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Lincoln Letter Current Gossip from the STATE CAPITAL Legislative and Otherwise Sheldon estimated the receipts of fees by the various affices as follows: Governor, |170; auditor, $210,000; sec retary of state, $65,000; land commis sioner, $10,000; banking department, $30,000; food commissioner, $5,000; "board of irrigation, $500; oil depart meent, $19,000; board ofcmfwypcmfw ment, $19,000; national aid for thQ soldiers' homes, $72,000; interest on deposits, $16,700; convict labor, $68, 000; back taxes, $100,000; a total re ceipt, including the general fund levy, of $3,476,370. Prospects for a good state fair this year are looking up and the indica tions are the exhibits of live stock and other features which will go to make a good fair will be far in excess in number and quality of previous years. Just at this time Secretary Mellor has been notified that space has been asked for 825 pens of hogs when the accom modations will take care of only 442. A feature which will be added this year is the contest for a prize for the best Shorthorn milker. State Superintendent McBrien went to Grand Island, where he takes part In an entertainment given in honor of Superitendent R. J. Barr of the Grand Island schools, who has served in this capacity for twenty-five year3. No other school teacher in Nebraska has ever held onto a job that long. Judge A. M. Post, the referee ap pointed by the Nebraska supreme court to take testimony on the alleged lumber trust, made his report. He finds that the Nebraska Lumber Dealers’ as sociation, as now maintained, is not contrary to the state trust laws. The investigation made by the referee cov ered a period of several months, in which practically all the lumber deal ers of the state were made defendants. If the supreme court sustains the ref eree it means the dismissal of the suits. Grain dealrs of the state doing busi ness along the line of the Missouri Pa cific railway for some months past ■have experienced considerable trouble in getting cars in which to ship their grain. Some elevators have been able to secure but one or two cars in an entire month. The grain men doing business on the line of that road, in this state, met to organize and do what they could towards getting after the railroad. The corps of janitors at the state capitol have been busily occupied in moving the property of the various state officials who have been assigned new quarters by the state board of public lands and buildings. Oil In spector Church was the first man to change his office quarters. The bureau of labor has so far refused to comply with the edict that it move from the first to the third floor. Its officers de clare that they mean to secure legal advice before they give up the room occupied for twenty years. Governor Sheldon has finished his work on the bills passed by the legis lature and out of the various appropri ation bills he cut a total of $249,411. This leaves the total appropriations of the legislature $3,241,780.90. The cuts made by the governor were as follows: Wolf bounty, $35,000; -deficiency wolf bounty, $22,411, and a deficiency on the deficiency, $2,000; for a wing to be built at the Kearney Normal school, $85,000; for a new building at the Beatrice Institute for Feeble Mind ed, $30,000; for Yukon-Alaskan exposi tion, $15,000; for a gymnasium for the Institute for Deaf and Dumb at Oma ha, $30,000; for an engine and boiler at the Peru Normal school, $5,000; for a building at the Grand Island Sol diers’ Home, $25,000. All the other appropriation bills that passed were signed. . Nebraska has a pure food law at ?ast. After all sorts of amendments had been made, they were all over turned and the bill made even more drastic and sweeping than the national law. Nearly twenty years ago United "States Senator Paddock championed, a pure food law in the U. S. senate, but. as he then thought, without avail. It was the seed that was sown then that has slowly grown and is just new bearing fruit, not only nationally, but in his own state and in many others. Attorney General Thompson has recommended to County Attorney Roach of North Platte, Lincoln county, that he begin prosecution of the Union Pacific Railroad company for violation of the 2-cent passenger fare law. County Attorney Roach camplained to the attorney general that the Union Pacific continues to charge at the rate of 3 cents per mile for tickets between North Platte and Sidney, notwith standing both cities are hi Nebraska. An incident of the waiting and worrying over the governor's action on the appropriation of the Kearney Normal school was the meeting of the State Normal board at the office of the state superintendent. The board convened to discuss cutting down their plans for a $100,000 build ing to an $85,000 building, as that was the way the bill read when R passed the legislature. Suddenly the board remembered that the governor had taken no action, so proceedings were stopped for the time being. United States Senator Burkett is going to be the busiest man in seven states during the next two months and a great big bunch of high school grad uates are going to have an opportunity to hear the senior senator tell them things in commencement day addres ses. Beginning at Woverly, May 17{ he will speak as follows: For May, Chester. 20; Ewing, 22; Gordon, 23; Alliance, 24; Gothenburg, 25; Juniata, 27; Arspahoe, 28; Superior, 29; Table Beck, $0; Central City, 31; June 1, at Aurora; Beatrice, 7; Beaver Crossing, 2; Hefrron, 10; Red Cloud. The legislature passed a total of 221 bills, of which nienty-slx were senate files and 125 were he use rolls. Gov ernor Sheldon signed 204 bills and vetoed fifteen. Two bills became laws without his action. Of the bills vetoed eleven were house rolls and four sen ate files. Following are the reasons assigned for the vetoes of the governor: H. R. 112—Appropriating $85,000 to erect two wings to the Kearney Nor mal school. In vetoing this bill the governor says: "The appropriations for the coming biennium must be Kept safely within the state’s income. In my judgment the necessities of this in stitution and the present condition of our finances do not warrant this ex penditure.” For the same reason the governor has vetoed H. R. 190, 381, 478 and 491. In vetoing H. R. 355, amending the banking law, the governor says: "The section of the statutes which section 3 of this act would amend has already been similarly amended by H. R. 105. Many of the country banks do not ful fill the requirements of section 8 of this act. It dees not exempt banks now doing business under their pres ent charters. In my judgment an act like this which would probably disturb these banks greatly, should not be passed by the emergency clause.” H. R. 534, the deficiency claims bill, was approved, with the exception of the following items: Bounty on wild animals,, unpaid claims Nos. 35,638 to 36,360, inclusive, and Nos. 556 to 3,644, Inclusive, as recorded in the auditor’s record, $22,411.50, and estimated de ficiencies for the payment of animal bounties, $2,000. In vetoing S. F. 266, Dy Burns of Lancaster, a bill for the appointment of a board of examiners of plumbers for the city of Lincoln, the governor says: “This bill is amendatory. The original act as passed in 1891 (session laws 1901, chapter xxi, page 321-326) under the title thereof the enactment was restricted to cities having a popu lation of more than 50,000. In 1903 the legislature attempted to amend section 1, so as to make this act apply to cities having a population of more than 40,000, but the title of the amen datory act referred alone to section t of the original title so as to apply to cities having less than 50,000 inhabi tants. The amendment of 1903, mak ing the act applicable to cities naving more than 40,000 inhabitants, was not within the title of the original act, which referred alone to cities having more than 50,000 inhabitants. The amendment of 1903, therefore, was not within the title of the original act and is unconstitutional. This void provis ion is a part of the act as it appears in chapter xiv, article 3, compiled statutes of 1903. This S. F. 266 con flicts with the constitution and can not be approved. Besides, the repeal ing clause in S. F. 266 is a general one, purporting to repeal all conflicting pro visions in existing statutes. This form of repealing clause in an amendatory act does not meet the requirements of that part of the constitution which de clares that the section or sections so Amended must in express term be re pealed.” Within a few days the offices in the state house, with the exception of those occupied by state officers, will all be changed and it will tak ea direc tory for any one to find any one. The State Board of Public Lands and Buildings met Wednesday and allot ted new rooms, it being necessary in the opinion of the board to chinge practically every office to make room for the State Railway commission, which is the only addition to the pres ent number of offices in the state house. It fell to the lot of Chairman Eaton and Secretary Junkin to carry around the move out notices and some of the language used by those to be. ejected from pleasant quarters was unique and entirely original. Offices were allotted as follows. The oil office moves from the first floor to the lieutenant governor’s room on the second floor. The state veterinarian will office1 with the State Board of Charities on the third floor. This office has been on the second floor. The labor bureau, which for years has been on the first floor, moves to the house engrossing room on the third floor. The Argicultural society move3 frem the first floor in tin* north center of the building to the labor bureau room. The game warden moves irom the second floor to the senate judiciary committee room on the third floor. The irrigation board moves from the north center of the building to the senate enrolling room on the third floor. The State Railway commission takes the rooms now occupied by the State Board of Irrigation and the Agricul tural society. The Supreme Court commission takes the two rooms of the secretary of the senate and when it wants it will use the senate chamber. The state superintendent takes on the room vacated by the oil office and makes it a part of his already large office rooms. The Beatrice Times hopes the time will come before many years whan the state will feel warranted in giv ing its capitol an extensive overhaul ing and Improving. It is a very com monplace building in comparison with the one in Iowa, and rather of a dis credit to a state that haa grown in wealth like Nebraska has during the past ten years. People should.,not take the narrow view that rebuilding and improving the state house will help Lincoln chiefly. It belongs to Nebraska. The child labor law, H. R. No. 9, by H. T. Clark, Jr., which Is now a law, having been approved by Gover nor Sheldon, places Nebraska second in the rank of states in child labor legislation. The Nebraska law rec ognizes the night school in th-; mat ter of educational qualifications re quired of children, but the law jf Massachusetts does not and is there fore ranked first. The Nebraska law does not permit a child under four teen years of age to be employed In certain designated employments duN lag the hours of school. MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF the past week told in CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest from AH Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. Hopelessly divided—seven for a ver dict of guilty of murder in the first de gree and five for acquittal on tho ground of insanity—the jury which since the 23d of last January had been trying Harry K. Thaw, reported after 47 hours and eight minutes ol deliberation, that it could not possi bly agree upon a verdict and were discharged. Thaw was remanded tc jail to await his second trial, which is not likely to begin before autumn. The Honduran forces who have been besieged in Amapala by the Nicarag uans capitulated unconditionally tc the enemy. President Bonilla took refuge on board the American cruisei i Chicago, and he will not be permit I ted to disembark on Central American soil. The war is considered over. William T. Stead, of London, tolo an audience at the Pittsburg Carnegit Institute about his peace pilgrimage plan and was showered with monej to help pay the expenses. President Roosevelt delivered the address at the unveiling, in the Aiding ton National cemetery, of a shaft tc the memory of the Rough Riders. Dr. Samuel S. Guy, former coroner of Queens county, New York, was held to await the action of the granh jury following a coroner's inquest into the death of his wife, who was shot and killed on the night of April 8. Allen L. Shirley, son of J. C. Shir ley, of Lakeside, 111., who disap. peared from home April 4, was found in Kansas City, and a man said to bo Henry E. Davey was arrested for kid naping him. Alexander Necula, 29 years of age, was shot and killed, and Mary Can zanno, 25 years old, mortally wounded by John Canzanno, the woman's hus band, in a boarding house at Cleve land, O., where Canzanno is said to have found the couple. Canzanna es caped. Engineer John Murphy was fatally injured by a collision between a pas senger train and a switch engine near Posen, Mich. Mrs. Belle Dauron, who shot and killed her husband, John Dauron, on July 24, 1906, was acquitted of mur der at Pittsburg, Kan. She pleaded self-defense. Fourteen miners were smothered to death in a fire in a mine at Elore, Mexico. Wildwood, the suburban residence of C. D. Garnett, vice president of the Garnett, Allen & Grubb Paper com pany of St. Louis, was destroyed by Are. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Striking teamsters in South Boston grew riotous and were charged by the police. The Belgian cabinet, being unable to command a majority in the cham ber of deputies, resigned. Joseph H. Choate heads the list of delegates to The Hague peace confer ence named by President Roosevelt. Immediately after adjourning, the Texas legislature was reconvened in extra session to consider certain leg islation demanded by Gov. Campbell. Brazil's squadron that is to take part in the opening of the Jamestown exposition sailed from Pernambuco. It is aammhced t&at Felix Motl of Bavaria has received a tempting offer from Heinrich Conried to conduct the orchestra of the Metropolitan opera house. New York. King Charles of Portugal, when he visits Brazil next year, will leave Lis bon on the first ship of the new Por tuguese line to Rio Janeiro, which on that occasion will make its maiden voyage. Men, women and children jumped from third-story windows to escape death in a fire in a tenement build ing at 1982 Columbus road, N. W.„ Cleveland. There were no fatalities. Mrs. M. Adelia Craidwiles, said to be a rich Chicago resident, reported to the New York police that she had been robbed of jewels worth $2,300 which she had left in her room at the Hotel Albert Fifteen hundred wood-workers went on strike at Dubuque, Iowa. They ask a nine-hour day and increased wages. A blizzard lasting five days crip pled traffic at Houghton, Mich. The answer of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, John D. Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers and other individual defendants and about 40 of the defendant corporations to the government's ouster suit was filed at St. Louis. It consisted of a gen eral denial of all the charges. Fire destroyed a building in Chica go occupied by Hollister Bros., print ers, and ethers, the toes being about 9310.000. President Roosevelt ended a long contest by appointing Oscar P. Hund ley United States judge for the North ern district of Alabama. The Union of Russian People planned an attack on the Jews at Rus sian Easter time, April 28, and thou sands of Jewish families left the coun try." Commander Peary will start on an other attempt to reach the pole in June. The United States supreme court decided that the Isle of Pines is Co ban territory, not American. The jury in the Smathers case de cided that Smathers bad not con spired to drug Lou Dillon and should retain the gold cup won by his horse, Major Del mar. Secretary of War Taft conferred with conservative and liberal leaders of Cuba, advised that the national election be postponed until after the municipal and provincial elections, and intimated that American occu pation would last at least another A silk merger in Pennsylvania is announced with a capital of $22,000, 000, the American Silk Manufactur ing company of New York taking orer rival plants. John A. Kebler, general manager of tne coal department of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, died sudden ly of ptomaine poisoning at Trinidad, Col. President Roosevelt issued an order which assures to all civilian em ployes of tne war department Satur day half-holidays in the months of July, August and September. Li. J. Stevenson, general manager of the Commercial Credit company of Grand Rapids, Mich., was crushed to death in an elevator. Major Edmond Mallet, for 40 years employed in the government service, during the last 17 of which he occu pied the position of chief of the land division of the general land office, .died at Washington, aged 65 years. Fifteen persons were killed in a wreck on the Canadian Pacific near Chapleau, Ont. The train was de railed. five cars rolled down an em bankment and caught fire and many of the victims were burned to death. The first day's exercises at the re dedication of the enlarged Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg closed with the announcement of prize winners in the international art exhibition. They were Gaston La Touche, France; 'Thomas Eakins. Philadelphia, and Olga de Bauznauska. France. Notable foreigners and Americans delivered addresses during the day. Congressman G. K. Favrot of Louisi ana, who killed Dr. R. H. Aldrich, was ,set free, the grand jury refusing to indict him. The Catholic Hierarchy of America appointed a committee to secure a :iuore accurate census of the Catholics in this country. According to a letter received from Puerto Cortez, the president of Salva dor was sending 20,000 men against 'Nicaragua to renew the combat. A mail package apparently contain ing dynamite exploded while it was being stamped in the St. Louis post office, maiming the stamping clerk. After poisoning her two-year-old baby, Mrs. Clarissa Gold, of Memphis, ,Tenn., aged 22 years, attempted sui .cide by swallowing a portion of the same drug. Mrs. A. D. Blomever of Cape Girar deau, Mo., was found dead and her husband unconscious. Brig. Gen. Walter D. Duggan was retired on account of age and Col. Charles B. Hall promoted to be briga dier general. E. B. Montgomery, his ten-year-old son and Roily Hall, all mine workers, were fatally injured by an explosipn of powder at Beattyville, Ky. The death is announced of Prince Golytein, a former viceroy of the Cau casus. He was associated with Gen. Alikhanoff in the ruthless measures employed last year In putting down agitation in the Kutais district. Students at the University of Mich igan organized a club to boom Secre tary Taft for the presidency. Emile Benoist, a well-known banker of Paris, was shot and killed in the office of a financial newspaper of which he was the editor by a discon tented customer. Two hundred persons were drown ed in floods in Turkey. James H. Brayton, a Chicago school principal, committed suicide by shoot ing, because of ill health. Ten men were saved from the wrecked and sinking British. harken tine Trinidad near the Bahamas. Joseph UUman, a well-known book maker, went insane at San Francisco. The corporation of Glasgow. Sco‘ land, has accepted an invitation of the American consul here to send a deputation to Chicago for the purpose of inspecting the sanitary conditions of the packing houses and stockyards. Suit has been filed at Jackson, Breathitt county, Ky„ by the heirs ol Br. D. E. Cox, demanding $90,000 damages from Judge Eames Hargis. Ed Callahan, Asburv Spieer. Jcfin Smith and John Abner, for alleged responsibility for the assassination of Dr. Cox. ine president of Salvador renewed the Central American war, sending 20,000 men against the Nicaraguans. Lord Cromer., the plenipotentiary of Great Britain in Egypt, resigned and Sir Eldon Gorst succeeded hirn. A man who said he was sentenced to death in Georgia for murder and escaped, surrendered himself in Dow ney, Cal., saying he was tired of be ihg a fugitive. Triplets were born to Mrs. " Anton Machal of South Omaha, who already had 14 children. Fred W. Troy, who killed his wife and mortally wounded Ralph Guin in Joplin, Mo., pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the peniten tiary. Senator Foraker in a speech at Can ton, O., declared his independence of dictation, defended his public course and denied any part in or knowledge of the alleged rich men’s conspiracy to thwart President Roosevelt. President L. W. Hill announced that the Great Northern would build a plant for the manufacture of cars in Superior, Wis. Broken-hearted, as be said, over losses following the recent slump in .Wall street, Samuel B. Van Siclen, a New York curb broker, shot and killed himself. Both branches of the Texas legisla ture passed a law absolutely prohibit ing the operation of backet-shops, cot ton exchanges or any dealings in fu tures in Texas. The Minnesota house of represen tatives with a rising vote, which the speaker announced was "nearly unani mous,"' passed' concurrent resolutions indorsing President Roosevelt for a third term. The Kalamasoo strike ended by the company’s yielding to all the demands of the men except recognition of the union. Dr. Simon Flexner, head of the Rockefeller institute,’ New York, has discovered a meningitis serum, but he declines to discuss it till he has ex perimented on human beings. The discovery of a new counterfeit $10 (Buffalo) United Stktes note la announced by the United States ae I cret service. A new counterfeit $20 national bank note has also been dis covered, on the First National bank of Hereford, Texas. John Temple Graves, speaking at a banquet at Chattanooga in honor of W. J. Bryan, urged that Bryan nomin ate Roosevelt for president on the Democratic ticket. Secretary Taft declared that Cuba was to be turned over to the Cubans as soon as possible, made recommend ations as to the holding of elections and sailed for Porto Rico. The Bank of Conception in Clyde, Mo., was ordered closed by the sec retary of state. Fifteen persons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed an apartment house in Lisbon, Portugal. Congressman Longworth came out in favor of Taft for the presidential nomination. The New York Herald, James Gor don Bennett, its proprietor, and its advertising manager were lined $31, 000 for sending improper matter through the mails. Seven hundred members of the union organized at Bisbee, Ariz., by the Western Federation of Miners, employed by companies which refused recognition of the union, went on strike. A train bearing 340 political exiles left St. Petersburg for Siberia. This is the largest consignment of politi cal prisoners sent to the far east for several months past. Commander Eva Booth of the Salva tion army became seriously ill at Can ton, O. The Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad and H. M. Pearce, acting freight agent, were found guil ty of granting rebates by a jury at Minneapolis. Four trainmen were killed on the Southern Pacific in California by the explosion of two locomotives. Mrs. Mary Bechtel, aged 84 years, and her son Charles, aged 42 years, were burned to death in their home in Philadelphia. The Akron Printing and Paper com pany went into bankruptcy, with lia bilities amounting to $30,000 and as sets the same. The crew of naval barge No. 1 which went adrift in a storm, were j rescued by the steamer Professor j Woermann. Directors of the Provident Securi- ; ties and Banking company of Boston j are accused by the receivers of hav- j ing squandered $200,000 of its money. Annie Adair of Triumph. 111., is dead from swallowing muriatic acid, which she mistook for a sleeping medicine. Richard Crcker is in exceedingly poor health, according to John Fox, a Tammany leader, who has just re turned to New York from England. j With a bullet in her brain Mabel Guy, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guy of Middleton. N. Y„ walked a mile to Thrall hos pital for treatment. She may re cover. The United Engineers' society : opened its new home in New York j for the erection of which Andrew ' Carnegie gave $1,500,000. The Lincoln Savings and Trust ! company of Philadelphia was closed J by the state commissioner of banking because its capital was impaired. It is said that the death of the late Congressman Galusha A. Grow was hastened by a gang of New York swindlers, who levied blackmail upon him, using a woman as their willing tool. One person was killed and about 15 injured In a wreck on the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad near Hardwick, Vt. Gen. Lawrence S. Baker, who was a well-known confederate commander, died at Suffolk, Va. Edgar Combe, son of the ex-premier of France, died of appendiitis. Following his indictment on the charge of using the mails to defraud, returned by the federal grand Jury, H. H. Tucker, Jr., of Cherryvale, Kan., secretary and promoter of the Uncle Sam Oil company, who was arrested in Kansas City, was arraigned in the United States district court at Topeka and held- in $15,000 bail. Dunbar hall at Phillps-tfxeter aca demy, Exeter, N. H., was destroyed by fire and a number of students had narrow escapes. According to a decision reached by the interstate commerce commission E. H-. Harriman will be made to ap pear in a United States circuit court in the state of New York in answer to proceedings to be instituted to com pel him to reply to certain questions which he refused to answer when he was on the stand at the recent hear ing by the commission in New York. A sneak thief took $1,700 from the paying teller's cage in the State Na tional bank, St. Louis, and escaped. The plant of the Amsterdam (N. Y.) Broom company, the largest inde pendent brush and broom concern in the country, was completely des troyed by fire, causing a loss of $100, 500. William Sullivan, fireman, was killed by a falling wall. The Memphis Jockey club was in dicted for permitting betting at its track. The freight steamer Sagamore, ply ing between Oyster Bay, L. L, and Port Chester, N. Y„ went ashore on the rocks near the entrance of Port Chester harbor. The crew of ten was saved. Mrs. T. H. Ismav, widow of the rounder of the White Star Steamship line and. mother of Joseph Bruce Is- ( may, president of the International' * Mercantile Marine company, died in London. One of the large buildings in the League Island navy yard, Philadel phia, containing the saw mill. Joiner shop and pattern shop, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Officers at the yard estimated the loss at be tween $70,000 at $100,000. D. H. Kochersperger, formerly treasurer of C6ok count, Illinois, and prominent in Chicago politics, is dead. The Ojl Paper company of Tokio ordered $1,000,000 worth of machinery from the General Electric company of New York. Dr. Samuel S. Guy, a prominent dentist of Par Rockaway and for a number of years coroner of Queens Borough, was under arrest charged with the murder of his wife. The directors of the State. Bank of Goddard, Kan., whose cashier, W. H. Dwight, committed suicide, announced that over $10,000 was missing from the vault of the bank. The directors decided to dose up the affairs of the bank. i HARMONY SOCIETY. COMMUNISTIC SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA TO DISBAND. Interesting Life of Over a Century Which Has Been Enjoyed by the Community Founded by Rapp. There is now being enacted in the courts of Pennsylvania the closing chapters in the history of the old Economy religious communistic set: tlement, which has maintained* an ex istence for over a century, but which is now more than likely to escheat to the state owing to litigation which has arisen. The story of the Harmony society, or Economites, as they have been called, is an interesting one. Its found er was a man named Rapp who came to this country early last century. It was in 1787 that he began forming the nucleus of what afterward be came the social community he estab lished. Born and raised in Iptingen. Wurtemberg, he began to preach to his neighbors and friends on Sunday afternoons, believing as he did that the churches were not fulfilling their mission. So large did his Sunday audiences become that the clergy re sented Rapp's intrusion. The found er and his adherents were arrested, and, naturally, immediately they in creased in numbers. . Then, In 1803, he turned his face to the new world. The next year 600 persons followed him to this country, half of them landing in Baltimore and the second party going to Philadel phia. There was a third party of about 300, but they listened to the pleadings of one of Rapp’s lieutenants and deserted the founder, forming a community by themselves in another part of the country. Before bringing the party to Amer ica Rapp had bought a tract of 5,000 acres about 25 miles north of Pitts burg in the Connoquessing valley. To this wild land only recently vacated by the red man the party came, and on February 15. 1S05, formed among themselves the Harmony society, agreeing to throw all they owned into one common fund for the use of all. r In those days the doctrine of celibacy was not in their article of faith. Rapp himself was married, and his son. John Rapp, look a wife about this , time. T*en years spent in the Connoquess ing valley convinced the Harmonites that it was unsuited to their purposes. Consequently, in 1815, they sold the land for $100,000, and with this money purchased 30,000 acres in Posey coun ty, Indiana. There the town of Har ! mony was erected. About 150 families from Germany there joined the asso ciation. In 1824 the Rappista were again looking for new quarters, and the following year returned to Penn sylvania, the tract at Economy, on the Ohio river, about 17 miles north of Pittsburg, having been purchased. At Economy the new community appear ed to flourish. The town was built by mechanics found among the so ciety’s members, and Frederick Rapp, Old Economite Church Erected by Fa ther Rapp in 1832. a son of the founder, was the hand that guided this enterprise. Rapp died at the age of 90, in 1847. During the life of the founder most of the theological tenets of the Har monists were formed. They have some features of German mysticism grafted upon a practical application of the Christian doctrine and theory. NATION’S WATERWAYS WILL BE UTILIZED MORE FULLY IN NEAR FUTURE. Rivers and Railroads Should Not Be Rivals, But Mutual Helpers, Says Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell. The national rivers and harbors congress is promulgating the gospel of waterways improvements through out the country, and sentiment un doubtedly is growing toward more extended utilization of the rivers and old canal systems. The slogan of the organization at the present time is an ‘'annual appropriation of $50,000, 000 for river and harbor improve Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, President of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. ments.” At its last convention held in December, 1906, at Washington, there was an attendance of over 1,000 of the most prominent business men of 'the United States, a significant indication of the interest in tae move ment The association does not. ad vocate any special project whatso ever, and is forbidden by its rules to do so. but it stands for generous treatment of all our waterways and sufficient funds to improve every wa ter course in the union that is worthy. It is firmly convinced that the merits of its cause are so great that if prop erly understood they will carry convic tion to all minds and be irresistible.' There are two entirely separate and distinct kinds of waterway improve ments—one, the harbors on our great lakes and sea coasts, Including those near the mouths of our great rivers and connecting channels on the lakes; and the other, our interior rivers and canals and connecting channels along our sea coasts. Appropriations have been fairly liberal for most of our great harbors, such as Duluth, Mil waukee, Chicago, Cleveland and Buf falo on the lakes; Boston, New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and Savannah on the Atlantic; Pensacola. New Orleans, Mobile and Galveston on the gulf; San Francisco, Portland and Seattle on the Pacific. These har bors are the terminals for ships of deep draft, which carry our commerce on the lakes and seas. The case is quite different in regard to the improvement of rivers and In ternal waters, declares Mr. R&nsdell. and for most of them appropriations have been entirely inadequate. For a long time it was thought that not only was there no mutuality of inter est between river and rail, but an actual rivalry and antagonism be tween them. It was believed that, as water rates are so much cheaper than rail, the improvement of rivers would reduce rail rates below the point of profit, and that vast quanti ties of freight would move by water. Hence there was little or no support given by railroads to river improve ments. But a change has come over the spirit of railroads, and in some striking instances they have actually assisted river and canal improve ments. About lour years ago the taxpayers of New York had submitted to them a bond issue of $101,000,000 for the enlargement of the Erie and other canals so as to carry boats of from 1,000 to 1,500 tons burden, and al though the New York Central railroad is the largest tax payer in the state, it voted for and supported that bond issue, taking the ground that the im provement of the Erie canal would cat'se such a great influx of people into the state along its banks and so many additional manufacturing enter* prises that the business of the road in the carriage of passengers and high class freights would be very much augmented, and the roac! would profit thereby, although the canal would carry the low class freight at a much reduced rate. During recent years the best friends of national aid to the Mississippi river, between Cairo and the gulf, have been the Illinois Central and the Mis soi-ri Pacific railroads, and now we find Mr. James J. Hill of the North ern Pacific strongly urging that the Mississippi be deepened to 1!> fee; from St. Louis to the gulf. Frog Long Imprisoned in Tree. While an old horse chestnut stump was being cut down at Lathbury, Eng land, a live frog was discovered be tween the bark and the Umber, about 15 inches from the ground. The bark was thick and had grown completely around it, and. writes a correspond ent, there was not the slightest hole through which a frog could have crept in recent years. The tree has shown no signs of life for at least five years past, and on the lowest computaUon the bark musf have had two years' growth’. The frog must therefore have been cut off in its prison from light and food for at least seien years. It was yellow and Bmall, but in excel lent health, and when placed on the .grass hopped off. - The Future Education. Fond Mother—What’s • the matter with my little boy? Doesn’t he want mamma’s nice Yeddy bear? Young Financier—N-o-o, I don’t. I want one of papa’s nice Wall street hulls.—Baltimore American. His Calculation. ! see prune crop ia 1906 was 185,090,000 pounds, against 62,500,000 in 1905/’ remarked the “I boarder. "Well,” replied the thin one across the table, "those figures would seem to indicate that we will be served with Prunes three times as often this •Yonkers Statesman. as last.’ Hardly. i Mrs. Subbubs—There’s the cart with the piano we bought Uvdav. You <*> just send it back. Mr. Subbubs—Why? Mrs. Subbubs—Do you suppose that we are going to pay 50 guinea for a Piano and have it brought home at night, when the neighbors can’t see it Eh?—Royal Magazine. His Change. "You certainly look better; you must have followed my advice and had a change.” . "Yes, doctor, so 1 have” "Where did yon go?" “1 went to another physician.