Nebraska Newspapers

    I THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA, I
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NEBRASKA BRIEFS
Business men of Ashland have or
ganized a commercial club. *
Great Northern track-layers are now
working four miles west of Oakland.
Mrs. George Keller, of Ashland,
dropped dead from heart failure.
■ Belhe Kilsey is in jail at Broken
Bow serving out a fine of $25 for shop
lifting.
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Snyder of Loup
City, last week celebrated their golden
wedding.
Ladies of the Presbyterian church
at Plattsmouth realized over $100 from
a "rummage” sale.
After being closed nearly all winter
the hotel at MCCool has been again
opened to the public.
The authorities of Tekamah closed
the churches and schools for a few
daj’s on account of diphtheria.
Religious meetings in Fairbury con
tinued five weeks, during which there
were over three hundred conversions.
The Christian church congregation
of Beatrice will soon begin the con
struction of a new edifice to cost prob
ably $12,000.
Blackleg has broken out among the
cattle of western Cass county farmers,
and a large number of the animals
have perished.
The right-of-way contracts for the
Union Pacific cut-off connecting with j
Stromsburg are about all secured and
the line seems to be assured.
The fine new Congregational church
at Ashland will be dedicated February
25th. The structure cost $12,000 and
is practically free from debt.
An artificial ice plant will probably
be constructed at Central City in a
short time, as it seems to be the only
way of providing ice in that vicinity.
The Nebraska Nations 1 guard will
be inspected beginning February 28.
Captain Frank A. Wilcox of the Thir
tieth infantry will be the inspecting
oflieer.
This promises to be an ui\preeedent
ed year for building in Cambridge.
There are now $55 000 worth of build1
ings jn prospect and under construc
tion.
The Southwest Nebraska 1 earners
association will be held in Arapahoe,
March 30 and 31. William Hawley
Smith and Dr. Ross will deliver lec
tures.
Governor Mickey received from the
St. Louis exposition officials a hand
some bronze medal, heart-shaped, and
bearing an inscription commemorating
Nebraska day at the exposition.
At Auburn Dr. James L. Grady,
charged with attempting to corrupt a
witness and to induce him to commit
perjury, was held by County Judge
McCarty to the district court lor trial.
The Updike Grain company of Oma
ha has completed the purchase of a
large line of elevators in Nebraska
and Kansas formerly owned by W. H.
Ferguson of Lincoln, who is a stock
holder in the Updike firm.
Governor Mickey h?s honored the
requisition of the governor of Okla
homa for the return to Logan county
of G. W. Burton, “wanted” for dispos
ing of mortgaged property. Burton is
now under arrest in South Omaha.
At Seward John Cox of Utica,
charged with selling liquor without a
license, had his preliminary hearing
and was bound over to the district
court. His bond was tlxed at J500
which was furnished by Wallace Boon.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Farmers’ Grain and Live
Stock company of Oakland, was held
last week. The reports showed the
company to be In a flourishing condi
tion and a 10 per cent dividend was de
clared.
Frank Fulton of Wymore, has ar
ranged for the publication of a month
ly magazine in the interests of nark
and cemetery Improvement societ'es.
It is Mr. Fulton’s intention to perfect
a national organization or these so
citles.
Engineer A1 Shearon of tne Kock
Island, while oiling his engine in the
yards at Fairbury, slipped and fell
with his left arm across the rail-. The
engine was moving slowly and the
drivers cut off his hand and lacerated
the flesh to the elbow. v
Milo Draemel. who graduated trim
the Naval academy at Annapolis, has
returned home to Fremont, until
March 10. when he leaves ror Seattle to
report for duty at the PhiliDpine sta
tion. Mr. Draemel is the first FYe
mont boy to graduate from Annapolis.
Fred Hinze, the sugar manufacturer
of Chippewa Falls. Wis., who had pre
viously made a proposition to the in
dustrial company at Norfolk, looking
to converting the old sugar factory
into a new plant, with local capital in
vested along with outside funds, ar
rived in Norfolk, looked over the plant,
expressed himselt favorably and then
made a proposition which the company
immediately declined.
Rev. Knox Boude, pastor of the Os
ceola Presbyterian church, has accept
ed a position in California, and re
signed his pastorate with the Osceola
organization. He will leave with his
family to assume his work on the coast
March 10.
An effort is being made by several
leading citizens of Nebraska City, to
have the Mattes Brewing plant, which
was recently badly burned, pass
into new hands. An effort is being
made to form a new stock company
and place the management of the plant
in the hands of ex-Commissioner Theo
dore Webering.
J. j. Lynch, the Northwestern fire
man who is alleged to have left Scrib
ner with *400 belonging to a widow,
has concluded to tight the case that
will be filed against him in district
court and has employed an attorney
to look after his inteiest. Lynch is in
Jail.
Last year the Farmers’ Elevator
company at Odell bought 127,000 bush
edls of corn, 46,000 bushels of wheat
and 18.000 bushels of oats. At a re
cent meeting of the stcokholders a lib
eral dividend was declared in addition
to paying the highest market price for
grain.
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AS TO INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Deputy Pierce Believes They Will All
Pay Up in Time.
LINCOLN—Insurance Deputy Pierce
does not know officially that tiro in
surance companies are doing business
in Nebraska without a license, though
he suspects it as an individual, conse
quently he will not take any steps at
the present time to have the companies
prosecuted. The licences issued to
companies expired February 1 and
those companies which have not paid
the resiprocal tax in conformity with
the decision of the state supreme court
have not been relicensed. As there
are only two or three companies which
have paid up. a great majority of the
companies are doing business without
a license.
“I believe all the companies Intend
to pay.” said Mr. Pierce, “and I do not
intend to be very technical in constru
ing the law. It would be a bad thing
for the state to shut out all of these
companies, especially as there is little
doubt they will all pay the tax. In
fact, some of the companies have
written to me for the decision and
they said they would comply with the
law in the matter.
“I don't know officially that any of
the companies are doing business at
this time. Of course if they' are, they
are technically violating the law, but
I don’t want to be too technical in this
matter.”
DRAWING LINE ON MILEAGE.
No Mort Vouchers to be Signed by
Secretary of State and Auditor.
LINCOLN.—Vouchers for mileage
books, tiled by state officers, will no
more be signed by Secretary of State
Galusha or allowed by Deputy State
Auditor Cook. This because Mr. Ga
lusha asserts he has -evidence in his
possession that two at least o.* the
state officers have used mileage bpught
by the state for private purposes. A
voucher was filed by Land Commis
sioner Eaton for mileage books for
himself and deputy and the secretary
of state refused to sign. After a con
sultation with the deputy auditor the
latter concluded to refuse to issue any
-nore warrants to pay for mileage
books. Hereafter the state officer will
have to pay his railroad fare and take
a receipt from the ticket agent. Then
if his transportation shows that he has
gone to a town in which there is a
state institution the officer will stand
a good chance to get his money tack,
but if the ticket reads to some place
where the officer would hardly go on
state business the money will remain
in the treasury.
SENT TO FEDERAL PRISON.
Lieutenant Homer Lewis Begins Serv
ing Sentence.
FORT CROOK.—Lieutenant Homer
Lewis of the Thirteenth infantry was
taken to the Leavenworth federal
prison to serve his sentence for dupli
cating pay accounts and embezzling
funds intrusted to him. The sentence
is eighteen months, which good be
havior may reduce to fourteen months.
Personally Lieutenant Lewis has been
most popular and his downfall is at
tributed wholly to drink. About all or
the enlisted men in the garrison were
at the station to see him off.
No Licenses Yet.
LINCOLN.—Licenses to do business
in Nebraska have not been granted by*
Insurance Auditor Pierce, though
many of the fore’>n fire insurance
companies withholding payment of
their taxes applied for licenses imme
diately after opinion sustaining the re
ciprocal law was handed down by the
supreme court. Members of the state
insurance department said todav that
the companies do’ne business in the
state without a license were violat
ing the law*.
Farmer Commits Suicide.
AURORA.—William Dart, a farmei
living five miles south of here, com
mitted suicide by shoooting himself
with a 38-caliber revolver. Death was
instantaneous.
Buvs Svstem of Elevators.
HOLDBEGR—John W. Anderson,
for seventeen vears active manager of
the farmers’ elevator at this place, has
bought out the system of elevators
now owned hy Titus Bros, of this city.
This system embraces elevators at
Funk, Sacramento and Ragan.
Train Kills ?. Jap.
CLARKS.—Union Pacific Los An
veles train No. 7 struck and instantly
killed N. Shimizu, a Japanese laborer
who was walking on the track, a mile'
east of the station here.
Addit'on to Peru Faiulty.
PERU.—Proefssor G. W. Silvers has
recently been elected by the state
board of education as professor of
manual and physical training in Peru
normal. He will begin work at once.
Camocn Will Come Home.
LINCOLN.—George L. Campen,
water commissioner for the Isthmian
"anal zone, has announced to his
friends in this city his intention of re
signing his position. He sailed for
home from Colon February 2.
Farmers Do Well.
SUTTON.—The Farmers’ Grain and
Stock company of this city has made
a very flattering report of the business
done the past year, showing a decided
increase in business over any previ
ous year.
Boy Is Attacked by Hog.
FILLEY—Guy Yobe, 16 years of
age, son of Wood Yohe, one of the
prominent farmers of this section, was
seriously Injured by a hog while' in
a lot feeding the animals.
R. H. Miller of Nebraska City is
making arrangements to head a party
that state’ in June to attend the re
union of old residents. He will carry
with him a register of the names of
ail natives of that state who are at
preesnt making their homes In thal
part of Nebraska.
American Chorus Girl
Gets Matrimonial Prize
Prances Belmont, former American
Florodora girl, who was quietly mar
ried to Lord Ashburton in Paris, was
one of the .Maggie- Doolans who
scrubbed the floor in “Miladi” when
Lord Ashburton first saw her. La
ter she was one of the “Floridora”
sextet. When she became engaged to
Lord Ashburton a year and a half
■ -.* f»a
ago he took her off the stage and
placed her in a convent near Paris,
where she has been educated for the
part of the wife of a British peer.
Lord Ashburton is the owner of 60,
000 acres of land in Great Britain,
and has a London house and a coun
try residence. It is believed he plans
to enter public life.
THE WORLD’S WICKEDEST CITY
Many Great Centers of Population
Have Been Thus Designated.
Oliver Ninmann, an enthusiastic re
ligious preacher, has been telling how
Berlin is the wickedest city in the
world. The information will be re
ceived with surprise doubtless by all
of the inhabitants of the German cap
ital and with indignation by most of
them.
The “wickedest city,” however, has
been named by different cities at dif
ferent times, and probably no two of
the critics agreed on the same city.
New York, Chicago, London, Paris
and others have been described each
in its turn as “the wickedest city.”
Qnce when a traveling Briton told
a lady of New York society that he
had found- American manners atro
cious, the lady merely lifted her eye
brows In sympathetic surprise and
assured the gentleman that he must
have had rather unfortunate letters
of introduction.
In like spirit, anybody can find the
"wickedest city” by acquainting him
self only with its wicked features and
by ignoring the fact that the great
modern municipality in every case is
a huge center of all kinds of the most
beneficent influences and activities.
Characteristics of Gen. Grant.
Gen. Frederick D. Grant, who is in
command of the department of the
east, with headquarters on Gover
nor’s island, is making himself tsseful
in a number of quiet ways entirely
distinct from his military responsibil
ities. Gen. Grant is a good listener,
as was his famous father, and when
he has anything to say he says it
clearly and in so direct a manner
that every one can understand what
he means. He seldom appears in uni
form in public, but is always one of
the best dressed men to be found in
New York city, and while other men
in a public meeting will lounge about
in careless manner as to position, and
dress he always sits in his chair’ with
a military erectness. His resem
blance to his father increases 'every
year.
Public “Shot” at Enemy.
Charles Hands of the London Daily
Mail came to Washington to report
the white house wedding and at <Jnce
established himself as a good “mix
er” and story teller. One of his yarns
is about an Irishman named James
O’Mahoney, who had been a lawyer
in Dublin, who went to London and
became a newspaper man. . After
winning success in his new profes
sion he went on a visit to Dublin,
where his friends gave him a dinner.
One of the guests at the dinner was
a doctor whom O’Mahoney hated.
The doctor made a speech at the
dinner and O'Mahoney was called up
immediately thereafter. “It is very
disagreeable,” he said, “to follow, the
doctor so closely. It makes me feel
like the undertaker.”
Had 21 Names for the Baby.
A farm laborer recently took his In
fant son to a rural church near Tun
bridge Wells to be christened.
He astounded the vicar by handing
in a list of twenty-one Christian
names, each beginning with a different
letter of the alphabet.
The vicar remonstrated with the fa
ther, who then consented to dispense
with fifteen of the names. The man,
who was a stranger temporarily em
ployed In the locality, is regarded as
being a little eccentric.—London Daily
Express.
Get Rid of Master.
A manufacturer in the north of Eng
land expected to be beaten at the polls
by his own employes, with whom he
was extremely unpopular. To his sur
prise he was returned. His puzzled
agent sought for an explanation. "How
is it,” he asked one of the workmen,
"you voted for your master when you
all have such a bad opinion of him?”
“Well, you see, mon, we voted for 'm
so he cud put hlsself away in Parlia
ment in London. We don’t want ’im
here!”
PESTS CAUSE IMMENSE LOSS
Enormous Waste Through Ravages of
Voracious Insects.
Statisticians say that the chinch
bug annually destroys crops valued at
$60,000,000; that the grasshopper eats
up $50,000,000 worth; the Hessian fly
$40,000,000; the cotton root worm,
the corn-ear worm, the cotton bell
weevil and the codling moth of apple
each $20,000,000; the army worm $15,
000,000, the cotton leaf worm and the
potato bug $8,000,000 each, and the
cabbage worm $5,000,000. This makes
a total of $298,000,000 worth of prod
uct? that might have been expected
to, but never do, get into the market
because of the ravages of these most
numerous insects. And this is not the
only loss charged to the their ac
count. Shortage of crops' affects vari
ous industries and increases prices,
and a deal of money is spent in fight
ing the pest. Taking into account all
these things, the annual loss in this
country from insect pests, distributed
among the various products, is esti
mated as follows: Cereal, $200,000,
000; animal products. $175,000,000;
forest and forest products, $111,000,
000; truck crops and hay and forage,
$53,000,000; cotton, $50,000,000; fruits,
$27,000,000; tobacco, $5,300,000; su
gars, $5,000,000; miscellaneous crops,
$5,800,000, and products in storage,
$100,000,000, making a total of $7S5,
000,000.
Forces That Make for Good.
“We are living, we are moving in a
grand and awful time.” The time is
grand because it contemplates the
business federation of the world. The
time is awful because of the marvels
in the field of commerce and trans
portation. The civilization, which
the superficial may say is bottomed
on materialism, is really inspired by
■the forces which make for peace, for
Commerce, for communication and for
interchange. Those forces make for
brotherhood, for fellowship and for
friendship. They gee essentially spir
itualizing forces* world knitting
forces, war-stopping forces and unify
ing forces on behalf of all that can
be said to make for the kingdom of
God on the earth and In the hearts of
men.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Mrs. “Jack" Gardner’s Latest.
Mrs. “Jack” Gardner, the eccentric
rich woman of Boston, has added one
more to her list of surprising accom
plishments. A few days ago it be
came known that she has become an
expert at jiu Jitsu, a Japanese pro
fessor of the art having given her a
series ’of lessons. The instructor says
he is astonished at the aptitude dis
played by the society woman and that
If a burglar should invade her splen
did Boston home he would likely re
ceive a short shrift. Mrs. Gardner, he
said, could throw the Intruder across
the room and bump hlg head in such
a way that he would be out of com
mission.
Trawlers’s Strange Catch.
The trawler Bernicia made a queer
catch at Grimsby, Eng., the other day.
She lay In a dock moored to a
wooden office, and a clerk poring over
a ledged inside suddenly discovered
that the office and its contents were
traveling over the quay.
He rushed outside and was amazed
to see the office plunge into the waters
of the dock. In the wake of the depart
ment trawler. The fishermen had for
gotten to cast off the mooring rope
before the trawler started. New York
Herald.
The Wire Kingfisher.
That kingfishers possess a remark
able instinct to avoid those fish prov
ing harmful to them is exemplified by
the following incident. A correspond
ent informs us that being infested with
these birds, he set trais for them in
two or his ponds, one containing min
now and the other perch. A capture
was effected daily where the minnows
were placed, hut cn no occasion was r:
kingfisher caught near the perch pon1
The latter fith ere injurious to birds
—St. Louis Globe-Zemocrat.
CHINAMEN HAVE HARD HEADS
Visiting Celestials Made Records for
Capacity for Liquor.
When the imperial Chinese commis
sioners departed from Washington af
ter their week’s stay the officials of
the government and officers of the
army and navy detailed to show the
Celestials around sought the seclu
sion of Turkish baths and other rest
ful places and remained under covet
for a long time.
They had started out to make the
pace, but had finished by following
the clip set by the bland and wholly
undisturbed Chinamen. Before the
week’s all hand3 around was over—
long before—they awoke to a realiza
tion of how grievously they had un
derestimated the Chinese capacity
and the Chinese ability to stay the
full cup distance, to employ a meta
phor that yet in this connection has
some literalness about it.
There Were nights when, the day’s
swirl with the Chinamen all over un
til the following morn, some mem
bers of the convoying party were
found standing in shadowy corners,
gibbering and feeling tentatively of
their heads. One naval officer, a man
famous throughout the country for his
invulnerability at mess service, who
has never been known to miss his
part in the chorus of the last of the
chanties sung around the board,
dropped out altogether upon the par
ty's return from Mount Vernon, a trip
made on the Dolphin.
iut; Lumamen s invanamy ana in
violable custom of taking theirs neat,
unmixed and unehased, wrought upon
him so that out of pure regard for the
proprieties and his in’ards he was
compelled to withdraw. The China
man views it as a profanation of the
spirit to dilute the same with so con
temptible and common a medium as
water. To this view, bound by the
etiquette of guests, the convoying par
ty had at all times to give heed.
Theirs, too, had to be gulped raw,
and no wry faces, either, if proper de
portment were to be observed. They
made good, too, but when it was all
over most of them were deeply glad.
But never a wry face made any of
the Chinamen. Wassail fitted them
as snugly a3 their caps of silk. None
of them ever became less florid. Hov
ering at or near the font through all
the days and dipping thereof even of
tener than their pantalooned escorts,
they went to bed o’nights with se
rene, unclouded minds, and woke in
the morning with clear eyes and keen
appetites. Anybody who doubts that
the Chinaman of mandarin rank and
above can go the full route should
have been in Washington and with
the imperial Chinese commissioners
last week. Members of the convoy
ing party willingly believe now the
scientific suggestion that irrigation
was invented in China.
IS CHOSEN FOR HIGH POSITION
• -
Right Rev. James H. Blenke to Suc
ceed Archbishop Chapelle.
Right Rev. James H. Blenke, who
has been recommended to the pope
for appointment as archbishop of
BISHOP BLENK.
New Orleans, was born Aug. 6, 1857,
and received his primary education
In that city. He studied in France
and in the Catholic University of
Ireland, and for a time was professor
of mathematics in St. Mary’s College,
Dundalk. After completing his theo
logical education in the Marlst House
of Studies at Dublin, he was ordain
ed In 1885, and upon returning to
Louisiana was fcr a time president of
Jefferson college. Subsequently Dr.
Blenke held a pastorate at Algiers,
La., and In 1SS9 he was raised to the
episcopate and placed in charge of
PortO Rico. He was held in the high
est esteem by Archbishop Janssen
and Archbishop Chapelle.
A Watch’s Works.
In perfect running order, the bal
ance wheel of a timepiece makes 18
000 vibrations per hour. The number
of miles a year the movement of a
correctly adjusted balance wheel will
equal is 3,558. To make this run, less
than one-tenth of a drop of oil is con
sumed. In order to keep a watch in
proper condition It Is advisable to
have the timepiece thoroughly over
hauled semi-annually. The life of a
watch is lengthened by having It
“house cleaned” every six months.
Youth’* Hard Start in Life.
Thomas Eurt, who has been recent
ly returned to the house of commons,
went to work as a trapper boy in a
colliery in Hazewell, in Durham, at
practically 20 cents a day. “My home
was two or three miles from the pit."
he said In a chapter of autobiography
seme years ago. “I had to get up at
4 in the morning to walk the dis'ance
and the work was so hard during the
day that I may really say that I spent
my whole time absolutely between
work and sleep.”
Denmark's New Monarch.
Though Frederick VIII, the new
king of Denmark, is 02 years c'.d, he
;ears his years lightly. He has em
phatically led the simple life and
here is no other royal ruler living
50 democratic as he. This puts him
n marked contrast with his father,
Mho at t raes was ruite haughty. King
'rederick- Is grand master of Masons
n Denmark. He is a great r.dmlte
j.f thid country and irs institutions.
,vhich he knows tetter :han any cth
ir monarch.
IfISV'RAJtCE OF OLVEJV TIME
At the October meeting of the In
surance Society of New York Morris
P. Stevens, lecturer on insurance in
the University of New York, gave an
interesting review of the earliest
forms of insurance. Life insurance
lays claim to perhaps greater an
tiquity than marine insurance.
In a paper written by M. N. Adler
before the Institute of Actuaries in
1864 he mentions a l^atin inscription
on a marble slab found at Lanuvium,
an ancient town in Latium, a short
distance from Rome, bearing date dur
ing the reign of Emperor Hadrian,
A. D. 117-128, which inscription shows
that a club had been formed osten
sibly for the worship of Diana, in real
ity it was to provide a sum at the
death of each member for his burial,
it required an entrance fee and month
ly payments and whoever omitted pay
ment for a certain number of months
bad no claim on the society for his
funeral rights.
Marine insurance was a regular
business during the Roman empire,
leing started in the form of loans on
cargoes for which a varied rate of in
terest was charged according to the
hazard. In explaining the origin of
the term “underwriters” he said that
when a ship-was about to set out
upon a voyage from England, it was
the custom to pass around at Lloyds
a paper upon which was written a des
cription of the vessel and its cargo,
with the name of the master and the
character of the crew and the vojage
contemplated. Those of the mer
chants and others present desiring to
become insurers would write there
under their names, together with the
amount which each was willing to
take or be liable for as an insurer
When the total amount of insur
ance desired had been underwritten
the contract was complete. The term
“underwriters" as now applied to in
surers arose by reason of this custom
of Lloyds.
A WIJVV-FALL FOTt AX/JVTIE
She got wearily up from the Central
park bench and shambled aimlessly
westward toward the Mall. She was
an old colored woman with patched
habiliments kept in place by strings
and pins. But there was a certain
dignity in her face which those who
knew life could scarcely miss.
Even the Gibson girl giving her Bos
ton terrier its morning exercise, who
did not know life, must have seen
something of this dignity, for she paus
ed to look after the weary figure. Then
impulsively her daintily gloved hand
went into her chatelaine bag and
brought out a dollar bill.
Etesplte the protests of the willful
terrier the girl turned and followed the
old woman; but as she came abreast of
her her half-outstretched hand drop
ped.*
“She might feel insulted,” she mur
mured to herself, catching sight of the
patrician dignity again. Then she
touched the colored woman on the
arm.
"O auntie,” she said, “I think you
dropped this.” And she held out the
bill.
Auntie gave a wistful look at the
green bit of current specie, but shook
her head decidedly:
"No, chile; no, chile,” she affirmed
with much politeness, “dat warn't
mine nohow. I didn't drop dat, chile.''
"I reckon you didn't know it,” per
sisted the girl, struggling more with
the Boston terrier than with the fib,
“but you dropped it just the same. ’
and pushing the bill into auntie's han l
she allowed the impatient dog to lead
her a run the turn of the path.
The old colored woman stared it a
dazed fashion at her hand for a full
half-minute. Then she turned slowly
toward a sympathetic woman on
looker:
“Fo’ de Lawd, I DID need dat mon
ey. An' He done sent dat chile, like
an angel to pick it up for me, I
reck'n.”—New York Press.
HOSiEy A VALVA-BLE FOOT)
Honey, which is described as “one
of nature’s best foods,” is the sub- j
ject of a report by the Ontario depart
ment of agriculture. In this it is
pointed out that it is only within the ;
past few centuries that sugar has be
come known, and only within the last
generation that refined sugars have
become so low in price that they may
be commonly used in the poorest fami
lies. Formerly honey was the princi
pal sweet, and it was highly valued
0,000 years before the first sugar re
finery was built. "It would add great
ly to the health of the present genera
tion,” it is declared, “if honey could
be at least partially restored to its
former place as a common article of
diet.”
Excessive use of sugar brings in its
train a long list of ills. When sugar
is taken into the stomach it cannot
be assimilated until first changed by
digestion into grape sugar. Only too
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often the overtaxed stomach falls
properly to perform this digestion, and
then come sour stomach and various
phases of indigestion and dyspepsia.
In the laboratory of the hive the
honey has been fully prepared by the
bees for prompt assimilation without
taxing either the stomach or the kid
neys, so that in eating honey the
digestive machinery is saved work
and health is maintained.
Moreover, the same report says
that “in many cases it will be a real
economy to lessen the butter bill by
letting honey in part take its place.
One pound of honey will go as far as
a pound of butter, and if both articles
be of the same quality the honey will
cost the less. Honey is strongly rec
ommended for children, while for per
sons of all ages a pleasant and whole
some drink is called "German honey
tea.” This is made by pouring a tea
cupful of hot water on from one to
two teaspoonfuls of honey.”
LOVES THE MOTHER WEST
I have lived too long with my Mother
West
To cate for the eastern land
For I drew life's milk from her mighty
breast;
She taught me to creep and stand;
And my baby eyes looked out and saw
Her spaces serene and vast.
For God carved deeply, the soul to awe.
When the mold of our west he cast.
Plains that merge in a limitless plain.
Mountain on mountain hurled.
Infinite leagues of an infinite main,
For giants a giant world.
These I' have loved since my heart was
young.
And evei I paid them toll.
And their praise I breathed with a lisp
ing tongue.
For they weie my life and soul.
Ay. I hid my face on her great, warm
breast
And I loved right well my Mother West.
The east has mountains. I hear them say.
Rut the mountains are only hills—
Wee hillocks that children might use in
play—
And plains that a hillock frills:
And the ocean is only a stage effect.
Or so It seemeth to me;
But what would you have or what ex
pect
Of a gulf from Pacific sea?
’Ti« a tinv world and I've sometimes felt
That its people grew tiny, too.
Content as they’ve still to the gold god
knelt
And maddened his will to do.
For the soul needs depth and the soul
needs height
And it needs the spares of God.
And it smaller glows when It ceaseless
goes
Where Mammon doth hold the rod.
But here we are taught by our Mother
West
That the soul Is all and vain Is the rest.
Unto him who was born where the worlJ
is great
The duty is clear and stern
To stand as the heir to a god's estate
Nor e’er to the pettv turn.
He dare not walk with the shdddv crowd
Whose lives are hollow pretense
Whose clamor. "See me!” forever is loud.
Whom glitter of gold contents;
For the mountains murmur. "Stand
straight and tall!”'
And the wide plains whisper. "Be
broad!”
And the ocean mutters. “Be not the small
Whom only the small applaud!
And he who doth turn from these regal
things .
To the folly and sham of life
Shall never stand with the uncrowned
kings
Who capture the prize of strife
Ay, a thankless heir is he. at best.
To our mother of mothers, the great,
broad West.
—San Francisco Call.
COSSACK O/fLy A COWATO)
Originally the Cossacks were ban
dits and they seem to have retained
all the worst qualities of that dis
reputable clas3 and to have lost all
trace of the rough kindness which
pon etimes characterized brigands in
reality as well as in romance.
They have/by no means always sup
ported the czars, but often fought
against them, and it was not until 1814
that they gave up their brigandage
and became a kind of irregular horse
men, who, in return for a grant of
land and freedom from taxation, came
out to fight when called upon and
brought their own horses, arms and
equipment. Nothing about them re
sembles the smart cavalry of other
European countries, for both they and
their ponies are small and insignifi
cant and neither is properly groomed.
Their reputation as fighters was
earned chiefly during the Napoleonic
Invasion, when the French cavalry re
peatedly charged them without effect.
Under the conditions of modern war
fare they have proved useless and
since they have been brigaded with
the regular cavalry they have lost
their chief source of strength—their
irregular method of fighting.
In the war against Japan they were
a lamentable failure. On no occasion
did they live up to their reputation
of possessing the single virtue—cour
age. During the present crisis the
Cossacks have only proved themselves
to be bullies and cowards of the low
est kind. They respect neither age
nor sex, but destroy their unfortunate
victims as relentlessly as a hungry
tiger kills an antelope. They appear
to obey the orders of their ofllcers and
observe some discipline in behavior
if not in appearance, but when once
set upon their deadly task they do
not appear to be checked until they
have finished it.—Philadelphia Record.
C'REAT TOET WAS 'BASHFX/L
There is an interesting picture ot Al
gernon Charles Swinburne in a new
book by Laura Hain Friswell. Mr.
Swinburne was among the celebrities
who took tea at the Friswells’. He
was young and rather shy with wom
en. "Mr. Swinburne sat down on the
edge of a chair. He bent slightly for
ward, his arms resting on his knees,
bis hat balanced between his fingers,
ind he kept swinging it backward and
forward, just as I have seen Mr. Toole i
do in a farce; he dropped it and
picked it up several tiiros. I think
be was about 29 or 30 years old at
hat time—no tpore than 5 feat 6 in
height' and he had that peculiar pal- j
lor which- goes with auburn hair; and I
:hla paleness was heightened by
study, enthusiasm and the fierce, re- I
bellious spirit which seemed to ani
mate that fragile body, and which
glows and burns in his writings.
"My mother and Miss - did all
they could to put him at ease, and I
sat and repented that I had ever
wished to see him, for I pitied him
intensely, he seemed so very nervous.
He dropped his hat so many times
that Miss W--, when he rose to
hand me 'some bread and butter, took
the hat and hid it in a recess. My
tather now appeared, and by his con
ventional powers and tact soon set
Mr. Swinburne quite at his ease.
“He ceased to fidget and talked of
Coleridge and other poets in a most
interesting manner—to hear him and
my father was an intellectual treat.
Mr. Swinburne became all fire and en
thusiasm, and looked and seemed
quite a different man; we were all
charmed with him. He stayed from
two to three horns and it was not at
all too long, and be iett saying he
would soon come flgfcin.**