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HEW LAWS 8F N RASKft Complete List of Bills Passed by the Recent Session of the Legislature. Below will be found a complete list of the bills passed by the Twenty-ninth ses sion of the Nebraska state legislature and presented to the governor for his ap proval ; ^ HOUSE ROLLS » House roll No. 53. bv Wilson of Pawnee, appropriating $80,000 for the payment oi salaries of members of the legislature. Approved January 25. House roll No. 55, by Wilson of Pawnee, appropriating $20,000 for the payment of the incidental expenses oi the legislative session. Approyed January 25. House roll No. 54. by Wilson of Pawr.ee, transferring $18,000 from the clothing fund of the Asylum for the Insane at Norfolk to the same fund of the Asylum for the Insane at Lincoln. Approved February ft. House roil No. 1. by Burns of Lancaster, to permit state officials to give either per sonal bonds or bonds signed by guaranty, surety or fidelity companies; emergency clause. Approved February House roil No. 21. by Roberts of Dodge, providing that where patents for public lands have been issued l»v the state to ptrs'ins riving prior to the completion of :lu- issuance the title shall be vested in the heirs, deviM es and assignees of such deceased patenters. House roll No. 5. by Kvd of Gage, to authorize J. E. Cobbey of Beatrice tc publish tlie laws passed by the Twenty mmh session of the legislator* on a plan uni fern with his Annotated Statutes „>f Nebraska, without cost to the state, and making such publication admissible as evidence in the courts of the star*1. . House roll No. 77. by Wilson of Pawnee, to create a state registrar of vital sta tistics and local registrars in all incor porated towns, cities and villages for the complete and pro**er registration of births and deaths. Statistics are to be certified quarterly to the state board of health by the local legistrar, who shall receive therefor front the county funds the sum of 25 cents for each certificate so re ported. Approved February 16. House roll No. 82, by Saddler of Adams, allowing members of county soldiers' re lief commissions compensation ro: to ex ceed 5 per cent of the amount distributed by them, emergency clause. Approved February 23. House roll No. 3, by Windham of Cass, authorizing the justices of the supremo court, by unanimous vote, to appoint six supreme court commissioners for a periou of two years and such stenographers as may be thought necessary liy the court; emergency el;, use. Approved February 34. House roll No. 60, by- Bartoo of Valley, to regulate tin practice of dentistry in the state. Makes it unlawful for any Ierson hereafter to engage in tlie practice of dentistry without hist having obtained a license from the state Hoard of health, countersign"*! by its dental secretaries. Five secretaries nr*- to be appointed, to hold office for from on*- to live years, who shall be practical l-ntists and re ceive a compensation of $1** {ter day each lor the time actually employed. Such secretaries shall examine applicants in the branches prescribed and colled therefor a fee of $25 from eaca applicant. Approved February 28. nuu»f mu jn,i. in_. ny w ara ot sarpy. appropriating $3,000 to construct additional tisii ponds, repairing stone dams, con structing fish ear houses, fencing and making general improvements at the state fish hatchery at South Bend: emergency clause. Approved March 1. House roll Xu. 204. by Casebeer of Gage, allowing mutual insurance com panies doing a city business' to establish a guaranty fund, which, when paid into the treasury, shall become the properly of tin company, and certificates thereon Vhall be issued to the parties paying the same as the companies may determine. Such fund shall he k- pt inviolate, except tor the payment of losses, unu shall then be replaced out of the accumulating profits ot the company. Such companies may write insurance on a stipulated premium or cash basis. Emergency clause. Approved March 2. House roll No. 14, by Jackson of Ante lope, to authorize cities of the second class and villages to acquire by gift, de vise or purchase property for public parks and to issue bonds rot exceeding $5,"Oi) and levy taxes ot not less than 1 mill nor more than 3 mills for such pur pose: emergency clause. Approved March 2. House roll No. 99. by Clarke of Doug las. providing for the payment of jurors In justice court. In the event a verdict is rendered the sum of $1 shall be paid to each juror by the losing uartv. and in the event no verdict is reached each juror shall be paid 5»> cents, the costs to be taxed against the party against whom judgment is finally entered. Approved March 2. House roll No. 117. by Hill of Hitchcock appropriating the sum of 16,000 for meas uring water used on irrigated areas, de termining losses from ditches, and study ing the methods for distributing water by a United States government * agent in 1905 and 19m;. Approved March 2. House roll No. 100, by Clarke of Doug las, providing that the suitor asking fur a change of venue in a justice court shall pay all costs assessed up to th° time of delivering the transcript to the justice tu whose court the case is re moved. Approved March 2. House ruli No. 97. by Clarke of Doug las. permitting any defendant in a justice court to apply for a change of venue at any time prior to the announcement of the trial in a civil or criminal proceeding. Approved March 2. House roll No. 99. by Clarke of Doug las, providing for a jury of six in all cases tried in justice courts. Approved March 2 House roll iso. a6. by Burns of Lancas ter, req iring Nebraska life insurance companies to dei>osit with the state audi tor $100,000 of approved securities before being permitted to begin or continue busi ness, and extending the provisions of th“ reciprocal insurance law to apply against companies in other states, which states exact deposits of such nature, or fees, taxes, etc., from Nebraska companies. Approved March 3. House roll No. 17. by Case beer of Gage, appropriating to the use of the State uni versity the sum of $3)1.000 arising from the Morrill fund. $30,000 from the agricultural experiment station fund and $120,000 from the university cash fund. Emergency clause. Approved March 3. House roll No, lls, by Kvd of Gage, to provide that grand and petit jury lists shall be prepared and drawn in counties of from 3o.<«» to fiO.000 population under the same rules and regulations as prevail In Douglas arid Lancaster counties, and to provide for the punishment of persons seeking to serve as jurors or to have other persons selected as jurors. Emer gency clause. Approved March 3. House roll No. 4.T. by Knox of Buffalo, appropriating to the purchase of books for the library of the Perue normal, the library fund belonging to such school, to gether with matriculation fees paid in prior to March 31. 1907. and appropriating for the same purpose for the Kearney normal the matriculation fees paid into such school prior to March 31. 1907. Emer gency clause. Approved March 3. House roll No. 61, by Saddler of Adams, to allow the sum of $60 to be paid by counties for the proper burial of soldiers or sailors who served in any American war. Approved March 8. House roll No. 27. by Clarke of Doug las. to allow cemetery associations to re ceive as trustees money and property, to be held in trust anil be used for the care and decoration of graves. Approved March 8. House roll No. 90. by Cassell of Otoe, to provide that the tax on inheritances, in stead of reverting to the state, as at present, shall be used for the construc tion of permanent roads in the counties where such taxes become due, said roads to be built outside the corporate limits of cities and villages. Approved March 8. House roll No. 8. by Dodge of Douglas, the Omaha water board bill, vesting gen eral control of the Omaha water plant in the water board, instead of in the city council. Emergency clause. Approved Mirch 9. House roll No. 44. by Smith of Burt, to prohibit the obstructing of ditches and waterways used for drainage purposes by the dumping of garbage or otherwise. Dog Aids Shoplifter. Arrested for shoplifting in Paris a woman was found to have a clever ac complice in a King Charles spaniel, which she carried under her arm. and had trained to snatch up pieces of lace from shop counters.—London Mail. tl gives a man a moral squint to look more at condition than at char acter. ! The habit of borrowing grows with out very much effort. j Emergency clause. Approved March 9. i House roll No. 10*. by Windham of j Cass, to bring under the provisions of the \ hre escape law all buildings three stories ; or more in height used for manufacturing I purposes, hotels, educational institutions, hospitals or asylums. Emergency clause. Approved March 9. House roll No. 137, by Sntelser of Sher man, to fix the rate of taxation in coun ties under township organization at not to exceed 10 mills, for road purposes. 2 mills for bridges and 3 mills for all other purposes. Approved March 9. House roll No. 172. by Wilson of Paw nee. to transfer 120.000 from the board an-i clothing fund of the Hastings asylum p> the repair and Improvement fund of thm institution. Emergency clause. Approved March 10. House roll No. 157, bv Douglas of Rock amending the game law by making these principal changes: Open season for deer and antelope, August 15 to November 15: allow the penal bond of S5.o>»i required o! saloonkeepers to be given by surety bond companies. Approved March 25 House roll No. 2<»i. by Burns of Lancas ter. to prohibit printers and others from printing or publishing more copies ot books, pamphlets, circulars, or other pub lications than ordered by the author, compiler, or publisher, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. Emer gency clause. Approved March 25. House roll No. Ik*. by Bacon of Dawson, to provide for the sale of the penitentiary lands, and the crediting to the peniten tiary fund of the money realized from such sale. Approved March '25. House roll No. Ifi5. hv McMullen of Gage, to prohibit Christian Science heal ers and others from practicing unless they first pass an examination and ob tain a certificate from the state board of health. Vetoed March 29. House roll No. 1H9. by Burns of Lancas ter. to enable the regents of the State university to condemn lands n*>eded fot university purposes and to provide for j the mode of procedure for such con ; detonation. Emergency clause. Approved | March 25. House roll No. 193, by Rouse of TTall to ; require depository banks for state and county funds to give new bonds for each and every official term. Approved March 25. House roll No. 214. hy Andersen of Douglas, to protect persons, associations and unions of workingmen and others in prairie chicken, .-age chicken and grouse, September 1 t'> November 50; quail. No vember 15 to November 3»: ducks, gees*1, brunts, cranes and game water fowl. Sep S tentber 1 to April 15: jack snipe, Wilson j snipe and yellow legs. September 1 to j May 15; pigeons, doves and plovers. July 1 to August 1: trout. April 1 to October 1: ; other fish. April 1 to November 15. No ! person shall kill, take or have in his pos session. during the game season, more ! than ten wild geese or brants, or twenty five birds or twenty-five fish, on one day. lor more than one deer and one antelope, or two deer or two antelope, during the ; season, or more than ten prairie chickens during any one day. Punishment for vio I lation of the law is fixed at a tine of $5 ! for each bird or animal and imprisonment not exceeding ten davs in jail. Approved March 21. House roll No. .10. by Douglas of Rock. ■ to permit the Benevolent and Protective • Order of Elks to Incorporate in the same | manner provided for other secret and fra ternal orders. Approved March 22. House roll No. 70. by Burns of Lan^as i ter. a IJncoln charter bill changing th* date of the city election from April to ; May. beginning in 1906. providing for the election of seven eouncilmen at large, and ' making other changes agreed upon by the Eincolri charter revisionists. Emergency clause. Approved March 23. House roll No. 62. by Ernst of Johnson. ! appropriating $10,000 for the erection of a live stock building on the state fair grounds. Approved March 2s!. House roil No. 153. by Jouvenat of Boone, to vest discretionary power with ‘ the state banking board in the issuance I of charters to do a state banking busi j ness, the board not being required to issue the charter applied for unless it is satisfied that the parties requesting tin* { same are persons of integrity and re sponsibility. Approved March if*. House roll No. 166. by Ward of Sdrpy, : to confer the right of eminent domain upon electric interurban railroads. Emer gency clause. Approved March 25. House roll No. 173. by Oropsey of Jeffer son. authorizing the board of county com missioners of any county to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed Jim) per annum for each county to defray the lo cal expenses of farmers’ institutes. Ap proved March 25. House roll No. 192. by Rouse of Hall, vo exempt surety bond companies from th"» operation of the law whicli forbids ary one person going surety for a public of ficial for more than two successive terms. Approved March 25. House roll No. 195. by Rouse of Hall, to their trade marks and forms of advertis ing. Approved March 2*. House roll No. 2o. by Richardson of Madison, to appropriate $35,000 for the purpose of improving the grounds, re pairing and rebuilding the west wing of the old building which was partially de stroyed by fire and building an additional cottage at the hospital for the insane at Norfolk, the buildings to t*e fireproof. Emergency clause. Approved March 2S. House roll No. H*4, by Bee of Douglas, to forbid the sale of morphine, cocaine and opium except upon physicians’ pre scriptions. Emergency clause. Approved Marc 11 2S. House roil No. 106, by Barto of Valley, to allow fraternal beneficiary associa tions to consolidate or reinsure, on a vote of two-thirds of the membership of both societies, upon approval of the plans pre sented therefor to the state auditor. Ap j proved March 28. House roll No. 217. hv Gliem of Red j W illow, to allow a special levy of not exceeding 5 mills for the payment of I outstanding road district warrants. Emergency clause. Approved March 28. House roll No. 28. by Perry of Furnas, to require county attorneys, when in pos session of sufficient evidence to warrant a belief that a conviction can be secured, to tile a complaint against such person. Approved March 29. House roll No. 180, by Kyd of Gage, to provide that in school districts having four children or less of school age the levy shall not exceed $4W per year for school purposes, anti in districts having i more than four or less than sixteen chil dren of school age the levy shall not ex ceed the sum of $50 per child in addi i lion to the above. Emergency clause. Approved March 29. I House roll No. 213, by Cropsey of Jef ferson. gives to cities of the seeond i class, of less than 5,000 inhabitants, the ; right of eminent domain in procuring a ; right of way for the construction of : sewers and drains, and provides the manner of exercising that right. Ap , proved March 29. House roll No. 289. by McMullen of Gage, appropriating $25,000 tor the erec j tion of a dormitory at the institute for feeble-minded youths at Beatrice. Ap proved March 29. House roll No. 224. by Peabody of Nemaha, provides for the organization and government of drainage districts for ! the reclamation of swamp, overflowed and submerged lands. Provides means for the acquirement of rights of way, easements and franchises necessary; au thorizes the issuance of drainage district bonds. Revenues are to be raised by assessmonts on lands benefited, which as i sessments shall become liens on such lands. Approved March 29. House roll No. 38, by Perry of Furnas, reduces from two to one the number of trials that may be had for the recovery of real property. Approved March 29. House roll No. 197. by Rouse of Hall, authorizes the payment by the state of the premium on the state treasurer's bond when the same is executed by a surety company. Approved March 29. House roll No. 212. by Knox of Buffalo, allows mutual insurance companies to insure personal property temporarily re moved from the county or state. " Ap proved March 29. House roll No. 248. by Rouse of Hall, permits guardians, executors, receivers or In the moods of grief and gladness, marching past the years so long, seems but shadows of a shadow, and the echoes of a song.—Florida Times Union. A man is supposed to be happy when he whistles, but when he whis tles at sight of his wife’s milliner's bill —well, that's quite another matter.— Chicago News. What has become of the old-fashion ed woman who put lambrequins up at the windows? ! trustees to give surety idernnity bonds. Approved March 29. House roll No. 371. by McAllister, limits I to 9o per cent of the levy for the eur i rent year the warrants that may he is sti'd by an irrigation district, and pro vides means whereby unexpended bal ances in irrigation district funds may be transferred from one fund to another. Approved March 39. House roll No. 313, by Saddler of Adams, j abolishes the visiting and examining board for the Soldiers' and Suitors' homes. ! Approved March 39. House roll No. 79. by Burns of Laneas i ter, a Lincoln charter amendment author i izing tlu city to issue tia.Oou of bonds for | constructing or porenasing a municipal | lighting i l mt, i mcrgcncy clause. Ap i proved March 3a. House roll No. 11!*. by Oasebeer of Gage, declares void tiie marriage of first cousins of whole blood. Approved Mai h 39. House roll No. 311. In Clarke of Doug las. ana nris the civil code relativa to ap peals to tha supreme court b\ providing that all appeals under such code must lie tiled within six months of the judgment rendered in the trial court, or within six months of the overruling of the motion for a new trial; a.so allows the supreme court to apportion costs between the litigants. Approved Marli »>. House roll No. 333, by Windham, allows district judges sitting in chambers to hear and determine motions and demuriers; emergency danse Approved Marco 3o. Horse roll No. 33.3. b;. Jahnel of Wash ington (prepared by the house bridge committee i. authorizes county boa ids to niak>- yearly contracts for ail bridges, ap proaches and repairs required during the year at a specified sum per lineal foot; fur superstructure of bridges and approaches at a specific sum per lineal foot for piling and tutting; at a specilic sum per cubic i foot for stone, brick, cement and con ; Crete; ‘V.t a specified sum per pound for substruetural iron, and at u specified sum | per foot (board measure* for all lumber used in the construction and repair.” To j naki- ycaily contracts for repairing ! bridges and approaches at a specified sum per unit quality; to provide for manner of advertising for bids, for the rejection i of bias in certain cases and to empower county boards to buy material and labor and build and repair bridges and ap I proaches; to prov ide for the adoption of detailed plans and specir'.cations for ali m idges costing n ore than $3'»» each, and la eping copies of plans and speciticauons j thereof in the county clerk s vh i ; to provide that bids be made s- purately for each kind and class of m iiig> . approach and colveit. and improvement on roans, to provide tiiat bids be made to plans fur nished by the board and prepared b.v a competent engineer designated by the \ board. , House roil No. 379. by Roberts of Dodge, empowers county boards temporarily to huso lauus for the construction or tem porary roads, made necessary by dam.igis i none to permanent roads. Approved I March 30. House roll No. 48. by Warner of Lan I caster, to provide for h more uniform ■•vstem for the certification of teachers. Certificates shall he of three ('lasses— suite, county and city—and the two former shall be divided into three grades. The state superintend nt shall prepare questions for the examination of ap plicants foi state m- countv certificates and prescribe the rule.- and regulations ■ lor such *\arnin. . ions. Hr shall ais * ex amine. mark and Me. or cause the same to be done umlei his direction and su pervision, all answer papers and may ap point a committee of three to assist him lor that purpose. Approved March JO. House roll No. UU. by Rouse of Hall, to provide that the county shall pay tor tile surety bonds of county treasurers, i not to exceed one-half of on< per cent of ; the penalty. Approved March 30. House roll No. 3u», by Zuelow of Colfax, j to provide for the state ownership, uon : trol. construction and repair of all bridges •VW feet or more in length within tile state and located on or as part of public roads. Such bridges are to be built at the op ! tion of the board of public lands and buildings and under its direction on ttie request of the county and subject to the regulations and requirements of the gen ; eral bridge law of the state. House roll No. :13a. by Warner of Lan caster and Perry of Furnas, the bien i nial election bill. It provides that all state, judicial and county officers shall lie elected ir the even numbered years, beginning in 19i*> All such officers now holding, whose tenure expires in the odd numbered years, including the present year, are to hold over untii tHe ycar fol lowing. wlnn their successors shall be elected. House roll No. 315. by Warner and Perry, to provide that registers of deeds shall he elected in and every fourth vear thereafter, in conformity with the ! general provisions of the biennial elec tion bill. House roll No. 31fi. by Warner and Perry, to provide for the election of county commissioners in the even num bered years, in conformity with the bien nial election bill. House roll No. 317. by Warner and Perry, to provide for the election of I county supervisors in the even numbered years, in conformity with the biennial i election bill. House roll No. 31$. by W arner and Perry, to provide for the election of county assessors in !$*>$ and every fourth year thereafter, in conformity with the biennial election bill. House roll No. 319. by Johnson of Web ster. appropriates $25,(«>0 for test borings : for the discovery of oil. gas. coal, arte sian water and other minerals in Ne braska. under the direction and super vision of the tatc beard of irrigation. House roll No. 262. by Hogrefe of Rich ardson, a curative act. to remedy defects in the law requiring foreign insurance companies other than fraternal to have S.VMM* assets and satisfy the auditor of i their solvency before being admitted to do business m Nebraska. House roll No. 135, by Howe of Nemaha, appropriating J3L\000 for the erection of a fireproof library building at the State Normal school at Peru. Approved April 1. House roll No. 174. by Anderson of i Douglas a joint resolution meinoralizing | congress to define the status of the Ne i braska territorial militia so as to make i its surviving members eligible to draw ] pensions. Approved April 1. House roll No. 81, by Stetson of Saline, j providing that in counties not under township organization the road tax shall be panl'ir. cash, one-half of which shall i constitute a county road fund to be used ; by the county board for the general bene \ fit of the cminty roads. Approved April 1. House roll No. 356, by Hill of Hitchcock, authorizing county clerks and recorders to accept printed books from water users’ associations under the national reclama tion act and to use the same for record ing stock subscriptions of such associa tions. Approved April 1. House roll No. 145. by Roberts of Dodge, to authorize cities of less than 25.000 in habitants to lew a tax of not more than 2 mills and expend the same for the im provement and repairs of public roads leading' into such cities for a distance not to exceed six miles beyond the corpora tion limits. Approved April 1. House roll No. 187. by Clarke of Doug las, giving the vendee of personal prop erty under a contract of conditional sale the right to redeem the same after the revision of the contract by the vendor because of default in payment by the vendee, and authorizing a recovery by the v« ndee of the difference between the value of the property when taken by the vendor and the amount due on the contract, in case the amount due does not exceed the value of the property. Approved April 1. House roll No. 25o. by Wilson of Pawnee, the salary appropriation bill, carrying a total of $1,140,260. House roll No. 9. by Warner of Ian caster, making an appropriation of $32.n*X for the maintenance of the agricultural experiment sub-station at North Platte and for other university purposes. Ap proved April 1. House roll No. 31, by Douglas of Rock, to provide for a payment of bounties fot the destruction of wild animals. Fixes the bounty on scalps of gray or bufTalc wolves at So; prairie wolf or coyote at $2; wild cat, $1. Approved April 1. (Contiroued Next Week.) This is the name applied to certain continental ports—actually districts— which are entitled to import and ex port goods free of the ordinary tarifl duties. Germany has nine duty-free ports, the principal of which is Ham burg; Ausftria two, and Denmark and Roumania one each. If a pair of shoes are too small they may fit a woman, but if they are toe large she has a fit. Prosperity is not entirely free from serious heartaches and ill feeling. |r--- ~ L NEW SCOUT CRUISERS FOR AMERICAN NAVY LIGHTLY ARMED; BUT BUILT FOR SPEED _____ .TEE CKT7ISEBS AS THEY WILL APPE AE WEEN COMPLETED { I '»»»'• -rrw - -•ri-Tw-'-’w-ww'mwwwwwi l ' Plans have been completed and bids announced for three new “scout cruisers” to be added to the Tnited States navy. They are to be named Chester, Birmingham and Salem. The act of congress providing for them says they shall have the highest • speed compatible with the best cruis ing qualities. These vessels will carry some small guns, but will depend on their swiftness for safety. They will be 420 f^et in length between perpen diculars, forty-six feet in breadth, and have a mean draft of sixteen feet nine inches. Each will carry 1. 2't0 taivs of coal. Nothing larger than a hnree-iuch gun will be carried, but .~. there will be a number of these. 1 Each scout will also have two sub merged tubes, from which torpedoes may be discharged. The scouts i must show a speed of twenty-four ' knots an hour on trial. This is near- j ly ten miles an hour more than the average fight:n^ ship in a fleet would be able to make. SOME ODD BELIEFS AND I FANCIES OF SAILORMEN I We who have had so much of the nonsense knocked out of us by living in great towns are still rot wholly cleared of the ancient fancy that there is more in the night than dark ness. The sailur—out in the darkness and solemnity of the great grave place, with oily an inch between him and what comes after—would he not he callous indeed if he did not think there was more in the world than what is seen? Yet no sailor is superstitious nowa days. writes a correspondent in the London Morning Leader. He would tell you so himself—like Mark Twain's honest man. He has r.o ob jection to sailing on a Friday; he thinks it ridiculous to believe that a Finn can raise a storm. But if you are with him ’ong enough you will find that he has a little ritual and creed of his own which betray him— you will catch him one day propitiat ing the unknown, ihor.gh in a manner ever so small. Like all folklore, the same sea fan cies and tales are met with amongst the most diversified peoples—with but little difference you will find the same superstition in a Cornish lugger and a Chinese jurk. When the ground swell begins to moan along the shore “the sea wants someone.” say the Danish fishermen. They think the same in Cornwall, in the Shetlands. and wherever a regular tribute of lives is paid to the waters. The idea that the ninth, or, in some cases, the tenth wave, was the death wave was the belief of the ancients when the Atlantic was the S°a of Darkness. It still survives to-day in many widely-separated places. Whistling for Wind. Once, when becalmed on a Devon i trawler, I remember hearing the skip- | per, as he sat with his hand on the tiller gazing round the hazy sea, con tinually whistle for a wind. The boatmen do the same on the Ganges, tne Greenlanders believe in its effi ciency, and so do the Swedes, the Germans, and indeed nearly all the j world's sailors. Whistling is a wind- j raiser. Or another good plan is to j scratch the fore or the mizzenmast with a knife, holding the handle in the desired quarter. But only whistle when there is a calm; to whistle in a wind may lose you the ship. It is not surprising to find a belief in Jonahs common to all. There j must be found in all sea nations a person occasionally of whom it will be darkly whispered in the forecastle, when ill-luck dogs the vessel, "a face like that would sink any boat.” But it is eerie to find that women, priests, and lawyers are lumped broadly as Jonahs by all experienced sailors. A Cornish fisherman spoke to a woman who met him every day. and wished him good luck. But he never had any—until he ceased to meet her. The same fatality in women has been noticed in Japan among seafar ing folk. No Japanese sailor is pleased to meet a woman when going to his fishing boat. From time immemorial sailors have seen snakes, krakens, and other monsters, so we may take this to be a sort of habit. These creatures are still seen, even from steamers. But the mermaid never. She has gone. Steamers perhaps have no time to wait about while she combs her hair, which she always did very leisurely, singing the while. Yet at one time there was such a firm belief in mer maids that it became imperative to obtain some proof of their existence. Nothing really satisfactory and lasting was obtained—because the relic invariably broke up on a cold scientist. Strange Visits. In Moore s "Life of Byron” it is re lated that Capt. Kidd told Byron that the ghost of his brother, then in India, visited him at sea and lay down in his bunk, leaving it damp with sea water. Afterwards he found that his brother was drowned at that exact hour and night. This is the old Teutonic belief in Gongers—the ghosts of those drowned at sea who visit their kindred and an nounce their own deaths. They always appear at evening twilight in the clothes in which they were drowned, leaving a track of water over the floor and wet covers on the bed. The West country wives, when their men at sea in a stprm will not, if they can help it, open the door to a knock at night. One never knows what may be there. There is a queer story related of a Canadian schooner, w ith a lot of things in it which could he explained, no doubt, if only we knew everything. One voyage a man fell from her foremast and w as billed. Shortly afterwards an other hand fell from the same mast, and died. After which there was a cabin into which none would re-enter (for quite private reasons), having once been in it. The men would not go aloft in the foremast; they said it was not necessary to have any more hands up there. There were two al ready. The ship had luck all the way in, and the crew left her. Nor could another be obtained, for the yarn had gone round the town. Even tually the mate persuaded a new lot to ship who had just come off salt water and were new to the place. Straddling over the bulwarks, one of them looked aloft. “Hullo,” he said, “why have you got a figurehead on the foretruck?” "It must be Bill." gasped the mate involuntarily. He was sorry he spoke. The new lot tumbled ashore at once. And it is a fart that yet more accidents hap pened that voyage, which finished with the foundering of the schooner. The Flying Dutchman. Of all legends of sea-phantoms. Yan derdeeken is the best known. His ship is a double-decker, always to windward, and is sometimes seen in a fog during clear weather. She is of ten under full sail in a gale, and has been seen sailing under the clouds. Unusual weather conditions explain most of her wonders, as. for example, the well known fact that under some circumstances a clear reflection of a ship may show, while the vessel itself is hundreds of miles away. But there is a steamer captain some where in this world who really has seen the Flying Dutchman. I was fold by the skipper who sailed the an tique convict ship Success from Aus tralia to London, for exhibition, that when in the seas off South Africa one bright moonlight night, he spied a steamer hearing down on them. The skipper said that even to himself his boat looked like the ghost of an ancient wreck, and he wondered what the steamer's watch would think. He soon found out. The course of the steamer was deliberately altered, and she stood off at a tangent. Much Remains to Be Learned. | Sir William Ramsey, the great Eng- • lish scientist, said: “All our progress ' since the time of Sir Isaac Newton j has not falsified the saying of that great man—that we are but child ren, picking up here and there a peb ble from the shore of knowledge, while a whole unknown ocean stretch es before our eyes. Nothing can be more certain than that we are just j beginning to learn something of the j wonders of the world in which we live and move and have our being.” Biblicai Arithmetic. To the number of times Paul was stoned add the number of times he was ship-wrecked; add the number of times he was beaten with rods; multi ply by number of times he received forty stripes save one; add the num ber of fathoms at first sounded when 3aul was shipwrecked; add number if days they sailed; multiply by num ier of anchors cast out, and the re ult will he number of persons on loard the ship that was to carry Paul to Rome.—Ram's Horn. Education a Moral Force. The general fact is apparent that education is a force restraining vice and crime. Where it is purely intel lectual it restains by teaching the truth expressed in the homely proverb, "Honesty is the best policy”; where it rises to the dignity of a Christian education it teaches not only the re straint of the intellect, but the higher restraint of the conscience. In either case it is a restraining force, a moral power, over the appetites and passions of men.—Edward D. Mansfield. St. Bernard Saved Pointer. Mose. a pointer dog owned by Denis O'Brien, broke through the ice on the river Wednesday, but escaped drowning through the efforts of a large St. Bernard dog owned by Ed gar Cornwall. The St. Bernard, which was near by. grabbed Mose by the head and pulled him out. The dog is winning a reputation as a life saver, having performed a similar act last winter —Portland correspondence Hartford Courant. POLITICAL EVILS OF WAR. — Peculation and Dishonesty Invariable • Accompaniments. The political evils of war are al most as weighty as the moral, writes (harles J. Bullock in the Atlantic. Probably no government in modern times has been able to carry on a serious contest that has not been at- ' j tended with extravagance and dis- i honesty; at any rate, the United j S ates has never been able to do so. From the time that the soldiers suf fered needlessly at Valley Forge on account of inefficient supply service and dishonest contractors, down tc 'he purchase' of army transports and embalmed beef in 1S1T8, profusion and peculation have invariably at- \ tended our military operations. This 1 evil, however, usually outlasts a war. j because loose rnd irregular methods ol conducting public business are not speedily reformed. After the civil war Washington was still infested by i swindling contractors who found not j a few choice pickings; and the slimy j trail of the corruptionists led up to J the doors of Congress and some of ; the executive departments. When Wampum Was Currency. A curious old document showing how shells in the shape of wampum deteriorated its currency on Manhat tan island is found among the minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, of May. 1650, at the meeting in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherlands. The account reads; “tVhereas. see and lor some time have seen the de cline and depreciation of the loose wampum, among which is found much unpierced and only half-finished, made of stone, glass, bone, shells, horn, nay e\0n of wood and broken; therefore, j we have resolved that henceforth no j loose wampum shall be current unless strung upon a wire. Trade wampum shall pass as good pay as heretofore at the rate of six white or three black beads for one stiver (2 cents). Done, ! resolved and decided this 30th of May, j 1650, at our meeting in Fort Amster- j dam, New Netherlands.” Coincidences in Legislation. That pure-food bill in the United States senate has had about as hard a struggle as had the measures of Wil berforce in the British house of com mons for the abolishing of the British slave trade. Cn Feb. 15, 1805, Wilber force moved, “without entering into any argument.” for a bill to abolish the slave trade after a limited time, and for a committee to consider its propriety. He had been introducing such a bill almost every year for fif teen years, although his twelve resolu tions against the traffic were carried in 1789 without a division. But year after year the bill came to wreck, either in the house of lords or the commons, suffering defeat in 1796 be cause several of its supporters had gone to see a new comic opera. It was doomed to disaster again in 1805, hut finally triumphed in 1807. Diamond Fields in Canada. Most of the diamond fields of the world lie in British territory. People generally will he surprised, however,' py the declaration of a Canadian ge ologist that a new and undiscovered diamond field lies in Canada, some where between the great lakes and Hudson bay. Men of science will not be so much surprised. Diamonds have been found in Michigan and elsewhere, in the terminal moraines of vanished glaciers. Evidently the diamonds were carried to the spot by the glaciers and their origin evidently was in a dia mond field somewhere in the north, whence they were torn by the ice sheets. The theory is perfect; all that remains to be found is the birth place of the diamonds. Disputed Rents Paid to Sultan. In Turkey the sultan is the supreme landlord. If a tenant has a dispute with his immediate landlord, he can pay his rent to the sultan until the dispute is settled, and in the mean while the tenant cannot be put out of the possession of his house or farm. Owners of the soil in Turkey are, therefore, always anxious to keep on good terms with their tenants; for when rent is paid to the sultan it is a matter of some difficulty and danger for the rightful recipients of it to en force their claim to the money. Defined. Congressman Burnett of Alabama recently met an aged colored man< who had in his old age learned to read. “It is a great thing for you to read, isn’t it?” said the congressman. “You find pleasant companionship in books and papers, don’t you?’’ “Yes, sah,” was the reply. “Reading am a great thing. Reading,’’ said the old man, undertaking to define it, “am de power ob bearing with d« eyes ” _9 1 —^» CURED BY NO-CLOTHES. Delicate Boy Now Able to Walk Bare footed in Snow. Gustave Nagel was a very delicate child and grew to manhood almost a chronic invalid. His parents had spent fortunes on medical attention for him. rnd he had consumed barrels of medi cine. but all to no effect. Some years ago he eoneriv.-d the idea that modern man lived too far from the state in which nature intend ed that he should, and l;e resolved to return to thi habits of his primeval forefathers and become strong or die in the attempt. He discarded all clothes, except what the law required, ate only raw foods and no meat, and bathed only ia water of a natural temperature. At first of course he suffered severe ly. but in a few years he was able to walk barefooted in the snow with as liftle discomfort as the ordinary mor tal suffers going shoelefcs on a sandy beach in summer. '> When he bathes he never dries him self. when he sleeps he prefers the cold, bare ground: he never has his hair cut short, deeming it a protection trom the weather given man. by na ture: his food is of fruits, vegetables, bread and nuts. Nagel is about to be married, but 1 ant not able to say whether the lady of his choice is a new woman or has ptimeval tendencies like his own — London Tatler. SOME HAD BEEN WASTED. Wife Reluctantly Forced to Admit Sad Fact. “What did you buy with that $10 I gave you this morning for houst hold exi enst s. .Mary ?" • Well. I went shopping and I spent a dollar for lunch.” “Yes?" “And 15 cents for egg phosphate.” “Yes?" "And 75 cents to go to the mati nee.” “Yes.” “And $2.50 for a new collar for dear little Fido.” “Yes?" “And—and—let me se\ Oh. yes, l got the cutest hand painted ironing board for $1.05. We don" need it now . bur it. was so pretty and such a bar gain.” “Yes?” “And 1 found an awfully intereMing game I thought we might ,>a\> and give to Ella's little boy next Christ mas. That only cost —1 think it was $2.25.” “And what did you do with the bal ance?” “Why, I—I—let me see—1—ob, John, don’t find fault with me, dear, but I’m afraid I may have spent the rest of the money foolishly.”—Cleve land Plain Dealer. The Doctor's Mistake. Dr. Edward Peck tells of a brother physician of a miserly disposition who recently had the financial tables clev erly turned on him. He had never been known to refuse a fee. no mat ter how ill prepared the patient was to pay it. There was a certain pa tient he had attended for a long time receiving his two dollars regularly every morning when he called. One morning, however, it was not handed tc him. When it was not forthcoming he pretended to search about the floor. “What are you looking for, doc tor?” inquired the sick man. “For my fee," was the reply. “Not finding it in my hand, I suspect 1 must have dropped it.” “No. doctor, you have made a small n istake. It is I who have dropped it.’ Not So Far Out of the Way. During Gov. Rollins' administration, a representative of the legislature of New Hampshire from one of the rural districts in the northern section of the state was presented to the governoi for the first time. Being somewhat un familiar with “State House etiquette,’ he addressed his excellency as “Most High.” The governor informed the gentle man from the rural district that thej-f was but one “Most High." "he whe had made everything from nothing.” “Well, governor.” replied the eoun try legislator. “I'll give you credit foi making a justice of the peace out of a man up in my town that is about as near to nothing as ever walked on two legs.” Song. Oh. to think, oh. to think, as I see her stand there With the rose that I plucked in her glor ious hair. In the robe that 1 love, so demure and so neat. I am the lord of her lips and her eyes and her feet! Oh. to think, oh, to think, when the last hedge is leapt. When the blood is awakened that dream mgly slept, I shall make her heart throb in its cradle of lace. As the lord of her hair and her breast and her face! Oh, to think, oh. to think, when our wed ding bells ring. When our love's at the summer but life's at the spring. I shall guard her asleep as my hound guards her glove. Being lord of her life and her breast and her love! —Norman dale, in San Francisco Argo naut. Reed's Way Out of It. While Mr. Reed was speaker of the house he had occasion one day to call one of his political henchmen to Washington, so sent the following tel egram: “Come at once to Washing ton.” There had been a severe storm in Maine, which had impeded traffic con siderably. so Mr. Reed received the following reply: “Can’t come; big washout on the line.” To which Mr. Reed, with his ever ready wit, replied: “Never mind; buy r. clean shirt and come away.” Happy Inspiration! A short time ago. says the Kansas City Star, a Jefferson City druggist, A. Brandenburger, hung in his store win dow this sign: : BOY WANTED. • The next day the paper contained tne following announcement: “Mr. and Mrs. A. Brandenburger announce the birth of a son.”