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I It f t 'ii I 7 i , (. ft A .1 I r V r i. :.f H 11 Hi. Red Cloud Chief. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. red cloud. NEBRASKA Money talks, but It converses wits, only the few. Clam chowder Is often productive of the deepest melancholy. The sleeping Infant should always b placed on the retired Hit. It sometimes happens that a man's opportunity Is bis misfortune. Good fortune seldom travels around Id an automobile looking for you. A man's mind sometimes runs to the contrary a woman's always docs. It Is considered a deadly Insult to tell a Bostonian that he doesn't know beans. Some people go through life looking as If they wcro sorry they bad ever started. It Is easy enough to be economical when you bare plenty with which to economize. A married man would have mora money If his pockets were as hard to find as are those of his wife. An actress may be wedded to her art, but sho usually acquires more than one husband during her career. The average man would bo satisfied It ho could only get tho earth, but Alexander the Great wanted to get up a collection. "Tod" Sloan hnn now distinguished himself by thrashing two French Jock eys with his walking stick. At any rato this Is moro roputablo than French pugilism. The Boston Olobo says that Laureate Alfred Austin Is struggling hard to earn his salary. It might bo added that the public Is struggling bard to resign Itself to Mr. Austin's method of struggling. A recent expose of the brutal treat ment of privates In the army of Franco by their officers gives new em phasis to the danger of arbitrary power. It Is also reported that In Austria the custom of boxing the cars of soldiers and recruits has been so common and so violent that thousands of them have suffered such impairment of their hearing as partly to unfit them for service. The minister of war has recently Issued a prohibitory order. A newspaper correspondent at In dianapolis telegrnphs: Secretary Hurty of tho state health board predicts that Indiana will have un epidemic of smallpox. "I do not see how It can bo averted," said Dr. Hurty, "and It will cost Indiana thousands of dollars as woll as many deaths. There Is smallpox In the state, and It will spread from the small country towns. The people do not know how to handle suspected cases In these small places. There should bo no delay In handling a suspicious case, and If it turns out not to be smallpox no harm is done. This whole state could be vaccinated for less than 130,000. and that would save It from a scourge that Is other wise sure to come." International arbitration Is not so new an idea m some suppose. Oa six different occasions between 183T and 1858 congress has entertained pe titions and memorials on the subject from peace societies and bodies of citi zens In New England, New York and Virginia. Even tho czar's proposal for a congress of nations In the interest of peace was anticipated by resolu tions adopted by the legislature of Massachusetts, In 1844, and similar action was taken by the legislature of Vermont In 1853. Dr. Franklin's ar dent wish that tho nations of the earth might find "some moro reasonable method of settling disputes than by cutting each other's throats" must have been cherished by many friends of humanity long before his day. A short time ago two yaks wcro im ported to Gothenburg, and were later sent to Stockholm, Sweden. The sec retary of tho Gothenburg Touring club recommends that yaks bo Import ed into northern Sweden for ubc by tbo pioneer farmers, tho long and cold winters being rather sovcro for ordi nary cattle. It Is declared that it would not be noccssary to stall-feed tho yak during winter; that tho farmers would got a strong, hardy and tractable beast of burden, which also would supply milk of good quality, and which could find its way oren through deep snow. It remains yet to be seen whether or not any one is willing to act upon tho suggestion. Dr. Svcn Hedln, who dur ing his expeditions in central Asia has had opportunities for studying the yak in its native land, thinks the ex periment worth trying. Ono of our good friends In Kansas takes exception to our recent state ment that bachelors In that stnto nro "rated at the common valuation and two hundred doll more," for pur poses of taxation. It Is n technical matter. Tho law exempts from taxa tion two hundred dollars of tho prop erty of tho head of a family. None of tho property of a bachelor Is exempt, Tho error was simply In the form of statement the bachelor understands and according to our correspondent x at tho low penalty inflicted on blessedness. Ex. WIDE WORLD NEWS Comprehensive Condensation of Christendom, A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF THE WEEK Short rn-raphi Conveying a World of Information Happening of tba Fait Keren Days Internet? In to People Without Time. ITednrsdar. NoTOinbcr IS. Charles Cross, aged evpntccn, hns confessed to the murder of Mrs. Sarah C. King at Stamford, Conn. Colonel Henry Iumnn, author nml cx-plalnsman, and nn associate of Buf falo Iilll, died In Topcka, aged sixty two. Despondent over ill health. Charles E. Sutton, u prominent lawyer of Gal latin county, Montana, committed sui cide by shooting and hanging. The Belgian steamer Bclgiquo, from Antwerp to Alexandria, foundered off the CiMjuct rocks near the Inland of Alderncy. Eighteen person1 were drowned. A co-operative piano "factory, the stock In which will bo owned by work men, will" probably be the result of the present lockout in Chicago of the piano and organ workers. Thi three sons of Mrs. Kate Orr of Detour, Mich., aged eight, six and five years, were burned to death In a lire which originated in their home. The mother was away at the time. Because Im hai been discovered guilty of criminal Improprieties with some of the older girls of the German orphan's home nt Cincinnati, Rev. Adolph Forth fell into violent con vulsions and died. At Clcrt-laml, O., strangers entered the Jewelry store of SIgler Bros, and Willie a Cniinll Hnifflrrnil flu ntfontlnn of the proprietors their confederates iimiiu uv.uy wu.i a tray or diamonds valued at 830.000. The nolicu have no clue. Tho broom mnnufaeturprs .ii.wm. tion met at Chicago to take steps for protecting themselves against the in creased prices for broom com. About sixty muuufncturrrs, representing a large proportion of th limninmra n. put of the country, are attending the iiii-uwng, winen win probably Inst sev eral day. It Is said the advance on brooms will be from Si to 81.S5 per dozeu. A dispatch .from Cape Town to the London -vurotlicH miiimmriw Mini..-..!. val of the troopship Armenian with mice umicries oi ariiucry anil an am munition I-Olnlnn. unit tho irnrtiCin Knbla, with the ScottN guards nnd half 'li.4nll,-. .. .1.- V il... . .! .. - xuiuiiiuu in me 4oriuaiupionMuro regiment. This brings the total num ber of reinforcements to 12,80'.', of which about 0,000 arc already on the way to Durban. The Armenian and Ntlbla troons will nrubablv nUn 1ii nr. dcrcd to proceed. Thursday, November to. Anthony Joseph Dlttmeycr, a ser geant In the marine corps, who served on the cruiser Brooklyn "when Cervcrn's fleet wan destroyed at Santiago, guve himself up at St. Loula for murder committed there In 1604. Colonel I'lcquart has written a letter to the French premier, M. Waldcck Rousseau, asking for a judicial Inquiry Into tho proceedings of General Gon&c and M. Grlbclln of the Archives bureau, In connection with the Dieyfus case. Judge Colt, in the United States circuit court at Boston, decided that an employe of a railroad, Injured while riding on a pass given him by a cor poration, even If it was a part compen sation for his services, could not re cover damages. A dispatch from New York states that Mrs. Jane Stanford has sold all of her stock In tho Southern Pacific to the Huntington-Spcy syndicate. Her holdings amounted to 985,0110 shares, for which she received nltnut sin ... share, or 511,400,000 for the whole, Indirect news of tlu nnnrmu nt Hi.. Columbian revolution hns been re- eeivcu. November 10 General Amaza met the rebels lu Plnjo nnd routed them after several hours of lighting. The enemy left numerous dead and wounded. Amaza's loss was three killed and six wounded. Friday, Noiamlirr 17. The Brooklyn sailed from Aden, at the mouth of the Hcd sen, for Manila General Lucas Meyer, the Free State commander, has asserted In the course of an Interview that he is con vinced that the battle of Klundslaagte will bo the first and lust Boer defeat of the year. Hank Commissioner Itriedcnthal of Kansas states that an orfnnlri.il mn.r of bank robbers is abroad in Kansas, ana warns the bankers to guard their vaults. Six banks have been wrecked recently nnd all of the robbers have escaped. Mr. Dricdcnthal says 200 armed men ure coming the country surrounding Parker, in Linn county pursuing the thieves who blew open the bank vault there. dispatch from I.ourcuzo Marques ;ys: A November 18, r. u. m. special t-ays: The absence of news of any serious movement against Lndvbmtth teems to show that the lloers p. re repeating the strategy adopted by them at Dundee, when they appeared in front nnd en deavored to effect a surrounding move meat. This seems to have been their object regarding Estcourt. and since it Is Impassible that relief should reach there lor some days to come it is not unlikely that a further retiring raovo mirtt of Mool river will be made. Advices from Znlulnnd testify to the growing uneasiness of lirltish resi dents, whose stores are looted by the Itocra, with the rcsnlt that the Zulus themselves nro growing insolent, giv ing rise to the fear that they may at tack the unarmed British population. 'Capetown, Thursday, November 1C livening. Have received from Hild yard, Pictcrmaritzburg, n telegram, dated November 15, of which the fol lowing is the purport: 'The officer commanding the troops at Estcourt re ports at midday, that nn armored train left Estcourt this morning with a company of tho Dublin fusllccrs and a company of the Durban volunteers. North of Frcre they encountered a party of Boers and began to withdraw. While retiring some of the trucks were derailed. The Dubllns turned out and advanced towards the enemy, while the rest of the train appears to have returned without them to Estcourt. Saturday, November 18. A match between Jim Jeffries, the champion heavyweight pugilist, and Jim Corbett, ex-champion, has been arranged between Corbett personally and V. A. Urady for Jeffries. The ar tides will be signed next Tuesdav. Jeffries will have the fixlngof the date of the bout. Maurice Median, who is an inmate of the Morgan county. Missouri, poor house, has fallen heir to 820,000, which was bequeathed him by his son, Wil liam Median, who went to the Black Hills in 1879 from Louisiana, Mo., where he was then living, and who was very successful in prospecting. A Victoria, II. C, November 17 dis patch says: According to advices from the orient, brought by the steamship Empress of China, the difficulty aris ing out of the Masampo affair is evi dently far from adjusted. As Masampo lies In n commanding position between Ftiscn nnd Tsushima, nnd us it is of immense importance from a strategical point of view, Kussia Is anxious to gain possession of It to use as a naval base connecting Vladivostock and Fort Arthur. A Chicago, November 18 special says: Carrying out a plot he had apparently planned with deliberation, Cornelius Corcoran shot four of his children, killing two of them and endhig his own life. The police are convinced the man was Insane. For some days he had plotted for the death of his chil dren end lie nearly accomplished his purpose Tuesday night. Hearing the children cough he urosc and In the dark administered laudanum to five of them. He failed in this, and his act of todav followed. Monday, November SO. William Huff was taken from the county jail at- Illoomfield, Mo., and hanged by a mob of about 100 men. Huff, who is charged with the murder of Andrew Melton last week, showed rcrra-knble nerve, facing the mob and asserting that he was not afraid. So that she might go on with her work Mr. Ernst Hummel, Jr., a teach er In the I'hll Sheridan school.Chlcago, stood before Judge Wheatlcy and gave her baby, seven months old, to her sis ter, Mrs. Bertha A. I'helps. The giv ing was an adoption, and it came about by reason of the boaitl of education ruling thut a mother with u child un der the age of two years could not teach in the public schools, and the board had just acknowledged it and heard of this baby. The steamer Concstoga of the An chor line. Mink at the mouth of the Chicago harbor, after a race for life. The steamboat, boutid into Chicago from Huffalo, in the dense fog that hung over Lake Michigan, ran Into the' half-way crib, a mile and u half out from the harbor entrance, and a great hole was stove in the bow. The boat commenced to till with water fast and there was a dispoltion to rush for the boats, but the captain gave orders to turn on all bteam and make a quick run for the harbor. Tuci!ay, November 31. George Moaley, a soldier of the Spanish wnr, tried to stop a quarrel on the street at Lyons. la., and was fatal ly shot by Frank Strohm of Lyons. Moaley's home is In Indianapolis. Lady Salisbury died at London Mon day afternoon. Sho bad been in ill health for a long time past, suffering a second stroke of paralysis in June last. Lady Salisbury was the daughter of the late Hon. Sir Edward Hnll-Al-dcrson, baron of the court of exchequer, and was innrried to the Marquis of Salisbury, now premier, lu 1837. Only fragmentary reports reach Ma nila of tho operations north, which, when the story Is known will prove to have becu the most remarkable cam paigning the Philippine war has known. Ceucral Lswton's division is spread thinly over tho territory beyond San Jose, where the telegraph end is. General Young's two regiments of cav alry arc continuing their rapid sweep Into the new towns nnd the Infantry Is being pushed forward to hold the towns the cavalry take, all In a coun try whose natural difficulties nro In creased indescribably by tropical rains, making risers of creeks and swamps of fields. Wagon transportation is supposed to have been practically abandoned, tho American troops living on enptuved supplies and the little produce the insurgent levies have left To Mulntaln Martial Imvc. A Mr-drlil, November 17 telegram tays: At a cabinet council today Pre mier Sllvela said the organised agita tion in tho chamber of commerce re gal ding financial projects was directed not ugainst tho government, but against the state, but tho government hud deolded to deal energetically with them, nnd also with non-tuxpnylng llarcclonn, where, ho explained, the situation was intolerable. The gov ernment intended to inaintniu martial law until the normal conditions of af fairs was established. NEWS OfTHE STATE Ordinary and Extraordinary Happenings. THE PAST SEVEN DAYS IN DETAi. Brief nummary of Stats Doings State, County nnd Municipal twi of In Importance to Our Head er I.lltle Itenif. Wednesday, November 10. Roy, the tbirtccn-ycar-old son of Frank Watson, n farmer living in the vicinity of Anslcy, fell from a haystack on the forked end of a pitchfork, the prongs penetrating the lower part of his abdomen. Medical assistance was called, the wounds cleaned and now the little fellow is resting easily. A Nebraska City dispatch says the condition of Senator M. L. Hayward, whose illness dates back a number of days, cannot be regarded as anything less than serious. Senator Hayward's ailment first supposed to be but a slight indisposition, has not yielded to treat ment, and Tuesday a specialist of Oma ha was summoned to consult with local physicians. Dr. 1 (ridges was asked for nn opinion as to his patient's condition, nnd replied that he was a very sick man, but that he did not con sider his case hopeless. Thursday, November 10. D. W. llarncsof Valparaiso has been appointed a member of the state fish commission to succeed J. P. House of Cass county, resigned. Work has begun on the laying of the three miles of track which will be required to store the cars of the new Armour Packing company at South Omaha. G. II. Edgcrton of Hastings has re ceived a letter from the war depart ment stating that Christmas boxes for the boys in the Philippines, if sent to the quartermaster at Omaha, will be transported free. The annual meeting of the Nebraska improved live stock breeders' associa tion will be held in Lincoln, beginning December 10. An excellent program of topics relating to the breeding, feed ing nnd management of improved live stock has been prepared, and a very interesting and valuable meeting will be held. The matter of holding a live stock show and sale of Nebraska stock in the autumn of 1000 will be consid ered. A terrible and probably fatal acci dent occurred nt Fremont near the Union Pacific depot. F. novcy, a printer, was struck by the engine of the fast mall and thrown to the plat form, sustaining a fracture of the skull. Hovey is totally deaf and was walking to close to the track. He did not know of the approaching train and could not hear the warning whistles. He was taken to the hospital and the chances being that he will not live. Hovey has a wife in California and a grown daughter. He came from North Platte. Friday, November 17. Lincoln's new auditorium is about half completed. It will bo a strong and substantial building, aud conven ient for the purposes for which U is intended. In the suit of Mrs. V. O. Hambel of Fairbury against the Hock Island fot damages, the plaintiff was awarded 82,000, the full amount of the petition. Her husband was killed in the Rock Island wreck south of Lincoln several years ago. The case was appealed. A fight over the question of incor poration is taking place in Monroe, nnd the village is divided into two fac tions for or against the proposition. Both sides have employed attorneys and the indications arc that the ques tion will not only be settled at the polls but also in court. The sale of the military reserve at Sidney brought 35,333, which elenns up all that is left of the old fort, The tract containing the officers' quarters was sold to Edgar M. Westcrveldt of Lincoln for 83,080. The balance went to the Union Pacific and to a resident of Sidney. The proudest boy in Kearney last week was little Frank Pulls, who had received word of his appointment as ''orderly" of the 40th U. S. volunteers through the recommendation of Asi slstant Secretary of War Mciklcjohn. He left to join his regiment nt San Francisco. His brother Charles is first lieutenant of Company A of the regi ment. Saturday, November IS. The devotees of golf in Omaha have secured grounds for links in Kountze Place, between Spencer and Edmund streets, nnd steps have been taken to form a club. J. R. Johnson of West Lincoln was severely injured by a wagon load of hay on which he was riding turning over and falling upon him. Tho acci dent happened in Lincoln just west of Haymarket square on Ninth street. He was pinned under the load and suf fered several bad bruises. Six men wcro killed and four seri ously, If not fatally injured in nn ac cident Sunday night on the Omaha railroad at Humboldt. A work train was backing out of Humboldt when a handcar bearing a number of Italians came around a curve. The men, seeing their danger, jumped from tho hundcar, but left it on the track. Tho work train backed Into tho obstruction nnd five flat cars, upon which were a number of Italian workmen, jumped tho track, killing five men nnd injuring five others, ono of the latter dying later. It is so far impossible to secure tho names of tho dead and injured. Ed Rooney, n packing house em ploye from Cudahy's at South Omaha, while intoxicated fell down an area way Of the Oxford hotel and was taken to the police station in a badly used up condition, with bloody face and in jured bnck. Superintendent Calvert of the Bur lington has devised a machine to assist in loading tics on the tie carrier of tho Harris track laying machine, which is now In use on the Alliance extension. The new device will prove of consider chlj value in tho saving of the time orJlnarily required to do the work. It is being built in the shops at Lincoln At Tekamah the case of the stnto of Nebraska vs. John Bucy and Martha Ernest returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Bucy nnd Mrs. Ernest were in dicted by the grand jury upon the charge of fornificntion. Bucy is a bachelor living on a farm near Te kamah and Mrs. Ernest is his house keeper, nnd for some time gossip in that neighborhood has had it that they were living together as husband and wife. Several members of the state board of agriculture held a conference at Lincoln with a committee from the Commercial club regarding the fair, which is to be held next year in Lin coln. The last legislature located the fair permanently at Lincoln. A thor ough understanding was reached nnd there Is a strong probability that next year the state fair and the street fair will be merged. It will be what may be termed a state-street fair, though the name has not becu determined upon yet Monday, November SO. Governor Poyntcr has decided to re turn S2.CG0 constituting a surplus in the fund created by subscription to bring the First Nebraska boys home on n special train. He will commence at the bottom of the subscription list. The postofilces at Newman Grove, Peru aud Oxford, Neb., will be ad vanced to the presidential class Janu ary 1, with the salaries of the post masters at 81,100, S1.200 and 81,300 per annum, respectively. At Omaha, Neb., November 18, after a prolonged hearing before Judge Bax ter of the Douglas county court, Dr. Matthew Donahue, osteopath, was set freo today on the charge of practicing without a certificate Saturday morning, November 18, at 0 o'clock, at Washington, D. C, the much-talked-of marriage of Senator John M. Thurston and Miss Lola Pur man was solemnized at the residence of the bride's parents, Dr. Frank M. Bristol of the Methodist church officiat ing. Dr. Bristol at one time occupied the pulpit of the First Methodist church of Omaha, Neb., and is a warm friend of Senator Thurston. The wed ding ceremony was attended only by the immediate relatives of the con tracting parties aud E. C. Snyder. George Ludwig committed suicide by hanging at his home at South Lincoln Saturday morning at about 0 o'clock. He was alone at the house at the time, having sent a small boy who lived with him to a store, and the evidence indi cates that he went at the preparatory work deliberately. The hanging was in one of the rear rooms of the house. He had cut away the plastering and lath from the ceiling and tied a three-, quarter inch rope over the rafter. Af tcr tying his feet together with a strap he tied the noose around his neck, climed upon n table that he had placed in the right position, made tho rope fast and stepped off the table. Tneiday, November SI. R. E. Cossell was burned to death in a house at Oquawka, 111., which was set on fire by the overturning of a lamp during a drunken row. Work on the new Grand Island foundry, to replace the Lykkc foundry, which burned some weeks ago, has be gun. It will be a brick structure. The Nebraska Woman Suffrage As sociation will hold its eighteenth an nual meeting at Lincoln Tuesday and Wednesday, November 28 nnd 20, in tho senate chamber of the capltol building. The beginning of the end of the trans Mlsslsslppi and Greater American Ex position buildings is on in earnest. On Tuesday morning the Chicago Wreck ing company put about 100 men to work in addition to those stnrted pre viously, and it will continue to put on men until two or more gangs of men are engaged on every building. The officers of the York county ag ricultural society paid out their own good money In expenses of this year's fair nnd the county board rejected their claim. At Saturday's meeting they reconsidered nml allowed tho claim of S530.85, and passed n resolu tion to not vote nn appropriation for 1000, and instructing the county attor ney to commence legal proceedings to wards a dissolution of tho society. Frank Kaura, a Bohemian farmct , who resided' three miles southwest of Mnrsland, committed suleido by cut ting Ids throat with a razoa. Kaura recently purchased a farm about six miles from his homo nnd went there alone with a razor and revolver for tho purpose of talcing his life. Kaura was quite well-to-do. He leaves u wifo and four children. Family trouble and financial reverses nro said to bo tho cause of his rush act. A Hastings telegram says: Thero is no longer any doubt that Mr. F. O. Larncd will recover from tho Injuries ho received by jumping through n coach window of a wcst-loiind flyer when it was going fifty miles nn hour. Tho first nceldont duo to football playing in Fremont occurred Monday afternoon. In tho game between tchool boys on tho west sehool grounds Fred Kuehl got his right leg broken nbovo tho knee. Tho leg was set and the boy is doing fairly well at present. All tho boys in both tenins seemed to have piled on tho Injured lad ut nu un fortunate moment. CAB NO. I IS WALES' London "Cabbie Must See Straight and Know Short Routes. This summer In Scotland Yard I at tended an examination of men who de sired to be appointed 'bus and cab drivers, and the affair was most amus ing. They've a rickety old bus down there, a perfect ark, and attached to the fore of it a brace of one-time Dar by winners, likely, that, nfter a meal of ginger and pepper, do get up onough animation to drag that ark nt a spank ing gate the length of the Inclosurc. The would-be driver mounts the bn. whips up the horses, and attempts to nrivo between two stakes planted In the ground so close together that to go between them means to escane them at the hubs, scarcely more than a quar ter of an Inch on either side. Some times the driver manngen it. If he re peats the feat two or three times with success, and also mnnaces to rrt hla horses pulled up sharp when a finger is raised, be la appointed, nnd given the first opening. And thereafter for years ho Is privileged to amaze Ameri cans by his wonderful cleverness with tho reins In the crowded Strand or Piccadilly circus. It Is different with the would-be cabbies. They, too, are compelled to drive between stake? and to pull up their nags, but more than that is asked of them. "If you were to pick up a fare In the Addison road to drive to the Upper Bedford place, vhat would be your route?" Such questions as that are put to them. Now, there are endless routes, but cabby Is obliged by lav to take the shortest, and if he can not draw n lino along the map of London, marking that Ghortest route, he Is told to go home and study for another month. But where he fal's dozens of others succeed. And a single walk along a London street bears proof of tho enormous number of men who know their city like a book. How many hansoms there are In London I do not know, but I know this: Tho cab I called one morning was No. 8; the cab I called that afternoon wa.i No. C0.C78. I spent a week looking for cab No. 1 and didn't find it. 'I learned then that No. 1 was the number of tho private hansom of the princo of Wales. Detroit Free Press. AN ECCENTRIC STAR. Polaris' Movements Are Affected by Stars That Are Invisible. How the existence of an Invisible celestial body mny be revealed through the spectroscope Is explained by Prof. W. W. Campbell, of the Lick Observa tory, in giving an account of his recent discovery that Polaris, or the North Star, is a triple system. Tho ahiftlng of the lines of the spectrum of the star enables us to determine, ho says, whether the etar Is approaching or re ceding from us, and how rapidly. Re cent observations of Polaris, made with a spectograph attached to the thlrty-slx-inch telescope, show ihat its velocity Is variable. It approaches the solar system now with a velocity of five mllca per second. This will In crease In two days to eight and three quarters miles, and In tho next two days will decreaso until It again be comes five miles. This .-ycle of change is repeated every four days: The only explanation of this movement is that the star Ib circling in an orbit which Is turned toward us more or less edge wise, and It can circle thus only be cause it is associated with some other body, tho two revolving about their common center of gravity, like tho balls of a dumbbell tOEced into the air. The orbit is nearly circular and Is comparable in size with the moon's orbit around the earth. The center of gravity, and, therefore, the binary sys tem, Is approaching the' solar system at present with a velocity of seven and one-fifth mllca per second. In 1896 It was approaching at the rate of twelve and one-half miles per second. A part of this change of velocity slnco 139& may be duo to a change In the posi tions of the orbits of the binary sys tem, but the most of It must havo been produced by the attraction of a third body on the two bodies composing tho four-day eystem, Tho period of tho revolution of the binary system around tho center of gravity of itself .and tho third body Is not known, but Is prob ably many years. Both companions of Polaris are Invisible, but their ex istence Is proved by tho disturbances which their attractions produce in tho motion of Polarlo. SANDOW ON EXERCISE. Says Dumbbell 1'ractlco, if Not Overdone, Is tho Proper Thins;. "Dumbbell practice gives strength to every sinew, from the finger tips to tho elbow, from the top of tho head to tho solo of tho fooL" Sandow, the strong man, said In a recent Interview. "The young can bo kept In perfect health, nnd older pcoplo nro helped and Im proved even when suffering any ail ment which appears to them to bo qulto hopclcsa, but, of course, great care must bo taken not to overdo the practising, and It hi wiser to Increase tho number of movements very grad ually and not on any account to got overtired nt first," ho advised. But ho does stato most emphatically that dumbbell exercises, taken In modera tion, glvo graco and suppleness to tho flguro and thnt perfect eneo to the car- , rlago thnt comes from having tho mus clca umlor control. He makeB a strong point of an easy beginning, which does not expect too much at first, but gains Btrcngth by degrees. Such cxcrclso sonds tho blood through tho volmi with ,J now life, which glvoa pleasure nnd Joy '" to every individual. A Pastor's Idea. When naked "What's a layman?" a pnstor replied: "One who lays things upon hts pastor which he himself ought to do." 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