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CAPITAL CITY CHAT THE RAILWAY COMMISSION GETS RIGHT ^NTO ACTION. IS NOW ISSUING ORDERS Governor Sheldon Took No Chances on Veto Messages and Signs All Measures Within Legal Time Limit. Railway Commission. The state railway commission has placed an interpretation upon that part of the railway commission bill requiring railroads to report tonnage of freight hauled. The commission has also issued a notice intended to ] inform the public of the fact that the two-ceut fare bill passed by the legis lature is in force and has been since the date the governor attached his signature approving the measure. Attorney Ben White and Agent .Mc Ginnis of Lincoln, Neb., both repre senting I he Northwestern road, called to ask the commission for an interpre tation of that part of the railway corn mis 'io* aw requiring railroads to re po1'' * t tonnage, under three elas ,• <ge originating and term inating . braska, tonnage originat ing in NeOraska whose destination is in some oth"r state and tonnage origi nating in another state and terminat ing in Nebraska. Order No. 1 of the commission re quires railroads to keep notices post ed at the ticket windows in stations informing people that the 2-cent rate is in force in this state and that such rate is applicable only between points in this state. The rate is not applic able from a point within Nebraska to A point without the state for a con tinuous ticket, and vice versa, but if a passenger desires to go beyond the I borders of the state he can obtain the benefit of the two-cent fare within the state of Nebraska by buying a ticket to the nearest station within the bor ders of Nebraska, if a passenger de sires to go from some station in the interior of the state to Chicago he may buy a ticket to Omaha or any other station within the state at a rate of two cents per mile and then buy a ticket at the rate charged in Iowa which will be three cents a mile until July when a two cent fare bill will he in force in that state also. Vetoes Believed to Be Valid. Governor Sheldon took no chances in regard to the date of his veto mes sages. It is an open question whether or not he has five days within the time bills are delivered to him or five days. Sundays excepted, from the date upon which the legislature agreed to adjourn, but did not. The records of the legislature show that it ad journed Thursday noon, April 4. In fact it Uid not adjourn until Saturday afternoon, April 6. While the records of the two houses show that the leg islature adjourned April 4 at noon, the same records contain many paragraphs showing that the legislature presented bills to the governor up to Saturday, two days after it was supposed to have stopped the clock and adjourned. The governor took no chances and decided to dispose of all bills before him by midnight Wednesday, April 10. Whether the legislature really ad journed Thursday, April 4, or Satur day, April 6, it matters not. The gov ernor disposed of the bills within five days in either case. If he had not clone so it would not have affected bills that received his approval, but there was a possibility that his vetoes, if not given by Wednesday, April 10, might have been without force and that the bills he did veto would have become laws ■tiyr reason of his failure to approye them within five days from the day of I the adjournment of the legislature. Court Commission Appointments. E. C. Calkins of Kearney and E. E. Good of Wahoo, both republicans, were appointed members of the Ne braska supreme court commission to succeed I. L. Albert of Columbus and W. D. Oldham of Kearney, both demo crats. The three judges of, the court. Chief Justice S. H. Sedgwick, Judge J. B. Barnes and Judge C. B. Letton, were elected on the republican ticket. The appointment was made for a term of one year. Mr. Calkins was a regent of the state university, but he has resigned to accept the new position. The salary of court commissioner is $2,500 a year with clerk hire. Mr Good is <a resident of Wahoo, which is also the home of Judge B. F. Good, a democrat, who is judge of the dis trict court in the fifth judicial district. The court commission is now made us as follows: Commission No. 1—A. B. Duffle, E. E. Good, A. C. Epperson. Commission No. 2—N. B. Jackson, John H. Ames, E. C. Calkins. Commissioner Oldham, who has not practiced low for about ten years at once entered upon active practice. Governor to Appoint. The resignation of Regent Calkins of Kearney to take a place on the supreme court commission will put it in the power of Governor Sheldon to appoint his successor to serve until the next general election. This appoint ment will almost amount to an elec tion for the republicans will be very likely to select in their primary the man picked out by the governor for the office. The same thing is true of the selection of Mr. Clarke for a place on the railroad commission. Has a Ruling. The Lincoln Commercial club has a ruling from the interstate commerce commission that will sooner or later end the practice of charging three cents a mile for the Nebraska end of a Journey extending into another state. The charge for the state Jour ney must be the same as the local fare to the state line plus the rest of the rate. It is a good deal of bother to buy to Omaha or Rulo or Platto ino'uth and then get a ticket or pay on the train after crossing the state line. This Rifi soon end the nuisance. Blow ot Economy. The heads of the state institutions who “saved” state funds during their ierius of office with the avowed pur pose of spending the money for some thing which the legislature did not Intend such* funds should be used for, arc not satisfied with the ruling of the state auditor that claims incurred af ter April 1, 1907, will not be allowed to be drawn from appropriations made by the legislature of 1905. Claims in curred prior to April 1 need not be presented until August 1, but if they are presented after that date they will not be allowed by the state audi tor. The fact that some state appro priations will actually revert to the state treasury has caused all kinds of grief. Attorney General Thompson, who supports the riling of the audi tor has $6,000 left oit of a $10,000 ap propriation made two years ago to conduct prosecutions under the suite anti-trust laws. Change Is Needed. The experience of the legislature I with the faulty enrolling of bills may result some time in the introduction of more businesslike methods, it al ways happens at the close of the ses sion that the big appropriation bills with a host of other eleventh nouf measures pour upon the enrolling rooms fairly swamping the com mittees. These bills, the most import ant of the entire session, must be hurried out with scarcely time to proof-read properly. Either the legis lature should provide against the final iusli by the employment of experts and plenty of them or there should be a change in the provision that permits the appropriation bills to lag till all other business is over. No session es capes without the promise that the appropriations will he disposed of in time and there has been several in stances within the memory of man when a session did not have to w’ait for one to two days for the enrolling of the big bills. Legislatures and courts are the last to take up an innovation and It may he a long time before any change in the procedure will be made. Coal Men Not Satisfied. The coal men of the state do not view with any particular gratification the presence of an amendment iu the measure requiring track scale weign.s on grain which was aot adopted by the senate. This bill was tne source ot tnree hard contests on the door of the house on the motion of Cone of Saund ers- who sought to compel the railroads to furnish track weights in grain. The history of the bill indicates, however, that the measure was drafted original ly by the coal tnen who desired to get a check on the open cars sent across the state. Provision for weights on grain was incorporated with the view , of getting farmer support for the meas ure. The elevator men then turned in and sought to prove that there was no crying need for track weights on grain and the legislature cut it out. But now the provision for weighing grain exists in the bill and is likely to invalidate the measure. Will Show Lieniency. The advocates of the child labor law admit that it might as well have been enacted without the emergency clause, as it will do children very little good ; to be forced into school for a few weeks at the end of the year. For this teason a little leniency will be shown in the enforcement of the lav. in Lin coln at least during the remainder of j the school year. After that a consci | entious effort will be made to prevoit ! children being kept out of school to j pam money. The fear is expressed in | Omaha that "wholesale prosecutions” will follow the efforts of the officers to ! enforce the law. The officers in charge of the work in Lincoln look for nothing ; of the kind. So far they have found i parents and employers reasonable, and the system of permits that is already in operation promises to work without serious friction of any kind. Soldiers Slow to Draw Pay. The governor of Nebraska has in his hands about $18,000 that belongs to Nebraska soldiers of the Spanish American war. The slowness with which the soldiers of the three Ne braska regiments call for the little ! that is due them and the large number * that are either dead or cannot be | found, is surprising. For instance the last member of the First Nebraska field staft and bind has just been I found and it developes that he has been in Nebraska all the time. Dr. Jedfcen has been located in Omaha and has just received the $17.76 due him as an officer of the First Nebraska. The pay due the Nebraska soldiers is for the time spent in a mustering camp from May 4 to May !• or 11, 1898. The claims were allowed by the. depart ment at Washington in September, 1905. Showing bow difficult it is for the adjutant genera: of the state to locate members of the Nebraska regi ments, a letter addressed to the cap tain of company A, First regiment, brought hack an answer containing the address of three out of nineteen men whose address was unknown, the names of three reported dead, the ad dresses of eleven were not known and one was guessed at Culver Issues Order. Adjutant General J. H. Culver has issued an order 'assigning the inde pendent militia company at Rushville to the place made vt.cant by the mus tering out of company I, First regi me^:, at Wahoo. The headquarters of tile second regiment band may be changed from Wisner to Lincoln. It has been found difficult to keep the band men together at Wisner and a change in location inay soon be or dered. Governor Receives Check. Governor Sheldon has received a check from the general government for !f2,857.77 for support of state sol diers’ homes in this state. The gov ernment appropriates $100 annually for each member in a state home for soldiers, the money to be used for the support of such homes. As a mat ter of Pact the money goes Into the state fund, becomes a part of the general fund of the state and does not go direct to the support of soldiers’ homes. NEW HEAD OF GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD* uruiiiUMiuttiaiuuiiu’m.m-mmmm tasju-t.s/r i Louis W. Hill, elected president of the Great Northern railroad, has bc^n vice president of the road. He is the elder son of J. J. Hill, who has trained both his sons for railroad worn. COULDN’T REFUSE TO DRINK. Preacher’s Predicament of Nearly a Century Ago. in speaking of the evil of intemper ance Dr. Wayland Hoyt has related the following: “In the autobiography of Dr. Good ell. prefixed to his life, he tells us that 70 or 80 years ago a very godly minister used to pass his father’s door and often stepped in to see the family. Once the minister chanced to meet there the family physician, and he asked his advice. He said: ‘I am about visiting the sick and the af flicted and the inquiring, and every where I am asked to take something to drink. 1 cannot decline without giving mortal offense, but after awhile 1 find myself growing dizzy, and I am afraid that I shall say or do some thing to disgrace myself. Now, what do you advise me to do about this?” After great deliberation the physi cian advised him to, as soon as he felt himself growing dizzy, go home to his study while he was able to Valk. There he was to sit until the dizziness had passed off, when he could resume his visiting. That was nearly a century ago, and it never occurred to either of them to “cut it out.” Fancy a TYPES OF ALL NATIONS. Cosmopolitan Gathering Seen in a New York Hotel. New York's cosmopolitanism was well illustrated the other night in the lobby of the Fifth Avenue hotel. On one of the lounges sat two Japanese chattering animatedly. On another seat close by sat a man who looked like a native of the Blue Grass staff He was tall and lanky, wore a large brimmed felt hat, and a liberal dis play of shirt front. On another lounge in the opposite end of the hall sat an Englishman conversing with a Scotch man. The English twang and the Scotch burr could be heard distinctly. On a seat further down the row a somewhat stout individual was rest lng himself. He made his nationality evident, as he was reading a German newspaper. Still further down th6 1 line sat two men talking and puffing I away at cigarettes. One was an Anglo i Indian and the other a prosaic Canadi ' an. Just within the hallowed precinct j of the “Amen Corner” United States Senator Dubois, of Idaho, was seated, looking the picture of contentment, ■ with his tegs crossed and pulling at a black cigar. As if to further emphasize this cos mopolitanism, a colored hackman en PROOF THAT THIS IS THE AGE OF STEEL. .No. 1. Floating steel bridge intended for crossing lakes and arms or the sea. No. 2. A steel island hotel site. No. 3. Floating steel coaling station. Vessels lie on the leeward side in smooth water when coaling. No. 4. Float ing steel lighthouse. preacher of to-day pursuing such leisurely methods! Kindly Words and Deeds. How few estimate the power of ! kindly words and deeds; and yet j what mortal being has not felt their benefit and sweetness? How many a weary lot has been cheered and brightened by their gentle sunshine! What music there is in a kind ex pression of sympathy—what radiance I in a gentle smile! And how little do ! these Heaven-entailed duties of life cost to the giver, and how dp they confer on the receiver? A Gross Libel. Gaddie—I saw you at the tailor’s yesterday, looking at trousers. Dudley—Oh! gracious, don't you go spreading a lie like that! Gaddie—But I did see you. Dudley—You did not. You may have seen me looking at "trouserings.” “Trousers" are ready-made.—Philadel phia Press. Lost Not a Moment. Molly—When you spoke to father did you tell him you had |500 in the bank? George—Yes. Molly—And what did he say? George—He borrowed it! No Chance at All. “Tiat Martel Is really a terrible bore. He talked last night for hours and only stopped to cough.” “Well, I suppose you could get a word in edgeways then?" “Rather not, for while he was cough ing he made signs with his hands that he was going on afterward.” French Eat Little Meat. Only seven per cent of the food of a French peasant consists of meat, while an English navvy’s food is 28 per cent. meat. tered the hotel with a trunk on his back. This is not to speak of the hotel’s three husky Irish porters, whq were hustling in and out of tho ball with baggage.—N. Y. Times. Florida Shark Story. A tarpon pursued by a shark near Garden Key, California, in one of its tremendous leaps fell across a skill containing two fishermen who were so busily engaged with a net they did not notice its approach. The skiff broke in two, the fisher men became entangled in the net and the shark took a huge bite out of the side of one of them, Belton Lar kin, cutting his body nearly in two. It is thought the shark mistook Lar kin’s body for the tarpon it was in pursuit of, for sharks in those waters have never been known to attack a man. Good Advice. Reformer—Men, I don’t see how you can drink that whisky. Red Nose—Didn’t you ever drink any? Reformer (with scorn)—Never a drop in my life. Red Nose—Well, don’t you start in There’s hardly enough to go 'round at it is.—Toledo Blade. Wanted—A Sound Killer. Will not some sympathetic scientist tell me what to place beneath my typewriter to silence it? I have tried felt half an inch thick, bottle packing pasteboard, rubber, etc., yet the clock-click-click can be heard a block away by the ice man, who al ways wants a brainstorm cocktail when the sound smites his auricular nerve. I want a non-conductor be tween the top of the desk and the feet of the machine. Suggestions thankfully received.—N. Y. Press. CHANGE IN THE HOME. Good Thing to Get Away from Mo notony of Sameness. There are hundreds of women who clean house and every article, even down to an insignificant little pin | cushion, .is put right back in its old accustomed place. There is nothing so monotonous as a house forever pre senting the same appearance. It is pleasant to make a cheerful change in every room. There is a woman who makes it a rule to always change some of her pictures. She has a num ber of beautiful frames, so she se lects new prints for them. The best masters are copied and it is possible to secure beautiful pictures for only a little money. Then the old prints may be put away for future use. it has a great deal to do with making home look a little more cheerful. Women have learned that a few good articles in a room are more artistic than a great amount of gaudy furni ture, apd this new regime of house hold affairs is responsible for less work, too. In this age, when there is every convenience imaginable, it really seems strange that any well regulated household would need the assistance of servants only on spe cial occasions. But it seems the more women have to work with, the less able are many to do even a little work without having the assistance of a hired girl. To properly man age a home every woman must use her brains to save her strength, and many do, but there are a great many who merely exist in houses and do not live in homes. LINEN FOR THE KITCHEN. Good Housekeeper Pays Much Atten tion to This. The kitchen department should re ceive the same careful attention that is lavished on the more showy table linen. The homely things of the kitchen may not be quite as apparent to your guests as the napkins and doilies, but there is a great peace and self-respect for the housekeeper in the knowledge of neat piles of towels and dusters. A dozen crash towels of two grades, coarse for kitchen utensils and finer for china; a dozen glass towels for sil ver, glass and porcelain; a half-dozen heavy crash floor cloths; a half-dozen dish cloths; a dozen dusters of cheese cloth, or, as some greatly prefer, silk aleen; a half-dozen roller towels; two or three canton flannel bag3 to pin over the broom in dusting poMshed floors, and three chamois skins for polishing silver or brass—all these hemmed by machine if need be. by hand if possible, and marked with red cross stitch in a uniform manner—all these are essential to neat work in the kitchen. She Made Pretty Portieres. It is not always easy to secure ma terial for portieres that are at once pretty and inexpensive. One woman who has been searching the town over for a fabric combining the two qualities was almost in despair when a friend, a decorator, suggested that she get mocha canvas for her sleep ing-room doors and velveteen in a soft reseda shade for her library door way. As the walls were green the colors harmonized charmingly, and all told did not cost more than $12 for the two pairs. The canvas is loosely woven and resembles burlap in appearance, though much softer, and hangs much m«re gracefully. It costs 50 cents a yard, and is very wide. The velve teen, which is also double width, can be obtained in a number of soft color ings, and while handsome is not so rich locking that it kills ever;#iing else in the room. It is especially ef fective with mahogany or dark oak and with Circassian walnut. Homemade Candy. Everton Taffy.—Take one pound of brown sugar of good quality, two ounces of butter and one-half a glass ful of water. Let the sugar and wa ter come to boil till it forms a ball in cold water, then put in the butter, boiling all till it cracks when thread ed. Add six drops of lemon essence, stirring briskly. Pour into buttered pans. Separate the taffy while still warm with a knife. Butter Scotch.—Boil together one pound of brown sugar and four ounces of butter. As soon as it cracks when threaded add a good pinch of cooking soda: let it boil two minutes longer, then run into buttered pans. Before it is quite cool mark lightly in squares the required size, give a brisk tap and it will separate. Set in a cold place. Hominy Crumpets. These must be "set” over night Beat well together one pint of milk one-fourth of a cupful of sugar, twc tablespoonfuls of melted butter, four cupfuls of flour and one cupful of well-boiled hominy. Add one com pressed yeast cake dissolved in fout tablespoonfuls of water and a tea spoonful of salt and set in a warn' place. Half an hour before breakfast is served add one-fourtli of a tea spoonful of soda, dissolved in a lit tie hot wr.ter, beat thoroughly for five minutes, partly fill muffin rings, and stand in a warm place for half an hour. Bake quickly and serve piping hot. Cleansing Agencies. Soft cheese cloth wrapped loosely about a long handled broom, passed over the wallpaper once or twice a month, absorbs the dust. Thick crust? of stale bread rubbed downward will remove soil. To extract grease stains from wall paper * mix powdered pipe clay with water to the consistency of cream, spread it on the spots, and allow it to remain over night, when it easily may be removed with a knife or brush. To Shrink Cloth. A simple way of shrinking heavy cloth is to hang It on the clothesline with the fold on the line and sprinkle it with the garden hose. This method is not good for light or loosely woven cloth, as the weight of the water will make It sag and lose its shape, but it is a safe and rapid treatment foi Scotch tweeds, suitings, or heavy broadcloths. ASSISTANT TO JEROME. FRANK GARVAN IS MAN WHO PREPARES CASES. - Weeks and Months of Work Are Often Necessary to Prepare for Trial That Lasts but a Few Days. New York.—There was a trial in the criminal courts building a short time ago in which it took two days to pre sent the evidence to the jury. It was a trial of some importance to the com munity and for that reason there was some comment on the speed with which it was disposed of. Nothing was said about the time that had been taken in preparing the case from the standpoint of the prosecution. As a matter of fact, two members of the dis trict attorney's staff had been engaged for two months in examining wit nesses and getting the evidence in shape. When the public hears of a trial that lasts two weeks, or perhaps six weeks, little attention is paid to the days and weeks there are put in whipping the case into shape. There is a young man in the district attorney’s office to-day who has had practically sole charge of preparing five of the most important criminal cases in recent years. He is Francis P. Garvan, an assistant district attor ney. It is no exaggeration to say that he has had a wider knowledge of the inside history of the Nan Patterson murder trial, the second Roland B. Molineux trial, Albert T. Patrick's fight for life, the Dodge-Morse mar riage and divorce tangle and the Thaw case than any other one man. It has been his job to get these cases ready for presentation to the jury, and ! while that was being done he has had charge of the homicide bureau in the district attorney's office in addition to prosecuting makers of fraudulent claims against fire insurance com panies and taking the routine court work which every member pf Mr. Jerome’s staff has to do in his turn. Mr. Garvan is a young man. a few years past the 30 mark. He looks younger, almost boyish. An observer of the Thaw trial pictured him as "the man behind the gun." He was prompt ing District Attorney Jerome in some important technical piece of evidence In the case. More than once Mr. Jerome has spoken of the careful and painstaking manner in which this G'oung man, who was an athlete at Yale and got his early legal training in the office of Col. James, got in shape all the evidence concerning the killing of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw. “I never knew of a case better pre pared,’- was one remark made by Mr. Jerome. * In every criminal case, especially the ones that are taken up by the newspapers, an enormous amount of anonymous information is sent to the district attorney’s office. If the case is properly prepared all thia information unless it is absurd on its face, must be investigated. It has often been the case that information furnished anony mousiy has been very valuable. Scores of witnesses who think they have something to tell are examined only to show that they know nothing of value, but are seeking notoriety and feel that by being a witness of some kind they will be able to get into the court every day and hear the trial Then there are cranks who look sane enough, but have only theories which they expound as facts. In every so called “big" case these pet sons have to he disposed of before any real work A \ FRANCIS P. GARVAN. (Assistant District Attorney of New York City.) is done, and all through the prepara tion of the ease they have to be elim inated. It requires enthusiasm, tenacity, cleverness, a knowledge of the law and human nature and common sense to prepare a difficult case. It is all done in the office, where the limelight is shut off. One of the essential things is to keep from the public, and there fore the lawyers for the defendant, what is going on—unless it helps the prosecution's side of it. Mr. Garvan possesses all these qual ities. He has a great capacity for work—work that means many sleep less nights. To his friends he is known as Pete, Mike or Pat Garvan as fancy dictates. Through it all he re mains young—so young that a district attorney front a western city, a vet m eran of many cases, remarked when Mr. Garvan was pointed out to him at one of the trials: “So that is Garvan, who has been mentioned in our home papers so often. He is a mere boy.” HISTORIC HUNDRED OAKS. Handsome Country Home in Tennes see the Retreat of Paulist Fathers. Memphis.—The many prominent families of Tennessee who were en tertained at Hundred Oaks, the his toric country home of Former Gov. Home of the Paulist Fathers. Albert S. Marks, near Winchester, Tenn., during the life of that states man would hardly recognize the beau tiful old place should they visit it again. The stately oak trees have never been touched by the ax and the outward appearance is about the same as it was when Gov. Marks en tertained dignitaries there 60 lavish ly, but the interior has seen a revolu tion. Hundred Oaks is now the retreat of the Paulist Fathers of the Roman Catholic church and the interior of the place has been changed to meet the tastes of that sect. For many years Hundred Oaks was, and, per haps, is yet, the handsomest home in Tennessee, and its history is about as interesting as the place is beautiful. The castle, it might be called, sits in the center of an elevated plat of ground of about 30 acres, heavily wooded. Oak predominates, hence the name. Some years before the war, the Hunt family, one of the wealthiest in middle Tennessee, bought the place and erected the first brick residence built in that section. It was then a two-story but pretty house. The civil war brought conditions that broke up A MISGUIDED NOVELIST. “I have written a story,” said the ambitious young novelist, "that I think you will wish to publish. May I bring the manuscript around for your examination ?” “Is the hero a married man who falls in love with a young girl or , elopes with another man's wife?’ asked the publisher. “No. It isn't a sex problem story. I have tried to make it—” “I suppose it deals with high finance. Is Rockefeller, thinly dis guised, the central figure?" “No. I'm not a financial expert. I have kept away from that sort of thing. It seems to me that the finan cial problem has been pretty well worked out, anyhow. I have tried—" “0‘n, I see. It's a political novel. You show up the methods of the men who keep themselves in oflice against the wishes of the people. Is the lead ing character a Senator or a gov ernor?" “I have kept away from politics, too. My story is—” “Ah, it takes up the question of religion. I see. Well, I might be tempted to publish a story of that kind, if—’’ “No. It isn't a religious story. I I would not feel competent to wrltet such a—” "Then it must be a historical novel. Really, I am afraid that sort of thing has been over ?ione. The last three historical novels that I have publish ed have fallen rather flat." “No, ray story is just just a romance. A love story, intended to entertain and to Eimuse. There is no attempt to deal with any. great problen), but I have endeavored to give it a literary flavor, to—’’ "My dear sir, it is evident that you don’t understand why we ha.ve such a thing as Action. I could not pos sibly undertake to publish such a story as yours. You might as well expect people to buy poetry as to think they would have a novel that possessed a literary flavor."—Chicago Record-Herald. i the family fortune and the place was 1 purchased by Gov. Albert 8. Marks 1 soon after the war. He moved there and occupied it as his home, rebuild ! ing it at the same time. The place was completetd as it now appears in about 1872. It was handsomely finish ed in hardwood and the old English i hall contained one of fhe finest li 1 braries in Tennessee. Gov. Marks I loved company and frequently had many guests there for weeks at a time. Some 17 years ago the place ; passed to Gov. Marks' son, Arthur, who married Miss Mary Hunt, uniting ; the lineage of the first owner with : the new. A few’ years later Arthur j Marks sold the place to the Paulist i Fathers, having been converted to i that faith, and it has been made the j principal retreat for the order in | America KNIGHTED BY ITALY’S KING. Signal Honor for Prof. Lanz, a Me chanical Engineering Expert. Boston.—Prof. Gaetano Lanza, head of the mechanical engineering depart | ment of the Massachusetts institute of I technology, has been knighted by ; King Emmanuel ill. of Italy. The knighthood is of the order of Mauritius and Lazarus, one of the l most important and ancient in Italy. Its membership is small, being made pp wholly of men of signal ability who are of Italian descent. Prof. Lanza is known the world ! over as an eminent authority on test ; ing of materials, and he is a corre | sponding member of numerous so i cieties on that subject. He is a na tive of Boston, being born in 1848. His father was an Italian from Paler ! mo, while his mother was from Ver mont. From the time of his appoint ment to an instructorship in applied mechanics in 1871 at the institute of technology, his rise has been steady in his chosen profession. Since 1883 | he has been in full charge of the me I chanical engineering course, one of j the most important in the curricu lum.