| 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.
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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
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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.
