Nebraska Newspapers

    NEBRASKA STATE NEWS I
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NEBRASKA BRIEFS.
S. TJ. Tayloj, sheriff of Hall county,
has resigned.
The foundation of the new depot at
Wood River is completed.
Johnson & Bros., Nebraska City,
have decided to open a wholesale
grocery.
Heavy rains recently in Dodge coun
ty have been highly beneficial to the
growing corn.
Owen Roberts of Geneva has been
adjudged insane and taken to the Hin
'coln asylum for the insane.
A young man named Howe, of Beat
rice, while playing “circus,” fell from
a trapeze, and was seriously hurt.
Insurance Auditor Pierce has an
nounced that he will examine into the
workings of the various fraternal or
• ders of the state.
J. C. Morgan, who has been working
for different parties in Seward for sev
eral years, left recently for parts un
known. He has been getting money on
fraudulent checks.
Charles Burns, the actor, who fell
from the Paddock opera house stage
in Beatrice, to the pavement died from
his injuries. His remains were taken
to Lincoln for burial.
On September 13 and 14 will be held
the third annual livestock show at
Wisner. All preparations are being
made for the event and it promises to
be the largest yet held.
The secretary of state declares that
the Great Northern must pay a filing
fee and be incorporated before the
corporation can exercise the right of
eminent domain in Nebraska.
The body of Mrs. L. B. Gibson, who
died at the Iler Grand hotel, Omaha,
from acute stomach trouble, has been
identified as that of Catherine Hearing
of Yankton, SL D., by her brother, B.
Hearing.
The second annual Dawson county
Chautauqua opened in Lexington park
with a good attendance. The grounds
■were in fine condition and every pos
sible convenience had been arranged
for the visitors.
Horses in the vicinity of O’Neill are
rapidly dying off, as the result of a
plague of swamp fever, which has
been spreading through the county,
according to State Veterinarian C. A.
McKim, who arrived in Norfolk from
O’Neill.
Chicago dispatch: Mrs. Bertha E.
Finney of Lincoln shot herself in the
left temple at the home of a sister.
Mrs. Patterson, and died as a result
three hours later. Despondency, due to
ill health, is believed to have prompt
ed the act.
Work has commenced on the new
school building at Palmyra. It is to be
• of brick with all the modern improve
ments and conveniences. I. B. Man
son of Nebraska City has the contract
to complete the building ready for oc
cupancy for $6,045.
Henry Eckhart as administrator cf
the estate of his son, Henry Eckhart,
has begun suit in district court at Lin
coln against the Union Pacific railway
for $2,000. The boy who was five years
old was killed April 4 by a Union Pa
cific freight train in Lincoln.
A horse and buggy was stolen from
the barn of Eld Robinson in Farrbury.
The thief was captured and brought
t>ack from Beatrice by Sheriff Case.
The outfit was taken by a boy who
gave the name of Ralph Leonard and
claims that his parents live near
Boone, la. He was held to the next
term of the district court.
The State Board of Equalization has
• authorized County Clerk Stephenson
to make a number of changes in the
assessment of Nance county. In the
valuation of horses an increase of 25
per cent is ordered; pianos, 25 per
cent; threshing machines, 15 per cent;
sewing machines, 30 per cent, and in
the valuation of mules an increase of
15 per cent.
FYank King, aged 40, who lived with
his parents near Lawrence, committed
suicide by hanging himself to the Mis
souri Pacific railroad bridge, two miles
ncrth of that place. King was treated
in the Lincoln insane asylum about
five years ago and when returned was
much improved in health, but during
last year his condition had grown
worse again.
At the semi-annual meeting of the
stockholders of the farmers’ grain as
sociation at Benedict the “penalty
clause.” requiring members of the as
sociation who sell to competing ele
vators to pay into the association one
cent per bushel, was stricken from the
by-laws and all money received from
this source was ordered refunded to
those having paid it.
Governor Mickey has received a
draft for $8,012.83 from the general
government for the members of the
Nebraska reg’ments which took part
in the Spanish-American war. The
basis on which the money is to be
distributed is not known to the gov
ernor. but it is stated that the Wash
ington attorneys who had charge of
the claims will forward a list of the
names as certified by the war depart
ment.
Isaac Robinson, while engaged in
mowing weeds on the Union Pacific
right-of-way north of * Beatrice, re
ceived a sunstroke, the first reported
there this season. He is 67 years of
age and lives in Glenover.
The postal authorities at Fremont
have a case on their hands that may
prove interesting. Monday night Sec
tion Foreman J. W. Johnson of Arling
ton. while returning from his work out
on the line of the Northwestern found
a package containing $2,700 worth of
drafts five miles east of the town. The
drafts were sent from Creston to the
First National bank of Fremont.
The board of county supervisors of
Seward county have adopted a resolu
tion to issue refunding bonds to the
amount of $8,000. This will pay off the
last of the old “F. & G.” precinct
bonds, which were given to aid in con
structing the Midland Pacific railway.
The returns of the county assessor
shows that Colfax county has 6,150
horses, 270 mules, 21.887 head of cat
tle, 2,621 sheep, 28,267 hogs, 1,220
dogs, 2,168 vehicles, 43 threshing ma
chines, 34 cash registers 439,498 bush
els of corn, 51,922 bushels of wheat,
217,067 bushels of oats and 205 fire
arms.
WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 1.
The State Hospital for Crippled, Rup
tured and Deformed Children.
The Nebraska State Hospital for
Crippled, Ruptured and Deformed
children will be formally opened at
Lincoln September T.
The last state legislature of Ne
braska appropriated $10,000 for the
establishmnt of this institution, which
is one of the most beneficent ever or
ganized in the state. Nebraska is the
third state to have such a home, New
York and Minnesota being the first
to establish such a hospital.
The hospital is located in the com
modious building of the Home for the
Friendless in Lincoln, the building
having been recently remodeled and
fitted up for the care and treatment
of crippled and deformed children.
Besides special surgical apparata a
room has been equipped especially for
X-ray diagnoses.
Dr. J. P. Lord of Omaha is the su
perintendent of the institution and
states that the object of the home is
to care for deformed children whose
parents or guardians are unable finan
cially to provide suitable treatment.
Applicants for admission to the home
must furnish satisfactory proof that
the parents or guardians are unable
to care for the children. Only pa
tients between the ages of 2% and 16
years will be admitted, except under
unusual circumstances.
The seventy-five crippled and de
formed children at present confined
in the state poor houses will be re
moved to the home as soon as it is
opened.
Dr. Lord will maintain his residence
and office in Omaha, but will make
regular trips to Lincoln.
DIGEST OF THE GAME LAWS.
Information for Sportsmen that Should
Be Preserved for Reference. .
Numerous inquiries are being made
concerning the game laws of Ne
braska and for all interested parties
the laws as they now stand are given:
Pursuing, taking, wounding, killing or
having in possession of game or fish, or
song, insectivorous or other birds is pro
hibited except as permitted under license
and during the open season. Except that
wolves, coyotes, foxes, wild cats, skunks
and rabbits may be killed at any time of
year, the open seasons are as follows;
Homed Deer and Antelope—August 15
to November 15. Not more than one deer
and one antelope, or two deer or two an
telope, to be killed by one person during
season.
Prairie Chicken, Sage Chicken and
Grouse—September 1 to November .30.
Quail—November 15 to November 30, in
clusive.
Wild Duck. Geese. Brant, Crane and
Game Water Fowl—September 1 to April
15.
Jack Snipe. Wilson Snipe and Yellow
Legs—September 1 to May 15.
Wild Pigeons. Doves and Plover—July
1 to July 31. inclusive.
Not more than ten wild geese or brant
and twenty-five game birds of other va
rieties to be killed in one day, and no
person allowed to have in his possession
more than ter, wild geese or brant, fifty
ducks and fifty other birds at any one
time; provided that not more than ten
prairie chickens may be had in posses
sion during month of September.
Trout—(Not less than eight inches in
length). April 1 to October 1. All other
fish. April 1 to November 15.
Not more than twenty-five fish to be
caught in one day, and not more than
fifty to be in possession of one person at
one time.
No game or fish to be had in possession
more than five days after the close of the
season.
No hunting allowed in the night. Only
ordinary shoulder guns to be used.
No fishing allowed except with rod and
line and not more than five hooks on one
line.
Hunters must hold license. Fee, $10 for
non-residents; $1 for residents.
Non-residents not allowed to take out
of state more than fifty game birds or
twenty-five fish. Game must be accom
panied by owner on same train.
Fines—For unlawfully pursuing, wound
ing or killing elk, deer or antelope, $100
to $300. or imprisonment not more than
ninety days, or both.
For birds or fish, unlawfully taken or
had in possession, $5 for each bird or fish,
or not exceeding sixty days' imprison
ment.
For using dynamite or other explosive,
poisonous or stupifying substance in tak
ing or killing fish or placing in water
containing fish, $100 to $500. or peniten
tiary not more than one year.
Every net. trap, seine or device de
clared a public nuisance, to be abated or
destroyed summarily by any person; ex
cept nets or seines not exceeding twenty
feet long by three feet deep, used for
taking minnows of variety not protected.
All guns, ammunition, dogs, blinds and
decoys and fishing tackle unlawfully in
use forfeited to the state.
License to be procured from county
clerk. Non-resident of state fee. $10; pro
vides fine of not more than $100 or sixty
days' imprisonment.
Residents of state, outside of county of
residence, $1. In county of actual resi
dence no license required; provides fine
of $50, or thirty days' imprisonment.
Cook Commits Suicide.
BEATRICE—After several hours of
intense suffering Ed Bateman, a cook
at the Davis house, died from the ef
fects of rat poison, taken with sui
cidal iptent. He was about 35 years
of age.
Drowned in Jar of Water.
THAYER—The little child of Gil
bert Goudys, aged 3 years, was play
ing in the yard and fell into a large
jar of water and drowned before as
sistance came.
Identify Dead Man.
FALLS CITY—The young man who
was discovered dead along the Mis
souri Pacific track four miles south
of Hiawatha, Kas., was identified as
Ernest Allenbaugh of this place.
After Loan Concern.
Secretary Royse of the State Bank
ing board said that he had asked the
attorney general to proceed with the
prosecution of an unauthorized install
ment investment company which is
operating in the state. It is believed
that the company is working at
Omaha.
HYANNIS—While M. B. Ganow,
living thirty miles north of here, was
driving a stacker team, a singletree
broke, hitting him in the stomach. He
i died from his injuries.
Decatur May Get a Railroad.
DECATUR—A party consisting of
Oakland’s representative business
men were here in consultation with
prominent citizens in regard to a rail
road from Oakland to this place to be
built by the Great Northern.
Shot Young Swimmer.
NORFOLK—Because he swam in
the Elkhorn river at a spot where a
sign said “Keep out,” Barney Elseffer,
aged 20, was shot twice by a farmer
named Dietz. It is thought the bov •
cannot recover.
FIRE DESTROYS NEW YORK
CHVRCH AND WORKS OF ART
St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal
church, at New York, which was de
stroyed by fire Aug. 8, had stood for
fifty years at the corner of Fifth ave
nue and Fifty-third street, and was one
pf the most imposing edifices in the
:ity. It contained rare works of art,
Including notable paintings by John
Lafarge, and a bronze bas relief by
Augustus St. Gaudens valued at $50,
1 000. This bore the title, “The Adora
tion of the Cross.” The altar and
chancel were artistically and sumptu
ously furnished and the organ cost
$20,000. The church stood in the
midst of a select residence district,
and among its congregation wTere some
of the richest and best-known busi
ness men in the city. The loss is
$250,000.
RUSSIAN REFORMER
TELLS OF SITUATION
IN REALM OF CZAR
Paul Milyoukov, Russian reformer,
and a leader in the “intellectualists”
liberal party, who was exiled a few
years ago for his lectures at the Uni
versities of Moscow and Sofia against
the autocracy, has written his views
on the present situation in Russia in
a book, “Russia and Its Crisis,” the
advance sheets of which were issued
from the University of Chicago press.
The book, for the most part, is an
exposition of the causes of the pres
ent crisis, but the author sums up the
situation by declaring the forces of op
position “still are not strong enough j
to replace the government by a vio
lent overthrow.”
Prof. Milyoukov writes:
“Political reform—this now is the
general cry of all shades of political
opinion in Russia. But is this only
an opinion? Are there no interests,
no organizations, ready to fight for po
litical freedom? Are there no impell
ing forces to extort it from a reluctant
government?
We have found the answer in the
present situation. Yes, the impelling
forces are there, and they are two
fold; the material crisis and the po
litical disaffection. Russia is passing
through a crisis; she is ill; and her
illness is so grave as to demand imme
diate and radical cure. Palliatives
can be of no use; rather, they only
increase the gravity of the situation.
To pretend all is right in Russia, ex
cept for a few ‘ill intentioned’ persons
who are making all the fuss, is no
longer ridiculous, it is criminal.
“Increased and united as they are,
the forces of opposition still are not
strong enough to replace the govern
ment by a violent overthrow. But
they are strong enough to make the
use of violence continuous, and by in
creasing this to preclude any further
peaceful work of civilization.
“Russia wants a political represent
ation and guarantees of what are
called the fundamental rights of in
dividuality—freedom of belief and of
speech, the right of association and
public meetings, liberty of the press,
a strict regime of the law, and the
free course of justice, which implies
the repeal of arbitrary edicts and reg
ulations, the abolition of extraordinary
tribunals, and last, but not least, a
habeas corpus act—security from arbi
trary arrest and domiciliary search.’’
Comparing Japan with Russia the
professor says:
“Things that with us took centuries
to pass away in Japan appear to have
been crowded into a short space of
time. Now, one of the consequences
of this rapidity of progress is that
the ancient tradition of Japan, as it
were, had not time to die out. and has
kept enough of its vitality to be able
to enter into some degree of cobbina
tion with the elements of new life and
culture.
“One explanation of the difference
may be that society in Japan is not so
much democratized as in Russia. It
may be that it is not so much demand
Professor in Hard Luck.
Charles Rouxel, lately professor of
belles-lettres in the University of Hon
duras. was sent to the workhouse in
New York the other day for a month
as a vagrant. He was arrested in a
park which had been his only home
for some time. Rouxel was driven
out of Honduras by a revolution. His
means were soon exhausted, but he
lays his downfall to his extreme near
sightedness, which prevents him from
recognizing friends in the street. An
appeal will be made to influential
friends in France to assist him.
Mrs. Carnegie a Model Wife.
Few persons outside the Carnegie
household have any idea of Mrs. Car
negie's solicitude for the material com
forts of her husband. In past years
the laird of Skibo looked after all
sorts of minor business details, but
lately his faithful spouse has relieved
nim of much worry in that direction.
With her own hands she cooks his
morning dish of oatmeal and she must
do this by 7 o’clock every day, for
Mr. Carnegie is always out and about
by 7:30.
ed by public opinion in Japan as in
Russia. But another explanation is
that much more is given. Japan en
joys the elementary condition of prog
ress—a free political life—which we
are yet striving to attain. ’
In the preface Prof. Milyoukov
writes:
“Serious men for years and years
have worn a state robe, the beauty of
which was clear only to a few conjur
ing wiseacres; and millions of men,
groaning under the burden of its cost,
have mournfully kept silence, watch
ing the silent procession, until an un
toward event has come, like the child
in Andersen's tale, to tell the whole
world that the wisdom is counterfeit
and the wearers of the robe are ‘nak
ed.’ This event is the war.
“Well, the only advice w?e can give
to these people is to put on new
clothes and do it as soon as possible.’’
SANITATION OF CANAL ZONE,
Necessity of Work as Part of the
Task We Have Undertaken.
But what about the two great isth
mian diseases, malaria and yellow
fever? Practically every other disease
can be obliterated by the supply of
pure water and the simple obedience
to hygienic rules; but these are of a
different nature and demand more
radical attacks, says Dr. Albert R.
Hall in Reader Magazine. They are
both parasitic in nature; both before
they invade man, must pass through
an intermediate host, and that host is
the mosquito, stegomyia for yellow
fever, and anopheles for malaria. One
should no longer doubt the essentially
important role of the mosquito. To
day all scientists agree that to exter
minate the mosquito is to destroy
these diseases; that no other means
excepting this insect has been demon
strated as a carrier of either. Cling to
old beliefs as we may, we can render
the country free from epidemics only
by killing the host. And it can be
done here in Panama. It has been
done in Ismalia on the Suez canal.
It has been done—to be sure, in more
favorable circumstances and a smaller
area—in Havana. We must do it. It
will be an eternal disgrace to our gov
ernment if we shirk our responsibility,
for it is as much a part of our canal
project as is digging the ditch. "We
are not a commercial concern, cutting
a highway between two oceans merely
for profit. If we are, better let out
the task by contract at once. But we
are a nation, the people of that nation
pay the taxes that supply the money
for canal construction, and we should
demand that this sanitary scheme be
an integral part. But it means work.
To take a strip of land ten miles
wide and fifty long and to free it from
mosquitoes means brains as well as
kerosene, and money to back the
brains. It means destruction of nasty
houses in Panama and Colon and the
filling iij.-of slimy pools which to-day
render futile so much of the effort
of disinfection. It means action as we
acted in Cuba, as Mexico acted at Ma
zatlan, as Japan acts to-day. There
must be no short-sighted policy or
broken promises about it. The em
ployes must be protected at any cost.
Japan’s Beautiful Empress.
Empress Haruko of Japan is 56
years old and is two years senior of
her husband. She is one of the most
beautiful women in Japan. As she is
older than the mikado, she has been
able to give her motherly care to
the mikado during all these years of
Meiji. The couple love each other dear
ly, although they do not usually go
together when they go out. It is pub
licly denied that she is jealous of her
rival, although it is a fact that the
Crowvi Prince Harunomiya is not her
majesty’s son, but his majesty’s.
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Ohio’s Peanut Club.
The Peanut club is the latest social
organization found in Lorain, Ohio.
The members, all popular young
women, are required to roll a peanut
from Dexter street to the loop, North
Broadway, a distance of over two
miles. The feat has so far been per
formed by the following young wom
en: Lena Gorsage, Delia Cervenka,
Pauline Hildebrand, Elsie Ashbolt and
Pearl Gorsage. The peanut route is
through the business heart of the city.
—Exchange.
MADE CHANGES IN HYMNAL.
Rev. Charles M. Stuart One of Those
Who Revised Methodist Hymns.
Rev. Charles M. Stuart, professor of
sacred rhetoric in Garrett Biblical In
stitute, Evanston, 111., was secretary ;
to the commission of the Methodist
Episcopal church, appointed to revise
the hymnal, and had considerable
voice in the changes that appear in
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the new hymnal just issued. Dr. Stuart
is rated as one of the best hymnolo
gists and literary critics in the coun
try.
SALARY GRAB IN CANADA.
People’s Money Cheerfully Divided by
Politicians.
The Canadian parliament has just
finished a session of more than six
months. The last days were devoted
in part to a general Increase in sal
aries, which was at first characterized
by the opposition as highly creditable,
but later, on more mature considera
tion, was stigmatized as a “salary
grab.” Heretofore the prime minister
of Canada has received $8,000 per an
num in addition to his compensation
as a member of parliament. The other
ministers received $7,000 each. The
members of the senate and house of
commons received no salary, but got
a “sessional indemnity” of $1,500, and
20 cents a mile for traveling expenses.
A few days before the close of the ses
sion bills were introduced and passed
to give greater compensation. The
prime minister is to receive $12,000 a
year, besides his pay as a member.
The ether ministers are left at the
present compensation, except that
they get $1,000 more indemnity.” The
retroactive feature of the sessional in
demnity is liable to adverse comment.
It was this which created the greatest
uproar over the famous “salary grab”
of 1873 in the United States senate.
The dominant party in Canada does
not appear likely to suffer from these
measures, as they were cheerfully sup
ported by the leader of the opposition,
and seem to have gone through prac
tically without any dissent.—Louis
ville Courier Journal.
FOE OF YELLOW SCOURGE.
Dr. Kohnke a Tower of Strength in
Threatened Epidemic.
One of the most energtic foes of the
i yellow fever scourge now afflicting
New Orleans is Dr. Quintman Kohnke
j&. cx%7rr/z4y /iZtfm?
He is the health officer of the city and
the presence of the disease in the city
was discovered by his department.
Since the first case was detected in
Decatur street, Dr. Kohnke has been
alert and unceasing in his efforts to
stop the spread of the epidemic.
Sergius Witte a Handsome Man.
Sergius Witte, the Czar’s plenipo
tentiary in the peace conference to be
held at Portsmouth. N. H., is said to
be the handsomest of Russia's notable
men; indeed, he is thought to resem
ble the magnificent Alexander III.,
father of the present Czar. He is a
very large man and remarkably well
proportioned. As straight as an arrow',
he carries himself with a conscious
ness of his superiority that is most ir
ritating to a good many people in
Russia and is overwhelmingly oppres
sive to the masses.—Chicago Chroni
cle.
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Wat Safe as Church Property.
Major Marks, formerly a leading
politician of Florida, and now a pro
moter of big enterprises in New York,
told this the other day: “My father
was a deacon of his church at Colum
bus, Ga., and it was his duty to take
up the collection. One Sunday a sport
put a $5 gold piece in the plate, whis
pering as he did so: ‘Major, I won
that at poker last night, and you are
welcome to It.’ My father replied:
‘I am much obliged to you, Tobe; now
you can go and bet that nobody will
ever win it from the church.’ ”
Snorer in Hard Luck.
In a small commune near Versailles
in France the mayor has formally in
dicted a citizen for the grave offense
of snoring. The accused attended a
meeting of the municipal council and
was so overcome by the eloquence of
the mayor that he snored. This dem
onstration was so vigorous that the
rest of the mayor’s address could not
be heard. The offender is charged
with obstructing the transaction of
public business and outraging the civ
ic majesty.
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ARCTIC EXPLORERS SAVED
BY RELIEF EXPEDITION i
ZIEGLER ARCTIC SHIP AMERICA, ANTHONY FIALA, HEAD OF THE
EXPEDITION, AND MAP OF REGION IN WHICH VESSEL WAS
CRUSHED.
(Star on map marks approximate locality in which the America was crushed
by ice late in 19C3.)
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After having been cut off from the
world in the Arctic since July, 1903,
thirty-seven members of the Fiala
Ziegler polar expedition have been
rescued by the steamer Terra Nova,
and landed at Hennigsaag, Norway.
All the members of the crew of the
6hip America, which was crushed in
the ice early in the winter of 1903-4,
have returned in good health in spite
of their harrowing experience, with
the exception of one Norwegian sailor,
who died from natural causes.
The members of the Fiala arctic
expedition have arrived in Norway,
and it is announced by the trustees of
the Ziegler estate that no more expe
ditions will be sent out in the nam'e
of Ziegler. The return of the mem
bers of the Fiala expedition, there
fore, will mean the end of the work
begun by the Baldwin expedition in
1901.
The first Ziegler expedition, under
command of Evelyn B. Baldwin, sailed
in 1901 for the Franz Josef archipela
go, north of Nova Zembla, in the be
lief that the land of that group ap
proached nearer the pole than any
other land of the north polar region.
Peary, on the other hand, believed
that the northern portion of Green
land was nearer the pole than any
other land, and all his explorations
have been conducted from the Green
land coast.
The Baldwin expedition of 1901 was
equipped to reach the pole. Baldwin's
plan was to establish a base on the
northermost land of the Franz Josef
archipelago, spend his Crst winter
there, and make a dash for the pole in
the spring from {tudolf Land. Bald
win was not able to get farther north
in the fall of 1901 than Camp Ziegler,
80 degrees and 23 minutes north, and
he did not make the dash to the pole.
Disappointed over results, Mr. Zieg
ler organized another expedition, un
der command of Anthony Fiala, who
had been a member of the Baldwin
expedition. It was expected that Fia
la, taking advantage of his experience
in the Baldwin expedition, would sail
directly to the point where the stores
had been left by Baldwin and lose no
time in making a dash to the pole.
It now appears that before the time
fixed for the dash to the pole Fiala s
ship was crushed in the ice in Scnlitz
bay, and that for over a year the mem
bers of the expedition were held pris
oners by the arctic climate, subsisting
on stores left by previous expeditions,
until rescued by the Ziegler relief ex
pedition under William S. Champ,
which left Norway in May.
The Baldwin expedition failed of its
main object because of the ice that
blocked all the channels of Franz Jo
sef Land. The Fiala expedition failed
to do its appointed dash north because
its vessel was crushed by ice. Mean
time Commander Peary is proceeding
in a specially constructed vessel for
the waters of northern Greenland,
from which he expects to work his
way to the northernmost point ever
reached by any vessel and then cros*
the Ice to the pole.
IRON ORE SUPPLY FAILING.
World’s Store May Not Suffice for the
Demands Made Upon It.
The amount of iron ores still avail
able is very great, doubtless many
times, perhaps twenty-fold, as great
as has been won to use. Yet already
in the continent of Europe the fields
long in service are beginning to be ex
hausted. Great Britain has practi
cally consumed its store, which a cen
tury ago seemed ample. Practically
all the supply for its furnaces is now
imported.
The supply from the Mediterranean,
that promised to be inexhaustible, can
not endure for many decades to come.
The same is the condition of the ore
districts of central Europe. At the
rate of the increasing demand they
are not likely to meet the demands
of 100 years. There remain extensive
deposits of rich ores in the Scandina
vian peninsula and in fields of the
confines of Belgium and France which
have hardly begun to be drawn upon,
yet it is evident that at anything like
the present rate of increase in the
consumption of metallic iron in Eu
rope the sources of supply are not
likely to endure for a century.
The best-placed field for the produc
tion of iron in North America, or,
save that in northern China, in the
world, is*in the central section of the
Mississippi valley, mainly between the
great river and the Appalachian sys
tem of mountains and northward be
yond the great lakes to the head
waters -of the streams flowing into
Hudson’s bay, the physical conditions
on the whole being favorable for the
cheap production of the metal and its
ready transportation to the principal
markets. It is a question, however, if
the store will supply the demands
of the future.
Jewess Wife of Russ Diplomat.
In selecting a wife M. De Witte,
Russia’s chief representative in the
peace negotiations, chose a Jewess,
one of the race which has been treat
ed so cruelly in his country. Mme.
De Witte was formerly the wife of a
subordinate official, but she secured a
divorce and has been very happy in
her second marriage in spite of the
fact that she has never been received
at court. She also has been ignored
by the leading society women in St.
Petersburg, notwithstanding the high
position her husband has held..
From the Mouths of Babes.
Several anecdotes are current in the
foreign press concerning the German
crown prince as a boy. According to
one of these shortly after Prince Ris
marck was dismissed the little boy
was talking to his father and in the
course of conversation said, with
childish naivette: “Father, they say
that now you will be able to tell the
people what to do all by yourself.
You’ll enjoy that, won’t you?” Unfor
tunately history has not recorded the
kaiser’s reply.
MORE LAND FOR BRITAIN.
Immense Empire Recently Added to
King Edward's Domains.
By a recent arbitration an area of
300,000 square miles, considerably
j larger than France, has been added to
I the British empire, and yet the world
! at large has hardly heard of the
| event. Barotsi, the territory in ques
tion, is in Central Africa, lying south
of the Congo Free State and west of
| Northern Rhodesia. Its importance
rests on the fact that through R run
the upper waters of the Zambesi river,
here navigable although far above the
Victoria falls. The rival claimant was
Portugal, and the arbitrator was the
| king of Italy. Lewanika, the native
i ruler of Barotsi, was a picturesque
j guest at the coronation of Edward
j VII., and he has long been under a
I sort of semi-protectorate by the Brit
j ish. The arbitration, however, splits
i his dominions in two, the other sec
i tion passing to Portugal, and it re
j mains to be seen how the dusky mon
arch will take this curtailment of his
tribal authority. The Barotsi race are
brave, and, thanks to French mission
ary effort, weil advanced along the
paths of civilization.
Costly Beautifying Process.
Here are some of the items included
in a bill sent to a baroness in Paris by
her masseuse: "To beautifying mad
am’s visage, three sittings a week
during one month, $€0; one month’s
massage of throat, $60; one bath of
triple effluvia for beautifying the
limbs, $10;,one bottle of liquid white
for the complexion, $2; one month’s
anti-wrinkle treatment, $20; one
month's ditto for figure, $60; two
more months of same, $80; second
bath of triple effluvia, $10; third ditto,
$40; two more months’ anti-wrinkle
treatment, $40.”
Beneath Gardener’s Dignity.
They have a story in New York of
an English gardener who was brought
over by one of the newly rich. The
employer had several unmarried
daughters and the gardener was told
to devote most of his time to the ten
nis lawn. He is a gardener of the
old school and before long became
disgusted on noticing how many young
men came to te’nnis and tea. He re
signed his position and on being asked
for a reason said: “Well, sir, this is
not ’orticulture I’m doin’. It’s mere
’usbandry.”
Helen Gould’s Pity for Blindness.
If there is one affliction for which
Miss Helen Gould has more sympathy
than with another it is blindness.
Generous in all things, she carries her
liberality to the limit in relieving per
sons suffering from loss of sight, es
pecially children. Her free cot in the
Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital al
ways is at the disposal of a little one
whose vision Is even menaced, and
many are the tiny patients whose
sight has been restored as a result of
he*- compassion.