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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1906)
| THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA? NEBRASKA BRIEFS An addition will be built to the Mad ison county jail. A new lodge of Odd Fellows has been instituted at Bradshaw. Grandma Menken of Sterling last week celebrated her 90th birthday. Two hundred conversions are re ported from the revival at Weeping W ater. The Platte Valley Beet Gardeners’ association met at Sutherland last week and elected officers for the ensu ing year. Rev. A. C. Townsend, pastor of the Congregational church, Albion, has tendered his resignation and the same has been accepted, to take effect May 1. There is an epidemic of measles pre vailing across the river from Fremont and two Saunders county schools within five miles of Fremont have been closed. The citizens of Benedict are to have a national bank. The Bank of Bene dict has been in business for about sixteen years as a state banks and steps have been taken to organize a national bank. Judge Paul has ordered a grand jury drawn for Boone county. It is the first one in eighteen years. The order for this jury meets writh the hearty approbation of the best citi zens of the county. Emil Heckman and Mrs. Clara Bearnhart of Norfolk, with the aid of Cupid, defeated the object of the law in Nebraska which says that cousins shall not marry. They went to Sioux City and were married there. B. F. Sinclair of Omaha, postoffice inspector, was in Table Rock and in spected the postoffice. He paid high compliment to Mrs. Jessie W. Phil lips, postmistress, on the system and order displayed in the postoffice. Farmers living along the Blue river in south York county have filed arti cles of incorporation of the Blue River Telephone company. The company will probably make a traffic agreement with the lork County Telephone com pany. Joseph E. Reed, through his attor neys. has filed a suit in the district court against the village of Syracuse, for $10,000 for injuries received in an explosion of gasoline at the water and light station of that town on August 21, 1905. At Shelby there was a special elec tion held to vote for $10,000 water works bonds. The law requires two thirds of all votes cast in favor of bonds to carry, but they did not re ceive one-half, the vote standing 43 for and 53 against. Henry Busch, aged 20. was fatally hurt at Hadar while driving an ice wagon. With the reins wrapped about his back he was dragged out of the seat when the tongue dropped and was dragged for twenty rods. He was hurt internally. Ethel Beckwith, alias Leona Lucas, ■who had been in Norfolk for a month, securing employment at various places and stealing many valuables, has been apprehended at Neligh, where she con fessed. She turned over many articles that had been stolen. An O’Neill report says that school had to be dismissed there because of a feud which exists between two teach ers. both women. Relations became so strained between tnem that when they met they almost came to blows, and in order to preserve the peace and dig nity of the schools at large the super intendent dismissed the pupils. The camps on the North Platte river branch of the Union Pacific at Suth erland and Paxton have resumed work. The most of the timber for the bridges on the new extension is now on the ground and as soon as the additional piling is received the bridge gang will be put to work on construction. Educational institutions of the state will be investigated at the next session of the legislature. President J. W. Crabtree of the Peru state normal said that the state educators would ask the legislature next winter to overhaul ail the educational institutions of the state. Text books and fees will be subjects of special investigation. isorioiK s oiu sugar laciory win probably be remade into a sugar fac torp next summer. Fred Hinz, owner of the factory at Chippewa Falls, Wis., has written proposing to start the plant, buy the machinery and run it, providing a certain amount of stock is taken by local men and the farm ers. Farmers will be allowed to pay for their stock in beets during the first five years. R. D. Clark, residing near Brock, was in court at Auburn, having been arrested by the sheriff on a peace war rant, sworn out by Mrs. Clark, who claimed that her husband beat her frequently and proved by other women that her body then bore evidence of his brutality. Clark was bound over to keep the peace, and then insisted that his wife also be made to give similar bond, which she did. At Plattsmouth the widow of W. R. Webb brought suit against the Bur lington company to Collect the sum of $15,000 for damages caused by her husband falling from the Burlington bridge at that point, which caused his death. The case was settled out of court. Ernest Manske. a bartender, has pleaded guilty at Norfolk to the charge oi forgery and was bound over to dis trict court. He is awaiting trial in the county jail. Manske forged a check on his employer for $15, cashed It at a store and left for Sioux City, later he returned and was arrested. County Commissioners Taft, Malone and Harding of Madison county are making arrangements for the erection of a new $12,000 steel bridge between Newman Grove and Old Town, the structure to be the latest model and up-to-date in every particular. Reports from Wymore indicate the possible presence of coal in the explor ation shaft which is being sunk in the west end of the city. A Wymore man stated that a composition resembling a mixture of red clay and mud was taken from the shaft. When a match was applied it burned much like the cannel coal found in Missouri. « INVESTIGATION IS NEEDED. Superintendent Crabtree of Peru Thinks Legislature Should Act LINCOLN — Superintendent Crab tree of the Peru Normal school is much in favor of the next legislature inves tigating all of the state educational in situations, with a view to cutting down the expenses to the students and to see just where the money which is collected by the institution is spent. He said: “I believe the le~:<jlsture will ap point a committee to Investigate all of the state education! institutions, and it will be a wise thing to do. It will stimulate those in charge of the schools to do their work and to be more careful in their management. Everything possible should be done to make the state schools as cheap as possible for students. We at Peru charge $5 for matriculn'ion, which pays for ail time, and we fn—’ish text books, laboratory material, and in fact all of the fees combined, together with the textbooks cost the student not more than $r. a year. We have almost abol ished the fee system entirely and we do not intend to resurrect it.” BIG LAND SALE IN CUSTER CO. Eighteen Hundred Acre Farm Brings $30000. BROKEN BOW—The largest land sale made in this part of the country for a long time past, occurred last week through Robert Hunter. The property was that formerly owned by Supervisor Joe Fenimore and consists of 1.840 acres. It ranks among the finest and is situated on the west table. The purchasers are the Chris tensen Brothers of Wolbach. and the consideration was $30,000. The new owners are farmers and feeders, and it is their intention to place on the land a steam plow capable of running twelve plows. The latter is a new institu tion in Custer county. FIND GAS THAT WILL BURN. Table Rock People Elated Over Their Discovery. TABLE ROCK—The gas at the Wood farm, two miles north of here, where the sinking of a shaft is in prog ress, has been analyzed by a chemist at Des Moines, la., to whom a sample was sent, and by him pronounced to be an excellent quality of illuminating gas. One evening last week about a gal lon of gas was secured by Mr. Wood and assistants, who fitted up a testing apparatus. It burned readily, giving a steady flame. Work on the shaft is being crowded as fast as possible, but has been re tarded somewhat by the water encoun tered in digging. Ready to Receive Tax. The state insurance department is getting ready to accept the $37,000 due by reason of the reciprocal tax and which the state hits not collected dur ing the last three years because the case has been in courts. Just what the attorneys for the insurance compa nies will do now, is not known here, but as the case Las been heard by the supreme court on five different occa sions, the department hopes further litigation will not be started. Three or four companies during the last two weeks have paid their taxes levied under this law. Pays $450 to State. LINCOLN—At a special meeting of the directors of the Beatrice Cream ery company it was decided to file ar ticles under the Nebraska corporation laws. This is the first large corpora tion to evince interest in the announce ment recently made of the intention of the state departments to institute proceedings against concerns doing business in the state, but not incorpo rated under the state laws. The re quired fee of $450, based upon the cap italization, was paid to the deputy sec retary of state and the articles were submitted for filing. Claims Large Fortune. HARVARD—Samuel Patterson, a farmer living near Inland, has gone to Carlisle, Canada, to ascertain If there Is any truth in a report that his sis ter, Mrs. Margaret Crowder, is heir to the large estate of her grandfather, who died.there fifteen years ago. Mrs. Crowder went to her old home in Can ton, N. Y., where she saw advertise ments in the newspapers that caused the investigation to be made. State Fair Increases Purses. After a strenuous debate the state fair board decided to increase the purges for races to $10,000%an increase over last year of $4,000. Chapman Kills Himself. FTEINAUER—Howard Chapman, a nromlnent farmer ten miles from here, committed suicide by shooting him self. Want Town Ten Miles Away. STROMSBURG — The Commercial club of this city held a special meeting when the Union Pacific extension from here was generally discussed and the majority of the men expressed them selves in tavor of asking the company that no station be made less than eight to ten miles from this city. Owing to the fact that Osceola is only some five miles by rail from here, they feel that they should be favored by the company on the west and place the new town in the west Dart of the county. Took Strychnine by Mistake. PIERCE—Mrs. C. E. Staley of this place had a headache. She took a powder, but found she had taken strychnine intended for the cat She called a physician and her life was saved. To Retire Warrants. LINCOLN—State Treasurer Morten sen will within a few days issue a call for the retirement on February 21 or 22 of $100,000 of the state general fund warrants. Will Carry Expedition to North ■■■ -:---- — ■■ > I The steamer Frithyof, named after one of the old Norwegian vikings, which has been chartered to take the Walter Wellman aeriel polar expedition to Spitzbergen, is famed in arctic exploration annals, having been used by Mr. Wellman in his expedition of 1898, and more recently by the Ziegler party, under command of An thony Fiala, who returned from the North last year. The Frithyof is a three-masted craft and very strongly constructed, the engines being of unusual power for the size of the vessel. It has been in very tight places in the ice packs, and has rammed the frozen masses successfully, the shock at times being described as similar to the explosion of a torpedo under the keel of the vessel. In the picture the Frithyof is shown with the stars and stripes floating at the masthead and with the rigging it carried in the 'Wellman expedition. Frequently from the “crow’s-nest", a barrel lashed to the top of the mainmast, Mr. Wellman, glass in hand, surveyed the vast ice fields lying between him and the pole. PSYCHOLOGY TO HAVE INNING. Scientists in Mood to Investigate Elu sive Phenomena. Why have certain, not rare, though elusive, phenomena which seem to have been known in all ages and in all countries of the world, not yet attain ed to full recognition anywhere, and why are they so generally looked at askance and with suspicion? cries Sir Oliver Lodge concerning psychical re search. He believes that these facts have fallen between two stools. They are not like the facts of organic na ture, which can be investigated apart from the interfering and confusing element, and they are not like the acts of history, which necessarily de pend on direct experience and testi mony; they are a mixture of the two. The humanist cannot study them freely because they involve physical, chem ical, and biological details which are strange to him; the so-called realist or man of science is bound to feel a difficulty when an apparently capri cious element, an unknown and for eign psychological influence is intro duced into the midst of his physics. At nc’period of the w’orld's history, however, has the outlook been more hopeful for the ultimate admission of the subject within the scope of an en larged science than the present. It must be admitted, he says, that a fair ly favorable atmosphere now exists in educated circles for the examination and criticism of well supported evi dence when such evidence is forth coming. The popular attitude that the things which the psychologists ac cept are too wonderful to be believed is not the attitude of scientists. More wonderful things happen in everyday life. Grape Leaves as Medicine. Grape leaves are the sovereign rem edy in Switzerland for cuts and fresh wounds. Decoctions of the juice of the leaves, are used in poultices. An agreeable tea is also made from the leaves, which is said greatly to strengthen the nerves. The leaves are also excellent food for cows, hogs and sheep. The “tears” of the vine (used medicinally) are a limpid exudation of the sap at the time the plant begins budding, and are found on the vine where the slightest wound occurs to the plant. The liquid is collected by cutting off the ends of the canes, bend ing them down, and sticking the ends into the neck of the bottle, which wrill be filled in a few days. The wood and branches are used in the manufacture of baskets, furniture, rustic work; bark for tying material, etc., and, when burned, potash and salts. Paying Dearly for Titles. The attitude of the average titled suitor for the hand of an American girl ought to be considered insulting by her. So apparent i3 it that her money is what he wants that all at tempts to put a decent face on the matter are but transparent shams. Usually the girl realizes this fact, but she is dazzled by visions of social triumphs in glittering foreign courts and thinks she can do without the love of her husband if she cannot win it. But nature is stronger than will power and usually is revenged upon her. She finds her lot a miserable one unless she is utterly callous. If ^hildren come her position is rendered almost unendurable. How often this has resulted in public scandal every newspaper reader knows.—Cleveland Leader. Japanese Censor Korean News. News reaches us from a reliable source that no copies of the Korean Daily News are permitted to be dis patched through the post until a trans lation has been submitted to the ten der mercies of the Japanese legation and headquarters staff. This state of affairs is intolerable and if our country and foreign subscribers can bear our informant out we will im mediately take all possible steps to obtain rectification of what appears to be a gross abuse.—Korea Daily News, Seoul. Only Royal Nun, There is only one member of any royal family in Europe who is in a convent and who has actually taken the full vows of a nun, namely, the widow of that Don Miguel of Brazil who ruled for several years over Por tugal as its king, being eventually de posed and driven into exile in order to make way for his niece. Queen Maria Della Gloria, the grandmother of the present king. This royal nun is the superior of a convent of Benedictine nuns on the Isle of Wight OPENING OF IMPORTANT LINE. Trans-Andean Railway to Connect South American Cities. As a rule the Americans who keep pace with the world's development are not in active business and if they make any suggestion they are ignored or snubbed. We have had more or less business relations with Mexico, just across a line, for a century and I have not yet learned how to pack the things we sell to its people so that i they are willing to receive them. We know little of the progress of development in the interior of Africa I and less of the interior of South America, so that probably half of us were surprised to read of the opening j of the first section of the Trans | Andean railway, which is to connect I Valparaiso, the chief port of Chili on the Pacific, with Buenos Ayres, the ! chief port of Argentina on the Atlan tic. Roughly speaking, the completed | line will be something over 1,000 miles long ard its effect on trade movements is likely to be marked. For most of the traffic round the world from the East Indies, as we once called the tropic east, to Africa, South America and the vast British colonies of the remote southwest this line cuts off all the perilous naviga tion around Cape Horn and will save distance and time enough in many cases to justify transshipment. Lines of steamers have long plied j between Europe and Buenos Ayres, ! and the opening of this railway line is certain to be followed by steamer lines leading from Valparaiso to Aus tralia, India. China and Japan, with others eastward from Buenos Ayres to the South African ports. When the isthmian canal is com pleted that and the railway will open a new and greatly shortened route from the Mississippi valley into Ar gentina, potentially one of the richest regions in the world. At present there is no way from New Orleans, for example, into Argentina except by sailing eastward 2 000 miles, or nearly to the longitude of Ireland, in order to get around the eastern shoulder of Brazil, and then sailing back hundreds of miles westward to Euenos Ayres and there enter the continent from the east. From the opening of the canal the route from New Orleans would be almost directly south through the canal and down the western coast to Valparaiso, there entering the con tinent from the west and saving half the distance. We do not appreciate that practically all South America lies east of the longitude of the Mississip pi. Commercially the opening of this line will have effect on the trade of the entire southern half of the globe. New Orleans and the great river of ! our valley will be nearer to Argentina than London now is. Another interesting effect will be the clearing of the atmosphere of mys tery from the Andes, o#e of its last strongholds on the globe. Railways have disenchanted India, begun the same process in China, made the red Indian’s ghost dance little more than a tradition and scared the romance and the slave trade out of the heart of Africa. When the locomotive shall go roaring under the pierced bases of the Andes and fling back a triumphant scream as it emerges the mystery of the Andes will begin to pale into com monplace. De Quiney would no longer find among its crags the solemn thrill that crowned his ‘‘Spanish Nun.”— Chicago Chronicle. Whitcher Needed Praying For. The following was told by Edward P. Paige of Dunbarton, N. H.: When a member of the Legislature, in 1890, fce and Ira Whitcher, a fellow-member of the house were so late one morn ing as to find the doors closed. Mr. Whitcher rapped loudly with his cane, whereupon the attendant opened the door and inquired: “Who is the au thor of all this disturbance while we are at prayers?” “Prayers! Good heavens!” replied Mr. Whitcher, “don’t you suppose we need praying for as much as the rest?” Gave Warning to Colleagues. Senator Scott of West Virginia arose in his place the other day, said “Mr. President” and looked benignly over his spectacles at his colleagues. Re ceiving recognition, he continued: “All senators having important business in their committee-rooms, may safely re tire, for I am about to read a twenty five-minute speech.” Exodus began at once and Mr. Scott proceeded to ad dress an audience of just seven. Meantime he was being highly com mended in the cloakrooms. | GROWTH OF PRECIOUS METALS Gold and Silver Disintegrations of Copper and Lead. Twentieth century alchemy points to ! silver as a disintegration product of lead, and gold of copper. A lead mine is a silver mine and a silver mine a lead mine all the world over, and yet the chemical attraction between silver and lead is slight, and the two are not sufficiently common to come together by chance. The proportion is usually ounces of silver to tons of lead. Hence it is silver if any that is probably the disintegration product. It is suggest ed by way of experiment that a quan i tity of lead free from all traces of ' silver should he set aside for ten years ; aad then tested again for silver to see ; if any has grown. The frequent con currence of copper and gold leads to ! similar inferences. And so the dream i of the alchemists may, after all, come true. Paracelsus would probably feel quite at home with the modern elec trical theories of matter and the con ception of the instability of the atom, ! especially if one called electrons the i quintessence, the universal disintegra tor, and radium the philosopher's stone. Many Write to Geronimo. Geronimo, the Apache chieftain, re ceives as much mail as a United States senator. These letters come i from all parts of the United States and from all classes of people. Many j of them contain requests for photo i graphs, many want merely Geronimo's autograph, some want short accounts of his life, a few desire to assist him in securing release from military cus : tody, others want him to pose as an attraction in eastern exhibitions, some want him as a leading character in wild west shows and a multitude of other requests are stacked away in an old trunk. The limit was reached the other day when a man in Michigan, giving his age as 45, wrote and asked Geronimo to find an Indian wife for : him. The letter was written in all seriousness and asked for immediate ' reply. Abuse of the Parole Power. A few days ago it was thought nec essary to bring in a new indictment against a notorious Cleveland bank robber now in the penitentiary in or der to head off a movement to effect his release on parole. Now a some what similar case comes from Colum bus, where a convict has been set free in spite of the protest of the county prosecutor and the trial judge. These instances come to light so often as to give too much reason for the popular belief that no man with money or a pull need stay long in the state peni tentiary and that the parole system as administered is partly an encourage ment to crime and partly complicity in it.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Chance for American Sculptors. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney of New York, who has shown her practical interest in sculpture by modeling part of the decorations for the new Hotel Belmont, is now at work on a scheme that promises to result in great advan tage to the sculptors of the city. She is using her influence and interest to form an annual exhibition of statuary which shall be modeled on the plan of the picture exhibitions. Mrs. Whitney intends, if possible, to have the Amer ican sculptors exhibit their work every spring and if she succeeds it will be the first time that they have had their own show. Seek to Leave Spain. Villagers of Boada, in the province of Salamanca, Spain, who number 1, 14G, have applied to the Argentine republic to be allowed to emigrate to that country in a body. They ask that their present social organization may be retained, so that they may take with them in their present posi tion their mayor, justice of the peace, priest, doctor, druggist, farmers, smiths, masons, carpenters, shoemak ers and so on. The present distress ed condition of Spain is causing wide spread emigration. Life’s Ambitions Unfulfilled. Champ Clark, the Missouri con gressman, has two ungratified ambi tions. As a boy he yearned to be either a college professor or a prize fighter, but instead developed into a clever politician. “I don’t mind ad mitting," he said the other day, "that I would have been a success in the prize .ring.” Anyone looking at his giant frame, deep chest and square chin will have no difficulty in agree ing with the Missourian.—Chicago Chronicle. The large, imposing and costly bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin, which for the past nine months has been in course of construction at the Roman Bronze Works, on Green street, near Provost, Greenpoint, is fin ished, and has been shipped to Paris. The statue is valued at about $10, 000. has taken altogether about four years to build, and is the gift to the French city of John Hartjes, of the Paris firm of Morgan & Hartjes. The statue is to be placed on the Rue Franklin, Paris, in the immediate vicinity of where Franklin made his home while he was ambassador to France, more than a hundred years ago. A representative of the United States will be present at the unveiling ceremonies, which will take place April 20.—Brooklyn Eagle. FORTUNES IN WASTE PRODUCTS. One of the Chief Achievements of the Twentieth Century. “Waste not, want not,” tells only half the story in the twentieth cen tury, which finds fortunes in waste products. Sulphate of iron as a water purifying agent, with an admixture of a small percentage of copper sulphate, is of comparatively recent use in me chanical filtration, and its merit as a coagulant, together with its low cost, has led to its employment as a substi tute for aluminum sulphate. A new outlet, therefore, has been provided for a waste product the uses of which hitherto have been much circum scribed, and the disposition of which at all large finishing mills has been a problem. The possibilities of the trade are suggested by the require ments of one of the largest filtration plants, where 3.500 tons are used an nually. More attention also is being paid to the use of the blast furnace fine dust, despite the many unsuc cessful attempts at briqueting. Re cent developments indicate that the latter has been given up as impractica ble, and attention is being turned toward the agglomeration of the dust into rotary kilns. Some of the largest producers of steel have already made plants for the rotary kiln type. Comet Has Tail; Why? What are comet’s tails and how and why? Prof. Barnard concludes that the eruptive action of the comet itself and the active interference of external matter are tail-producing causes. Short straight minor tails, issuing from the nucleus at considerable angles to the main tail, seem to corroborate the existence of the comet's own eruptive force, or at least of seme force in addi tion to that supplied to the sun. The rapid deflections and distortions of the tail or tails, as in Brook's comet, sug gests the existence of some resisting medium which is not evenly distrib uted throughout the interplanetary space. He thinks all bright comets should be photographed hour by hour, as the day by day photographs hither to obtained are separated by long in tervals, so long that the changes recorded are not necessarily con nected. French Peerage Out of Place. The French peerage, so called, fig ures flagrantly and conspicuously in about all the scandals, social, political and ecclesiastical, that we get from Paris. The duchess who figures in the Castellane affair is one of its lead ing members and other French dukes and duchesses have just been the leaders in the church riots against the government. It was the dowager Duchess D'Uzes who financed the un dertaking of Gen. Boulanger to over throw the republic and it was the same crowd of titled aristocrats who insulted President Loubet and smash ed his hat down over his head at the Auteui] races. It would almost seem as if the French peerage was completely and insolently out of place under the French republic.—Boston Herald. Truth. In fine, truth considered in itself and in the effects natural to it, may be conceived as a gentle spring or water course, warm from the genial earth, and breathing up into the snowdrift that is piled over and around its out let. It turns the obstacle in its own form and character, and as it makes its way increases its stream. And should it be arrested in its course by a chilling season, it suffers delay, not loss, and waits only for a change in the wind to awaken and again roll onward.—Coleridge. Bitter Fight Over Small Sum. Four years ago William Rockefeller, ths Standard Oil magnate, began an action at law against an old army veteran named Lamore for trespass on the magnificent Rockefeller estate at Malone, N. Y. The jury returned a verdict In favor of Mr. Rockefeller and awarded him 18 cents damages. La more’s attorney appealed the case. It has taken a dozen turns, but it is still in the courts. Rockefeller is trying to get his 18 cents and Lamore is trying to keep from paying it. ! SEEK "THE WORLD FOR CHRIST.” Enormous Growth of the Christian Endeavor Societies. Sixty-eight thousand societies with a membership of more than three mil lions, have grown in twenty-five years from “a tea and talk" in a quiet home in Portland, Maine. Dr. Father End eat or Clark—as he is affectionately called through a pun : on his initials, F. E.—was pastor then i of the Williston church in that city;, and it was in his house and at his i invitation that some of the young peo ple of the church founded the Young ; People’s Society of Christian Endeav | or, which celebrates its twenty-fifth j anniversary this month. There are almost 50,000 of these so I cieties in the United States and Can ! ada, and more than 10,000 in Great’ ! Britain and Ireland. In Africa there are 225 societies, in Brazil 62, in Bul ; garia 15, in China 350, in Finland 19, ; in Hungary 13, in Russia 10, in Swe den 148, in Hawaii 54 and in India 567. The annual Christian Endeavor con ; ventions have become stupendous, be ' ing attended by something like 60,000 | registered delegates, not counting thousands of outsiders. It is proposed at the quarter century celebration to commence the erection of an interna^ tional headquarters building in Bos ton. This will not only provide for offices for the society but will serve as a memorial to the founder. Dr. Francis Edward Clark. The motto of the Endeavorers is “The World for Christ.” Tonic Effect of Music. Good music is a powerful tonic to many people, especially those suffer : ing from melancholia. It lifts them 1 out of their solemn moods, dispels ! gloom and despondency, kills discour aged feelings and gives new hope, new life and new vigor. It seems to put a great many people into proper tune. It gives them the keynote of truth and beauty, strikes the chords of har mony, dispels discord from the life, scatters clouds and brings sunshine. All good music is a character builder., because its constant suggestion of harmony, order and beauty puts the mind into a normal attitude. Music clears the cobwebs out of many minds so that they can think better, act bet ter and live better.—Success Maga zine. Senator Knox Keeps Good Hours. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania is one of the few members of congress who come near living up to the “early ! to bed" proverb. Rarely is he out of bed later than 10:30 o’clock and often taps sound for him an hour earlier. By 6 o’clock he is up and at work, having while yet in bed looked over the previous evening’s mail. By 9 o’clock, when his clerks arrive, he has arranged a lot of work in such a fashion that it may be finished speed I ily, for he is always at the capitol in time for committee meetings at 10 o'clock. Reading in bed is his only dissipation and he indulges in this lux ury a great deal. Word With Many Uses. "Nugget” was formerly used to sig nify a bit or lun^p of anything, as a “nugget of tobacco.” Nowadays, how ever, it is used principally of gold as it comes from the mine. This use is Australian. Gov. Sir William Den ison of Australia wrote in 1852: “In many instances the gold is brought to I market in lumps or nuggets, as they are called.” In Queensland there is a peculiar use of the word unknown in | the rest of Australia. There, when a man appropriates unbranded calves,, he is said to be “nuggeting.” High Priced “Beauty Doctor.” They have a beauty doctor in New York who in the matter of exclusive ness and high charges puts all others in the shade. She has come from Lon don for a stay of only three weeks, bringing letters of recommendation from persons of title, including, it is said, one from Queen Alexandra. Her fee for a consultation is $250, but in spite of this formidable figure she has secured a number of patients, though, because of her short stay, she can treat them only a few times.
