Nebraska Newspapers

    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«