Nebraska Newspapers

    (Copyright. 1900, by Jo*epb B. Bowie*)
The chief was saying, “It means
that you will have no home life, no
social life, no time to get acquainted
with your family, no regular hours.
It means one daily grind. Go home,"
he added, showing his visitor toward
the door. “Think It over, come back
in a week, and if you're sure, I'll see
what I can do."
The chief rarely gave his time to
young men looking for “a chance on
the city staff.” He had no time for
that. He left such details to the city
editor. Tucker came straight from
Harvard, with a note from a man who
helped the chief in the early days
when he was a “cub.” The chief
received him in his bare, blank room
and gave him ten minutes—something
unusual for the chief on such a mat
ter.
Tucker came back in a week.
"Are you sure?” said the chief.
“Yes."
1 “Come with me,” he said.
“Mr. Bowker, this is Mr. Tucker,"
said the chief to the city editor. “Mr.
Tucker wants a job on the staff. I
have told him that he'd do better
in some other line of work. If there's
a chance, I wish you’d give him a
show.”
Tucker began to thank the chief,
but he had started for his room.
“Have a chair,” said Bowker.
Bowker asked him what he had
“done," and Tucker told him of his
work on the college paper. Bowker
listened, and said in conclusion:
“This is the dull season; one or
two'men are on vacation; but I'll put
you on to see what sort of stuff is in
you. Come around to-morrow and I'll
give you something to do. I am very
busy now. Good morning.” He
thanned the city editor, but the local
man’s attention was directed to his
newspaper.
Tucker turned up early the- next
day. Bill, one of the Continent's
boys, was opening the mail contain
ing the exchanges.
"Well?” said Bill.
“I’m the new man," said Tucker.
"Oh!” said Bill, and continued his
work of arranging the exchanges.
“Where can I sit?” Tucker contin
L ^
^ "ARE YOU SURE?"
ued, a bit annoyed. Bill showed him.
The chief came in and nodded to
him. That was all.
Richardson, the assistant city editor,
came in and began his work of read
ing and clipping the morning papers.
Richardson was one of those men who
never wrote a story without consider
ing the feelings of others. It didn't
make any difference what a man had
done, Richardson always remembered
that the man had a wife, or a sister,
or somebody, who loved him. Richard
son was courteousness itself. He came
over, saying in a conversational way:
“You’re Mr. Tucker, the new man?
I am glad to meet you. I’m Mr. Rich
ardson, and anything I can do to help
you I shall be glad to do.”
Tucker was taken by surprise and
stammered his thanks.
The city editor turned over to the
day’s page on the assignment book,
and commenced to write from the piece
of paper Richardson, the assistant city
editor, handed over.
Was Tucker forgotten? An hour
bad passed since Bowker sat in front
of the untidy desk. Could he go 10
lunch? Tucker asked. He would be
only 20 minutes. Bowker nodded with
out looking up from over the proofs he
was glancing through. Tucker came
back in 15 minutes. When he returned
Bowker called him to his desk. It was
2:15 p. m. He noted the time because
be was watching the clock.
“I wish you would go down to our
Wall street office. No.-Broad street,
and report to Mr. Blanchard, the finan
cial editor. He will tell you what to do."
Tucker went out with the address
written on a sheet of copy paper. He
reached the office of Blanchard, who
had rushed in for a moment to give ad
ditional directions to his assistants, it
was a “big day” in the “street." Tucker
renorted to Rlnnrharri
"New man?” questioned Blanchard.
“I wish you’d go over to the stock ex
change and watch the developments.”
“Where is the stock exchange?”
asked Tucker.
Blanchard looked at him in a now
what-do-you-think-of-that sort of way.
But he told him. Tucker reached the
floor of the exchange at 2:35, 25 min
utes before the exchange closed.
When Tucker reached the stock ex
change he thought he was "too late” be
cause men and women were coming out
of the building in hundreds. As a mat
ter of fact, so evident was the despair
of that day, when "frenzied finance”
went wild, that the governors decided to
clear the galleries, secretly fearing that
some might throw themselves down.
The foot of the stairs was seized as a
vantage point by the gray uniforms, who
held it as a pass. Men charged up to
this line and were driven back.
Tucker got on the floor of the ex
change. How he did it has never been
explained and never will be. Pande
monium reigned supreme. No one
stopped him. He tried to ask ques
tions, but not a man paid the slightest
attention to him. It was the culmina
tion of one of the worst panics in the
V
history of Wall street and the greatest,
slaughter of the "lambs” the street had
ever known. He asked excited men
what it was all about He was pushed
and trampled on, but withal was the
only calm man on the floor of the ex
change. At three o’clock the floor was
cleared and Tucker went back to the
Wall street office of the Continent.
An hour later Blanchard, the Wall
street man, came in. His clothes were
torn, his cravat was gone, his derby
hat was covered with dirt, his eyes were
bloodshot. Clearly it was whisky and
cigars holding him up. Tucker tried
to speak to him.
"Sit down there and wait,” he said.
And Blanchard went into the inner of
fice. For three hours Tucker heard
the keys of the typewriter click, inter
rupted every few minutes by the tele
phone bell ringing and men going In and
out, telling him wnat they mew. ii,very
half hour a boy from the Continent of
fice came and carried eight or ten sheets
of copy to the office, and brought back
whisky and cigars at intervals. At
eight o’clock Tucker was still sitting
there. Blanchard had written five col
umns telling of the panic.
He came out of the inner office at
last. His work in the street was over.
He put on his hat and coat. “I suppose
I’ll have to take a look at the Waldorf
crowd,” he said in parting to his ste
nographer, "you needn’t wait.” Then
noticing Tucker, he continued: “I had
forgotten you, but I will explain 10
Bowker. What did you find out? Have
you written anything?”
"No, I haven’t written anything.
There was nothing to write about. I
saw a lot of people shouting, but no
body would tell me what it was all about.
I went on the floor and—”
“You went on what floor?” interrupted
Blanchard.
“The floor of the stock exchange,”
said Tucker.
*wu UU iuc 11 LIU I Ul LUC
exchange!” repeated Blanchard over
again.
“Yes, there were a lot of men shout
ing and yelling and making signs, and
I went up to where the biggest crowd
was, but nobody would tell me anv
1 thing, and at three o’clock everybody
| went out. There was nothing for me
i to write about so far as I could see.”
Blanchard looked in amazement.
Here was a man who had never seen
' the stock exchange before, not even
1 the visitors' gallery, who, in one of
I the worst panics of Wall street, had
! got inside the gates that are harder
for a non-member to get through than
the proverbial camel through the
needle’s eye.
“You'd better get your dinner and
; go back to the office. Tell Xlr. Bowker,
or the night city editor, that I will
have another spread. Tell him it's a
beat and to save a column on the first
page for it. I will send it up by the
boy by 10:30.”
Tucker gave the night city editor
the message.
“All right,” he said, “if I need
you I’ll call.”
Tucker went back to the place the
office boy had given him in the morn
ing. Bill and the other boy had gone.
More boys took their places and at
tended to the telephone calls, the
shouts of “copy,” and visitors.
Tucker sat there until the night edi
tor said: “You’d better go home now;
there is nothing doing.” He went to
his boarding house, and wrote home,
telling the family of his first day.
In the morning Tucker got the Con
tinent at the corner news stand.
Across the last three columns of the
first page he read:
WORST PANIC IN THE HISTORY OF
WAT T F ITT •
MILLIONAIRES'* TRUCE AFTER THE
SLAUGHTER OF LAMBS
BIG INTEREST CALLED A HALT
AFTER MANY HAD BEEN RUINED.
BANKS HAVE COME TO THE RESCUE,
AND WILL ASSIST THOSE WHO
HAVE BEEN HIT HARD BY
THE SLUMP IN STOCKS.
He bought his subway ticket, and
got on an express at the Grand Cen
tral. Then he read the story. Below
the big headlines in the fifth column
on the first page he was startled to
read:
STRANGER INVADES STOCK EX
CHANGE.
Samuel J. Tucker a Calm Witness of the
Exciting Corner Yesterday.
Before he reached the Brooklyn
bridge he had read it three times. It
told of his doings—something unheard
of before. Here was a college boy, a
“cub” reporter, who had paid nothing
for the privilege, and who saw the
scene from the inside—a calm specta
tor of the wildest half-hour ever ex
, perienced in the street.
He was humiliated. He looked
around him in the car like a criminal.
He thought every eye said: “So
you’re Samuel J. Tucker, of Harvard
eh?”
In the same car with him, watching
his face intently, was Richardson, the
assistant city editor of the Continent.
Tucker couldn’t speak. Richardson
took in the situation at a glance and
put his hand on his shoulder in a
friendly way. “Well, old man,” he
said, cordially, “you’ve done some
thing that nobody else on the paper
has ever done.”
But Richardson always was courte
ous.
CIRCUS WAGONS IN SHOWS
High Bailway Rates Force Manager
to Use Vehicles During
Long Tours.
Eldora, Iowa.—According to the
theory of those who are in a position
to speak and know, tho spring season
of 1906 will see more of the old fash
ioned circus wagon shows throughout
Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas, in
fact the entire middle west, than ever
before. This will be due to the in
creased transportation rates.
one manager in this state who is
now fitting up a wagon show to start
with the coming of spring and summer
states that last year the transporta
tion on his show cost about $150 daily,
and this year the rate charged by the
: railroads will be $250 a day. All shows,
: large and small, will be affected by
| the rise, and as the result many a
! company will buy equipment, take to
the road, make smaller jumps, and
save the immense cost in railroad
transportation, bringing many of the
children of the present day face to
face with the old fashioned wagon
shows of their fathers.
THE PROBABLE SUCCESSOR OF VON BUELOW.
Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg. who, it is said, will be made chancellor of
the German empire when the present aged incumbent retires.
MOVEMENT OF A GLACIER.
One a Mile Long in Southern Book
ies Shifted Twenty-Seven
Feet in a Year.
It had long teen supposed that no
true glaciers remain in the Rockies
south of Wyoming, a supposition now
known to be incorrect, says Junius
Henderson, in Harper's Magazine.
North of Long’s Peak two ice fields
have been described and referred to as
glaciers by men whose determinations
are entitled .o consideraole weight,
though on the whole they partake
more of the nature of neve and are so
considered by some geologists. This
difference of opinion is entirely ex
cusable on the ground that the divid
ing line between neve and glacier is
indistinct, “the one passing into the
other by inse. sible grt dation." How
ever, explorations carried on in the
last five years have brought to light
an ice stream which is so distinctly
a glacier as to leave no chance for a
dispute as to its character. It has been
visited by experienced geologists,
mapped, photographed and thoroughly
studied.
Arapahoe glacier is about a mile
long and is situated amid scenery as
inspiring as any in the southern Rock
ies. It occupies an amphitheater or
glacial cirque upon the east side of the
Arapahoe Peaks, the peaks and their
thin, sharp, serrated connecting ridge
forming the semi-circular rim of the
cirque, the ridges running eastward
from the north and south peaks form
ing the walls of the ancient glacial
valley, The highest point on the rim
of the cirque is 13,700 feet above sea
level.
No measurements were necessary to
convince our first exploring party that
MINNESOTAN’S ODD TEAM.
Pair of Young Moose Which He Har
nesses and Drives Around
the Country.
Edward Crossman, of Ely, Minn.,
owns one of the oddest teams in Amer
ica. He has succeeded in the unusual
task of breaking a pair of moose to
drive in harness. In his sleigh Mr.
Crossman spins about as rapidly be
hind these animals as If drawn by a
prancing span of horses.
1*ae moose, says a local informant,
were captured at Bear Island laka, a
few miles to the southwest of Ely,
three years ago. The mother had beeD
killed by an Indian, and a trapper in
the neighborhood, hearing his dog
barking furiously, hurried to the spot
where he found two moose calves. Mr.
Crossman bought these calves from the
trapper and secured a permit from the
governor to keep them in his posses
sion.
At first the moose didn’t relish being
hitched up, but as they are young in
years they became accustomed to it
much sooner than if they had been full
grown. Their antlers are now grow
ing, and by the time these animals are
five years of age will be of large size.
At first the problem of feeding them
was no small one. When running wild
they live on pond lily roots, leaves of
trees or tender shoots of willow.
At first Mr. Crossman fed them wil
I low twigs and young birch, but this be
came a difficult task, for they required
about three wagon loads a week. To
day they eat hay, turnips and cabbage
and seem to enjoy the diet as much as
the one to which they had before been
| accustomed. One of these moose will
; eat as much as two horses. They nib
WHERE WILL IT LAND?
the ice was moving. To the student of
glacial phenomena the evidence on
every hand was easily read as a print
ed page and as convincing as a mathe
matical demonstration, but it remained
to determine the rate of movement.
Consequently, on a later visit, we set
up the instruments on the granitic i
north wall and placed a line of zinc I
tablets across the face of the ice. Re
turning exactly one year later, we
found that the tablets had moved in
amounts varying from 11.15 feet at a
point 300 feet from the edge, to 27.7
feet at a point near the center.
Unacqainted with Chickens.
“That chicken you sent me for yes
terday’s dinner was very old,” said the
bride to the poultry man.
“You are mistaken; it was a young
chicken, madam,” replied the dealer.
“Don't tell me it was young! Why, it
didn't have a single tooth in its
mouth!”—Yonkers Statesman.
“English Ways.”
To a Japanese tourist charged with
being drunk and ringing doorbells at one
a. m., a London magistrate said, in dis
charging him with a caution: “Don't
get into our English ways.''
4
ble at something most of the time ex
cept when lying down In the middle of
the day. Each welgns about 700
pounds.
Something Worth While,
Do you know that these small
amounts, such as millions and billions,
are growing tiresome? 1 ant going in
for astronomy, where numbers are
really worth while considering, says a
New York Press writer. There Is our
nearest neighbor among the fixed stars,
dear old Alpha Centauri, who is just
25,000,000.000,000 miles away. She
gets about her orbit at the rate of 1811,
400 miles a second, and when she
throws out her flashlight it takes us
four years and 128 days to see it. If
she should cry aloud we should be 5,
000,000 years in hearing the sound of
her voice. The Chicago Limited, start
ing from Alpha Centauri for New York
would arrive here in about 75,000,000
years.
Specific Information Needed.
Wigg— Some parts of New York are
pretty tough?
Wagg—Yes; the last time I was here
there was a man shot on the east side.
"On the east side? Which way was he
going?”—Philadelphia Record.
*EXT WORLD S FAIR.
NEW ZEALAND WILL HAVE IN
TERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
Arrangements Under Way for Open
ing in November—Will Con
tinue Until April of
Next Year.
The next great world’s fair is to be
given by the colony of New Zealand,
In the South Pacific islands of that
name, the romantic home of the an
cient Maoris, which numbers among
its attractions for the tourist many
relics of that ancient people, with
their descendants still living accord
ing to their old-time customs. The
wonderful scenery of the picturesque
island, with its bursting geysers, its
forests and mountains filled with
game for the sportsman, add an at
traction to the site of the fair which
will tempt many a visitor from far
off lands to make the trip to New
Zealand during the progress of the ex
position.
The lair is to be held in Hagiey
park, Christchurch, Canterbury, be
ginning in November next and continu
ing to some date in April, 1907. This
is the summer season in New Zealand,
the time of year when her natural at
tractions are at their best. All nations
of the world have been invited to ex
hibit at the fair. The object of the ex
hibition is educational, the colonists de
siring to show to the world the re
sources and possibilities of the colony
as one of the world's food-producing
factors; to demonstrate its vast min
eral resources and to draw attention
to picturesque and unrivaled scenery.
Its thermal wonders and the exceptional
opportunities offered to sportsmen. A
further object is to bring to the no
tice of the more industrial nations of
the world the great field offered by
New Zealand as an outlet for enter
prise and for the use and consumption
of all manner of up-to-date appliances
and manufactures.
The imports of New Zealand in 1905,
at least three-fourths of which are
manufactured goods, amounted in value
to $66,000,000. Of course. Great Britain,
the home country, furnished the great
bulk of this trade. The commonwealth
of Australasia was next in the list and
following her came the United States,
which furnished goods to the value of
$8,000,000. When it is considered that
this great expenditure for foreign sup
plies is made for the use of a colony
with a population of but 850,000 per
sons it can be readily seen what a rare
opportunity is offered for exploiting
New Zealand with up-to-date manufac
tures. Exporters of every land on the
face of the globe will be deeply inter
ested in investigating the trade possi
bilities of the country and it is con
fidently anticipated that the fair will be
a success financially as well as In bring
ing to the attention of the world the ad
vantages possessed by the island as a
trade center for the industrial world.
Special arrangements are being made
with the steamship companies trading
to New Zealand under which exhibitors
will obtain special rates of freight on
exhibits. The exhibition buildings will
be constituted a bonded warehouse, and
while all goods sold will be charged the
regular rate of duty, those to be returned
to other lands will be reshipped free
of duty. The ordinary charge for space
will be from two shillings (50 cents) a
square foot, the minimum charge being
$5.25, 25 per cent, payable on applica
tion, 25 per cent, on allotment and the
balance one month before the opening
of the fair.
HEART AFFECTS WATCH.
Timepiece Is Uncertain If That Or
gain Is Irregular, Says a
Watchmaker.
Nobody would ever think that some
thing the matter with him would
cause somethiug to be the matter with
his watch, but a watch maker is the
cause of much uneasiness in an East
End family, says the Pittsburg Ga
ette, and all because he insists that
he does his best with a certain watch
and that the reason it does not keep
good time is because the man who car
ries it must have an irregular heart
beat.
It came about in this wise: The
head of the family has a gold watch
that cost him $200 ten years ago. He
has carried it ever since, but a year
ago it began to act queerly. For some
days it lost time, and then it began
to gain time; again it would gain time
mysteriously and then strangely lose
a minute or two a day. 'It had been
to the watch repairer three times in
12 months, and was still acting irreg
ularly a week ago when the man's
wife took it to the watch maker.
“I think I know what is the matter
with this watch.” said the craftsman.
“I don't believe that your husband’s
heart beAts regularly. Now, don’t get
alarmed. It is not necessarily disease.
He may be Just one of those men who
can't have a watch that keeps good
time, simply because of their irregular
heart beats.
"You see, a watch has a regular
rhythmic movement.” said the watch
maker. "It Is carried close to the hu
man heart, which ought to have a reg
ular rhythmic movement, too. Now.
while the watch Is beating away the
heart is heating ulso. If its pulsations
occur regularly, punctuating the
rhythm of the watch at specific Inter
vals. the rhythm of the watch move
ment ts undisturbed; but let the heart
pulsations occur Irregularly, now pul
sating with the tick of the watch,
again stopping discordantly in be
tween the ticks, the watrh is bound to
he affected, l.eave this watch here,
and let your husband carry your
watch, which we know keeps regular
time. Let him wear It a month, and
see If I am not right.”
So the woman handed her husband
her watch to note the result. She
wanted him to consult a specialist. Im
mediately upon her return from the
watch maker, but he compromised by
agreeing to try the test suggested by
the watch man.
An Expensive Bump.
Bill—I see the khedive of Egypt
owns the most costly saddle in the
world. It is made of black leather,
though more gold than leather is vis
ible, and it cost $70,000.
Jill—Wouldn’t that bump ye?T—
Yonkers Statesman.
POLYGAMY RARE IN TURKEY
Th» Law Allow* Four Wiv*», But
Mor* Than One Is Conaid*r*d
Bad Form.
The ordinary idea of a harem prob
ably accords little with the pictur* of
life behind the cafesses or screens cover
ing the windows of the seraglio present
ed by Mrs. L. Parks-Richards in a lec
ture at the Waldorf-Astoria Wednesday
morning. In the first place, Mrs. Rich
ards stated that there was as a rule only
one wife in the harem.
“Polygamy is practically nonexistent
among the Turks,” said Mrs. Richards.
"The law allows a man four wives, but
makes it so difficult for him to take »
second one by requiring him to provide
for her exactly as he did for the first
that it is seldom done. Besides, among
the upper classes polygamy is not con
sidered good form. I heard of half a
dozen Turks who had two wives while
I was in Constantinople, and of one who
had four, but these are rare exceptions.
“The crowd of women found in a Turk
ish harem is made up of servants, slaves
and female dependents. No Turk ever
lets a relative suffer while he has a roof
over his head and every great house has
numbers of such dependents, both male
and female.”
Neitner is the life of the harem dull,
according to Mrs. Richards. No man
ever enters it except the husband, son,
father or brother of the mistress, but
she may receive women friends and go
to see them.
The relation of the inmates of the
harem to one another Mrs. Richards
found very beautiful. Children were
great pets, she said, and servants and
slaves were treated with great consid
eration. Slaves are often treated like
members of the family, may marry a
son of the house and are much sought
in marriage by men for the purpose of
avoiding complications with mothers
in-law.
“The sultan’s harem.” said Mrs. Rich
ards. “is composed entirely of slaves,
as the law forbids members of the im
perial family from marrying into the
great houses of the realm, lest the lat
I ter be made too powerful.”
The Turkish woman, Mrs. Richards
found, is quite satisfied with her lot,
while that of the European woman Is re
garded with horror by the most enlight
ened Turks.
“It is true,” said a Turkish official of
high rank anrl much culture, "that we
marry our daughters to m°n whom they
never see until their wedding day, but
'■ we do not have the awful Furopean
j spectacle of angling for men. We do not
I bring them into the open market and
j sell them to the highest bidder.”
HOW HIS WIFE KEPT TAB.
Made the Old Man Brintj Home at
Least One Street Car Trans
fer Each Day.
When the old man got on the car
with two heavy market baskets, un
der the weight of which he fairly
staggered, he asked for a transfer even
before he paid his nickel fare. 1'he
conductor smiled as he handed over
the slip and the old man put it away
with extreme care, relates the Chi
cago Kecord-Herald.
Near one of the streets midway be
tween those on which were cross-town
street car lines the old man asked the
conductor to stop. This was done, and
the car man smiled as he lifted ofl
the basket. A fellow passenger who
had witnessed the incidents asked the
conductor why the old fellow had in
sisted on a transfer when he did not
intend to use it.
"Didn’t intend to use it?” echoed the
conductor. "Oh, but he does use it,
and he uses one each weekday of the
year. No, he does not change cars,
for he lives in the second house from
the corner where he gets off. To nim
the transfer is most valuable evidence
that he has paid his fare, and not
spent the nickel for barrel-house
liquor and walked home.
"You see, it Is this way: The old
man was once a prosperous business
man, but booze got the better of him
and he lost all he owned. His wife
had managed to save a few hundred
dollars, and, when he went all to
pieces she started a boarding house
and made him her buyer. She found
that he was in the habit of walking to
and from the market and spending
the fare money for drink. Then she
conceived the idea of making him
bring home a transfer each day so as
; to make sure that he rode at least one
way. How do I know this? Because
I made him confess. Does it keep nim
sober? Well, not entirely, for he nas
established a sort of nickel graft with
some of the market men. But he u ej.
not spend the old lady's money, any
way.”
Uioiui y 1U tliv JU.A11 .
By their hair ye shall know them. It
seems that our histories are written in
our hair. The Japanese scientist. Mat
sura, has been studying the variations
in the thickness of the hair. It is
known that in certain diseases, among
other differences in growth, are foun I
marked variations in the length and
thickness of the finger nails. Now it ap
pears that the hair also is influenced,
and all the affections which act upon
the general health bring about a diminu
tion in the thickness of the hair. The
medullary layer may even be interrupt
ed, and the hard layer which it contains
may disappear. Observations made
upon a hair will therefore show tl?e
variations in thickness according to
certain maladies, and the length of the
affected part of the thinner portion of
the hair gives an idea of the duration
of the malady, and even of slighter af
fections. The variations are naturnllv
more strongly marked In the case of
coarse-haired races than others Pro
vided the hair had never been cut, the
man would have his pathological his
tory written in capillary terms.
Plenty of Language.
"Did you have much trouble speak
ing English when you were in Eng
land?”
"No. The trouble I had was in m. k
Ing people understand me.”—De'roit
Kree Press.
Poor Father!
Bobbie—Mamma.
Mamma—Well?
“Were men awful scarce when yon
married papa, or did you just fe«l
sorry for him?”—Judge.
RUSH OF IMMIGRANTS
RECORDS BROKEN BY RECENT
RATE OF ARRIVALS.
Estimated Number of Aliens for Cur
rent Fiscal Year' Is 1,250,000—
Nationalities and Dis
tribution.
Washington.—Immigration to th*
United States during the present fiscal
year will break all records and reach
the million and a quarter mark, if the
enormous inllux continues at its pres
ent rate. While the figures for March
are not available, the immigration offi
cials know that ail records for that ’.
month have been smashed. Tne heav
iest immigration occurs during the
months of March, April, May and
June.
For the eight months since the close
of the last fiscal year, the number of
immigrants who reached the United
States is 548,511, as against 525,018
for the same period during the pre
vious year. These figures are for tne
eight months when there is compara
tively little immigration, and during
the next four months of this fiscal
year the number to arrive wul more
than double that of the last eight
months, and tbe total will probably
be 1,250,000.
During the last three months the
number of immigrants was 191,959, as t
compared with 186,059 for the same w
period last year. One-fourth of the ™
immigrants over 14 years old can
neither read nor write. An idea of
the increase in immigration can be
gained when the figures for the last
fiscal year are compared with those of
ten years ago. A decade ago the total
annual immigration was 235,655, as
against 1,026,499, an increase of 796,
884.
Of the total immigration for last
year 31 per cent, settled in New York,
20 per cent, in Pennsylvania, seven
per cent, each in Illinois and Massa
chusetts, and five and one-half per
cent, each in New Jersey and Ohio.
Seventy-six per cent, of the enure
population settled in these six states,
the actual number of settlers being as
follows:
New York, 315,511; Pennsylvania,
210,708; Massachusetts, 72,150; Illi
nois, 52,770; New Jersey, 57,258; Ohio,
49,381. The remaining 24 per cent,
settled in the other 39 states.
The countries from which the im
migrants came and the number are as
follows: Austria-Hungary, 275,698;
Italy, 221,479; Russia, 184,897; Ger
many, 40,574; Norway, Sweden and
Denmark, 60,625; England, 64,709; Ire
land, 52,845.
The distribution of the immigrants
by nationalities in Illinois was as fol
lows: Polish, 13,862; Italians, 10,358;
Scandinavians, 7,770; Germans, 7,614;
Hebrews, 5,480; Croatians, 4,109; Slo
vak, 3,777; Lithuanian, 3,440.
According to Commissioner General
of Immigration Sargent, the reasons
for the great influx of newcome~s are
the prosperous conditions in the Unit
ed States and social depression in
some parts of Russia, the low wages
paid there and the higher wages paid
in the United States.
For the first time the south is ab
sorbing some of the immigrants. This
is due to the fact that the labor bu
reaus in the southern states are offer
ing inducements to immigrants. These
inducements are in the shape of cheap
lands and steady employment at good
wages.
The largest proportion of the He
brews settle in the large cities of New
York, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, while the Hungarians,
Poles, Scandinavians, Slovaks, and
Croatians go to Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia and Illinois to work in
the coal mines. The Swedes generally
go to the Dakotas and engage in farm
ing. The Italians go where the rail
roads are being built and where large
numbers of low class laborers are
needed.
GOLD IN MASTODON SKULL
Pocket of Kick Mineral Found in Eye
Socket of Unearthed
Skeleton.
Tacoma.—In the eye socket of a
skull of a huge mastodon unearthed
in the Forty-Three Gold Hun claim,
near Dawson, a few days ago, was
found gravel that washed $l,t>00 in
gold.
Malcolm McConnell, owner of the
claim, received word Saturday in a
letter. He had just arrived from San
Francisco, where he and M'ss Carrie
McGuire were married a few dayB ago.
They left Monday on the City of Seat
tle for Skagway and Dawson.
McConnell has spent most of the
past nine years in Alaska, where he
has been successful. He came out 1
last fall, bringing a tusk and a few
of the bones of the mastodon, which
have been on exhibition.
The letter received from his men
said the remainder of the bones of the
mammoth animal had been found, and
telling him of the pocket of gold
found in the eye socket in the skull.
The bones will be shipped to Tacoma.
BLIND WOMAN’S GOOD WORK
Performs Most Difficult Household
Duties with Skill and
Accuracy.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—Mrs. S. M.
Kirk, of Forest Valley, who has been
blind for many years, has acquired a
sense of feeling that is remarkable.
She prepares the meals for the fam
ily, with little assistance, and in pai
ing potatoes can pick out the imper
fections with as much skill as if she
could see.
She makes all the dresses for her
two little girls and can put all the** a
different pieces together without get '■
ting one of them wrong. One of the '
most remarkable things Is in sewina
carpet rags. She can pick out all
those of the same color and tack them
together without a miss. a„d in
threading a needle she does it as well
perfect!1^’7 ** “ were
“f3- ,K‘rk has neyer spent a day in i*
a school for the blind, but has learned l %
to do these things in her own home ^
and altogether by application. She ,4
chi d0nhn°, b" 7e8 When a small * J
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