconsider the ac tion of the senate in killing S. F. K>9, a bill to tax mortgages and the mo tion prevailed. The bill will now come up for passage. In all twenty-five or thirty bills were rushed through the committee of the whole, most of which were not discussed. HOUSE—When the house convened on the K>th the following petition, sinned by G. Cuscaden and fifty-six other citizens of Omaha, was read by the clerk: To the Honorable, the Members of the Nebraska Legislature, Now in Session: “Whereas. Charges have been pre ferred against R. E. Srewart. superin tendent for the institution for the deaf and dumb at Omaha, Neb., of gross ir regularities in his official capacity and violation of the statutes governing said institution: and. “Whereas, Complaints have been made of abuse and cruel treatment of the inmates of said institution, there fore. we. the citizens of Douglas coun ty. Nebraska, request your honorable body to take steps to secure a legisla tive investigation of the charges, a copy of which is hereto attached, and make report and recommendation on the same.” The petition was referred to the committee on asylums. In the committee of the whole the claims appropriation bill, aggregating approximately $40,000, was considered and passed on item by item. McLeod of Stanton, Voter of Cedar and other members successfully attacked print ing claims ot the State Journal com pany. amounting to $4,429.73. and they were stricken from the bill. The argu ment was made teat the Journal com pany is defendant in a damage suit, brought by the state for $85,400. and that no money should be paid the Journal by the state until that suit is settled. The claim of Sheriff John Power for $2,075.80 for caring for state prisoners was passed upon favorably. Casebeer moved a reconsideration of the action of the committee in reject ing the State Journal claims, and that the claims be allowed, but that the sate auditor be instructed to defer pay men until the court snail have passed on the validity of the state’s claim against the Journal company. This motion prevailed. The item of $10,000 tor Sarah J. Biilineyer, of Lincoln, for injuries sustained from a fall, due to a had sidewalk on the capiled grounds, was reduced to $1,000. With these and numerous other amendments of less i imiHirtanop, ihe bill was ordered en grossed to a third reading. SENATE—After a somewhat spirit ed opposition the senate on the 17th passed the Cady railroad commission hill, which was opposed in the forum of debate to the Sheldon bill. The Cady hill, like the other one, is a joint resolution for a constitutional amend ment providing for such a commis sion. The commission shall consist of the state auditor, land commissioner and treasurer, varying in this partic ular from the old law which placed the secretary of state on the hoard. The following bills were passed: S. F. 171—The green trading stamp hill, to prevent their use. II. Ft. 157—The game law allowing an opcn season for quail for two weeks in November S. F. 284—The' county eng;::eer hill H. R. 207 was indefinitely postj>oned. The following hills were disposed of as in dicated: S. F. 190—Land outside of city limits that is to be platted owner must show certificate that no taxes are due. and land must he accepted by county commissioners. S. F. 21f>—To allow' cities and towns to install heat ing plants. For passage, g. p. — Repealing the law allowing a 7-mill levy. For passage. This law is now in operative. S. F 247—To facilitate the J collection of delinquent taxes. For j passage. S. F. 201—To make the party j vote apply on constitutional amen 1 I meni3 when the measures were en dorsed by partial fo pass. S. F. 237— Allowing telegu i>h and telephone companies to condemn property for right-of-way. To pass. S. F. 254—Pro viding for the formation of cemetery associations. S. F. 271—Making scav enger statutes specific. To pass. S. F. 281—Providing for annual reijorts of insurance companies; was recommend ed for passage. S. F. 202-%-A bill to al low the people of Platt smooth to reg ulate meter charges; was approved. S. F. 229—To limit senate employes to forty-eight; was recommended for passage. HOUSE—These bills were passed on the 17th: To establish a hospital for crippled, deformed children and those suffering from any disease like ly to make them deformed; and to pro vide for their education and for the location and government of the hos pital. Providing that when any real estate is situated in more than one township or precinct, or in more than one school, road or other district, it shall be listed separately for the pur pose of taxation. Disclaiming and re linquishing all claim of ownership or title on the part of Nebraska to any anil all land in Iowa which hereafter shall become within the boundaries of Nebraska by virtue of the action of any commissions appointed by the said states and the ratification thereof by said states and the sanction therof by the national congress, or otherwise; provided, however, that the land has been for ten years or more in posses sion or occupation of any persons or copartnership or corporation claiming ownership or title thereto. The defi ciency claims Hill introduced by Stet son as chairman of the deficiency com mittee. appropriating approximately $41,000. Granting to the United States government rights-of-way for the con struction of irrigation canals. Provid ing for the admission of foreign acci dent insurance companies to transact business where the benefits do not ex ceed $200. Providing for the purchase of legislative supplies for each ses sion prior to its convening, limiting the cost of such supplies to $3,000. Regulating the salaries of county com missioners. Defining the purpose and providing for the government of the School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind at Omaha and Nebraska City, respectively. * Some of the names of towns upon which Tennessee bases claims for prestige: Barefoot. Bolts, Leap Year, Chimney Top, Chuckaiuck. Half Pone, Hanging Limb, Ipe, Marrowbone, Mouse Tail, Opossum. Parch Corn, Peanut, Rip Shin. Sweet Lips. Tom Brown. It Bet, Yum Yum. Buzzard, Roost. Fits. Mashmead. Peeled Chest nut, Shoo Fly. Skull Bone. Snail-lope, Tiger Tail and Wahoo.—Washington Times. Not the Conductor He Wanted. Sousa, the bandmaster, was await ing the departure of a train from a railway station, when a red-faced old gentleman rushed up to him and in a surly tone asked: “When does this train leave?” "1 don’t know,” answer ed Sousa. “Don't know?” said the man. “Do you not? What do you think you're paid for—being impudent to passengers, eh? You’re a conductor, aren’t you?" "Yes, but only of a brass bund.” Tobacco Is Healthy. In the course of my association with tobacco, about twenty-five years, I have known men all this time, every working day. to be inhaling tobacco dust or fumes produced in the process of manufacture. Itninterrupted good health is the general rule of all per sons engaged in tobacco proceedings of every kind, and generally of large consumers.—Writer in London Lan cet. Knew Little of Country's History. In a recent examination in history of French recruits ten out of the twen ty examined confessed that they had never heard of Napoleon. Joan of Arc was thought to he a great man who figured in several wars. Louis XIV. was an officer who was guillotined. Bayard was a French king and Napo leon I. made the war of 1870 and was killed in Algeria. Vast Forests in Northern Belt. The northern belt of forests Is per haps greater in extent than all the other timber belts anti reserves of Canada combined. It extends from the eastern part of Labrador, north of the fiftieth parallel in a northwesterly direction to Alaska, a distance of some 3.000 miles, with an average width of perhaps 500 miles. Dies Amid Medicine Bottles. An aged woman died at Dover. Eng land. the other day in a room which no one but she had entered for thir teen years. It was found so full of medicine bottles and pill boxes that a clearance had to be made before the corpse could be removed. Finigin's Filosofy. Minnv a mon don’t thrv t’ do t’mgs bekase he’s bragged that he end if he thried an' is afraid f thry . r fear he wul fa-ail an’ be laughed at. Ut don’t pa-av t’ brag. The good mon don’t nade t’ brag an' the’ fool has no ix cuse f'r ut.—Baltimore American. Oriental Punctuality. Far Eastern punctuality was illus trated bv the Viceroy of Wu Chang. China, who had an appointment to re view a.000 school children at 8 a. m. and appeared, smilin^. on the review ground at 2 p. in. The children had waited for him six hours. Simple Insomnia Remedy. A correspondent writes: Perhaps the following very simple remedy , might lie of use to those troubled with | insomnia: Pip a napkin in cold water wring it out, and lay it across the eyes. I think they will find this of more service than all the drugs in the world. Korean Currency. Th« currency in Korea consists of nickel and copper coins and silver dollars. At one time twenty-sir dif ferent kinds of nickels were in circu | lation. most, of them spurious. ’Valter Wellman says the ^resident will accept the modified treaty with i Sun Dom'ngo. MUKDEN ALWAYS BATTLE POINT Wars Have Raged Around the ‘'City of Tombs’ Than Three Thousand Years* More Mukden, the ancient city, now pass- ( ed into the eonirol of the Japanese, was described last August in this manner by an American war corre spondent: “Most cities of China proper have 7,212 distinct smells. Mukden has but 6,214; it has been Russianized and whenever possible the Russian has introduced clean streets, some kind of a sewerage system, orderly houses; hence Mukden is now known as the cleanest town of the many where the filthy Chinese have pre dominated in the past.” Mukden belongs to the province of Shingking and on the line of railway running non it it is about half way between Niuchwang and Kuangchang :su. which belongs to the province of Kirin. Now aside from the fact that Muk den holds the sacred tombs of the ancient Manchu or “pure” dynasty it has other interest in that it has been one of the world’s central battle points since 1,100 years or more be fore Christ. Where Russian and Japan have been contesting longer than a year, race after race, and nation after na tion, have hurled themselves against each other for certainly 3,000 years. The soil about Mukden, the ranges of the Long White Mountain, the great stretches of gray plains have been soaked with the blood of tens of thou- ! sands of warriors. It is a Golgotha—a place of bones— and the wraiths of men who have ■ gone lo their final judgment in con quest or plunder. Peopled Long Before Christ. Dates in Chinese or Mongolian his tory are much mixed, but so lar as accuracy can be depended upon Muk- j den was a settlement long before Christ was born. The Prince of Pohai had some possessions there | about 7lu L>. C., and at one time Chi- j nese allegiance w as thrown off en- ' tirely and a centralized government I 1621 after terrific fighting and a slaughter, if we may believe the stat isticians. that far exceeds what has re cently occurred there. All prisoners taken were promptly beheaded. Ltaoyang was captured and made the capital, and seventy other cities promptly surrendered. In 1644 the Manchus, risen to great power, marched into China and placed one of their own on the throne of that government, and a Manchu has ruled there ever since. In the eighteenth century Mukden rose to great com mercial ami political importance, but by the time of the opening of the nineteenth century, through causes largely due to the decay of the Man chu dynasty, the city declined in im portance, and when the Russians be gan their active control of the com munity, after the Chinese-Japanese war of 1894, they found it a place of squalor, tilth and disease. Sacred Tombs Preserved. The sacred tombs has been pre served, but the city was almost iso lated from the world; its people indo lent. careless, out of touch with the world. The Russians made it a base of commercial and military supplies, introduced some modern methods of sanitation and proposed to make it the half-way station between Port Ar thur and Harbin. Now the Japanese have it. To them it may be their northern ter minal in the new land they will domi nate. although in all probability, when it comes to making the final treaty, they will dominate far to the Kuang chang-tsu district. Aside from the Russian population 90 per cent of the inhabitants of Mukden are Chinese. The only language taught in the city schools is Chinese. The Japanese probably will introduce entirely mod ern methods of education and com merce. In 3.000 years there have been fought in front of or about Mukden some twenty-odd noted battles of the RUSSIAN WORKMEN HERDED Li KE CATTLE. I Half a Room for a Workingman's Home; the Other Half Behind the Curtain 3clongs to Another Family. established with five royal residences, one of which rose at Mukden. Then came Khitan from Htilan and he established the Liao dynasty and Mukden, not yet a very notable place, but already battle tossed, passed into other hands. Afterward the Jurchin had their try and they establ'shed the Kin or golden dynasty and made Mukden a great trading post on the j central highways. Tlese highways extended up to the boundaries of the savage tribes on the north—into He-iung-kiang and far along the Amur River—extended south to modern Peking, to Hankow, to Canton and even into India. Princes of the royal blood left Muk den in those days of the beginnings, and made two and three year pil grimages to India to learn strange ; things from wise men and to trade in jewels and fabrics. Fifteen hundred years after Christ was born Nurhachu had bis chief seat of government in the south of the Long White mountain, about 100 miles east of Mukden. Mukden Itself had then risen to lie one of the most important trading points of the North, it has been stated that its annual volume of business rose into the millions, and that the wealth and fashion of the North congregated there to bargain, play politics, love and hate. Army Was Slaughtered. In 1610 Mukden saw a wonderful army for those days before its gates. Nurhachu had taken to himself the title of “heaven-decreed,” and de clared war on China. An army of 200,000 was sent against him. but, as the chroniclers related afterward: “He slaughtered all; none returned to say of how their end came.” Mukden was captured by him in Orient, and it is conservatively esti mated that within and about the city during that time more than 5,000,000 men have been engaged in bloody struggles for the control of territory and government. Roused Artist from Inaction. Phi! May. the English artist, who died not long ago. had fits of laziness and when suffering from this ailment found it very difficult to work. On one occasion he had promised a col ored design for the Christmas number of a weekly. The day fixed for its de livery passed by. lntt no design was j forthcoming. The publisher went j hunting for him and found him at a seaside hotel enjoying a time of abso lute inaction. Without going to see Mr. May. he hired six sandwich men (o parade up and down before the ar tist's-window with beards bearing dif feieut legends. This was their tenor: “What about our Christmas cover?” “We are waiting for that cover.” It was a delightful reminder and in a tew days the publishers received one oi the most brilliant designs May had ever executed. New Idea for Inaugural Parade. A North Carolina man who thought that the inaugural parade was a good deal like a circus procession, wrote to the inaugural committee as follows: "1 wud like to cum to Washington end play the countryman in the pro cession. I am the greatest rube you ever seed, and am sure that 1 cud act the part better than any man in the country. I am a republican and want to show these trifln’ democrats what a man will do for his president. I am sure l can please yu. I will work for my grub and 50 cents a day, includin’ carfare.” Artillery Solar Ray Fire. Attention was drawn some time ago by the Army and Navy Gazette to a method of representing artillery fire by deflecting light upon the object aimed at, which was tried in hranee last year. A similar system is be ing experimented with in Austria, the solar rays being reflected upon the object. These rays are viable to the troops and to their leaders, as well as to the umpires, whose decisions aie said thus to be facilitated. The ap paratus is used from about 2,000 to 3,000 yards. He Figures Wrong. “The demands of society are so ex acting and the rules of dress so inex orable that the area of cuticle avail able for vaccination purposes is con stantly becoming smaller.'' wrote the health officer in his annual report. “Between party gowns and bathing suits there is not much opportunity left." “You are wrong, doctor, there are at least two months between part> gowrns and bathing suits. \ou must figure time, and not inches. German Students. '.his winter semester there are at the several German universities 39.716 matriculated students, against 39.581 during the last summer semester, and 39,718 last winter. At the beginning of the nineties there were in round numbers 29.000 students, and in the winter of 1894-95, 28,105; the third ten thousand was not reached until the winter of 1897-98. when the number was 31.110, since which time there has been a steady increase. The larg est number this winter is at Beriin, 7,774. Life of Country Physician. The strenuousness of the life of the country physician is illustrated in the case of Dr. George H. Coombs, of Waldboro, Me., who. during the recent, storm, found it impossible to run his automobile or force his horses through the mountain-high'snowdrifts, walked to West Waldboro and back, a total distance of eight miles, to see a patient. The incident illustrates also the devotion of the conscientious physician to his patients.—Boston Transcript. REVIVAL MOVEMENT IN WALES. William T. Stead Graatly Impressed by Its Force and Power. The vast congregations were as so berly sane, as orderly, and at least as reverent as any congregation I ever saw beneath the dome of St. Paul's. But it was aflame with a passionate religious enthusiasm, the like of which I have never seen in St. Paul's. Tier above tier from the crowded aisles to the loftiest gallery sat or stood, as neecssity dictated, eager hundreds of serious men and thought ful women, their eyes riveted upon the platform or upon whatever other part of the building was the storm center of the meeting. There was absolutely nothing wild, violent, hysterical, unless it be hys terical for the laboring breast to heave with sobbing that cannot be re pressed, and the throat to choke with emotion as a sense of the awful hor ror and shame of a wasted life sud denly bursts upon the soul. On all sides there was the solemn gladness of men and women upon whose eyes has dawned the splendor of a new day. the foretaste of whose glories they are enjoying in the quickened s€ nse of human fellowship and a keen glad zest added to their own lives. Employers tell me that ihe quality of the work the miners are putting in has improved. Waste is less, men go to their daily toil with a new spirit of gladness in their labor. In the long dim galleries of the mine, where once the hauliers swore at their ponies in Welshified English terms of bias phemy, there is now but to be heard the haunting melody of the revival mu sic. The pit ponies, like the Ameri can mules, have been driven by oaths and curses since they first bore the yoke, are being retrained to do their work without the incentive of profan ity. There is less drinking, less idle ness, less gambling. Men record with almost incredulous amazement, how one football player after another ha3 foresworn cards and drink and the gladiatorial games, and is living a so ber and godly life, putting his energy into the revival. More wonderful still, and almost incredible to those who know how journalism lives and thrives upon gambling, and how Tory ism is broad-based upon the drinking habits of the people, the Tory daily paper of South Wales has devoted its columns day -after day to reporting and defending the movement which declares war to the death against both gambling and drink.— Frcm "The Great Religious Revival in Wales,” by William T. Stead, in the American Monthly Review ol' Reviews. MAY FIND MURDER MOTIVE. In Tales of “Graft” Police Expect to Clear Up Stanford Mystery. Miss Bertha Berner and Miss May Hunt, secretary and maid, respective Miss Bertha Berner. ly. to the late Mrs. Stanford, havf been instructed by the police not tc leave Honolulu. It is believed that among the stories of household quar rels and graft, a hint of the motive for murder may be found. Albeit Beverly, the ex-butler, has, it is said, made a statement to the police to the effect that in all, by mears of “rake downs” and commis sions he had “grafted" about $2,100. He reiterates his story that he divid ed his "rake down” with Miss Berner, and that her share amounted to be tween $1,000 and $1,100. Flying Machines and Fighting. Santos Dumont says that the recent generation will see a perfect flying machine that will make war impos sible. There may be a perfect flying machine, but how that is going to make war impossible is not so plain to a man on the ground as it. appears to be to M. Dumont. He probably in tends to carry explosives and drop them onto the heads of the people, but the other fellows will be able to do the same thing, leaving, we should say, war not only possible, but might ily destructive. If affairs between bel ligerent. powers could be so adjusted that only one of them could have re course to flying machines, and when the hostilities break out that, one should get into the machines and fly away, then wac might he said to nave become impossible.—Milwaukee Free Press. Dumb Wan Speaks. Fifteen month* ago Thomas Witty, a man employed in Armstrong’s ship yard. woke up one morning and found that he had lost the faculty of speech. Remaining dumb, he gave up his employment. On Saturday he was selling oranges, with his son shouting for him. when somebody asked him tbe price of the oranges, and much to his own astonishment his long at tempted utterance came, for he re plied, “Four a penny.” Since that mo ment he has been able to speak as well as ever.—London Daily Mail. Doctors’ Race at a Fair. An amusing feature of the closing day of the north Georgia fair held at Chickamauga was a “doctors’ race,” The twelve physicians who took part in the contest had their horses sta bled near by and were themselves undressed and in bed. At the stroke of the gong they had to dress, hitch their horses to their vehicles and drive one mile to a supposed patient. The race was won by Dr. Rudesell. Dr. Elder wrs second and Dr. Hunter third. r IN THE CHILDISH MIND. Queer Conceptions of Life and Death Among the Little Ones. A small, chubby baby, upon being reprimanded lor escaping while he was being undressed, and running about hi3 room in a state of nature, turned a*, (mce to a Raphael Madonna over the fireplace, and, pointing to the in fant Jesus, said, triumphantly: "He used to done it.” "When they bury the body.' '< asked a sister a year or two old* i "how do they start the soul up to CiOfl?” “Why, don’t you know?” she said, surprised. “They chop the head off ^ and tie little wings to the neck, and it wings straight up.” On being told of a friend's death, a liUle girl of 6 stood wondering, round eyed and rosy, at the foot of her bed. and swiftly propounded these ques tions: “Did her body get to heaven? "Will her soul take up her skeleton? "Does a soul have any kind of feet ? “When she gets there will God put an angel head upon her? “Will she wear a shirt waist and skirt. “Will Jesus walk down to the gate and hand her out a judgment? “When will she get her judgment? “Will she climb up the steps to heaven or will angels carry her? My hymn says steps up to heaven. "Will she see Jesus at la^t, in the ieal? “And will she see God, in the real? “I don't want to die, because of the valley of the shadow of death; that must be very dark.” Then, without a pause, came, as a conclusion, a quick laying aside of the whole matter, as she sang out. cheer ily, “I am going to hop to my bath on one foot.” and she did. chanting as she went. “D-e-a-d—dead, dead dead."— Harper's Weekly. TALE OF A BORROWER. Trail of Ills That Followed Unwise Attempt at Economy. As the story goes there was a man who was too close fisted to take a paper. He always borrowed his neigh bor's paper to read. So one day 1 sent his boy over to borrow neigh!- •• Brown's paper. The boy thought 1 *• would cut across lots to save time He ran into a beehive, the bees c<> ering him from head to foot. H s cries reached his father, who starte . and ran to the rescue. Going over the fence, his clothes caught or. ; ■ fence, spoiling a brand new pair of pants that cost him $4. The old cow. seeing the break in the fence, jumped into the orchard and choked to death eating appl< His wife, hearing the outcry s’.u out to see what the trouble was about, tipped over a churn full of cream inr.* a basket of little kittens, drowning the whole lot.* While she was gov the baby took to crawling and crawl ed through the cream into the parlor, spoiling a new tapestry carpet. The dog ran through the henhoiv breaking up three setting hens. Th“ catves got out of the barn and chew< ; the sleeves off from four shirts. And the maid took advantage of the situ,, tion and eloped with the hired mar Moral—We should be better oft to subscribe for a home paper. *We have reason to believe that these were coon kittens, worth from $2 to $25 each.—Ed. Journal.—Nor way Maine, Advertiser. Municipal Ownership in Glasgow. The city of Glasgow. Scotland, owns a public library of 160,000 volumes and is erecting a number of district li braries; conducts seven model lot t ing houses, one for women, which shelter 2.430 persons every night and pay 5 per cent profit: owns^taventy seven blocks of buildings, ctWaining 200 shops and 1,362 buildings, which shelter 9.000 people; public banks, in eluding Kosher banks for Jews, and also wash houses, in which hot water is furnished at a trifling price for family laundrf work; gas and electric light and power works In which 3.0ut> men are employed; the street railwar system, which employs 3,600 men and carries over 170,000,000 people annual ly. Furthermore it owns nine public markets, including one for old clothes a telephone system that pays ir, per cent on the invested public capital; a labor bureau and a home for inebriates. In Our Boat. Stars trembling o'er us and sunset bef.>>>• Mountains in shadow and forest* asleep; Down the dim river we float on forever Speak not. ah. breathe not- th -, peace on the deep. Come not. pale sorrow, flee till to-mor row; Rest softly falling o'er evelids that weep; While down the river we float on fm ever. 1 Speak not. ah. breathe not—there * peace on the deep. As the waves cover the depths we giu-. over. ** So let the past in forgetful Whilf down the river we float Speak not. ah. breathe peace on the deep. ness sleep, on forever, not—there’s Heaven^ shine above us. bless all that love All whom we love in Thv keep! While down the river we float Speak not. ah. breathe peace on the deer> tenderness on forever, not—there's —Dinah Marla Muliek Craik. American Heir to British Peerage. Rey. C. C Bruce, chaplain and su perintendent of the seamen's church and institute of Portland. Ore is nevr in line to his father, Lord Thurlow 0 the Scottish peerage. Mr. Bnico ‘ the second son, but his elder brother v/as killed at Magersfonte.n Soufh Africa. Mr. Bruce is a grandson n the Karl of Elgin, who was succeed ed as governor general of India Lord Cur/.on. The reverend geQt^ man is between 25 and 30 years M and very enthusiastic in his mil-, ^ork. His father is nearly still an active man. J * but Foremost 0, EngM.h Su7a„ns. Sir h rederick Treves formed the operation n° rpr' up«.„ k>„k A.2K 77777"" \ ictoria, may be termed n' 1 nnppss in appendicitis, having / ***'*"* over 1,000 consecutive opentS!^ °f which he had had recourse ? in knife without a single ° the appendicitis, under that ,<ath' known to him; P^dtyhnhlitT/o »** ,,n' perityphlitis he will have it * ^ fashion's decree. U’ desPit«