THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA.
STATE PAYS RAILROAD FARE.
Two Officers Draw on Traveling
Funds.
LINCOLN—State Superintendent
McBrien yesterday bought $150 worth
of railroad mileage, paying therefor i
with money from a 510,000 fund ap
propriated by the last legislature for
his office. The appropriation is for
supplies, printing and other purposes,
including traveling expenses. Attor
ney General Norris Bown has pre
sented to the state auditor a voucher
for $35 for railroad mileage. The
voucher is drawn on a fund of $4,400
appropriated by the last legislature
for the use of the attorney general in
prosecutions. Both state officers have
returned their railroad passes, but
they have plenty of state funds to
draw on for travelling expenses and
will do so in the future. The attor
ney general travels very little, but j
at present is engaged in defending \
the state in the injunction suits insti
tuted in the federal court at Omaha
by the Burlington and Union Pacific
roads for the purpose of preventing
county treasurers from collecting the
tax levied last year against railroad
property.
The records at the state house dis
close that the last legislature appro
priated $119,000 which may be used
for travelling expenses if the persons
having control of the funds care to
go without some other things for
which the money can be legally used.
Governor Mickey who has returned |
his passes has no fund for travelling
expenses and he has paid $50 for two
railroad mileage books out of his own
pocket.
SAYS BEET HARVEST IS
ON IN FULL FORCE
K
GRAND ISI^AND—The harvesting
of the sugar beets is now on in full
force. The local factory of the Amer
ican B«set Sugar company will com
mence the campaign of 1905 next
week, when a sufficient supply of
beets will be on hand.
The early part of the season was
very unfavorable, owing to the sur
plus of moisture and water, beets in
low places particularly having to be
replanted. The fall season has been
quite moist also causing a slowness
in ripening, but the entire season has
been somewhat more to the advantage
of the farmer, the beets growing large
and heavy, making a big tonnage per
acre, and since the contracts are for a
flat price, regardless of the per cent of
sugar, over a certain minimum which
only the poorest of beets do not over
take, the result of the season’s grow
ing is probably more in favor of the
. farmer than of the factory. However,
a profitable season for both is at this
time anticipated.
Buildings are Not Satisfactory.
LJNCOLN—Secretary of State Gal
usha has returned from an inspection
of the new cottages at the Norfolk
insane asylum and declares that he
is greatly displeased with the condi
tion of affairs. He finds fault with
the construction of the new buildings
and says that no bath rooms have
been provided for the inmates on the
third floors of either building. As a
result sick patients must be carried
up and down stairs by the attendants
when they are to be bathed.
Despondent Farmer Suicides.
WILBER—Joseph Slama, a Bohem-!
ian fanner, aged fifty, committed sui
cide at his home, nine miles south
west of here, by taking carbolic acid.
A little over a month ago his wife
mysteriously disappeared, taking with
her a step-daughter of she and her own
babe of about a year. After a search j
of several days, in which fully 250 ,
people took part, they were found at
the home of a friend in the west part
of the county. The woman refused to
return home.
Mutual Company in Trouble.
The German-American Fire Insur
ance company of Hastings, a mutual
concern, has signified its intention to
ask for a receiver to settle up its af
fairs. Some time ago the insurance
department came into possession of
facts which tended to show that the
company was unable to meet its obli
gations and requested a showing.
Loses An Arm.
GRAND ISLAND—Fred Graver, a
young farmer residing five miles
northeast of the city was a victim of
the loaded-gun-in-the-wagon habit, los
ing his right arm, at the elbow. Am
putation from the wound became nec
essary.
Youthful Horsethlef Returned.
KEARNEY—Sheriff Sammons re
turned here from Emerson, Neb., hav
ing in custody Martin Bly, who is
wanted here for horse stealing. Bly
is about 20 years of age.
Verdict for $12,000.
PLATTSMOUTH — Advices have
been received here that Mrs. Lillian
Coyle of this city has been given dam
ages in the sum of $12,000 against
the Great Western Railway company,
at St Joseph, Mo. The plaintiff lost
both legs in an accident.
Parker Held for Murder.
PENDER—The trial of Samuel Par
ker for the killing of Andrew Johnson
was concluded and Parker was bound
over to appear at the next term of
district court.
North Nebraska Corn Safe.
NORFOLK—The magnificent corn
crop in northern Nebraska is out of
the way of frost. The recent hot
winds put the growing crop to the
good and it is now all ready to be
husked.
Adjudged a Dipsomanic.
PLATTSMOUTH—Wosley Baar of
Greenwood was examined before the
board of insanity upon a charge wh’cb'
was filed under the chronic inebriate
law. He was ordered sent to th* *sy-l
Lun at Lincoln for treatment
OVER THE STATE.
A new telephone company is seek
ing to get a franchise in Omaha.
Sheridan county had a most success
ful fair, both in exhibits and attend
ance.
The members of the Tecumseh Ad
vent Christian church have called El
der J. J. Schamberg of Lincoln to the
pastorate.
The passenger train on the Bloom
field branch of the Omaha railroad was
wrecked near Bloomfield, two persons
receiving injuries in the accident.
Ex-Chief of Police O. Schoonover,
of Nebraska City, charged with false
imprisonment and usurpation of office,
has been acquitted by the jury in the
district court of Otoe county.
The boys and girls engaged in the
corn growing contest being held by
the state department of education are
to be entertained at a corn banquet
in Lincoln early in December.
C. A. Gleason, for the last two years
pastor of the Congregational church
in West Point has severed his relations
with his congregation and has accept
ed a call to the church at Fairmont,
this state.
The grocery store of Bell Bros..
Beatrice, was closed by creditors, the
amount of their liabilities being $2.50.
The stock will invoice about $1,300
and the outstanding accounts will
reach $750.
Pat Cavanaugh, a •well known horse
man of Verdigree, was probably fa
tally injured in a race on the Creigh
ton track during the progress of the
county fair there. He was thrown
from his horse.
The special committee of the south
east Nebraska conference, which was
hearing the evidence in the Rev. F. P.
Blakemore case, at Falls City, re
turned a verdict of guilty, which expels
him from its church.
Prof. W. C. T. Adams. Ph. D., late
dean of the normal department of Up
per Iowa university, has been elected
to the chair of psychology and peda
gogy in Bellevue college in place of
Prof. Randalls, resigned.
At Geneva the grades in the school
have become so crowded that the
school board has secured the Freewill
Baptist church for a portion of the
Fifth grade and have had it seated and
furnished for this purpose.
James Jones of Greely county, who
last winter shipped a number of prairie
chickens and quail in a barrel of sauer
kraut, which later was confiscated
| by the state fish and game commis
sioner, has beem fined $25 and costs.
The first new corn has been brought
to this market It was in the ear and
of excellent quality. It sold to a local
feed dealer for 35 cents per bushel.
Taking eighty pounds for a bushel, the
yield was sixty-five bushels to the
acre.
The Tecumseh Military band has
been engaged by the management of
the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben festival to par
ticipate in the parades in the metrop
olis during the carnival. The dates
on which the band will appear are Oct.
4 and 5.
The Cooper & Linn electric light
plant of Humboldt was put out of bus
iness by an accident to the machinery,
in which the engineer, Will H. Lon
neke. had a narrow escape from
death or serious injury. The fly wheel
bursted.
The fanners of Avoca and vicinity,
; at a recent meeting, discussed the
' project of organizing a farmer’s ele
! vator company. It was decided to
i build an elevator at once for handling
the grain products of those interested
! in the project.
Adjutant General Culver has with
drawn his claim filed with Auditor
Searle for $240 fo? expenses of himself
| and rifle team to Sea Girt. General
! Culver will get the money from the
! general government.
Judge E. F. Perkins of Tecumseh,
has been appointed by the state board
of health as local registrar of vital
statistics for Tecumseh and vicinity,
under a new law passed by the last
legislature requiring the regestration
of all deaths in the state of Nebraska.
Horses are being shipped in for the
Omaha Horse show, which will be held
at the Auditorium during the week
of October 9, and every Indication
points to one of the most successful
horse shows which any town has ever
held. The initial show of the asso
ciation, held last fall, carried off the
•palm of all first shows and from the
present indications this show will fol
low right in its wake. The ring has
been built and the local horses are
being given their daily turn in the tan
bark a.'ena to accustom them to the
short turns and to the people who
stand around the rail and by their
nresence frighten the horses. All of
the picturesque features known to
horse shows will be on the program at
the Omaha show. Tandems, road
fours, coach fours, spike teams, cock
horses, the jumpers and the hunt
clubs, not to mention the cowboys, are
some of the interesting features of the
show.
Surveyors in the employ of the Great
Northern have got as far east as Elk
horn with the line they are running
from Fremont to Omaha.
Through the kindness of Miss Flor
ence Zink, of Rock county, the “Grass
Widow,” who attracted so much at
tention at the state fair, has become
the property of the state normal
school at Peru. The dress was made
by Miss Florence Zink and her sister,
Bessie, who is attending the normal,
md contains sixty-three kinds of
Rock county grasses woven with ar
tistic skill into the form of an ex
quisite dress.
Hon. A. B. Allen of Tecumseh, who
is private secretary to Governor
Mickey, has left Lincoln for an extend
ed visit to the northwest. He will stop
in Spokane, Seattle, Portland and
other points of interest in Washington
and Oreeon and will return home by
way of Salt Lake City and Denver.
Fred Burnett, a young man, shot
himself at the home of his grandfather
!n Vincent precinct, near Beaver City.
His body was found in his room by his
mother. He had killed himself with a j
small rifle, the shot entering the heart ,
and death was instantaneous. He was |
despondent because of being a crippi* 1
The outbreak of yellow fever in
New Orleans recalls the scourge of
1878 when 12,000 American citizens
were killed and some 125.000 disabled.
Since then Uncle Sam has taken pre
cautions to guard against the recur
rence of such an epidemic. To-day
diseased soldiers of the United States
Treasury’s reorganized public health
and marine hospital service have their
coast defences—twenty-seven coast de
fences lining the seaboard. They have
their land posts—twenty-two hospitals
and 121 relief stations. Then. too.
they have their foot soldiers and field
artillery, all organized under uri
formed officers as fearless as the mili
tary men who fight the visible, though
not less treacherous, foe. Moreover,
they have their camps of tents; their
attaches, alert in foreign lands; their
smart fleet of war vessels, which dart
out to challenge the demon pestilence
before it may have an opportunity to
land And the result has been that—
although yellow jack gained a foot
hold in the New England ports in
jears back—whereas, in the nine
teenth century the years when he did
not ravage the shores of the United
States somewhere could be counted
upon your fingers—this year's success
ful attack is counted as an exception
and its spread is not anticipated.
How these disease soldiers are now
working against this scourge of the
tropics, his cohorts of microbes and
his aerial artillery of mosquitoes is
an interesting story, says the Mon
treal Herald. At the headquarters in
Washington there sits, with the war
charts before him, the indefatigable
commander-in-chief. United States
Surgeon General Walter Wyman. His
staff consists of six assistant surgeons
general, selected from a corps of over
a hundred commissioned and uni
formed medical officers, under whom
work a force of over 800 medical as
sistants.
At eight of the principal fruit ports
of Central America, at various other
yellow fever hotbeds in Mexico and
South America, officers are stationed
in the United States Consulates for
the inspection of vessels bound for the
United States. Moreover, as soon as a
vessel sails into any United States
port from a foreign yellow fever port,
a public health boat sails out from
quarantine to meet it. Medical offi
cers board it, the passengers and crew
being carefully examined before al
lowed to land. All persons suspected
of having exposed themselves to the
infection are taken off and detained
within the quarantine enclosure suffi
ciently long for the disease to devel
op. Until some five years ago yellow
fever ships were boarded by a disin
fecting corps, armed with portable
sulphur fumigators, which resembled
fire engines. Disinfecting solutions
were sprayed upon the infected parts
of the ship and all baggage was
steamed upon metallic racks wheeled
upon a truck into an immense steam
chamber. But, although these devices
are still resorted to in combating oth
er foreign infections aboard ships,
mosquito study, so zealously carried
on by scientists in the past few years,
resulted in a complete revolution of
quarantine laws applying to yellow fe
ver. Disinfection of baggage is no
longer required unless it be suspected
that mosquitoes are harbored therein.
Instead of the sulphur furnaces and
sprays for killing the yellow fever
germ directly, there now are applied
in necessary cases agencies for free
ing the vessels entirely of mosquitoes.
The yellow fever mosquito of the
tropics is. then, the undoubted carrier
of the germ. This was proven a few
years back by Surgeon Walter Reed,
United States army. He confined in
one house not screened from mos
quitoes volunteers clad in the most im
maculate night garments and covered
by the cleanest bed clothing which it
was possible to obtain. In another
house completely screened against
mosquitoes he shut up volunteers who
used the night clothes and bed cover
ings taken from patients in a yellow
tever hospital. The men in the first
building contracted the disease, while
those in the second escaped, whereby
it was proven that the suspected mos
quito and not the supposedly infected
clothing was the agency of transmis
sion. So much for the preventive cam
paign of the disease soldiers who lie
in watch for Yellow Jack from their
lonely, often isolated, quarantine sta
tions.
$en anb ink Jflocal BratotngS
©otf) featisfactocp anb artistic.
In the opinion of many people wash
drawing, pencil and color are the most
effective mediums for flower reproduc
tion. Pen and ink, however, produce
most satisfactory and artistic results
when care is taken with the work, and
in the opinion of those who have made
a study of such drawings they possess
advantages over all other pictorial
mediums. The advantages are said to
consist in the matter of vigor and di
rectness, in availability of the draw
ings for illustrative or decorative
work and for use as memoranda for
botanical purposes.
The secret of success in pen and ink
work of this description is in making
just the right number of lines and
those of a telling description. In the
accompanying group the effectiveness
of this style of work is demonstrated
and, apropos of pen and ink drawing j
of flowers, an authority of internation
al repute says:
“The representation of color is. of
course, the greatest difficulty we meet
with In drawing flowers in pen and
ink, though it will surprise many
workers to find in the course of their
study what suggestion of color can be
given even with combinations of black
lines. One great inducement, how
ever, to begin drawing flowers is that
our subjects range in form from the
simplest to the most complex, and we
recommend beginners to take, say, a
primrose or a daisy, and after study
ing one of these thoroughly to pass on
to the mare elaborate, specimens of
the floral world.
“Another difficulty with beginners is
to know what to leave out. If we try
to include every little detail before us
we only end in making the work unin
y
teresting and crowded looking. Our
object, therefore, should be to seize
the characteristic points of the sub
ject, leaving out any defects and blem
isnes, and try to present a typical rep
resentation of each particular flower
we draw.
“Attention must be given to light
and shade. We do not want our flow
ers to have a flat, characterless look,
as if they had been pressed between
the leaves of a book. A pleasing ar
rangement of light and shade will of
ten redeem what might otherwise be
considered an uninteresting composi
tion, and by placing the subjects
thoughtfully-in the best manner, so as
to get as large a variety of lighting as
possible, we can emphasize the vari
ous parts of the flowers, and present
the whole in its most attractive form.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
Never Too Late To Learn.
Talking the other day to the Car
dinals who had come to congratulate
him on his seventieth birthday. Pius
X. said: "I never thought I would
learn as much in my old days as I am
doing. For instance." he added with
a sunny smile. “I can now write my
name without mussing up a carsock
worth 200 francs.” And he explain
ed: "For years I indulged in tne hab
it of wiping my pen on the left sleeve
of my coat before I began and during
the writing. Of course, that didn't
matter much as long as I wore black
clothes, but when I donned the white
Papal habit things looked different,
and so did I when I came from my
writing room. For a time ray valet
didn't know where to get enough
clothes for me to wear. Then I de
termined to break with this bad habit,
and I did. One can give up anything
if one but tries hard enough.'—Mon
treal Herald.
Freak Dinners.
Attacks having been made in the
newspapers on the “freak” dinners
of millionaires, the secretary of the
Savoy Hotel. London, replies that they
are good for the trade. The cele
brated “gondola dinner,” given by
an American recently, gave employ
ment to 100 carpenters, thirty paint
ers and twenty decorators all at
“fancy” wages and put money into
the pockets of numerous electricians,
florists, artists and other workers.
Modern Author Uses Quilt Pen.
George Meredith is one of the group
of authors who remain faithful to the
old-fashioned quill pen. There be
those who believe that no work of
genius can be produced with anything
else in the way of pens and the au
thorities of the British museum seem
to agree with them, for they still offer
to visiters the good old goose quill.
Patriotic Frenchman Dead.
Gen. Pierron, who. at S,dan, burn
ed the colors of the French regiments
so luai they might net 1 11 into the
hands of Germans, has just died at
Versailles. •
Safe.
Sarah, a colored auntie of the old
type, had come to bring home the
weekly wash and was told that one of
the family was ill with typhoid fever.
The following conversation was over
heard:
“Miss Mary. dey. tells me downstairs
dat Mr. John has de tyford. Is dat
true?’’
“Yes, Sarah, that's what the doctor
fears. And it’s such a dreadful dis
ease! Are you afraid of it ”
“I used to he, honey, I sutn’ly used
to be afeared of dat zizeeze; but two
years ago when it was so bad aroun’
here, de doctor tol’ John Henry dat
tyford always comes from germs, an’
since dat time I pours all our drinkln’
water through a tea-strainer; one of
dem fine wire ones, dat nothin’ can
crawl through less I see -it. My min’
is a restin’ easy about tyford in dese
days, honey.”
Distinction for Loubet.
President Loubet will be the first
chief of the third republic to retire
under normal conditions at the com
pletion of his term. Thiers resigned,
so did MacMahon, and though M.
Grevy completed one term he had to
quit office before the expiration of his
second. Ca-not was murdered. Casi
rair-Perier left the Elysee in disgust
and Felix Faure's career was cut short
by his sudden death.
Mrs. Herrick an Anthropologist.
Mrs. R. F. Herrick, mother of the
governor of Ohio, who has lived in
California for forty-five years, is much
interested in anthropology. At. a meet
ing in San Francisco several days ago
of the American Anthropological asso
ciation she read a paper on “Indians
of Humboldt, Nev.,” which created i
much interest.
Gas Replaces Electricity.
It is proposed to dispense with elec
tric light in the streets of Preston,
Eneiand, and to substitute incandes
cent gas lamps. Advocates of the
change consider that they will get a—
better light than now at lower cost.
Forgot Her Dines.
She was a pretty girl and the mo
ment she entered the grocery store
the youthful members of the stafT of
clerks all made a rush, eager to take
her order.
Each was sure she must be the
daughter of a. millionaire or the ward
of some wealthy citizen. She was at
tired in the breeziest of summer
frocks, and enjoyed a complexion of
the peach-blow tint and a profile of
the Murillo-Gibson type.
“I wish hawf a pound of tea,” she
began.
“Anything else?” asked the clerk
as he tied up the package.
“Yaws, I wish several pounds of
sugah—I think about faw pounds will
suffice; and I want some fresh
peaches, too—one tires so of the
beastly cawned stuff, don't you know;
an’—lemme see—what time do yous
shut here?”—Judge.
Like* New Points in Law.
Justice Gaynor. whom the New
York city fusionists have been talk
ing of as a possible candidate for
mayor is a man with a peculiarity.
He seldom looks at a question from
the point of view taken by other men.
As a result, lawyers who offer an un
usual plea or an argument based on
grounds not generally chosen in law
like to take their cases before Gaynor.
Returns to America.
Lady Harcourt, who has arrived at
New York from Europe, after an ab
sence of many years, is the daughter
of the American diplomat and his
torian, John Lothrop Motley, and the
widow of the late Sir William Ver
non Harcourt, one of the most emi
nent leaders and statesmen of the
Liberal party.
Lese Majeste in Saxony.
A governess named Kathie Schmidt
is to be prosecuted for lese majeste
because she wrote her name in a vis
itors’ book at a hotel at Gross-Lichter
felde immediately beneath the sig
natures of the King of Saxony an£
the fwo princesses
Soldiers Used Comrade as a Shield
British Trooper Who Served
Against the Boers Lives to
Tel! of Terrible Experience
on South African Fields.
Probably not another man alive has
had the terrible experience of Pri
vate Dunning, formerly of the North
umberland fusiliers, whose body was
used as a firing shield by his com
rades during an affair of outposts in
the South African war.
The Soldiers and Sailors’ Help So
ciety, which has done so much good
work among disabled soldiers, has
been employing Dunning at light car
pentry work, but he has now become
so weak that it has been necessary to
transfer him to the lighter task of
basket making.
The story of his experience was
modestly told bv Dunning to a London
Express representative recently.
He was one of a detachment of
500 guarding a convoy from Wolmar
anstad to Klerksdorp, which was at
tacked by 3.000 Boers near the latter
place.
"I could see nothing but one big
man on a big gray horse, moving
about among the trees fifty yards
away,” he said. "I thought of nothing
but him and kept saying to myself:
‘I must bring him down.’
"I knelt down and fired carefully.
The big man came down like a shot.
iad the gray horse bolted. At the
^ame instant about a dozen men broke
over twenty yards away and fired at
ne. I was hit in several places and
*ent down. I was still conscious, but
our men thought I was dead and used
me and the bodies of other men as a
rampart to fire over, until, one by
one, they were all silenced.
"I remember some men dragging my
clothes off me later on. They left
me stark naked, but one of them put
my water bottle to my mouth and
said: 'Good-by, chap; you’re going.”
Dunning bad eight bullets in his
body and a broken arm. Some of the
bullets were not extracted until be
reached Krugersdorp, eight days lat
er. Practically all the ribs on the
right side have been shot away, and
he now wears a thick felt jacket with
steel supports to keep him from col
lapsing.
He has a pension of 1 shilling 15
pence a day, which he supplements a
little by basket making. Even this
light work, however, is obviously a
severe task upon him and he is fre
quently unable to carry it on. He is
30 years old and has one child and a
young and pretty wife, who, it is plain,
idolizes the broken soldier.
*•
Real Son of the American Revolution
—— ' ■ ____
James M. Edwards of Toledo.
Ohio, Has Unqualified Right to
Bear That Proud Title—Son
of a Minute Man.
To be one of about fifteen of the
surviving Sons of the American Revo
lution and to be the only surviving
son of a participator in the* historic
battle of Lexington is the proud dis
tinction borne by Jas. M. Edwards of
Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Edwards is in his
ninety-second year, and lives with his
son. The fact that he is the only sur
viving son is not to be wondered at
when we consider that peace has teen
declared for more than 120 years. Ac
cording to the roster of the Sons of
the American Revolution prepared
early in 1904 there were then twenty
one surviving sons. But since that
time it is known that six at least have
died.
J. M. Edwards is the son of Eben
; ezer Edwards, who was a minute man
from Acton. Mass., and who fired one
of the first guns in defense of Con
cord road and stood by Capt. Davis
when he was struck down by the first
English gun fired in the revolutionary
struggle. Ebenezer Edwards was born
in 1757 in Acton, and was a carpenter
by trade. At the age of 18 he ran
away and enlisted. He was finally
transferred to "Fort Dorchester, where
he spent some time. After three years
of service he received an honorable
discharge and went to the Green Hills
of New Hampshire. There he married
Lydia Wheeler, and by her had eleven
children, all of whom are dead. He
married Mary Flint in 1801, and by her
he had four children, the youngest be
ing James M., who is the sole survi
vor. Ebenezer died in 1826.
James M. Edwards was born Dec.
27, 1814, and was married to Elizabeth
Moffitt of Cambridge March 6, 1854;
they recently celebrated their fifty
first anniversary together. Four chil
dren blessed this union, all of whom
are living. They are Frank M., an
attorney in Boston; Herbert, a pro
fessional man of Toledo, Ohio; Eliza
beth of St. Paul and Mrs. Augusta
Seers of Chico, Cal. Mr. Edwards wit
first a banker in Boston a number of
years, and later was in the wholesale
lumber business in Grand Rapids.
Mich.
Rapid Growth of World's Great Cities
United States the Only Country
that Can Boast of Three Con
taining Over One Million In
habitants.
There are now in the world nine
cities of more than one million in
habitants each. Three of these—
namely, New York, Chicago and Phil
adelphia—are cities of that new world
which was only dreamed of 500 years
ago and was undreamed of when
Thebes, Babylon and Nineveh vaunted
themselves as important centers of
civilization. No other nation than
the United States has more than one
of these big towns, the other being
London. Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Can
ton and Tokio. The new census will
probably show a population m New
York city of close upon 4,000,000 in
habitants. The unrevised figure is 3,
087,696. This is a gain of over 100,000
a year since 1900, when the first enu
meration after the consolidation of
New York and Brooklyn showed a
population in Greater New York of 3,
437,000. London has a population at
present of 4,536,641. New York is
thns a close second, and in all prob
ability will overtake and pass London
within another generation. The con
tention that this is improbable be
cause the metropolitan area of Lon
don includes 6,581.372 inhabitants, is
unfounded, because it must be remem
bered that the actual urban district of
New York city includes Jersey City,
Hoboken. Newark, Elizabeth, Pater
son and Yonkers, which are not com
prehended in the municipal corpora
tion of New York city. For ten years
past the opinion has been gaining
ground that the rapid growth of great
cities in the nineteenth century will
not continue throughout the twenti
eth. The new developments already
achieved and to be expected in the
utilization of electricity are undoubt
edly to make life relatively comfort
able in the country and in the suburb
an villages. The trolley car and the
telephone wonderfully extend the area
within which the man whose business
is in the city may choose his resi
dence. Electricity is increasing also
the possibility of conducting manufac
turing operations in relatively isolat
ed snots.
His Proposal Made in Original Manner
— *-—.. __
Girl of Hi* Heart Helped Out
Baehful Youth to Some Pur*
poee — Just a Hint and the
Reet Wae Eaey.
My girl and I bad been keeping
company*1 for two years, and at last I
realized that something definite most
be done. I carefully prepared—in of
fice hours—various short and pithy
speeches, but, strange to say, when I
came into the presence of my sweet
heart, they seemed to melt away, and
so I decided to put the proposal off
till next time. Thus it went on for
another six months.
My sweetheart now—as it seemed
to me—began to look at me in a re
proachful manner, and I became des
perate. I suddenly hit upon the plan
of lending her two books to read, one
of which was “How to be Happy,
Though Married. She returned them
in a fortnight, and 6aid, with a beau
tiful smile, that she liked them very
much. I thought this was a good be
ginning, and my heart beat high, with
hope.
Next week I lent her another care
i fully selected book in, which the hero
in's name was Jennie. This was also
my sweetheart’s name. Before doing
so I had previously read the book, and
on different pages I had underlined
certain words, which words when
placed together would read thus:
"Jennie, I love you dearly. Will you
be my wife?”
During the next fornlght Jennie said
nothing, and I feared she had not
tumbled to the situation. But I was
mistaken. She returned the book with
verbal expressions of gratitude and
I delight, but never another word.
On reaching home I opened the
book, and behold? I saw tucked in at
the first page an advertisement with
the following heading.
"You get the girl, we do the rest.
How to furnish a small house for
$435. Apply for catalogue to—”
After this the rest was easy. I im
mediately got a catakmge, and, when
we met on the following Thursday,
.we had a good laugh, went through
the catalogue, and fixed the matter
up right away.—New York Weekly.
In Little Danger of Becoming Toper
- M----.
Woman Drank Beer on Advice
of Physician. but Brewery
Would Not Get Rich on Her
Custom.
"Speaking of homeopathy,’' said the
doctor, "reminds me of the case of
Miss N-. To appreciate the cir
cumstances you must know that Miss
N- traces her ancestry back
through a long line to the Puritans,
and has imbibed from them strong
and unyielding principles, particular- j
ly as regards saloons and liquor.
■ “For some time," the doctor con
tinued, "Miss N-has been troubled
with insomnia, and has tried various
forms of exercise and all sorts of rem
edies. Finally, she told me of her
trouble. Perhaps you can imagine
her horror when I suggested that beer
might help her to woo sleep, and even
went so far as to insist that it would
do her good to take it several times a
day. After a time, however, she de
cided to try my prescription. ,
"Then it took her a week to brace I
her courage up to the point of order
I
ing the beer, and having it delivered
at the house in full view of the neigh
bors. She discounted public opinion
in a measure, however, by consulting
with the aforesaid neighbors as to her
intention, so that the whole block
was thoroughly posted when at last
a beer peddler stopped at her door
and left a dozen bottles.
"The beer man thought he had
struck a new center for business and
returned in about three days for the
empty bottles.
"‘My dear man,’ said Miss N-,
"the bottles are not yet empty.’
"The beer man waited several dav»
more and again appeared.
“ 'Your bottles are perfectly safe,*
Miss N- told him, and then a
thought struck her, ‘but if you need
them I have one nearly empty which
you may have.’
“ ‘I guess you don’t drink it very
fast.’ suggested the man.
" ‘Why,’ replied Miss N-, 'I take
two teaspoonfuls twice a day.’”—Chi
cago Record-Henld.
