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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1902)
fXPLOSIONOfLAMP Starts a $4,000 Fire at Plain viow, Nob. f OUR STORE ROOMS ARE CONSUMED 'Colorado Mlillnnd C'ollUton on n Trrntlo Accident on tli Illinois Central Two lUtlnn Crnmntoil In it Cuiil Minn Fremont Doric. The explosion of a lump In Frontc Hulbcrt's cellar at Plalnvluw, Neb., burned down a block of four store rooiiiH belonging, respectively to It. J. Howell) bakery and restaurant; Finnic Hullcrt, general merchandise; A. P. Btrubc, restaurant utid confectionery; C. II. Folsom, general merchandise. The contents of tlio buildings were mostly saved. All buildings were in Hitrcd except It. J. Jewell's. Tho less is about 81,000. NEGRO'S NARROW ESCAPE .Angry Mob Want to Avrngn I'olUnninn'n Denlh. I'ollccmnn Mark Alien of Chester, a., wns Hhot and Instantly killed by Albert West, a negro, whom he luid ar rented for quarruling on the street with a colored woinitn. West escaped, but was captured hid inn; In a stable at Darby, Pa. When the ofllccrs arrived with the prisoner a crowd of 2,000 persons met them with tlio cries of "Lynch him!" "Kill hlin." When West was brought out on the platform of tho car there was a rush iBiid a number of persons struck him with umbrellas and canes, while an ef fort was made to get htm away from the policemen. The negro was hustled into tho city hall, and the crowd, see ing that It was Imposslhlu to reach him .in tho narrow corridor, ran around to tho court yard In tho rear of the build ing. The big gate was barred, but a hundred shoulders were placed against it and It wns torn down and the mob .rushed In with yell of "Lynch him." The city jail stands In this eouit yard and fearing that a rush would bo made In that direction. Chief Lenry placed a platoon of police in the drive way, and tho ofllcers with drawn re volvers, faced tho crowd, which sullen ly rotlrcd. A plot was made for a sec ond onslaught, and it was necessary to .place the leaders in custody, temporari ly, to quiet tho crowd. ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING Wight of l'oMCMlnn Will lie Teiteit In Untie Corpus Hull. What for a tlino promised to bo a -very sensational case happened when -J. 8. Kwart of Kearney with another .man took little Hut It Kwnrtaway from her grandmother in Omaha. Tho girl was with Mrs. with Mrs. K. L. Dodder .and her daughter, Mrs. .Smith, when aa they alighted from a street car a man heavily bundled up at the curb, sei.ed tho child, hande 1 it to another man who pushed it hi a cab statiding near and then both jumped In nnd drove away on the gallop For a time no traco whatever was found of tho girl thousrh many bystanders saw thu whole act and one man ran eight blocks In pursuit only to be distanced. Notices were wired In all directions with good descriptions of the men and In an hour 'Detective Wlcr located them in Coun oil IHuITh at the (Irund hotel. One wns '!. S. Kwart, father of the girl, a -wealthy grain man of Kearney, own 'itig a scries of elevators along the KInloi Pacific road. The man with ihttn is employed in the office of a loeal attorney. After explanations, It was agreed to tiring the girl back to Omaha where 'the right of possession will bo tested in a habeas corpus suit to bo tried be fore Judge Ilaxter at an early date. Oppoien Aiuneiitjr. lludyard Kipling who arrived at Capetown January 8, in a letter to a friend in Kugland, again protests em phatically against auy amnesty being granted the rebels, which ho fears from the attitude of the home people may be done. Mr. Kipling declares It is a question of life or death for thu colony. "Tho ltritlBh minister had an Intel -"viow with Dr. von Lyndon, the Dutch minister of foreign affairs, last .Satur day," wires the Drusscls correspondent of tlio London Morning Post, "and In timated that Oreat Itrltiuu would nev er negotiate with Mr. Kruger or Dr. Ijeyds." IllnniomU lterovered. The diamonds stolen from the two 'iron-bound trunks nt (llendlvo, Mont., belonging to 0. It. Clawscn, traveling irepresentatlve of a Minneapolis whole .sale Jewelry firm, wore recovered at "Terry, where they had been cached. 'The robbery, which oeeurted on Jnnu .nry, 1(1, was a bald one, tho trunks be ing taken from tho Northern Pacific liaggage roo-u, broken open and the diamonds abstracted. Jerry McCnrty, who was arrested on suspicion, is said to have made a full confession to tho hhcrlff and to have giyen directions for the finding of the missing Jewels. Stilrldn Identllled. The jdehttty of a mlddle-agud,rlchly- dressoowouain, who committed suicide in StocVti,, C&l., has been established iby friends. She was Mrs, Hammond Moore of Now York city, tho w'l low of Colonel jlnmmmid Moore, an o fleer of tho Confederate "army,' who settled In New York shortly after tho civil war. She came to Sail Francisco from Gua temala last May In tho course of a tour utound the world, which sho begun three years ago. and which had just been concluded. STORY OF HARDSHIP Major Waller nod lilt Marine Mnrrh ArroM hiinmr. (leiienil ChaiTcc has cabled to tho war dcpiirtuicut a report of the march of Major Waller and hlsinarlnes news Hiimar. Itlslhellrst full account of the march and tolls n tale of torrlblo HulTcrlng and hardship: 'Tlio wax department Ih advised of the trip of Major Waller, four ofllccrs and llfty men of the marine corps, thirty-six native bearers, with four days' rations, who started the last week of December from Lunnng, on the oast cost of Saniar, to cross the Isl and to Hassoy, about thirty-live miles, on the limp. A trail atone time ex isted, but It was found In places only. Lieutenant Lyles of tho Twelfth In fantry accompanied the command. Incessant ruins from the stnrt, swollen streams and other natural obstacles made progress extiemely slow. When tho rations were consumed thumen ix hausled rapidly, dropping on the way. "Major Waller, separated from Cap tain Porter, Lieutenant It. P. Williams and tho. major part of the men, pro ceeding toward llassuy, where he ar rived January 0 with two ofllccrs and thirteen mn; also Lieut. Lyles. Ho returned to thu mountains next day with relief, but returned to Hassoy about ten days later unsuccessful. Porter was to build rafts, but timber would not flout. 'The second day after separating from Mr. Waller, Porter moved toward Laming and arrived January II with two men, all exhausted physically and and mentally. Lieut. It. P. Williams and over thirty men were loft in tho mountains in a similar condition with native hearers. A relief expedition under Lieut. Kenneth P. Williams, First infantry, was delayed In starting two days by a storm raging and tor rent river. They started the Kith, reached the marines the 18th, saving Lieut. Williams and all except ten men not found, who are no doubt dead from starvation, namely: Privates Fangule, K. Foaler, (I. M. llrltt, T. Wards, Drown, F. F. Murry, T. liitffct, Haley, llaroni and Council. K. Kettle, died In the hospital at Taoloban January L'.'l. COLLISION ON A TRESTLE l'luKumn Heeler! III Duty iintl I In nlliiilljr Klllml. A Colorado Midland nassenircr train westbound for Salt Lake nnd San Francisco, had a narrow escape from Instant destruction two miles west of lluena Vista, Colo. The locomotlvo dashed Into a freight train standing on a trestle sixty-live feet high burling the caboose Into the creek bottom and Instantly killing Owen McCarthy, rear brakeman of the freight train. Huglneer Peck and his fireman wero prevented from jumping by the high trestle and remained on their engine, expecting to bo dashed to death. The englnu left tho rails, but miraculously remained on thu trestle, almost bal anced on Its edge, not only saving their lives, but the passengers as well. Owen McCarthy, tho only man to lose his life, received orders to Hag the coming passenger train, but tarried in tho caboose, warming himself, as the morning was extremely eold. lie had lust started to tlag tho train when he saw the headlight of the locomotive rounding the curve not 100 feet dis tant, lie retreated toward the caboose but was caught and knocked Into tho creek, being shockingly mangled. Viml Mine On l'lre. A tiro at the Cooke & White coal mine nt Madrid, N. M., operated by the Col orado Fuel and Iron company, caused the death of two Italians, one named lirnto and the other unknown, and threatens damage to tho property. At last accounts tho tire had burned to within thirty feet of a room filled with gas, and should this point bo reached an explosion would follow that would cause great wreck to the property. All openings leading to the mine have been closed, the fans stopped and nil available water turned Into the mine, which it Is expected will be Hooded in three or four days. .Shoot III Assailant. It. H. Ulnnkenshlp, a wealthy mer chant of Delmoro. W. Vn., a small lum station, shot and killed Robert Drown lug, a lumber dealer, lllankonship's plea Is self-defense, as hs claims that lliownlng had already llred one shot nt him. The shooting occurred in tho private office of Hlankenshlp, when a dispute arose during the settlement of an account. Ilurneil To Itcutli. In a fire near Wise Postolllce InMon. ongahola county, W. Vn., Hlauehe, the Infant child of Thompson (Hover, was burned to death, two other children wore pehaps fatally burned and Mr. and Mrs. Clover were seriously In jured while trying to escape from tholr house. One ThroiiKh Tretlo. Two dead and three badly lujured is the result of a train going through a trestle on tho Guuley railroad near Kerry's Siding, W. Va. Tho engine and several cars of tho freight train crashed through tho trestle to tho ground several feet below. I'ruiuont In I)rkne. Fremont, Neb., Is minus a large por tion of Its electric lights for tho timo being, tho nrinuturo at the municipal power station having burned out. Only tho Incandescent lamps of tho 'city nro affected, as the electricity for tho aro lights is generated by another dynamo Seven bandits entered the Pecos Mer cantile company's store at Fort Sum ner, N. M., shot Henubten dead, beat Francisco Zarnora senseless, stole 8000 worth of goods, robbed the postoillco and escaped. NINE FIREMEN KILLED Buried Beneath Falling While Fighting Firo Wall 0MPAM0NS UNABLE TO RESCUE THEN Ohio Hlver Towtionf Holler Kiplode Five Men Severely Huriicil An Ot laTii, Knn., .Mini Hwlndlr Whole nnlo House Oilier New. At least nine men were killed nnd as many more injured at a fire which broke out in the five-story stone build ing nt St. Louis, occupied by the Amer ican Tent and Awning company. The building suddenly collapsed, and al though the dozen men who were caught in the crash had not bcuu reached by the hard-working compan ions, It is nlmoit absolutely curtain that they have succumbed. The building in which the lire orig inated was located in the old business seetiuu of tho city, and was about fif teen years old. Tho blaze, which proved a hard one for the department to master, was practically under con trol when suddenly. Without warning, the building collapsed, and came down in a heap with a noise that could be heard for blocks. Three pi pemen at work on the second floor had dllllculty In managing a line of hose, and Assis tant Chief Thierry was on his way with three of his men to lend them aid when the building collapsed. The men went down with tons of twisted Iron, brick, stone and wooden columns enveloping them. Chief Swlngley, who was In front of the building di recting his men, had a miraculous es cape from death. IN THE HOCPITAL Oenernl FuiiMon Ollgcil to Undergo An other Operation. General Funstoti was again sub jected to the surgeon's knife, The op eration was performed at Scarrlt's hos pital, Kansas City, under the direction of Dr. F. F. Iloblnson. After General Fun&ton arrived from tho West and had had a consultation with Dr. Robinson, It was stated that another operation would not be neces sary. Within a day or so, however, the wound of thu original operation for appendicitis had not healed ns the physician lndleved it should and the second operation was decided upon. Heforu tlio operation was performed Dr. Robinson stated it would prove a minor nfTatr. Later he stated that the general had undergone the ordeal in a satisfactory manner, and that he believed tho outcome would be what had been dcslrc.l. It would be neces sary, However, tor the patient to re main at the hospital for probably two weeks. GIFT FOR MISS ROOSEVELT Kaiser to l'resnnt Her Willi MngnMceiit lenrel Cnr. The kaiser's gift to Mits Alice Itoose vllt, In collection Iwltli the vlblt to America of Admiral Prince Henry, Is to be a jewel ease, richly studded with diamonds. In tho center of the lid is a portrait of the kaiser, with the im perial monogram in diamonds. The Intcriml fittings and decorations of the kaiser's American yacht arc be ing made by a London firm of decorat ors, and the chief artist has interviewed the kaiser who said laughingly: "I shall send a torpedo boat for my yacht seme day before June IK, so you'll have to get it finished by then, as I want It to take part in tho Kiel regatta." Htuilrnt Nulelde. Miss Agnes Inglls, of Detroit, twenty-three years old and a sophomore stu dent In the medical department of the University of Michigan, committed sui cide at Ann Arbor. She was the daugh ter of Dr. David Inglls, a prominent physician of Detroit. No motive for the deed has been dis covered, but It Is known that Miss !n- gllss was subject to attacks of great mental depression. At such times sho has often theatened to take her life. This was probably the cause although she left an examination in cheerful spirits. After examination sho went down town, returned to her room nnd shot herself near the heart. She then opened her door, walked out Into the hall and fell In a swoon. She died half an hour later without recovering consciousness. Aeeuied or Huliidllng Wholesaler. N. D. Parker, a young man who lives at Ottawa, Kan., has been held for tho federal grand Jury on a charge of fraudulent use of the malls by ob taining goods under false pretenses. It is said he obtained 550,000 worth of goods of all descriptions from prom inent tlrms in Chicago, St. Joseph and Kansas City. Ho Is alleged to have ordered goods In the name of tho Ot tawa Hrokerago company, and to have sold the goods to retailors near his home. A startling tragedy, caused by love and jealously, occurred at Havana, 111. Mrs. Robinson McCool shot her lover, Joseph Lewis, nnd her ten-year-old daughter, and thenjturned tho revolver upon herself, dying Immediately. Sho left a letter confessing her lovo for Lewis nnd requesting that tho thrco bodies 1ms taken to Peoria for burial, where sho had a burial lot, nnd that her property, after paying funeral ex penses, be given her brother Richard, saying that he was tho only one who had ever been kind to her, She haa bomo Insurance URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL Appropriation Called For Amount to Twenty Million. The net Increase of appropriation recommended by the scnatu committee on the urgency deficiency bill Is 83, 101, 1.10, bringing its total up to S'JO, -.13(),(V.'0. The principal Items of in crease nrc the following: Payment to Mexico on account of tho La Abra and Well claims, 3H2;r73; payment of rebate on tobacco, 9100,000; reimbursement of Philippine insular fund for gunboats turned over to tho navy, 8-08,810; purchase of coal for tho navy, SB00, 000; equipment of naval ves sels, 8 i"0, 000; refunding to states mo ney expended In raising volunteers In the dvll war Maine, 8i:il,.riir, Penn sylvania, 8030,110: Now Hampshire, 8103,373, and Rhode Island, Sm,lU7. Tho appropriation of 8"00,000 for tho shelter of troops in the Philippine Isl ands Is retained, but the wording of the provision is changed to read as fol lows: "For the establishment In the vicinity of Manila, P. I., of a military post, Including the construction of bar racks, quarters for ofllccrs, storehouses, hospitals and other buildings, ns well as water supply, lighting, sewerage nnd drainage necessary for the accom modation of a garrison of two full reg iments of Infantry, two squadrons of cavalry and two batteries of artlllory, to be available until expended," The committee also struck out the house provision limiting tho number of land olllees in Alaska to one, nnd re duced the appropriation made by the house bill for experimental rural free delivery service from 311)1,010 to 8317, 300. Provision is made for the paymentof a year's salary each to the widows of the late Senators Kyle and Sewell and 80,11.1 is appropriated to pay the ex penses of senators who attended the funeral of. President McKlnley. AN IMPORTANT DECISION I.lntilllly ot (Stockholder In Capital N- tlonal Hank Failure. Ill the United States supreme court Justice Hrown delivered an opinion in the case of McDonald vs. Thompson. The case Involves the liability ol Thompson ns a stockholder of the failed Capital National bank of Lin coln, Neb., and Indirectly the point as to tho applicability of the statute of limitation ns to time in the mutter of contracts, this statute proscribing live years in cases in which the coutrat is In writing and four years in cases when it Is not in writing. In this in stance suit was instituted more than four years and less than five years al ter the cause of action arose. The court held that there was no contract in writing in this ense, except a eon tract to pay for the stock, but the eon elusion was that this was not a coo tract within the meaning of the stat ute. Hence the decision was In Thomp son's favor. " While Mon Terrorize Negroes. Almost a reign of terror exists in the vicinity of the Millstone mine of the Cumberland Coal company, six teen miles above Crossville, in Fenless, county, Tennessee. Some dissatisfied miners nnd other men recently posted a notice signed with a skull and cross bones, nnd in red ink, warning tho ne groes, a few of whom are employed about the mines nnd at the company store, to leave at once. The negroes did not leave, and tho mob has twice tired into their cabins. The last time the negroes returned the fire nnd tho mob retreated. The mob attacked the company's commlsary,but William Nixon, son of Manager Nixon, nt the head of a number of white em ployes, charged the mob with rifles, and a pitched battle ensued, the tnob retreating to the woods. Tho situa tion has been reported to Adtutant General Hranon. Explosion or Totvboat Holler. Inst as the Pittsburg harbor towboat J. W. Ailes had passed through Lock No. 3 her boilers exploded, throwing her crew of fourteen in all directions. Three of the crew are known to bo fa tallyihurt and only five others have been accounted. The boat was towing six loaded flats toward Pittsburg and just after get ting out of the lock the explosion hap pened and in a very short time tho Allcs wns burned to the water's edge. The report of tho cxplosiou was heard for miles and soon after rescuing par- tics were searching for the injured. Herb Doctor Killed. At Olenjeau, Tayetto county, West Virginia, a mob went to the home of T. Williams, a colored herb doctor, called him to the door and shot him to death. He returned the tire, nnd Moso Adams, colored, was found a short dis tance away, shot through tho stomach. Williams was a recent a-rlval from Tennessee nnd the negroes believed he was a conjuror. Four Npoetatoni Killed. Four persons were killed and one wns probably fatally injured as the result of an explosion of gasoline in the bake ry of Ocorgo Carver of lloycrtown, Pa. At tho timo of tho explosion a largo crowd of spectators wero watching tho fire and many of them wore cnught un der the falling wall. Kirape With tlie Hansom. The Sofia correspondent of tho Lon don Times reports that during the ne gotiations witli the brigands for the lease of Miss Stone, the captive mis sionary, tho house in which tho Ameri can party was lodged burned down, but that the Inmates escaped with tlio ransom money. ruMeiiRcr uutl Freight Collide, An Illinois Central passenger train at Alworth about six miles west of Rockford, 111., killing one man and in Jurlnir two others, all trainmen. UNIQUE VOLUME HM Author Spent Twenty Years M A wonderful manuscript book on archeology has Just been presented to tho library of congress by Thomas Wil son, LL. D., of Wnshlnr.ton. The au thor of tho work In question, Mr. S. II. Hlnkley, a farmer of Montgomery county, Ohio, died In 1900, nt tho age of 94 years. Mr. Hlnkley employed his spare timo for tho last twenty yearn of his llfo In writing this book, or rather printing It with pen and Ink, nnd Illustrating It with drawings In black cud white and color, which have the fineness of en gravings mid lithographs. Tho objects described nnd Illustrated aro tho common utensils of tho aborig inal Inhabitants of this country, and embrace arrow and spear heads of bone and stone, domestic belongings of va rious kinds, woiklng Implements, carv ings, etc. Profe3sor W. K. Moorehcad of New York, who, through a mere accident, became possessed of the unique vol ume, thus speaks of the author accord ing to the few fncts which ho has been enabled to Rather concerning him: "S. II. Hlnkley was a gentleman farmer of the old school. Whether he wnB n college graduate or not I am unable to say, but my Impression Is that he educated himself. He possessed a fine farm in the Miami Bottoms, south of Dayton, hi Montgomery coun ty, Ohio. Thcio wero walls, circles, etc., of prehistoric remains upon his property and the prcsenco of theso turned his attention to archcologlcal matters. "Mr. Hlnkley began fo collect Indian Some Odd Superstitions of Farmers OLD IDEAS FIRMLY BELIEVED IN BY PROSAIC AGRICULTURISTS. "Superstition is more prevalent among the American people than Is generally supposed," said a book agent, "and even the hard-headed Intelligent farmers arc, to a certain extent, af flicted with it. "I remember asking a farmer sixty years old, a man of more than ordi nary Intelligence, the owner of 1,000 acres of fine land, well stocked, nnd who had several thousand dollars in bonds nnd other securities, why ho did not build himself a better house. The one he lived in wns old, small nnd di lapidated, n relic ot tho days when he was poor. " 'Afraid to, was tho reply. '"Afraid of what?' I asked. " 'Well, you see, I have always heard that when an old man builds a new house he never lives long to use It.' "I laughed, hut ho wns perfectly se rious, und I found that in that neigh borhood the superstition was generally believed In. 'Another snyinK was common In the same locality. 'The mat; who plants a tree genernlly lives to enjoy its fruits.' The belief In these sayings was shown by tho number of poor farm houses and the number of fine orch ards In that neighborhood. " 'Seed corn shelled at night gener ally grows best,' Is another saying fre quently used In tho corn belt. A farmer's son suggested that It was Invented by the old men as an excuse for making tho boys work at night. I Desks Bought Old Furnishings of tho House of Representatives Disposed of. 3&5S$$ A scramblo Is being made by mem bers of congress to possess the discard ed desks which furnished tho house for so many years pi lor to the mahogany elegance of tho tlfty-soventh congress. What aro left of theso desks aro stored In the basement under the rotunda of it. i, mnitni nml dally they are hunted through by sonic representative who realizes that hero Is an opportunity to perpetuato IiIb glory as a national leg islator, nnd establish an heirloom In his family to bo used by his children as an Incentive to oratory and states manship. At tho last session, when tho houso decided to refurnish, u resolution was passed that members who desired to purchase their old desks should ho al lowed to do bo after u prlco had been astabllBhcd by nn auction of a tow of them. Chief Clerk William J. Drown ing ot the house was charged with car rying out tho resolution, and Mr. Urownlng is llndlng his task one which needs not only commercial instinct, but the skill of a diplomat. In order to ascertain tho wish of members In till J regard Mr. Di owning Bent notices to each ot tho members of the fifty-sixth congress nsklng them to communlcnto their desires to him in TvriHnp- on this matter. A few re sponded, but the indications wero up to a short time ago, that tho desks wore to bo a drug on tho market. Just bcroro tho present congress as sembled, about seventy-flvo of the desks were sent to nn auction-room ono Saturday to be sold for tho pur GIVEN CONGRESS j of His Life Writing If. relics, and up to 1889 had gathered from his Immediate neighborhood a very comprehensive exhibit of more thnn 10,000 specimens. Ho nlso wrote scientific and popular articles for sev eral magazines and nowapapors. "Mr. Hlnkley conceived the Idea of a hand-printed book, with Illustrations drawn by himself, In which ho would dcscrlbo his collection. He began this work about 1870, nnd continued It up to n year before his death, In 1000. It may be seen by an examination of hln books that Blnklcy's observations aro all reasonable up to within a few pages of the end of the volume. "Ho wroto but n few pages each year (In tho winter), and spent hours upon tho drawings and printing of words. After ho had passed his 90th year (he died nt tho ago of 94) his mind became clouded, and he saw In many ot tho stones fuccs of apes, etc. "This book is remarkable In thnt It shows a vnst amount of palnstnklng labor, tho discerning eye of n compe tent collector, and the pleasurable oc cupation of a gentlcmnn farmer who cared more for these matters than ho did for his estate. It Is one of tho rare examples of patience and 'take your time' In this hustling world of fever ish American life. "After Mr. Hinkley's death his rela tives, who had no appreciation of his hobby, sold und scattered his large col lection." "From saving comes having," but not ns quickly ns It comes from grab bing nt everything in sight " 'Things planted during the dark of the moon produce the best roots,' Is so generally accepted us true that veg etables, like potatoes, turnips, beets, carrots and onions are planted during tho light of tho moon by few people. Many scientific farmers believe In this superstition. " 'Tho farmer who refuses water to a traveler's horse will see his own llvo stock suffer from thirst before tho end of tho year' Is a belief so common In some localities as to insuro courteous treatment to all travelers. "Some farmers will wring the neck of a hen if sho crows. They say a crowing hen brings bad luck to tho farm, and, us I heard ono old farmer remark, 'sets the wlmmcn folks a bad example.' " 'Borrowed eggs always hatch' Is a saying probably Invented by some stingy man ns an excuse for borrow ing, but It Is so generally believed In nomo neighborhoods that a regular system of borrowing nnd lending Is carried on. "These nnd hundreds of other super stitions aro so generally believed In that they govern the customs of com munities to a surprising extent." Chi cago Inter Ocean. D. O. Mills of New York recently presented to the Lick observatory In California, a large reflecting telescope, which will bo sent to Chill to deter mine tho velocities of the Btars In tho southern hemisphere. as Souvenirs pose of establishing a price. Fifty of the.o desks now adorn a study-room In a young ladles' seminary, while twenty-five wero bought by souvenir hunters. It Is evident that tho auc tioneer missed hla cuo in not Impress ing the prospective purchasers with tho fact that many great mon had formu lated tho nation's policies behind these same desks, for ho only received prices ranging from $1.10 to $1.75 for each desk. Clerk Drowning holds that tho avorage price wa3 $1.50. The liurjlar4! MUtake. "Look uoro," said tiio uurglar, as the man raised himself to a sitting posture in tho bed, "what do you meun by living In a room thnt Invites visit ors and yet affords them no reward? Haven't you got any money hid out somowhere?" "No," replied tho man; "but I'm expecting some. 1 havo sent two poems to tho Scrawl, four sketches to the Scrlbo, and six " "Say aro you a writer?" "I should 3ay bo! Just let mo read you my " Tho burglar raised a warning hand. "No," ho said, "my tlmo's limited. I've got threo more houses on my list, and if they pan out as bad ns this ono, I won't have any breakfast. I'll read your stuff when It's printed. I take nil tho magazines. By tin by " Ho pnuscd, looked nt hl3 watch, and asked: "Any more lltornry houses In this district?" "None." "All right I'm off. flood; night!" "Samo to you. Pleaso cIojo tha window after you." Atlanta Constitution, S.