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mmim -,mjmiii.; Irir- IF Red Cloud Chief. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. RED CLOUD. NEBRASKA It In now proposed as a punishment to cut off Chan Chi Tune's cue just below the collnr button. A man who marries a disagreeable woman for the sake of her money swallows a bitter silver-coated pill. Sir Thomas Llpton's challengo has boon promptly ncccptcd by the Now York Yacht club. Sir Thomas now knows what to do with some of that "pork corner" money. Allegany, Pa,, has an ordlnnnco re quiring street railway companies to equip their cars with Jacks, for uso In lifting cars from tho bodice of per sons that have been run down, Tho Natnl subscribers to a testimo nial to Major-Ooncral Baden-Powell, In recognition of his gallant defense of Mafeklng, hovo decided to present him with a shield made of Transvaal sov ereigns. Thoeo who ore privileged to act aa hosts of tho prlnco of Wales have to carefully study his llkos and dislikes In tho matter of food and wines, thoro being quite a long list of things which are "blackmailed" by him. He Is also very particular as to punctuality In the matter of meals, viewing delays with much disfavor. The relations existing between mis tress unrt maid In Australia aro aptly Illustrated in a recent Ibhiio of a Queensland paper, In which a girl ad vertises for a situation to tuko chargo of a laundry or dairy. Sho can cook, and understands housekeeping, and adds: "None but a respectable mis tress, who wlBhes to leavo her servant in uninterrupted dlschargo of her du ties, need apply." Foreign trade bus picturesque fea tures which greatly relieve Its coldly commerclol aspects. For oxample, In sending to Zanzibar a hundred thou sand dollars' worth of kerosono oil last year tho United States was doubtless trying to "light up" tho dark continent. American locomotives nre going to Af rica In such numbers that the conti nent cannot much longer bo called slow. Ivory, an nnclent source of Af rica's wealth, Is becoming so scaruo that earnest efforts aro now making to preserve tho herds of elophnntH from wanton slaughter. What wonders modern commerce works! Ex-Governor Plllsbury of Minnesota and his wlfo nro going to build a homo for poor girls In St. Paul. Tho ex-governor says: "If a girl Is thrown out of employment, or for any reason liws her bread-earning power, wo want her to feel that sho Is not with out a friend. She noed never despair so long aH our homo stands. Thoro sho can find food and shelter, bo as com fortable, so far as her surroundings are concerned, as sbu would bo nuy whero In tho world." It Is by such things as this that John I. Plllsbury deserves his Htntuo, which, the work Of Daniel fi. Rrptn-h linn limt imvnlln.t II nn ). ... .1.. ill .... ... " me uuillimo Ul UIU UIllVUrHliy OI Minncsotn. EDITORIAL 44-GAL i-Gardero Tho growth of population ubout tho Great Lakes will bo one of tho impor tant revelations of the present census. Six Lako cities, Buffalo, Cleveland, To ledo, Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago, have added more than a million peoplo since 1890, an lncreaso of nearly fifty per cent. The Incroaso Is directly re lated to tho growth of commerce of tho Great Lakes, which has doubled In tho last five years. Tho tonnage ca pacity of vessols passing through tho canal at Sault Salnto .Mario Is now half 8 largo again as that of all the ves sels which enter and leavo tho port of Now York, and two and a half times as groat as the tonnage which pusses through the Suez Canal. Tho Great Lakes certainly cannot bo called "a wasto of waters." They are teeming with life and usefulness. A dealer In spices declares that the consumer can now buy a pound of what purports to bo popper, ground, packed In n tin box and labeled cheaper than tho wholesaler can buy pure unground pepper by the ton. Tho dealer who undertakes to sell really puro popper must therofore chargo a prlco for his goods which seems high when compared with tho prices of his competitors, nnd thus adulteration bo comes tho general practice. It is an outrage on tho consumer, yet it Is tho consumer's continual demand for cheapness that is largely to blamo. Tho honest dealer and tho customer who Is willing to pay a fair prlco for puro goods will havo no redress until public opinion demands government Inspec tion of all food products, the com pulsory labeling of such as are In nny way adulterated and the punishment of all persons who soil adulterated for pure articles. r "A revolution," said a Colombian gentloman to an English traveler late ly, "Is our substitute for cricket; our young men must have their game." The cricketing season has begun. Tho Colombian president Is In Jail, tho vice-president has assumed a dictator. I ship, and a revolution has taken place. Meanwhile, to prove that such political cricket Is a family and not an Inter national affair. Colombia ami Pmtn EL Rica submitted a vexed question of boundary dlsnuto to the arbitration nt tho President of Franco, and promlso to amue oy am recent decision thereon. PERIL NOT OVER ROBERT HART HAS GLOOMY VIEW OF CHINA. THE BOXER MOVEMENT IS NATIONAL flnrcadlng Like Wildfire All Cler the Kmplre Little Hope of Solution Fear Tlint Hardest Work Is Yet to Come Other News. Sir Robert Hart, director general of tho Chinese imperial uuiratlme customs, In an article in the November number of tho Fortnightly Review, takes a pessimistic view of the Chinese situa tion. He frankly declares his opinion to bo that tho boxer movement "is na tional and patriotic, has taken hold of the Chinese Imagination and will spread llko wildfire throughout the length and breadth of the empire." "There Is not tho slightest doubt," he says, "that fifty years hence there win ne minions of boxers In serried ranks and war panoply at the call of the Chinese government." Dlscusslntr the altcrnatn I'mmi-i open to the powers Sir Robert sees a very real peril ahead and no hope of permanent solution. The morning papers, dealing edito rially with Sir Robert Hart's article, adroit Itsimportanoe, but consider that his views are too gloomy, and that his Ideas of the boxer movement are a phantasm of a too sensitive Imagina tion. "Rumor credits tho Germans " says the Shanghai correspondent of Times, "with the Intention to take early action In the Yang Tse region, where the military situation is becoming serious. Tho "Chinese troops arc dili gently drilling and practicing firing under foreign-trained officers. Large quantities of provisions, war material and treasure arc being forwarded from the Yang Tse districts to the imperial court." KILLED BY FALLING WALLS Firemen Fatally Crushed nnd Other lladly Injured. Fire destroyed the three-brick build ing occupied by Meyer Johnson, a Detroit, Mich!, lunk dealer, p, ,,.,. nt Catherine and Hastings streets. Fall ing walls killed Lieutenant Ragcn sllne, u fireman, and injured four oth ers, all others. Following are tho in jurcd: Fireman Mclntyre. back, serious. Fireman Pauquette, head und hau ds. Fireman Gilran, slight. Flremun Casaday, face crushed. The men were at work in the alloy at tho rear end of the building and without warning the wall fell on them, Instantly killing Ragonstlne and burying tho Injured, who were dug out by their comrades. Tho building, valued at 8,000 was totally destroyed. Loss on stock, 83,000. WRECK NEAR RISING CITY Traveling Halesinan Killed mid Lincoln Injured. On account of a broken roll the west bound Union Pacific passenger train was wrecked two and a half miles east of Rising City, Neb., one coach and tho baggage car leaving the track and turning over on their sides. G. L. Flanagan, a salesman of thePontlac.IU., Shoe Manufacturing company, who lives in Iowa City, Iowa, was caught under one of tho cars as It fell and died on being extricated. Mrs. Albert Sjoberg of Lincoln was slightly In jured on the temple. All other pan sengers and the trainmen miraculously escaped. The cars were dragged about a hundred feet and are badly damaged. Woman Trie to Kill Herself. Word was received at Fremont, that Mrs. Martin Lutheans, wife of a well known farmer living three miles south of Scrlbncr, in this, Dodge county, at tempted to commit suicide by slashing her throat from ear to ear with a large knife. She was about thirty-eight years of ago, and had always lived in perfect harmony with her husband. She has been Bubjeet to despondency of late, and during the pust "few days has been more or less unbalanced mentally. Death Follow. Marriage. Henry Shoupka, llvlngfourtecn miles southwest of Columbus, was married October 17 and dropped dead October 0. He enlisted In the old company K of the "Fighting First" Nebraskabut was overcome by nervous prostration upon reachiug Honolulu, and was sent homo from there. A squad from new company K under Sergeant Al Becker tired a salute at the grave. The pall bearers were old comrades of the de ceased. Doiera Continue Attack. According to oftlcial reports from .Canton, China, all the cities in the Hut Chow orefocture are still holding out, the r ols confining themselves to cap turing villas and slatighterlug Isolated bodies of imperial troops. The rebels are actively recruiting and are now estimated to number 10,000. There has been no pitched battle. The Chi nese general commanding at Hul Chow is afraid to leave the city for fear of being cut off. Will Hulld a New Defender. The New York yacht club met, and Commodore Ledyard assured the mem bers that the cup defender would be built to meet the Shamrock. Tho new boat will be built and handled by a yndlcate. Mr. Ledyard said . that he could not gtvu the names at present. Kentucky Ball for China. The battleship Kentucky has sailed from Tompklnsvlllo on her voyage to the China station. Adjustments tu her ' gun ineohanism have proved entirely ! satisfactory. I FIGHT A SUPERIOR FORCE Amerlcnu Troops NufTcr Ciisuultlc In the l'hllliliic. Tho war department lias received a dispatch from General MacArthur, giv ing an account of a Might tn which a small detachment of the American troops attacked a much superior force of Filipinos. Tho dlpatch follows! , "Mnulla, Oct. "M. First Lieutenant Feblgcr, forty men company II, Thlr-ty-thlrd regiment, United States vol unteers; Second Lieutenant Grayson V. Hcldt, sixty men troop L, Third ravalry, attacked Insurgents fourteen miles east of Nnrvican, Uocos province, Luzon; developed strong position oc cupied by about -too riflemen, 1,000 bol omen under command of Juan Villa-mot-, subordinate of Timos. Desperate ugnt ensued, which was most credit able to force engaged, though under heavy pressure overwhelming num bers, our troops compelled to return to Nurvlcan, which was nccomnllshpri In tactical, orderly manner. Acting As sistant Surgeon Bath and civilian team ster captured earlv in tltrht. wpi- : leased by Villumor. According to their nccounts, Insurgents much Stronger than reported heroin, ami their loss, moderate estimate, over 150. Our loss. "Killed: First Lieutenant Oeorgo L. Fablger, Charles A. Lindcnberg, Wil liam V.. Wilson, company H. Thirty third' regiment, United Stares volun teer infantry; Andrew T.J Johnson; farrier; Guy E. McCllntock, troop L, Third rcglmnt, United States cavalry. "Wounded: Company 11, Thirty third volunteer infantry, Floyd W. McPherson, hip, slight; John W. Grace, face, sllirht: Flovd II. Henrd. fliPk. slight; Harry S. Johnson, knee, seri ous; iroop k, Tiuni united States cav alry, Corporal Adam R. Waolis. nrm slight; Alfred Downer, lip, head, slight; Charles W. Martin, thigh, slight; Gscar O. Bradsord, foot, blight; William K. 11 under, leg, below knee, slight. "Missing: Company II, Thixty-third regiment, John John J. Boyd, Samuel P. Harris, troon L. Third envnlrv. Sum. uc! Davis, Schwed; twenty-nine horses missing; some known killed." "MAoAmiiun." BANK EFFECTS SETTLEMENT Woman Who fronted by Itobbery Make ItcMltutlon. A New York, dispatch says: The Ellzabcthport Banking company, from which William Schrlebcr stole a little over 8100.000 in two years, has made a settlement with Mrs. Annie Hart, up on whom much of the money was spent. By the terms of this settlement Mrs. Hart has made a general assignment to the bank of all the property of which site was possessed, except the household furniture, her wearing ap parol, and so much of her Jewelry as she can prove was not given to her by Schrieber. The nronertv tnmpil nr is valued at 324,000. In consideration of this assignment the bank lias exe cuted to Mrs. Hart a general release of any nnd all claims it has made against her. THINK SHE WAS MURDERED Bt. Joseph, Mo omcers Find Kvldenca of a Crime. A St Joe, Mo., October 20 dispatch ays: A message directed to tiio sheriff was received hero from an otll.-.vr in Spokane, Wash., asking that tho body oi miss ciara ttagncr, which arrived here bo seized. According ti th n... patch, the discovery was made in Spo- khuc mai sue nau been murdered. Miss Wagner lived here nnd recent 1 v paid a visit to a sister In Spokane, was mKen in nun died. Obliged to 8tay In Maine. Three boilers exploded at tlie Chi cago and Minonk Coal .t Til,. rb. at Minonk, 111., seriously iujuriug MMiutm .iacison, engineer, rjnmuel Hayes, William Hayes, and Edward Dlstou, firemen. The superintendent and 2.10 miners ure down in a mine SfiO feet, with no nreseut wav to mlu them to the surface on account of there being no steam power to operate the lift. To lie I'roperly FnnUlied. Accord I mr to a disnateh from IVbln dated October 24. to the Havas agency at Paris. Prince Chlng and Li Hung Chang have communicated witli tho legations the imperial decree, in.ne cordanco with which the princes and ministers responsible for the recent trouble In China are to bo punished, according to their respective degrees of culpability. Hank Fresldent Convicted. In tho federal court at Louisville, Ky., M. MoKnlght, former president of tlte Gerinau National bank of Louis ville, reccntlv convicted on tlm i-hnr.m of embezzling the bank's funds, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment nt hard labor. His attorneys wero grnmeu a writ or error und he was ro lcuscd on 912,000 bail. Kill Womau and Himself. At Chillteothe, 0 Harry Gndgen, aged olcrhteen. shot and killed MrHI Nichols, aged forty-six and then killed nimseii. tie nail quarreled with tho woman. Kellef for Indiana. The government is preparing to re lieve the suffering of the drouth stricken Indians on the reservation In Arizona. Several carloads of rations will leave hero in a few days and wlU bo distributed among the destitute. No Keduutlon In Kate. It turns out that the reported gener al reduction in telephone rates in Chicago will not take plnco. There will bo no reduction except ten party lines to small residences. MARSIiAUS SHOT CITY OFFICER OF RULO IS KILLED BY TOUGH. MOB THREATENS THE MURDERER Lynching Only Averted by Absence of Lender Ksrnpc After the Killing Hut Later Make a Confession and U Ilnrrled to.lall nt Fall City. Wiliam Hunt represented as a tough character, while being taken to jail shot and killed City Marshal Wake nt Rulo October 27, and came near meet ing his own death at the hand of an inruriaieu but leaderless mob, a half hour later. There was a political rally at Rulo Saturday and Hunt had been drinking freely. About 10 o'clock that night ho was arrested by Town Marshal Wake, who started to take him to jail. Hunt was walking ahead and suddenly turned nnd drawing a revolver fired two shots at the officer, one entering the mouth and the other the left breast death resulting instantly. t It seems that no one was near when the arrest was made, and Hunt, think ing no one had seen him or was aware of his arrest, threw away his revolver and hurried away, only to return half an hour later and inquire of the crowd what had hannencd. Thir worn hm. pie in the crswd who know that Hunt had just been arrested a short time be fore and knowing his dcsperaie char acter, ho was arrested at once and confessed to having donctlic shooting. An attempt was made to organize u mob, and many ugly threats were made, nnd only the advice of cool heads, and the fact that the mob had no lender, saved Hunt from being lynched. The murdered man was taken to Falls City and placed in Jail. There was talk at Rulo of organizing a mob to avenge the death of Mursbal Wnke, who was very popular, but since tho people have had the opportunity for a sober, second thought it is not believed that anything will be done. Hunt is in Rulo. A Falls City, Neb., dispatch says: "Bill" Hunt, who killed City Marshal A. J. Wuke at Rulo was brought here by tho sheriff and placed In jail. The murder occurred during tho democratic rally at Rulo. Hunt has the reputa tion of being an all round tough. Di stend of uttending the speaking he re mained In John Kanaly's saloon yelling at tho spcukers to the annoyance of the democrats nnd the proprietor of the saloon, who i educated Marshal Wake to remove him. Wnke took nunt out onto the sidewalk and said to him: "It is not right to disturb the democrats. This is their night; they own the town, and when we have it rally you can shout and we want the democrats to Keep quiet." He told Hunt to gohomcorlie would liavo to put him in the lockup. Wnke left him, but had only gone a few steps when Hunt indicated his intention to remain. It is supposed that the mau shal turned toward Hunt again, for he received one ball in the face and an other through the heart nnd fell full length upon tho sidewalk dead. Hunt ran north about 100 feet toward the livery stable and threw his revolver into a deep ravine nnd returned to where the crowd had IT It tile red nrnnml the dead marshal and asked what the trouble was. Ho claimed that he was not the man who did the shooting. Tho streets of Rulo at 0:ao p. in. are not very well lighted, but there were a number of persons present within tea to fifty feet of tho killing to establish tho identity of tho slayer. WRECKS CHURCH INTERIOR Eiplotlon of Arcetylene Gas In Chica go Buberb. An explosion of nccetylene gas that was to be used for a stereo pticon en tertainment wrecked the interior of the First Presbyterian church in Aus tin, 111., and the operator, George W. Leach, recently returned from mission ary work in India and Ceylon, lost his righj. hand and sustained a number of other injuries. The accident o:curred while preparations were being made for a Btereoptlcou lecture on India and Ceylon. The gas was In two cylinders, about four feet long. One of the tanks sprung a leak and the light that was in the lantern ignited it, causing the explosion. Dowlelte Are Deported, A Mansfield, O., October 28 dispatch says: Deacon Kcsslcr nnd Elder It. N. Bouek, Dowieites, were forcibly de ported today by the police. Bouck had been nearly a week here and held ser vices. He objected to being put on the train nnd had to be dragged out of the station and put aboard. Tredlct Amicable Hetllement. A Sofia October 28 dispatch says: At the opening of tho sobranje Prlnco Ferdinand predicted that tho difficulty between Bulgaria and Roumanla, growing out of the latter's demands for the suppression of the Macedonian revolutionary committee, would soon be settled. W. N. Cowden, a farmer of Quaker City, Ohio, filed a petition in bank ruptcy in the United States court, al leging that his liabilities are 9350,000 and bis assetsSl.000. Mr. Cowden was one of the promoters of a railroad pro ject known as the Quaker City and Wheeling railway. The Berliner Tageblatt publishes a special dispatch from Buda Pcsth, which saya,that the Austrian heir ap parent, Archduke Fronds Ferdinand, will shortly renounce the succession to the throne In favor of his brother Otto and thelatter'ason, Archduke Charles. WHOLE PLEA IS INSANITY 1'nrcnt of Murderer Ferrell Testify nt Trlul. A Marysvlllc, O.,. dispatch say: Tho end of tho trial of Kosslyn Ferrell on tho cliarge of having murdered Ex press Messenger Lane, is approaching. Tobias Forrell, tho prisoner's fattier, was on the stand and testified regard ing an nunt, who was on epileptic. She died with her mind unbalanced. Mrs. Patrick Costlow told of her knowledge of Ferrcll and the prepara tions for tho marriage of her daughter and the prisoner. She nlbo testified that Ferrell acted queer, and in reply to a question on cross-examination if sho was willing her daughter should marry a crazy man, said: "Well, I was alarmed, hul nil preparations had been mudo for the wedding." Mrs. Melissa Ferrell, mother of tho prisoner, admitted that she was a first counsin to her husband. She told of Rosslyn's queer actions. Dr. A. B. SwiBhcr nnd Dr. W. F. White testified on hereditary insanity. Neither would venture anopinion that Ferrell was In sane, but agreed lie that was a riddle BANK TO PAY A DIVIDEND i'lnnklnton Creditor tolteceivc IteneDt of Ileal ty Sale. A Milwaukee, Wis., special says: The Planklnton bank will soon 'declare another dividend. The creditors will rejoice thereat, for they have waited a long time for their money. The sum will probably be sufficient to make the total dividends something like 75 per cent. A great deal of North and South Dakota real estate has recently been sold by the assignee, together with lands In tho northern part of the state. Tho assignee filed a petition asking for authority to sell the stock of the Homestead Land company, for merly owned by Frederick T. Day, president of the bank, for S18,000,hav tng been offered that amount for tt. More- Troop For Manila. Amos Kimball, assistant quartermas ter general United States army, an nounced that 2,000 recruits for the American army in the Philippines would snll from New York for Manila at an early date. The troops will be transhipped in two detachments of 1,000 men each. The first detachment sails ou the transport Buford Novem ber 5, being followed on the 10th by tho transport Kilpatrlck with the other 1,000. Tho troops on the Buford will bo under commund of Colonel Jacob Kline of the Twenty-first infan try, wlille Colonel Tully McCrca of the Sixth artillery wil command those on the Kilpatrlck. Astronomer Claxe at Kro. A scries of observations of the newly discovered planet Eros are being made by the astronomers of the University of Chicago during the clear nights. The observations may cud with this month, but it will be ut least a a year before the results from all over the world nre made known. The planet was located a year ago by Witt, a Ger man astronomer. The moon is snld to be the only heavenly body nearer the earth than Eros. Stricken With Paralysis. Najeeb Arbeely, consul general to Egypt during General Grant's first ad ministration, wrs stricken with para lysis at tho barge office in New York. For some years he hus been one of the immigrant inspectors, having in ulinriro the oriental bureau. Najeeb Arbecly'a father was a member of the Turkish parliament, and the son was educated in this country. He was graduated from the university of Tennessee, studied law and was admitted to the bar in Tcnncsseec nnd New York. Woman aud Flug Itoute Men. Mrs. Clara Peoples of Camden, N. J., routed four men with a rocking chair and an American flag. The men had made a hole for a telegraph polo In front of her home. Mrs. Peoples planted the chair and the flag over it and dared anybody to tear the latter down. She held the fort until the foreman proposed a truce and went to consult the ofllecrs of the company, who gave up the fight. Has a Dig liar of Gold. A New York dispatch says: Resting on the floor of the main office of tho Bank of Montreal was what looked like an extraordinarily large mold of butter. It was, in fact, what Is tech nically known as a "king bar" of gold. It weighs 0,040 ounces, and Is valued at 51.14,000. It represents the last clean up of the Consolidated Cariboo mine In British Columbia. Drowned Wlille Hunting. Torrey Carr, a son of B. O. Carr, and brother of E. M. Carr, of Seattle, Wash., and Clark, Carr, son of Genor&l Carr of Oalesburg, III., were drowned in Lake Washington while duck hunting from a canoe. The bodies have not been recovered. E. M. Carr is a prominent lawyer here and General Carr Is a campaign speaker sent out from Illi nois by the republican national com mittee' 116 was an intimate friend of President Lincoln and several years ago minister to Denmark. High Water In Tennessee. A Bristol, Tenn., dispatch says, high water is raging In many streams in upper and east Tennessee. Railroad trusties over the Holstan and Chncky rivers and a steel bridge have been washed away. The boom at South Watauga broke loose aud many thou sands of logs wero lost Winona, Minnesota and vicinity were visited by tho worst stcrm In many years at tills season of the year. Lightning did considerable damage in the citv striking In a number of pluces. Like Father. Like Sot. Hugh John MncDoilnld, the coming iender of the conservative party in tannda, is immensely popular, not only in his own province of Manitoba, but In the dominion generally. Ho Is 50 years old and possesses many points of resemblnnco to his distinguished fa ther, the late Sir John A, MacDonald, the greatest statesman as yet . pro duced by Canadn. An Index to the chnrncter of tho younger DacDon aid Is found in the nlcknnmo given him by tho In dians of Manitoba "The Man Who Keeps His Word." His advent as a leader Is recent. Ho had renr- sented Winnipeg In T ,, parliament, nnd In- "' J MacDoi"'' deed had been a cabinet minister, but It was not until last year that he ac cepted the headship of tho conserva tive party in his province. Wide areas of Influence are now opening before this brilliant, lawyer and states man. It Is believed that tho mantle of 8lr Charles Tupper Is about" to fall upon him and that he will wear It with credit. Colleges and "Bonds. Foiir-ntths of the productive fonfls of colleges aro invested in bonds nnd mortgages. Only a few have made any investments In stocks. Two of them, Columbia and Har vard, havo considerable Invest ments In real estate, but of tho latter's ton or moro millions railroad bonds claim the largest share. Twenty col leges have nn Income-producing prop erty of at least $1,000,000. These ara as . follows! Harvard, $10,000,000; Yale, $5,000,000; Columbia, property producing a revenue of $425,000; Cor nell, $6,000,000; University of Chicago, $8,000,000; Johns Hopkins, $3,000,000; Northwestern university, $3,000,000; University of Pennsylvania, $2,500,000; Wc3leyan of Middletown, Conn., $1, 000,000; Amherst, $1,000,000; Boston university, $1,000,000; Rochester uni versity, $1,200,000; Tulnne university of Louisiana, $1,000,000; Western Re serve university, $1,000,000; and Brown university, $1,000,000. Several state universities, among them those of Cal ifornia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min nesota have revenues representing either property or state help to the amount of $1,000,000 and upwards. "Resources of Siberia. Under government encouragement, It is said that Siberia is gaining 200,000 farmers per year. Among its exports nre cereals, butter, wool, leather and dried and preserved meats. Already this remote country, which the popu lar imagination is apt to picture as a vast waste, the abode of frost and snow and misery, is becoming talked of as a possible competitor with the well-known cereal producing countries of tho world. jV member of tho French bureau of foreign commerce estimates that, on the bnsls of tho present popu lation of Ruesln in Europe, Siberia can sustain 80,000,000 Inhabitants, al though it now has not one-tenth of that number. It produces ono-tonth of the world's yield of gold, 'out owing to climatic obstacles many of Its mine are not worked, and its immense coal deposits have hardly been touched. When Edson Was a "Boy. Edison was, as a boy, a great reader. He set to work methodically to read through the Detroit free library from one end of It to the other, and had devoured "fifteen solid feet of litera ture" before ho was Interrupted. Be fore he was twelve he had polished off "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," "The Anatomy of Melan choly," "Newton's Prlnclpla" and oth er learned workB of which most twelve-yenr-old boys have scarcely even heard. Abandons Quest for Sight. After five years of hoping against hope, at the ago of 64 years, Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind millionaire merchant of New York, has with drawn his offer of $1,000,000 for the restoration of his sight. His sight began to fall in 1892, nnd within three years he lost it entirely.' Ills of fer of $1,000,000 for a cure encouraged thousands of quacks and fanat C. B. Roubb. ics to offer their services. Specialists in diseases of the eyo examined him and said he wqb suffering from paraly sis of the optic nerve, a disease for which there was no known cure. As Mr. Rouss had no time to devote to the experiments which the healers wanted to .make he hired a substitute. James J. Martin, the other blind man, has the same trouble that afflicts Mr. Rouss, and he 1b poor. He received $6 a week from Mr. Rouss at first for his services in the experiments. Ills pay was cut down to $3 a week recent ly and Mr. Rouss has announced that he will discontinue that allowance now that all experiments have failed, and the offer of a reward is withdrawn. An agent of ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed has visited Oyster Bay, L. I., and secured an option on a fine piece' of property adjoining the home of Gov ernor Roosevelt on Sagamore hill. The place Mr. Reed has In view contalna several acres and commands a fine view of the Center island property of the Seawanhaka-Corinthlan Yacht club. ) ,r. te yk