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NEBRASKA STATE NEWS NEBRASKA BRIEFS. t _ West Point banks have deposits amounting to $600,000. Six persons escaped from the Lan caster county jail by boring. Pat Crowe of kidnaping fame is thought to be in hiding in Omaha. From every standpoint the Hamil ton county fair was a great success. Louis Alvis of Adams county has been adjudged insane and ordered to the asylum. The large barn of John Broady, east of Tekamah, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Arlie Rittenhouse of Custer county ■was accidentally shot while hunting. His wounds are not necessarily fatal. The receipts of the Beatrice post office so far this year show a net gain of $1,757.82 over the corresponding pe riod last year. Only $4,399 remains to be raised to complete the $20,000 fund to begin the erection of a new Young Men’s Chris tian association building. John Stengel, living seven mile3 east of Kimball, was run over by fast mail train No. 2. He was picking up coal along the track at the time of the accident. The residence of John Tessar, in North Crete, was burned to the ground. The property and furniture were a total loss, and were worth about $1,500. Unknown persons burned a thresh ing machine on the farm of Fred Hil gert, north of Norfolk, in Pierce coun ty. The loss is about $3,000. There is no clew to the incendiaries. John Peters of Gage county turned seven head of cattle into a field of sweet corn after he had gathered the /crop. Two have died from overeating and it is thought he will lose the bal ance. A horse was stolen from the barn of August Zilmer, who resides about two ■miles west of Stanton. The animal was a black, “chunky” horse about nine years old and weighed about 1,200 -pounds. A Chicago dispatch says: Joseph -Holdobler and wife were sent to an asylum for the insane. They came from a farm near Wakefield, Neb., and were found wandering about the streets here with two children. Mae C. Wood has filed a civil suit in the district court of Douglas coun ty against United States Senator Thomas C. Platt and the United States Express company for $25,000 for alleged services rendered to the defendants. News has been received in Platts mouth from Phoenix, Arizona, report ing the death of Peter Ellingson, a former resident of that city. The de ceased was a native of Norway and came to Nebraska about fifteen years ago. Four children survive him. Vice President Mohler of the Union Pacific has announced that the road is to double track the line between Gil more and Valley, a distance of thirty miles. He further said that the main line would be double tracked in Wy oming a distance of seventy miles. Frank Chambers, a musician and member of the York Euphony band, now playing in Denver, left a few days ago, telling his wife that he was go ing to play in a band in Kansas City. Later his wife received a letter from him stating he left and that he was not going to return. Harry Jensen of Gordan aged 16 years, was fonnd drowned in the ,White river. He left the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Jen sen, Monday morning to go to a neigh bor’s house, and search was not insti tuted until Tuesday, as no alarm was felt until it was known he never reach ed the neighbor’s house. The admission of students to the dental department of the University of Omaha is being investigated by the state board of dental secretaries. Re cently it was brought to the attention of the board that students were being admitted to the Omaha school who had been rejected by the dental de partment of the state university. Fred Cole, rural carrier on Route No. 2, out of Peru, had a very narrow escape from death. He drives an or dinary carrier’s wagon, except that it is a two-wheeled affair. The tongue broke, letting the box tip forward on his horses, frightening them and causing them to run away. Mr. Cole was kicked by his horse and badly hurt. The hospital fund of the Union Pa cific railroad will be re-established No vember 1. The scheme will be prac tically the same as it was before it was abandoned under the receiver ship. Employes of the road, no mat ter in what capacity, will be taxed 50 cents per month of their wages, and this will go to establish a hospital ’ {fund. According to the published bank statements there is on deposit in the banks of York county $2,200,000. It is estimated that $1,500,000 of the de posits belong to farmers. This amount of deposits makes York county, ac cording to area, the richest county in the state, excepting Lancaster and three counties in which are larger cit ies along the Missouri river. Mr. and Mrs. Onias of Beatrice cele brated their golden wedding anniver sary last week in the presence of a large company of guests. Their com fortable home was very tastefully dressed with golden rod. An unidentified man, who gave his name as Henry Bowman, paksed a forged check of $14.50 on Haubensack & stergard at Fremont. Haubensack gave him $2 worth of meat and $12.50 cash. The rascal has flown. Appropriations made by the legisla ture fo# state building purposes do not lapse under the constitutional provi sion providing for the lapsing of ap propriations made for expenses of ad ministration August 31 of the second year following the. making of the ap propriation by the legislature. The district court of Lancaster county so decided . MORTENSEN COUNTS UP CASH Little Less Money on Hand Than at First of Previous Month. LINCOLN—The report of State Treasurer Mortensen showing the re ceipts and expenditures of his office for the month of August was filed with the state auditor. The treasurer had on hand in all lunds August 1, $533^ 784.04. He received during the month in all funds $189,012.10, and paid out balance on hand of $430,709.87. 0» balance on hand of $430,709.87. Ol this sum there is in the permanent school fund waiting investment $157, 369.59, and in the temporary school fund $163,373.09. On hand On hand Aug. 1. Aug. 31. Permanent school 248.213.43 157,369.5! Temporary school 138.802.87 163,873.0! Permanent univ.. 21.596.47 22,594.35 Agri. Col. endow. 29.479.25 . Temporary univ. 17.238.50 7,947.54 University cash.. 17,736.65 17,661.11 Hosp. for insane. 472.53 . 98.04 Normal interest . 1 255.26 1,405.24 State library ... 2.057.89 1,936.54 Normal endow. .. 1.739.03 . Normal library.. 1.891.65 1.858.6E Penitentiary fd.. 10.527.00 22,719.54 Agr. & mech. arts 25,000.00 24,861.57 [T. S. Exp. sta_ 3.648.42 3,128.63 Int. tax. 9,914.08 1.378.8E Totals .$533,783.04 $430,709.87 3eneral .$ 4.209.80 $ 4,377.08 Negro’s Body Given to Medical College The body of the unknown negro who was murdered at Norfolk when he ask ed for a drink, was sent to Lincoln, where it was given, according to the state law, to a medical college for iissection. No friends claimed the body and this action was required. No trace of the murderer has been found and chances are fast diminishing for ever catching him. Organization of Realty Company. The John A. Creighton Real Estate company of Omaha was incorporated at Lincoln by John A. Creighton, J. M. Daugherty and Alfred Thomas, with a capital stock of $800,000. The purpose of the company is to facilitate methods for caring for Count Creigh ton’s real estate interests in Douglas county. Opens Canning Season. The factories of the St. Paul Can ning company opened the season’s :orn canning campaign last week and ire canning sweet corn at the rate of 16,000 cans per day. The factory had i satisfactory run last year and ex pects to exceed it this year, with tdded experience and all machinery being in first-class trim. No Firemen’s Tournament. NORFOLK—There will be no state tournament this year by the Ne braska fire departments. This has been definitely determined by -the board of directors, following the de stining of the offer of the tournament to Norfolk. Cuming’s Big Bank Deposits. WEST POINT—The deposits in the three banks of West Point, as shown by the reports at the close of business an August 25, are a trifle over $600, )00. This maagniflcent showing is the greatest ever made in the history of the city. Oakdale Man Commits Suicide. OAKDALE—J. S. Dewey, one of the pioneer settlers of Antelope county, and for many years engaged in the hardware business at this place, com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. RUSH AT NORTH PLATTE. Nearly One Hundred Thousand Acres of Land Taken in August. NORTH PLATTE—The officials of the United States land office located in this city have completed their monthly report, showing the number of entries and the acreage embraced within the same, made by parties who took advantage of the Kinkaid act or one-section homestead law during the month of August, 1905. The showing is good and most of the entrymen seemed to have bona fide intentions. In fact quite a few have gone to their lands, and have begun to improve the same and build homes. Some who filed during the month have already taken their families to the land, al though under the law they have full six months after entry for filing in which to establish their residence on the land. The report shows that dur ing the month 172 entries or filings were made and that these embrace 99,936.52 acres. The report of the North Platte United States land office for July 1, 1905, showed that there were still va cant and subject to entry at that time within the district of the North Platte office, which embraces all of Keith, Perkins and Lincoln counties and the south half of McPherson and the southwest quarter of Logan counties, 261,759 acres. Since that date 110,872 acres have been homesteaded, which would leave 150,867 still vacant and subject to homestead entries of one section. Boy Made of Corn from York. YORK—York county’s exhibit at the state fair gives an idea of the won derful productiveness, wealth and prosperity of the county. Last year the wonuerful ear of corn on exhibit from York county was the wonder of the farmers who saw it and this year there is on exhibit a corn boy made out of York county corn by Miss Mary Harris of York. The boy occupies the place of a pupil in the model rural school presided over by a teacher made of grass. The teacher was made by a Rock county woman. August Bills Allowed. The state board of public lands and buildings allowed all claims for main tenance for the month of August and thus saved the remainder of the 1903 appropriaiton from lapsing. The board discussed buying some land near the penitientiary, but the matter went over for the present. The board has aboul $23,000 with which to buy this lane and it has an option on about 225 acres for $22,000. As the railroads have run through the land since the board se cured its option the secretary of state objected to paying the pric® ROBERT BACON OF NEW YORK CHOSEN TO SUCCEED LOOMIS i • Robert Bacon of New York, who succeeds Loomis as assistant secre tary of state, formerly was a memberof the firm of J. P. Morgan ,& Co. He is a Harvard man and an athlete. * KNOWN AS GOOD BUSINESS MAN. New Assistant Secretary Junior Part ner of J. P. Morgan &. Co. Robert Bacon of New York, an in timate friend of President Roosevelt and his classmate at Harvard, has been appointed assistant secretary of state to succeed Francis B. Loomis, resigned. Mr. Bacon for many years had been an important factor of business life in New York city, having been until within a year or so a junior partner in the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co. He will assume his duties in the state department as soon as he can arrange his private affairs, which will be some time in October. Adept in High Finance. Robert Bacon is recognized in the east as beng more than usually well versed in matters of high finance. It was Bacon who was in charge of the interests of J. Pierpon Morgan in the famous Northern Pacific corner of 1901. He arranged the British end of the great steamship merger, his diplomacy being directed to removing the obstacles raised by the British government. During the settlement of the anthracite coal strike in 190^ he took an active part in arranging the details of the arbitration scheme with President Roosevelt. Famed as an Athlete. Personally Mr. Bacon is more than six feet tall, and unusually broad shouldered even for a man of extreme height. In Harvard he was famous for his skill in all branches of ath letics. As half back on the varsity eleven he was regarded twenty years ago as pre-eminent. He is fond of hunting and all out door sports, and takes a keen interest in yachting, particularly the inter national contests. He was ..lr. Mor gan’s personal representative in the direction of the Columbia, which on two occasions successfully defended the America cup against the challeng ers sent here by Sir Thomas Lipton. Mrs. Potter Palmer Changes Style. At the first dinner she gave in Hampden house, London, Mrs. Potter Palmer- staggered everybody by lead ing the way into the dining room. At first her guests thought Mrs. Palmer had acted absent-mindedly, but she continued the practice so inaugurated. In England the hostess invariably goes into the dining room last, but several of Mrs. Palmer’s friends hope that her example will become the fashion in London, holding that it is obviously more sensible for the host ess to enter the room first in order to correct any mistakes in the “order of sitting” before the guests begin to flounder around the table in search of their names. Model Dairy Farm Pays Well. Two Brothers, Albert and Harry Fahnestock, have a model dairy farm at Quaker Bottom Valley, in Baltimore county, and the other day they had the members of the Baltimore Stock Exchange out to look at it. The vis itors were driven over the 650 acres in wagons drawn by teams of eight nice ly matched gray Percheron horses, and they found the dairymen and the stablemen all neatly uniformed. It is also reported that they found a scene of “unusual pastoral beauty/ There are hills, valleys and tumbling, splash ing waters on the big farm, and the keynote of the management is organ ization and system. The result is suc cess. Mark Hanna's Parable. A late story of Mark Hanna tells how some friends were urging the burly Ohioan to try for presidential nomination. It was when McKinley was at the height of his popularity. Senator Hanna reflected for a moment and then answered! “Two skunks were sitting in the shade of a fence one day when an automobile went whizzing by, leaving behind a particu larly emphatic odor of gasoline. The SKunks sniffed in disgust for a while and finally one said to the other, “What’s the use?” Election in Japan. Japan has 27,138 public schools, in which 5,084,099 children (about one ninth of Japan’s entire population) are taught by 108,360 teachers, says the Japanese official “White Book.” This is 93.23 per cent of all children of school age in the empire. In 1872 Ihe school enrollment was 29 per cent; in 1883 it was 51 per cent, and in 1893, 59 per cent. The chief growth has been since the Chino-Japanese war, 1894-95, about 33 per cent in omy ten years. GREAT CORN CROPS OF KANSAS. Have Added Immense Sums to the Wealth of the Nation. The value of the Kansas corn crop of 1902 from only 13 per cent of her area, was sufficient to more than five times cover the cost of the entire I Louisiana purchase and nearly eleven times as much as the United States paid for Alaska. Uncle Sam’s reports point out that in the five-year period ending with the year 1900 the com bined value of Kansas’ corn and wheat exceeded that of the same crops of any other state in the union. Illi nois came next, but fell behind Kan sas by a little less than $19,000,000. The value of corn grown in Kansas the last twenty years is $100,000,000 more than that of all the wheat crops grown by Kansas since her beginning. In the last ten years the value of Kansas’ corn crops has been $106,000, 000 more than that of the wheat- pro* duced In the same period, which in cluded three of the state’s largest wheat crops and one of the smallest of corn. In the preceding ten years the corn crop was worth nearly $200, 000,000 more than the wheat. The Kansas corn crop was worth over $6,000,000 more than all her other products of the soil in 1902, and in two preceding seasons corn outvalued all the other field products, wheat in cluded. The fact that Kansas produces more wheat than any other state of country in the world always causes much ear nest watchfulness and discussion of its acreage, condition, prospects, yield, and quality, at home and throughout the grain, milling, transportation, breadstuff, banking, and commercial centers of civilization. This would naturally persuade those without knowledge of the facts to suppose that wheat is by far the state’s main and foremost crop; yet compared in im portance and value with her corn, wheat Is a side issue, and but one of various secondary items the worth of wmcn must t>e aggregated to even ap proach the value of corn. Great as the wheat crops have been, for twenty-five of the forty-three years of which there is record, statistics re veal that the aggregate value of the corn crop was more than double that of the combined yields of winter and spring wheat, and in but few years has the value of the wheat crop approach ed or surpassed that of the same year’s corn. The value of the corn alone in each of fifteen years of the last twenty has been greater than that of all other field crops together, wheat omitted, and in only one year (1901) of the last decade did corn fail to out value the same crops. Vanity a Trap for Criminals. “What is our greatest help in cap turing criminals? Why, their vanity, of course,” said the detective. “Men and women who make crime a busi ness are always proud of their work when it is well done, according to criminal standards, and sooner or la ter they brag of it and it gets to our ears. Even men who commit unpre meditated crimes seem unable to keep their doings to themselves, and if they do not openly boast they give out mys terious hints that rouse suspicion and bring about surveillance. Then, again, no matter how well a crime is plan ned, there is nearly always an unfore seen contingency to be met, and it’s the failure to take precautions against the one contingency that gives many a clew.”—New York Sun. Flrat View of a Turtle at Andover. The late J. P. White, of Andover, , hired a coachman named Dennis. Den nis had but recently arrived in this country. One day he went to the brook for a pail of water and there saw his first mud-turtle. He ran back to the house, grabbed his master by the arm and began to haul him toward the brook, saying: Mr. White! Mr. White! Come and look at this animal down there. It has a foot loike that” (making his hand like a claw). “It has a trapollion on its back and, begorra, it swallers its own head.” Vast Cost of Forest Fires. A million dollar fire in a lumber yard excites public attention ana com ment from Maine to California. Few pay any attention to the $25,000,000 worth of lumber annually destroyed in the United States by forest fires. The price of beef, gas and railway rates is a permanent topic of active discussion and controversy. Few give any heed to the recent enormous in crease in the cost of lumber or to the danger of an early exhaustion of our forest resources.—Ne® York Sun. JUDGE TO HEAR PACKERS’ CASE. Prominent Business Men Will Plead Before Illinois Jurist. Judge J. Otis Humphrey of Spring field, 111., before whom the officials and employes of large packing firms under indictment upon the charge of conspiracy in violation of the federal anti-trust and interstate commerce laws were cited to appear to enter their pleas; has been a prominent fig ure in the packing industries investi gation from the time the last federal grand Jury began its work until it completed. His charge to the last fed eral grand jury, which conducted the inquiry and which voted the indict ments against the packing officials, is claimed to have given an impetus to JZZ&r <S02Z5 the inquiry that had much to do with securing the indictments. It was Judge Humphrey who heard the tes timony in connection with placing witnesses needed by the prosecution under bonds, and it was he who fixed the amount. Claims Office-Holding Record. E. W. Sweeley, a justice of the peace in Loyalsock, Lycoming county, Pa., claims the record for offce-holding in that state. Altogether he has held various township and county offices whose terms aggregate 109 years dur ing his life of sixty-eight years, and he is still adding to his record. Mr. Sweeley is a democrat and that he is popular is shown by his record as fol lows: Justice of the peace, thirty-five years; assessor, twenty-six years; supervisor, eight years; school direct or, fifteen years; overseer of thfe poor, six years; township auditor, twelve years; county auditor, four years; jury commissioner, three years. CHINAMAN MARKED FOR DEATH. Secret Society Has Set Price on Head of Rich Celestial. Tom Lee, mayor of New York’s Chinatown, is marked for death. As leader of the On Leong Tong society a price of $3,000 has ben set upon his head by a rival organization, the Hip Sing Tong society. I^ee is guarded by a band of armed men day and Tom Lee. night. He is a millionaire and has great power in Mongolian affairs in America. Joseph Choate Taking a Rest. Although Joseph Choate, the former ambassador to England, has been home only seven months he has had occasion to refuse flattering offers for legal services which would have net ted him many thousands of dollars. He declined to mix in the Philadelphia affair a few months ago and recently he wrote a positive letter saying that he could not possibly be persuaded to go into the Equitable business. Choate is in demand from many quarters, but he has steadfastly refused to entertain proposals. His excuse is “pressure of personal business.” For a man worth less than a million this seems strange to many New Yorkers. For Broadening the Shoulders. A good exercise for broadening the shoulders requires the person to place in his hands straight bdtore him against a door or wall, which he must face. Straighten out the arms and let the palms of both hands be spread out upon the surface of the door. Then slowly press the chest forward toward the door. This will cause the arms to bend at the elbows, but at the same time will throw back the shoul ders. Rowing will broaden the shoul ders very perceptibly. Exercises with dumb-bells are also good. A Sleep Inducer. A writer in a medical journal sug gests a new way of juggling with in somnia. His sleep inducer is a chain of words, so associated in sound or meaning that each suggests the next subsequent—for instance: Ice, slip pery; smooth, rough; ruffian, tramp, etc. When sleep is coy, recite the list mentally. This is said to be a sure cure. It keeps the mind from ram bling from subject to subject, as the mind tends to do in sleeplessness.— Chicago News. ( SENT BY CALIFORNIA TO SENATE OF UNITED STATES l tFCtoaew 1 Frank Flint of California, recently en state. He missed It by two years, elected to the seat of Thomas R. Bard having been born in Massachusetts in the United States senate, came before his parents moved. He has very near being a native of the Gold- lived in Los Angeles twenty years. SUMMARY OF TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH The Russo-Japanese treaty of peace opens *1,.. a preamble reciting that his majesty the emperor, the autocrat of If the Russias, and his majesty, the emperor of Japan, desiring to close ihe war between them, and, having appointed their respective plenipotentiaries and furnished them with full powers, which were found to be in due form, have come to an agreement on a treaty of peace, the details of which are as follows: Article 1—General Peace.—Stipulates for the re-establishment of peace and friend ship between the sovereigns of the two empires and between the subjects of Rus sia and Japan, respectively. Article 2—Corea n Protectorate.—His majesty the emperor of Russia recognizes the preponderant interest, from political. fulitarv, and economical points of view of apan in the empire of Corea, and stipu lates that Russia will not oppose any measures for its government, protection, or control that Japan will deem necessary to take in Corea In conjunction with the Corean government, but Russian subjects and Russian enterprises are to enjoy the same status as the subjects and enter prises of other countries. Article 3—Evacuation of Manchuria.— It is mutually agreed that the territory of Manchuria be simultaneously evacuated by both Russian and Japanese troops, both countries being concerned in this evacuation, their situations being abso lutely identical. All rights acquired by private persons and companies shall re main intact. Article 4—Port Arthur and Dalny.— The rights possessed by Russia in con formity with the lease of Port Arthur and Dalny, together with the lands and wa ters adjacent, shall pass over in their en tirety to Japan, but the properties and rights of Russian subjects are to be safe guarded and respected. Article 5—Open Door In Manchuria.— The governments of Russia and Japan engage themselves reciprocally not to put any obstacles to the general measures (which shall be alike for all nations) that China may take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria. Article 6—Manchurian Railroad.—The Manchurian railway shall be operated jointly by Russia and Japan at Kourangt chengtse. The two branch lines shall be employed only for commercial and indus trial purposes. In view of Russia's keep ing her branch line with all rights ac quired by her convention with China for the construction of that railway. Japan acquires the mines in connection with such branch line, which falls to her. How ever. the rights of private parties or pri vate enterprises are to be respected. Both parties to this treaty remain absolutely free to undertake what they deem fit on expropriated ground. Article 7—Conjunction of Railroad In terests.—Russia and Japan engage them selves to make a conjunction of the two branch railroad lines which they own and operate at Kourangtchengtse. Article 8—Protection of Railroad Traf fic.—It is agreed that the branch lines of the Manchurian railway shall be work ed with a view to assuring commercial traffic between them without obstruction. Article 9—Division of Sakhalin.—Rus I sia cedes to Japan the southern part of I Sakhalin island as far north as the fif tieth degree north latitude, together with the islands depending thereon. The right of free navigation is assured in the bays of La Perouse and Tartare. Article 10—Citizenship of Sahkalln.— This article recites the situation of Rus sian subjects on the southern part of. Sakhalin Island and stipulates that Rus sian colonists there shall be free ani. shall have the right to remain without changing their nationality. Per contra, the Japanese government shall have the right to force Russian convicts to leave the territory which is ceded to her. Article 11—Fishing Rights.—Russia en fages herself to make an agreement with apan giving to Japanese subjects the right to fish in Russian territorial waters of the sea of Japan, the sea of Okhotsk, and Bering sea. Article 12—Commercial Treaty.—The two high contracting parties engage them selves to renew the commercial treaty existing between the two governments prior to the war in all its vigor, with slight modifications in details and with a most favored nation clause. —Article 13—Exchange of Prisoners.— Russia and Japan reciprocally engage to restore their prisoner's of war on pavment of the real cost of keeping the same, such claim for cost to be supported by docu ments. Article 14—Language of Treaty.—This peace treay shall be drawn up in two languages, French and English, the French text being evidence for the Rus sians and the English text for the Jap anese. In case of difficulty of interpreta tion the French document is to be accept ed as final evidence. Article 15—Ratification of Treaty.— The ratification of this treaty shall be countersigned by the sovereigns of the two states within fifty days after its sig nature. The French and American em bassies shall be Intermediaries between the Japanese and Russian governments to announce by telegraph the ratification of the treaty. Two additional articles are agreed to, as follows: Article A—Method of Manchurian Evac uation.—The evacuation of Manchuria bv both armies shall be completed within eighteen months from the signing of the treaty, beginning with the retirement of troops of the first line. At the expiration of the eighteen months the two parties mutually agree to leave as guards for the railway not more than fifteen soldiers per kilometer. Article B—Sakhalin Boundary Line.— The boundary which limits the parts own ed respectively by Russia and Japan in Sakhalin island shall be definitely marked off on the spot by a special commission. AUTO MEANT FOR FARM WORK. New Type Recently Put on the Market in Scotland. A new and special type of automo bile has recently been put on the mar ket in Scotland which is designed es pecially for farm work, and which is not only suitable for plowing, but may be equipped as a cultivator or reaper. It will prepare the ground and sow the seed at one operation, and can be op erated at a better speed than a horse. Thus when plowing it can cover from six to seven acres a day, and goes over the field so as to leave it in final shape for cultivation. When not in use in the field, the motor can be used to drive all farming machinery, and when plowing, the cost of fuel, labor and depreciation has been computed at $1 per acre, or less than one-half the expense of plowing by horse. It is interesting to note that the cost of the machine is about $1,500, an amount that does not seem prohibitive for a large farm, where a thorough test of the new machine could readily be made. The automobile, unlike the farm animal, does not have to be fed when it is not working, and it is here that a substantial element of economy can probably be secured.—Harper’s Weekly. Retires on Well-Earned Pens cn. Miss Annie A. Baldwin of Newark, N. J., who for forty-seven consecutive years has been a teacher in the New ark schools, was retired on half sal ary for life at a meeting of the board of education last week. This step was taken at the request of Miss Baldwin, the commisisoners acting in accord ance with the New Jersey state law. which allows a local school board to retire on half salary teachers who have taught in the same school dis trict for forty or more consecutive years. Would Adopt Wealthy Youth. Princess Anne Karenga Esterhazy, a connection by marriage of the Car rols of Virginia, offers to adopt a bright young American or Englishman and be a real mother to him for $750, 000, the interest cn which is to be hers for life and tLe principal, at her death, to revert to the adopted one's family. The princess offers to do this in order to keep the wolf from her royal door. She is 56 years old. The young man will have the right to call himself Prince Esterhazy. WITTE IN SECURE POSITION. Should Long Remain the Foremost of Russian Statesmen. Sergius Witte will return home with a greater international reputation than any other contemporary Euro pean statesman. In the opinion of the outside world no one else in Russia can be compared with him. For, in addition to his past achievements in domestic affairs, he now counts among his laurels a diplomatic reputation which comes to but few men who make diplomacy the business of a life time. Witte throughout this brilliant chapter of his life—for he brought to an end on the best possible terms a war which he had opposed and con demned at the outset—has reminded one more of Bismarck, by his heavy but powerful personality and the firm ness with which he has met every cri sis in the negotiations, than any other modern European statesmen. The Czar apparently has no other servant so capable as this man of building up Russia in the next twenty years, and * it is to be hoped, for Russia’s sake, that Witte’s performance in America will give him an ascendency with the Czar which no rivalry and no intrigue can undermine.—Springfield, Mass., Republican. Amoa Rusie Works for Small Wages. Amos Rusie. once a famous pitcher of the New York club of the National baseball league, is a lumber hand and has been engaged in this business in the southern part of Indiana for some time at $1.50 a day. It Is now an nounced that he has obtained a bet ter position in Cairo, 111., where he will receive $4 a day. Rusie received $5,000 a year while with the New York club, but for the last two years he has drawn only $1.50 a day. It is not likely he will ever re-enter the baseball field. Mrs. Chaffee to Champion Canteen? It is said that Mrs. Chaffee, wife of Gen. Chaffee, chief of staff in the United States army, will appear before congress next session as a champion of the canteen at army posts. Mrs Chaffee is a member of the Woman’s Army and Navy league, on behalf of ' which organization she will plead for restoration of the canteen, it was abolished in accordance with an act of congress introduced as a bill bv Congressman Littlefield, who is now in Europe studying army life there.