m THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA
I NEW NEBRASKA LAWS,
EFFECTIVE JULY I
Jnly 1, all the laws enacted by the
late legislature which did not carry
the emergency clause will go into
effect. Among the many enacted not
heretofore in force are these:
new law protects imported
pheasants and partridges.
Another prohibits changes in school
sites without previous notice.
County treasurers are given more
^.ji^Bojver in the collection of personal
Automobile owners must register at
the state house and each machine
must pay an annual tax of $1.
Members of the Lincoln school board
are to he elected every two years.
A new law is on the books regard
|j me the giving and taking of bribes.
Rights-of-way are granted over
state lands to irigation ditches.
The drainage ditches cannot be built
to water courses.
Cigarettes cannot be made, sold or
given away. — .
Business combinations cannot be
made in restraint of trade, and the
# giving of rebates is made illegal. This
state law is framed on the lines of
the national anti-trust law.
Among the other new statutes are
the following:
For the election of register of deeds
on the even year every four years.
For the election of county commis
sioners on the even year for terms of
four years. County supervisors shall
be chosen on the even year and everv
four years. H R. 318 is for the simi
lar election of county assessors,
i . A bill to provide for the registra
tion of the vital statistics. A state
registrar is created to be under the
jurisdiction of the State Medical
board. In cities the health authorities
must report deaths and births, under
takers and physicians furnishing daily
reports. In the rural districts local
registrars are appointed.
A hill regulating the practice of
dentistry and providing for a state ex
amining board for dentists.
A bill to permit cities of the second
class and villages to own and operate
municipal electric lighting plants.
A bill extending the open season for
prairie chickens to three months and
making the open season for quail two
weeks.
A bill regulating the issuing of bank
charters and providing a $25 fee there
for.
A hill authorizing guaranty bonds
for saloons.
Granting the State university the
right to condemn and purchase prop
erty for university purposes.
A bill declaring void marriage be
tween first cousins.
Re-enaetin- the wild animal bounty
law.
A bill to permit counties to aid
county agricultural societies to the ex
tent of 3 cents per capita on the vot
ing ponulation.
A bill requiring railroads to furnish
one round trip of transportation with
each car of horses, cattle or mixed
stock shipped and with every two cars
of hogs
A bill providing for the care and
treatment of dipsomaniacs at the in
sane hospitals of the state.
To make the crime of adultery a
crime punishable bv a fine of $200.
A hill fixing the minimum capital
for state banks at $10 000.
A bill fixing a minimum speed for
stock trains of eighteen miles an hour
or fifteen Including stops
A bill to prohibit the killing of red
grey or fox squirrels.
A bill to prohibit base ball nktving
horse racing or other games of public
sport on Memorial day.
Making the county survevor of
Pouglas and T^ancaster counties ex
officio county engineers to examine
and insnect bridges, highways and
other public improvements
V To require the State Board of Equal
ly izatinn to levy a 1 mill tax annually
for the navment of a state debt.
Permitt’ng cities and villages to im
pose a poll tax of $2 or to reouire two
da vs’ wo>-k upon roads within five
miles of the corporate limits.
A constitutional amendment to he
submitted to a rote of the electors of
the state providing for an elective
railway commission. consisting of
three members, the proposition to he
s”v'mitted at the general election in
1906.
To Protect Their Land.
i) PLATTSMOUTH—The land owners
along the Iowa side of the Missouri
river, south of the Plattsmouth bridge,
are plannine a line of action to pre
vent further cutting away of their
lands by the current They have
under consideration the Kellner
method, which consists of weaving
wines of wire and willows and ex
tending them out from the banks. The
wings gather deposits from the water
and eventually become solid. The pro
ject will be an expensive one.
To Locate Tournament
NORFOLK — The Nebraska lire
fighters are looking around for a
“place to run their races in annual
tourney this year, and will, if the busi
ness interests of Norfolk desire it.
return to this city for the third suc
cssive time. A letter from W. H.
Miller, chairman of the board of con
trol. at York, says that he wants to
know if Norfolk desires the tourney.
The cost of the affair to the city
would be about $1,200 to $15,000 cash.
Kearney Boy Now a Cadet.
KEARNEY—Arthur Barney, son of
A. W. Barney of this city is now a
full-fledged cadet at Annanolis and
upon graduating at the end of four
years will be an officer in Uncle Sam’s
navy. His father received a telegram
from him stating that he had passed
the physical examination, had been
granted ten days leave of absence and
would start for home at once. The
physical examination was the last one
to be taken.
J. J. Kriss, a Union Pacific brake
man, was arrested for violently push
ing a man off the train and inflicting
injuries that terminated fatally.
Passing of the Cigarette.
The days of ihe cigarette are num
bered in Nebraska. After July 1 it
•will be an ofFense to sell, give away or
manufacture the “coffin nails.” Cigar
stores and tobacco men must dispose
of their wares before the law becomes
effective, and must not sell cigarette
paper. The law w'as passed by the
last session of the legislature, and may
be enforced by fine and imprisonment.
It is stated that the dealers will en
close the cigarettes with a tobacco
leaf wrapper and sell the new article
in defiance of the law.,
% Affected With Trichina.
AL.IANCE—Ernest Olday, a partner
in the firm of Bushnell & Olday, is
very ill at Hemingford, where his par
ents reside. His sickness resulted
from eating pork affected with Tri
china.
Bullet in Spine and Will Live.
TECUMSEH—Wesley Barnes, the
‘‘ 13-vear-old son of Dr. and Mrs. C. D.
Barnes was shot in the back by a
companion. A 22-cartridge ball lodged
i in his vertibrae and it is believed will
r have no serious results.
OVER THE STATE.
The Elks have organized a lodge
in North Platte.
Simon P. Metz, a pioneer of Cass
county, died last week.
Scott’s Bluff is counting on having
electric light at an early day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cardiff of Fair
bury last week celebrated their golden
wedding.
The teachers’ institute of Holt
county was unusually well attended
this year.
The new $22,000 Young Men’s Chris
tian association building of York was
dedicated clear of debt.
Johnson county farmers are harvest
ing their wheat and find the crop one
of the best for a number of years.
The Nebraska Banking association
will hold a meeting in Lincoln October
10 and 11 and the Lincoln bankers
are making elaborate arrangements
for the entertainment of their guests.
Thieves entered the slaughter house
of H. A. Hansen at Elkhorn, stealing
a dressed beef and the hide. The sup
position is tnat it was taken to Val
ley, as wagon tracks were traced to
that place.
G. C. Topping, brakeman on freight
train No. 15 of the Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha road, while
switching in the yards at Oakland, was
thrown fro mthe car and sustained a
number of broken ribs.
Among the improvements of mo
ment which McCook will see this sum
mer will be the investment of about
$15,000 in betterments by the Nebraska
Telephone company in the local ex
change, which means a quite complete
overhauling.
A man was killed near Gannett,
about five miles east of North Platte.
His body was badly mangled and is
unrecognizable. He was probably a
tramp riding on the rods on train No.
2, and fell off. His head, arms and legs
were cut off and his body almost en
tirely dismembered.
John Foilen, residing just over the
county line in Nemaha county, came
to Nebraska City and filed complaint
against his two brothers, Henry and
Nicholas Foilen, charging them with
assaulting and beating him until he
was insensible. He vfis so badly beat
en that the services of a physician
was needed.
Max Ploehn.. charged with the mur
der of Alma Goos, pleaded not guilty
before Justice M. Archer at Patts
mouth. He was bound over to the dis
trict court. The prisoner will be ar
raigned before Judge Jessen of the
district court in a few days, at which
time it is believed he will change his
plea and receive sentence.
F. E. Lange, a farmer living tec
miles north of Tekamah, died from in
juries received in a runaway. Mr.
Lange was driving a team of colts
and in crossing a bridge the tugs
came unhooked, letting the tongue
down, throwing Mr. Lange out of the
wagon and rendering him unconscious,
from which he never recovered. He
was 78 years old and was the oldest
settler of Burt county.
The farmers in Saunders county do,
not seem very anxious to donate prop
erty to the Great Northern for a sta
tion and elevator site near the Mc
Lean farm. The company wanted
twenty acres of land and Mr. McLean
offered to donate ten acres, the farm
ers to pay for the other ten. Several
meetings were held to consider the
matter and it was finally decided to
cali the deal off.
Deputy Labor Commissioner Bush
is holding daily sessions at Labor
Temple, in Omaha, to arrange for
sending harvesters to the Kansas
wheat fields. In answer to his adver
tising he is getting a good many ap
plications and expects to send away
several hundred men. The railroads
have granted a rate of 1 cent a mile
for men going to the harvest fields,
and Mr. Bush says there is a demand
which will assure all who go of get
ting work.
Denver (Colo.) dispatch: Coming to
Denver wuth has savings. $1,000, By
ron Gage of Ord. Neb. has been miss
ing more than a month. His brother,
Harry, came last night and asked the
aid of the police in finding him. The
brother believes that Gage was swin
dled out of his money and perhaps
murdered. Gage came here to go into
business. He wrote his relatives he
had met a rich mining prospector and
expected to make plenty of money.
Since then nothing has been heard of
him.
Now that the biennial election law
has been knocked out, it means that
the terms of office of these officials.
w*ho would otherwise have held over
until next year, will expire, and suc
cessors must be elected. In the state*
One supreme court judge; two regents
of state university. In the county;
sheriff, county treasurer, county clerk,
county judge, surveyor, coroner, su
perintendent of instruction. The offi
ces of register of deeds, county asses
sor and county commissioners go over
one year, as contemplated by the law,
and are not effected by this decision.
Wayne, the two and a half year old
son of Walter C. Smith, was attacked
and quite severely bitten by a strange
dog. Only the timely interference oi
Mrs. Glenn saved the child from being
mangled in a shocking manner. The
dog was shot by Marshal Ellis.
The executive committee of the
Holdrege harvest jubilee and fair, con
sisting of twelve of the leading busi
ness and professional men of the city,
met at the City National bank to or
ganize and make arrangements for the
second annual fall festival. It was
flLally decided to hold this year’s pub
ilee September 4 to 9.
Thomas K. Shepard was before the
Adams county board of insanity and
was adjudged insane. He is now an
inmate of the chronic insane asylum.
Mr. Shepard is 72 years old and is a
man who has had a very bright mind
The entire issue of $19,600 of West
Point precinct refunding bonds has
been sold by the county board to W.
T. S. Neligh on a bid of only par and
accrued interest with the provision
that the bonds should only bear 4%
per cent interest instead of 5, as ori
ginally contemplated by the board.
This deal is considered to be a very
favorable one for the county.
TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED TRAIN
IN AWFUL DISASTER AT MENTOR. OHIO
Showing the position of the Twentieth Century Limited train as it lay after the catastrophe at Mentor, Ohio.
Railroad men continue to insist that the speed of the train had nothing to do with the accident by which the
fast flyer was wrecked and twenty-three lives lost.
FOR SAFETY ON RAILROADS.
Three Systems of Switching That Are
in Operation.
The split switch is considered one
of the safest devices in modern rail
roading. It is in use on every great
system. Its opposing points are known
as the trailing switch and the facing
switch.
With the trailing switch accidents
are impossible. With the facing
switch the possibility of an accident
such as occurred on the Lake Shore,
is ever present. Any train at any
speed might jar the flange of the
wheels against the wrong track. An
opening of an inch might do the dam
age, and this would not be noticed by
the engineer. Such a small movement
would not put the switch light out.
The reliability of the facing switch
is that of any piece of mechanism. Its
getting out of order is always a possi
bility. Over the old stub switch, how
ever, it has an immeasurable advan
tage.
The facing switch is allowed only to
gain time. With a trailing point, it is
necessary for every train to stop and
back up in order to make a switch.
With the heavy freight trains that now
are run on the trunk lines this means
a loss of many minutes. For years the
Northwestern and other railroads have
been eliminating facing points from
high speed tracks.
Railroad officials claim that a train
running at any speed might cause an
accident like that on the Lake Shore.
This rule, however, is taken as a prac
tical admission of the greater danger
of such an accident with high speed
trains.
"These rules look all right In the
book and the directors like to read
them,” said a railroad man, “but if all
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the rules were obeyed to the letter
we never would get anywhere.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
Source of Gomez’ Strength.
Gen. Maximo Gomez, the Cuban pa
triot, who died a few days ago* was
thus described by one who campaigned
with him before American interven
tion: “He is a gray little man. His
clothes do not fit well, and, perhl'is.
if you saw it in a photograph, his fig
ure might seem old and ordinary. But
the moment he turns his keen eyes
on you they strike like a blow from
the shoulder. You feel the will, the
fearlessness, and the experience of
men that is in those eyes and their
owner becomes a giant before you.”
Conscientious Ohio Official.
Prosecuting Attorney W. R. Gra
ham of Youngstown, Oh’lo, is going to
sue himself for $59.83. The state ex
aminers reported that he had collected
excessive fees to the amount named.
He wants to know whether he has or
has not and w-ill bring the suit. Hu *
thinks that some of the examiners will !
appear and testify in the matter and
that the whole situation regarding
other county officials charged with
like matters will be cleared up.
“Shirtwaist Buildings.”
Alderman Sloan of Kansas City has
given a distinctive name to frame
structures veneered with stone or
brick. He calls them “shirtwaist
buildings,” and is making vigorous
war on a proposed law permitting of
their construction inside the city fire
limits.
Salmon Eggs for Vancouver.
The Department of Marine and Fish
eries at Ottawa has shipped 250,000
eggs of the Atlantic salmon to be.
planted in Vancouver island waters.
The experts think that Atlantic sal
mon will do well in those waters.
SAVAGES AND THE BRUTES.
Curious Beliefs of Primitive Men Re
garding Animals.
For the primitive savages, animals
are mysterious, problematic beings,
possessed of a wide knowledge of the
things of nature. They know much
more than they are ready to tell us.
In some way or another, by the aid of
senses much more refined than ours,
and by telling to each other all that
they notice in their rambles and
flights, they know everything for miles
round. And if a man has been ‘*Just”
toward them, they will wrarn him of a
coming danger, as they warn each
other, but they will take no heed of
him if he has not been straightfor
ward in his actions. Snakes and birds
(the owl is a leader of the snakes),
mammals and insects, lizards and
fishes—all understand each other, and
continually communicate their obser
vations to one another.
Inside this vast brotherhood there
are, of course, the still closer brother
hoods of beings ‘‘of one blood.” The
monkeys, the bears, the wolves, the
elephants and the rhinoceroses, most
ruminants, the hares and most of the
rodents, the crocodiles, and so on, per
fectly know their own kin, and they
will not tolerate any one of their rela
tives to be slaughtered by man with
out taking, in one way or another,
honest revenge. This conception must
have had an extremely remote origin.
Even now, when a savage is hunt
ing, he is bound to respect certain
rules of propriety tow*ard the animals,
and he must perform certain expiatory
ceremonies after his hunt. Most of
these ceremonies are rigorously en
acted, even nowadays in the savage
clans, especially as regards those spe
cies considered the allies of man.
It is well known that two men be
longing to two different clans or tribes
can become brothers by mixing the
blood of the two, obtained from small
incisions made for that purpose. But
it was also quite habitual for man to
enter into brotherhood with some ani
mal. The tales continually mention
it. An animal asks a hunter to spare
it, and if the hunter accedes to the
demand the two become brothers.
And then the monkey, the bear, the
doe, the bird, the crocodile, or the bee
—any one of the sociable animals—
will take all possible care of the man
brother in the critical circumstances
of his life, sending his or her animal
brother of different tribes to warn
him or help him out of a difficulty.
And if the warning comes too late, or
is misunderstood, and he loses his life,
they all will try to bring him back to
life, and if they fail they will take due
revenge, just as if the man had been
one of their own kin.
When I journeyed in Siberia I was
often struck, without understanding it,
with the care which my Tungus or
Mongol guide would take not useless
ly to kill any animal. The fact is that
every life is respected by a savage,
or rather it was before he came in
contact with Europeans. If he kills
an animal, it is for food or for cloth
ing; but he does not destroy life, as
the whites do. for the mere excitement
of the slaughter.
True, the red Indians have done that
with the buffaloes; but it was only
after they had been for a long time
in contact with the whites and had got
from them the rifle and the quick-fir
ing revolver. Of course, there are
rascals among the animals, the hyena,
for instance, or the shrewmouse, or
the man-eating tiger; but these do not
count; they are outlaws. As to the
great animal world as a whole, sav
age children are taught to respect it
and see in it an extension of their own
kin.—Prince Kuropatkin, in the Nine
teenth Century.
Had to Return to Stage.
Ilka lalmay, the Hungarian operatic
div.v who married Count Kinksky, has
separated from her husband, and with
great candor gives her reasons for so ,
doing. ‘The coimt.” she says in a let- i
ter to a Buda-Pesth newspaper, "has
always been a good husband to me and
| we separate in perfect peace, but I
now see that a ticketed, cold and dis
tinguished aristocratic life is not the
thing for me. Blood flow’s in my
veins, fiery Hungarian blood. This
drags me back to the stage, and it
would be vain to struggle against the
attraction. I have retired to our estate
at Altenofen, 1 have tried to live in
Vienna as the wife of a magnate, but
in the end I always felt drawn back to
the stage.”
Prince Ferdinand’s Travels.
No modern occupant of a throne has
traveled more frequently abroad since
his ascension than Prince Ferdinand
of Bulgaria. He became ruler of the
principaity in 1887 and since then has
spent 1,700 days, or nearly a quarter
of his reign, abroad. His people
know him by the nickname of the
“traveler.”
NORWAY A GREAT COUNTRY.
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In Many Notable Ways It Leads the
World.
On pay days saloons are closed and
savings banks open until midnight
Servant girls hire for half a year at a
time by contract at public registry of
fice. There is> a telegraph box on ev
ery street car. Write message, put or
right number of stamps, drop in the
box. 1 oung farmers can borrow
money from government at 3 per cent
practically no illiterates. Men perhaps
the finest in the world physically
Army service universal; only 2.3 pei
cent of youths rejected for physical
defect. Health splendid. Death rate
for men. 18.3, because of dangerous
fishing; for women, 16.5. Average ex
pense of living less than any othei
civilized country perhaps. Average
wage earnings, {88 a year. More rein
deer than horses, more sheep thar*
cows. Illiterates—Two men in a thou
sand in Sweden, three in Norway and
Denmark, seventy-eight in Russia
which wants to “improve” Norway ant
Sweden by dividing and conquering
them; 13.6 even in England.—New
York World.
CHOICE OF THE NORWEGIANS.
Prince William of Sweden Would Be
Most Popular Ruler.
Prince William, who is mentioned as
the probable choice of King Oscar II
of Sweden in case that sovereign i
should accept the offer of the Nor
wegian people and select a scion ol
the house of Bernadotte for the throne
of Norway, is the grandson of the
Swedish monarch and the second son
of Crown Prince Gustavus. He is the
favorite choice of the Norwegians. His
elder brother, Prince Gustavus Adol
phus, will no doubt succeed to the Swed
ish throne, since the present heir ap
parent, his father, is now a man of
mature years. William is little more
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than one year younger than Gustavus
Adolphus, and it is believed that the
two brothers would rule in the most
friendly spirit.
Gen. Boynton and Chickamauga.
Leading citizens of Chattanooga,
Tenn., are agitating a movement to
erect a memorial to Gen. H. V. Boyn
ton, late dean of Washington corre
spondents and head of the Chatta
nooga and Chickamauga national park
commission. He is recognized as the
originator pf the idea and it was he
who drew up the bill for the creatioa
of the park commission and pressed
its passage through congress. The
idea has also been urged that Gen
Boynton should be buried on Mission
ary ridge, where he was wounded
That he was Chattanooga’s best friend
was a common remark when the news
of his death was received there.
Stopped Lottery for Church.
Mr. Potter, director of public safety
in Philadelphia, has stopped the sale
of chances on a brick house offered in
a rafLe by a church. He holds that is
a lottery. “I look upon the proposed
drawing,” he says, “as gambling pure
and simple. If a church may conduct
such a lottery’, why may not men
write policy or engage in other gam
bling games which are under the ban
of the law? There is no discrimina
tion in this particular instance. I will
stop any such lottery that is called to
my attention, no matter by what
church, society or person it may be
conducted.”
Deroulede to Be Pardoned.
Paul Deroulede, the old French ir
reconcilable, duelist and journalist
who was banished from France for ten
y ears, is to be included in the general
amnesty which will be granted on the
occasion of the French national festi
val, July 14, the anniversary of the
fall of the Bastile. Deroulede has
spent his exile in Spain, and it ap
pears to be partly at the solicitation of
King Alfonso that he will now be par
doned.
CLASS BARRIERS GO DOWN.
Effect of British Aristocracy Engaging
in Trade.
The tendency of the British aristo
cracy to engage in trade may have a ]
wholesome effect upon the nobility. It
will break down in time the absurd
barrier which has prevented social in
tercourse between the shopkeeper and
the man with a title. In politics this
has already been done. The people of
Sreat Britain are now governed, it has
been said, by a committee of the house
:>f commons. The prime minister of
Ireat Britain, Mr. Balfour, is of aris
ocratic descent,'being a nephew of the
ate Lord Salisbury. He is a billiant,
many-sided man. But the statesman
who probably has the strongest hold
jpon the British people is Joseph
Chamberlain, formerly secretary of
state for the colonies, who is a de
scendant of the “middle class" and is
himself a manufacturer and trades
man. Mr. Chamberlain has more
brains than most of the British no
bility combined, but under a rigid in
terpretation of the social canons in
England he might not be admissible
to the “best society” in Britain. With
the nobility going into trade, however,
there will soon be an end of this non
sensical exclusiveness. — Baltimore
Sun.
IMMENSE SUM IS INVOLVED.
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Legal Contest Over the Disposition of
$30,000,000.
When William Weightman, the
Philadelphian tvho had made a fortune
in quinine, died and left his only
daughter, Mrs. Anne M. Weightman
Walker, approximately $30,000,000, she
became the second richest woman ih
her own right in the United States. All
of Mr. Weightman s money went to
HtJ\ UoTie^r
this daughter, one of three children.
Two sons had died. For a large num
ber of grandchildren Mr. Weightman
had made no provision. But now
comes Mrs. Jones Wister, widow of
Mr. Weightman’s youngest son, and
on behalf of her only minor daughter,
has begun a contest to break the will
—a contest that is likely to result in
sensational disclosures.
STRAIN OF NEW YORK LIFE.
Manner of Living Worse Than Hardest
Work. Says Edison.
Edison despises New York City. ‘‘I
loathe its artificial way of living,” he
says, “its mannerisms, its ways of
thought. It has but the one redeem
ing feature, that it is getting so impos
sible that people must leave it or be
come crazy. A man in New York gets
down to his office at 9, works until 12
or 1, goes out, takes a couple of coik
tails, eats a hearty luncheon, hurriedly
goes back to his desk and works until
5 or 6, hurries up town, stopping off
for one or two more drinks, goes out
somewhere, eats an enormous dinner,
goes to the theater and then supper
afterward, and finally tumbles into
bed. It is that type of man who often
says to me, “I don’t see how you stand
the strain of working the way you do
day after day and night after night in
the laboratory. Work? Why, my work
is play compared with his.”
Only Sure Road to Success.
Everybody is seeking to “get rich
quick,” without the formality of ac
cumulation by a slow but sure proc
ess; everybody is looking for a royal
road to riches, and so intense is the
hunt far that road that it is no won
der people sometimes forget to care
whether or not the road they try leads
through thickets of petty crime. There
is but one safe and sure road, and that
is the old-fashioned one of living al
ways within the income, what ever it
is. No fortune can be made without
a start, and a start is a start, no mat
ter how small it is. A cent is a much
better start than a debt. This in
volves close figuring. But it is close
figuring that does the business even
in the gigantic operations of to-day.—
Duluth Herald.
Have the Blood of Napoleon.
Charles J. Bonaparte, who succeeds
Paul Morton as secretary of the navy,
is one of many living links connected
with the great Napoleon, though none
of them is a direct descendant of “the
little corporal.” Among them are sev
eral of the most brilliant women in
Europe. Prince Victor Napoleon and
Prince Louis Napoleon are now re
garded as the heads of the house.
Princess Letitia is the widow of the
duke of Aosta, and is regarded as one
of the most beautiful women in Italy.
Princess Eugenia is the wife of the
prince of Moskowa and Princess
Marie, one of the richest women in
Europe, is the orphan daughter of
Prince Roland, who married the
dausnter of “Monte Carlo Blanc.”
Sarasate’s Talisman.
Sarasate, the great Spanish violin
ist, has, like most musicians, a belief
in talismans. His particular mascot is
in the form of a tiny replica in silver
of the famous Guarnerius violin on
which Paganini used to play. Sara
sate would not dare to play at a con
cert unless this little violin were
somewhere about his person.
NEAL HAS PLACE IN HISTORY.
Indiana Man, Now Dead, Wrote the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Stephen Neal, author of the four*
teenth amendment to the constitution
of the United States, died at his home
in Lebanon, Ind., June 23. He was 88
years old on June 11, having been
born in 1817 in Virginia. He came
into prominence in 1866 as the author
of the fourteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States. G.
S. Orth was at that time representa
tive in congress from the Ninth Indi
ana district, and was a close personal
and political friend of Mr. Neal, who
drafted the amendment and forwarded
it to Mr. Orth. It was passed almost
verbatim as Mr. Neal had written it.
He had been three times married and
leaves his last wife and ten children.
ALL MEET IN WASHINGTON.
Capital Surely Burying Ground of Dis
appointed Hopes.
Chief Clerk William H. Bayly of the
pension office in Washington has been
making a caEvass of the clerks for the
purpose of ascertaining the former oc
cupations of employes. His investiga
tion shows that this department is a
veritable burying ground of disap
pointed hopes. Of the 1.200 clerks
nearly 400 had prepared themselves
for the professions of law, medicine
or theology. Forty of them had been
authors, 43 were editors, 18 were edi
tors and publishers, 151 were news
paper correspondents, 33 were maga
zine writers and a total of 144 held
college or university uiplomas. Among
the men now passing on war claims
who formerly held military titles are
1 major general, 1 adjutant general, 5
brigadier generals, 8 colonels, 7 lieu
tenant colonels, 12 majors. 48 captains,
80 lieutenants and 8 second lieuten
ants. There are 9 ex-members of
houses of representatives of various
states and 4 ex-state senators on the
rolls. Eighteen justices of the peace
have found resting places in the pen
sion office, along with 5 county judges,
7 probate judges, 3 police judges and
12 sheriffs. Twenty-one former sur
geons, 2 bankers and 6 dentists and 2
elocutionists are now delving ovei
claims for back pay and bounty
Teaching seems to be an unprofitable
calling, for no less than 457 of the
1,200 clerks in the pension office were
formerly engaged in that profession.
LARGEST HOSPITAL FOR BERLIN
Rudolf Virchow Institution Will Be
Immense Affair.
Berlin will shortly be able to boast
that it contains the largest hospital
in the world. The new institution,
which is to be called after the famous
physiologist, the Rudolf Virchow hos
pital, will be fitted with accommoda
tiors for 2,000 patients. When fully
equipped it will have a staff of 650
physicians,, nurses, attendants and
servants. In connection with the hos
pital there will be a pathological and
anatomical laboratory, bath-house with
medico-mechanical institute, section
for Rontgen appliances, and a separ
ate building also for apothecaries.
Hitherto the largest German hospital
was that at Eppendorf. near Hamburg,
with accommodation for 1,600 patients.
The size of the new Berlin hospital
may be best shown when compared
with the London hospithl, with 780
beds, and the Marylebone infirmary,
with 744. .
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Proud of American Citizenship.
Joseph Hornblend. perhaps the most
celebrated courier in the old world,
seems to recognize the majesty ol
American citizenship. On his busi
ness cards he has printed: “Joseph
Hornblend, courier to Gen. Nelson A
Miles. Mr. Hopkinson Smith and the
emperor of Germany.” This extraor
dinary man is a Levantine, born in
Constantinople, with Greek, Armen
ian, Hindoo and perhaps Turkish
blood in him, a mixture of races which
produces an inexhaustible -fund ol
good temper, much capacity and a
soaring and uncontrolled imagination
Nevertheless he is a person of some .
distinction, having been decorated by
the sultan for leading an expedition
into Asia Minor. His control of lan
guages includes, of course,* all Euro
pean tongues, and extends to Turkish,
Arabics and innumerable dialects ol
the region around Constantinople.
Sage’s Rules for Good Work.
Edward Everett Hale thinks that
everybody should sleep ten hours a
day, going to bed at 9 o'clock. He
never engages in brain work after 4
in the afternoon, and spends a great
deal of time in the open air, caring
little for weather conditions. “Never
work," be says, “when you feel fagged
out, because you can not do good
work while In that state. Above
everything else do not worry.”
Pioneer in Days of Gold.
Andrew McFarlane, “pioneer of the
blazed trail," who died in San Ber
nardino, Cal., recently, was a native of
Alleghany, Pa., where he was horn in
1829. He was one of the most noted
prospectors and hunters of California.
His chief gold discovery was the Long
Tom mine in Kern county, from which
many millions have been taken. He
and two brothers crossed the plains
in the early ’50’s.
Inventor Is Street Cleaner.
Peter Henry Chevantier, who made
a fortune in toy balloons, is said to be
in poverty, and has joined a street
cleaning gang in New Jersey.