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A Pleasant Itour With the Head Masters
Broadway From a New Viewpoint
The Perfect Illusion
From Our New York Correspondent
TUJS
NEVER knew
until recently
that there exists
an almost mlll
tant competl
1 1 o n among
Gothams pre
paratory schools
With the Inten
tion of getting
at some accu
rate informa
tion on an edu
catioual sub
ject In which I
am slightly in
terested I mail
ed to the heads
of six of the
leading institutions of this kind a re
quest to bo supplied with a catalogue
or year book It was an innocent es
capade on my part but I soon had
abundant reason to regret my indiscre
tion
Of course I got what I wanted by
return mail What I got that I didnt
want came a little later On my re
turn to my uptown apartment after an
unsatisfactory and somewhat disquiet
ing Interview with an editor with
whom I was not at one In a certain
matter in which agreement seemed to
be vital I found three persons awaiting
me and before I had time to discover
the upshot of the visitation the party
was augmented by the arrival of a
fourth
Are you Mr Stuyvesant Brown
four voices demanded In cheerful uni
son
There was no merit in denying It
and I didnt although at the moment
I could ascribe the presence of the
strangers only to a concerted effort on
wr STuwEsxsrr
shown x
i i
the part of certain carping creditors to
add to jny discomfort
Let me have a word with you in
private suggested the visitor most
adjacent to me a well groomed and
remarkably self possessed gentleman
of middle age
I led the way to the dusky little
inner compartment which is my
dreamery We did not sit because
the place is not designed for sitting
I believe you are the father of a
young son be said in a mysterious
half whisper
I will not deny that I was somewhat
relieved Instead of a man who had
come to remind me of disagreeable
things I had only a more or less in
sistent madman to deal with
I am the head master of the Priory
school he went on with the requisite
dignity I am quite sure that I shall
be able to make it clear to you that
ours is the very best preparatory in
stitution in the city If your son
Permit me I interrupted a light
breaking in on my submerged con
sciousness Since I have not yet be-
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come a benedict wouldnt It be rather
premature for me to anticipate pater
nity in such a reckless manner
I could not see him gasp and I did
not hear him but I felt sure that it
was precisely what he was doing
But your letter he queried re
proachfully
After all he was a reasonable fel
low and a jolly When I had explained
everything he was first to get merry
over it and our outburst must have
made waiting even more tiresome to
the expectant men without
The other three are also heads of
boys schools he said as soon as he
could speak Promise me that you
will give them the opportunity I have
had and I will call it quits
I was strictly impartial in the mat
ter and gave each one of them an equal
chance The last who interviewed me
in the dismal little cubbyhole confess
ed that he had come prepared to make
hlmsrff irresistible to a sulky book
hating boy In his early teens One of
ttw two who did not make their ap
pearance must have been of the same
opinion for lie f cnt mo a charming
letter expressed In terms Intelligible
to boyhood and invited me to lunch
with him at BrceseV whose Ice cream
Is famous
A society woman of my acquaint
ance a native of the upper part of
Manhattan Island and a stickler for
Gothamspre cminence in every partic
ular has recently made the discovery
of her life During the period of fervid
late summer heat she had occasion to
make a business visit to town and was
obliged to remain overnight The even
ing was so sultry and the hotel so
stuffy thatshe was driven to seek re
lief In the open air Trusting In her
Incognito not a soul of her acquaint
ance knew of her whereabouts she
was led to do something which made
her quite a heroine in her own eyes
Taking the precaution to walk a block
or so away from the hotel entrance
she actually boarded an open trolley
car and was borne leisurely down
Broadway
Most amazing of all she liked It
really and truly enjoyed a new and
vastly agreeable sensation in the novel
a
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UKOADWAY
experience for her
The sense of security
V from observation
i the easy motion of
the plebeian vehicle the unstinted
quantity of good refreshing Broadway
air that came in to her the perfect
novelty of the situation all appealed to
her with a positive relish Never un
til that night she admitted candidly
had I really seen dear old Broadway
It was a perfect dream The pave
ments were filled to the curbs with
crowds of gay theater goers in holi
day attire the shops and countless
places of amusement were ablaze with
electric lights and varicolored trans
parencies and everything was instinct
with life and the determination to en
joy It I was positively disgusted with
myself for having been a lifelong stran
ger to these delights I certainly saw
more of Broadway during that all too
brief outing than I had ever seen be
fore that memorable night I had made
personally conducted tours of the Bow
ery and through Chinatown and to half
a dozen other unsavory and rather
ticklish regions but this little inde
pendent expedition of mine up and
down New Yorks great center of life
and movement made all the others
tame and uninteresting
It was a real shock though just as
I was leaving the car a safe distance
I thought from my hotel to be ac
costed by Colonel Kaisln Tom Raisin
you know who ought to have been at
Lenox instead of popping up in that
AiVI I DIJEAMEIG HE ASKED
disconcerting fashion Am I dream
ing he asked I wish you were I
retorted
I felt reassured however when he
confessed that he was so addicted to
the form of enjoyment which I had
just found out for myself that he actu
ally comes to town now and theu out
of season to gratify his taste for see
ing life from an open street car
During a somewhat extended career
of theater going and play making
and breaking I have experienced the
perfect illusion but thrice In every
instance the dramatic spellbinder was
a woman When Helena Modjeska as
Beatrice in Much Ado About Noth
ing comes tripping up the stage with
a bunch of white lilacs in her hand
she transports me to the rural England
of the Bard of Avons time When
Ellen Terry Olivia in the play
made from Goldsmiths Ticar of
THE PEBFECT ILLUSION
Wakefield Is told that she Is to visit
her home again she becomes the real
thing for a few brief moments Last
of all comes Henrietta Crosman with
her little lapses into genuine woman
liness in Mistress Nell Thus far
no portrayer of tragedy even the
scholarly Irving or the divine Sarah
has deceived me for a moment
STUYVESANT BROWN
MOUNTAIN SLIDING
Hawaiian Small Doys Simply Drop
Down the Edgo of the Scenery
Water sports are by no means the
only vigorous athletics indulged In bj
the boys of Hawaii Mountain climb
ing is a favorite pastime for there in
peaks 4000 feet high within easy walk
lug distance of any part of Honolulu
and on the island of nawail there ar
two mountains fully 14000 feet
height Not Infrequently the Honolulu
schools give picnics on the mountain
sides that the pupils may gather laud
shells It Is oi these excursions i
Pearch of land shells that the Hawaiian
schoolboys revel in the once national
sport mountain sliding
A very steep mountain side is re
lected where the grass Is loug ml
sloping downward Every one gathers
his own ti -leaves The tl leaf is souu
thing like the banana leaf but not ner
ly so long With a bunch of ti leaves
In his hand the first boy steps to thy
edge of the side grasps the leaves Vy
the stems in both hands places 1
leafy part under him and sits down
gives himself a start and drops dowu
the edge of the scenery like a flash 1
was assured that it was an easy mat
ter to regulate the speed of descent by
merely grasping the ti stems firm
and lifting them upward this acting
a brake I longed for the thrill of drop
ping down over the edge of a moun
tain and upon my brief sled of ti leaves
began the descent I went like the
wind It seemed as though my breath
would be taken away from me or that
I would plunge head over heels to bo
dashed to pieces among the trees be
low I thought of my brske and drew
up on the ti leaves with all my might
and came up with a jerk that jarrcvi
every bone in my body There I sat
looking downward almost perpendicu
larly held in position only by a few
leaves resting on the smooth slippery
grass but the sliding grass is nearly a
foot long and it is only after it has
been repeatedly slidden over and beat
en down that it approaches perfection
in the eyes of the Hawaiian small boy
and sometimes leads to accidents
When for instance the thin layer of ti
leaves wears out beneath the slide n
gentle tug at the stalks parts the sled
and sends the slider whizzing down
ward In a most uncomfortable and un
graceful manner all arms and legs
Lucky isthe victim of such an accident
if he is not stopped in his downward
career by the trunk of a tree St
Nicholas
SCARED THE ROBBERS
Odd Incident In England In the Eight
eenth Century
For a time during the eighteenth ten
tury in England there was a lull ir
the robbery industry owing to an ode
incident Shortly after the execution
of an English burglar named EHiston
a curious communication purporting
to have been written by him was pit
into circulation Now as I am a dy
ing man it ran I have done some
thing which may be of good use to the
public I have left with an honest
man the only honest man I was ever
acquainted with the names of all my
wicked brethren the places of their
abode with a short account of the
chief crimes they have committed in
many of which I have been the accom
plice and heard the rest from their
own mouths I have likewise set
down the names of those we call our
setters of the houses we frequent and
all of those who receive and buy our
stolen goods I have solemnly charged
this honest man and have received his
promise upon oath that whenever he
hears of any rogue to be tried for rob
bery or housebreaking he will look into
his list and if he finds there the name
of the thief concerned to send the
whole paper to the government Of
this I here give my companions fair
and public warning and hope they will
take it It is said the hint was so
effectual that for a long time pick
pockets and burglars in that part of
England went into panic stricken re
tirement And this being so it is just
as well they did not know that the let
ter was a clever forgery the work of
that prince of wits and humorists
Dean Swift New York Tribune
Climatic Changes
There is plenty of evidence of the
very best sort which goes to prove that
not only Europe and North America
but the lands situated within the arc
tic circle must have enjoyed a tropical
climate The numerous fossil remains
found In those regions are those of
plants and animals which according
to the present state of our knowledge
must have lived under conditions now
found only in the equatorial belt Noth
ing Is clearer than the fact that the
polar cold is steadily gaining on the
temperate and tropical zones and that
eventually the land will be all Ice
fields
Donald Knew
Margaret aged ten was a beginner
In history Mamma she asked
what does behead mean
To cut off a mans head dear
There was a moment of silent study
then another question
What does defeat mean mamma
Littla Donald aged four was inter
ested
I know mamma was his logical
conclusion Defeat means to cut a
mans feet off Delineator
Very Different
In the olden days a reformer was
liable to be burnt at the stake
Yes and now we put him on the
lecture platform and give him 50 per
cent of the gross receipts Washing
ton Star
Talking and eloquence are not the
same To speak and to speak well are
two things Ben Jonson
Monkeys Like Scrapping
Monkeys are In a class by them
selves said the circus man If ouo
of them has red hair he is sure to be
a dandy scrapper The best fighter Is
always the leader They hang togeth
er and bow and scrape before the boss
just like a good many people Mon
keys with red faces and flat heads will
whip the life out of those smaller than
they are but will run like the wind
when It comes to an even break A
monkey riot is a funuy spectacle Even
In the same cage you will find groups
herded together as if there was some
class distinction and the Hues were
drawn tightly If two of the big ones
come together in a row the others gen
erally stand off and let them have it
out but if any of the little ones get to
scrapping then the father and mother
are apt to mix in and the next step is
a general row We separate them by
turning on the hose and punish them
by locking up the den so that they can
not get any peanuts from the crowd
and hold back their meals This plan
puts them on their good behavior for
awhile at least The monkey likes to
eat and likes to be noticed
Slightly Mixed
They had just set up housekeeping
and were working on the plan of econ
omy The bathtub needed a coat of
varnish ne promised to attend to
it if she would order the varnish
Youll find the varnish in the closet
with the groceries dear she said a
day or so Inter and the can opener
in the knife drawer
He opened the can and according
to his contract applied the coat of
varnish and then loft it to dry
The soup for dinner that day had to
be abandoned for somehow it pos
sessed a peculiar paint chop odor that
was nauseating After dinner he took
her to inspect his work on the bath
tab Now that it had dried it had a
certain unnatural appearance The top
and sides were streaked and here and
there little lumps clung to it
The man said that was the best
varnish she explained taking up the
can of varnish for an examination
but why dear you have varnished
the bathtub with the ox tail soup
Then it was the varnish we ate
dear he added horror stricken
Lippincotts
A Model Hotel Boots
It was in a Dublin hotel and as I
closed the bedroom door says a writer
in the Manchester Guardian I noticed
that the end of one of my boot laces
was inside the room the boot to which
it was attached having been placed as
usual outside When I awoke next
morning the boot lace end was still
there and I opened the door expecting
to find that the boots had not been
cleaned but I was wrong A very
careful hotel servant a very model
among boots had found the lace
tightly gripped by the door and rather
than disturb me had carefully removed
it from the lace holes and carried
away the boot Presently I heard a
quiet noise outside the door The
moJel boots had brought my boots
back again and was Industriously re
lacing that one which he had unlaced
Cheese In the Middle Ages
Cheese must have been a rather dear
or scarce article of food in 1302 for it
is recorded in the Black Books of
the Honorable Society of Lincolns Inn
that at Easter term 1502 it was
agreed by the governors and bench
ers this term that if any one of the so
ciety shall hereafter cut cheese iin
moderately at the time of dinner or
supper or shall give cheese to any
servant or to any other or shall carry
it away from the table at any time he
shall pay 4 pence for each offense
The butlers of the society shall pre
sent such defaulters weekly under pain
of expulsion from office Law Times
Her Test
When a young man proposes you
should always be careful and test his
love cautioned the conservative chap
eron
Tt I gj one better auntie twit
tered the pretty girl Do you see this
tiny bottle
Yes Does it contain perfume
No it contains acid I test the en
gagiet rig
Net Very Funny
I did my et to be entertaining
said the young man in a voice of sor
row
Did you Micceed
Im afraid not I recited Hamlets
soliloquy She looked at me reproach
fully for several seconds and then ex
claimed I dont think thats very
funny London Telegraph
His Conscience
Hes forever prating about what his
conscience tells him What does his
conscience tell him anyway
Apparently it usually tells him what
awfnl sinners his neighbors are
Catholic Standard and Times
Where She Gets Her Ideal
She I wonder if you are just the
kind of man I want He What kind
of man do you want She 1 can hard
ly describe him to you He Dont try
Whats the name of the book St
Louis Post Dispatch
To Hold Him
Nan Thats a beautiful solitaire
Dick gave you I wonder if you know
what a fickle young man he Is Fan
Indeed I do Thats why I made him
give me such an expensive one Chi
cago Tribune
A Sad Break
Our credit man made a bad break
yesterday
What was it
He told a dumb man that his word
was as good as his bond Detroit
Free Press
County Commissioners Proceedings
McCook Nebraska October fl 1908
Tho Hoard of County Commissioners mot in
regular scssiont prc ent F S Lofton S
Promer and C B Grny commissioners P K
ltecdcr county attorney and Clms Sknlla
county clerk
In the matter of tho vacation of a portion of
Nobruskn Street in tho VillnKo of Unrtley
- Now on this Cth day of October 1 this
matter cumo on for hearim before tho Board
upon tho petition of tho applicants tho
i reiort of tho examiners npiointed by tho
I Board and tho evidence on consideration
whereof tho Board finds that no injustico nor
inconvenience will bo worked by or to any or-
son or per ons by reason of the vacation re
quested nnd that said vacation ought to bo
j allowed
It is therefore order by the Board that said
I nnKt nr T t u r i i
uiiiiuiiuiiui u4i aim oiners lor
the vacation of all that part or Nebraska Ave
nue in the Village of Hartley Red Willow coun
ty Nebraska described as follows to wit a
strip fifteen feot in width off from tho north
side of said street extending from tho west lino
of Coke Avenue in said VillnRe to tho west
termination of said Nebraska Street and also a
strip fifteen feet in width oil from the south
side of said Nebraska Street extending from
the west line of said Coko Avenue to the west
termination of said Nebraska Street bo and the
same hereby is allowed and thnt portion of
Nebraska Avonue prated for in said application
b3 nnd the same hereby is vacated
The County Clerk i directed to make a quit
claim deed in tho name of the County to the
persons to whom the portion of the street
vacated may inure signing and attaching tho
seal of the County thereto
It is further ordered thnt the costs of this
proceeding bo paid by the applicants
F S Lofton Chairman
It appearing to the Hoard that on Juno 0th
1933 nu order was allowed to ilary Ann Fnrrell
for 1010 in payment of road damages and thnt
same was registered by the County Treasurer at
fiat time and thnt this order has become lost
on motion tiio Clerk was instructed to issue a
duplicate order to Mary Ann Fnrrell in place of
said order
The claim of J F Messinger for damages
c iused by the establishment of Road No I15
was rejected for the reason that said claim was
not iiled in the time limited by law
The claim of Chas Henjamiu for erecting nnd
taking down booths in Houdville precinct of
200 was on motion rejected
The following claims on the Commissioner
District Road Fund of District No 3 were
ordered paid out of the respective road district
fund by the overseers
MartinDoylo 3 Of
Henry Cashcn 7 00
JamesDoylo 8 01
J W Proctor y 00
George Traphagan 11 00
Joseph Vollbrecht 2 00
Henry Corcoran 1100
The claim for poll tax refund of 200 of A L
Paulson for 1107 for reason of not being 21
years old until August 1P07 was on motion re
jected as that does not exempt him from poll
tax in that year
The following claims were audited and al
lowed and tho Clerk was instructed to draw
warrants on the District Road Fund of the re
spective Commissioner Districts as follows
Lafe Cox road work Commissioner
DistrictNo 1 C 00
Henry Harsh same 9 00
Jake Unger same COO
Jorome Walker same 3 00
Charles Weintz same 1 50
Sam Williams same 12 CO
G C Smith same 12 00
Ralph Warfleld same 7 HO
Herman Reiners same 4 50
Wm Baumbach same 1 GO
W F Miller same C CO
WE McCoy same 0 CO
P N Fough same 19 CO
Bill Duncan same 14 00
Win Wallace road work Commissioner
District No 2 2 50
M Fossen same 12 00
P A Premer same 9 75
W T Clark road work Commissioner
DistrictNo3 2 CO
and on the County Bridge Fund levy of 1908 as
follows
Standard Bridge Co 2nd payment on
new bridge 2500 00
and on the County General Fund levy of 1908
as follows
Dan Cashen additional damages on new
road 12 03
Robert Stewart same 10 CO
McCook Electric Light Co light in
September 12 75
McCook Water Works Co water 3rd
quarter1908 21 03
C L DeGroff Co mdse Mrs Unger 53 99
C L DeGroff Co mdse Fred Pfeif SO 02
J H Grannis mdse Sam OConnor 8 CO
J H Grannis supplies county jail 5 25
H C Whitmore meat Mrs Morgan 11 45
G W Short mdse H V Ameu 35 32
Ball Brothers supplies for county 5 77
Farmers Merc Association mdse H V
Amen 166
Jones Finnegan fc Crawmer mdse E R
iii o on lo wo
Jones Fennegan fc Crawmer mdse Mrs
Wm Hornkohl 4 CO
Jones Finuegali Crawmer supplies
forcounty 7 16
W C Bullard coal Mrs Tuttle SCO
W C Bullard bridge lumber 40 55
W C Bullard baIanceoncar of coal 57 75
Hammond ifc Stephens Co supplies for
County Superintendent 2 85
Hammond tfc Stephens Co same 31 fc
W A Middleton erectiug and repairing
booths
George Fowler salary janitor August
and September
S Holies appropriation for fanners in-
E FOsborn draying
E F Osborn summoning jury February
E F Osborn jailor fees 82 50
E F Osborn same 4 50
E F Osborn same 42 00
E F Osborn same 45 CO
E F Osborn boarding prisoners 31 00
E F Osborn same 36 CO
E F Osborn salary deputysheriff Smos 200 CO
E F Osborn salary deputy sheriff Sept 25 00
H I Peterson serving road notices and
mileage 15 15
H I Peterson salary Aug and Sept 200 00
P E Reeder third quarter salary county
attorney 200 CO
ClaudiaB Hatcher third quarter salary I
county Superintendent 200 00
Chas Skalla third quarter salary clerk
500 C
of board 5 00
PEReeder office expense 2 8S
Claudia B Hatcher office expense 20 43 j
J C Moore office expense 2 24 i
S Premer services as commissioner 15 40
CB Gray same 12 00J
F S Lofton same 17 20 j
A motion -was made by Premer seconded by
Gray that the sum of 20000 be allowed to help
defray the expenses of the Farmers Institute
and the Clerk was instructed to draw a warrant
to S Bolles for 20000 on the County General
Fund levy of 1903 for same
On motion that Board adjourned to meet
November 10 190S
F S Lofton Chairman
Attest Chas Skalla Clerk
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