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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, ... NEBRASKA. Children and Stars. « Nature study, which has been trans formed in a majority of cases into na ture recreation, has extended to a great variety of subjects, but bar treated one important branch with curious neglect Birds and butterflies trees, flowers, mushrooms, ferns and shells have their enthusiastic admlr ers everywhere; but a question as to the summer constellations, or tbi» planets which are the morning and evening stars of the month, reveals the fact that 19 persons out of 20 can barely recognize the Milky Way and the Great Dipper. Yet what a door here stands open to the thought ful mind! Night after night, over city roofs, the great procession passes; one need go but to the street or the window to watch. What child whe has been taken out into the whisper ing darkness of a summer night or the splendid silver beauty of a win ter evening for a star talk has ever forgotten it? The names may slip away, perhaps, but something—e sense of beauty, of mystery, of the unspeakable wonder of the universe— remains unforgetably. There have been children with other star memo Ties One of the prettiest pictures in biography, remarks the Youth's Com panion, is that of Lyman Beecher’s children watching for the end of the long Puritan Sabbath and the release from constraint "when three stars came out.” What friendly aspect the early stars must have worn to them all their lives, with the memory ol their playtime signal! Nathaniel Bow ditch, the mathematician, had othei devices. His son says that the fa ther's reward for good behavior was to draw one of the constellations, in dots of ink, upon the child’s hand Happy children, so to learn the stars in shining hours! Happy stars to be so linked with radiant memories! Doubtless the stars may be learned from books or named from a pro fessor’s chair, but the parent who teaches his boy or girl even a little of the beauty and the glory of the heavens—who puts the sky into his childhood—gives him a memory be yond all price. F~ Good-By to the Cowboys. Land office officials tell us that the young farmers of Iowa, Kansas, Ne braska, Missouri and Illinois are do ing most of the homeseeking these days. Many of them have gont through hard apprenticeship as “hired men” and they are tired of working for wages. They want to get land of their own, and, what is more, they can tell good land when they see it They know the value of land that will raise three crops of alfalfa and that will turn ou£ enormous crops of al most anything under the magic touch of water. In many cases the man who has lived for years in the far west doesn't realize sharply enough the remarkable capabilities of the land. He is looking for a “snap”— something that can be watered with little expense. But the eastern farm er is quick to see that almost any of such productive land is a “snap,” even if the question of water is going to be troublesome for a year or two. So it is the man from the middle west who is settling up the Rocky Moun tain states. In a few years, says the Denver Republican, the care less cowpunchers and sheep herders, who missed their opportunities, will be working for the man from the mid dle west and wondering why Oppor tunity passed them by for some one else. ) Places for the Graduates. About 40,000 young men and women just graduated from the universities and colleges of the country are now confronted with the question, “What are we to do in life? Quite apart from the three old-time "learned pro fessions” are new fields constantly be ing opened by science and industrial developments. It will one day be found that scientific farming has at tractions for the educated man and country boys who have received a col lege education will not all rush to the cities as they do now. Homely advice to the beginner, but advice approved by the test of time, Bays the New York Herald, is: Choose the occupa tion for which you have a natural bent, or if you cannot discover this an occupation that at any rate is not distasteful, and be prepared to win your way by probity and hard work. There is no other sure road to genu ine success. An English periodical, the Bystand er, says-New York’s “Four Hundred” is made up of people who lack refine ment and adds that there is no such thing as culture in America. How ou> English cousins do love us—when they can use us for their own profit. 4ft | ~ .. -■ ■ -g ' King Edward has declined with thanks an invitation to visit Canada Is Edward to be numbered among those people who are afraid thgt il they take vacations their jobs will not be there when they get back home? The man who said the more be saw of men the better he thought of dogs must have been greatly pleased tc read the story about the Newfound land dog that swam out to where two boys were drowning a day or two age and, letting each of them take hold of his collar on one side, swam with them to shore, nearly perishing him self before he accomplished it i King Alfonso is a good deal of a pe destrian. That is, he can walk Spaa A FOOL FOR LOVE By FRANCIS LYNDE AUTHOR OF "THE GRAFTERS." BTC. ■ (Copyright, 1906, by J. P. Lipptnoott Co.) (CHAPTER III.—Continued. I “Why, my dear Virginia—the idea! Tou don’t know in the least what you re talking about. I have been read ng in the papers about these right-of way troubles, and they are perfectly terrible. One report said they were arming the laboring men, and another said the militia might have to be called out." ^ "Well, what of it?" said Virginia, with ail the hardihood of youth and unknowledge. “It’s something like a burning building; one doesn’t want to be hard-hearted and rejoice over other people's misfortunes; but then, if it has to burn, one would like to be there to see." Miss Bessie put a stray lock of the flaxen hair up under its proper comb. “I’m sure 1 prefer California and the orange groves and peace,” she asserted. "Don’t you, Cousin Billy?” What Mr. Calvert would have replied is no matter for this history, since at this precise moment the rajah came in, "coruscating,” as Virginia put it, from his late encounter with the su perintendent’s chief clerk. “Give them the word to go, Jastrow, and let’s get out of heah,” he com manded. And when the secretary had vanished the Rajah made his explana tions to all and sundry. “I’ve been obliged in a manneh to change ouh itinerary. Anotheh company is trying to fault us up in Qua’tz Creek canyon, and I am in a meashuh compelled to be on the ground. We shall be delayed only a few> days, I hope; at the worst only until the first snowstorm comes; and, in the meantime, Califo'nia won’t run away.” Virginia linked arms with Bessie the flaxen-haired when the wheels began to turn. "We are off,” she said. "Let’s go out on the platform and see the last of Denver.” It was while they were clinging to the hand-rail and looking back upon the jumble of railway activities out of which they had just emerged that the Rosemary, gaining headway, overtook another moving train running smooth ly on a track parallel to that upon which the private car was speeding. It was the narrow-gauge mountain con nection of the Utah line, and Winton and Adams were on the rear platform of the last car. So it chanced that the four of them were presently waving their adieux across the wind-blown in terspace. In the midst of it, or rather at the moment when the Rosemary, gathering speed as the lighter of the two trains, forged ahead, the Rajah came out to light his cigar. He took in the little tableau of the rear platforms at a glance, and when the slower train was left behind asked a question of Virginia. “Ah—wasn't one of those two the young gentleman who called on you yestehday afternoon, my deah?” Virginia admitted it "Could you faveh me with his name?” "He is Mr. Morton P. Adams, of Bos ton.” "Ah-h; and his friend—the young gentleman who laid his hand to ouh plow and put the engine on the track last night?” “He is Mr. Winton—a— an artist, I believe; at least, that is what I gath ered from what Mr. Adams said of him.'' • Mr. Somerville Darrah laughed, a slow litle jaugh deep in his throat. "Bless your innocent soul—he a pic chuh-painteh? Not in a thousand yeahs, my deah Virginia. He is a rail road man, and a righ good one at that. Faveh me with the name again; Win teh, did you say?” "No; Winton—Mr. John Winton.” “D-d-devil!’ gritted the Rajah, smit ing the hand-rail with his clenched list. "Hah! I beg your pahdon, my deahs— a meah slip of the tongue.” And then, to the full as savagely, “By heaven, I hope that train will fly the track and ditch him before ever he comes within ordering distance of the work in Qua’fz Creek canyon!” "Why, Uncle Somerville—how vin dictive!” cried Virginia. "Who is he, and what has he done?” "He is Misteh John Wirton, as you Informed me just now; one of the brainiest constructing engineers in this entiah country, and the hardest man in this or any otheh country to down in a right-of-way figbt—that’s who he is. And it's not what he’s done, my deah Virginia, it’s what he is going to do. If I can’t get him killed up out of ouh way,—” but here Mr. Darrah saw the growing terror in two pairs of eyes, and realizing that he was committing himself before an unsympathetic au dience, beat a hasty retreat to his stronghold at the other end of the Rosemary. "Well!” said the flaxen-haired Bes sie, catcheing her breath. But Vir ginia laughed. “I’m glad I’m not Mr. Winton,” she said. i? - CHAPTER IV. Morning in the highest highlands of the Rockies, a morning clear, cold and tense, with a bell-iike quality in the frosty air to make the cracking of a snow-laden fir bough resound like a pistol shot. For Denver and the dwell ers on' the eastern plain the sun is an hour high; but the hamlet mining camp of Argentine, with its dovecote railway station and two-pronged sid ing, still lies in the steel blue depths of the canyon shadow. . In a scanty widening of the main canyon a few hundred yards below the station a graders’ camp of rude slab shelters is turning out its horde of wild-looking Italians; and on a crooked spur track fronting the shan ties blue wood smoke is curling lazily upward from the kitchen car of a con struction train. All night long the Rosemary, drawn by the speediest of mountain-climbing locomotives, bad stormed onward and upward from the valley, of the Grand, through black defiles and around the shrugged shoulders of the mighty peaks to find a resting-place in the white-robed dawn on the siding at Ar gentine. The lightest of sleepers, Vir ginia had awakened when the special was passing through Carbonate; and drawing the berth curtain she had lain for hours watching the solemn proces sion of cliffs and peaks wheeling in stately and orderly array against the inky background of sky. Now, in the steel-blue dawn, she was—or thought she was—the first member of the par ty to dress and steal out upon the railed platform to look abroad upon the wondrous scene in the canyon. But her reverie, trance-like in its wordless enthusiasm, was presently broken by a voice behind her—the voice, namely, of Mr. Arthur Jastrow. “What a howling wilderness, to be sure, isn’t it ?” said the secretary, twirling his eye-glasses by the cord and looking, as he felt, interminably bored. Ino, indeed; anything but that,” she retorted, warmly. “It is grander than anything I ever imagined. I wish there were a piano in the car. It makes me fairly ache to set it in some form of expression, and music is the only form I know.” “I’m glad it it doesn’t bore you,” he rejoined, willing to agree with her for the sake of prolonging the interview. “But to me it is nothing more than a dreary wilderness, as 1 say; a barren, rock-ribbed gulch affording an indif ferent right-of-way for two railroads.” “For one,” she corrected, in a quick upflash of loyalty for her kin. The secretary shifted his gaze from the mountains to the maiden and smiled. She was exceedingly good to look past the car and the dovecote sta tion, shading her eyes to shut out the snow-blink from the sun-fired peaks. “Why, they are soldiers!’’ she ex claimed. “At least, some of them have guns on their shoulders. And see—t they are forming in line!” The secretary adjusted his eye-i glasses. “By Jove! you are right; they have armed the track force! The new chief of construction doesn’t mean to take any chances of being shaken loose by force. Here they come.” The end of track of the new line was diagonally across the creek from the Rosemary's berth and a short pistol shot farther down stream. But to advance it to a point opposite the private car, and to gain the altitude of the high embankment directly across from the station, the new line turned short out of the main canyon at the mouth of the intersecting gorge, de scribing a long, U-shaped curve around the head of the lateral ravine and doubling back upon itself to reenter the canyon proper at the higher ele vation. The curve which was the beginning of this U-shaped loop was the morn ing's scene of action, and the Utah track layers, 200 strong, moved to the front in orderly array, with armed guards as lankers for the hand-car load of railt which the men were push ing up the grade. Jastrow darted into the car, and a moment later his place on the observa tion platform was taken by a wrath ful industry colonel fresh from his dressing-room—so fresh, indeed, that he was coatless, hatless, and collarless, and with the dripping bath sponge clutched like a missile to hurl at the impudent invaders on the opposite side of the canyon. “Hah! wouldn’t wait until a man could get into his clothes!” he rasped, apostrophizing the Utah’s new chief of construction. “Jastrow! Faveh me instantly, seh! Hustle up to the camp there and turn out the constable, town marshal, or whatever he is. Tell him I have a writ for him to serve. Run, seh!” The secretary appeared and disap peared like a marionette when the string has been jerked by a vigorous hand, and Virginia smiled—this with out prejudice to a very acute appre ciation of the grave possibilities which were preparing themselves. But hav ing her share of the militant quality READING THE WARRANT. look upon—high-bred, queenly and just now with the fine fire of enthu siasm to quicken her pulses and to send the rare flush to neck and cheek. Jastrow, the cold-eyed, the business automaton set to go off with a click at Mr. Somerville Darrah’s touch, had ambitions not automatic. Some day he meant to put the world of business under foot as a conqueror, standing triumphant on the apex of that pyra mid of success which the Mr. Somer ville Darrahs were so successfully up rearing. When that day should come, there would need to be an establish ment, a menage, a queen for the king dom of success. Summing her up for the hundredth time since the begin ning of the westward flight, he thought Miss Carteret would fill the require ments passing well. But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment, agreeing with her again without reference to his private con victions. ‘‘For one, .1 should have said,” he amended. “We mean to have it that way, though an unprejudiced onlooker might be foolish enough to say that there is a pretty good present pros pect of two.” But Miss Carteret was in a contra dictory rnobd. Moreover, she was a woman, and the way to a woman’s confidence does not lie through the neutral country of easy compliance. "If you won’t take the other side. I will,” sh4 said. “There will be two.” Jastrow acquiesced a second time. “I shouldn't wonder. Our compet itor’s road seems to be only a ques tion of time—a very short time, judg ing from the number of men turning out in the track gang down yonder.” Virginia leaned over the railing to which made her uncle what he is, she stood her ground. “Aren't you afraid you will take cold, Uncle Somerville?” she asked, archly; and the Rajah came suddenly to a sense of his incompleteness and went in to finish his ablutions against the opening of the battle actual. At first. Virginia thought she would follow him. When Mercury Jastrow should return with the officer of the law there would be trouble of some sort, and the woman in her shrank from the witnessing of it. But at the same instant the blood of the fighting Carterets asserted itself and she re solved to stay. "I wonder what uncle hopes to be able to do?” she mused. “Will a little town constable with a bit of signed paper from some justice of the peace be mighty enough to stop all that fu rious activity over there? It’s more than incredible.” From that she fell to watching the activity and the orderly purpose of it. A length of steel, with men clustering like bees upon it, would slide from its place on the hand-car to fall with a frosty clang on the cross ties. In stantly the hammermen would pounce upon it. One would fall upon hands and knees to “sight" it into place; two others would slide the squeaking track gauge along its inner edge; a quar tette, working like the component parts of a faultless mechanism, would tap the fixing spikes into the wood; and then at a signal a dozen of the heavy pointed hammers swung aloft and a rhythmic volley of resounding blows clamped the rail into perma nence on its wooden bed. (TO BE CONTINUED.) LINCOLN'S "He that is slow to anger,” says the proverb, “is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than be that taketh a city.” Great as was his self-control in other matters, nowhere did Mr. Lincoln's slowness to anger and nobility of spirit show itself more than in his dealings with the generals of the civil war. He had been elected president. Congress had given him power far exceeding that which any president hajl ever exercised before. As president he was also commander in-chief of the army and navy of the NOBILITY, United States. By proclamation he could call forth great armies; and he could order those armies to go wher ever he chose to send them; hut even he had no power ’to make generals with the genius and the training necessary to lead them instantly to success. He had to work with the materials at hand, and one by one he tried the men who teemed best fitted for the task, giving each his fullest trust and every aid in his power. They were as eager for victory and as earnest of purpose as himself. < AN OLD PAINTER’S IDEAS. The autumn season is coming more and more to be recognized as a most suitable time for housepainting. There is no frost deep in the wood to make trouble for even the best job of paint ing, nnd the general seasoning of the summer has put the wood into good condition in every way. The weather, moreover, is more likely to be settled for the necessary length of time to allow all the coats to thoroughly dry, a very important precaution. An oldi and successful painter said to the writer the other day: “House owners would get more for their money if they, would allow their painters to take more time, especially between coats. Instead of allowing barely time for the surface to get dry enough not to be ‘tacky,’ several days (weeks would not be too much) should be allowed so that the coat might set through and through. It is inconvenient, of course, but, if one would suffer this slight inconvenience, it would add two or three years to the life of the paint.” All this Is assuming, of course, that the paint used is the very best to be had. The purest of white lead and the purest of linseed oil unmixed with any cheaper of the cheap mixtures, often known as “White Lead,” and oil which has been doctored with fish oil, benzine, corn oil or other of the adulterants known to the trade are used, all the precautions of the skilled painter are useless to prevent the cracking and peeling which make houses unsightly in a year or so and therefore, make painting bills too fre quent and costly. House owner should have his painter bring the in gredients to the premises separately, white lead of some well known relia ble brand and linseed oil of equal qual ity and mix the paint just before ap plying it. Painting need not be ex pensive and unsatisfactory if the old painter’s suggestions are followed. NEAR DEATH THROUGH SNAKE Sleeper Awoke to Find Monster Coiled Around His Neck. F. E. Feve, an employe of the Northern Electric, had a thrilling ex perience with a snake Tuesday morn ing. Feve with two companions occu pies a tent made out of gunny sacks in the western portion of Oroville. He was awakened by a feeling of strangulation. He attempted to cry out, but so tightly was his throat bound that he could make no sound. As he became fully awake he realized that something must be done or he would choke. He grabbed frantically for his throat and his hand slipped over the scales of a huge snake which had coiled itself around bis neck. He frantically pulled the coils loose, the reptile resisting him and biting him in the cheek. His two companions, awakened by the noise, came to Feve's rescue. The two pulled the snake away and threw it to the floor, where it glided away while the men attended to Mr. Feve's wound. The reptile was a gopher dnake.—Redding Correspondence San Francsco Call. Convenient English. “We become accustomed to a phrase,” observed an educator at a teachers’ convention, “but when we introduce a new one along exactly the same lines, it startles the hearer. “A number of ladies were seated in a hotel parlor, and one of them, com menting on a woman who was stand ing in the hallway, said: “ ‘Mrs. Loraine seems unusually hap py this morning.* “ ‘Yes,’ answered a companion, knowingly, the ladies of Newark gave a tea in her honor yesterday. But doesn't her husband look gloomy and dejected?’ “ That is true.’ admitted the first speaker. ‘I presume the gentlemen of Newark gave a beer in his honor last night.’ ” Preach from Automobiles. A novel method of preaching tb® gospel was recently tried in France with striking success. Pastor Delat tre from Roame (Reformed church), in company with Pastor Sainton, of the Baptist church, in Paris, visited with an automobile the departments of Loire, Rhone, Alier, Saone et Loire, within a radius of about 90 miles. Pastor Delattre writes: “During near ly two months, from our automobile, we have been able to preach the gospel on market places, from fair to fair, distributing thousands of tracts and selling no less than 2.600 copies of the New Testament.” AN OLD TIMER. Has Had Experiences. A woman who has used Postum Food Coffee since it came upon the market 8 years ago knows from ex perience the necessity of using Pos tum in place of coffee if one values health and a steady brain. She says: "At the time Postum was first put on the market 1 was suffer ing from nervous dyspepsia and my physician had repeatedly told me not to use tea or coffee. Finally I de cided to take his advice and try Postum, and got a sample and had it carefully prepared, finding it deli cious to the taste. So I continued Its use and very soon its beneficial ef fects convinced me of its value, for I got well of my nervousness and dys pepsia. "My husband had been drinking cof fee all his life until it had affected his nerves terribly. I persuaded him to shift to Postum and it was easy to get him to make the change for the Postum is delicious. It certainly worked wonders for him. “We soon learned that Postum does not exhilarate or depress and does not stimulate, but steadily and honestly strengthens the nerves and the stom ach. To make « long story short our entire family have now used Postum for eight years with completely sat isfying results, as shown in our fine condition of health and we have no ticed a rather unexpected improve ment in brain and nerve power." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Increased brain and nerve power al ways follow the use of Postum in place of coffee, sometimes in a very marked manner. Look in pkgs. for “The Road to Wellvllle.” Gossip from the Capital GATHERED BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Interesting Chatter of Men and Events at Washington—Secretarj Root’s Tour of South American Countries—Annual Hsusecleaa ing at the White House—Other Things. WASHINGTON.—The reception accorded Sec retary of State Root at the Pan-American • gress at Rio Janeiro and the cordiality exhibited wherever he has landed in South America are regarded as omens of success for his unprr* *• dented tour. Never before has the premier f this government undertaken a similar missmr and it is unusual for such a high official of on government personally to visit the capita.- f other governments and by plain, frank inter course endeavor to establish firmer re.ation# h< tween great powers. Mr. Root has as the obje< . of his South American tour the correction of a i erroneous idea and prejudice that exists th# against the United States. The people of this country are virtually un known in South America. The United State# h no steamship connection with that section to speak of and our trade cannot compare with ’hat or Europe. Unfortunately, the type of Americans with which the u* ;n Americans have become acquainted is largely that of the adventurer. A dis like has grown up because of this and also because our language, eu.-' m and ideas are all different from theirs. It is to correct this idea that M • Root is visiting the Latin-American republics and also with the idea >f strengthening the time-honored Monrce doctrine and perhaps to lay the foundation for a still stronger bond between the nations of the Western Hem isphere as against the encroachment, commercially and politically, of foreign powers. Mr. Root will call to the attention of these South American courr ri- • the fact that from the time of their great wars for independence, the States has protected the southern continent from political aggiession 1 will endeavor to show that it is to the advantage of these people to ' closer commercial union with the United States and that, when an unit standing is effected, they will find American goods superior to those impor.i . from Europe. FROM THIS THE PRESIDENT ESCAPES. The annua] house cleaning is now in progress at the White House. It would require an expert mathematician to figure out just how many coats of paint, how many yards of plastering and how much expenditure of money there have been lavished upon this historic old building. Every year the interior is gone over and every year the outside is either painted or washed, so that the glistening whiteness may be retained. The decorations of the executive mansion need careful attention always, and the paint and enamel work has to be kept clean and free from all marks and scratches. The multitude of pil grims who annually visit this building is disposed to be critical, and if any dirt or any defacement of decorations or walls is discovered, there is sure to be something ugly said about it. The hard wood floors have to .be cared for whenever a flaw is seen in their finish rWHITCHtH^E , The ceiling and wood work of the East Room is being gone over and the Green Room and Red Room have both been overhauled. A good deal of at tention has to be given to the magnificent State dining-room. Minor repairs are being made in the private dining-room and the columns in the corridor are being refinished. As the abode of the president, and as the place where the official fuuc tions occur, an army of artisans is rquired every summer to overhaul it. Las; year there were given three state dinners, five musicales. eight receptions and one lecture, besides almost daily semi-official functions bv the president or Mrs. Roosevelt. STANFORD WHITE AND THE WHITE HOUSE. The recent tragic death of Architect White, who was shot by Harry K. Thaw, attracted un usual attention in Washington because he was of the firm of architects that made the plans for the renovation of the old White House r „ the construction of the executive office buildings. There has always been a diversity of opinion as to whether the expenditures, amounting to about a quarter of a million dollars, in restoring the White House to its original design, were justified. In the opinion of those of artistic taste, it was money well spent, although the general public does not appreciate what was done. The original design of the White House contemplated a terrace on each side of the main building. This had never been fully carried out, a huge conservatory on the west, an ugly structure of glass, wood and iron, taking the place of the terrace. This was removed and the extensions on either side are now in accordance with the original monel. The executive office building is a very unattractive, homely structure, although it did cost $68,000. There was method in the work of the architects in producing this barn-like structure. For many years past congress has been asked to provide a proper building for the president and his executive force, where the business of his office could be transacted and where proper salons and halls could be located in which important official functions, like the signing of treaties, the reception, of foreign ambassadors and other affairs of that sort could be conducted. Congress has never seen fit to appropriate the money for such a building, and when the presidential offices were erected, it was supposed that nothing more would be needed. These offices are so ugly and excite so much contempt in the public eye and mind that the pres sure is growing stronger every year to have a decent executive buildicg. one that will comport with the dignity of the nation, erected. THE NUMBER OF ANARCHISTS INCREASING. Considerable alarm is felt in official circles over the rapidly increasing number of anarchists that are finding their way to the United States. The immigration authorities are of the opinion that unless something is done by treaty or other wise, the United States will soon be overrun by this undesirable class. In the naturalization law recently passed, there is a restriction on giving citizenship to anarchists and regulations are now being formulated to make this effective. That, however, does not prevent anarchists coining to this country and preaching their doctrine. It is a comparatively easy thing for this disorderly element to obtain admission to this country, and congress will be asked to consider more drastic regulations regarding them. An immigration official in discussing the increase of immigrants of anarchistic tendencies said the other day: It would be impossible to say with any degree of accuracy how many anarchists are in this country at this time. Without data as to their antece dents, it is impossible as a general rule to spot them. The man with whom you sat at dinner at your restaurant last evening may have been one. In a word, there is no way now by which you can tell an anarchist unless there is a falling out among the craft. We have no means of picking them out at the ports and turning them back. Here comes a man down the plank who gives a name that might fit any one of 100,000 ordinary persons. He fulfills all the requirements of admission. He says he Is a tailor and in he comes. That man may be one of the most noted anarchists, and yet we are absolutely powerless to keep him out.” The immigration officials believe that the United States government should lose no time in making treaties with foreign nations, by which this government will be fully informed as to the movements of anarchists. With the liberal use of the cable, the United States could keep out many bomb throwers who gain easy admittance under our present system. ONE OF UNCLE SAM’S FAITHFUL EMPLOYES. Uncle Sam has in his employ a landscape gar dener who, for 35 years, has been engaged in beautifying the public parks and reservations in Washington. In the recent report of the Super intendent of Public Buildings and Grounds Brom well, this faithful servitor is recommended for a promotion in the point of salary. The superin tendent asked for an increase of $400 a year aud says: "The gentleman who occupies this posi tion has held it for 35 years and has had charge almost from the beginning, of the park system of Washington. He is constantly receiving offers of an increase of salary from outside parties but prefers to stay here.” The extent to which Uncle Sam indulges in flowers in the national capital is shown by the fact that last year there were planted 23,000 pan sies and 31,000 flowering bulbs for early bloom. There were planted in beds and vases 972,520 bed ding and tropical plants for summer aecorauon. j ne nower bees on the ter race esplanade of the capitol grounds were furnished with 16,000 bedding plants, bulbs, etc. In addition, 642 ornamental dwarf evergreen trees, 1,162 flowering shrubs, and a number of oak trees were planted there. In the propagating gardens more than 1.000,000 plants were propagated and 6,751 trees and 3.145 shrubs were planted in the various parks. Fifteen thousand plants were distributed to hospitals and government offices. No one, not even the most economic congressman, begrudges the money spent in flowers and plants in the capital city. This method of beautifying the national capital meets with popular support, and is a source of great pleasure to the hundreds of thousands of visitors during the year.