NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
OVER THT STATE.
Blue Springs has organized a com
mercial ciub.
The diphtheria scourge at Milford
and vicinity is believed to have been
completely stamped out.
The new steel bridge across the Lo
gan at Bancroft now under construc
tion is rapidly nearing completion.
At the regular meeting of the Fre
mont school board. Prof. W. H. Gard
ner was re-elected superintendent for
next year and his salary fixed at $1,
000.
A party of wealthy men of Seward,
headed by Dr. Cummins, is talking of
establishing a sanitarium for tubercu
losis on a high, healthy sit near that
city.
Ten new trains each way will be put
on the Nebraska & Wyoming division
of the Chicago & Northwestern line
to handle the rush into the Shoshone
country next June.
The farmers living in the vicinity
of Hoag have decided to organize an
elevator company and have started a
paper to secure funds for the building
of an elevator to cost not less than
$5,000.
The barn belonging to C. W. Cham
bers. northwest of Table Rock, was
destroyed by fire. The blaze started
in the haymow and was discovered by
a neighbor. Two cows and a calf were
burned.
State Treasurer Mortenson will can
cel warrants to the amount of $100,000
and thus reduce the debt against the
state by that amount. These warrants
have been drawing interest since Sep
tember 1 1j04.
Clarence Tiuoets, a baggageman em
ployed uy the Burlington, was run over
and killed by an engine in the Burling
ton yards at Lincoln. Tibbits was as
sisting in transferring baggage at the
time of his death.
The Mattes Brewing company's
plant, at Nebraska City, which was
partially destroyed by fire several
weeks ago. will be rebuilt. The in
surance companies interested in tne
loss amounted to $26,300.
The coming event of great interest
to the farmers of Platte county and vi
cinity is the institute, which will be
held February 26 and 27. The state
management has formulated a very in
teresting and diversified program, and
many of the practical farmers of the
state will be present during the ses
sion.
The Prairie Mining company passed
through a fivefoot vein of coal Wed
nesday on their leases east of Falls
City, and after sinking one more pros
pect hole will start the development
of the leases. Leases were filed last
week with the register of deds cover
ing about 800 acres, and work will
start on themat once.
State Auditor Searle says wolf
scalps have been pouring in and it has
been certified in affidavits that the
animals were killed in Douglas county.
Searle declared that the wolves lived
in communities far from human habi
tation. It was also intimated that it
was hard to tell a gray wolf scalp from
the scalp of a shepherd dog.
The beet growers meeting in Suth
erland was attended by nearly all of
the principal growers of Sutherland
and contiguous territory. The ques
tion of organizing an association of
growers was freely discussed and a
motion to organize carried. Nearly all
of those present attached their signa
tures to articles of membership.
Milo Draemel of Fremont, is a mem
ber of the first class at tne navai
school at Annapolis which graduates
this week and is the first Fremont boy
to complete a course at that institu
tion. He has never been in any wav
implicated with any of the hazing af
fairs which have disgraced the records
of so many of his classmates, and has
maintained a high rank.
For over thirty years the express
matter coming to West Point has been
delivered free of charge by the ex
press company. This accommodation
has been taken away from the peo
ple, presumably in retaliation for the
action of the railroad company, which
has deprived the express company of
the milk and cream business, which
is now hauled as baggage.
rur me ursi ume wiinm twenty
years a grand jury is called to con
vene in Boone county. Heretofore
crimes and offenses against the laws
have been prosecuted under informa
tions filed by the county attorney. At
the next term of the district court
which convenes February 20. the
grand jury will be asked to investi
gate several alleged violations of the
laws of the state.
John Arn of Plattsmouth attempted
to clean out a flue by putting a quan
tity of powder in the stove. The ex
plosion came with much more force
than anticipated, blowing open the
stove door and the blaze went up the
s-aeves of his coat instead of up the
flue. His right arm was severely
burned and later biood poison followed
and for several days his condition was
considered serious.
The cadets of the state university
voted to go to Nebraska City on their
annual encampment. The command
ant has the final say where the en
campment shall be held, and Captain
Workizer said the city which offered
the best inducements would be select
ed.
The mortgage record for Nuckolls
county for January shows: Eleven
farm mortgages filed, amounting to
$23,400.31; released, $30,166.24. Nine
town mortgages were filed, $7,853.50;
nine sat'sfled, $5,154.50. Of chattel
mortgages 129 were filed, $37,408.78;
103 satisfied, $33,770.il.
Ul'ie tne 11-year-old daughter of
Mr. '.nd Mrs. Peter Schacht, residing
south of Grand Island, fell from a
*.orse while assisting In driving cattle,
struck her head on the ground and
sustained a fracture of the skull near
the base of the brain, ^suiting In
death a few hours after.
An explosion in the store of Bassen
ger & Nelson, at Bancroft, caused by
a leak in a gas stove, demolished the
windows in the rear of the building,
completely wrecking the stove and
near-by fixtures. Night Watchman
Hausen, who was in the room at the
time was severely shaken up.
BUSY MONTH FOR MORTENSEN.
Handles Almost Two Million Dollars
During Month of January.
LINCOLN.—The report of State
Treasurer Mortensen of the condition
of the state treasury at the close of
business shows that during the month
of January there was paid out of all
funds the sum of $1,009,153, against
receipts amounting to $850,444. But
there had been bought last month
$260,000 worth of bonds as an invest
ment for the permanent school fund,
and more warrants have been taken
up and canceled than for any month
for years. It has been a busy month
in the treasurer's office. At this time
the permanent school fund contains
only $5,640 not invested, while $380,
489 was invested of this fund this
month. There was a balance on hand
in all the funds the first of the month
of $388,830.91; receipts during the
month, $850,444.74; paid out, $1,009.
153.81. Following is the report in de
tail and the bank statements:
—Balances—
Funds. Jan. 1. Jan. 31.
General .$ 8.447.77 $ 8,554.75
Redemption . 918.47 1.577.57
Permanent school. 13.885.94 5.640.22
Temporary school. 317,969.31 152.714.71
Permanent uni
versity . 293.26 4,515.57
Agricultural col
lege endowment . 9,320.55
Temporary uni
versity . 323.57 366.22
Penitentiary . 645.50 645.50
Kearney Nor. li
brary . 1,246.86 867.05
Hospital Insane.. 114.55 135.99
State library . 1.4S5.75 1,167.87
Fniversity cash... 23.257.14 22.483.03
Normal library... _ 2.643.55 2.643.55
Normal endowm't. 1.200.00 1,470.09
Normal interest. . 2,601.26 2.775.92
Orthopedic hosp.. 104.50 104.50
Agricultural and
Mechanical Arts 13,362.83 11,912.S3
U. S. Kxperiment
Station . 330.65 3.223.79
Totals.$388,830.91 $230,121.84
By cash on hand. .$ 6,653.65
By cash on de
posit . 223.468.1 S
$230,121.84
COMPLAINTS OF ASSESSMENT.
—
Assessors Not Attending to Their
Duty As Law Requires.
LINCOLN.—Many complaints are
being made and some are being re
ceived by the members of the state
board of assessment that the county
assessors in various parts of the state
are net attending to their duties as
the law intended they should. Be
cause of these reports the state board
of assessment and equalization likely
will take severe action in the matter,
and possibly will have Secretary Ben
nett make a few trips out in the state
to assist the county assessors and to
see that they do what the law intends
for them to do.
The reports regarding the assessors
are to the effect that instead of su
perintending the work of their depu
ties as the law specifies, in some in
stances are attending to their farm
work and other duties, and rarely get
to the county seat to see what the
deputies are doing. The county as
sessors are paid by the year, and are
expected to be constantly at the
switch and wide awake and to keep
thoroughly in touch with the work of
their deputies and with the property
all over the county.
When the bill was before the legis
lature this section providing for the
county assessor was thoroughly dis
cussed, and it was argued that by em
ploying him by the year he would be
in a position to keep thoroughly in
touch with all the county, and thus be
able to review intelligently the work
of his deputies. In some instances, it
is said, the office of the county asses
sor is little more than a place for the
deputies to deposit their records.
The attention of the members of
the state board has been called to the
matter, and inasmuch as the county
assessors work under the direction or
the state board a general jacking up
is to come shortly.
Bryan’s Former Home Sold.
Col. C. G. Barns has sold the well
known and historic D street residence,
the home of W. J. Bryan during the
time he was a member of congress
and twice candidate for the presi
dency, to Frank Jouvenant. present
member of the Nebraska legislature
trom Boone county.
Graders Finish Work.
OAKLAND—The Grant Smith com
pany, railroad contractors, have fin
ished their work here and broke camp.
This practically finishes the grading
in this vicinity and everything is in
readiness for the tracklayers, who are
reported as being seven miles south o(
Uehling.
Horticultural Report Out.
The thirty-sixth annual report or
the State Horticultural society is out.
The report is dated August 1, 1904.
The report of the treasurer, which is
published therein, shows that war
rants were paid to the amount of $2,
849.65, and the total receipts were $5,
257.95.
Buys Idaho Bonds.
The state board of educational
lands and funds authorized State
Treasurer Mortensen to buy $160,500
worth of Idaho state bonds. The
bonds will nm twenty years, and will
pay the state 3% per cent interest for
the first five years and afterwards 4
per cent. The board will meet Febru
ary 13, at which time the bonds will
be delivered. The board has already
bought Idaho bonds to the amount of
$250,000 this year, and during the
month the state treasurer will have
$250,000 more money to invest.
Are Against Ball Games.
GRAND ISLAND—The board of edu
cation has taken steps either to re
model considerably the rules of the
football and basketball games as in
dulged on by the high school students
or eliminate the game altogether. Sev
eral recent accidents have led to the
conviction that the game should be
shorn of its alleged barbarity or be
“cut out’.” It was denounced by sev
eral members of the board as more
savage and brutal that prize fighting,
against which there is a law in this
state.
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Roosevelt.—Marvelous stories are
wafting around the White House as
to the value of the gifts which are
coming. It is said that only com
paratively unimportant gifts have al
ready been received to make a foot
; high stack which is now in that mys
; terious chamber in the White House
i attic, under which there is at night
i the steady tramp of an officer, and the
nearby snores of the servants, who ln
! habit the same floor. There is little
I danger of loss by theft.
MAIL MATTER MOVES RAPIDLY.
From End to End of Continent in
Forty-Eight Hours.
When rocks and hills divide Pacific
coast dwellers from Atlantic coast
dwellers and they each other no long
er see they can take pen and paper
and write a few lines that will fly
from one end of the continent to the
other in forty-eight hours. In 1906 it
first has been made possible to mail a
letter in New York city and receive
a reply from San Francisco within a
week. The fast mail train leaving
New York on Monday at 2:45 a. m., is
due at San Francisco Thursday noon.
A reply mailed before 6 p. m.. is due
to reach New York at 9:30 a. m. on
the following Monday. The number of
passengers who benefit by extraordi
narily high railway speed is a trifle
compared with the public advantage
represented by a saving of six hours
in the time of transit of perhaps a
million letters and other mail matter
carried every trip by . the fast trains.
Became Senator Despite Boss.
The announcement made by Senator
Pettus of Alabama, who is now in his
eighty-fourth year and is the oldest
man in the senate, that he is a candi
date for re-election revived the story
at the capital of how he came to the
senate the first time. Ex-Senator Pugh
was the Democratic boss of the state.
When Pugh was conducting his can
vass for re-election to the senate Pet
tus went to him and asked for his in
dorsement for a local judgeship. “Non
sense,” said Pugh, arrogantly, “you
are too old to be a judge.” “Well, by
gum,” shouted Pettys, “I may be too
old to be a judge: I ain’t too old to be
a senator.” And he wasn’t, as Pugh
found out when the canvass was over
and Pettus was elected.
“Stateliness” Has Returned.
The social trend of the times In
London is toward a return to old
fashioned stateliness. During last
year girls were given the same good
time that they had in the ’60 s and
’70’s, smart women no longer rule the
world and “new rich” entertainers
have given place to hostesses of the
aristocracy. The return of the chap
eron means the disappearance of
“hooligan” girlhood. There has been
a falling off in the matter of private
concerts and the craze for fancy
balls seems to be a thing of the past.
Carrying Out Fate’s Decrees.
There is a story of an English Judge
who, when a thief arrainged before
him pleaded that he could not help
stealing when he had an opportunity,
replied: “That is just the way with
us; for we can’t help hanging a thief
when we get hold of him.” Zeno, the
philosopher, who believed in the Stoic
doctrine of fate, made a similar reply
to a light-lingered slave who excused
himself for his theft by saying that he
was fated to steal: “And to be whip
ped, too.”
PRACTICE HAD MADE PERFECT.
Redwood James “Sp'iled” Chinamen,
But He Was Proficient.
Miss Bret Harte, with the aid of a
number of her father’s English
! friends, has opened a typewriting of
1 flee in London. She is a proficient
1 typewriter and an American journalist
calling to have some copying done
complimented her on her skill. “My
skill, such as it is, is due to prac
tice,” said Miss Bret Harte. “It was
acquired very painfully, like the mark
manship of one of my father's west
' ern friends. My father used to tell
of a man called Redwood James, a
character of California. James in a
bar one night drew a revolver and
shot the ashes from the cigar of a
friend on the other side of the room.
The friend laughed and calmly drank
off the remainder of his cocktail. My
father said to Redwood James: ‘That
must have required considerable prac
tice.’ 'Practice,' Redwood James re
plied. ‘I should say so, young man.
I guess I sp’iled more'n three dozen
Chinamen a-learnin’ that there
trick.’ ”
“Bulls” of Parliamentarians.
.Sir Harry Samuel, a unionist candi
date for parliament, is the author of
this bull: “The legislative garden of
the liberals.” he said, "is an arid
swamp.” If such a parliamentary au
thority as Mr. Gladstone said “It is
no use for the honorable member to
shake his head in the teeth of his
own words” lesser lights who blunder
in the political arena have no reason
to be ashamed. Mr. Balfour once
spoke of “an empty theater of un
sympathetic auditors” and Lord Cur
zon congratulated his party on the
circumstances that, “though not out
of the wood, we have a good ship.”
Bank Account for Each Baby.
Thomas Dinsmore. a well-to-do resi
dent of Palermo, Me., gives $5 to
everybody born in that place. The
money is deposited in a bank to the
cPild’s credit and remains there until
the recipient reaches legal majortty.
Mr. Dinsmore was born in Palermo
eighty-three years ago. He went to
California in 1848, sailing around Cape
Horn, and accumulated a fortune dur
ing the gold-hunting craze. In later
years he traveled a great deal, finally
settling down in the place of his
birth.
Insist on Free Rolls.
Restaurant keepers of Berlin are in
the midst of a war with their guests
as to whether "broedchen” shall be
free with meals or be charged for
in the bill. From time immemorial
Berliners have eaten as many rolls as
they desired, but the restauranteurs
determined to put the bread into the
reckoning. They hung up notices to
that effect in their dining rooms, but
their gilests tore down the placards
and refused to pay for their “broed
chen.”
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CHAPTER VII.—Continued.
Soon he again thrusts half his wiry
body out of the window, and can be
heard talking to the Jehu, to whom he
probably gives orders, for it will hard
ly do them to stop directly in front of
the madhouse, unless some desperate
plan has been agreed upon.
“We are there,” announces M. Fran
cois.
The vehicle halts, and as the door
is opened the three men hasten to find
a landing upon the pavement.
“You wiill remain here—all night if
we do not come—pay will be sure.”
and the secret agent of the prefect
shows his silver badge to the aston
ished Jehu, who bows and declares
his willingness to stay until Gabriel
blows his trump if necessary, know
ing full well that his number is in
the possession of the agent, and that
his license will be revoked, or even
further punishment meted out to him
if he dares disobey.
“This way, messieurs," comes the
voice of the secret agent ahead, and
gladly they foHow.
Evidently M. Francois has been ar
ranging his plan of action while en
route—at any rate he loses no time in
reflection now, but proceeds to busi
ness.
“Messieurs, mark that gloomy
square building just ahead—it is M.
Girard’s Retreat for the Demented—
a second Bastile in looks. Here, next
door, we have the vacant building of
which our young friend Jules Favre
made mention. We enter, messieurs
—we ascend to the roof, from which
we can open communications with
those we have come to save.”
They grasp the plan of this shrewd
friend whom the prefect has sent to
their assistance—it is simple enough
in its way, and they can hardly make
a mistake.
Once they enter the empty house,
♦heir leader produces a small lantern,
Jiich he lights, and thus all can see
to ascend the stairs. In this way the
.-oof is finally gained, a scuttle being
the last obstacle that has to be over
come.
There is enough light for them to
see the wall of the building rising up
beyond, also the window with its
wooden bars, at which the street Arab
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Disappointment as keen as a knife
grasps his heart. What does this
mean. Did the note that the lad
brought deceive them? Ah! there is
the story of the secret agent—surely
there must be truth back of it all.
Then they have changed the room
of the two prisoners—that must be it.
He lights another match—it is a Heav
en-born inspiration, for upon the ta
ble he discovers something that
escaped his eyes during the first illu
mination.
It is a piece of paper, held under a
specimen of stone, a number of which
can be seen upon a little shelf on the
wall.
In an instant Dick bends over it—
his eyes are glued to the paper that
tells the story:
“Kind Friends: We are in trouble
—decoyed to this place to see one of
the curiosities of all Paris. We have
been notified that in half an hour,
when the matin bell in the convent
hard by rings, we-”
Just then Dick’s match burns his
fingers, and he drops the remnant.
Another is quickly held in his grasp,
and its light flares up. He reads on:
“-rings, we will be transferred
to another room below—possibly so
that we may get the full benefit of the
awful sounds that come to us but faint
ly here. We are brave—we do not
fear, but at the same time we pray
Heaven to rescue us. The motive 1
can only guess as yet, but believe it
must concern the signing of a paper
giving Senor Manuel Lopez full con
trol of the El Dorado Mine, which I
will never, never do.
“PAULINE WESTERLY.”
Again the match goes out. but Dick
does not care now. He knows where
the door lies, and is immediately at it,
shakes it vigorously as an imprisoned
lion might the door of his cage. It is
quite useless, for a heavy bar or bolt
secures it outside.
He returns to the window; since one
plan has failed he will try another.
Down the ladder he goes quickly, to
meet his comrades at the foot.
“Well?” says the Frenchman.
“What luck, old fellow?” demands
Colonel Bob.
“The room is empty and the door
barred.”
At this the others express their dis
appointment by a succession of
grunts, but the acute Gaul has read
more in the voice of the messenger.
"You are not hopeless—you have at
least made one discovery,” he ejacu
lates, whereupon Dick only too glad
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held converse with the prisoners of
M. Girard.
Dick is for rushing forward, but the
leader detains him.
“Pardon,” he whispers, “we must
bring up the ladder that leads to the
scuttle—something is needed to reach
the window—we must tear off the
bars and help the ladies down, you re
member?”
. So the short ladder is drawn up,
carefully carried across the interven
ing roof, and placed where it will
pass up beside the barred window.
Hardly waiting until M. Francois an
nounces the ladder firm, Dick mounts.
His face is now close to the window—
all is dark within, and of course he
can see nothing.
"Miss Pauline!”
He utters the name in a whisper be
tween the wooden bars, but no reply
comes—then he raises his voice a lit
tle and repeats it, with no better re
sult than before.
A third time he calls, and again
only a mocking echo is hurled back.
Then a hideous-fear assails him that
some evil has befallen those whom he
came to save—his hand is on one of
the bars—he impetuously exerts the
strength of his muscular arm—few
things could withstand the mighty
power thus brought into play, and
the bar comes away in his grasp. He
pushes it through into the room, hears
it fall to the floor, and then, securing
himself afresh, once more clutches a
bar—a second tremendous tug follows,
that wins the day. ^
“Bravo!” comes a whisper from be
low, where the Frenchman watches
his every movement.
“Good boy, Dick!” is, heard from
Bob, perhaps in a voice that is rather
incautious.
, Dick does not wait for this encour
agement—he has made an opening,
swings one leg up over the window
sill with the ease of an acrobat, and
disappears from the gaze of those who
watch below.
When he finds himself in the room,
Dick once more calls that name, al
ready so precious to him, but the re
sult is the same—a dead silence Is
his only answer.
He has matches, and without hesi
tation takes one out to strike it. No
sooner does the flame blaze up than
his eyes make a circuit of the small
apartment.
What does he see?—a couple of
chairs, a small table, a bed—that is
all!
ly relates all about the finding of the
letter, and what it contains—he has
the words very pat, while the missive
itself lies in a pocket next his heart,
perhaps some day to be framed and
hung up in remembrance of what be
fell them in gay, wicked Paris.
Just as he expects, the prefect’s
agent is ready to grapple with the
new difficulty—he never allows such
a thing to daunt him.
“You tried the door?" he asks, sud
denly.
“And found it secure—it would take
a sledge-hammer to burst it open."
“Which would arouse the whole in
stitution—we must adopt other tac
tics. Suppose we descend to terra
firma, since that breeze is fresh, and
a slip on ttys sloping roof would be
apt to be followed by unpleasant con
sequences," with a shrug of his shoul
ders, which indicates a good deal more
than his words do.
The ladder is once more brought j
back to its legitimate use. and soon
they find themselves again upon the
street, close by the entrance of the
grim building.
The Frenchman turns to Colonel j
Bob.
“Pardon; I believe you can act a
part.’’
“Eh?” gasps the astonished sheriff.
“You have the grit, the courage, the
tact to play the crazy man.”
"Thanks, my noble duke, for your
flattery,” answers Bob, in freezing
contempt.
“Ah! you do not comprehend—you
fail to grasp the idea. I mean that'
you are gifted—you can play a part—
you can, I am sure, even deceive the
great doctor, M. Girard.”
“I begin to see light—speak on. ’
says Bob.
“You remember I told the driver in
a joke we were taking you to the Re
treat. We will make it a solemn truth
—we will gain admittance to this cas
tle under that pretense, and then—l
leave the case in your hands, mon
sieur,” with a low bow in the direc
tion of Dick.
“I admire your plan—it is better
than battering down the front door—
that is, unless Bob objects to acting
the part of a man who has lost his !
senses, and imagines himself a Caes
ar.”
“Not I—you will be proud of me
yet,” declares the Sheriff of Secora
County, Inflating his lungs and strut
ting like a turkey-cock.
“There is only one danger—if Mr.
Girard knows the whole story, your
appearance will arouse his suspicions
immediately, for he will recognize you
as friends of his prisoners. We can
only try. You shall be M. Astorbilt,
the American millionaire, and this
your cousin Robert, whose mind we
will say—pardon, monsieur, you are
not the first—has become unhinged
through his passion for M'lle Hor
tense, the latest star on the theatrical
horizon.”
A groan from Bob.
“Do with me as you please—I am
entirely in the hands of my friends,”
he says, with a resignation that is
beautiful to contemplate.
CHAPTER VIII.
The Cell in the Closed Corridor.
No one hesitates—indeed, the agent
of police gives no time for meditation
—he means business. No doubt he is
armed with some authority, vested in
him by the prefect, which gives him
the power and the liberty of search
ing the house of M. Girard. At any
rate, he does not appear to have any
fear regarding the consequences, and
shows about as much animation as the
two comrades.
The driver has his orders now, and
brings the trio directly in front of the
door belonging to M. Girard's resi
deuce.
Rap, rap, goes the ponderous knock
er, the sound reverberating through
the corridors within and arousing
some of the inmates, who begin to
shout, some of them to swear, because
they have been disturbed in their
sleep
A minute elapses, and then a wicket
in the door opens, through which pro
trudes a head—one almost expects to
see the cowled head of a monk; but
instead, a shock of hair surmounting
a red face pushes into view, while the
owner, in a thick voice, demands what
they will have at such an hour.
(To be continued.
ROSES THRIVE ON MEAT DIET.
Gardener of Rome Tells Secret of
Cultivation.
“I have yet to see a rose equal to
those grown in Rome,” said the ama
teur horticulturist. ‘‘They bloom in
the greatest abundance all through
the winter, and they are as large and
rich and velvety as our American
beauties, living out of doors, clamber
ing like ivy or honeysuckle over the
crumbling marble walls of ruined tem
ples, gleaming in crimson and green
masses upon ancient columns, giving
to the grimmest apd saddest of medi
eval palazzos an air of gayety and
youth.
“One day on the Via Sistina, as I
passed the garden that had once been
the garden of Lucullus, 1 saw an old
man tending the superb roses that
grow there. He was pouring on their
roots a dark, rich-looking fluid.
“ ‘Why are the Roman roses so
beautiful and abundant?’ I said to the
old man.
“ ‘Because they eat meat,’ he an
swered.
“ ‘Eat meat? Nonsense,’ said I.
“ ‘Well, they drink meat—meat ex
tract, which is the same thing,’ said
the old man. ‘We Roman gardeners
have for centuries watered our roses
thrice a week with a strong decoction
of fresh beef—a rich grade of beef
tea. They are meat eaters. That is
why the roses of Rome are as hardy
and prolific as weeds, and at the same
time as richly, delicately beautiful
and as sweetly perfumed as flowers
grown under glass.’ ”
DRESS REFORM IDEAS IN 1332.
Four "Don’ts” Proposed as a Start In
the Right Direction.
A coterie of ladies at Amsterdam
edit a periodical paper called the “Eu
phrosyne.” It was this paper which
first proposed the creation of a nation
al costume for the female lieges of the
Dutch sovereign; and its example has
been followed by a coterie of gentle
men, who now publish a "journal for
the promotion of a national costume,
for the gentlemen, and the encourage
ment of national industry.”
If American editors would but en
gage in this cause with the zeal of the
worthy mynheers, we should confi
dently expect success in this mai ter of
a national costume. Now we can only
hope.
However, we will propose a few
rules in our department of regulating
female costume, as a sample of our
taste. These will be prohibitory mere
ly. Every person knows the necessity
of eradicating or exposing false no
tions before enforcing right ideas.
1. No lady shall wear more than
seven distinct colors in her dress at
the same time—that being enough to
form a rainbow.
2. No lady shall wear colored or
clouded stockings with a white dress.
3. No married lady shall appear in
a pink bonnet. (We should like to ex
tend this prohibition to all ladies over
14.)
4 No lady, who hopes to be mar
ried, shall wear the hem of her gown
above her ankles.—Ladies’ Magazine
1832.
New Kind of Pin Money
The woman confided to her com
panion and to the elderly clerk that
the piece of jewelry she was buying
was to be paid for out of the gold
pieces her husband had received for
attending directors’ meetings and
which he had turned over to her. The
clerk remarked that he had a num
ber of women customers who made
purchases at this time of the y ear in
the same way.
“One lady who has been a customer
of ours for years,” he went on, “al
ways spends this director’s money in
one way. Year after year she comes
in about this time and buys a piece of
table silver. Then she has it marked
‘Director Silver.’ I presume she
means to have it kept in her family as
a reminder of what an important fig
ure in the commercial world her hus
band was in his day.—New York
Press.
Good to His Folks.
Why don t you have the snow
cleaned off your sidewalk?” asked the
neighbor.
i# “Because.” answered Mr. Lobrow.
“I think a lot or my family, and would
not deprive it of any pleaseure. You
have no idea how it amuses the chil
dren to see peoj** dhp and fall down."
