Nebraska Newspapers

    The Ltnp City Northwestern
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LOCI I* CITY. - - KCORASKA
NEWS BRIEFLY FOLD
mteujgcmce here gathered
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
hcl«a«i Wlut ■* Gri«) On at Wash
lafUn and in Other Sections of
th« Country.
Caapnaaa.
ir Nr* land* U3 roduc<*d a re
tW4 it.’restate tradr «mtuieekm
but
Kmater UeLaau tattwhieed a bill
ta* u». > cigars
Iron tkimul rrirtur tax.
Wairiidoga <-f the treasury refused
So yuan at aa afynpruika tor
•aul drfrlur at Cap*- HrM).
T&r Huntvr Ituiaigru: a>b <-©ai*'.^»uo
dr- 4n<t to r.-; ort favorably a bill bar
r.a* BUmir immigrw*
Sraatur Itapnt deturi election
eurruprioe cfcarkea n.ad* by Senator
b w • aiwicaiiMi nouluiton.
is a rpertal nsessase Pre*idet! Taft
artnl rnngr- - » to ton: im iMii*
•or aa Aaniru oArer to trrvt as as
List ru. tor ta CUbu army.
ffiiwstinr Catbmoa yw»«m- i a >•
U-r tram Kss Vaioaa>. Tea.. tUumia)
V»f « >t» • a* betas need aa a plot tiny
terr « Meuras retoteticnir-*.
M-naUir Siou» introduced resotu
ties directing foreign relations con
luttM- to mtir proB|x inquiry into
saodtlmos on Uniru border.
1?*-**lot < 'utnmins spoke favoring
(rami |—mcn Irciiiaiios. savins
the government couM lax wealth if
•htmut to provide revenue.
In iL> bouse the amendment to the
fortiSc* <.«» appropriations bill rfo
»^io- lot the soiemtn*ct to m*nu
fat'.rrr Us onn powdet was defeated.
British Ambassador Bryce evplsin
#4 the British legislative system to
the house Judiciary com mute, in con
nection with the legislative bureau
MIL
Senator Hitchcock, speak ice on bis
rrsUctss regarding Colombia, said
the i ■ solis at Panama from Colombia
«a» a conspiracy approved by the
t ailed States
Sena’-r Brtstos spoke against the
majority report of the ornate commit
tee exonerating Senator Stephenson
of the charges of corruption in his
Heel ion.
KeprcMt.ts.tive Hughes introduced
n MB incorporating Pres dent Taft's
revsswuhuut.. (or an industrial re
lation rosmiwiot to Investigate in
dnetria* j«r»'j>tc«
Labor bnurr John Williams of
PKteburgk tHd finance mciuiiue* of
the senate say reduction in steel
plate tartS would result In conflict
between capital and labor.
Senator Hitchcock pressed forward
the movement far a senate invest iga
Uon of the dispute between ’he I’mt
ed States and Colombia growing out
at the i st ■hlithmmt at Panama as a
republic He introduced a re-olutlon
ush.-g that the president send to the
senate all co.-re-ponden - anti com
nt-t.’ itises between United States
of I*tvi)irat TJt are
% Ultag to pit turn acaiart R vosevelt.
Huowv ell is casting about
for a sm to manage bis r.-ipalgn.
Rev W. B Uenlf. a personal
t. .«< of Abraham Lincoln. is dead at
Uo Rock. U is
(irrml Hntala bas ncknom l-dged the
rials« of tW t awed fitau-a to fortify
thr IstkalM canal
The aays asd means committee of
the boose t il m deadlock. d oa the
•near tariff schedule
(tartn Loot* Leas, professor of
Greek aed former president at Tran
sylitsb uthmit;. is desd.
Tbr boos# sent on record as favor
lag tbs adoption of the e sht hour
sat day ea all government work.
Tke ;seetdmt nominated < harles
A Overlock of Ariaoaa to be t'niled
I for tbs district of
railroad and
kip met. indicted in Juneau.
Alaska. February is. lor eUr?*d vlo
ta'sua at tke Kbe.-man law (are bonds
Cor tketr sppmranc* in court at
Jemma March |L
IUpr.set.tailve Adamson iairoducrd
for inquiry by in<<-rstate
into charges
that railway sad abippiag combina
Urns lateed to wee the Panama canal
to settle coos petit ton la freight rates.
Tkr appearance of a Preoch dancer,
daring'.* dad. at a Sunday cafe chat
ant. pices by Mr. and Mrs. William
Lhtaeer at Jtswr York is interesting
Washington society
John H Marble, former 1; cl San
Frnbdaea. chief at the division of
at the Interstate ('on
been appoint
the (vaBiiri.ua to
Edaard A. Mosley, who died
last April
Cbrnsrasaa l udemoud said the
mays and means caeaiiur ..ad failed
to Bed a substitute for sugar as a
rrrsant producer, thereby indicating
free sugar was oalikeiy.
Taft docIare» tbs time
for ibis country to be
■eomical at the eapees* ot an adc
tts uul eiublltiiOMil.
Aeoator A V. Pioudfoot of
author lied tbs state
tkst bs will task (be republican
the 1 auamii |_
government Mil. which baa bee]
by tbs bouse committee on in
and foreign commerce, wf!
nth is tea days.
1,01 , |a the Marseilles < France
Inw rwurts. drew A revolver, and. Hi
teg at tia rivals, two lawyer*, klllei
sme of them aed wounded »he othe
—fjrrljr He Ac* sttem?«ri5 to con
The plant of the Montana Packing
company was destroyed by fire at
Butte. The estimated loss is $50,000.
The senate is making ready to take
j up house tariff bills.
Juarez. Mexico, is still an open port
despite order of Madero.
Eight hundred thousand British
I coal miners have ceased work.
President Taft is preparing for an
extended speechmaking tour.
President Madero of Mexico says
he has no thought of resigning.
Both houses of congress interested
themselves in the Lawrence strike
situation.
There was a mutiny o' soldiers at
P< king, and the city was given over
to pillage and burning.
The trust platform of Senator
Cummins was embodied in a bill be
introduced iu the senate.
Senator Cummins offered a bill de
signed to strengthen the anti-trust
arm cf the government
Colonel Roosevelt announces that
he w»il accept the republican nomina
tion for the presidency.
Arizona occupies the distinction of
having no fede-g] official since her ad
mission to statehood.
The I'nited States steel corpora
te is described by an expert exam
iner as one cf the had trusts.
The Third Missouri district republi
can convention split and elected both
Taft and Roosevelt delegates.
The department of justice is inves
tiga;ing the moving picture business
to ascertain is there is a “trust."
Reduction of wages would result
from house steel tariff bill, labor tep
resentatives told finance committee.
Secretary Meyer says the I'nited
States «iu soon sink to fourth place
as a naval power if congress is not
more liberal.
1 he cay of the arrival of Secretary
of State Knox ia Nicaragua is to be
declared a public holiday throughout
the country.
Secretary Meyer was before the
house committee on naval affairs and
urged that the coal fields of Alaska
be used by the government.
Senator Dupont of Delaware voiced
a flat denial of the charges against
him in the resolution introduced by
Senator Heed of Missouri.
Representatives of shoe manufactur
ers urged the department of justice to
stand by its civil criminal suits
agau.st the United Shoe Machinery
compauy.
Senator Poindexter advocated be
fore the interstate commerce commit
tee bis bill for abolition of the United
States commerce court.
Government ownership of express
propi rties ar.d operation by Post office
department is provided in a bill Sen
ator Gardner will introduce,
gathered largely in the Philippines
:.nd Central America, and valued at
$10.0 'i. has left a local nursery In
San Mateo. Cal. for England.
Twenty years in the penitentiary
mas the st utence imposed on Kichard
Palmer, in criminal court at Des
Moines, for the theft of two chickens.
He confessed.
Governor Hiram Johnson of Califor
nia addressed Ohio’s fourth constitu
'..'•nal contention in advocacy of the
initiative referendum and recall. He
made no iiolitical references.
One hundred and seven govern
ment officials will lose free tele
phones when the appropriation com
mittee of the house reports the sup
ply bill.
An appropriation of $55,000 for the
protection of Valdez. Alaska, aud the
adjacent region from glacial floods
■•a- re otumtnutd to the senate by
the commerce commission.
Samuel Cntermeyer told the Inter
state Commerce commission there
was open violation of the anti-trust
laws in the acquisition of smaller rail
reads by certain large eastern sys
tems.
The house began hearings on the
bill providing for increased federal
appropriations for the aid of the state
agricultural college*. The bill con
templates an initial appropriation of
$r,co.noo.
Fifteen children of strikers at Law
rence. Mass, arrived in Washington
and were met by Victor Berger of
Wisconsin, the socialist representa
tive. They came to testify before the
house rules committee of the house.
A request from citizens of Ogden,
Utah, presented to President Taft by
Representative Howell, urging the
government to investigate the strike
of the machinists on the Harriman
itw-s was referred to the department
cf justice.
Winfred T. Denison an assistant at
torney general, during an address be
fore the third annual conference of
the Western Economic society in
Chicago, declared that free play, so
long as it is fair play, should be given
competition and combination alike.
Eleven women were rescued by
firemen during a mid night fire which
destroyed an apartment building at
3449 Idiana avenue. Chicago. Eight
of the women, all of whom were in
bed when the Are was discovered,
were carried down extension ladders
from the fourth story of the building.
►ersor.pt
Senator Dupont of Delaware may
; Mjon undergo investigation.
An investigation of the election of
'aeua. tr Dupont may be undertaken.
President Taft again outlined his
views on sane tariff legislation.
Senator 1-cdge, while he cannot
| support Roosevelt, will not fight him.
South Dakota I-a Kollette incn hare
opened a campaign for their favorite.
Bryan said he was able to see tbe
humorous ride of the Roosevelt can
didacy.
Governor Dix rays Folke E. Brandt
a as proven himself unworthy of a
pardon.
Federal officeholders with a leaning
to either Taft or Roosevelt are advis
ed to keep out of the political gatre.
Senator Dixon of Montana is to be
manager of the Roosevelt campaign.
Col. Roosevelt says he will stand
for another term for president if the
| people want him. ;
Director of the federal census. E. D.
Durant, thinks there ought to be a
count of population every five years.
Oklahoma sent a split delegation to
1 the Baltimore convention equally di
i vided between Wilson and Clark.
I It develops that one or the last let
i term from Roosevelt to Taft was the
i suggestion of the colonel that be
raise a regiment for service in Mexi
co.
FREMONT CATHOLICS TO BUILO
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What la Going on Here and Thera
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Sutton—An interesting meeting was
held in the Methodist Episcopal
church, the men of the church and
congregation entertaining the ladies
of the church and their families to a
four-course luncheon. There were
about 200 present. This was to cele
brate the fact that the church was
out of debt, and also as an acknowl
edgement of the help rendered by the
women of the church in times past.
After the banquet the company were
entertained by music and short
speeches.
Many Cattle in Wreck.
Stratton—Seventy-two head of cat
tle and nearly 200 sheep were killed or
injured in a Burlington stock train
wreck near here Thursday morning.
Twelve cars were thrown in the ditch
bv a broken flange on a freight car.
These cars were loaded with cattle
and sheep.
Organized Forty Years.
Fremont—The fortieth anniversary
of the organization of old Fremont en
gine company No. 1. the first fire
company ever organized in Fremont,
was celebrated with a banquet, at
which seven of the charter members
were present. These charter mem
bers are H. J. I.ee. Tom Turner,
Charles Baldruff. X. M. Pilsbury. \V.
R. Wilson, William Friend and W. S.
Roseman. -
May Erect $20,000 School.
Fremont—Catholics of Fremont con
template the erection of a parochial
school costing from $20,000 to $30,000.
according to an announcement made
by the rector. Rev. J. J. O'Sullivan, to
his congregation Sunday. The church
owns two lots adjoining its parsonage
property and these are to furnish the
site for the school.
Plan for New School Buildings.
York—Members of the York school
j board are beginning to make plans for
the erection of three new school build
ings. Efforts will be made to have a
petition to vote bonds ready to sub
mit to the voters at the spring elec
! tion.
_
Overton—At a meeting of the Mod
ern Woodmen lodge of Overton, reso
lutions were passed declaring the pro
posed new rates too high and unjust.'
| The lodge will co-operate with others
in the state to fight the proposed
rates.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE.
- 1 *
The trial of Albert Prince, charged
with slaying Deputy Warden Davis of
1 the state penitentiary, will be taken
up at next week's session of the dis
1 trict court at Lincoln.
The thirty-sixth annual encampment
. of the Nebraska Grand Army of the
I Republic will be held at Beatrice May
14. 13 and 16, according to an order
' just issued by Department Commander
: A. M. Trimble.
The state supreme court will likely
take original jurisdiction in the case
of the state railway commission
against the Holbrook Telephone com
j panv, which concern has refused to
i file a report of its physical property.
The plaster cast of Abraham Lin
coln, which has stood in the state
house for many years and which was
; made by John Currie, now of Blair,
j has been taken to the basement of the
' building and broken to pieces.
Corporations pay to the state of Ne
braska 21.97 per cent of the total reve
nue of the state, according to a com
pilation made by Henry Seymour, sec
retary of the state board of assess
ment. The information was asked for
by Herbert Knox Smith of the gov
ernment bureau of corporations.
Chief Game Warden Miller believes
the heavy snow will do more damage
to quail than months of cold weather.
When a heavy snow like the recent
one falls and drifts the birds gather
in bunches and are smothered to death
by being covered up with a thick
blanket of snow.
An exhibtion of Indian relics from
the rooms of the Nebraska Historical
society is to. be taken to the annual
land show to be held in Kansas City
February 26 to March 9. The exhibit
will be in charge of Professor Gil
itiour, curator of the fauseum. and it
will include specimens of the plants
of this state which the Indians used
for food, medicine, perfume, etc., be
sides models of lodges and burying
scaffolds. Prof. G. E. Condra will de
liver several addresses at the show.
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Th Farmers' State bank of Verona.
Clay county, has received a charter
from the state banking board. The
paid up capital stock is $10,000.
Reports of tests of seed corn near
Oakland, made to the experiment sta
tion at the university farm, indicate
that a quantity of corn raised and
stored under ideal conditions shows
a very low percentage of germina
tion. Inasmuch as some Burt county
farmers have been active in deprecat
ing the agitation for the testing of
all seed corn, the report is viewed
with particular interest.
Seer 2tary of State Waite is puzzling
over the problem of labeling the dele
gates to the various national conven
tions with the name of the presiden
tial candidates for whom they are
supposed to stand. In view of the fact
that the republican candidates will
pledge themselves to vote for the
nomination of the candidate for presi
dent who receives the most votes at
the primal election, he does not be
lieve it will be necessary to label the
delegates on the republican primary
candidates have as yet made no such
promise, and this is what is bother
ing the secretary of state.
I
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
There is a dearth of dwelling houses
in Oakland.
Lincoln is to have a local chapter
of Sons of the American Revolution.
Henry Wittkosky was held up and
relieved of his roll by a highwayman
at Beatrice.
The state fish hatchery at South
Bend has just stripped 125.00 rainbow
trout spawn.
Forty-two converts was the result
of the revival just closed at the M. E.
church at Fairfield.
A series of union revival meetings
by the eight churches of Hastings
will commence April !!.
The municipal water bonds carried
by a big majority at the special elec- i
tion held at Ainsworth.
Breaking up of the ice in the Nema
ha river caused considerable damage
in the neighborhood of Tecumseh.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Garlock of Lin
coln celebrated their sixty-first wed
ding anniversary one day last week.
Ashland will try a rock pile, ball and
chain, and bread and water, as means
of cleansing that place of toughs and !
hoboes.
Sixty carloads of corn have been i
shipped from Peru this season, which
is about 60 per cent of the corn to be j
shipped.
The Rev. Mr. Cobbey of Omaha, as- j
sistel by Mrs. Louise Kelly of Beth- !
any. are conducting evangelistic meet
ings at i nauma.
Humors are in circulation that sev
eral capitalists have under considera
tion a plan to establish a large whole
sale house at Hastings.
Returns from seed corn tests being
made in all the rural schools of the
county indicate that Dodge county
seed is in very good condition.
Daniel Sila. an aged pioneer, passed
away Thursday at his farm near West
Point at the age of eighty-three years,
death resulting from senile debility.
The annual firemen's ball held at j
the auditorium at Ainsworth was a
grand success and the firemen will ]
have a neat sum to aid in their work.
A petition is being circulated among
the citizens of Oakland to find what is |
the sentiment with reference to bond- j
ing the city to put in a sewerage sys
tem.
The junior class of the York high •
school presented the play. "The !
Rivals ” to a large and appreciative
audience in the opera house Friday j
evening.
A $23,000 fire swept through the
business section of Geneva. Monday j
afternoon. It was confined to four j
buildings, but was not extinguished 1
until after a hard fight.
The business of the Xeligh Marble
and Granite Works has made it ad
visable to organize as a corporation.
This was done under the title of the
Elkhctn Monument company.
A play was given at the Burwell
opera house by local talent for the
benefit of the band. One hundred and
seventeen dollars was taken in, which
will be expended in uniforms.
At a meeting of the business men
of Syracuse it was decided that the
merchants would close their places of
business at 7 o'clock every evening
during the week except Saturday.
The juniors of the Valentine high
school gave a reception to the seniors
Saturday night, in the shape of a
colonial dross party. There were
thirty present and the costumes were
fine.
The prospective application for an
additional saloon license in a section
of the city of Grand Island hitherto
not having a saloon has brought up a
knotty question before the city coun
cil.
More than twenty old shacks scat
tered throughout Fremont's business
section will be torn down during the
next month if the mandates of the
state fire commissioner's office arc
obeyed.
me Beatrice mgn scnooi nas Deen
conducting a number of free tests of
seed corn for the farmers in that
vicinity. Of fifteen completed tests !
only a very few showed sufficient |
germinating power to warrant plant
ing the seed.
The York G. A. R. held memorial
services in honor of the members of
the post who have answered the last
roll eall during the past year Thurs
day evening. There were eight mem
bers of Robert Anderson post who
died during that time.
The new library and gymnasium for
the use of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.
C. A. at David City was dedicated in
the auditorium of the new building.
Sunday, a good crowd attended the
exercises. R. L. Metcalfe delivered
the dedicatory address.
The village board at Dakota v1ty
has ordered twenty large electric
lights installed in different parts of
the village.
It is believed by farmers in the
neighborhood of Palmer that very lit
tle of the home grown corn is suitable
for seed.
Rev. Harrison Presson of Lincoln
celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday
one day last week, and was the re
cipient of many telegrams, cards and
letters from friends in several differ
ent states.
Seven carloads of workmen have ar
rived at Callaway and track laying on
the Stapleton branch of the Union
Pacific will be rushed.
Laborers without work and employ
ers without workmen are to be intro
duced to each other through extended
service of the Lincoln City Young
Men'3 Christian Association.
Prizes of $15, $10 and $5 will be
given by the Farmers and Merchants
State bank of Decatur for the best,
second and third seed corn in Burt
county. Farmers will bring in corn
cf 1911 growing and submit it to a
germinator test.
Mr3. W. E. McCloud of York has
been appointed by Governor Aldrich
as delegate to the national congress
for ihe discussion of child welfare,
which meets in SO Louis March 20.
The event of the Friend social sea
son was the ball and luncheon given
by the Knights of Columbus at San
Carlo theater, at which there were
about one hundred couples present
William Ankrom, living near Shu
bert, died very suddenly Monday morn
ing. Sunday evening be was carrying
a bucket of water into the house when
he sustained a stroke of apoplexy and
died without regaining consciousness. 1
MCE IS DYING 0U1
Indians of Alaska are Rapidly
Decreasing In Numbers.
AID OF CONGRESS ?S ASKED
Or. Foster’s Report Shows That Dis
ease, Especially Tuberculosis, Is
Making Great Inroads Among
the Natives of the North
western Territory.
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.—The national bureau
of education has asked congress for
an appropriation of 570,000 for addi
tional medical work among the natives
of Alaska. Elver since the Indians of
the western plains stopped going on
the war path philanthropists have
been at work among them seeking to
decrease the death rate and to make
the one time warriors and their
squaws and papooses observe the
white roan's safeguard against dis
ease. The result has been that the
Indians within the United States prop
er are increasing In numbers.
The Alaska Indians, however, are In
a pitiful condition notwithstanding the
efforts of the bureau of education,
which has charge of the work there,
to aid them in every way. Alaska Is
a long way off and the condition of
the tribes there does not appeal to the
residents of the United States so
strongly as does that of the Indians
who are at the doorstep. It is said,
however, that congress is likely to he
roine alive to its responsibilities and
that the condition of the Alaska tribes
win be materially bettered.
Dr. M. H. Foster, past assistant sur
geon in the public health and marine
hospital service, has recently return
ed from Alaska, where he was sent to
make a survey of the health condi
tions of the country. His report has
a good deal in It to make Americans,
and members of congress especially,
think on the duty of this country to
Its northwestern wards, many of whom
are suffering physical disabilities be
cause of the encroachment on their
country of the “white master."
copulation Rapidly Dwindling.
In the report of the bureau of edu
cation it is said that no Indians at all
will be left in Alaska in sixty or seven
ty years unless the government at
once takes vigorous measures to check
disease among them. Dr. Foster in
discussing the decrease in the native
population says:
“Owing to the usual lack of vital sta
tistlcs in a pioneer country such ts
this, the exact facts on which to base
an opinion have never been available
and most of the statements have been
mere conjectures. At Sitka accurate
records have been kept by the
churches, and they show that for a pe
riod of five years and seven months
the annual birth rate has been 72.3
per thousand and the annual death
rate 85.4 per thousand. During this
period, with an estimated population
of 400. there were 29 more deaths than
births.
“The returns of the United States
census bureau show that in the last 10
years there has been a decrease in
the total Indian population approxi
mately equal to 14 per cent., or 1 'a
per cent, per year. This corresponds
very closely to the rates as figured
at Itka. and they may be taken as in
d lea ting fairly correctly the rates for
the whole country. The death rate it;
the United States varies from 7 or S
per thousand to 35 per thousand, de
pending upon the locality. An aver
age death rate may be placed at 22 to
23 per thousand.
“The very unusual mortality in Alas
ka. 85.4 per thousand. Is to be attrib
uted largely to pulmonary tubercu
losis. and unless it is checked In some
way it will result in the extinction of
the natives in 60 or 70 years. For
tunately. it Is counteracted to a cer
tain extent by an unusually large
birth rate, but the birth rate will
probably decrease as time goes on.”
Not Easy to Treat.
Congress has been asked to estab
lish a tuberculosis sanitarium in Alas
ka, a provision having been made for
it ill an appropriation bill which is
now before the law makers. There is
a touch of humor, although it is a
kind of grim humor, in what Dr. Fos
ter has to say about the trouble of
rendering medical assistance to In
dians in their own homes. His words
are intended to show the necessity for
congressional action on behalf of a
hospital to which natives who are
seriously ill can be transferred for
treatment.
It is hoped that before long an ad
ditional corps of doctors and nurses
can be sent to Alaska who will act as
medical missionaries.
Aaron Burr's Cousins.
A paragraph in a Washington pa
per says that Senator Page of
Vermont "has a grandson who on
bis mother's side is a cousin of
Aaron Burr.” If Speaker Champ Clark
vere asked about this matter he prob
ably would say that to be a cousin of
Aaron Burr may carry a certain
amount of distinction because of the
blood relationship, but that Aaron
Burr’s cousins are like the blossoms
of the apple tree in May in a record
breaking fruit year.
Speaker Clark has been a great stu
dent of Aaron Burr's life. In a way,
and perhaps heartily, Mr. Clark Is
something of a champion of Aaron
Burr, a sincere champion because the
speaker, it is said, thinks that Burr
was accused of a good many things
of which he was not guilty and that
he was a man too much abused for
faults which he had not committed.
There are men who think that If
Aaron Burr had not killed Alexander
Hamilton many of the animosities
against him would not be in existence
today. There are other men who say
that the dislike of Hamilton's ideas of
government, held hereditarily hy pol
iticians of today, are responsible in a
measure for the championship of Burr
by men who otherwise would not have
loved his memory so much if they did
not hate the memory of Hamilton's po
litical and governmental views more.
Many Descendants of Edwards.
As for the matter of Aaron Burr's
many cousins, let it be said that Burr
was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards,
the great theologian, and one of the
first presidents of Princeton college.
Jonathan Edwards had ten sisters, all
of whom married ami had large fam
ilies. The descendants of Jonathan
Edwards direct and collateral, today
are numbered by the thousands and
everyone of these descendants, of
course, is a cousin of Aaron Burr who
was Jonathan Edward's grandson.
Some one not long ago wrote a story
about the Edwards descendants direct
and collateral. Six of these descend
ants, either grandchildren or grand
nephews, were at one time presidents
of colleges. It is possible that more
men of the Edwards blood hold promi
nent positions in the world today than
men of the blood of any other one
American family. The name is not al
ways Edwards, of course, for in fact
the Edwards of the female line out
number those of the male line per
haps twenty to one, but the descend
ants of Jonathan Edwards' sisters and
of his daughters are just as much of
the Edwards blood as are the people
who bear the name.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Is a direct
descenuant of Jonathan Edwards and
so It is said is former President Eliot
of Harvard.
Army Worried About Horse*.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief
of Etafi, United States army, who
as a surgeon was stationed with
a cavalry regiment In the south
over the growing difficulty of securing
good horses for the service. General
Wood and some other officers with
him 6ay that the laws against betting
on horse races in many of the states
are responsible in a way for the grow
mg scarcity of good horses for the
service.
It must not be understood that
General Wood either personally or In
his capacity as the ranking officer ofj
the army upholds betting. He sim
ply states what he thinks is a fact
and deplores the effect If not the*
cause. When American cavalry of
ficers recently went to England to en-!
gage in a contest of horsemanship. In
cluding high jumping, with the officers
of cavalry regiments of European*
countries, they lost most of the events
because it is said their horse* were)
not the equals of those used by the^
toreign officers.
August Belmont, w ho Is chairman oft
the American Jockey club, at a dinner
in New York a night or two ago, point
ed to the serious menace which threat
ened the cavalry and field artillery
branches of the United States army
"in the depletion of thoroughbred
horses by reason of a cessation
racing.” Mr. Belmont has suggested
the formation of a nation-wide asso
ciation to be known as the National
Cavalry and Artillery Remount asso.
ciation. to be created from at! ranks,
of sports and agricultural lire with
the center of the organization at
Washington, to keep a register of.
mares inspected and found suitable
for breeding remounts and artillery
horses. Gen. Leonard Wood and Col.
Theodore Roosevelt have expressed a
willingness to become vice-presidents
of the association, it is expected that
inducements will be held out to horse
breeders in all parts of the country
to make a specialty of animals suit
able for the army service.
American Record Rides.
There has been a general belief
through the years that the foreign
cavalry horses were better than those
of America, and yet there are records'
in the United States service of long,
hard rides, the horses coming through
in good condition, which never have
been equaled by men and horses of
the foreign service. The army has;
records of some of these rides and It
fears today that the deterioration of
the American horse may prevent their,
repetition If the service should de
mand strenuous efforts on the part or
the cavalry horses of the present and
of the near future.
Made Fierce by Cold Weather.
The recent Intense cold has driven
many packs of wolves out of the
high-lying forests of Hungary down
amongst the villages near the Rozaly
mountains. A number of cattle and
other domestic animals have fallen a
prey to their depredations. One vil
lage near Gros Ban.va was treated to
the remarkable spectacle of a fight in
a garden between a bear, who bad
come to the village to took for some
thing to eat. and a number of wolves
who had come for the same purpose.
The bear defended himself stoutly
with blows of bis paws, and killed
two of his assailants, but be was final
ly forced to take refuge up a tree,
where he was shot by a village sports
man, after the wolves had given up
the siege. A farmer at Vesssod saw
a wolf put bis head through the half
opened door of the room In which he
was sleeping. With great presence of
mind he slammed the door to. caught
the animal’s neck between door and
doorpost, and killed It with a blow
on the head from a heavy chair. The
authorities are arranging a drive on
a large scale, by which it is hoped to
clear the Inhabited country of the
wo I res.
To Supplement Natural Tresses.
A new German invention for sup
plementing natural tresses Is hair
made of artificial silk, which has the
texture of real hair. It can be dyed
the exact color of natural hair, no
matter how difficult the shade may be.
This new silk hair is certain to be
extremely popular. * It Is clean, to be
gin with, and may be washed at any
time as easily as any other kind of
silk. Besides that, it has a great deal
of body, and, when made into tails
and transformations, holds much bet
ter than real hair. It is glossy, and
will submit to brililantlne or oil like
the loose hair switches, and when
once curled keeps the- curl much bet
ter than ordinary false hair.
A Bad Outlook.
“No, 1 can't get up enough courage
to ask old Patterson for his daughter.”
"And why not?"
"Because I’m a builder of absolute
ly fireproof buildings and he is a fire
insurance agent."
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Belated Information.
Albert Morris Bagley was being con
gratulated at the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York on the success of his ' mu
sical mornings.”
”1 impute iny success.” he said, “to
the fact that I engage no talent that 1
don't know thoroughly. In entertain
ment, as in matrimony, knowledge is
most important.”
Then Mr. Bagby smiled and said:
"Two ladies were talking the other
day about the Chinese revolution. The
younger lady said:
“'Isn't it dreadful in China? A
woman doesn’t know her husband till
she marries him.’
“The other lady, a divorcee, answer
ed bitterly:
“‘I didn't know my husband till I
married him. either.’ ”—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
_
A Beautiful Decline.
Ollie James, the gigantic and genial
congressman and senator-elect from
Kentucky, was in conversation the
| other day with a Washingtonian when
the latter made certain inquiries with
reference to a mutual friend whom he
had not seen for a number of years.
“And how does Col. Prescott spend
his declining years?” he asked.
“Beautifully, sir; beautifully!” an
swered James. “He has a fine farm,
sir. A string of trotters, sir. And a
barrel of whisky 16 years old—and a
wife of the same age, sir!”
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Tne Reason.
“This purse is real alligator skin.”
“I suppose that is why it has such
snap.”’
Among Epicures.
“Paris is a swift town.”
‘‘That's true, but snails are very
popular there.”
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