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| THE NEVS IN NEBRASKA | MILFORD HOME EXPENSIVE. Board Debating Advisability of Clos ing the Institution. LINCOLN—Members of the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings are seriously considering closing up one of the buildings used in connec tion with the Industrial Home at Mil ford, providing they cannot find a way to close the entire institution. At the jj. present time there are thirty-five in %mates besides three officers and five employes at the institution, or there were when the last report was made, a month ago. The per capita cost for caring for these for the six months was $162.20 for the 182 days. While this is not as large as the per capita at the Nebraska City institution it is considered •entirely too high for the good the institution does. It is claim ed that the unfortunates there could be sent to an institution in Omaha at a cost of not more than $25 for the patient, and the children inmates could be taken into the Home of the Friendless. To keep up both the build ings it will require repairs to cost not less than $10,000 and this the board does not want to spend. A great ef fort was made during the late legis lature to consolidate this institution with the Home for the Friendless, but it failed. The legislature appropriat ed $21,200 for maintaining the insti tution for the nert two years and most of this will be spent. BUSY WITH PLANS FOR UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS LINCOLN—Director Fee of the Uni versity buildings and grounds and Prof. Chowins are busy laying plans for a number of new buildings that are to be erected by the university within a short time. It is expected that work will start this summer on the new $50,000 museum building, to te located just north of the gymna sium on the campus and also on the women’s building at the state farm. Plans are now being drawn for these structures. Two barns will also be built at the farm this summer, one for hay and the other to accommodate the high class swine the state is rais ing. Plans are completed for a resi dence, for the instructor at the new sub-station at North Platte and also for two houses at the state farm, which will be utilized to accommodate assistants. Carter Has a Prize. LINCOLN—Deputy Game Warden Carter is in receipt of two beautifully mounted English black cocks. The history accompanying the birds states that many years ago. when the Eng lish game cocks became scare wealthy sporting men bought up a number of them and placed them in an isolated place, where, after being neglected a number of years, the birds turned into wild fowls, such as were the two sent to the game warden. The birds were sent out by Chicago parties. Cut in Carpet Bill. LINCOLN—The State Board of Pub lic Lands and Buildings is watching things closely of late. Some time ago some rubber carpeting wTas bought by sample for use in the Grand Island Soldiers’ Home. When it arrived Land Commissioner Eaton discoverd that the goods were lighter than the sample, and the board promptly cut ofT 12*6 cents a yard on the purchase. REAL ESTATE RAISE STANDS AS FIXED LINCOLN — County assessors in those counties whose valuation was increased by the State Board of Equal ization last year will be compelled to return to the state board this year: their real estate at the valuation fixed by the state board last year. That is they must take their own figures of last year and add the increase made by the state board for the real estate valuation of this year. Some coun ties have not done this, but the sec retary of the board will do it for them. The taking of assessors’ figures on real estate for last year instead of the figures of the board makes quite a difference in the total assessment. In Johnson county thhe difference is $113,117.70,- while in Nemaha county the differenc is $148,929.55, which amounts the secretary of the board will add to the valuation of the two counties. New Grain on Market. GRAFTON—Both elevators here are taking in new wheat. It is a fine quality, testing 62 pounds to the bush el. Price, 75c. It is thought that the yield may be generally 15 to 20 bush els per acre. Pat Jordan, a resident of Mason, was brought to Broken Bow by Sheriff Richardson, a complaint of insanity being lodged against him by his wife. Guard Rifles Competition. LINCOLN—The state rifle competi tion will be pulled off at Kearney by members of the National Guard, be ginning July 21 and lasting until Au gust 3. The successful ones in this meet will go to New Jersey to take part in the national shoot. Misterek is Killed. ELWOOD—Frank Misterek, an aged farmer, living six miles southwest of Elwood, was thrown from his wagon in a runaway and killed. Galusha in a Quandary. Secretary of State Galusha is up In the air on one of the bills passed by the late legislature. The bill is H. R. 214, introduced by C. J. Andersen of Douglas county, and is an act to pro vide for the protection of trade marks, labels and forms of advertising, and it was especially desired enacted. The bill provides that a fee of $2 shall be paid to the secretary of state upon the filing of a trade mark or label. As the " statute does not require the secretary to turn the money over to the reasnrer the secretary is in a quandary. STATE NOTES. Adams will hold a street fair on July 28 and 29. A good program has been prepared for the occasion. The corporate existence of the First National bank of West Point has been extended by the treasury de partment for twenty years. Judge A. H. Babcock, one of the judges of the First judicial district, is ill at his home in Beatrice. His con dition is regarded serious. There has been a decrease in the number of persons of school age in the Osceola High school district of twenty-six from last year. The assessors’ valuation of real and personal property in Hall county shows Wood River in second place, with an increase of $25,124. Grand Is land shows up $43,529. W. D. Fisher has been appointed manager of ihe York opera house. He says the new owner, Mr. Campbell, will completely remodel the building and put everything in a first class con dition. The 8-vear-old daughter of Mrs. Mary Branek, five miles northwest of Table Rock was bitten by a dog. She was brought to town for medical treatment at once and no serious ap prehensions are felt in the matter. Silas Bowren. who lives on a tarm five miles northwest ot Table Rock was struck and instantly killed by ■ lightning. He and his son. Ralph, were going home from the field with i teams. The son s team was killed. Mr. Bowen leaves a wife and three child ren. The state board of health has ap pointed G. H. Brewer, secretary of the embalming board. As members of the dental board under the new law, D. M. Meese of Auburn was appointed ! for one year; C. F. Wallace of Omaha, three years; W. T. Smith, Geneva, four years; C. L. Parker of Norfolk, five years. Mortgage indebtedness of Jefferson county for June is as follows: Farm mortgages filed, nine; amount, $12, 868; cancelled, fifteen; amount, $16, 958.25; city mortgages filed, nine teen: amount, $6,750; cancelled, four; amount. $2,494.80; chattel mortgages filed, 125; amount, $19,623.83; can celled. $58,708.80. Judge Paul Jessen. in district court of Johnson county set aside the verdict in the case of Charles M. Chamberlain, found guilty of embezzlement, and or ! dered a new trial. Chamberlain has asked for a change of venue. The court reduced the bond from $20,800 , to $10,000 and Chamberlain is solicit ing new bonds. Big preparations are being made for j York’s first chautanqua assembly, July 21 to 30. Good grounds have been secured and all arrangements made for ten days' of high class entertainment. The big day of the Chautauqua will be Thursday, July 27, when Governor W. Folk, of Missouri, will deliver bis lec ! ture on “Good Citizenship.” The officers of the Big Four Log Rolling association, which includes the counties of Seward. Saline, Lan | caster and Gage, met at DeWitt and decided to hold the annual picnic of ; the Modern Woodmen of America at that place on August 23 and 24. The officers also arranged a program for j the two days at the meeting, i The Tecumstv city library board has received a proposition from the agent of Andrew Carnegie whereby j he, for Mr. Carnegie, proposes to do j nate the sum of $7,500 to that city for i the erection of a library building. This provides that the city wil take action to provide a fund of $600 per year to maintain the library. Steps will be taken at once to secure the ! new building. Corn on uplands, says a West j Point dispatch, shows a marked im j provement by reason of the favorable , weather of the last few days, but in | the bottom lands very little progress ■ has been made. The wet weather has ! effectually precluded cultivation, al lowing the rank growth of weeds to smother the plants, with the result that the crop can be considered a fail ure along the river bottoms. • The remains of George Dungan, the young traveling salesman from Lin coln who was killed near there under neath his automobile, were brought to Norfolk for burial besides those of his mother. The death of Dungan was & double tragedy in a way, as he was killed practically upon his w^edding eve. Within the next week he was to have been married, his fiancee being among the funeral attendants. Dr. Juan Carlos Tornquist, brother of the Argentine council at New York city, is in Norfolk for a month’s stay and is investigating the conditions among American cattle. He is this year a graduate of the veterinary de partment of Cornell university, where he took the course for the purpose erf equipping , himself to combat against 1 the dreaded diseases of cattle in his own country. Last year hts father lost $100,000 worth of cattle from foot and mouth diseases alone. On account of recent horse steal ings a meeting was called in Albion and quite largely attended for the pur pose of organizing an anti-horse thieving association. County Clerk Babbitt lost a valuable mare about ten days ago of which no trace can be found. Ten more men patients were trans ferred from the Lincoln hospital for the insane to Norfolk. The balance of the 150 who are^o be accommodated there will arrive about the middle of the month. The furniture for the new asylum has not yet arrived, although it has been ordered. Robert Leisy of Wisner delivered to County Clerk Kaup eight wolf scalps, and under the new law re ceived the bounty of $1.25 each. Henry J. Hartz of West Point caught three wolves in the hills on the east side of town and received the bounty of £3.75. ifork county reported an increase of $724,000 in its assessed valuation to the state -board of assessment The total assessment for the county this year will be more than $6,000,000. The, returns show that over $400,000 has been expended within the last year in improvements to real estate. WALTER KITTREDGE. POPULAR WAR SONG AUTHOR. DEAD i * * I Walter Kittredge, poet and author of the song “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,” died at his home at Reed's Ferry, N. H., last week. He was bom at Merrimac, N. H., Oct. 8. 1834. Since 1856 he had been a song composer, writing the words and music of many songs that were popular. He gave concerts and sang his own compositions. “Tenting on '-> the Old Camp Ground” was probably his most popular production, but oth ers which had great vogue were “No Night,” “Golden Streets,” “Scatter the Flowers Over the Blue and the Gray” and “Sing the Old War Songs Again.” Kittredge lived at Heed’s Ferry, where he owned a farm. He was married in 1861 to Miss Annie E. Fairfield of Boston, N. H. RYAN A MONEY GETTER. Characteristics of the New Head of the Equitable. John Skelton Williams of Rich mond, Va., one of the foremost bank ers and railway organizers^ of the south, says of Thomas Fortune Ryan, the new head of the Equitable: ”1 have known Mr. Ryan six years and in that time have been associated with him in enterprises in which we were mutually interested and opposed to him in struggles for the control of properties. It was difficult for me to understand that a man could be capa ble of violating pledges and promises, deliberately and solemnly given, and afterward of looking me calmly In the face, expressing friendship and appar ently not at all ashamed or embar rassed—not even angered—when bluntly told my opinion of his con duct. Mr. Ryan has the tendencies which, if his lines had bee® cast in a humble and contracted sphere, prob ably would have made him a klepto maniac. His strongest impulse is to acquire money.”—Chicago Chronicle. SHAH ON HIS TRAVELS. • Persian Ruler Accompanied by Nu merous Attendants. No European potentate has, when he travels, so many attendants, offi cers and adjutants with him as the shah of Persia, who has recently been visiting Vienna again. He is also ac companied by two of his little sons, to whom he pays a great deal of at tention, listening in the parlor car to their prattle with evident delight. A Viennese journalist says that were it not for the huge jewels in his attire he would look more like a Wfallachian shepherd than like a shah. He is short and rather stout, has sloping ; shoulders and a body that looks as if it might be made of tallow or cheese. His countenance is thin, his features relaxed, his expression blase. Though he seems almost like a caricature,, there is something pathetic about his appearance. Gudgeons No Longer Biting. Confidence in Wall street is at low ebb, as evidenced by the refusal of the public to bite at the bait thrown to it by promoters, speculators and financial adventurers. In the good old days all that was necessary to sell a new stock or bond was the indorse ment of some alleged reputable bank ing house. The banking house would reap the harvest and let the public hold the bag. But investors have learned a few things during the last few years and they are now as wary of the traps set for them by designing Wall street men as they are of known confidence sharks. What is needed in Wall street. is a thorough cleaning. Weed out the rascals, big and little, expose their crooked methods and bring them before the bar of justice. Present methods can not continue.— Baltimore News. Russell Sage as a Legislator. Everybody knows Russell Sage as a financier. Only a few remember that at one time in his career he repre sented a New York district in con gress. He was elected to the thirty third congress as a whig, taking his seat Dec. 5, 1853. On the second day of the session he participated in a dis cussion regarding the creed of a clergyman who had been sugested for chaplain of the house. From that time on be took active part in the de liberations of that body, proving him self a strong debater. Philadelphia Mutt Be Slow. Hugh Rafferty, a citizen of Phila delphia, has a poor opinion of the place where he liveB. Mr.-Rafferty dined rather freely the other evening and was arrested on a charge of dis orderly conduct Next morning a rela tive offered to put up the necessary bail, but Hugh refused to leave jail, saying: “No, I'll stay here. The town’s so slow on the Fourth of July that a man might as well be in jail as out Call around on Wednesday and will talk it over.” MODERN LIFE TOO FAST. Grave Danger in the Hustling Habits of Americans. Surgeon General Rixey sounds a note of warning to the American peo ple when he declares that the death of Secretary Hay and a number of other men prominently identified with the government in recent years is due to too much work and too little exer cise. The statement coming from an authority so high can not be passed without consideration. The energy of the American is one of the wonders of the world and there is reason to be lieve that persons in private life die from the cause that has taken so many public men. The mad pace ap pears to pervade all branches of so ciety, and while some men have the wisdom to temper their toil with the necessary exercise they appear to be the exception rather than the rule. It is therefore plain that if Americans are to live their allotted days they must chafcge their mode of living, but how? The principles are established and it is difficult to change them. It has become almost second nature for the American to hustle, evidently one of the most dangerous elements of our business life. War Has Made Chums Foes. Lady Takahira. wife of the Japan ese minister, and Baroness Rosen, whose husband succeeds Count Cas sini as Russian ambassador, were great chums in Tokio when the baron represented his government there. Society in Washington is somewhat interested to know just how these two women will act when they meet. The Baroness Rosen loves music and poet ry, as does Lady Takahira. Both are excellent linguists and have a wit w’hich long ago made them conspicu ous in the diplomatic set. The wife of the Japanese minister is a dainty and gracious woman, not above five feet. She can sing like a thrush, loves to wear ropes of pearls, runs to white in her gowns and in her intensely black hair wears a diamond sunburst of great beauty. In Tokio the Baroness Oyama, Lady Takahira and Baroness Rosen were inseparable. All three play chess. Roosevelt’s Opinion of Root. Some months ago President Roose velt uttered this estimate of Elihu Root: “In John Hay I have a great secretary of state. In Philander Knox I have a great attorney general. In other cabinet posts I have great men. Elihu Root could take any of these places and fill it as well as the man who is now there. And, in addi tion, he is what probably none of these gentlemen could be—a great secretary of war. Elihu Root is the ablest man I have known in our gov ernment service. I will go further. He is the greatest man that has ap peared in the public life of any coun try, in any position, on either side of the ocean, in my time.” Railroad Company’s Gratitude. Nannie Gibson, a barefooted 11-year old girl who lives with her parents in the Black mountains of North Caro lina, is to be given a college educa tion by the Southern Railway, which will also provide for her in other ways. Some time ago a big slide oc curred on the mountain while she was home alone. She ran down the railroad waving her red petticoat, A heavy train was stopped by her ten feet from where the mountain had caved in. Below'was an abyss sever al thousand feet deep. Has Won Second Fortune. Theodore H. Price, formerly of Price, McCormick & Co., made $750, 000 in New Ybrk recently by the leap in the price of cotton. Five years ago he was knocked from the position of “Cotton King” within four days of his wedding and had but $1,000 left of his fortune. He had Just finished paying off $2,000,000 of debts and ceased to work for cred itors, when the advance made him the first money he has possessed of his own since May 24. 1900. NO STATE OIL REFINERY. Project of Kansas Legislature De clared Unconstitutional. Justice A. L. Greene of the Kansas Supreme Court, who handed down the decision declaring the appropriation of $410,000 made by the last legisla ture for a state oil refinery to be un constitutional, is one of the ablest jurists in Kansas. He is a native of Missouri. He served five years as county attorney. He was appointed to the supreme court from Newton. Judge Greene is a prominent man in the Presbyterian .Church and an en thusiastic Shakespearean scholar. THE PACE THAT KILLS. City Dweller* Wear Themselves Out with Useless Hurry. The microbe of hurry, hurry, use less hurry, is in the air; so much so, in fact, that it is almost impossible for a city dweller, no matter how well balanced he may be, not to become in oculated with it. Wine, women and song are not the only influences that go to make up the “pace that kills.” The average life of the business man er the society woman hurries people to catastrophe as fast as does that of the "rounder” or “dissipate.” Did you ever do anything on this or der—rush your meals, rush your play, make a fool of yourself running half a block for a car already crowded to the guards? You plead guilty, do you? Then you are going a pace that kills just as surely as the more widely her alded pace.—Kansas City Star. IS NEW RUSSIAN BEAUTY. Baroness Rosen Takes Place of the Countess Cassini. A new Russian beauty is in Wash ington to take the place of the dash ing Countess Cassini, adopted daugh ter of the former ambassador and the warm chum of Alice Roosevelt. The newcomer is Miss Isabel Rosen, daughter of Baron Rosen, the newly named ambassador and one of the en voys who will endeavor to frame a treaty of peace between Russian and Japan. Miss Rosen is fifteen years old, is very pretty and in the social gossip of the capital she already has been assigned a place similar to that occu pied by the Countess Cassini. Cost of Good Government. .The-greater*-the responsibilities as-, sumed by municipalities in adminis tering public utilities, the greater are the knowledge and vigilance necessary for every citizen. Good government and protection from abuse of public trusts cost not only money but per sonal study and service of every one concerned in these trusts. Bad polit ical organization must be overcome by good ones as efficiently led, as well equipped with money and as vigilant ly supported by honest citizens. This is the most important lesson of Amer ican citizenship. Public business will expand and succeed Just as fast as all the people enter into active partner ship in it, and no faster.—Congrega tionalism Millionaire Marries Housekeeper. George Baum, a 70-year-old Phila delphia millionaire who made his money in the leather business, has just married his housekeeper, a good looking Irish woman 28 years old. The ceremony was performed in church, a crowd of over 2.000 being present, with nearly as many outside waiting to see the happy pair enter and leave. Mr. and Mrs. Baum will spend part of their honeymoon at Cape May, after which they will take an ocean trip on a new yacht which is now being completed. Paderewski’s Hair of Value. There is something almost pathetic in remarks with which Mme. Pad erewski is credited—that bar husband simply dare not cut his hair. He might desire to have a head as trimly neat and smooth as a greyhound, says his wife, but the public would not let him. Were be to abate his ambrosial locks to even half their present proportions the music lovers of London and New York would cry out, and if he persist ed in shortening his hair they would desert him for a new idol "MAIL BANK” CLOSED DOWN BY POSTAL AUTHORITIES — I jf2??&££> Edward G. Lewis of St. Louis, whose novel scheme of doing a bank ing business by mail exclusively has been stopped with a postal fraud or der pending an investigation, had se cured several million dollars in de posits and stock subscriptions. The ALIEN INVASION QF CANADA. Figures of Yearly Immigration Are Enormous. The Canadian authorities estimates the total immigration into Canada up to June 30, the figures for June and May. not being final, at 148,261, as against 130,330 for the preceding fis cal year. In proportion to population this is equivalent to an immigration of about two millions into the United States, or twice the volume the Re public is actually receiving. It repre sents a foreign dilution of the popu lation of Canada by two and one-half per cent, of its total amount, and if it were maintained on the same scale it would eventually submerge the na tive Canadians in a foreign majority. The evidence of Mr. W. D. Scott, im migration superintendent, and Dr. P. H. Bryce, chief medical inspector, be fore a parliamentary committee con veys the rather surprising informa tion that Canada sif^s her immigrants more carefully than the United States. According to their figures Canada has rejected one applicant in every 290 and the United States only one in ev ery 2,665.—Collier's. HUXLEY LIKED HIS TOBACCO. Scientist’s Testimony Rather Discon certing to Hearers. Prof. Huxley was invited on one oc casion to take the chair at an anti tobacco meeting. In a brief opening speech he related a personal incident. He was visiting a friend, with whom he had animated discussions on a re cent scientific discovery in which they were both deeply interested. “How ever, there was one point on which we differed,” continued the professor. “My friend was a great smoker, while I detested tobacco in any form. [Great applause.] After dinner we usually retired to his study; but, finding my self once nearly suffocated with my friend’s cigar smoke, I expostulated. Thereupon, pushing the cigars Defore me, he said: ‘Take one yourself; it’s the best remedy.’ As I knew I couldn’t induce him to give up his, I reluctantly took a cigar and smoked it. And since that time, ladies and gentlemen, nothing on earth could in duce me [renewed applause] to forego my afternoon cigar.” Sweden’s Good Financial Position. Judging by the position of Sweden's banks, that country must be in good condition financially. At the close of 1904 Sweden had sixty-nine banks in good working order. The aggregate capital was $100,000,000, as against $85,000,000 in 1903 and $76,000,000 in 1902. In addition the banks held very large reserves. The trade of the coun try is moving so rapidly that quite re cently seven backs issued new shares at from 60 per cent, to 150 per cent, premium, thus increasing their re serves to the extent of $18,000,000, be sides the capital increase. Last year the average bank dividend was 9.2 per cent These figures show that the commerce and industries of the coun try are in good shape to stand a tilt with Norway. The prices commanded by Swedish government bonds in the principal money markets of the world show that the State finances are also in good shape Diary Kept Four Centuries. The oldest diary in existence is said to be that preserved in the Japanese family of Hozaka. It has been duly maintained by the various heads of the family for four centuries. An English commentator notes that about twenty years ago a dispute over prec edence arose between two branches of the family and that this was promptly settled by recourse to the diary and the discovery of the record of a din ner given 200 or 300 years ago by the head of the family to the founder of the side line. Enormous Russian Expenditure. Since the war began Russia has drawn down her treasury balance 451, 000,000 rubles, used up a special war fund of 140,000,000 and borrowed 1, 710,000,000 rubles, showing that the war has been costing her about 5,000, ,000 rubles—$2,500,000—daily. At the beginning of the war she explained that her ownership of the Siberian railroad and a fleet of transports would enable her to carry on war with very little more than peace expendi tures. MOUNTED POLICE OF CANADA. Have Made Splendid Record in the Northwest Territory. Readiness for duty in any form has made the Royal Northwest Mounted Police what they are—the trusted guardians of life and property in west ern Canada, says the World To-day. Their field is from the United States boundary to the arctic coast, and in this vast terirtory, a thousand miles from south to north, 800 scarlet-coat ed men keep peace and order. Through any part of it, prairie, wilderness or woods, a defenseless woman may go alone and have no fear. To make thus easy the traveler’s way meant years of vigilant policing, and even of fighting. Those were stirring times, when mounted police service had zest and glory. To-day there is less glory and more hard work; for. as the coun try is setting farther north, the police, too, are moving up and widening their beats. Smugglers on the border, thieves on the ranches, criminals in the settlements, fires in the forests, to guard against these and to repre sent the law in a land that would eas ily be lawless are their duties to-day; and to these have now been added the carriage of the mails fn the extreme North and the protection of the whale fisheries on the arctic coast. NOTHING BUT AN AMERICAN. John Hay’s Facetious Description of His Nationality. Two years ago in a speech before the Ohio Society of New York, the late John Hay facetiously traced his derivation as follows. I was born in Indiana, I grew up In Illinois, I was educated In Rhode Island. I learned my law in Springfield, 111., and my pol itics in Washington, my diplomacy in Europe, Asia and Africa. I have a farm in New Hampshire and desk room in the District of Columbia. When I look to the springs from which my blood descends the first ancestors I ever heard of were a Scotchman who was half English and a German woman who was half French. Of my immediate progenitors, my mother was from New England and my father was from -the south. In this bewilder ment of origin and experience I can only put on an aspect of deep humil ity in any gathering of favorite sons, and confess that I am nothing but an American.” - i Political “Pull" Not Necessary. Postmaster Wilcox of New York has given signal proof that political "pull” is not supreme in his office. Recently the supertntendency of mails bec&ifte vacant and the postmaster consulted one of his associates about eligible members of his staff, inquiring partic ularly about a Mr. Rootne. His ad viser replied that the man mentioned was the best man for the place, but was not an applicant for the promo tion. A further inquiry as to the rea son for Roome’s modesty brought out this interesting bit of information: He had not applied because he knew he had no chapce of getting it. He did not know a single politician. Mr. Wflcox sent for Roome and after some conversation, which showed the lat ter's efficiency, named him for the va cancy and he is now superintendent of mails. Political Conference Postponed. Vice President Fairbanks was visit ing in Marysville. Ohio, his boyhood home, last week, and while there sent for John Flickerson, the village bar ber. to shave him. When the ton sorial artist arrived Mr. Fairbanks was holding a political conference with some local magnates and asked the barber to wait. “If you want to be shaved,” said Flickerson, -it*ll have to be right now. I’m pretty busy to day.” The conference was suspended at once and the vice president hustled into a chair. Rockefeller’s New Home. John D. Rockefeller is surveying the ground for his new summer home at Buttermilk Hill, across from Nyack on the Hudson. It is to cost $1,009, 000, a sum modest enough as com pared with the pretentious palaces of so many modem millionaires, but the site Mr. Rockefeller has chosen is so commanding and the surrounding country so beautiful that even among the most costly creations of recent years his home will be one of the show places of America. a z£Tvrs postal inspectors have found that he did not use his own money in the or ganization of the bank, as he prom ised in his prospectus, and that he has been loaning the bank’s funds to himself. Lewis claims the concern is perfectly solvent.