Nebraska Newspapers

    | THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA?!
OVER THT STATE.
Police made a raid on Fremont
gamblers and arrested a number of
men.
It is probable that a beet sugar fac
tory will be built at North Platte this
year.
Vincent Hickey of Richardson
county, lost two fingers in a corn
sheller.
Charles Tenborg of Emmet is in
trouble by reason of having sold liquor
without a license.
Thieves entered Paul Feistner’s har
ness shop at Johnson, and carried off
between $400 and $500 worth of goods.
William Andrews is in Jail at Kear
ney, waiting for the sheriff to come
from Franklin county to take him there
to answer to the charge of horse steal
ing.
There has been very little change in
the assessors for Polk county, and the
gentlemen who raised the assessment
180 per cent during the past year will
have a whack at it again.
Smallpox in a mild form has ap
peared at Syracuse, about fifteen
cases having been reported. The house
where the disease has appeared has
been placed under quarantine.
John Fourgeneratio was tried and
convicted of horse stealing at Butte
and will be sent to the penitentiary
to ponder, over his transgression.
The date for the coming Dakota
county farmers' institute has been
fixed for February 9 and 10 and the
county has appropriated $25 to assist
in defraying the expenses.
Frank Schopp of Plattsmouth has
received word that his uncle. Hen-y S.
Schopp, and wife, of Newcastle, Ind..
were both buried upon the same day.
both having died within a day's time
of each other.
The street railway company have
decided to take up the matter of motor
cars anti will try one on their line in
Nebraska City in tne spring. If they
find them a success they will add
more and extend the Hue.
The contract for the Great Northern
freight depot in Fremont has been
let to Alex DeLong. The building
will be about the size of the Union
Pacific freight depot and will be lo
cated west of Main street.
At. the meeting of thp Southeastern
Nebraska Fruit Growers' association
held in Auburn, the following officers
were elected for the coming year:
President. W. G. Swan of Tecumseh;
one vice president in each county in
the district; secretary. AI Russell of
Tecumseh; treasurer. O. P. Dovel of
Auburn.
A corn shucking contest took place
at Anselmo. between Joseph Sehall
and E. Sweeney for side bets amount
ing to $500. Joseph Sehall shucking
thirty bushels and five pounds and E.
Sweeney twenty-eight bushels and
thirteen pounds in two hours. Each
man drove his own team and had no
assistance of any kind.
The farmers’ institute recently held
in Plattsiaouth. was such a big suc
cess that arrangements are already be
ing made for another institute this
year. The lectures on various farm
subjects, given by experts connected
with the University of Nebraska, are
always replete with valuable informa
tion. and very helpful to the farmer.
Anna, the 6 vear-old-daughter of
E. W. Bristow, living in the eastern
part of Auburn, was fatally burned.
The accident occurred, when upon en
tering the house after coming from
school and finding no one in she pro
ceeded to hurry the fire in the cook
stove with a small amount of gasoline,
which exploded, igniting her cjolhes
and fatally burning her before assist
ance could arrive.
Deputy Sheriff Penny of Kearney,
went out to Pleasanton and brought in
H. J. Hildum. a farm hand, against
whom his former employer Charles J
Bolt, had sworn out a peace warrant in
Justice Hoge's court. Bolt stated that
Hildum had threatened to kill him and
had sat up all night with a shotgun
in his hands waiting for Bolt to wake
up. because he did not want to kill
him while he slept.
Jacob Vermaas of Holland. Lancas
ter county, filled up and then raided
the town. When the marshal tripd to
arrest him he resisted and a fight en
sued. The marshal got assistance and
Vermaas was finally subdued and
locked up in jail, where he knocked
out the w'-dow lights and tore up the
bed din- etc. He was taken before
the justice of the peace and fined
$30.50. which he paid and went home.
Beatrice will probably have a normal
training school for teachers under the
provisions adopted by the state teach
ers’ and superintendents' association,
which permits certain high schools to
do normal wark. The resolution pro
vides that all four year high schools by
giving a review in the five essentials,
arithmetic, geography, grammar, his
tory and reading, and introducing a
certain amount of normal training
work can give certificates, which will
be recognized when graduates seek
oositions as teachers.
Mrs. Clara Bloomer in Justice
Dame's court at Fremont, swore out a
warrant charging John Hegtaek of
Hooper with selling three glasses of
beer and one of whisky to her son who
is under sixteen years of age. Hegtaek
was arrested.
The stockholders of the Sky Blue
Marble company, which was organized !
at Humboldt a few years ago to de
velop a pit of nfarble and onxy near
Riverside. Cal., last week sold their :
holdings to J. S. McLeod, an investor
from California, who. it is understood,
will carry on the work of uncovering
and developing the pit.
A man trom Lexington was in Al
bany looking ior his wife, who he says
deserted him some time ago and
skipped with George Hoyt, a former
resident of St. Edward. The couple
had visited at the latter place several
days, but nad left for parts unknowm
before the arrival of the husband.
Fred Carey, a former captain of
Company C, Second regiment. Ne>
braska National Guard, is under ar
rest in Nebraska City, charged with
embezzling $1,000 from the Morton
Printing company, of which company
he was bookkeeper for about four
years. He was arrested in Lincoln.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, j
Debates and Proceedings of Meetings !
of 1864, 1866, 1871 and 1875.
LINCOLN—Home time during next
May the first volume of u series of |
two volumes containing the records. !
with all the debates and proceedings,
of the constitutional conventions of j
1864, 1866, 1871 and 1875. will be com- j
pleted and off the press. The publi- j
cation of these records of the four 1
constitutional conventions of the state I
of Nebraska is one of the most impor- ;
tant undertakings of the Nebraska ;
State Historical society and A. E. |
Sheldon, director of the field work of
the historical society, has long been
busy with the preparation, revision
and editing of -.he copy for the books.
The conventions of 1871 and 1875 are
the most important and interesting,
and from them resulted the present !
constitution of the state. The conven- i
tion of 1864 adjourned without framing
a constitution. The second conven
tion framed the first constitution. In |
1871 the convention was in session
forty-seven days and framed a docu
ment which was defeated at the polls,
and the last constitutional convention,
deliberating from May 12 to June 12.
1875, made the present organic law.
THE FEDERAL COURT.
Norfolk Wants Two Terms Instead of
One.
NORFOLK — Norfolk wants two
terms of federal court each year, in
stead of one term, as has been pro
vided in the bill introduced in the sen
ate by Senator Burkett, splitting the
state into two federal districts. Nor
folk has a magnificent $100,000 federal
court house and Norfolk is the center
of a large tract of country in northern
Nebraska. On this account it is con
sidered to be to the interests of both
the city and the northern portion of
the state to hold two terms of court
here each year instead of one. Letters
have been written to Senator Burkett
this week in regard to the matter, urg
ing him to provide for two sessions
here.
WOMAN BEHIND THE BILL.
Former Nebraska Girl Wants Her Sex
to Vote.
NORFOLK—A former Nebraska
girl, now the wife of the youngest con
gressman in the United States, is Tie
hind a bill that has been introduced
in congress for the purpose of giving
to every woman in this country the
right to vote on congressional repre
sentatives. Mrs. Burton L. French,
formerly Miss Winnie Hartley of Nor
folk. is responsible for the bill. It had
always been supnosed that in order to
allow women to vote in the United
States it would be necessary to amend
the constitution, but Congressman
French of Idaho has discovered a
short cut by passing a law allowing i
women to vote on congressman.
Rehearing in Register Case.
County supervisors and county reg
isters of deeds must go to law again
to hold their offices and against must be
supreme court lass on the biennial
election laws which referred to these ]
officers, or at least it must pass upon
a motion for a rehearing. The motion
for a rehearing was filed this morning
in the supreme court by the county *1
clerks of Gage and Buffalo counties.
Brakeman Commits Suicide.
ALLIANCE—With a farewell note to
his mother and friends, asking forgive
ness for what he was about to do.
which he thought was for the best, and
a special goodbye to his mother. A. G.
Grimm, a young man formerly em
ployed as a brakeman. committed sui
cide.
Cost of State Insurance.
The insurance the State Board of
Public Lands and Buildings intends to
place on the buildings at the asylum
at Hastings is to be paid for at a rate
of 3t*> per cent. This rate is for five
years, making less than 1 per cent a
year.
Postoffice at Verdigre Burns.
NORFOLK—Fire destroyed three
building in the business heart of
Verdigree, including the postoffice and
a quantity of United States mail. The
loss is about $1,000.
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Married Sixty-One Years.
OAKLAND—N. P. Osberg and wife
celebrated their sixty-first wedidng an
niversary at their home here. The
venerable couple emigrated from
Sweden to this country in 1875 and
have lived here continuously since, ex
cepting two years spent in Colorado.
Overland K Ms a Woman.
CLARKS—Mrs. Lee Frary, a labor
ing woman, whose home is not known,
w sastruck and killed one mile west of
here by the eastbound overland limit
ed.
Horse Thief in Dakota County.
DAKOTA CITY — Some nnknown
person has taken Emmet Hileman's
5-year-old mare from a field near his
residence, four mi es from this place.
The animal is a sorrel, has a white
star on its forehead and weighs 900
pounds.
Prosperous Ainsworth.
AINSWORTH—Ainsworth is still ■
on the boom and property is changing ;
hands almost daily and tha prospects i
are that the town will grow more in
the year 1906 tnan it did in 1905.
Instruction ot National Guard.
Adjutant General Culver has issued
orders for the annual school of instruc
tion of the National Guard to be held j
in Lincoln February 19 to 21. "Promi- I
aent men familiar with the details of
the soldier business will be on hand I
to deliver addresses and to help make
the school a success.
Hunter Accidentally Killed.
NORFOLK—While hunting near
Verdigre. August Wirth, 27 years of
ago, was killed by his shotgun after
it had been hurled out of his hands.
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The Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee. bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of Washington, will perform the marriage ceremony at the wed
ding of Alice Roosevelt and Congressman Nicholas Longworth, in the
White House on Feb. 17 next.
MUCH OWED TO PUBLIC PRESS. CONTROLS VESSEL FROM LAND.
One Striking Example of the Value
of Publicity.
If grown men anil women are not
to live in a fool’s paradise; if they
are to know the weaknesses of the
time and how to direct their reme
dial efforts, they must be kept rea
sonably well informed of the evil as
well as of the good. Men will always
be found to take desperate chances
with their reputations, but the danger
of being discovered in wrongdoing is
a wholesome restraining influence on
a majority of the race. A concrete
instance of the effectiveness of public
ity is the development of public senti
ment that has forced the reorganiza
tion of the. big life insurance compan
ies. Had it not been for the news
papers there would have been no in
vestigation and had not the results of
the inquiry been printed there would
have been no overturning.- On the
whole, it may fairly be inferred that
human nature is so constituted as to
gain in wisdom and morality by con
tact with the world—a contact which
the newspaper supplies.—Kansas City
Star.
Congressman Longworth Persecuted.
Since the anounoement of his com
ing marriage to Miss Roosevelt Con
gressman Lxmgworth’s mail has in
creased fourfold. Nearly half of his
letters contain recipes for promoting
the growth of hair and he is offered
any quantity of invaluable tonics if
he will use them and send testi
monials in return. He gets statistics
to prove that no baldheaded man has
ever been known (o go insane; that
lack of hair is a preservative against
all manner of pulmonary diseases:
that criminals of all classes are noted
for their growth of shaggy hair, usu
ally straight and black, and tljat bald
headed men in all times and ages
have stood for benevolence, intellect
ual ripeness and law-abiding qualities.
Coal Output of Pennsylvania.
In the last calendar year more coal
was mined in the anthracite region
of Pennsylvania than in any other
twelve months in the history of the
business. The output of the mines is
estimated at close to 70,000,000 tons,
of which more than 61,000,000 tons
can be classed as the marketable out
put. This marketable output is larger
than the gross output in any- year
prior to 1903 and the amount which
is salable has more than doubled
sinoe 1884. The 40.000,000 mark was
first touched for total output in 1888,
the 50.000,000 mark in 1895, the 60,
000,000 mark in 1901.—Boston Herald.
Hobby of Norway's New Queen.
Queen Maud of Norway has her
hobbies, like most other European
royalties.
Among other things she has collect
ed at various times are miscellane
ous ornaments and useful articles
made of ivory, of which she is a great
admirer.
She has also for years collected
ivory tusks, the spoils of royal sport
ing expeditions all over the world,
and these will doubtless be added to
when her brother, the prince of
Wales, returns from his Indian tour
—Mainly About People.
Attend Opera in Mourning.
Going to the opera in mourning is
now admitted as a social propriety in
New York, although there is still a
question as to whether one may sit
in the boxes or other conspicuous
parts of the theater. But there is no
doubt about the galleries. Seclusion
in the boxes may also be possible
and not to be seen too conspicuous
ly seems to be the test of this new
ruling in good form. It is the same
underlying principle that made It
right when in deep mourning to go to !
:he German theater.
“Labby” Not a Ladies' Man.
Announcement of Henry Labou
chere's retirement from parliament
roused no regret among “advanced”
members of the fair sex in Great Brit
ain. He had no sympathy for politi
cal women. It was he who referred
to the aristocratic dames of the Prim
rose league as “Primrose Pollies.”
Breaks Ship-Building Record.
By building 550,000 tons of shipping
the Clyde has broken its previous
yearly record, 517,000 tons, in 1902.
Invention of Spanish Engineer Has
Proved Value.
Telekino is the invention of Don
Bernardo Torres Quevedo. a distin
guished Spanish engineer, who has
been experimenting successfully with
an apparatus for the control of dis
tant electric power by means of wire
less telegraphy. He intends to apply
his Invention to vessels and made his
public trials with them. The trans
mitting station was a wireless tele
: graphic apparatus. The boat carried
a battery of accumulators, a motor
for driving the propeller, another for
the rudder, and two servo motors for
operating the mechanism of the other
motors. The servo motors were con
nected directly with the telekino.
wherewith they formed a single ap
paratus. Hertz waves were received
by the telekino; this controls
the servo motors, which sent
currents either to control the
rudder motor or the propellor motor
so as to govern both the steering
and the propulsion of the boat. Tak
ing up his position at the transmitting
station. Senor Quevedo began manipu
lating the transmitter, whereupon the
boat, containing numerous press rep
resentatives, as if by magic, slowly
moved forward, gradually attaining a
high speed, turning, twisting, tacking,
advancing or receding just as if it
were being guided by an expert
steersman. The boat executed all
manner of maneuvers without a hitch
under the sole guidance of the in
ventor on shore.
Worry Has No Part in Her Life.
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the vice
president, declares that she does not
possess nerves and it would seem
that this is no idle boast. Mrs. Fair
banks has an iron endurance and she
attributes her fortitude, mental and
physical, to the fact that she has
never allowed herself to worry over
anything,' great or trivial. But she
! always secures ample rest, no mat
ter what her engagements. During
the maddening days of the last D. A.
R congress, when several thousand
women would talk at once on as
many different themes, Mrs. Fair
banks would endure the confusion as
long as possible and then, giving the
gavel to another officer, she would go
to a near-by hotel and take a half
hour's repose. She always drinks hot
milk when she is going through men
tal or physical fatigue.
Furze May Yield Paper.
The salvation of the world's paper
supply may come from furze. It has
been ascertained that the furze, suit
ably treated, produces a white and
solid pulp. After a boiling of five or
six hours the pulp is washed with
water, acidulated with sulphuric acid
in suitable quantity, bleached with
chloride of lime and thoroughly wash
ed, when it is in a suitable state for
use in paper manufacture. If success
ful, this sort of paper making will
open up a large class of new paper
making materials and possibly prove
the solution of the serious problem
caused by the rapid exhaustion of the
timber districts in the effort to meet
the demand for wood pulp, the pres
ent universal material.
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Writers of Wide Range.
When Queen Victoria read “Alice
in Wonderland” she was so much
pleased with it that she sent to “Lew
is Carroll” for another of his books
and received a work on the calculus.
H. Rider Haggard had a similar du
plex literary personality, for two
books on incongruous subjects have l
recently come from his pen, one or !
the most fantastic of romances, and ;
the other a very serious sociological i
study.
Japanese Gift to Pope.
Among the present received by
Bishop O’Connell, now in Japan, as
the Papal envoy to the Mikaao, is a
deed of dedication for an eleven-acre
tract of land to the Pope as a site for
Catholic headquarters at Oshide, sev
en miles from the well known tourist
resort, Karuizawa.
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Buffalo Bill, Aeronaut.
Col. William F. ‘Cody (“Buffalo
Bill”) has been officially appointed in
structor to the balloon companies of
the naval engineers at Aldershot,
England.
COMMENT ON THINGS MILITARY.'
Changes Contemplated in German
and French Armies.
In the arsenals of France, accord
ing to a French paper, there are
$8,000,000 worth of antiquated and
useless artillery. The French navy
uses fifty or sixty different models of
guns, which makes the question of
furnishing projectiles very difficult,
and the powder used in the navy is
so unstable that one-quarter of it has
to be changed every year. It lasts
on board ship only five years and in
hot climates oniv two years.
According to a leading German pa
per, the kaiser has ordered the in
troduction of a new uniform in the
army. It will be between gray and
green in color. The uniform is to be
supplied to all artillery and infantry
remiments, but not to the cavalry, as
it has not yet been decided what tint
is most suitable for this branch.
Russian soldiers still believe them
selves superior to the Japanese and
ascribe their ill luck in Manchuria
to the fact that their army was so
largely composed of reservists, whose
officers were incompetent and insuf
ficient in number.
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SPORTSMAN TO SEEK DIVORCE.
Ending to Troubles of Foxhall Keene
and His Wife.
Foxhall Keene, son of James R.
Keene, the New York financier, soon
will begin suit in Kentucky for a
divorce. He charges his wife with
desertion. It is understood Mrs
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Keene will make no defense. Mr. and
Mrs. Keene separated in October
1904, and the efforts of friends ,tc j
effect a reconciliation have been un
availing.
Value of New Year’s Resolutions.
When J. Adam Bede, congressman
from Duluth, was asked to speak on
New Years' resolutions the other dav i
he answered by repeating a story ]
which Speaker Cannon tells of a !
young man in the days when the ad
hesive postage stamp first came in
After gazing at the envelope andj
stamp for some time the enterprising
youth decided to test the strange de ;
vice. After he had written the note !
he sealed the envelope and looked
hard at the stamp. He was afraid it
would not stick. Finally, moistening
it, he placed it on the corner of the
envelope and although it seemed to j
stick then he feared that it might dry
off before the journey was ended, so
he pinned it to the envelope and wrote j
beneath this informing notice: “Post
age paid if this thing sticks.” This
seemed to Mr. Bede illustrative o!
New Year's resolutions. Their value
depends wholly on their sticking.
Fussing Over What to Eat.
It grieves us to see people in such
a stew about their diet. What's the
matter with the civilized stomach':
The old way was to eat what was set
before you and think no more about i
it. Nature did the rest and converted \
the beef and turnips to thought, to I
industry, to heroism, to politics, tc
poetry, to art, to emotion. The new
way is to hurry from the table and j
take pills, powders, potions, and you
haven't eaten enough nor what you
want at that. What's the use of be
ing a billionaire if you have to live on
bran bread and skimmed milk?
What’s the use of owning a villa in
the country if you have to sell every
thing you raise cn the place or give il
to charities, being unable to eat a
morsel of it?—Brooklyn Eagle.
Admiral Dewey Ages Slowly.
Admiral Dewey, dapper, sprightly
and smiling, is a familiar figure on
Washington’s streets. He walks with
the jaunty spring of a boy and takes
a keen interest in the street sights.
But one thing upsets the serenity of
the hero and Christmas time is the
most trying in the year. People will
send him as gifts lounging robes, pil
lows, footstools and other emblems of
ili health and feebleness. The admir
al hates the sight of a walking cane
as a pious Christian is supposed to
hate the evil one, and he bundles all
such presents off to a home for the
old. He will barely acknowledge such
a gift politely.
Prominent Men on Committee.
To canvass for $150,000 for the
erection of two buildings, one for the
use of the Army and Navy Young
Men's Christian Association and the
other for the General Young Men's
Christian Association of Newport, a
notable committee has been appoint
ed. It is composed of Senator George
Peabody Wetmore, Col. Louis V. Ca
zare. Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce,
Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick,
Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas.
Thomas P. Peckham, Peter King, Col.
William P. Sheffield, Jr., Angus Mc
Leod, Edward A. Sherman, George H.
Bryant, Col. Jeremiah W. Horton,
T. P. Pitman, William B. Franklin
and Robert S. Burlingame.
Shun Blasphemy.
The letters of H. N. S. stand for
Holy Name Society, an organization
In the Roman Catholic church, the
purpose of which is to teach rever
ence for the name of God. In several
eastern cities these societies have
been holding large parades to protest
against blasphemy. In some parades
as many as 20,000 men marched.
I Was Famous Beauty I
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MISS NONY CROKER.
(From a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, purchased last year by J Fierpont
Morgan.)
Lady Barrow, who died at East Mosely, England, Jan. 10. at the age
of 97, was famous from the moment the portrait of her by Sir Thomas
Lawrence was exhibited at the Royal Academy eighty years ago. She was
Then Miss Nony Croker. King William IV. called her “the English beauty,”
and as such she was known for years.
LONG LIFE OF FAMOUS BEAUTY.
Lady Barrow. Once Toast of English
Court. Dies, Aged 97.
The toast of eighty years ago, the
beauty of a coum which has long
since crumbled to dust. Rosamond,
Lady Barrow, at the age of 97, has
just closed her eyes upon the world
whose vanities she abjured at the
very moment of her triumph, says a
London dispatch.
The original of Sir Thomas Law
rence's "Miss Nony Croker.” now in
the possession of J. Pierpont Morgan,
died at her London home, Jan. 10.
For seventy-five years the world
has barely known her name. The
adulation showered upon her, the
homage of King William IV., who
hailed her as "the English beauty,”
affrighted the girl, who had hardly
left childhood behind. She gave up
society and devoted herself to good
works.
Nony Croker was the daughter of
William Fennell, at one time consul
general to Brazil. She was born in
Ireland and was the twenty-first child
of parents whose responsibilities were
far too great for their income. When,
therefore Mrs. Croker. the childless
sister of Mrs. Fennell, offered to
adopt this last baby, little Nony was
promptly transferred. Her foster
father was the Croker of literary and
political fame, who was roundly at
tacked by Macaulay.
The little girl was strictly reared,
though given every accomplishment,
and at 11 already gave promise of
splendid beauty which afterward came
to such fruition.
For two years after the exhibition
of the Lawrence portrait the young
girl never looked in the glass, fearing
vanity might blind her to spiritual
things.
Five years later, at the age of 23,
she w-as married to Sir George Bar
row, a distinguished colonial gover
nor. and bore him eight children.
Lady Barrow was the friend and
associate of the great people of the
day. among them the duke of Well
ington, but her heart was in her re
ligious work.
She built a church at West Ken
sington. to seat 800 people, built a
hospital at Molesev-on-the-Thames,
and moved out of her great manor
house to a simple villa that the rent
al might be applied to her charities.
She was happy in the knowledge
that she had reclaimed many drunk
ards.
Great Gold Mine Near Exhaustion.
Bonanza, one of the richest mines
of the richest goldfields in the world,
and its career are closing. By the
end of the month this brilliantly suc
cessful African mine will find its
block of ground practically worked
out. leaving the pillars and the clean
ings. In all probability after then it
will not be possible to keep the mill
running continuously. And the profit
during the remaining period will he
subject to considerable fluctuations
During its life of eleven years the
Bonanza has produced from its eleven
claims, with a modest crushing plant,
over $10,000,000 worth of gold, or ten
times its capital, and paid dividends
ranging from 50 to 115 per cent, the
total dividend record aggregating
nearly 600 per cent on its capital of
approximately $6,000,000.
Rockefeller's Immense Wealth.
It is estimated by the statistician
of a leading European almanac that
John D. Rockefeller's wealth equals
the annual budget of fifteen European
states. His fortune in dollars and
eents would form a double circle
around the earth and if his wpalth
would be transformed into pieces of
silver it would weigh as much as
two fully armored and equipped chuis
ers.
First Bachelor of High Army Rank.
Gen. John C. Bates, who will be
head of the general staff for one brief
month, is the first bachelor in the
history of the American army to at
tain this eminence. His regime will
be only for February, the shortest
month in the year, when he makes
room for General Corbin.
Paper Replaces Slates.
English educational and sanitary
authorities are discussing the advisa
bility of substituting cheap paper and
pencils for slates in schools. The Lan
cet is strongly in favo’^at paper and
pencils.
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PRESENT CONDITION OF JAPAN.
Baron Shibusawa Sees Nothing to
Deplore in the Outlook.
I do not say that the terms of peace
ending our war with Russia were sat
isfactory. However, I do not wish to
say that, because they were not as
we wished them to be, the financial
circles of our country are about to
be plunged into a sea of troubles.
Neither do I wish to harbor any such
idea. From the very start, we did
not take up arms that we might be
come enriched through an indemnity.
From the beginning, we knew very
well that it would be difficult indeed
to drive our enemy to the foot of his
citadel and compel him to see the wis
dom of concluding the "peace under
the castle.” More than once—am!
this from the very opening of the
war—we were in doubt whether after
all, the war would bring us anything
like an adequate compensation for the
expenditure. It would be out of tune
with all things, therefore, for us, at
this hour, to be looking upon financial
Japan after the war with a sad eye
Nevertheless, as we are well aware
of the disturbances which the war has
brought to our finances, we must
look to the best possible measures
for restoring to health and prosper
ity what the war has disturbed. That
is all.—Baron Shibusawa in the Fo
rum.
May Use Earth's Inner Fire.
Barth's hidden fires are the fur
nace somebody wanted to exploit for
men's machinery. If a hole of suf
ficient depth were bored into the
earth an exceedingly high tempera
ture would be reached. A company
was to be formed to bore a hole
twenty miles deep, put down a thick
copper rod, conduct the heat up, and
run furnaces and boilers at the top.
Sir Oliver Lodge says it would be
an interesting experiment and be
lieves that before many years a com
pany or perhaps he should call it an
expedition, would he formed to see
what the earth would yield them.
Hitherto they had only just been
scratching the si "ce. We really
know more about tu4 „.ortU and south
poles than about a - personally con
ducted expedition into the earth. The
heat in the earth might not be im
portant, there might be other valu
able substances, or, perhaps, they
might find nothing save information.
Growth of Argentine Population.
The reproach sometimes cast upon
South American states, that they are
sparsely settled and growing too slow
ly. is surely not valid against Argen
tina, according to the latest demo
graphic reports of that country. At
the end of 1903 the population of Ar
gentina was 5,160.986. and at the end
of 1904 it was 5.410,028, showing an
increase of 249,042, or nearly 5 per
cent a year. Some of this was. of
course, due to immigration, chiefly
from Italy, but a gratifying large part
of it. was due to the natural in
crease of population. The number of
marriages increased from 30,351 in
1903 to 33,040 in 1904, tlie number of
births increased from 177,175 to 183,
S44 and the number of deaths de
creased from 82,713 to 81,275. That
was certainly an excellent showing,
full of promise for the great southern
commonwealth.—New York Tribune
Of Distinguished Ancestry.
Lineal descendant of Duncan Mae
duff, referred to in "Macbeth.” Henry
Clay McDuffee of Bradford, Vermont
boasts that he and his father voted iD
every presidential election held in
the United States. During twenty
nine national elections the McDuffee
family, represented by father and
then by son. has an unbroken record
of voting. John McDuffee, the father
was born In Londonderry, X. H„ June
16. 1766. Record show that Henry
Clay McDuffee is a direct descendant
of King- Kenneth McDuff of Scotland
and Duncan McDuff in loOO A. D. The
name McDuffee was taken by the
family after one branch of the fam
iy went from Argyleshire. Seotiand
to Londonderry, Ireland, in 1612.
Rinderpest Aids Rebels.
An outbreak of rinderpest has
brought the German campaign
against the Hottentots in southwest
Africa to a standstill. The German
government has asfced the retchstag to
provide for the dispatch of 700 more
men, 2,600 horses and 1,000 drome
'daries to the scene of war.
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