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CEDAR BLUFFS KANSAS
Mips Rena Henderson of Atwood is
visiting at the hotel
Dr and Mrs Nichols and son Lavine
are at the hotel this week
Miss Elsie Storm yisited at Mrs Jen
nie Law a north of Oberhn last week
Rev and Mrs Beauchamp went to
Jewel City last Friday to attend con
ference
J II Wicks was up from Danbury
last week and put in a phone for Mrs
Rebman
Harry S Kennedy went to Kansas
City with four cars of hogs and one of
cattle recently
Dr Simons has moved into Dr
Nichols residence and taken up the
practice of Dr Nichols
Misd Blanche Henderson is back in
the hotel again She tells us she enter
ed upon a claim out near Atwood
Charles Steel of Iowa who is working
for II S Kennedy had hishaud caught
in the gasoline engine breaking the
thumb
Mrs Tom Relph and sister Mrs Myr
tle Aughey went via McCook to Haigler
the other day to visit their parents Mr
and Mrs N J Johnson
The Cedar Bluffs public school gave a
ghost social at the school house last
Friday evening March 16th for the
benefit of the school library Miss
Cathcart had arranged a very interest
ing program consisting of songs recita
tions dialogues etc The patriotic drill
by the little ones was well worth seeing
and merited all the approval received
This may also be said of the ribbon drill
by six young ladies who afterwards
sang John Brown forwards and
backwards Then to the surprise of the
audience the ladies placed their pretty
slippers and dainty hoisery upon their
arms and holding their hands up above
a low stretched curtain sang most ef
fectively and delightfully Then follow
ed the special pvent of the evening the
auction The ladies were enwrapt in
sheets and Colonel Harry S Kennedy
assumed charge giving a good account
of himself as usual in this capacity
The first ghost was sold for 350 but
Bones told the boys that this was too
cheap for a walking ghost and supper
and the next one Miss Jessie Miner
went to Mr Wilson at 300 All the
baskets were sold at from 350 to 500
realizing for the grand cause 7600 It
was altogether an evening and event
long to be happily remembered no one
doubting it was better to spend an even
ing with live ghosts than to be dead
altogether
Cedar Bluffs can boast
Of many lively ghosts
The money too did fly
When R A G the lumberman
Run baskets to the sky
SCHOOL CREEK
Pretty good sleighing in these parts
Jake Harsch is building an addition to
his house
Grandma Conrad is suffering with
rheumatism
John Dutcher was in town on busi
ness Thursday
The mailman was unable to make a
complete route Saturday
J C Seddens now well is complete
He will fence a 40 acre hog lot as soon
as the weather will permit
BOX ELDER
Once more the sun shines
The boys are keeping themselves busy
these days hunting rabbits
Mrs Etta Brown of Hardy is visiting
her sister Mrs D B Doyle
Rev JAKerr is holding special meet
ings at Garden Prairie assisted by Miss
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Yellow Dog
T
HE unexpected homecoming of
Andrew Hamilton confidential
legislative agent for Insurance
companies has rekindled pub
lic interest In the subject of the so
called yellow dog funds about which
there wns so much mystery during the
progress of the late investigation into
life Insurance matters Much money
was given Into Mr Hamiltons keeping
by the New York Life the Equitable
the Mutual and other companies The
Fowler committee composed of trus
tees of the New York Life appointed
to inquire into the affairs of the com
pany brought in a report In February
which held Mr Hamilton responsible
for 795964 of the funds of the society
Of this amount the companys bureau
of legislation and taxation at Albany
under Mr Hamiltons direction receiv
ed 70357754 according to statements
Messrs Hamilton and McCall were
held jointly responsible for 219500
The Fowler committee found that a
certain sum of 233000 paid on the
home oilice account was given to
Mr Hamilton on the order of President
McCall and for this reason the latter
refunded the money sacrificing his
splendid home at Long Branch In or
der to do so
Beginning with a bill for legal serv
ices in 1S92 for 4081 Hamiltons
work for the New York Life seemed
to increase rapidly In value for the
payments to him thereafter grew enor
mously until the sum for the thirteen
years up to 1903 went above 1300000
now much of this money was for per
sonal services how much was used for
payment of taxes and how much for
other purposes the Armstrong commit
tee and the Fowler committee both
tried to ascertain but without success
At the suggestion of the Armstrong
committee John C McCall son of the
late president of the New York Life
went to Europe with the view of per
suading Mr Hamilton to return to this
country and appear before the com
mittee His mission was fruitless in
this respect as ho reported that Mr
Hamilton was taking treatment at a
sanitarium nud was too ill to return at
that time Instead of returning to ap
pear before the committee Mr Hamil
ton sent a statement as to his expendi
tures which did not explain them
however to the satisfaction of the in
vestigators In the meantime John A
McCall died The New York Life has
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JtTDGE ANDEEW HAMnTON
now instituted suits for recovery of
funds alleged to have been Illegally
paid Mr Hamilton
To a friend who met him at the pier
on landing in this country Mr Hamil
ton said I am here prepared to meet
any charges that may be made against
me My hands are clean and I have
no fear of the result If anybody sees
fit to get after me with a gun ho will
find out that I am armed with cannon
Mr Hamilton was born about forty
eight 3ears ago in Albany where he
now has a handsome residence sur
rounded by spacious and well kept
grounds He was educated in the pub
lic schools was admitted to the bar
and began the practice of law For
awhile he found it hard work getting
ahead Then he got into partnership
with Hugh Reilly a prominent Albany
practitioner Reilly was elected dis
trict attorney and Hamilton became
his assistant He also served for two
years as a civil justice and in conse
quence of this has since been called
Judge by his Albany neighbors
On Mr Reillys resignation as dis
trict attorney in order to become a
judge of the court of claims Mr Ham
ilton succeeded him in the office It
was during this period of his career
that he made the acquaintance of An
thony N Brady an acquaintanceship
which resulted in his being received in
the Inner circles of high finance Bra
dy admitted him to the councils of the
Ten Ten club which met in a little
back room in a saloon known as the
Jug of Blood famous for its beef
steaks and musty ale Here the mem
bers played penuchle and other games
and hatched up neat little schemes
promising profits for all belonging to
the club So much wealth resulted
from these schemes that the coterie
came to be known as the lucky
bunch Brady and Hamilton became
intimate friends Some years ago Bra
dys son married Hamiltons daughter
It was during these days that the late
John A McCall then state superin
tendent of Insurance belonged to the
Ten Ten club and It was at the Jug of
Blood that his acquaintance with Mr
Hamilton began
I TALENTED MRS WHITNEY
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McHlelH Sculptor
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney of New
York Is a daughter of the late Corne
lius Vanderbilt and nn Mii6 Gertrude
Vanderbilt she was considered by eli
gible bachelors n great catch both for
her beauty and lier financial prospects
Her debut about a dozen years ago
when she was eighteen years of ago
was the leading eocial event of that
season She was wooed by many In
cluding foreigners of title but she
chose as her husband her playmate
from childhood Harry Payne Whitney
whose father the late Secretary Wil
liam C Whltne had a stately man
sion on Fifth avenue near her own fa
thers palatial resldenc on that street
Mrs Whitney Is accomplished in
many ways but as a sculptor she Is
MHS HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY
more than merely an amateur The
architects of the new Hotel Belmont
in New York provided for the embel
lishment of its interior by sculpture
and Mrs Whitney was commissioned
to execute some of tho most Important
groups She has been at work in her
studio overlooking Bryant park on fig
ures representing Force and Na
ture which will be used in supporting
the celling of the gallery around the
hotel lobby But what perhaps gives
most interest to Mrs Whitneys per
sonality at the present time is her gen
erous action In making it possible to
hold a grand sculpture salon in the
American Fine Arts building in Fifty
seventh street New York headquar
ters for many art societies Mrs
Whitney broached the idea to the dis
tinguished sculptor Daniel C French
and he agreed that it would be a splen
did tiling but said it would bankrupt
the American Sculpture society under
whose auspices it was proposed the ex
hibition should bo held
But wouldnt it bo possible if I
guaranteed the expense asked Mrs
Whitney Mr French replied that it
would and the plan wad approved
AN UNUSUAL CASE
Mine Schnmann Helnk snd Her Buc
ocm In German CourtH
A curious controversy arose not long
ago as a result of the efforts of Mme
Schumann IIeluk tho great contralto
singer to assemble all her children
about her in the United States It is
unusual for a prima donna to have a
large family of children but Mme
Schnmann Helnk has nine and she
once said I have a new note in my
voice with each new baby The fa
mous German contralto liked the Unit
ed States so much that she decided to
make her home here and take out cit
izenship papers Some two years ago
her husband who was a noted German
music teacher and conductor died and
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William Rapp an American When
the prima donna undertook to bring
her elder sons from Germany and to
obtain the estate left by her husband
she encountered difficulties Her sons
were detained on the ground that they
were liable to military service She
appealed to the American state depart
ment for assistance urging that hav
ing taken steps to become naturalized
here and having married an American
she was entitled to bring her sons to
this country with her The courts of
Saxony have now ruled in her favor
on this question and have also award
ed her husbands fortune to her on the
ground that she earned It
LrBd ot a Book
A Qunmt and kindly legend Illustrat
ing the bopjw devout Christians used
to feel for the paganism of their fa
vorite classic kathors Is that of St
Cadoc and his Virgil St Cadoc whose
day Is Jan S4 was tho son of a South
Welsh prince who founded several
monasteries In Glamorganshire and
neighboring regions but wus driven
away to Brittany by the coming of the
Saxons There he was walking one
day with n copy of Virgils poems in
his hand and wept to think that Vir
gil as a pagan might be in hell An
ultra orthodox friend who was with
him severely reproved him for even
doubting the f - and a sudden gust
of wind caiTleCT the book out of Ca
docs hand Into the sen But that
night he heard In a dream a sweet
voice saying Pray for me weary not
in praying I will sing the mercies of
the Lord forever And next day a
lishermau brought Cadoc a iish inside
which the Virgil was found uninjured
London Chronicle
Mixed Wive
In the early part of the last century
there lived in an old New England
town a Mr Church who In the course
of his earthly life was bereft of four
wives all of whom were buried in the
same lot In his old age It became
necessary to remove the remains to a
new cemetery This he undertook him
self but In the process the bones be
came hopelessly mixed His New
England conscience would not allow
him under the painful circumstances
to use the original headstones so he
procured new ones one of which bore
the following inscription
Here lies Hannah Church and prob
ably a portion of Emily
Another
Sacred to the memory of Emily
Church who seems to be mixed with
Matilda
Then followed these lines
Stranger pause and drop a tear
For Emily Church lies burled here
Mixed In some perplexing manner
With Mary Matilda and probably Han
nah
Harpers Weekly
The JLnit VerHailles Bourbon
There Is at Versailles an orange tree
some five centuries old This tree
which was taken from Fontainebleau
of Versailles on the completion of the
orangery was already famous under
the title of the Grand Bourbon Ac
cording to tradition the tree had been
planted in 1421 by a Princess of Na
varre and after several changes of
owners came into the possession of
Francois I by whom It was placed at
Fontainebleau When it reached Ver
sailles the king came to visit it and
two grand Bourbons were then face to
face The man passed and even his
bones torn from their tomb at St
Denis and tossed into a trench have
perished Not a pinch of his dust re
mains But the tree lives and blooms
and bears fruit the only Bourbon at
Versailles serene invincible enthron
ed Farmers Versailles
In Darkest Africa
A weird tale of witchcraft comes
from the Interior of Africa A recent
trial at the Lilongwe court proved that
a native woman killed by a lion had
been partly eaten by another native
who was accused of Impersonating the
lion The prisoner confessed freely
that he had eaten of the womans dead
body the excuse being that he had pur
chased from a witch doctor a medi
cine which enabled him to turn Into a
lion at will In other words to Indulge
in cannibalism in Its lowest form as
the mood took him
A Waterspout
A scientist says of a waterspout that
passed over a certain district In France
Its passage was accompanied with a
sound which is described as resem
bling that of a battery of artillery
drawn on the gallop over a paved
street At the base of an extended
nimbus hung the reversed cone charac
teristic of phenomena of this kind A
strong wind was then blowing from
the south southwest The waterspout
was preceded by a storm and followed
by a shower
Two ArchuInliopJ
The archbishop of Canterbury is pri
mate of all England and therefore
takes precedence of the archbishop of
York who is only primate of Eng
land This very nice distinction was
made several centuries ago on account
of a very bitter dispute arising between
the two functionaries as to which
should precede the other The matter
was settled by conferring precedence
upon the archbishop of Canterbury the
two titles being also bestowed at the
same time
The Australian Jfative
For hundreds of years perhaps thou
sands the Australian black has accept
ed the doctrine of a Trinity in heaven
and the theory of evolution In some
respects he Is far superior to his civi
lized contemporary but he curls him
self around like a dog and sinks to
sleep on the bare ground at sunset Iu
the dark he is a veritable coward
What Happens
In a written examination on physical
geography one of the questions was
What happens when there Is an
eclipse of the moon
A boy with rather an admirable
knack of getting out of a difficulty
wrote the following answer
A great many people come out to
look at it London Answers
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Brlggs Does your wife laugh when
you tell her a funny story Braggs
Oh yes I always tell her beforehand
that it Is funny
Hold on hold fast hold out
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