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Victim of Assassin ,JGB?73P GVPCS2Ta'£7VBa?G ’ Frank Steunenberg. former Govern or of Idaho, was killed Dec. 30, by a bomb at his home, in Caldwell. A dynamite bomb had been placed at his front gate with a contrivance that exploded the bomb as he entered. He lived twenty minutes. There is no known reason for the outrage, but it is charged to some members of the famous inner circle of the Coeur d'Alene rioters, whom he prosecuted relentlessly in 1899. while he was governor. Mr. Steunenberg was governor of Idaho from 1897 to 1901, having been twice elected. He was born in Iowa forty-four years ago. and had been in Idaho since 1887. He leaves a widow and three children. Gov. Steunenberg was a picturesque character, standing seven feet in his stockings. He never wore a necktie, and his appearance created something of a sensation on Broadway during his first visit to the East, made in 1899. PRELUDE TO THE REVOLUTION. Russian Peasants Are Beginning to Think of Conditions. In describing a Russian village in his article on "Russian Peasant Riots." in Everybody’s Magazine. Ern est Poole says: “For an hour we wandered through the hummocky, slushy, steaming streets: watching crowds of peasant men and women ; who had come jnto town to market. | The faces of these peasants were : broad and dull and coarse. They ! were clothed in rags: the handker chiefs on the women's heads were old I and splattered with rntuk the sheep skin coats were torn and foul. We saw hunger—always hunger—in the weak, shuffling steps of men, in the weary faces of women, in hollow, ane mic cheeks of little children. They stood about by hundreds and by thou sands in the mud. Scowls and gloomy silence. Only here and there groups would suddenly collect. In an instant hands would wave and voices rise in wild anger. Then the soldiers with their bayonets, or the Cossacks with their whips, would rush in shout ing abuse, and the peasants would scatter, scowling, shivering—thinking. Such thinking is the Russian revolu tion.” Landis' Entry Into Public Life. When Fred l^andis, now a congress man, was practicing law in I.ogans port, Ind.. he experienced an unusu ally long briefless spell and had about concluded to give up his profession and accept an offer to go on a Texas ranch. Some girls of his acquaint ance induced him to stay and take part 'in a theatrical performance. While' rehearsals tv- re in progress It was proposed to him that he run for congress. I ami's thought the matter over foy a lew days and then consented to make the litre. So it was that a theatrical performance in directly made a congressman of him. —Chicago Chronicle. Long Time in Literary Harness. John Bigelow, IX. D.. who was onr civil war consul and minister in Paris, passed hi^ eighty-eighth birthday re cently. He wrote a great. Franklin biography, a life of Samuel J. Tilden and a life of William Cullen Bryant. He was Tilden's executor and trustee and president of the library founda tion and he helped to found the Cen tury club. He tried a hand at journal ism for twelve years on the Evening Post. He has written books about Hayti in English and about the United States in French and he has just published a pamphlet on Glad stone's attitude during the civil war. It is a sort of challenge to Morley. Expert Women Mathematicians. It has been said that women are not mathematicians. That assertion is disproven by the fact that three women are engaged in the work of making computations for the nautical almanac bureau, under the direct con trol of the navy department. These women are Mrs. Elizabeth Brown Da vis. who is responsible for many of the important tables giving the dec linations of the sun, etc., by which mariners steer their courses, and Miss Janet McWilliams and Mrs. H. F. H. Hedrick, who have done much important work for the alma nac. New U. S. Senator a Poor Man. John M. Gearin, recently appoint ed United States senator from Oregon, will be the poorest man in that body. He owns no property and has no mon ey in bank. It is true he has a lucra tive law business. He owes nothing and does not lack at all for the com forts of life, but he has saved noth ing. He is a democrat, is considered the best speaker in the state and is the fourth man to go to the United States senate from the law office from which he comes—Dolph, Simon and Mitchell, republicans, having pre ceded him. Brave Mother of Brave Sailor. Among the clerks in the land office * in Washington is Mrs. Anna Grldley, mother of the captain to whom Dew ey said at Manila: "You may fire when ready.” She is also the widow of a gallant naval officer who was killed in the fight between the Moni tor and the Merrimac. Mrs. Gridley has just celebrated her eightieth birth day, and for forty years has worked faithfully at her desk. She scorns the idea of old age pensions and says she will keep on working until she reaches the century mark. Wonderful Sample of English. English as an international' lan guage is gaining day by day. This is from a Belgian "fabric of special products of ice machines”* "The salt, like the chlorids of lower degree, wears away, too, with much force the metallic objects. But the superiority of my product on the salt is to be bet ter conveyer of cold, especially for the dower temperatures, through which the salted water may become thicker and stick as ice or hoar frost on the «ohgelator's worms.” TIMBER SUPPLY NEARLY ENDED. At Prerent Rats of Consumption Forty Years Is the Limit. The woodmen spared not the trees whose ghosts now return to threaten us with a timber famine. Whereas ten ‘years ago only the soundest lies were used by the railroads, seconds and thirds are now accepted by the purchasing agents. Ked oak, black oak, beech, gums, pines and oilier sott woods, which once were consid ered worthless, are now treated with creosote and other preservatives for ties, crossarms and poles. This treatment quadruples the life of a soft wood tie and will meet the de mand for some years. But shortage is in sight and must be met by plan-, tations. Maude Adams is said to have planted on her I.ong Island prop erty 100,01X1 locust trees, which will make the hest and most lasting tele graph poles and railroad ties. A ca talpa plantation in Kansas owned by a railroad shows an annual net profit of |12.t>5 per acre. The annual tie consumption of a single railroad is about 120,000,000, or fully one-sixth of the total cut of timber. Besides this are the vast drains upon the forest for telegraph and telephone poles, crossarms and other uses. At the present rate of consumption the United States will be bare of mar ketable timber in forty years. The government forest service offers sub stantial help to planters.—Chicago Tribune. SOUTH SHARES IN PROSPERITY. Enormous .Rise in the Value of Farm Property. In the race for wealth the southern fainter is gbreast of the western granger and the northern manufac turer. He is no longer hampered by poverty and tradition. From all over the south come reports of expanding industries. It is computed that farm properties in the eleven states that once seceded from the union have risen in value more than $1.(100,000,000 iu two years. The average yield of these lands since this century be gan is $200,000,000 a year greater than it was in the preceding six years. The south now not only grows cotton for the world, but manages the market ing of it. The speculator who once got all the cream, gets it no longer. The planter is strong enough to fight his own battle, which means that he can defend his own property.—Phila delphia Press. Justin McCarthy a Hard Worker. The most remarkaole thing about the career of Justin McCarthy, who has been brought prominently to the front again, both in literature and in politics, is the tremendous amount of work he has been able to accomplish. Novelist, journalist, historian, politi cian and party leader, he has found time to travel widely and to cultivate delightful social relations with most of the leading literary, artistic and po litical people of his time. And in spite of the energy and thought do- - voted to political causes he has been continually pushing on some special and important literary undertaking of engrossing interest, involving an enormous amount of labor. How he has accomplished it all it is said that no one except perhaps his wife has ever found out. How the Kaiser. “Hunts.” The kaiser in his sports employs ■'all, the modern improvemems.” The imperial deer-stalking forest is twenty-six miles square and is inter sected with a network of telephone wires forming a connection with the gamekeepers’ boxes, which are scat tered all over the preserves and the royal hunting box. Thus the appearance of a stag worthy of the imperial gun is reported by telephone, particulars being given of where the animal was last seen. Within three minutes the imperial motor car starts for the spot. Inventor Holland’s Prophecies. When John P. Holland prophesied the submarine boat people looked at him askance and said to one anoth er: “Isn’t it a pity? And he looks so intelligent, too!” Now Mr. Hol land says that he expects to fly from his home in Newark to bis New York office within a few months and that before the year is out any man who has one of the machines he has in vented can easily go through the air at a speed of forty miles an hour with no more exertion than is required for walking three miles an hour on land. Acquisition for Washington Society. Aoki, the first Japanese ambassa dor to Washington, will probably bring with him to this country his wife, who is German. He was educat ed in Germany and was sent to that country several times as minister. Warn Against Emigration. The Roman Catholic bishops of Ire land have issued a circular to be read in all the chapels of the four prov inces, warning the young generation against the evils of emigration. j LIEUTENANT REDUCED IN RANK | Army Officir Punished fcr Discour tesy to Sergeant. For requesting a sergeant of artil ! lery to change his seat at a theater, First Liuet. Roy I. Taylor of the Coast artillery is reduced in -rank twelve numbers. He was tried by court martial. The offense was com mitted at a theater in New London, Conn., where a sergeant of Taylor's own company, who was in uniform, vacated a seat at the request of Tay lor. “It is hoped.” states the decision, w^hich is signed by Brig. Gen. Grant, “that the sentence of the court will leave no doubt in the mind of any Z/ZPT 5&ZQ& one that, the uniform of a soldier is a mark of honor w hich must be respect ed in the United Stales.” It is also stated that a sentence more severe than the one given is warranted. The theater incident took place last October. Sergeant Patrick F. Butler of the One Hundred anil Twenty-fifth company, Coast artillery, which was Taylor’s company, was seated m front of his superior officer at the perform ance. J.ieut. Taylor was net in uni form. Nearby were a party of friends whom he Anew, but who were not members of his party, it was in or der to make a vacancy for one of them that he told the sergeant to move. His words to the under of ficer, according to the printed ver dict of the court martial, were: “ ‘Sergeant, you had better get your ticket changed an'd get vour seat somewhere in the rear,’ or words to that effect.” 1-ieut. Taylor pleaded not guilty to the charge of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. The court's sentence is that the "lieutenant be reduced in rank twelve files on the lineal lists of first lieutenants of artilleiy.” SCANDAL BEHIND A ROMANCE. Social Circles of St. Louis, Mo., Stirred by Reports. It is said that the "elopement” of Lieut. Scharrer and Miss Wilhelmina Busch of St. Louis to Belleville, 111., where they were unable to get mar ried, was not an elopement, but an at tempted kidnaping. Scharrer having, it is said, forced Miss Busch to ac company him and threatened to kill himself and perhaps her with a re volver which he showed her. Scharrer is accused of attempting to compro raise Miss Busch in order to secure a club to hold over her father with a demand for $1,000,000.—Chicago Tri bune. New York Has Oldest Pugilist. James Kelly, 90 years old, a resi dent of Old Bridge, N. J„ is probably the oldest living pugilist. Kelly be came famous in 1855, when he defeat ed Jonathan Smith with bare knuckles in a fight that took place at Melbourne, Australia. It took 104 rounds to decide the question of su premacy, the men standing in the ring under a broiling sun for six hours and fifteen minutes. Kelly was so severely sunburned that he spent sev eral weeks in the hospital before he was able to move. He was born in Ireland, and in his time traveled with old gladiators like Heenan. Sayers, Yankee Sullivan. John Morrissey and Tom Hyers. The old fellow Is still in good health and attributes his long life to his early athletic train ing. Secretary Taft Ha* Traveled Far. Secretary Taft has traveled 100,000 miles since May 24, 1904, wh:n he be came governor general of the Philip pines. In the five and a half years since his call from the federal bench he has spent 360 days on the ocean. Ontario Sugar Beet Crop. There has been a modest revival of the beet sugar industry in Ontario, and farmers have raised more beets than the factories can take care of. The present crop is taken from about 15,000 acres and is valued at $600,000. French Betting Tax. The sum of $480,000, which repre sents a 1 per cent tax on betting trans actions under the French law, be tween January 16 and December 1 of the present year, is now available for the relief of the poor of France. Price of Lobsters in England. The market price of English lob sters fluctuates very much, according to the supply and demand. On Oct. 23 lobsters brought 16 cents per pound, and on the following day 26 cent*. “Cassie” Chadwick’s Cell CASSIE’S CELL INjaHI0£PJ5ItJ'‘* . J ■i'V ,, . , When Mrs. C’assie Chadwick reach-, ed the penitentiary she was greeted with scenes familiar to “Mme. Lydia DeVere,” the Toledo fortune teller, and she will live over again the pris on life of that hypnotic-powered pris oner, says a dispatch from Columbus, Ohio. There will be no strangeness to the scenes, for they are unchanged since Cassie Chadwick, the most fam ous woman frenzied financier of the age, was Lydia De Vere, and did time for filching money out of a Toledo pian in connection with the parentage of a child. Nor will there be any change in the mode of prison life from that which obtained when she was there as Mme. De Vere. It's the same old work room and the same old work of f* ..., ^making underwear and shirts for tUe male prisoners. Cassie win return-to the needle which she plied when she was in as Lydia. The female department of the pris on is located at the southeast corner of the institution grounds, surrounded by a thirty-foot wall, and in this way completely shut off from the male portion of the building, which it abuts. The life of Cassie will be a second story one at. all times, except the breathing spells granted for health's sake, during which the women are ex ercised in the open yard within the inclosing wall. Cassie's cell is more roomy than the rest and has the advantage of an east window that catches the cheer ing morning sun. This cell is No. 9. FARMING ON SCIENTIFIC LINES. Analysis of the Soil the First Step in Improvement. It would really seem that an analy sis of the soil should be the very first step in scientific farming. To know what a given soil contains, what it ; needs and what it will produce most profitably can be ascertained only ] through two processes—analysis and long experience. Experience has J taught the farmers of the country a | great deal, but what they have learn ed by successive crop raising could | have been shown them many ‘ years I ago through a scientific study of the | soil and the furnishing of official i maps setting forth the results of such investigation. It will be a cost ly thing lo put on record a tifee sho'w ! ing of soil values, which often change i radically within short distances. But 1 when such a record is made it wifi i serve a great purpose for many years | to come arid it with be used 3s a basis I for other scientific developments j along the lines of specialjzed._[arming. I —Kansas City Star. —--:--• . ‘ Piling : Op a Needless Surplus. 4 There is a, deduction fram,the pay of every soldier iu the .regular army 12% cents every rnonth‘for’tfie* maim’ tenance of the somiSih>:fho^je1 j Washington. Very f*jw fspldmre^ stay i In the army till they are eligible for ' the home and there is a gW)H'Sg dfrn-; viction that the tax fit ah? besides being,a gif# J. .ideal; .oLjrouble | to the paymasters, and being ^tute" superfluous. Vs'tfie “nsiffuflbh•dffJw'&W I ready accumullueft V ti»*t;\.t>f $t,ooo, 000, whictuuii;j)drawing %t.S^O0.,of .in terest, and the remission Jtiis ,t5tx is now strongly., urged. ^j&ne' "resig^,* not mentioned, for" abolisfififtg tW fax is that much of the money*' is used for keeping up tire grounds of^'the i home at* a'prrtbffc ffcrk fdlr.lHSe bhfie fit ‘of Watsh'frigtorria mldn• pftH’ltiitrg titv 'commodations for the suijti'bUUendefit and such otherofficers as are^ assign ed to duty there.—Philadelphia Rec ord. England’s “Catskin Earls.” Lord Derby is one of the so-calied "catskin earls.” There are three of them in the English perage—namely, Lords Derby. Shrewsbury and Hunt ington—and they owe this designation to the fact that their earldoms were in existence prior to the sumptuary order issued at the beginning of the seventeenth century to the effect that ermine should be used instead of the catskins that had been employed un til then for the bars of fur on the orbes of peers which designate their grade in the nobility. The' designa tion of “catskin carl” is, therefore, a title of honor, since it indicates the extreme antiquity of (he peerage in question. The present Lord Derby | spent several years in Canada as gov ernor general of the dominion. Guarding Chinese Rulers. The following Is from the North China Herald: When (heir majesties recently left Eho park for Pekin there were in the imperial cortege six im perial sedan chairs exactly alike, all occupied and borne by tlie same num ber of pen as usually carried their majesties' sedan chairs, the only ex ception being that no one knew which of these six imperial sedan chairs contained either the empress dow ager, emperor or empress. This was. of course, to confuse any would-be anarchists. ’ A i , S- A » .1 Old English Wedding Custom. One of the. most interesting antiqui-. ties of Jarrow Church,’"Noi'thiiihber land, England, is the chayr of the Ven erable Bede, kept in the.vestsy, whith er brides, conducted by theti; brides maids, at, once repair, af^et*'the. j^jar riage service, to seat themselves upon it. According to the general belief this act will in due time’ titake'them the joyous mothers of children ' find no wedding ceremony is considered complete unlil the bride has been duly enthroned. HARD WORK FALLS ON KAISER. German Emperor One of the Busiest Men in the World. ’The superhuman activity of. the kai ser is well Known. He looks after the music, the painting, the literature and the morals of Germany; but that is only his diversion, for. above all that he is the German emperor. As kaiser j his work falls under three heads— foreign affairs, home affairs and the army and navy. The department which gives him most work is that for. for eign affairs, for last .year he.read l.36T dispatches from abroad and ~?41 -.tele grams and gave a persona! decision in 918 cases. tnever signs any dispatch without reading it. He also has a great nuifiber of'yljhal reports' made :o •him and1 it-is linrttaCly this over work! that- "fenders hfe^so nepi vous on occasions and leads-him to speak out, things, that he had* better have confined to his thoughts - or*to his confidential correspondence.-—Ex change. •- - '' ' -zu: - -ty:_. METRIC SYSTEM7 NOT . POPULAR* Its Adoption Means Radical Change in Many Familiar Habits. The periodical appeal for the pse.of The metric system is being '*Msf&4; ..again and the familiar arguments'go-’ jug the rounds. The one thlri-jrVfiWr Jsoems certain is that the Frencfi-sys tem will be adopted \v hsiSe v.ejfiltrfEfer.. • existing conditions, it makes thd'/otirl; pvork in aujj edttMr.tnieQt titylgigr and not elset^^^I^^jjjnprt\fctj*!d {-thau • • many. ueunk“<®aliis*,^,utjt .Biakah-' lit-, tie advance inthe ol^naryV traces' oV. ,the commerce which is repres'e’h'tfed in retail business. " Carpenters, and most machinists sttckv!t6 tins' •fdbr'Vmd ihfi‘-h^!A'ocei4u‘S-%%t{ rtfersi kets have no disposition to irfspHted, , pounds and gallops . In -kilograms and •liters. Too nikjrsi fa^niliar- .hgj^fts •< must be changed,^,,t;ajjical.l^.di|fex >ent system, j^. ..jo, in -.at •once.—Hartford,’’C^nn.'.. 'times’” Pleasures Various. How different do the peoples of the earth take their pleasures! In a sta tistical book just issued in Madrid it is estimated that for luxuries the Spaniards spend annually more than $100,000,000. Of this sum $25,000,000 is for cigars and cigarettes, $20,000, 000 for lottery tickets, $13,500,000 for hull fights. $12,500,000 for holiday making and $31,000,000 to settle -the wineshop reckonings. Published sta tistics concerning the riotous living in Boston show that the natives of that place are more than ever debauch ing themselves with baked beans. A Boston dispatch says: "Last year they spent on their favorite diet more than the cost of two battleships, or $0,598,272. According to the whole sale dealers 68,732 barrels were con sumed in that period, and (he demand is increasing.”—Harper's Weekly. Practical Religious Meeting. Rev. William Asher is conducting a series of religious meetings along the Bowery, New York, gathering his hearers in the bacls .pooms.of saloons where the proprietors will permit. Sometimes in a’ dance hall as many as 20 persons of all eges will assem ble. Mr. Asher mounts a! chair and makes simple appeals for HVitig clean ed lives. His wife/vvho is* his con stant companion- .on. such: occasions, | sings a hymn, and generally they j manage tojjiripg .l^ost of their hear-' ers away with them. ^ - , j " "r7~ “ :T.: J. . . J Submarine Signaling. Carmania apd the .Cgrpjia. ? additjfjn’s .t^^e CunprAflqet, wjth submarine signaling apparatus. It seems tp be animation Of only a sj^prt time when aji’passen ger 8teamer8 in' the tra'hsatlantic serv ice will be protected by the latest and 1 best ^fliipmenP Jfor' receiving binder- i water waYtti'ngs of the proximity of I the shore- or of-.other vessels, when* fogs or like conditions make it impos sible to see such possible perils.—. Cleveland Leader. jl WONWROVS FAD OF FASHION How fearfully and wonderfully is j the feminine of the hour built un ' in back! : i Jl man* with a discerning eye for these things swears that a fashionable young person who hat in front of him on the train the other afternoon tow ered yards above the back of her seat. Her collar, according to his calcula tions, was built up quite six inches high. It supported-four diamond pins, ieach at least two inches long, so he ; reasons that this was a modest calcu lation. Where her collar left off, her ! back hair began, add he states that , never vin his experience has he wit nessed hair erect to such a sky-scrap Fing height.. He cannot undertake to ,.s»5"b.ow, it was done. He.only knows that, it Mas waVed and puffed far above..his,level.: and he could only ■ p®eJ''tPWartl - its .dim, retreating bil lOM-s-jin Winder. He says he knows her hi aid musMiave stood on a step-' * a^derxtojdress. jt." Awa^pp on top. he saysr,there:M-n.s set something iW j.be nature of a hat, he couldn't, clc^tly tell what, except' that it M as mounted on coils anil coils' of velvet,'tilting it, as near as he could Judge-.from that distance*, at least,,a yard^gbq.ve hej'hack hair. The top of it, he .sax's, was not for man to con template, nor woman, either unless she were a Brobdignagian. When this extraordinary elevation turned around, the man savs he got a distinct shock. The precinice that hart been reared to such a lofty at itude behind tumbled straight down sheer, threatening to slice off her pretty nose in the descent. “It looked,” said he, vainly strug. gling to express his emotions, "lik* .somebody had taken a sharp knife trimmed her off close in front, as my mother used to slice the dough off the pie-tin. I must say, after the amazing quantity of hat and hair aft, I wasn't prepared for such an anticlimax for ward. She was an awfully pretty girl, but she appeared to feel that her hat didn't quite balance in front, and she kept thrusting out her chin as if she hoped to make up for the deficiency. Poor thing! I suppose it s the fash ion!” Of- course, what this man was talk ing about -is the new' felt sailor, erect ed to great heights behind and chopped off srort over the nose. Fashionable? .Well, rather! As many feminines as can pay the price are annexing the same, and many, many men are bound ;to be amazed thereby.—Philadelphia r, Bulletin. MATIJVEE HATS SAD FATE Just before the curtain rose for a' ' ‘ itfatinee performance recently, a woni , an xfiry far above the weight that well regulated scales describe as normal, ambled down the aisle and took her seat, an end one. The whole balcony seemed to vibrate when she sat down. Not more than a few minutes later-a small, wiry, business-like woman hopped down the aisle, and with great difficulty and extraordinary gymnastic effort managed to climb over the fat lady ami take the seat next to her. Everything was peaceful until after \ the first act when the thin spectator | decided to climb out again to speak to j a friend ten or twelve hows back. She had a new hat. which she had been holding lovingly in her lap. With a i last fond look at it. she hesitatingly left it on her chair, went through the same gymnastic act. landed safely in the aisle and went quickly back to her : friend. Now fat people are always counted good natured, and the end ; seat occupant was no exception. Re alizing the hardships her neighbor would have to go through to climb back again, with a most divine expres sion of sympathy and good will on her face, she stood up, moved along, sat ! down- in the second seat—on the hat. I». the mean lime-the friends t°n rows hack finished a rather excited conver sation, during which the wiry lady had become more and more excited, and then she came hack. Forgetting all about her cherished hat and seem ingly intent on some other business, she unquestioning!}' took the end seat. In two minutes she shot up—the hat was lost! She did not. know just where she had left it, hut it must he there! She searched under the seats within a radius of twenty feet. No hat was to be found. The fat lady, sympathetic but immovable, did all she could to help look for it, except stand up. Ushers were summoned, ice-water boys, programme boys. The whole balcony was having a nervous chill over the mysterious disappear ance. Only the girl from Brookyn. in the seat behind, knew.- the answer to the question, and she was too ex hausted from the strain of suppressed laughter to explain. At the end of the play she did not wait to see the finish. Her conscience wouldn't permit her, for she caught one glimpse of the crushed hat when the fat lady arose. —Brooklyn Eagle. TWO PAIR WERE VALVA3LE George W. Brown, the local trader at Greenville. Me., is a quiet, good natured gentleman, who can take a : joke gracefully* - and often retaliate, says a writer rMV the Boston Herald. Every fall he takes a few dgys, off, and, with, some of(his old friends, usu ally goes to the, Roach River house, 'Charles Sawyer, the proprietor, is ohe .of the cronies in these little gather dngS. ’ Oh one occasion, after a day's hunt »jf.nd the usual reminiscences around the op#n (ire. they started a little so ciable game of poker, using beans for chipk. Mr". SaWyer. a little, nervous, dark-eyed man, with a reputation for : “closeness,*” hates especially to get beaten.- NThte time luck was dead .against him. Ante-after ante, together wijh -jackpots, were steadily decrees ing_4he .st*q,.ol'. his .pile of beans. At ' last saq unusually good hand and the possibility of'regaining all that he had ‘float made him feckless. After a good st^f ‘‘raise<”‘ Mf. Brown,Who was bet ting SgaTnsf Mm;*'tfeasingly remon VI strated; “Be careful, Charles; remember every bean is worth a cent!” “Well,” snapped Charles, "that ain't ; any more than I paid for ’em when I bought ’em at your store!” The laugh was on Mr. Brown, who look it with his usual good nature. Finally Mr. Sawyer's last bean was in, and. he called for a show-down. Immediately two of the piayers laid down their hands. "Charles” had them beaten, and his eyes began to sparkle. “Well, George, what have you got?" he asked, in a way that showed he didn't think Mr. Brown had very much of anything. “Oh, I've only got a couple of pairs." Mr. Brown's tone was very humble. “U-m-m! I thought so; they ain't worth a darn; here's a full house!” cried Charles, and with gloating eyes he threw down his cards and began to, rake in the pile of beans. “U-m-m!” said Mr. Brown, with gen tle firmness, “but they are a couple of pairs of aces!” - -- GHOST SHOWED HIM GOLD l§i|jii^ijpr£‘ft,bottle filled with almost pure'gofd, "taken ’ from d iode long hidden iii mountain fastnesses,.nor.far 1 from here. Bartlett and M:*'C. ' .4 Black, hut 14 we 11 known business men. are WRfeJ^ter'a perilous.^, .trip to the v*^W§:M K"': Thejrijii- however., wa.s,..labor.i,richlv rewai'fit®. though the story iS-sci rater woven, spirittialism tytd romance that k is well nigh incredible. '’Batu lett is the grandson of D. K. Ingell. a miner of the early ‘DOs in these parts, who was murdered in the hills by his partner. The Bartlett family are" spir itualists. and Bartlett declares bis fiend and murdered grandfather, through a Portland medium, sent word to him to find the lost mine and he would be independent for life. Bartlett swears positively that he received specific directions from the spirit of his grandfather how to pro ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, he was told to select M. C. Black to ac company him. The men will not tell of the location of their find, but say it, cannot be. reached save by making an extremely dangerous trip and ofie fil'ed with hardship; especially at this time of ‘the year, when the mountains are firmly in winter’s icy grasp. In the spring they will return and de velop their find. In a rough and mountainous section, they ; say. they found a gray quartz lf'dge,"literally filled with precious metal. ~ Small pieces were broken off, pounded up in a frying pan which they had with them and the gold picked out by the men’s fingers and placed in a bottle. Should the ledge prove as rich as the samples, a man could make a mortar and gold pan, and in a week's time take out enough of the gold to make him wealthy. As an evidence of their find they have the little bottle of gold dust, which has already been viewed by dozens of people, and tests have been made by O. D. Johnson which prove that the mineral is genuine.—Wenat ohie correspondence Seattle Times. COVLWT HV'RT THE WA TE*R The late Eugene Field, while on one of his lecturing tours, entered Philadelphia one bright spring morn ing after that city had endured a three days’ rainstorm. There was some dalay at the bridge over the SchuylKill river, and the humorist’s attention was attracted by the turgid, ccfTee-colored stream flow ing underneath. “It reminded me so much of my own dear Chicago river," he afterward explained. He placed a detaining hand on the arm of the col ored porter, who was passing at the time, and inquired, in his languid tone, if he were a resident of the Quaker City, says Success. «*“Ya*9it!” .replied that important ftfactionhiry.. “I .was bo'n an’ raised ^re’.- ;yassir!”:i(;, ' " ,“Don't you pjeople get your drinking water < from .this stream?”1 queried ' :'TA ;. ^ ' ^ “Yassir!' 'Ain’tttither place to git it frum ’cdfcf th’ Delaweah, V fc an’ dat s des a Hi' mo' soupy dan djs ver wattah. Yasslr!” "Is it filtered before you drink it?” Iso, sah, not as I evah hea’d tell of!” "I should thfnk,” said the humorist, “that you would be afraid to drink such water; especially as the seepage from that cemetery I see on the hill must drain directly into the river and pollute it.” "D ye mean dat big bu'yin’ groun’ up yander by de tu n ob de ribber?” inquired the son of Ham. “I reckon yo all doan' know Philadelphy ve'y well, sah, aw yo’d know dat's Lau'el Hill cemete’y!” “Well, what of that?” asked Field, somewhat puzzled at this unlooked for ^ rejoinder. ■' “Dat wattah doan’ hu't us Philay- ' delphians none, sah,” replied the na tive sen; with an air of pride. “W'y mos' all of de folkses bu ied theah aw f'om ouah ver’y best fam'lies!” -- _ . • i /ji * , Reminiscences W.ould Be Lively. Both as journalist and publicist H^nry Labouchere, who announces his retirement from parliament, has been an exceedingly interesting fig ure in British life for many years. He could always be depended upon to enliven debate in the house of com mon* with an audacious and brilliant onslaught on the favorite of the hour or on some abuse that needed correc tion. In the old liberal school he was an extreme radical, but has not for years been in touch with the later forms of radicalism. Mr. I^aboucbere is being urged to write a book of his It reminiscences, of which he must have a wonderfully interesting collection.