LEGISLATURE
a NEBRASKA
A Synopsis of Proceedings of the Twenty ✓Ninth Gcn^
eral Session.
HOUSE—These bills were passed
on the 28th: Making the offense for
jug sale of liquor when the drink is
delivered. Appropriating $3,000 for a
silver service for the battleship Ne
braska. Empowering cities or incor
porated villages to establish and op
erate their own heating plans. To
abolish slot machines, making viola
tion of the act a felony, punishable by
not less than one nor more than three
years in the penitentiary. Providing
that over payments taxes made to
the state auditor by ' counties shall
not be applied upon the account of
such county for any year later than
one year prior to the current year’s
tax. Imjiosing a fine of $f»00 or a coun
ty jail sentence of six months for brib
ery or attempted bribery in the city
councils contracting for paving ma
terials. To provide for the appoint
ment and the payment of assistants
for clerks of the district court in
counties having over 30.000 and under
00,000 population. To prohibit pooling
of elevator concerns and to prevent
a division of profits as is done by
the independent elevator concerns.
HOUSE—These bills were passed
on the 29th: Making the State
Historical society custodian of
state records, documents and his
torical material. Amending the
law relating the granting of mill
dam sites. Requiring state banking
corporations hereafter to establish a
property-holding qualification. To
punish jurors and referees for receiv
ing bribes. Defining Nebraska’s
boundaries in case of dispute arising
from the shifting of the current of
the Missouri river. Amending the law
relating to municipal electric plans
in cities of the second class or incor
porated villages. Declaring the hunt
ing and killing of squirrels a misde
meanor. Providing a system of pri
mary elections in Douglas county. (It
had been the purpose to amend this
bill so as to make it apply to United
•States senators, but it was advanced to
third reading before the member hav
ing this amendment in charge had op
portunity of presenting his argu
ment.) Giving school districts in
metropolitan cities the right of emi
nent domain. To define the boundary
lines of Dakota county. Amending the
code of civil procedure relating to the
filing of transcripts of federal court
judgment and decrees in the counties
of the state. Providing for the pay.
ment of costs in misdemeanor cases
and suits to prevent crime and of
fenses. At the afternoon session twro
reports were submitted by the special
committee appointed to investigate
charges against Superintendent Stew
art of the Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb at Omaha. The majority report
was adopted.
SENATE—The Jahnel bridge bill,
house holl No. 255, was passed by the
senate on the 29th with but one nega
tive vote, Senator Vore opposing the
bill. House roll 225, by \\ indham, wras
read for a third time and passed. This
bill allows the district court to hold
sessions in chambers. House roll No.
279, by Roberts, was passed. This al
lows railroads to lease right of way
lands. House roll No. 219, by Bur
gess, was indefinitely postponed. This
bill regulates warehouse charges and
allows the sale of goods to satisfy
bills. House roll No. 175 was recom
mended for passage. The bill regu
lates the payment of money by agri
cultural societies. House roll No. 359
was advanced to third reading. This
bill is directed against newspapers,
and seeks to prevent collections after
the date of subscription has expired.
House roll No. 286 was indefinitely
postponed by the report of the stand
ing committee. House roll No. 372
met a similar fate. House holl No.
47, by Gerdes, was recommended to
pass. The bill gives more powers to
village boards of health. House rolls
No. 303 and 257 were indefinitely post
poned. These bills gave authority to
the state board to purchase supplies
for the next session of the legislature.
House roll No. 194 was read for a
third time and passed. This bill, by
Rouse, allows county treasurers to
give surety bonds. House roll No.
174, by Andersen of Douglas, w’as
recommended to pass. The bill defines
the status of territorial soldiers. These
bills were recommended for passage:
House roll No. 304, giving Ruth Oberg
of Douglas county permission to sue
the school district. House roll No.
320, fixing sheriffs’ fees in Gage
county. House roll No. 121, forbidding
the wearing of badges of secret orders.
House roll No. 265, permitting the sale
of lands for right of way for irrigat
ing ditches.
SENATE—These bills passed the
senate on the 30th: A proposed con
stitutional amendment allowing legis
lature to create courts. Appropriation
for farmers’ institute and North
Platte experimental station. Giving
purchaser the right to recover money
paid on contract of conditional sale,
etc. A joint resolution memorializing
congress to fix the status of the Ne
braska territorial soldiers. Giving
more power to boards of health in
villages. Providing when a foreign in
surance company is entitled to a cer
tificate from the auditor to do busi
ness in Nebraska. Allowing execu
tors to mortgage real estate. Agricul
tural associations of Lancaster and I
Douglas counties to receive financial
assistance from county boards. Boun
ty for wild animals’ scalps. To pre
vent newspapers from collecting sub
scription money after subscription has
expired. For conveyance of interest of
insane person to his or her spouse.
$12,000 appropriation for exhibition
at Portland exposition. Providing for
sale of school lands in ten-acre tracts
to those holding lease. Providing a
hospital for crippled and dependent
children. Charging a fee for register
ing state warrants. Allowing cities of
first class to grant franchises for
electric light plants. Insuring grain in
the stack. Providing how foreign in
surance companies may secure ad
mittance to the state. Allowing print
ing board to purchase supplies in
bulk.
HOUSE—These measures were
passed on the 30th: To amend the
civil code relative to procedure in
the district court. To quiet and per
fect title to platted land in cities of
the second class and villages. To
amentl the law relative to labor taxes
in cities of the second class and vil
lages. To amend the law relative to
the canvassing of the vote cast at the
general election. The negotiable in
strument law. To authorize the coun
ty courts to dispense with the admin
istration of estates free from debt and
legal entanglements. To amend the
law relating to the building of bridges
across streams that form the bound
ary lines between two or more coun
ties. To distribute funds heretofore
paid into the county treasuries for
free high schools. To authorize the
use of voting machines in Omaha.
Authorizing the land commissioner to
dispose of exposition property.
Amending the law to fix fees of clerks
of district courts. To increase the
salary of the chief deputy game and
fish commissioners from $1,200 to
$1,500 a year. To enforce the com
pulsory education law in school dis
tricts outside the cities. To provide
for a 1 mill levy to be applied on the
payment of the state's floating in
debtedness. To prevent favoritism in
the selection of grand and petit jurors.
Authorizing the State Board of Pub
lic Lands and Buildings to lease state
lands in certain cases. Making the
bribery of jurors or referees a felony.
Constitutional amendment for a rail
road commission. To amend the code
of civil procedure relative to prac
tice in district courts. To define and
punish the crime of breaking and
entering buildings.
SENATE—Next to the last day of
the senate, March 31st. these bills
were passed: To punish persons
guilty of bribery and to define it. The
Nebraska-South Dakota boundary bill.
To allow the secretary of the State
Board of Irrigation the use of a seal.
Providing for the sale of school lands.
Providing salaries for sheriffs. To
make it unlawful to wrear a lodge
badge when not a member of the
lodge. To wipe off of the books of the
auditor tax charges against Hamilton
county for 1891. To allow Ruth O'Berg
to sue school district No. 23 in Doug
las count\' for damages alleged to
have been received because of an ac
cident which occurred on the school
grounds. Exempting capital stock
renresenting tangible property that is
assessed in another state. To prevent
changes in school sites without no
tice. Reserving a place in Wyuka
cemetery for the burial of deceased
inmates of the state institutions in
Bincoln. Defining the rights of credit
ors of decedents. To prevent the sale
of liquor within five miles of a gov
ernment. irrigation camp. To acquire
the registration of automobiles. In
crease in the road tax. Authorizing
the state auditor to credit counties
for over-payments. Authorizing the
appointment of a district clerk in
counties of less than GO.COO and over
30.000. Permits the appointment of
county attorney in counties having less
than 25.000 inhabitants. Fixing the
salary for county assessors. To ex
tend hotel keepers lien to keepers of
boarding houses and restaurants. The
deficiency appropriation bill.
HOUSE—All day on the 3lst the
house pounded away on dry routine—
the passage of bills. It took a recess in
the middle of the day of several hours,
giving the senate time to act on a
resolution to revive the fraternal in
surance bill. These bills, among
others, were passed by the house: Re
quiring trading stamps to be redeem
ed in cash when so desired. Refund
ing certain overcharges for mainten
ance of insane patients to Lincoln
county. A reciprocal statute of limit
ation provision applying to cases aris
ing out of the state. Requiring rail
roads to afford equal shipping facil
ities to all shippers and to apportion
grain and live stock cars equally to
grain elevators and stock shippers.
Defining electors in irrigation districts
and requiring a five-year residence in
the district. Requiring depots on rail
roads to be opened one-half hour be
fore train time. Defining and regulat
ing method of selling school lands.
Designed for -relief of Boyd county
school land squatters. Allows adminis
trators to prosecute for trespass. Re
quiring the State Printing board to dis
tribute biennial reports of state offi
cers. Permitting appeal from county
boards in road matters. Regulating
child saving institutions and private
orphan asylums. Permitting school
levy to be 1^ mills. Amendment per
mitting small cities to make their own
charters. Regulating progress and
movement of automobiles and traction
-engines on public highways. Raising
the salaries of the members of the
South Omaha tire and police board
from $100 to $300 a year. Raising the
salary of city engineer of South
Omaha from $1,200 to $1,500.
SHORT CI TS.
The truth generally has a sting in
its tail.
Flattery either makes friends or
breaks them.
No sane man ever forgets those who
owe him money.
You can’t dodge the collector when
there’s the devil to pay.
The moment you try to be happier
you cease to be happy.
There are times when modesty is
quite as provoking as forwardness.
More men fail to rise through ignor
ance than fall through conscious
crime.
WHERE THE STATESMEN OF THE WORLD
WILL GATHER IN INTERESTS OF PEACE
This Is How the Hague Arbitration Palace, the Gift of Andrew Carnegie to the Whole World, Will Look When
Completed. ,
Famous Long Rides
Records of Americans in the Saddle Are Second to None.
From eastern advices it. appears that
the Russian Cossacks have done more
than the artillery to keep up the repu
tation of the Slav army as to its power
of endurance under adverse circum
stances.
But this is not the particular point
of this story. The Cossack is really
to the eastern world what Custer’s
men, Morgan’s, Kilpatrick's, and
Roosevelt’s have been to the western
armies—the men who could sit the
saddle, saber and shoot, starve and
swim, be all or nothing for the glory
of quick action in time of trouble.
As to the proof of this here is the
story of Dmetree Pjeshkoff, a Siberian
Cossack, who rode from Blagovejech
ensk, eastern Siberia, to St. Peters
burg. He surpassed Burnaby, who
rode to Khiva, and Asayeff, who made
the hard ride from Lubeen, Poland, to
Paris.
Blagovejechensk is a Cossack sta
tion on the Amur, in latitude 50 de
grees north, longitude 127 degrees
east, and the distance to be covered
to the Russian capital 8,000 versts, or
5,400 English miles.
In 113 days out from his starting
point Pjeshkoff was at Omsk, having
accomplished 4,900 versts, or nearly
2,300 miles, of his journey. In 171
days he was in St. Petersburg, having
made an average of thirty miles a
day, in the saddle, from the start.
An average of this character re
quires remarkable physical and nerve
endurance. It also requires fine judg
ment as to forage for beasts and sus
tenance for the rider—calculations as
to weather, temperature changes, wa
ter supply and kindred things that go
in with a steady and a long ride.
The hero of this remarkable feat, a
man of some education, was command
er of a. hundred in one of the Cossack
regiments, stationed on the Amur, and
had to obtain leave of absence to show
what he could do on a long-distance
ride with a horoe.
But the feat became more remark
able because the Cossack made his
journey with one horse—the same
horse he started with ending the jour
ney. The horse, like its rider, was of
the ordinary Cossack breed. It was
born in Siberia, and was purchased
for 150 rubles, or about $60 in our
money. It was 13 years old, and of a
light gray color. In height and weight
it corresponded with a fair-sized
American “cayuse” of the western
plains. It had the “cayuse” capacity
for short feeds and minimum water
supply.
The animal was fed only on oats
and hay. It carried, including its rid
er, saddle, blankets and harness, a
total weight of about 172 pounds.
The appetite of the beast increased
with the distance traveled. At the
start it required eight pounds of oats
and fourteen pounds of hay a day to
keep it up and for water it took the
snow alongside the road as well or
spring water was not obtainable.
When two-thirds of the journey was
completed the horse was eating thirty
pounds of oats and fourteen pounds of
hay each day. An English or an
American horse, aside from the plains’
breed of the latter country, would
have surrendered quickly.
The western American horse has
made some wonderful long-distance
journeys in quick time. During Cus
ter’s campaign'of 1876, which ended in
the massacre on the Rosebud, some of
the scouts for the army covered 180
and 280 miles in forty-eight hours on
three feeds and three chances to wa
ter for their horses.
In Grierson’s wild ride during the
civil war to cut the confederate lines,
the ride which eventually gave birth
to Sherman’s march to the sea, one
Chicago cavalryman was in the saddle
for 170 miles anil that without dis
mounting. He lives now as a mail
carrier for the postoffice.
One November day in the Goose
River country of Dakota a cowboy
named Iverson was called to a ranch
house and told a doctor must be se
cured for his employer’s daughter,
who had been taken suddenly ill with
croup.
The nearest doctor was thirty-eight
miles away, the temperature was 18
degrees below, the wind was scurrying
the snow in the prairies in every direc
tion. On the trail there were only two
stopping places where fresh horses
might be secured.
Iverson made the round trip in ten
hours, killing two horses, and during
the last five miles homeward bound
carrying the doctor on his own weary
beast. The child’s life was saved by
his promptness.
In the last Custer campaign in Vir
ginia just before the surrender of Lee
a courier of the Union forces carrying
information as to where Custer might
earliest strike the confederate wagon
supplies made a complete circuit of
Lee’s army and reached his superior
officer in time to have the information
prove of value. With two horses he
rode 165 miles in eleven hours. This
is a fair average to place" against the
Cossack’s journey from the Orient to
St. Petersburg.
It is said in French dispatches that
the courier who carried from Port Ar
thur the final news of coming surren
der to General Kuropatkin at Mukden,
walked, crept, swam and rode in the
saddle 350 miles in sixty hours. This
is not impossible.
When it comes to riding almost
everything depends upon the horse; a
little on the man, if he be a man.—II.
I. C., in Chicago Post.
Noble Missionary Stricken.
Another Father Damien has risen
in the leper island of Molokai, where
that missionary died sixteen years
ago. The victim is a young Belgian
nobleman, Rev. Brother Serapion,
whose family name is Van Koop. He
became a leper some time ago and
took up his abode in the lazaretto, a
stone’s throw from the hut where
Father Damien died. This is the first
missionary to be attacked by the dread
disease since Father Damien’s time.
Like Father Damien. Brother Sera
pion will be segregated from the out
side world until relieved by death. He
will be confined in a hut and dieted
by a system which is believed to pre
vent the disease from spreading. He
is thirty years old, and, it is said,
comes from one of the oldest and
noblest families in Belgium.
Mrs. New a Social Leader.
Mrs. Harry S. New, wife of the new
rcting chairman of the republican
national committee, is one of the
social leaders of Indianapolis. Al
though she does not open her home for
frequent entertainments, those she
gives are noted for elegance. She is
one of the best gowned women in the
city. Mrs. New has literary talent as
veil as social accomplishments. She
is familiar with all the political work
cf her husband. In fact, she has been
his adviser in many important mat
ters, but she has always kept her own
personality in the background. Be
fore her marriage she spent a year on
the stage as a singer, having previous
ly devoted several seasons to study in
New York. Her marriage cut short
a career that would probably have
been artistically successful.
College Men in the Cabinet.
There are more college men in the
present cabinet circle than ever be
fore in the history of the country. Out
i.f the nine men who form the board of
I residential counselors, five hold de
grees from well-known seats of learn
ing, while two others pass through the
preparatory courses in high-grade aca
demics and only accidents prevented
tneir obtaining the sheepskin. Only
two are absolutely without college
training and one of these is entirely
self-taught and never attended any
school. When the late President Mc
Knley was inaugurated, only three
out of his eight cabinet officials were
college men—Hay, Root and Griggs.
Cage, Long, Charles Emory Smith,
Wilson and Hitchcock could write no
tetters after their names.
Made Husband Bid Up.
Mrs. Knox, wife of the ex-attorney
general, is telling a story at the ex
pense of herself and husband. While
they were in New York on a visit last
winter Mr. Knox made a casual re
mark regarding a sale of pictures and
ergravings, in which art works he
takes great delight. Thinking to give
l.im a pleasant surprise, Mrs. Knox at
tended the sale herself, and in deter
mined fashion ran up the price on sev
eral choice lots. She was unable to
secure them, however, but on going
home learned from Mr. Knox that he
v as the purchaser, his representative
having attended the sale. For a time
she clung to the secret, but the story
was too good to keep permanently.
Bankers Want Peace
European Men of Finance Uneasy Over Long Duration
of War.
If Japan has found readier buyers
for her new war bonds than Russia has
in the pending negotiations in Parir, it
is still forced to pay a very stiff price.
In order -to obtain a loan of $150,
000,000 at 4Vfc per cent. Japan has to
make the price of 90 and pledge tne
net receipts of the government tobac
co monopoly as security. The cus
toms revenue has already been
iledged for two foreign loans last
year.
So far the French bankers have
balked at furnishing Russia more
Money even on their own rigorous
terms. They not only exact a low
price of issue for the bonds, but addi
tional profits for themselves that in
the shape of commissions and assur
ances that a large part of the proceeds
of the loan shall be expended in
French shipyards. This was precisely
Germany’s conditions when it took
$80,000,000 of Russia’s previous loan.
Germany was to have preference in i
iurnishing Russia war supplies. But
Mie Paris bankers have gone so far as
to interfere in Russia's policy by in
sisting upon peace negotiations, while
Japan has been left free to follow her
own counsels.
It has been said that war is the har
vest time of the financier and investor,
what with its forced loans and im
mense contracts. Nothing is more
certain than that the great financial
interests could stop the war if they
would. So far they have kept their
moral scruples under control and yield
ed to the influence of big bonuses. No
doubt their consciences wTill grow
more active as their financial risks in
crease.
The statement that Russia has al
ready lost 500,000 of the 775,000 men
sent to Manchuria, without scoring a
i ingle victory, is enough to cause in
the most daring money-lender a cer
tain uneasiness of conscience over
Russia’s financial integrity.
Sign Painter Now a Duke.
Edward Ockels, for years a sign
painter at 11 Spring street, Waterbury,
Conn., has been notified by bankers at
The Hague that he is heir to the title
and estate of the Van Salwick family
of Hollancf, his brother, the duke of
Van Zelden, having died, leaving no
children. Ockels says his real name is
Edward Charles Antonio Ockels Van
Salwick and that his grandparents pos
sessed. one of the finest properties in
Holland. The duke is still painting
signs and will continue to do so until
he gets his possessions, he says.
His Experience.
“Love,” so aays a scientific writer,
is controlled by vibration,” remarked
young Singleton.
“I guess that’s right,” answered
Wedderly with a large, open-faced
sign; “at least that has been my ex
perience.”
“How’s that” queried Singleton.
“Well,” explained Wedderly, “I
trembled when I proposed to my wife,
trembled when I interviewed her
father, trembled at the altar, and her
ladyship has kept me trembling in my
shoes ever since.”
The One-Eyed in Convention.
Several days ago there were gath
ered before the county court house
several small bands of men discuss
ing the topics of the day. One of
these small conventions contained five
men who were earnestly arguing over
a case which had been decided in
court the preceding morning.
Suddenly one of them exclaimed,
“My goodness, boys, all of us are one
eyed.” And so it was, five who had
been so unfortunate as to lose an eye
had by chance collected in one group.
—Columbia State.
The Bright Child.
“Daughter,” said the mother, wish
ing to inculcate economical ideas into
the brain of the fair young thing,
“these stockings of yours are past
mending, but you might ravel them
out for the good yarn that is in them.”
“Yes, mamma,” responded the duti
ful daughter. “And what shall I do
with the yarn?”
“Wind it up, my dear.”
“Yes, mamma. And mamma?”
“Well?”
“Shall I wind up the clocks in the
stockings, also?”
Has No Hands, But Threads Needles.
During her babyhood Emma Lou
Lawson, now’ 14, lost both hands by
amputation, made necessary by necro
sis of the wrist bones. The little miss
is an exceedingly bright child, an or
phan, and notwithstanding her physi
cal disability, can write a beautiful
hand and work examples in arithme
tic. She can thread a needle almost
as quickly as anyone, and sews well.
All this, coupled with her cheerful dis
position, makes her a favorite with
all who know’ her.—Pulaski corre
spondence Nashville Banner.
Sure Cure for Gout.
A w’ell known Wall street operator
who is a great sufferer from gout was
complaining of his affliction to Mr.
Russell Sage, who listened patiently
to a recounting of the full lists of
medicines and treatments his friend
had tried.
“The worst of it all is,” said the vic
tim, “every one seems to agree that
there is no cure for it.”
“Oh, yes, there is,” replied Mr. Sage.
“Tell me what.”
"Live on fifty cents a day and earn
it.”—-Denver Republican.
OYAMA TALKS OF THE WAR.
Looks to Navy of Japan to Safeguard
His Victories.
This is an unusual and extraordi
nary picture of Oyama, field marshal
of Japan. It was taken in 1894, just
after the great Japanese general had
made his first capture of Port Arthur
—an event he doubtless little thought
he would be called upon to repeat ten
>tars later.
Oyama is quite a philosopher about
the manner in which his pictures get
into the public press and the many
curious stories printed of his life. Of
this he recently said to an American
writer who was visiting him in Japs.n:
Variety of Stories.
“I have been accused of having
been born in. almost every nation of
the earth.
“Let me see—in 1894, when we were
having our war with China and I v/as
learning a great many things that
tcrae valuable now, a London news
paper, represented over here by a gen
tleman whom I knew, seriously pub
lished several columns of matter show
ing that I had been born in Switzer
land of a German mother and French
father.
“I could hardly complain of such a
distinguished honor except that it de
prived Japan of any credit there may
lave been in my birth; but in Japan
il so improbable a story were set afloat
I am afraid the gentleman who gave
i publicity to it would never write
again.
“Would he be sentenced to death?
Jvow. I can’t say as to that—there are
punishments worse than death, I be
lieve.
“One of the funniest things, though,
that I ever saw about myself in print
made me Chinese by birth and sta ed
with much show of seeming facts that
in my early days I had become a ban
dit in the interior of China, and that I
was so desperate and famed for my
deeds that the Japanese government
in search for a military genius induc
ed me to abandon my evil ways and
mecome a patriot.
*‘I suppose if one were able to col
lect all that is printed about him in
the press into one book he would have
grave doubts in his mind as to just
*ahere he was born or who his parents
were.”
About Future Wars.
At the time of this conversation
Oyaraa, not yet having fought the
second battle of Port Arthur and the
Field Marshal Oyama.
As He Looked in 1904 When Fighting
China.
Manchurian campaign, made some re
marks about future wars that read
very entertainingly now. He said:
“No matter what the outcome of the
struggle just beginning between my
country and Russia, the great offen
sive and defensive of the Orient of the
future will lie in navies. Once the
land rights of the different govern
ments here are settled, the armies in
my opinion will sink back to small
proportions and be maintained on just
about the same basis as is that of the
United States.
“But there will be a great advance
in naval work and the construction of
ships. It will soo;i be possible for
shipyards to be in operation here, aid
’the navies be built here rather than
abroad. We Lave all the raw ma
terials close at hand, and we have the
engineers and mechanics developing
who will equal, I feel, the best found
in the West.
“The coming naval power of the
Orient will extend from the Red Sea
to Bering Sea, and will have an enor
mous coast line to cover and protect,
as well as a great commerce to en
courage. I do not look for many fu
ture great wars, but such as are I am
inclined to think will be fought out on
the high seas and be of short dura
tion.
“Japan does not wish for more war
—Japan profoundly desires peace.
The commercial and industrial in
stinct is awake in Japan, and our peo
ple would rather work than fight, so
long as we can do the former with
honor.”
Oyama has grown thick-set and
chunky since 1894, but is said to be
active on his feet and of great physi
cal strength and powers of endurance.
Mr. Dolby’s Bad Break.
Nobody but Dolby would have asked
such a question in the first place.
“Miss Fairley,” he said, “if you
could make yourself over, what kind
of hair and eyes would you have”
“If I could make myself over,” said
Miss Fairley, “I would look just exact
ly as I look now.”
“You would?” exclaimed Dolby, in
honest surprise, and to this day he is
sc stupid that he can’t understand
why Miss Fairley thinks him a man of
little taste and less tact.
Speech of Various Peoples.
A writer recently pointed out what
he called the real difference between
tne speech of the educated American
and the educated Englishman. You
may talk for ten minutes to a pro
fessor from Harvard without being
conscious of strange speech, only the
professor’s voice is pitched slightly
higher than your own, for “the Ger
man speaks from his diaphragm, the
Englishman from his chest, the Amer
ican from his throat and the French
man from his palate.”
' BLOWN FROM RIVER BOTTOM
New York Tunnel Worker’s Marvelous
Escape from Deatn.
To be blown upward through eight*
ten feet of the mud and clay Of the
East river bottom, through twenty
eight feet.of water and twenty-five
leet into the air; to survive the ex
perience and be virtually uninjured,
was the experience of Richard Cree
don. says a New York dispatch.
Creedon is one of the “sand hogs’’
digging the East river tunnel. He was
caught in a “blow out” of compressed
air in a tunnel compartment and went
cut over the surface of the river like.**.
'water ,
! Diagram shows how one of the men
working in the tunnel was blown
through the roof and the water above it
by force of explosion and his resulting
fall.
a flying fish. A boat picked him up
perfectly conscious, if frightened.
“I don’t want another such experi
erce,” said Creedon. “I did not lose
consciousness at all, and you can im
agine my sensations when I found my
self being hurled up and up through
the daylight from the dark tunnel.
“When I felt myself being drawn up
through the mud my arms were
stretched up above my head, to which
tact I owe my life. You see I had been
I lacing hair and sawdust bags up
there to stop the leak, when all of a
sudden I was sucked up like the water
through a squirtgun. I was powerless
to resist the force, and realized that
my only hope was to go clear through.
“One time I became stuck in the
mud and I began pawing the dirt above
my head. I thought I wras gone then
and then seconds, seemed to me min
utes. Then of a sudden there seemed
an extra force and I felt my body
shooting up through the water and
into the air like a rocket. I guess that
I can thank the good Ix>rd that I am
on earth to tell the story.”
RUSSELL SAGE VERY ILL.
Visited Daily by a Physician, Who
Says He Will Recover.
The condition of Russell Sage, who
has been confined to his home for
some time, was much more serious
than reported. His physician visited
him daily. He is now able to sit up,
Russell Sage.
but Mrs. Sage was obliged to take to
ber bed, being worn out nursing the
aged financier.
What the Senators Needed.
Among the recent cranks who have
been driven from the capitol by Capt.
Megrew and his force of policemen
was a lank, lean hungry-looking speci
men of humanity, who made repeated
efforts to interview prominent sena
tors. It was discovered that the man
was an agent and that he had a magic
liquid for sale, which he called “Rob
inson's Restorer.” “What does your
liquid restore?” he was asked. “Ev
erything, pretty near.” “Except wast
ed fortunes,” suggested a policeman.
“It restores health, intellect, memory,
good looks and youthfulness,” retort
ed the man, “and is just exactly what
our senators need.”
Irrigation.
Now’here is irrigation practiced so
extensively as in India, where about
2j.000,000 acres are irrigated. Egypt
is next. The Assouan dam in the Nile
is considered one of the greatest en
gineering feats in the history of the
human race. Irrigation is new in Aus
tralia, but is spreading rapidly there,
and the same is more or less true of
South Africa. The practice of Irriga
tion has declined or entirely disap
peared in many regions where it pre
vailed in remote antiquity.
A Large Contract.
He was a very young clergyman
and on this, his first day at his first
appointment he snowed evident ner
vousness. The story is vouched for
by Bishop Tuttle, whose stories are
of course, famous. After reading the
service the young clergyman faltered
the following announcement: “Ser
vices will be Jield at 10 a. m. next
Sunday at the north end, and in the
afternoon at the south end at half
past three. Infants will be baptized
kI both ends.”
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