Nebraska Newspapers

    THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA
national encampment g. a. r.
Order No. 7 by Department Com
mander John Lett
The following order has been issued
by Department Commander John Lett
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY
OF THE REPUBLIC, DEPARTMENT
OF NEBRASKA, STATE HOUSE,
LINCOLN.—With this find national
general order No. 7 relating to the
thirty-ninth national encampment to
be held in Denver, Colo., commencing
September 4. 1905, and continuing the
entire week. There never has been,
and possibly never will be again, such
a grand opportunity for the comrades
of Nebraska to attend a national en
campment. The railroads certainly
have shown their generosity in grant
ing a rate of 1 cent per mile each way
fiom the .Missouri river, a rate never
before granted to the Grand Army go
ing west; this rate is figured from your
railroad station over the shortest
route to Denver.
The department commander has se
lected the Burlington as his official
route and requests all comrades, their
wives and friends to accompany him
on this official train. The date of
starting has not been fully determined.
1 .ris with other details will be promul
gated in future, general orders to be
issued not later than August 15.
The department commander has ap
pointed the Euphony Cornet band of
York as the headquarters band and
they will accompany the headquarters
train to Denver.
Free quarters for comrades desiring
them. Cots or new double mattresses
placed in new modern school build
ings having excellent lavatory ar
rangements will be furnished. Those
desiring free quarters should take
either blanket or quilt and one pillow
with them. Meals good and substan
tial can be had at resaurants for |5
cents and up. We are assured prices
will not be raised by hotels and res
taurants during encampment.
PENITENTIARY CONVICT
MAKES HIS ESCAPE
LINCOLN.—William Henderson, col
ored, sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years from Cherry county, made
his escape from that institution and
took with him. it is charged, $475
worth of property not his own. Hen
derson was a trusty and worked as a
cook, so his escape was easy. Before
going he attached himself to two dia
mond rings, two watches, one engraved
with the word “Luree.” and the other
engraved "J. W. Swallow.” One of
the rings was valued at $180. He also
took $28 in cash. Henderson is five
feet, seven inches in height, weighs
132 pounds and is 33 years old. He
wore away one of Deputy Fairfield’s
straw hats and black trousers. A re
ward of $50 has been offered for his
capture.
Woman Commits Suicide.
LINCOLN.—Mrs. J. W. Pickrel, aged
24 years, was found dead in bed by
her husband, a railroad man who re
turned home from a run at that hour.
Beside the woman was a bottle which
had contained chloroform and Coroner
Graham decided that Mrs. Pickrel had
taken her own life and that an inquest
was not necessary. The husband
could give no reasons for the act. He
had been away from home at his work
for several days, but said Mrs. Pick
rel was cheerful when he left her.
EQUALIZATION BOARD
PROTESTS AGAINST DELAY
The State Board of Equalization is
disgusted with the way in which some
of the counties are making haste in
getting in their reports and if the
same are not forthcoming at once the
extreme penalty of the law will be in
voked against the assessors. The time
for the reports to be in lapsed nine
days ago and as there are still four
conties out the board is getting tired
of waiting and some one will have to
settle for the delay.
Commits Suicide in Jail.
AURORA.—John M. Parish, who
was being held in the county jail at
this place under accusation of house
breaking near Philipps, committed sui
cide in the jail. .He tore a strip from
a blanket in his cell, fastened one end
to a water pipe near the ceiling and
the other end around his neck and
there strangled to death. He was a
stranger in this locality.
Valuable Team Stolen.
BEATRICE.—A team of valuable
horses was stolen from A. Viney of
Narka. Kas. He has been here at
tending the holiness camp meeting. He
camped near Ellis, this county, en
route home, and towards morning dis
covered the animals were missing.
New Plan Platted.
WEST POINT.—A new town has
been platted seventeen miles south
east of this city at a point three miles
south of the southeast corner of Cum
ing county on the proposed new line
of the Ashland Cut-Off. The name of
the new town is Uehling.
FULLERTON.—Dr. Edward Mc
Millan was suddenly stricken with
apoplexy while walking along the
street in apparently his usual health.
A physician was immediately sum
moned but life was extinct.
State Land Sold.
Land Commissioner Eaton disposed
of 360 acres of land belonging to the
penitentiary, near Crete for a total of
$12,300, the purchasers being Frank
Brahel, D. B. Conway and Herman
Strufling. Other land will be bought
nearer the penitentiary.
Big Plano for Workman Picnic.
EMERSON.—Great plans are being -
laid for the Northeast Nebraska An
cient Order of United Workmen pic
nic, which is to be held at this place
on July 27.
STATE NOTES.
The special election for voting
$9,000 water extension bond carried
with a whoop at Stromsburg.
Will Hubresky a young blacksmith
of Schuyler, aged 20 years, wras
brought before the board of insanity
this morning and found to be a fit sub
ject for the asylum.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
is going to put in new stock boards
east of the present yards at Fremont,
which will accommodate more stock
and be easier of success.
The churches of Humboldt are hold
ing union open air services in the city
park each Sabbath evening during the
summer months, the various ministers
preaching each alternate service.
E. J. Straver, a farmer of Edgeley
township, brought seven wolf scalps to
the office of County Clerk Boe of
Dodge county and asked for bounty on
them. He dug the animals up on his
farm.
The Evangelical denomination has
organized a church at Naponee, with
the Rev. A. Essley as pastor. A par
sonage has already been bought and
money is being raised for a church
building.
Benjamin F. Purdy died at the home
of his daughter. Mrs. J. C. Kesterson,
in Fa:rbury. He was 90 years old and
his death was the result of an acci
dent which occurred a couple of days
preceding.
At a public meeting held in Alliance
it was decided to petition the city
council to employ a competent engi
neer to make a survey and plat for a
sewerage system and give an estimate
as to its cost.
L. H. Brammeier, living five miles
from Syracuse. Otoe county, marketed
wheat this week that made forty-four
bushels to the acre, tested sixty-two
pounds and brought 75 cents at the
local market.
Charley Nolan, who resides with his
parents west of Wood River, was kick
ed in the face by a horse and severely
injured. The force of the blow struck
him just one side of the nose and un
der his right eye.
Hans bchwartz, a former resident of
Cass county and for whom relatives
in Ohio have been searching, has been
located in Oklahoma. Mr. Schwartz is
an heir to an estate valued at $25,000,
which was left by his father.
A steel span is to replace that part
of the Platte river bridge in Dodge
county carried out by the floods this
spring. The contract for the construc
tion of the same has been let and it
will be put up in a few weeks.
Chicken thieves are operating on a
large plan in Brownville precinct and
their depredations have proven costly
for their victims. One night recently
Mr. McCulley had his hen coop raided
and 150 young fries were stolen.
Secretary Brooks of the Boone
County Agricultural association is
making extensive improvements on
the fair grounds and the society will
be much better prepared to handle ex
hibits the coming fall than ever be
fore.
J. W. Robinson of Plattsmouth, who
was wounded on July 4 while repair
ing a toy pistol, died from lockjaw.
Mr. Robinson was wounded in the
hand but the injury was almost heal
ed when alarming symptoms of lock
jaw set in.
Timothy Lane, a farmer who lives
west of Tecumseh. came into the coun
ty court and swore out complaint
against Harry Casford, another farm
er, charging Casford with assault on
the person of his 13-year-old daughter,
Grace Lane.
Johnnie Svehla, an 8-year-old boy,
was drowned in the Missouri river at
Plattsmouth. He had been warned
against getting into the river, but paid
no attention to the advice and was
soon in seven feet of water from
which his companions could not res
cue him.
At a meeting of the Board of Mana
gers contracts were let for the erec
tion on the fair grounds of One swine
barn of fifty pens capacity; also of an
addition to the amphitheatre 128 feet
in length. In the matter of Polled Dur
ham cattle, which were not assigned
a lot in the premium list, it was or
dered that entries may be made under
the head of discretionary, and that the
same rules and classification shall
govern as in Red Polled cattle and
the same money premiums be offered.
A young man representing himself
to be an agent for some New Jersey
commission firm has been in the vicin
ity of Ashland offering farmers 85
cents a bushel for their wheat, but
was unable to secure any at those
fancy prices, as he failed to show the
cash.
That there is much land in Nebraska
still subbject to homestead entry is
shown in a fifty-page pamphlet just is
sued by the passenger department of
the Burlington railroad. A great deal
of the land also, can be obtained in
640-acre homesteads under the Kin
kaid law.
Boone County—Farmers who have
begun the harvest of winter wheat, re
port that the crop will be the heaviest
for years. All report the grain of an
exceptionally fine quality, the berry
being large, plump and heavy.
The State Board of Pubilc Lands
and Buildings awarded these contracts
to Rokher & Moxen of Avoca. Ia.:
Boiler house at Grand Island, $4,490;
hospital. $4,825; new barn. $1,190. The
new cottage at Beatrice was let to
Johnson & Gustafson for $19,809; the
wiring for the cottage was let to the
Nebraska Electrical company of
Omaha for $350.
Beaver Crossing is to have a,new
bank, called the Citizens’ bank, it will
be capitalized at $25,000. A new
brick or cement building will be erect
ed for it. its promoters are strong rep
resentative business men and substan
tial farmers of that locality.
Billy ~adill, a traveling showman,
was arrested at Macon, eight miles
north of Franklin, where he and a 16
year-old girl from Superior were over
taken by the marshal of Franklin, and
I. E. Wilson, the irate father of the
girl. *iLadill was taken to the county
seat and will probably be held on a
serious charge.
CONDITION OF EX-SPEAKER
HENDERSON ALARMS FRIENDS
As the result of a wound received during the civil war, Ex-Speaker
Henderson’s mind is said to be failing, and his bodily health is causing his
friends much uneasiness.
AWAKE TO IDEAS OF BEAUTY.
American Homes and Cities Showing
More Adornment.
It has long and justly been a re
proach to Americans that they are so
devoted to the material and practical
that ideals have been neglected. It is
beyond dispute that as respects artis
tic adornment the average American
home or town is inferior to the for
eign home or town. This has been no
toriously the case in the country,
where the American pioneer chopped
or burtied every tree in sight of his
homestead, then had to set out shade
trees for the benefit of his grandchil
dren. It is only lately that American
cities and private citizens have em
barked upon intelligent and compre
hensive enterprises of city and home
adornment. Europe is old and staid,
America young and restless, with a
large migratory population which nev
er stops long enough in one place to
have a home. In this respect things
are changing, and what is to be made
a home only for a few years can in a
short time, under the favorable cir
cumstances of living here, be made as
attractive artistically as many Euro
pean homes w'hich have been such for
generations. This country owes to its
population of recent European origin
a large share of the credit for the
newly awakened interest in natural
beauty effects.—Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
Rented Wedding “Gifts.”
“I was a party to a little deception
this spring that was a new thing in
my line of business,” said the proprie
tor of a silverware store in Harlem.
“A woman who studied abroad for her
fairly successful career as a concert
singer on this side of the Atlantic
came to me to buy a wedding present
for her niece. For that she paid cash.
Then she proposed to hire various ar
ticles in my store for the wedding
day, furnishing good security there
for, and paying a fair price for the
loan of the goods. She assured me
she had made similar arrangements
with a bric-a-brac dealer in Broadway.
I read an account of the wedding in
the newspapers. The silverware I
had rented was duly mentioned
among the gifts. I presume there
were others. I find that renting out
wedding gifts is quite a common oc
currence in Paris and London, but I
never before heard of it in New
York.”
President's College Honors.
Even before receiving the two doc
torates conferred upon him recently
Theodore Roosevelt had a larger col
lection of college degrees than any
of his predecessors in the office of
president of the Unitqd States. In
cluding his B. A., taken in course at
Harvard twenty-five years ago, he has
now had bestowed upon him ten titles
to distinction of this kind and is priv
ileged to write after his name eight
LL. D’s and one L. H. D. The total ii
just twice the highest number of hon
orary degrees given by the colleges of
the country to any of his predecessors.
Washington, Jefferson and McKinley
each received five degrees. John
Adams and Hayes each received four.
Grant received three. *
They Were Not Married.
There is a woman of enterprise in
a certain Lincolnshire village. She
found a bridegroom and determined
to annex him. Then the marriage day
dawned and the bride went to church.
She waited long, and instead of the
bridegroom came a note, which said
that he had just had a bill from the
dressmaker for the wedding dress,
and “if you are going to begin like
this I am not going to marry you.”
The appropriate comment seems to be
"More haste, less speed.”—London
Telegraph.
Robin Lost Her Home.
This spring a robin began prepara
tions for nesting under a truss of the
turntable at the railway station in
Woodstock, Vt. The turntable was
then swung around, and the bird
started another nest under the oppo
site truss. Again the foundation of
her house was turned around, and she
began again on the first nest. She
had laid two sets of eggs when the
eld turntable was removed and she
was compelled to breaV up house
keeping.
THE ELOQUENCE OF MONEY.
Magazine Writer Discourses on Recent
Important Events.
Money talks. Sometimes its elo
quence almost drowns whatever still
small voices may be pleading for the
floor. Honestly, between ourselves,
we sometimes weary of its conver
sation. Money is exciting, but. it oc
casionally seems almost to have the
star role, with other interests no
where. John D.’s notable exploit with
the great American college fraternity
was a relief, for it enabled us to
laugh. “So,” said he, “you criticised
the Congregationalists for accepting
my $100,000, did you? Well, I’ll buy
the whole of you. Miss Tarbell and
Mark Hanna say I'm money mad?
What do you think of $10,000,000? I'll
invest that in collegiate silence and
celestial dividends. Hadley is the
boy that suggested social ostracism
for such as me. A special million for
Yale ought to make him about as
tactful in the future as President Har
per, or any other good, wise educator
that knows his business. “T. Roose
velt of Harvard was barking also, just
before those $10,000,000 appeared
upon the scene. Perhaps some con
spicuous scion of that noble university
now clamors for attention long enough
to make a speech on the habits and
duties of famous financiers. As for
us, we can do nothing to stem the
tide, but you will kindly let us sulk.
Moreover, we believe that the uni
versities w'ould do well to cavil a trifl<*
longer, for rather than not acquire
a restful silence Mr. Rockefeller
would come out with $100,000,000. So
why not get as large a graft out of
his predicament as we can?—Collier’s.
Lengthy Epic Poem.
The late Hermann Lingg accom
plished the extraordinary feat of
writing an epic poem of 20,000 lines
on the migrations of peoples. He
spent decades in collecting material
for it, not, as he explains, in libraries,
but in hospitals, taverns and military
camps. He was at one time an army
surgeon. As long ago as 1890 his
seventieth birthday was celebrated at
Munich, where the prince regent
made him a noble and the city con
ferred on him honorary citizenship.
In the last years he had lost his fac
ulties and strength to such an extent
as to seem like a child. His daughter,
Mali, devoted herself entirely to tak
ing care of him. During the years of
his connection with the army he often,
like Byron, composed his poems on
horseback.
Knew His Own Capacity.
Abe Gruber, the New York lawyer,,
tells of a southern friend who was
visiting him. Mr. Gruber, wishing to
be hospitable, brought forth a whisky
bottle and placed it on the dining
room table. He went to the china
closet to get some whisky glasses. On
his return he was surprised to see
that his friend had filled up an ordi
nary water glass to the brim and was
about to drink it. “Say,” said Mr.
Gruber, "what are you doing? You
drink that as if it were cider.”
“Cider?” said the southerner, drain
ing his glass, “do you think I'd take
that much cider?”
Responded to Name After Death.
At a guillotining in Paris, France,
the doctor in attendance made a grue
some experiment. As the murderer's
head fell into the basket the doctor
seized it and shouted the man’s name
in his ear, whereupon the eyes opened
slowly and then closed. This was re
peated a second time, with the same
effect, but to the third call there w-as
no response. The doctor explained
that after death there is a sensibility
of the tissues much longer in those
executed in the full vigor of health
than in the case of death after illness.
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Scotch Newspaper of 1747.
James Ingram of Barre, Vt., has a
copy of the first number of the Aber
deen Journal. It was published Dec.
29, 1747, and contains many articles
relative to the war which was then
being drawn to a ciose. In the uum
[ ber the publisher, James Chalmers,
announces that in the next number
he will begun publishing “an exact
list of the ships that come into or sail
from the harbors of Stonehaven,
Aberdeen, Peterhead, Fraserburg,
Banff anH Portsay.”
OPERATE ON SENATOR CLARK.
Surgeon* Remove Diseased Bone from
Head of Statesman.
Senator William Clark of Montana,
was operated upon for an abscess of
the brain at his home. New York,
July 15.
A favorable outcome of the senator’s
illness is anticipated, although, as the
operation was a serious one, it prob
ably will be several days before an ul
timate recovery is assured.
The present illness has no connec
tion with nor is not resultant from
an attack suffered by the senator near
ly a year and a half ago w'hen he
underwent an operation.
A year ago last November the sena
tor contracted a cold which developed
an acute mastoiditis. He was then in
Butte, Mont., and went to New York,
where a successful operation was per
formed. The senator quickly regain
ed his normal condition and contin
ued in the best of health until last
February’, when a severe cold devel
oped into pneumonia. He never fully
recovered from his sickness of that
time.
In spite of poor health he looked
after his immense business interests
up to three weeks ago, w’hen he was
seized with violent pains in the left
side of his head at Butte. These
pains continued intermittently, and
ten days ago he decided to go to New
York that the cause of his trouble
might, if possible, be determined and
removed. A week ago he arrived ;
there. These pains in his head were
followed by a discharge from the left
ear.
An examination by his physicians
showed that an acute inflammation
of the middle ear, resultant from the
attack of pneumonia. had never
wholly subsided and that a radical
operation was imperative. Senator
Clark readily consented to the opera- I
tion and immediately set about ar
ranging his business affairs so that
they would not be jeopardized during
his temporary confinement. An opera- j
tion for the removal of the dead bone j
Senator Clark.
and the excoriation of the dead pus (
that had gathered in the vicinity of
the middle ear was determined upon.
Accordingly the skull was trephin
ed. It was found that the bone of the
left ear had become diseased and pus
gathering had eaten its way through
the bone to the brain, causing an
abscess. Two inches of this bone was
removed.
Senator Clark's immediate family is
in Paris. With the senator at home
here are his son-in-law, Dr. Morris,
and his private secretary.
TIME OF CUBAN PROSPERITY
Rapidly Increasing in Population and
Trade Showing Extension.
In 1899, when the last census was
taken, the population of the island was
1,500,000; it is now computed to have
increased some 300,000. The number
of immigrants who arrived last year
was about 15,000, the great majority
of whom came from Spain. The f|ct
bears witness to the confidence now
felt by Spaniards (formerly so pessi
mistic) in the maintenance of law, or
der and prosperity.
In the first year of Cuban independ
ence the sugar crop was about 300,000
tons; it had increased last year to 1,
000,000 tons, and is expected this year
to reach 1,250,000. A large amount of
raw cotton is now raised in the de
partment of Puerto Principe. The out
put of fruit and vegetables has under
gone remarkable extension; a great
part of the surplus is sent to the Unit
ed States by steamers twice a week.
According to the figures compiled
by the bureau of statistics in our de
partment of commerce and labor our
imports from Cuba have advanced
from about $57,000,000 in 1903 to near
ly $75,000,000 in 1904. Our exports to
the island have grown still more rap
idly, their value last year having been
$32,644,000 as against $23,504,000 in
the preceding twelve months.—Har
per’s Weekly.
Prolific-French Canadians.
What is called in Canada the twelve
children act of the late Mercier
government, whereby a farm of gov
ernment land was given to every
father of a family of that number, has
developed the interesting fact that the.
French-Canadians are far more pro
lific than any of the other races of the
dominion, though even with them the
number who are qualified to take a
claim under the last is small. Only
about 6 per cent of those benefiting
by the act are of English, Scotish or
Irish descent.
Countess Will Sell Jewels.
Countess Lonyay has decided to dis
pose of all her jewelry and valuables
associated with her first marriage to
Rudolph of Austria, and the sale will
take place by auction in the French
capital. The collection has already
been placed in the hands of a leading
jeweler. It includes a veil of lace pre
sented to her by the city of Brussels
on her marriage and showing the
united arms of Belgium and Austria.
There is also a beautiful parure of
amethyst presented by tue town of
Fiume.
Ruins of Ipsambool.
The oldest architectural ruins in
the world are believed to be the rock
cut temples at Ipsambool, on the left
bank of the Nile, in Nubia. The larg
est of these ancient temples contains
eleven apartments hewn out of solid
stone. The largest single stone used
in this work is one which forms a
verandalike projection along one side
of the main temple. It is forty-seven
feet long, fifty-two feet broad, and
seventeen—one account says nine-—
feet thick.
LARGEST AMERICAN FLAG
FLOATS NOW AT DENVER
LARGEST AMERICAN FlAG IUiUNG OUTTKDLUVEC
The largest American flag in the
world has been hung out on the
Sixteenth street front of the Daniels
& Fisher Stores Company, at Denver.
When the question came up as to
the proper decoration for the Grand
Army encampment and the other
meetings of the summer, it was de
cided to investigate the subject of
big American flags, and it was found
that it was possible to make and
display on the front of the building
the largest American flag in the world.
At first the plan was to erect a pole
on the corner of the roof of the build
ing and swing it from that. But
calculations showed that the weight
would be so great that no pole strong
enough could be obtained. So it was
then decided to swing it from the top
of the building.
It remained up during the Epworth
League convention, and will be shown
again for the Eagles and the Grand
Army veterans. It has been arranged
with the band masters who accom
pany the various State and local or
ganizations to play “The Star
Spangled Banner” on passing the
flag.
The dimensions of it are:—Length.
115 feet; width, 55 feet; stars two feet
across; width of stripes, 4 feet 2 in
ches; yards of bunting used, 1.450;
union field, 28'by 35 feet, weight of
the flag, 450 pounds.
SOBRIQUET THAT HAS CLUNG.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilton Long
Known as “Tama Jim.”
“Tama Jim” is the name by which
James Wilson, secretary of agricul
ture, is known in the middle west. It
was "Sunset” Cox, famous in congress
a generation ago, who gave this sobri
quet to the Iowa statesman. Wilson
was a new member of congress then,
and to distinguish him from another
and better known James Wilson in
the same body, who nailed from the
Buckeye state, Cox called the new
man “Tama Jim” Wilson Tama being
the name of the county in which Wil
son lived. Wilson is the only cabi
net member, except Secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock, who thus far has
served continuously through the Mc
Kinley and Roosevelt administrations
up to the present. Born in Scotland
seventy years ago, he has been by
turns schoolmaster, farmer, legisla
tor, congressman, professor in an ag
ricultural college and fourth secretary
of agriculture. In his pedagogic days
he was so poor that he had to go bare
foot in summer, but he managed to
save enough to start the purchase of
a farm, which he worked with such
intelligence that it brought him a com
fortable fortune.
British Royal Family Prolific.
There are no signs of race suicide
in the British royal family. Victoria
had four sons and five daughters.
King Edward is the father of six and
the baby boy born to the prince and
princess of Wales the other day
makes an even half dozen for them,
five being sons. The other stems
have done as well—the Empress Fred
erick eight and her son. Emperor Wil
liam, seven; Princess Alice, #gix, and
one of her daughters, the empress of
Russia, five; Prince Alfred and Prin
cess Helena, five each; Princess Bea
trice, four; Prince Arthur, three, and
Prince Leopold, two. The Cumberland
and Cambridge branches are equaiiy
prolific.
Woman Police Desk Sergeant.
Miss Nettie Pyne of Butler, Pa., is
engaged in an occupation which, so
far as known, is not followed by any
other young woman in the country.
She is desk sergeant on the police
force in that city. She is on duty
from < p. m. until 5 a. m. and in every
way attends to the duties of the office
which she occupies. There was ob
jection to her appointment when it
was suggested by Chief Schultz, hut
the police committee sustained him
and Miss Payne got the place, in
which she has given complete satis
faction.
Railway Capitalization.
The capitalization a mile of Ameri
can railways is about £12.000, against
£47,000 g mile in the United King
dom, but it should be pointed out that
in America there is a preponderance
of single lines, whereas in these isl
ands an average mile of railway rep
resents two and one-quarter miles of
tracks, so that instead of being four
times as great a mile as in the United
States, the capital of our railways is
really rather more than twice- as
heavy a mile of track, including roll
ing stock.—London Engineer.
A Fox’t Larder.
In a fox hole at Martindale, West
moreland, were found one marked
and two unmarked lambs, two hens,
one kitten and a freshly killed wood
cock, together with a large number
of rabbits, rats and mice.
- A Martindale farmer identifies the
marked lamb as his own. The kit
ten has been claimed by a keen fox
hunter living at Pooley Bridge, while
the rabbits and mice have been al
loted to the lord of the manor —
London Daily Mail.
THE WORLD S DEBT TO DOCTORS
Men of Medicine Have Reason to Be
Proud of Achievements.
It would be commonplace to point
out the advances made in both medi
cine and surgery during the last half
century, for in that time medicine has
come to be a real science and surgery
both an art and a science. Sanitation,
hygiene, the broad principles that un
derlie the health of communities and
states, are now well understood and
the individual is made safe because
the public may be thoroughly safe
guarded against pestilence of any kind.
The doctors have conquered smallpox,
diphtheria, yellow fever, the bubonic
plague and all but one of the dread
ful scourges that devastated the homes
of our fathers, and they seem now on
the right track In the systematic, re
lentless, intelligent and heroic war
they are waging against tuberculosis.
Typhoid fever, pneumonia and scarlet
fever are robbed of much of their ter
rors, for where either was once likely
to prove fatal now they are very likely
not to. Who, then, has done so much
for his fellow man as the doctor? Who
else has lived for him so self-sacri
ficingly and died for him so uncom
plainingly?—Portland Oregonian. 7
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Invention a Necessity.
Lady Holland was once taken down
to dinner by Mr. Babbage, the invent
or of the calculating machine. Some
thing was said about “squaring
words.” “What does that mean?”
asked Lady Holland. “I will tell you,”
said Mr. Babbage. “You take a word,
for example, like horse. That contains
six letters—” “Six!” exclaimed Lady
Holland involuntarily. “Don't you
mean five?” “No, no,” Mr. Babbage
rejoined, “there are six letters in
horse.” “Surely not,” persisted Lady
Holland, and spelled the word. “Ah,”
remarked the great man, “I never can
count. That is why I invented the
calculating machine.”
Senator Never “Took Water.”
Ex-Senator William F. Sanders of
Montana, who died a few days ago in
Helena, was a noted character in ter
ritorial days. He was never known
to “take water” and was proud of the
fact. At the funeral of a friend on
one occasion he said to a fellow pall
bearer as they turned away from tne
grave: “Some day they will bring
me out here and throw dirt on me,
but tuey can never say I ate any of
it.” He once handed a rather tat
tered bill to a railway conductor, who
commented on its dilapidated appear
ance. “Well,” said Sanders, "if you
don’t like it turn it in to the com
pany.”
Courtly African Chief.
The late Hamed ben-Mohammed, or
“Tippu Tip,” as he was called not
only in Europe, but by his African
subjects, used to surprise Livingstone,
Cameron, Stanley and other explorers
by his exhibition of Arabic courtli
ness in the midst of the hostile Afri
can wilds. Wiser fhan his son, Sefu,
who tried to oppose the progress of the
Belgians, he adapted himself to cir
cumstances. retired to private life and
spent the last fifteen years of his life
at Zanzibar in the enjoyment of his
wealth.
Strict Steamboat Inspection.
Steamboat inspectors in New York
are making every effort to prevent a
repetition of the Slocum disaster of
last year. Quite recently, .with
out warning, they swooped
down on five of the excursion
fleet and tested them as to their ef
ficiency in the fire drill. All of the
boats were successful in the tests.
Fire hose was taken down, the water
turned on, lifeboats lowered and life
preservers thrown on deck. The time
on e»fh of the boats was five minutes.