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I THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA, I I 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. —- I 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 /VNAA/WWSAAAAAA/WWV^/WWW\, 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.**